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[Arcadia]

two sites to visit places in different ways:

the first one, a link a local friend mailed me today that offers "a 3D Rosario tour": the circular photos oddly made a frozen impression to me (frozen has its attractives too but it´s frozen anyway ... ). See:

http://www.visitarosario.com/

the other, a Sicily´s photos-blog I randomly discovered last week, I mailed the author to ask if she visited or had photos from Ramacca (the birthplace of my sicilian ancestor´s branch) and she told me that she had to google the town... but she lives 90 km from there and likes to do photo-tour in the little villages so it´s quite probably she hit the town soon or later!!! so, great!!

http://www.baroquesicily.com

Enjoy them!!!

[Arcadia]

Occupy Embassy now... well, it has some logic, no? .
Will the international community use pepper gas, be comprehensive or do other things? I hope the Iran-thing as a focus of international danger cool down in all the fronts ...

http://www.pagina12.com.ar/diario/elmun ... 11-30.html

(I have to return to the exams now...! )

[Arcadia]

Still in the middle of end of the year´s written tests, so I´m with the TV on as an image & sound continous coffee.. : today all the channels remembering the open of the "Corralito" season ten years ago...

I wanted to google & listen again this song today (I have a Divididos recopilation somewhere but now it´s easier youtube...!)

[gypsyjoker]

Wow I had no idea Rosario was such a huge city beautiful city, it looks bigger than Baltimore. I thought it was a little village. I enjoyed the 3D tour very much thanks for posting it

I liked the music but I had to google to get a sense of what the song was about,

I found this article below, which seems to be the situation here in the North too. As we try to move beyond the despair for the American dream to just surviving.
That is my cheerful thought for today,sorry.
we are such greedy children here, some downward mobility might be a good thing, some of us can use all the mobility we can get, just to keep moving, we are so heavy, the rate of obesity here is humongous.

well enough about life here in "the united snakes"
now for some content related to Argentina which through a simple twist of fate is not my homeland.

Argentina’s Nuevos Pobres since
the Corralito
From Despair to Adapting to Downward Mobility

Daniel Ozarow
September 2007 - Professor Maxine Molyneux
MSc Globalisation and Latin American Development
http://sas-space.sas.ac.uk/834/1/SAS%20 ... Ozarow.pdf

[Arcadia]

good you enjoyed the circular photo-tour, I found it somehow strangely artificial
but nevertheless I kept clicking...

& the Divididos song: no idea exactly about the sense of that song but each time I listen to the word "corralito" since the "corralito" it crosses my mind..., and I like the harmónica in it...!

yesterday I was following the CELAC meeting in Caracas, really interesting!, I´ll search links & read later. Also later I´ll read the article you linked (at first attempt I couldn´t open it) and now I´m too sleepy for challenges... !

& today the socialization of the exams with the parents was very fruitful and relaxed, they agreed with everything, wanted to talk a lot and didn´t want to leave the classroom ...!

[gypsyjoker]

I never did read that link, just something I found googling for info on your post. I liked the title, what I see here, beyond the despair of the shattered American dream. What was interesting about the 3D tour is you don't have to keep clicking. If you just let it load it pans around by itself. Maybe it was artifical, is that why everything looked so pristine? It seemed like the city went on forever, as if a million people lived there?

Here our belief in "American Exceptionalism" is still high. We are still the new chosen people. Looking back on the history of my family I wonder why we should want to be chosen anymore. That mighty smitey God has pulled some dirty tricks on his people seems to me.

Pardon the ramble, I been not following much of anything anymore around the world, just sound bytes, Clinton in Burma, demonstrations in Israel, what is next for the Occupation Wall Street movement

sorry for the ramble very tired too.

