April fool´s day.

U wanna know more about british traditions?
Arsenal signs Gerrard!!!! Edward is gonna be king.............and Camilla queeeeeennnnn aghhhh!!
This is Aprlis fool´s!!!. Unlike most of the other nonfoolish holidays, the history of April Fool's Day, sometimes called All Fool's Day, is not totally clear. There really wasn't a "first April Fool's Day" that can be pinpointed on the calendar. Some believe it sort of evolved simultaneously in several cultures at the same time, from celebrations involving the first day of spring.
The closest point in time that can be identified as the beginning of this tradition was in 1582, in France. Prior to that year, the new year was celebrated for eight days, beginning on March 25. The celebration culminated on April 1. With the reform of the calendar under Charles IX, the Gregorian Calendar was introduced, and New Year's Day was moved to JanHowever, communications being what they were in the days when news traveled by foot, many people did not receive the news for several years. Others, the more obstinate crowd, refused to accept the new calendar and continued to celebrate the new year on April 1. These backward folk were labeled as "fools" by the general populace. They were subject to some ridicule, and were often sent on "fools errands" or were made the butt of other practical jokes.
This harassment evolved, over time, into a tradition of prank-playing on the first day of April. The tradition eventually spread to England and Scotland in the eighteenth century. It was later introduced to the American colonies of both the English and French. April Fool's Day thus developed into an international fun fest, so to speak, with different nationalities specializing in their own brand of humor at the expense of their friends and families.
In Scotland, for example, April Fool's Day is actually celebrated for two days. The second day is devoted to pranks involving the posterior region of the body. It is called Taily Day. The origin of the "kick me" sign can be traced to this observance.
Mexico's counterpart of April Fool's Day is actually observed on December 28. Originally, the day was a sad remembrance of the slaughter of the innocent children by King Herod. It eventually evolved into a lighter commemoration involving pranks and trickery.
Pranks performed on April Fool's Day range from the simple, (such as saying, "Your shoe's untied!), to the elaborate. Setting a roommate's alarm clock back an hour is a common gag. Whatever the prank, the trickster usually ends it by yelling to his victim, "April Fool!"
Practical jokes are a common practice on April Fool's Day. Sometimes, elaborate practical jokes are played on friends or relatives that last the entire day. The news media even gets involved. For instance, a British short film once shown on April Fool's Day was a fairly detailed documentary about "spaghetti farmers" and how they harvest their crop from the spaghetti trees.
April Fool's Day is a "for-fun-only" observance. Nobody is expected to buy gifts or to take their "significant other" out to eat in a fancy restaurant. Nobody gets off work or school. It's simply a fun little holiday, but a holiday on which one must remain forever vigilant, for he may be the next April Fool!

New releases.

Morrisey : "Years of refusal"

After years of rumbling and hate "he" is back. And now, there's Years of Refusal, on which normal service is resumed. Love never comes or doesn't exist; depression and suicide get a song each; the legal profession cops it in the neck yet again.The deftness and subtlety of its predecessor's sound has been stamped out. Morrissey's backing band, hardly renowned for their lightness of touch at the best of times, seem more stodgy and leaden than ever: the bass is distorted, the drums thud grimly along at mid-tempo, and Ringleader of the Tormentors' beautiful orchestrations have been elbowed out.No more comments. It´s worth anyway.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wzpynvxr7tA

The Prodigy: "Invaders must die".

This is Techno- Punk. The Prodigy - are back to take off your head, and transport your body to a claustrophobic dance floor before catapulting you into a gurning oblivion. After the underwhelming Always Outnumbered, Never Outgunned, ringleader Liam Howlett has tracked back to the smash rave crossover of Jilted Generation and mashed up vintage polysynth lines with broken guitars and a scattering of whirlwind beats; mostly repeating his recipe for success.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EiqFcc_l_Kk

No line on the horizon.

I would like to publish an interview to Hiroshi Sugimoto taken from the "Japan Times".

