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Sì, scivolo sui pavimenti insaponati.
Ma non improvviso.
Anni di esperienza mi permettono un certo virtuosismo.
Nella vita c'è chi sceglie la strada della perfezione.
La mia, di strada, ha le aiuole con le violette.
★WHO IS THE INTERNATIONAL FIBER COLLABORATIVE?
As the leading voice for collaborative public art projects around the world, the International Fiber Collaborative is dedicated to promoting understanding and appreciation of contemporary art & craft through educational experiences. We are committed to developing vital education programs that elevate, expand, modernize and enhance the image of collaboration and education today.
INTERDEPENDENCE TREE PROJECT / HUNTSVILLE, ALABAMA.
*Participants represented 39 states and 23 countries
*Estimated 431 submitting entities
*62 Schools
*Estimated 14,000 leaves were submitted
* 25 Feet wide x 35 Feet Tall
THE GAS STATION WRAP / SYRACUSE, NEW YORK
*Participants represented 17 countries and 29 states
*6,000 square foot wrap
*Approx. 6,000 artworks included
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The Dream Rocket Team is collecting nearly 8,000 artworks from participants around the globe. The artwork will be assembled together to create a massive cover in which will wrap a 37 story Saturn V Moon Rocket at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama. We will also be displaying submitted artwork in dozens of national venues prior to the wrapping of the Saturn V. Additionally, we are posting images of submitted artwork & their stories on our Website, Flickr, and Facebook.The Dream Rocket project uses the Saturn V Moon Rocket as a symbolism of universal values of the human spirit. Optimism, hope,
caring for our natural resources, scientific exploration, and harnessing technological advancements for a better quality of life while safeguarding our communities, are all common desires across national and international boundaries. Participants are able to express and learn about these values through this creative collaboration. With the completion of each artwork, participants are asked to write an essay explaining their artwork, and the dream theme in which they chose.
★How can I Participate & Have my Artwork Displayed?
The Dream Rocket project would like to challenge you to ‘Dare to Dream’. To dream about your future and the future of our world through dream themes such as health, community, conservation, science, technology, space, peace, and so on. We would like you to use your selected Dream Theme to express, explore, and create your vision on your section of the wrap. We hope that you are able to express and learn through this creative collaboration. With the completion of each artwork, you are asked to write a brief essay explaining your artwork, and the dream theme in which you chose.
“The Saturn V is the ideal icon to represent a big dream. This rocket was designed and built as a collaboration of nearly half-a-million people and allowed our human species to venture beyond our world and stand on ANOTHER - SURELY one of the biggest dreams of all time. ENABLING THE DREAMS of young people to touch this mighty rocket sends a powerful message in conjunction with creating an educational curriculum to engage students to embrace the power of learning through many important subjects”
-Neil deGrasse Tyson, Director of the Hayden Planetarium, New York
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Name: Miska
Citizenship: Hungarian
Date of birth : 11.31.2017 (two years old)
Marital status: it's complicated
Breed: pumi
Competences: sit, lay, stay, crawl, give paw, turn around, jump, bring stuff...
Hobbies: sheep herding, agility, sniffing around, hunting...
www.rspb.org.uk/reserves/guide/l/leightonmoss/index.asp
Leighton Moss is the largest reedbed in north-west England, and home to some really special birds such as breeding bitterns, bearded tits and marsh harriers. You might see deer too, not to mention butterflies aplenty!
Opening times
The reserve and visitor centre are open daily all year round (except 25 December). The reserve is open from 9 am to dusk and the visitor centre from 9.30 am-5 pm (4.30 pm November-January inclusive).
Entrance charges
Free to the visitor centre and tearoom. Admission to hides and nature trails: £4.50 adults, £3 concessions, £1 children, £9 family. Free to RSPB members and those who come by public transport or on bike.
Avocet
Avocets can be seen from the hides overlooking the Allen and Eric Morecambe Pools in spring and summer.
Bearded tit
A year-round attraction here in the extensive reedbeds. They form flocks in autumn and can often be seen picking up grit from special tables on the causeway or directly from the paths.
Bittern
Bitterns can be heard 'booming' from the causeway between march and May. Scan over the reedbeds and you may catch a glimpse of one in flight - particularly in May and June. You may also see one sitting at the edge of the pools on frosty winter days.
Marsh harrier
Spring brings displaying marsh harriers to Leighton Moss. The males and females are busy feeding their young throughout summer and can often be seen hunting over the reedbed.
Water rail
Watch from the hides for water rails emerging to feed on the edge of the channels and pool within the reedbed. They may venture out onto exposed mud when the water drops in late summer and autumn or onto ice in winter.
Each season brings a different experience at our nature reserves. In spring, the air is filled with birdsong as they compete to establish territories and attract a mate. In summer, look out for young birds making their first venture into the outside world. Autumn brings large movements of migrating birds - some heading south to a warmer climate, others seeking refuge in the UK from the cold Arctic winter. In winter, look out for large flocks of birds gathering to feed, or flying at dusk to form large roosts to keep warm.
Spring
Booming bitterns in the reedbeds, best heard from the Causeway. Marsh harriers displaying high above the reedbeds. Butterflies along the reserve trails. The arrival of summer-visiting birds fills the reedbed with the rattling calls of sedge and reed warblers. Birdsong can be enjoyed in the woodland. Buzzards can be seen daily flying over the reserve. On the Allen and Eric Morecambe pools, large flocks of migrant black-tailed godwits stop off on their way to Iceland and the first avocets return to nest.
Summer
The special sight of marsh harriers passing food to each other in flight. Red deer grazing the Jackson and Griesdale meres in the evenings. The sight and sound of a busy black-headed gull colony. A chance to see young bitterns venturing out into the edges of the pools to feed, as well as a variety of young waterbirds. A succession of marsh flowers along the reserve tracks. Avocets and their chicks on the Allen and Eric Morecambe pools.
Autumn
Parties of bearded tits flying across the reeds and picking up grit from the paths. Huge flocks of starlings wheeling above the reedbed before pouring into the reeds to roost. Migrant wading birds, especially greenshanks, ruffs and returning black-tailed godwits on the pools viewed from the Allen and Eric Morecambe hides.
Winter
Teals, shovelers and gadwalls join the resident ducks to congregate in large numbers in the pools. Bitterns and water rails can be seen out on the ice during cold spells. Flocks of siskins feed in the alders. Flocks of wigeons and greylag geese graze the saltmarsh at the Allen and Eric Morecambe pools, and are regularly disturbed by wintering peregrines and merlins.
Viewing points
Seven hides with the nearest hide to visitor centre only 160 yards (150 m) away.
Nature trails
Three nature trails: 0.5 miles, 0.8 km to 2 miles, and 3.2 km.
Tearoom
A wide selection of hot and cold food and drinks throughout the day. Parties catered for on request.
