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"This universe, which is the same for all, has not been made by any god or man,

but it always has been, is, and will be an ever-living fire,

kindling itself by regular measures and going out by regular measures."

Heraclitus

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“There is geometry in the humming of the strings. There is music in the spacings of the spheres.”

Pythagoras

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Los patios siempre han sido motivo de inspiración: los patios de naranjas de Sevilla que tanto gustaban a Machado, los legendarios patios cordobeses que cada mes de mayo vuelven a llenar las calles de la judería de color,… Patios cargados de historia, de leyendas de otros tiempos. Los Patios de Palma de Mallorca, tan variados y diferentes en estilo, conquistan a los visitantes. Para disfrutarlos en todo su esplendor sólo tienes que dejarte llevar por la magia de su casco antiguo. Los hallarás perdiéndote entre callejuelas. Y de este modo empezarás a soñar…

Es imposible no hacerlo, más aún, cuando somos conscientes de que nos encontramos ante verdaderas joyas históricas de los siglos XII al XVIII. Muchos de ellos son patios pertenecientes a verdaderas casas señoriales que muestran en su fachada e interior detalles de gran valor. Los 53 patios del casco antiguo de Mallorca han sabido mantener su aire cultural y, a la vez, ejercen una función práctica ya que muchos de ellos se han reconvertido en museos o edificios institucionales. Otros muchos son casa particulares que pueden admirarse todo el año desde fuera y sólo una semana desde dentro. Si puedes haz coincidir tu visita a Mallorca en estos días. Será muy especial.

A medida que realizas tu visita por cada patio no dejes de fijarte en sus detalles: las macetas que llenan de color cada rincón, las tradicionales palmeras, los pozos que recuerdan la vida cotidiana de otros tiempos con otro estilos de vida , las rejas, el mobiliario,… Si eres amante de la fotografía podas captar fotos muy hermosas jugando con todo esto y con los efectos de luz.

Foto: Sergio Pixel.

I'm going to exercise a little bit more for the next couple of weeks too. At least 5-6 times a week denpending on my work schedule,but it's not like I'll be working all day so I'll find time. I need to lose 2-3 pounds a week. I know that might not be healthy,but I have to make up for lost time. Hopefully 3 of those 162 pounds is water weight and if so they should be gone by morning. I'm going to try to cut my calories down to 1200 a day and then try to burn about 500-600 a day through mostly cardio and a little bit of strength training.

I just need to get my body back. I actually looked half decent in a bikini 2 weeks ago,and look at me now!!! Why is it so easy to put on the pound yet so hard to take them off......life's obstacles...I HATE THEM!!!

Sendspace , Torrent

Resumen del capítulo

El capítulo empieza como acaba el anterior, con Ichigo desplegando toda su potencia de ataque. Ulquiorra se piensa que ha liberado su Bankai, pero su sorpresa es grande cuando ve la máscara de Ichigo.

Kurosaki empieza a atacarle sin descanso, con todas sus fuerzas. Acaba lanzando un Getsuga Tenshou el cual hace que Ulquiorra tenga que usar sus dos manos para pararlo.

Después de ese ataque se rompe la máscara de Ichigo y se cree que ha conseguido derrotar a Ulquiorra. Pero éste aparece con tan sólo sus ropas destrozadas , pero sin ninguna herida visible.

A continuación Ulquiorra le lanza un cero, el cual puede esquivar poniéndose la máscara en un momento y salvando a Nell también. Intenta huir pero Ulquiorra en seguida los alcanza.

Ichigo sorprendido, le dice que seguirá luchando ya que él es el Espada más poderoso y si lo derrota ya no quedará nadie para hacerle frente. La sorpresa vuelve a apoderarse de Ichigo cuando Ulquiorra le muestra su número de Espada: el 4.

Acaba derrotando a Ichigo clavandole la mano en su pecho. Ichigo acaba tendido en el suelo y su Zanpakutoh vuelve a su forma inicial.

La escena pasa a la lucha de Abarai Renji con el Espada científico. Después de diversos ataques, Renji no consigue vencerle y acaba casi derrotado. El Espada decide sacar a su fracción para acabar el combate.

De mientras, dos arrancars han ido a "visitar" a Inoue a su habitación. Le propinan golpes y la maltratan.

