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After 187 failed attempts at my original idea for tonight I changed tact and went with a last minute backup. I will re visit the original idea later on this year when I have more time/patience! For tonights Macro Mondays theme of black and white.
1982 Marcos GT Component Car
- 2.8 litre Cologne V6
- mechanical Bosch K-Jetronic fuel injection
- power 159 bhp / 5.500 rpm
- top speed 197 km/h
- curb weight 800 kg
L’architetto Paolo Portoghesi ha presentato al pubblico un’opera pittorica donata al Comune di Montefalco da Luigi Frappi, uno degli ultimi paesaggisti di valore viventi. Pochi se ne sono accorti, sebbene l’evento si collocasse in seno alla Settimana Enologica e coincidesse con un incontro di studio sul paesaggio, puntualmente disertato da imprenditori edili, architetti, geometri e amministratori locali, ma non da Lamberto Bottini, diligente assessore all’Ambiente e allo Sviluppo Sostenibile della Regione Umbria. Il degrado del territorio è un problema che coinvolge drammaticamente l’intero Paese. Per quanto riguarda la nostra regione mi hanno lasciato perplesso le benevole parole di Berlusconi pronunciate tra le selve di Melezzole, anche se queste hanno avuto il merito di promuovere attraverso i media la natura dell'Umbria, in particolare quella delle sue zone ancora incontaminate. In verità la situazione più a valle, dove briga la lobby del mattone, non è incoraggiante. Il territorio è qualcosa di diverso dalla semplice addizione di tutte le componenti visibili, ed esige un’accurata sottigliezza interpretativa per rivelare la sua vera dimensione. A Montefalco, Portoghesi ha riflettuto a lungo intorno alla necessità di comprendere le ragioni del paesaggio, prendendo spunto da un’antinomia dei valori mutuata dall’opera di Heidegger, secondo il quale l’epoca del Pensiero Meditante ha lasciato il posto a quella del Pensiero Calcolante. L’uomo del nostro tempo fugge davanti al Pensiero Meditante, che richiede uno sforzo particolare e come tale non può considerarsi immediato, né in grado di confrontarsi adeguatamente con le urgenze che la nostra epoca presenta. Così l’umanità, in balìa del Pensiero Calcolante, si mostra impreparata a comprendere il radicale mutamento del mondo che avviene sotto i nostri occhi. Uno dei criteri per misurare l’evoluzione raggiunta dalla civiltà è rappresentato, appunto, dall’indagine sulla qualità dell’architettura e sulle scelte urbanistiche adottate, che devono confrontarsi con il rispetto del paesaggio culturale; la sua manomissione si risolve, infatti, in una perdita d’identità e di memoria. La pittura di Frappi – e in particolare l’opera donata a Montefalco - riflette l’identità simbolica e culturale della regione. L’artista, nel proporci la sua Umbria, denuncia lo stravolgimento e il degrado di vedute millenarie ormai prive di sensibilità estetica e fisionomica, sempre meno capaci di far scattare la scintilla dell’attrazione e dunque dell’amore e del rispetto, ma anche della domanda turistica: la sola, in definitiva, ad aumentare il reddito delle popolazioni locali in modo diffuso e durevole. Chi si affaccia oggi dalla Ringhiera dell’Umbria fatica a individuare Trevi, Spello, Assisi, Bevagna, Campello e Cannara. La città di Foligno si è trasformata in un abitato incoerente, con la sua periferia caotica e accerchiante, senza identità alcuna. Nessuno pretende certo di tornare ai tempi in cui la Valle Umbra era quella affrescata dal Gozzoli nel celebre dipinto in cui Francesco parla agli uccelli; ma vale la pena chiedersi cosa rimarrà di questi luoghi tra venti o trent’anni, se non saremo in grado di darci strumenti normativi capaci di preservarci dall’arido dispotismo del Pensiero Calcolante – sempre a breve termine - e dalle operazioni di contabilità della distruzione. La sensazione che si avverte è quella di un generale spaesamento: di una perdita di luogo. Gli umbri - cui non è toccata in sorte la linea piatta del mare, né il profilo dissolto della Padania - non possono rinunciare ai capisaldi, ben piantati nello spazio simbolico delle loro valli. Hanno bisogno di ancorarsi a punti costantemente stabiliti, che gli appartengono dalla nascita, anzi, dal concepimento. Tutto questo sta scritto nell’opera geofilosofica di Frappi, rivelatrice del tormento creativo dell’artista, e insieme del disagio dell’uomo, che si sforza di riconoscere l’orientamento estetico dello spazio in cui vive e di coglierne l’espressività simbolica. Come Berlusconi, Frappi preferisce vedere le cose a modo suo: ignora volutamente la crisi dell’agricoltura tipica, l’aumento del traffico, la devastazione del verde, gli insediamenti sparsi. Evidentemente l’artista, che vive secondo una tentazione del bello, nutre antipatia per una certa umanità: quella che mal si concilia con lo spirito delle proprie opere, con la sua sensibilità al paesaggio. E così, a modo suo, Frappi compie una ridefinizione critica dell’identità culturale. Ma Berlusconi non è Frappi, e l’Umbria non è Arcore. Al Presidente del Consiglio, mancato ragazzo della Via Gluck, non sarà sfuggito, dal rifugio di Melezzole, che l’ubriacatura edilizia scardina – in Umbria forse più che altrove - il senso dei luoghi. Non sarà neanche sfuggito che il territorio è tempo lungo, sedimento, decantazione incompatibile con il mutamento repentino, senso comunitario, avvedutezza, pietas, adesione al genius loci; mentre le operazioni immobiliari - apprezzate dalla destra, ma non disdegnate a sinistra - stanno imponendo accelerazioni acriticamente asservite a un solo scopo: svuotare i paesi e a spargere abitati su quelle stesse valli che Frappi si ostina a dipingere e che il Pensiero Calcolante si compiace di distruggere, assecondando una nuova ondata di speculazione diffusa. Com’è possibile che si continui a costruire mentre nelle città italiane ci sono un numero smisurato di appartamenti vuoti? In questi giorni, cinque giovani creativi di Milano, hanno lanciato l'idea della spiaggia virtuale: una terapia antistress, con la prospettiva di realizzare centri nelle più grandi metropoli italiane ed europee, capaci di ricreare uno scenario virtuale a trecentosessanta gradi di pannelli che mostrano immagini continue di luoghi marini sempre diversi, attorno ad un'isola di sabbia vera, attrezzata con vasche di acqua salata dove potersi immergere accarezzati da brezze virtuali, rapiti da odori salmastri e rassicurati dal grido dei gabbiani. Siamo arrivati ai tentativi virtuali per sconfiggere lo stress, illudendoci di aver trascorso una settimana alle Maldive o a Skiatos. E pensare che l’’Umbria non avrebbe bisogno di tali scenari polisensoriali che mutano a ogni seduta, se solo ponesse maggiore alla difesa dei suoi paesaggi naturali. Che il presidente Berlusconi abbia voluto intendere questo con la sua gratificante esternazione ?
Giovanni Picuti
Corriere dell'Umbria
4.10.2008
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Año Nuevo Chino 2026, Fort Pienc, Barcelona.
La celebración del año nuevo chino se celebra desde hace ya diez años y ha arraigado con fuerza en la ciudad, donde viven más de 20.200 personas de origen chino. La china, es de hecho la cuarta nacionalidad más grande residente en la ciudad de Barcelona. El dinamismo de su tejido asociativo y el componente intercultural de la celebración del año nuevo, que comparten numerosas entidades de los barrios de la ciudad, lo ha convertido en una cita muy señalada en el calendario festivo barcelonés.
The celebration of the Chinese New Year has been celebrated for ten years and has become firmly established in the city, where more than 20,200 people of Chinese origin live. Chinese is in fact the fourth largest nationality residing in the city of Barcelona. The dynamism of its associative fabric and the intercultural component of the New Year celebration, which is shared by numerous entities in the city's neighborhoods, has made it a very important event in the Barcelona festive calendar.
A component from inside one of my son's computers is amazing to me how something unseen can look quite attractive ( to me anyway) the sky blue color slightly reflects in the metal.
The game par excellence of the Italian family is bingo. Components of the game are, a bag in which the numbers from 1 to 90 are placed, a billboard showing the numbers released, participants can buy cards at a predetermined price, who takes the bill pays for 10 pages. Once the money is collected, the prize money is formed by dividing it into 5 parts. Ambo Terno Quaderna Cinquina Tombola.
I wanted to interpret the magic moment that is the bag that contains the numbers
In the hole at Alden for D&H TV-94, D&H LABU (Lawrence MA-Buffalo NY) has a three builder with all Gulford components lash-up. D&H 7402 and B&M 310 both EMD's followed by GE Maine Central 232 and then a pair of Alco's D&H 416 and D&H 455.
È un percorso di 130 km, che inizia e finisce ad Arquata Scrivia, in Piemonte e si può percorrere in 7 tappe.
Era stato ideato da uno studente universitario che nella sua Tesi di laurea aveva studiato i vari Cammini .
Percorsi storici, spirituali, come il famoso Cammino di Santiago o la Via Francigena... Ce ne sono un'infinità.
Lui aveva pensato a questo percorso per risollevare le sorti di questi luoghi, belli, ma ormai spopolati e rilanciarli con un 'turismo lento'.
Si svolge nella poco conosciuta Val Borbera, lungo il percorso dei fiumi Scrivia e Borbera, tra Piemonte, Liguria, Emilia e Lombardia, alla scoperta di storie medievali, feudali e partigiane.
Un cammino tra boschi, villaggi, guadi di fiumi, una natura selvaggia in Appennino, incontrando uomini e donne testimoni di un'ostinata rinascita contadina, sociale e spirituale. Di qui il nome 'Cammino dei Ribelli'.
