Purposes of change in these days when we provide the transition from 2010 to 2011 of a meaning that goes beyond a succession in the natural order of numbers. From yesterday to today. Do I have to change? All quick change brings losses.
Years of abrupt changes, for example education laws ... I'm thinking of my students who have not had the opportunity to enjoy the theme of inheritance as in 4 º ESO could not be on the agenda to move this issue to 3 º, they have not had the opportunity of experiencing the paradox of the Koch curve : a closed plane figure that has but infinite perimeter encloses a finite area .
is the fractal called Sierpinski Snowflake.
ideal topic to work on these days and decorate a class with matenavideño spirit.
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change from 2010 to 2011, is my desire that any change is least harmful possible that when the cold this Christmas to change the state of liquid water to snow flakes have crystallized these sublime forms of infinite beauty.
SOLDIER MANNING, accused of leaking the documents, ABUSE IN MILITARY PRISON WHERE YOU LIVE, isolated from seven months ago, in inhuman conditions
detention conditions Bradley Manning, the U.S. soldier accused of leaking to WikiLeaks thousands of secret documents from the State Department are "inhumane " and his mental and physical health are deteriorating.
"It seems clear that the physical and mental health is deteriorating Manning" , David House wrote on the blog Firedoglake . According to House , a computer that visits twice a month, the terms of Manning incarceration in a prison Marines in Quantico, Virginia are " rigorous and inhuman, "despite what the Pentagon says .
The Department of Defense says former analyst, 23, is being held under maximum security arrangements, but does not receive different treatment from other prisoners. This scheme only allows the inmate to leave his cell one hour a day for exercise.
Manning has two sheets and blankets can not be broken to prevent suicide, a measure that is taken for "precautionary " although it has no special watch for it.
House said the ministry statements are "clearly contradictory " with which Manning has done, after visiting him on Saturday and Sunday. According to his version, the detainee could not leave the yard of the prison for four weeks, so was unable to perform physical exercises. "When I mentioned the Pentagon statement that says you can do exercises, he replied that is true as walking in chains as a way of exercising" , House writes on the blog.
Manning is isolated from May in a cell 3.6 meters long by 1.8 wide, according to the site description provided by his lawyer, David Coombs . Its isolation is broken only on holidays, when you can get approved visitors, no contact for three hours.
In one of the recent statements of counsel, you specify the " harsh conditions" of life of the soldier. Of it only has pictures, almost always smiling, his previous life of a young man who at age 21 he joined the army and then was sent to Iraq , where it is believed that began copying the material disclosed. Wikileads leader , Julian Assange , repeat do not know if Manning was the filter. The technology, he argues, makes encrypt the sender's identity.
The punishment of the soldier, under consideration by the founder of Assange , does not serve anything but push him to incriminate him for accusing him of conspiracy. He says he fears that the U.S. carried and kill him.
household furniture Manning is a bed, a water fountain and a toilet. Lets not have personal possession whatsoever. Is prohibited from exercising it-now fun with yoga-in that room where you spend 23 hours a day. The other time he let out, with shackles on their feet, to an empty room to walk.
rose at five in the morning, except weekends and holidays, when the target is at seven. Between the time you awaken and eight in the evening keeps you from sleeping. If they find that it is, and there are checks every five minutes, the guards "forced him to sit or stand" as long as the lawyer. Not offer pillows or blankets, because it could endanger his life. To give a blanket to sleep. Arouse if wrapped to her head, "and the light is on permanently" , says journalist House.
" The guards are professionals," adds Coombs -. At no time trying to harass. But by the nature of their work, do not talk with him ".
Every night you have 15 minutes to shower. They allow you to watch TV-channels limited, as long day, one to three hours on working days and three to six in the festivities. It is also provided books, one by one, of which he has in a list. In this set Decision point of George W. Bush , two titles Immanuel Kant - Critique of Practical Reason and Critique of Pure Reason -; The Art of War of Sun Tzu ; The Good Soldier, by David Finkel or In war, General Von Clausewitz .
