Halcombe Norilsk as a lawyer.

While enjoying a luscious tea Halcombe Norilsk decided to become a lawyer. As anybody can be aware this is not easy but he considered himself to be a genius however huckleberry Halcombe Norilsk could have been deemed. In fact, he did not hear any piece of advice from the person who helped him entering into USA (read Halcombe Norilsk in NYC) and  pursuant to his ambitions was ready to execute them.  Soon thereafter, he was on the verge of practising law (clad in an expensive suit as you can observe at the end of this story). His first trial was against a millionaire doctor who had been acted bad as he had deceived his wife. He mulled over and realised that the disclosure of the misleading deeds of that person will bring him fame thus the revocation of that marriage will make him a  millionaire too. He started to consider everything as a whole and so clear was the covenant against the dirty doctor that he decided to go clubbing the night before the trial. All his dreams were to become reality and he had a drink to celebrate that. Then, Halcombe Norilsk saw a beautiful woman from the East of Russia who was calling on him, her accent sounded familiar, he was drunk and  gave her a brooch with expensive trimmings. They went to a hotel.....Little did he know that they were filmed and everything was a diligent stunt made up by the powerful lawyers of the doctor who by no means was to lose all his wealth. What is more, he signed a quiz waiver which prevent him from practising law, as a result, his career was debunked because he was seen as  a sexual predator. In compliance with the rules of the American law Halcombe Hackney Norilsk could not work as a lawyer anymore as he had not proceed with exercise caution and hereby he was dismissed incompetent. At least, Halcombe Hackney Norilsk was able to rescue the brooch (after a fast trial that cost him more than the price of the present). So what?. Wait and discover a new adventure of Halcombe Hackney Norilsk soon!!!!

Halcombe Norilsk ready to be at court...

Halcombe Norilsk

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Carlos Kaiser Henrique Raposo. Professional Football player?

There is a Spielberg´s movie called "Catch me if you can" starred by Leonardo DiCaprio and Tom Hanks that tells of the story of a guy who was able to work as a lawyer, pilot or surgeon even though he did not have any knowledge at all regarding the aforementioned jobs. Similarly, he is able to squander loads of money from banks thus FBI (Tom Hanks) starts an operation to catch him. In the world of football we would have a similar personage. Carlos Kaiser Henrique Raposo who played professional football until he was 39 despite lacking any football skills. Read to discover his unbelievable story.Carlos Henrique Raposo played in countries like Brazil, Mexico, Argentina, USA and finally France although he did not know how to kick a ball properly. This Brazilian player (you can read his stats below and who is called now Brazilian´s Forrest Gump and Kaiser on his early days) was such an incredible liar and swindler he enjoyed a superb professional football player life. At the beginning of his career he obtained a contract thanks to close acquaintances, soon thereafter, he decided to make a living cheating on everybody. He used to sign short contracts with special clauses on, as he was tall and strong at first sight he looked somewhat like an athlete (he was called Kaiser after German Footballer Beckenbauer) little did people know his football career was only a preposterous lie!!!

 

Carlos Henrique Raposo, proud of his team?

Once he was in a club he must survived. He made friends easily, he got on well with the most talented and famous players of his teams. Carlos Kaiser Henrique Raposo made them happy with tricks like the following. He was able to bring girls to the places where his football team was staying, he put them close to where the footballers were resting hence he gained the respect of his comrades. Similarly, he would give presents to influential journalists thereby they would write a positive review of Carlos Kaiser Henrique Raposo.

Still, he had a dentist as a friend who signed medical acts in case it was necessary conveying he was injured as a matter of fact, thanks to these schemes seasons passed by swimmingly, he changed continually from a football team to another and nobody guessed nothing. He even asked some fellow football players (they knew the truth and helped him) that kicked him training in order to spend months resting at home. To say the truth, although he played for several Brazilian Teams (all of them important) he never entered nor started a professional football match in Brazil, his unbelievable stats can be read right now.

Stats of Carlos Henrique Raposo Wikipedia 

One day however, there were plenty of injuries on his football team and he was at the bench (as you can imagine he was never summoned to play) his coach brought him to enter a match. What was going to do then if he was scared of anything related to football? Very easy, our hero started a fight with a local supporter thus he was sent off. After the match his coach asked Carlos Henrique Raposo what had happened and Carlos Kaiser Henrique Raposo exclaimed shamelessly: -God gave me a father who was brought out of me, now he has given me another father who is my coach therefore I am not to allow a supporter to insult my father- The aftermath? He had his contract renewed automatically!!! 

