February 2011

Tuesday, February 22, 2011

Spray Clear Coat On Ring

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(The earth shakes, after a 6.3 earthquake in New Zealand)

Thursday, February 10, 2011

How To Make Toy Boats Out Of Styrofoam

Ex-and-rolled. Reflections after a year in Australia. The Cyclone Yasi

Frozen in time - A long, long way from Spain

We are, say, a figure inaccurate. A figure I better not chew too much, fail to hint the unstoppable, as the sociologists call "brain drain" that threatens to wipe out the first, and perhaps the last generation of highly qualified our country has borne. Because after thinking and thinking and rethinking what we have no one to place a pushpin on the map, almost like a blossom, and drawing a big stride towards Mecca of our future professionals, make the last click, "e-visa processed. " Back is the dull echo of the wheels of our trolleys, and after the screens of English airports our lives, families and friends.

were born between 1980 and 2000, they say, because the thing will continue. We are and will be exiled English, that's for sure, if-if I may pun-we former lockers and we are very, very bundled. Guilt: the lack of opportunities that undermines our self-esteem in the field of personal and professional, which blackens the current reality and thus clouding our future, as the intellectual level of our country. Many rub 30, and our university status has led to many years of specialized training and quasi-infinite, we are prepared, We pre-standing .

Unfortunately, the economic situation we are facing, will leave a mark not only financial, an imprint that slowly penetrate and stain the different tissues that interweaves subtle side the intellectual level of our society. Gradually, the university formed disappear, are disappearing from Spain, gentlemen. We say, more than 1,500,000 young people between 25 and 35, the milennials , build on the momentum that promises to position an international career in 2020. Australia, Canada and Germany are just some of our destinations. Literally giving away our want to eat the world to the world, and we will, outside of Spain.

We say, part of 17.3% increase in English expatriates in the last year. But for me, are my fellow travelers in the forced resignation to our roots, and me. All of us, doomed to loneliness of the distance, the dictatorship of a webcam and our e-mail, and the quasi-religious experience, call conferencing via Skype, which once a week every Sunday, shows the power Moses celestial XXI century, its capacity to penetrate and divide the seas, including the oceans. Those who have more luck, see their family once a year at Christmas. And those who do not celebrate the New Year hours before the rest of his family, for many miles separate us, that to live in the future.

Marga, Alex, Rosanna, Soraya, Jacub, Eva, Javi, Valeria or Vinyet, among others ... perhaps, just a forgotten name for Spain. But are Doctors of Molecular Bioscience, others INEF graduates, Chemistry, Engineering, Marketing and International Business, Journalism, Advertising and Public Relations. Other, Diploma in Tourism, Human Resources, Physical ... There are to choose, no sector has been spared to be an excellent candidate for the exodus, though perhaps today, "only" lost professions pose for our country and its politicians. And if youth is the future, Spain will have two television news. Without doctors, or scientists, or experts in international business, or architects, or engineers.

say we are the children of baby boomers, whose parents lived in the flesh other stages of a mass exodus sparked by wars, politics and poverty. Perhaps some experiences that had left their mark in our genetic memory, but this time, everything is different. Birth of a new generation that reached maturity in the new millennium, educated under the influence of hope in the progress, and whose parents would instill the study, the success and how far would arrive. What they did not know was what would become the literal meaning of his words. Little did they know, they end up seeing is a reflection of their own eyes, from its prodigal sons, whose figure is inaccurate, whose figure is best not to chew too.

is the other side of the coin of life 365 days of summer, koalas embracing a tutti plenipotentiaries, finding yourself with dolphins one day everyone, and hamburgers prepared kangaroo meat.

Thursday, February 3, 2011

Kates Playground - The Rabbit Stream

that liao parda! Reporting from the eye of the hurricane. Queensland

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Yes, yes. Now, if it seems that natural disasters haunt us. As one friend, Alex Vivancos, I no longer need to be many natural phenomena to live ...

And is that 2011 has not begun too hard on the state of Queensland. If recapitulate some of this earlier this year, remember that the January 12, came flooding to the capital, Brisbane, after weeks of severe flooding earlier in the rest of paradoxically Sunshine State. Just 3 weeks later, the dreaded Cyclone Yasi, took his airs of grandeur and decided to go for a couple of days in the North Coast of the Great Barrier Reef, call him stupid.

analyzing the facts, one can extract invariant two premises: first, that if anything can kill you, lives in Australia. And second, there is only one political figure over the surface of the globe who earns salary: Anna Bligh, Premier of Queensland, a member A Laborsita Party, while one of four women heads of government of Australia. Conclusion: there is no country more insecure for certainties, and that they become unsafe. I mean, sure the good woman, who had put politics to live, as well, as we all know, calm and maintained a large herd conformist-going, and its application calls for the "Maxi-Pack/Combi -Kit "of all natural disasters and for having. Manda Webs! But be honest, the fact is that women are at all times at the height of the circumstances, we, who sees her struggling as the strength of a cyclone (Duh).

Leaving jokes aside, "something that I particularly difficult living in a country where they open the Breaking News with a background image with text," Kiss my Yassi "- fortunately the consequences cyclone, have been less devastating than originally predicted. Although the cyclone reached Category 5 strength estimated, strict security measures, the excellent organization and great foresight on the part of authorities, largely succeeded in minimizing the impact of such a monster that promised to be the worst in history. Although the passage of Yasi has left behind pictures, as they do not, hallucinogens ( morbosillos: look here , here and here.) After seeing them, no doubt the suffering rus oirefsimeH the butterfly effect of the heavy snowfall this winter has been raging Hemisphere North.

The truth is that Anna Bligh announced as one of the many press conferences has been offering to the media during these intensive 3 days, 1 in 3 houses in the area of \u200b\u200bthe eye of the cyclone, has lost the roof, so mention this substantial and irreparable damage. On the other hand, the sugar cane fields and banana trees - important economic engines of the state have been destroyed almost entirely.

But all this, I guess you already know, because for the most catastrophic inform the tone of everything that happens in the world, we have Ladies and Gentlemen, tachán : to Spain! In fact, you realize that when, for example with the flood, your mother calls you by Skype, desperate, possessed by the spirit of the Head of the Special Units Marine Salvage: "Child, that have been sharks in the river, immediately back to Spain, and whatever happens do not jump into the water and swim run away! ". A I have to use my extrasensory powers to move on for exorcism, "" But Mom, you have seen the suspect-color-goose shit ... Do not go near the river or with a stick ... And the sharks ... well, normal, right? live there ... Yes mom ... throughout the year, but what then, is not news. "

The point is that here the media, despite the catastrophe and the inevitable tendency toward sensationalism, it is generally close to a record in a tone more optimistic about the events. And finally, as they get to capture the strength and hardness of the Queenslanders, the essence so particular that follows the Tough e-Stat because Sunshine State, already seems rather limited.

Well

I have reported here, where natural disasters happen, or as my mother would say, being always in the eye of the hurricane, my daughter! Why do not you come and ?"...

Mom crisis, the crisis ....