Ongoing piggy faces from Strasburg and Brussels, how bright your business prospects remain! (You should think more carefully about this EFTA’s almohads participation). How carefully you are watching my handling of things! With such big joy and loud chanting what exactly you are celebrating? Yours roots of Mexican saddle? The opening of new channels for selling opportunities? The 53rd final replacement magnet for CERN's Large Hadrons Collider? Who cares? On Sunday I wrote exactly this: “… Just let’s remember together: Every small but important piece of information can and frequently do withheld me from you. An inaccurate gossip (like today in HSBC that German lady-banker forgets her laces) can give a valuable clue for somebody’s Kingdom, which, (once you thought) was a solid rock – may quickly crumble… “
Photos of Salgado/Sampaio/Miller/Lopes.
1). FROM: MADAM, ALBERTINA SILVA. LUANDA, REPUBLIC OF ANGOLA. 4/5/2009 4:20:23 PM
Son's E-mail: crestiano0001@gmail.com. Son's Mobile Number: +244 92 232 0161. Son's Name: Mr. Crestiano V. Savimbi, Dear Sir/Madam. You may be surprised to receive this message from me since you don't know me in person, but for the purpose of introduction, l am Madam, Albertina Silva Savimbi. Wife of a late Politician and President of Republic of Angola, DR JONAS SAVIMBI, who happens to be the former rebel leader of the MOVERMENT OF PEOPLE LIBERATION OF ANGOLA MPLA), who died on Saturday the 30th July 2003 on a sabotaged helicopter crash just three weeks after his inauguration on the 9th July 2003 at our capital (Luanda). I want to transfer my late husband's Money worth the sum of USD$216,000,000.00 to you for safe keeping until I arrived in your country for my family investment. Originally, this money was mapped out to procure Arms and Ammunitions for the SPLM military wing and my husband was solely in charge of organizing this Purchase. Unfortunately, as the news of the peace agreement reached my husband while he was still overseas to make the Arms Deal/Procurement, he used this opportunity to divert this money for our family future Use. He was fortunate to be overseas when the news came and he deposited the Consignment (CASH) as family valuables for security reasons with a security company overseas. After depositing the money, he came back and notified me and my son about the money, and he handed over the documents to me before he was inaugurated along with other top SPLM officials. The cabinet of the Incumbent President has denied any Government involvement in masterminding the death of my beloved husband. Now my first son and l have decided to transfer this money to a foreign Country where we can invest it. I am faced with the dilemma of investing this amount of money in Angola for fear of losing the money into the hand of my Government, because after the death of my husband, I was called in the Parliament concern the money which I told them that I do not know any thing about the money or where my husband kept it. I must let you know that this business is 100% risk free and the nature of your business does not necessarily matter, if you are willing to assist me, my son and l have agreed to give you 9% of the total money, 1% will be mapped out for refunds of expense to both parties, while 90% will be for my family's investment in your country. Therefore, if you are willing and interested to render the needed assistance, please kindly endeavor to reply me through the above email or call my Son overseas through this mobile number +244 92 232 0161, name Mr. Crestiano V. Savimbi, call him for more clarifications and procedures. Remember that this is Highly Confidential and the success of this transaction depends on how secret it is been kept, as I do not want my Government to know about this money. Thanks and may God Grant us Smooth Transaction and long relationship. Expecting your reply soonest. Best Regards. Madam, Albertina S.Savimbi
2). Van Gogh's ear 'was cut off by friend Gauguin with a sword' He is known as the tortured genius who cut off his own ear as he struggled with mental illness after the breakdown of his friendship with a fellow artist.Last Updated: 10:43AM BST 05 May 2009 Self Portrait with Bandaged Ear, 1889 by Vincent van Gogh (1853-90) Courtauld Institute of Art Gallery. But a new study claims Vincent Van Gogh may have made up the story to protect painter Paul Gauguin who actually lopped it off with a sword during an argument. German art historians say the true version of events never surfaced as the two men both kept a "pact of silence" – Gauguin to avoid prosecution and Van Gogh in a vain attempt to keep a friend with whom he was hopelessly infatuated. In Van Gogh's Ear: Paul Gauguin and the Pact of Silence, Hans Kaufmann and Rita Wildegans claim it was the sword attack, not Van Gogh's madness, that led him to commit suicide two years later. The prevailing theory is that the Dutchman, who painted Sunflowers and the Potato Eaters, almost bled to death after slashing his own ear with a razor in a fit of lunacy on the night of December 23, 1888. He is said to have wrapped it in cloth and handed it to a prostitute in a nearby brothel. However, the