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LO INVENCIBLE DE LLAMARSE HENRIQUE
POR: MILTON ROJO/FABIÁN GALICIA
WASHINGTON, D.C.
Henrique Capriles Radozky, Gobernador del Estado de Miranda, Venezuela, con el slogan “La fuerza del cambio en marcha” en cadena mundial, alzo la voz de forma tajante, el cual señaló que si va competir con una candidatura contra el régimen “chavista” en la próximas elecciones a la Presidencia de Venezuela.
Ademas Capriles Radonski es un abogado del partido político Primero Justicia Centro humanista, el cual en su carrera política no conoce la derrota, donde ya fue presidente de la Camara de Diputados del extinto Congreso Nacional de la República, Alcalde de Baruta en dos oportunidades y actual Gobernador del Estado.
Es por ello que Henrique Capriles, se perfila como uno de los candidatos que puede vencer al actual Gobierno que preside Hugo Chávez, por su limpia trayectoria y su carisma a flor de piel.
Verano atrás cuando nos disponíamos a desayunar en el restaurant del hotel, para después pasar a las aulas de la Universidad George Washington, porque ahí daría una conferencia Gobernador de Miranda, Venezuela en el taller de Gerencia Política; nos encontramos a un grupo de dos muchachas y tres jóvenes –a leguas se veían que eran paisanos de Bolívar- todos ellos entre los 25 a 35 años, con mucha alegría contagiable – “candela” como ellos le llaman- discutían cosas de su país, que si Chavez, que si el presupuesto, que si la seguridad, para allá y para acá, mientras mis amigos y un servidor –a escasos metros de distancia- discutíamos lo que había en la carta.
Minutos después, uno de ellos, vestido elegantemente, con ojos saltones y figura esquelética, con rasgos fisonómicos muy parecido al personaje de la “Muerte” de la película “Macario” de 1960; se levantó y empezó a dar órdenes a todos, sus comensales se pusieron serios y no chistaron. Nosotros al lado, al juzgar por el acento y la reacción de los colaboradores reflejada en sus caras, juramos que este joven era el Gobernador Venezolano.
-Oye chico y te llevas los chocolaticos para allá para darle a la gente. Le dijo el descarnado gobernante a un colaborador. Mientras se desapartaba para llegar primero al campus y dejaba a sus colaboradores ahí, preparando la agenda y pagando la cuenta.
-Sí, Henrique yo los llevo no te preocupes. Le dijo el más joven del grupo.
Ahí confirmamos, lo sospechado, era nuestro conferenciante Henrique Capriles Radozky, gobernador del Estado de Miranda, no sabíamos si era Chavista u opositor, eso pensábamos nosotros, lo descubriríamos en la conferencia y así fue.
Con palabras calibradas por el desahogo y una actitud imbatible, Henrique Capriles, habló para un auditorio que sólo conoce las noticias de Venezuela que da Hugo Chávez por “aló Presidente”. El maratónico programa que sólo difunde las patrañas del dictador.
Capriles le ganó la elección al gobernador que buscaba reelegirse en el cargo: Diosdado Cabello, el número dos en el régimen Chavista; la dignidad mirandina, solida e impenetrable, no se lo permitió. Ganó el muchacho nieto de inmigrantes polacos, pero con una convicción tan férrea por su patria, como la del mismo Francisco de Miranda.
Henrique asumió el cargo y desde entonces los seguidores de Hugo Chávez, no han cejado en permitir el gobierno de esa demarcación. Ya que desde que fue alcalde de Baruta en 2002, fue hecho preso acusado de conspirar contra el Presidente en aquel golpe de abril. La gente de su localidad al ver la injusticia de su alcalde preso, salió a las calles bajo un sólo grito: “yo también me llamo Henrique Capriles Radozky”. Después su expediente se desechó y recuperó la libertad. Antes de salir libre sacó fuerzas de su ADN –y es que sus bisabuelos estuvieron presos en el campo de exterminio de treblinka- y le dijo al régimen mientras lo custodiaban: “podrán apresarme, pero nunca encarcelaran a mi dignidad”.
Al recibir Henrique la gobernación de Miranda, el daño patrimonial del Estado Mirandino fue de más de 130 millones de dólares, en una demarcación donde el 70% de la gente vive en extrema pobreza; esa cantidad de dinero se utilizó en gastos grotescos como pago de hoteles o facturación doble. De esto se hizo un expediente, ni con el pétalo de una acusación le han tocado un cabello a Dios dado. Ese dinero hubiera servido para haber pavimentado 379 kms. De calles, construido 149 escuelas.
Después, vino lo atroz, el Ejercito Venezolano le arrebató los Hospitales a la administración de Henrique, también quiso arrebatarle la policía. Fusil en mano llegó la Guardia Nacional a no permitir que entraran los enfermos a recibir atención médica a los dispensarios y en las comisarias a obstruirle el trabajo a los policías: si Bolívar o Miranda hubiesen visto esto, desenvainarían sus sables y a bayoneta calada se hubieran ido sobre los soldados a blandir su acero.
Las armas de la patria si para algo están, es para velar por la seguridad de sus pobladores; no para cuidar la seguridad de un régimen que se carcome entre sus vísceras.
Los mirandinos han tenido que escuchar el argumento del fusil ruso en vez de recibir la consulta médica.
Algo muy curioso que no nos dicen los noticieros es que en Venezuela hay inseguridad, tal vez en las democracias eso sea normal; pero en un estado totalitario donde el dominio del poder es único y la violencia está monopolizada por el Estado, esto suena raro, o ¿será que es una delincuencia permitida ó parte del régimen?
Porque, en un totalitarismo la palabra delincuencia no es muy sonada, suenan libertad, democracia y elección, pero no delincuencia. Algo raro hay ahí. Por que los dictadores para cuidar su entorno y su poder implantan un aparato de seguridad escalofriante que se extiende hasta las calles, por eso si hay violencia en Venezuela es porque Chávez quiere o no le queda de otra ó ¿ya se cansó de vivir del petróleo? ¿hay algo nuevo bajo los soles?
Al terminar el Gobernador Capriles nos dijo que estaba de acuerdo con Chávez en revertir la pobreza de los Venezolanos y que ha eso le iba dedicar todo el tiempo del mundo. Animal político al fin.
Al terminar los asistentes lo llenamos de aplausos y todo mundo se quiso tomar la foto con él, al ver a la delegación Mexicana nos dijo algo que a todos nos llegó en lo más profundo: “mi familia distribuía películas para los cines y éramos muy amigo de Don Mario Moreno “Cantinflas”, a México lo llevo en mi corazón”… todos nos echamos a reír… Muchos pensamos que teníamos a unos pasos al próximo Presidente de Venezuela y es que Jóvenes como Henrique lo hace creer a uno con un mundo mejor… más pacífico y más justo.
Por cierto, a nadie nos tocó chocolates “mirandinos”, éramos muchos y los dulces pocos… Henrique sólo nos dijo que eran los mejores del mundo, porque estaban hechos en el paraíso… estaban hechos en Miranda.
