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The bone-shaped heels on these shoes led to the cleaver, which naturally called for a generous helping of blood.
Lighting: A bare SB-800 camera left, a bare SB-900 camera right, and an SB-600 in a 28" softbox on axis above the subject.
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Skinny Santa has a bit of a drink problem. He seems to have got stuck inside an empty bottle of Spring Water.
I'm trying to get my dolly act together ><;
I've noticed this problem since I got her, but I did think it was stringing. I do my best to see if I can fix a problem before informing a company about it.
I had time to take both Lumis out and finally compare. The Lumi on the right is the Limited Vampire Lumi, the one that came in the special box, certificate, etc.
The one on the left is the extra body wrapped in that towel and I just put the extra head on it. The quality of the left doll is far better than the right.
I compared the elbow joint, even the stringing. I don't know what the problem is. I should not need to put wire in the doll's arms to get this to work.
Note also the left elbow doesn't even sit right. And the knees/legs are far worse to position. I don't know Lati mechanisms to fix the problem is if it's a mold issue.
SO, I'm asking latidoll if I can return that body with my whole Ruki doll for a replacement. I have never asked for anything from lati before, what do you all think?
problem with the patio living wall. the red rose has had a fungus which i've treated but without success and ants getting on with life but damaging the rose. i'll see how it goes
meteorological spring begins 1st march ends 31st may
astonomical spring begins 20th march ends 21st june
www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/learn-about/weather/seasons/...
for many years my garden was a shrubbery flic.kr/p/Lhv9ag which i loved. a picket fence covered in an ivy hedge coming down in a storm flic.kr/p/2gnCyih meant that over time changes had to happen flic.kr/p/2mn2x8a i'll be glad when the trellis is covered in honeysuckle and jasmine. that's the plan ...
www.flickr.com/groups/gardening_is_my_hobby/ helpful for ideas. thank you for sharing
I have several photo 'series' like this one I seem unable to stack with Registax or IRIS, and wondered if anyone could point me in the right direction.
As you can see from this montage, I took four photos as the sun drifted across, re-adjusted the view and took four more, and re-adjusted a final time and took four more.
Trouble is, it would seem there's too much 'drift' for Registax to cope with, and loading all 12 images at full resolution seems to blow it's mind.
And ideas?
SOLVED
I got this reply in Astronomyshed.co.uk:-
[quote="Bizibilder"]Try this: sites.google.com/site/astropipp/ 'Tis freeware - just bung in your pictures and it will centre and crop them for you, then back to Registax 5 for preference and you should be OK.[/quote]
It works! Now I can get on with stacking the 3,000 or so photos I took like this - thanks for your time folks!
Result:-
I have been trying to upload an image all day and all I get is this. The same problem has occurred twice more in the last few days.
What is the point of paying for Flickr Pro ???????????????
by Alfredo Fernandes
Alfi Art Production, Divar
41st Tiatr Competition A group of Kala Academy supported by TAG
13.10.2015
more here
joegoauk-tiatr.blogspot.in/2015/10/41st-tiatr-competition...
Nevil Cardozo and Evarist de Arambol
We decided to go for a city break rather than sun in Tenerife again this September. Other than a few days in the North East we haven’t been away since last March and wanted a change and hopefully some sun. The problem is getting flights from the north of England to the places we want to go to. We chose Valencia as we could fly from East Midlands – which was still a pain to get to as it involved the most notorious stretch of the M1 at five in the morning. In the end we had a fairly good journey, the new Ryanair business class pre-booked scheme worked quite well and bang on time as usual. It was dull when we landed with storms forecast all week, the sky was bright grey – the kiss of death to the photography I had in mind. I was full of cold and wishing I was at work. It did rain but it was overnight on our first night and didn't affect us. There has been a drought for eleven months apparently and it rained on our first day there! The forecast storms didn't materialise in Valencia but they got it elsewhere.
You May notice discrepancies in the spelling of some Spanish words or names, this is because Valencian is used on signs, in some guide books and maps. There are two languages in common use with distinct differences. There may also be genuine mistakes - it has been known!
Over the course of a Monday to Sunday week we covered 75 miles on foot and saw most of the best of Valencia – The City of Bell Towers. The Old City covers a pretty large area in a very confusing layout. There was a lot of referring to maps – even compass readings! – a first in a city for us. The problem with photography in Valencia is that most of the famous and attractive building are closely built around, some have poor quality housing built on to them. Most photographs have to be taken from an extreme angle looking up. There are no high points as it is pan flat, there are a small number of buildings where you can pay to go up on to the roof for a better view and we went up them – more than once!