There is an anecdote regarding Carlos Kaiser Henrique Raposo that I consider particularly amusing, he used to have a mobile phone and talked in English as a sign of distinction (we are talking of 1980s and no many had that kind of gadgets) his make believe worked and people thought he was renowned as international clubs were interested in signing him. Having a mobile phone so big and a command of English made people think he was important until one day somebody discovered he was not talking in English but nonsense only to discover his mobile phone was only a toy!!!

After having played in the best Brazilian football teams (playing is a saying of course) he ended up in Mexico and USA where he played a little bit only to fell injured rapidly. He came back to Brazil once again and he did not enter an official football match, but every month a paycheck was sent to him.

At the end of his professional career he played in France, as he was Brazilian it was thought he was a superstar, a classy footballer who was going to succeed and make that French football team famous worldwide (Ajaccio was the name of this football team that was in the Second French Division). At the presentation there were many football balls for him to prove his skills as he did not have any he did what any of us would have done instead, he kissed his t-shirt repeatedly throwing crazily the ball to fans. He never played more than 20 minutes but people supported him nonetheless.

While we see great football players ending up their careers rapidly because of criticism, bad performances, serious injuries... we have here the real story of the biggest football swindler in history. Carlos Kaiser Henrique Raposo played all around the world, earned a hefty salary until he was 39 years old without knowing how to play the game. Ricardo Rocha, Brazilian defender who played for Real Madrid in 1990s and knew Carlos Kaiser Henrique Raposo has said of him "He did not even know how to play cards". What is more, he believes Carlos Kaiser Henrique Raposo had a problem related to his feet. Moreover, another Brazilian professional football player, Renato Gaúcho who met him closely assures "Carlos Kaiser Henrique Raposo is the biggest enemy a football ball has ever had" Carlos Henrique Raposo, footballer and a professional swindler. What do you think? Do share, rate or comment.

Carlos Henrique Raposo, laughing 

John Lydon. Words of Wisdom

John Lydon  (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

John Lydon (Johnny Rotten)  (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Until the day (John Lydon, former punk guru and leader of classic punk- rock band Sex Pistols said what he thinks in general and about Russell Brand in particular, everybody treated the comedian as if he were a political pundit or a Semi-god when in fact or in my opinion he does not say proper issues regarding politics let alone have the wisdom Johnny Lydon owns. What is more, I even think Russell Brand is no so funny, he exaggerates in a silly way his accent, he has talked about his days doing drugs a zillion times and even worse, I even consider he was lucky to marry Katy Perry for a while otherwise he would not be so popular nowadays. I am even surprised he is so respected when he talks because I think he is only a celebrity.

You have at the end of this post a video which shows a brief interview where John Lydon talks about Russell Brand and politics. It is very interesting. No one has ever talked so honestly about the political ideas of Russell Brand.

Similarly, You can read some of the statements the punk singer has conveyed relating politics, music, society... you are able to learn a lot from a man that led a Revolution and has plenty of knowledge. 

The interview was given to The Guardian Newspaper and he has answered plenty of questions of The Guardian Readers, you can watch the video and read his opinions. Johnny Lydon. Words Of Wisdom

In 1977 things were pretty bad but at least they had John Lydon as a leader, in 2014 nonetheless things are worse we have Russell Brand likewise...

Do you like Russell Brand? What do you think of John Lydon´s Statements?

                 JOHN LYDON ON RUSSELL BRAND´S REVOLUTION

John Lydon, the erstwhile Johnny Rotten answers readers questions as he publishes a new book: Anger is energy. 

John Lydon in quotes

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Opinion Article II. Alex Salmond vs David Cameron.

Based on the augured certainty it was almost impossible Scotland embraced Independence David Cameron decided thereby to defeat for once and all supporters of Scotland independence movement thus in a risky manouvre allow David Salmond, leader of SNP, to formulate a clear, concise, single statement to embrace separation from the rest of The United Kingdom. However, what was supposed to be a clear victory for his interests has being transformed into a nightmare.  From being deemed a buffoon Alex Salmond made Westminster politicians look like a buffoonery class act.

These subjects are complex albeit in my opinion it is overly sad to see how at the same time a European Union is promoted something like a confederation of states and identities, small regions want to be independent and separate themselves from their neighbouring countries. Do they have more in common with Asian nations than with its neighbours with which in many occasions have been living together for centuries?.