new work from experts in Hamburg offers a very different version. Gauguin, an excellent fencer, was planning to leave Van Gogh's "Yellow House" in Arles, southwestern France, after an unhappy stay. He had walked out of the house with his baggage and his trusty épée in hand, but was followed by the troubled Van Gogh, who had earlier thrown a glass at him. As the pair approached a bordello, their row intensified, and Gauguin cut off Van Gogh's left earlobe with his sword – either in anger or self-defense. He then threw the weapon in the Rhône. Van Gogh delivered the ear to the prostitute and staggered home, where police discovered him the following day, the new account claims. Gauguin had undoubtedly been staying with Van Gogh, but most experts think he had disappeared before the ear incident. Although the historians provide no "smoking gun" to back up their claims, they argue theirs is the most logical interpretation, and explains why in his final recorded words to Gauguin, Van Gogh writes: "You are quiet, I will be, too". They cite correspondence between Vincent and his brother, Theo, in which the painter hints at what happened without directly breaking the "pact of silence" made with his estranged friend. He mentions Gauguin's request to recover his fencing mask and gloves from Arles, but not the épée. Mr Kaufmann told the Daily Telegraph: "He writes that it's lucky Gauguin doesn't have a machine gun or other firearms, that he's stronger than him and that his 'passions' are stronger." He makes reference to a French novel in which the narrator thinks he has killed his friend by cutting the climbing rope linking them. "Afterwards, he says to himself: 'nobody has seen me commit my crime, and nothing can prevent me from inventing a story which would hide the truth'," said Mr Kaufmann. "This was a message to his brother." He also pointed to one of Van Gogh's sketches of an ear, with the word "ictus" – the Latin term used in fencing to mean a hit. The authors believe that curious zigzags above the ear represent Gauguin's Zoro-like sword-stroke. The historians also contend that, while Van Gogh clearly suffered from seizures, he had not gone mad at this stage. "That was propaganda and all part of Gauguin's self-defence strategy," said Mr Kaufmann. "But it was a shock from which Vincent never recovered, led to the aggravation of his disease and paved the way to his suicide," he said. Other Van Gogh experts, including those at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, disagree with the authors' claims. However, Nina Zimmer, the curator of a major Van Gogh exhibition in Basel, was less sure: "Perhaps they're right, but all the hypotheses are valid given the lack of material," she told Le Figaro.
3). 30-4-2009: Final LHC magnet goes underground Geneva, 30 April 2009— The 53rd and final replacement magnet for CERN*'s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) was lowered into the accelerator's tunnel today, marking the end of repair work above ground following the incident in September last year that brought LHC operations to a halt. Underground, the magnets are being interconnected, and new systems installed to prevent similar incidents happening again. The LHC is scheduled to restart in the autumn, and to run continuously until sufficient data have been accumulated for the LHC experiments to announce their first results. "This is an important milestone in the repair process," said CERN's Director for Accelerators and Technology, Steve Myers. "It gets us close to where we were before the incident, and allows us to concentrate our efforts on installing the systems that will ensure a similar incident won't happen again." The final magnet, a quadrupole designed to focus the beam, was lowered this afternoon and has started its journey to Sector 3-4, scene of the September incident. With all the magnets now underground, work in the tunnel will focus on connecting the magnets together and installing new safety systems, while on the surface, teams will shift their attention to replenishing the LHC's supply of spare magnets. In total 53 magnets were removed from Sector 3-4. Sixteen that sustained minimal damage were refurbished and put back into the tunnel. The remaining 37 were replaced by spares and will themselves be refurbished to provide spares for the future. "Now we will split our team into two parts," explained Lucio Rossi, Deputy head of CERN's Technology Department. "The main group will carry out interconnection work in the tunnel while a second will rebuild our stock of spare magnets." The LHC repair process can be divided into three parts. Firstly, the repair itself, which is nearing completion with the installation of the last magnet today. Secondly, systems are being installed to monitor the LHC closely and ensure that similar incidents to that of last September cannot happen again. This work will continue into the summer. Finally, extra pressure relief valves are being installed to release helium in a safe and controlled manner should there be leaks inside the LHC's cryostat at any time in the machine's projected 15-20 year operational lifetime.
