’Kill Every Buffalo You Can! Every Buffalo Dead Is an Indian Gone’ - The Atlantic
▻https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2016/05/the-buffalo-killers/482349
Herds became harder to find. In some prairies, they’d completely vanished. The buffalo runners sent two men to Fort Dodge, Kansas, to ask the colonel there what the penalty was if the skinners crossed into the Texas Panhandle and onto reservation land. The Medicine Lodge Treaty said no white settlers could hunt there, but that’s where the remaining buffalo had gathered. Lieutenant Colonel Richard Dodge met with the two men, and one remembered the colonel say, “Boys, if I were a buffalo hunter I would hunt buffalo where buffalo are.” Then the colonel wished them good luck.
In the next decade, the hide hunters exterminated nearly every buffalo. Colonel Dodge would later write that “where there were myriads of buffalo the year before, there were now myriads of carcasses. The air was foul with a sickening stench, and the vast plain which only a short twelve months before teemed with animal life, was a dead, solitary desert.”
]]>P.R.O.U.G. #60
▻http://www.radiopanik.org/emissions/p-r-o-u-g-/p-r-o-u-g-60
➢ #buffalo_beats_festival - Chapter 2 | LGNE
➢ #neuronod
➢ #zeridium
#Proug #full_on #les_gros_nazes_évolution #psygressive #meelk #Proug,full_on,les_gros_nazes_évolution,psygressive,buffalo_beats_festival,zeridium,meelk,neuronod
▻http://www.radiopanik.org/media/sounds/p-r-o-u-g-/p-r-o-u-g-60_06714__1.mp3
Encore une compilation de musique politiquement engagée, un coffret de 4 CDs même, prévu pour février 2019, produit par le Smithonian Institute:
The Social Power of Music
▻https://folkways.si.edu/the-social-power-of-music
From parties to protests to prayer, music is a powerful catalyst for celebration, for change, and for a sense of community. Through making music together, we become bigger than ourselves. Whether singing with our families and friends or with thousands of strangers in an arena, music transforms lives, engages individuals, and connects local and global communities. The Social Power of Music chronicles the vivid, impassioned, and myriad ways in which music binds, incites, memorializes, and moves groups of people. This richly illustrated 124-page book, with 80+ tracks on 4 CDs, invites listeners into musical practices, episodes, and movements throughout the U.S. and beyond. These songs of struggle, devotion, celebration, and migration remind us that music has the potential to change our world.
Countries: Algeria; Angola; Argentina; Brazil; Chile; Congo-Brazzaville; Denmark; Dominican Republic; France; Greece; Indonesia; Italy; Korea, South; Lebanon; Mexico; Nicaragua; Poland; Puerto Rico; Republic of Kosovo; Scotland; South Africa; Thailand; Turkey; United Kingdom; United States; Vietnam
101 We Shall Overcome The Freedom Singers 2:09
102 This Land is Your Land Woody Guthrie 2:48
103 De colores ([Made] of Colors) Baldemar Velásquez, Aguila Negra 3:02
104 Union Maid Bobbie McGee 2:13
105 If I Had a Hammer Pete Seeger 1:54
106 Reclaim the Night Peggy Seeger 4:33
107 Estoy aquí (I Am Here) Quetzal 5:21
108 Deportees (Plane Wreck at Los Gatos) Sammy Walker 4:57
109 We Are the Children Chris Kando Iijima, Joanne Nobuko Miyamoto, Charlie Chin 2:55
110 I Woke Up This Morning Fannie Lou Hamer 2:36
111 I Feel Like I’m Fixin’ to Die Country Joe McDonald 2:59
112 El pobre sigue sufriendo (The Poor Keep On Suffering) Andrés Jiménez 3:26
113 Ballad of the ERA Kristin Lems 4:11
114 Where Have All the Flowers Gone? Pete Seeger 2:06
115 Blowing in the Wind The New World Singers 2:32
116 Quihubo raza (What’s Happening, People) Agustín Lira and Alma 3:50
117 Solidarity Forever Jim Jackson 2:30
118 Joe Hill Paul Robeson 3:00
119 Joaquin Murrieta Rumel Fuentes 3:35
120 Which Side Are You On? The Almanac Singers 2:10
121 Legal/Illegal Ewan MacColl, Peggy Seeger 4:12
122 It Isn’t Nice Barbara Dane, The Chambers Brothers 4:05
201 Amazing Grace The Old Regular Baptists 2:44
202 Come By Here Barbara Dane, The Chambers Brothers 5:33
203 Will the Circle Be Unbroken The Strange Creek Singers 3:38
204 Peace in the Valley The Paramount Singers 3:50
205 Many Eagle Set Sun Dance Song The Pembina Chippewa Singers 2:11
206 Zuni Rain Dance Members of Zuni Pueblo 4:41
207 Calvary Shape-note singers at Stewart’s Chapel 1:27
208 Northfield The Old Harp Singers of Eastern Tennessee 1:58
209 The Call to Prayer / Adhān Ahmad Al Alawi 2:10
210 Zikr (excerpt) Sheikh Xhemail Shehu, members of the Prizren Rifa’i tekke 2:45
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211 Buddhist Chants and Prayers Tu Huyen, Hai Phat, Tam Thu, Hai Dat 4:34
212 Kol Nidre Cantor Abraham Brun 5:05
213 Dayeinu Raasche, Alan Mills 1:47
214 Night Chant Sandoval Begay 2:12
215 Hark, Hark Carolers from the Black Bull, Ecclesfield, UK 3:11
216 Swing Low, Sweet Chariot The Princely Players 2:47
217 The Old Rugged Cross The Paschall Brothers 5:17
218 Madre de Dolores (Mother of Sorrows) Hermanos de la Morada de Nuestra Señora de Dolores del Alto 2:56
219 San Miguel (Saint Michael) Francia Reyes 4:11
220 I’ll Fly Away Rose Maddox 2:32
301 Party Down at the Blue Angel Club Clifton Chenier and His Red Hot Louisiana Band 4:51
302 San Antonio Rose Los Reyes de Albuquerque 2:38
303 Jolie blonde (Pretty Blonde) Austin Pitre 2:47
304 Shake Your Moneymaker John Littlejohn 4:19
305 Beer-Drinking Polka Flaco Jiménez, Max Baca 2:25
306 In Heaven There Is No Beer The Goose Island Ramblers 2:32
307 SAM (Get Down) Sam Brothers Five 4:10
308 Golden Slippers / The Butterfly Whirl Lester Bradley and Friends 4:31
309 Sligo Indians / Paddy Clancy’s / Larry Redican’s / The Rambling Pitchfork Tony DeMarco 4:21
310 La entrega de los novios (The Delivery of the Newlyweds) Lorenzo Martínez 3:46
311 Rock Dance Song (Cree/Metis) The Pembina Chippewa Singers 2:20
312 Pow Wow Song Chippewa Nation 2:52
313 Mary Mack Lilly’s Chapel School, Alabama 1:58
314 Johnny Cuckoo Janie Hunter and children at home 1:15
315 Rooster Call John Henry Mealing and group 4:00
316 Joy to the World Elizabeth Mitchell 3:06
317 Oylupnuv Obrutch (The Broken Hoop Song) The Golden Gate Gypsy Orchestra 2:01
318 Liberty Funeral March The Liberty Brass Band 4:51
319 Junkanoos #1 Key West Junkanoo Band 3:07
320 The Star Spangled Banner Unknown orchestra 1:16
321 Mardi Gras Medley (excerpt) ReBirth Jazz Band 4:33
401 Viva la Quince Brigada (Long Live the 15th Brigade) Pete Seeger 3:04
402 Bella ciao (Goodbye Beautiful) Singers of the “Bella Ciao” production of Spoleto 1:35
403 A desalambrar (Tear Down the Fences) Expresión Joven 5:07
404 Muato mua N’Gola (Women of Angola) Lilly Tchiumba 2:34
405 Un gigante que despierta (An Awakening Giant) Luis Godoy, Grupo Mancotal 4:03
406 Hasret (Longing) Melike Demirag 3:10
407 Prisioneros somos (We Are All Prisoners) Suni Paz 2:19
408 Funeral do lavrador (Funeral of a Worker) Zelia Barbosa 1:59
409 Izakunyatheli Afrika Verwoerd (Africa is Going to Trample on You, Verwoerd) South African refugees in Tanganyika 1:52
410 The Boy with the Sunlit Smile Mikis Theodorakis 2:48
411 Hidup di Bui (Life in Jail) Gambang Kromong Slendang Betawi, Kwi Ap 5:34
412 Man and Buffalo (Kon Gap Kwai) Caravan 3:40
413 Why Need We Cry? Cantor Abraham Brun 2:32
414 El palomo (The Dove) Grupo Raíz 4:06
415 Hvem sidder dér bag skærmen (The Roadmaker) Inger Nielsen 3:08
416 Mon’ etu ua Kassule Musician supporters of the MPLA 5:35
417 Le temps des cerises (Cherry Blossom Time) Yves Montand 4:37
418 Chongsun Arirang Singer from Central Korea 4:03
419 The Passport Marcel Khalifé 9:23
420 Inno della Resistenza (Hymn of the Resistance) Choir of FLN fighters 1:28
Au #Canada, troisième #réserve_pétrolière mondiale, le poison de l’or noir de l’Alberta
▻https://www.lemonde.fr/contaminations-long-format/article/2018/09/06/au-canada-le-poison-de-l-or-noir-de-l-alberta-troisieme-reserve-petroliere-m
#destruction #environnement # #tar_sands #sables_bitumineux #catastrophe #indigeneous
Canada : Le parc national Wood Buffalo, le plus vaste au pays, en déclin Bob Weber - 15 Juillet 2018
▻https://www.ledevoir.com/societe/532487/le-parc-national-wood-buffalo-le-plus-vaste-au-pays-en-declin
Une étude exhaustive du plus vaste parc national au Canada conclut que pratiquement chaque aspect de son environnement se détériore.
