Sunday, April 26, 2009

Long live to South park!!!!!!!



South park its an animated serie where the creators (Matt Stone and Trey Parker) parody and criticize most everything in the world in harsh and blunt ways. It is about 4 boys -Cartman, Kyle, Stan and Kenny and their lives growing up in South Park dealing with their curiosities etc of the world around them and events in current times. It can be grotesque but is entirely humorous. It is profanity and has been involved in some scandals including the recent one involving Isaac Hayes, the voice actor for the character 'Chef,' and the church of Scientology. It is profanity and is not suitable for younger audiences...…The time of production of each chapter is really really short and some episodios has been realized just in three days…as the capture of Saddam Hussein that appeared in the serie the same week that it`s happen in reality!!!
It`s a fastanctic serie and I really like it so I leave some links of the new season

How wine is made?


The other day looking at the program How they Do it?? In Discovery Channel I thought that is interesting how many things that we normally use are so complete and complicated in her frabication so I searched and readed about wine making process and there is:
Before wine is removed or harvested from the vineyar, the amount of sugar in the grape must be measure. After the sugar is measured, the wine maker can estimate the alcohol concentration of the finished product.
The grapes are crushed to make the juice accesible to the yeast. Crushed grapes are called the must. The must is made up for 80% of juice, 16% skins (wine pigment), and 4% seeds. Controlling the amount of contact achieved between the juice, skins, and seeds is critical to the flavor and color of the wine.
Pressing is done to separate the skins, seeds, and any other non-juice item from the juice. There are different types of presses used in the winery industry. Some of the popular ones are the screw membrane/ bladder, moving head, and basket presses. Fermentation is initiated by adding yeast to the juice or must. The fermentation procces is regulated closely by managing the temperatura.
The wine is then aged by using barrels. Barrel aging is typicallyused for red wines and adds vanill, spicy, and sometimes smoky flavors to the wine. Wine is then filtered to further clarify and stabilize it…

HOW CLEVER ARE DOLPHINS??


I always heard said that dolphins are very intelligents…but is it true??? Ever since the film Flipper we have seen how clever they are learning how to do tricks. There are many stories, ancient and modern, about dolphins saving sailors from drowning.
However, the truth is that dolphins are no more intelligents than rats, wich can also be trained to do tricks. Is true that dolphins do have fairly large brains. The stories about them rescuing people are true, but they automatically rescue anything wich is about the same size as themselves. Sometimes they kill sharks and then inmediately try to rescue them… So are they clever??.... NO, they are just like other animals…but it’s all this true?? …I leave you the doubt…

Demonology


“..And I summoned again to stand before me Beelzeboul, the prince of demons, and I sat him down on a raised seat of honour, and said to him: "Why art thou alone, prince of the demons?" And he said to me: "Because I alone am left of the angels of heaven that came down. For I was first angel in the first heaven, being entitled Beelzeboul. And now I control all who are bound in Tartarus. . . "
I Solomon said unto him: "Beelzeboul, what is thy employment?" And he answered me: "I destroy kings. I ally myself with foreign tyrants. And my own demons I set on to men, in order that the latter may believe in them and be lost. And the chosen servants of God, priests and faithful men, I excite unto desires for wicked sins, and evil heresies, and lawless deeds; and they obey me, and I bear them on to destruction. And I inspire men with envy, and murder, and for wars and sodomy, and other evil things. And I will destroy the world . . . "
I said to him: "Tell me by what angel thou art frustrated." And he answered: "By the holy and precious name of the Almighty God, called by the Hebrews by a row of numbers, of which the sum is 644, and among the Greeks it is Emmanuel. And if one of the Romans adjure me by the name of the power Eleêth, I disappear at once."


-- Testament of Solomon, first century AD, translated by F. C. Coynbeare


What’s a demon?? Are they really fallen angels or they’re just spirits created from our imagination??
Now I’m going to tell you some aspects that it has said about demons and her nature study….enjoy it ¡!!
The term "demons" was not always understood to have the negative connotation that it does today. Homer used the terms "demons" and "gods" more or less interchangeably. Another opinion was that demons were intermediaries between men and gods, and that demons had once been men. Plutarch speaks of "human souls as commencing, first heroes, then demons, and afterward as advancing to a more sublime degree."…. wherever the connotations of this term nowadays is to denote a malignant spirit and there is still uncertainty as to whether or not demons are considered to be distinct and separate from the Devil and his fallen
angels.
It had told about demoniacal posesión, periods of increased demon activity and demoniacal phrophesy… inclusive it had made a complete list of demons describing the differents kinds or species, correspondence of demons to the seven sins, months and each one with a special power , domain or quality …


Correspondence of Demons to the Seven Deadly Sins
(According to Peter Binsfield, a Jesuit, 1589)

Lucifer= Pride /Mamón = Avarice /Asmodeus= Lust / Satan = Anger /
Beelzebub=Gluttony / Leviathan = Envy / Belphegor= Vanity and Sloth


