1. Come up with a theory and write a manuscript to support it leaving space for later details.
2. Find some evidence to support theory. It’s okay if it is of dubious quality, step three will validate it.
3. Inform a test group of your conclusions, do survey, demonstration, and claim those who deviate from stated theory are anomalous data and fit within the margin of error.
4.  Publish your book, send out articles, or just make wild ass claims on the internet.
5. When in doubt do each of the items in number three.
6. Enlist celebrities to your cause.
7. Stand fast against critics who tell you that your batshit crazy, because you have the data to backup your claim. When in doubt attack their theories as either outdated or make it personal and attack their parenting skills.
8. Let the celebrities attack the critics because they know you can’t be batshit crazy, you made them feel they were important.
9. Put money made in safe foreign bank before being sued.
10. Go into retirement for a years
11. Pop back up as television news show critic when the next big craze comes out.

*Note: Having children, being a parent, or even knowing which end the food goes into or comes out of a baby is not a requirement for becoming a child/baby expert.

At the age of 15 he attended the Cruzeiro do Sul High School in Porto Alegre, a Protestant establishment, but he returned to Cruz Alta without graduation. In 1922 his parents separated and he stayed with his mother. In his hometown, he worked in a series of jobs until he finally went to Porto Alegre in 1930 to become a writer. The combination of that family trauma and the later lonely death of his father in So Paulo were to haunt him for the rest of his life.

Ranked beside Jorge Amado, Erico Verissimo is one of the most popular writers of Brazil. He attended the literary circle of the writers of the 30s in Porto Alegre. And beside Dyonelio Machado, with whom he shared a literary prize in 1935, he created the modern urban fiction of South Brazil. Because of his clarity and exactness, his prose is a joy to read. It is well known that Verissimo used to call himself a storyteller. But, in fact, he was a genuine novelist and his stories reflect his remarkable versatility, his penetrating insight into character, his brilliance in describing a scene, his talent for probing into the concealed fears and desires of ordinary people. Obviously, he loved his characters, not for any virtues they may possess, but just as they are.

In 1929, Erico Verissimo began to contribute short stories to journals and magazines. His first story, “Ladrao de Gado” (“Cattle Thief“), appeared in the Revista do Globo in 1929 and his first novel, Clarissa, was published in 1933. In addition to many short stories, children books, autobiography and travel he wrote some thirty novels. Clarissa is an impressionistic portrayal of the life of a naive young girl with prose-poem passages. His second novel, Caminhos Cruzados (Crossroads), was published in 1935. His third novel, Musica ao Longe, a sequel to his first novel, won his the Machado de Assis Prize in 1935.

Erico Verissimo was presented for the first time in the English language in 1943, when his second novel was translated by L.C. Kaplan and published by Macmillan in New York. Crossroads is often taken to represent the author’s condemnation of the hypocrisy of the little bourgeois. More importantly, it is representative of Verissimo’s narrative art, it is made up of little stories lived by characters with diverse social backgrounds, thus creating a narrative that does not follow a linear sequence. So the story does not have a central nucleus.

This technique of fragmentation points to the general question of influence on Verissimo’s fiction, and beyond that to the wider issue of its place in the development of Brazilian modernism. The debt to Aldous Huxley and John Dos Passos was fully evident and in his memories Verissimo admitted the influence of Huxley’s counterpoint technique. In an article written for the literary supplement of the New York Times in 1943, book reviewer William Dubois commented that Erico Verissimo had an “electric” style. Note that Verissimo himself translated in 1934 Huxley’s novel Point Counter Point (1928) to Portuguese. A second point to be made is that another important skill that our author inherited from English tradition was how to handle the passage of time in fiction. But, it seems to me that the really important influence exists at a profounder level of composition.

On the other hand, critics agree that the primary influence at the first stage of his career were Francis James and Katherine Mansfield. Notice that he was translator of Edgar Wallace, James Hilton, John Steinbeck, Robert Nathan, Katherine Mansfield, W. Somerset Maugham, among others. Of these, he had no doubt that Maugham was a supreme storyteller master. Surely English literature will be a constant reference in Verissimo’s work. During the period he lived in the United States he had the pleasure to meet some of his idols: Thornton Wilder, Pearl S. Buck, W. Somerset Maugham, John Dos Passos, and Aldous Huxley. At the same time, Verissimo was fluent in French and in 1949 he had the honor to make a welcome speech to novelist Albert Camus in Porto Alegre. Perhaps because he disliked the experiments with language of the modern French novel, his attention was caught by the structural innovations of the English novelists.

