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Alice, Bob.


When I was a curly-headed baby
My daddy set me down on his knee
Saying ''Son you go to school, you learn your letters
Don't you be no dusty miner, boy like me''
I was born and raised at the mouth of the Hazard Holler
Where the coal cars rolled and rumbled past my door
But now they stand in a rusty row of all empties
Because the L & N don't stop here anymore


I used to think my father was a black man
With scrip enough to buy the company store
But now he goes to town with empty pockets
And his face is as white as the February snow
I was born and raised at the mouth of the Hazard Holler
Where the coal cars rolled and rumbled past my door
But now they stand in a rusty road of all empties
Because the L & N don't stop here anymore

Never thought I'd live to lean to love the coaldust
Never thought I'd pray to hear those temples roar
But God I wish the grass would turn to money
And then them greenbacks would fill my pockets once more
I was born and raised at the mouth of the Hazard Holler
Where the coal cars rolled and rumbled past my door
But now they stand in a rusty road of all empties
Because the L & N don't stop here anymore

Last night I dreamed I went down to the office
To get my payday like I done before
But them old kudzu vines was covering the doorway
And there was leaves and grass growing up through the floor
I was born and raised at the mouth of the Hazard Holler
Where the coal cars rolled and rumbled past my door
But now they stand in a rusty road of all empties
Because the L & N don't stop here anymore

                                 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 I've been out walking
I don't do too much talking
These days, these days.
These days I seem to think a lot
About the things that I forgot to do
And all the times I had the chance to.

I've stopped my rambling,
I don't do too much gambling
These days, these days.
These days I seem to think about
How all the changes came about my ways
And I wonder if I'll see another highway.

I had a lover,
I don't think I'll risk another
These days, these days.
And if I seem to be afraid
To live the life that I have made in song
It's just that I've been losing so long.
La la la la la, la la.

I've stopped my dreaming,
I won't do too much scheming
These days, these days.
These days I sit on corner stones
And count the time in quarter tones to ten.
Please don't confront me with my failures,
I had not forgotten them.

You woke up this morning
Got yourself a gun,
Mama always said you'd be
The Chosen One.

She said: You're one in a million
You've got to burn to shine,
But you were born under a bad sign,
With a blue moon in your eyes.

You woke up this morning
All the love has gone,
Your Papa never told you
About right and wrong.

But you're looking good, baby,
I believe you're feeling fine, (shame about it),
Born under a bad sign
With a blue moon in your eyes.

You woke up this morning
The world turned upside down,
Thing's ain't been the same
Since the Blues walked into town.

But you're one in a million
You've got that shotgun shine.
Born under a bad sign,
With a blue moon in your eyes.

When you woke up this morning everything you had was
gone. By half past ten your head was going ding-dong.
Ringing like a bell from your head down to your toes,
like a voice telling you there was something you should
know. Last night you were flying but today you're so low
- ain't it times like these that make you wonder if
you'll ever know the meaning of things as they appear to
the others; wives, mothers, fathers, sisters and
brothers. Don't you wish you didn't function, wish you
didn't think beyond the next paycheck and the next little
drink' Well you do so make up your mind to go on, 'cos
when you woke up this morning everything you had was gone.

When you woke up this morning,
When you woke up this morning,
When you woke up this morning,
Mama said you'd be the Chosen One.

When you woke up this morning,
When you woke up this morning,
When you woke up this morning,
You got yourself a gun.

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AGM-114N Metal Augmented Charge (MAC) Thermobaric Hellfire

The improved, Metal Augmented Charge (MAC) thermobaric warhead for the AGM-114 Hellfire missile dramatically increased effectiveness against enclosed targets. The chemical mix selected for the AGM-114N Thermobaric Hellfire warhead fill is substantially more effective in attacks against enclosed structures than the current Hellfire blast and fragment variants. The thermobaric Hellfire missile can take out the first floor of a building without damaging the floors above, and is capable of reaching around corners, striking enemy forces that hide in caves or bunkers and hardened multi-room complexes. Coalition military planners use a sophisticated computer model to determine the precise direction, the angle of attack, and the type of weapon needed to destroy desired targets, while sparing nearby civilian facilities.

The effects of the Hellfire MAC warhead are formidable. Unlike conventional warheads, which have a sharp pressure spike that decays rapidly, the MAC has a sustained pressure wave. That pressure propagates throughout a structure to extend the lethal effects of the warhead detonation.

