Het hele Paul Potts gebeuren bij Britain’s Got Talent vond ik erg leuk. Een simpele verkoper die de sterren van de hemel zingt bij een TV show. Ik krijg nog vaak kippevel als ik het filmpje bekijk. Natuurlijk gaan er allerlei geruchten de wereld rond dat het een vooraf opgezette zaak is zeker nu het weer is gebeurd met Susan Boyle. Maar goed, de waarheid of niet, het is goede TV.

Flash mobbing is niet echt nieuw meer en sommige zijn ook best wel flauw maar deze van Paul Potts vind ik dan wel weer aardig. Heeft er iemand een mobieltje??

Paul Potts flashmob in winkelcentrum Oberhausen

Russian Professor Igor Panarin postulates the collapse of the US by early November.  He is “Doctor of Political Sciences, and Professor of the Russian Diplomatic Academy Ministry of Foreign Affairs.”

Panarin states: “Of note is the recent election of the Democratic Party in Japan whose leader ( Yokio Hatoyama ) has vowed to transfer Japan’s monetary reserves…. into a different currency.  China will also begin to dump the Dollar, and Russia will demand payment for its gas and oil in Rubles.”

Obama is Monetizing the US Debt

Obama is Monetizing the US Debt (printing money and devalueing the dollar). The FDIC is BROKE and cannot cover a large number of bank failures, and 400 banks are set to fail.  Commercial real estate loans are the next shoe to drop, just as Gerald Celente predicted.

The US Treasury is broke and cannot “Bail Out” anymore US banks.

Obama has appointed dozens of unvetted and unaccountable “czars”, most with openly Totalitarian and Marxist worldviews—and ambitions.

“Green Czar” Van Jones is a convicted felon, Ex-con, and self declared Communist.  The “Diversity Czar” Lloyd desires the eradication of all dissenting opinion on the nation’s radio stations.  Obama now seeks, through legislation complete control of all Internet communications, in the event of some “Crisis.”

These people are tyrants. These people are totalitarians. They plan the destruction of American liberty and its replacement with a Totalitarian Marxist / Fascist State like China.  The execution of this is already underway, and fairly far along in its destruction. Former UN Ambassador Alan Keyes forsees Obama’s use of Crisis and Chaos preventing the 2010 Congressional elections.

Our utter Destruction is well under way by any measure.  Half of American’s savings evaporated in eight short months, and THAT was no accident. The “U6” unemployment number is 16% not that phoney 9.5% Obama is shoveling. In some states closer to 25%.

In Nazi Germany they nationalized the banks, the auto manufacturers, and the Health Care System was then overseen by ardent Nazi Eugenicists.  Any of this template sound familiar?  Obama is now going after not only CIA Case Officers via his AG Eric Holder, but Congressman Gerald Nadler (D-NY) wants Cheney and Bush personally investigated now for possible “War Crimes.”

Obama’s czars are a Government alongside the existing one.  A Commissariate like in Soviet Russia.  After some “Crisis” the old system will be eradicated under THE PATRIOT ACT, Martial law will be declared, and Obama’s CHANGE will now be upon us.

Jerry O’Connell is correct about what may happen on 9-12 at the Rally in DC.  “Agents Provacateurs” might just be sent to foment a riot, resulting in a violent crackdown by Obama’s thugs.  American Liberty is under attack ALREADY by OUR OWN GOVERNMENT.

Did you observe the politicians at those Town Hall meetings?  Totally oblivious to their own Constituent’s wishes, like they know something that we don’t?  Perhaps they are secure in the knowledge that they not fear the outcome of a 2010 mid-term election?

The Government is not America.  The PEOPLE are America, but their government now sees it’s own citizens as threats.  Recall that DHS Memo?  It’s WAY long past the time to vigorously remind them of that, but I fear their game’s afoot, and they simply don’t give a Damn what We think.  Our Elected officials now are would be Feudal Lords.