Olhai os Lrios do Campo (Consider the Lilies of the Field, Macmillan, 1948), Verissimo’s first success, appeared in 1938. The main characters are two physicians. A physician dedicated to social issues, Olivia, falls in love with her colleague, Eugenio. He had a poor background and was in search of an easy fortune. Being so eager for social recognition, he turns his back to Olivia and decides to marry a rich woman. But ultimately Eugenio and Olivia become lovers and have a daughter. The turning-point for Eugenio occurs when Olivia is on her deathbed. One of the more obvious advances between Consider the Lilies and the earlier fiction is in the sparing and more pointed use of dialogue. Now the free indirect discourse is used to describe the unspoken thoughts of characters without resorting to conventional dialogue. Besides, the flashbacks are highlighted by italics to help the reader to understand the passage of time.

In fact, the novel is of great pathos and sometimes indulgent sentimentality which appealed hugely to its readership and was instrumental in building Verissimo’s great popularity. However, it has to be admitted that the novel is also characteristic of Verissimo’s realism. The story is set in the shadow of the Revolution of 1930. And there are even some critical remarks on the political program of Getulio Vargas, the Brazilian dictator. Since his second and fourth novel touched some social delicate issues Verissimo fell under the suspicion of communism deceiving the public into the belief that his books were immoral.

What attracted him most immediately were the search for liberty and the inner states of feeling of his characters. Traditionally the critic divides Verissimo’s fiction in three levels: a) the chronicle of the cities and of the bourgeois; b) the historical revision; and c) the world society. The middle phase takes his art into an entirely new dimension.

At the same time, it is important to recognize that, like the postmodernist writers, Verissimo’s works demonstrate knowledge of his own fictionality. Verissimo continues to show his creativity throughout the remainder of his life and eventually alters his trajectory when he realizes that his most important task was to recreate the history of his native state, Rio Grande do Sul. Surely the writing of O Tempo e o Vento (Time and the Wind, Macmillan, 1951) was a turning point in his career. The story consists in three parts and is Verissimo’s magnum opus. The composition and publication of the complete saga were realized during the years 1947-1962. The story was translated to English, French, Italian, German, Spanish, and Dutch.

In 1954 appeared Noite (Night, Macmillan, 1956). People did not expect Erico Verissimo to write a dark novel. But we need to recall that throughout his life he was an avid reader of mysteries. The novel takes the reader into a claustrophobic world where the amnesic main character, “The Unknown One”, is looking for his identity. His companions through a dreadful night are a cynic pimp and a psychopath midget, the dangerous people he met up in a sordid pub. Despite being a narrative about loneliness there is plenty of humour in Night.

Now it is necessary to look at the books in which Verissimo reveals his political thought. That is the theme from O Senhor Embaixador (His Excellency the Ambassador, Macmillan, 1967), published in 1965, and O Prisioneiro, published in 1967. These novels must be seen as a development of Verissimo’s ideas about imperialism. Of course, the international scene pervades the last literary phase of our author.

His Excellency the Ambassador is set in the imaginary Central American republic of Sacramento and in Washington D.C. The novel shows the conflicts of an artist, Pablo Ortega, during the period in which he is working in Washington with the Latin ambassador who represents the dictatorship. Pablo Ortega is trying very hard to decide if he should support a communist revolution in Sacramento. Finally, in O Prisioneiro Verissimo takes us to the conflict of Vietnam and explores the moral conflict faced by a black Lieutenant who apparently must torture a Vietcong prisoner.

Verissimo’s works seem to offer us many ways of manipulate conflicts and enjoy life. Open to infinite possibilities of reading, his fiction has finally achieved its recognition. Erico Verissimo died of a heart attack in 1975.

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Amazingly enough, Middle Eastern Culture or the World of Islam, was not even discussed at all. Indeed, the short paper on Philosophy is to get people to think beyond the confines of Religion and get the human species to think towards the forward progression rather then wallowing in the names of academia’s favorite philosophy idols of past periods.

The Muslim religion and really more specifically the International Terrorists using the shield of the Muslim Religion to justify its crimes against humanity and its radical influences is simply not viable in the present period and the world needs to grow up. Yet, in saying this, apparently the attacker of the opinion article did not bother to think through his accusations before writing them, as we actually agreed with what he was saying.

