Wednesday, June 13, 2007

6 Grade Graduation Dresses

hello fish!

It's a bit hard to write the last message.
Fragments
island has opened a beautiful virtual space, allowing me to tell Cuba to the newspaper, in its banality and its charms.
But now I'm far from Cuba and his daily life. These fragments will stop this form.
I will soon upload a few recordings, songs, videos that I brought with me a bit about how to Patxi and his blog of scattered memories (besides, Patxi, you're good sources, I see!). I will also
new links, blogs are booming Cuban in the island as well as outside.
Loula , I think we will not have to Havana, but good travel to you.
David This virtual meeting is a bit late: the damage.
And to all readers curious about this island, I thank you for your faithful reading.
As they say a lot right now in the streets of Havana ...
¡ pesca'o Ciao!

Monday, May 21, 2007

Whitish Discharge At 38 Weeks

the literally

is another of those seemingly tiny details that will make you smile, and yet, in this island, it plays everything ...
Last Thursday, the newscaster did not read the text verbatim written the day before by Fidel Castro and published in Granma item. They read a summary, a summary.
is totally unprecedented.
Since the beginning of his " Reflections of the Commander in Chief " (must be the tenth now), and whatever the length of the text systematically presenters began their newspaper by reading word for word of that text.
No way to change a comma, skip a paragraph, summarize an idea: the word, that word is sacred, it is untouchable. This gave
hilarious scenes, ten, fifteen minutes of monologue, with a reporter transformed into an actor, trying to give impetus to intonation and long reflection written by another. Rodobaldo Hernandez and Rafael Serrano, respectively Featured presenters lunch and dinner, are particularly good at it, real actors, taking mine contrite or threatening depending on the tone required. The news came after
in what remained of time for the newspaper, sometimes a trickle.
But last Thursday, so this ritual declamation gave way to a summary.
Who decided that we could condense the long text (itself a summary record of three economists at A recent forum)? Who crossed the border taboo?
You will say that I exaggerate, but this island where everything is unsaid, the unwritten, every scratch on the veil of silence is the source of speculation.
For decades, Fidel Castro's speeches were transcribed fully and systematically in Granma, and rebroadcast in full on television, regardless of their length (usually between three and four hours, several times a week).
And one fine day someone decides to summarize the thought so often presented as perfect, Zenith Tube
... It does not look, but it's a real transgression.

Saturday, May 19, 2007

How To Hook My Tv To My Htr5740



After long silence that too (lazy, overworked, tired), and then give you some news from my island, I want to thank Loula, who made three weeks ago a bunch five blogs that she loves to read, including this one.
We had met some months ago in Havana, it did not last: it will be for another time.
According to his rules, I have to turn my name five blogs with me: it's hard, five is not much. And then life
Blogs are fluid: some disappear, others fall asleep, others change, or otherwise does not change ...
Let all who are appointed on the side make me go around the world every day or almost (and I'm always looking for new countries, new discoveries: If you have any suggestions, please let me know in comments).

But if we choose, and in very different registers:
Coffeeshopshop , who recounts his life with humor, and so well ... My diary
China : a blog is now closed, but its discovery two years ago, gave me the idea and the desire to write these fragments island. A few weeks ago, its author Pierre Haski has launched an information site, where he continues to speak of China ( Chinatown).
Sophil water , writing smooth and precise, which tells of his enthusiasm and his rages, his children and some of Portugal.
Finally, more recently, I discovered two blogs from countries that I do not know, and which are exotic to me reads: Tbilisi and not elsewhere, Georgia and Nastepna Stacja , Poland.
But this list is wrong, go have a look at all those at hand, I like them all!

Now that the chain continues, as each in turn nominated nominating!

Saturday, April 14, 2007

Vietnamese Movies Online Iphone

reunion high representativeness

For fun, here's a satirical text well written and well seen from the blog Mi isla al mediodia . I translate for those who do not read English, for others, there is .

"

FREE ACCESS

The Ministry of Informatics and Communications (MIC) was kind enough to send me this review:

" In order to satisfy the growing demand of our people for access to the internet, our department has considered creating a special plan to develop and promote the public use of Internet in our countries. This plan is called Inter-nothing.

In our department, we are fully aware of the importance of access to the internet but we also know that it is a mistake to ignore the dangers contains its use. For this reason it was decided that initially, public access to the Internet would be open only in certain sectors of the population, for a while. After this period will be evaluating the success and potential problems. After achieving the necessary changes will begin a second phase, which will cover the entire population.

For the composition of the original group, we looked for a diverse enough sample to ensure representativeness of the entire Cuban population.

The initial group for all Cuban citizens, resident in Cuba, which are included in the categories following:

- Veterans of World War
- Workers involved in the project Cuban exploration of Mars
- Athletes and coaches who participated in the last Winter Olympics
- Survivors of the Titanic
- Nobel Laureates regardless of the category
- Retirees 65 or older, healthy, able to run 100 meters in under 11 seconds (test required)
- Adolescents (under 15) who can recite by heart a fragment of over 20 pages of the masterpiece of Karl Marx: Das Kapital
(The choice of the fragment is free, while the length is met)
- Housewives BEPC graduates who can demonstrate having read Ulysses
James Joyce and In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust (it will show a reading of two works, written test).