The DoD Combating Terrorism Technology Task Force (CTTTF) has been structured to continually strive to derive new capabilities from S&T programs, as well as attempt to anticipate future capabilities needs. The original CTTTF model was conceived within a week of the attacks of September 11, 2001, when the Department established CTTTF. In Phase II, the CTTTF reacted to a broad set of operational issues that emerged leading up to and including support for Operation Iraqi Freedom. Technologies were accelerated to fielding for several specialized, unique weapons which focused on specific, anticipated threats.

Notable among the CTTTF efforts was the AGM-114N Thermobaric Hellfire which built upon previous efforts supported by the CTTTF in development of thermobaric weapons which were employed in Afghanistan in Operation Enduring Freedom. DTRA worked in coordination with the Army and Navy, on the AGM-114N Hellfire development effort. Several candidate thermobaric warhead fills were tested and assessed during final development. In FY 2003 DTRA delivered 65 Hellfire AGM-114N missiles with improved warheads for increased blast lethality for US Marine Corps Military Operations in Urban Terrain (MOUT).

In 2002, the DTRA tasked NAVAIR to develop a new Hellfire warhead. The requirements had been established by the Marine Corps Department of Aviation (APW-72) to make the Hellfire more suitable for Military Operations in Urban Terrain. The number one requirement was that the new warhead increase the probability of personnel lethality or incapacitation. Additionally, the warhead had to maintain lethality equivalent to the AGM-114M against the remainder of the Marine Corps target set, possess the same flight performance and accuracy as the 114M, keep the same interfaces with the Hellfire missile system and be compatible with the Hellfire logistical cycle.

The MAC technology used in the new warhead has its roots at China Lake where, as early as the 1960s, Navy scientists were conducting basic research into fuel-air explosives (FAEs). China Lake scientists and engineers subsequently developed these concepts into tactical weapons: surface-launched FAE (SLU-FAE) and the CBU-55/72 FAE family.

In the 1990s, the Energetics Materials and Ordnance Components Branch worked with China Lake and others to develop nonliquid FAEs containing aluminum particles. The goal was a solid FAE with a greater impulse (pressure over time) than conventional explosives. They were successful in developing a class of explosives that demonstrated greater impulse than non-augmented explosives. The work received a classified US Patent and was the basis for the MAC warhead.

The new warhead contains a fluorinated aluminum powder layered between the warhead casing and the PBXN-112 explosive fill. When the PBXN-112 detonates, the aluminum mixture is dispersed and rapidly burns. The resultant sustained high pressure is extremely effective against enemy personnel and structures.

NAVAIR managed the MAC warhead project through its first two phases. Six warhead-fill candidates were considered in phase 1, and the top three were selected to proceed into phase 2, where the down-select process was completed. The warhead design was finalized in September 2002, and the PBXN-112/MAC warhead proceeded into phase 3, qualification testing.

It went from development to deployment in less than one year. The demonstration program developed weapons in approximately one year with an initial delivery of approximately 60 residual assets. An urgent request was received from the Marine Corps to begin immediate fabrication of 65 warheads. Five of these were to be used for a Quick Reaction Assessment (QRA). The balance would be destined for field use by Marine Corps operational units.

The 65 warheads were built and integrated into the armament sections at NAVAIR WD. The sections were then shipped to Redstone Technical Test Center, Ala., where Army personnel used them to replace the armament sections of 65 AGM-114Ks. The QRA was conducted in January 2003. It involved tests against a bunker and cave on China Lake's Land Range and against a multi-room structure at White Sands Missile Range. COMOPTEVFOR directed the QRA, and VX-9 provided the helicopters and crews who did the shooting. All tests were completed successfully, verifying the performance of the MAC warhead.

Multiple missiles were deployed and successfully employed in the opening of Operation Iraqi Freedom. Since that time, the Department has invested additional funds in the AM-114N and will deliver over 100 units to USMC and SOCOM by June 2005. The AGM-114N transitioned to production with a significant increase in fielded units planned over the following two years.

It was revealed in mid-May 2003, by US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld that US forces had for the first time used a new thermobaric variant of the Hellfire missile during the conflict in Iraq. No additional details were revealed as to how and where the weapon had been used. DefSec Rumsfeld cited this weapon as a case of high-speed research and development executed to meet a critical battlefield need, with the project going from development to deployment in less than one year.

