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Taken yesterday on a walk up Hedgehope.
This post was well and truly secured into the ground, even if the wire fencing was almost non existent.
Heage Windmill Society secures the preservation, conservation and development of Heage Windmill along with regularly opening the Mill to the public to educate them in the history and architecture of Mills and Milling in general and Heage windmill in particular.
Heage windmill, a Grade 2* listed building, has major problems –wet rot When the millwrights arrived at the windmill in August to carry out routine maintenance they discovered that some major structural components were showing signs of severe wet rot. The members in question are made from very large section timbers, exposed to the elements at all times and form part of the support structure for the wind shaft and also of the fan tail at the rear of the mill, which turns the entire cap to face into the wind. The work is expected to cost in excess of £90K, a sum far above the reserves held by the Trust. Grants and support will therefore be sought to enable the work to go ahead and various fund raising activities will be organised. All supporters and past visitors to the mill are invited to make contributions to help match the shortfall in funds.
This cracked me up b/c there is so much being made about border security. Bush is spending millions on building walls to "secure" the border but at this spot in Laredo this barricade is the only thing b/t the US and Mexico and no one seems to be worried about it.
©Alex Felipe
The military have been present in the area for a few months now. Beyond problems with economy, education, gambling, and culture there is also the question of security.
The area was designated tribal land in 2003, but this doesn't mean that outside forces don't want pieces for themselves. In April last year there was an incursion by people claiming to have land rights. That escalated into an armed conflict involving knives and single shot arms on one side, vs automatic weapons and mortars on the other. Miarayon Centro was evacuated displacing over a thousand.
When it went to the courts hostilities relaxed and the outsiders left the area pending court action. In mid-March this year they won a temporary restraining order against the tribe coming into the disputed land (though land ownership has yet to be decided). They are expected to return to the area any day.
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About these soldiers though. This was taken at one of the two local kareoke joints where they were enjoying a brew or two. Nice guys (albeit nice guys with loaded guns). They offered to share drinks with me and we chatted about their previous missions throughout the country. They liked their current assignment here because it was quiet and uneventful.
My brother owns a security company, and we were watching a partially burned down house because the fire was being investigated. I have a few good pictures from the house. ;D
Secure the Bag, Mint the Soaps and Throw the Bones is a site of exchange that aims to recontextualize the intricate histories of the brown paper bag and Hispano cuaba soap while inviting the audience to play a game of dominoes. This is based on the artist’s ongoing examination of these items found in private and domestic settings. Nonetheless, their combined racialized, colonial and social complexity reverberates in the customs and dynamics of collective space within a black diasporic subjectivity and imagination. To learn more visit www.recessart.org/francheskaalcantara/
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Secure the Bag, Mint the Soaps and Throw the Bones is a site of exchange that aims to recontextualize the intricate histories of the brown paper bag and Hispano cuaba soap while inviting the audience to play a game of dominoes. This is based on the artist’s ongoing examination of these items found in private and domestic settings. Nonetheless, their combined racialized, colonial and social complexity reverberates in the customs and dynamics of collective space within a black diasporic subjectivity and imagination. To learn more visit www.recessart.org/francheskaalcantara/