Tuesday, August 21, 2012

Link: 9:08 AM 8/21/2012: Puerto Rico Voters Reject Constitutional Amendments, To Reduce Legislature ...

___________________________________________________________________

9:08 AM 8/21/2012

AMBIENTE PLAYA REFERENDUM - Sunday, August 19, 2012 - elvoceroprFORTUÑO ACATA...

DECISIÓN DEL "NO" - Sunday, August 19, 2012 - elvoceroprPuerto Rican Influence Throughout the Fifty States - Monday, August 20, 2012 - KGStorm development update - Tuesday, August 21, 2012 - (author unknown)caribnews: Tropical Storm Warning in effect for Dominica, Guadalupe, St Martin, Antigua, St Kitts, Nevis, Monserrat and Barbuda - NHC - Tuesday, August 21, 2012 - (author unknown)*A PONER FIN A UNA PESQUISA VICIOSA - Tuesday, August 21, 2012After determination of the Department of Justice judge exonerating the Chief Justice Federico Hernández Denton, of the charge of illicit use of public funds, the Senate must put an end to what is clearly a vicious political attack against the judge and the highest court of the country. Gestures Sergio C. Gutierrez Negron A body emaciated, with ribs poking through a thin layer of what is contained skin, eyes narrowed, occupying a public space in political fasting: dig Obama versus Berrios Jose Alfredo Hernandez Mayoral Most saw the reaction of annoyance of Ruben Berrios. The video is on the website of the Independence Party. His anger was caused by the offer of President Barack Obama to start If you do not hire me, I contract *Learning culture of Puerto Rico - Scranton Times-Tribune - Friday, August 17, 2012Religious Left Infatuation with Puerto Rican Terror - FrontPage Magazine - Friday, August 17, 2012NPP Commissioner: Drug dealers influenced the Referendum - Tuesday, August 21, 2012What Will It Take for Gays to Just Get Along? A Plan and a Prayer - Huffington Post (blog) - Monday, August 20, 2012Gov. Fortuño signs foreclosure mediation law | News is my Business - Tuesday, August 21, 2012Rusia: ¿Pussy Riot condenadas por sus simpatizantes? - Tuesday, August 21, 2012 - Gabriela Garcia Calderon OrbeCrews disassembling freighter that grounded 2 months ago off outlying Puerto ... - Greenfield Daily Reporter - Monday, August 20, 2012Colombia ex-general pleads guilty to supporting terrorism - Tuesday, August 21, 2012Court Deals Blow To Tough Immigration Law - Monday, August 20, 2012 - APJulian Assange asylum: Rafael Correa says it is suicidal for UK to enter Ecuador embassy – video - Tuesday, August 21, 201213 alleged gang members in Puerto Rico indicted - Huffington Post - Thursday, August 16, 2012 - (author unknown)14 de agosto de 2012via O m a r B a n u c h i on 8/19/1214 de agosto de 2012

Source: Puerto Rico News

9:08 AM 8/21/2012

Puerto Rico Voters Reject Constitutional Amendments, To Reduce Legislature ... - Huffington Post - Sunday, August 19, 2012

Puerto Ricans reject constitutional amendments - San Francisco Chronicle - Sunday, August 19, 2012 - (author unknown)

AMBIENTE PLAYA REFERENDUM - Sunday, August 19, 2012 - elvoceropr

FORTUÑO ACATA DECISIÓN DEL "NO" - Sunday, August 19, 2012 - elvoceropr

Puerto Rican Influence Throughout the Fifty States - Monday, August 20, 2012 - KG

Storm development update - Tuesday, August 21, 2012 - (author unknown)

caribnews: Tropical Storm Warning in effect for Dominica, Guadalupe, St Martin, Antigua, St Kitts, Nevis, Monserrat and Barbuda - NHC - Tuesday, August 21, 2012 - (author unknown)

*

A PONER FIN A UNA PESQUISA VICIOSA - Tuesday, August 21, 2012

After determination of the Department of Justice judge exonerating the Chief Justice Federico Hernández Denton, of the charge of illicit use of public funds, the Senate must put an end to what is clearly a vicious political attack against the judge and the highest court of the country.

Gestures

Sergio C. Gutierrez Negron

A body emaciated, with ribs poking through a thin layer of what is contained skin, eyes narrowed, occupying a public space in political fasting: dig

Obama versus Berrios

Jose Alfredo Hernandez Mayoral

Most saw the reaction of annoyance of Ruben Berrios. The video is on the website of the Independence Party. His anger was caused by the offer of President Barack Obama to start

If you do not hire me, I contract

*

Learning culture of Puerto Rico - Scranton Times-Tribune - Friday, August 17, 2012

Religious Left Infatuation with Puerto Rican Terror - FrontPage Magazine - Friday, August 17, 2012

NPP Commissioner: Drug dealers influenced the Referendum - Tuesday, August 21, 2012

What Will It Take for Gays to Just Get Along? A Plan and a Prayer - Huffington Post (blog) - Monday, August 20, 2012

Gov. Fortuño signs foreclosure mediation law | News is my Business - Tuesday, August 21, 2012

Rusia: ¿Pussy Riot condenadas por sus simpatizantes? - Tuesday, August 21, 2012 - Gabriela Garcia Calderon Orbe

