En Internet existen muchas páginas que divulgan poesías y que también hacen concursos. Las mejores páginas sobre este asunto son:
1) la que tiene una tecnología más avanzada es :PREDICADO.
2) Le sigue para concursos: CENTRO-POETICO
3) Luego, desde Argentina: DIVAGUE
En Predicado.com escriben todos los poetas (los avanzados y los que comienzan). En Centro-Poético.com encontrarán más de 1.000 poesías en español, las cuales están compitiendo para ganar un concurso y poder aparecer en la Antología Poética que se llama : Solamente Palabras y además, ganar 150 euros. En Divague.com , existen poesías de gente muy experimentada en el tema y allí aparecen también poesías de los grandes poetas como: Amado Nervo, Pablo Neruda, Alfonsina Storni, Mario Benedetti, Edgar Allan Poe.
sábado, septiembre 08, 2007
Leer la Prensa Internacional...
FRANCIA
RUSIA
AFRICA DEL ESTE
KOREA DEMOCRATICA
JAPON
CAIRO
Wall Street Journal (USA)
LOS ANGELES (USA)
ZIMBABWE
ESTRATEGIAS
El EXAMINADOR
Con este grupo de periódicos, y el de: MEXICO
Además también el periódico de : NEW YORK
e incluso el de :NUZHOUND
podemos estar más o menos informados.
Y finalmente :VENEZUELA
Pero también el excelente diario de Buenos Aires : LA NACION
RUSIA
AFRICA DEL ESTE
KOREA DEMOCRATICA
JAPON
CAIRO
Wall Street Journal (USA)
LOS ANGELES (USA)
ZIMBABWE
ESTRATEGIAS
El EXAMINADOR
Con este grupo de periódicos, y el de: MEXICO
Además también el periódico de : NEW YORK
e incluso el de :NUZHOUND
podemos estar más o menos informados.
Y finalmente :VENEZUELA
Pero también el excelente diario de Buenos Aires : LA NACION
SLIDE SHOW...
Ya es posible colocar en su blog un Slide Show con el programa, todavía en Beta, llamado Bubble Share. El experto Wade Roush nos cuenta como hacerlo en su blog al final de esta página. Este especialista en tecnologías ha colocado en su Hoja un Slide Show acerca de Helsinki , Finlandia. Lo interesante es que esto se acompaña con música y narración en audio. El nos dice lo siguiente:
"a simple way to create slide shows with music or audio narration, then share them over the Internet. Now there's a startup called BubbleShare that provides exactly that. Today I tested Bubbleshare's service (which is still in beta) on a batch of photos that I took two weeks ago while on assignment in Helsinki, Finland. The result is below, at the bottom of this post".
Roush nos orienta cómo lo ha hecho él mismo:
"Building a BubbleShare slide show couldn't be easier. Step 1: Upload your photos to BubbleShare's site (registration required). Step 2: Add captions and/or audio snippets (BubbleShare lets you record up to 30 seconds of audio per photo.). Step 3: Paste the HTML code that BubbleShare provides into your own Web page or blog entry. Then you get a mini-slide show player like the one here -- or you can post a link from your page to a higher-resolution version of the show hosted at BubbleShare's site.
The only technological prerequisites are a camera, computer, broadband Internet connection (otherwise uploading and recording would be excruciatingly slow), and microphone. I used the same $20 Radio Shack PC headset that I use for Skype calls and podcasting. You don't need anything fancier, since Bubbleshare drastically compresses the audio track anyway".
Welcome to Buble Share:
Pueden ver un ejemplo de esto en :
Un slide show about Helsinki:
SLIDE SHOW
Este es mi Slide Show sobre la ciudad de Caracas:
"a simple way to create slide shows with music or audio narration, then share them over the Internet. Now there's a startup called BubbleShare that provides exactly that. Today I tested Bubbleshare's service (which is still in beta) on a batch of photos that I took two weeks ago while on assignment in Helsinki, Finland. The result is below, at the bottom of this post".