By EDAN CORKILL
Staff writer
Just two minutes into an interview with artist Hiroshi Sugimoto, it became clear why the famously discreet 61-year-old had agreed to talk about rock band U2's use of one of his photographs on the cover of their latest album, "No Line on the Horizon."
Primal: The cover of U2's new album, "No Line on the Horizon," features a photograph by Hiroshi Sugimoto

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"The first thing I want you to let people know," he said, seated in an office at Ginza's Gallery Koyanagi, "is there is no commercial aspect to my relation with U2. No cash is involved."
No cash? Sugimoto's 1993 image of the Boden Sea at Uttwil adorns not only the cover of the album that debuted this month at No. 1 in almost 30 countries, but is also plastered over buses, taxis and TV ads worldwide as part of a multimillion dollar advertising blitz. The commercial connection had seemed so obvious that many assumed Sugimoto had sold out.
"People thought that I was in some sort of financial trouble," chuckled Sugimoto, who has always had a reputation for refusing requests to use his work in merchandise or advertising.
Others suggested he'd been corrupted by the megarich U2. According to The Guardian's Web site, electronic-music artist Taylor Deupree, who created a CD with Richard Chartier for a Sugimoto retrospective at the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, D.C. in 2006, dismissed the U2 cover saying that for Bono and crew, "it's simply a phone call and a check."
Deupree also accused the band of copying the design of their album. Both covers use the same "Boden Sea" image (which was actually taken at Lake Constance in Switzerland and is just one of over 200 photographs that make up the artist's "Seascapes" series).
Apparently Deupree is wrong on both counts. Noting that the choice of the same photograph was just a "coincidence," Sugimoto explained that he was first introduced to Bono during a visit with an art collector in France about four years ago.
"I was taken by private jet to this beautiful villa in Nice," he explained. "When we got there, this guy, rather short — OK, my size — was welcoming me. I thought, 'He looks familiar.' " Although not impartial to rock music, Sugimoto wasn't really familiar with U2's work. "I was part of the Beatles generation," he said. "I still have Pink Floyd's 'The Dark Side of the Moon' playing in my car!"
Bono confessed that he loved Sugimoto's seascape photographs and began quizzing the artist about the work.
"He started taking notes as I talked," Sugimoto recalled. Those notes became the foundation for the new album's title track. Last year, during a visit to Dublin, Sugimoto heard the first demo tape, and a few months later was told by Bono that U2 wanted to use the Boden Sea image on the album jacket.
"I said, 'Are you sure? If you use it you won't be able to put anything on top of it, not even the U2 name," the artist remembered.
He was surprised when Bono strongly agreed. Rolling Stone is now calling the text-free jacket "an early front runner for album cover of the year." (The cover also features an equal sign, but it is attached to the plastic wrapper, so it disappears once opened it.) Then came talk of money.
"I gave myself just a second to think about it," Sugimoto recalled, "and I said 'How about a Stone Age deal — no cash?' "
Bono agreed on an "artist-to-artist" barter whereby Sugimoto could use the "No Line on the Horizon" song in any project he wanted in the future. Sugimoto says he still hasn't made up his mind about how to use the song — which he says he likes, but liked even better in its "more hard rock" demo stage.
"Maybe I'll use it in some video-art project, or charity project," he said. Is he happy with the way the album cover looks? "The boxed editions of the album are printed well," he noted. But, he was resigned to the impossibility of proper quality control when they "print them all over the world."
Still, Sugimoto is satisfied that his photographs have struck a chord with so many people.
"That's the effect of seascapes," he said, before explaining that a view of a boatless ocean is one of the only things left in the world that we can experience in the same way that our primitive ancestors would have experienced millenniums ago. "The works are really connected to the very deep roots of the human mind," he said. "Even to the minds of musicians who have reached the pinnacle of success."

The Shinjuku incident.

The Hong Kong official site for Derek Yee's upcoming The Shinjuku Incident has been up for sometime now, with a April 2 release coming fast. Today I would like to present the Japanese official site which is now up at the moment.

http://www.s-incident.com/

Oxford - Cambridge.