Questi sono stati i luoghi della Resistenza partigiana e il nostro referente, Dario Debenedetti, che ci ha accompagnato per un breve tratto illustrandoci la Storia della zona, ci ha mostrato questa stele, proprio all'inizio del percorso. Era il luogo in cui fu fucilato il nonno, partigiano, di cui porta il nome.
Anche Dario, un 'giovane' di circa una cinquantina d'anni, sta combattendo la sua lotta. Ci ha raccontato, con molta semplicità e un sorriso, che ha subito da poco un trapianto di midollo spinale e ha appena terminato una chemioterapia.
La vita continua , con passione, in tutta la sua bellezza
Arquata Scrivia
Nella foto Graziella e Marina , due componenti del gruppo Cai.
Il percorso, di cui abbiamo fatto la prima tappa, circa 13 km era semplice e non faticoso. A parte un tratto iniziale, di qualche centinaio di metri , con una salita molto ripida. Abbiamo percorso il primo tratto sulla strada statale, perché si sarebbe dovuto attraversare un guado, ma non era possibile perché c'era troppa acqua
A stele in stone that shows where a Partisan was killed, at the beginning of the 'Cammino dei Ribelli' ( the Path of Rebels ') , 130 km in the woods and mountains , in Piemont
I do like the cloud placement in this image. The original photo was of a semi-deserted Florida beach in early morning. Photoleap Tiny Planet and Cloud Wanderer components were used to create it.
Searching for buried scrap to sell or trade, the junk trader's caravan is, naturally, made from salvaged scrap components.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tower_Bridge
Tower Bridge is a combined bascule and suspension bridge in London, England, over the River Thames. It is close to the Tower of London, which gives it its name.Name[›] It has become an iconic symbol of London.
The bridge consists of two towers which are tied together at the upper level by means of two horizontal walkways which are designed to withstand the horizontal forces exerted by the suspended sections of the bridge on the land-ward sides of the towers. The vertical component of the forces in the suspended sections and the vertical reactions of the two walkways are carried by the two robust towers. The bascule pivots and operating machinery are housed in the base of each tower. Its present colour dates from 1977 when it was painted red, white and blue for the Queen's Silver Jubilee. Originally it was painted a chocolate brown colour.[1]
Tower Bridge is sometimes mistakenly referred to as London Bridge, which is actually the next bridge upstream.[2] A popular urban legend is that in 1968, Robert McCulloch, the purchaser of the old London Bridge that was later shipped to Lake Havasu City, Arizona, believed that he was in fact buying Tower Bridge. This was denied by McCulloch himself and has been debunked by Ivan Luckin, the seller of the bridge.[3]
The nearest London Underground station is Tower Hill on the Circle and District Lines.
The nearest Docklands Light Railway station is Tower Gateway.
In the second half of the 19th century, increased commercial development in the East End of London led to a requirement for a new river crossing downstream of London Bridge. A traditional fixed bridge could not be built because it would cut off access to the port facilities in the Pool of London, between London Bridge and the Tower of London.
A Special Bridge or Subway Committee was formed in 1876, chaired by Sir Albert Joseph Altman, to find a solution to the river crossing problem. It opened the design of the crossing to public competition. Over 50 designs were submitted, including one from civil engineer Sir Joseph Bazalgette. The evaluation of the designs was surrounded by controversy, and it was not until 1884 that a design submitted by Horace Jones, the City Architect (who was also one of the judges),[4] was approved.
Jones' engineer, Sir John Wolfe Barry, devised the idea of a bascule bridge with two towers built on piers. The central span was split into two equal bascules or leaves, which could be raised to allow river traffic to pass. The two side-spans were suspension bridges, with the suspension rods anchored both at the abutments and through rods contained within the bridge's upper walkways.
Construction started in 1886 and took eight years with five major contractors – Sir John Jackson (foundations), Baron Armstrong (hydraulics), William Webster, Sir H.H. Bartlett, and Sir William Arrol & Co.[5] – and employed 432 construction workers. E W Crutwell was the resident engineer for the construction.[6]
Two massive piers, containing over 70,000 tons of concrete,[4] were sunk into the riverbed to support the construction. Over 11,000 tons of steel provided the framework for the towers and walkways.[4] This was then clad in Cornish granite and Portland stone, both to protect the underlying steelwork and to give the bridge a pleasing appearance.
Jones died in 1887 and George D. Stevenson took over the project.[4] Stevenson replaced Jones' original brick facade with the more ornate Victorian Gothic style, which makes the bridge a distinctive landmark, and was intended to harmonise the bridge with the nearby Tower of London.[6] The total cost of construction was £1,184,000.[6]
The bridge was officially opened on 30 June 1894 by The Prince of Wales (the future King Edward VII), and his wife, The Princess of Wales (Alexandra of Denmark).[7]
The bridge connected Iron Gate, on the north bank of the river, with Horsleydown Lane, on the south – now known as Tower Bridge Approach and Tower Bridge Road, respectively.[6] Until the bridge was opened, the Tower Subway – 400 m to the west – was the shortest way to cross the river from Tower Hill to Tooley Street in Southwark. Opened in 1870, Tower Subway was the world's first underground ('tube') railway, but closed after just three months and was re-opened as a pedestrian foot tunnel. Once Tower Bridge was open, the majority of foot traffic transferred to using the bridge, there being no toll to pay to use it. Having lost most of its income, the tunnel was closed in 1898.[8]
Tower Bridge is one of five London bridges now owned and maintained by the Bridge House Estates, a charitable trust overseen by the City of London Corporation. It is the only one of the Trust's bridges not to connect the City of London to the Southwark bank, the northern landfall is in Tower Hamlets.
The bridge is 800 feet (244 m) in length with two towers each 213 feet (65 m) high, built on piers. The central span of 200 feet (61 m) between the towers is split into two equal bascules or leaves, which can be raised to an angle of 83 degrees to allow river traffic to pass. The bascules, weighing over 1,000 tons each, are counterbalanced to minimize the force required and allow raising in five minutes.
The two side-spans are suspension bridges, each 270 feet (82 m) long, with the suspension rods anchored both at the abutments and through rods contained within the bridge's upper walkways. The pedestrian walkways are 143 feet (44 m) above the river at high tide.[6]
The original raising mechanism was powered by pressurised water stored in several hydraulic accumulators.Hydraulics[›][clarification needed]
The system was designed and installed by Sir W. G. Armstrong Mitchell & Company of Newcastle upon Tyne. Water, at a pressure of 750 psi, was pumped into the accumulators by two 360 hp stationary steam engines, each driving a force pump from its piston tail rod. The accumulators each comprise a 20-inch ram on which sits a very heavy weight to maintain the desired pressure.
In 1974, the original operating mechanism was largely replaced by a new electro-hydraulic drive system, designed by BHA Cromwell House. The only components of the original system still in use are the final pinions, which engage with the racks fitted to the bascules. These are driven by modern hydraulic motors and gearing, using oil rather than water as the hydraulic fluid.[9]
Some of the original hydraulic machinery has been retained, although it is no longer in use. It is open to the public and forms the basis for the bridge's museum, which resides in the old engine rooms on the south side of the bridge. The museum includes the steam engines, two of the accumulators and one of the hydraulic engines that moved the bascules, along with other related artefacts.
During World War II, as a precaution against the existing engines being damaged by enemy action, a third engine was installed in 1942:[10] a 150 hp horizontal cross-compound engine, built by Vickers Armstrong Ltd. at their Elswick works in Newcastle upon Tyne. It was fitted with a flywheel having a 9-foot diameter and weighing 9 tons, and was governed to a speed of 30 rpm.
The engine became redundant when the rest of the system was modernised in 1974, and was donated to the Forncett Industrial Steam Museum by the Corporation of the City of London.
To control the passage of river traffic through the bridge, a number of different rules and signals were employed. Daytime control was provided by red semaphore signals, mounted on small control cabins on either end of both bridge piers. At night, coloured lights were used, in either direction, on both piers: two red lights to show that the bridge was closed, and two green to show that it was open. In foggy weather, a gong was sounded as well.[6]
Vessels passing through the bridge had to display signals too: by day, a black ball at least 2 feet (0.61 m) in diameter was to be mounted high up where it could be seen; by night, two red lights in the same position. Foggy weather required repeated blasts from the ship's steam whistle.[6]
If a black ball was suspended from the middle of each walkway (or a red light at night) this indicated that the bridge could not be opened. These signals were repeated about 1,000 yards (910 m) downstream, at Cherry Garden Pier, where boats needing to pass through the bridge had to hoist their signals/lights and sound their horn, as appropriate, to alert the Bridge Master.[6]
Some of the control mechanism for the signalling equipment has been preserved and may be seen working in the bridge's museum.
Although the bridge is an undoubted landmark, professional commentators in the early 20th century were critical of its aesthetics. "It represents the vice of tawdriness and pretentiousness, and of falsification of the actual facts of the structure", wrote H. H. Statham,[11] while Frank Brangwyn stated that "A more absurd structure than the Tower Bridge was never thrown across a strategic river".[12]
Architectural historian Dan Cruickshank selected the bridge as one of his four choices for the 2002 BBC television documentary series Britain's Best Buildings.[13]
Tower Bridge is still a busy and vital crossing of the Thames: it is crossed by over 40,000 people (motorists and pedestrians) every day.[14] The bridge is on the London Inner Ring Road, and is on the eastern boundary of the London congestion charge zone. (Drivers do not incur a charge by crossing the bridge.)