Refreshments available
•Hot drinks
•Cold drinks
•Hot meals
•Cold meals
•Sandwiches
•Snacks
Shop
The shop stocks:
•Binoculars and telescopes
•Books
•Bird food
•Gifts
Educational facilities
Education visits to Leighton Moss offer an exciting opportunity for your pupils to explore nature through the first-hand study of birds, other animals and plants. Led by professional RSPB educators, the curriculum-linked programmes are safe, hands-on, thought-provoking and fun. Approved as a safe provider of outdoor education activities by Lancashire County Council, Leighton Moss's risk-assessed programmes help children to understand the value of wildlife and natural places through experiential learning. Leighton Moss has the largest remaining reedbed in north-west England - a magical place where you and your pupils could hear the bitterns booming in the spring, watch the marsh harriers swooping in the summer or see the meres full of over-wintering ducks and geese in the winter. With a well-equipped classroom, shop, picnic area, trails and bird hides, Leighton Moss is the ideal place to bring your class for an unforgettable experience of nature. You can visit any day of the year. Our start times are flexible to suit you. It is advisable to book well in advance for the summer term, which is our busiest time. We can cater for two classes (or approximately 60 children), which will be divided into smaller groups of approximately 15.
Access to hides and viewpoints
Bird-feeding station has a screen, with varied height viewing slots and knee hole extension, which overlooks the birdtables and feeders. Lilian's hide is accessed via 1:20 ramp; a large, glazed, picture window overlooks the lagoon and reedbeds; an induction loop is available. Jackson's hide is accessed via 1:10 ramp; there are no adapted wheelchair places.
Griesdale hide is accessed via 1:10 ramp; there are no adapted wheelchair places. Public hide is accessed via a very shallow, 1:40 ramp; specially adapted places for wheelchairs are at left end of hide. Lower hide is accessed via three steep steps.
Access to visitor centre, shop and tearoom
The front entrance is accessed through double doors, which open both ways, to reception desk on ground floor. The upper floor, with tearoom, is accessed via a stair-lift from the shop and rear entrance of the visitor centre. This lift does not accommodate wheelchairs; transfer from chair to lift via shallow ramp; staff are available to help.
Shop is on the ground floor of the visitor centre; staff are available to help. Tearoom is on the first floor of visitor centre, staff are available to help with carrying trays etc.
Path surfaces and gradients
There are 8 km of trails on the nature reserve. There is a bird-feeding station 50 m from visitor centre, down 1:15 and 1:40 gradients with an adverse camber; the path is surfaced with compacted gravel/rolled stone. From the feeding station to Lilian's hide is 100 m, initially down a 1:20 slope, levelling and then another 1:20 slope to the hide entrance; the path is surfaced with compacted gravel/rolled stone.
From Lilian's hide to Jackson's hide is 535 m. From Lilian's hide to Griesdale hide is 735 m; the path is surfaced with compacted gravel/rolled stone, and narrows to one metre in places. From Lilian's hide to Public hide is 1,000 m; the path is undulating, rolled stone with two non-wheelchair accessible kissing gates; it has a steep gradient of 1:10 along some of its length. There is a 100 m stretch along the public highway.
The final approach to the hide is along a public causeway of rough, rolled stone with a 1:10 slope. Visitors with limited mobility can drive to the start of the public causeway. From Public hide to Lower hide is 820 m; the path is surfaced with compacted mud and stone; it is narrow in places and accessible to semi-ambulant visitors.
Car parking
Visitors can park in front of and behind the visitor centre; the surface is rolled stone. There is an alternative car park on the opposite side of the road from the visitor centre.
Toilets
One adapted, unisex toilet accessed via shop and rear entrance to visitor centre.
Wheelchair loan
One wheelchair available for loan, contact reserve staff for availability.
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a) Nikon D1x + Nikon AFD 50mm f.1,4;
b) Tempo 1/125s con apertura a f.5,6 (a mano libera);
c) Lettura Esposimetrica con Gossen Lunalite (parte di files);
e) Conversione con Adobe Photoshop CS3
f) 1°/a Post-Produzione Corel Photo-Paint X5
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Currículum del Jefe de Gobierno del Distrito Federal, Marcelo Ebrard Casaubon
Estudios Profesionales
Marcelo Ebrard ingresó a la carrera de Relaciones Internacionales en El Colegio de México, esta institución es considerada como uno de los mejores centros de estudio e investigación en el país.
Al terminar exitosamente sus estudios universitarios, viajo a Francia para estudiar un curso de administración pública. Hacia finales de 1981 regreso de París para incorporarse a trabajar en la Secretaría de programación y Presupuesto.
Servicio Público
1985 - Terremoto DF.
Su vida pública ha estado vinculada a la ciudad a raíz del terremoto ocurrido el 19 de septiembre de 1985 que marcaría para siempre la vida de Marcelo Ebrard, al igual que la de millones de capitalinos. El sismo de 8.1 grados Ritcher lo sorprendió cuando se dirigía a su oficina ubicada en el Centro Histórico. El recorrido le mostró de golpe la magnitud de la tragedia que estaba viviendo en ese momento la Ciudad. Pocos minutos después el enorme espíritu de solidaridad de los mexicanos empezó con la formación de cadenas humanas para remover escombros y rescatar a los sobrevivientes. Sumándose a estas tareas Ebrard entiende el valor de la política y de su potencial para cambiar las cosas. A partir de ese momento sabe que dedicará su vida a la Ciudad.
Desde una posición modesta participo en el Programa de Renovación Habitacional Popular, Ebrard es testigo e interlocutor privilegiado de la formación de estos movimientos. De calle en calle y reunión en reunión, Ebrard atiende a más de cinco mil frentes de trabajo, realizando una importante tarea de concertación social.
1986 - Reconstrucción DF.
En el año 1986 y con apenas 26 años Ebrard enfrenta esa situación y logra la confianza de la gente en el Programa, permitiendo así que se llevara a cabo el proceso de reconstrucción mas grande del mundo para una urbe moderna en un año. 10 meses después de la tragedia, la Ciudad había reestablecido sus servicios y se habían construido más de 44 mil viviendas beneficiando a más de medio millón de personas.
1987 - Ley General de Equilibrio Ecológico
En 1987 Marcelo Ebrard coordinó la elaboración del Proyecto de la Ley General de Equilibro Ecológico y Protección al Ambiente, que representaba en su momento la primera legislación en materia ecológica en el país, misma que permitió la instrumentación de programas con éxito en la Ciudad de México como el "Hoy no circula", el uso de convertidores catalíticos y el cambio de gasolinas.
1992 - Secretario de Gobierno
En el año de 1992 y a sus 33 años edad, fue nombrado Secretario General de Gobierno, la segunda posición más relevante en el Gobierno de la Ciudad. La experiencia vivida en el temblor le permite a escuchar y atender a cientos de grupos con las más diversas demandas, además de que adquiere un conocimiento profundo de la Ciudad debido a las tareas de coordinación del gabinete que su cargo requería. Entre estas tareas coordinó los programas comunes de las 16 delegaciones políticas, protección civil y la reubicación de comerciantes ambulantes en el centro histórico.