Scotland has oil, a proper story (they were an independent country) and a more social political agenda than the one Westminster promulgates but are not these differences good for a country? Will Scotland on their own be so special or so appealing?. It is shocking in my view to see how United Kingdom has always been considered as a powerful state, an attractive choice to live in while at the same time Scotland does want to be independent. 

Will David Cameron succeed or should he live forever in disguise? What has become of you Mighty British Empire? In which are you to become?

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This article was originally written in Spanish and published by El País newspaper (The Country) and El Periódico de Cataluña newspaper (The newspaper of Catalonia) chosen by this last one as the best article of the day on its section on September, 20, 2014 (publised by El País the day before) You can read the original version following the links below.

Published on El País Newspaper 

Published on El Periódico de Cataluña newspaper 

Opinion Article. The political strategy par excellence

Nationalism and/or patriotism is the political strategy par excellence. The one that makes you win elections, the one that makes you to be in power eternally, the one that always makes you successful. Nationalism and/or patriotism is to politics what football means to television, what the female body represents to publicity and musical video clips, what love and its derivations represent to pop music, what alcohol represents to pubs and parties, it is always a good bet, a perfect choice. It does not matter whether globalisation has broken barriers and frontiers, it does no matter if there is a common currency in Europe and it is not necessary to show your passport at customs for instance. It does not matter at all, a self-styled politician will appear she/he will win an election being far from real problems, without offering real solutions let alone improving our lives but rather installing fear and scaremongering with patriotic or/and nationalistic speeches or a slogan likewise. Humans will live in the Moon, we could reach 200 years old, we will no need to sleep and sickness will no longer exist but a middling politician yearning for power appeared notwithstanding he/she will embrace nationalism and/or patriotism, will win an election and will rule us all. People who do allow it and who do vote it are even guiltier than the ones who propose it.

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(This article appeared on Spanish newspaper El Mundo (The World) chosen as the best article of the day on its section on September, 29. 2014. This is a translation I have tried of the article I wrote in Spanish)

Kanye West, Pure Genius

Power (Kanye West song)

Born in Atlanta but raised in Chicago, Kanye West is one of the best artists of our time, there are a few musicians whose music is so good that are able to be loved by many fans even though they may not be experts in a determined kind of style. There are only few, Bob Marley, Michael Jackson, U2, The Rolling Stones, The Clash, Madonna... Kanye West is one of them, I am not crazy about hip-hop nor a rap pundit yet some songs of Kanye West are just incredible.He is pure genius. 

Kanye West

Kanye West and Eminem could be a two proper Hip-Hop ambassadors because some of their songs are so good that they reach worldwide audiences. Read an updated version of this post. Kanye West

BEST SONGS OF KANYE WEST

We are to show some of his best songs and performances, I assure you that you are to be dazzled. We are to talk only about his musical career hence if you only know him for being a celebrity, for being famous and his controversial episodes (there are plenty of them) or for being married to a celebrity (Kim Kardashian) this is a good opportunity for you to discover his work, as in most cases fame is only a scourge because people tend to forget your real talent and on this occasion Kanye West´s music is fabulous!!!

 Kanye West on BBC Radio. His best interview ever?

KANYE WEST PURE GENIUS

To start with, one of the best songs I have ever heard. This performance is special as I deem it as somewhat outstanding, it is from Coachella Festival one of the most important Music festivals of the entire world. The song is Power. I also recommend you to read the lyrics and to listen the original version

                                        KANYE WEST POWER 

Kanye West Power live Another great song is Stronger, if you do not know Kanye West perhaps you remember an episode of that comedy television series that is so popular, Girls, where Marnie (in my  opinion the funniest character played by actress Allison Williams) sings to her boyfriend or lover in revenge for his bad.

                                          STRONGER KANYE WEST

I am also putting this live performance from Victoria's Secret Fashion Show. Kanye West is poised to sing but before doing so he has some kind words for his mum as she died unexpectedly after having had an operation to lose weight, that death was so strange that there is now a law in California that prevent people from surgery if they are not fully fit. 

Kanye West

Seeing this performance I want to show you something peculiar, all musicians and singers invited to perform on Victoria´s Secret Fashion Show are distracted by models and their beauty, they tend to allow supermodels to steal the show. All of them? No, Kanye West is so focus on his work that his song Stronger seems better, sounds louder and is more powerful than any outfit however extraordinary it might be thought.

           KANYE WEST STRONGER VICTORIA´S SECRET FASHION SHOW

Similarly and on my opinion, the best two songs of 2013  were made by Kanye West, First of all, Black Skinhead. I strongly love its videoclip, it was chosen by Martin Scorsese to be the main song of his latest flick, Wolf of Wall Street. The other song is New Slaves, both of them were played at Saturday Night Live. 