El capítulo acaba con la aparición de Ishida que ha venido a salvar a su amigo.

Vous y croyez, vous? Une autoroute avec une voie pour les motoneiges!

Et voici la voie rapide pour les motoneiges; le sentier Trans-Québec 65.

Un autre truc que vous ne verrez probablement jamais sur une autoroute. Un arrêt obligatoire, dans toutes les directions. Quoique cela existe ailleurs, à savoir sur le tronçon de l'A-30, qui contourne la ville de Salaberry-de-Valleyfield, et qui deviendra l'A-530, à la fin des travaux de prolongement de l'A-30 vers Vaudreuil-Dorion. Ici, c'est l'intersection de l'A-955 et de la route 122.

Tout de suite après l'intersection de la route 122, on signale que l'A-955 se terminera par une intersection en T, dans 1 kilomètre.

Et voilà, ça ne va pas plus loin. L'A-955 se termine ici, à l'intersection de la rue Principale, à Saint-Albert. Mais dans les faits, devait-elle se continuer plus loin? Voyons voir...

Voici les fondations, bien visibles malgré la neige abondante de cet hiver qui n'en finit plus de finir, de la suite de l'A-955. Cette photo fut prise tout juste derrière les panneaux de la photo précédente. Ces fondations ne mesurent que quelques mètres, mais montrent bien que l'objectif, à l'époque, était de poursuivre la route vers Warwick.

Voici le détail des fondations, à savoir le fossé de gauche, dans lequel il commence à pousser de jeunes arbres,...

...et celui de droite, encore bien dégagé.

Voici ce qui a probablement mis fin aux espoirs de prolongement de l'autoroute. Vous voyez la fin de l'A-955, cette fois prise de l'autre côté de la rivière Nicolet, depuis le petit rang 7, à Saint-Albert. Les deux flèches indiquent les deux poteaux qui soutiennent le feu clignotant, à l'intersection de la rue Principale. Les arbres sont ceux dont vous voyez la cime sur les quatre photos précédentes, et sont à même la falaise de la rive nord de la rivière Nicolet. En effet, à cet endroit, la rive nord de la Nicolet montre un escarpement d'une dizaine de mètres, ce qui aurait demandé un pont aux dimensions plutôt imposantes, de par sa hauteur, et aussi de par sa pente, puisque sur la rive sud, la falaise est inexistante.

C'est la nécessité de telles infrastructures qui ont mis fin, dans les années 1970, à plusieurs projets autoroutiers au Québec. Les ouvrages d'art, comme les ponts et viaducs, sont toujours les principales pièces de résistance de la construction d'un lien, qu'il soit routier ou ferroviaire. C'est l'une des principales raisons pour laquelle le réseau autoroutier québécois est - et sera pour encore longtemps - une oeuvre inachevée. Si certains projets, comme celui du nouveau tronçon de l'A-25, entre Montréal et Laval, dont les travaux ont débuté, ou encore celui de l'A-440 vers l'Île-Bizard et Kirkland, récemment évoqué par le maire de Laval, Gilles Vaillancourt, sont nécessaires pour améliorer la fluidité de la circulation, ou pour pallier à des infrastructures en piteux état, le projet de l'A-955, qui devait en principe être l'A-55 entre l'A-20 et Richmond, ne sera probablement jamais achevé.

Dans un monde où les gouvernements fonctionnent par priorités budgétaires, et où les travaux routiers coûtent de plus en plus chers, ce tronçon d'autoroute ne sera probablement jamais une priorité. Surtout que d'une part, le tronçon actuel de l'A-55, soit l'ancienne A-51, qui va de Drummondville à Richmond, puis à Sherbrooke, effectue le lien de façon remarquable, et d'autre part, la région immédiate d'Asbestos, qui devait être desservi par l'A-55 originale, n'a jamais connu le développement prévu par rapport à l'exploitation de l'amiante. Le dernier espoir industriel de cette région, Magnola, a vécu le temps d'un soupir, puis a fermé ses portes, victime de coûts de production trop élevés pour faire face à la concurrence mondiale.

Tout cela pour dire que l'autoroute 955 n'en sera probablement jamais une.