In order to maintain the integrity of the historic structure, the City of London Corporation have imposed a 20 miles per hour (32 km/h) speed restriction, and an 18-tonne weight limit on vehicles using the bridge. A sophisticated camera system measures the speed of traffic crossing the bridge, utilising a number plate recognition system to send fixed penalty charges to speeding drivers.[citation needed]
A second system monitors other vehicle parameters. Induction loops and piezoelectric detectors are used to measure the weight, the height of the chassis above ground level, and the number of axles for each vehicle.[citation needed]
River traffic
The bascules are raised around 1000 times a year.[15] River traffic is now much reduced, but it still takes priority over road traffic. Today, 24 hours' notice is required before opening the bridge. In 2008, a local web developer created a Twitter feed to post live updates of the bridge's opening and closing activities.[16]
A computer system was installed in 2000 to control the raising and lowering of the bascules remotely. Unfortunately it proved less reliable than desired, resulting in the bridge being stuck in the open or closed positions on several occasions during 2005, until its sensors were replaced.[14]
The high-level walkways between the towers gained an unpleasant reputation as a haunt for prostitutes and pickpockets and were closed in 1910. In 1982 they were reopened as part of the Tower Bridge Exhibition, an exhibition now housed in the bridge's twin towers, the high-level walkways and the Victorian engine rooms. The walkways boast stunning views of the River Thames and many famous London sites, serving as viewing galleries for over 380,000 tourists[citation needed] who visit each year. The exhibition also uses films, photos and interactives to explain why and how Tower Bridge was built. Visitors can access the original steam engines that once powered the bridge bascules, housed in a building close to the south end of the bridge.
In April 2008 it was announced that the bridge will undergo a 'facelift' costing £4m, and taking four years to complete. The work entails stripping off the existing paint and repainting in blue and white. Each section will be enshrouded in scaffolding to prevent the old paint from falling into the Thames and causing pollution. Starting in mid-2008, contractors will work on a quarter of the bridge at a time to minimise disruption, but some road closures are inevitable. The bridge will remain open until the end of 2010, but is then expected to be closed for several months. It is hoped that the completed work will stand for 25 years.[17]
The walkway section of the renovation was completed in mid 2009. Within the walkways a versatile new lighting system has been installed, designed by Eleni Shiarlis, for when the walkways are in use for exhibitions or functions. The new system provides for both feature and atmospheric lighting, the latter using bespoke RGB LED luminares, designed to be concealed within the bridge superstructure and fixed without the need for drilling (these requirements as a result of the bridge's Grade I status).[18]
In December 1952, the bridge opened while a number 78 double-decker bus (stock number RT 793) was on it. At that time, the gateman would ring a warning bell and close the gates when the bridge was clear before the watchman ordered the lift. The process failed while a relief watchman was on duty. The bus was near the edge of the south bascule when it started to rise; driver Albert Gunter made a split-second decision to accelerate the bus, clearing a three-foot drop on to the north bascule, which had not started to rise. There were no serious injuries.[19]
Main article: Hawker Hunter Tower Bridge incident
On 5 April 1968 a Hawker Hunter FGA.9 jet fighter from No.1 Squadron RAF, flown by Flt Lt Alan Pollock, flew under Tower Bridge. Unimpressed that senior staff were not going to celebrate the RAF's 50th birthday with a fly-past, Pollock decided to do something himself. Without authorisation, Pollock flew the Hunter at low level down the Thames, past the Houses of Parliament, and continued on to Tower Bridge. He flew the Hunter beneath the bridge's walkway, remarking afterwards it was an afterthought when he saw the bridge looming ahead of him. Pollock was placed under arrest upon landing, and discharged from the RAF on medical grounds without the chance to defend himself at a court martial.[20][21]
In May 1997,[22] the motorcade of United States President Bill Clinton was divided by the opening of the bridge. Thames sailing barge Gladys, on her way to a gathering at St Katharine Docks, arrived on schedule and the bridge was duly opened for her. Returning from a Thames-side lunch at Le Pont de la Tour restaurant, with UK Prime Minister Tony Blair, President Clinton was less punctual, and arrived just as the bridge was rising. The bridge opening split the motorcade in two, much to the consternation of security staff. A spokesman for Tower Bridge is quoted as saying, "We tried to contact the American Embassy, but they wouldn't answer the 'phone."[23]
On 19 August 1999, Jef Smith, a Freeman of the City of London, drove a "herd" of two sheep across the bridge. He was exercising an ancient permission, granted as a right to Freemen, to make a point about the powers of older citizens and the way in which their rights were being eroded.[24] However, this was a hollow gesture as the so-called right is to drive sheep across London Bridge into the City of London, and Tower Bridge does not have its northern landfall in the City.[citation needed]
Before dawn on 31 October 2003, David Crick, a Fathers 4 Justice campaigner, climbed a 120 ft (37 m) tower crane near Tower Bridge at the start of a six-day protest dressed as Spider-Man.[25] Fearing for his safety, and that of motorists should he fall, police cordoned off the area, closing the bridge and surrounding roads and causing widespread traffic congestion across the City and east London. The Metropolitan Police were later criticised for maintaining the closure for five days when this was not strictly necessary in the eyes of some citizens.[26][27]
On May 11, 2009, six persons were trapped and injured after a lift fell 10 ft inside the north tower.[28][29]
Installation by John Cage (dates from 1993) Writings through the essency: On the duty of civil disobedience.
"The installation consists of 36-channel sound recordings and twenty-four theatrical lights selected and programmed according to instructions generated by the Chinese classic I-Ching (Book of Changes). As well, six chairs, sourced locally, are repositioned in new locations each day. Cage, whose voice is manipulated by pitch and by speed, reads a mesostic (a poetic structure similar to an acrostic, with a vertical phrase formed by lines of horizontal text) that references Erik Satie’s Messes des Pauvres and ‘On the Duty of Civil Disobedience’ (1849) by American transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau. In the text—a strong objection to slavery and the Mexican–American War—Thoreau asserts that citizens must oppose government attempts to implicate them in acts of injustice.
Cage creates an all-enveloping perceptual and spatial experience wherein present-day viewers interact with recorded voices; he did not intend for the work to be a political statement. Each iteration of the installation produces a site-specific and unique composition. The random, unpredictable play of lights that complement the aural component enlivens and remakes the work each time it is installed and every day it plays."
from www.westkowloon.hk/en/mplus/m-programmes/exhibition-john-...
Former Belgian Air Component C-130H Hercules CH-09 now in Pakistani service, on static display at the 2025 Royal International Air Tattoo.
A new makeup set was released by the [Chique] Brand and it is now available on marketplace for only 25 L$. up set was just released and it is now available on marketplace for only 15 L$. The set encompasses colorful make up appliers in the following versions:
• Aqua
• Arancia
• Aubergine
• Cloudy
• Fire
• Nature
Link: marketplace.secondlife.com/p/Chique-ColorBomb-Eye-Make-Up...
Artist: Sophie Smallhorn
Title: 999 - Component Cube 2
Material: aluminium, urethane board, cellulose paint and acrylic
Summer Exhibition 2015
8 June - 16 August 2015
Royal Academy of Arts
Main Galleries, Burlington House
London, England, UK
An idea inspired by Codey K.'s excellent BrickArms mods.
All components use a 1/16" pin and socket system and are held by friction.
The AK receiver has 5 holes to accommodate a butt stock, fore stock, mag, and two holes for scopes.
Proto parts have been injected, and parts will be available to hold and configure at BrickFair VA. See Codey for further details at the show.
The Malta flagged, 27,915 gt feedermax sized container ship, the CONTI EMDEN (MMSI 525020435) departing her berth at Fremantle Port on March 5, 2016. The CONTI EMDEN arrived at Fremantle March 4, 2016 from Jakarta and berthed at Patrick Stevedores operated North Quay No.10 berth to move big boxes. She remained there till her departure on March 5, 2016 for Adelaide in South Australia.
The CONTI EMDEN, who is now known as SEGARA MAS, was formerly known as the ZIM NORFOLK, was built in 2006 in Germany at the Nordseewerke, Emden shipyards and is as at January 2017 sailing as part of the Temas Line fleet and is managed by Temas Line of Indonesia.
Medano Creek flows seasonally. Flows are generally greater in the morning than later in the day. This morning, the flow, such as it was, was just beginning.
From Wikipedia:
Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve is an American national park that conserves an area of large sand dunes up to 750 feet (229 m) tall on the eastern edge of the San Luis Valley, and an adjacent national preserve in the Sangre de Cristo Range, in south-central Colorado, United States.
The park contains the tallest sand dunes in North America. The dunes cover an area of about 30 sq mi (78 km2) and are estimated to contain over 1.2 cubic miles (5 billion cubic metres) of sand. Sediments from the surrounding mountains filled the valley over geologic time periods. After lakes within the valley receded, exposed sand was blown by the predominant southwest winds toward the Sangre de Cristos, eventually forming the dunefield over an estimated tens of thousands of years. The four primary components of the Great Sand Dunes system are the mountain watershed, the dunefield, the sand sheet, and the sabkha. Ecosystems within the mountain watershed include alpine tundra, subalpine forests, montane woodlands, and riparian zones.
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Stockholm-Bedroom Lamp (left)
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Torronto-Slippers
Stockholm-Flip Clock
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dust bunny . potted dragon tree
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Apple Fall Meadow Flowers
!! Follow US !! Vintage burger tray
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dust bunny . potted cheese plant
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A component from inside one of my son's computers it is amazing to me how something unseen and small can look quite attractive and I love the colors, bring out the colors!
Il. Title- ( - sang sur mains - ) Mike Mullen having a nice steak dinner with a 'clear conscience' ... ( On top of dead Afghani civilians & dead soldiers.. Egomaniac.. ) Yes Wikileaks shared this piece inspired by them & their work: twitter.com/wikileaks/status/21824111844 it & the entire Wikileaks series is not- for sale.
At some point there may be an exhibition with funds going towards WL & Bradley Manning.
But for now none of the pieces in the series are commercially available or for sale to private individuals.
They do have free use by Wikileaks however.
More work to be posted soon.
Dimensions: 18" x 24.5" acid free paper, acrylics, gouache & ebony pencil
"Mr. Assange can say whatever he likes about the greater good he thinks he and his source are doing, but the truth is they might already have on their hands the blood of some young soldier or that of an Afghan family," Mullen said."
www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/07/29/pentagon-wikileaks-bl...