You see, International Terrorism in the name of religion, well, it is slowing down the forward progression of the human race, personally I am not here to be embarrassed nor do I wish to call that group the same species. Due to the inherent primate politics of mankind, all men; these Muslim radical leaders who incite terrorists, along with those who actually are terrorists use this line to unite their flocks in a common cause to serve their will, to build their team they pick an enemy.

This technique is well-known in every culture and used to unite religions, sports teams and even create a specific direction by building nationalism. We see this with HS Football Coaches and cross-town rivals. Pick an enemy to build a team; it is the Motley Fools; Rule Maker – Rule Breaker scenario or what Colonel Boyd discussed, as the guerilla fighters claim that the leadership is unfit to lead. Indeed, so they can take over and become the new Machiavellian Prince who is loved and respected for a short time until he needs to lay down the letter of the Law and pick examples to show strength, thus eventually becomes Feared and Respected, the next logical progressionary step.

If you read Henry Kissinger’s essays of the 1960′s we see that the Middle Eastern leaders (men of the cloth?) use the Western World as “Evil” to unite their base, similar to politics in this country; Liberals VS. Conservatism. Of course, Al Jazeera broadcasts this throughout the region and further poisons the masses and infiltrates the thinking of other nations, UN leadership along with the geo-political ladder climbers and their handlers.

Perhaps it is time to get rid of Voodoo Witch Doctors in Haiti, International Terrorists Radical Muslims Fighters and enlighten their masses or eliminate the threat, Carl von Clauswitz is right you know. Now a more conservative think tank might have stated that if the US is afraid of what the World might think of exploits to protect our people or our economic interests, then go for broke, as many in the world hate us anyway. Such a think tank might say that if some protestors have 100,000 people burning the American Flag and chanting “Death to America” send in a Tomahawk and eliminate those future terrorists and knock out the Al Jazeera’s TV coverage. There you just removed 100K future International Terrorists that are now incited to kill us. Our Think Tank has a different approach to the problem and yet we agree that; The Clash of World Religions and is Forcing of Human Civilizations to Grow Up and growing up is in everyone’s best interest.

The biggest issue I see is the lack of literacy in many parts of the Middle East. For instance, with the huge %’s of 18-25 year old males is a real problem (we almost cannot build enough indoor or outdoor soccer fields for them, to give them something to do) and the huge percentages of illiteracy, it is easy to see that they might fall prey to cult like radical indoctrination. With lack of information the mindless masses will follow such things. They need more meat and protein in their diets, and their education raised, but that has to be the next generation.

I do not see the Radical Muslim Religion as some big issue of our time as the critic stated, in fact other think tanks, not ours sees all this as opportunity to strike Iran with 23,000 sorties in 72 hours to insure that radical international Muslim terrorists do not get a hold of nuclear weapons. What is totally amazing in all this is how something so simple can be so twisted out of proportion in the media, especially from a very basic research piece on Philosophy in the 21st Century. It should be obvious that the PC crowd is out in full-force to slam common sense where ever it maybe written or discussed.

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Chomsky has been a professor of linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Mass., for more than 50 years. In that time, he has managed to become doubly famous — first for his pioneering work in linguistics, which challenged behaviorism in psychology, and second for his well-publicized criticisms of American foreign policy.

When asked about suitable role models for intellectuals today, Chomsky points beyond the chattering classes to the ancient Jewish prophets, including Jesus. This highlights something less known about Chomsky, who was born in Philadelphia to Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe. While internationally famous as a critic of America’s involvement in Vietnam and Iraq, he does so in the role of a prophet warning the people against the false idol of imperialism. Not surprisingly, the passions of this son of a Hebrew scholar rise up from the well-read pages of the Torah.

When Science & Theology News’ Matt Donnelly spoke with Chomsky in his office at MIT, he assumed, with obvious yet understated relish, the role of cultural critic. Below, in his own words, Chomsky provides a rare glimpse into what he thinks about the proper role of science in the public sphere, how atheism borders on incoherence, and why evolution can never speak to the existence of God.

On Western intellectuals

People that are called intellectuals, their record is primarily service to power. It starts off in our earliest historical records, in the Bible for example. If you look at what the prophets were doing, they were what we would call dissident intellectuals. They were giving geopolitical critique, they were warning that the [Hebrew] kings were going to destroy the country. They were calling for support for suffering people, widows and orphans and so on. So they were what we call dissident intellectuals.