En esta experiencia de gobierno, Ebrard participó en logros muy importantes para la Ciudad, entre los que destacaron la reapertura de la Plaza México, el Teatro Blanquita, el Frontón México, El Palacio de los Deportes y el Auditorio Nacional; la construcción de la Nueva Viga; la restauración de edificios en el Centro Histórico; la ampliación de 17 Km. de la línea "A" del Metro; la sustitución de gasolina por gas natural en las termoeléctricas y cada Familia un Árbol, mismos que obtuvieron premios internacionales. Se recuperaron zonas ecológicas como la del Ajusco y Xochimilco; se construyeron 688 aulas nuevas y se pusieron en operación los Hospitales Generales de Iztapalapa, Tláhuac y Milpa Alta.
Ante los acontecimientos de enero de 1994, Marcelo Ebrard se sumó al equipo que apuesta por una salida pacífica al levantamiento zapatista y al reconocimiento de sus causas y demandas, contra las posiciones que reclamaban un endurecimiento. Este equipo logra el alto total al fuego y el establecimiento de una mesa de negociación y diálogo con el EZLN.
1997 - Diputado Federal
En septiembre de 1997 fue electo Diputado Federal de la LVII legislatura, primera con mayoría opositora al partido gobernante.
Como Diputado fue uno de los primeros integrantes del Congreso en denunciar la inconstitucionalidad y el enorme fraude que significaba el Fobaproa, que significaba un costo de más de 80 mil millones de dólares (equivalentes al presupuesto total de la ciudad de México por 19 años). Mantuvo una oposición permanente a la conversión del rescate bancario en deuda nacional y en favor de un estricto ejercicio de rendición de cuentas. Impulsó la realización de una auditoria independiente en la que participó en su Comité Técnico de seguimiento hasta su arbitraria exclusión.
En materia financiera propuso diversas iniciativas para prohibir el endeudamiento de manera indirecta sin la autorización del Congreso; dotar a la Cámara de Diputados de facultades reales de investigación y postuló la integración de un órgano de supervisión bancaria independiente alternativo al IPAB.
1999 - Denuncia los malos manejos en la SHCP
El 16 de noviembre de 1999 denunció, desde la tribuna de la Cámara, los malos manejos de los funcionarios del gabinete de la presidencia de la República y presentó pruebas de la ilegal jubilación del Secretario de Hacienda equivalente a 206 salarios mínimos mensuales. Al mismo tiempo defendió hasta que fueron aprobados 3 mil millones de pesos en el presupuesto de egresos del año 2000 para aumentar la pensión de más de un millón 798 mil adultos mayores del país que recibían menos de un salario mínimo al mes.
Como integrante de la Comisión de Presupuesto pugnó de manera importante por la reorientación del gasto público hacia programas sociales y a favor de las entidades federativas.
Es co-autor de los libros "Del FOBAPROA al IPAB, testimonios, análisis y propuestas" coordinado por Ricardo Solís (UAM - Plaza y Valdés) y "FOBAPROA, el acuerdo que no debió ser" de editorial Océano, coordinado por Gabriel Székely.
Marcelo Ebrard se suma el 15 de marzo del 2000 a la alianza Por la Ciudad de México encabezada por Andrés Manuel López Obrador que a la postre obtuvo el triunfo electoral en julio de ese año.
2000 - Asesor del Consejo Nacional de Ahorradores
A finales del 2000 participó como Asesor del Consejo Nacional de Ahorradores que agrupó a la mayoría de las 230 mil familias afectadas por la crisis del sistema de ahorro popular desatada por una acción gubernamental. Su intervención fue definitiva para que la Cámara de Diputados asignara mil quinientos millones de pesos que fueron destinados a resarcirle el 70% de los ahorros de menos de 190 mil pesos a 160 mil personas, de los cuales en un 90% eran adultos mayores que habían invertido todo su patrimonio en la caja. Esta lucha provocó una profunda reforma al sistema de ahorro del país con la creación de la Ley de Protección al Ahorro popular y el destino de por lo menos otros dos mil millones de pesos para subsanar a ahorradores afectados.
Después de fungir como asesor en diversas materias, el Jefe de Gobierno Andrés Manuel López Obrador invitó a Marcelo Ebrard a hacerse cargo de la seguridad pública en la Ciudad, sin duda una de las tareas más difíciles en el gobierno. El 17 de febrero del 2002 fue nombrado Secretario de Seguridad Pública del Gobierno del Distrito Federal.
2002 - Secretario de Seguridad Pública
Durante su ejercicio como Secretario de Seguridad Pública del 2002 al 2004, emprendió políticas innovadoras y la reforma integral de los cuerpos policiales más importante en los últimos años. Logró una disminución de los delitos en 9.2% y el promedio diario alcanzó su nivel más bajo en los últimos 10 años, mientras que el número de detenidos en las cárceles en la Ciudad alcanzó su cifra récord al llegar a casi 30 mil.
Aumentó el trabajo de la policía cualitativa y cuantitativa convirtiendo al Centro Histórico en una de las zonas más seguras de la Ciudad, después de que por años había sido la zona con más delitos. Puso en marcha nuevas agrupaciones policiales como las Unidades de Protección Ciudadana, la policía típica, la ribereña, un agrupamiento especial para Polanco y la unidad de protección a robo a cuentahabiente.
2005 - Secretario de Desarrollo Social
El 8 de febrero del 2005 fue nombrado Secretario de Desarrollo Social, teniendo como responsabilidad mayor conducir los programas sociales de la administración. En este tiempo logró reimpulsar y aumentar el alcance de programas sociales como el de apoyo a madres solteras, discapacitados, útiles escolares, la extensión del programa de mastografias a 80 mil, programa impulso joven para promover el reingreso de los jóvenes que han abandonado sus estudios al sistema escolar.
También, como coordinador del Gabinete de Progreso con Justicia, impulsó la puesta en marcha del programa de atención médica domiciliaria a adultos mayores y la ampliación del programa de vivienda.
Renunció a la Secretaria de Desarrollo Social en septiembre del 2005 para contender en la elección interna del Partido de la Revolución Democrática para candidato a la Jefatura de Gobierno del distrito federal, proceso del que salió vencedor con un margen de 20% de ventaja en la votación del 4 de diciembre de ese año.
Como candidato de la Coalición por el Bien de Todos triunfó el 2 de julio del 2006 con una amplia ventaja de casi un millón de votos sobre su más cercano contendiente en la elección constitucional para Jefe de Gobierno del Distrito Federal, responsabilidad que asume este 5 de diciembre
The first thing you notice when you meet Julie is that she has the most shapely legs this side of christendom. It hardly seems right for one person to be blessed with this quality - still, if life was fair, Elvis would be alive and all the impersonators would be dead.
Having changed her name from a somewhat dreary title reminiscent of matronly endeavours (though this was where the resemblance ended) she spends an inordinate amount of time dreaming. A die-hard fan of Mills and Boon, she harbours a secret desire to be a classical musician - but meantime keeps her day job (though she has invested in a crimson custom-made drum kit).