Roush nos orienta cómo lo ha hecho él mismo:
"Building a BubbleShare slide show couldn't be easier. Step 1: Upload your photos to BubbleShare's site (registration required). Step 2: Add captions and/or audio snippets (BubbleShare lets you record up to 30 seconds of audio per photo.). Step 3: Paste the HTML code that BubbleShare provides into your own Web page or blog entry. Then you get a mini-slide show player like the one here -- or you can post a link from your page to a higher-resolution version of the show hosted at BubbleShare's site.
The only technological prerequisites are a camera, computer, broadband Internet connection (otherwise uploading and recording would be excruciatingly slow), and microphone. I used the same $20 Radio Shack PC headset that I use for Skype calls and podcasting. You don't need anything fancier, since Bubbleshare drastically compresses the audio track anyway".
Welcome to Buble Share:
Pueden ver un ejemplo de esto en :
Un slide show about Helsinki:
Este es mi Slide Show sobre la ciudad de Caracas:
ACRONIMOS
La gente joven en la red algunas veces utiliza acrónimos para expresar algo en forma rápida. Un diccionario de acrónimos aparece arriba.
viernes, septiembre 07, 2007
La lección política de Pavaroti
La lección política de Pavaroti
Si sus cualidades vocales fueron extraordinarias, más extraordinaria fue la lección política que a través de su arte, dio a todos los hombres del planeta. Unas pequeñas muestras de esta aseveración: Hizo que el género operático dejara de ser producto exclusivo de élites para hacer que sus notas salieran de vetustos teatros y las llevó a estadios, plazas y monumentos. No permitió que su rigurosa formación académica lo confinara a Verdi, Bizet, o Puccini aislándose en el divismo y supo acercarse al pueblo cantando el Guantanamera con Celia Cruz y New York-New York con Liza Minelli, cantó con igual profesionalismo lírico con Gloria Estefan, las Spice Girls, con Bon Jovi y Paula Pausini, U2 y Sting por nombrar algunos. Hizo suyo el público de esos artistas y sus admiradores fueron igual rockeros, que románticos sin por ello perder un ápice de calidad y haciendo de la calidad la nota más destacada. Supo convertir la competencia con Plácido Domingo y José Carrera, en un regalo para todos y no en una descalificación ácida y destructiva. Pavaroti hizo de la música vehículo, instrumento y camino para la elevación, la conciliación, la pluralidad, la excelencia y la colaboración entre los hombres para las causas justas. ¿No es esa la mejor lección de la verdadera política?
Ahora para recordar a este gran tenor, vamos a oirlo:
martes, septiembre 04, 2007
Fabio Piraja y la Historia de la radio en Brasil
En el Link de arriba existe una historia muy completa de la radio brasilera y además se puede oir música de ese país en varias emisoras y en tiempo real.
Los periodicos mundiales
Muchas veces queremos enterarnos de las noticias de un país determinado y sabemos que lo ideal es leer en directo un diario de ese país. Pues bien, en el link de arriba pueden leer no sólo periódicos de América Latina y de USA, sino de Europa, de Asia. Africa, Australia, etc.. que lo disfruten !!
Simepre es bueno buscar sinonimos
A veces cunado estamos escribiendo necesitamos usar un sinónimo para no repetir la palabra anterior. Pues bien, en el enlace de arriba aparece una herra
lunes, septiembre 03, 2007
Para bajar Musica, Videos y Juegos
En el sitio de arriba aparece un enlace que le permite bajar música (MP3), Videos y Juegos. Estoy seguro que les gustará.
domingo, septiembre 02, 2007
BIOTECNOLOGIA
En el sitio web :
NEOFRONTERAS
encontré el siguiente artículo que nos sirve para ponernos al día en materia biotecnológica. El reporte se refiere a la generación de organismos vivos en base a material inanimado:
Prometen vida sintética en unos años
Están trabajando en la creación de vesículas sintéticas, imitación de las membranas celulares naturales, como primer paso en la creación de vida sintética. Se espera que antes de diez años se disponga ya de las primeras células creadas por el hombre a partir de material inanimado. En ese momento se habrá creado vida artificial.
