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The Times change

Since the beginning of the month, the Times of London has left to offer all their content for free and has made its payment website. The reason, obviously, is that by not charging for news, sales revenues were substantially reduced, such as newspapers across the world. People who previously bought it, seeing that he could save over 400 pounds a year to read the same thing online, but said yes brothers and cousins \u200b\u200bhave a cost advantage for less. At the same time, by selling less, advertisers pay less because fewer people see their claims in these pages, or directly go to advertise, preferring to do elsewhere. In the online version of the newspaper, for example. In fact, advertisers of the website have been what has allowed for all these years, newspapers around the world to decide to give away the work product of hundreds of people each day.

But now it's over. Not so is earning enough, especially if you want to make a newspaper not limited to regurgitate news agency basis or to cite what they say the public media as the BBC. So he wants to return to business as usual: who wants to read what has happened, to pay for it, that's what you live write, print, distribute, sell and hang in the network.

The matter is being followed with considerable interest worldwide, as all the other newspapers are considering whether to do the same thing or not. The New York Times has said it will make you check out soon. Some people think that people just happen to another place where you can read for free news, and if that starts to make another, and so on until perhaps the only thing left whatever it puts its Web mail, for example. Or Wikipedia, which also has daily news section. Others believe that readers will realize that quality costs and there will be a sufficient number of paganinis for the pay site is viable, and even continue to attract advertisers. The Financial Times, for example, has for years been of payment and do well, but obviously have a very specific type of clientele who can afford the expense, and who also read updates every 24 hours is taking too long. If a market sneeze at three in the morning and you do not you find out until two days later will be too late.

The theme also extends to everything that can be get on the Internet, mostly illegally. Through loss (correct: "stop win", which is not the same) billion, the music industry, film and printing has been forced to ginger up and look for ways to charge less for their products exchange for reducing production costs and transportation. Allow to download a song directly to your computer generates a lot less expense than having to record it on tape or disk media to transport those places where they can purchase and pay for all those involved in the process, and that should be reflected in the price. Okay, do not charge 20 euros for a yield. But I can not let people take it all for free. So in exchange for seeking a flexible, cheaper and / or advertising added, I'll see if I convinced that if you enjoy all of this is just something you have to pay for it, that you either like aa no charge for your gigs. And that is basically the thing. Fingers crossed that people willingly accept a little charity release. Let's see what happens.

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For if anyone half interested, the Times paywall means that I am no longer a reporter futbolero boring. The football blog has become for payment also, and it is only for professional writers. During the World Cup, all God was writing about the same, so the stuff was pretty saturated, and also because of the success English football, and appear to have signed to a professional first division, Guillem Balague, for long on the football homeland. So I do not think I posted anything else, so what has happened. Total paid either, lol.

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Iliad and Odyssey

Iliad and Odyssey of Homer

Plácido Domingo Edition (The Sphere Books, 2009)

two thick volumes on hand. 1088 pages between them. Hardcover. 24 centimeters tall. Two kilos of weight. Gold ribbon to mark the point of reading. Large block letters under the title of each work taking up the entire width of the spine. Simple and stunning black design and gold. Price 70 euros. Surely this is an issue to put in a privileged place in a library and loudly proclaimed herself: "In This House There Is An Iliad and Odyssey."

who already know these works do not need my poor keyboard say anything more about them. Who does not, should know they are the oldest in Western literature, and therefore cornerstone of everything that came later in Greece, Rome, Europe and America, so it's worth a read at least once in a lifetime . The story of the ten-year siege of Troy (Ilium) by the Greeks and the random return of Ulysses (Odysseus) home at the end of the fence are based, at least, the epic genre, lyrical and tragic and his influence continues even in authors who write thousands of years later. Contains heroic characters, gods and demigods of extreme passions, brutal descriptions of wounds in combat and adventures without number, among other things. I will not say anything of the frames, in part to enable each of these works find their way, and partly so I would not pass as a English film magazine that when he mentioned the wooden horse to talk about film 'Troy', a reader will have laid the quarrel by a spoiler. True.

