#zavaleta

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Don't ever EVER spread slander about Lionel Messi

everyone in football will clock you

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Peru: lesbian couple fight to have their marriage recognised

Gabriela Zavaleta and Fabiola Arce, a Peruvian couple, filed an action before the Superior Court of Lima so that the National Registry of Identification and Civil Status (Reniec) can register their civil marriage, celebrated in Argentina in 2023. This is the first case to be heard in court by the ‘Sí Acepto Perú’ campaign, which has a total of 10 lawsuits in progress. Original: Gabriela…

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DETERIOROT "The Rebirth" CD 2023 (The return of one of the Heaviest, Darkest and greatest Death Metal band with finally a haunting third album)

1. Undead (Intro) 2. Dark Embrace 3. Return to Rot 4. A Nameless Grave 5. The Rebirth 6. Reanimate 7. Political Evocation 8. Hauntings 9. Unholy Rebirth

THE REBIRTH | Deteriorot (bandcamp.com)

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Informe sobre la demanda de insumos químicos en la Minería del Litio en Argentina

Informe sobre la demanda de insumos químicos en la Minería del Litio en Argentina CIQyP y CAEM presentan informe sobre la demanda de insumos químicos para la creciente industria minera del litio en Argentina.

La Cámara de la Industria Química y Petroquímica (CIQyP®) ha colaborado con la Cámara Argentina de Empresarios Mineros (CAEM) en la elaboración de un informe estratégico que analiza diversos escenarios futuros sobre la demanda de insumos químicos. Este estudio se enmarca en el creciente desarrollo de la industria minera del litio en Argentina, un sector que ha mostrado un notable aumento en los…

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In early May, the Environmental Protection Agency announced that it would split up the agency’s main arm devoted to scientific research. According to a report from NPR, scientists at the 1,500-person Office of Research and Development were told to apply to roughly 500 new scientific research positions that would be sprinkled into other areas of the agency—and to expect further cuts to their organization in the weeks to come.

This reorganization threatens the existence of a tiny but crucial program housed within this office: the Integrated Risk Information System Program, commonly referred to as IRIS. This program is responsible for providing independent research on the risks of chemicals, helping other offices within the agency set regulations for chemicals and compounds that could pose a danger to human health. The program’s leader departed recently, ahead of the restructuring announcement.

The EPA’s reorganization, experts say, will likely break up this crucial program—which has been targeted for decades by the chemical industry and right-wing interests.

“Unfortunately, right now, it looks like the polluters won,” says Thomas Burke, the founder and emeritus director of the Johns Hopkins Risk Sciences and Public Policy Institute and a former deputy assistant administrator of the EPA’s Office of Research and Development.

“The May 2 announcement is all part of a larger, comprehensive effort to restructure the entire agency,” EPA spokesperson Molly Vaseliou told WIRED in an email. “EPA is working expeditiously through the reorganization process and will provide additional information when it’s available.”

Formed in the mid-1980s, the IRIS program was designed to investigate the health impacts of chemicals, collating the best available research from across the world to provide analyses of potential hazards from new and existing substances. The program confers with other offices within the EPA to identify top chemicals of concern that merit further research and study.

Unlike other offices in the EPA, the IRIS program has no regulatory responsibilities; rather, it exists solely to provide science on which to base potential new regulations. Experts say this insulates IRIS-produced assessments from outside pressures that could influence research done in other areas of the agency.

“There’s independence” in being in a centralized program like IRIS, says Jennifer Orme-Zavaleta, also a former principal deputy assistant administrator of the Office of Research and Development and a former EPA science adviser. “They’re not trying to evaluate risk for a specific purpose. They’re just evaluating risk and providing fundamental information.”

Since its inception, IRIS has created a database of more than 570 chemicals and compounds with assessments of their potential human health effects. This body of research underpins not just federal policy, but helps guide state and international regulations as well.Got a Tip?Are you a current or former government employee who wants to talk about what's happening? We'd like to hear from you. Using a nonwork phone or computer, contact the reporter securely on Signal at mollytaft.76.