On 29th, England's most historic universities square off in this rowing race which inaugurates the summer season in London. This is the 155th annual Boat Race and Cambridge currently lead by 79-74 (there was a controversial dead heat in 1877), though Oxford won comfortably in 2008. While the result means little to most Londoners, it's a spectacular display of strength and teamwork, and around a quarter of a million fans line the banks of the river to roar their encouragement. There's a great view - and some great pubs - on the north side of the Thames before Hammersmith Bridge. South Londoners might like to watch from or near Putney Bridge, where the big screen on the opposite bank allows spectators to monitor the race as it heads its way around the bend. Alternatively, head through Bishop's Park and behind the South Stand of Fulham football ground you'll find food stalls, attractions and a 500-capacity beer tent. Je, je!!

Abdominazer.

Pos vamos allá. Tener la tableta de chocolate no vale solo para irse de guai sino que la espalda también lo va a agradecer a la larga.
Aquí dejaré una tabla de ejercicios con las tres partes del abdominal que se debe trabajar.
Si atendemos a términos anatómicos las abdominales se extienden desde la parte inferior de las costillas hasta la parte superior de la pelvis, protegiendo los órganos internos. Los que están en la parte anterior se denominan "rectos anteriores". Los abdominales que están en la parte lateral se denominan "oblícuos" y "transversos".
Desde mi ignorancia y con permiso yo los voy a dividir en tres grupos de trabajo. Superiores, inferiores y oblícuos.
Antes de nada consejos fundamentales.
1. No pongas las manos en la nuca. Mantenlas cerca o a los lados de la cabeza o cruzadas en el pecho.
2. No dobles jamás la cabeza. La cabeza debe estar paralela al tronco. Mira para arriba nunca hacia delante. Aprieta la tripa y sube el cuerpo ligeramente sin doblar la cabeza; debe estar en línea recta con tu tronco (la barbilla elevada, nunca pegada al pecho). Esto sólo te causará dolor en las cervicales.
3. Respira como es debido. Echa el aire cuando hagas la contracción y vuelve a cogerlo cuando relajes. Además, empleando la respiración, la intensidad del ejercicio aumenta espectacularmente.
4. La peña se piensa que hay que hacer 700 abdominales por sesión. Mal!!. La calidad predomina siempre sobre la cantidad.

Vamos con una rutina básica.
Abdomen superior:
Encogimientos: 3 series X 15 repeticiones
Elevación de tronco en el suelo: 3 series x 15 repeticiones
Elevación de tronco en banco inclinado: 3 series x 10 repeticiones

INFERIOR
Elevación de piernas: 3 series x 15 repeticiones. En la foto aparece en banco pero mejor hacedlo en el suelo.
Encogimientos rodilla al pecho: 3 X15
Encogimiento en banco elevado: 3 x 15

OBLÍCUOS:
Encogimiento lateral: 4 x 15

Backache!!

Ultimamente mucha gente me comenta los problemas de espalda que está sufriendo. Estos dolores pueden provenir de sobrepeso, lesiones, piernas débiles...etc.

Hay muchas formas de tratar estos problemas y una de las opciones practicar deporte en la medida de lo posible.

Lo que normalmente se recomienda es la natación que quizás sea el deporte más completo que podamos hacer para evitar dolores. Ahora tenéis dos opciones. Iros a la piscina y parad de leer o seguid leyendo.

No os voy a hablar de natación porque para mi no hay cosa más aburrida que ir de un lado para otro de una piscina como una merluza sin cerebro en pleno Gran Sol, así que vamos a darle duro a otro tema. Eso sí, vosotros id a la piscina.

Vamos a ver para intentar aliviar esos problemas debemos trabajar fundamentalmente dos partes importantísimas de nuestro cuerpo. Las piernas y el abdomen. Estas dos partes son las que soportan todo el peso del tronco junto con la zona lumbar. Sí. No os extrañeis. El abdomen es imprescindible para aguantar todo el peso que se pueda tener.

