Monday, January 31, 2011
What Happened To Modbod.com
Brno is a university town, the fun does not fail, even if very often results in a standardized and evenings in the clubs, where the music ends up being the same.
Tuesday evening until Saturday, are almost all clubs, pubs and restaurants full of people.
On Sunday evening a little less.
The abuses of the weekend are being felt, the work week or surveys is at the door, and advises more than stay at home.
For those who wish to do something different, a local council 'sui generis', at least by the standards of the Czechs, the Clubwash !
It 's a little bit of everything, laundry, pub, meeting place, a game room, theater and concert hall on Sunday evening ... is dedicated to lovers of poker.
do not attend more, for a long time, but in the past had been one of my appointment, weekly. Environment
young, friendly, international, same people who get together to have fun and spend some time together.
I'm not an expert in poker, there are some good players, who tried to advise me, but my style is what it is, I can not bring it to high school.
Vado, the few times I go there now, to spend a Sunday evening with a bit of adrenaline.
The stakes are low, you pay 150 CZK (approx. € 5) for 8000 chips, usually find themselves a score of players, divided into two tables and you have the chance to take home about 1200 CZK (about 50 € ) or the second and third prize.
is clearly not for the money that game, but I always try to get on the 'podium', and a quesitone of 'pride':)
Sunday evening I got to play a heads-up, losses and finished second (
For someone who plays every 3-4 months and never read books ... I think is not bad;)
Saturday, January 29, 2011
Harley Birthday Cards To Print
This morning, I woke up and after a healthy breakfast, I decided using swimming pools.
I needed.
dress a 10-15 minute walk from what I consider the best pool (indoor) town.
Krav hora is a hill town, where in winter the snow to get the kids play with the bob, while the summer many lie down to sunbathe.
The pool is accessible from downtown by tram 4, which has as its terminus Krav hora.
L ' input is 80czk 50czk + deposit (up to 17.50 on weekdays costs 70czk +50). If you remain
70 minutes the deposit is returned, for the extra minutes are deducted from the deposit. The
structure is beautiful, the pool is not Olympic, but if you avoid Sundays, you do two strokes with pleasure, especially without overcrowding.
fact, there is a children's pool, a jacuzzi and a room for turkish bath, of course, all included.
A funny thing for me is the conception of the dressing rooms and showers. Since the Czechs
a people who is not ashamed to show his body, nor has this taboo subject, the area is practically undress in common, there are cabins, but many are changing, women and men, promiscuous corridors.
Even the showers will almost directly over the pool, separated by a screen door with the transition often discovers the interior.
I say this because the first few times I could not believe, accustomed to Italian concept that 'nude is a sin', to shame nell'esporsi to others and so on.
Note that your headset is not required.
Thursday, January 27, 2011
What Does Creamy Cervical Mucus Mean
If you talk to a Czech, one of the social problems of the Roma community is heard.
integration difficult if not impossible, organized crime and less, wherever the gypsies create discomfort.
I will return this interesting documentary , not recently but a couple of years ago. Tell
so journalistically speaking, perfect tension, which resulted with a political rally in northern Bohemia.
With great care, giving room for everyone and everything, you see the views of Czechs who were protesting against the gypsies, the gypsies who were defending themselves, the police must maintain order.
One thing rarely feasible in Italy.
The documentary is available by clicking on the yellow button "stáhnout" to the second screen choose to enter the code in the Omezené stahování and then click again "stáhnout.
Subtitled in English.
Even we have trouble SoCal, calabria in clashes with African citizens
Change the latitude, the dialect, climate, but the result is always the same.
The quiet community is 'shocked' by unwanted arrivals. Without
defend one or the other, we must move beyond the finger is placed before us to prevent us from seeing the arm.
I mean the Czech case, because watching the documentary comes out the fact that few want to deal with.
group of gypsies who lived in Prague, a European capital, were 'encouraged' to move to a village in the north of the country.
By whom? From
large real estate groups, who have recently bought houses, renovated, cleaned and then sold for their weight in gold.
If in a city like Prague gypsies could be controlled, integrated in a small town in northern Bohemia, without many resources, without services, the integration has gone down the drain.