The IRIS database is the “gold standard for health assessments for chemical pollutants,” says Burke. “Virtually all of our regulated pollutants, virtually all of our cleanups, virtually all of our major successes in regulating toxic chemicals were touched by IRIS or the IRIS staff.”

Yet IRIS has faced a significant uphill battle in recent years. For one, there’s the sheer number of chemicals it has had to review with limited manpower. There are more than 80,000 chemicals that have been registered for use in the US, and chemical companies register hundreds more each year. Some of the chemicals IRIS is working to research have been substances of concern for years, while some have more recently drawn new scrutiny. For instance, forever chemicals—synthetic materials so named because of their persistence in the environment—have been in use for decades, but their recent prevalence in tests of water and soil prompted IRIS in 2019 to begin creating draft assessments for five common types of these chemicals.

Opposition from industry has also bogged down IRIS reviews. The very existence of the IRIS program, experts say, threatens many crucial chemicals used by a variety of industries. A new IRIS assessment finding that a specific chemical that’s been in use for years is carcinogenic, for instance, could hamper industries that rely on that chemical if the EPA decides to pass new regulation. Chemical companies and lobbying groups have waged a long battle against the IRIS program, using various tactics—including introducing opposing research produced by paid consulting groups—to downplay the program’s findings and delay assessments. In 2018, for instance, The Intercept reported that an environmental consulting company that counts chemical giants among its clients challenged an IRIS assessment of chloroprene, a chemical used in rubber production. The program was forced to use resources and staff time putting together an extensive response defending its analysis.

“‘Hate the policy, attack the science’ became a strategy for many major industries,” says Burke. “They learned that the delay game of attacking the science led to the delay of implementing regulation.”

President Donald Trump’s first administration also tried to attack IRIS. A 2018 Senate appropriations bill suggested eliminating IRIS’s independence by folding it into another program within the EPA. IRIS also faced challenges from new leadership inside the EPA, including Nancy Beck, a former policy director at the American Chemistry Council (ACC), the main lobbying arm for the chemical industry, who oversaw the EPA’s office of chemical regulation between 2017 and 2020. Yet Congress eventually chose to fund the program that year, and the general structure of IRIS survived past the first Trump administration.

But with such a long track record of opposition—and with Trump’s second administration ripping up entire agencies—it’s perhaps unsurprising that IRIS is on the chopping block now. The program was singled out twice in Project 2025. IRIS has also been attacked by legislation introduced in Congress this session, called the No IRIS Act. A press release for the House bill quotes the CEO of ACC, who also authored an op-ed in the Washington Examiner in March calling on the agency to eliminate the program.

In a separate press release issued last week, the ACC lauded EPA administrator Lee Zeldin’s choice to reorganize the agency. While the EPA has made no public comment about the future of the IRIS program, the press release devotes two paragraphs to IRIS, claiming that the program’s assessments “jeopardize access to critical chemistries, undercut national priorities, and harm American competitiveness,” while asserting the ACC’s support for the No IRIS Act.

“The IRIS program has never been authorized by Congress, and since 2009 the program has remained on the [Government Accountability Office’s] High-Risk List, which identifies government programs that are vulnerable to fraud, waste, abuse, or mismanagement,” the ACC press release states. But in the original High-Risk List addition in 2009, the GAO stated that it added IRIS not over concerns of fraud or abuse, but because the program was not working through analyses of harmful chemicals fast enough to protect the public. “Some of the IRIS assessments that have been in progress the longest cover key chemicals likely to cause cancer or other significant health effects,” the 2009 listing states. Several reforms since then, the GAO report states, have improved the program. GAO’s current critiques of IRIS, updated in 2025, focus mainly around a lack of staff and budget needed to speed up reviews.

Tom Flanagin, a spokesperson from the American Chemistry Council, told WIRED in an email that the group believes “the IRIS program should be disbanded and the responsibilities of the program should be returned to the program offices” and that Congress should pass the No IRIS Act.

“IRIS assessments jeopardize access to critical chemistries, undercut national priorities, and harm American competitiveness,” Flanagin added.

If IRIS is eliminated, experts say, EPA research on toxic chemicals will continue—but the work will likely be siloed to offices dealing with specific aspects of the environment. Instead of a central body coordinating independent reviews, individual offices will have to do more targeted assessments of chemical impacts.

