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Tuesday, May 31, 2011
Play It Again - "Adios" by Jesse & Joy
Dana Brand
Secuestran pariente del diputado Víctor Gómez Casanova
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Gobierno busca gravar telecable y juegos de azar para recaudar fondos del 4% a la Educación
El presidente de la República remitió al Congreso un proyecto de ley con el que pretende crear nuevos impuestos a sectores como los juegos de azar y la televisión por cable para destinar esos fondos a “dar cumplimiento al ardoroso clamor social que propugnaba por una mayor inversión en Educación”.
Publicado el martes 31 de mayo del 2011
Frustran secuestro de empresario en Santiago
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Publicado el martes 31 de mayo del 2011
Ordenan arresto de los "Dueños del Circo"
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Germany to ditch Nuclear Power
Book Launch: A Little History of the ALP
On the eve of the 120th anniversary of the NSW Labor Party's first election contest, the book will be launched on Thursday June 16 by NSW Labor MLC Luke Foley at Balmain Town Hall. See the flyer and below for rsvp information.
The Australian Labor Party is one of the oldest labour parties and was the first in the world to form a government. 2011 marks its 120th birthday. This short and lively book tells the story of the ALP's numerous successes in winning government at all levels and making policy that has transformed lives.
The book also shows how the ALP has attracted an extraordinary range of members, parliamentary representatives, leaders, unionists, activists and, indeed, opponents. The book also shows how the ALP has attracted an extraordinary range of members, parliamentary representatives, leaders, unionists, activists and, indeed, opponents.
Whether their audience are Labor voters or not, writers Nick Dyrenfurth and Frank Bongiorno argue that it has been such a central force in Australia throughout the twentieth century that its history should be known.
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Unions expose 'Work Partners'
The National Union of Workers has applied to Fair Work Australia on behalf of the staff to conduct a ballot to take industrial action at the company.
The NUW has lodged a dispute notice with the tribunal in a bid to speed up the payment of hundreds of thousands of dollars in superannuation it claims the company owes to current and former staff.
A range of unions pay Work Partners, run by former ALP activist Stuart McGill, to recruit thousands of members in workplaces.
ACTU secretary Jeff Lawrence last week demanded the unions cut ties with the company after it was revealed that on top of owing superannuation entitlements, Work Partners had outsourced Australian jobs overseas and devised plans to set up a call centre in The Philippines, a country with a history of repressing workers.
CEPU national president Len Cooper said last night his union had decided to review its relationship with Work Partners, particularly as the union was campaigning against telecommunications jobs in Australia being outsourced to The Philippines.
"The union's committee of management decided the matter of offshoring of jobs and the proper payment of entitlements to all employees are fundamental issues for the union whichever private-sector company we deal with," Mr Cooper said.
Mr McGill claims he is "catching up" on the superannuation payments, but NUW organiser Godfrey Moase said the staff were frustrated at the "continued postponement" of the payments.
"Members have told me they do not appreciate being made involuntary investors of the company," Mr Moase said.
"Members felt they could not continue to live with the uncertainty; that they could not continue to live with the risk of carrying all responsibility for whether their superannuation, and other minimum lawful entitlements, get paid."
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Winston S. Churchill
Churchill, Age 26 |
"Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm."
— Winston S. Churchill
British Artist, Historian, Writer and Statesman
1874 - 1965
Churchill painting (1946) |
Churchill was a man who faced both failure and success multiple times throughout his life. He did poorly in school, had a speech impediment, grieved the death of a child, smoked Havana cigars, and was captured and spent time as a prisoner of war in South Africa. He wrote a novel, two biographies, three volumes of memoirs and several books of history. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1953. He painted hundreds of paintings and several now hang in museums. He served as the Prime Minister of Great Britain twice. So when Churchill speaks of failure and success we all should listen.
