Misa presento su guitarra digital. Leeenda nene...
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Thursday, January 21, 2010
Wednesday, January 20, 2010
Tuesday, January 19, 2010
Por que es Haiti tan pobre?
Aca un pequeño essay contestando. Algunos highlights,
Haiti is the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere because of her history, her present social structures which grew out of her history and because she is caught in the impossible competition of modern economics.Aca 118 paginas de indicadores sociales y politicos de Haiti segun el World Bank.
The root causes are the political and economic systems which have dominated Haiti for the whole of her 182 years. These oppressive factors have come from the international community, especially France and the United States. However, the Haitian elite, comprising only 3% of the Haitian people has also been a major factor in creating and continuing these oppressive conditions.
French is the official language of the country. All state business is carried on in French, the schools educate mainly in French. Social prestige is related to the ability to speak French. Yet only about 10% of the people can even get along in French, with less than 5% knowing the language fluently. Creole is the language of the masses. 100% of the Haitians speak and understand Creole as their mother tongue.
One of the results of this oppression of language is a national illiteracy rate which is very close to 90% in the cities, and higher in rural areas.
Legally, education is free and open to all. Actually, state-sponsored education is limited and most secondary or university education goes to the children of the elite. Only about 30% of Haitian children ever begin school, and of the 30%, only 2% stay in school beyond the 5th grade.
Nearly everyone has heard about Haiti's disastrous soil erosion. Haiti is a mountainous country.
Ironically, Haiti, a primarily agricultural land, is a net importer of food.
Electricity is not available except for a tiny percent of the populace.
Haiti suffers many many ills which I've tried to catalogue above. Ironically, one often hears that Voodoo is the major cause of Haiti's misery. I want to address this claim because I believe it is a complete myth.
Friday, January 15, 2010
Mas tatuajes/piercings, mas problemas
En este paper los autores reportan una correlacion positiva y significativa entre el numero de tatuajes/piercings y una conducta problematica (tal como el uso de substancias ilegales, haber sido arrestado por algun crimen o hacer trampa en la universidad),
"Results indicate that respondents with four or more tattoos, seven or more body piercings, or piercings located in their nipples or genitals, were substantively and significantly morelikely to report regular marijuana use, occasional use of other illegal drugs, and a history of being arrested for a crime. Less pronounced, but still significant in many cases, was an increased propensity for those with higher incidence of body art to cheat on college work, binge drink, and report having had multiple sex partners in the course of their life time."
Como asegurarse que no te pierdan o roben el equipaje
Muy sencillo, tomando ventaja de la paranoia antiterrorista,
"I have a starter pistol for all my cases. All I have to do upon check-in is tell the airline ticket agent that I have a weapon to declare...I'm given a little card to sign, the card is put in the case, the case is given to a TSA official who takes my key and locks the case, and gives my key back to me.
That's the procedure. The case is extra-tracked...TSA does not want to lose a weapons case. This reduces the chance of the case being lost to virtually zero.
It's a great way to travel with camera gear...I've been doing this since Dec 2001 and have had no problems whatsoever."
Wednesday, January 13, 2010
Tuesday, January 12, 2010
Monday, January 11, 2010
El peor Diego
La IFFHS publico el ranking con los mejores entrenadores de selecciones de 2009. Maradona quedo numero 22 con solo 5 votitos a la par de Nigeria, Paraguay y Nueva Zelanda (clic sobre la imagen para agrandarla),
No importa, este año lo unico que cuenta es el mundial... lo que me deja con un poco de miedo.
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