2008 December 31, 2008
Tempus fugit Virgil told us to "The Georgics" ("Sed fugit interea irreparabile tempus fugit"). Time flies, slipping out of hand. We often remember watches sol.Un year més.Un menys.Amb this year and sweaty just thinking say goodbye to a year that has not been all that good but I imagine better than what we expected. Hopefully forecasts mistake. Bon 2009! Technorati Tags: time
2008 December 28, 2008
Today is the day of the Holy Innocents. A tradition of newspapers as news was true to a big lie, though: well disguised truth to it or not.
Here was a story. Truth? Lie? I can assure you that it is sadly true. And so we were all due to this education today where everything can be traumatic if we consider. Protect our children so that we only need to wrap them in cotton wool ...
Many schools in Britain renounced the use of red ink to correct student work, to consider "aggressive", "threatening", "inappropriate" and "discouraging."
In these schools, teachers were given clear instructions: errors should be marked, without exaggeration, with pen or pencil to write with less clashing colors such as green, blue, pink or yellow.
"The red, told the Daily Mail the Sr.Richard Sammonds, director of Orpington Crofton Junior Scholl (Kent) can be rather discouraging for students. Has negative connotations of old school."
But all agree: for many teachers, the red ink is still "the fastest way to identify errors."
and, as you know, the red ink has not shocked anyone.
Holy Innocence!
2008 December 27, 2008
These days, inevitably, I get inside the vein Christian've always had. I know I have to leave this vein throughout the year. But these days it seems that accentuated. And being silent the crib, I heard God say: You know why I was born and how I was born? NU I was born, God says, to know that empty tea POOR born mateix.He you to know that I am your only riquesa.He born in a STABLE so you know that you can sanctify all ambients.He FRAGILE born to never be afraid mi.He born LOVE Never doubt that my amor.He born NIT because I know that illuminate all foscors.Em CHILD so I do not ever be ashamed you same.And HUMAN so I could become God . chasing I was born to know that accepting dificultats.Vaig born in simplicity to avoid being complicat.He come into your life because with your help we can get everyone in the house Pare.Etiquetes Technorati: God , Christmas
2008 December 26, 2008
Preparing storm. Everything smelled things come maldades. We may make mistakes, but everyone except the PSC-PSOE (Socialist Party more PSC) have few words of hope and optimism. Everything will be fine, as they will be encouraged and Catalonia, Zapatero fulfilled his word (hahaha ...) and everything will be a bed of roses.
But what came up is quite another thing. The shower is large, as discussed elsewhere sane and lucid. And there is no reason to think that we can do the opposite. Consider:
-The money is gone. Those who have the hide and they do not have to find it in anywhere. The markets are completely unemployed and unemployed will have a good season. How will banks closed? ...
Will be more stripped-L'Estatut a chicken before going to the pot. We can prepare plans A, B, C and D .... there will be nothing to do with answering some dignity to a constitutional court that does not have anything. In Political Court could say that would be accurate. And as a good "voice of its owner" and a good tutor him "ejpañol" of "unidad de España" will well and decaffeinated coffee for everyone so that we hurt and we put nervous. Have you seen that have come out satisfied the Moncloa such Aguirre, such fields and just anyone like this?.
Now, we do not have to work or have RENFE. Because there is money, there will RENFE commuter or even nothing. Sentenced to cycling, walking or by car (it will take now that gasoline is cheap and before that tripled the price, which will happen soon, someone says ...)
-We will have a major airport in Barcelona but half empty. Because we have no international flights, the airport half will not do anything. Economist Tremosa "dixit". And the Catalans go asking an international airport with face and eyes to Castillo learned, or did not even want to look after their own interests out of Barajas.
Funding for Catalonia-you can imagine what it will be. From the beginning to paint sticks is the worst time in history and, of course, we can not give even half of what we deserve and need for justice if we want to be a caboose. Now it sm locomotive or anything. We are the car of coal to continue feeding other locomotives.
