Saturday, February 17, 2007

How Do I Make Powerpoint A3 In 2007



The beauty in modern times

Men have been bombarded with images of perfect physical, causing the same pressure that women have been enduring for years. Suddenly

are everywhere: in commercials, billboards, magazines, on TV. Yes, I'm talking about naked or half-naked male bodies. In England the figures are male ads 50.000 a year, trying to sell skin cream or any other beauty product.

the past two decades has run civilization in reverse. Not only the modern woman expresses her opinion about the body of her boyfriend absolutely intolerable, but men are also finding themselves confronted with the figures of other men who are black and white or color on any billboard the famous fashion brands that populate the city.

Are not men supposed to care about a "turnip" about how they look? Well apparently the answer is a resounding no. American men now spend $ 5 billion a year on products for their good looks and beauty. Do not think that European men are so vain. After all, this is a global crisis male. The situation is universal: men lifting "irons" in the gym, anorexia or bulimia problems, increased use of steroids, anti-wrinkle cream in their toilets, nettle shampoo against hair loss, laser hair removal in the chest, back , leg or wherever necessary appointment with solariums, etc.. I wonder: is this what they want?

The ancient Greeks worshiped the male nude, I made it the cornerstone of his art. For them, beauty was the expression of his philosophy, the belief in harmony and proportion, in this case the relationship between head, torso and extremities. Leonardo da Vinci revived this notion with his celebrated picture "The Vitruvian Man," pointing to the perfect geometry of the male human body.

Then, when everything changed? When the Greek classics to go on stage again? It all goes back to 1987 in the Levi's ad reminded jeans, where the model Nick Kamen shows her body sculpted in the gym or the theater - all the same - in a tiny boxer lycra.

then quick to imitate, were CK, Armani and Gucci, all showing the classic beauty rescued or elaborate Greek and Roman Museum. Putting pretty boys before our eyes, thin skin marked and shouting: "I just got back from Bahamas."
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This war has brought their dead, people with eating disorders, obsessive-compulsive, excessive preoccupation with an idealized image , people who engage in fierce diets can kill Atlas, and by extension careers, marriages and shattered lives by the obsession of beauty.
But there is a new case now studied by psychologists around the world: The Adonis Complex where the guy does not kiss your partner that consume calories fears through her saliva.

few days ago, two very dear friends argued over whether one of them was beautiful, apparently even very smart people fall into the propaganda game of beauty. Perhaps the answer lies in returning to the Greeks. After all, it was they who started this whole fetish naked body and beauty.

Sunday, January 14, 2007

What Colour Shirt With Grey Suit




Canary Islands and Paradise

Christmas was spent making a Peruvian friend to dinner, which, like good Peruvian, came to London with a parachute and with all his humor. But for the New Year holiday was planned and this time would be the Canary Islands.

airline Thomas Cook is in charge of taking us to Arrecife, the capital of Lanzarote. From the air I could see that most of the houses on the island were swimming and I was pleased.

The island looked from the air smaller than it really was, while the flight attendant who wore a tan welcomes us to the volcanic island that is part of the Atlantic archipelago situated in northwest Africa.

back on terra firma again I am happy to speak Castilian, the experience is surreal because two years ago that have not been to a English speaking country. At the airport we expect M, we salute you and then contact us with Luis, manager of a car rental company. We make the documents, pay and give us the keys saying - Here are the keys to the "car." And the "car" is a Volkswagen Fox model. In London the same model is called Polo and Peru to the car is called "car." We have rented a yellow duck hilarious and brilliant as to be detected by any of the polular satellite in space.

While my wife is driving on the fast track following the M car, asks me where is the brake? I tell you the answer because I know it's not a joke, in the UK is handled with the rudder to the right. A side of the other cars with normal colors ours is the most exhibitionist of all so I decided to wear sunglasses to go unnoticed.

As we cross the highway I feel like I was in Lima traveling to the southern beaches, but of course here there is more order in the road and less congestion. We arrived
Máguez, the village where we will stay the week. The lovely village of M and J, an English couple who have decided to retire to the quiet life of the island is beautiful and well kept full of balconies and bougainvillea in the garden and the roof.
I guess they had planned retirement to choose between a castle on the outskirts of London and a villa in the Canary Islands and I agree with the decision to keep the villa.

All the island's homes are painted white and wood doors may be brown, green or blue and this is no exception: in the case of doors and windows decided by Brown. Our room is yellow and start to think if the yellow haunts us, but azulísima has a window opening onto a terrace and from it you can see the mountains, M and J also had the courtesy to let us in our kitchen bottle Marquez de Caceres, grapes, sausage and cheese welcome.

It's relaxing to be in a place so quiet after the hectic life in London and I start to feel more at ease, it is also very natural that I identify with the English culture as they conquered us and let us in addition to language, certain odors and flavors that I recognized immediately as a family.
was nostalgic to go buy food at a small grocery store just around the house and not the supermarket for example, where an elderly woman named "Paquita" lovable and very pretty attended us without having to attend any service course customer. Who jointly with his son a boy of 27 years helluva lot of barrel shape that I called "Paquito" Máguez had lived since the age of reason and not felt the need to visit other villages for ten years.