From seven in the evening at nine is the time of mailing. Give pen and paper and is authorized to write to family, friends and his lawyer. Letters were also received to correspond with people on the list, or destroyed.
" These traumatize anyone," says Coombs told the portal The Daily Beast, one of the few interviews.
A Manning, who is to judge a military court, was administered to input a system of suicidal potential. Soon changed this provision and reclassified as a candidate for self-harm. " is already a sentence before trial " says the defender.
Jeff Paterson, director of the office Courage to Resist, a nonprofit organization, has already raised $ 100,000 in support of Manning. Patterson tells the The New York Times that Wikileaks not support the soldier, although " he gave them all the information ." Manning A hacker turned him Adrian Lamo. Courage to Resist calls for end of "inhuman treatment " Private.
Bradley Manning, through his attorney, sent a message this Christmas thanks to all who support him. He reminded "to fellow deployment in Iraq and other detention in Quantico, who spend this time without the family ".
Wikileaks: not just the secrecy, but an entire culture of impunity which is at issue
By Sam Smith (*)
Although Wikileaks has begun to reveal some important state secrets, that's not the only thing that is getting extremely nervous at the establishment. Cyclopean Another problem faced is that these documents are providing a whole chain of evidence illustrating that the people who run our government is not only usually stupid, corrupt and / or dishonest, but in certain sectors, such as foreign policy, this behavior is more the norm than the exception. It is not just the secrecy, but an entire culture of impunity is in question.
Although it is a vision and spread among many citizens, from the point of view of the dominant classes, the evidence is much more dangerous than mere opinion. The paperwork is truly terrible.
If all this sounds vaguely familiar to you, the description of an old film can help us: "In his triumphant return to the Emerald City, Toto exposes the Wizard of Oz as a fraud, the curtain aside to reveal a man is nothing magical about running a huge control console consists of wheels and levers."
No a bad description of how Washington works today. Sure
Wikileaks also reveals how some honest people trying to do things honest. But the game's power and honesty are not mutually exclusive, a modest contribution of the Independent to describe the conversion of the former drug czar British legalization: "Mr. Ainworth said that his departure from office now gives you the freedom to express his view that 'the war on drugs has been nothing short of a disaster'. "
In other words, while occupying a public office was not allowed to disclose that the war against drugs was almost a disaster. It is difficult for a standard fit within the definition of a functioning democracy.
To make such a ban to be truly effective you need relatively few people who knows the secret and not to two million people in military personnel with appropriate Internet passwords.
This is the long-term damage caused Wikileaks. A soldier Satin in Iraq can learn more states secret that many members of the club known as the Washington establishment. All those years in the Ivy League, all those lunches at the Metropolitan Club, all those boring lectures at think tanks is coming down with a few CDs and memory sticks.
Washington culture has been based for a long time in a small group of people who shared power, lunch and secrets, they planned with the help of the sycophantic scribes of the media-an aura of competence and wisdom.
This culture is what makes a head stuck to his eyebrows in the establishment as the Daily Beast open a story with the following sentence: "As the world expressed their grief by Ambassador Richard Holbrooke ..."
imagine that "the world" is expressing his grief by Richard Holbrooke requires a global perspective that borders the microscopic, but this is how does the U.S. ruling class. The idea that a mere soldier in the army and an eccentric Australian could remove the clothing of them look comfortable thrills like few other things.
So, Wikileaks has not only exposed to state secrets, but also to the Washington Wizards, and is probably this is what these magicians hate more.
(*) Sam Smith is the editor of Progressive Review . This article was published in Counterpunch.org on 21 December.