There also intend to include in this first group who can prove they have seen all the programs
"Mesa Redonda" broadcast date. These people must be in good psychological health and show no neurological disorder (certificate required medical and verification of knowledge through random questions on the issue).

As you can see, this initial group provides high representation from all sectors of the population (students, workers, intellectuals, scientists, athletes, retirees, and housewives), resulting in a guarantee of project success .

Revolutionary

Jose Varela Butterfly
Deputy Secretary to the Minister's office for the networks, cables, and other nodes.


Mesa Redonda: information program and "debate" policy that is distributed (and rebroadcast) daily by Cuban television. This is the program where all can freely express what they think of George W. Bush.
"

Edit: about this obsession with form in the claim of all sectors of society, this article this morning in Granma, is also around the issue in its first paragraph ( ... and people in general ).

Thursday, April 5, 2007

Reverse Gum Recession

banter

The fire just went to red, I stop. Before me an old Soviet sidecar, a man driving another sitting in the "basket".
It's hot, we're in the middle of the afternoon, as usual a line of women waiting more or less on the young side, and rushed to the vehicle just stopped them hitchhikers.
A woman in her fifties is heading towards the first car in line, without success. She then approached the driver's side car, asked him if he is probably in his direction, I do not know what he replied, but she laughs, her skirt is a little and sits sidesaddle behind him.
Besides, the man in the basket sidecar gives him a word, she turns to him, leans, whispers something in his ear, now it is his turn to laugh at him.
Within minutes, the time for a red light, these three, complete strangers, have invented a connivance, a nearby, they replay again the pleasure of meeting and seduction in the tropics.
A Cuban researcher had devoted an entire study " choteo " island, between jest and mockery. He said it was one of the characteristics of his countrymen. This familiarity
at hand, which lasts only as long a journey, a waiting outside a shop, weaving time that happening is perhaps one of the most surprising things to a stranger, the most fascinating too.
A life day by day, when the day is only vaguely, indirectly, when the time comes, just one minute, includes all possible.

Wednesday, March 28, 2007

Katesplaygroundmobile

details

It seems insignificant details, and it is difficult to understand outside the scope that it can have. Let
yet: Imagine for a moment that you have any source of information for two daily small-format, four sheets each, say the Journal of the Elysée, Matignon and the newspaper;
imagine that there are only four public television stations, serving as spokesman for the government, and without editorial freedom.
Imagine your media universe is reduced to that, to the exclusion of any other nongovernmental source of information.
And in this media space reduces suddenly, a TV news reporter (the same on all channels) will tell you with certainty that " anyway, in our country, everybody knows that nobody lives on his salary .
The surprise is that this is partly true, but that's not what we show usual Cuban media. It is a truth implied an open secret embarrassing, a stubborn fact which does not bow to the speech.
It's as if suddenly the Cuban media began to reflect everyday reality, not only its successes but also failures. As public recognition, removing the mask.
And the next day, the same goes prime-time television Suite Habana, a long silent documentary by Fernando Perez, who follows the difficult lives of a dozen residents of the capital, between resignation and hope. Widely
winning abroad acclaimed during his short spell at the cinema four years ago, this film was part of a list of some thirty Cuban recent productions that never aired on national television.
hard to know what these details. But there as a relief to see reality and its representation coincide media a bit.

Tuesday, March 27, 2007

How Many Calories In A Full Vegetable Chow Mein

winds

For several days now, it's sweltering heat, a scorching sun by day and night, the city was swept by winds relentlessly tormented. Cubans call them "los vientos cuaresma of" the winds of Lent coming from the south and crazy. Leonardo Padura has named it as one of the four seasons of his cop Mario Conde.
But Cubans are not stupid, they all suffer from Nazareth, a nasty virus.
Nazaré? It was the name of a character in the telenovela Brazilian has just ended: a woman wicked, wicked, ooh lala, as she was wicked.
Suddenly, it became a common name, a cliché, the Cubans are using it for everything that is bad this flu that does not heal, an unfaithful wife, a bad person ...

Friday, March 2, 2007

Measuring Light Intensity Using Ldr

complexed Lent?

Journalists Cuban-they fail to trust them?
A friend told me this surreal scene in the evening news a few days ago: star presenter concludes the launch of a subject with these words: " ... and what I just said, do not believe that it was I who invented: the Washington Post which says "(" y mentiras No piensen its MIAs: lo dice el Washington Post! "). That the media
Cuban officials feel obliged to support their credibility on the newspapers of the enemy, long criticized for newsletters, here is ironic, no?
It reminds me of the festival Foreign reruns of which we had on Wednesday after the telephone conversation between Fidel Castro and Hugo Chavez: the news of the day, it was not the conversation was " the repercussion in the international media conversation history between the two presidents . Took ten minutes a continuous broadcast of stories published by CNN, TVE, screenshots and news agencies, etc..
If that is credible, which gives weight is what is being said abroad, why have referred three foreign journalists last week?