The modern buildings of The City of Arts and Sciences – ( Ciutat de Las Arts I de les Ciencies ) are what the city has more recently become famous for, with tourists arriving by the coachload all day until late at night. They must be photographed millions of times a month. We went during the day and stayed till dark one evening, I gave it my best shot but a first time visit is always a compromise between ambition and realism, time dictates that we have to move on to the next destination. I travelled with a full size tripod – another first – I forgot to take it with me to TCoAaS! so It was time to wind up the ISO, again! Needless to say I never used the tripod.
On a day when rain was forecast but it stayed fine, albeit a bit dull, we went to the Bioparc north west of the city, a zoo by another name. There are many claims made for this place, were you can appear to walk alongside some very large animals, including, elephants, lions, giraffe, rhino, gorillas and many types of monkey to name a few. It is laid out in different geographical regions and there is very little between you and the animals, in some cases there is nothing, you enter the enclosure through a double door arrangement and the monkeys are around you. It gets rave reviews and we stayed for most of the day. The animals it has to be said gave the appearance of extreme boredom and frustration and I felt quite sorry for them.
The course of The River Turia was altered after a major flood in the 50’s. The new river runs west of the city flanked by a motorway. The old river, which is massive, deep and very wide between ancient walls, I can’t imagine how it flooded, has been turned into a park that is five miles long. There is an athletics track, football pitches, cycle paths, restaurants, numerous kids parks, ponds, fountains, loads of bridges, historic and modern. At the western end closest to the sea sits The City of Arts and Sciences – in the river bed. Where it meets the sea there is Valencia’s urban Formula One racetrack finishing in the massive marina built for The Americas Cup. The race track is in use as roadways complete with fully removable street furniture, kerbs, bollards, lights, islands and crossings, everything is just sat on the surface ready to be moved.
We found the beach almost by accident, we were desperate for food after putting in a lot of miles and the afternoon was ticking by. What a beach, 100’s of metres wide and stretching as far as the eye could see with a massive promenade. The hard thing was choosing, out of the dozens of restaurants, all next door to each other, all serving traditional Paella – rabbit and chicken – as well as seafood, we don’t eat seafood and it constituted 90% of the menu in most places. Every restaurant does a fixed price dish of the day, with a few choices, three courses and a drink. Some times this was our only meal besides making the most of the continental breakfast at the hotel. We had a fair few bar stops with the local wine being cheap and pleasant it would have been a shame not to, there would have been a one woman riot – or strike!
On our final day, a Sunday, we were out of bed and down for breakfast at 7.45 as usual, the place was deserted barring a waiter. We walked out of the door at 8.30 – in to the middle of a mass road race with many thousands of runners, one of a series that take place in Valencia – apparently! We struggled to find out the distance, possibly 10km. The finish was just around the corner so off we went with the camera gear, taking photos of random runners and groups. There was a TV crew filming it and some local celebrity (I think) commentating. Next we came across some sort of wandering religious and musical event. Some sort of ritual was played out over the course of Sunday morning in various locations, it involved catholic priests and religious buildings and another film crew. The Catholic tourists and locals were filling the (many) churches for Sunday mass. Amongst all of this we had seen men walking around in Arab style dress – the ones in black looked like the ones from ISIS currently beheading people – all carrying guns. A bit disconcerting. We assumed that there had been some sort of battle enactment. We were wrong, it hadn’t happened yet. A while later, about 11.30 we could hear banging, fireworks? No it was our friends with the guns. We were caught up in total mayhem, around 60 men randomly firing muskets with some sort of blank rounds, the noise, smoke and flames from the muzzles were incredible. We were about to climb the Torres de Serranos which is where, unbeknown to us, the grand, and deafening, finale was going to be. We could feel the blast in our faces on top of the tower. Yet again there was a film camera in attendance. I couldn’t get close ups but I got a good overview and shot my first video with the 5D, my first in 5 years of owning a DLSR with the capability. I usually use my phone ( I used my phone as well). Later in the day there was a bullfight taking place, the ring was almost next to our hotel, in the end we had other things to do and gave it a miss, it was certainly a busy Sunday in the city centre, whether it’s the norm or not I don’t know.