Who paid? citizens for good, certainly, that we have seen hordes of gypsies (who are resident in czech rep, not nomadic, and then usually go to school, work, civilian clothes, attend local etc etc), without opportunity.
The opportunities are scarce for citizenship, let alone a gypsy. That prospect had
gypsies?
Stealing, annoying, wasting time, illegal business ...
Who won this?
Rich batch, real estate speculators, big investors, who have done business in Prague, the politicians who have pocketed bribes.
interesting to see the growth of the consent for the party of the extreme right, xenophobic.
Think about it, Italian Northern League ... ... ... Bohemian alloy Ticino sweden ... ... ... netherlands national front french ... so different, yet so far away a thin wire connects the feelings and the fears of people everywhere.
Thursday, January 13, 2011
Wrestling Ceiling Light
Last night I watched with pleasure the movie 'Mediterranean'.
A light-hearted film that puts in a good mood but is also thinking and remains present even after many years.
Meanwhile, for those who believe that the drift is due solely to Italian merdusconi, I note that the film is the 1991 (I think) and that the director 'progressive and communist' Salvatores had not made scruple to start his project with the 'production merdusconi' ...
who is without sin cast the first stone!
But notice the controversy with antimerdusconi 'position' (ie those who are voting because his accomplices, who sit in opposition), I wanted to talk about is the final of good film.
words that hit me and where I find myself fully, because I also one that has 'abandoned' the country.
" not lived so well in Italy ...
We have left to change anything ...
And then ... then I told him ...
You win but at least YOU will not be able to consider you YOUR accomplice ...
So I said!
... and I came here .. . "
When I went to live and work in Dublin, meeting the many Italians who lived there, after a few words and a glass of Guinness, we also discussed the reasons that pushed us to move.
were often similar, the good opportunities to find work, high wages, in'll gladly make a career, a chance to learn good English ...
Brno is different.
not come here for a good work (even if the opportunities are increasing), certainly can not make the salaries Czech throat and czech language, besides being difficult, beyond national borders will never be a plus.
Who comes here almost certainly does so knowingly, because they no longer found 'in the way we live, think, act, show off ... typical of the average.
typically Italian.
Who comes here will not find some fresh and crystalline waters of a Greek island, nor the hot greek sun.
Food, attitudes, ways of thinking are diametrically opposed to the Italian / Greek (a faza a raza ...).
who comes to Brno, you almost certainly know what they are getting. Nothing
sea, cold and little sun for at least six months a year, unimaginative food, warmth is not cheap ...
know what to Fly, knows he does not want to be more 'accomplice of a clear decline.
So I said ... and I came here!
Tuesday, January 11, 2011
Whyaredry Before Period
Yes, I went back to an important choice.
Gia 'in the past had done, and rooted in a serious (perhaps too), I returned to a ' diet ' vegetarian.
The reasons are not animalistic, as in my previous experience, although some video should make us think ... ALL.
When did the military in 1996, started for about 3 years to avoid any kind of meat.
In questi giorni, da circa un mese, ho deciso di adottare una linea piu' morbida.
EVITO la carne rossa ma con un compromesso non disdegno pesce e carne bianca.
Come dicevo il motivo non è a difesa degli animali e contro la loro macellazione (che chiaramente non approvo nelle forme brutali ed industriali).
Piu' 'semplicemente' sono d'accordo con degli studi che spero facciano riflettere:
- Di tutti i cereali prodotti nel mondo, oltre il 55% è destinata agli allevamenti e non direttamente all'alimentazione umana; 80% delle produzioni e coltivazioni vegetali dei paesi poveri sono destinate agli allevatori di animali da macello (In rich countries, primarily in U $)
-are enormous quantities of water for agriculture is to this farming of animals for slaughter, every pound of flesh burning 20,000 gallons of water.
Thus, countries with high poverty, provide food in the form of vegetable products (cereals) that are not used to feed the population, but animals that become food for a meat dish on the table markets more 'rich. A DEADLY
contradiction when you consider the percentage of people dying of hunger!
