Why Not Argentina

En Weltpolitik-Blog el 2009.07.01

As I wrote yesterday, one of the nice things about the post-Cold War era is that the leaders of military coups can no longer count on U.S. or Soviet support purely on the basis of ideology, and therefore, even in the rare instance that they do still succeed, have less of a chance of establishing dictatorships. Evidently, however, however, coup-plotters can still count on Charles Krauthammer's support. The Washington Post columnist and Fox News commentator attacks the Obama administration in the above...

En Live from Waterloo el 2009.06.24

If there?s anything I learned in the past few years is that perceptions are really hard to change. Take work, for example; once you are told that a product ?or a co-worker? sucks, that concept is lodged in your mind and there?s very little anybody can do to change it. No matter how brilliant that product or that co-worker turn out to be, you will always have a "Yes, but?" comment to offer. I have a similar problem with my first impressions. I?m very sociably and will rarely find somebody I don?t...

En Blog Of Travel el 2009.06.20

In the Argentine city of Concordia in the province of Entre Rios, a legendary castle which was once a source of inspiration for the famous French writer Antoine de Saint-Exupéry: The San Carlos Castillo. The almost one hundred hectares of the settlement of San Carlos passed through several hands since 1867. That same year Manuel Bica became owner, but his death was Carlos Alberti who bought the land for the purpose of installing a salt. Years later was sold to a French firm that wanted to establish...

En *A puño y letra* el 2009.06.18

Just remembered something really funny I told Mr Shaw, my favourite teacher in the woooorld, when I was back at high school. I wanted to go to Argentina for a leadership conference, so we IB One students were kind of competing to be accepted. At the end of the "interview", this happened: Q: And why do you think you should go to Argentina and not the others, Ms Maravi? A: Because... [pause] Uhm... [Mr Shaw raises his eyebrows] Because... you'll be hearing from me soon. :). Laughter,...

En An American in Lima el 2009.05.25

During my month-long hiatus from this blog, I got hooked on another form of social media: Twitter. Unlike Facebook, which facilitates staying touch with family and friends, Twitter is a freeform broadcast to just about anyone on the planet. That might not sound like a medium that would interest a relatively private person (like me), but it turns out that Twitter makes it ridiculously easy to connect with people you’ve always wanted to know. You can tweet with editors of magazines and...

En LaNuez el 2009.05.24

A modo de presentación: Bajo nuestro propio sello, NKpress, publicamos numerosos minicomics y zines de diferentes estilos y contenidos. En la web publicamos varias historietas online, y somos los creadores del blog humorístico "Historietas Rectales". Un catálogo de practicamente todas nuestras publicaciones puede verse AQUÍ. A lo largo de casi 10 años, el sello estuvo presente en diversos festivales de historieta como Fantabaires, Frontera, Animate, Mugen Yukai,...

En Aragon y Medicina el 2009.05.12

La OMS informa lo siguiente en su último comunicado: 12 May 2009 -- As of 06:00 GMT, 12 May 2009, 30 countries have officially reported 5251 cases of influenza A(H1N1) infection. Mexico has reported 2059 laboratory confirmed human cases of infection, including 56 deaths. The United States has reported 2600 laboratory confirmed human cases, including three deaths. Canada has reported 330 laboratory confirmed human cases, including one death. Costa Rica has reported eight laboratory confirmed human...

En Micro Financial EN el 2009.04.28

Every day the major economies are beginning to suffer from price deflation. While writing this article I thought that this deflation will be at least a consolation for Philip, a friend of mine since late last year, is planning a trip to the United States for the month of July this year. Is that the devaluation of the Argentine peso has made my friend can buy U.S. dollars less than projected for the journey to the north country (the economic suffering has prevented Argentina also get better pay)....

En IT Giossa el 2009.02.10

First time since the start of the binational conflict unleashed by the installation of Botnia in Fray Bentos, will be launched in the coming months, a regional integration initiative that, through cultural activities, it is proposed to generate a real cultural exchange and "recapture the brotherhood of citizens damaged by the conflict". This is a project with funding of approximately one million euros from the European Union and which was driven by the singer and songwriter based in...

En TANGO MUNDIAL 2008 WORLD TANGO DANCERS el 2009.02.06

Tucson's First Annual Tango Festival: Over 30 Hours of Milongas March the 5th - 9th, 2009 By combining our love for all things tango, our love of tango festivals, with our love of learning tango, we are convinced we have a recipe for a unique, fun and exhilarating celebration of tango dancing, learning and sharing. We started with a heaping helping of great weather, March is one of the prettiest times of the year in Tucson: the desert will be in full bloom and the temperatures will be around 73° F...