And the language and culture. And social benefits that do not come in time for many elderly, and health and businesses will close and people will remain unemployed and migrants who will become troublesome when they can not eat or return to their country ... .
-Internationally, Catalonia is unknown and abused (Picks sports theme) and no defense nor silent. On the contrary, it is Ejpaña who puts a spoke in the wheel everywhere can raise his head a little.
We could go along for a while. We expect governments big and small problems. The PSC has not been at the level, or there is not and should not expect to be there. ERC is making a fool one day yes and one also near the bottom of the boss. The faction has more dignified silence for the moment.
We can open the umbrella hail fall that will kill us if we aixopluguem soon. In a few days we will begin to see it and did not stop for a good season.
Bad way to start the year!
2008 December 25, 2008
CHRISTMAS EPIPHANY
Have you seen the star?
Have you seen the Kings?
Each year older!
Each year older!
What sensuality
and what anxiety
sorry men
tonight.
Kings come it
Kings go
leave toys
every child.
The star guides them
to Jesus.
King Herod
is unrealistic.
If you are a Day
Kings
and carry things
for people
we star
always, all year
to bring joy
all companion.
Let Star
illuminating
to guide men
towards the Child.
We have seen the star!
We have seen the Kings!
Each year more beautiful!
Each year older!
Deig Anthony, bishop of Minorca
Christmas 1980
2008 December 24, 2008
MERRY CHRISTMAS!
This tiny boy,
so weak
and helpless
has come to unite us something
and fill the heart
those who want to believe in Him.
Prayer hungry
Infant Jesus,
when will be great
feel that:
- "They have no wine." -
Infant Jesus
every moment
beg you feel:
- "They have no bread." -
If you came
that good wine
food comes
for people
to starve.
Featuring the clamor
the famejant,
Infant Jesus.
Carol Bishop Antonio Deig. 1984 Technorati Tags: Carol
2008 December 23, 2008
These days 36 years ago this fact fascinating. And because I had the good fortune to meet personally with Fernando Parrado, one of the heroes of the story, this always fascinated me in a way especial.L anniversary recalls the miraculous rescue of a group of students Uruguayans who spent 72 days cut off from the world in the middle of the Cordillera Andes.Fa 36 years a plane carrying 45 passengers bound for Chile, mostly students and players in a rugby team fell in the range Andes.Era of 13 October 1972. There began a desperate search by the Chilean authorities, promoted Uruguay relatives and friends of young people who are not resigned to bad omens. The days passed, and the search was abandoned. Only a few families kept hope alive and continued to work around the crash site. But it was almost unreal that a group of boys survive more than two months in the middle of nowhere, with no food or drink and temperatures baixes.El December 22, 72 days after the accident, the news moved to all listeners were surprised by the big news: "Live!". Despite the cold, hunger and foreboding, young people were able to escape the Cordillera. Twelve were there in the snow, and those who survived had to endure 30 ° below zero, starvation and death of relatives and amics.Després several discussions and day 62, Fernando Parrado and Roberto Canessa, resolved to undertake an expedition in search of help. On December 20, after a long walk, Canessa saw a man riding across a river and he's hoping to go home. Parrado wrote a note wrapped in a stone and threw it so that the carrier read: "I come from a plane that fell in the mountains. I Uruguayan. 10 days ago we are walking. I have a friend wounded above. On the plane there are 14 people injured. We have to go fast here and do not know how. We have no food. We are weak. When you go to look up there?. Please, we can not walk. Where are we? . "Finally all the survivors were rescued and returned to life in the eyes of the world are cataloged as" The Miracle of the Andes ". Technorati Tags: Uruguay
2008 December 22, 2008
The Catalans days ago (I'd say even years) to eat well ment. Years ago spoil the care, respect it, we promise that we will do kindness (and do ...). We have given everything: food of all kinds, taxes have requested the collaboration due to good people we are, the proportion of the pie that we have to, and even more ...
Nobody can say we did not kindness. So now it is wonderful that corresponds to the shit. The villain is who has the most developed sense of justice. And he very sorry when someone is unjust punishment or reward.