Jesus himself, and most of the message of the Gospels, is a message of service to the poor, a critique of the rich and the powerful, and a pacifist doctrine. And it remained that way, that’s what Christianity was up until Constantine. Constantine shifted it so the cross, which was the symbol of persecution of somebody working for the poor, was put on the shield of the Roman Empire. It became the symbol for violence and oppression, and that’s pretty much what the church has been until the present. In fact, it’s quite striking in recent years, elements of the church — in particular the Latin American bishops, but not only them — tried to go back to the Gospels.

The people who we call intellectuals are no different from anyone else, except that they have particular privilege. They’re mostly well-off, they have training, they have resources. As privilege increases, responsibility increases. And if somebody’s working 50 hours a day to put food on the table and never got through high school and so on, their opportunities are less than the people who are called intellectuals. That doesn’t mean that they’re any less intellectual. In fact, some of the best educated people I have known never got past fourth grade. But they have fewer opportunities, and opportunity confers responsibility.

On science

Science talks about very simple things, and asks hard questions about them. As soon as things become too complex, science can’t deal with them. The reason why physics can achieve such depth is that it restricts itself to extremely simple things, abstracted from the complexity of the world. As soon as an atom gets too complicated, maybe helium, they hand it over to chemists. When problems become too complicated for chemists, they hand it over to biologists. Biologists often hand it over to the sociologists, and they hand it over to the historians, and so on. But it’s a complicated matter: Science studies what’s at the edge of understanding, and what’s at the edge of understanding is usually fairly simple. And it rarely reaches human affairs. Human affairs are way too complicated. In fact even understanding insects is an extremely complicated problem in the sciences. So the actual sciences tell us virtually nothing about human affairs.

On religion

When we talk about religion, we mean a particular form of religion, the form that ended up dominating Western society. But if you take a look at other societies in the world, their religious beliefs are very different.

People have a right to believe whatever they like, including irrational beliefs. In fact, we all have irrational beliefs, in a certain sense. We have to. If I walk out the door, I have an irrational belief that the floor is there. Can I prove it? You know if I’m paying attention to it I see that it’s there, but I can’t prove it. In fact, if you’re a scientist, you don’t prove anything. The sciences don’t have proofs, what they have is surmises. There’s a lot of nonsense these days about evolution being just a theory. Everything’s just a theory, including classical physics! If you want proofs you go to arithmetic; in arithmetic you can prove things. But you stipulate the axioms. But in the sciences you’re trying to discover things, and the notion of proof doesn’t exist.

On atheism

You could be an intellectually respectable atheist in the 17th century, or in the fifth century. In fact, I don’t even know what an atheist is. When people ask me if I’m an atheist, I have to ask them what they mean. What is it that I’m supposed to not believe in? Until you can answer that question I can’t tell you whether I’m an atheist, and the question doesn’t arise.

I don’t see anything logical in being agnostic about the Greek gods. There’s no agnosticism about ectoplasm [in the non-biological sense]. I don’t see how one can be an agnostic when one doesn’t know what it is that one is supposed to believe in, or reject. There are plenty of things that are unknown, but are assumed reasonably to exist, even in the most basic sciences. Maybe 90 percent of the mass-energy in the universe is called “dark,” because nobody knows what it is.

Science is an exploration of very hard questions. Not to underrate the theory of evolution, that’s a terrific intellectual advance, but it tells you nothing about whether there’s whatever people believe in when they talk about God. It doesn’t even talk about that topic. It talks about how organisms evolve.

On “Non-Overlapping Magisteria”

Steve Gould [was] a friend. But I don’t quite agree with him [that science-and-religion are "Non-Overlapping Magisteria"]. Science and religion are just incommensurable. I mean, religion tells you, ‘Here’s what you ought to believe.’ Judaism’s a little different, because it’s not really a religion of belief, it’s a religion of practice. If I’d asked my grandfather, who was an ultra-orthodox Jew from Eastern Europe. ‘Do you believe in God?’ he would have looked at me with a blank stare, wouldn’t know what I’m talking about. And what you do is you carry out the practices. Of course, you say ‘I believe in this and that,’ but that’s not the core of the religion. The core of the religion is just the practices you carry out. And yes, there is a system of belief behind it somewhere, but it’s not intended to be a picture of the world. It’s just a framework in which you carry out practices that are supposed to be appropriate.