According to FAO estimates of 2003, more than 25,000 people die of hunger every day , while between 2001 and 2003 more than 800 million people suffering from chronic malnutrition. On average a child dies of hunger every five seconds .
The same, or worse goes for the water ...
Plus' gases emitted by cattle and sheep, for flatulence and belching, contribute substantially to the greenhouse effect.
I could continue, but I do not want to bore anyone.
're looking for, but actually, to do?
Although individually, not involved in the meat market.
I assure you that in czech rep is not easy, simple dishes with pigs and cattle are going ... a restaurant is now a pipe dream for me, whereas before it was a pleasure.
lunch in the canteen, which offers good meals and bad vegetarian, but I sacrifice myself and I choose the latter.
Every time I see a friend and decide to eat, the story of my choice, I try to raise awareness.
At Brno, in general in czech rep, vegetables and fruit are not high quality, fairly expensive, not because of consumer and niche products, even if the demand is growing and therefore the offer.
There are a few small areas where you can buy organic, but the high costs do not allow me to access it.
I am content to buy vegetables from supermarkets, aware of the exploitation of farmers towards implementing. Perhaps it would be better
contact the manufacturer directly, who knows ... over time ... Meanwhile
with my choice will not change 'the fate of thousands of malnourished children, even that of millions of animals tortured to be found in the human stomach, but at least I will not feel guilty of their own destiny.
Greetings (almost) vegetarian!
Thursday, January 6, 2011
Gay Cruisy Locations, Nj
Spring has not yet arrived, or rather, less snowy winter this year than usual, makes itself felt with its cold winds.
A spring, however, 'seems to have settled in me.
I want to do, think, read, do movement.
After a long hibernation, I want to talk, to try to change, to interact, to learn.
sights that open like drawers to each cue. A native
, 26, was home of Jana uncles, great dining, good company.
Then a question put to me by the brother of Jana: 'you're not afraid of Arabs?'
Instinctively I said no, why should I?
I do fear the religious fanatics and politicians, and this is of any kind. Today I read this
interesting reflection of a young journalist czech, Petra Hůlová on women of the future.
an important input to get an idea of \u200b\u200bthe country and the Czechs.
Everyone says the future of Europe is in the hands of women, but that future is it? Among the ebbs women's empowerment and influence of Islam, the end result might be paradoxical.
are already preparing to wear the burqa, "he says pointing to my husband, our daughter smiling by six months, instinctively, you just pulled the blanket up to my eyes. We often like to joke about Europe future of our children, imagining how it could be. When the internet is just a symbol of a bygone era, as the telegram or fax, and when someone will remember our current assumptions about the future, for sure you sbellicherà by laughter as we do today with science fiction films of the silent film era. But you can not avoid thinking about the future. Try
. Is it not true that it is expected that every European is responsible for preparing for the future? Certainly the [European] does not belong to a primitive people and fatalistic, living day to day, even if you do not have Internet access, a bicycle or a flush for services not make a man less. The same applies to those who wear the burqa, except that in Europe we're not exactly in love with Muslims. But on the Internet are at home, they feel much better than in France and in Germany where they were born.
Today, debates about Muslims and Europe are very fashionable. Even in mio paese natale, la Repubblica Ceca, anche se prendersela con un musulmano non è proprio una cosa comune nelle città. "Che importa", affermano le teste calde della destra ceca, "che vadano tutti al diavolo!" . Per ora nel mio paese, in mancanza di un numero sufficiente di musulmani, se la prendono invece con i rom, i vietnamiti e a volte con le donne .
Persino nelle riviste più conformiste, piene di belle immagini e specializzate nella cura della casa e del giardino, si dice che il futuro dell'Europa appartiene alle donne. Un'affermazione che non ha nulla di stravagante, e quelli che si oppongono a quest'idea hanno solo il dente avvelenato contro le donne o immaginano the Europe of the future wrapped in burqas, thinking that dressed so have few chances to govern. Provided that there is still something to govern.