Le rapport de 561 pages sur le parc national Wood Buffalo, dans le nord de l’Alberta, signale que l’industrie pétrolière, les barrages hydroélectriques, les changements climatiques et même les cycles naturels sont en train de saigner à blanc le delta des rivières Paix et Athabasca.
L’étude fédérale a été conduite en raison des inquiétudes soulevées à l’égard du statut de patrimoine mondial de l’UNESCO du parc. Alors que le delta dépend de « la réalimentation de ses lacs et bassins », celle-ci est en déclin, peut-on lire dans le rapport qui signale que « sans intervention immédiate », sa valeur patrimoniale sera perdue.
Sur les 17 indicateurs de santé environnementale étudiés, 15 sont en déclin.
Fondée sur des décennies de recherches, avec 50 pages de références, l’étude constitue sans doute l’évaluation la plus complète de cette région en aval des plus importants centres de production énergétique et d’un des plus grands barrages hydroélectriques au pays.« Il y a littéralement des centaines d’études différentes en cours par rapport au parc ou aux sables bitumineux ou à Hydro C.-B. », souligne Don Gorber, qui était à la tête de l’initiative d’Environnement Canada.
M. Gorber a découvert que l’eau — ou plutôt son absence — est à la source de la dégradation du parc.
Le débit de la rivière Paix a reculé de 9 % depuis la construction du barrage Bennett en Colombie-Britannique. Celui de la rivière Athabasca a pour sa part chuté de 26 %.
Les embâcles de glace qui inondaient auparavant les milieux humides et les lacs inondés ne se produisent plus. Par conséquent, l’habitat des bisons rétrécit, des espèces envahissantes étouffent la végétation locale et les oiseaux migratoires commencent à éviter des zones où ils faisaient autrefois escale par millions.
Les Autochtones qui se rendent par bateau sur une bonne partie de leur territoire ancestral y ont perdu accès. Les trappeurs qui piégeaient des centaines de rats musqués chaque saison rapportent que ces petits rongeurs friands d’eau sont disparus. D’autres signalent que l’eau stagnante, dépourvue d’oxygène, tue les poissons.
Produits chimiques
Avec des niveaux d’eau plus bas, la concentration de produits chimiques similaires à ceux produits par les sables bitumineux monte en flèche. Les oeufs d’oiseaux présentent des traces de métaux lourds et d’hydrocarbures.
« Mon intention était de déterminer s’il y avait un problème dans le parc et pas de pointer le responsable du doigt », soutient Don Gorber.
Que les incendies de forêt, l’agriculture, les cycles naturels ou l’industrie forestière soient également à blâmer ou pas, « sans aucun doute, il y a quelque chose qui se passe », conclut-il.
#Environnement #destruction #eau #Barrages #rivières #poissons#oiseaux #sables_bitumineux #capitalisme
]]> Pénuries de batteries pour la Model 3 de Tesla 28 Juin 2018 - L’Essentiel
▻http://www.lessentiel.lu/fr/economie/story/27098663
L’accélération de la cadence de production de la Model 3 de Tesla, après plusieurs mois de retards, a entraîné une pénurie temporaire de batteries.
Le PDG de Tesla Elon Musk a fait savoir début juin qu’il était confiant dans la capacité du groupe à produire 5 000 berlines Model 3 d’ici la fin du mois, ce qui a été accueilli avec scepticisme par certains analystes à Wall Street. Yoshio Ito, responsable la division automobile de Panasonic, a déclaré jeudi lors de l’assemblée générale du groupe japonais qu’il y avait eu une « forte amélioration de la production », entraînant des pénuries occasionnelles de batteries.Panasonic, qui dispose d’un site de production de batteries au Japon et qui exploite avec Tesla l’usine Gigafactory dans l’état du Nevada, est le fournisseur exclusif des cellules de batteries pour les modèles de voitures en cours de production. Le groupe japonais a également une usine en commun avec Tesla pour produire des cellules et des modules solaires à Buffalo, dans l’État de New York.
Les batteries sont au cœur du plan de Panasonic visant à un quasi-doublement des revenus de son activité automobile à 2 500 milliards de yens (19,6ámilliards d’euros) d’ici mars 2022, contre 1 800 milliards attendus pour l’exercice en cours. Selon les analystes, le partenariat entre le groupe japonais et le constructeur américain n’est toutefois pas sans risque, comme en témoignent les retards de production de la Model 3 ou encore les accidents de route mettant en cause des Tesla.
Batteries à l’état solide pas prêtes
Tesla a en outre annoncé le 12 juin son intention de supprimer des milliers d’emplois à travers le groupe, soit environ 9% de ses effectifs, afin de réduire les coûts et d’améliorer sa rentabilité sans mettre en danger la montée en puissance de la production de sa berline Model 3.
Les retards de la Model 3 ont conduit Panasonic à abaisser en février les perspectives de son pôle batteries. « Je ne dirais pas que le retard (dans la production de la Model 3 de Tesla) n’a eu aucun impact sur nos activités mais nous sommes en étroite communication avec Tesla et travaillons à améliorer constamment la production », a déclaré Yoshio Ito.
Soucieux de réduire sa dépendance vis-à-vis de Tesla, Panasonic s’est récemment associé à Toyota Motor pour développer et fournir des batteries de véhicules électriques. Le directeur général de Panasonic, Kazuhiro Tsuga, a déclaré lors de l’AG que les batteries à l’état solide, considérées comme plus stables, ne devraient pas arriver sur le marché automobile avant un moment, même si le groupe reste engagé dans le développement de cette batterie de nouvelle génération.