MMm no- Mullen..How can we end these wars ASAP- & STOP you from getting any MORE blood on YOUR hands..
( News from Wikileaks Twitter feed, 8 - 19 - 2012: "In fact, being from another planet, he might even have picked up on something that most Americans would be unlikely to notice -- that, with only slight alterations, Mullen’s blistering comment about Assange could be applied remarkably well to Mullen himself. “Chairman Mullen,” that Martian might have responded, “can say whatever he likes about the greater good he thinks he is doing, but the truth is he already has on his hands the blood of some young soldiers and that of many Afghan families.” "
www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/08/06/opinion/main6748239.shtml )
War Diary - wardiary.wikileaks.org/ Timeline: wartimeline.haineault.com/
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Mullen#2007_Senate_testimon...
& from the Pentagon- "“We want whatever they have returned to us and we want whatever copies they have expunged… We demand that they do the right thing. If doing the right thing is not good enough for them, then we will figure out what alternatives we have to compel them to do the right thing." mashable.com/2010/08/05/pentagon-wikileaks-demand/
The NERVE.. -
Wikileaks - "What we didn't hear from the Pentagon last week: "killing all those innocent people is bad. Sorry. We will stop that" Thursday, August 05, 2010
YES.
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"Thousands of children and adults had been killed and the US could have announced a broad inquiry into these killings, "but he decided to treat these issues with contempt''.
He said: "This behaviour is unacceptable. We will continue to expose abuses by this administration and others."" - www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jul/30/us-military-wikileak...
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( From Wikileaks twitter- Aug 19 2010 _ ) -
Wikileaks vs the Pentagon: Phony Fingerpointing
Tom Engelhardt:: Who Really Has Blood On Their Hands?
"Consider the following statement offered by Admiral Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, at a news conference last week. He was discussing Julian Assange, the founder of Wikileaks as well as the person who has taken responsibility for the vast, still ongoing Afghan War document dump at that site. "Mr. Assange,” Mullen commented, “can say whatever he likes about the greater good he thinks he and his source are doing, but the truth is they might already have on their hands the blood of some young soldier or that of an Afghan family.”
Now, if you were the proverbial fair-minded visitor from Mars (who in school civics texts of my childhood always seemed to land on Main Street, U.S.A., to survey the wonders of our American system), you might be a bit taken aback by Mullen’s statement. After all, one of the revelations in the trove of leaked documents Assange put online had to do with how much blood from innocent Afghan civilians was already on American hands.
The British Guardian was one of three publications given early access to the leaked archive, and it began its main article this way: “A huge cache of secret U.S. military files today provides a devastating portrait of the failing war in Afghanistan, revealing how coalition forces have killed hundreds of civilians in unreported incidents. They range from the shootings of individual innocents to the often massive loss of life from air strikes...” Or as the paper added in a piece headlined “Secret CIA paramilitaries’ role in civilian deaths”: “Behind the military jargon, the war logs are littered with accounts of civilian tragedies.
The 144 entries in the logs recording some of these so-called ‘blue on white’ events, cover a wide spectrum of day-by-day assaults on Afghans, with hundreds of casualties.” Or as it also reported, when exploring documents related to Task Force 373, an “undisclosed ‘black’ unit” of U.S. special operations forces focused on assassinating Taliban and al-Qaeda “senior officials”: “The logs reveal that TF 373 has also killed civilian men, women, and children and even Afghan police officers who have strayed into its path.”
Admittedly, the events recorded in the Wikileaks archive took place between 2004 and the end of 2009, and so don’t cover the last six months of the Obama administration’s across-the-board surge in Afghanistan. Then again, Admiral Mullen became chairman of the Joint Chiefs in October 2007, and so has been at the helm of the American war machine for more than two of the years in question.
He was, for example, chairman in July 2008, when an American plane or planes took out an Afghan bridal party -- 70 to 90 strong and made up mostly of women -- on a road near the Pakistani border. They were "escorting the bride to meet her groom as local tradition dictates." The bride, whose name we don’t know, died, as did at least 27 other members of the party, including children. Mullen was similarly chairman in August 2008 when a memorial service for a tribal leader in the village of Azizabad in Afghanistan’s Herat Province was hit by repeated U.S. air strikes that killed at least 90 civilians, including perhaps 15 women and up to 60 children. Among the dead were 76 members of one extended family, headed by Reza Khan, a "wealthy businessman with construction and security contracts with the nearby American base at Shindand airport."
Mullen was still chairman in April 2009 when members of the family of Awal Khan, an Afghan army artillery commander on duty elsewhere, were killed in a U.S.-led raid in Khost province in eastern Afghanistan. Among them were his "schoolteacher wife, a 17-year-old daughter named Nadia, a 15-year-old son, Aimal, and his brother, employed by a government department.” Another daughter was wounded and the pregnant wife of Khan's cousin was shot five times in the abdomen.
Mullen remained chairman when, in November 2009, two relatives of Majidullah Qarar, the spokesman for the Minister of Agriculture, were shot down in cold blood in Ghazni City in a Special Operations night raid; as he was -- and here we move beyond the Wikileaks time frame -- when, in February 2010, U.S. Special Forces troops in helicopters struck a convoy of mini-buses, killing up to 27 civilians, including women and children; as he also was when, in that same month, in a special operations night raid, two pregnant women and a teenage girl, as well as a police officer and his brother, were shot to death in their home in a village near Gardez, the capital of Paktia province. After which, the soldiers reportedly dug the bullets out of the bodies, washed the wounds with alcohol, and tried to cover the incident up. He was no less chairman late last month when residents of a small town in Helmand province in southern Afghanistan claimed that a NATO missile attack had killed 52 civilians, an incident that, like just about every other one mentioned above and so many more, was initially denied by U.S. and NATO spokespeople and is now being “investigated.” "
www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/08/06/opinion/main6748239.shtml
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"What is interesting is who is responsible for the killings.
Of the 1,325 civilian deaths recorded by the Afghan human rights group, 23 per cent were attributed to Nato or Afghan government forces. The Taliban and their allies were responsible for 68 per cent of the deaths.
The UN study claimed the civilian death toll was slightly lower at 1,271 with anti-government forces blamed for 76 per cent of the casualties.
Chronicling precise figures is extremely difficult because most parts of the country are inaccessible.
Crucially, both studies suggested that the proportion of deaths attributed to Nato and Afghan government forces were down compared to last year because of fewer air strikes.
This is important because clumsy air strikes on innocent villages and unfair raids on their houses has been driving a lot of Afghans to pick up arms on behalf of insurgents."
by, Hamida Ghafour
More: www.thenational.ae/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100811/OP...
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"My countrymen called me a prostitute
(Filed: 26/10/2004)
Fourteen months ago, Hamida Ghafour went to Afghanistan to cover her native countrys postwar reconstruction for this newspaper. But, as a westernised Afghan, her homecoming wasnt as welcoming as she had hoped"
www.afghanistan.org/news_detail.asp?17220
I am skeptical about agendas.. It can be confusing, this is why for better or worse one must have THE FACTS - it would have been better if we had them from the START.
Without facts no one cares what we do- or who we kill, because we simply don't have ANY concept of how a decade long war is going..
“The government is engaging in selective prosecution to ensure that employees keep their mouths shut,” says Stephen Khon, a lawyer specializing in whistleblowing cases. “All of a sudden the whistleblower becomes public enemy number one. There is no proportionality.” www.alternet.org/world/147778/how_the_military_destroys_t...
This- - you MUST watch-- It's of Afghani's asking for peace & for us to leave- "Wikileaks Assange, stand freely for love & we in Afg will stand with you.." From: www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9E_nXiPj9g
US war crimes: soldiers speak out. - www.youtube.com/watch?v=tj6s1V0Dpuw
From Wikileaks Twitter- "UNAMA Human Rights Unit issued recommendations in the report including:
• The Taliban should withdraw all orders and statements calling for the killing of civilians; and, the Taliban and other AGEs should end the use of IEDs and suicide attacks, comply with international humanitarian law, cease acts of intimidation and killing including assassination, execution and abduction, fully respect citizens’ freedom of movement and stop using civilians as human shields.
• International military forces should make more transparent their investigation and reporting on civilian casualties including on accountability; maintain and strengthen directives restricting aerial attacks and the use of night raids; coordinate investigation and reporting of civilian casualties with the Afghan Government to improve protection and accountability; improve compensation processes; and, improve transparency around any harm to civilians caused by Special Forces operations.
• The Afghan Government should create a public body to lead its response to major civilian casualty incidents and its interaction with international military forces and other key actors, ensure investigations include forensic components, ensure transparent and timely compensation to victims; and, improve accountability including discipline or prosecution for any Afghan National Security Forces personnel who unlawfully cause death or injury to civilians or otherwise violate the rights of Afghan citizens."
unama.unmissions.org/Default.aspx?tabid=1741&ctl=Deta...
From Wikileaks Twitter- CBC
"A bomb is found tucked into a school typewriter. Insurgents dressed in military uniforms attack an education chief. School guards are tied up while the building is bombed to smithereens. Teachers and students at an all-girls high school are poisoned through the drinking water."
"School attacks
Year Number of attacks against schools
2005 98
2006 220
2007 236
2008 348
2009 610
Source: UNICEF. Data for 2008 and 2009 are from the UN Country Task Force on Children, and previous years are from the Ministry of Education."
"Education for children up in Afghanistan since 2002- .
"Nine years ago, about 100,000 students were enrolled in schools. The figure now stands at more than seven million students, one-third of whom are girls, according to the Afghanistan Ministry of Education.
"It's one of those sectors where we've seen radical and dramatic progress since 2002," notes Rowell.
"No one knows where the country is going … but education is a beacon of success."
Read more: www.cbc.ca/world/story/2010/08/06/f-afghanistan-education...