In a small closet is a selection of DVDs, which the majority of films we had already seen and the other did not need to see them. English TV is disastrous as Peru and in this case I can not tell who inherited from whom. It is full of sensationalism, gossip and many reality shows a la "Laura Bozo." I hit a channel where they spend a film in which it operates Al Pacino, but I hear say
- what are you going to hate me bud? - and I think I can not resist any longer and I promise I only watch the news to be informed and turn off the tv.

first thing I ask of food is something that the letter says "seafood in the Roman" and ends up being a good imitation of a sweaty seafood. Together with my wife, facing the sea and next to a bottle of wine, honestly just needed a song huachafo of "I Do not Know Who ..." background for the scene is perfect. From the first day to the last promise me intoxicated with seafood dishes and vanilla ice cream sandwich very similar to D'Onofrio, which I can say that I met fully, so much so that in every town recognized the color picture duck and came running to offer a dose of vanilla ice cream I needed.

I was surprised to discover the work of the artist Cesar Manrique, of which only knew his name mentioned several times by my English friend Alberto. Manrique was an important activity as creator of spaces perfectly integrated into the natural environment of the island. It was a multifaceted kind. Work in architecture, sculpture and painting, made his fortune in New York and returned to his roots, his beloved island. We were fortunate to see almost all tourist attractions as the Water Jameos, viewpoint of the river, a cactus garden, National Park Timanfaya mountain of fire, and all that the island offers. But most important is to enjoy its beaches. Costa Teguise was the first discovery, a beach made for tourists where all the guests spoke English or German, and almost all were more or less red, but newcomers from the cold in London, we join the holidaymakers to form two color flag Peru, with some embarrassment as white skin.

The next day we recommend the beach "Papagayo" south of the island. We drove almost an hour with the promise that we will find fewer tourists here and we will mix with the natives, which is not true since the "red" truly German or English have invaded the island. Papagayo is one of those places you only see on postcards, so take a few minutes to react and appreciate its beauty, the little turquoise bay almost no waves arrive and decide to go swimming. The sky is completely blue, without any missing tag, the pure white sand and the sea at 22 degrees, you can only say thank you to the Atlantic for me to bathe in its waters and let me be happy.

My wife would have had a nude beach and of course I have refused, for surely years in a Catholic university in faraway Peru should I have become a kind of monk from Opus Dei and that makes me laugh, because I consider myself a fairly modern mind open.

At lunch we go to a restaurant that they recommended. It has a huge terrace and tables are white dark to protect from the sun. I ask a seafood paella is not only delicious but huge. The boy is beautiful and gay, is super-talkative and does his job with the smallest detail, we gossip and things of people tells us about his life. Is a Cuban, Fidel hates: it was invited to Iceland and never returned to Cuba. Moreover, it can not return to Cuba unless of course you change the system. I say - why do you sound like English, boy? "- And answers that had a boyfriend in Barcelona and the summers spent there with him, I love the accent and hit him. And indeed he sounds more English than I know many English. We said it was his last day of work and returning to the cold of Iceland.

The sun goes down like a ball of fire and touch the blue sea, my wife says that once it touches the sea disappears in 30 seconds and is accurate as she predicts.
Before leaving we talked about the poet Reynaldo Arenas, the Cuban loves the movie they made about the poet's life and of course me too.

Nobel Laureate Saramago lives on the island. His novel The Gospel According to Jesus (1991) catapulted him to fame but because of a controversy in Portugal the government grain submission to the European Literary Prize that year, claiming that "offends the Catholics." As an act of protest, leaving Saramago Portugal and settled in the island. In 1998 he won the Nobel Prize for Literature, becoming the first Portuguese-language writer to win the award. He currently divides his time between Lisbon and the English island. In the morning I hear about the teacher in the local radio about the bomb that exploded Dec. 30 at the airport of Barajas, Madrid, so I have confirmed their residence, after much asking people to give where you live, drive to meet in the village people pointed us to his residence, the villa is great and my wife tells me to wait in the car. Low and

while walking to your door all the things I tell him and the many more good things to ask him, touch the door and a woman who comes to education all the board and ask the teacher.
-José has come out with some friends, "he says, his voice warm atmosphere. I say goodbye and head back towards the villa. On the road to the moonlight-morning I think I miss the nude beach and have to deal with all the ceviche I ate as a kid.

After two days I'm on the plane to London, I think how nice vacation and in the history of Cuban decided to Iceland instead of an island in the Caribbean or Spain, and is also simply a bored even in paradise.

Saturday, December 16, 2006

Spanish Saying I Pappi?




A Tea in the City

I was expecting a Peruvian friend in a Starbucks, the place was crowded and the traffic outside was impossible. While I was eating a muffin and took an English tea "with a touch of milk" a lady approached me and asked me permission to sit at my table. I accepted only by education. She was tall and blond, the wrinkles on his face showed a woman who had laughed a lot and your stomach advertised their good food.

