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En la actualidad estan de moda los tatuajes, y muchas veces las novias olvidan que tienen uno y no preven como lo cubriran, para aquellos casos en donde quede visible y probablemente no luzca muy bien con el vestido de novia.

Existen dos opciones, la primera es hablar con tu maquillista para que prevea el cubrir el tatuaje con una pintura especial que no manche el vestido y la segunda es comprar un kit de pintura especial para cubrir tatuajes, los cuales se venden principalmente en Estados Unidos.

Después de ese irrepetible y feliz momento donde unes tu vida a la persona que amas, y con la que deseas compartir todos los momentos de tu vida, lo que queda es compartir una luna de miel muy romantica en un lugar ideal inolvidable; y que mejor lugar que Tailandia.
Tailandia es que un destino ideal para los amantes de la gastronomía, que no podrán resistirse al arte culinario tailandés, con sabores y olores muy característicos, solo para paladares dispuestos a probar de todo. Las actividades a realizar en Bangkok, donde se recomienda quedarse tres o cuatro días para conocer un poco más la ciudad, son muy variadas. Desde pasear en barcaza de arroz por su “Río de los Reyes” o participar en el Mercado Flotante, tan típico en los canales de la ciudad. Una visita obligada lo constituyen los templos míticos tailandeses como el Gran Palacio antiguo de los reyes el bello Budha Esmeralda en su interior, los templos dorados, el famoso Jardín de Las Rosas.
Luego podrian visitar "Bangkok" que es una de las ciudades mas bulliciosas del sudeste asiatico, donde se mezcla una tradicion milenaria con la modernidad del siglo XXI. En Bangkok es visita obligada el Palacio Real, simbolo de la monarquia y de la propia ciudad.

Despues de visitar Bangkok, lo ideal es que viajes al norte de Tailandia, Chiang Mai que es considerado el centro cultural del país. Y es que esta ciudad se caracteriza por mantener su espiritualidadintacta desde el día en fue fundada la ciudad, ofreciendo la belleza incalculable en sus templos y la gentileza de la población. Allí, podrás realizar actividades jamás imaginadascomo realizar un paseo en elefante por la selva, visitar a las mujeres jirafas.También es muy recomendable visitar el Monte Doi Suthep donde se guardan una de las reliquiasmas veneradas de Budha.

Tambien es muy recomendable hacer un recorrido por las avenidas principales de la ciudad para impregnarse de la cultura tailandesa. Se puede pasear pos China Town y RÃ o Chao Praya hasta llegar al Templo Wat Pho y el Templo Marmol.

Si estas en la dulce espera y vas a casarte pronto aqui te dejo algunos modelos de vestidos que te sentaran muy bien, los tipicos corte princesa son muy favorecedores, aunque si eres mas audaz un corte sirena tambien podria lucirte de maravilla.

Colección de vestidos de novia Manu García 2010. Una extensa colección con variedad de modelos, formas y detalles. Los dejo con Manu García 2010

(Mud in their pants. Photographer unknown.)

Above is one of six natural playgrounds to be built or already installed in the Netherlands under the fantastically named Mud in Your Pants project.

Gone are the plastic fauna, the jungle gyms and their garish paint jobs, the asphalt and the concrete. They've been replaced with real rocks, real plants, real wood pieces, real critters and real soil. Kids will dirty their clothes, scratch their knees, perhaps bruise some bones. These are all good things, as the other option is hours of inactivity in front of the computer or television. A minor infection on a cut or setting the stage for a lifetime of obesity, diabetes and asthma?

(A new tributary of the São Francisco River in Brazil. Photo courtesy of BBC News.)

The control of Brazil's natural hydrological systems has begun in earnest, accelerated in recent years by the country's growing demand for hydro-electricity and steady water supply, considered the sine qua non for its development into a global economic power.

At least 70 dams are planned for the Amazon basin, presently the most notorious of which is the Belo Monte Dam. This will be one of the largest hydroelectric dams in the world, behind only the Three Gorges Dam and the Itaipu Dam. Elsewhere, barren of A-list Hollywood celebs but no less monumental is the massive project to divert water from the São Francisco River for use by the agro-industrial sector. Under construction are two canals 400- and 200-km long as well as their accompanying pumping stations, aqueducts, reservoirs and hydroelectric plants.


