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Neuqun City (2015) Volume 4 All Rights Reserved

News from northern Patagonia to the world and viceversa

Hi everybody!!

Ill be brief as we have some issues to talk about.

First I'd like to thank the people from Signos who have invited us to go with them in their fascinating new

magazine.

Second I want to honour Jorge Luis Borges in this edition. Why? BecausePerhaps because hes one of my favourite writers and Ive been re-reading some of his poems or because I was speaking about him as a guest professor of English Literature at the place where I studied. The thing is, here we are sharing some of the no so well-known

pieces of his work. I really hope you'll enjoy them.

Whos your favourite writer? Why?

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MICROSTORIES

Dreamy cockroach

There was once a cockroach named Gregor Samsa who dreamed it was a cockroach named Franz Kafka dreaming he was a writer who wrote about an employee named Gregor Samsa who dreamed he was a cockroach.

(Journey to the Center of the Fable, Augusto Monterroso,1982, 49) (Translated by Mirta Castro)

QUOTE OF THE FORTNIGHT

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A place to return!

Amazing San Carlos de Bariloche, located in the

province of Ro Negro, on the shores of fabulous Lake Nahuel

Huapi and surrounded by mountains and

forests, is one of the most beautiful all season resorts in the

world.

1640 km from Buenos Aires, Bariloche has excelled in all its

services: accommodation, dining and other, tourist operators

have everything perfectly set up for the visitors to choose their

holiday at any time of year.

During the summer fly fishing for trout and sports

recreation (such as trekking, rafting and hiking the ancient

forests, as well as climbing most of the peaks surrounding the

place) are some activities enjoyed by visitors when in Barilo-

che.

Mountain biking, paddling and horseback riding plus the

possibility of camping in the thick forests with natural rivers

and lakes turn the surroundings ideal for fun with the

family.

Nightlife due to its famous clubs has brought many visitors

to wake up by the lake watching the sun climbing the

mountain and beginning to illuminate this beautiful Andean

town where we always want to come back.

Global what????

This may not seem High tech in the sense we usually write about. It isnt an app or a gadget but its where it has leaded

us that makes it so important. The internet, the net, this mag-

ical intangible thing that connects us to the rest of the world

and it allows us to keep in touch no matter where we are.

The only thing we need is a Wi-Fi connection. Through it

people around the globe are more linked to each other than

ever before. Information and money flow more quickly than

ever. Goods and services produced in one part of the world

are increasingly available in all parts of the world. Interna-

tional travel is more frequent and international communica-

tion is commonplace. Globalization is an economic tidal

wave that is sweeping over the world. It cant be stopped,

and there will be winners and losers. Lets discuss a few pros

and cons

Cons: The general complaint about globalization is that it

has made the rich richer while making the non-rich poorer

1. Multinational corporations are accused of social injustice,

unfair working conditions (including slave labour wages and

poor living and working conditions), as well as a lack of con-

cern for the environment, mismanagement of natural re-

sources, and ecological damage.

2. Multinational corporations which were previously restrict-

ed to commercial activities are increasingly influencing politi-

cal decisions. Many think there is a threat of corporations

ruling the world because they are gaining power due to glob-

alization.

3.The UN Development Program reports that the richest

20% of the world's population consume 86% of the world's

resources, while the poorest 80% consume just 14%.

4.. Some experts think that globalization is also leading to

the incursion of communicable diseases. Deadly diseases

like HIV/AIDS or Ebola are being spread by travellers to the

remotest corners of the globe.

5. Globalization has led to exploitation of labour. Prisoners

and child workers are used to work in inhumane conditions.

Safety standards are ignored to produce cheap goods.

There is also an increase in human trafficking.

Pros: Globalization has a positive side as well. Supporters of globalization argue that it has the potential to make this world a better place to live in and solve some deep-seated

problems like unemployment and poverty.

1. According to libertarians, globalization will help us to raise the global economy only when the involved power blocks have mutual trust and respect for each others opinion. Glo-balization and democracy should go hand-in-hand. It should

be pure business with no colonialist designs.

2. Most people see speedy travel, mass communications and quick dissemination of information through the Internet

as benefits of globalization

3. Socially we have become more open and tolerant towards each other, and people who live in the other part of the world

are not considered aliens.

4 There is more influx of information between two countries.

5. There is cultural intermingling. Each country is learning more about other cultures.

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PLACES

COOL

A place you cant miss in Neuqun is La Toscana, a restaurant or Italian cantina with a menu that pleases everyone and which has a comprehensive wine list covering many of the wines of the valley. It has a cozy atmosphere and you feel at home while you enjoy a delicious meal. If you go with your couple, my suggestion is Bistecca accompanied by Cabernet Franc Marcelo Miras. Desserts are unforgettable!!! Price $$$$$ Juan Julin Lastra 176, 8300 Neuqun 0299 447-3322 www.latoscanarestaurante.com

The newest evolution of the popular electric

skateboard, the Zboard 2 is lighter, faster, and looks a heck

of a lot better than its predecessor. It runs on a 500-watt

brushless motor, propelling it to cruising speeds of up to 20

mph, with regenerative braking that extends the range to 24

miles (theres also a battery indicator on the nose of the

deck, so you know exactly when to go easy on the motor).