That usually happens a lot in London, that two strangers meet for the circunstancia, la casualidad, el destino o como quieran llamarlo. Después cada uno hace lo que debe de hacer y en este caso cada uno toma su té y come su muffin, y desaparece. Eso es normal por lo impersonal de la ciudad, pero esta vez ella rompió el hielo.

Me preguntó si era de Argentina, yo moví la cabeza negativamente, ella siguió:
- ¿México? ¿Pakistán? ¿España?
- Si sigues disparando nombres de países así, seguro que darás con el mío- respondí. Y empezó la conversación. Le conté mi procedencia y una que otra vaga referencia. Ella tomaba su café sin azúcar mientras que los lentes se le caían a la mitad de la nariz. La hacían be hilarious, appeared grooves marked the edge of your eyes. He spoke perfect English grammar but not only phonetically, much like the narrator of the BBC news. Worked as a professor at the University of Oxford, and I knew it began to tell his story.
- If you teach at Oxford ... And he kept telling backstage of college life. Since 2000 she had been interviewing prominent leader - told me - it was very easy to pass the knowledge test that many people had spent the last five years of his life preparing to perform and had memorized almost everything: dates, battles, painters, mathematical formulas and physical, etc.. So the interviews are a program of "Unfair questions" (questions unfair) just to make sure that the candidate fails and the candidate for a post at Oxford to answer the question in a more independent, in other words to reason and not repeat. They do this well because there are more applicants than vacancies and not everyone can be successful, obviously. When I told him to give me some examples of questions she had created, he said: - What percentage of water in the world contains a cow? (Veterinary) Why can not light a lighter in a spaceship? (In physics) "Are you cool?" Are you bacan? (In philosophy).

As we talked, a girl about twenty-five years passed by our window. She was thin, tall, wearing brown boots almost knee-pants "lycra" white. One would have sworn that Newmarket had been imported from or had just stepped off a thoroughbred race. In addition, around the neck had a black colored dog, a breed that I've never seen, but with many features of "Doberman." When the girl came in and approached our table, the professor introduced me as his daughter. - Nice to meet you, Clare - responded.

She made a joke to his mother, with reference to but the lady left me with a very intelligent and gracious response. Clare gave him a manila envelope and kissed her forehead and then said goodbye with a smile both clean. As he was leaving, I looked sideways and this time it seemed more like a model than a horse rider.

Clare's mother, softly, I said - just out of rehab because of drugs "
- Ojala not fall - was all he managed to say. After ten questions he proposed me as if I were a candidate for the university.
- Go ahead, "he said.
Of the ten questions answered nine adopted, according to the lady.
The one that I could not answer it is: What Romans wore under their togas?

Peruvians do not change, even in London, my friend called my cell to tell me an excuse for not coming, I left thinking Clare's mother who cares why they used their skirts below the Romans, were the most powerful empire on earth, that's what really matters but if anyone of the readers who can give us the name of the equivalent of a Calvin Klein boxer in the Roman empire, their response will be welcome.
paid my tea and I went into the city.

Saturday, December 2, 2006

Women In Leotards Thong




Madeinusa

two days ago I had the opportunity to see the Peruvian film Madeinusa the fifth Discovering Latin America Film Festival in London.

Claudia Llosa, director and writer, tells the story of Madeinusa (Magali Solar), a 14 year old girl who lives in a small village in the highlands of Ancash, daughter of Don Cayo, the mayor of the town. Madeinusa is bright and attractive and this will cause more problems. As we approach the celebration of Good Friday, Salvador (Carlos de la Torre), a young geologist from Lima will come wrapped in the celebration of this strange people who put aside their intense religiosity during the days of "holy time" to give free loose to their wishes, where everything is allowed, then accept that God is dead and there is no sin. Interestingly, the writer's point, imagine pcs. days without sin, what would be the first thing they?

The end is spectacular as a short story by Juan Rulfo, it should be emphasized that the script won the Coral Award for best original screenplay, in Havana, Cuba.

At the end of the projection appears Carlos de la Torre, has an American accent and a beard
actor Chuck Norris karate. We note that studies showing since a year ago in London. People want to know if Peru, he replied that his mother is Peruvian, the public is a young woman from Cusco who is outraged by the way that portrayed the Andean village, feels that there is a hint of racism in the script and that fool the audience falsifying reality. She is small, brown face and the Andes. The scene reminds me of the divisions of class, race, language and culture in my country and it saddens me a bit.

Although some Andean characters of the film are somewhat "caricature," it is not a documentary but rather a story, and I believe the license is broad in terms of fiction.

Carlos says he would have preferred that it is Claudia Llosa, it is surely better than answering questions that he, but Charles has not done badly. Grab the microphone as if it were a metal rock singer, not an independent film actor, this pose makes me think that probably belongs in Peru Miraflores. He also tells us that the actress who plays Claudia Llosa Madeinusa found selling the candles at the door of a church in the city of Ayacucho.

I really had fun enough, I was glued to the plot from beginning to end and hope to see more of this young talent named Claudia Llosa.