[Bleach 162 - Part one]

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[Bleach 162 - Part two]

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No being ever steps in the same river twice, for it is not the same river and it is not the same being.

Heraclitus

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ORPHIC HYMN TO MUSÆUS

Attend Musæus to my sacred song, and learn what rites to sacrifice belong.
Jove [Zeus] I invoke, the Earth [Gaia], and Solar Light [Helios],
the Moon’s [Mene] pure splendor, and the Stars of night;
Thee Neptune [Poseidon], ruler of the sea profound, dark-hair’d, whose waves begirt the solid ground;
Ceres [Demeter] abundant, and of lovely mien,
and Proserpine [Phersephone] infernal Pluto’s [Haides] queen
The huntress Dian [Artemis], and bright Phœbus rays, far-darting God, the theme of Delphic praise;
And Bacchus [Dionysos], honour’d by the heav’nly choir,
and raging Mars [Ares], and Vulcan [Hephaistos] god of fire;
The mighty pow’r who rose from foam to light, and Pluto potent in the realms of night;
With Hebe young, and Hercules the strong, and you to whom the cares of births [Eileithyia] belong:
Justice [Dikaisune] and Piety [Eusebia] august I call, and much-fam’d nymphs, and Pan the god of all.
To Juno [Hera] sacred, and to Mem’ry [Mnemosyne] fair, and the chaste Muses I address my pray’r;
The various year, the Graces [Kharites], and the Hours [Horai],
fair-hair’d Latona [Leto], and Dione’s pow’rs;
Armed Curetes, household Gods [Korybantes, Kouretes, Kabeiroi] I call,
with those [Soteroi] who spring from Jove [Zeus] the king of all:
Th’ Idæan Gods, the angel of the skies, and righteous Themis, with sagacious eyes;
With ancient Night [Nyx], and Day-light [Hemara] I implore,
and Faith [Pistis], and Justice [Dike] dealing right adore;
Saturn [Kronos] and Rhea, and great Thetis too, hid in a veil of bright celestial blue:
I call great Ocean [Okeanos], and the beauteous train of nymphs, who dwell in chambers of the main;
Atlas the strong, and ever in its prime, vig’rous Eternity [Aion], and endless Time [Khronos];
The Stygian pool [Styx], and placid Gods [Meilikhoi] beside,
and various Genii [Daimones], that o’er men preside;
Illustrious Providence [Pronoia], the noble train of dæmon forms, who fill th’ ætherial plain;
Or live in air, in water, earth, or fire, or deep beneath the solid ground retire.
Bacchus [Dionysos] and Semele the friends of all, and white Leucothea of the sea I call;
Palæmon bounteous, and Adrastria great, and sweet-tongu’d Victory [Nike], with success elate;
Great Esculapius [Asklepios], skill’d to cure disease,
and dread Minerva [Athene], whom fierce battles please;
Thunders [Brontoi] and Winds [Anemoi] in mighty columns pent,
with dreadful roaring struggling hard for vent;
Attis, the mother of the pow’rs on high, and fair Adonis, never doom’d to die,
End and beginning he is all to all, these with propitious aid I gently call;
And to my holy sacrifice invite, the pow’r who reigns in deepest hell and night;
I call Einodian Hecate, lovely dame, of earthly, wat’ry, and celestial frame,
Sepulchral, in a saffron veil array’d, leas’d with dark ghosts that wander thro’ the shade;
Persian, unconquerable huntress hail! The world’s key-bearer never doom’d to fail
On the rough rock to wander thee delights, leader and nurse be present to our rites
Propitious grant our just desires success, accept our homage, and the incense bless.