« Nous pensons que nous pouvons continuer à améliorer les performances des batteries lithium-ion actuelles au moins jusqu’en 2025 », a-t-il ajouté. « La commercialisation des batteries à l’état solide viendrait après ces progrès ». Le constructeur automobile japonais Toyota entend commercialiser des véhicules équipés de batteries à l’état solide d’ici le début des années 2020.
#tesla #Panasonic #transport #voiture #mobilité #automobile #robotisation #innovation #batteries #électricité #bricolos #elon_musk #pénuries
]]>Face Recognition Is Now Being Used in Schools, but It Won’t Stop Mass Shootings
▻https://theintercept.com/2018/05/30/face-recognition-schools-school-shootings
Officials at the Lockport, New York, school district have purchased face recognition technology as part of a purported effort to prevent school shootings. Starting in September, all 10 of Lockport District’s school buildings, just north of Buffalo, will be outfitted with a surveillance system that can identify faces and objects. The software, known as Aegis, was developed by SN Technologies Corp., a Canadian biometrics firm that specifically advertises to schools. It can be used to alert (...)
#algorithme #CCTV #biométrie #étudiants #surveillance #facial #vidéo-surveillance #Aegis
]]>Cuomo Promises a Dunkirk-Style Citizens’ Fleet to Block Drilling - Bloomberg
▻https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-05-04/cuomo-promises-a-dunkirk-style-citizens-fleet-to-block-drilling
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo vowed to enlist a “citizens fleet” of leisure boats and fishing vessels to block any attempt to construct oil-drilling facilities off the state’s shores, as part of a broad attack on President Donald Trump’s environmental and energy policies.
“I’m going to commission a citizen fleet to stop it just as Winston Churchill did at Dunkirk,” Cuomo said, invoking the former British prime minister’s call for a seaborne operation of fishing boats and leisure vessels to rescue evacuating soldiers from the French shore line. He called Trump’s decision to permit offshore drilling “an unacceptable risk.”
“The only way you stop a bully is by standing up and putting your finger in his or her chest,” Cuomo, 60, said during a campaign-style speech in Lower Manhattan’s Battery Park.
The governor, who’s seeking a third term and faces a Democratic primary challenge from self-described progressive and actress Cynthia Nixon, has also been mentioned as a potential 2020 White House candidate. He used the speech to deliver a broader attack against Trump and the Republican Party’s economic, environmental and social policies.
“They’ve attacked a woman’s right to choose; they’ve attacked immigration policy; they’re against diversity; they’re against the LGBT community; they’re against individual rights,” Cuomo said. “They’re against everything we hold dear.”
Cuomo touted a state-subsidized solar-panel manufacturing plant in Buffalo, which he said would be the largest in the U.S., as an example of economic-development measures to support renewable energy. He mocked Trump’s promises to return to the country’s dependence on coal and fossil fuels.
“We’re going to go back to fossil fuels, we’re going back to coal, we’re going to set up big manufacturing plants again,” Cuomo said. “You don’t politically assuage people’s anxiety by saying ‘don’t worry, I’m bringing back the old days, when you worked in the steel plant and you worked in the aluminum plant.’ The old days are gone; that’s why they’re the old days.”
The Trump administration policy, which would open 90 percent of U.S. offshore oil reserves to private development, has attracted bipartisan opposition from most of the governors of the 22 coastal states it would affect.
]]>Un père horrible - le fils de Hunter S. Thompson raconte
▻https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKxgSqS8ep8
Who Was Hunter S. Thompson? His Private Life - Biography (2016)
Hunter Stockton Thompson (July 18, 1937 – February 20, 2005) was an American journalist and author, and the founder of the gonzo journalism movement.
Hunter Stockton Thompson (July 18, 1937 – February 20, 2005) was an American journalist and author, and the founder of the gonzo journalism movement. About the book: ▻https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/030... The film Where the Buffalo Roam (1980) depicts heavily fictionalized attempts by Thompson to cover the Super Bowl and the 1972 U.S. presidential election. It stars Bill Murray as Thompson and Peter Boyle as Thompson’s attorney Oscar Zeta Acosta, referred to in the movie as Carl Lazlo, Esq. The 1998 film adaptation of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas was directed by Monty Python veteran Terry Gilliam, and starred Johnny Depp (who moved into Thompson’s basement to “study” Thompson’s persona before assuming his role in the film) as Raoul Duke and Benicio del Toro as Dr. Gonzo. The film has achieved something of a cult following. The film adaptation of Thompson’s novel The Rum Diary was released in October 2011, also starring Johnny Depp as the main character, Paul Kemp. The novel’s premise was inspired by Thompson’s own experiences in Puerto Rico. The film was written and directed by Bruce Robinson.[77] At a press junket for The Rum Diary shortly before the film’s release, Depp said that he would like to adapt The Curse of Lono, “The Kentucky Derby Is Decadent and Depraved”, and Hell’s Angels for the big screen: “I’d just keep playing Hunter. There’s a great comfort in it for me, because I get a great visit with my old friend who I miss dearly.”[78] Fear and Loathing in Gonzovision (1978) is an extended television profile by the BBC. It can be found on disc 2 of The Criterion Collection edition of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. The Mitchell brothers, owners of the O’Farrell Theatre in San Francisco, made a documentary about Thompson in 1988 called Hunter S. Thompson: The Crazy Never Die. Wayne Ewing created three documentaries about Thompson. The film Breakfast with Hunter (2003) was directed and edited by Ewing. It documents Thompson’s work on the movie Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, his arrest for drunk driving, and his subsequent fight with the court system. When I Die (2005) is a video chronicle of making Thompson’s final farewell wishes a reality, and documents the send-off itself. Free Lisl: Fear and Loathing in Denver (2006) chronicles Thompson’s efforts in helping to free Lisl Auman, who was sentenced to life in prison without parole for the shooting of a police officer, a crime she didn’t commit. All three films are only available online.[79] In Come on Down: Searching for the American Dream[80] (2004) Thompson gives director Adamm Liley insight into the nature of the American Dream over drinks at the Woody Creek Tavern. Buy the Ticket, Take the Ride: Hunter S. Thompson on Film (2006) was directed by Tom Thurman, written by Tom Marksbury, and produced by the Starz Entertainment Group. The original documentary features interviews with Thompson’s inner circle of family and friends, but the thrust of the film focuses on the manner in which his life often overlapped with numerous Hollywood celebrities who became his close friends, such as Johnny Depp, Benicio del Toro, Bill Murray, Sean Penn, John Cusack, Thompson’s wife Anita, son Juan, former Senators George McGovern and Gary Hart, writers Tom Wolfe and William F. Buckley, actors Gary Busey and Harry Dean Stanton, and the illustrator Ralph Steadman among others. Blasted!!! The Gonzo Patriots of Hunter S. Thompson (2006), produced, directed, photographed and edited by Blue Kraning, is a documentary about the scores of fans who volunteered their privately owned artillery to fire the ashes of the late author, Hunter S. Thompson. Blasted!!! premiered at the 2006 Starz Denver International Film Festival, part of a tribute series to Hunter S. Thompson held at the Denver Press Club. In 2008, Academy Award-winning documentarian Alex Gibney (Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room, Taxi to the Dark Side) wrote and directed a documentary on Thompson, titled Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson. The film premiered on January 20, 2008, at the Sundance Film Festival. Gibney uses intimate, never-before-seen home videos, interviews with friends, enemies and lovers, and clips from films adapted from Thompson’s material to document his turbulent life.
]]>USS Little Rock: Navy’s new $440 million warship still stuck in ice in Canada - The Washington Post
▻https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/checkpoint/wp/2018/01/22/the-navy-built-a-fast-agile-warship-for-440m-its-been-stuck-in-ice-s
The commissioning of the USS Little Rock was held in Buffalo last month, on a day so cold that people’s breath billowed through the air as they spoke.
Partway through the ceremony, snow began falling — sideways — on the thousands of attendees.