Anyway, what you need to know to start reading is that we are in the tenth year of the siege, and that the first scene is the reason why Agamemnon draws upon himself the wrath of Achilles and his ally of the god Apollo, the famous cholera causing the first and second punishment on their ranks of warriors. We clarified that the text will suddenly deposited in the middle of the appeal of a father who seeks to offer a ransom for his daughter, and from there turn to swim with the stream of battles, speeches, deaths, debts, sacrifices, acts of God in favor or against their favorite band, and even flashbacks that continues for 24 rhapsodies of the Iliad.

The head of the Sunday edition was Plácido, Professor of Ancient History at the Complutense, which continues a long tradition English to write introductions to literary works is best read after the book that comment, and not so much the famous spoilers, but because they seem to assume that the reader already knows the text and continually refer to a scene or character with a familiarity the new reader does not and will not clarify much. This introduction CLXXIII occupies the first pages of the first book, 'Iliad,' and is written to cover the two works at once, so that the second volume does not bring its own preface. It is not the most accessible introduction and the simplest that can be read, but is very complete and very useful after completing the stories, if read carefully. It should be mentioned that there are no notes explanatory footnotes for the poems, so if you do not know what an Achilles or Agamemnon, or the house of Hades, or what a difference an Achaean Dana and an Argive, or if it matters, you just have to continue reading or stop and look if you think necessary. Something curious

translation is chosen. These two books do not have a new translation, but played the English version made in 1920 by Germain Gómez and Hernández Nicasio Luquero of a French translation made in 1866-67 by Charles Marie René Leconte de Lisle. That is, we have a English translation of a French translation of an original ancient Greek. Sunday justifies this decision because Leconte de Lisle was a poet, and "more than the double pass to give the impression of lower fidelity, in works such as these do not seem to literal fidelity is the best approach, given that its full meaning is impossible and reach the claim often produces great difficulty reading. " These versions, it continues, 'get a faithful drawing the spirit of poetry and literature beautifully. And the truth is that is read with great pleasure and ease.

In short, a monument erected in honor of the father of our literature.

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Eighty years is nothing

Yes, more input oootro oootra weblog the victory of Spain in the World Cup, what pacha?

One of the most curious feeling that this victory has occurred is "finally." The "it was time." The "we deserved it after so long." Note the "us", where we slipped over the hill and grammar forties carotid million, despite playing only eleven every time. I find it curious, because those who are left meniscus and the metatarsals and sometimes to the meninges in the trade are no more than a few tens of twenties. These are maintained from an early struggle to realize a dream, and who should grab that feeling of years of meritoriaje rewarded. The others just see how they do, or how to fail in the attempt while we reward their dead cisco fresher. In one of the British promotion of World Cup broadcasts said, remembering his only victory in 1966: "He's only 25, But He's Been waiting for this moment for 44 years." That's right. That feeling of having reached the end of a journey of eighty has invaded the aforementioned forty-odd million, including those who were not born when you played the first World Cup in Uruguay in 1930.

Where does this strange feeling? The football fans of the eleventh hour perhaps intuit in others to understand, but this victory means a validation of all the time, desire, dreams and even money that an amateur, including the variety couch potatoes, has been dedicated to roll this since I caught the virus. If someone wants to humiliate a football fan, he proposes the following year (not physical, quiet): calculates the number of parties who may have seen in your life (the league has 38 days per year, the selection plays a dozen times Seasonal, more champions, etc, say about 50 on average per year pulling at medium-low), multiply by two and acojonez-vous at the number of hours out there.

Well yesterday, are all for the better. Are all justified, and it is as if they had converted a career. Balompédica everything you have done in his life, from kicking beach balls to stick travel, early mornings and dislikes, is suddenly vindicated. Do you see how this is worth it, man (or, generally, women) of little faith? Is no longer a friquez, no bullshit, no absurdity. It's not like when a child begins to walk yours, of course, of course. Es .. more important.