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ΟΡΦΕΥΣ ΠΡΟΣ ΜΟΥΣΑΙΟΝ
Μάνθανε δή, Μουσαίε, θυηπολίην περισέμνην, ευχήν, ή δή τοι προφερεστέρη εστίν απασέων.
Ζεύ βασιλεύ καί Γαία καί ουράνιαι φλόγες αγναί, ‘Ηελίου, Μήνης θ’ ιερόν σέλας ”Αστρα τε πάντα:
καί σύ, Ποσείδαον γαιήοχε, κυανοχαίτα, Φερσεφόνη θ’ αγνή Δημήτηρ τ’ αγλαόκαρπε
”Αρτεμί <τ’> ιοχέαιρα, κόρη, καί ήιε Φοίβε, ός Δελφών ναίεις ιερόν πέδον: ός τε μεγίστας
τιμάς εν μακάρεσσιν έχεις, Διόνυσε χορευτά: ‘Αρές τ’ ομβριμόθυμε καί `Ηφαίστου μένος αγνόν
αφρογενής τε θεά, μεγαλώνυμα δώρα λαχούσα: καί σύ, καταχθονίων βασιλεύ, μέγ’ υπείροχε δαίμον,
”Ηβη τ’ Ειλείθυια καί `Ηρακλέος μένος ηύ: καί τό Δικαιοσύνης τε καί Ευσεβίης μέγ’ όνειαρ
κικλήσκω Νύμφας τε κλυτάς καί Πάνα μέγιστον ”Ηρην τ’, αιγιόχοιο Διός θαλερήν παράκοιτιν:
Μνημοσύνην τ’ ερατήν Μούσας τ’ επικέκλομαι αγνάς εννέα καί Χάριτάς τε καί ”Ωρας ηδ’ ‘Ενιαυτόν
Λητώ τ’ ευπλόκαμον, Θείην σεμνήν τε Διώνην Κουρήτάς τ’ ενόπλους Κορύβαντάς τ’ ηδέ Καβείρους
καί μεγάλους Σωτήρας ομού, Διός άφθιτα τέκνα, ‘Ιδαίους τε θεούς ηδ’ άγγελον Ουρανιώνων,
`Ερμείαν κήρυκα, Θέμιν θ’, ιεροσκόπον ανδρών, Νύκτα τε πρεσβίστην καλέω καί φωσφόρον ‘~Ημαρ,
Πίστιν τ’ ηδέ Δίκην καί αμύμονα Θεσμοδότειραν, `Ρείαν τ’ ηδέ Κρόνον καί Τηθύν κυανόπεπλον
‘Ωκεανόν τε μέγαν, σύν τ’ ‘Ωκεανοίο θύγατρας ”Ατλαντός τε καί Αιώνος μέγ’ υπείροχον ισχύν
καί Χρόνον αέναον καί τό Στυγός αγλαόν ύδωρ μειλιχίους τε θεούς, αγαθήν τ’ επί τοίσι Πρόνοιαν
Δαίμονά τ’ ηγάθεον καί Δαίμονα πήμονα θνητών, Δαίμονας ουρανίους καί ηερίους καί ενύδρους
καί χθονίους καί υποχθονίους ηδ’ εμπυριφοίτους, καί Σεμέλην Βάκχου τε συνευαστήρας άπαντας,
‘Ινώ Λευκοθέην τε Παλαίμονά τ’ ολβιοδώτην Νίκην θ’ ηδυέπειαν ιδ’ ‘Αδρήστειαν άνασσαν
καί βασιλήα μέγαν ‘Ασκληπιόν ηπιοδώτην Παλλάδα τ’ εγρεμάχην κούρην, ‘Ανέμους τε πρόπαντας
καί Βροντάς Κόσμου τε μέρη τετρακίονος αυδώ: Μητέρα τ’ αθανάτων, ”Αττιν καί Μήνα κικλήσκω
Ουρανίαν τε θεάν, σύν τ’ άμβροτον αγνόν ”Αδωνιν ‘Αρχήν τ’ ηδέ Πέρας — τό γάρ έπλετο πάσι μέγιστον –
ευμενέας ελθείν κεχαρημένον ήτορ έχοντας τήνδε θυηπολίην ιερήν σπονδήν τ’ επί σεμνήν.

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There is a prophetic saying of Nietzsche's: "God is dead and man is free."

He had tremendous insight into the matter. Very few people have been able to understand it, the depth of his statement. It is a milestone in the history of consciousness.

If there is a God, man can never be free - that is an impossibility. God and man's freedom cannot coexist, because the very meaning of God is that he is the creator; then we are reduced to puppets.

And if he can create us, he can destroy us at any moment. He never asked us when he created us - he is not obliged to ask us when he wants to destroy us. It is purely his whim to create or to destroy. How can you be free? You are not free even to be. Even your birth is not your freedom, nor is your death your freedom - and between these two slaveries do you think your life can be freedom?