Obama and his crew of Chicago Political Thugs, SEIU Union Goons, ACORN anarchists are complicit, and the architects of our downfall

Dr. Panarin’s prediction had one last chilling comment:

“In my Opinion the probability of the US CEASING TO EXIST by 2010 exceeds 50%.  At this point, THE MISSION OF ALL INTERNATIONAL POWERS IS TO PREVENT CHAOS IN THE US.”

How will they “PREVENT CHAOS” within in the United States.  By what Action or Mechanism?

Panarin is not some academic sitting in an Ivory Tower at some Russian university…. He’s a member of their Government’s diplomatic arm, and his job is to forecast “trends” so Putin and his henchmen can plan strategically for future events for the Russians to exploit.

William Ayers plan was always to foment the collapse of the US System and “Invite” Military Forces from China and North Korea into the US to “Keep Order.”

If Panarin and Gerald Celente are correct, our collapse is to be expected sooner rather than later,  And as Glenn Beck has so bravely pointed out, Obama and his crew of Chicago Political Thugs, SEIU Union Goons, ACORN anarchists are complicit, and the architects of our downfall.

If it is not treasonous to bankrupt the nation and her people, and then plot and execute a plan for the eradication of the American Republic and Freedom itself, I don’t know what IS.

God help us.

Essas últimas três semanas foram corridas, de colaborações à visitas, incluindo os arXivs saírem do ar por 2 dias. Então, a pilha de artigos está um pouco volumosa… vamos a ela.

• The History of the Guralnik, Hagen and Kibble development of the Theory of Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking and Gauge Particles. (arXiv:0907.3466v1 [physics.hist-ph])
• An index theorem in differential K-theory. (arXiv:0907.3508v1 [math.DG])
• Wall-crossing, Hitchin Systems, and the WKB Approximation. (arXiv:0907.3987v1 [hep-th])
• Formulation of Supersymmetry on a Lattice as a Representation of a Deformed Superalgebra. (arXiv:0907.4137v1 [hep-th])
• Motives: an introductory survey for physicists. (arXiv:0907.4046v1 [hep-th])
• Remarks on Khovanov Homology and the Potts Model. (arXiv:0907.3178v1 [math.GT])
• Landmarks: Powerful Pictures
• QFT: Effective or Fundamental?
• Chiral symmetry breaking and theta vacuum structure in QCD. (arXiv:0907.2522v1 [hep-th])
• Perturbative Quantum Field Theory via Vertex Algebras. (arXiv:0906.5313v1 [math-ph])
• Finite propagation speed and causal free quantum fields on networks. (arXiv:0907.1522v1 [hep-th])
• The Hamiltonian formulation of N-bein, Einstein-Cartan, gravity in any dimension: the Progress Report (Extended version of a talk given on CAIMS-2009, June 11-14, London, Canada). (arXiv:0907.1553v1 [gr-qc])
• Dynamical aspects of generalized Palatini theories of gravity
• A New Mechanism for Bubble Nucleation: Classical Transitions. (arXiv:0907.3234v1 [hep-th])
• Lorentz symmetry breaking as a quantum field theory regulator
• Quantum Measurements: Common Sense Is Not Enough, Physicists Show
• Nobel Lecture: Spontaneous symmetry breaking in particle physics: A case of cross fertilization
• Thomas Noll’s Talks at Chicago on Mathematical Music Theory
• Fermilab stars in new documentary
• A number-theoretic coincidence
• Google Earth Physics?
• SSE Composite Index Bubble?
• Opera ’strings’ theory together