Varios grupos de investigadores trabajan desde hace unos pocos años en la creación de vida sintética. Una vez se consiga esperan crear microorganismos a medida que realicen funciones beneficiosas para el ser humano. Uno de los grupos que persiguen esta meta es ProtoLife en Venecia (Italia). Mark Bedau, jefe de operaciones de esta compañía, afirma que este logro tendrá un impacto enorme en el mundo. Craig Venter también persigue la misma meta.
La primera célula sintética no va a ser espectacular, será un organismo simple de genoma mínimo, pero será la prueba evidente de que la creación de vida artificial es factible. Esta protocélula tendrá el potencial de arrojar nueva luz sobre nuestro papel en el Universo, según Bedau. Posiblemente será un tema sobre el que se discuta en la sociedad, porque bajo el punto de vista filosófico, o incluoso teológico, su influencia será innegable.
Por otro lado se podrán obtener aplicaciones prácticas inmediatas: células artificiales esclavizadas para desempeñar determinadas funciones nos proporcionaran combustibles, medicamentos, eliminarán tóxicos y ayudarán a reducir la contaminación y el efecto invernadero.
Para conseguir la protocélula sintética se necesitan, según Nedau, dar varios pasos: Crear un contenedor, formado por una membrana que haga las veces de pared celular, para mantener los orgánulos y el material genético a salvo en el interior.
encontré el siguiente artículo que nos sirve para ponernos al día en materia biotecnológica. El reporte se refiere a la generación de organismos vivos en base a material inanimado:
Prometen vida sintética en unos años
Están trabajando en la creación de vesículas sintéticas, imitación de las membranas celulares naturales, como primer paso en la creación de vida sintética. Se espera que antes de diez años se disponga ya de las primeras células creadas por el hombre a partir de material inanimado. En ese momento se habrá creado vida artificial.
Varios grupos de investigadores trabajan desde hace unos pocos años en la creación de vida sintética. Una vez se consiga esperan crear microorganismos a medida que realicen funciones beneficiosas para el ser humano. Uno de los grupos que persiguen esta meta es ProtoLife en Venecia (Italia). Mark Bedau, jefe de operaciones de esta compañía, afirma que este logro tendrá un impacto enorme en el mundo. Craig Venter también persigue la misma meta.
La primera célula sintética no va a ser espectacular, será un organismo simple de genoma mínimo, pero será la prueba evidente de que la creación de vida artificial es factible. Esta protocélula tendrá el potencial de arrojar nueva luz sobre nuestro papel en el Universo, según Bedau. Posiblemente será un tema sobre el que se discuta en la sociedad, porque bajo el punto de vista filosófico, o incluoso teológico, su influencia será innegable.
Por otro lado se podrán obtener aplicaciones prácticas inmediatas: células artificiales esclavizadas para desempeñar determinadas funciones nos proporcionaran combustibles, medicamentos, eliminarán tóxicos y ayudarán a reducir la contaminación y el efecto invernadero.
Para conseguir la protocélula sintética se necesitan, según Nedau, dar varios pasos: Crear un contenedor, formado por una membrana que haga las veces de pared celular, para mantener los orgánulos y el material genético a salvo en el interior.
INDIA AND JAPAN
Thursday, Sept. 2, 2007
COUNTERPOINT
Cultural affinity bodes well for growing ties with India
By ROGER PULVERS
Special to The Japan Times
Legend has it that in ancient times a mask made its way from India to Japan. One look at today's Noh mask called Beshimi would confirm this legend: Its tea-colored complexion, large eyes and ample nostrils certainly make it look nothing like a Japanese, but like a native of India.
