The 49ers are featured on 4 songs off the new Goon Trax release, “In Ya Mellow Tone Official Bootleg Vol. 1 Mixed by Re: Plus.” The album release date is December 2, 2009. The 4 songs featured on the album are:

1. Imagine
2. It’s My Thing (Feat. Thurro)
3. Music
4. Sophisticated Freaks

   Un copac în asfinţit şi o eternitate de trăit …

   Umbre şi lumini povestind nedesluşit despre nevăzutele tărâmuri (pictură de Albert Bierstadt).

Desde Pig Skate Shop nos llega esta información:

El próximo viernes día 4 de diciembre a partir de las 17:00 horas se celebrará un campeonato de SKATE en Tartessos (c/ trille,40 – Cádiz).

Unos cuantos módulos nos servirán como “skate park” improvisado para pasar una buena tarde de patin. Organizado por la ASOCIACIÓN CARDJIN y PIGS SKATE SHOP tendremos a ELEMENT e IMAGINE SKATEBOARDS como patrocinadores. RED BULL y SNICKERS también colaborarán con sus bebidas y chocolatinas. Todo esto servirá para reivindicar, una vez más, el SKATE PARK que seguimos sin tener en nuestra ciudad.

Imagine – Avril Lavigne

Imagina que podem anar a correr, a nedar a la platja, a ballar com tontos fins que s’acabi la nit… no estic fent un anunci de tampax, és tan senzill com deixar de suposar evidències, no et passa que ningú no diu res i al final, l’un per l’altre… Doncs això. A nene guta nena i no la vol deixar escapar. Ho puc dir més alt. A NENE GUTA NENA.

T’explicaré el procés: esperaré, em cansaré d’esperar i fugiré a esperar. Senzill. True love waits, recordes?

Adéu.

::WE ARE FOR EVERYONE:: SEEKING
TRUTH MOVING FEELING SOMETHING
underneath it all KNOWING….
LIGHTWORK DARKWORK INDIGO
STARSEED ET SECRET
SACRED KNOWLEDGE
ONENESS of ENERGY
MEETING WAVELENGTHS of FREQUENCY OUT of DUALITY
WE RISE in UNITY
YOU & ME & ALL LIFE
FORMS NOW EXPRESSED
on EARTH WE ASCEND
in the BLISS of TWO,
KNOWING the SPLITTING
with our DILLUSION
NOW IS SELF DIVINE UNION
SPIRITUAL PHYSICAL LAW of LOVE
… it’s the gravity, it’s the Godlight particle.
IT’S ALL YOU ARE; DIVIDED.
LET’S UNIFY and RECTIFY
…all this TRUTH we made here.

What you imagine you can create. Within our imagination we hold the power to recreate our lives and manifest far more than we believe on a day-to-day basis. The art of manifesting includes one’s ability to clearly define a desired outcome or way of being and to believe and work towards this on a daily basis.  Setting a clear intention is the first step in creating a new reality.  Never be afraid to think big and design this new reality to include things that both feel good and provide you with opportunities for growth. We often beaver away in our own world, viewing life from a set of limited lenses.  Expand your vision to include seeing the world in a whole new way.

December 2nd and 9th in a webinar on Creating Influence and Success from the Feminine Perspective,  we will be working on creating a sustainable blueprint for 2010.  There comes a time in life where we know we have to take ourselves to the next level; the next level of adventure, accomplishment, exploration or achievement. Read more about our webinar at our website (www.theessentialfeminine.com) or register at http://tinyurl.com/Register4InfluenceAndSuccess.  Hope you’ll join us.

   Fractali îngemănaţi la drum de seară .

“Hairography”

November 25th, 2009

Last week, I had an extensive Twitter conversation with Jace Lacob about Glee, and the argument boiled down to the question of whether or not the show’s characters were one-dimensional. And what was interesting is that Jace and I don’t disagree: the show’s characters are, on occasion, blindly one-dimensional. However, I argued that the show is still in its infancy, and that considering its identity crisis it’s actually doing a decent job of slowly sketching out its characters.

However, I do think that one of the show’s problems is its decision to have characters waver between substantial character development and broad archetypes week by week. While a show like Friday Night Lights, with a similar ensemble cast of characters that often move in and out of the show’s narrative, is dealing with fairly grounded and realistic characters, Glee is slowly humanizing caricatures. And as a result, you have a character like Artie fluctuating from a handicapped student struggling to relate to his classmates to a random background character in a wheelchair, which feels false. Rather than the character development compounding over time, changing the way the show’s dynamics operate, the exact opposite is happening: while individual episodes give Kurt or Quinn or Puck storylines that expand on their identity, outside of the main serialized storyline (Finn and Quinn’s baby) they revert back to their original modes.