“If Office of Water wants to look at a chemical like arsenic, and the [Office of Air and Radiation] is also looking at arsenic, and Superfund is also looking at arsenic—they could come up with different numbers, and that could set up a vulnerability for the agency,” says Orme-Zavaleta.

Research on chemicals will now also be loaded onto a reduced workforce of scientists working under an administration with new priorities. While significantly slashing the agency’s budget, Zeldin has said he intends to put EPA staff to work clearing the backlog of new industrial chemicals and pesticides awaiting approval in the Office of Chemical Safety and Pollution Prevention. That office is now headed, once again, by Beck, the former ACC policy director, who helped rewrite rules making it more difficult to track the health consequences of certain forever chemicals during her first tenure at the EPA.

“Your attack on Dr. Beck is insulting and unfounded,” Vaseliou, the EPA spokesperson, told WIRED. “This is yet another example of false accusations that left propaganda also known as media take as gospel. It’s fascinating that the liberal media continues to mischaracterize Dr. Beck’s time at ACC, fails to mention her time as a career civil servant (at both the state and federal level for over a decade) and fails to mention that she was a Science and Technology Policy Fellow with the American Association for the Advancement of Science for two years, a program that is typically considered to be highly competitive and highly regarded.”

“As she has done her entire career, Dr. Beck remains committed to being led by the science, unlike Biden EPA appointees with major ethical issues that were beholden to radical stakeholder groups,” Vaseliou added.

Regardless of how research is reorganized moving forward, experts say that the mass of scientists being forced out of the agency will slow down any future regulation of chemicals.

“Nothing is getting regulated right now,” says Orme-Zavaleta. “Reorganization takes a lot of time. They’re here for a four-year stint, and not much is going to happen other than rollbacks. That’s part of the strategy: Have people leave, and upend things so much that nothing is getting done.”

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Abbiamo tutti nel petto un violino e abbiamo perduto l’archetto per suonarlo. Alcuni lo ritrovano nei libri, altri nell’incendio di un tramonto, altri negli occhi di una persona, ma ogni volta l’archetto cade dalle mani e si perde come un filo d’erba o un sogno. La vita è la ricerca infinita di questo archetto per non sentire il silenzio che ci circonda. Fabrizio Caramagna art by jacky Zavaleta ************************ We all have a violin in our chest and we have lost the bow to play it. Some find it in books, others in the fire of a sunset, others in the eyes of a person, but each time the bow falls from the hands and is lost like a blade of grass or a dream. Life is the infinite search for this bow so as not to hear the silence that surrounds us. Fabrizio Caramagna art by jacky Zavaleta 

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open to: m muse: eliza zavaleta, 26. event organizer, poet, essayist and general self-effacing, pretentious misanthrope plot: eliza mistakes your muse's friendship as romantic advances despite your mues being in a relationship

"No, no, no,' Eliza's eyes started to well up as she covered herself back up. She had a translucent robe on with nothing beneath, and though she tried to tighten the belt around her midriff, her nipples and the soft down between her legs was still visible. She blushed red, her entire body a carnation. She was under the mantle of her bathroom's door, the other sitting in front of the television on the bed. She felt so small then, as though the sight of her had been repulsive, as if her entire life hadn't changed in the blink of an eye.

"I'm sorry—,' she wasn't one to normally apologize, but her thoughts were racing. "I thought you wanted this,' she was raising her hands in shock, fear and query. "I thought you liked me."

"You told me you liked me, and we keep hanging out, and... you said your girlfriend would kill you if she found out you were here tonight. What did that mean?"