Commentary.
Tired limbs.
Dry mouth.
Steady, relentless slog up the southern slopes of “the Ben.”
Only two kilometres but over 1,300 metres of
ascent, at thirty degrees plus inclination, and nearly twenty kilos of equipment on my back!
Just as lips and throat feel like sandpaper,
and just beyond 350 metres up,
this fall and plunge pool are a welcome sight.
Whatever drinks I had been consuming,
this pure, cold, fresh water works miracles.
Revived after a few minutes,
the long haul continues!
Debate: Will the last mile be a sprint or a slog? Manish Bapna, Executive VP and Managing Director, World Resources Institute.
Sharon Morris, Senior Advisor to the Acting President, U.S. Institute of Peace, and John Page,Senior Fellow, Brookings
Leaving our campsite c8.30am, we jostled with ponies and people to cross the basic bridge over the Drölma chu, and then started our slow ascent up the valley. We soon crossed into the cloud layer, which made for cold rest stops. Tashi set a slow and steady pace - reminding me of the lessons I'd learned on the Annapurna Circuit: slowly slowly catchy monkey - aka a slow and steady pace makes for a relatively straight forward ascent, even if you feel you could go much faster. Better to keep slow and steady, than a stop/start approach with short busts of speed requiring ever longer recovery stops - particularly so in the cold. By the time we reached the Shiva-tsal (5,330 m), where pilgrims leave items of clothing to mark their symbolic death, we'd all spread out and Tashi was happy to let some of us keep our own pace rather and to go on ahead. We did all get to see Richard successfully wriggle under the Bardo Trang, attesting his sinfree state.
After a long slog up from the Bardo Trang plateau, we finally made the top of the Drölma La pass (my highest point yet, at 5,630 m), Fran, Sue, Ian and I arriving there within a few minutes of one another. A great place for our picnic lunch - the cloud lifted a little to reveal razor sharp peaks, and glacier green lakes at the foot of the Drölma Do, watching other pilgrims pass, and adding our prayer flags to the collection.
Refreshed, we continued on shortly after Olga appeared, marking the arrival of the head of the rest of the group, including Tashi who advised against lingering too long at this altitude.
The route down was a clear and easy path - the guide books suggest the need for poles, but to be honest I've done more difficult descents in Scotland and I had no need for poles here.
The long climb up and the height meant that we were all feeling tired, and again the group spread out, with Carol, Olga, Peter and I bringing up the rear - making the most of the photo opportunities: the Gauri Kund (5,608 m) or Lake of Compassion, the beautiful alpine flowers, eagles (?) soaring amidst the craggy peaks and a new river valley - that of the Lham-chu.
On reaching the banks of the Lham-chu, we had a reviving smoky tea at the tea house tent and then pushed on over the hardest terrain of the day - big boulders, some grass covered some bare, left by a long gone glacier. The normal route is an easy river side path - but at this time of year river was running so high that the path was well under water.
The campsite was a welcome site, arriving there c 6.30pm and relaxing with tea and biscuits, and later dinner and bed. A big sense of accomplishment, and an easier day's walking tomorrow.
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www.sacred-destinations.com/tibet/mount-kailash
www.walkopedia.net/walks/display-walk.asp?WalkID=1
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I believe its the same as the Slogger 400. Came with the Pegasus 400 ROM and T2PEG. No idea if it works yet.
It needs a good clean as it came from a smokers house. Im also going to replace the capacitors. I'll upload a new photo once I have refurbished the board.
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Amazing and ambitious bikepacking trip through southeastern Oregon and Nevada. Barely saw a soul the entire 4 days. Water was very scarce and there were no services anywhere enroute. Hot springs, antelope, and sagebrush aplenty. Route: ridewithgps.com/routes/4008502/
after a long hard slog at work , most men come home and find a nice roast on the dinner table . me , well mrs mac is the dog warden for lisburn city council .... some times we feel like a foster home for the strays . today she tells me that a dog they picked up weeks ago ( abandoned and straying for over 2 weeks according to reports received ) ...she phoned to check if it was ok if we kept it . ( full council policy adhered to . dog kept for sufficent time for owner to come forward , then re-homed ) so coming home to this " PUPPY " as i was told ... meet bobby an approx 1 year old newfoundland .... our new family member . with a child of 1 and half and 2 and half . this is going to be a mad house
The Americans lead by a daring Benedict Arnold made a heroic and unimaginably hard slog up the Kennebeck river to the Richelieu river to take Quebec in late 1775. Everything that could go wrong did including the defection of nearly half of Arnold's Army when the going got hard. Despite it all Arnold lead an attack on Quebec in January 1776, where General Montgomery was killed, Gen Morgan and his men were captured and the Army was forced to retreat. Arnold himself was shot by a ricocheting ball that split in two pieces and badly wounded his leg. Arnold pushed on and lead a retreat back to Ft Ticonderoga. The attack was a failure (although one cannot blame Arnold considering the circumstances and difficulties he faced) but his scorched earth retreat left the British scrambling to catch up throughout the war.
Guy Carelton, governor of Quebec and General of the British Army acquired enough supplies and men to begin an assault on the Americans at Ft Ticonderoga, the Rebels northernmost defense (also captured earlier in 1775 by Benedict Arnold!). Arnold, as usual, beset with delays and a congress that wouldn't fund the war, and that heaped on Arnold considerable amounts of mistreatment and disrespect, using his former sailing skills as a sea captain, tried to create a navy on Lake Champlain to repulse the inevitable British assault. IN July of that year the Continental Congress issued the declaration of independence and Britain was not going to allow this insult to stand. During spring and summer of 1776 Arnold acquired 15 or so boats (all smaller than he requested and later than needed) and gathered a series of soldiers and drilled them into sailors.
Arnold was thinking back to the tactics of the ancient Athenians who decisively defeated the Persians in the Battle of Salamis using fast row galleons.He knew he could not defeat the British Navy head to head but he carefully selected Vacour Bay and planned to lure the British into a shallow, difficult to navigate area where his row galleons and small ships could negate the superiority of the British ships with speed and maneuverability.
All through spring and summer of 1776 he drilled his crews in sailing and rowing and by September they were as good as any he reported. The expected attack came in October of 1776 when a fleet of British ships sailed from Quebec to siege Ft Ticonderoga.
Arnold sent out Congress and Royal Savage to lure the Britis who took the bait and chased the ships. Royal Savage was grounded near Valcour Island and was burned by the British. It contained all of Arnolds papers.
The British ships could not fight the headwinds to engage until about 12 pm when Carelton entered the battle. A lucky shot cut her anchor line and she drifted out of firing position and was bombarded by the Americans. A ball severely damaged her and killed several officers, she floundered until she was towed to safety. The battle continued all day until Inflexible finally came within range and silenced the American guns. The Americans were nearly out of powder and balls when nightfall ended the battle The mangled fleet trapped but once again Benedict Arnold came through. Handing out slotted lanterns for the sterns and requirint the men to swaddle the oars in their shirts to dampen the sound, when a fog rolled in they quietly slipped out past the British and toward Ft Ticonderoga. Unfortunately the winds the next day favored the British and they chased the remaining boats till they were ditched and burned at Crown point. At that point every man was on his own and had to find their way back to Ft Ticonderoga. To make matters worse the British has turned loose hundreds of Mohawk warriors who were pursuing them as well. The remaining sailors straggled into the Ft several days later.
