Category: awesome

Don’t look up

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The online Cambridge dictionary says that satire is “(…) a way of criticizing people or ideas in a humorous way (…)“.

With this in mind, this movie shows us how satire can be used with a lot of intelligence and a note of sarcasm!

I know that RottenTomatoes gives it a very bad critic, and it’s their opinion. It’s as good an opinion as to any other from myself or each one of you. Nonetheless, for me, I really enjoyed its 2h hours a quarter, with lots of laughs and some punches right in the face of society.

Go watch it with an open mind and for the fun of it! Oh, and the amazing cast too!

The truth is way more depressing. They’re not even smart enough to be as evil as you’re giving them credit for.

Kate Dibiasky

Campeones

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And there you have it, an amazing Spanish movie, about the most one-of-a-kind basketball team!

The story reminds us about the struggles in life, but the most important of it all is how we can surpass them with hope and a lot of work! We just have to believe in ourselves. And all these actors are the proof of it!

Congratulations to each and every one of you: José de Luna, Sergio Olmo, Jesús Vidal, Gloria Ramos, Alberto Nieto Ferrández, Julio Fernández, Jesús Lago, Fran Fuentes, Roberto Chinchilla e Stefan López.

They had unique co-stars also: Javier Gutiérrez, Athenea Mata e Juan Margallo that helped bring to almost real-life this amazing movie!

All, and I reinforce the ALL of you out there must watch this one and rejoice with the beauty and performances of all these actors.

Felicidades!

La vida es solo una… Vive hoy

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A place in Peru

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In a place in Peru, there is a surprising landscape of salt terraces, they are “Las Salinas de Maras”.
Their exploitation is as old as the Inca empire and they are located on the side of a hill in the “Sacred Valley”. The name of the salt flats in Quechua is Kachi Raqay and it is made up of about five thousand pools of about 5 square meters each, the water is filtered in the pools and evaporates by the action of the intense sun, causing the crystals of coarse salt to sprout. After 1 month the salt reaches 10 cm tall and has to be harvested.
In one part of Peru, there are some islands built with totora, where a community lives whose origins date back to times before the Incas: they are the Floating Islands of San Pedro de Kapi in Lake Titicaca, home to the Uros. They are located in the Bay of Puno and there are about 20. Each one is inhabited by 3 to 10 Uro-Aymara families, who build and roof their houses with reed mats, as well as make the islands. The Uros call themselves kotsuña, “the lake people”, and maintain the tradition of artisanal fishing, especially karachi and silverside, as well as hunting wild birds.
In a place in Peru, there is a place of visual magnificence: it is the Cordillera Huayhuash, legendary for being the source of the mighty Amazon. It has peaks that rise above 6,600 m, the Huayhuash is a compact range of 20 main mountains knotted by the blue of the glacial ice and beautiful lakes. It is considered the best place in the world for Andean trekking. A trip around the entire circuit is 170 kilometers of hard walking.

Photography: own and from the internet

Taken from a PowerPoint design by: Eliza

Kid 90

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I really, really enjoyed this documentary! It can bring us way back up ’til the ’90s!

OK, I might be one of the fewest people in the world who didn’t know Soleil Moon Frey, sorry about that!

Nonetheless, the documentary it’s great… All that footage taken by her and her friends deserved to be delivered back to the light!

And you will find also lots of actors, actresses that are now at their peak or where!

It is on ode to friends, to life, and to the ’90s.

And after that, listen to the beautiful original song of the one and only Linda Perry… It is absolutely overwhelming, heartfelt, and pitch-perfect! It sums up the documentary in a way that it deserved an Oscar.

“Here I am, facing myself
Peeling away emotions I felt
Wouldn’t change a moment of my life
So many walked through these doors
Falling through windows to so much more
We held onto each other to get by
Put up a fight
Enough is enough
We were just kids
Falling in love
Trying to play a game we couldn’t win
So, where are you now?
Where were you then?
Do you belong?
Have you found a true friend?
And who you making love with along the way?
I’ve been fearless
Trying to be strong
Yeah, I’ve been living on the edge
For so long
I’ve been waiting for light
To show me the way
Help me piece it together, frame by frame
I’m holding on
Watching my past
The ones that made it
And the ones that couldn’t last
It’s all right here
I wrote it to myself
What I wanted wasn’t crazy
All I needed was some light
In my life”

Spectacular – Love

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Customer Service Representative: – Did you manage to install LOVE?
Client: – I couldn’t… I’m not a technician on the subject, but I think I can install with your help. What should I do first?
Representative: -The first step is to open your HEART. Have you found your HEART?
Client: – Yes I found it, but there are several programs working now. Do you have any problem installing LOVE while other programs are working?
Representative: – What programs are working?
Client: – Let me see… I have LOW-ESTEEM.EXE, RESENTMENT.COM, HATE.EXE and GRUDGE.EXE working now.
Representative: – No problem. LOVE will automatically delete GRUDGE.EXE from your system current operational. It may stay in your permanent memory, but it won’t cause problems for a long time for other programs. LOVE will rewrite LOW-ESTEEM.EXE in a better version, called SELF-ESTEEM.EXE. Nonetheless, you have to completely turn off HATE.EXE and RESENTMENT.COM. Those programs prevent LOVE from installing correctly. You may turn them off?
Client: – I don’t know how to turn them off. Can you tell me how?
Representative: – With pleasure! Go to the Menu and click on FORGIVENESS.EXE. Do this as many times as
necessary, until HATE.EXE and RESENTMENT.COM are deleted completely.
Client: – Okay, finished! LOVE started to install itself automatically, that’s normal?
Representative: – Yes, it’s normal. You should get a message saying you will reinstall the life of your heart. Do you already have this message?
Client: – Yes I have. Is it fully installed?
Representative: – Yes, but remember you only have the basic template program. You need to start connecting with other HEARTS in order to get upgrades.
Client: – Oh my gosh! I already have an error message. What should I do?
Representative: – What does the message say?
Client: – Says: “ERROR 412 – PROGRAM DOES NOT WORK ON INTERNAL COMPONENTS”. What does that mean?
Representative: – Don’t worry, this is a common problem. It means that the program of LOVE is set to work on external HEARTS, but it is not yet running in your HEART. It’s one of those complicated programming things, but in technicians terms it means you have to “LOVE” your own machine first before you can love another.
Client: – So what should I do?
Representative: – Can you find the directory called SELF ACCEPTANCE?
Client: – Yes I found it.
Representative: – Great! You’re getting great at this! Do the following: Click on the files KINDNESS.DOC, SELF-ESTEEM.TXT,
VALUE YOURSELF.TXT, FORGIVENESS.DOC and copy them to the directory MY HEART. The system will rewrite all conflicting files and begin to fix defective programming. Also need to delete SELF-CRITICISM.EXE from all directories and then empty your trash to make sure it never comes back.
Client: – I achieved! My HEART is full of really neat files! I have at my monitor now SMILE.MPG and it’s showing that PEACE.EXE, CONTENTMENT.COM and KINDNESS.COM were automatically installed on my heart.
Representative: – So we’re done, LOVE is up and running. Oh! one more thing before I go. LOVE is a free program, do the possible to distribute a copy of your various models to whom you find and thus receive truly pure new models from these people.
Client: – Thank you for your help. See you soon!