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reading about gentle parenting makes me feel insane. who has this limitless well of emotional energy to offer to their child. also you know that 99% of that emotional management stuff is going to end up being the mom’s burden to bear

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ASIA-AQ DC-8 aircraft flies over Bangkok, Thailand to monitor seasonal haze from fire smoke and urban pollution. Photo credit: Rafael Luis Méndez Peña. Tracking the spread of harmful air pollutants across large regions requires aircraft, satellites, and diverse team of scientists. NASA’s global interest in the threat of air pollution extends into Asia, where it works with partners on the Airborne and Satellite Investigation of Asian Air Quality (ASIA-AQ).  This international mission integrates satellite data and aircraft measurements with local air quality ground monitoring and modeling efforts across Asia. Orchestrating a mission of this scale requires complicated agreements between countries, the coordination of aircraft and scientific instrumentation, and the mobilization of scientists from across the globe. To make this possible, ARC’s Earth Science Project Office (ESPO) facilitated each phase of the campaign, from site preparation and aircraft deployment to sensitive data management and public outreach. “Successfully meeting the ASIA-AQ mission logistics requirements was an incredible effort in an uncertainty-filled environment and a very constrained schedule to execute and meet those requirements,” explains ASIA-AQ Project Manager Jhony Zavaleta. “Such effort drew on the years long experience on international shipping expertise, heavy equipment operations, networking and close coordination with international service providers and all of the U.S. embassies at each of our basing locations.” Map of planned ASIA-AQ operational regions. Yellow circles indicate the original areas of interest for flight sampling. The overlaid colormap shows annual average nitrogen dioxide (NO2) concentrations observed by the TROPOMI satellite with red colors indicating the most polluted locations. Understanding Air Quality Globally ASIA-AQ benefits our understanding of air quality and the factors controlling its daily variability by investigating the ways that air quality can be observed and quantified. The airborne measurements collected during the campaign are directly integrated with existing satellite observations of air quality, local air quality monitoring networks, other available ground assets, and models to provide a level of detail otherwise unavailable to advance understanding of regional air quality and improve future integration of satellite and ground monitoring information. ESPO’s Mission-Critical Contributions Facilitating collaboration between governmental agencies and the academic community by executing project plans, navigating bureaucratic hurdles, and consensus building. Mission planning for two NASA aircraft. AFRC DC-8 completed 16 science flights, totaling 125 flight hours. The LaRC GIII completed 35 science flights, totaling 157.7 flight hours. Enabling international fieldwork and workforce mobilization by coordinating travel, securing authorizations and documentation, and maintaining relationships with local research partners. Managing outreach to local governments and schools. ASIA-AQ team members showcased tools used for air quality science to elementary/middle/high school students. Recent news feature here. View of ASIA-AQ aircraft in Bangkok, Thailand. ESPO staff from left to right: Dan Chirica, Marilyn Vasques, Sam Kim, Jhony Zavaleta, and Andrian Liem. Aircraft from left to right: Korean Meteorological Agency/National Institute of Meteorological Sciences, NASA LaRC GIII, NSASA DC-8, (2) Hanseo University, Sunny Air (private aircraft contracted by Korean Meteorological Agency). Photo: Rafael Mendez Peña. The flying laboratory of NASA’s DC-8 NASA flew its DC-8 aircraft, picture above, equipped with instrumentation to monitor the quality, source, and movement of harmful air pollutants. Scientists onboard used the space as a laboratory to analyze data in real-time and share it with a network of researchers who aim to tackle this global issue. “Bringing the DC-8 flying laboratory and US researchers to Asian countries not only advances atmospheric research but also fosters international scientific collaboration and education,” said ESPO Project Specialist Vidal Salazar. “Running a campaign like ASIA AQ also opens doors for shared knowledge and exposes local communities to cutting-edge research.” Fostering Partnerships Through Expertise and Goodwill International collaboration fostered through this campaign contributes to an ongoing dialogue about air pollution between Asian countries. “NASA’s continued scientific and educational activities around the world are fundamental to building relationships with partnering countries,” said ESPO Director Marilyn Vasques. “NASA’s willingness to share data and provide educational opportunities to locals creates goodwill worldwide.” The role of ESPO in identifying, strategizing, and executing on project plans across the globe created a path for multi-sectoral community engagement on air quality. These global efforts to improve air quality science directly inform efforts to save lives from this hazard that affects all.

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Alta Fidelidad • Mercedes Sosa canta Charly García es un álbum de estudio de la cantante argentina Mercedes Sosa grabado en conjunto con el famoso músico argentino Charly García y lanzado en 1997.