There is a tram system in Valencia but it goes from the port area into the newer part of the city on the north side, it wouldn’t be feasible to serve the historic old city really. A quick internet search told me that there are 55,000 university students in the city, a pretty big number. I think a lot of the campus is on the north side and served by the tram although there is a massive fleet of buses as well. There is a massive, very impressive market building , with 100’s of stalls that would make a photo project on its own, beautiful on the inside and out but very difficult to get decent photos of the exterior other than detail shots owing to the closeness of other buildings and the sheer size of it. Across town, another market has been beautifully renovated and is full of bars and restaurants and a bit of a destination in its own right.
A downside was the all too typical shafting by the taxi drivers who use every trick in the book to side step the official tariffs and rob you. The taxi from the airport had a “broken” meter and on the way home we were driven 22 km instead of the nine that is the actual distance. Some of them seem to view tourists as cash cows to be robbed at all costs. I emailed the Marriot hotel as they ordered the taxi, needless to say no answer from Marriot – they’ve had their money. We didn’t get the rip off treatment in the bars etc. that we experienced in Rome, prices are very fair on most things, certainly considering the city location.
All in all we had a good trip and can highly recommend Valencia.
by Alfredo Fernandes
Alfi Art Production, Divar
41st Tiatr Competition A group of Kala Academy supported by TAG
13.10.2015
more here
joegoauk-tiatr.blogspot.in/2015/10/41st-tiatr-competition...
Prasad Harmalkar
Meet Bambi, the Pitbull. She is the one of the most gentle dogs I've ever known and she is our "grand-doggy." A number of years ago our son went to an outdoor "Adopt a Pet" event. He had set up a booth to help out with no intention of adopting a pet himself. However, Bambi was one of the "mascot pets" that weekend and was allowed to roam free. She made her way over to our son, began wagging her tail, whimpering, and licking his hand when he petted her. The rest is history....Bambi went home with our son and now has a happy life. She is old, has a hip problem, so really doesn't like to walk far, but loves car rides. Our son bought a doggie ramp so that she can get into his truck with ease and then they go crusin' all around town!
Front side of these pieces I got from the Assassin Droids Battle Pack. Is this difference normal in these types of pieces?
As most of you are now aware, the new Pocketwizard Flex tt5 has comms problems due to the RF noise coming from the Canon 580ex and MK II flashes. To solve the problem, PW started to give away (Free of charge) the new AC5 Soft Shield, however this is only valid for US residentes only. Well, since I dont live in the USA, I started to do my homework and realised that copper actually blocks a big porcentage of the RF noise coming from the flash. So I headed to the local Art Shop (Riot art shop located at Westfieds in Burwood) and got a copper/aluminum sheet for $30 dollars. cut a few pieces and taped it to the flash and BINGO! problem solved. Without this DIY soft shield, I was lucky to get 15 meters distance from the flash, with the soft shield, I stopped testing at around 150mts away (I guess that is plenty of distance for what I want)
This is not a pretty solution, but at least makes me happy, Im now planning to make a sock for it. (will post photos once done) You can see the test Here
I admit I disliked fuji when it started. From the X100 to the XPro1, the camera system, despite its completely seducing color science output, was completely out of sync with my practice in terms of autofocus speed and file. Now the X system has matured into something that I find very hard to match for mirrorless camera photography.
The XT1 comes to solve pretty much all the problems I had with the system: AF and Camera Operations (once u get used to the nobs, hard to go back to menus) are reliable and quick, Lightroom 5.7 renders the file beautifully (with Classic Chrome) and the viewfinder is bigger than that of a full frame dSLR. Not only the camera is now a great camera, the lens system is superb in its consistency: the 14, 23 and 56 are great highly recommended lenses and perform equally marvellously in sharpness, colors and BOKEH while also looking darn good with the Fuji design language. Image quality wise, you get clean files at most of the modern ISOs 200-6400 (you can push the 6400 raw up to 12800 if u want without much penalty or color shifts).
The running cost of ownership is also even more interesting. The body goes for around 1K$ and the rest of the "super prime lenses" (you'd want to shoot prime with this one) go for 1k$ or less each. You can get yourself up and running for less than a full frame camera with equivalent quality lenses.The XT1 ain't still sunshine and rainbow though: It requires the extra grip to enjoy shooting with it, it is not light, the battery lasts as much as a film roll, you can't use exposure compensation on "manual" mode to shift the auto-ISO values, the RAW files are HUGE 30-40mb a piece, low-light AF works fast as long as you have a contrast zone to hunt for but then you also have a magnificent manual focus experience. Classic Chrome (also available in LR 5.7) redefines the fuji photography experience by offering a raw file free of color distorsions and true of natural colors as well as a butt load of great micro-contrast off the file.