On a holistic view of the world

What each of us has is direct experience. So does every other animal, they have some kind of experience. A bee sees the world differently than we do because it is a different organism. And other organisms just try to work their way around the world of their experience. Humans, as far as we know, are unique in the animal world in that they’re reflective creatures. That is, they try to make some sense out of their experience.

There are all kinds of ways of doing this: some are called myth, some are called magic, some are called religion. Science is a particular one — it’s a particular form of trying to gain some understanding of our experiences, organize them. It relies on evidence, coherent argument, principles that have some explanatory depth, if possible. And that mode of inquiry, which has been, particularly in the last couple hundred years, extremely successful, has its scope and its limits. What the limits are we don’t really know. In fact, if you look at the history of science seriously, in the seventeenth century there was a major challenge to the existing scientific approach. I mean, it was assumed by Galileo and Descartes and classical scientists that the world would be intelligible to us, that all we had to do was think about it and it would be intelligible.

Newton disproved them. He showed that the world is not intelligible to us. Newton demonstrated that there are no machines, that there’s nothing mechanical in the sense in which it was assumed that the world was mechanical. He didn’t believe it — in fact he felt his work was an absurdity — but he proved it, and he spent the rest of his life trying to disprove it. And other scientists did later on. I mean, it’s often said that Newton got rid of the ghost in the machine, but it’s quite the opposite. Newton exorcised the machine. He left the ghost.

And by the time that sank in, which was quite some time, it just changed the conception of science. Instead of trying to show that the world is intelligible to us, we recognized that it’s not intelligible to us. But we just say, ‘Well, you know, unfortunately that’s the way it works. I can’t understand it but that’s the way it works.’ And then the aim of science is reduced from trying to show that the world is intelligible to us, which it is not, to trying to show that there are theories of the world which are intelligible to us. That’s what science is: It’s the study of intelligible theories which give an explanation of some aspect of reality.

Scientists typically don’t study the phenomenal world. That’s why they do experiments. Our phenomenal world is way too complex. If you took videotapes of what’s happening outside your window, the physicists and chemists and biologists couldn’t do anything with it. So what you try to do is try to find extremely simple cases — that’s called experiments — in which you try to get rid of a lot of things that you guess are probably not relevant to finding the main principles. And then you see how far you can go from there — the fact is, not very far.

When people talk about what science tells you about human affairs, it’s mostly a joke. Incidentally, I don’t think religion tells you very much either. So it’s not that science is displacing religion, there’s nothing to displace.

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If you take the words Bombay and Hollywood and put them together you have the film capital of India Bollywood. Shilpa Shetty has been nominated for 4 Filmfare (Indian Oscar) Awards. The stunningly beautiful 31 year old Shilpa Shetty and her knockout actress younger sister Shamita Shetty are the Indian version of the Hilton sisters.

Richard Gere is a peace activist like Mahatma Gandhi. Richard Gere traveled to India last week to throw his fame behind AIDS Awareness and People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, PETA. Talk about preaching to the converted. In India, which has over a billion people, the Hindu people idolize the cows as sacred beings. It is illegal to kill or injure a cow. The cow is the Divine Symbol of Mother Earth giving freely milk, cheese, butter, dung for fertilizer and dung smoke a powerful anti pollutant and never asking for anything in return. How do you fit one billion people into a mental institution?

Bollywood makes more films and sells more tickets worldwide than Hollywood. Each Bollywood film is a colorful musical three hours long with an intermission for popcorn. Butter good, beef bad. The United States just sold 8 nuclear reactors to India for the purpose of making more nuclear bombs. The primary dispute between Hindu India and neighboring Muslim Pakistan is that Muslims eat beef, even though only kosher beef. A Hasidic Rabbi like the Christian and Muslim Messiah Jesus Christ must ensure that the cow is slaughtered according to the Brooklyn rules and regulations of the Kashruth Council of the United States of America.

In Afghanistan the people, including the Taliban soldiers wait in line for hours to buy tickets to the Bollywood movies. Suicide bombing the market place is allowed but bombing the cinemas is strictly verboten. “Zeig Heil!”, said Charlie Chaplin.

Richard Gere and Shilpa Shetty are standing on a stage in India last week before a cheering and adoring crowd. Richard Gere is screaming “Sex, No!”, “Condoms, Yes!” Lets see him try that in Vatican City. Shilpa Shetty does not wear a burka. Shilpa Shetty appeared in a revealing bathing suit on the cover of Cosmopolitan Magazine.