Makeup and styling by the talented Kelayla of www.transvista.co.uk/
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9 Feb 18
The first thing you notice when you meet Julie is that she has the most shapely legs this side of christendom. It hardly seems right for one person to be blessed with this quality - still, if life was fair, Elvis would be alive and all the impersonators would be dead.
Having changed her name from a somewhat dreary title reminiscent of matronly endeavours (though this was where the resemblance ended) she spends an inordinate amount of time dreaming. A die-hard fan of Mills and Boon she harbours a secret desire to be a classical musician - but meantime keeps her day job (though she has invested in a crimson custom-made drum kit).
Makeup and styling by Kelayla
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Dati Tecnici
a) Leica M8 + Leica Summilux M 75 mm f.1,4 + Filtro Leica UV/IR;
b) Tempo 1/15s apertura a f.2,0 (a mano libera);
c) Utilizzato il Magnifier 1,25x per effettuare una messa a fuoco più precisa;
d) Lettura Esposimetrica impostata in M (manuale) con esposimetro della macchina (Effettuate quattro letture a luce riflessa sui due lati estremi opposti del bambino, una sul volto fra lo zigomo destro e l'occhio e l'ultima sui panni sfuocati in basso a sinistra);
e) Conversione con Adobe Photoshop CC
f) Prima Post-Produzione Corel Photo-Paint X5
g) Post-Produzione di completamento con Nikon Capture NX 2
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Dedicata al mio Gabriele - Dedicated to my Gabriele
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Prego i visitatori di ascoltare il brano contemporaneamente alla visione dell'immagine e alla lettura della poesia per farsi trasportare con la mente nelle atmosfere, nelle sensazioni, nello stato d’animo del soggetto come se fosse un fotogramma estrapolato dalla scena di un film.
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Please visitors to listen to the song at the same time to view the image and read the poem to get carried away with your mind in the atmosphere, the feeling, the mood of the subject as if it were one taken from a movie scene.
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Celtic Woman - May It Be
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…….può essere
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….nei silenzi,…
….via volerà,….
un pensiero profondo.
….odo,
….lontano,
col diffondersi dell’aria,
fra il fruscio delle fronde
fra il buio delle ombre,
una flebile voce. Forse,.....
....è la magia del vento,
oppure, il canto ritmico
del tuo piccolo cuore.
….vicino a me,
….dormi.
Sveglio,…insonne
guardo fuori,…..e
sento il profumato
alito del vento che
pronuncia il tuo nome.
....sussurri lievemente,
con un profondo respiro,
mi avvicino in silenzio…e
vorrei sapere, ascoltare
sotto lo scintillio delle stelle,
i tuoi pensieri,…sono
i sogni del tuo cuore.
Felice di averti accanto,
amaramente abbasso gli occhi, e
con la voce del cuore
grido forte a quel vento:…,
….mi affiderò alle tue ali
quando non sarò più con lui,
fra i sottili fili d'erba mi cullerò
quando nei prati lo troverò,
nella sua ombra mi nasconderò
per stargli sempre vicino,
e…., quando sarà il momento,
in quel mondo incantato,
….può essere, un giorno
fortemente…..lo riabbraccerò.
…………………………….…Luigi Mirto
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……..may it be
…..in the silence ....
…..will fly away ......
a deep thought.
…..i hear ….....,
…..far away ...,
with the spread of the air,
between the rustling of the leaves
between the darkness of the shadows,
a feeble voice. Perhaps,....
.....is the magic of the wind,
or, the rhythmic chant
your little heart.
…..close to me ....,
…..sleep.
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Awake,…..awake
i look out, …..and
i feel the fragrant
breath of wind
pronounce your name.
…..whispers slightly,
with a deep breath,
i walk in silence…..and
i want to know, listen
under the twinkling stars,
your thoughts,…..are
the dreams of your heart.
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Happy to have you near,
bitterly lower my eyes, and
with the voice of the heart
loud cry in the wind: …..
…..i will rely on your wings
when I am no longer with him,
between the thin blades of grass I rock you
when I find him in the meadows,
I will hide in his shadow
to be with him always near,
and ...., when the time comes,
in that enchanted world,
…..may it be, one day
strongly ..... embrace him again.
…………………………….…Luigi Mirto
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Dedicata al mio Gabriele - Dedicated to my Gabriele
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Prego i visitatori di ascoltare anche questo brano contemporaneamente alla visione dell'immagine e alla lettura della poesia per farsi trasportare con la mente nelle atmosfere, nelle sensazioni, nello stato d’animo del soggetto come se fosse un fotogramma estrapolato dalla scena di un film.
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Please visitors to listen to this song while viewing the image and the reading of poetry to get carried away with your mind in the atmosphere, the feeling, the mood of the subject as if it were one taken from a movie scene.
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Enya - May it be
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The rear 360 unit 360101 has had the Spray can treatment passing through Brantham on a London Liverpool st to Ipswich service comprising three four car sets. The haze is from a farmers bonfire.What a day for February
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Non è detto……che!!! - It is not said ...... that!!!
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Dati Tecnici:
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a) Nikon D1x + Ottica Sigma DG HSM 50mm F1,4 ART;
b) Filtro B+W XS-Pro Digital Filter Professional Giallo 93mm per Hasselblad Distagon FLE 40mm + anello adattatore 77/93;
c) Esposizione Finale Tempo 1/180s con apertura a f.5,6 utilizzando il monopiede n°134 Manfrotto;
d) Lettura Esposimetrica Angolo 5° con Sekonic DualSpot F-L-778 (effettuate 6 misurazioni con metodo del Sistema Zonale di Ansel Adams) a luce riflessa;
- Esposizioni:
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1) …la prima sulla parte più luminosa del viso a destra della ragazza (in corrispondenza dell’occhio e il naso);
2) …la seconda sulle piegature della maglia in corrispondenza della sua spalla destra);
3) …la terza sullo zigomo sinistro della ragazza (quello in ombra dietro la persiana);
4) …la quarta effettuata fra la ciocca dei capelli vicino l’orecchio destro e all'orecchio stesso;
5) …la quinta sulla maglia della schiena (questa lettura è stata sfalsata aumentando l’esposizione di n+2 per compensare la luminanza delle altre aree della scena);
6) …la sesta sul mento in corrispondenza del labro inferiore nella zona leggermente più chiara;
7) ...la risultante della lettura media ottenuta (sovraesposta di n+1,5) è stata confrontata con una ulteriore lettura effettuata sulla luminanza generale della scena effettuata con il Gossen Lunalite e calotta abbassata (la luminanza è stata posta sulla zona V del Grigio Medio al 18%. Ho abbassato volutamente alla zona IV e 1/3 per attutire i grigi che risultavano di 2,5 valori superiore alla media ponderata della luminosità generale. Ciò ha permesso di equiparare i grigi e alzare la scala tonale generale di una zona. Vista la prevalenza delle zone basse il valore totale è stato sovraesposto di n+2/3 per evitare che l’esposizione finale impostata non penalizzasse le alte luci (la luce che si proiettava fra i capelli, la spala e parte del viso “nonostante il cielo nuvoloso era molto corposa “temperatura cromatica circa 6700°k”) o le basse luci (le luci interne erano molto basse stimate in 2550°K/2900°K) ricadevano fra la zona II e zona III nel calcolo della tecnica dell’Esposizione a Destra. Questa tecnica rappresenta un importante metodo di lavoro nella fotografia digitale, che permette al fotografo di ottenere foto meno rumorose e qualitativamente migliori;
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e) Prima Leggera Post-Produzione effettuata con Nikon Capture NX 2 (effettuando mascherature localizzate, riduzione di luminanza delle zone “zona VI-VII e VII” e aumentando la struttura della zone “zona II-III e IV”);
f) Seconda Post-Produzione Leggerissima effettuata con Corel Photo-Paint X5 e Adobe Photoshop CS3 per il miglioramento globale dell’immagine riducendo il divario zonale delle aree (ovvero effettuando una compressione delle zone);
g) Ultima Post-Produzione di completamento con Nikon Capture NX 2;
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Suggerisco di guardare l’immagine su fondo scuro e ascoltare la musica
I suggest you look at the image on a dark background and listen to music
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Dedicata a tutte quelle donne che non hanno creduto e perso il loro vero amore
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Dedicated to all those women who did not believe and lost their true love
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Non è detto……che!!!