KANYE WEST BLACK SKINHEAD

Kanye West Black Skinhead

I do love BlacKKK skinhead (it was a story about this song on this blog) Kanye West acts as a wild beast.

Purists prefer New Slaves than BlacKKK SKKKinhead, I do not because I prefer the energy of the first song. However, New Slaves hides some joyful aspects, lyrics are very interesting because he talks about how we are blinded as consumption is dig into our lives. This video was banned from televsion (I do not know until which extent). It is more than interesting. Do watch it now please and wait until the end!!! 

KANYE WEST NEW SLAVES

To be honest, I first discovered Kanye West singing with Rihanna and Jay-Z within the great Run this Town song that deserves to be included here. This performance is from Madison Square Garden in New York City. Run this town videoclip is great as well.

RUN THIS TOWN LIVE New York City

In 2012 Jay Z and Kanye West published a good album, Watch the throne. There is a song I particularly like, Otis albeit Jay Z struggles to say in Spanish some words looking as if he were to be drowned. 

KANYE WEST

OTIS Kanye West Jay Z

This live performance is also good. OTIS Jay Z and Kanye West

Another good song of that album is No Church in the Wild.  The entire album Watch the Throne contains good material

No Church in the Wild Kanye West

Lift off is good likewise. In fact, most of the songs signed by Kanye West are wonderful. Some are to be liked for some people and some for others but I really think the first Four songs included at the beginning are somewhat special thus should be added to any setlist. Prior to end this post about the best songs of Kanye West, I am to highlight some older songs too like Flashing Lights which videoclip is funny, you can discover Kanye West in an unexpected situation. The last two are even older with actor Jammie Foxx (Gold digger) and celebrity Pamela Anderson (Touch the Sky)

FLASHING LIGHTS KANYE WEST

KANYE WEST Gold Digger

KANYE WEST TOUCH THE SKY

Hope you have discovered new songs so that you put them on a party to impress your friends!!! Kanye West is one of the artists with more Grammy Awards garnered. He has 21 although he has not reached 40. A perfect ending for this post is this speech said by Kanye West when he received a Grammy Award in the major category of Best Rap Album in 2008. Do listen to his words, Firstly,  Kanye West talks about life, death, time (remembering his mum) and ends up receiving an outstanding ovation his last words are something like these "People were thinking what Kanye West would say if he did not win, What he would do this time, Well I guess they will never know". Updated version Kanye West Kanye West Best music video of 2016 Kanye West Kanye West

KANYE WEST GRAMMYS SPEECH

Kanye West, pure genius Fade Kanye West

Visiting Dubrovnik and waiting for Khaleeshi as Game of Thrones is shot in Croatia

The best surprise of holidaying in Dubrovnik was to discover that Game of Thrones television series is shot in this beautiful Croatian city. If the television channel HBO has selected this location, something good it may have. May not? But our vacation did have plenty of other good moments notwithstanding. When we were tired we spent the day in our resort, we visited the city centre that is very impressive and we did take the Game of Thrones tour of course!!!. It allows you to remember vividly the scenes that have being shot there like the incredible fight between Oberyn and The Mountain or the now legendary King´s landing for instance that is worldwide famous. Similarly, the faces of the actors are reproduced on your imagination.

This is where Oberyn and The Mountain fight to each other. Game of Thrones

Khaleesi is one of the stars that I admire the most, I strongly believed I was going to envisage her long hair and her magical aura (her Dragons likewise) As a result we took a tour in Dubrovnik to visit some little islands called Elaphite (Kolocep, Lopud y Sipan) as Dubrovnik has a lot nearby and Croatia has more than 1000 I think. The journey was incredible. At some time, the captain of the ship put some fresh fish on his hand, Dragons did not pass by but hungry seagulls appeared nevertheless, it was really outstanding to be surrounded of them, seeing them eating ferociously even more. Both these three islands and sunbathing at the beach and on the ship feeling the Croatian Coast and its unique landscape was magical, yet regrettably Khaleeshi was not seen

Game of Thrones King´s landing

However, I had a premonition, I believe she was going to arrive at Lokrum Island, a big one which is in front of Dubrovnik port. You can go there until 7 o'clock in the afternoon as there are daily ships that arrive at it often. I spent a whole day waiting for her at Lokrum Island, I had devised everything as I was afraid Khaleesi´s enemies were to attack her, I did have to prevent her from poisoning hence.