Such legends partially attest to the fact that India is the mother of Japanese culture.
Japan's aesthetic sense may have come from Korea and China — in tea, architecture, painting and sculpture — to be refined here into something truly exquisite and unique. But all of this was based on Buddhism. Without the underpinning Buddhist philosophy from India, Japanese art and thinking would be so much ornament and decoration.
Now, it seems, Japanese-Indian relations are entering a new era. These days, the emphasis is inevitably on economic and strategic considerations. But both Japan and India, as modern Asian democracies each with a deep cultural heritage, can form a lasting and meaningful new tie on the basis of mutual respect for their cultural heritage.
Heather Timmons, writing in the New York Times on Aug. 21, interprets this link chiefly in terms of forging a counterweight to China. But if the relationship turns on such expediency, it can hardly be expected to last.
In the third week of August, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe made a 3-day visit to India. Abe's stated goal, as reported in the Hindustan Times, is to triple trade with India to $20 billion by 2010. According to that newspaper, the prime minister, who was leading a 200-strong delegation of Japanese business leaders, said he was "keen to ensure that India and Japan conclude a comprehensive economic partnership agreement soon to give a further push to trade and investment ties that have been growing dramatically in recent years."
The real relationship, however, must recognize that economic progress rides on the back of culture, and not vice versa.
Praiseworthy traits and customs
There's no need to delve into ancient history to find deep and important cultural ties between India and Japan. The Bengali poet, philosopher, artist and novelist Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) visited Japan in 1916 and found traits and customs here that he considered highly praiseworthy.
"The Japanese do not waste their energy in useless screaming and quarreling," he wrote, "and because there is no waste of energy, it is not found wanting when required. This calmness and fortitude of body and mind is part of their national self-realization."
These words seem just as applicable to the Japan of today as to the Japan of 90 years ago.
Radhabinod Pal (1886-1967), the sole Indian justice at the International Military Tribunal for the Far East (popularly known as the Tokyo War Crimes Trials), was the lone dissenter to the guilty sentences handed down to the accused. He termed the trials themselves "ritualized revenge." That is not to say he judged the accused innocent of war crimes. He did, however, believe that such victors' justice was invalid, and that the United States and its Western allies had had a hand in provoking Japan into war.
However, perhaps the most significant popular-culture tie in recent history was that provided by Rash Bihari Bose (1885-1945), a key figure in the movement for Indian independence from Britain. Bose found exile in Japan at the beginning of the Showa Era (1926-1989). He married Toshiko Soma, eldest daughter of the owner of Nakamuraya, a Shinjuku restaurant that is still in business today, and promptly went about making what was even then a Tokyo favorite, "curry rice," authentic.
You might not have recognized curry rice served in Tokyo 80 years ago, as it was made with bonito-shaving stock and soy sauce. Bose insisted on importing spices from India. He found Japanese chickens most unsatisfactory, and started up a chicken farm in Yamanashi Prefecture. Curry at Nakamuraya was called karii not karee, as it was generally referred to then. (Bose's name for curry did not stick, however, and Japanese continue to call what is now the most popular dish with Japanese children karee raisu, though that sticky, sweet stuff is a far cry from India's finest.)
But the influences of India in Japan go deeper than the dodgy curry concocted here. There are real affinities between the two peoples in the way they look on life and the final rite of passage.
Perhaps there is no greater illustration of these affinities than the poetry and prose of the Japanese author Kenji Miyazawa (1896-1933), who was an ardent follower of the Nichiren sect of Buddhism. In fact, Miyazawa's entire oeuvre is permeated with a philosophy of life very close to the heart of India, and it could be said that he saw his life as a medium for the propagation of his faith. Here is how he defined himself:
The phenomenon called I Is a single blue illumination of a presupposed organic alternating current lamp . . .
The single illumination Of karma's alternating current Remains alight without fail Flickering unceasingly, restlessly Together with the sights of the land and all else . . .