List of some important demons


Acham - the demon of Thursday.
Alrinach - demon of shipwrecks.
Alocer - demon in
astrology.
Any - the presiding demon of Hell.
Anamalech - the demon of bad news.
Andras - the demon of discord.
Aquiel - the demon of Sunday.
Arachula - evil spirit in the air.
Ardad - demon that leads travelers astray.
Ascaroth - demon of spies and informers.
Asmodeus - mentioned in the Book of Tobias; Asmodeus is "The Destroyer."
Astaroth - one of the Chief Devils, sometimes spelled as Ashtaroth. Astarte is its female.
Baal - one of the Great Demons. Also given as Baalim.
Bechard - the demon of tempests.
Bechet - the demon of Friday.
Behemoth - the demon of animal strength.
Belial - demon of the Sidonians.
Beelzebub - one of the Princes of Hell. Also given as
Beelzeboul.
Belphegor.
Braathwaate - demon of Ignorance.
Bucon - the demon of Hatred.
Byleth - one of the Kings of Hell.
Cheitan - demon born of Smoke.
Chemos
Lanithro - demon of the air.
Legassa - demon of Hypocrisy.
Leviathan.
Lucifer - "Light-bearer."
Mammon.
Mastiphal - one of the Princes of Darkness.
Moloch
Saalah - demon that entices into the woods.
Satan.
Tenebrion - Spirit of Darkness.
Verdelet - demon who carries witches to Sabbath.


Demonology is the teology’s branch that study the qualities and nature of the demons; it’s the opposite of angellogy .


In the century XVII each demon represented a month , when it was more stronger:


January - Belial / February - Leviathan / March - Satan / April - Belphegor /May - Lucifer /June - Baalberith /July - Belcebú /August - Astaroth /September - Tamuz / October – Baal /November – Asmodeo /December – Moloch.

Saturday, April 25, 2009

Amphicoach: The Only one bus that swimming


It’s an amphibious bus, created by Amphicoach company that have all funcionalities in asphalt as in water.
Although the speed in the water isn’t stand out in this amphibious bus, it could be so useful in short distances of coasters cities or to cross rivers, keeping the comunication between both parts, besides it bears several hours even in salad water.
After six years in development Amphicoach, presents his firts product with all the comforts of a convencional bus…… Amazing!! Don’t you think??

Thursday, April 23, 2009

FRANKEINSTEIN'S CONFUSION






I have been readed a book calls Stories Of History by Carlos Fisas wich is an interesting and funny book that tells in a special way the stories, anecdotes, curiosities and aspects of daily life of history characters and situations that are true; I recomended this for all people who loves history… but, well now I’m going to tell you about a peculiar confusion. In 1811 three english friends deicided that each one of them will written a fantastic novel, they were Percy Bysshe Shelley, Lord Byron ( George Gordon) and Percy’s wife Mary Shelley. Only the last one wrote a book called Frankeinstein or the modern Prometeo: It was Published on 1818. In the novel Frankeinstein is a student in Ingolstadt University – Baviera of 19 years old . He created an artificial man from parts of dead bodys wich is potent and conscious and suffered for the fear that he produce in others and, in the other hand, he wish love… thing that is imposible. He is sentensed to loneliness and he revenged men destroyed them, begining with his creator, at the end he fleed to the artic where he disappeared. But this romantic fantasy doesn’t see in the films versions of the book – J. Whole 1931- wich have made that people confuse the name of the creator of the monster with the monster. Frankeinstein is the student, no doctor, his creation is unnamed in the novel.
So I leave you a link where you can see the trailer of one of the firts film adaptation of the book of Mary Shelley...it looks a little funny ....

Reading on interet I found a curious question: Why do women live longer than men? As answer I read that women generally live about six years longer than men; that boys are the weaker sex at birth wich means that more died in infancy; women don’t have as much heart disease as men; in terms of lifestyle, men smoke more than women and in this way more die of smoking-related disease; they, in behavior, drink more and are more agressive particularly when driving cars, so they are more likely to die in accidents. Also, they have generally more dangerous occupations such as a building work. Hitorically, women died in childbirth and men in wars ;hence, nuns and philosophers often lived to great ages. Now Childbearing is less risky and are fewer wars. The country with the highest expectancy life is Japan, there the average for men is 76 and for women 82. So we can see that cultural conditions influence how longer or short could be our life without we know it!!!....

Sunday, April 12, 2009

About me

Huuummm... well, I'm Paola, I'm 17 years old and...I graduated from school last year and now i'm at University... I like watching movies , eating, ocasionally playing volleyball, meeting interesting people and places , reading, listening to music....and talking a lot !! jeje well I really like all languages especially German, French, English and I hate Portuguese.. I love rock music ( metal, clasicc, punk, oi!...jazz, blues...) ... I don't kwon how to play any instrument but I like to learn to play bass and drums ....I also like history, philosophy, mitology and literature .. I love read in general and i like how write Charles Baudelaire, Edgar Allan Poe, Jorge Luis Borges, Shakespeare , Alvaro Mutis, Tolkien, Miguel Serrano, Lovelcraft, Rimbaud, Oscar Wilde, Julio Cortazar, Herman Hesse, Sartre, Adolf Houxley, etc..I love pets specially little dogs and cats because they are very intelligents, playfuls and a big company; I think that I’m a perplexed and ironic person , I’m full of confusions and I just know that I want to be myself, that’s the only thing I know!!.. I’m a little joker, expressive, simple, sincere, impatient and sure too...and that’s all I can say about me…