[Arcadia]

ahh... the to be chosen or not to be chosen thing...! well, the rest of the continent´s states -except Canada- yesterday chose themselves and formed the CELAC! (Cumbre de Estados Latinoamericanos y del Caribe) It looks as good news!!

http://www.pagina12.com.ar/diario/elpai ... 12-03.html

[Arcadia]

more about the CELAC, I´ll read it later here... !


http://www.pagina12.com.ar/diario/elpai ... 12-04.html

http://www.pagina12.com.ar/diario/elpai ... 12-04.html

[Arcadia]

no time to read anything in the last days: too much sun and too much work all together...!!!!! But I listened & watched to this Calle 13 video nearly five times already in Telesur: I feel it moving, surely it hits some real & utopian (at the same time) spot for a lot of people. Enjoy!!!!!!



& tomorrow is the last day for the children that don´t need extra-help for their promotions (with the other children will be working until december 19th and during february if it´s still necessary). They asked me to write each one of them "little letters" or dedicatorias, so I´m doing that at the moment besides doing some cards to join them. I already filled his "libretas" and "registros" (task I really suffer each year....) but I like very much to do this!!!!!

[Arcadia]

our president began her second government period (or third?) oficially yesterday in a typical too much hot, too much sunny december day. I was not specially moved or happy or angry or bothered for what I (partially) saw about the ceremony, discourses & festejos. Only trivialidades catched my attention: I wondered how the president could stand even the idea of a black dress in the midday december sun; if someone had encouraged her daughter to put that moño in her head or was her own idea; why the president insists mentioning Néstor Kirchner oddly under the pronoum "él" without mentioning him as the ex-president, her husband or simply by his name; why her dicourse sounded so technical and empresario-like this time; if she was in the way to try to keep words flowing almost forever like Chávez or Fidel do in their speeches...

for more details see the links below :

http://www.pagina12.com.ar/diario/elpai ... 12-11.html

http://www.pagina12.com.ar/diario/elpai ... 12-11.html

http://www.pagina12.com.ar/diario/elpai ... 12-11.html

[the mingo]

I just hit on this, Veronica, what is the river and why no boat traffic on such a good expanse of water? THx!

[Arcadia]

you hit what, mingo...? the Paraná??? (there is boat traffic there...! )

[the mingo]

I meant I just discovered your post here and got that circular tour and when i saw the river i didn't see any boats on it in the tour and was surprised - no boats.
Thx for the name of the river - going to google now.

[Arcadia]

ahh... no boats in the circular tour? ... yeah, almost no people there too...!!!!! Good luck with google!!

[Arcadia]

Juan Sasturain today in the contratapa of pagina12 talking about last saturday president´s speech and about the ones who don´t want to listen to her or they do listen to her -with dark hidden purposes- but badly. I guess that to be the one saying in other words "las palabras vanas se las lleva el viento", " a buen entendedor, pocas palabras" or "no hay peor sordo que aquel que no quiere escuchar" gives yourself some relief and control-power for a moment... it´s like being rolling eyes all the time... is it necessary? well, I don´t know. What I know is that is easy to do. And the journalism in the opposition plays the same game about the government, they painted them almost as a teocratic monarchy... I think that there is a lot of hipérbole everywhere but that it´s healthy to keep thinking & also feeling without one pointing you all the time as a stupid or a traitor ... hey, it´s a democracy or not?

http://www.pagina12.com.ar/diario/contr ... 12-12.html

our new ministro de agricultura talked about the importance to make a law in order to avoid that the land keep in hands of not-argentinians... well, I guess like the subsidios-cut- thing is a bit eight years late (everybody knew about the fact that during the Menem government and in the Kirchners government lot of land was sold to strangers with dubious prices and conditions). But today is "the gran anuncio". Well, wow..!!!!!! And it seems the law will also cover some aspects like the access of the pueblos originarios to the land... well, yeah!! maybe "mejor más tarde que nunca" can apply to it!

http://www.pagina12.com.ar/diario/econo ... 12-12.html

one frase that since some months is widely used by our politics is "sintonía" and "sintonía fina", sintony and sharp sintony?. It almost kept the place to "profundizar el modelo".

http://www.pagina12.com.ar/diario/ultim ... 12-12.html

& a book that maybe I´ll read during the vacations (also with a bit hiperbolic title... ):

http://www.editorialplaneta.com.ar/desc ... libro/8615