Some other part of nature
Miyazawa saw himself existing in the realm of human beings only to be transformed into some other part of nature upon his death. His final wish to his family when he died in September 1933 was to have 1,000 copies of Buddha's "Lotus Sutra" sermon distributed to friends and acquaintances.
Many Japanese authors have been influenced by Buddhism, including, to name just three, novelists Kyoka Izumi, Ogai Mori and Yukio Mishima. But the notion of Buddhism as received by virtually all-Japanese writers is one that was reworked into an aesthetic idea when it traveled through China and Korea. The trappings and descriptive elements of Buddhism are present in their works — but not the essence: that all existence is a cyclical part of nature, and that the ultimate purpose of human beings is to sacrifice themselves for the happiness of others.
I am sure that the people of India would see this part of their own tradition in the work of Kenji Miyazawa; and I would suggest that — never mind press-the-flesh prime ministerial outings — the Japanese government could do far worse than mount an exhibition of it in India.
In addition, let's urge educational policymakers and leaders in Japan to bring hundreds of Indian teachers of English to Japan!
The Indian dialect of English is increasingly important in the world. Besides, English-language education in schools and universities is far too heavily dominated by Anglos from the United States, Britain and the Antipodes. Augmenting the Indian input to English-language learning here should be seen as a vital step in deepening ties between the subcontinent and Japan.
There's a lot of work to be done to strengthen ties between India and Japan, and Prime Minister Abe's excursion may have gone some way to doing so in the economic and strategic fields.
If the relationship is to flourish, however — and enrich both societies — it must reinvigorate the cultural tie. Beshimi, that mask used in Noh Theater, once floated over the seas all the way to these islands. Let it be a symbol of a relationship that is, literally, made in heaven.
JAPAN-TIMES
COUNTERPOINT
Cultural affinity bodes well for growing ties with India
By ROGER PULVERS
Special to The Japan Times
Legend has it that in ancient times a mask made its way from India to Japan. One look at today's Noh mask called Beshimi would confirm this legend: Its tea-colored complexion, large eyes and ample nostrils certainly make it look nothing like a Japanese, but like a native of India.
Such legends partially attest to the fact that India is the mother of Japanese culture.
Japan's aesthetic sense may have come from Korea and China — in tea, architecture, painting and sculpture — to be refined here into something truly exquisite and unique. But all of this was based on Buddhism. Without the underpinning Buddhist philosophy from India, Japanese art and thinking would be so much ornament and decoration.
Now, it seems, Japanese-Indian relations are entering a new era. These days, the emphasis is inevitably on economic and strategic considerations. But both Japan and India, as modern Asian democracies each with a deep cultural heritage, can form a lasting and meaningful new tie on the basis of mutual respect for their cultural heritage.
Heather Timmons, writing in the New York Times on Aug. 21, interprets this link chiefly in terms of forging a counterweight to China. But if the relationship turns on such expediency, it can hardly be expected to last.
In the third week of August, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe made a 3-day visit to India. Abe's stated goal, as reported in the Hindustan Times, is to triple trade with India to $20 billion by 2010. According to that newspaper, the prime minister, who was leading a 200-strong delegation of Japanese business leaders, said he was "keen to ensure that India and Japan conclude a comprehensive economic partnership agreement soon to give a further push to trade and investment ties that have been growing dramatically in recent years."
The real relationship, however, must recognize that economic progress rides on the back of culture, and not vice versa.
Praiseworthy traits and customs
There's no need to delve into ancient history to find deep and important cultural ties between India and Japan. The Bengali poet, philosopher, artist and novelist Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) visited Japan in 1916 and found traits and customs here that he considered highly praiseworthy.
"The Japanese do not waste their energy in useless screaming and quarreling," he wrote, "and because there is no waste of energy, it is not found wanting when required. This calmness and fortitude of body and mind is part of their national self-realization."