Put another way: when someone has put effort into work or school and have promised a prize, the most logical and natural it is to give it to you at the end of the year. It is not right that says, boy, you've done very well, I congratulate the prize but for now we can give it to you not yet. Maybe next year or within a couple of years.
The Catalans The tió do these days. In fact, do that shit for years and, until now, has always been just wonderful. Rather, nothing lavish. But we have been holding our apologies and swallowing (sometimes lies) the piñata. A year had no money, no one knew exactly what shit, another said that there were many crisis ....
Let's see what will happen this year. Some say that the great crisis that is not required we expect anything. Others are more optimistic, they say yes, the piñata has always and will continue shitting shit. We'll see.
But one thing we should be asking: if shit still nothing, after all the good treatment that we have given, it is time to do something now, more biting him really hard in the back? Maybe it is time to let us get organ and all children under the house and burned it in the middle of a public square in protest.
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2008 December 21, 2008
http://es.youtube.com/watch?v=PaeQykTZRHw
A friend sent me this video that I found impressive and I want to share with you. It's called "El Camino del rey"
At some point I remembered our MONT REBEI Lleida. Watch it and enjoy it.
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2008 December 20, 2008
One of the great things that I think blogs are the kind of communication established. A new form of communication, original, unheard. It opens any blog, and perhaps from thousands of kilometers away, can establish a communication in the form of comments with a person who does not know, he does not know who he is, that he has never seen and do not know how to think.
Sometimes interesting dialogue is established with readers through comments on each other. I've seen blog posts with more than 3000 comments. This is the normal communication of a blog: accept that people have different views, which can be expressed and can clarify or discuss.
But one of the weaknesses, to put it another way, a blog is the way how to write. Usually it is a colloquial, simple as mana. And this leads to not qualify enough to not say things like that could be a long conversation where the speaker is in front of you · interlocutors or in a newspaper article that outlines and think more.
All this comes at the expense of an entry I wrote that sparked some pollen lèmica (not here on the blog but privately). Probably I did not explain well enough, so I recognize my blame. But I also recognize that interpretations of the words that are free and are subject to further dialogue and performances that sometimes can become endless.
So I think it is important that the dialogue can come back for a ticket, either in the same blog or via email. Happened to me. I had very interesting conversations with people via e-distant with people who do not know him.
So the blog is a revolutionary new form of communication, more and more widespread and richer. And we should not be afraid to make us free to all.
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2008 December 19, 2008
This stands for "Spanish Confederation ORGANIZATIONS IN FAVOR OF THE PEOPLE WITH INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY."
The Confederation publishes a magazine called WOMEN sometimes perusing. There I found an article that interested me (and which I agree completely), I want to reproduce exactly. The article is Javier Tamarit, responsible for Quality FEAPS.
CUMPLEAÑOS
! Felicidades Diego! Felicidades, Sandra!
No, I am not playing this year.
How can they Thee not touch you? Will not you stay a year Haces mayor every year, or a 29 de Febrero your birth date?
Not if yo do MEET years, but this year I did not have to commemmorate.
Spikes, targeting not entiendo nada.
And Sandra, 53 years on slopes with their individual needs and intensas Apoyo, a grave derivadas of Intellectual Disability and physical remueve up in your chair, I look for reojo with its lined with gafas gruesas, lanzando a new, languid eyes towards the window that lets see the other side of the persistent rain this autumn. This October, in the village where the center is what ATTENDED day, just a few kilometers from their home, humean fireplaces las de los vecinos scarce and hay por poco hustle the streets.
Buen día a spring-inquire-me dice, read the quality the center was something like a well-run system of quality e iba be bueno para todos, todo iba spikes to function better.
Hasta entonces every time I Habis a birthday, Cantabria is the inhabitant Laughter and abrazos y canción para quien FITNESS years.
But the quality con eso le ocurrio someone is to say, What better habitat eso that was very anecdotal, not estaba "procedimentado" (or something they said well, no me acuerdo muy bien) and that the current risk to the bounce of someone not celebrate the birthday of a person.