After his speech, Richard Gere walks over to Shilpa Shetty and kisses her twice on the cheek. Then he takes her in his arms like Heather Mills in a Tango, bends her back and kisses her on the cheek again. Richard then steps back to the cheering crowd, gets down on one knee like a Shakesperean actor and bows his head and flourishes his arm to his Queen, the smiling Shilpa Shetty. A week later some anal retentive nerd in Jaipur India files a complaint, alleging that Richard Gere and Shilpa Shetty committed public obscenity. Kissing is fine on the Bollywood silver screen but Judge Dinesh Gupta declared that “The Kiss” was highly sexually erotic, transgressed all limits of vulgarity, and issued a warrant for the arrest of Richard Gere and Shilpa Shetty. Everyone’s a critic. The chances of Richard Gere returning to Bombay again to face 6 years in some rat hole prison are the same as Larry Birkhead taking Dannielynn back to Nassau for the June 6th custody hearing once he has her safe and sound and under the family court jurisdiction of California and the United States of America Supreme Court. God Bless America.

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Desire for learning to play Guitar Hero increased in kids. This video game has an electric guitar attached to the game unit and color coded buttons. Pressing correct buttons results in playing correct notes and is displayed on the screen. Beginners are taught easier numbers and tough and speed numbers increase with higher levels. Teenagers also adore playing the game Guitar Hero and are showing up at a great record rate. Playing the game interests even a plain person to experience a true guitar performing rock star. The last game that influenced other video games is known as `Rock Band`. This also has created a craze as it has identical ideas of Guitar Hero and the TV show `American Idol`.

Playing Guitar Hero has instilled a feel of giving live performance and this has increased self-confidence in many. Though, many times parents are not happy with their kids spending the majority of their time on video games, they are not able to ignore the fact that playing the game has encouraged their kids to learn playing musical instruments as well. Also there is no doubt that playing the game has kindled a desire among teenagers and kids to learn various other instruments. Guitar Hero is a fine game as it permits to step in the shoes of their guitar legend and to perform before an imaginary huge crowd.

Guitar Hero allows a person to encourage their favorite fantasy. The best advantage is that you need not be an expert guitar player, but should certainly comprehend the steps to playing the game. A player should definitely take right steps in developing proficiency over this game to enjoy the best. Rocking of guitar is exciting and this multiplies especially on playing favorite numbers. The video game caters to the zeal of playing guitar for popular songs. This is a rhythm based video game that is played using a peripheral of guitar shape and can be played on PS2, Xbox 360, PS3 or Nintendo Wii.

Playing guitar hero involves comprehending at least the songs already present in the game. The game also is effective when the learner has some sense of music, more patience and skilled fingers. The notes displayed on the screen are expected to be matched by playing the game. Such games imitate the real guitar and once the learner understands the techniques of playing the game, entertaining the virtual audience and enjoying is to the best. Knowing the real notes determination, the whammy bar, the select and start buttons as well as other controllers in the instrument is essential. Playing a guitar hero and becoming a rock star is simple when you pick a simple song and play it to the best by stringing successive notes. Mastering the skill gives you all liberty to rock and roll.

Author: Roberto Sedycias
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Printed Media, the tourists favorites

Panamanian printed media are by excellence one of the tourist’s favorite means of communication. In this classification we can mention daily newspapers, weekly newspapers and the general information magazines. Printed media can be located by the elites to be informed as well as to inform. In Panama you can acquire these written media at pharmacies, supermarkets, grocers, newsstands and some banks.

This tropical country currently has the following newspapers: La Prensa(The Press), La Critica (The Critic), El Panama America, Mi Diario(My Diary), Dia a Dia(Day to Day), La Estrella de Panama(The Star of Panama), El Siglo(The Century), La Cronica(The Chronicle), Noti News and Panama News in English. When it comes to the most liked magazines we have Ellas (women), Panama Travel (tourism), Maga and Talingo (cultural type magazines).