All in all, I have to say that I fell in love with it. It is truly the best enthusiast mirrorless system I've come across and it's now well matured.
If you use a full frame dSLR: switching to fuji will depend if you want the premium lenses or the full frame IQ but can't afford the steep 2K$ per lens or 2-4K$ per body, also if you want to sacrifice the extensive "flash system" that dSLRs have.
If you are using a crop sensor dSLR: switching to fuji will depend if you want to keep investing in photography lenses and equipment and don't have to shoot unpredictable fast moving subjects, like birdies.
If you use a Sony: switching to fuji will depend if you are fed up with the teenage identity crisis unpredictability of the system's evolution (new tech = new "test" camera = no "conclusion" camera = less lenses for existing cameras = change the name). The A7 system will flourish to lead the mirrorless trend one day but before that day comes, you have at least until 2016.
If you use a m43 camera: switching to fuji will depend if are willing to drop a bunch of practical technical features: super fast AF (fuji is DARN FAST but m43 cameras are INSTANT FAST), video (I don't shoot video) or image stabilisation or clinical sharpness (fuji images are sharp! but not as pixel sharp as m43... I mean no camera is as pixel sharp as the m43 an) or the touchscreen af point selection... all this for an upgrade in image aesthetics that's a compromise of m43 compactness (somewhat) and passionated lens designs (m43's got good lenses but no "omg wow what the heck" lenses, sorry)
If you shoot film: This is IT. Film nobs, Film look, Film grain, Film output… on digital. This is fujifilm making a camera with the color science they apply on their negatives, all of it.
WARNING: EVEN MORE SELF-INDULGENT THAN USUAL.
Today, I got almost no paying work done because I had to go to a retirement ceremony for an 18-year veteran in our English as a Second Language Program and then in the evening I had to go to a meeting with a Bible-focused church that was interested in joining our faith-based ESL training coalition.
In the few hours of remunerative work I managed to squeeze in, I gave advice about how to deal with problems in DC, Maryland, Texas, Colorado, Virginia, Indiana, New York, and Connecticut. These were almost all very interesting matters with few open-and-shut answers. I like my job after 33 years of doing it.
Still, the non-paying part (ESL) of the day was more interesting.
The retirement ceremony for our ESLIM teacher was also a potluck dinner for her ESL program and the plate shown here had multiple countries represented on it (I can identify Morocco, Iran, Korea, Salvador, America, the Philippines and Vietnam, just at a glance at this shot). There were tributes to Judy (our retiring veteran) in beginner English, intermediate English, three-part harmony English, and a particularly moving tribute in Central American Spanish that I didn't understand a word of.
Judy and I had a fascinating conversation about the computer languages that she (an English major with a bachelor's degree from the University of Maryland) had used in her long career with the federal government. I didn't understand all that Judy recounted, but I did hear that her education in Shakespeare and Faulkner had equipped her to readily master machine language. assembler language, COBOL, and many permutations to integrate those languages that have developed since she first started to work in the 1960s.
A particularly nice feature (though arguably not as nice as the food) of Judy's retirement party was that her fellow teachers contributed $1125 to our ESL program (almost 10% of our usual annual contributions, a real tribute to Judy).
Three of my students also go to Judy's ESL program, so I got a chance to catch up with them.
Carlos, who's in his late 60s, missed my class this semester because he was taking a Saturday morning class in Microsoft software so he could keep up with his grandkids on the computer. Carlos came here in 1968 when he was 16 and came to Chicago with his 15-year old bride for their honeymoon. Despite a construction-site back injury a few years ago, Carlos is still determinedly learning and fiercely proud of his American children and grandchildren.
Shahnaz is torn about whether she should return to Tehran to make sure she still qualifies for her government pension and to check on her apartment. As she put it to me, "I don't like the government but I don't know whether the feeling is mutual" (her English is almost perfect -- not surprising since she has a Ph.D. in French literature from the Sorbonne).
Tiana is back from her six-week home to check on her many business ventures in Madagascar. While she was "running" during her entire trip (an idiom she used hesitantly but proudly), it was still a good visit home. My class ended before Thanksgiving, which I tried to explain to her carefully, but she didn't understand me and showed up for class last Saturday and waited until it was clear no one was showing up. Tiana gamely agreed to take pictures with my camera whenever I was onstage.