It might have been a sign.
[…]
Because of bad weather, the USS Little Rock’s departure from Buffalo had been pushed back after its Dec. 16 commissioning, and it was further delayed during a routine port visit in Montreal, she said.
“Significant weather conditions prevented the ship from departing Montreal earlier this month and icy conditions continue to intensify,” Lt. Cmdr. Courtney Hillson said in a statement.
Lancé à Buffalo, sur le lac Érié, bloqué par les glaces sur le Saint-Laurent…
]]>Nearly 4,000 US communities have higher rates of lead poisoning than Flint - World Socialist Web Site
▻https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2017/11/16/lead-n16.html
Nearly 4,000 US communities have higher rates of lead poisoning than #Flint
By Jerry White
16 November 2017
In an updated study, Reuters news agency has identified 3,810 neighborhoods where recently recorded child lead poisoning rates are at least double those found in Flint, Michigan during the height of that city’s water crisis in 2014 and 2015. In some 1,300 of these “hotspot” communities, the percentage of children six and under with elevated lead levels was at least four times the percentage in Flint during the peak of the crisis.
In pockets of Baltimore, Cleveland and Philadelphia, where lead poisoning has spanned generations, Reuters reported that the rate of elevated tests over the last decade was 50 percent or higher. An interactive map released with the study shows one census tract in Buffalo, New York—a former steel and auto center that, like Flint, has suffered decades of deindustrialization—where 68 percent of the children had high levels of lead.
#eau #états-unis #Pollution #plomb #flint
]]>Meyer Lansky - Cuba
▻https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meyer_Lansky
After World War II, Luciano was paroled from prison on the condition that he permanently return to Sicily. However, Luciano secretly moved to Cuba, where he worked to resume control over American Mafia operations. Luciano also ran a number of casinos in Cuba with the sanction of Cuban president General Fulgencio Batista, though the US government succeeded in pressuring the Batista regime to deport Luciano.
Batista’s closest friend in the Mafia was Lansky. They formed a renowned friendship and business relationship that lasted for a decade. During a stay at the Waldorf-Astoria in New York in the late 1940s, it was mutually agreed upon that, in exchange for kickbacks, Batista would offer Lansky and the Mafia control of Havana’s racetracks and casinos. Batista would open Havana to large scale gambling, and his government would match, dollar for dollar, any hotel investment over $1 million, which would include a casino license. Lansky would place himself at the center of Cuba’s gambling operations. He immediately called on his associates to hold a summit in Havana.
The Havana Conference was held on December 22, 1946, at the Hotel Nacional. This was the first full-scale meeting of American underworld leaders since the Chicago meeting in 1932. Present were such figures as Joe Adonis and Albert “The Mad Hatter” Anastasia, Frank Costello, Joseph “Joe Bananas” Bonanno, Vito Genovese, Moe Dalitz, Thomas Luchese, from New York, Santo Trafficante Jr. from Tampa, Carlos Marcello from New Orleans, and Stefano Magaddino, Joe Bonanno’s cousin from Buffalo. From Chicago there were Anthony Accardo and the Fischetti brothers, “Trigger-Happy” Charlie and Rocco, and, representing the Jewish interest, Lansky, Dalitz and “Dandy” Phil Kastel from Florida. The first to arrive was Lucky Luciano, who had been deported to Italy, and had to travel to Havana with a false passport. Lansky shared with them his vision of a new Havana, profitable for those willing to invest the right sum of money. According to Luciano’s evidence, and he is the only one who ever recounted the events in any detail, he confirmed that he was appointed as kingpin for the mob, to rule from Cuba until such time as he could find a legitimate way back into the U.S. Entertainment at the conference was provided by, among others, Frank Sinatra who flew down to Cuba with his friends, the Fischetti brothers.
In 1952, Lansky even offered then President Carlos Prío Socarrás a bribe of U.S. $250,000 to step down so Batista could return to power. Once Batista retook control of the government in a military coup in March, 1952 he quickly put gambling back on track. The dictator contacted Lansky and offered him an annual salary of U.S. $25,000 to serve as an unofficial gambling minister. By 1955, Batista had changed the gambling laws once again, granting a gaming license to anyone who invested $1 million in a hotel or U.S. $200,000 in a new nightclub. Unlike the procedure for acquiring gaming licenses in Vegas, this provision exempted venture capitalists from background checks. As long as they made the required investment, they were provided with public matching funds for construction, a 10-year tax exemption and duty-free importation of equipment and furnishings. The government would get U.S. $250,000 for the license plus a percentage of the profits from each casino. Cuba’s 10,000 slot machines, even the ones that dispensed small prizes for children at country fairs, were to be the province of Batista’s brother-in-law, Roberto Fernandez y Miranda. An Army general and government sports director, Fernandez was also given the parking meters in Havana as a little something extra. Import duties were waived on materials for hotel construction and Cuban contractors with the right “in” made windfalls by importing much more than was needed and selling the surplus to others for hefty profits. It was rumored that besides the U.S. $250,000 to get a license, sometimes more was required under the table. Periodic payoffs were requested and received by corrupt politicians.
Lansky set about reforming the Montmartre Club, which soon became the “in” place in Havana. He also long expressed an interest in putting a casino in the elegant Hotel Nacional, which overlooked El Morro, the ancient fortress guarding Havana harbor. Lansky planned to take a wing of the 10-story hotel and create luxury suites for high-stakes players. Batista endorsed Lansky’s idea over the objections of American expatriates such as Ernest Hemingway and the elegant hotel opened for business in 1955 with a show by Eartha Kitt. The casino was an immediate success.[18]
Once all the new hotels, nightclubs and casinos had been built Batista wasted no time collecting his share of the profits. Nightly, the “bagman” for his wife collected 10 percent of the profits at Trafficante’s interests; the Sans Souci cabaret, and the casinos in the hotels Sevilla-Biltmore, Commodoro, Deauville and Capri (part-owned by the actor George Raft). His take from the Lansky casinos, his prized Habana Riviera, the Nacional, the Montmartre Club and others, was said to be 30 percent. What exactly Batista and his cronies actually received in total in the way of bribes, payoffs and profiteering has never been certified. The slot machines alone contributed approximately U.S. $1 million to the regime’s bank account.
Revolution
The 1959 Cuban revolution and the rise of Fidel Castro changed the climate for mob investment in Cuba. On that New Year’s Eve of 1958, while Batista was preparing to flee to the Dominican Republic and then on to Spain (where he died in exile in 1973), Lansky was celebrating the $3 million he made in the first year of operations at his 440-room, $18 million palace, the Habana Riviera. Many of the casinos, including several of Lansky’s, were looted and destroyed that night.
On January 8, 1959, Castro marched into Havana and took over, setting up shop in the Hilton. Lansky had fled the day before for the Bahamas and other Caribbean destinations. The new Cuban president, Manuel Urrutia Lleó, took steps to close the casinos.
In October 1960, Castro nationalized the island’s hotel-casinos and outlawed gambling. This action essentially wiped out Lansky’s asset base and revenue streams. He lost an estimated $7 million. With the additional crackdown on casinos in Miami, Lansky was forced to depend on his Las Vegas revenues.
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When asked in his later years what went wrong in Cuba, the gangster offered no excuses. “I crapped out,” he said. Lansky even went as far as to tell people he had lost almost every penny in Cuba and that he was barely scraping by.
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Since the warming of relations between the United States and Cuba in 2015, Lansky’s grandson, Gary Rapoport, has been asking the Cuban government to compensate him for the confiscation of the Riviera hotel that his grandfather built in Havana.
]]>Amazon wants to hire you, and 49,999 others, to pack stuff - CNET
▻https://www.cnet.com/news/amazon-wants-to-hire-you-and-49999-others-to-ship-stuff
Want to work for Amazon? If you’re down to sling packing tape and stuff plastic air bladders into boxes, the company has a job for you.