& www.cbc.ca/news/interactives/database-afghan-war-logs/
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"New Petition Gains Prominent Signatures: “Defend WikiLeaks – End the Secret Wars” - Sign: seminal.firedoglake.com/diary/64042
"One of the most difficult tasks men can perform, however much others may despise it, is the invention of good games and it cannot be done by men out of touch with their instinctive selves." - Jung.
Treating Soldier Stress: www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,2008931_2172992,00...
"Afghan War Diary
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Afghan War Diary (also called The War Logs) is a collection of internal U.S. military logs of the War in Afghanistan published by Wikileaks on 25 July 2010.
The logs consist of 91,731 documents, covering the period between January 2004 and December 2009. Most of the documents were classified as "secret", which The New York Times called "a relatively low level of classification".
As of 28 July 2010, only 75,000 of the documents have been released to the public, a move which Wikileaks says is "part of a harm minimization process demanded by [the] source". Prior to releasing the initial 75,000 documents, Wikileaks made the logs available to The Guardian, The New York Times and Der Spiegel in its German and English on-line edition which published reports per previous agreement on that same day, July 25, 2010."
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"In June 2010, Guardian journalist Nick Davies and WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange established that the US army had built a huge database with six years of sensitive military intelligence material, to which many thousands of US soldiers had access and some of them had been able to download copies, and WikiLeaks had one copy which it proposed to publish online, via a series of uncensorable global servers.
Wikileaks describes itself as "a multi-jurisdictional public service designed to protect whistleblowers, journalists and activists who have sensitive materials to communicate to the public."
In an interview with the U.K.'s Channel 4, Wikileaks founder Julian Assange said that "we have a stated commitment to a particular kind of process and objective, and that commitment is to get censored material out and never to take it down." He contrasted the group with other media outlets by saying that "other journalists try to verify sources. We don't do that, we verify documents. We don't care where it came from." He denied that the group has an inherent bias against the Afghanistan War, saying that "We don't have a view about whether the war should continue or stop – we do have a view that it should be prosecuted as humanely as possible." However, he also said that he believes the leaked information will turn world public opinion to think more negatively of the war."
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afghan_War_Diary
"War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford." -
Hannah Arendt
"The leak of tens of thousands of Afghanistan war-related documents tells us more than the sum total of many official communiqués about the war. On balance, more disclosure is a good thing, but the leaking of raw military intelligence is a special case that requires a careful, rather than a cavalier, approach.
There is not enough information about the war, and much official information is misleading. In Canada, the federal government's quarterly reports contain a few updates based on its goals in Kandahar, but little else that informs. The government has already shown itself to be an unreliable source on issues relating to Afghan detainees.
The situation is now too dangerous for the most trustworthy chroniclers – journalists, UN personnel – to go outside NATO-protected areas.
So reliable, independent information is lacking. The circumstances in this war make such information even more necessary."
www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/editorials/we-neede...
"Instead, many eyes will now pore over this data from many different directions, looking for patterns and attempting to eliminate the noise, disinformation and fog of war.
Many will look to it to criticise and condemn the US presence in Afghanistan, but if those on the other side – those who support such military incursions – have any sense, they too will use it to understand better the war in which they find themselves and adapt their counsel to fit more accurately the facts on the ground.
That’s the benefit, usually, of an open society. We get to triangulate on the truth by gathering facts in the public space, then providing them to all sides to chew over. We use this against our own illusions and those of more closed societies who can only view the world through one narrow perspective.": www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/finance/2010/0730/1224275801...
( en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_ecology )
"The first phase was chilling, in part because the banter of the soldiers was so far beyond the boundaries of civilian discourse. “Just fuckin’, once you get on ’em, just open ’em up,” one of them said. The crew members of the Apache came upon about a dozen men ambling down a street, a block or so from American troops, and reported that five or six of the men were armed with AK-47s; as the Apache maneuvered into position to fire at them, the crew saw one of the Reuters journalists, who were mixed in among the other men, and mistook a long-lensed camera for an RPG. The Apaches fired on the men for twenty-five seconds, killing nearly all of them instantly."
Read more www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/06/07/100607fa_fact_khat...
"With the release of the WikiLeaks documents, Arab media may finally feel vindicated, as Western media finally start to give greater prominence to civilian casualties." newamericamedia.org/2010/07/wikileaks-documents-validate-...
"Wikileaks confirmed: A plan to kill American geologist with poison beer
The Wikileaks documents contain a claim that Pakistan and Afghanistan insurgents were working to poison alcoholic drinks in Afghanistan. While that's unproven, one US adviser in Afghanistan tells the Monitor he was almost poisoned that way in 2007." : www.csmonitor.com/World/Asia-South-Central/2010/0728/Wiki...
"This is duplicitous only if you close your eyes to the Pakistani reality, which the Americans never did. There was ample evidence, as the WikiLeaks show, of covert ISI ties to the Taliban. The Americans knew they couldn't break those ties. They settled for what support Pakistan could give them while constantly pressing them harder and harder until genuine fears in Washington emerged that Pakistan could destabilize altogether. Since a stable Pakistan is more important to the United States than a victory in Afghanistan—which it wasn't going to get anyway—the United States released pressure and increased aid. If Pakistan collapsed, then India would be the sole regional power, not something the United States wants."
www.billoreilly.com/site/rd?satype=13&said=12&url...
"How to read the Afghanistan war logs: video tutorial
David Leigh, the Guardian's investigations editor, explains the online tools we have created to help you understand the secret US military files on the war in Afghanistan": www.guardian.co.uk/world/datablog/video/2010/jul/25/afgha...
"Jonathan Foreman, writing for the right of center National Review's Corner blog, hopes the documents will force America to deal with the possible deceptions being made by ally Pakistan. "It is possible that the publication of documents that provide actual evidence — rather than rumors — of the role of ISI personnel in Taliban planning, logistics, and strategy will give the West greater leverage in dealing with Islamabad and might force Pakistan’s political elite to confront the reality of the ISI’s secret activities. If so, that would be a silver lining to what is otherwise a military disaster abetted by the U.S. and British media."
www.nbclosangeles.com/news/politics/NATL-The-Importance-o...
"The real significance of the Afghan war diaries lies in what Wikileaks represents as a movement, as an evolution in journalism. One analyst has called it the emergence of open source journalism. Julian Assange makes it possible for anybody anywhere in the world to submit secret documents for publication." www.thehindu.com/opinion/columns/Sevanti_Ninan/article541...
A War Without End: www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,708314,00.html
"Julian Assange on the Afghanistan war logs: 'They show the true nature of this war'
Julian Assange, the founder of Wikileaks, explains why he decided to publish thousands of secret US military files on the war in Afghanistan Afghanistan war logs expose truth of occupation": www.guardian.co.uk/world/video/2010/jul/25/julian-assange...
The history of US leaks: www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-10769495
Freedom of Information Act: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_Information_Act_(United_...
"A long-delayed Afghanistan war funding bill, stripped of billions for teachers and black farmers, is back before the House and walking now into the storm over the Internet leak of battlefield reports stirring old doubts about U.S. policy and relations with Pakistan.": www.politico.com/news/stories/0710/40254.html & www.politico.com/news/stories/0710/40251.html
This is a large study/drawing, Assange/Wikileakers of the organization Wikileaks ( wikileaks.org ) uses 'matches from sources' to disclose US gov secrecy ( behind large black curtains ) & to also finally bring some much needed attention & closure to some of these revelations ( set ablaze ).
This ongoing series is dedicated to everyone who has needlessly had their lives destroyed, been injured or die in this almost past decade of war. For the sources, journalists & average citizens who risk their lives to inform us.
Reuters reporters Namir Eldeen, Saeed Chmagh & the good samaritan ( father ) who died trying to save them & of course his two surviving small children who will forever be impacted by the brutality of war for decades to come.
Please help Private Bradley Manning- www.bradleymanning.org/
"One surprising consequence of the war in Iraq is the surrender of postmodernism to a victorious modernism. This has been largely overlooked in North America.
In reaction to the U.S. intervention in Iraq, Jacques Derrida, a famous postmodernist, signed on as co-author of an article drafted by the German philosopher Jürgen Habermas, previously an opponent of his, in an unmistakable endorsement of modernist Enlightenment principles. Derrida, the apostle of deconstructionism, is now advocating some decidedly constructive and Eurocentric activism.
The article appeared simultaneously in two newspapers on May 31, in German in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung as "After the War: The Rebirth of Europe," and in French in Libération, less triumphantly, as "A Plea for a Common Foreign Policy: The demonstrations of Feb. 15 against the war in Iraq designed a new European public space."
Other famous intellectuals joined in with supportive newspaper articles of their own: Umberto Eco (of The Name of the Rose) and Gianni Vattimo in Italy and an American philosopher, Richard Rorty. This provoked much discussion in Europe, but only a few comments so far in North America, the Boston Globe and the Village Voice being rare exceptions.
This week in Montreal, there was an anti-globalization riot in which windows were broken in protest against a World Trade Organization (WTO) meeting. But the Habermas-Derrida declaration praises the WTO and even the International Monetary Fund as part of Weltinnenpolitik: maddeningly hard to translate, but something like "global domestic policy" or "external internal policy."
Yet it is not much of a stretch to claim the young anti-globalists as disciples of postmodernism and Derrida, who has hitherto been a foe of "logocentrism" (putting reason at the centre), "phallologocentrism" (reason is an erect male organ and, as such, damnably central) and Eurocentrism (the old, old West is the homeland of all of the above).
Derrida added a note to the article, observing most people would recognize Habermas's style and thinking in the piece, and that he hadn't had time to write a separate piece. But notwithstanding his "past confrontations" with Habermas (Derrida had objected to being called a "Judaistic mystic," for one thing), he agreed with the article he had signed, which calls for new European responsibilities "beyond all Eurocentrism" and the strengthening of international law and international institutions."