We are blessed by our friends who immigrate here to live with us in America. Almost universally, they hate government and love what America stands for. Why many of our Republican neighbors hate them I don't know, but logic tells me that I don't want to look inside their hearts to find out why.
Enough politics. In the evening I went to a meeting with an Assembly of God church that is interested in joining our faith-based ESL program. It was a fascinating introductory meeting, not least because we got to learn from the pastor who told us about her Israel-based ministry to increase harmony between Jews and Christians. The pastor is celebrating her 99th birthday day after tomorrow and she still gives an impressive prayer.
P.S. Nothing to do with immigrants, but another nice part of the day was sitting at lunch with a lady who had been an ESL teacher in our program who had also started a non-profit to provide pro bono music lessons to underprivileged kids. One of her earliest students, way back in 1992-93, was an African-American kid from our neighborhood who now has an M.D. degree and is in her residency at Yale Medical School in endocrinology. We didn't know this girl,since she fell between our two kids and before Toni started to teach at Barcroft Elementary, but it's always nice to hear about neighborhood success kids.
P.P.S. If any of you for some inexplicable reason felt moved to give to a program thousands of miles away, go to www. eslim.org and click on "donate."
Ever wondered what's inside an air compressor cylinder head? I didn't until my less than three year old, two piston Cambell Hausfeld 60 gallon 3.2. Hp stationary air compressor took too long to build pressure and was making a strange sound broadcasting from its air intake filter. I'm getting close to spraying primer on the Bluejacket topsides thus not good timing for the compressor to fail.
Pictured is the compressor's valve plate which has reed valves to control air intake and outflow. A reed had snapped off of a cylinder's outlet port causing the problem. This failed reed covered (from the backside of the plate as pictured) ) the lower left oval shaped port. A $44 replacement valve plate with gaskets is now on order and will require about 30 minutes of my time to install.
I wish I could quickly find the definitive answer why my Boston Whaler's Mercury outboard has ignition spark problems and why my Saturn auto is leaking voltage and killing the battery if the car has been at rest for three days or more. With a golf cart battery recently exploding (shredded the battery top) about two feet from my face as I examined it, I have been having a run of bad luck with stuff breaking or attacking me. This explosion taught me that a lead acid battery gives off hydrogen gas when discharging. I thought it only happened when charging.
Edit 04/14/2014 : My bad luck continues as the fan in one of our outside central a/c cabinets stopped turning thus the upstairs portion of our home was un-air conditioned. An advantage of multiple outside A/C cabinets is having the means to obtain comparative numbers when running electrical tests as well as swapping parts. The suspect fan motor's run and start windings passed my resistance tests, and the start capacitor tested good via my capacitance tester. Perhaps the fan motor failed because the thermal overload protector went bad. I swapped this failed motor out for the fan motor in the A/C cabinet for my workshop. Upstairs A/C restored and off I go to the Internet for a replacement motor.
I await the next equipment failure...
Edit. 08/20/2014: The fan in the AC compressor for the upstairs again stopped turning. Not on the scene in Texas, I called in a HVAC technician. The start capacitor had failed. The technician reported that when a fan motor fails as mine did in April, it is very common for the start capacitor to soon fail.
Edit 09/15/2018: Another start capacitor failed. With power applied to the unit, the compressor was running and the non-turning fan was humming. My son arranged for a service technician who took a long handled screw driver and spun the fan blade. The fan immediately took off running normally. The technician said the start capacitor was bad. My A/C cabinets get much afternoon sun thus I speculate that the start capacitors may have their life shortened by heat.
For "Our Daily Challenge ... play". Cooper is not usually allowed to play with the light switches but he was so intent on working out which switch turned on each light I left him to it and he didn't even notice when I took his photo.
El macrismo / Problemas en la Justicia y la pelea electoral: Está bajo investigación una emisión de bonos del gobierno porteño
Texto: Gabriel Sued para el diario LA NACION
Foto: Propia (cualquier copia o reproducción requiere del previo permiso y/o consulta al autor).
Si algún medio importante quiere la foto (sin marcas), puede pedírmela por correo a arte_subterraneo@live.com.ar
Si no contesto la petición de las fotos, quiere decir que no estoy interesado en la oferta (petición válida solo para aquellos que residan en Capital Federal y alrededores).
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La Justicia tiene bajo estudio una denuncia penal que afirma que existieron prácticas corruptas y manejos ineficaces en la emisión de los bonos de deuda Tango S8, por US$ 475 millones, la operación más importante del gobierno de Mauricio Macri en el mercado de crédito internacional.