In what it’s calling “the nation’s largest job fair,” Amazon will gear up 10 of its huge warehouses nationwide to lure potential employees. It starts at 8 a.m. sharp on August 2, aka “Boxing Day.”
▻https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-d3DKy-ahdg
And if that’s not enough to get you to show up on Job Day, there’s always the lure of working alongside really fast robots.
]]>Modi’s Strongman Economics - The New York Times
▻https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/09/opinion/narendra-modi-india-strongman.html
Especially worrying are the consequences of Mr. Modi’s political character. For all his strongman economist posturing, he never repudiates his longstanding Hindu nationalist views. Members of religious minorities fear growing intolerance. Mob violence has increased. Mr. Modi, a lively Twitter commentator, remains quiet for too long and does little to stop the violence.
Sectarian strife and instability, a worry in itself, also matters for the economy. Who wants to invest if arbitrary political decisions can threaten whole industries? Crackdowns on alcohol sales in much of India badly hurt the tourism industry. Attacks on the trade in cow and buffalo meat threaten an industry that creates jobs for many and that last year earned India much-needed exports worth $4 billion.
India’s tolerant, secular character forms the bedrock on which a strong economy can be built. You need not be a big economist to grasp that it would be crazy to weaken that foundation.
]]>It’s Not Romantic Anymore to Say That Plants Have Brain-like Systems - Facts So Romantic
▻http://nautil.us/blog/its-not-romantic-anymore-to-say-that-plants-have-brain_like-systems
Last week, researchers found, in the dormant seeds of the small rockcress plant Arabidopsis, a “decision-making center” that they believe resembles “some systems within the human brain.”Photograph by NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center / FlickrLast month, when the mayor of New Orleans, Mitch Landrieu, presided over the removal of a statue of Robert E. Lee, he gave a speech that would go viral. In it, he rebuked the South’s long-nurtured tendency—expressed in slogans like, “Heritage, not hate”—to romanticize the Confederacy. “We shouldn’t romanticize Confederate monuments,” read a recent letter to The Buffalo News. “The romantics may say that the average Confederate didn’t own slaves. But like most people, they hoped to be rich, and what did most rich people [in the South] have at that time? Slaves.” (...)
]]>New York City Moves to Require Uber to Provide a Tipping Option in Its App - The New York Times
▻https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/17/nyregion/new-york-city-uber-tipping-app.html
New Yorkers have been able to tip a taxi driver by adding a few dollars to their bill before swiping a credit card for years. But they cannot add a tip when they use the popular ride-hailing app Uber.
Now officials are moving to require Uber to provide a tipping option in the app.
The city’s Taxi and Limousine Commission announced a proposal on Monday requiring car services that accept only credit cards to allow passengers to tip the driver using their card.
“This rule proposal will be an important first step to improve earning potential in the for-hire vehicle industry, but it is just one piece of a more comprehensive effort to improve the economic well-being of drivers,” Meera Joshi, the city’s taxi commissioner, said in a statement.
The decision was prompted by a petition from the Independent Drivers Guild, a group representing Uber drivers in New York. The petition, which collected more than 11,000 signatures, argued that drivers were losing thousands of dollars without an easy tipping option.
Passengers can tip an Uber driver using cash, but there has long been confusion over whether it was expected. Uber’s website says tipping is voluntary and that riders are not obligated to offer a cash tip.
The lack of a tipping option in Uber’s app has been a sore point for drivers. If new rules are approved in New York, it would be a major change in how Uber runs its business in its largest United States market. Other cities could demand to have the same choice.
A spokeswoman for Uber, Alix Anfang, said the company would review the proposal.
“Uber is always striving to offer the best earning opportunity for drivers and we are constantly working to improve the driver experience,” Ms. Anfang said in a statement, noting that the company had worked with the drivers guild to make sure drivers had a voice.
Lyft, Uber’s largest competitor in the United States, has long offered in-app tipping as an option for riders. But Travis Kalanick, Uber’s chief executive, has been one of the largest impediments to adding tipping to the Uber app, according to two people familiar with his thinking who did not want to be identified publicly discussing the company’s internal discussions.
Mr. Kalanick believes the feature — which has already been built, but has yet to be deployed — could add “friction” to the in-app experience, and could potentially make Uber less appealing. It could also bring a sense of guilt to those who do not tip drivers. Some inside the company have lobbied Mr. Kalanick to change his stance, but he has long resisted.
New York’s proposal will be formally introduced by July and requires approval by the taxi commission’s board. Before that vote, drivers and passengers will have a chance to speak on the measure at a public hearing.
In New York, about 16 million passengers used Uber and other ride-hailing services in October, soaring from about 5 million in June 2015, according to a recent study. But Uber has faced a series of scandals over its corporate culture, including allegations of sexual harassment, leading to a backlash among consumers.
In March, Lyft said its drivers had earned more than $200 million in tips nationwide since the company started allowing tips in 2012. Adrian Durbin, a spokesman for Lyft, said its tipping policy was a major reason drivers prefer Lyft over Uber.
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“We’ve always known that offering in-app tipping is the right thing to do, which is why we’ve offered it since our earliest days,” Mr. Durbin said in a statement.
James Conigliaro Jr., the founder of the Independent Drivers Guild, said that allowing drivers to earn tips would help them make a decent living after Uber had in recent years reduced driver rates in New York.
“It has become harder for drivers to make a living wage,” he said. “They have to work much harder and longer hours to earn the same amount of money they did when Uber came on the scene.”
Uber’s reaction to the proposal on Monday was muted compared to the company’s aggressive response when Mayor Bill de Blasio’s administration tried to cap the number of Uber vehicles, suggesting the company might not fight the new rules. After Uber ran an advertising campaign in 2015 attacking the mayor over the cap, Mr. de Blasio ultimately dropped the idea.
This month, Uber won a major victory in Albany when state lawmakers approved new rules allowing Uber and other ride-hailing apps to expand to upstate New York. Uber could begin operating in cities like Buffalo and Syracuse as soon as July.
Some Uber users said the shift to tipping drivers in New York City was long overdue.
“This is something Uber should have been doing from the beginning,” said Hebah Khan, 22, a junior at Barnard College.
But Ms. Khan also wondered if the new tipping policy could turn away people who use Uber’s low-cost car-pooling feature. “They’re looking for a cheap luxury,” she said. “They’re probably not trying to tip.”
Olivia Kenwell, a 25-year-old bartender at Broadway Dive on the Upper West Side, said she usually tips Uber’s drivers if she is the only one in the car during a car-pooling trip.
“As a good-will gesture,” she said. “I might tip 5 dollars on my 2-dollar ride.”
But she admitted she had an ulterior motive as well: a good rating as an Uber passenger.
“I’m obsessed with my Uber rating,” she said. “It’s the only place in the world where you can find out exactly how well you’re liked.”
Mike Isaac and Emily Palmer contributed reporting.
A version of this article appears in print on April 18, 2017, on Page A16 of the New York edition with the headline: Taxi Officials Call on Uber To Provide Tipping in Its App.
]]>Dissection du “coup” washingtonien
▻http://www.dedefensa.org/article/dissection-du-coup-washingtonien
Dissection du “coup” washingtonien
Sans commentaire de réflexion particulière parce qu’il s’agit de documents factuels qui parlent d’eux-mêmes et constituent une documentation exceptionnelle, nous présentons, une véritable “dissection” de la guerre (le “coup) menée contre Trump depuis la fin de la campagne, son élection et son installation à la Maison-Blanche. Il s’agit de deux articles du professeur Michael S. Rozeff, actuellement de l’université de Buffalo, économiste de grande valeur, mais aussi commentateur politique et historien de l’évolution des USA. Rozeff etsde tendance libertarienne, il publie notamment (casde ces deux articles) sur le blog collectif du site de référence LewRockwell.com, réunissant la crème des intellectuels libertariens, notamment les historiens.