• Science Clichés: Steer Clear
• Budgets by the People: Participatory democracy, Brazil-style, is running into problems
• Seeing Like Citizens: Unofficial Understandings of Official Racial Categories in a Brazilian University
• Brazil’s Blessing in Disguise | Foreign Policy
• Fordlandia: Henry Ford’s Ill-Fated Foray Into the Brazilian Jungle
• President Lula and the Brazilian Cybercrime Bill
• Drained Brains
• “Conhecimento científico é o capital mais importante do mundo”, diz Isaac Roitman
• Desregulamentar TODAS as profissoes, Alexandre de Barros
• Físico Flávio Torres assume por quatro meses mandato no Senado, Pesquisador do CBPF fará parte do conselho editorial de publicação da Royal Society
• Mestres e doutores, para quê?, artigo de Aguinaldo Alemar
• E.O. Wilson – Lord of the Ants
• 5 Cover tunes that rank with the originals
• A Practical Guide to Internet Technology for Political Activists in Repressive Regimes
• Pink Floyd’s Moon-Landing Jam Session
• Malcolm Gladwell: Banks, battles, and the psychology of overconfidence
• More from Pais: Einstein and bordellos?
• Why Are Some People Smarter Than Others?
• Science Journalism in a Can
• Why America is flunking science
  — quisera eu esse fosse apenas um problema dos USA…
• In Praise of Sprezzatura: The Compleat Gentleman Giveaway
• Nature Or Nurture? Neither, Say Developmental Systems Theorists
• NASA Ninja Turtle Logo
• Dog Breed Matters If You Want To Communicate
• Turn Gmail Into Your Ultimate GTD Inbox

Toons…

• 07/15/09 PHD comic: ‘Nature vs. Science, pt. 1′
• 07/17/09 PHD comic: ‘Nature vs. Science, pt. 2′
• 07/20/09 PHD comic: ‘Nature vs. Science, pt. 3′
• Threesome
• 07/13/09 PHD comic: ‘Great Tweets of Science’
• 07/6/09 PHD comic: ‘Is your research Impossible?’

For all of our Peace Corps related training events, we have ‘Travel Days’ immediately before and after. They are appropriately named, as it takes a little while to maneuver around Romania if you don’t have a personal vehicle.

Today,  for example, I hopped onto a Bîrlad bus at 5:45 AM (in the east, about two hours south of Iași).
I got out of a taxi at my apartment, in Petrila, at 9:55 PM, 700 km later (Petrila is in the mid-west, three hours south of Deva where those two rivers begin).

This is what happened today:

Potts and I had decided to grab a 6:30 maxi-taxi (mini bus) from Bîrlad to Brașov. Potts was going to see NIN play in northern Transylvania (near Tîrgu Mureș), and I wanted to be home the day before a wedding in Petroșani (I’d need at least a full day of rest). Potts and I jumped on a bus bound for the train station, where the city-to-city buses leave from.

I talked to the woman running the ticket office, and she kindly/quickly explained that the Brașov maxi-taxi was set to leave at 6:45, which meant Potts and I had 45 minutes to kill. Potts went to a booth inside the nearby train station and bought a grapefruit and a banana for 7 lei. After Potts told me this, I decided to walk a block to a mini-store across the way and buy two bananas for 2 lei. Train stations are ridiculous expensive.

At 6:40, I still didn’t see our maxi-taxi (there are usually destination signs posted in the windshields of the idling, white vans), so I wandered up to any driver that I could find. Each told me “I’m not going to Brașov,” or “that bus is coming immediately.” I eavesdropped on a woman nearby, and I realized that our maxi-taxi began its route in another town, so the departure time was elastic–when it got to Bîrlad, we’d climb on and leave.

It showed up a little after 7:00, and after each passenger switched out to a larger bus to accommodate us all, we took off at 7:25.

I let myself sleep within moments of sitting down–I had purposefully foregone my morning coffee so I could snooze through this part of the trip. It passed quickly, and we got to Brașov at around 12:15. Potts checked on his next maxi-taxi, and I bought a train ticket for 13:09, to Deva (I almost always have to connect through Deva when I travel). Potts and I then heaved our bags up to the second floor of a nearby mall to have some good falafel and coffee (finally).