Of course, this only works well if you give football one more dimension than a game. If what you like is football, you should give equal colorao team wins or the other, and holy Easter, and your sense of loss or gain should not vary by a further quíteme an offside. But of course, so the thing does not have one. To me the issue has caught me at a bad time in this regard. When I hit howls of young and I was frustrated when we threw the European Cup and the World, there was no way to win anything, and when I moved to Zen roll devil take the hindmost, and whom God has given, Maradona is the bless, is being when we are collecting more glasses than a deck of Heraclius Fournier. Four Champions in ten years, more than Euro 2008 and it Mundialcejo. Also, seeing no room or anything, heretic ground, seemed a typical Sunday. After finishing and talk to mom and hear the rockets phone and take a turn for the Internet to see who put more exclamation !!!!!!!, I ended up putting a couple of episodes of 'The big bang theory' before going on to a pal simple satisfaction vulgaris. Is one more now, it should be.

Now suppose that there are people that instead of saying that we will band garrulos, begin to use football to use as a model of coexistence between the Spains these disjointed by the same constitution. Those Catalans and Andalusians and Madrid and Basque and Asturian (well, only one Spaniard) forming a band of brothers in arms as one man (and woman) who go about regaining the world (Switzerland, Honduras, Chile, Portugal, Paraguay, Germany, Holland, Joe seems that the seventeenth century again.) And politicians could learn, and such.

Che. Cuidao. I do not confuse things. Pa shoot all the same goal is not the same as deciding whether abortion abortion yes or no, if yes bulls or bulls, or what language they are studying the gourd gourds at school when you move to Barcelona next month. In San Iker it's not even a Puyol header fix it all before half past ten at night. If the football has often underestimated, there will overestimate, and we define the terms. Besides, let me hissed a bit with this model of integration, where considered a triumph to focus an Andalusian and shot a Catalan. France 98 and Germany in 2010 are a mirror of multiethnic and multinational integration with Ghanaians, Caribbean, Turkish, Algerian, Brazilian, Polish (Poland) wearing the same shirt. Germany even has a English, Mario Gomez. We have not this time and led to Marcos Senna, and there is more exotic than a canary, Pedro Rodríguez. So that this union of our wills is, really, a little parochial.

Anyway, I could be all as easy as football. Who knows what has followed.

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Theodosius

Theodosius
Gonzalo Bravo
(The Sphere Books, 2010)

Rigor and amenity are two words that attach to the backs all the books that speak. It's the Holy Grail of writing history books. In this case, I regret to say that much of the former, but little of the latter.

The theme of the book is very interesting. It's one of those many moments in which history might have followed a different course, and the world since then has changed. During his sixteen years as a Roman emperor, Theodosius gave a big boost to Christianity that its growing importance of earlier centuries became definitively irreversible. What was not so clear, however, is what interpretation of Christian doctrine was to succeed among several that were bidding for supremacy, and if it was going to do the exclusion of others or living with them, in the same way that several gods had traditionally lived in the Roman Empire. Well, we Theodosius, for better or worse, a definite contribution to what is now called Catholicism. Had to be Hispanic. Cauca (Coca, Segovia), specifically.

The problem with this book is not just being well-organized. To begin with, in addition to speaking of Theodosius (346-395 AD), speaks around the fourth century and much of the V, which is no problem, but rather the opposite, as it takes context for understanding a government, and also good to know what happened next, but that fades fairly central figure of Theodosius, which is supposed to be the main focus of the text, which appears and disappears constantly. There is little chronological organization, skip forward and back constantly, and there is little cohesion between the chapters, so that there is information that is repeated several times (up to six or seven, and I'm not exaggerating) as the debate about whether Teodosio surrounded himself with or without a "Hispanic circle" of officials, and information not mentioned at all, like to briefly explain what these various heresies that faced each the councils themselves, palaces, streets and churches. Never tells us what were the different interpretations of Christian doctrine proposed by the Arians, the Priscillianism or Manichaeism, or why had such bitter confrontations among themselves and with the Catholics. Only mention the names of these ideologies and who won what battle. And the religious question is of paramount importance in this decade and a half, because the cover sells Theodosius as "the last emperor of Rome, the first Catholic emperor." So just giving the impression that the book is the typical collection of cards, where you always have a few repeated several times, but nunca te salen otros, que dejan grandes huecos en el álbum.