Esos títulos se emitieron entre marzo y abril con el objetivo central de financiar obras para extender las líneas de subterráneo A, B y H. Pero como cuando terminó la operación, la mitad de las obras no habían sido licitadas, el gobierno de Macri usó la plata para otra cosa, sin la inmediata autorización de la Legislatura. (ver noticias relacionadas abajo)
La denuncia judicial fue presentada por la Asociación Civil por la Igualdad y la Justicia (ACIJ), una ONG dirigida por el constitucionalista Ezequiel Nino. La acusación de ACIJ apunta contra el ministro de Hacienda, Néstor Grindetti, y contra el director de Crédito Público porteño, Abel Fernández Semhan, máximos responsables de la operación.
ACIJ enumeró otras presuntas irregularidades de la operación: se acordó una comisión mayor a la que en la misma época pagaron tres gobiernos provinciales; se contrató en forma directa a un consorcio del que forma parte un empresario que años antes había sido jefe de campaña de Pro, y se colocó parte del dinero obtenido a una tasa menor a la de los bonos Tango, lo que produjo una pérdida de al menos $ 30 millones.
Para los servicios de colocación y de organización se contrató, de manera directa y sin proceso de licitación, al Credit Suisse-KBR, a cambio de una comisión del 2% de la operación, equivalente a US$ 9.500.000. La tasa obtenida para los bonos, que vencen en cinco años, fue de 12,5%.
"La tasa y la comisión que se pagaron son obscenas. Me parece muy grave que no haya habido una licitación de un banco agente", dijo a La Nacion el ex ministro de Economía Ricardo López Murphy. "Hay una irregularidad estratégica, que es salir al mercado a primerear con tasas absolutamente fuera de lugar y pagando una comisión absolutamente desproporcionada", coincidió el legislador porteño Martín Hourest (Igualdad Social), que asesoró a ACIJ en la elaboración de la denuncia.
En la presentación de la ONG también se cuestiona la intervención en la operación de Edgardo Srodek, uno de los directores socios de KBR, jefe de campaña de la alianza Pro-Recrear en la provincia de Buenos Aires, en las elecciones de 2005, y hermano del diputado provincial Jorge Srodek (Unión Pro). "Cabe preguntarse por qué se contrató a una consultora de segunda o tercera línea, sobre la cual no hay datos concretos acerca de su trayectoria", dice la denuncia.
Consultados por La Nacion, voceros de Grindetti afirmaron que las operaciones de crédito público están exentas de los requisitos de licitación de la ley de compras de la ciudad y sostuvieron que se decidió contratar al consorcio Credit Suisse-KBR porque era el que había acercado la mejor oferta. Argumentaron que ese grupo había hecho un compromiso en firme de aportar US$ 130 millones, dato que inclinó la balanza.
La última presunta irregularidad señalada en la denuncia se produjo una vez que se obtuvieron los fondos. La ley que autorizó la emisión de los títulos determinó que US$ 300 millones debían ser aplicados de manera exclusiva a las obras de extensión de los subtes. Pero, al finalizar la operación, los trabajos para la línea H no habían sido licitados, por lo quedaron US$ 150 millones sin destino claro.
En primer lugar, los fondos se pesificaron. Del total de $ 1843 millones, se usaron $ 600 millones para comprar letras del Tesoro Nacional y los restantes $ 1243 millones se depositaron en un plazo fijo del Banco Ciudad, a una tasa del 6,5% anual, casi la mitad del interés que debía pagarse por los bonos Tango.
Después de cuatro meses, en agosto la Legislatura aprobó un proyecto de ley de Macri para destinar US$ 150 millones a la empresa AUSA, para la realización de pasos bajo nivel en los ferrocarriles Mitre, San Martín y Urquiza, y otros US$ 36 millones para obras en educación.
En Hacienda explicaron que los fondos fueron depositados en el Ciudad porque es el agente financiero del distrito y que todo el dinero pedido para subtes se aplicará al fin estipulado. "Se decidió prestarle US$ 150 millones a AUSA, con una tasa igual que la que paga el bono Tango, pero está establecido que esa empresa vaya devolviendo el dinero a medida que se necesiten los fondos para las obras del subte", agregaron.
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EL CUESTIONADO PLAN DE DEUDA
US$ 475 Millones * Fue el total de la emisión correspondiente a los bonos de deuda Tango S8, la operación más importante del gobierno de Macri.