5). Georgia 'foils Russia-backed coup' on eve of Nato exercises. May 5, 2009. Georgia claimed today to have foiled a Russian-backed plot to stage a military coup on the eve of joint exercises with Nato troops. An Interior Ministry spokesman announced that the special services had uncovered a plot to topple the Government involving a former high-ranking officer at the Defence Ministry. A tank battalion had mutinied at a base in Mukhrovani, 20 miles east of Tbilisi, and was refusing to obey orders, the Defence Ministry said. The dramatic development comes a day before Georgia hosts three weeks of military exercises with Nato that Russia has condemned as provocative so soon after the war over the breakaway region of South Ossetia in August last year. Mikheil Saakashvili, the Georgian President, is also facing a sustained protest campaign from opposition parties demanding his resignation. David Sikharulidze, the Defence Minister, told Georgian television that several hundred troops in the tank battalion had launched a rebellion aimed at overthrowing the authorities and wrecking the Nato exercises. "The mutiny is continuing. The rebellious battalion was told to stop," Mr Sikharulidze said. The base had been sealed off and talks were continuing, but the mutineers had made no concrete demands. The base is home to the Gori tank battalion. Tanks were leaving Tbilisi and heading towards the base held by the mutineers, according to the Georgian news website Civil.ge. Helicopters were seen flying over the capital. An Interior Ministry spokesman, Shota Utiashvili, said that special services had exposed a wider conspiracy to launch a coup involving several army units. A former commander of a special forces unit had been arrested. "The preliminary investigation materials show that the plot was co-ordinated with the Russians and was aimed at disrupting the Nato training," Mr Utiashvili said. "They were receiving money from Russia. It seems it was co-ordinated with Russia." The uprising was linked to discontent over the political situation in Georgia, he added. Opposition parties began street demonstrations on April 9 to force Mr Saakashvili, but support for the protest has been dwindling. Russia's ambassador to Nato, Dmitri Rogozin, dismissed as "mad" Georgian claims of Moscow's involvement in the coup attempt. He told Interfax: "It can be said that both the Georgian army and Georgian nationhood are undergoing complete destruction, and the reason is again Saakashvili's mad policies." Doubts were also expressed from inside Georgia. Giya Karkarashvili, an opposition leader and former defence minister, said: "Today Georgia is in the hands of sick people, who write the scenario themselves, play it themselves, then make a movie and show it to people for intimidation purposes." Nato declined to comment. About 1,000 soldiers from more than a dozen member states and partners are due to practise "crisis response" exercises at Vaziani army base, east of Tbilisi and about 44 miles (70 km) from the nearest Russian troop positions in South Ossetia. Russia assumed operational responsibility last week for border security in South Ossetia and Georgia's other breakaway region of Abkhazia. It has stationed 7,800 troops in the two regions, although the Georgian authorities claim that there are at least 10,000. President Medvedev described the exercises as "an open provocation" and warned: "All responsibility for possible negative consequences will lie with the people undertaking the relevant steps." The alleged rebellion follows a resumption of formal contacts between Nato and Russia last week, the first since the war in South Ossetia. Tensions were already running high after Nato expelled two Russian diplomats in a spying scandal, including the son of Moscow's ambassador to the European Union.
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