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....non è detto..….che!!
mi basterà di te ricordare,
tutte le attenzioni che
non mi hai saputo dare,
le promesse che
non sei riuscita a mantenere,
le parole di conforto che
non hai mai saputo donare....
ma,.....nonostante quel tuo
strano modo di parlare
le avrei voluto ascoltare.
....non è detto.....che!!
mi basterà di te ricordare,
tutti quei sorrisi che
non mi hai saputo regalare,
per tutte quelle frasi che
il cui intento era solo ferire,
tutte quelle piccole cose che
non mi hai saputo offrire.
….non è detto.....che!!
mi basterà di te ricordare
quei falsi sguardi con cui i tuoi occhi
mi hanno saputo guardare,
per tutti quei silenzi che
non hai saputo riempire
tutte quelle foto che
non vorrò mai più sfogliare.
Nonostante tutto sia stato
per te solo uno scurrile gioco,
...nonostante tutto quel tempo
che, grazie a te, ho...
irrimediabilmente perduto,
eppure ti dico,….nella falsità di quell'amore,
per quanto strano sia stato
e per i fiori che all'alba sono sbocciati
io…stupidamente c'ero cascato.
E se tutto questo non dovesse
ancora bastare, avrei sempre voluto dirti,
per tutti quei giorni che rimanevo
in attesa di poterti ascoltare,
che il tuo non fu amore ma….
una tragica condanna al carcere duro.
………………………………………….. Luigi Mirto
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It is not said .....that!!
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..... it is not said .. ... that !!
I just need to remember you,
all the attention that
you didn't know how to give me,
the promises that
you couldn't keep up,
the words of comfort that
you never knew how to donate ....
but, ..... despite that yours
strange way of speaking
I would have liked to listen to them.
.... it is not said ..... that !!
I just need to remember you,
all those smiles that
you didn't know how to give me,
for all those phrases that
whose intent was only to hurt,
all those little things that
you didn't know how to offer me.
… .It is not said ..... that !!
I just need to remember you
those false looks with which your eyes
they were able to look at me,
for all those silences that
you did not know how to fill
all those photos that
I will never want to browse again.
Despite everything has been
just a bad game for you,
... despite all that time
that, thanks to you, I have ...
hopelessly lost,
yet I tell you, ... in the falsity of that love,
however strange it was
and for the flowers that bloomed at dawn
I ... stupidly I had fallen for it.
What if all this doesn't
still enough, I always wanted to tell you,
for all those days I stayed
waiting to hear you,
that yours was not love but….
a tragic sentence to hard prison.
……………………………….. Luigi Mirto
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Questa immagine è tratta da un reportage in continua evoluzione che sto effettuando nella ricerca di particolari volti che esprimano particolari sensazioni, scene di particolare enfasi ambientale, espressioni e sentimenti profondi trasmessi attraverso semplici sguardi, di particolari posture del corpo o anche dai semplici abiti e decorazioni fisiche.
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Tali immagini verranno raccolte in un “Manuale Artistico Tecnico Fotografico” nella quale saranno descritte le particolari tecniche di ripresa, i materiali impiegati, l’attrezzatura fotografica, i luoghi e le condizioni sceniche ambientali.
Grazie
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This image is from a report in continuous evolution that I am making in the search for specific faces expressing particular feelings, scenes of environmental emphasis, expressions and deep feelings conveyed through simple look, a particular posture of the body or even from simple clothes and decorations individuals.
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These images will be collected in a "Artistic Photography Technical Manual" which will describe the special filming techniques, materials, photographic equipment, sites and scenic environmental conditions.
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three girls by adwriter
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ballet dancer by Gabriela Camerotti
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pills by hokkey
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"Du haftest in der Welt, beschwert von Ketten,
doch treibt, was wahr ist, Sprünge in die Wand.
Du wachst und siehst im Dunkeln nach dem Rechten,
dem unbekannten Ausgang zugewandt.."
Ingeborg Bachmann, aus dem Gedicht "was wahr ist"
I re-wrote my CV, I found some job offers for which I'd like to apply and anyway I'll need it in 1-1,5 months as I'll move soon.
It sounds like I'm ready to start my new life.
Cuatro años ya en Flickr, en los que he conseguido los siguientes títulos:
* Tío pesado. (TLL).
* Mosca cojonera.(TLL).
* Lengua viperina. (TLL)
* Demagogo. (MC)
* Fotógrafo urbanita. (MC)
* Idem costumbrista. (MC)
* Ignorante (TLL)
+ Etc.
¡Y 5 bloqueos!.
Muy agradecido. Veamos...si acepto los títulos:
* Mosca cojonera, sí, para algun@s, por que no admito gato por liebre y doy la vara.
* Pesado, también. No me venden la moto con sus argumentos. Y no me callo ni debajo del agua.
* Lengua viperina no. Si alguien encuentra insultos, adjetivos peyorativos o veneno en mis comentarios le doy 6.000 € y 20 explore. Y un curso gratis de fotografía en Ucrania.
* Demagogo tampoco. No voy en busca del halago, si no me dedicaría a las flores, el paisaje y las puestas de sol.
* Urbanita, sí. Soy de ciudad, donde hay mucho que fotografiar, sabiendo ver. El campo me queda a desmano y hay bichos.
* Costumbrista, también. Me gustan las costumbres, la historia, lo auténtico y los paisanos.
* Ignorante, por supuesto, no lo sé todo, ni lo sabré, no como otr@s que ya están en el Parnaso.
Bloqueos...
* Una gran y culta Sra. que se mosquea por mis comentarios arquitectónicos y me pide que me cultive. No admite contradicciones. Sólo halagos. Y el insulto es su lema nobiliario, del reino que regenta.