En el mismo recorren algunos de los éxitos de García, abarcando cada una de las etapas del artista, tanto Sui Generis, La Máquina de Hacer Pájaros, y Serú Girán, como también de su carrera solista.

Fue lanzado al mercado en 1997, luego de bastante tiempo de abandono del proyecto, el cual estuvo a punto de no ser terminado dado los conflictos y desavenencias entre García y el famoso productor Joe Blaney, debido al caótico modo de trabajar del primero, que incluía sesiones día y noche sin pausas, y diversas maneras de grabar con las que Blaney no estaba de acuerdo.

Luego de un tiempo con el trabajo sin terminar, la grabación se retomó, ahora a cargo de un productor más joven, con el cual finalmente el disco vio la luz.

El disco se iba a llamar Somos de acá, como dice la canción de Serú Girán Los sobrevivientes, escrita por Charly García.

Sin embargo le pareció mejor el nombre Alta fidelidad, y se editó finalmente con éste.

Escúchalo este lunes 3 de julio a las 8 pm en MusicaLigera…Mente en www.superstereosv.com conduce Henry Zavaleta.

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Piden a las autoridades federales y estatales que no liberen al asesino de su hijo: Isabel

Xalapa, Veracruz a 1 de abril de 2025.- Piden a las autoridades y a los jueces, tanto del Estado como de la Federación, no permitan la liberación de uno de los presuntos asesinos de su hijo, es Jesús Antonio Aguilar Gutiérrez, así lo señaló la señora María Isabel Ramírez Zavaleta, madre de Fidel González Ramírez, joven asesinado en Yanga, en agosto de 2023 En conferencia de prensa la madre de…

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Lorenzo Pontiggia | Photos by Zavaleta Photography

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Former top EPA official warns of dire consequences of planned purge at the agency’s science office

Read the full story at Inside Climate News. Jennifer Orme-Zavaleta, who spent 40 years at EPA, said the proposed move will debilitate environmental protections, prevent the agency from getting ahead of future threats, and leave the public exposed.

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HEROES DEL ROCK NACIONAL

El próximo sábado 3 de mayo se realizará el festival HEROES DEL ROCK NACIONAL. Será en el Teatro Opera.

Una genuina celebración con buena parte de los pioneros del rock y la música popular argentina. El concierto es una experiencia inolvidable, un emotivo viaje por la música que selló la historia y enaltece al rock de nuestro país. Se presentarán Litto Nebbia, Ricardo Soulé, Héctor Starc, Gustavo Montesano, Emilio Del Guercio, Alas (Moretto-Zuker-Riganti), Carlos Mellino, Rodolfo Mederos, Miguel Zavaleta, Nexus, Pelvis y más.

Será la tercera edición de este ciclo, que ya tuvo uno en 2017 en el Gran Rivadavia con Willy Quiroga y Vox Dei, El Reloj/Frezza/Zabala y con Alejandro Medina. A fines de 2018, se realizó una segunda en el Espacio IFT con Ricardo Soulé, Willy Quiroga, El Reloj, Pelvis, Gady Pampillón, Bocón Frascino y otros.

Esta nueva edición del festival HEROES DEL ROCK NACIONAL llega a la avenida Corrientes. El mítico Teatro Opera recibirá la magia de nuestros héroes con las grandes canciones y clásicos inoxidables que marcaron a más de una generación y aún siguen vigentes. El maestro Litto Nebbia vuelve ya recuperado de un accidente que lo alejó por dos años de los escenarios. También será el regreso al país de Gustavo Montesano, el líder y compositor de la legendaria banda CRUCIS, luego de varios años en el exterior y la vuelta a una sala porteña del grupo ALAS con sus miembros originales.

HEROES DEL ROCK NACIONAL anuncia a Litto Nebbia, Ricardo Soulé, Héctor Starc, Gustavo Montesano, Emilio Del Guercio, Alas, Carlos Mellino, Rodolfo Mederos, Miguel Zavaleta, Nexus, Pelvis y otros.

Entradas a través de Ticketek: https://www.ticketek.com.ar/festival-heroes-del-rock-nacional/teatro-opera