Friday, May 30, 2014

Práctica para comisión G Prof Heras

Yoko Ono debuts peace exhibition in Sydney
Yoko Ono flashes a victory sign during an opening of her 2007 exhibition ''Odyssey Of A Cockroach'' in Moscow
In Yoko Ono's new exhibition "War is Over (if you want it)" in Australia, the writer, artist and peace activist hopes to unite people to dream and work towards a better future through art.
"It's what we can do to change society," Ono, the widow of Beatles frontman John Lennon, told a news conference at the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia in Sydney, where the show opens on Friday and runs until late February.
The interactive parts of the exhibition were designed to encourage collaboration between people, linked to a central theme of world peace, she said.
The mixed-media presentation, Ono's first solo show in Australia, features works from more than five decades including sculptures, vintage collage spreads and a chess game with all-white pieces.
The title "War is Over (if you want it)" refers to a campaign by Ono and Lennon in 1969 when they rented billboards in various cities to display a message of peace over Christmas.
"Change is not that easy but we have to understand that if we don't allow change, that is death," Ono said.
A prolific user of Twitter, Ono tweeted against gun violence this year and posted a photograph of the blood-stained glasses that apparently were worn by Lennon when he was shot to death in New York in December 1980.
"When John and I stood up, very few people were activists. Now I think 90 percent of the world is activists," she said. "If you're not an activist, you'd be considered a nerd maybe."

2   JFK's daughter takes public office in Tokyo
New US Ambassador to Japan Caroline Kennedy gives a statement shortly after her arrival in Japan at the Narita International Airport in Narita, east of Tokyo
Caroline Kennedy, daughter of slain US President John F. Kennedy, arrived in Japan today to take up her first high profile job in public office, making a late start to a political career for which her family is renowned.
Kennedy, sworn in as US ambassador two days ago, received a warm welcome at Tokyo's Narita Airport, smiling and waving at reporters, and carrying a bouquet of flowers.
The 55-year-old lawyer takes up the post a week before the 50th anniversary of her father's assassination.
Kennedy, the first female US ambassador to Japan, was an early and prominent supporter of Barack Obama in his initial quest for the presidency in 2008, and also campaigned for him.
"I bring greetings from President Obama ... I am honored to represent him as the United States ambassador," she said. "I am also proud to carry forward my father's legacy of public service."
Kennedy worked briefly for education authorities in New York, and contemplated, but later abandoned, a run for a New York Senate seat in 2009.
In a video greeting to the people of Japan released on the internet, Kennedy said she had studied Japanese art and history, and made several trips to Japan, including a visit to Hiroshima - where the first atomic bomb was dropped - when she was 20.
"It left me with a profound desire to work for a better, more peaceful world," she said, adding that she had also visited Japan on her honeymoon.
Previous ambassadors to Japan have included political heavyweights such as former Vice President Walter Mondale, but Japan welcomed Kennedy's nomination since they felt her closeness to Obama would be an advantage.
"The Japanese people feel closest to her father of all presidents, and in that sense I'd like to offer my hearty welcome," said chief cabinet spokesman Yoshihide Suga at a news conference.
Caroline is the only surviving child of President Kennedy and his wife, Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy. Her brother John F. Kennedy, Jr, died in a 1999 plane crash, while an older sister was stillborn and another brother died within days of his premature birth while Kennedy was president.
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Friday, November 15, 2013

3   New York Times Published: November 15, 2013 
China to Ease Longtime Policy of 1-Child Limit
The Chinese limit of one child for most families, which was enacted to slow population growth, has led to criticism.                   By CHRIS BUCKLEY
HONG KONG — The Chinese government will ease its one-child family restrictions and abolish “re-education through labor” camps, significantly curtailing two policies that for decades have defined the state’s power to control citizens’ lives, the Communist Party said Friday.
The changes were announced in a party decision that also laid out broad and potentially far-reaching proposals to restructure the economy by encouraging greater private participation in finance, vowing market competition in several important parts of the economy, and promising farmers better property protection and compensation for confiscated land.
Senior party officials, led by President Xi Jinping, endorsed the 60 initiatives at a four-day Central Committee conference that ended Tuesday, but details were released Friday. Mr. Xi described the document as a bold call for economic renewal, social improvement and patriotic nation-building — all under the firm control of one-party rule.
“We must certainly have the courage and conviction to renew ourselves,” he said in a statement accompanying the decision. Both were issued by the official news agency, Xinhua.