God has to die if man's freedom is to be saved.

The choice is clear; there is no question of any compromise. With God man will remain a slave and freedom will remain just an empty word. Only without God does freedom start having meaning.

But Friedrich Nietzsche's statement is only half; nobody has tried to make it complete. It looks complete, but appearances are not always true. Friedrich Nietzsche was not aware that there are Religions in the world which have no God -yet even in those religions man is not free. He was not aware of Buddhism, Jainism, Taoism - the most profound religions of all. For all these three religions there is no God.

For the same reason Lao Tzu, Mahavira and Gautam Buddha have denied God - because they could see that with God, man is just a puppet. Then all efforts for enlightenment are meaningless; you are not free, how can you become enlightened? And there is somebody omnipotent, all-powerful - he can take away your enlightenment. He can destroy anything! -

But Nietzsche was not aware that there have been religions which are godless. For thousands of years there have been people who have understood that God's existence is the greatest barrier to man's freedom - they removed God. But still man is not free.

What I am trying to lead you to understand is that just by making God dead you cannot make man free. You will have to make one more thing dead - and that is religion.

That's why I said religion also has to die; it has to follow God. And we have to create a religiousness which is godless and religionless, which has nobody above more powerful than you, and no organized religion to create different kinds of cages - Christian, Mohammedan, Hindu, Buddhist. Beautiful cages...

With God and religion both dead, one more thing dies automatically- and that is the priesthood, the leader, the different forms of religious leader. Now he has no function. There is no organized religion in which he can be a pope or a shan-karacharya or Ayatollah Khomeini. He has no God whom he can represent; his function is finished.
Buddha, Mahavir, Lao Tzu dropped God in the same way as Friedrich Nietzsche - not knowing, not aware that if religion remained even without God, the priest would manage to keep man in slavery. And he has kept man in slavery.

So to complete the insight of Friedrich Nietzsche, religion has to die. There is no point of an organized religion if there is no God. For whom does the organized religion exist? The churches, the temples, the mosques, the synagogues have to disappear. And with that the rabbis and the bishops and all kinds of religious leaders become simply jobless, they become futile. But a tremendous revolution happens: man becomes utterly free.

Before one can realize the implications of this freedom one has to understand: if Friedrich Nietzsche's insight is complete, then what kind of freedom will be available to man? God is dead, man is free...free for what? His freedom will be just like any other animal’s.

It is not right to call it freedom - it is licentiousness. It is not freedom because it does not carry any responsibility, any consciousness. It will not help man to raise himself upwards, to become something higher than he is in his slavery. Unless freedom takes you higher than what you were in your slavery, it is meaningless.

It is possible your freedom may take you lower than your slavery, because the slavery had a certain discipline, it had a certain morality, it had certain principles. It had a certain organized religion to look after you, to keep you afraid of punishment and hell, to keep you greedy for rewards and heaven, and to keep you a little above the wild animal -which has freedom but that freedom has not made him a higher being. It has not given him any quality that you can appreciate.

And because Nietzsche has no idea that just to give freedom is not enough...is not only not enough, it is dangerous. It may reduce man to animality. In the name of freedom he may lose his path towards higher states of consciousness.

When I say that God is dead, religion as an organized body is dead — man is free to be himself. For the first time he is free to explore his innermost being with no hindrances. He is free to dive into the depths of his being, rise to the heights of his consciousness. There is nobody to hinder him, his freedom is total.

But this freedom is possible only if - with God going out of existence, religion going out of existence, priesthood, religious leadership going out of existence - we can save something that you can call the quality of religiousness, so only religiousness is alive...and it is perfectly harmonious with human freedom; it enhances human growth.

And by "religiousness" I mean that man, as he is, is not enough; he can be more, he can be enormously more.

Whatever he is, is only a seed. He does not know what potential he is carrying within himself.

Religiousness simply means a challenge to grow, a challenge for the seed to come to its ultimate peak of expression, to burst forth in thousands of flowers and release the fragrance that was hidden in it. That fragrance I call religiousness. It has nothing to do with the so-called religions, it has nothing to do with God, it has nothing to do with priesthood:

it has something to do with you and your possibilities of growth.