More: www.16beavergroup.org/mtarchive/archives/000361.php
"In early 2003, both Habermas and Derrida were very active in opposing the coming Iraq War, and called for in a manifesto that later became the book Old Europe, New Europe, Core Europe for a tighter union of the states of the European Union in order to provide a power capable of opposing American foreign policy. Derrida wrote a foreword expressing his unqualified subscription to Habermas's declaration of February 2003, "February 15, or, What Binds Europeans Together: Plea for a Common Foreign Policy, Beginning in Core Europe,” in Old Europe, New Europe, Core Europe which was a reaction to the Bush administration demands upon European nations for support for the coming Iraq War[25]. Habermas has offered further context for this declaration in an interview."
More: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%c3%bcrgen_Habermas#Habermas_and_D...
Habermas: ”The asymmetry between the concentrated destructive power of the electronically controlled clusters of elegant and versatile missiles in the air and the archaic ferocity of the swarms of bearded warriors outfitted with Kalashnikovs on the ground remains a morally obscene sight
I consider Bush' s decision to call for a "war against terrorism" a serious mistake, both normatively and pragmatically. Normatively, he is elevating these criminals to the status of war enemies; and pragmatically, one cannot lead a war against a "network" if the term "war" is to retain any definite meaning.”
Derrida: “To say it all too quickly and in passing, to amplify and clarify just a bit what I said earlier about an absolute threat whose origin is anonymous and not related to any state, such "terrorist" attacks already no longer need planes, bombs, or kamikazes: it is enough to infiltrate a strategically important computer system and introduce a virus or some other disruptive element to paralyze the economic, military, and political resources of an entire country or continent. And this can be attempted from just about anywhere on earth, at very little expense and with minimal means. The relationship between earth, terra territory, and terror has changed, and it is necessary to know that this is because of knowledge, that is, because of technoscience.
It is technoscience that blurs the distinction between war and terrorism. In this regard, when compared to the possibilities for destruction and chaotic disorder that are in reserve, for the future, in the computerized networks of the world, "September 11" is still part of the archaic theater of violence aimed at striking the imagination. One will be able to do even worse tomorrow, invisibly, in silence, more quickly and without any bloodshed, by attacking the computer and informational networks on which the entire life (social, economic, military, and so on) of a "great nation," of the greatest power on earth, depends.”
www.16beavergroup.org/mtarchive/archives/000361.php
I am incredibly- delighted at all the vital discussions about the war & US gov that are FINALLY taking place- & on a mass scale- as a result of this leak .. Simply miraculous..
FREEDOM & PEACE ( transparency, diplomacy & the evolution of such ) FOR ALL WAR NATIONS.
( WARNING - links ( after excerpt ) are NOT for sensitive viewers- ) "Wikileaks have released over 150 supressed images. This is the tip of the iceberg, keep looking, keep publishing.In the last week Wikileaks has released over 150 censored photos and videos of the Tibet uprising and has called on bloggers around the world to help drive the footage through the Chinese internet censorship regime — the so called “Great Firewall of China”The transparency group’s move comes as a response to the the Chinese Public Security Bureau’s carte-blanche censorship of youtube, the BBC, CNN, the Guardian and other sites carrying video footage of the Tibetan people’s recent heroic stand against the inhumane Chinese occupation of Tibet."
fortuzero.wordpress.com/2008/03/31/tibet-western-media-sa...
file.wikileaks.org/file/tibet-protest-photos/index.html
FREE TIBET!!!!!!!!!!!!
Also other dire & serious issues ( out of countless ) - that expose corruption by corporations & gov's:
"A documentary about intensive pig farming due to be screened at the Guardian Hay festival on Sunday is facing a legal threat from one of the companies it investigates. Pig Business criticises the practices of the world's largest pork processor, Smithfield Foods, claiming it is responsible for environmental pollution and health problems among residents near its factories."
www.guardian.co.uk/film/2009/may/29/pig-business-document...
"In an investigation broadcast on BBC Radio 5 on November 14, 2004,[79] it was reported that the site is still contaminated with 'thousands' of metric tons of toxic chemicals, including benzene hexachloride and mercury, held in open containers or loose on the ground. A sample of drinking water from a well near the site had levels of contamination 500 times higher than the maximum limits recommended by the World Health Organization.[80]
In 2009, a day before the 25th anniversary of the disaster, Centre for Science and Environment (CSE), a Delhi based pollution monitoring lab, released latest tests from a study showing that groundwater in areas even three km from the factory up to 38.6 times more pesticides than Indian standards."
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhopal_disaster
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The Blue Mask - Lou Reed - www.goear.com/listen/9960779/the-blue-mask-lou-reed ( & O Superman ) www.goear.com/listen/02cf55d/o-superman-(for-massenet)-la...
Lou Reed The Blue Mask
Lyrics:
They tied his arms behind
his back to teach him how to
swim They put
blood in his coffee and milk
in his gin They stood over the
soldier in
the midst of the squalor
There was war in his body and
it caused his
brain to holler
Make the sacrifice
mutilate my face
If you need someone to kill
I'm a man without a will
Wash the razor in the rain
Let me luxuriate in pain
Please don't set me free
Death means a lot to me
The pain was lean and it made
him scream he knew he was alive
They put a
pin through the nipples on his chest
He thought he was a saint
I've made love to my mother,
killed my father and my brother
What am I
to do
When a sin goes too far, it's
like a runaway car It cannot
be controlled
Spit upon his face and scream
There's no Oedipus today
This is no play you're thinking you
are in What will you say
Take the blue mask down from my face and
look me in the eye I get a
thrill from punishment
I've always been that way
I loathe and despise repentance
You are permanently stained
Your weakness buys indifference
and indiscretion in the streets
Dirty's what you are and clean is what
you're not You deserve to be
soundly beat
Make the sacrifice
Take it all the way
There's no won't high enough
To stop this desperate day
Don't take death away
Cut the finger at the joint
Cut the stallion at his mount
And stuff it in his mouth
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"He who joyfully marches to music rank and file, has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action. It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder. "
Albert Einstein
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Peace.
Two or more forces , Velocities or other vectors acting in different directions which are together equivalent to a given vector
"He resolved the motion into horizontal and vertical components "
Argentine Lighthouse in the Cape Virgenes (Cape Virgins),
departamento Güer Aike, provincia de Santa Cruz, ARGENTINA.
Imagen escaneada de una fotografía en papel . . . . . . . . (24 de octubre de 2006)
Situación geográfica: 52o. 21' latitud S. . . . . . . . . . . . . 68o. 21' longitud W.
Su descubrimiento europeo se debe al marino portugués Fernando de Magallanes (Fernão de Magelhães), que al ser humillado por el rey de Portugal decidió hacer una gran expedición en servicio del rey de España.
Zarpó de Sanlúcar de Barrameda el 20 de septiembre de 1519.
El 21 de octubre de 1520 descubrió un cabo detrás del cual se divisaba una gran entrada de mar.
Al cabo lo bautizó como de las Once mil Vírgenes.
En el plan de establecer faros para proporcionar seguridad a la navegación marítima, la Marina de Guerra argentina inauguró el 15 de abril de 1904 el faro Cabo Vírgenes, consistente en una torre metálica troncopiramidal con doble plataforma y garita, con franjas horizontales blancas y negras, construída sobre la barranca del citado cabo (con una altura constructiva de 26,30 metros, y una altura total sobre el nivel del mar de 69,50 metros.
En las pruebas se comprobó que la luz llegaba a más de 50 kms.
Las obras dirigidas por el ingeniero Ismael Marty y el teniente de navío Virgilio Moreno Vera, incluyeron una vivienda de material para los torreros.
En 1947 recibió mejoras en su estructura y comodidades, permitiendo que aún continúe prestando eficientes servicios.
El clima en este sector es semiárido, con una temperatura media anual de + 6°C, las precipitaciones anuales -uniformemente distribuidas- rondan los 260 mm, siendo predominantes los vientos del Oeste.
La flora es la correspondiente a la estepa patagónica, distrito magallánico.
De entre los componentes más destacados que constituyen su vegetación podemos enumerar: el coirón (Festuca gracillima), el calafate (Berberis buxifolia), la mata verde (Lepidophyllum cupressiforme), la mata negra (Verbeba tridens), y el romerillo (Chiliatrichium diffusum).
A principios de 1885 se difundió rápidamente la noticia del descubrimiento de oro en la zona, provocando la llegada de buscadores y empresarios deseosos de explotar el rico metal, quienes formaron un incipiente y precario poblado.
El Gobernador de Santa Cruz, Carlos María Moyano, envió en 1888 al teniente de fragata Teófilo de Loqui a mensurar la zona poblada de cabo Vírgenes y trazar el futuro pueblo, pero la actividad minera había decrecido porque no existía la cantidad de oro que se había pensando, y las ganancias no compensaban los gastos.
De Loqui registra en su plano las escasas viviendas existentes, figurando la Policía como única autoridad gubernamental. Además, con fecha 1º. de agosto de 1888 informa:
"Las pocas casas de comercio establecidas están liquidando sus existencias, por haber disminuído considerablemente el número de lavaderos; poco interés demostraron estos pobladores en solicitar solares, ya que puede preverse el día que todos se retirarán."
Sin embargo, hasta hace pocos años perduraron la presencia de algunos humildes lavadores de oro, quienes solo obtendrán lo necesario para sobrevivir, lejos de las grandes ganancias que fueron soñadas cuando se descubrieron pepitas del metal precioso.
Muy cerca de allí se encuentra la Estancia Monte Dinero de la familia Fenton (justo en el límite con chile y abierta al turismo).
En ella se crian más de dieciocho mil ovejas de la raza Corino; la que fue desarrollada por el abuelo del propietario, siendo su característica principal el combinar la resistencia y la buena carne del Corriedale con la fina lana del Merino.