Carelton sailed to Ft Ticonderoga and found it better manned and prepared than he had anticipated. The fierce battle with Arbold also killed several officers and heavily damaged Carelton. Due to the lateness of the season (winter comes early and fast up there) Carelton decided to retreat to Quebec and start again in the next season. This would cost him his command...to a hated rival John Burgoyne...who boasted he would take the fight to them, unlike Carelton.
More importantly this action delayed the British for another year before they would attempt to attack again. One could argue that the scorched earth policy in Quebec and the Valcour Island battle hampered the British so much it gave the Americans time to prepare and strategize. It seems if the proper resources were allocated to Arnold for the Quebec venture and Valcour island the British might have been completely unable to launch a campaign from Quebec or forced them to expend such resources such that the revolutionary war might have been ended there.
Cal Anderson Park, Seattle. HDR shot (5, 8 and 15 seconds at f5, Tokina 12-24 mm).
This shot was featured in The Stranger's Slog blog at slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2009/06/16/night-light
See more of my pics on my site here: www.michaelholden.com/pics
Bday $=well-used. #spongebob spongebobsquarepants #prettypatties #galarianponyta #pokemoncards #alolanninetales #pokemon #funko #frozen #elsa #anna #nokk #bruni #vulpix #slog #sourgum #cobalt #glass #rabbit #afghanhound #poodle #plush #douglascuddletoy
-I love how Elsa has her steed and her "baby dragon." x3 She's a not-so-secret Targaryen for sures. I drew some F2/GoT connections because of course.
-Slog is a ridiculously cute relative of Rover, Diddley, Kookie, Bones, & Harrybo.
-The blue vaseline glass bunny is the exact one Ma used to have on her glass vanity tray, except ours had a broken ear; can't believe I found a new one available. Think I'll save that for her stocking. 'Twas overpriced but the nostalgia won.
-Galarian Ponyta=masterpiece. It's like a G4 MLP unicorn/Poodle/Chinese Crested cross with springy, Eastery colors. Got kind of an 80s vibe too...legwarmers, hairspray. xD Trying to come up w/ a name. {Iris? Isis? Barbie? Flashdance? That was a consideration for my ponysona, Snapdragon. Kinda dig it. "Flash." Cool.} I'd like to name a Crested Rarity or Applejack. x3 Boring card pack save for the Wishiwashi, but all that matters is THEY GAVE ME THE ALOLAN NINETALES package I wanted; 25% chance SCORE❣️
-Plus...now I know what a bag of #Haribo #Phantasia looks like. Will never be over the glorious #dragonfruit--this one, still white-fleshed but grown in the USA! :D Perhaps I shall have an orchard of willowy cactusy fruit trees after all. 8'D +the most gargantuan #blueberries I have EEEEEEVER beheld (y'know I've always liked that word, gargantuan; so rarely have the opportunity to use it in a sentence......grapefruit's pretty monstrous itself, like the one green pepper Fill's gotten out of his plant so far...) #cherries #kiwi #grapefruit #bananas
~”Plush Pokemon" is an inconceivable concept. There are close to 900 pokey-men. The Galarian Ponyta stands apart by appearing to be exceptionally well-done. It's a significantly different regional variant...and not just an attempt to render in fabric what should simply be done in plastic (perfectly molded, detailed, painted 1-2" plastic.) It seems to justify the rendering, even enhance the Pokemon's normally awesome appearance in some manner. And it's not merely, "Well, yup...that's exactly what the 'mon looks like, just like its official images..." It's a reproduction that manages to add a little something and look remarkably good.
For the third year in a row, Inspector Danny Atherton along with Constable Damieon Hartley-Pickles and a Greater Manchester Police team have held a marathon sports to raise money for Mahdlo Youth Zone in Oldham.
On Saturday 25 January 2020, their challenge was to take part in a gruelling 13-hour session of touch rugby and five-a-side football.
Thirteen teams took part, including local junior schools and sports clubs from across Oldham.
GMP’s Chief Constable Ian Hopkins also showed his support by participating in two of the games.
PC Damieon Hartley-Pickles from GMP’s Oldham Division said: “This was a true test of stamina and as we got to the end of the 13-hours, I could hear my bones creaking.
“Our team consisted of players from GMP’s rugby league team as well as family, friends and associates linked to the Oldham Division. It was a hard slog but thinking about the charity and all they do to support our locations communities spurred the teams on.”
This is the third year running that the team have held a fundraising event, having done a 24-hour five-a-side football marathon in 2018 raising a staggering £6000, following by a 13-hour touch rugby marathon in 2019, raising £4000. These challenges have all been to raise money for Mahdlo Youth Zone in Oldham who provide opportunities and activities for young people across the community.
So far in 2020, the team have raised over £3,500 which brings the total raised by the team in the past three years, to just over £13,500.
Alongside the matches, they also held a raffle with over 40 prizes including first prize of a signed Manchester United football shirt kindly donated by the Manchester United Foundation.
GMP’s Inspector Danny Atherton commented that; “I would also like to say a big thank you to everyone involved and who supported the event.
“I would like to say a special thanks to some fantastic GMP members of staff - Sophie Sowerby, Paula Isaacs and PCSO Suzanne Pealin who created the brochure for the challenge and also managed to persuade a number of local businesses to support the event.”
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Monday 07 November 2011 - Day 17 - Trek Lungden (4,375m / 14,354ft) to Gokyo (4,790m/15,720ft) over the Renjo La (5,340m /17,521ft)
A pre dawn rise and shine, and the lodge owner excitedly encouraged us outside to see how the Kongde View Lodge got its name... such a great feeling to discover that the skies had cleared - with perfect timing for our first big pass: the 5,340m /17,521ft Renjo La (aka Lhenjo La).
A cold start, but wonderful to see the dawn sunlight hitting the snow capped peaks and jagged black ridges, 360°, and smashing to see a sunkissed Numbur again. A slog through the shadow to the hanging valley with a still partially frozen stream running through the small lakes that led us towards the foot of the final climb, from the Black Lake to the prayer flagged pass - with the help of giant snow covered stone steps. Gopal told us that the steps had been made to help the yak trains descend down from the pass, rather than for trekkers. Hard going at over 5,000m, but the prayer flags kept drawing us ever upwards.... and emerging at the top we had spectacular views of the stunning set of peaks from Gyachung Kang / ग्याचुङ्काङ to Kusum Kanguru via Pumori / पुमोरि, Everest / सगरमाथा, Nuptse, Lhotse / ल्होत्से, Makalu / मकालु - all towering over the turquoise of Gokyo's third lake and the collection of lodges that comprise Gokyo Lakes. Looking back westwards, more mountains behind us - amazing. Definitely one of the best moments of the whole trek - amazingly photogenic, and I'd be lost without Günter Seyfferth's annotated panoramas from Renjo La: Renjo La Panorama Ost and Renjo La Panorama West.