And the birthday was celebrated importante was tener in the individual account, and give you an opportunity was vested, emotional wellness, Deciana.
Well that we decided that it was a group that habitat that steel Mejor (or something thus, Deciana) for Delicate Subject fix this.
In this group, the idea surgío Although the truth is that I do not want consultaron, porque if it Hubi Done to the best yo Habra atrevido to me to say, to me eso no me acababa to convince Although not see why well-supiera. And the idea fue: ¡Celebremos of Users birthdays them-and I think that was one of the latest-ellos Friday of the month and Mayo, as are muchos, hagámoslo each year with the Half of Users!
And I say y Hecho, it metieron a Procedure, realizarón it, and it evaluaron estaban ello so proud of myself that I Daba decirles shame that I did not convince todo eso. Any decision but nada, with the fervor with which actuaban to the best of Daba them that fear mejorar and decidían Get in numbers with "S" not entraban.
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2008 December 17, 2008
I get the feeling that half the world is waiting for Obama as a savior. That God should come, and that will save us, that we will release all mals.Segurament not make any of this but it can build trust if, just arrived, launched a series of measures everyone is esperant.En this respect analysts do not put all agree, but I think most will notice when arriving at the White House. The world is immersed in a crisis so great that it is necessary and urgent. Yesterday I read that as you do Obama, the crisis may last a year or can last tres.Tot this makes me think that fear is not a god, but almost. If poderón be a man like him that millions of people depend on it will say that as much sentits.Em wise, already wise that all the president of THE USA the most powerful man in the world. But now I feel utterly sure, so now I notice fehafent.Així as Christians now say the 'Advent: "Come, Lord Jesus" together we say: "Come, Lord Obama." Technorati Tags: Obama , U.S.
2008 December 15, 2008
People with intellectual disabilities can not be 100% responsible for the administration of their own income and / or its assets, which would allow them to address their needs necessitats.Aquestes the cover families, tutors or the center ACUDAM. But almost all of them have some money for some expenses or whims personals.Al Center every Monday is a training course for some guys to make better achieve autonomy in some aspects of his life. One of the themes this year has been working on this money (knowing its value, appreciate the effort you have to do to get them thinking about how to spend, etc.) mainly due to the economic crisis that fills tot.Es asked what his personal weekly budget and how this budget is spent. Here are some of the responses to the same rate that you "have 10 € per week, the spending with my boyfriend at the bar and buy something for my parents. Spare me the money I keep in my room for a trip. "" Of that I have money I spend it going to the movies and buying the newspaper. With the money left over I buy my movies from DVD and save for ananr once a year trip "" Tengo between 15 and € 20 for gastármelos during the week and it hago comprándome a drink every morning. Spare me that Lo I keep it in a hucha. "" I my father every day gives me money to buy a sports newspaper. trips Workshop When we always give me. Guardo savings in the bank. "" With the pension I like that I get to go, and then, in the auditorium of Lleida, people dancing on Sunday and buy me a CD of classical music. Saving money on wedding singer who won "." Every Sunday I get 20 € and go to the village pub. With the money I save I can do other things like going to the barber gave him a good tip. "" With € 10 a week that I'm going to fold to work bar to take me a drink. saved 100 € When I put them on the bench. "We could go to but have other opinions. however the sample is sufficiently valid. Our task is to recognize that there are other costs that are ' n take care families or guardians, depending on your needs, it is important to learn to normalizing effects make proper use of the money available.
2008 December 14, 2008
NO SR. MONTILLA! Spending more, buying more, consuming more is not out of the crisis.
This advice does not fit in a President of Catalonia, let alone a socialist. Or else, we ask that chapters who have become unemployed, or there will be soon. We answer all those families who right now do not get to end of the month and that more than come.
Mr. Montilla: create needs to spend spend, encourage consumption not useless. Most of this consumption is wasteful. Not enough advertising companies that already makes us even Mr. President of Catalonia.