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Tuesday, May 13, 2014

Comisiones C y D (Prof. Susana Cáceres) - Resolución de Ejercicio de Traducción

Adicción: Una Mirada/visión/perspectiva Completamente Nueva

Todos somos capaces de ser adictos. Aquí está la información de nuestra batalla contra la addicción. Por J.E. Rodgers, publicado el 1 de Septiembre de 1994, reseñado por última vez el 15 de Febrero de 2011.
Nuestras teorías y políticas sobre adicción están desafortunadamente desactualizadas. La investigación muestra que no hay drogas demoníacas. Ni son los adictos innatamente defectuosos. La naturaleza nos ha provisto a todos con la capacidad de ser atrapados -y todos nos enganchamos/involucramos/caemos en conductas adictivas en algún grado.
Millones de americanos son aparentemente atrapados, no sólo por la heroína, morfina, anfetaminas, tranquilizantes, y cocaína sino también con nicotina, cafeína, azúcar, esteroides, trabajo, delincuencia, juego, ejercicio, e incluso amor y sexo. La Batalla contra la Droga solamente es más larga que un siglo. En los tempranos 1990, los Estados Unidos gastaron 45 millones de millones sustentándola, sin final a la vista, a pesar de cada tipo de tratamiento de adicción desde la psicocirugía, psicoanálisis, psicodelia, y autoayuda hasta la acupuntura, confrontación grupal, terapia familiar, hipnosis, meditación, educación y amor tenaz.
Pareciera no haber final para nuestras 'dependencias', su intractabilidad perpleja, las explicaciones locuaces por sus causas e incluso más 'soluciones' locuaces. La noticia, sin embargo, es que los especialistas en cerebro, mente y comportamiento están re-pensando la noción completa de adicción. Con ayuda de la neurociencia, la biología molecular, la farmacología, la psicología, y la genética, ellos están desafiando sus propios supuestos más centrales y las "certezas" populares y sorpresivamente están encontrando características comunes entre las adicciones.
Están usando nuevas técnicas de imagen para ver cómo se ve y siente la adicción y dónde "viven" los anhel
os en el cerebro y la mente. Ellos van concluyendo que las cosas están lejos de desesperanzadas y están rápidamente reemplazando las conjeturas por hechos. Por ejemplo, los científicos han aprendido que cada animal, desde los antiguas babosas hasta los reptiles, roedores y humanos, comparten el mismo placer básico y circuitos de "recompensa" en el cerebro, circuitos todos que se encienden cuando en contacto con sustancias adictivas o durante actos placenteros tales como comer o el orgasmo. Una conclusión de esta evidencia es que las conductas adictivas son normales, una parte natural de nuestro "cableado". Si no lo fueran, o si fueran poco frecuentes, la naturaleza no habría permitido a la capacidad ser adictiva, evolucionar, sobrevivir y adherirse a cada criatura viviente.
"Todos se enganchan en comportamientos adictivos hasta algún punto porque cosas como comer, beber y el sexo son esenciales para sobrevivir y altamente fortalecedoras," dice G.A.Marlatt, Ph.D., director del Centro de Investigación de Conductas Adictivas en la Universidad de Washington. "Obtenemos gratificación inmediata de ellas y las encontramos difíciles de abandonar, verdaderamente. Esa es una muy buena definición de adicción."
El hecho inevitable es que la naturaleza nos dotó de la capacidad de ser atrapados porque el cerebro ha evolucionado amorosamente un sistema de recompensa, de la misma manera en que tiene un sistema de dolor," dice el fisiólogo y farmacólogo Steven Childers, Ph.D. de la Escuela de Medicina Bowman Gray en Carolina del Norte. "El hecho de que algunas cosas pueden disparar accidental o inadvertidamente ese sistema, de alguna forma no viene al caso."
"Nuestros cerebros no desarrollaron receptores de opio para tentarnos con la adicción a la heroína. La planta de coca no desarrolló cocaína para producir lo que llamamos adictos al crack. A esta planta le importa un bledo nuestro cerebro. Pero la adicción a la heroína y a la cocaína ciertamente nos habla en gran medida de cómo funcionan nuestros cerebros. Y cómo trabajan es que si probaste o experimentaste algo que te gusta, que se siente bien, te ves reforzado a hacer eso nuevamente. Pulsiones básicas por comida, sexo y placer activan centros de recompensa en el cerebro. Ellos son parte de la naturaleza humana." 



Monday, May 12, 2014

HORARIOS DE CONSULTA


Prof. Ana Coria. Horarios de consulta: lunes y miércoles de 8.30 a 10am. Por favor, agendar entrevista con anterioridad vía email.
Prof. Cristina Heras. Horario de consulta: martes de 12.00 a 14.00. (Ed. C-aula 102 de ELSE)

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