Por ello os voy a explicar varios ejercicios completamente necesarios para fortalecer la espalda trabajando abdomen, pierna y zona lumbar.

Pero eso será mañana.

Estrella Galicia.

Histórico. Cuando me lo dijeron no me lo creía. Inaudito. Lo mejor de Galicia ya está en la camiseta del mejor equipo gallego de todos los tiempos.

Durante años hemos hablado de que la mejor cerveza del mundo patrocinara a nuestro equipo. Y por fín. Qué hay más gallego que una estrella?. Ahora queda hacerse con una camiseta. Estoy seguro de que van a volar eso va a ser los más importante desde que ganamos nuestro último título.

Deciros también que hoy jugamos con el Gijón y que unos 3000 coruñeses han ido a apoyar a nuestro equipo ( que envidia!!!!!). Desgraciadamente no he podido ni ver el partido porque mi conexión de internet no iba...así que macagoentodoloquesemenea!. Fijaros en el tercer fulano empezando por la abajo a la izquierda hacia arriba.....no os suena???? (fotos César Quián)

Desde aquí un saludo a todos los que habéis ido!!

Armed wagon.

Pos iba yo tan tranquilo por la 5ª avenue tan pancho cuando aparecen 6 coches. Los dos del medio eran limousinas con los cristales tintados. Todo normal aquí. El tema. Los dos de delante y los dos de atrás, que eran todoterrenos de una marca desconocida para mi, iban cargados de fulanos con gafas de sol ventanillas abiertas...........y SUBFUSILES!!!. Haced zoom en el tio de la ventanilla y vereis la culata de un arma. Iban todos armados hasta los dientes y enseñaban las pipas sin problema alguno. El Compañeiro de la gorra de Jordan de la foto estaba tan flipado como yo. Quién iría en las limousinas? Paris Hilton?

Fall Out Boy.

I recognize this is a strange band. It was a nice surprise and some fresh air is always wellcome.

How would I define these guys?. Hard job. Mixture of rock, pop and punk. It depends on the song. You´ll find a little of them on each song. For my metal friends, forget about this band. Rest of the world, try it.

Fall out boy was formed in Wilmette , Illinois in 2001.The band consists of Patrick Stump (vocals and guitar), Joe Trohman (guitar and vocals), Pete Wentz (bass guitar and vocals), and Andy Hurley (drums and percussion).

Name?. After a show, they asked the audience to give them a name. One audience member suggested "Fallout Boy", a reference to the sidekick of the character Radioactive Man from The Simpsons. On 25th of January 2009, Fall Out Boy would play the theme ending on The Simpsons.

With Pete Wentz as the band's primary lyricist, and Patrick Stump the primary composer, Fall Out Boy reached mainstream success with its first major label album on May 3, 2005, From Under the Cork Tree, whch debuted on the Billboard 200 at #9, selling over 68,000 copies in its first week. The album achieved double platinum status after selling more than 2.5 million albums in the United States alone.

In early 2007, the band released its second major label album, Infinity on High. The album had a successful debut week, selling 260,000 copies and reaching number one on the Billboard 200. This charting was spurred by the single This Ain't a Scene, It's an Arms Race, which reached number two in the U.S. and U.K.
A viral campaign was launched by Pete Wentz on August 18, 2008 to promote what is now known to be the band's fifth studio album Folie a Deux.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWHf_vYZzQ8

Carísimo....

Tokio ha recuperado la primera posición como la ciudad más cara del mundo, por delante de la también japonesa Osaka, tras haber figurado en sexto lugar, según un estudio del Economis Intelligence Unit, del grupo editor de la revista The Economist.
En tercera posición por el índice del coste de la vida figura París, seguida de Copenhague, Oslo, Zúrich, Francfort, Helsinki y Ginebra, mientras que Londres, que ocupaba antes la octava posición en ese índice pasa ahora al lugar número 27, por detrás de Barcelona, que sube del 19 al 18, y Madrid, que se mantiene en el 20. Otras ciudades caras son Singapur, que ocupa el décimo puesto, Hong Kong, que sube del 28 al 11, Dublín, que figura en el decimotercer lugar, y Bruselas y Milán, que comparten el decimocuarto.Las ciudades más baratas siguen siendo predominantemente las asiáticas: entre ellas Katmandú (128), las indias Nueva Delhi y Bombay (129 y 130 respectivamente) y Karachi (132).