It would have been much better than Sr.Montilla had told us:
"Before you buy, consider whether you really need to buy."
"Be self-critical level with your consumer and your way of life."
"Modes sure to consumption: Reduce, Recycle, Reuse."
"Be supportive of your neighbors who have lost their jobs."
Anyway, this is what I should have liked to hear my President. My president "socialist" (socialist why?). What we said Mr. Montilla used to kill flies pipes. It wanted to stop a river with her hands ...
2008 December 13, 2008
"We do not want either a corporation or a limited". A society is a society with future values.
This is the motto Caritas invites us to ponder these days.
Imagine where-where people are valued for who they are and not for what they have or are as useful or productive.
-Imagine a place where people know they have humbly shared and what they are.
-Imagine a place where everyone feels firsthand the suffering and the tears pròxim.-Imagine a place where no one wants to improve it alone, forgetting others.
-Imagine a place where those who do not count anyone is welcomed, listened to and treated as equals.
-Imagine a place where people know how to get in someone else's shoes and listen to heart.
-Imagine a place where people contribute to peace withthe conviure.Imagina their way of life and a place where people engage in a just cause without fear of consequences.
Why not imagine it and make it happen?
ANOTHER LIFE STYLE IS POSSIBLE!
2008 December 12, 2008
Today I want to talk about my friend Mary Amurrio. You may ask: for what reason? Because my friend Mary has "tantos and eighty years" (do not tell them because you may be angry, hahaha) and she says very proud and so we met playing backgammon, which is a game similar to Scrabble.
I thought I could play with a lady over 80 years given the speed with which it did. So she said to me you do not believe? Put the camera and see ... I was in stone!
While we were playing, we were talking about different things and I liked this Galician living for many years in the Basque Country was his sympathy, his vitality and his good nature .... One day I said that I was the club. She tells me: "I have a grandson who is too. I would have to get a crest that I want to paint on wood for him. "
I sent the coat online and after a few days I said, "Well, the shield is done. Want to see? "And she taught me that for the camera. A beautiful coat about 25x25 cm. with bright colors, bright ... Nice indeed! And here comes the surprise. Says, "I cheated. The shield is for you. Or come and search for you by .... ". Well over a year ago that we went to look for Amurrio. We personally know Mary who took care of wonder, along with his family and now I have hanging in my office the crest more beautiful than you can imagine.
Hopefully tomorrow lived up to the game this season and they are doing well do a full cabasset goals in Madrid! Mary and I obviously remain happy.
2008 December 11, 2008
I saw the article yesterday issued a string of English man who went to a clinic in Switzerland to attend because of his death. But I saw the film about the life of José Luis Sampedro.
The stories probably are not the same but they seem similar. Stories are shocking. The lives of these people should be very, very, hard to reach a determination així.A I think that the report is not issued or something and ask for an assisted death is another. I do not think the protest had been issued the report. I think, even, moltbeneficiós be afraid to make when thinking about a topic and very well written. Just read some of those that published by the association "Right to die with dignity." I myself am not trained to say anything new. "Doctors have the church" and doctors are also outside the church, and philosophers, and poets, and husbands and wives and fathers and mothers and brothers ...
So I can say something as a person who always thinks something on this issue is without words, is a subject that always makes me think that because I always think it's a hard topic. Live or die. To be or not to be. Leave or stay forever.
I think the gift of life can be too heavy a load to carry at some point in life. I think that the right to death is also a very clear choice for a person who freely and in full power of your mind, at some point in their life can do.
I think we are too marked by religious themes, philosophical, educational, to issue opinions in cold, so far. But, at least, we must be respectful of individuals or families who decide at a certain point, if they can do it (as in Switzerland).
I think that a right to conquer by humanity is that all countries can also enjoy the right to die with dignity, which is currently illegal penada.I, of course, not only to die with dignity but - and above all to live with dignity, something even more difficult for millions of people. Do not you think?
2008 December 10, 2008
Today is the International Day of Indigenous and also another important celebration: the 60th. ANNIVERSARY OF THE UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS.