* Dos jovencetes con ínfulas, que sólo admiten comentarios favorables y su galería debe estar impoluta de apreciaciones no fotográficas. No se puede hablar del tema fotografiado. Nacieron ya con el Nobel. Y distintos.
* Otro jovencete, vigués, genio él y modelo, que le reproché sus trampas para obtener comentarios, falseando fechas.
* Un hostelero sinvergüenza y levantino, que se dedicaba a plagiarme.
(Nota: Me bloquearon ellos a mí, no yo a ellos). Avestruces.
Gracias a todos aquellos que me divierten con su idiotez, soberbia e ignorancia.
Y más gracias a aquellos que me honran con su amistad y su saber estar en la vida, entre semejantes, sin ínfulas ni arrogancias.
William Charles Ayers (/ɛərz/; born December 26, 1944)[1] is a former leader of the Weather Underground[2] and American elementary education theorist. During the 1960s, Ayers participated in the counterculture movement that opposed US involvement in the Vietnam War. He is known for his 1960s radical activism and his later work in education reform, curriculum and instruction.
In 1969, Ayers co-founded the Weather Underground, a self-described Communist revolutionary group that sought to overthrow imperialism.[3] The Weather Underground conducted a campaign of bombing public buildings (including police stations, the United States Capitol, and the Pentagon) during the 1960s and 1970s in response to U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War.
Ayers is a retired professor in the College of Education at the University of Illinois at Chicago, formerly holding the titles of Distinguished Professor of Education and Senior University Scholar.[4] During the 2008 U.S. presidential campaign, a controversy arose over his contacts with then-candidate Barack Obama. He is married to Bernardine Dohrn, who was also a leader in the Weather Underground.
Ayers grew up in Glen Ellyn, a suburb of Chicago, Illinois. His parents are Mary (née Andrew) and Thomas G. Ayers, who was later chairman and chief executive officer of Commonwealth Edison (1973 to 1980),[5] and for whom Northwestern's Thomas G. Ayers College of Commerce and Industry was named.[6][7] He attended public schools until his second year in high school, when he transferred to Lake Forest Academy, a small prep school.[8] Ayers earned a Bachelor of Arts in American Studies from the University of Michigan in 1968. (His father, mother and older brother had preceded him there.)[8]
Ayers was affected at a 1965 Ann Arbor teach-in against the Vietnam war, when Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) President Paul Potter, asked his audience, "How will you live your life so that it doesn't make a mockery of your values?" Ayers later wrote in his memoir, Fugitive Days, that his reaction was: "You could not be a moral person with the means to act, and stand still. [...] To stand still was to choose indifference. Indifference was the opposite of moral".[9]
In 1965, Ayers joined a picket line protesting an Ann Arbor, Michigan pizzeria for refusing to seat African Americans. His first arrest came for a sit-in at a local draft board, resulting in 10 days in jail. His first teaching job came shortly afterward at the Children's Community School, a preschool with a very small enrollment operating in a church basement, founded by a group of students in emulation of the Summerhill method of education.[10]
The school was a part of the nationwide "free school movement". Schools in the movement had no grades or report cards; they aimed to encourage cooperation rather than competition, and pupils addressed teachers by their first names. Within a few months, at age 21, Ayers became director of the school. There also he met Diana Oughton, who would become his girlfriend until her death in 1970 after a bomb exploded while being prepared for Weather Underground activities.[8]
Early activism
Further information: Weather Underground
Ayers became involved in the New Left and the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS).[11] He rose to national prominence as an SDS leader in 1968 and 1969 as head of an SDS regional group, the "Jesse James Gang".[12]
The group Ayers headed in Detroit, Michigan, became one of the earliest gatherings of what became the Weathermen. Before the June 1969 SDS convention, Ayers became a prominent leader of the group, which arose as a result of a schism in SDS.[9] "During that time his infatuation with street fighting grew and he developed a language of confrontational militancy that became more and more pronounced over the year [1969]", disaffected former Weathermen member Cathy Wilkerson wrote in 2001. Ayers had previously been a roommate of Terry Robbins, a fellow militant who was killed in 1970 along with Ayers' girlfriend Oughton and one other member in the Greenwich Village townhouse explosion, while constructing anti-personnel bombs (nail bombs) intended for a non-commissioned officer dance at Fort Dix, New Jersey.[13]
In June 1969, the Weathermen took control of the SDS at its national convention, where Ayers was elected Education Secretary.[9] Later in 1969, Ayers participated in planting a bomb at a statue dedicated to police casualties in the 1886 Haymarket affair confrontation between labor supporters and the Chicago police.[14] The blast broke almost 100 windows and blew pieces of the statue onto the nearby Kennedy Expressway.[15] (The statue was rebuilt and unveiled on May 4, 1970, and blown up again by other Weathermen on October 6, 1970.[15][16] Rebuilding it yet again, the city posted a 24-hour police guard to prevent another blast, and in January 1972 it was moved to Chicago police headquarters).[17]
Ayers participated in the Days of Rage riot in Chicago in October 1969, and in December was at the "War Council" meeting in Flint, Michigan. Two major decisions came out of the "War Council". The first was to immediately begin a violent, armed struggle (e.g., bombings and armed robberies) against the state without attempting to organize or mobilize a broad swath of the public. The second was to create underground collectives in major cities throughout the country.[18] Larry Grathwohl, a Federal Bureau of Investigation informant in the Weathermen group from the fall of 1969 to the spring of 1970, stated that "Ayers, along with Bernardine Dohrn, probably had the most authority within the Weathermen".[19]
Involvement with Weather Underground
Further information: List of Weatherman actions
After the Greenwich Village townhouse explosion in 1970, in which Weatherman member Ted Gold, Ayers's close friend Terry Robbins, and Ayers's girlfriend, Diana Oughton, were killed when a nail bomb being assembled in the house exploded, Ayers and several associates evaded pursuit by law enforcement officials. Kathy Boudin and Cathy Wilkerson survived the blast. Ayers was not facing criminal charges at the time, but the federal government later filed charges against him.[8] Ayers participated in the bombings of New York City Police Department headquarters in 1970, the United States Capitol building in 1971, and the Pentagon in 1972, as he noted in his 2001 book, Fugitive Days. Ayers writes:
Although the bomb that rocked the Pentagon was itsy-bitsy—weighing close to two pounds—it caused 'tens of thousands of dollars' of damage. The operation cost under $500, and no one was killed or even hurt.[20]
After the bombing, Ayers became a fugitive. During this time, Ayers and fellow member Bernardine Dohrn married and remained fugitives together, changing identities, jobs and locations.