(Sources: AFP, La Vanguardia, Barcelona and SINPERMISO)
much spoken of Education and what little is said, this bridge, buried alive between examinations in which you return to check what we know, high school students Science and Technology have reached a minimum high school without the tools of computation, reading comprehension , reasoning, memory, synthesis, ... an endless list of shortcomings.
comes a time of evaluation: international the Report Pisa 2009, English in the wake of that report, the assessment centers of the First Assessment, in houses with student grades, each teacher, and I suppose, each student individually.
The program
Networks No. 75 issued on December 5 Punset Eduard interview Marc Prensky, "an expert on education in the future, a man daring and creative the business of reforming the classroom and the present education system "...
"That education needs a revolution no one doubts. The world will witness the innovations that will eventually dismantle the whole educational system today is in the public schools and colleges. In this process, technology, networks social or video games have certainly an important role, will be valuable tools to pass on new skills to young people, who really need to get to work and function socially in changing environments ."...
Is time to place blame and find solutions, they come for those who are not in classrooms, by those defectors from the chalk, for those who may never have taught, by those who I have seen in recent developments 23 years of daily life in the classroom, they tell me q ue I treat each student individually and I get to 38 students per class, -! That itself is a paradox and no math or philosophical! - I say the problem is not adapting to new technologies, the student comes home and has accelerated to slow down when entering class to listen to boring explanations Professor ... I repeat, if there were 38 laptops in class and all students have acquired the competence to learning , would be the new education Marck that Prensky proposes.
may not have time for evaluation but the first step, priority: A LEGEND real state in education, one must measure the student's needs before his performance, and report about what you can do school to improve student.
But it does not matter to answer that question because the answer is we have a lot of us: the grouping according to the needs of students, which is called "flexible grouping" is the only way that suits the student education and this can progress from their reality, their motivation and goals, but latter, which I understand is the only way forward, "requires a teacher budget that the Administration is unwilling to assume. PISA on all reports.
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PISA 2009, Programme for International Student Assessment, OECD, English Report:
DD.HH. DEFENDERS OF THE PLAINS TO THE MILITARY DENOUNCE continue to harass the FARMERS AFTER KIDNAPPING, TORTURE, RAPE AND MURDER OF THREE CHILDREN
On October 14, in Township Tame, Arauca Department , three children, Jaime Torres Jhoan Jefferson (6 years), Jimmy Ferney Torres Jaimes (9 years) and Jenny Narvey Jaimes Torres (14 years), were abducted from their farm by soldiers of the Eighth Colombian Army division, while his father Jose Alvaro Torres was in farming. The children suffered horrendous torture, were raped (no evidence of semen and sexual abuse marks on their bodies and clothes) and then killed by sticking with knives (machetes). Their bodies were later buried in two graves in the bushes near the cottage where they lived. Blood was found in the backpacks of seven of the sixty soldiers of the mobile unit, which are under investigation.
Crimes such as this, moreover, are not exceptional. In the same area, residents reported that on October 2, a 13 year old girl was kidnapped by soldiers and then sexually abused. This is a region particularly stigmatized. Army And the pressure on farmers is increased after the discovery of mass grave La Magdalena, the largest in Latin America .
The opposition Polo Democrático Alternativo (PDA) condemned the murder of three brothers children kidnapped, tortured, raped and murdered. Its president, Clara López also requested guarantees for human rights defenders who make up this triple murder that shocked society and are still seeking their eclarecimiento.
"The Colombian state has to ask forgiveness for criminal blunder size and refine the research process to judge promptly and ensure the work of human rights organizations denounce this kind of abuse" said leader PDA.
Authorities are investigating about 60 soldiers from two battalions operating near where multiple murders occurred while eight other policemen were dismissed for failures in process control and personal control.
While the government and military leaders condemned the acts and apologized to the families of the victims, the bereaved father said that the damage of losing their children is irreparable.
still present in the collective memory of the scandal involving the army, two years after they were revealed to the public practice of extrajudicial killings by soldiers in acts considered as crimes of state, known euphemistically here as " false positives. " continue extra-legal crimes
Ramiro Orjuela, human rights lawyer, denounced the worsening violations of the right to life of children in the departments of the eastern plains , arbitrary arrests and all sorts of abuses against peasant leaders who organized the public hearing on mass graves held on July 22, 2010 in the municipality of the Macarena in the department of Meta .