The sensation of television

Television is one of the most liked mass media to be transmitted at a distance image in movements and sounds. The television channels in Panama offer an ample programming which includes entertainment (adult and children), news and educational programs. Among the main television channels we have:

o TVN – Channel 2: Televisora Nacional, includes varied programming. It has been ranked as the number one channel in popular acceptance. It has national production programs such as Vive la Musica (“Live the Music” American Idol type show), Hecho en Panama (Made in Panama), Ellas y Tu (The Girls and You) among others. While presenting novellas with a great number of viewers.
o Telemetro Panama: Offers a varied programming for adults and children. With regards to national production the favorites are Bailando por un Sueño (Dancing with the Stars), Buscando a Pepito (Looking for Little Johnny), Cuna de Acordiones (Crib of Accordions), Lo + Chic (The Most Chic), Selecta Magazine (Select Magazine), to name a few.
o Tele 7: A channel exclusively for children and adolescents. With cartoons, series, novellas and a strong national programming where programs such as el Colegial (The Schoolbus), Parkeando(Hanging Out), La Torre de los Sueños(The Tower of Dreams) and many more stand out.
o TV Max, Channel 9: The number one sports channel on Panamanian territory. Offers sports programming with great acceptance on behalf of foreigners as well as the nationals.
o RPC, Channel 4: this channel possesses a varied programming with movies and series to delight the viewing public. It is worth mentioning that shows like Puro Deporte(All Sports) as well as Noticias y Mas(News and More) have received good acceptance on behalf of the viewers.
o SERTV, Channel 11: an educational channel, presents programming focused on knowing the cultural history of Panama.

It is important to point out that the radio stations have good programming for foreigners and nationals that enjoy music as well as educational programs, news, etc.

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Taxi follows the daily operations of the Sunshine Cab Company, a New York City taxi service run by tyrannical dispatcher Louie De Palma (Danny DeVito). De Palma’s self-centered sarcastic remarks are often dispensed from the safety of his pathetically small office in the corner of the body shop, while various employees like Alex Reiger (Judd Hirsch), Tony Banta (Danza), and Elaine Nardo (Henner) socialize and plot against their common enemy. Add foreign mechanic Latka Gravas (Kaufman) to the mix and all the ingredients are in place for hours of endless laughter. As the characters deal with problems of varying degree in their personal lives, the audience is treated to some of the best comedy ever produced for the small screen.

The Taxi (Season 3) DVD features a number of hilarious episodes including the season premiere “Louie’s Rival” in which Louie’s girlfriend Zena dumps him for a bartender at Mario’s. Danny DeVito provides another hilarious performance as the heartless Louie… Other notable episodes include “The Costume Party” in which the gang crashes a luxury yacht party in the hopes of meeting some famous people, and “Bobby and the Critic” in which Bobby happens upon one of the theater critics who recently bashed his performance.

Below is a list of episodes included on the Taxi (Season 3) DVD:

Episode 47 (Louie’s Rival) Air Date: 11-19-1980

Episode 48 (Tony’s Sister and Jim) Air Date: 11-26-1980

Episode 49 (Fathers of the Bride) Air Date: 12-03-1980

Episode 50 (Elaine’s Strange Triangle) Air Date: 12-10-1980

Episode 51 (Going Home) Air Date: 12-17-1980

Episode 52 (The Ten Percent Solution) Air Date: 01-07-1981

Episode 53 (The Call of the Mild) Air Date: 01-21-1981

Episode 54 (Latka’s Cookies) Air Date: 02-05-1981

Episode 55 (Thy Boss’s Wife) Air Date: 02-12-1981

Episode 56 (The Costume Party) Air Date: 02-19-1981

Episode 57 (Elaine’s Old Friend) Air Date: 02-26-1981

Episode 58 (Out of Commission) Air Date: 03-12-1981

Episode 59 (Zen and the Art of Cab Driving) Air Date: 03-19-1981

Episode 60 (Louie’s Mother) Air Date: 03-26-1981

Episode 61 (Bobby’s Roommate) Air Date: 04-09-1981

Episode 62 (Louie Bumps Into an Old Lady) Air Date: 04-16-1981

Episode 63 (Bobby and the Critic) Air Date: 04-30-1981

Episode 64 (On the Job: Part 1) Air Date: 05-07-1981

Episode 65 (On the Job: Part 2) Air Date: 05-14-1981

Episode 66 (Latka the Playboy) Air Date: 05-21-1981

Author: Britt Gillette
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My mother, my aunt, and I always have really weird dreams when there’s a full moon. What’s the scientific explanation for this? I’m sure I don’t know. Once my mom dreamt she was covered in baked potatoes. She also dreamt she was a basketball star and kept running down the court and dunking the ball (she’s five-foot-three, by the way, and she woke up sweating). Most of my weirdest dreams involve food. Once I was floating in a life-size ice cream sundae with peanut butter sauce. Another time I was roller skating inside a huge pinball machine and there were snack bars in the bumpers. I’m pretty sure I was dieting when I had those dreams. Why can’t I dream normal dreams about Pierce Brosnan or…wait, I DID dream about Pierce Brosnan once and I can’t go into the sordid details here.