We all face both failure and success in our lives. How we respond to what life hands us will tell others a lot about our character. When you suffer the humiliation of defeat and rejection, how do you respond? Do you become angry? Do you seek revenge? Do you withdrawal into depression? When you receive some honor and are applauded by everyone, how do you respond? Does the recognition go to your head and you become arrogant? Do you act like a diva and expect everyone to do your bidding? How we deal with the successes and failures of life tells us a lot about ourselves.
Daybreak at Cassis, near Marseilles (1920) |
Monday, May 30, 2011
New Music - "Pyramid" by Nightbox
Hailing from Wicklow, Ireland, this 5 member electro-pop group now calls Toronto, Canada home. The track "Pyramid" is taken from their self-titled debut EP (produced by MSTRKRFT's AL-P and Death From Above 1979's Sebastien Grainger). An infectious track that surrounds you with it's spirited energy and never lets you go. Expect big things from this band in the future. You can download "Pyramid" and 3 others tracks for FREE from Nightbox's debut EP from their website or down below.
You can catch Nightbox perform live for FREE at the 2011 NXNE Music Festival in Toronto, Canada on June 18 @ Yonge-Dundas Square. Click here for more details.
"governing" Argentina: 1976-1983
The so-called Process of National Reorganization, or the Process as it was simply called, entailed the coexistence of a clandestine terrorist state in charge of repression and another visible one, subject to the norms established by the military government itself but submitting its actions to a certain legal scrutiny. In practice, this distinction was not maintained, and the ilegal clandestine state was corroding, corrupting the state institutions in their entirety and the state's very juridical foundations.
Admiral Emilio Eduardo Massera, General Jorge Rafael Videla, & Air Force Brigadier Orlando Ramón Agosti |
The first ambiguity was found precisely where power resided. Despite the fact that a strong executive was an Argentine tradition and that the unity of command was always one of the principles of the armed forces, the authority of the president – who in the beginning was a first among equals and then not even that – turned out to be weak and subject to permanent scrutiny, with restraints imposed by the commanders of the three services. The Statute of the Process and the subsequent complementary government decrees – which shut down the congress, purged the judicial system, and prohibited political activity – created the Military Junta, with power to designate the president and control many of his actions. The problem was that no one's powers were clearly delineated but were rather the result of the changing balance of forces. A newly created Advisory Legislative Commission, made up of three representatives of each branch subordinate to the orders of their commanders, was another instance of alliances and confrontations. To top it off, every executive position, from governors to mayors, as well as the administration of state companies and other government agencies, was divided among the armed forces. Those who occupied these positions thus depended on a double chain of command: that of the state and that of their service branch. This amounted to a feudalized anarchy rather than a state made cohesive and constituted through executive power.
The same anarchy existed with respect to the legal norms that the government provided itself. There was confusion about the very nature of these norms – laws, decrees, and state regulations being jumbled together without criteria – as well as who had the power to declare them and what was the full extent of their powers. There was also a well-known reluctance to discuss the reason for such norms; even their very existence was on occasion a secret. The military government preferred omnibus laws and frequently granted itself broad discretionary powers, but also tolerated the repeated violation or only partial fulfillment of its own legislation. Contaminated by the clandestine terrorist state, the country's entire juridical structure was similarly affected, to the point that there were practically no legal limits on the exercise of power, which functioned as the discretionary power of the state. This corruption of purpose was extended to public administration, where the most able personnel were removed. Arbitrary decisions were made by minor bureaucrats, transformed into little dictators without control and lacking the ability to assert control themselves. . . .
General Roberto Viola |
Fragmentation of power, centrifugal tendencies, and anarchy were the product of the strict division of power among the three armed service branches, to the point that there was no means of requesting a final appeal to authority that might arbitrate in the event of conflicts between the branches. But such a state of affairs was also the result of the existence of clear factions in the army, where from the repression emerged true warlords, generals Videla and Roberto Viola – Videla's second-in-command in the army – the most powerful factions were established, but even these were far from dominant.
Minister of Economy José Alfredo Martínez de Hoz |
These commanders backed Martínez de Hoz – a figure criticized by the more nationalist military officers, who abounded in the ranks of younger officers – but they recognized the necessity of finding some political solution in the future. They maintained communication with the leadership of the political parties, who hoped that this group represented the most reasonable and even the most progressive sector of the military, perhaps because it was the faction that recognized the need to control the repression in some way.