En la introducción, el autor dice que "La historia, entendida como ciencia, no consiste en conocer todo sobre todo, ni siquiera algo sobre todo, sino más bien en saber mucho sobre algo". Y con ese espíritu parece estar recopilado, más que escrito, el libro, donde cada apartado es un mucho sobre algo que no acaba de fluir del todo, a pesar de continuos "vid. supra" y "vid. infra". Esta sensación se acentúa al ver que las 130 últimas páginas del libro están dedicadas a 36 fichas biográficas de personajes relacionados con Teodosio, ordenados alfabéticamente, dos cuadros genealógicos, cinco páginas de cronología between 284 and 428, 26 pages of Latin and Greek technical terms ('Princeps': officer who led one of the degrees of the imperial chancery. Vid. "scrinia'), eight pages of place names ('Veleia': Pamplona, Vitoria), five pages of non-Roman emperors and leaders, four of abbreviations, two maps and 31 references. Certainly it is a "much about something," and these raw data and organized into lists would delight of role players, but the narrative of the foregoing pages it does not exploits. It seems to be the reader who must do all the work to rebuild the puzzle with the pieces that are given at the end.

Similarly, is quite curious the dedication with which the book begins: "To those who already have realized that history-even ancient-is more than a series of" stories ", even well told." This phrase has all the earmarks of a dig at those who turn to history in a spirit of seeking entertainment or exotic, rather than rigor and study, those who prefer to "stories" or historical accounts to hang out rather than acknowledge the dedication, perseverance and attention to detail sometimes boring has to have a career history as the author himself, who is Professor of Ancient History at the Complutense. Besides, what's wrong with a story well told? Rigor does not have to be at odds with the amenity and good hilazón a pure history book, which can be as exciting as a novel. It is not chew everything the reader, but to have him in mind when shaping the accumulated knowledge.

Nevertheless, it is grateful for the publication of a book on this historic occasion, and who come armed with enough patience may be rewarded.

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One day in ancient Rome

One day in ancient Rome

Alberto Angela (The Sphere Books, 2009)

thing about works of historical disclosure is that while some may be a delight to them by the things that are not accessible way knew, others who know more about the topic can be as short as a primary textbook. So the first thing is to make clear what type it is this particular book, so that each reader to decide whether you should or not.

And in that spirit, I believe that this volume is a very good book to use as my first serious book on Rome ", and that both adults and young readers. Moreover, it is especially recommended for young people, even those without much inclination for reading because the book is full of surprising information, told in a fascinating and fast and clear. Moreover, it is one of those books full of illustrations for everything where things come only through the eyes. Here are perhaps a dozen of simple pencil drawings, but that's it. Text is well narrated and described that leaves room for imagination. Ojo, however, the final chapter, where after nine o'clock at night we move into the world of sex in the Roman, so when I say "younger" than each parent (and mother) so that you understand and allow . But earlier, during the day, as a warning to mariners, we will have seen painted bronze scurrilous and penises hanging everywhere, like lucky charms and a symbol of abundance.

The author, Alberto Angela, is a well known popularizer in Italy, mainly because television program 'Ulysses', which takes on the air in the RAI since 2000, and is dedicated to historical subjects of all kinds, from the Etruscans and the Pharaohs to the Everest, the czars, the Normandy landings or Andes. Obviously, the Roman world is one of the main themes each season and the 2007 Angela posted this 'A nell'antica giornata Roma' has come to Spain in the field of Books, translated by Alejandro Pradera.