Sometimes it helps to take a dream apart and interpret it. Sometimes, frankly, interpretation is crap; a dream is just a dream. But let’s try it with one of mine. The giant sundae. Dreaming of ice cream evidently denotes pleasure and satisfaction with your life, good luck and success in love. I have yet to come across a dream book that actually has entries for peanut butter sauce. I dreamt there were tornadoes swirling all about me the other night—this supposedly suggests I am experiencing extreme emotional outbursts and temper tantrums (wait, that’s just my daily work day!). I also dreamt I got kicked off American Idol (I was in the final round at least), and again, I laughed in my sleep. On a more serious note, several days before 911, my mom and both had strange dreams; I dreamt I was among many people running to get out of a very tall building in New York City and she dreamt a submarine hit the ocean floor so hard a building collapsed. That was, frankly, freaky.

My point, and I do have one, is that dreams can be really good fodder for a writer. I read somewhere that we all daydream an average of 70 to 120 minutes a day. Obviously, there are some who take time-wasting to a whole other level, daydreaming 18 hours a day. That’s a lot of wasted time unless you put it to good use, say, like in your novel. I highly recommend activity like sleeping and daydreaming that lets your mind wander and decreases your level of awareness to the point that you lose yourself in your imagined story (not, of course, when you’re operating heavy machinery or driving on a multi-lane highway or performing brain surgery). For my first fiction suspense novel, Dead On, I was thinking about my characters so much that I actually began dreaming about them. Chapter 21 of Dead On is actually the result of a dream I had, which I believe in part may be either inherited memory or a traumatic past life I lived before the recorded and often skewed history in textbooks. I used most of the dream in the book and added a little bit to it, because of course, Dead On is fiction.

Dreams can heal, entertain, inform and stimulate. Some dreams are fairly common—like being caught naked in a public place or being back in high school where you can’t remember your friggin’ locker combination. In the case of the writer, dreams can help you plot and explore while your cranky, nit-picking, self-debasing critic is down and out. Dreaming can help you be the writer you always imagined yourself to be, can connect us to the human race and our art. The benefit of covering yourself with baked potatoes, however, is still being studied.

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Author: Ann Kelly
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Everyone can sing! You were born singing! Along the way, though, someone told
you that you couldn’t, and that became your belief system. Spring is the time when
all things come back to life. Even dusty, forgotten dreams can be born again. So do
something wonderful for yourself – take a few voice lessons! You’ll see it’s not as
scary as you thought, and it will give you worlds of self-confidence. I offer both
group and private coaching at my studio in Midway, Utah, and I find that most
people are so anxious about singing in front of me initially, that we spend lots of
time working on that inner critic that demands vocal perfection. My goal is to help
my clients sing from their hearts, not their heads! Singing is all about raising your
voice in joy; not worrying about how good you sound, but how good you FEEL when you’re sharing your music.

If you yearn to sing, then DO IT! You will feel great and you’ll feel proud of yourself
for taking a risk and emerging a stronger, more confident songster! I love to help
people find their voices, and now is a great time to take that step of self-discovery
and self-love. Sing because you’ve always wanted to. What better reason is there?
And if you’re a bit shy, then take a few lessons (study with someone whose method
is based in Bel Canto) so that you gain skills that will give you confidence in your
voice.

Spring is the time to start something new; something that’s going to feed your soul
and bring a bounce to your step! Singing has incredible physical and emotional
benefits, and it’s a great way to meet new friends! My uncle just started singing at
age 81, and it has changed his life! He sings every Thursday night in Los Olivos,
California, and just loves it! And his audience loves it, too! How fantastic that he
took the initiative to take singing lessons at the local community college, then had
the guts to get up and put himself on the line. And you know what??? This is now his PASSION! He lives and breathes it. I am so proud of him, and wish everyone would have the courage to open up and sing! My uncle Dick is 81 and singing every week in public; what’s your excuse?!
Spring is the time to sing!!

Author: Beth Lawrence
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