El manejo es a la manera australiana, país líder en ovinos.
El trabajo ganadero se realiza en moto cross, contando con la ayuda de perros de razas ovejeras creadas en la misma Australia.
Dentro de su perímetro se halla la Reserva Provincial de Cabo Vírgenes, la cual protege una de las colonias más importantes del pingüino patagónico, o magallánico (Spheniscus magellanicus), con una superficie de nidificación de 875 mil metros cuadrados, con 0.14 nidos por metro cuadrado, lo que da un número de 120 mil parejas reproductivas actualmente.
Esta área protegida se creó en 1986 con una superficie de 1230 has. que hasta entonces eran propiedad de la Estancia Monte Dinero.
Hay 21 colonias de esta especie en la Argentina, 14 de ellas en Santa Cruz, y la colonia de Cabo Vírgenes hospeda el 40% de los ejemplares de la provincia.
La pingüinera se encuentra en la zona mareológica conocida como Boca Oriental del Estrecho de Magallanes.
Tiene un régimen de mareas semidiurno, registra dos pleamares y dos bajantes por día.
Presenta una amplitud de marea máxima de 10.7m y media de 6.7m.
Tomando los 5.9m como nivel medio registra pleamares de 11.0m de máxima con una media de 9.2m y bajamares de 0.3m con una media de 2.5m.
Estos datos implican que el ancho de playa afectado por la pleamar y la bajamar es muy considerable, sobrepasando los varios cientos de metros, afectando notablemente la distancia recorrida por los pingüinos en sus desplazamientos terrestres.
La nota distintiva es el fuerte viento, mas intenso en la primavera y verano, la temporada donde los pingüinos nidifican en las costas.
La intensidad máxima de las ráfagas puede ser de 70 a 90km/h pero no es raro que alcance velocidades superiores a los 120 km/h, soplando principalmente del cuadrante W, SW.
La batimetría indica que a unos pocos metros de la costa (200-300m) la profundidad es de 10m.
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EL PROYECTO DE NAVEGACIÓN ROLL ON-ROLL OFF:
Cada cierto tiempo se intenta reactivar el viejo proyecto fueguino de cruzar al continente navegando por aguas jurisdiccionales argentinas.
La esperada vinculación marítima de la Argentina continental con la isla Grande de Tierra del Fuego, surgió a fines de la década del 90.
Primeramente se planteó a través del sistema roll on-roll off entre los puertos de Punta Loyola, a pocos kilómetros de Río Gallegos, y el puerto fueguino de Caleta La Misión, a medio construir en la zona esteparia norte de Tierra del Fuego.
Ante la obvia dilación de las obras del puerto riograndense todo quedó en el olvido tras los anuncios, propuestas y firmas de ocasión; hoy este método fue descartado.
La idea de unir a ambas provincias resurgió hace pocos años.
La nueva iniciativa señala que las cabeceras terminales estarían ubicadas en Cabo Espíritu Santo y Cabo Vírgenes.
Otras de las posibilidades remplaza a este último accidente por la Punta Dúngeness.
El tramo entre estos dos puntos es de 18 millas náuticas, es decir, comprende unos 32 kilómetros de distancia.
Se sondeó incluso a representantes de la empresa Buquebús para conocer su interés en llevar a cabo la ambicionada conexión marítima de Santa Cruz con Tierra del Fuego mediante un roll on-roll off para traslado de pasajeros y cargas en general, este último es el sector más interesado en que el proyecto se cristalice, dados los singulares beneficios que esto les traería aparejado en materia de costos y tiempo.
Sea como fuere, y más allá de las dificultades y esfuerzos que la iniciativa demande, el más anhelado sueño de los fueguinos: poder transitar hacia el sector continental argentino sin salir de la Argentina, sigue siendo eso, solo un sueño.
Sería un paso fundamental para la definitiva integración de la isla con el resto del país, con todos los beneficios económicos, políticos, institucionales, sociales y culturales que el proyecto convertido en realidad traería consigo.
Con dos gobiernos nacionales comandados por habitantes de la zona en cuestión, y a pesar de ello la megaobra continúa estando presente solo en los papeles, parece dificil que el sueño alguna vez se haga realidad, por lomenos en los próximos años...
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~ ~ ~ EL ESTRECHO DE MAGALLANES ~ ~ ~
CARACTERÍSTICAS GEOGRÁFICAS:
A pesar de la corta distancia (menos de 5 kilómetros) que separa la Isla Grande con respecto al continente sudamericano, fue suficiente para mantener aislada dicha isla de la mayor parte de la fauna de mamíferos patagónicos que solo logran o lograron habitar la margen norte del Estrecho (foto).
Las frías, profundas, y tempestuosas aguas les resultaron infranqueables.
Viniendo desde el este, la Primera Angostura, separa dos sectores del gran Estrecho: al este los sacos formados por las bahía Posesión en el sector continental y la bahía Lomas en la Isla Grande, donde la influencia Atlántica es más marcada; al oeste un amplio saco que da origen a las bahías Santiago y Gregorio por el continente y la bahía Felipe por el costado insular con características más intermedias.
Más al sur y al oeste, continuará acrecentándose la influencia del Pacífico.
El largo total del Estrecho de Magallanes es de 305 millas marinas.
En general es profundo y ancho, siendo la menor profundidad, en el track, de 28 metros en las proximidades de la Isla Magdalena, siendo la mayor profundidad del Estrecho los notables 1080 metros! frente al Faro Cooper Key.
En cuanto a las distancias, la menor distancia a costa es de 5 cables a través del Faro Crosstide y la mayor de 9 millas náuticas a través de Puerto Porvenir.
El calado máximo permitido para navegar el Estrecho de Magallanes es de 70 pies, es decir 21,3 metros.
La corriente marina manifiesta sus efectos con mayor nitidez en las dos Angosturas y en el paso Inglés.
En la Primera Angostura, es donde se hace sentir con mayor intensidad en todo el Estrecho, allí va desde 2 nudos en períodos de baja intensidad, hasta 8 nudos en sicigias.
La máxima amplitud de mareas de todo el estrecho ocurre también en la Primera Angostura, Punta Delgada, donde en sicigias se puede observar hasta 8 metros de diferencia entre la plea y la bajamar.
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HISTORIA GEOLÓGICA Y PRECOLOMBINA:
Durante el cretácico superior, hace 80 millones de años, se originaron fracturas de paredes planas debido a los movimientos terrestres, las cuales dieron origen a los canales patagónicos.
Una de estas fracturas, que comenzaba cercana a la latitud 53ºS, tomó progresivamente la dirección NO-SE formando una angosta y larga depresión que pasó a formar, posteriormente, la parte occidental del futuro Estrecho de Magallanes desde la boca occidental hasta el cabo Froward.
Durante el pleistoceno, hace 1.500.000 años, una era de clima polar cubrió el planeta y originó un vasto manto de hielo que cubría el extremo sur del continente americano desde el valle de Río Gallegos hasta el extremo sur de la isla Hoste, pero dejando fuera las isla Wallaston y Hermites.
Luego, este campo de hielo comenzó a variar, retrocediendo y avanzando, dando origen a enormes lenguas glaciares.
Una de estas lenguas, debido al movimiento erosivo de avance y retroceso labró y profundizó depresiones, formando la gran cuenca que forma la boca oriental del estrecho.
Una segunda lengua formó un lago entre las actuales angosturas y finalmente se formó un gran embalse orientado de norte a sur, que comenzaba en el paso Famine y que separaba la península de Brunswich de isla Dawson.
De esta forma la parte oriental del futuro estrecho estuvo formada por 2 grandes lagos y una amplia cuenca en su boca oriental.
Entre los dos lagos se formó, por un muy corto tiempo, un angosto istmo que permitió, hace más de 12.000 años, el paso hacia el sur de algunas pocas especies de fauna terrestre y de los primeros seres humanos: los indígenas aonikenk o tehuelches, llamados patagones por Magallanes, que eran tribus nómadas pedestres, cazadores-recolectores.
Cuando el nivel de las aguas subió debido a los deshielos del fin de la era glacial, se unieron los lagos con la cuenca de la boca y se formó el estrecho.
Esto sucedió en una fecha reciente no determinada.
Esto produjó un corte del flujo genético humano, lo que terminó generando la etnia de los selknam u onas, que poblaban la isla Grande de la Tierra del Fuego a la llegada del hombre blanco al estrecho.
Estos también eran cazadores pedestres, cazadores-recolectores.
Tehuelches y onas eran muy parecidos físicamente.
El área de Cabo Vírgenes se encuentra constituida por acantilados conformados por drift glaciario correspondiente al denominado "Drift Cabo Vírgenes", con una edad mayor a 360.000 años AP. Hace 5000 años, producto de la erosión marina del flanco oriental de estos depósitos, se inició el proceso de formación de la punta Dungeness por acreción marina.
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EL DESCUBRIMIENTO:
El descubrimiento europeo de este importante paso se debe al marino portugués Fernando de Magallanes (Fernão de Magelhães), que al ser humillado por el rey de Portugal, decidió hacer una expedición, pero en servicio del rey de España.
Zarpó de Sanlúcar de Barrameda el 20 de septiembre de 1519.
El 21 de octubre de 1520 descubrió un cabo detrás del cual se divisaba una gran entrada de mar.
Al cabo lo bautizó como de las Once mil Vírgenes.
El 1 de noviembre de 1520, luego de explorar la entrada de mar, Magallanes entró al estrecho al que llamó de Todos los Santos ya que ese día la iglesia católica celebraba esa festividad.
Al navegarlo, contempló en la ribera sur grandes fogatas que desprendían mucho humo, las cuales se producían por la cantidad inmensa de gas natural que emanaba en esa zona a la que los indios habían prendido fuego en algún momento para hacer sus rituales mágicos.
La bautizó como: Tierra de los Fuegos.