It creates a sense that, for a show which is at its best when characters are being developed and explored in a concentrated fashion, the plots of the show itself don’t actually seem to be changing in kind, and the show reverts back to a farcical comedy more often than not. At the heart of “Hairography” is the fairly simple premise that beneath the distractions we create for ourselves is a sense of our true identity, as various characters test out potential distractions only to find that their heart takes them in a different direction.

However, Glee is a show that is all about distractions, and while this individual episode may have peeled everything back to show the supposed true colours of the various characters the show is never going to stop delivering show-stopping musical numbers or interjecting random musical sequences into largely unrelated scenes. The result is an episode that, rather than representing a legitimate step forward for the series, only draws attention to some of its long-term, cumulative limitations: it can tug at the heartstrings and build character when it wants to, but this is never going to start being a show about twelve kids singing on stools.

Especially not with a fake pregnancy storyline hanging over it.

Now, I am aware that this show (as Twitter user Genshikenn points out) is never overly subtle, so I shouldn’t be annoyed that “Hairography” throws the distractions narrative done our throats with numerous mentions of the term (Quinn wanting to distract Finn, Terri wanting to distract Will, Kurt self-identify as a distraction, Sue talking about being distracted from winning, and of course the eponymous hairography). But when your central theme is the idea that things should be simple and clear, stripped down of the big hair and the crazy dancing in order to fall into a natural pattern, and your episode works for every second of that emotional impact without an ounce of subtlety, that’s problematic for me. Ian Brennan’s script argues that no distraction will ever truly satisfy you, and that you’ll always return to what feels natural and right; however, while I thought the episode resulted in a number of compelling moments (especially the Sign Language collaboration on “Imagine,” which went for the emotional jugular), it never felt particularly natural in the least.

It’s an episode that also demonstrates that the idea of developing each character individually isn’t actually improving on their overall dynamic, as the Glee Club itself felt bizarrely splintered in this episode. When Kurt commented that this was the first time Quinn had ever spoken to him, it reverted back to the stereotypes (Kurt as the social outcast, Quinn as the stuckup and opportunistic cheerleader) that have largely been written out of the two characters through episodes like “Preggers” and last week’s “Ballad.” It’s one thing if every episode doesn’t feature a scene that clearly shows an evolution of a particular character, but Quinn and Kurt could have had this conversation five weeks ago and it would have been just as relevant. In fact, the entire episode could have taken place after “Preggers” and it wouldn’t have been that much of a stretch. And while I understand it’s still early in the season, a lot of substantial character development has happened since that point that should be reflected in how these characters act that just isn’t. Yes, we read Quinn’s efforts to distract Finn and get to know Puck as less problematic since we’ve both seen Quinn humbled (in “Ballad”) and Puck humanized (in “Mash-Up”), but the episode did nothing to reflect this (especially in terms of turning Puck into a complete and total cad).

There was a lot of criticism of “Mash-Up” (where Puck and Rachel got together, and where we saw the Emma/Will story front and center), which was also written by Brennan, but I liked the episode at the time because it showed different sides to characters and connected the three stories together with a central theme that made sense for each of them. However, now I realize that what really made me like the episode was that Terri Schuester was entirely absent from it. I like Jessalyn Gilsig, but this episode reminded us why we were all so glad they put the storyline on the back burner for a while. Not only is Terri’s sister unquestionably the worst character on the show (compared to her, Terri’s downright compelling), but the storyline is the ultimate sort of distraction from where the heart of the show really lies. And perhaps what made Brennan’s theme fall so far short here was that there is no way he is capable of convincing the argument that there is an honest, heartfelt reason why Terri continues to fake a pregnancy considering the potential long-term ramifications. The show has shown us too much of Will and Emma’s flirtations for us to actually root for this marriage to survive, and any chance of having pity for Terri was gone the moment the character was conceived as a shrill drain on Will’s spirit. There’s no redeeming this storyline, no matter the amount of times the theme is drilled into our heads, and it certainly coloured my opinion of the episode considering its prevalence.