General Ramón J. Camps |
Other groups, whose most prominent figures were the generals Luciano Benjamín Menéndez and Carlos Suárez Mason, commanders of the army's Third Corps and First Corps with their headquarters in Córdoba and Buenos Aires, respectively, and the chief of police of Buenos Aires province, General Ramón J. Camps, a key figure in the repression, maintained that the dictatorship should continue sine die and that the repression – which these figures carried out with special savagery – should be taken to its final consequences. . . .
Admiral Emilio Eduardo Massera |
The third group in the military was that of the navy, firmly led by its commander, Admiral Emilio Eduardo Massera, who, trusting in his own political talents, proposed to find a political agreement that would popularly legitimize the Process and at the same time carry him to power. Massera, who carried out a major part of the repression from the navy mechanics' school and gained distinction in that sinister competition, always played his own game. He harried Videla to limit his power and distanced himself from Martínez de Hoz. He took great pains to find issues and causes that would win some degree of popular support for the government . . . When he retired, Massera established a political think tank, his own newspaper, an international publicity agency based in Paris, a political party – Social Democracy – and a bizarre personal staff made up of former members of the guerrilla organizations kidnapped and imprisoned in the navy mechanics' school, who agreed to collaborate in the admiral's political projects. . . .
In summary, the politics of order began to fail among the armed forces themselves, because the military behaved in an undisciplined and factional manner and did little to maintain the order that it sought to impost on society. Nevertheless, for five years, the military managed to secure a relative peace, a peace of the tomb, owing to society's scant ability to respond, partly because it had been battered or threatened by the repression and partly because it was disposed to tolerate a great deal from a government that, after the preceding chaos, had promised a minimum order.
Amanda, la verdadera bruja de "La Bruja"
A Amanda, de “bruja” no le quedó nada
Por Mayteck Arenas Londoño (1)
El narcotráfico, la política y la brujería se mezclan en el libro La bruja, uno de los más leídos del periodista Germán Castro Caycedo. Su protagonista, hoy abogada y educadora, está completamente alejada del mundo del ocultismo y es una mujer creyente en la fe católica, según revela en esta entrevista.
Tiene un cabello entre el amarillo y el rojizo, tan breve como su es
tatura y tan natural como sus palabras aceitadas con un ‘arrastrao’ paisa que la describen sólo en su primera plana. Debajo de una cortina de cabellos deslumbran dos ojos tan profundos como dulces, perdidos en el color de la miel.
Una camisita color salmón –de ese que es escaso para combinar y difícil de encontrar en medias veladas– y un pantalón jean sostienen una piel casi de osito de felpa con zonas montañosas que denotan experiencia y tiempo vivido.
Un almacén de cadena fue el lugar de encuentro preferido por ella. Medellín pasaba por un sábado caluroso, había gran agite en el cruce de calles y carreras, y en un conjunto de sillas estaba ella, mirando su celular porque su hija se iba para Fredonia.
Amanda, como la llama el periodista Germán Castro Caycedo, la protagonista no sólo del libro La bruja sino también de su propia historia, nació y creció precisamente en Fredonia, un municipio cafetero situado en la región del Suroeste del departamento de Antioquia.
Alrededor de la brujería ella construyó una vida llena de poder y de conocidos que tenían renombre y prestigio social. Ataduras, rezos, ritos y baños se convirtieron en su trabajo, además de ser maestra, coordinadora y más tarde directora de colegios e instituciones educativas.
Llegó a ser cercana a diferentes líderes políticos y lo que muchos no saben aún es que ella misma se siente afín con la política. Litigar es lo suyo, lo que le gusta y estudió, y hoy se la pasa entre la iglesia y los municipios de Antioquia en los que habla sobre presupuesto, control interno y otros temas afines.