( Foto gentileza de Kirai)

Elliot.

Elliot. His weekend was like ours. Eating, sleeping, drinking...ah! one difference.

F-22 Raptor.

Espectacular. La empresa Ubisoft ha hecho lo que veis abajo para promocionar Tom Clancy´s H.A.W.X. Un juego. El avión que vereis es un F-22 Raptor.

Tipo: avión multifunción, monoplaza
Origen: Estados Unidos
Fabricante: Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Co. / Boeing Company
Tripulación: 1 piloto

Dimensiones
Envergadura: 13,11 m
Longitud: 19,56 m
Altura: 5,36 m
Superficie alar: 78,04 m2
Planta motriz: dos turbofán Pratt & Whitney F119-PW-100 de 15600 kg (35.000 lb) de empuje estático con poscombustión cada uno, posee dos toberas orientables; también denominadas «Vector de Empuje de Acceso Múltiple».

Pesos
Vacío: 14365 kg
Máximo al despegue: 27216 kg

Rendimiento
Velocidad: máxima velocidad a vuelo nivelado Mach 2.0 e incluso puede llegar a Mach 2.5 o más (2900 km/h) sin postcombustión.
Velocidad máxima en «supercrucero»: Mach 1,58 (1890 km/h)
Techo de servicio: 15240 m

Armamento
Un F-22 lanza una bomba GBU-32 JDAM.
Un cañón M-61A2 tipo gatling de 20 mm, montado internamente en la parte superior del ala derecha (perspectiva del piloto), más liviano que la versión A1, puede disparar 6000 proyectiles por minuto.
AIM-9X «Sidewinder» de guía IR
AIM-120C AMRAAM de guía AR (Active Radar).
AIM-132 ASRAAM (Advanced Short Range Air to Air Missile) de guía IR. (Este misil no sería utilizado por el F-22 y el F-35, al disponerse del AIM-9X «Sidewinder»)
Cualquier tipo de bomba LGB (Laser Guided Bomb) como la GBU-15 o Paveway de 2000 lb.
GBU-32 JDAM (Joint Direct Attack Munition), una bomba convencional Mk-83 de 1.000 lb con sistemas de guiado INS (Inertial Navigation System o Sistema de Navegación Inercial) y el Sistema de Posicionamiento Global o GPS.
GBU-39/40 SDB (Small Diameter Bombs)

http://www.eurogamer.es/videos/hawx-un-avion-en-la-castellana

Now the streets have name.

Where the streets have no what......???!! Now they have and in an area I know perfectly!!!! Next to my lovely NY ....bed

On Tuesday New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg temporarily renamed a Manhattan street in their honor.
To celebrate the release of the band's 12th studio album and their appearance every night this week on CBS's "The Late Show with David Letterman," part of 53rd street in Midtown Manhattan -- where Letterman films -- was renamed U2 Way. (Photo Reuters)

The Beatles had Penny Lane, Elvis lived on the end of Lonely Street," U2 singer Bono told reporters and fans on the corner of Broadway and 53rd Street.
"We're here somewhere between 10th Avenue and funky, funky Broadway, somewhere south of Duke Ellington Way and north of Joey Ramone Place we find ourselves ... where the streets have no name," he said.
The renaming of the block of 53rd Street between Broadway and 8th Avenue will last one week, Bloomberg said.
"It's a beautiful day, to quote a famous Irish rock band," Bloomberg said. "Everyone in this city, including me, considers these four Dubliners honorary New Yorkers."

http://www.reuters.com/news/video?videoId=99717&feedType=VideoRSS&feedName=Entertainment&rpc=23&videoChannel=3&sp=true