The military pressure on the family of the murdered children
The Army and other State institutions pressing for the family of the girl raped and murdered with his two brothers in a village of Tame granted "forgiveness " in contrast with the little state support received by the family before their forced displacement
This is denouncing the association of defense Human Rights Current Site Arauca, in the following statement
Current Site Legal Corporation and the Standing Committee for the Defense of Human Rights, Chapter Arauca, show the public regional, national and international levels:
To reject with deep concern the lobbying of institutions State, Army and some media about Mr. JOSÉ ALVARO TORRES and his family to grant forgiveness for the death of his daughter and sons, and the general stigma that makes ALEJANDRO NAVAS the accompanying human rights organizations and representatives of the victims.
As representatives of the judicial JOSÉ ALVARO TORRES, energetically rectify the information that has been supplied by the mass media on the meeting of "forgiveness" held last Thursday 04 November between Mr. JOSÉ ALVARO TORRES, father of the child and children killed in the village of El Temblador the municipality of Tame (Arauca) and commanders of the Eighth Division and XVIII Brigade of the Army in the premises of the Colombian Family Welfare Institute-ICBF.
While this meeting was held behind closed doors, it was done without prior and informed consent of Mr. Torres, who went to the premises so ICBF naive, on the understanding that the meeting would be on the steps to come forward with ICBF to ensure conditions of dignity for himself and his children, because of its present situation of forced displacement.
Mr. Torres has shown us, the human rights organizations that accompanied it, the Army told him in no time request for forgiveness for the heinous crimes committed by one or more of its members but the attitude of looking for members of the Army that Mr. JOSE ALVARO TORRES give their consent to record an interview in which he agreed to grant a pardon to the national army and then be presented to the mass media. This situation became clear when Mr. Torres asked the Attorney General's Office his speech to the commanders of the Army to cease the continual and repeated phone calls he made on Friday November 5, in order to manifest the mass acceptance of forgiveness.
regard to this tragedy that occurred to Mr. JOSE ALVARO TORRES family and demand that they be criminal and disciplinary investigations which do justice and reveal not only him and his family but the national and international community, who are responsible for sexual abuse and murder of his daughter and her two children, what happened on these facts, be given exemplary punishment not only those who committed these crimes, but for those with command and effective control over the troops.
We call on the Ombudsman's Office and the Colombian Family Welfare Institute, headed by regional directors of the department of Arauca, to comply with constitutional and legal duties are in prevention, protection and defense of human rights, preference and prevalence of the rights of children. Likewise, to adopt a position of respect for the dignity of the victims and not only get its action to seek a rapprochement between the victims - Mr. JOSÉ ALVARO TORRES, and with the family and the other girl sexually abused by insisting they must try to reconcile, when such crimes have no vocation of reconciliation and constitutional functions are to ensure the best interests of children.
face of such tragedy that shocked the whole of society anyone would think that the families of the victims would receive decent care and integral part of the state and its institutions but the reality is not so, Don Alvaro and his family are living in inhuman conditions at the home of a relative, where the few belongings that you have given are the result of collections made by some officials, for example, the fan gave it a journalist, collects stove a few public officials who made the beds in the second and in poor condition, so the donated another institution. Current Site
Legal Corporation and the Standing Committee for the Defence of Human Rights chapter Arauca, denounce and reject the irresponsible and intimidating statements of the National Army commander ALEJANDRO NAVAS, in an interview to the newspaper El Tiempo, day, November 7, 2010, which stigmatizes the work we have been doing human rights organizations recognized in the department of Arauca and national and international level, saying that "foreign organizations have seized him, referring to Mr. JOSÉ ALVARO TORRES - to disorient and make these allegations which are not when they commit murder and abuse thousands of children. What better opportunity than this to tarnish the name of the Army. "
We remind the Commander of the Army and the national and international public opinion that those who have defiled the name of that institution have been the same members as in service have become active crime and violation of rights in a systematic and widespread throughout the country, as evidenced by the serious cases of extrajudicial killings that have been made public.
