Juan Fernando Pacheco

Silvia Saint interviewed in Mexico.

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Via Carlos, I found this post about an interview to Silvia Saint (Sylvia Tomčalová) in Mexico few months ago. In fact Silvia Saint was one of the most famous actress in the category of the Adult Entertainment, actually from 2000 she’s retired. Here’s Silvia Saint bio.

At this interview Silvia Saint tell us something about hers actually life, things like she goes back to live in Europe after 2000, hers work at playboy magazine last year, and how she’s web site is going up and how it works, and how she actually just model for her’s own web site.

In the second part of the interview Silvia show us a side more personal, talking about his family and friends and what they think about hers career, and the third video shows a comic side of Silvia, in all the videos Silvia promote “Expo Sexo y Entretenimiento“.

6 Blogging Myths That Are Holding You Back

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Today I was reading an interesting article called “6 Blogging Myths That Are Holding You Back“, and it was based on the Rich Brooks article “The 11 Biggest Mistakes Small Business Bloggers Make“.

In fact I agree whit that six points but especially with this one:

My customers don’t read blogs. I hear this all too often by business owners who don’t completely understand what a blog is. Now, perhaps your customers don’t subscribe to any blogs, or they don’t return daily to a favorite blog. However, if they use Google or Yahoo for search, chances are they stumbled upon a search result from a blog. Since blogs often rank high at the search engines, if your customers use the Internet, you can capture their attention with a blog.

And if you wants makes a test, try any search on Google or Yahoo, come on, I’ll be waiting for you here.

For sure some of the first places on your results corresponds to a blog, so the point is, if the blogs are taking importance in the real world giving us relevant information about services, products or anything else, why your company don’t need a blog?

Remember, everyone of us get an story to tell, so this is the best way to say it.

World’s Famous Photos: Kent State shootings [1970].

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From today and during some future posts, I’m writing about some of the most world’s famous photos. Today I want to write about the Kent State shootings [1970].

This pic was take by John Filo in the moment when Mary Ann Vecchio was screaming after Jeffrey Glen Miller was shot an killed by Ohio National Guardsmen, in Kent State Shootings during a protesting against the Vietnam War.

This pic won the Pulitzer Prize in 1971 and for many years a lot of people think in Mary Ann Vecchio as the victim shots, but this interview shows us how Mary Ann Vechio meets the photographer Jhon Filo and talk about that day, but that was not all the story about that picture, in fact a copy of that picture had been airbrushed to remove the pole behind Mary Ann, and this altered image was printed in many magazines during several years as the original until 1995 when it was finally noticed.

Back to the interview of May Ann many years later in 1995, some of the questions are really important, like this one:

Q: How did the picture change your mind?
Mary Ann: It’s hard to say why the picture changed my mind because it kind of put it on my shoulder. I felt that the guilt, shame… the horrific happening was on my shoulders and it’s been very hard to deal with until now. The result — what happened at Kent State and this — I feel that they’re also helping me to fight, understanding it and going on.

Finally that day died 4 peoples Allison Krause, Jeffrey Miller, Sandra Scheuer and William Schroeder, Here’s a video about that day.

Vuelvo al sur (Gotam Project, 2000)

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Gotan Project is a musical group who begins their career in Paris, France on 1999. It is conformed by Philippe Cohen Solal, Eduardo Makaroff and Christoph H. Müller t, and their first work was Vuelvo Al Sur/El Capitalismo Foraneo in 2000.

From this songs “Vuelvo al Sur” in my personal point of view is one of the most strong of all their discography, and as I can see after Gotam Project a lot of new groups of electro tango born such as Narcotango, Bajofondo, Tanghetto, Hybrid Tango and many others.

Here a video of Gotan Project with Vuelvo al Sur:

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Some links of interest are: Gotam Project biography, Gotam Project videos on Youtube, Gotam Project at Wikipedia.

CB2 Child Robot, I’m scared.

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This are one of those stories than don’t appears as real, but it is.

Via Tokyo Times I found this post about this new humanoid robot, called CB2 (Child-Robot with Biometric Body), here his characteristics:

• 33 kilogram of net weight
• Facial expressions
• React to its surroundings by blinking
• Stand up with assistance

But in my personal point of view I’m scared about it maybe is some in his face or maybe it doesn’t looks cute, anyway here’s a video of he or she.

I hope it doesn’t ends like this one.

World’s Famous Photos: U.S. Marines raising the flag on Iwo Jima [1945].

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From today and during some future posts, I’m writing about some of the most world’s famous photos. Today I want to write about the U.S. Marines raising the flag on Iwo Jima [1945].

On feb, 23, 1945 the photographer Joe Rosenthal takes this photo of five US Marines raising the flag at top of the Mount Suribachi during the Iwo Jima battle in World War II.

This photo is the one in the whole history of the Pulitzer winners to obtain the prize in the same year of the publication, and in the other side, this is one of the most reproduced photos of all times, because it represents the courage and it means all the good values of the people around the world.

But the battle of Iwo Jima gets their own history:

The Battle of Iwo Jima was fought by the United States and Japan in February and March 1945, during the Pacific Campaign of World War II. The U.S. invasion, known as Operation Detachment, was aimed at capturing the airfields on Iwo Jima.

The battle was marked by some of the fiercest fighting of the campaign. The Imperial Japanese Army positions on the island were heavily fortified, with vast bunkers, hidden artillery, and 11 miles (18 km) of tunnels.[citation needed] The battle was the first American attack on the Japanese Home Islands, and the Imperial soldiers defended their positions tenaciously; of the 22,000 Japanese soldiers present at the beginning of the battle, over 20,000 were killed, and only 216 taken prisoner.

Although, many years later the whole world knows the real story behind the photo, and it looks like the original photo was take by Louis R. “Lou” Lowery, few hours before with a different group of US marines and raising an small flag, but this flag was destroyed by a Japanese grenade, the complete story about this supposed real first photo is narrated by Jorge Lewinski in his publication Camera at War; A History of War Photography - WH Allen, 1978

The picture of the raising of the Stars and Stripes on the top of Mount Suribachi was published throughout the world. It was taken by an Associated Press photographer, Joe Rosenthal. Later it was established that this was not a photograph of the original event. The first flag-raising was photographed by S/Sgt Louis R. Lowery, working for the Marines’ magazine Leatherneck. While the ceremony was taking place, a hidden Japanese survivor threw two grenade at the group on the summit. The first grenade blew up the flag; the second fell at the feet of the photographer. Lowery dived down the steep side of the dormant volcano, rolling some 50 feet before he stopped, having dislocated his side and breaking his cameras. Later the same day a second raising of the flag was arranged, using a larger flag. This time a far more powerful an carefully worked-out picture was shot by Rosenthal. It was this second picture, not the one taken by Lowery - which was also preserved - that gained the fame.

At first no one was aware of the subterfuge. The picture was taken at its face value - as a very good piece of photojournalism. However, when it was disclosed that it was not in fact the picture of the original flag-raising, an argument arose as to its authenticity. If it is considered to be a fake, undoubtedly we are emotionally liable to view the picture with less interest and enthusiasm. But it was not intended to mislead the public, nor, do I think, did the photographer himself perpetrate the myth of the picture in any way. It was a genuine reconstruction of a real event, mainly occasioned by the belief that the original picture had been lost.