A tiring descent on dusty, slippy trails dropping steeply between cairns and then levelling out along the north shore of the lake, culminating in a long stretch of stepping stones to cross the stream feeding into the lake and to reach the lodges.
We arrived exhausted at the Namaste Lodge, and with a splitting headache in my case. Not sure if it was due to altitude, exertion or the bright sunshine, but a couple of ibuprofen and veg noodle soup lunch sorted me out. There followed a lazy afternoon at the lodge, which filled up with support teams and then runners participating in the Everest Sky Race 2011 - crazy but impressive...
Read more: www.sparklytrainers.com/blog/archives/2012/03/17/three_hi...
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St Giles, Colby, Norfolk
If you take the great swathe of Norfolk that runs from Fakenham to the east coast, taking the gap between Cromer and Aylsham, you pass through no towns. There are no medieval churches that Simon Jenkins saw fit to put in his premiership in England's Thousand Best Churches, and yet you will find as many medieval churches in this narrow band as most English counties have in total.
Given that Norfolk has so many churches, certainly more per square mile than anywhere else in western Europe, it might be thought that to visit even all those in this swathe would be a hard slog. But this is not the case. Almost allt of these churches are kept open, or are at least accessible. Many of them are lovely, and some have wonderful things to see. And just a few are of great interest, but little known, perhaps because there are so many churches here.
St Giles, Colby, is a great case in point. Set awkwardly north of its village along a lane going nowhere in particular, an indeterminate number of miles south of Sheringham, it is interesting to look at, it is beautiful inside, and it has several extremely interesting features. I doubt that it will be found in many people's top fifty Norfolk churches - it is certainly in mine.
Externally, it is rather odd. The tower is pencil thin, which in East Anglia always starts you humming and hawing about the Normans, but that is not the case here, I think, for it looks all of its late 13th century origins. Then, there is a massive late 15th century south porch, with image niches and wonderfully carved spandrels. That on the east side is clearly St Michael dispatching a dragon. Another dragon is being dispatched on the west side, and this is claimed by the guide books as St George. I wonder. He carries no shield - St George usually carries a shield. He is on foot - St George is usually shown on horse back. There is something very similar on the porch at St Michael at Plea in the centre of Norwich. Perhaps he is a wild man, albeit a civilised one. Perhaps, more likely, he is the donor of the porch, emulating his saintly hero in the other spandrel by dispatching evil.
The porch lets straight into the nave, for there is no aisle, no clerestory. You wonder if there is one around the north side. You set out around the church, and are met with a bit of a surprise, for the whole northern side of the church has been rebuilt in 18th century brick. Perhaps they did remove an aisle, but as you head east you see that they also rebuilt the chancel in its entirety.
This, then, is the skin. Perhaps it suggests what we might find inside, 13th century origins that have not been overwhelmed. A late medieval donor, pious and rich enough to provide the porch, but not to add clerestories or aisles - or, at least, not aisles that would last. An 18th century enthusiasm that was strong enough to rebuild in confidence. Perhaps, also, there is a further impression, that this is a parish that has had to maintain and beautify its church by the graft of its own hands - the key, for instance, the idiosyncratic work of some early 19th century blacksmith.
Your first step inside will reveal all of these at once. Light streams into the church through a simple Y-tracery west window. The font is late 15th century, and topped by the early Victorians in a rural manner. The 18th century provided the view to the east, of which more in a moment. In a county of interesting fonts, Colby's is one of the most interesting. It is set curiously. It stands so that no panel faces east, south, west or north; rather, being off-centre, the two easterly panels face east-south-east and east-north-east. It may have been moved, but the pedestal it stands on does the same thing, and appears to be original.
The most significant panel, and most important, is that to the ENE. It shows the Madonna and Child set in what I believe is known as the Seat of Wisdom. Now, this is an extraordinarily rare image to find on a font. It is undamaged by Anglican or Puritan iconoclasts. The panels either side are also extremely unusual. That two the south shows two kneeling figures in 15th century dress. They are paying homage, and are almost certainly the two donors of the font. To the north, another figure, a huntsman, kneels with an axe. In front of him is what appears to be a small dog. This is the figure of St Giles, who saved the life of a hind that turned out to be Christ. We know that this church owned a relic of St Giles before the Reformation - his finger, in a silver reliquary.
All the panels are in super condition, and must have been cemented over during the Anglican reformation of the 1540s. The other five panels are interesting for what isn't there. The symbols of the four evangelists are paired either side of the 8th panel. And this, incredibly, is still cemented over. What on earth could be beneath it? A crucifixion? A Holy Trinity? I couldn't help thinking that it looked like 19th century cement, in which case it was probably exposed by the Victorians at the same time as the other seven panels, and then cemented over again for being badly damaged.
Around the base of the font are reset brass inscriptions that echo the font's evidence of 15th century important people. And then, the view east is simple and delicious. Not too much money was spent by the Victorians on the nave - the walls are still panelled, the benches seemly, the tiles restrained. There is no coloured glass.
And then, there is that gorgeous chancel - a small east window above an 18th century sanctuary which is a rural vision of what a City of London church might be like. Even Moses and Aaron, flanking the now-removed decalogue boards, are locally painted. It is claimed that this reredos came from the church at Gunton on the occasion of its rebuilding by Robert Adam. This may be so, but I find it difficult to make the dates add up, and it does seem to fit perfectly here. To top it all off there are some fine 15th century glass figures reset in the otherwise clear east window: Christ in Majesty and a Mary of the Annunciation above the altar, two angels on their wheels either side at the top, and other figures including St James with his pilgrim staff and bag, St John with his poisoned chalice and St Peter with his keys.
There is more of interest in this immaculately well-kept church, including the inscription to the 17th century Richard Snelling. He left one pound to be distributed on every Christmas Day among the aged poor of Colby, and ten shillings on every Easter Day to cloath four poor children of the said parish. The altar cloth in exquisite needlework set in a frame on the east wall has an inscription recording that it was worked by Miss Charlotte Coleby (1797-1869), elder daughter of the Reverend George Coleby... by some means the frontal passed into the custody of the Royal School of Needlework, and it lay more or less forgotten until the School moved to new premises in 1962, when it was returned to this church. It is a rare and poignant reminder of the Oxford Movement-inspired revival in the Church of England as it was actually carried out by people on the ground - it was, perhaps, the first altar frontal that the parishioners of Colby had seen for several centuries, and it is still here, in the place where it was made and fondly used.
Salinas River State Beach, CA. Walking through the thick dry sand is just as unpleasant as I remember. It's really a constant slog, and within a few minutes even the tightest pair of shoes end up filled with sand.