* La acusación. Se contrató sin licitación un consorcio para la colocación de la deuda, con una comisión más alta que la acordada por otros distritos. En la operación intervino un empresario que había sido jefe de la campaña de Pro. Una parte del dinero debía ser destinado a obras del subte, pero se usó para otra cosa (ver noticias relacionadas abajo).
* El descargo. La ley no requiere que en las operaciones de crédito se abran procesos de licitación. La oferta del consorcio Credit Suisse-KBR era la más conveniente. El dinero que no pudo aplicarse a obras en los subtes se prestó a una buena tasa y será utilizado en los próximos años.
* Los denunciantes. La denuncia fue radicada por la ONG Asociación Civil por la Igualdad y la Justicia (ACIJ) en el juzgado de instrucción N° 9, a cargo de Eliseo Otero.
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Noticias relacionadas:
El PRO pretende utilizar los 600 millones destinados a la ampliación del Subte para AUSA: www.flickr.com/photos/nicofoxfiles/4813493121/
Santilli pretende apropiarse parte de los Us$ 350 millones destinados a exteder el Subte, para obras de asfalto, placitas y vereditas: www.flickr.com/photos/nicofoxfiles/4642814201/
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Arriba: Vista de la futura estación San José de Flores al 15 de Octubre de 2008. Actualmente ya tiene las vías colocadas. Al fondo, túnel San José de Flores - Carabobo. Al final de la curva, ubicada a la altura de la calle Bonorino, tela que separa la actual Cola de Maniobras posterior a Carabobo y el túnel en imagen, que viene a dicha estación.
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Bad weather is here again and the car has been sitting since just before Christmas. So I figured it to be as good a time as any to fix something that was really irking the crap out of me…the sun visors.
All of the 79-85 Eldorado’s with light up mirrors (which most had) unfortunately have a problem with visorus saginitus. The visor is held up by a small winged plastic bushing-it wraps around the chrome visor arm, and locks into the plastic visor body with the winged part. This little plastic thing gets brittle over time and starts to crack, losing its grip on the stationary rod. This starts as an issue where they droop a little bit when the car has been sitting in the sun on a summers day but eventually gets bad enough that it happens at all temperatures and will just flop down with bumps in the road.
To my knowledge there’s no replacements for this winged bushing and even if there were I don’t know how you would go about replacing it with the way it’s installed on the visor arm. GM evidently saw the problem as the arm and bushing were revised in 1984 to be bigger but evidently to no avail-the passenger visor on my car sagged from the time I had bought the car and I had held it in place with a nail wedged into the metal trim surrounding the window that had to be removed when you wanted to use it…this didn’t compute with the fairer sex, so it’s safe to say eventually I’m going to find all of those finishing nails that have gone missing over the past couple of years the hard way…
My driver’s side visor was free of this problem but I just didn’t use it as I was afraid it would start doing the same thing. So I set to work finding a real fix
These popped up for sale on ebay, red visors from an ’87 DeVille. They looked like a winner, same general shape, same color and in good condition. After a couple of messages to get an idea on size, I ordered them. However, when they arrived, they were neither the bright red shown in the pictures, nor in as good of repair. They definitely needed to be reupholstered to be used. I gave them a dry run before wasting any more money, and they had a couple of other issues. The first was a different electrical connector which was no biggie. The second was much bigger, that they could only be used to block sun going forward. Trying to move it to the side caused them to either drop or raise at a 45 degree angle.
I figured this was caused by the design of the mount which is heavily angled. So there wasn’t much I could do about it. Until my ebay suggestions came up with visors from a Buick Reatta for sale-the same general style as the DeVille, but with a flat type of mount similar to the OEM Eldorado!
Now the guy wanted over 100 dollars for these and after my blunder with the DeVille visors I wasn’t about to sink that type of change in a maybe. So I headed over to the Reatta AACA message board to see if anyone had a dogged set of visors with good mounts that they wanted to sell, and the first post in the for sale section happened to be by a fella who was parting out a complete Reatta! Score!
I emailed the guy and he explained that the car was in a junkyard local to his house. A real gentleman, he was able to get the visor arms for free and didn’t even charge me the ride up from Florida. Thanks Mike! The car in question had a burgundy interior so the arms would need to be sprayed dark carmine to work for me. After cleaning and priming, SEM aerosol made quick work of that.