Lokrum Island Croatia Game of Thrones

In the end, she did not come. Did it matter? Of course not, Lokrum island is  a worthwhile experience, you can have a good time because you have plenty to see and do. Play sports, eat something or have a drink, you can use a bike to see the whole island. Feed beautiful peacocks that inhabit Lokrum, sunbathing, resting or to go swimming. Lokrum island is great and I know khaleesi will be there one day as Game of Thrones is not finished yet and I will visit Dubrovnik and Croatia again in the future.

Dubrovnik Croatia

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Hateful expressions according to Stephen King

Stephen King,  Taken at the 2007 New York Comicon (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Legendary American writer Stephen King, who says you must read and write during 5 hours everyday to do it well and assures you can only call yourself a writer when you do receive a cheque that allows you to earn something  as writers are usually indebted has made some interesting revelations in an interview with Jessica Lahey. Following this here you have some expressions which are hateful according to Stephen King.

HATEFUL EXPRESSIONS ACCORDING TO STEPHEN KING.

• That´s so cool
• At the end of the day
• At this point in time
• Some people say
• Many believe
• The consensus is
• LOL
• YOLO
• IMHO

Do you use these expressions? Are you going to disturb the Horror Writer Stephen King using them? Take care...

Stephen King interviewed by Jessica Lahey

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Infolinks - Let our online ads work for You!

Halcombe Norilsk did not have a good experience (as always) regarding online ad companies.  This time was even harder for him. Was he guilty of having lived so many adventures throughout the world? Was he guilty of having to write about them? Was he too dim?

One day he tried Infolinks and everything changed for once and all. Infolinks is the only ad company that works in the main blog of Halcombe Norilsk. No other one is expected, everything works just fine. Nothing else is needed.

Infolinks is very easy to use, implement and monetize. Something he really loves is how the reports come easily to his inbox whenever he decides to have them. Likewise, it is really wonderful how to control the number of ads you put on your site or the different styles which can be selected from the wide array of ads that can be used. 

Halcombe is generous as Infolinks is, he shares his content with others as Infolinks allows you to implement its ads on different sites despite they may have be endorsed with other ad companies, this is very interesting because no only Infolinks can be your main strategy it can also be used to complement other kind of ads you might be using with other organizations.

When the blog is not telling the adventures of Halcombe Norilsk it may tell of diverse themes. Writing is such a powerful activity that allows you to write millions of posts from diverse themes and subjects. Infolinks adapts itself to it as it uses the words you write. You can pen anything and wait swimmingly, Infolinks does the rest. There is no a single problem at all, I am telling you, Infolinks is a great bet!!!!

I do not know if your stories are like the ones Halcombe Norilsk (it is difficult to found a loser character as him) has lived but what I do really know nonetheless is that if you want to write a blog and monetize it you must try Infolinks contingent upon the fact Infolinks offers plenty of possibilites, it is easy to implement, use, control and above all is really, really efficient. 

Sincerely. Follow the link to discover more.

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The Dreamers: Discovering Eva Green.

Eva Green The Dreamers

One of the best actresses in the world, Eva Green,  star of films such as Dark Shadows, Kingdom of Heaven or most recently 300 and the most enigmatic Bond girl ever, Vesper Lynd, is becoming the global movie star sensation of 2014 thereby is a good moment to talk about the film that brought her to us. The Dreamers by Bernardo Bertolucci.

Italian director is one of the most relevant filmmakers ever. His movie The Last Emperor won 9 Oscars and he has received many others awards: best director, best screenplay and was nominated two more times. Likewise, he is responsible of two famous stories such as Novecento and The last waltz in Paris, albeit his most recent hightlight was to discover Eva Green within The Dreamers. (Read an update and improved version of this post EVA GREEN

                          

Eva Green The Dreamers

If one is tired of seeing the same repetitive movies that are made these days The Dreamers can be a good bet.The Dreamers is based upon a novel of Gilbert Adair, the Holy Innocents. An American journalist (Michael Pitt) is living in Paris for a while, at the same time historical disturbances of 1968 are taking place. He  met then two enigmatic siblings (Eva Green and Louis Garrel) who invited him to have dinner one night and subsequently to stay in their house, in central Paris. A special relationship between the three of them starts as a result. 


The Dreamers Eva Green

They will talk and discuss over politics, movies, history, Eva Green starts henceforth her journey in the cinema history in an outstanding way proving why she has become a global star, able to do movies of any kind Eva Green

                    

                            

Eva Green The Dreamers