Potts walked me to my train, where we hugged goodbye. My train was hot, and filled with tons of teenagers heading to the same music festival that Potts had tickets to. These teens had decided to take trains, rather than the roads. As I tried to climb up the train ladder into my wagon, a kid with long hair and a white, South Park t-shirt told me “you shall not pass,” in English. With so many young ‘rockers’ (as they’re referred to) in one place, I heard tons of English being passed back and forth, peppering their conversations with movie quotations and idioms. It was the most English I’ve ever heard on a Romanian train (without other volunteers onboard).

I made friends with the old couple in my compartment, but I was too anxious to sit still. I wanted to do my favorite Romanian train activity, which is to stand at the window, and watch the world roll by. It inspires so many beautiful thoughts, which are left tortuously incomplete. You continuously breed the beginning of some grand idea, and then have it wiped away by something new outside. And by the time you realize you’re off track and scramble to find your place, something new catches your attention. Building sand castles in the surf.

When I approached Deva, my train was running an hour behind. I decided to jump off the train in Simeria to catch my missed connection (Simeria is closer to both Brașov and Petroșani, as the route dips south a little, but it’s a smaller station so it has less options, overall). The cheap train I wanted to connect to had already passed by, but the conductor recommended I go with a more expensive train, and actually get to Petroșani sooner than if I had gone with the cheap train.

So, I ended the trip in an almost empty (expensive) train, with my head out of my compartment window. I watched the dusk writhe in its beautiful throes, and my thick Carpathian forest dimmed into solid masses of black-before-blue. I blasted my i-pod playlist–the one with all of my most favorite songs–but it was still quiet enough to hear crickets in the thick scrubs so close to the rails they could easily be touched.

The world felt right as I came back into familiar places after 35 days away. Honest to Gd, I felt like the whole quiet world was welcoming me in some patient, unspoken way. Or maybe it was just my sensation that this place has become home. And I had been away from here a little bit too long.

Si algo me encanta en esta vida son las historias de cenicientas, los cuentos de hadas, las cosas que más que imposibles, son improbables, pero de repente pasan, y creo que no soy la única, y esto se ve reflejado en el fenómeno Boyle, así es, el fenómeno musical de Susan Boyle.

Hace una temporada pasó algo similar con Paul Potts, pero en ese entonces no estaba tan entusiasmada, porque aunque me gustan las cenicientas, me gusta que mis cenicientas tengan con que respaldarlo, y francamente Paul Potts no me pareció un gran talento, me pareció algo así como Andrea Bocelli, que sí, tienen una buena voz, pero no son dignos de denominarse cantantes de ópera, sino algo intermedio que tiene más de pop que de clásico, en pocas palabras, nada fuera de lo común.

Ese fenómeno le dio empuje a Susan Boyle, además de una combinación mágica: talento, simpatía, el factor inesperado, ¡vamos!, que hasta el hecho de que sea casta y virginal es para comérsela, todo un personaje, que a diferencia de Potts, en este caso, está respaldado por una voz estupenda, y que ha tenido ya un mayor impacto mayor teniendo apariciones en los principales programas de EU, y con ello del mundo, gracias a la ayuda del broadcaster Youtube.

Aunque en días recientes se ha dicho que Boyle abandonaría “British Got Talent”, ella lo ha negado, y sería un error, es la clara favorita para ganar, y aunque no lo logrará, me parece que hay Boyle para rato, ya sea en musicales o como cantante solista, no lo sé, lo que sí sé es que este fenómeno no es ocasional.

I was invited by I Love Art Bastard.com participate in a group show  entitled ‘Threesome’ at Nice Exhitibition Space/Gallery in Hanover, Germany. The show opened Friday, April 24th and runs through June 6th.

Click here for images from the opening.

I woke up this morning and realized I had been dreaming about you. We were playing little games and you were laughing, smiling, and were so happy.
You are always on my mind and I love you. You will always be with me in my heart.

Love you my sweet.