Unfortunately when they were removed from the Reatta, this condom thing that wraps around a metal bushing shredded, but I was able to basically replicate it with heat shrink tubing
The arms are easily removed from the visors when uninstalled from the car. Simply rotate the arm into the mirror side of the visor (as if you were pushing the visor back up into the roof) until it clicks and then yank it out. Install it into the new visor in the same position. I did some tests for proof of concept and when it seemed like I was on the right track, I got to work. Or at least to spending money. I ordered carmine foam-backed headliner material (Sunbrite 1872 for those interested, it was a great match) and headliner adhesive (which I ended up not needing for this job)
The visors themselves are like a clamshell and probably harder to crack open than a turnip. After enough brute force, a hammer, and a screwdriver, I was able to get them open (see the color difference as compared to the ebay picture above)
The material around the visor ended up not being glued to the face of it, only tucked tight and hot glued from the factory. I decided to do the same thing (So I have to write off the spray adhesive until I do a new headliner). I carefully removed the old fabric and made a template out of the new material
(should anyone do this in the future, it’s much more simple and less risky to only cut the general shape of the template out, you can cut the hole for the mirror and sun shade later)
The visors themselves also needed some help. The “ears” at the ends were super fatigued and loose, so I mixed up some resin and fiberglass to shore them up.
Once the visor bodies were sound, I had to come up with a way of re-joining the clamshell. I have no idea how GM did this in the first place but super glue doesn’t work. After a lot of searching I found out that these are likely made of Polyethylene. I bought this 3M DP8005 adhesive which claimed to bond it and tested it on a junk visor-seemed to do the trick. You need a special mixing tip in addition to this and I also had to get a gun that it fits into.
With that solved, I started hot gluing the material onto the visors. I had never done anything with headliner material before aside from stapling them up when they started sagging and I was really surprised with how compliant it was. In that, it basically looked factory with no runs or wrinkles despite not having a clue what I was doing.
Then, I bonded the two halves back together. Each one had to sit like this for a day, and early signs seem like it worked. Hopefully the adhesive will hold, time and temperature will tell.
Here’s a comparison of the original visors with the DeVille replacements. Mirrors swapped without issue. I also had to swap the power connector, meaning I had to cut the crimped on connector at the mirror end from the old visors and install in the new ones. Delphi 12020347 is the connector part, there’s no room inside the assembly for a butt connector (and I hate using them unless I have to)
And here they are installed!
The only complication on the install is that the plastic visor arms bolt in a slightly smaller bolt pattern than the originals. You can take any 2 of the 3 holes but not all 3 at once. Fortunately there’s plenty of meat to drill into to make another hole.
I’m sure a lot of people are reading this right now and saying I should have just stuck with the nail but in reality it wasn’t that bad. It might seem like a mess but everything above is a “worse possible scenario” in that I got fleeced on the visors I bought and had to change color, structurally repair them, rehab the Reatta visor arms, then bond them back together. If you’re fortunate enough to have a 79-85 E body with an interior color the same as an 85-88 Deville, and can get the visors from it, the only thing you need do is get a set of Reatta visor arms and swap them out (and obviously your electrical connector from your 79-85). They’re really close in size as far as fit, and look factory with the exception of the sunshade. You could delete that when reupholstering, but I always liked them.
It seems like GM changed all their lighted visor designs to basically the same thing in the late 80’s downsized cars. So there might very well be more vehicles than just Reattas that have the flat plastic visor arm. As far as longevity, I’ll definitely keep everyone posted but I will say that I’ve never really seen any of the “newer” Cadillacs or Buicks experiencing visor problems. The whole metal bushing with condom setup also feels much more sturdy then the OEM 79-85 stuff.
Oh, and on the bright side, I’ll only have to wear these puppies at night now.
Abdirizak Awlia, from the Ministry of Agriculture, takes notes on the locust swarm in Ceel-Gaal village, in Salal region, Somaliland.
The Ministry of Agriculture are monitoring the problem, and digging holes in which to trap the locusts.
Locusts are harmless when solitary, but become voracious when they congregate in groups and become more abundant.
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Too many problems oh why am I here
I don't need to be me
'cos you're all too clear
well and I can see
there's something wrong with you
but what do you expect me to do?.
At least I gotta know what I wanna be
don't come to me if you need pity
Are trash is becoming a serious problem.
A large pet bottle with barnacles attached.
Location: Onna, Okinawa.
TEDX OIST talk on this subject by Shawn Miller www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6FWCyVQcNA
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