Amanda afirma que cuando estuvo en el ocultismo descubrió que las personas que buscaban la brujería para obtener favores pertenecían a todas las clases sociales, desde los más ricos hasta los más pobres. / Foto Mayteck Arenas Londoño
La transformación que sufrió Amanda en su vida es un proceso impactante, diferente y constante. Gracias a un exorcismo su historia cambió de rumbo y dejó de ser “la bruja”, dejó de ser la del error tras error, para pasar simplemente a ser ella, la abogada, la madre, la esposa, la política y la creyente.
Con las afirmaciones que hace sobre el cierre de su vida al ocultismo, luego de un exorcismo hecho hace 22 años, esta mujer retomó su vida encontrando paz y tranquilidad en la búsqueda de Dios.
¿Quién es Amanda hoy?
“Es una persona que a pesar de sus múltiples problemas humanos, como los tiene cualquiera, está en la búsqueda de Dios. Y a pesar de que todavía tiene tantas cosas para corregir está en los caminos de Él. Es una persona que solamente cree en Él, cree en su palabra, cree en el poder de la oración, cree en la fe y cree que es el único medio para vivir, para recibir las bondades de Dios”.
¿Cómo era la relación entre la Amanda de ayer y Dios?
“Había relación, pero no se había profundizado en lo que era Dios. Por lo tanto, esa Amanda de ayer estaba muy llena de las cosas humanas, como es hoy en día que todo el mundo cree en las yerbas, en las bondades de las yerbas, de los talismanes, en el feng shui, en los bioenergéticos… Esa Amanda era dedicada a eso mismo que muchos están dedicados hoy. Y a los chamanes, a todo eso que mucha gente hace con naturalidad y que ninguna de esas cosas llevan a Dios”.
¿Cómo comienza usted a entrar en el mundo del ocultismo?
“Como entra cualquier persona que no reconoce que eso es parte de la brujería, que eso es parte del esoterismo. Entré leyendo el horóscopo, oyendo programas de televisión, viéndolos como hechizada, luego haciéndome adivinar las cartas, el tabaco, el cigarrillo, el café, la mano”.
¿Ha conseguido alguna vez algo por medio de la brujería?
“Muchas cosas de mi pasado fueron conseguidas a base de brujería, pero esas cosas todas se acabaron, todo se va en ruina. La plata que consigas por medio de la brujería o los bienes que recibas por medio de la brujería se te van. Yo creo que es muy poquitico el brujo que es rico porque a todos los brujos los ves con el término de los días angustiados, desesperados y en la ruina”.
¿Alguna vez ha retenido usted a un hombre por medio de la brujería? “Para mí no, pero cuando hacía trabajos lo logré para varias personas. Pero qué pasó: de esos hombres que se retuvieron, de esas mujeres que se casaron porque se les había hecho brujería, que yo sepa, en el momento ninguna está con ninguno porque los matrimonios se acabaron o los mataron”.
¿Lo que usted practicaba era magia negra?
“No hay más magia de otro color: toda es negra. La gente habla de la magia blanca, verde, negra, morada, haciendo creer que la magia blanca es buena. No hay nada bueno, toda es magia negra, todo es diabólico. De la magia blanca hacen creer que es una magia con el poder de Dios y de los Santos, eso es mentira. Eso es santería”.
¿Cómo llega al exorcismo, a esa liberación?
“Por la falta de conocimiento que uno tiene en la Iglesia Católica, en Dios, las personas no nos damos cuenta de que existen oraciones de liberación, que la Santa Misa es liberación, que el Rosario es liberación. Y que hay exorcismos especiales que solamente los pueden realizar los sacerdotes porque son hombres consagrados a Dios y el mismo poder que reciben en la ordenación sacerdotal hace que ellos puedan hacer los exorcismos, entonces no los conocemos”.
“Como no los conocemos, no sabemos que son indispensables para cuando hay en uno un espíritu pitónico, un espíritu del mal, estos ordenan que salgan y con su poder sacerdotal los sacan”.