WINES

An original wine review!!

By

Hawk Wakawaka Wine Reviews (12/2011)

To Beatriz Bibiloni Webster de Bullrich

I

The useless dawn finds me in a deserted street corner; I have

outlived the night.

Nights are proud waves: dark blue top heavy waves laden with

all hues of deep spoil, laden with things unlikely and desirable.

Nights have a habit of mysterious gifts and refusals, of things half given away, half, withheld, of joys with a dark hemisphere.

Nights act that way, I tell you.

The surge, that night, left me the customary shreds and odd ends: some hated friends to chat with, music for dreams, and the smoking of bitter ashes. The things my hungry heart has

no use for.

The big wave brought you.

Words, any words, your laughter; and you so lazily and inces-

santly beautiful. We talked and you have forgotten the words.

The shattering dawn finds me in a deserted street of my city.

Your profile turned away, the sounds that go to make your name, the lilt of your laughter: these are illustrious toys you

have left me.

I turn them over in the dawn, I lose them, I find them; I tell them to the few stray stars dogs and the few stray stars of the

dawn.

Your dark rich life I must get at you, somehow: I put away those illustrious toys you have left me, I want your hidden look, your real smile that lonely, mocking smile your cool mirror

knows.

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II - What can I hold you with?

I offer you lean streets, desperate sunsets, the moon of ragged

suburbs.

I offer you the bitterness of a man who has looked long and long at

the lonely moon.

I offer you my ancestors, my dead men, the ghosts that living men

have honoured in marble: my fathers father killed in the frontier of

Buenos Aires, two bullets through his lungs, bearded and dead,

wrapped by his soldiers in the hide of a cow; my mothers grandfather

just twenty-four- heading a charged of three hundred men in Peru,

now ghosts on vanished horses.

I offer you whatever insight my books may hold, whatever manliness

or humour my life.

I offer you the loyalty of a man who has never been loyal.

I offer you that kernel of myself that I have saved, somehow the

central heart that deals not in words, traffics not with dreams and is

untouched by time, by joy, by adversities.

I offer you the memory of yellow rose seen at sunset, years before

you were born.

I offer you explanations of yourself, theories about yourself, authentic

and surprising news of yourself.

I can give you my loneliness, my darkness, the hunger of my heart; I

am trying to bribe you with uncertainty, with danger, with defeat.

TWO ENGLISH POEMS

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Football ( The Origins)

The contemporary history of the world's favourite game spans more than 100 years. It all began in 1863 in England, when rugby football and association football branched off on their different courses and the Football Association in England was formed - becoming the sport's first governing

body.

Both codes stemmed from a common root and both have a long and intricately branched ancestral tree. A search down the centuries reveals at least half a dozen different games, varying to different degrees, and to which the historical development of football has been traced back. Whether this can be justified in some instances is disputable. Neverthe-less, the fact remains that people have enjoyed kicking a ball about for thousands of years and there is absolutely no reason to consider it an aberration of the more 'natural' form

of playing a ball with the hands.

On the contrary, apart from the need to employ the legs and feet in tough tussles for the ball, often without any laws for protection, it was recognised right at the outset that the art of controlling the ball with the feet was not easy and, as such, required no small measure of skill. The very earliest form of the game for which there is scientific evidence was an exercise from a military manual dating back to the second and third centuries BC in China.

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This Han Dynasty forebear of football was called Tsu' Chu and it consisted of kicking a leather ball filled with feathers and hair through an opening, measuring only 30-40cm in width, into a small net fixed onto long bamboo canes. Ac-cording to one variation of this exercise, the player was not permitted to aim at his target unimpeded, but had to use his feet, chest, back and shoulders while trying to withstand the attacks of his opponents. Use of the hands

was not permitted.

Another form of the game, also originating from the Far East, was the Japanese Kemari, which began some 500-600 years later and is still played today. This is a sport lacking the competitive element of Tsu' Chu with no strug-gle for possession involved. Standing in a circle, the play-ers had to pass the ball to each other, in a relatively small

space, trying not to let it touch the ground.

The Greek 'Episkyros' - of which few concrete details sur-vive - was much livelier, as was the Roman 'Harpastum'. The latter was played out with a smaller ball by two teams on a rectangular field marked by boundary lines and a centre line. The objective was to get the ball over the op-position's boundary lines and as players passed it be-tween themselves, trickery was the order of the day. The game remained popular for 700-800 years, but, although the Romans took it to Britain with them, the use of feet

was so small as to scarcely be of consequence.

Ming Emperor watching football

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His life was dedicated to speaking up tirelessly for the Russian

people, to demanding their right to democracy and liberty under the

rule of law, and to an end to corruption,he did so without fear, and

never gave in to intimidation. PM, David Cameron (UK)

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