Salinas River State Beach and Moss Landing, Monterey County, California - Located in the far northwest corner of the county, the Salinas River State Beach is a small slice of the Pacific coast just north of Watsonville. The state beach is a couple miles of sand, bordered by a line of low-lying sand dunes just inland; a short hiking path winds through the thick sand of the dunes, and the Salinas River winds lazily to the east (re-routed a century ago to provide more farmland).
The state beach ends on the north at the mouth of the Salinas River - just over the bridge on the other side of the river is the small coastal fishing community of Moss Landing. With only a few hundred residents, there are usually more boats in the harbor than people in the town, and Moss Landing is one of only a handful of commercial fishing harbors in the state. The town is famous for its antique stores and fresh seafood - but the one landmark that distinguishes the town is the two towering spires of the massive steam power generating plant just off Highway 1.
Much of the early history of Moss Landing (much like other local coastal communities) was built on the whaling industry. Rendering whales for their blubber has been going on along the coast for decades, but it reached a whole new level with the opening of the Moss Landing Whaling Station in 1919, a massive factory that thrived while the whaling industry boomed. But the local whale population was quickly played out, and by 1926 the factory was closed down for good. Today, the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute now marks where the whaling station once stood - only a pile of ballast rocks and nubs of the former piers remain of the station itself.
For me, the trip to Salinas River State Beach was a short afternoon visit - a mere twenty minute drive from my apartment to the southern access point on Molera Road. From there, a tough slog through thick sand along the Dune Trail northward, to the northern end of the state beach. Across the bridge into Moss Landing and the main harbor itself, to the southwest corner of the Moss Landing Harbor itself. Then walking back along the shoreline itself (much easier with wet, compacted sand), past the remnants of the whaling station, back to the southern end of the beach.
Pictures taken October 24, 2007. For more photographs, please visit my Salinas River State Beach and Moss Landing photoset.
For more information, please visit:
- Salinas River State Beach official website.
- www.beachcalifornia.com/salinas-river-state-beach.html.
- Moss Landing official website.
- Detailed history of Moss Landing Whaling Station.
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Pasión y paciencia, fue el slogan elegido por ¡Valencia!, la agencia de publicidad y comunicación integral de Basilea, Suiza, para su reunión de teambulding que tuvo como actividad principal un entrenamiento intensivo de surf en nuestra escuela.
Una formidable experiencia, sin duda.
Txoko Surf Club Schola |+34 662 138 480
Rúa Tomás Mirambell, 90 Bajo.
36340 Panxón, Nigrán
7:30pm on the (US) Independence day found me slogging up a steep 40 degree slope dragging my camera, tripod, dinner and a dual complement of layers for the windy summit I was targeting.
I had been hiking for just 15 minutes and already I was laboring under the hot sun. Tendrils of sweat ran down my face, blurring my eyes and wetting my hat while my throat was rasping in dehydration. In the name of fluids, all I was carrying with me was a liter of water of which half had already been gulped down. I needed the other half to survive with me the rest of the climb to the summit, still an hour away, and the rest of the evening, which was four more hours.
Slowly, but steadily, I made it to the top, a total of 3 miles and 2400ft of elevation gain. All my gear, and me, made it in one piece with still a quarter of my bottle left. Thankfully, it chilled down rather quickly here, with the 10mph bursts of wind taking away not only the heat but my sense of dehydration.
And from then on, I watched the sun disappear slowly behind the sea and the city lights come up, first a few and then thousands more, as they turned the urban night into day. And then the arteries and veins of the city, the highways and the streets, pulsated with life.
Meanwhile thousands of tiny sparkles erupted all around as the fireworks display of the independence day started. And from up here, they just looked like tiny sprinklers of light going of at random locations!.
Nevertheless, here is a twilight view of the large crowd that gathered at the summit to enjoy the fireworks, the beautiful sunset and the stunning moonrise that followed. This was shot with a wide angle lens, exposing the scene for 20s at ISO 800 at F11.
Mission Peak Regional Preserve
CA USA
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The Americans lead by a daring Benedict Arnold made a heroic and unimaginably hard slog up the Kennebeck river to the Richelieu river to take Quebec in late 1775. Everything that could go wrong did including the defection of nearly half of Arnold's Army when the going got hard. Despite it all Arnold lead an attack on Quebec in January 1776, where General Montgomery was killed, Gen Morgan and his men were captured and the Army was forced to retreat. Arnold himself was shot by a ricocheting ball that split in two pieces and badly wounded his leg. Arnold pushed on and lead a retreat back to Ft Ticonderoga. The attack was a failure (although one cannot blame Arnold considering the circumstances and difficulties he faced) but his scorched earth retreat left the British scrambling to catch up throughout the war.
Guy Carelton, governor of Quebec and General of the British Army acquired enough supplies and men to begin an assault on the Americans at Ft Ticonderoga, the Rebels northernmost defense (also captured earlier in 1775 by Benedict Arnold!). Arnold, as usual, beset with delays and a congress that wouldn't fund the war, and that heaped on Arnold considerable amounts of mistreatment and disrespect, using his former sailing skills as a sea captain, tried to create a navy on Lake Champlain to repulse the inevitable British assault. IN July of that year the Continental Congress issued the declaration of independence and Britain was not going to allow this insult to stand. During spring and summer of 1776 Arnold acquired 15 or so boats (all smaller than he requested and later than needed) and gathered a series of soldiers and drilled them into sailors.
Arnold was thinking back to the tactics of the ancient Athenians who decisively defeated the Persians in the Battle of Salamis using fast row galleons.He knew he could not defeat the British Navy head to head but he carefully selected Vacour Bay and planned to lure the British into a shallow, difficult to navigate area where his row galleons and small ships could negate the superiority of the British ships with speed and maneuverability.
All through spring and summer of 1776 he drilled his crews in sailing and rowing and by September they were as good as any he reported. The expected attack came in October of 1776 when a fleet of British ships sailed from Quebec to siege Ft Ticonderoga.
Arnold sent out Congress and Royal Savage to lure the Britis who took the bait and chased the ships. Royal Savage was grounded near Valcour Island and was burned by the British. It contained all of Arnolds papers.
The British ships could not fight the headwinds to engage until about 12 pm when Carelton entered the battle. A lucky shot cut her anchor line and she drifted out of firing position and was bombarded by the Americans. A ball severely damaged her and killed several officers, she floundered until she was towed to safety. The battle continued all day until Inflexible finally came within range and silenced the American guns. The Americans were nearly out of powder and balls when nightfall ended the battle The mangled fleet trapped but once again Benedict Arnold came through. Handing out slotted lanterns for the sterns and requirint the men to swaddle the oars in their shirts to dampen the sound, when a fog rolled in they quietly slipped out past the British and toward Ft Ticonderoga. Unfortunately the winds the next day favored the British and they chased the remaining boats till they were ditched and burned at Crown point. At that point every man was on his own and had to find their way back to Ft Ticonderoga. To make matters worse the British has turned loose hundreds of Mohawk warriors who were pursuing them as well. The remaining sailors straggled into the Ft several days later.