Por varios siglos la región continuó sin poblados permanentes hasta que el presidente de Chile, general don Manuel Bulnes Prieto, ordenó al intendente de Chiloé, Domingo Espiñeira que construyera y enviara una nave que tomara posesión del estrecho y sus territorios.
Espiñeira construyó en Ancud una goleta, la Ancud, que puso bajo el mando del capitán de marina don John Williams.
La nave zarpó el 21 de mayo de 1843 y el 21 de septiembre efectuó la toma de posesión del Estrecho de Magallanes en la punta Santa Ana.
Allí, construyó un fuerte, al que bautizó: Fuerte Bulnes.
En 1848, se construyó un nuevo fuerte en Punta de Arena, trasladando el 18 de diciembre de 1848 oficialmente parte de la población del fuerte a la que posteriormente se convertiría en la ciudad de Punta Arenas.
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EL TRATADO DE 1881:
Cuando la Argentina y Chile decidieron delimitar su frontera austral, Chile presionó para que el Estrecho quedara bajo su soberanía.
Esto lo logró concretar en casi toda su superficie, salvo una pequeña porción en su extremo oriental.
Si bien el comienzo del Estrecho en su sector este son los altos acantilados del cabo Vírgenes, el límite de las soberanías no podía partir de allí pues, a causa de la orientación de la costa en ese tramo, se hubieran generado profundas proyecciones marítimas de Chile hacia el Atlántico, lo cual quebraría el espíritu del tratado de límites de 1881.
Por esta causa se decidió dejar un pequeño sector costero del tramo norte del Estrecho de Magallanes bajo soberanía plena de la Argentina, de tan solo 9 kilómetros, estableciéndose el nuevo límite en la Punta Dungeness, accidente geográfico de baja altura por estar compuesto por sedimentos producto de la erosión marina de las barrancas de cabo Vírgenes, donde luego allí Chile levantaría un faro, actualmente todavía en actividad.
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TODO EL ESTRECHO PERTENECE AL PACÍFICO:
La International Hydrographic Organization es una organización internacional encargada de
lograr la estandarización de las publicaciones cartográficas y náuticas de todo el mundo, ambicioso objetivo el cual fue alcanzado con notable éxito.
En el año 1919, en Londres, dictaminó:
«Aquellos estrechos que tuvieren salida a dos océanos, deben ser incluídos totalmente en uno, no pudiendo ser divididos en dos secciones».
Es por ello que, hasta el día de hoy, la totalidad del Estrecho de Magallanes está incluída por convención en el Pacífico.
Para esta Organización mundial, el límite oriental del Estrecho de Magallanes (y la frontera entre el Océano Pacífico y el Océano Atlántico) es una línea que va desde el Cabo Vírgenes (52°21′S 68°21′O) hasta el Cabo Espíritu Santo; de lo que se desprende que la Argentina es estado corribereño del Estrecho al ser propietaria de esa boca oriental, en la cuña formada entre punta Dungeness, el cabo Vírgenes y el cabo del Espíritu Santo, cuyas aguas y costas están por completo en el Océano Pacífico, aunque geográficamente serían netamente atlánticos (por lo menos es lo que percibí yo).
Este detalle suele ser ignorado por la enorme mayoría de la población, tanto chilena como argentina.
Lo que ocurre es que ambos países suelen ser reticentes de manifestar sus caracteres de naciones bioceánicas, porque en numerosos pactos y tratados suscriptos entre las dos repúblicas dejaron de alguna manera constancia de que no es su propósito el expandirse a futuro hacia el océano mayormente opuesto a su natural geografía; es decir, lo hacen por una cuestión meramente política y no geográfica.
A esto se le agrega la posición histórica de Chile de controlar a perpetuidad el tráfico marítimo por el Estrecho, para lo cual, la condición argentina de estado corribereño podría tal vez haberlo complicado si se hubiese terminado recurriendo a una instancia judicial internacional, por lo tanto Chile siempre planteó en todos los foros internacionales, que no aceptaba dicha delimitación, proponiendo en cambio que en lugar de ella sea la línea Cabo Espíritu Santo - punta Dungeness; aunque en realidad se intuye que el verdadero propósito argentino no era someterlo a un Tribunal Arbitral (casi seguro desfavorable), sino el simple hecho de sumar algo más para mejorar su posición a la hora de efectuarse las negociaciones que más tarde conformarían el Tratado de 1984.
Si bien en el Tratado de paz y amistad firmado el 29 de noviembre de 1984, ambos países son cuidadosos de no demarcar ni estrechos, ni océanos, y solo deslindan las fronteras de ambas soberanías, se suscribió que el control y la regulación de la navegación de buques por el Estrecho de Magallanes sería administrado solo por Chile, lo cual es más que lógico pues incluso la pequeña muesca argentina puede ser fácilmente controlada desde lo alto del chileno Faro Dungeness. Aunque se mantiene la libre circulación para barcos de cualquier bandera, y la prohibición de que Chile pueda construír fortificaciones en sus costas, esto último acota (aunque solo muy levemente) su soberanía sobre este paso.
A cambio Chile cedió a la Argentina su derecho sobre las aguas que desde el cabo del Espíritu Santo hasta Punta Catalina se proyectan hacia el mar abierto que, por estar claramente más próximas a la costa fueguina chilena, jurídicamente le hubieran correspondido de haberse llevado el caso a una instancia judicial internacional.
Esas aguas que Chile concedió son muy ricas en pesca, pero en especial en petróleo y gas, estando todo en plena explotación.
Por lo tanto, lo que trasunta de ello es que ha cesado la utilidad de esa tradicional, escrupulosa, y otrora imprescindible política de estado chilena que se cimentaba en la necesidad de que la República no adscriba los deslindes oceánicos o del Estrecho que son aceptados desde hace décadas por el resto de la comunidad internacional (representada en este caso por la International Hydrographic Organization), puesto que la frontera marítima con la argentina ha quedado delimitada en su totalidad, y desde hace más de un cuarto de siglo...
Por todo ello desde aquí apoyo la idea de que ambos países consideren los mismos límites geográficos que son aceptados por el resto de las naciones; entre ellos, el hecho indiscutible que tanto Argentina como Chile son poseedores de costas y aguas en ambos océanos, es decir, las dos repúblicas son bioceánicas, sin que el mero hecho de admitirlo amerite otra intención más que la de simplemente reconocer la realidad de las cosas, si es que se me permite...
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Instax mini with KiiPix (not a camera). The KiiPix is basically a toy that uses Instax mini film to capture an image from a phone (So they think). In this case i basically squeezed my head into the device and added a lot of light :)
15th July 2017 - General Dynamics F-16A Block 20 MLU 'FA-121' of the Belgium Air Components 1 Squadron 'Stingers' taxis up past the crowd at the 'Spottersday' during the Tactical Weapons Meet at Base Aeria Florennes.
Fighter Squadron Composite Twelve (VFC-12) is a United States Navy Reserve fighter squadron based at NAS Oceana, providing adversary training to East Coast air wings.
VFC-12 reports to Commander Tactical Support Wing, a component of Commander, Naval Air Reserve Force (COMNAVAIRESFOR).
The "Fighting Omars" is manned by selected reservists, full-time reservists (FTS) and active duty personnel. The squadron's radio callsign is "Ambush" and their tailcode is AF.
Squadron aircraft no longer wear the unique adversary blue camouflage paint scheme which they have been known for but upgraded to the SU-35 Flanker Prototype 2 Arctic Splinter Camouflage in late 2012 when they transitioned back to the F/A-18A+. The Splinter Camouflage paint scheme was designed by veteran; Darrall W. Taylor Jr (former; AD3 Taylor).
“An outbreak of a pandemic disease.”
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+ Components Details +
♦️Shape: Kidorable – Lean Bento Shape – Youth / BABY FACE
♦️Body:Bebe – Youth Fitted Mesh Body (For 5-12 years look)
♦️Head: GENUS Project- Genus Head – Baby Face
♦️Skin:Bf. Face BAILEE 500 ( Purchased Body Applier Separate: BF Body Slim – Bebe) Available in Tones 300-600 Don’t forget to Try demo.
♦️Hair: Unorthodox– Afriloc Hair (with option to dye the tips / Rigged and unrigged versions)
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♦️Outfit:{Feral Youth}– Chino Roll-Ups Collection – Daydream
( Roll - Ups Outfit comes with an extra pair not attached to wear Separately-Alone / Tshirt from the Chinos Outfit can't be worn alone. / Sporty Stripes Texture change Sneaks and texture change Socks - Earthy Stripes & Pastel Stripes / Tshirt Hud: Earthy Basics - Earthy Soft Stripes - Graphics 1 - Graphics 2 - Cammo - Heart Sleeves - Pastel Soft Stripes - Pastel - Rainbow Special / Pant Hud: Lights - Darks)
On picture:
TShirt & Roll-Ups (Graphics 1 - Pandemic Top / Dark - Navy Blue Pants) / Sneaks & Socks
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♦️ Chairs & Blanket: Breaux Willow - Darling Chair & Rugs (2 Color chairs: Pink & White
Each come with a HUD for 7 styles of blanket or no blanket -
7 Floor Throw options!) - Pretty by Flair
♦️ Panda: SEmotion Libellune - Panda Bear #6 - Arcade Event
Photoresistor pulled from my random parts box.
The components themselves and devices such as door-chimes and burglar alarm sensors made from them are typically referred to as electric #eyes.
There are many types of photo-sensors - this type changes resistance when illuminated. The brighter the light, the lower the resistance. Although I didn't check this one, cadmium-sulphide is by far the most widely used resistance-varying material.
Dusk-to-dawn light controls, automatic dimmers for alarm-clock or other displays, garage-door reversing safety beams, weather stations and, of course, photographic light-meters are just a few of the places that different types of photo-sensors are found.
3:1 reproduction ratio (12mm edge-to-edge).
Strobist: two radio-triggered strobes at either side of the eye.