ARRIBA LUCHIN!!! SALUDOS HASTA SUECIA
Pasión por el diseño automovilístico
Luis Lizárraga compitió en un evento internacional y su equipo quedó en la posición 12 entre 71 participantes.Su grupo representó a la Universidad Chalmers de Suecia y él fue el único latino de los 27 en el equipo.
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Helkin Guevara
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El ímpetu y vocación por el diseño automotor llevó al panameño Luis Lizárraga a buscar un mejor horizonte en el exterior y, recientemente, participó en la competencia internacional de diseño de autos ‘Formula Student’, organizada por el Instituto de Ingenieros Mecánicos (I Mech E) de Inglaterra.
Lizárraga, de 26 años, estudia un máster en Ingeniería Automotriz en la Universidad Chalmers en Suecia, desde el año pasado. Relata que el evento, el de más renombre en toda Europa, se realizó del 12 al 15 de julio en Silverstone, Inglaterra, y su equipo terminó en la posición 12 de los 71 que compitieron. “Es un resultado bastante bueno. Nuestros patrocinadores están muy contentos. Fuimos el mejor equipo utilizando el Ethanol 85, que es un combustible amigable con la naturaleza”, apunta.
El estudiante explicó, vía telefónica desde Suecia, que ‘Formula Student’ consistía en crear, diseñar, construir, desarrollar, promocionar y competir en equipo con un auto de un solo pasajero, aplicando numerosas reglas. Su grupo de trabajo, que representó a la Universidad Chalmers, estaba integrado por 27 estudiantes, siendo él el único latinoamericano, y cada uno se encargó de una parte específica del vehículo, según el área en que se especializaban.
Luis se encargó de las simulaciones del motor, lo que involucra todo el diseño y funcionamiento de éste, desde la entrada hasta la salida del aire, además de la configuración interna de tuberías, diámetros, compresores y “mil cosas” internas más.
Relató que en la competición habían equipos de 26 países, entre ellos Estados Unidos, Canadá, Australia, India, Japón y muchos países de Europa. Cuenta que fue una semana agotadora, durmiendo en tiendas de campaña con un “frío increíble”, pero valió la pena pues, además de los premios en efectivo que había, ganaron prestigio y pudieron lidiar de cerca con muchas empresas patrocinadoras y equipos de Fórmula 1. “Generalmente las compañías hacen giras por sus instalaciones y el contacto que se logre allí es muy importante para nuestro futuro”.
Añade que además, adquirió una experiencia valiosa para trabajar su tesis, que en pocos meses comenzará a hacer. Lizárraga reconoce que en su tierra natal el negocio de autos consiste en la “compra-venta”, mas no en los diseños, que es su fuerte, por lo que le gustaría adquirir experiencia, tanto en Suecia como otros países.
HOMERO LO HIZO!!! PUERCO ARANA!!!
The Simpsons Movie – first review
Our correspondent finds the big-screen debut for Homer and clan both hilarious and horrifyingly poignant
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Homer Simpson, the oafish paterfamilias of America’s favourite dysfunctional family, emerges from his big-screen debut a bona fide Hollywood action hero.
At the start of The Simpsons Movie Homer’s dreams of glory are limited to helping his new pet pig to walk upside down on the ceiling while singing “Spiderpig, Spiderpig” to the Spider-Man theme song.
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But when the adopted swine gets him into bigger trouble than even this celebrated screw-up has ever experienced before, he falls under the influence of a chesty Native American woman he calls “Boob Lady” and undergoes an uncharacteristic epiphany that galvanizes him into action for the good of his by-now estranged clan.
By the time the witty final credits roll, Homer outshines even Arnold Schwarzenegger, who has been elected president and ordered great harm done to Homer’s home town.
The Hollywood action theme helps the hit cartoon series, after 18 seasons on television, to land its death-defying leap to the big screen with panache. The result is a postmodern parable about an environmental scare that is at the same time hilarious and horrifyingly poignant. But thanks to an unexpected glimpse of Bart’s genitalia, this is a postmodern parable with a “pickle shot”.
The film boasts the same sly cultural references and flashes of brilliance that have earned the television series a following that ranges from tots to comparative literature PhDs. Despite its clownishness and childish graphics, it still offers searing insights into the pathetic human condition.
When the residents of Springfield learn that they are confronting catastrophe, for instance, the panicked occupants of the bar and the next-door church pour out into the street and change places — the drinkers taking solace in religion and the religious finding comfort in drink.