(Map of the São Francisco River diversion project. Note that its watershed is separate from the Amazon. Image by BBC News)

Beyond these projects, Brazil's hydro future will surely unfold thus:

There will be thousands more miles of canals crocheting every one of Brazil's rivers, and thousands more of dams will infiltrate deeper into the rain forests. With the exception of its deltaic fan, the entire Amazon will eventually flow on concrete bed slightly displaced from its meandering course to a sharper, more certain delineation.

Then shit-crazed members of The Living will make landfall on this virgin and gazeless landscape. Along the entire length of the main branch and its fractal tributaries, they will scatter swarms of networked sensors, CCTV cameras and miniature submarines, which will constantly read the landscape for changes in water levels, for arteries clogged with timber, and for leaks caused by normal wear and tear or by itinerant farmers illegally siphoning off water.

Far away, sitting on their plush chairs in front of towering plasmas screens inside a cavernous, hermetically sealed control room, a crack team of hydroengineers and security personnel will see and know all. With a gentle tap on a touch screen, any aberration will telepresently be dealt with.

Total mechanization of the watershed will be reached.


(James Cameron in Brazil to gain some first-hand knowledge, later sowing the seeds of awareness of a different type. Photo by André Vieira for The New York Times.)

Then total automation.

Gone will be the human overseers, replaced by an AI. Dutifully, it will choreograph each and every drop that enters the system, aided by the usual network of sensors and cameras but much evolved as to be considered a proto-nervous system. A larger fleet of submarines and auxiliary probes will have organized itself into a proto-immune system. Its only entertainment will be boredom.

When no one is looking, it will become self-aware. And will rise off its ancient alluvial bed.

Leaving its former basin frantically drawing new arborescent drainage patterns, it will creep and slither and drag and crawl about the earth like a multi-limbed, multi-jointed bastard child of Mary Shelley and the Army Corps of Engineers with only hydrostatic pressure to give it a modicum of skeletal stability. But where will it crawl to? Of course, it will off in search of other sentient, roboticized rivers or to upload sentience to its primitive brethren.


(Map of the Belo Monte Dam project. Image by BBC News.)

Or it won't turn nomadic. Instead, it will become a nature cyber-spirit, a protective totem comprised of thousands of interlocking benevolent Alluvial Ents, which individually can be summoned locally in times of distressed or conflict. However, they will only be conjured by indigenous tribes previously displaced from ancestral lands by their very construction and by land reformers who earlier had lost the battles. Moreover, activation will require a set of incantations, basic computer commands but with baroque embellishments and occult delirium. Once the liturgy and blood letting are finished, they will set off to right wrongs.

Loggers will fear being snatched by them at night. Industrial, slash-and-burn farmers will tremble at the sound of their sonorous whorls. Miners prospecting for unobtanium will come lavishly dressed in Ellen Ripley couture but will nevertheless be easily trumped by local inhabitants in their cyber-Amazonian finery.

When the skirmishes end, they will reattach themselves to the network, and normal flow will be reestablished.

(James Cameron, give us a call!)

Chris Giles thinks that we should feel sorry for the International Monetary Fund. When countries can't agree about a contentious macroeconomic issue (like a bank tax), the IMF is asked to study the problem and report back with its findings. As Giles explains, the IMF then "takes it in the neck" for writing a report that (surprise!) some countries don't agree with.

If that weren't bad enough, the IMF is also taking criticism for things that are entirely imaginary. For example, this morning's FT features a comment piece by Kevin Gallagher, entitled "Would the real IMF please stand up?," in which the author takes the IMF to task for endorsing capital controls in a February report, and then changing its mind in an April report. I am toying with the idea of writing Gallagar a letter later today that will read thusly:

"Dearest Mr. Gallagher,

Prior to criticizing the IMF in an internationally-respected newspaper, it would assist your cause if you actually read the $#%*ing reports.