There were, of course, elements of the episode I quite liked. I thought that meeting the two other Glee clubs was a solid extension of the show’s world view, and both Eve and Michael Hitchcock (who I recognized most as Ira Gilligan from Arrested Development) were strong as their respective leadership. The scene with Hitchcock’s Dalton Rumba (which is an amazing name, by the way) and Will going back and forth with the partially deaf Rumba misinterpreting what Will is saying is a very simple comedy scene, and with Hitchcock’s timing was really well done. I thought getting a preview of the other schools ahead of Sectionals is also smart in terms of making that event seem like an actual event, as “Sectionals” has seemed like an ambiguous goal up to this point. The episode also nicely used the schools to provide the episode’s broadest storyline, as the Jane Adams Academy girls provide the inspiration for hairography and the Academy for the Deaf provides the impulse to switch to something much simpler.

And if the episode had just been about that idea, perhaps it might have been a more consistent episode, but it just tried to do too many things. Sue suddenly back and gunning for Glee club came out of nowhere, and although it creates tension for Sectionals it never really fit into the episode other than some great delivery from Jane Lynch. And when you pile in Rachel and Kurt’s love for Finn, Quinn’s concern over Puck, Terri’s attempts to distract Will, and then try to throw them all together, you realize that nothing really got accomplished: Quinn’s back where she belongs, Will is still devoted to his child, and Finn and Quinn are still together with Kurt and Rachel still pining after him even while acknowledging they don’t have a shot.

Brennan’s approach to the script seemed to be that they had the central idea (dictated by the big musical numbers), so what they needed was ways to tie the characters into that idea in order to effectively fill time. There was no specific character development that needed to happen in the episode, and you could sense this as the stories were happening. Twitter user ageekinthepink notes that it seems like the show keeps raising the same issues as if they are new, and that nothing ever seems to conclude, and while I’m not sure the show is going to be able to “wrap up” storylines just yet (Terri will be the first real test) I do agree that it seems like an episode like this one invented or repeated conflict to fill time more than letting things follow through naturally. It went into characters’ heads to show them hatching crazy schemes in a way that kept things moving but that never felt natural even when everyone got together and sang a stirring version of “True Colours” in the end.

As a result, “Hairography” is unfortunately devoid of the quality that made me argue the show’s merits with Jace in the first place. Its sense of incremental character development requires an acknowledgement that some things have changed, and for episodes to give a clear sense that our changing perspectives on these characters are in some way reflected in their behaviour (as none of the character beats have taken place entirely isolated from the show’s other characters). Instead, we get an episode that in an effort to fill out an intelligent story decision (previewing and setting the stage for Sectionals in two weeks’ time) reverts the characters to their original archetypes and accomplishes nothing substantial in the process. It’s as if any time the show tries to move the show’s plot forward it has no idea how to move the show’s characters forward at the same time, a sort of stop/start mentality that will only hurt it in the long run.

Cultural Observations

• Brittany is really coming into her own: she looked smoking hot (yeah, I said it) with her hair down, and “it’s like cool epilepsy” was the night’s most wrong, and thus most right, one-liner.
• When I heard they were doing “Papa Don’t Preach,” I was all excited about seeing more of Quinn’s family situation and the show using the song as an emotional look into her emotional state as she considers keeping the child. Instead, she performed it for a set of pre-teen triplets in an effort to calm them into submission, which is officially the weirdest application of that song I could possibly imagine. It’s a great song, and a great version from Dianna Agron, but its placement in the episode is token to the point of being utterly worthless.
• I’m officially over mashups for this show: I get that it allows them to introduce two different songs or contextualize a song young viewers might not be familiar with (“Hair”) with one they are (“Crazy in Love”), but this one never really came together. The show already did embarrassing with “Push It” much better, and musically I was left wanting more of Mercedes’ Beyonce impression and more of the cast breaking into the counterculture classic.
• Take being said, Artie as Jay-Z? Inspired. I wanted more.
• The show occasionally makes Kurt out to be extremely intelligent, so how do they justify his claim that he and Rachel are equally unlikely to ever be in a relationship with Finn? I get that he’s a dreamer (he’s not the only one, after all), but it makes the character seem blind to the point of incompetence.
• So, question of the week: how do they get out of this Terri situation? My current bet is a double miscarriage, in that Terri chooses to fake a miscarriage to stop the ruse and tell Will the truth only to have Quinn have a miscarriage at the same time leaving everyone childless and sad, which would have Will falling into Terri’s arms if not for the fact that he learns about the fake pregnancy and the pressure she placed on Quinn and murders her for it. Like?

Pur si simplu o ador, iar coperta arata bestial! Dita Von Teese !

Luni, 23 noiembrie, a avut loc balul facultaii mele nu am sa va spun prea multe… v-am spus pana acum. Insa uitandu-ma la poze, la culoare, la personalitatea fiecaruia, transpusa in culoare, in outfit, in atitudine.. nu pot sa spun decat ca imi plaaace mai mult FCRP-ul .