Crews disassembling freighter that grounded 2 months ago off outlying Puerto ... - Greenfield Daily Reporter - Monday, August 20, 2012

Colombia ex-general pleads guilty to supporting terrorism - Tuesday, August 21, 2012

Court Deals Blow To Tough Immigration Law - Monday, August 20, 2012 - AP

Julian Assange asylum: Rafael Correa says it is suicidal for UK to enter Ecuador embassy – video - Tuesday, August 21, 2012

13 alleged gang members in Puerto Rico indicted - Huffington Post - Thursday, August 16, 2012 - (author unknown)

14 de agosto de 2012

via O m a r B a n u c h i on 8/19/12

14 de agosto de 2012

Why do the Caribbean Islands Arc?

http://planetsave.com/2012/08/21/why-do-the-caribbean-islands-arc/

Why do the Caribbean Islands Arc?

August 21, 2012 By Joshua S Hill Leave a Comment

If you look at the Caribbean islands from above you’ll see that they arc, and new research by geophysicists at the University of Southern California have found that over the past 50 million years the Caribbean islands have been pushed east by the steady movement of the Earth’s viscous mantle against the more stationary Southern American continent.

The result of this study which was published in the journal Nature Geoscience yesterday give us a better understanding of how continents resist the constant movement of the Earth’s plates, and what effect continental plates have on reshaping the surface of Earth.

“Studying the deep earth interior provides insights into how the Earth has evolved into its present form,” said Meghan Miller, assistant professor of earth sciences at the USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, and lead author of the paper. “We’re interested in plate tectonics, and the southeastern Caribbean is interesting because it’s right near a complex plate boundary.”

Everything is Connected

To be able to study the motion of the South American continent and the Caribbean plate, researchers Miller and Thorsten Becker, associate professor of earth sciences at USC Dornsife, had to first model the entire planet. In fact, the pair created 176 models, models that required several weeks at the USC High Performance Computing Center to compute.

“If you can, you want to solve the whole system and then zoom in,” Becker said. “What’s cool about this paper is that we didn’t just run one or two models. We ran a lot, and it allowed us to explore different possibilities for how mantle flow might work.”

“Oceanic plates are relatively simple, but if we want to understand how the Earth works as a system — and how faults evolved and where the flow is going over millions of years — we also have to understand continental plates,” Becker added.

Miller and Becker reconstructed the movement of the planet’s mantle to a depth of just above 3,000 kilometres.

Their research tossed previous hypotheses of the seismic activity beneath the Caribbean Sea out the window and provided an important new insight into the unique tectonic interactions that are behind the Caribbean plate tearing away from South America.

In particular, Miller and Becker point to a part of the South American plate — known as a “cratonic keel” — that is roughly three times thicker than normal lithosphere and much stronger than typical mantle. The keel deflects and channels mantle flow, and provides an important snapshot of the strength of the continents compared to the rest of the Earth’s outer layers.

In the southeastern Caribbean the researchers that the interaction of the subducted plate beneath the Antilles island arc in combination with the stronger continental keel has created the El Pilar-San Sebastian Fault. Miller and Becker believe that similar interactions are the cause of the San Andreas Fault.

“We’re studying the Caribbean, but our models are run for the entire globe,” Miller said. “We can look at similar features in Japan, Southern California and the Mediterranean, anywhere we have instruments to record earthquakes.”

Source: University of Southern California

Planetsave (http://s.tt/1lk9V)

Sunday, August 19, 2012

El Morro, Old San Juan, Puerto Rico - Video

El Morro, Old San Juan, Puerto Rico

Uploaded by pixelreflex1 on Feb 18, 2011

The construction of the Fort San Felipe del Morro began in 1539 when King Charles V of Spain authorized its construction, including the surrounding walls. The purpose was to defend the port of San Juan.It was also constructed to control the entry to the harbor. Construction started the same year with a tiny proto-fortress that was "completed" in 1589. This small section comprises perhaps 10% of the structure people see today. In 1587, engineers Juan de Tejada and Juan Bautista Antonelli designed the actual appearance of the castle following well established Spanish military fortification design principles. Similar Spanish fortifications of the 17th-18th centuries can be seen in Cuba, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, Veracruz and Acapulco, Mexico, Portobello and Panama City, Panamá,and many other Latin American locations which were governed as part of the Spanish Empire during the Age of Exploration. The first fort of the Americas, Fort San Felipe, was built in Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic in 1540. Many complex additional new structures were added to El Morro over the next 400 years. The outer walls are six meters thick. In 1680, Governor Enrique Enríquez de Sotomayor begun the construction of the walls surrounding the city of San Juan, which took 48 years. By the late 18th century, El Morro's walls had grown to be 18 feet (5.5 m) thick. Today El Morro has six levels that rise from sea level to 145 feet (44 m) high. All along the walls are seen the dome-covered sentry boxes known as garitas, which have become a cultural symbol of Puerto Rico itself. The El Morro or Port San Juan Light was built atop the fort in 1843, but in 1908, it was replaced by the US military with the current lighthouse. Including the exterior open killing grounds, known as the glacis and esplanade, dominated by cannon in the 17th and 18th centuries, El Morro can be said to take up over 70 acres (280,000 m²).