Both festivals are important enough to say something about each one. But today I want to join because I think they have enough in common.
I was born the year of the Declaration. So, I'm 60 years old. And from my first moment of reason and from my earliest memory I have always been the same in this world monkeys. The rights are there to harm them and the rich and powerful are those that dictate laws (which, of course, are always the fittest). Rights seems to pass them by lining. It seems that most who complain there's nothing to do, it seems that the world has no choice but ... Well, if they do big, we do small ones. But things have been said. I told them to base minds were soaked with rain.
It is because of this that the natives do not live as they lived. More wrong, tell me. In a sense maybe. They've taken everything that had more valiós: land, customs, way of life ... but have not taken dignity. The dignity and the desire of many of them fought, says Peter grinds well Casaldàliga friend indigenous and connoisseur of the subject.
An experience that marked me the rest of the life I lived in 1977 in Rio Grande do Sul.Amb a friend went to visit a "reduction indigenous" of Indian xarrúes. I lived then in Uruguay, a country of Indians xarrúes until they take away a recent exhibition in Paris to show them almost as rare animals. In Uruguay it was common belief that it exists. Docs, yes. In a village in southern Brazil, called just "Charrua" but then there was a "reduction" where there lived a couple hundred Indians. And there were spending the day doing almost nothing, with "keepers" that watched the Brazilian government to close (not respected) in order not to fall into alcoholism and the tangled mass when they went to sell the small artisan products fabricaven.Tot all, a real shame.
Violated human rights, indigenous children exploited, semi-slaves still so many countries. etc., all this is a very dangerous cocktail that the rich do not just imagine. On that explodes in your hands, then you will realize why they should serve human rights and how we should work together to making the world a more just trying to respect them and make them respect.
2008 December 9, 2008
Nobody likes being anonymous. Being anonymous, have no name, not one, not to be recognized by anyone nor nothing like it is not good. Not good for the individual or for society.
Anonymity makes us feel and be anyone. No rights without duties. The worse things are, are anonymous. It should not be so, but unfortunately true. The anonymous person, that does not count, feels excluded. Actually it is an excluded. Does not count for anything or anyone.
If we do not like to live in a corporation we know our neighbors, we have to talk to them and listen to them. This makes us more and more difficult (by culture, by custom, by language, by differences of all kinds increasingly accentuated) but each day will be necessary if we are not excluded or feel excluded.
2008 December 7, 2008
Many people-environmentalists or not, consider the Christmas lights plan of most cities is wasteful social and environmentally unacceptable that led away from the holiday spirit, try to revive the culture of consumerism that trade can continue box.
The lights of the holidays will cost 7,557 euros a day for the citizens of Valladolid, 3,600 euros a day in Oviedo, 15% more than last year in Madrid, or 20% in Barcelona, according to diari.Tot news of this order, unambiguous and declared by the owners of the town, to promote consumerism.
Christmas lights this year is full of energy waste. Up to 30 million kWh. is wasted, which means emissions of about 15 million kg. CO2. The equivalent to the consumption of a city of 100,000 people for a month. However, to try to save the face of political correctness, the lights that are used by municipalities to low consumption.
But wasting much further, as these figures only refer to the official Christmas lights. Keep in mind Furthermore, the excessive display of thousands of lights grandes shopping centers scattered throughout the country. It is estimated that more than a thousand shopping malls are consumed only by Christmas lights, about 50 million kWh., Without the added consumption resulting from the large number of people who visit.
The power consumption of the lights is covered almost entirely, given its extraordinary power plants to generate and emit tons of CO2 into the atmosphere. A Christmas gift to the greenhouse effect that causes climate change. Limit lighting the Christmas period, ie from Christmas Kings would reduce by more than half of all this waste. Even this measure seem willing owners of corporations, though it would undoubtedly welcome.
We could not do anything to change this situation? Citizens should not have to say anything? With these KWS few children could eat? How many lives could be saved in hospitals in Africa, for example? And do not tell me this is demagoguery. And if you say it is, then I demagogue.
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