En Libertad Preciado Tesoro el 2009.02.06

By Shimon Samuels - I sat among 70,000 people at the alternative Summit of the Americas through three hours of your bonhomie and macho rhetoric. In the pouring rain, we were all drenched in the Mar del Plata open-air stadium. We were hostages to your oratory, as there was simply no unguarded way out. Among all your "compañeros," perhaps, it would not be disrespectful to address you as Hugo. On Christmas Eve, two years ago we gently advised that your speech about "the killers of our...

En Spanish Football & Sports el 2009.01.12

Below is the image of the 5 Best Players on the Planet just before the ceremony of the World FIFA Player 2008 prize announcement: left to right: Xavi (Spain); Torres (Spain); C.Ronaldo (Portugal); Messi (Argentina) & Kaka (Brazil). As seen, Spain for the first time have 2 candidates, plus if we consider Agentina &/or FC Barcelona in Messi´s case, the flavour of the night was definately Spanish, if not, at least Latin with 2 Portugues speaking candidates along side the other 3 candidates....

En BlogBis el 2009.01.05

Why the shortage? Argentina's central bank blames it on "speculators," meaning everyone from ordinary citizens, who stockpile coins, to Maco, the private cash-transport company (think of Brinks) that repackages change gathered from bus companies to resell at an 8% premium. But those explanations ring false. "Black marketeering" would not exist if coins were easy to get in the first place. After all, Argentines could just as easily hoard razor blades or matchbooks. Yet there's...

En mondomovil.com el 2008.12.23

La patente y latente crisis económica que vive el planeta no parecía afectar a la megagigante Google, pero a raiz de las últimas informaciones que nos llegan desde Mountain View no se ajusta totalmente a la realidad. Google ha decidido, movido sin duda por la ‘milnombrada’ crisis mundial, pagar con ‘especias’ a sus empleados de todo el mundo la paga navideña. Lo que en los últimos años por estas fechas era una paga podríamos decir que...

En Buenos Aires jaque mate el 2008.12.13

Doing theater, playing, pretending you are the King of Denmark or a down-trodden office worker, screwing your face up, getting into the skin of the other guy, moving your body the way you never do in your placid every-day existence, using your voice to seduce a woman you will never fall in love with or lambast an unscrupulous boss...all is in the book when you enter the fascinating world of acting and storytelling. So...if you are in Buenos Aires sweating out January, why not give theater a...

En Los Ziegler en Canadá el 2008.12.01

Dear Stéphane and Jack, I do no write in English very often, this is mostly a blog dedidcated to latinamerican immigrants in Canada. Actually this may be my first post written a 100% in English. But as I’ve started reading and listening about a coalition government (and it’s not the first time!) I just wanted to ask you a favor… Just respect the people vote! The People already talked and they decided for Harper, so let it be. Let me tell you that I’ve already been there....

En INVESTIGACION Y DESARROLLO el 2008.11.25

The Mössbauer effect. The Mössbauer effect is the resonant emission and absorption of gamma rays. Early in 1958, Rudolf Mössbauer published his pioneering article (based on his PhD thesis results) on resonant absorption of the 129.39 keV gamma rays of 191Ir in Zeitschrift für Physik. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1961 for his discovery that gave birth to Mössbauer spectroscopy (MS), an outstanding technique to study solid-state physics, materials science and a wide range of...

En TURISMO el 2008.11.20

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En DAMR.NET el 2008.10.19

Yo siempre me hice esa pregunta, y ahora que leo un comentario de alguien de esa nación comprendo un poco el porque Estados Unidos de América se denomina "America". Leí este comentario en un grupo de Facebook en el cual se quejan de eso : We call ourselves Americans because that’s what we are, we are from the United States of America. We are not United State"icans", we are American’s because our country ends with that word. We don’t say that we...

En Blogs el 2008.10.06

Por most people, walking and biking are leisure and holidaying pursuits or moments of relaxa-tion during a busy workday. They are pleasurable forms of exercise that give you an opportunity to really enjoy your surroundings. Walking and biking are fun. Some go on day tours or long walks. Others spend their holidays biking or walking at nome or abroad. Some biking enthusiasts explore other parts of Europe or go even far-ther a-field. Hiking expeditions are reserved for adventurous types. They are...