believe that the serious human rights violations perpetrated by members of the Army, in this case can not be classified as mere institutional failures, and that the responsibility for a heinous crime like this girl and children, you want to show which is the work of one person, a "bad apple" as usual to do the military leaders in the serious cases of human rights violations that have been compromised Forces, and have been reported and known publicly.
institutional failures have been reported by the military body, were presented from the lack of attention to complaints and requests from the village communities and El Caño Camama Temblador performed by the sexual abuse case filed in the sector, and for not having heeded the request for support to the disappearance and subsequent discovery of the bodies of children JAIMES TORRES, issues that give rise to liability in light of the Colombian criminal law (Article 25 of Act 599 of 2000) 1, as provided in Article 161 of the Penal Code that talks about the omission of measures to protect the population civil, in the course and conduct of armed conflict and Article 417 on abuse of authority for failure to report.
Under the mandatory provisions for the Colombian international law of human rights, international humanitarian law and international criminal statute, the omissions in the effective command and control over the troops, also give rise to liability in criminal matters disciplinary and administrative superiors of the same, with respect to crimes committed by their subordinates.
warn about bullying, name calling, long interrogations, censuses censuses or illegal, the police have been doing (army and police) in the communities of the villages nearby where the slaughter occurred (villages of Holland and Hope), which can lead to potential victims and witnesses to leave the area or reluctant to go to the authorities to investigate the crimes.
We made it clear to the public regional, national and international levels to support the work we've been doing Mr. JOSE ALVARO TORRES and his family, takes place in the framework of actions to defend human rights that we demand to the different local law enforcement, national and international, and our condition legal representatives. We are not "foreign organizations, but organizations that defend the life, dignity, human rights and the rights of victims to the TRUTH, JUSTICE and the INTEGRAL REPAIR.
THEREFORE WE DEMAND:
1. That the Attorney General's Office within the framework of research that are accelerated are called by their responsibility for their negligent conduct in these events, members of the Army dismissed on Tuesday November 2, 2010, as that under the rules that are binding on Colombia in the context of international human rights and especially international criminal law.
2. That in its constitutional and legal on the investigation to elucidate the facts, the imposition of criminal liability in such event, and will not cease in their efforts to achieve real truth in these heinous crimes by linking a single author course material and intellectual.
3. The Attorney to file the jurisdiction of the disciplinary investigations carried out in the context of this case in the Special Prosecutor for the Defense of Human Rights is competent to further the investigations leading to establish the disciplinary responsibility of the soldiers involved in the case.
4. A different agencies of the United Nations to react to the actions of intimidation, civil and military authorities local and national law enforcement are doing on the families of these two cases and compromising their emotional integrity and safety, as well as the legitimate social organizations and human rights have been doing for the sake of clarifying the facts and assist in the vindication of the rights to truth, justice and reparation for victims.
5. A Social Action, Family Welfare, the Government of Arauca and the mayor of Tame, to assume their constitutional and legal duty to provide decent living conditions and holistically Mr. JOSE Alvaro and his family. These are not handouts of charity but an obligation of the State whose responsibility is involved in this serious crime.
6. At all institutions have a constitutional responsibility to protect life, safety, good name and freedom of individuals, we require real protection measures for the Torres family, for witnesses and to cease the harassment, abuse and censuses to communities in the villages near where occurred the horrible slaughter of children (Holland and Hope).
7. A media of national and internationally to continue to report with objectivity while respecting the dignity of the victims, the memory of children raped and murdered and present information much more objectively and truthfully. Corporacion Juridica
Current Site (Sources: Prensa Latina, ACIN and Hey Brother)