Carelton sailed to Ft Ticonderoga and found it better manned and prepared than he had anticipated. The fierce battle with Arbold also killed several officers and heavily damaged Carelton. Due to the lateness of the season (winter comes early and fast up there) Carelton decided to retreat to Quebec and start again in the next season. This would cost him his command...to a hated rival John Burgoyne...who boasted he would take the fight to them, unlike Carelton.
More importantly this action delayed the British for another year before they would attempt to attack again. One could argue that the scorched earth policy in Quebec and the Valcour Island battle hampered the British so much it gave the Americans time to prepare and strategize. It seems if the proper resources were allocated to Arnold for the Quebec venture and Valcour island the British might have been completely unable to launch a campaign from Quebec or forced them to expend such resources such that the revolutionary war might have been ended there.
The world is dead. The dim, smoldering sun no longer lights the sky. Those few who survive scavenge and hide, prolonging fate for another day. The surface is littered with the scattered remains of the world that was, inhabited now by the only beings that thrive in this hellish wasteland: the Devourers.
Pasión y paciencia, fue el slogan elegido por ¡Valencia!, la agencia de publicidad y comunicación integral de Basilea, Suiza, para su reunión de teambulding que tuvo como actividad principal un entrenamiento intensivo de surf en nuestra escuela.
Una formidable experiencia, sin duda.
Txoko Surf Club Schola |+34 662 138 480
Rúa Tomás Mirambell, 90 Bajo.
36340 Panxón, Nigrán
The Americans lead by a daring Benedict Arnold made a heroic and unimaginably hard slog up the Kennebeck river to the Richelieu river to take Quebec in late 1775. Everything that could go wrong did including the defection of nearly half of Arnold's Army when the going got hard. Despite it all Arnold lead an attack on Quebec in January 1776, where General Montgomery was killed, Gen Morgan and his men were captured and the Army was forced to retreat. Arnold himself was shot by a ricocheting ball that split in two pieces and badly wounded his leg. Arnold pushed on and lead a retreat back to Ft Ticonderoga. The attack was a failure (although one cannot blame Arnold considering the circumstances and difficulties he faced) but his scorched earth retreat left the British scrambling to catch up throughout the war.
Guy Carelton, governor of Quebec and General of the British Army acquired enough supplies and men to begin an assault on the Americans at Ft Ticonderoga, the Rebels northernmost defense (also captured earlier in 1775 by Benedict Arnold!). Arnold, as usual, beset with delays and a congress that wouldn't fund the war, and that heaped on Arnold considerable amounts of mistreatment and disrespect, using his former sailing skills as a sea captain, tried to create a navy on Lake Champlain to repulse the inevitable British assault. IN July of that year the Continental Congress issued the declaration of independence and Britain was not going to allow this insult to stand. During spring and summer of 1776 Arnold acquired 15 or so boats (all smaller than he requested and later than needed) and gathered a series of soldiers and drilled them into sailors.
Arnold was thinking back to the tactics of the ancient Athenians who decisively defeated the Persians in the Battle of Salamis using fast row galleons.He knew he could not defeat the British Navy head to head but he carefully selected Vacour Bay and planned to lure the British into a shallow, difficult to navigate area where his row galleons and small ships could negate the superiority of the British ships with speed and maneuverability.
All through spring and summer of 1776 he drilled his crews in sailing and rowing and by September they were as good as any he reported. The expected attack came in October of 1776 when a fleet of British ships sailed from Quebec to siege Ft Ticonderoga.
Arnold sent out Congress and Royal Savage to lure the Britis who took the bait and chased the ships. Royal Savage was grounded near Valcour Island and was burned by the British. It contained all of Arnolds papers.
The British ships could not fight the headwinds to engage until about 12 pm when Carelton entered the battle. A lucky shot cut her anchor line and she drifted out of firing position and was bombarded by the Americans. A ball severely damaged her and killed several officers, she floundered until she was towed to safety. The battle continued all day until Inflexible finally came within range and silenced the American guns. The Americans were nearly out of powder and balls when nightfall ended the battle The mangled fleet trapped but once again Benedict Arnold came through. Handing out slotted lanterns for the sterns and requirint the men to swaddle the oars in their shirts to dampen the sound, when a fog rolled in they quietly slipped out past the British and toward Ft Ticonderoga. Unfortunately the winds the next day favored the British and they chased the remaining boats till they were ditched and burned at Crown point. At that point every man was on his own and had to find their way back to Ft Ticonderoga. To make matters worse the British has turned loose hundreds of Mohawk warriors who were pursuing them as well. The remaining sailors straggled into the Ft several days later.
Carelton sailed to Ft Ticonderoga and found it better manned and prepared than he had anticipated. The fierce battle with Arbold also killed several officers and heavily damaged Carelton. Due to the lateness of the season (winter comes early and fast up there) Carelton decided to retreat to Quebec and start again in the next season. This would cost him his command...to a hated rival John Burgoyne...who boasted he would take the fight to them, unlike Carelton.
More importantly this action delayed the British for another year before they would attempt to attack again. One could argue that the scorched earth policy in Quebec and the Valcour Island battle hampered the British so much it gave the Americans time to prepare and strategize. It seems if the proper resources were allocated to Arnold for the Quebec venture and Valcour island the British might have been completely unable to launch a campaign from Quebec or forced them to expend such resources such that the revolutionary war might have been ended there.
The Americans lead by a daring Benedict Arnold made a heroic and unimaginably hard slog up the Kennebeck river to the Richelieu river to take Quebec in late 1775. Everything that could go wrong did including the defection of nearly half of Arnold's Army when the going got hard. Despite it all Arnold lead an attack on Quebec in January 1776, where General Montgomery was killed, Gen Morgan and his men were captured and the Army was forced to retreat. Arnold himself was shot by a ricocheting ball that split in two pieces and badly wounded his leg. Arnold pushed on and lead a retreat back to Ft Ticonderoga. The attack was a failure (although one cannot blame Arnold considering the circumstances and difficulties he faced) but his scorched earth retreat left the British scrambling to catch up throughout the war.
Guy Carelton, governor of Quebec and General of the British Army acquired enough supplies and men to begin an assault on the Americans at Ft Ticonderoga, the Rebels northernmost defense (also captured earlier in 1775 by Benedict Arnold!). Arnold, as usual, beset with delays and a congress that wouldn't fund the war, and that heaped on Arnold considerable amounts of mistreatment and disrespect, using his former sailing skills as a sea captain, tried to create a navy on Lake Champlain to repulse the inevitable British assault. IN July of that year the Continental Congress issued the declaration of independence and Britain was not going to allow this insult to stand. During spring and summer of 1776 Arnold acquired 15 or so boats (all smaller than he requested and later than needed) and gathered a series of soldiers and drilled them into sailors.
Arnold was thinking back to the tactics of the ancient Athenians who decisively defeated the Persians in the Battle of Salamis using fast row galleons.He knew he could not defeat the British Navy head to head but he carefully selected Vacour Bay and planned to lure the British into a shallow, difficult to navigate area where his row galleons and small ships could negate the superiority of the British ships with speed and maneuverability.