“¿Qué pasa? Que ahora la gente en lugar de ir a buscar a un sacerdote para un exorcismo va a buscar a cualquier persona, cualquier pastor de otra iglesia que se cree con poderes para que haga exorcismos… ellos no tienen ningún poder. ¿En qué se diferencia de que sea brujería a que sea de Dios? En que lo que es de Dios no se cobra, se hace en el nombre de Él”.
¿Cuál fue la persona que le realizó el exorcismo?
“Lo inició monseñor Alfonso Uribe Jaramillo, obispo de la diócesis Sonsón-Rionegro. Lo continuó el padre Guillermo Gil Bedoya y lo volvió a terminar monseñor Alfonso Uribe Jaramillo. Los dos están muertos”.
“Las oraciones de liberación me las hizo la madre Alicia Echeverry Calle que es la madre del Ave María y me las continuaron algunos sacerdotes como el padre León Arenas, la hermana Blanca Ruiz, el padre Jorge López, el padre Gerardo Piñeros. Fue un proceso muy, muy largo”.
¿Cómo fue su exorcismo?
“Si vamos a iniciar con Monseñor Alfonso Uribe Jaramillo tendría que hablar de Marta Cecilia de Gonzales, de Humberto Gonzales, de Beatriz de Gil, de todas aquellas personas que me rodearon, la madre Alicia… Empezaron a llevarme a donde varios sacerdotes para que oraran por mí. Monseñor Alfonso Jaramillo en muchas ocasiones oró por mí”.
“Un exorcismo es cuando estás confesada, comulgada, cuando te presentan ante el altar, ante la custodia con la hostia consagrada y oran. Es una oración especial. Hay una escrita por el papa León XIII y no me acuerdo la otra por quién. Ellos empiezan a orar y en el nombre del Señor Jesús empiezan a preguntar quién hay dentro de uno, y sin ser la voz de uno, ni estar bajo ninguna droga ni control, empieza a expresar con otra voz lo que siente o lo que hay dentro”.
“Luego, cuando ordenan que le digan quién, van saliendo los nombres de las personas, las cosas que le han hecho a uno. Entonces empiezan a romper todo lo que hay. Uno empieza a botar según lo que tenga, a botar cosas, uno mismo las ve y las ven los que hay al lado. Como yo iba con médico, enfermera e ingeniero químico, todos vieron qué era lo que yo había arrojado. No fue la parte dura, digamos que fue la parte bella, la de la mano de Dios…”.
¿Es cierto que atendió a diferentes políticos y hasta a un jefe de Estado cuando practicaba el ocultismo?
“Eso de a quién le hice trabajos o no, no importa. El sentido que nosotros le queríamos dar a esto en el libro era que la brujería no la hacían las personas que no estudiaban, no la hacían los de los barrios marginados, no la hacía el ignorante: la hacía absolutamente ¡todo el mundo!, desde las altas esferas hasta los de las bajas esferas”.
(1) Artículo Especial para Bitacora Revista de la Facultad de Comunicación Social de EAFIT. por Mayteck Arenas Londoño - marenas2@eafit.edu.co
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solar stoves
Solar Stoves for Neighbors Living Off the Grid
Beginning in June, construction will be by carried out by a cooperative backed by UNSA's Inenco (National University of Salta's Institute of Investigation into Non-Conventional Energy)
Solar Cooking in San Antonio de los Cobres |
Una cooperativa salteña construirá cocinas solares, mejoradas a leña y parabólicas familiares, artefactos que en una primera etapa serán distribuidos en Centros Integradores Comunitarios (CIC) de la ciudad, del Noa, Nea y la región de Cuyo. El proyecto se pondrá en marcha en junio y la cooperativa 26 de Agosto será la responsable, previa capacitación que sus integrantes recibirán del Instituto de Investigación de Energías no Convencionales (Inenco) de la Universidad Nacional de Salta (Unsa).
Por medio de un convenio entre Desarrollo Social de la Nación y la comuna capitalina, para la transferencia tecnológica, se construirán 55 hornos solares Cocitamb, 55 hornos mejorados a leña y solares parabólicas familiares. La cooperativa 26 de Agosto fabricará los hornos que primero serán exhibidos en los CIC de la ciudad; todos recibirán uno en donación.