Grandma

Kaksi vuotta sitten puhelinmyyjänä toiminut Paul Potts häikäisi laulutaidoillaan Britain´s Got Talent -ohjelman tuomarit (joihin kuuluu myös teräväkielinen Idols-kisasta tuttu Simon Cowell). Nyt saman tempun tekee Susan Boyle, 47-vuotias skotlantilaisnainen. Elaine Paigen jalanjäljille toivova Boyle on matkalla tähtiin, ja tämä juutuubissa pyörivä video, jota on katsottu yli 11 miljoonaa kertaa, todistaa sen. Samalla se todistaa, ettei ensivaikutelma ole aina se oikea, vaan olemme tosiasiassa varsin usein omien ennakkoasenteidemme ja -luulojemme vankeja.

Wikipediaan on jo syntynyt oma sivu Susan Boylesta, tietenkin. Nyt tiedämme, että hän on yhdeksänlapsisen perheen kuopus, kärsi happivajeesta synnytyksen aikana, toimi sairaan äitinsä omaishoitajana ja asuu Blackburnissa 10-vuotiaan Pebbles-kissansa kanssa. Lisämateriaalia ilmestyy satavarmasti lisää — ja pian.

Good Afternoon my sweet Granddaughter!!
We finally received new pictures of you. What a beauty you are. WOW! You just leave us speachless.
I still can’t get over how much you look like your Mommy did when she was born.

Any way, your grandpa and I hope to see you soon. Each day it seems you grow so fast. I just don’t want to miss a minute of it.

Back to work.

All my love, Grandma

En mis ratos de ocio me encontre dos videos de un programa llamado “AFICIONADOS”, y se ve q es todo un circo el programa, por lo que investigue  en el internet :

” Es un programa de concurso y entretenimiento, conducido por Juan Ramón Garza y acompañado de sus edecanes (muy chichistosas y petaconas) , pasa los  sábados y domingos al mediodía. Este programa es para todo el público que tiene ganas de cantar y de ganar muchos regalos (que lo agarren de botaja XD ) “, y porque digo esto por los siguentes videos q voy a colocar en este post, tal parece que encotraron a sus Samys los regiomontanos lol, y es que en final de año fue a participar una chica llamada  Carmen Cecilia Rodríguez Macías  y ahi dijo que quiere ser alacán (edecan XD ) , muy vaciada la chica y en otra ocasion fue un ñor llamado Jorge Perez Castillo, alias el “Perez” otro personaje muy vaciado.

Como son de  ca”$%”%$nes  estos  regiomontanos ya le consiguieron pareja a la “alacan”  jajajaja, ahi aplica el dicho “siempre hay un roto para un descosido” lol.

“La Alacan”

“El Perez”, tenor

ridiculous.

I had a little skype chattarooney with Sarah tonight…. we haven’t had a proper conversation for weeks…it was lovely and ridiculous. as usual.

Although the press was allow to be only the first two songs, his presentation was amazing, lovely, full of feeling… unforgettable!

It was pity we could not be till the end but rules are rules, they suck but we have to follow them otherwise we will end up in the black list and never again cover a concert.

The first time I heard the name “Paul Potts” was when someone posted a link to watch a video, of course at youtube. I have to be honest, it cashed my attention only when a saw Simon face and because his reputation as a juror, I thought that it may be a funny video.

Oh Gosh! What a terrible mistake! … I am not into an opera plays whatsoever, I like that genre of music but not to get me listen one song from start to finish. However, when that funny looking guy, all out of line, open his mouth and produce the firsts notes… I was astonished! … My heart start pumping fast than ever before, my eyes was watering at once. That guy, who I was expecting to made me laugh, just simply touch all my senses and even those that I did not know I had.

What a voice but more than it, what a feeling he put into his performance, it is amazing!. Thanks to him, now I can say that I have listen opera from the start to the end.

Last night, was lovely, not wonder why his first video has over 55 million hits at youtube.

If he is coming to your town or nearby, believe me, to buy a ticket for his concert is worthy, you will not regret it at all, but if he does not, take a time and check his videos.

Xo xo
Ps. we have photographs of him at our site, LimaSoul,  and also videos of his concert.