All through spring and summer of 1776 he drilled his crews in sailing and rowing and by September they were as good as any he reported. The expected attack came in October of 1776 when a fleet of British ships sailed from Quebec to siege Ft Ticonderoga.
Arnold sent out Congress and Royal Savage to lure the Britis who took the bait and chased the ships. Royal Savage was grounded near Valcour Island and was burned by the British. It contained all of Arnolds papers.
The British ships could not fight the headwinds to engage until about 12 pm when Carelton entered the battle. A lucky shot cut her anchor line and she drifted out of firing position and was bombarded by the Americans. A ball severely damaged her and killed several officers, she floundered until she was towed to safety. The battle continued all day until Inflexible finally came within range and silenced the American guns. The Americans were nearly out of powder and balls when nightfall ended the battle The mangled fleet trapped but once again Benedict Arnold came through. Handing out slotted lanterns for the sterns and requirint the men to swaddle the oars in their shirts to dampen the sound, when a fog rolled in they quietly slipped out past the British and toward Ft Ticonderoga. Unfortunately the winds the next day favored the British and they chased the remaining boats till they were ditched and burned at Crown point. At that point every man was on his own and had to find their way back to Ft Ticonderoga. To make matters worse the British has turned loose hundreds of Mohawk warriors who were pursuing them as well. The remaining sailors straggled into the Ft several days later.
Carelton sailed to Ft Ticonderoga and found it better manned and prepared than he had anticipated. The fierce battle with Arbold also killed several officers and heavily damaged Carelton. Due to the lateness of the season (winter comes early and fast up there) Carelton decided to retreat to Quebec and start again in the next season. This would cost him his command...to a hated rival John Burgoyne...who boasted he would take the fight to them, unlike Carelton.
More importantly this action delayed the British for another year before they would attempt to attack again. One could argue that the scorched earth policy in Quebec and the Valcour Island battle hampered the British so much it gave the Americans time to prepare and strategize. It seems if the proper resources were allocated to Arnold for the Quebec venture and Valcour island the British might have been completely unable to launch a campaign from Quebec or forced them to expend such resources such that the revolutionary war might have been ended there.
After days of slogging through rain around here, I needed something to 'brighten' my day. This little gem was taken on our trip in December to Mexico. I used my iPhone to capture this and then used some iPhone apps to enhance the tones - I think it was an app called, PhotoStudio. I then added the faux bokeh with an app called "MoreNoel".
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The Americans lead by a daring Benedict Arnold made a heroic and unimaginably hard slog up the Kennebeck river to the Richelieu river to take Quebec in late 1775. Everything that could go wrong did including the defection of nearly half of Arnold's Army when the going got hard. Despite it all Arnold lead an attack on Quebec in January 1776, where General Montgomery was killed, Gen Morgan and his men were captured and the Army was forced to retreat. Arnold himself was shot by a ricocheting ball that split in two pieces and badly wounded his leg. Arnold pushed on and lead a retreat back to Ft Ticonderoga. The attack was a failure (although one cannot blame Arnold considering the circumstances and difficulties he faced) but his scorched earth retreat left the British scrambling to catch up throughout the war.
Guy Carelton, governor of Quebec and General of the British Army acquired enough supplies and men to begin an assault on the Americans at Ft Ticonderoga, the Rebels northernmost defense (also captured earlier in 1775 by Benedict Arnold!). Arnold, as usual, beset with delays and a congress that wouldn't fund the war, and that heaped on Arnold considerable amounts of mistreatment and disrespect, using his former sailing skills as a sea captain, tried to create a navy on Lake Champlain to repulse the inevitable British assault. IN July of that year the Continental Congress issued the declaration of independence and Britain was not going to allow this insult to stand. During spring and summer of 1776 Arnold acquired 15 or so boats (all smaller than he requested and later than needed) and gathered a series of soldiers and drilled them into sailors.
Arnold was thinking back to the tactics of the ancient Athenians who decisively defeated the Persians in the Battle of Salamis using fast row galleons.He knew he could not defeat the British Navy head to head but he carefully selected Vacour Bay and planned to lure the British into a shallow, difficult to navigate area where his row galleons and small ships could negate the superiority of the British ships with speed and maneuverability.
All through spring and summer of 1776 he drilled his crews in sailing and rowing and by September they were as good as any he reported. The expected attack came in October of 1776 when a fleet of British ships sailed from Quebec to siege Ft Ticonderoga.
Arnold sent out Congress and Royal Savage to lure the Britis who took the bait and chased the ships. Royal Savage was grounded near Valcour Island and was burned by the British. It contained all of Arnolds papers.
The British ships could not fight the headwinds to engage until about 12 pm when Carelton entered the battle. A lucky shot cut her anchor line and she drifted out of firing position and was bombarded by the Americans. A ball severely damaged her and killed several officers, she floundered until she was towed to safety. The battle continued all day until Inflexible finally came within range and silenced the American guns. The Americans were nearly out of powder and balls when nightfall ended the battle The mangled fleet trapped but once again Benedict Arnold came through. Handing out slotted lanterns for the sterns and requirint the men to swaddle the oars in their shirts to dampen the sound, when a fog rolled in they quietly slipped out past the British and toward Ft Ticonderoga. Unfortunately the winds the next day favored the British and they chased the remaining boats till they were ditched and burned at Crown point. At that point every man was on his own and had to find their way back to Ft Ticonderoga. To make matters worse the British has turned loose hundreds of Mohawk warriors who were pursuing them as well. The remaining sailors straggled into the Ft several days later.
Carelton sailed to Ft Ticonderoga and found it better manned and prepared than he had anticipated. The fierce battle with Arbold also killed several officers and heavily damaged Carelton. Due to the lateness of the season (winter comes early and fast up there) Carelton decided to retreat to Quebec and start again in the next season. This would cost him his command...to a hated rival John Burgoyne...who boasted he would take the fight to them, unlike Carelton.
More importantly this action delayed the British for another year before they would attempt to attack again. One could argue that the scorched earth policy in Quebec and the Valcour Island battle hampered the British so much it gave the Americans time to prepare and strategize. It seems if the proper resources were allocated to Arnold for the Quebec venture and Valcour island the British might have been completely unable to launch a campaign from Quebec or forced them to expend such resources such that the revolutionary war might have been ended there.
Contestants slog into the mud pit at Mudathlon, minutes from the finish line after running through 4 miles of obstacles and mud.
LO INVENCIBLE DE LLAMARSE HENRIQUE
POR: MILTON ROJO/FABIÁN GALICIA
WASHINGTON, D.C.
Henrique Capriles Radozky, Gobernador del Estado de Miranda, Venezuela, con el slogan “La fuerza del cambio en marcha” en cadena mundial, alzo la voz de forma tajante, el cual señaló que si va competir con una candidatura contra el régimen “chavista” en la próximas elecciones a la Presidencia de Venezuela.
Ademas Capriles Radonski es un abogado del partido político Primero Justicia Centro humanista, el cual en su carrera política no conoce la derrota, donde ya fue presidente de la Camara de Diputados del extinto Congreso Nacional de la República, Alcalde de Baruta en dos oportunidades y actual Gobernador del Estado.