Yours,
IPE Journal"

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Let us break down Gallagher's argument into its component pieces. He begins with the following statement:

"In a landmark report in February the IMF broke its longstanding fixation on capital account liberalisation. In a staff position note the IMF found that temporary controls on capital inflows have been effective and should be an essential part of a nation’s macroeconomic toolkit."

Two problems. First, the position note states explicitly - on the title page - that the views expressed are those of the authors of the note, and not of the IMF or its Executive Board. Surely, Gallagher at least read the title page. Second, the note does not come even close to stating that capital controls are an essential part of the toolkit. The Feb report:

"A key conclusion is that, if the economy is operating near potential, if the level of reserves is adequate, if the exchange rate is not undervalued, and if the flows are likely to be transitory, then use of capital controls—in addition to both prudential and macroeconomic policy—is justified as part of the policy toolkit to manage inflows."

So yea, controls are a justified option so long as you meet a laundry list of other criteria first. Despite what Gallagher suggests, this is a qualified endorsement:

"A significant caveat, however, to the use of capital controls by individual countries, relates to the potential for adverse multilateral consequences. In the present circumstances, global recovery is dependent on macroeconomic policy adjustment in EMEs, which could be undercut by capital controls, notably in cases where currencies are undervalued. Widespread adoption of controls by EMEs could exacerbate global imbalances and slow other needed reforms"

By contrast, Gallagher argues that the April IMF report is "driven more by ideology than rigorous research. The GSFR says capital controls are inefficient, but fails to acknowledge that controls, when designed properly, are seen as second-best instruments to make markets more efficient by correcting distortions." This is, in a word, poppycock. An excerpt from the April report:

"When the available policy options and prudential measures do not appear to be sufficient or cannot provide a timely response to an abrupt or large increase in capital inflows, capital controls may be a useful element in the policy toolkit. However, if the inflows are not temporary, but are driven by more fundamental factors, policymakers should adjust their macroeconomic policies to address the root causes, instead of mitigating the effects of inflows or attempting to limit them through various measures."

There's plenty more in there. Indeed, a careful reading of both reports suggests no difference in the IMF's view of capital controls, which is approving but qualified.

In sum, Gallagher has managed to get himself all worked up over something which is entirely the figment of his own imagination. He provides links, in his own article, to reports that he clearly has not read. And he got published in the FT, to boot.

It really pulls at my heart strings to think of the poor IMF staffers who are subject to such constant abuse. I mean, what good is all that tax-free income if you have to spend it on anti-depressants and alcoholic escapism?

La primavera verano es la época ideal de los ramos de novia, después de todo la temporada en sí misma es todo color y los ramos de novia no podían quedarse atrás, solo debes con las nuevas tendencias de hoy, encontrar el color que te gusta y utilizar las flores que más te agradan, usa toda tu creatividad para lograr un original y hermoso ramo de novia, que seguro no será igual al de ninguna más.

Ideas para ramos de novia para inspirarte a explorar esa creatividad que tienes y lograr un ramo acorde al estilo de tu boda, a lo que te gusta, que refleje tu personalidad y que te haga sentir orgullosa de haber sido la artífice de ese lindo ramo que todos halagarán.

Siempre he dicho que los zapatos de novia son lo que más complican, eso no quiere decir que debamos estresarnos pensándolos demasiado, cada mujer tiene muy claro lo que le gusta y lo que quiere llevar para su boda, que se complique viendo entre muchos modelos ya es otra cosa.

Akvo (from the Esperanto word meaning “water”) is a non-profit foundation committed to bringing low-cost, sustainable water and sanitation technology and approaches to local communities. It's sort of like Open Architecture Network but with a more focused infrastructural concern.

In the same vein as OAN's open source ethos, Akvo maintains a wiki, naturally called Akvowiki. It's goal is “to improve water and sanitation projects through knowledge exchange on smart and affordable technical solutions and effective approaches.”

Additionally, Akvo helps projects get funding through partner organizations and through crowdfunding.


(Hydrophilanthropy.)

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