But the movie will be equally satisfying to those who just find it funny that Homer wants to kiss his pet pig — or laugh at Marge pondering the (literally) weighty issue of the pig’s “leavings”, or excrement.
Early on The Simpsons team shows their nerve by making Homer wonder out loud why anyone would pay to buy a cinema ticket to watch what they could see on TV free — the underlying question of the whole big-screen adaptation. In Homer’s view, anyone who pays for cinema tickets to watch a TV show is a sucker. Jabbing his finger at the audience, he declares: “Particularly you!”
What you get for your money is the Simpsons on an epic scale. The familiar, if geographically indeterminate, territory of Springfield is suddenly transformed into a cross between The Truman Show and Escape from New York, with a Big Brother government conspiring to keep all its unruly residents in line until it can be bombed into a “new Grand Canyon” tourist attraction.
The middle section, set in Alaska, lags because of the absence of the familiar props of the Simpsons’ home town. I found myself longing for Homer and his tribe to return to wreak more havoc on their neighbours, particularly the long-suffering Flanders.
But the film ends with a tense second-by-second countdown that fully exploits the bathos of that schlump Homer becoming an action star able save the world, or at least his little part of it. The conventions of the “disaster flick” allow The Simpsons’ left-leaning creator, Matt Groening, to indulge his politics with wry warnings of environmental doom without boring us out of our mustard-yellow skin.
Lisa, Homer and Marge’s swotty daughter, has become an ardent environmentalist who makes an Al Gore-style presentation entitled “An Irritating Truth” to the local populace.
In the same spirit, this film could have been subtitled: “An Inconvenient Cartoon”.
NEW PS3 RUMORS ARE DOWN
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New PSP on the left, old PSP on the right.
Sony finally announced the long-rumored redesigned Sony PSP during its E3 2007 press conference. A recent patent update sparked speculation that the new PSP would have a swivel screen and mobile phone capabilities, but Sony Computer Entertainment president Kaz Hirai revealed a more modest PSP redesign at E3. The new “enhanced-design” PSP is a smaller and slimmer version of the original, with a third less weight and about four-fifths the thickness. Sony plans to phase out the current PSP design and replace it with the new model by September.
The new weight is immediately noticeable as soon as you hold the PSP in your hand. It’s so light that you might think that it’s missing a battery or doesn’t have a UMD inside. Sony was able to slim down the battery size while maintaining the system’s 5-hour battery life by decreasing the power draw of the unit. You’ll be able to use old batteries from the original PSP to double playing time, but the standard battery cover won’t be able to fit over it. Sony will offer a high-capacity power kit that will come with its own PSP cover to fit over the larger battery.
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The video output from the new PSP is very watchable.
The difference is really slight, but several GameSpot editors have noticed that the d-pad and buttons on the new PSP provide a little more tactile feedback for a better overall feel. Other changes we noticed include a spring-less UMD retention mechanism and new speaker holes just above the d-pad and button areas. The remote jack has changed–headphones will still work with the regular headphone output, but new systems will ship with a new headphone/remote unit to fit the new remote jack. The memory stick slot remains on the left side–shifted over a bit, but the Wi-Fi switch has moved from the left side of the system all the way to the top of the unit where it’s far more difficult to hit accidentally.
The 4.3-inch display remains the same, but the new unit will now include a video output that will let the PSP to output gameplay, movies, and photos to a TV display. The component cable we saw also had audio connectors to offer complete AV connectivity. The actual composite, s-video, component, and D-Terminal (Japan) cables will be sold separately, price TBD. The PSP we tested was able to play back a Spider-Man 2 movie clip at 640×480. The video on the big screen looked sharp with minimal loss.
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The new PSP is available in piano black, ice silver, and, for a limited time, ceramic white.
Sony has doubled the built-in memory from 32MB to 64MB, and the new PSP will also be able to speed up game load times by storing UMD data in temporary memory. The new PSP will also be able to recharge over the USB data connection.
The redesigned Piano Black PSP will make its way into the basic $169 Core pack this September. Sony will offer a $199 Ice Silver PSP in a new Daxter Entertainment Pack that includes Daxter, Family Guy, The Freakin’ Sweet Collection on UMD, and a 1GB Memory Stick Pro Duo. Star Wars fans can wait an extra month to pick up a Star Wars Battlefront PSP Entertainment Pack on October, 9th. The limited edition package includes a copy of Star Wars Battlefront: Renegade Squadron and a ceramic-white PSP with an image of Darth Vader silk-screened on the back battery cover. Sony currently has no plans to release a ceramic white unit after the Star Wars edition sells out, but that can always change.
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