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COUPLE OF THOUGHTS FOR A HOT SUMMER DAY
In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place. “Mahatma” Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
An expert is a person who avoids small error as he sweeps on to the grand fallacy. Benjamin Stolberg
SOMETHING (more) ABOUT HORSES
This came in from ‘Capricious’ as a comment about a debate on the treatment of animals in Spain. The above cartoon is referred to in the text. See the debate and other comments here.
‘May I congratulate Latino on his excellent comment. I agree entirely with his sentiments.
Having lived in this area for 25 years I feel entitled to comment with authority that 99.999% of Spaniards love animals and look after them well.
Very occasionally we come across cases like the thin mare in the photo and the British woman who declined to take her cat to the vet when it was poisoned. Latino is right, the persons responsible for these acts are not only Spanish, they can be of any nationality.
Why is it that the Brits are often heard criticising the Spanish for their treatment of animals?
Latino is maybe right in suggesting that only country folk understand countryside issues. In England the “Countryside Alliance” (aside from defending fox-hunting and other country sports) campaigns to defend the rights and livelihoods of countryside people. Their stance is that countryside people are now a minority who are not properly represented or understood.
Could it be that in Jimena and the surrounding villages we have the same problem? – Brits and people from city backgrounds are all to quick to come here and criticise, but fail to understand that we live in a rural area which not so long ago depended almost entirely upon the land and “el monte”. We are fortunate that numerous locals have a wealth of knowledge and experience of the campo, working animals and countryside matters generally. We should ensure that their invaluable knowledge and experience is handed down through the generations and not lost.
I have often heard Brits complain that they have been woken too early in the morning, or aroused from their siestas – a local custom they happily adopt – by cockerels crowing, donkeys braying or dogs barking. ¡Venga ya!
I will end on a lighter note. I just loved Latino’s comments about “Typical Pony Club Mothers” and cannot wait to see how Prospero deals with the job of translating into Spanish exactly what he means by such women. In the meantime, I have found a Thelwell a cartoon which may help.
Thank you and best regards.
Capricious’
THOUGHT
The shortest distance between two points is under construction.
– Noelie Altito
This one must be about the road to San Roque-Algeciras!
CONTINUOUS PARTIAL ATTENTION DISORDER
Continuous Partial Attention [CPA] is the trend of stretching our ‘attention bandwidth’ to cope with the myriad demands on our concentration posed by technology. The term was coined by the writer Linda Stone, formerly of Apple and Microsoft, who describes CPA as ‘the behaviour of continuously monitoring as many inputs as possible, paying partial attention to each’. Stone, notes that CPA is a ‘post-multitasking behaviour’. If multitasking is ‘motivated by a desire to be more productive and more efficient’, CPA is ‘motivated by a desire to be a live node on the network’. Anxious to connect and desperate not to miss any opportunities, CPA ‘contributes to a feeling of overwhelm, over-stimulation, and a sense of being unfulfilled’. Indeed, the ‘always on’ character of technology (such as emails, PDAs, IM, VOIP) compromises ‘normal’ social interactions (checking your Blackberry at lunch) and, in Stone’s analysis, ‘has created an artificial sense of constant crisis’. Like wild animals in a continuous state of alert, an ‘adrenalised fight or flight mechanism kicks in’. Of the hundreds of emails received each day, Stone asks, how many are ‘tigers’, requiring immediate action, and how many are merely ‘mice’? (Most, in fact, are likely to be spam.) Faced with this profusion of inputs we increasingly turn to filters (Sky+) and blocks (iPods) to find a signal amidst the noise.(Source: dunno, I’m confused and disordered)
FORWARD & BACKWARD & FORWARD AGAIN
This came in from Steve in an-email:
“The Prospero has been looking for for a new “group” (he is learning, also), but the option is not massive for which anywhere enough of it is not close understood with the HTML (saying you). If there is a cabrito of whizz towards outside there with the knowledge of how obtaining a “new skin” (it goes there again), obtains therefore, in tact.”
Thanks, Steve; I had no trouble finding a label for your contribution. Also, our sponsors TheTranslationPeople should be grateful…
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