In 1973, Ayers co-authored the book Prairie Fire with other members of the Weather Underground. The book was dedicated to close to 200 people, including Harriet Tubman, John Brown, "All Who Continue to Fight", and "All Political Prisoners in the U.S."[21] The book dedication includes Sirhan Sirhan, the convicted assassin of Robert F. Kennedy.[22][23]
In 1973, new information came to light about FBI operations targeted against Weather Underground and the New Left, all part of a series of covert and often illegal FBI projects called COINTEL.[24] Due to the illegal tactics of FBI agents involved with the program, including conducting wiretaps and property searches without warrants, government attorneys requested all weapons-related and bomb-related charges be dropped against the Weather Underground, including charges against Ayers.[25][26]
However, state charges against Dohrn remained. Dohrn was still reluctant to turn herself in to authorities. "He was sweet and patient, as he always is, to let me come to my senses on my own," she later said of Ayers.[8] She turned herself in to authorities in 1980. She was fined $1,500 and given three years probation.[27]
Later reflections on underground period
Fugitive Days: A Memoir
In 2001, Ayers published Fugitive Days: A Memoir, which he explained in part as an attempt to answer the questions of Kathy Boudin's son, and his speculation that Diana Oughton died trying to stop the Greenwich Village bomb-makers.[28] Some have questioned the truth, accuracy, and tone of the book. Brent Staples wrote for The New York Times Book Review that "Ayers reminds us often that he can't tell everything without endangering people involved in the story."[29] Historian Jesse Lemisch (himself a former member of SDS) contrasted Ayers' recollections with those of other former members of the Weathermen, and claimed that the book had many errors.[30] Ayers, in the foreword to his book, stated that it was written as his personal memories and impressions over time, not a scholarly research project.[31] Reviewing Ayers' memoir in Slate Magazine, Timothy Noah said he could not recall reading "a memoir quite so self-indulgent and morally clueless as Fugitive Days".[32] Studs Terkel called Ayers' memoir "a deeply moving elegy to all those young dreamers who tried to live decently in an indecent world".[33]
Statements made in 2001
Chicago Magazine reported that "just before the September 11th attacks", Richard Elrod, a city lawyer injured in the Weathermen's Chicago "Days of Rage", received an apology from Ayers and Dohrn for their part in the violence. "[T]hey were remorseful," Elrod says. "They said, 'We're sorry that things turned out this way.' "[34]
Much of the controversy about Ayers during the decade since 2000 stems from an interview he gave to The New York Times on the occasion of the memoir's publication.[35] The reporter quoted him as saying "I don't regret setting bombs" and "I feel we didn't do enough", and, when asked if he would "do it all again", as saying "I don't want to discount the possibility."[31] Ayers protested the interviewer's characterizations in a Letter to the Editor published September 15, 2001: "This is not a question of being misunderstood or 'taken out of context', but of deliberate distortion."[36] In the ensuing years, Ayers has repeatedly avowed that when he said he had "no regrets" and that "we didn't do enough" he was speaking only in reference to his efforts to stop the United States from waging the Vietnam War, efforts which he has described as "...inadequate [as] the war dragged on for a decade".[37] Ayers has maintained that the two statements were not intended to imply a wish they had set more bombs.[37][38] In a November 2008 interview with The New Yorker, Ayers said that he had not meant to imply that he wished he and the Weathermen had committed further violence. Instead, he said, "I wish I had done more, but it doesn't mean I wish we'd bombed more shit." Ayers said that he had never been responsible for violence against other people and was acting to end a war in Vietnam in which "thousands of people were being killed every week". He also stated, "While we did claim several extreme acts, they were acts of extreme radicalism against property," and "We killed no one and hurt no one. Three of our people killed themselves."[39]
The interviewer also quoted some of Ayers' own criticism of the Weathermen in the foreword to the memoir, whereby Ayers reacts to having watched Emile de Antonio's 1976 documentary film about the Weathermen, Underground: "[Ayers] was 'embarrassed by the arrogance, the solipsism, the absolute certainty that we and we alone knew the way. The rigidity and the narcissism.' "[31] "We weren't terrorists," Ayers told an interviewer for the Chicago Tribune in 2001. "The reason we weren't terrorists is because we did not commit random acts of terror against people. Terrorism was what was being practiced in the countryside of Vietnam by the United States."[8]
In a letter to the editor in the Chicago Tribune, Ayers wrote, "I condemn all forms of terrorism—individual, group and official". He also condemned the September 11 terrorist attacks in that letter.[40]
Views on his past expressed since 2001
Ayers was asked in a January 2004 interview, "How do you feel about what you did? Would you do it again under similar circumstances?" He replied:[41] "I've thought about this a lot. Being almost 60, it's impossible to not have lots and lots of regrets about lots and lots of things, but the question of did we do something that was horrendous, awful? [...] I don't think so. I think what we did was to respond to a situation that was unconscionable."
On September 9, 2008, journalist Jake Tapper copied to his ABC News "Political Punch" blog and opined on a four-panel comic strip by Ryan Alexander-Tanner from Bill Ayers' blog site.[42] In the comic strip, the Ayers cartoon character says: "The one thing I don't regret is opposing the war in Vietnam with every ounce of my being... When I say, 'We didn't do enough,' a lot of people rush to think, 'That must mean, "We didn't bomb enough shit." ' But that's not the point at all. It's not a tactical statement, it's an obvious political and ethical statement. In this context, 'we' means 'everyone.' "[42]
After the 2008 presidential election, Ayers published an op-ed piece in the New York Times giving his assessment of his activism. Feminist critic Katha Pollitt criticized Ayers' opinion piece as a "sentimentalized, self-justifying whitewash of his role in the weirdo violent fringe of the 1960s–1970s antiwar left". She says Ayers and his Weathermen cohorts made "the antiwar movement look like the enemy of ordinary people" during the Vietnam War era.[43] Ayers gave this assessment of his actions:
The Weather Underground crossed lines of legality, of propriety and perhaps even of common sense. Our effectiveness can be—and still is being—debated.[44]
He also reiterated his rebuttal to the description of his actions as terrorism despite the use of shrapnel devices:
The Weather Underground went on to take responsibility for placing several small bombs in empty offices... We did carry out symbolic acts of extreme vandalism directed at monuments to war and racism, and the attacks on property, never on people, were meant to respect human life and convey outrage and determination to end the Vietnam war. Peaceful protests had failed to stop the war. So we issued a screaming response. But it was not terrorism; we were not engaged in a campaign to kill and injure people indiscriminately, spreading fear and suffering for political ends.[44]
Academic career
Ayers is a retired professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago, College of Education. His interests include teaching for social justice, urban educational reform, narrative and interpretive research, children in trouble with the law, and related issues.[4]
He began his career in primary education while an undergraduate, teaching at the Children's Community School (CCS), a project founded by a group of students and based on the Summerhill method of education. After leaving the underground, he earned an M.Ed from Bank Street College in Early Childhood Education (1984), an M.Ed from Teachers College, Columbia University in Early Childhood Education (1987) and an Ed. D from Teachers College, Columbia University in Curriculum and Instruction (1987).