The European species is dying out slowly, and some say the blame will fall on its own emancipated women should belong to which Europe's future. As their educational level is high are more comfortable and less children are financially, those shameless! Some feminists behind the fault of both men, because they are the ones who invented the contraceptive pill, to be able to freely enjoy the pleasures of the flesh by eliminating the risk of procreation. But a return to collective condoms to reverse the trend? difficult. The European
of 2040
When I look at my daughter, I see emerging from the pool only two small blue eyes and a little bald head, I imagine the two of us, European, between 30 or 40 years. I joined the army of pensioners will be exacerbated. Invade the streets, en masse, the bitter old age of those who have had a better past, as the past always seems to older people who look back to their youth. Senile and disillusioned, I deal with my contemporaries, the fourth generation of e-books, the ones who can keep in your pocket as a love letter to my generation smartphone to the twelfth always on, in my case grandchildren want to call me, while my daughter will fly at 500 miles per hour on a highway virtual. With the window down her burqa fluctuate elegantly in the wind. The highway is full of women all the same. The European
of 2040 will fight again (how many times have done so already!) For their emancipation. Provided, it is clear that all is well, we'll still standing. And I do not think the euro-regions, the single currency or the idea of \u200b\u200bEurope, but rather to the cities, heritage and people. As in those films catastrophic. I imagine an ecological disaster, the collapse of the Internet, an epidemic. Before the occurrence of such deadly events at the prospect of a slow extinction of the species of Europe or European Muslim-majority is more than acceptable. As for women, even if they meet up again relegated to the house would not be so serious at the bottom. A little thing to get rid of this dark vision of the future: more births, more austere and less waste.
I watch my daughter and I realize that in a few years that will speak with the "if" I am, while she will launch a dirty look. "You tell me what should I do?". Always the same story. The exhortations can only irritate. In Czech Republic we are particularly allergic [orders], after 40 years of communism. That someone now try to make the engineer of the future, no! Unless this is a forum or seminar, where they are hypotheses and discusses innocently. Point. The story may not prove that the events always have a different ending from what you expected? Sure. Here is a nice conclusion. But who really believe it?
Monday, January 3, 2011
Power Supply Ps3 Sold In New Jersey
With a little 'time I review mentally what' that was the evening of New Year's Eve, spent in Brno and what it represents to me.
When I lived in Milan, Italy, New Year was an anguish.
I had great financial resources when I was a kid, then I would not have spent anyway cards 100 for an evening like this.
In Italy this anniversary seems like a competition to see who is more ', the usual gaudy ostentation, Burin, peasant.
For several years I have preferred the street festivals, with concerts, live among strangers, in the cold, but at least listening to decent music.
Since I live abroad, I learned to spend this evening and have fun in a different way.
In a few friends, often impromptu party, but pleasant. In Dublin
enough 'to find the home of a colleague to bring something to eat and drink and celebrate the two midnight, given the different time zone.
Brno last year, just days before the fateful new year, we organized a nice party at my house and the children with which meal.
year until I had lunch programs, but then my friend david first Czech and then Oscar (Argentina) and his girlfriend (Brazil) joined me and Jana, for what was a beautiful evening.
Meeting in the square, where some still stand offering hot drinks to face the cold.
Initially we were among the few brave, then the square was filled with the usual order, creating a circle within which different shooting firecrackers and fireworks.
The countdown Ceko, uncorked the champagne and then walk to one of my favorite local .
There is no row, you pay 50 CZK (2 €) entry.
The music is pleasant, Revival, rock n roll, vintage, without that annoying 'uzz uzz-'.
continue to drink but not devastated.
I would like to start the year without a hangover and so 'will, even after half a bottle of vodka, a couple of mulled wine', a couple of glasses of sparkling wine and some beer.
If you have time to digest alcohol, it becomes more 'pleasant.
We dance, laugh, take pictures, talking, until 'it is time to go home with the intention of doing a drive late in the morning, to visit the area (floor then rejected). My friend David
lingers to fulfill a formality, after a tasty kebab and we lose a second bus that night, even at New Year, every half-hour shows home the revelers.
Hmm ... ok, I've done worse and I was always with good david.
Take a taxi or CZK 200 (8 €) brings us back home.
Happy 2011 to everyone, good and bad. Good
2011 Brno!
Word of the Day: Silvestri - New Year