Armina

Isabelle nu e din FCRP, dar e plina de culoare si arata super!

Marina si CatalinG

In sfarsit am aparut si pe site-ul tabu.ro , caci m-am cam plictisit tot urmarind momentul aparitie.

La acest sfarsit de saptamana, cele mai elegante, rapide si eficiente shopperite, castigatoare ale etapelor din Bucuresti, Cluj, Constanta si Iasi s-au intalnit la Bucuresti pentru Marea Finala a Campionatului de Shopping Tabu.

Povestea a inceput anul trecut, cind Tabu – cea mai curajoasa revista de femei – si-a propus si a reusit sa demonstreze ca shoppingul se poate face rapid, elegant si eficient. Succesul primei editii a Campionatului de Shopping Tabu ne-a determinat sa extindem competitia in acest an la nivel national.

Sambata, 14 noiembrie, revista Tabu a reunit in Baneasa Shopping City castigatoarele celor patru etape ale Campionatul de Shopping Tabu 2009 desfasurate de-alungul anului in Bucuresti, Cluj, Constanta si Iasi, pentru a se intrece in Marea Finala. Cele 12 finaliste au concurat pe echipe, reprezentand fiecare orasul in care au castigat la etape. Dupa mai bine de doua ore de competitie si buna dispozitie, s-a stabilit si orasele castigatoare.

Prima proba (Sprint pe tocuri de 12 cm) a fost adjudecata de echipa din Bucuresti (reprezentata de Alina Girleanu, Loredana Meret si Alina Badoi). Cea de a doua proba a reprezentat o surpriza pentru finaliste. Ele au trebuit sa fie gratioase pe pasi de dans, invatati pe loc de la doi multiplii campioni la dans sportiv. Eleganta reprezentantei Iasului a convins juriul, echipa din Moldova ( reprezentata de Ioana Ciubotaru, Cristina Tascu si Elena Popaene) castigand proba cu numarul doi. Finalistele de la Cluj ( Alexandra Gatan, Raluca Muresan si Anca Cimpoesu) si-au demonstrat calitatile de fashioniste la proba trei (Fashion speed). Ultima proba (Maratonul magazinelor) a fost adjudecata tot de fetele care au reprezentat Iasul, echipa fiind desemnata castigatoarea Finalei Campionatului de Shopping Tabu 2009.

Participantele au fost recompensate de partenerii evenimentului: magazinele Humanic, Baneasa Shopping City, YVY Bags si BitDefenser. Castigatoarele finalei au primit premii in bani de sponsorul oficial al evenimentului Mastercard (3 premii a 500 ron si unul de 800 ron).

tabu.ro

   Limpezimea unui lac la răsărit .

Nature and Animal Conservation

 

     Preserving species and their habitats is important for ecosystems to self-sustain themselves. Yet, the pressures to destroy habitat for logging, illegal hunting, and other challenges are making conservation a struggle.

Visit : http://www.globalissues.org/article/1…

 What is Biodiversity ?

 

    The variety of life on Earth, its biological diversity is commonly referred to as biodiversity. The number of species of plants, animals, and microorganisms, the enormous diversity of genes in these species, the different ecosystems on the planet, such as deserts, rainforests and coral reefs are all part of a biologically diverse Earth.

   

    Appropriate conservation and sustainable development strategies attempt to recognize this as being integral to any approach. Almost all cultures have in some way or form recognized the importance that nature, and its biological diversity has had upon them and the need to maintain it. Yet, power, greed and politics have affected the precarious balance.

Does it really matter if there arent so many species?

Biodiversity boosts ecosystem productivity where each species, no matter how small, all have an important role to play.

For example, a larger number of plant species means a greater variety of crops; greater species diversity ensures natural sustainability for all life forms; and healthy ecosystems can better withstand and recover from a variety of disasters.

And so, while we dominate this planet, we still need to preserve the diversity in wildlife.

Who Cares?

  Biodiversity boosts ecosystem productivity where each species, no matter how small, all have an important role to play. For example, a larger number of plant species means a greater variety of crops; greater species diversity ensures natural sustainability for all life forms; and healthy ecosystems can better withstand and recover from a variety of disasters.

And so, while we dominate this planet, we still need to preserve the diversity in wildlife.

Loss of Biodiversity and Extinctions

It is feared that human activity is causing massive extinctions. From various animal species, forests and the ecosystems that forests support, marine life. The costs associated with deteriorating or vanishing ecosystems will be high. However, sustainable development and consumption would help avert ecological problems.

 

  

November 25 is the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women. The white ribbon has become the symbol for the day.

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