NEW YEAR

HAPPY NEW YEAR

HAPPY 2012 ....... ALL THE BEST FOR YOU .......

Yeah!

In times of crisis, people invent new trends of art. In this case smile please! Good way of wishing the best!

Where was taken this photo? Somebody knows the Palace?............. :)

The Person of the Year

Each year Time Magazine publishes an issue that features and profiles a person, group, idea, place, or machine that has done the most to influence the events of the year. This year the magazine has chosen The Protester.

 But it was not fair play and a petition is on the way to claim against unfairness.  

  This has been the most popular so far (4213 votes)

           Which one would you have chosen and why?
                      

Happy 24th birthday, Mr. Manning

Bradley Manney is the United States Army soldier who was arrested in May 2010 in Iraq on suspicion of having passed restricted material to the website WikiLeaks.

Behind this aseptical definition, and bearing in mind the risk of being biased,  should be recognised the responsability, risk an ethical behaviour in a days those have became unfashionable characteristics.

In November 2009,  the Apache helicopter video entitled "colateral damage" was given to Wikileaks. The video shows an attack from an US helicopter to a group disarmed irak civils, and was an evidence of how was managing the war, of perhaps how are manage wars.

But how a 23 year-olded soldier become the most important telltale since Vietnam war? As he said:

The turning point came when he watched a group of detenies he had been told to investigate been taken by Iraki federal police, almost suddenly to be tortured.

"I was actively involved in something that i was completely against"



Daniel Ellsberg, the soldier who leaks Vietnam papers in 1969 talks about his experience:

In my case, it was when finally, when I looked at the origins of the world, there were no legitimal basis to killing vietnames, I began to see all killing as murders, and murders seem to me something that had to be stopped even if it could me imprision to do it.
Bradley Manning has shown his wllness to give his life, his freedom for his country, and you can't be more patriotic than that.


 He has been imprisoned and cassified as a "maximum custody detainee". He has been supported by international-amnesty and Human Right Watch, that have accused army of torture. According to some close frineds, he was allowed to kkep one book in his cell, requesting Immanuel Kant's Critique of Pure Reason.

Nowadays Bradley Manning is being judged by 22 charges, including "aiding the enemy", a capital offense.

Manning was one of 241 candidates listed for the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize.

Merry Christmas Queens

 The Best Queens!!!!!!!!!!

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  The Best Queens wish you .....

With all our best wishes for Christmas and New Year ....

MERRY CHRISTMAS AND HAPPY NEW YEAR ................

Happy 104 birthday, Mr Niemeyer

Naif but moving picture made by "I support Niemeyer" association inviting Aviles people to participate in a demostration to celebrate his 104 birthday.

Despite the conflict between institutions, people involved in the demonstration have focused into the
person, and the birthday, more than in other issues.

Candles, sparklers and mobil phone lights have been shining meanwhile the "happy birthday song" was sung in Spanish and in Portuguese. Inside the square of the museum, a moving film shooted last sunday has been showed, and it has been sent to brazilian media, containing other supporting acts related on the center. The act was ended with a crowded clapping.

The trasatlantic answer!

O Globo brazilian newspaper, in the internet edicion, includes a headline about the Aviles performance:
"Asturians festejan as 104 anos de Niemeyer"

Is sad to read the entire article:

Inaugurado em março deste ano, o Centro Internacional Oscar Niemeyer deixou, hoje, de se chamar assim, e voltará a abrir suas portas, segundo seus novos administradores (o Governo regional) no primeiro trimestre de 2012, com uma proposta bem diferente já que o Governo do Principado de Asturias se mostrou avesso, em diferentes ocasiões, à programação do centro, que chamou de “cultura de tapete vermelho”.


A Administração Regional chegou a criticar o trabalho de personalidades como Julian Schnabel, Jessica Lange e Carlos Saura, cuja obra foi considerada “uma vergonha” pelo diretor de Ação Cultural do Principado, Francisco Crabiffosse. A exposição “Luz”, do famoso cineasta espanhol, foi vista por 40 mil pessoas e arrecadou (7 euros cada entrada) 280 mil euros.

Um dos nomes cogitados para a reabertura do centro cultural é o artista asturiano Amado González Hevia “Favila”. O pintor e escultor foi o número quatro na lista eleitoral, à Câmara dos Deputados, do conservador Foro Asturias, partido fundado por Francisco Álvarez-Cascos, presidente do Principado de Asturias, administrador, a partir de hoje, do centro cultural que funcionará dentro do edifício de Oscar Niemeyer.




This is an sculpture made by "Favila", the artist who is the number 4 in Foro Asturias Alvarez-Cascos party:

And those are Ricardo III theater reports, which was played in the center:

http://www.elcomercio.es/v/20110928/aviles/ricardo-listo-para-reinar-20110928.html

El público agotó en seis horas 3.000 entradas puestas a la venta.

http://www.elcomercio.es/v/20110929/aviles/aviles-vibra-ricardo-kevin-20110929.html

El actor, y también sus compañeros, le arrancaron al público cinco minutos de aplausos cuando se bajó el telón, y de hecho tuvieron que salir a saludar hasta en tres ocasiones porque el público se había quedado con ganas de mucho más.

http://www.elcomercio.es/v/20110929/aviles/ventana-cultural-mundo-20110929.html

Serrat se mostró muy ilusionado por poder acudir al estreno «de una representación fantástica» y recalcó la importancia de «tener esta oportunidad única de ver la propuesta de 'Ricardo III' por parte del Old Vic de Londres

TIME

TIME December cover : The man of the year: THE PROTESTERS.

Who are they?, where do they come from?... USA, Mexico, Spain, Greece, Egypt..., an international movement that has springing up the Atlantinc and could move to Pacific:  today has been published similar movement in the isolated Republic of China, where the 20.000 citizens city of Wukan has rebeled against the landowners and comunist party representant, in order to mantain their lands.


http://www.rtve.es/noticias/20111215/pequeno-pueblo-chino-wukan-se-rebela-contra-regimen-comunista/482197.shtml



It's surprising how not only companys have been enjoying the privileges of globalization. Nowadays, with the aim of technology, civil society can also play a global role with no borders supported by state laws.

If I only had studied Maths harder!!

The sustainable growth rate according to Robert C. Higgins is the maximum growth rate a company can achieve consistent with the firm`s established financial policy. Basically, it is calculated as:

SGR = (pm*(1-d)*(1+L)) / (T-(pm*(1-d)*(1+L)))

But there is here, in the next video, a hippie that want to change your mind...


The City overshadowing the city

The City of London deals with dark business overshadowing the real economy in Britain (2.5M unemployed population).

But not only its lack of transparency must worry us. Its aesthetic ugliness is a "lack of respect"-Unesco said-to the World Heritage Tower of London..

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/london/6072580.stm

La gran regresión

http://www.monde-diplomatique.es/?url=editorial/0000856412872168186811102294251000/editorial/?articulo=1f197f01-9a45-4451-81b0-4ffe3a916e07

OMG!! LEA's home!!

The Royal Xixón LEA's palace has been found.

Close to the seaside.

Surrounding by an amazing environment.

Completely outward-facing apartment.

Pink Painted...

LEA's HOME...

Iron and Steel Industry

Mining