The book gives exactly what it promises: a day in ancient Rome, exactly in the year 115, during the reign of Trajan. We have chosen this time, instead of perhaps the most famous time of Julius Caesar and Augustus, it is the time more geographic expansion of the Empire (though it does not matter, because we're moving capital Rome), and also because several of the most famous monuments of imperial Rome were not built before. Among them, especially the famous Colosseum, neither Caesar nor Augustus, for example, became known.

started the day at dawn, they would be six in the morning. Obviously, no electricity and artificial light means to stop not cost money, so the time is dictated by sunrise and sunset. Domus colándonos started a wealthy family, visiting just before they wake up the inhabitants, and seeing as we stretch and start the day, we go through the main sites of the city, both monuments, baths and temples and markets and narrow streets. Even as we are not Jack Bauer in '24 ', we shall also go to the toilet, where obviously we shall have to make do without paper.

Roma will see is a crowded, noisy, crowded and full of smells, colors (Rome is just red, white, green and gold) and flavors, sometimes charming and sometimes repulsive. Continuously compared with modern cities in North Africa or the East, such as Bombay, where you can find an amazing mix of what we would call first and third worlds. Each page brings a new corner house, tavern or house full of surprising elements, some so different from ours and others so similar. For example, the master of the house takes its good time to leave after taking care of your hair and makeup in the latest fashion, and secondly we will see how light a fire with a mushroom, or why the Romans preferred three-legged tables. After

domus of the rich pass by an island, which is a block of flats, as is, where the opposite of what happens today, the bass is most appreciated that high. First, because there are no elevators, and second, because if there is a fire, something not uncommon, is living up who later held exit. That if you can. Thus, while the ground floor can be a house in the same way as a domus, and also in the town center, as we climb the quality of the homes is deteriorating, and we are seeing lodgers story several times to share costs, which people crowded together, until the attic, which is often an almost uninhabitable place, full of leaks, which can only be practically lie down, close your eyes and wait for the day to pass out there. Because that's another feature of this Rome: as in many parts of Africa and Asia today, people keep practicing at home. A house is going to sleep, and life goes on the road, even Although there is no trade. The result is that there are people and confusion everywhere.

is a fascinating world in which to immerse, but the tone of the book never lets us forget that we are tourists. As mentioned above, in Rome compared with Tunisia Bombay or today, but we also see in a rich hot springs surrounded by servants as they serve every part of your body and clothing that looks like a Formula 1 mechanic surrounded . An architectural element of a building reminiscent of the Sydney Opera House. In the courts the powerful voice of a lawyer makes a room is empty and filled his own, as compared to change the television channel. Sesterces prices and aces we translated into euro.

A from three in the afternoon, the activity decreases almost suddenly. In the Coliseum, where it has been matinee performances with wild animals, it's time for the gladiators. And since we vanido at this time, and the Colosseum on the cover of the book, we can not fail to see a detailed description of several fights. At four in the afternoon, the shops are closed, and since we have from six in the morning there, we are invited to a banquet for several hours, we will learn much about the food we serve, some things we wish not have known. At nine o'clock at night, life does not end at all. There is sex, or taverns, or both, for the adventurous. Because over All day, we will not stop us come across several examples of what this city is violence, not only in administration of justice or for public entertainment. There will be bodies of a couple of days, tavern brawls and abandoned babies in places as familiar and routine that some people make their living by collecting and breeding them for different purposes (even resell them to their original parents.)

And so we ended the day. Like a visit of only a day to Rome any time we would be too short, this book puts what is possible to put in 380 pages and leaves the visitor the choice to delve into the subject or content with what seen. The visit, of course, has been worthwhile.

In short, it is a book of love making. Of those who do the best they can do a book, which is to make you want to read others. Even those who have populated the shelves of Latin classics, and you know how to make garum, how a Roman safe or how it is possible that someone who does not speak Latin or can write the purchase price is 37 sesterces would do well to have this work, if only to lend it to others.