Es por ello que Henrique Capriles, se perfila como uno de los candidatos que puede vencer al actual Gobierno que preside Hugo Chávez, por su limpia trayectoria y su carisma a flor de piel.
Verano atrás cuando nos disponíamos a desayunar en el restaurant del hotel, para después pasar a las aulas de la Universidad George Washington, porque ahí daría una conferencia Gobernador de Miranda, Venezuela en el taller de Gerencia Política; nos encontramos a un grupo de dos muchachas y tres jóvenes –a leguas se veían que eran paisanos de Bolívar- todos ellos entre los 25 a 35 años, con mucha alegría contagiable – “candela” como ellos le llaman- discutían cosas de su país, que si Chavez, que si el presupuesto, que si la seguridad, para allá y para acá, mientras mis amigos y un servidor –a escasos metros de distancia- discutíamos lo que había en la carta.
Minutos después, uno de ellos, vestido elegantemente, con ojos saltones y figura esquelética, con rasgos fisonómicos muy parecido al personaje de la “Muerte” de la película “Macario” de 1960; se levantó y empezó a dar órdenes a todos, sus comensales se pusieron serios y no chistaron. Nosotros al lado, al juzgar por el acento y la reacción de los colaboradores reflejada en sus caras, juramos que este joven era el Gobernador Venezolano.
-Oye chico y te llevas los chocolaticos para allá para darle a la gente. Le dijo el descarnado gobernante a un colaborador. Mientras se desapartaba para llegar primero al campus y dejaba a sus colaboradores ahí, preparando la agenda y pagando la cuenta.
-Sí, Henrique yo los llevo no te preocupes. Le dijo el más joven del grupo.
Ahí confirmamos, lo sospechado, era nuestro conferenciante Henrique Capriles Radozky, gobernador del Estado de Miranda, no sabíamos si era Chavista u opositor, eso pensábamos nosotros, lo descubriríamos en la conferencia y así fue.
Con palabras calibradas por el desahogo y una actitud imbatible, Henrique Capriles, habló para un auditorio que sólo conoce las noticias de Venezuela que da Hugo Chávez por “aló Presidente”. El maratónico programa que sólo difunde las patrañas del dictador.
Capriles le ganó la elección al gobernador que buscaba reelegirse en el cargo: Diosdado Cabello, el número dos en el régimen Chavista; la dignidad mirandina, solida e impenetrable, no se lo permitió. Ganó el muchacho nieto de inmigrantes polacos, pero con una convicción tan férrea por su patria, como la del mismo Francisco de Miranda.
Henrique asumió el cargo y desde entonces los seguidores de Hugo Chávez, no han cejado en permitir el gobierno de esa demarcación. Ya que desde que fue alcalde de Baruta en 2002, fue hecho preso acusado de conspirar contra el Presidente en aquel golpe de abril. La gente de su localidad al ver la injusticia de su alcalde preso, salió a las calles bajo un sólo grito: “yo también me llamo Henrique Capriles Radozky”. Después su expediente se desechó y recuperó la libertad. Antes de salir libre sacó fuerzas de su ADN –y es que sus bisabuelos estuvieron presos en el campo de exterminio de treblinka- y le dijo al régimen mientras lo custodiaban: “podrán apresarme, pero nunca encarcelaran a mi dignidad”.
Al recibir Henrique la gobernación de Miranda, el daño patrimonial del Estado Mirandino fue de más de 130 millones de dólares, en una demarcación donde el 70% de la gente vive en extrema pobreza; esa cantidad de dinero se utilizó en gastos grotescos como pago de hoteles o facturación doble. De esto se hizo un expediente, ni con el pétalo de una acusación le han tocado un cabello a Dios dado. Ese dinero hubiera servido para haber pavimentado 379 kms. De calles, construido 149 escuelas.
Después, vino lo atroz, el Ejercito Venezolano le arrebató los Hospitales a la administración de Henrique, también quiso arrebatarle la policía. Fusil en mano llegó la Guardia Nacional a no permitir que entraran los enfermos a recibir atención médica a los dispensarios y en las comisarias a obstruirle el trabajo a los policías: si Bolívar o Miranda hubiesen visto esto, desenvainarían sus sables y a bayoneta calada se hubieran ido sobre los soldados a blandir su acero.
Las armas de la patria si para algo están, es para velar por la seguridad de sus pobladores; no para cuidar la seguridad de un régimen que se carcome entre sus vísceras.
Los mirandinos han tenido que escuchar el argumento del fusil ruso en vez de recibir la consulta médica.
Algo muy curioso que no nos dicen los noticieros es que en Venezuela hay inseguridad, tal vez en las democracias eso sea normal; pero en un estado totalitario donde el dominio del poder es único y la violencia está monopolizada por el Estado, esto suena raro, o ¿será que es una delincuencia permitida ó parte del régimen?
Porque, en un totalitarismo la palabra delincuencia no es muy sonada, suenan libertad, democracia y elección, pero no delincuencia. Algo raro hay ahí. Por que los dictadores para cuidar su entorno y su poder implantan un aparato de seguridad escalofriante que se extiende hasta las calles, por eso si hay violencia en Venezuela es porque Chávez quiere o no le queda de otra ó ¿ya se cansó de vivir del petróleo? ¿hay algo nuevo bajo los soles?
Al terminar el Gobernador Capriles nos dijo que estaba de acuerdo con Chávez en revertir la pobreza de los Venezolanos y que ha eso le iba dedicar todo el tiempo del mundo. Animal político al fin.
Al terminar los asistentes lo llenamos de aplausos y todo mundo se quiso tomar la foto con él, al ver a la delegación Mexicana nos dijo algo que a todos nos llegó en lo más profundo: “mi familia distribuía películas para los cines y éramos muy amigo de Don Mario Moreno “Cantinflas”, a México lo llevo en mi corazón”… todos nos echamos a reír… Muchos pensamos que teníamos a unos pasos al próximo Presidente de Venezuela y es que Jóvenes como Henrique lo hace creer a uno con un mundo mejor… más pacífico y más justo.
Por cierto, a nadie nos tocó chocolates “mirandinos”, éramos muchos y los dulces pocos… Henrique sólo nos dijo que eran los mejores del mundo, porque estaban hechos en el paraíso… estaban hechos en Miranda.
slogan: oil is essential for diesel, diesel is essential for life...
Modelos: Juliana Luna, Rafael Reyes
Asistentes: Andres Calderon, Mauricio Cendales
Muchas gracias a todos...
first day, hiking upstream. IN the stream (easier and quicker than trying to leap from stone to stone, just give in and get your feet wet).
I believe its the same as the Slogger 400. Came with the Pegasus 400 ROM and T2PEG. No idea if it works yet.
It needs a good clean as it came from a smokers house. Im also going to replace the capacitors. I'll upload a new photo once I have refurbished the board.
Please take a look at www.retrocomputers.eu for more info about my retro computer collection.