(On sait que la tendance (...)
]]>UK urges Kenya to ’restore law and order’ after shooting of British rancher | World news | The Guardian
▻https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/mar/06/hundreds-kenyan-herders-arrested-deadly-ranch-invasions?CMP=twt_a-envir
n January herders swept into the nearby 44,000-acre (17,600-hectare) Suyian ranch, burning thatched huts for tourists.
Elephants, lion, buffalo and zebra have been slaughtered by the herders, who come with tens of thousands of livestock, and black and white landowners alike speak of invasions, fear and siege.
Some officials have blamed the land invasions on a severe drought that has made poor herders desperate, and the UN humanitarian chief has appealed for assistance for herders affected by what Kenya’s government has declared a natural disaster.
Ranchers, however, say the land invasions are politically motivated and part of plans to seize their land. While some point to the drought gripping the country, and a spike in human and livestock populations, others say the forthcoming election in August and long-running land gripes have sparked tensions.
#Kenya #conflit_foncier #parc #safari #pastoralisme #sécheresse
]]>Asylum-seeking Syrian family crosses into Quebec from U.S. in -15C weather
Asylum-seekers crossing through the woods to Quebec surged in recent months, Canada Border Services says
Jean-Michel Baylet Règle Ses Comptes Avec « Jazz In Marciac ». | Le Blog Politique
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La friction prend une toute autre dimension : l’argent. Avant d’être remplacée, l’entreprise de Jean-Michel Baylet gérait la location des emplacements, la sono et la scène. Le business passe à la concurrence.
Pour une source, c’est clair : « Baylet lance une kabbale contre le Festival car il a perdu du business ». Ces propos reviennent en boucle dans la bouche de nombreuses personnes. Ils sont lourds de sens et de conséquences : « un mauvais papier » pour sanctionner une perte de délégation de service public, cela s’appelle en bon français du « trafic d’influence ».
Ce n’est pas la première fois que des élus ou des responsables associatifs se font l’écho de telles « accusations ». Il faut dire que certaines coïncidences sont troublantes. Des communes (Castelsarrasin et Toulouse par exemple) ont coupés leurs budgets publicitaires avec le groupe Baylet. D’un seul coup, les maires de ces villes disparaissent des photos du quotidien régional.
]]>Des résidents inquiets au premier conseil municipal de Wood Buffalo | ICI.Radio-Canada.ca
▻http://ici.radio-canada.ca/regions/alberta/2016/06/15/004-fort-mcmurray-retour-conseil-municipal-wood-buffalo.shtml
Les résidents de la municipalité régionale de Wood Buffalo ont été nombreux à assister à la première réunion du conseil municipal pour faire part de leurs inquiétudes depuis le feu de forêt qui a ravagé Fort McMurray.
Une centaine de résidents ont fait part de leurs préoccupations mardi et demandé des informations aux onze conseillers de Wood Buffalo. « Qui fait quoi, quand et où ? », a questionné un habitant de la ville, Andrew Thorne, interpellant la mairesse Melissa Blake quant à la responsabilité de la ville. « On ne laisse pas une forêt brûler si proche d’une ville, et nous avons fait cela pendant deux jours. J’ai fait confiance à la personne responsable de régler cela. Cela a mis mes enfants et moi en danger », a-t-il ajouté.
Selon Melissa Blake, il n’y avait pourtant aucune indication précisant que le feu se dirigerait vers la ville. « Je comprends que vous souhaitiez des réponses et j’espère que vous les trouverez, mais je peux vous dire, du point de vue que j’en avais, que dans la matinée nous ne savions pas que les vents allaient changer de cette façon si tragique et amener le feu jusqu’à nos portes », a-t-elle répondu. La Ville a fait ce qu’elle pouvait au mieux de sa capacité, selon elle.
fortmcmoney.com fortmcandthebeast.com #fortmcmoney #feu #petrole #sablesbitumineux #climat #pollution #environnement
]]>Fort McMurray city council faces lots of questions from frustrated residents | Edmonton Journal
▻http://edmontonjournal.com/news/local-news/fort-mcmurray-city-council-faces-lots-of-questions-from-frustrated-
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An outpouring of frustration and demands for answers overtook the Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo’s first council meeting to be held in Fort McMurray since the city was evacuated when a destructive wildfire swept through May 3.
#fortmcmoney #feu #petrole #sablesbitumineux #climat #pollution #environnement
]]>Doit-on reconstruire Fort McMurray ? | Le Devoir
▻http://www.ledevoir.com/societe/actualites-en-societe/470933/doit-on-reconstruire-fort-mcmurray
Perdre 10 % de sa ville, « c’est pas mal », nuance Alan March, professeur associé au Département d’urbanisme de l’Université de Melbourne, où les incendies de forêt sont fréquents. « Les villes qui évoluent rapidement changent de 1 % par année, et c’est considéré comme énorme », fait-il remarquer. Selon lui, Fort McMurray doit saisir l’occasion pour se réinventer.
À ce sujet, le plan de restructuration du centre-ville de Fort McMurray, présenté en 2012 par des urbanistes de la municipalité de Wood Buffalo, est éloquent. Davantage de place pour les piétons et les cyclistes, quartiers plus concentrés pour réduire la dépendance à la voiture, recours aux énergies vertes pour limiter les besoins en pétrole : le document de près de 100 pages propose une vision complètement renouvelée de la communauté née de l’industrie des sables bitumineux.
Mais cette industrie laissera-t-elle « sa » ville devenir verte ? « La durée de vie de la ressource, le pétrole, influencera le niveau d’implication des pétrolières », croit Alan March.
]]>Remodeler les esprits après le désastre | Le Devoir
▻http://www.ledevoir.com/societe/actualites-en-societe/470890/remodeler-les-esprits-apres-le-desastre
’autres n’ont cependant pas le choix de miser sur la reconstruction. Ceux qui ont contracté une hypothèque pour l’achat d’une maison, par exemple. Le père de famille John-Paul Mweshi est du lot. Installé dans un hôtel du sud d’Edmonton avec sa femme et ses trois enfants depuis une dizaine de jours, le Congolais d’origine sera de ceux qui reconstruiront la vie normale à Fort McMurray.
Entretemps, toutefois, il a la lourde tâche d’imaginer une solution un peu plus permanente pour trouver une école où ses deux plus vieux pourront terminer l’année scolaire. Il s’inquiète déjà de l’effet psychologique d’un départ aussi brusque pour les enfants. « Nous, les adultes, nous comprenons ce qui se passe. Les enfants, pas nécessairement. C’est la reconstruction émotionnelle qui prendra du temps. »
L’aide psychologique, c’est justement la spécialité d’Angélina Gionet, directrice de l’Association canadienne-française de Wood Buffalo, la municipalité qui inclut Fort McMurray. Elle-même évacuée de la ville alors que sa maison était la proie des flammes, elle s’est réfugiée à Edmonton où elle organise maintenant le soutien psychologique des membres de sa communauté temporairement installés dans la capitale. « À Fort McMurray, nous avons l’habitude d’aider les gens en détresse. En temps normal, nous aidons ceux qui nous arrivent avec rien, qui sont en bas de l’échelle. »
]]>Alors que le gigantesque incendie qui s’est déclaré le 1er mai dans le nord de la province canadienne de l’#Alberta est en perte de vitesse… (re)lire le reportage d’Emmanuel Raoul dans cette région progressivement transformée en un marché du #pétrole sale au profit des multinationales et du voisin américain.