These words seem just as applicable to the Japan of today as to the Japan of 90 years ago.
Radhabinod Pal (1886-1967), the sole Indian justice at the International Military Tribunal for the Far East (popularly known as the Tokyo War Crimes Trials), was the lone dissenter to the guilty sentences handed down to the accused. He termed the trials themselves "ritualized revenge." That is not to say he judged the accused innocent of war crimes. He did, however, believe that such victors' justice was invalid, and that the United States and its Western allies had had a hand in provoking Japan into war.
However, perhaps the most significant popular-culture tie in recent history was that provided by Rash Bihari Bose (1885-1945), a key figure in the movement for Indian independence from Britain. Bose found exile in Japan at the beginning of the Showa Era (1926-1989). He married Toshiko Soma, eldest daughter of the owner of Nakamuraya, a Shinjuku restaurant that is still in business today, and promptly went about making what was even then a Tokyo favorite, "curry rice," authentic.
You might not have recognized curry rice served in Tokyo 80 years ago, as it was made with bonito-shaving stock and soy sauce. Bose insisted on importing spices from India. He found Japanese chickens most unsatisfactory, and started up a chicken farm in Yamanashi Prefecture. Curry at Nakamuraya was called karii not karee, as it was generally referred to then. (Bose's name for curry did not stick, however, and Japanese continue to call what is now the most popular dish with Japanese children karee raisu, though that sticky, sweet stuff is a far cry from India's finest.)
But the influences of India in Japan go deeper than the dodgy curry concocted here. There are real affinities between the two peoples in the way they look on life and the final rite of passage.
Perhaps there is no greater illustration of these affinities than the poetry and prose of the Japanese author Kenji Miyazawa (1896-1933), who was an ardent follower of the Nichiren sect of Buddhism. In fact, Miyazawa's entire oeuvre is permeated with a philosophy of life very close to the heart of India, and it could be said that he saw his life as a medium for the propagation of his faith. Here is how he defined himself:
The phenomenon called I Is a single blue illumination of a presupposed organic alternating current lamp . . .
The single illumination Of karma's alternating current Remains alight without fail Flickering unceasingly, restlessly Together with the sights of the land and all else . . .
Some other part of nature
Miyazawa saw himself existing in the realm of human beings only to be transformed into some other part of nature upon his death. His final wish to his family when he died in September 1933 was to have 1,000 copies of Buddha's "Lotus Sutra" sermon distributed to friends and acquaintances.
Many Japanese authors have been influenced by Buddhism, including, to name just three, novelists Kyoka Izumi, Ogai Mori and Yukio Mishima. But the notion of Buddhism as received by virtually all-Japanese writers is one that was reworked into an aesthetic idea when it traveled through China and Korea. The trappings and descriptive elements of Buddhism are present in their works — but not the essence: that all existence is a cyclical part of nature, and that the ultimate purpose of human beings is to sacrifice themselves for the happiness of others.
I am sure that the people of India would see this part of their own tradition in the work of Kenji Miyazawa; and I would suggest that — never mind press-the-flesh prime ministerial outings — the Japanese government could do far worse than mount an exhibition of it in India.
In addition, let's urge educational policymakers and leaders in Japan to bring hundreds of Indian teachers of English to Japan!
The Indian dialect of English is increasingly important in the world. Besides, English-language education in schools and universities is far too heavily dominated by Anglos from the United States, Britain and the Antipodes. Augmenting the Indian input to English-language learning here should be seen as a vital step in deepening ties between the subcontinent and Japan.
There's a lot of work to be done to strengthen ties between India and Japan, and Prime Minister Abe's excursion may have gone some way to doing so in the economic and strategic fields.
If the relationship is to flourish, however — and enrich both societies — it must reinvigorate the cultural tie. Beshimi, that mask used in Noh Theater, once floated over the seas all the way to these islands. Let it be a symbol of a relationship that is, literally, made in heaven.
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