De acuerdo al proyecto, la cooperativa luego deberá autofinanciarse con la venta de hornos que, se estima, podrían costar entre $800 y $900. La secretaria de Gobierno del municipio, Gisella Moreno, informó que “con este convenio se generará empleo genuino para cooperativas, trabajo que además colaborará con ambiente, con energías renovables”, ya que los hornos solares no ocupan gas y se reduce el consumo de leña.
La capacitación
El Inenco tiene experiencia en la construcción de cocinas solares, equipadas con hornos o con ollas. Cada cocina con horno tiene -por ejemplo- capacidad para cocinar hasta 4 kilos de pan, por cada hora y media. El técnico del Inenco, responsable de la capacitación de los cooperativistas, Ricardo Caso, explicó a El Tribuno que la formación se extenderá unos 10 días. “Esta institución investiga los diseños y los transfiere al medio para su fabricación y utilización”, comentó el especialista. Una persona con conocimiento en la construcción de hornos solares puede realizar uno en tres días: “En la capacitación haremos 5, luego la cooperativa producirá el resto”, dijo.
Un horno solar levanta entre 120 y 140 grados de temperatura; las cocinas mejoradas a leña, se harán en la segunda etapa, se utilizan con ese producto, pero se las prepara para disminuir el consumo, y la parabólica familiar puede levantar más de 200 grados de temperatura y se puede hasta freír alimentos.
Los fondos para el proyecto son aportados por el organismo nacional y alcanzan a $178.558.
This He Volkswagen Beetle Unique Made of Wood
Unlimited creativity can make a person full of thoughts of the all unique. As Momir Bojic from Bosnia and Herzegovina, who managed to create his unique creations. Only the wooden goods he managed to turn it into a Volkswagen Beetle.
No wonder if VW makes visitors in Banja Luka, Bosnia surprised absurdly. But who should you believe is the car can run like a car like in general.
Volkswagen Beetle designed Momir Bojic made from wood - (Photo: www.apexchange.com)
Volkswagen Beetle has been made about 6 years ago, which took approximately 1 year. This car has a body full of wood, wood steering wheel, a hat as of wood, and wood dashboards. This car has also been the main attraction in the city of Bosnia.
As happened in an automobile exhibition in Banja Luka, more than 100 cars Vintages present at the event, and the Wooden Beetle became the center of attention in the event.
Because of his love of cars, Momir VW has invited him across several neighboring countries, and of course the eyes of those who in jumpainya directly fixed on the Volkswagen Beetle made of about 20,000 wooden bar from Oak tree.
3 Game from Futuremark Newer
Futuremark not only succeeded in creating synthetic benchmark application that is widely used computer enthusiast, but also prepare 3 types of games that still look attractive.
Although there has been no official confirmation from Futuremark, but will but from the video released on YouTube can be concluded that they prepare a 3 game with a different kind.
Quoted from icontic on Monday (5/30/2011), the first game on the video showing an alien invasion, but in a battle that is not difficult. While the second game expected a familiar puzzle for children.
Now the third game looked more attractive than the two other leaks. There appears a space battle complete with a cool fighter. More interesting again, that last game will likely use the same graphical quality with 3DMark Vantage.
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Albert Einstein
"I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world."
German Theoretical Physicist
1879 - 1955
Unfortunately, most schools are focused on increasing the knowledge of their students, not their imagination. And while knowledge is important, imagination is even more important. There is a limit to how much knowledge we can gain and retain. The span and accuracy of knowledge is constantly changing and expanding. What is considered truth today is considered foolish tomorrow. Once people believed the earth was flat. We would be much better off if our schools also encouraged imagination.
And the same can be said about creative leaders. Many artists, writers, actors and musicians study to increase their knowledge of their art. And this knowledge is good but limited. We need to be encouraging our imaginations. We should be exploring the worlds of our imaginations. What are you doing to increase your imagination?