Or noir contre peuples premiers canadiens - Sous les sables bitumineux de l’Alberta (avril 2010)
▻http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/2010/04/RAOUL/18996 #st
Il suffit de rouler 45 kilomètres vers le sud pour découvrir ce qui a remplacé ce mode de vie. Encombrée de pick-up et de poids lourds, l’autoroute 63 mène à Fort McMurray. En pleine forêt boréale, une vitrine du monde occidental : supermarchés et centres commerciaux, fast-foods et magasins d’alcool à chaque coin de rue, casino et bars à strip-teaseuses, drogues à profusion et sans-abri hagards. Longtemps surnommé « l’usine à fourrures », cet ancien village de trappeurs et de bûcherons est devenu « Fort McMoney », les effluves de pétrole évoquant l’odeur de l’argent pour des cohortes de jeunes actifs. Le nombre d’habitants y a triplé depuis le boom des sables bitumineux, passant de 34 000 en 1994 à 101 000 en 2009.
Comment la ville-champignon gère-t-elle sa mutation ? « Pas très bien », reconnaît avec un sourire Mme Melissa Blake. Elue maire en 2004, elle dirige l’une des plus grandes communes du monde, la municipalité régionale de Wood Buffalo : plus de 63 000 kilomètres carrés couverts de forêt, truffés de sites miniers et industriels — quasiment la superficie de l’Irlande. Fort McMurray en est la seule ville. « En termes d’infrastructures, nous n’étions pas préparés à une croissance aussi brutale. » La hausse de la population — 8 % par an — a fait du secteur de l’immobilier le plus cher du pays : une maison de quatre chambres atteint plus de 620 000 dollars. Mieux vaut ne pas tomber malade, car il y a 1,7 médecin pour 10 000 habitants, et un urgentiste peut recevoir jusqu’à 156 patients en douze heures !
« Je déteste cette ville : j’en suis parti sept fois, mais j’y reviens toujours, car il n’y a que là où je puisse gagner autant d’argent », avoue un jeune homme, dans un bar. Cet ouvrier gagne 32 dollars de l’heure, soit quatre fois le salaire minimum de sa province, la Colombie-Britannique. Toutefois, 98 % des habitants de Fort McMurray ne comptent pas y prendre leur retraite ; de ce fait, ils se soucient peu de l’impact de l’industrie pétrolière sur l’environnement ou sur les premières nations.
▻http://zinc.mondediplo.net/messages/25786 via Le Monde diplomatique
]]>Fort McMurray blaze among most ’extreme’ of wildfires: researcher - University of Alberta
▻https://uofa.ualberta.ca/news-and-events/newsarticles/2016/may/fort-mcmurray-blaze-among-most-extreme-of-wildfires
Three ingredients to a wildfire
There are three ingredients to a wildfire, says Flannigan: fuel (trees, grasses, shrubs), ignition (caused by lightning or people) and weather (heat, moisture and wind).
With a sea of boreal forest surrounding the Wood Buffalo region, there’s no shortage of fuel. The cause of the fire is still under investigation, but with no recent lightning activity in the area and the blaze starting in early spring when a lot of fires are caused by humans, Flannigan says it’s likely people were responsible.
In terms of weather, Alberta had a mild, dry winter and spring, likely attributed to El Niño, where warmer than normal temperatures over the Pacific Ocean influence weather elsewhere. A recent El Niño year, 1997–98, was bad for wildfires, Flannigan explains, and so far this year Alberta has had 374 wildfires compared with 173 this time last year (as of May 6).
The day of the evacuation, Fort McMurray saw record temperatures of 32.6 C.
Simply put, the Fort McMurray region had all the ingredients for a raging wildfire.
“Conifers are particularly flammable. The jack pines, the spruces, these burn like stink,” Flannigan says. The heat is so intense some trees are exploding due to superheated gases igniting all at once, like a propane barbecue that’s been left on for a few seconds before igniting, he says.
“It goes ‘womp!’ all at once, and that’s what’s happening to these trees that don’t normally burn very well, because it was so dry and such extreme conditions. Even for typical boreal forest, this was on the extreme end—it’s still on the extreme end because it’s still growing.”
]]>Zimbabwe is trying to sell off its wildlife because of severe drought - Chicago Tribune
▻http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/ct-zimbabwe-selling-wildlife-20160506-story.html
First, they sold their elephants to China. Now, the Zimbabwe government has placed an ad in its state-run newspaper asking members of the public — at least those who have the money and space — to buy some more of the country’s wild animals.
The reason is a devastating, relentless El Nino-induced drought that has left as many as four million Zimbabweans in need of food aid and ravished the country’s natural resources, decimating crops and drying up water sources. At least 16,500 cattle have died.
Zimbabwe is home to 10 national parks, one of which claimed Cecil the lion, a beloved black mane lion that was killed by a U.S. dentist last year. The parks, filled with giraffe, buffalo, zebra, lion, cheetah and elephants, draws both tourists and poachers.
Last year, the Zimbabwean government drew scrutiny and the ire of conservationists when it began selling elephants to China. The sale, government officials admitted, would reduce the booming elephant population but also raise money so the country could buy things like anti-poaching and surveillance technology.
]]>Bailleul : la directrice de Pôle Emploi déplore le manque d’implication de candidats - La Voix du Nord
▻http://www.lavoixdunord.fr/region/bailleul-la-directrice-de-pole-emploi-deplore-le-manque-ia18b47634n3428
Dans des propos sans langue de bois, Emmanuelle Camberlin, directrice du #pôle_emploi de Bailleul, s’étonne du peu d’intérêt d’une partie des demandeurs pour les récentes offres proposées par Buffalo Grill. Elle souligne aussi que cette attitude ne concerne qu’une minorité de personnes.
Buffalo Grill a besoin de main-d’œuvre. Son nouvel établissement ouvrira en juin, à Méteren. Pour faire tourner le restaurant de 230 places assises qui sera ouvert sept jours sur sept, vingt-deux personnes ont été recrutées par l’intermédiaire du pôle emploi de Bailleul.
À notre demande, Emmanuelle Camberlin a accepté de revenir sur la session de #recrutement organisée par Buffalo Grill. Une session marquée par l’absence de soixante demandeurs d’emploi ayant pourtant candidaté pour ces postes.
La directrice relate : « 150 personnes se sont positionnées sur ce recrutement pour lequel elles ont volontairement candidaté. » À la clé, des emplois de serveur ou de grillardin, en CDI.
Mais le jour J, plus du tiers des candidats sèche la réunion d’information avec l’entreprise. « À 9 h, il y avait 60 personnes absentes, sans justificatif. Ces 60 personnes se sont pourtant positionnées pour ces postes. Au minimum, ils auraient pu prévenir. » Emmanuelle Camberlin indique que les 150 demandeurs d’emploi ont reçu un courrier d’invitation et ont été contactés par téléphone.
La situation l’interpelle : « Cela pose question dans le cadre d’un recrutement en CDI. On peut se poser des questions sur la motivation à reprendre un emploi. »
« 2 700 placements annuels »
Emmanuelle Camberlin cite d’autres exemples. Elle relate récemment plusieurs refus pour un poste d’inventoriste. « J’avais trente postes. Ce sont de petits contrats. Il faut le niveau baccalauréat. On a trouvé un taux de je ne suis pas intéressé, regrette-t-elle. Il y a une partie des demandeurs qu’on a du mal à mobiliser. »
Mais la directrice prend aussi soin de préciser que cela concerne une minorité de demandeurs d’emploi. « Il y a du volontariat », souligne-t-elle, chiffres à l’appui.
L’agence de Bailleul, qui regroupe dix-sept communes, compte 2 400 demandeurs d’emploi de catégorie 1, « des gens disponibles pour occuper un emploi à plein-temps ». « On est sur 2 700 placements annuels », indique-t-elle.