Ayers was elected Vice President for Curriculum Studies by the American Educational Research Association in 2008.[45] Writer Sol Stern, a conservative opponent of liberal education policies, has criticized Ayers as having a virulent "hatred of America", and said, "Calling Bill Ayers a school reformer is a bit like calling Joseph Stalin an agricultural reformer."[46][47] William H. Schubert, a fellow professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago, wrote that his election was "a testimony of [Ayers'] stature and [the] high esteem he holds in the field of education locally, regionally, nationally, and internationally".[48]
He has edited and written many books and articles on education theory, policy and practice, and has appeared on many panels and symposia. On August 5, 2010, Ayers officially announced his intent to retire from the University of Illinois at Chicago.[49]
On September 23, 2010, William Ayers was unanimously denied emeritus status by the University of Illinois, after a speech by the university's board chair Christopher G. Kennedy (son of assassinated U.S. Senator Robert Kennedy), containing the quote "I intend to vote against conferring the honorific title of our university to a man whose body of work includes a book dedicated in part to the man who murdered my father, Robert F. Kennedy."[50] He added, "There is nothing more antithetical to the hopes for a university that is lively and yet civil...than to permanently seal off debate with one's opponents by killing them".[51] Kennedy referred to a 1974 book Prairie Fire: The Politics of Revolutionary Anti-Imperialism, written by Ayers and other Weather Underground members. The book was dedicated to a list of over 200 revolutionary figures, musicians and others, including Sirhan Sirhan, who was convicted of the 1968 assassination of Robert Kennedy and sentenced to life in prison.[52] Ayers denied having ever dedicated a book to Sirhan Sirhan and accused right-wing bloggers of having started a rumor to that effect.[53][54]
In an October 2010 Chicago Sun Times editorial entitled Attacks on Ayers distort our history, former students of Ayers and UIC Alumni, Daniel Schneider and Adam Kuranishi, responded in opposition to the University of Illinois Board of Trustees' decision to deny Ayers emeritus status. They wrote:
"We juxtaposed the image of him painted by the media with the teacher we saw in class; and the two could not be more distinct. The Ayers in the media was frozen in time; he never left the 1960s, never aged out of his 20s, and never grew in perspective. As his students, we see through this representation ... Ayers is still committed to movements for peace and justice. His worldview and tactics are evolved and elaborate, thoughtful and wise, making him unrecognizable to the media's caricature. Should we not expect someone to evolve after 40 years? One may disagree with his activism, but it is impossible to ignore his hard work and contributions to urban education, juvenile justice reform, the University of Illinois and Chicago."[55]
Civic and political life
Ayers worked with Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley in shaping the city's school reform program,[56] and was one of three co-authors of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge grant proposal that in 1995 won $49.2 million over five years for public school reform.[57] In 1997, Chicago awarded him its Citizen of the Year award for his work on the project.[58] Since 1999, he has served on the board of directors of the Woods Fund of Chicago, an anti-poverty, philanthropic foundation established as the Woods Charitable Fund in 1941.[59] Wall Street Journal columnist Thomas Frank praised Ayers as a "model citizen" and a scholar whose "work is esteemed by colleagues of different political viewpoints".[60]
According to Ayers, his radical past occasionally affects him, as when, by his account, he was asked not to attend a progressive educators' conference in the fall of 2006 on the basis that the organizers did not want to risk an association with his past. On January 18, 2009, on his way to speak about education reform at the Centre for Urban Schooling at the University of Toronto, he was refused admission to Canada when he arrived at the Toronto City Centre Airport although he has traveled to Canada more than a dozen times in the past. According to Ayers, "It seems very arbitrary. The border agent said I had a conviction for a felony from 1969. I have several arrests for misdemeanors, but not for felonies."[61]
Political views
In an interview published in 1995, Ayers characterized his political beliefs at that time and in the 1960s and 1970s: "I am a radical, Leftist, small 'c' communist ... [Laughs] Maybe I'm the last communist who is willing to admit it. [Laughs] We have always been small 'c' communists in the sense that we were never in the Communist party and never Stalinists. The ethics of communism still appeal to me. I don't like Lenin as much as the early Marx. I also like Henry David Thoreau, Mother Jones and Jane Addams [...]".[62]
In 1970, The New York Times called Ayers "a national leader"[63] of the Weatherman organization and "one of the chief theoreticians of the Weathermen".[64] The Weathermen were initially part of the Revolutionary Youth Movement (RYM) within the SDS, splitting from the RYM's Maoists by claiming there was no time to build a vanguard party and that revolutionary war against the United States government and the capitalist system should begin immediately. Their founding document called for the establishment of a "white fighting force" to be allied with the "Black Liberation Movement" and other "anti-colonial" movements[65] to achieve "the destruction of US imperialism and the achievement of a classless world: world communism".[66]
In June 1974, the Weather Underground released a 151-page volume titled Prairie Fire, which stated: "We are a guerrilla organization [...] We are communist women and men underground in the United States [...]"[67] The Weatherman leadership, including Ayers, pushed for a radical reformulation of sexual relations under the slogan "Smash Monogamy".[68][69] Radical bomber and feminist[70] Jane Alpert criticized the Weatherman group in 1974 for still being dominated by men, including Ayers, and referred to his "callous treatment and abandonment of Diana Oughton before her death, and for his generally fickle and high-handed treatment of women".[71]
Larry Grathwohl, an undercover FBI agent who infiltrated The Weather Underground, says Ayers told him where to plant bombs. He says Ayers was bent on overthrowing the government. In response to Grathwohl's claims, Ayers stated, "Now that's being blown into dishonest narratives about hurting people, killing people, planning to kill people. That's just not true. We destroyed government property".[72]
On June 18, 2013, Ayers gave an interview to RealClearPolitics' Morning Commute in which he stated that every president in this century should be tried for war crimes, including President Obama for his use of drone attacks, which Ayers considers an act of terror.[73]
Obama–Ayers controversy
Main article: Bill Ayers 2008 presidential election controversy
During the 2008 U.S. presidential campaign, a controversy arose about Ayers' contacts with then-candidate Barack Obama, a matter that had been public knowledge in Chicago for years.[74] After being raised by the American and British press[74][75][76] the connection was picked up by conservative blogs and newspapers in the United States. The matter was raised in a campaign debate by moderator George Stephanopoulos, and later became an issue for the John McCain presidential campaign. Investigations by The New York Times, CNN, and other news organizations concluded that Obama did not have a close relationship with Ayers.[76][77][78][79]
In an op-ed piece after the election, Ayers denied any close association with Obama, and criticized the Republican campaign for its use of guilt by association tactics.[44]
Personal life
Bill Ayers and wife Bernardine Dohrn speaking to audience members following a forum on education reform at Florida State University in 2009.
Ayers is married to Bernardine Dohrn, a fellow former leader of the Weather Underground. They have two adult children (including Zayd, who was featured in the book A Hope in the Unseen as the college friend of the main character Cedric Jennings) and shared legal guardianship of Chesa Boudin, son of Kathy Boudin and David Gilbert. Boudin and Gilbert were former Weather Underground members who later joined the May 19 Communist Organization and were convicted of felony murder for their roles in that group's Brinks robbery. Chesa Boudin went on to win a Rhodes scholarship[80] and was elected District Attorney of San Francisco in November 2019.[81] Ayers and Dohrn currently live in the Hyde Park neighborhood of Chicago