]]>Conway The Machine - Reject 2
▻http://www.foxylounge.com/Conway-The-Machine-Reject-2
Retour tardif sur un des meilleurs albums de rap de 2015. En 2015, deux frères originaires de Buffalo et aujourd’hui installés à Atlanta, Westside Gunn et Conway The Machine, perpétuent via le label #Griselda_Records l’esprit du gangsta rap new-yorkais des années 1990. Un rap de rue violent, sombre et gorgé de soul, comme le pratiquait à l’époque Nas ou Mobb Deep. La volonté des frangins est clairement de réconcilier la rue avec les sonorités de cette période, Westside Gunn se qualifie d’ailleurs (...)
#Noze
/ #Musique, #Chroniques, Griselda Records, #hip-hop, #boom_bap
▻http://www.griseldaxfr.com
▻http://www.westsidegunn.com/career
▻https://soundcloud.com/bigghostltd/sets/griselda-ghost
▻https://soundcloud.com/gxfr/sets/hall-nash
▻https://soundcloud.com/gxfr/sets/hitler-wears-hermes3
▻https://soundcloud.com/dj-daringer
▻https://soundcloud.com/gxfr/sets/the-devils-reject
▻https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cujiHDeqnHY
▻https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-uqdW0bDyc
▻https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUxVhSyXi1U
The Slow Death of Paul Rudolph’s Brutalist Vision for the Buffalo Waterfront - CityLab
▻http://www.citylab.com/housing/2015/06/the-slow-death-of-a-brutalist-vision-for-buffalo/394574
John Schmidt likes his apartment. The 57-year-old moved into Shoreline, an affordable housing complex in downtown Buffalo, New York, seven years ago after suffering a severe heart attack.
“I can look out over the Niagara River and see Canada and Lake Erie,” Schmidt says over the phone from his 6th floor unit. “The trees in this part of the complex are still standing and they’re lovely. And there’s a spot right down there that some of the families use for big outdoor picnics and birthday parties and where the kids can go and play.”
The Important Buildings We Lost in 2015 - CityLab
▻http://www.citylab.com/design/2015/12/the-buildings-we-lost-in-2015/421890
Brutalism lost the good fight in 2015. One of its most important icons, the Orange County Government Center in Goshen, New York, fell to the wrecking ball this year. Paul Rudolph’s many-eyed monster should still be standing today.
“For me,” Schmidt adds, “it’s perfect.”
Shoreline debuted in 1974, a barely realized vision for Buffalo’s waterfront dreamt up by the architect Paul Rudolph. Today, age and poor management are catching up to a complex that was arguably doomed from the start.
Demolition crews began work on five buildings containing 137 apartments at Shoreline last month. (There were 426 at Shoreline prior to demolition, 89 of which had been offline for a decade.) Norstar Development, owners of the complex since 2005, have a $14 million plan to construct eight new buildings with 48 apartments in its place. Once additional funds are secured, they hope to demolish more along Niagara street, building new units in phases.❞
]]>The #Kinshasa #cowboys : how Buffalo Bill started a subculture in #Congo
▻http://edition.cnn.com/2015/12/08/africa/kinshasa-cowboys-bills/index.html
Un NAS deux baies àpatrocher chez Buffalo, le TeraStation 3200
▻http://www.comptoir-hardware.com/actus/stockage/29882-un-nas-deux-baies-apatrocher-chez-buffalo-le-terastation-32
Buffalo ajoute un nouveau NAS pour entreprise (PME) dans sa gamme TeraStation avec les TeraStation 3200. Ils seront disponibles au nombre de trois et embarqueront de base 2To (TS3200D0202-EU), 4To (TS3200D0402-EU) ou 8To (TS3200D0802-EU) de #Stockage... [Tout lire]
]]>Cuba’s ’Peter Pans’ Remember Childhood Exodus
▻http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2015/08/150814-cuba-operation-peter-pan-embassy-reopening-Castro
Dash was a member of Operation Pedro Pan, a program that ran from 1960 to 1962 and airlifted more than 14,000 unaccompanied Cuban children to the U.S. to avoid potential indoctrination by Fidel Castro’s Cuban government. The Catholic Welfare Bureau and the U.S. State Department spearheaded the program and placed children in foster homes or temporary camps. Some were reunited with family in the U.S., some weren’t, and most never went back to Cuba.
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“We are a brotherhood,” says Dash, who now lives in Fairfax, Virginia. “We all ended up in different situations, some better than others, but we all have a story to tell."
Away from Cuba, many of the Peter Pans’ hardships were just beginning. Unlike Vizcaino, who stayed in Miami, 13-year-old Eloísa Echazábal and her younger sister were sent to an orphanage in Buffalo, New York.
Two months later, they were placed in a foster home. “Life in the foster home was no happier than in the orphanage,” Echazábal, now 67 and living in Miami, writes in her Miami Herald Pedro Pan profile. “I always had a feeling of not fitting in.” She describes the family as “decent and proper” but cold.
Mercedes Dash says she was miserable with her Miami foster family. Despite their apparent wealth, Dash says the family fed her and her older sister powdered milk and canned meat supplied by the government. By the time her aunt and uncle landed in Miami and took them out of the home, the sisters were noticeably thinner.
In late 1964, Dash’s parents arrived in Miami. Unable to find stable work there, her father moved the family to Arlington, Virginia. “My parents are my heroes for doing what they did,” Dash says.
#Cuba #enfants #éducation #Peter_pan #catholicisme contre #communisme
]]>Test • Buffalo TeraStation 1400D
▻http://www.comptoir-hardware.com/articles/stockage-peripheriques/27803-test-buffalo-terastation-1400d.html
Du NAS pour professionnel ? Nous accueillons pour la première fois un NAS Buffalo de la gamme TeraStation. Il s’agit d’un modèle intermédiaire de la série TS1400D, équipé de 8To de stockage... [Tout lire]
]]>Quand les mouvements de votre smartphone révèlent... que vous quittez votre parking - Technology Review
▻http://alireailleurs.tumblr.com/post/98454887127
Les chercheurs de l’université d’Etat de New York à Buffalo parlent de pocketsourcing (qu’on pourrait traduire par “approvisionnement par la poche”) pour qualifier leur technique qui consiste à observer précisément les mouvements des téléphones dans les poches des gens pour en faire des #capteurs du monde réel… Il suffit d’une simple application chargée sur un smartphone pour accéder à son accéléromètre et ainsi connaître précisément les déplacements de son porteur, rapporte la Technology Review. Si celui-ci est dans un parking et qu’il se déplace lentement, s’arrête souvent, alors il doit être dans un parking plein en train de chercher une place. S’il recule puis accélère vers l’avant, alors il doit être en train de quitter sa place de parking… Les chercheurs ont fait des tests avec une poignée d’utilisateurs et (...)
]]>SEASONS
▻http://www.filmsforaction.org/watch/seasons
Seasons", the story of a dream. From toddler to adult and the lifetime experience of being a Colorado Buffalo. This is our biggest and most challenging project yet. We are very proud of all the...
]]>Buffalo lance un nouveau graveur DVD externe USB3
▻http://www.comptoir-hardware.com/actus/stockage/22632-buffalo-lance-un-nouveau-graveur-dvd-externe-usb3.html
Buffalo vient d’annoncer l’arrivée prochaine de son graveur DVD externe SLIM nommé DVSM-PTS58U3. Il sera décliné en 3 « coloris », noir, argent et blanc, c’est une petite boite de 138 x 152 x 14mm, et donc qui se raccorde au PC par un câble USB3 auto-alimentant l’ensemble... [Tout lire]
]]>Comparatif : 5 NAS Raid 5 - HardWare.fr
►http://www.hardware.fr/articles/707-1/comparatif-5-nas-raid-5.html
Voici un test très détaillé de 5 serveurs de stockage (NAS) pour sécuriser vos données : Buffalo Terastation Live, Qnap TS-409 Pro, Synology CS407, Thecus N4100 , Thecus N5200BR Pro
#NAS #source:Hardware.fr #Buffalo #Qnap #Synology #Thecus #stockage #sauvegarde #backup #gp:links
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