Navy JAG (Code 10) JAO commented in late 2002 on a legal review of the Hellfire PBXN-112/MAC warhead missile. The missile provides increased effectiveness against targets typically encountered in Military Operations in Urban Terrain (MOUT) by creating increased blast over-pressure and impulse to defeat multi-room structures. The missile is also effective against caves, light armor, trucks, radar vans, buildings, light bunkers, command and control sites, patrol boats, light ships, the superstructure of heavy ships, deck mounted weapons systems and troop concentrations. Based on JAO comments, Navy JAG revised the review to include discussion of the BLU-118 and the thermobaric SMAW, two weapons systems already in the inventory which also rely on over-pressure as the killing mechanism.

http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/munitions/agm-114n.htm

Harry Potter:
I Babbani si rompono finalmente i coglioni di tutte quelle magie ed un B-2A scarica 16 bombe termonucleari B61-11 sul castello di Hogwarts.  No , Harry questa volta non ce la fa.

Bridget Jones:
Contrae il virus Ebola. Non è una bella fine.

Grey's Anatomy:
Non succede nulla, è questa la cosa tremenda.

Se qualcuno vuole continui pure, io mi sono rotto i maroni, ciao ciao.


 

Questo è il titolo, se non ricordo male, ad ogni modo ecco la solita cosa:
Trama
Il figlio frustrato (Adalberto) di un liutaio geniale  ma corrotto dai giochi di potere passa il suo tempo a guardare cartoline turistiche cercando di scoprirvi la presenza di Dio. I primi 94 minuti sono quindi dedicati a questa costante ricerca, un lento susseguirsi di fotografie senza commento sonoro (ahaha spiritosi, pensavate alla musica dell'Intervallo RAI) cui si aggiunge la presenza fugace delle dita di Adalberto quasi a tastare ontologicamente l'immateriale, il segno che diventa essenza di se medesimo. Durante la ripresa di una cartolina di Cernusco SN  il giovane ossessivo-compulsivo scatta in piedi (un effetto dolly spettacolare).
Corre in camera da letto, si veste come un adepto del KKK (cappuccio bianco etc etc) e sparisce uscendo dalla porta principale. L'inquadratura traccheggia sull'interno casa, poi dissolvenza in nero e bon.
A questo punto la trama si fa più complicata, forse Adalberto ha davvero trovato Dio a Cernusco.  Forse ha trovato l'Anticristo. Il padre vende la moglie ad un commerciante di carne equina, strane sparizioni colpiscono la popolazione Canadese, il papa sconvolge il mondo intero menandosi l'uccello durante l'angelus. Forse la cartolina è il Segno? Può forse essere che l'occhio meccanico, senza scintilla divina, mercificante e mercificato, che insomma una cartolina turistica possa aver raccolto la Prova delle Prove?
E perchè Godel aveva affittato una casa proprio a Cernusco?
Questi sono i quesiti, il film non dà risposte ma stravolge il senso comune della percezione (aporetica) del mistico.
Seminale.
Se invece cercate un film di Boyle dove un'astronave deve riaccendere il sole ormai morente, con derive logiche, inculate feroci alla fisica einsteiniana, tentativi horror di serie c2, pessimismo prét à porter e cagate assortite allora noleggiatevi, scaricate, rubate, ma vedete Dark Star di Carpenter e per una volta non fate cazzate.

Premessa e difesa preventiva: questo film l'ho visto perché ad entrata gratuita in quanto presentazione del suddetto.
Svolgimento: un film decisamente interessante, la storia di 5 pastori berberi che combattono il crimine di notte travestendosi da Drag Queen e usando come armi pistole semiautomatiche a sola Doppia Azione (questo l'ho aggiunto io).
Per la prima mezz'ora ci si trova di fronte ad una dinamica filmica simile a Die Grosse Stille, riprese temporalmente lunghe, silenzi e contemplazione della Natura Matrigna. Poi l'esplosione di violenza quando la pecora Fendy viene uccisa per puro divertimento da un boss della malavita locale, un ex membro delle forze speciali serbe, omosessuale e narcolettico, Milo. I 5 pastori decidono di passare ai fatti e, grazie al loro passato da trapezisti, riescono ad eliminare le guardie personali di Milo. A quel punto scoppia il finimondo, violenza ipercinetica e destrutturata accompagnata da musiche di Bjork. Il regista, Carlo Manfredi, opta per uno stile visivo chiaramente post(post)moderno proiettando sui corpi dei 5 pastori un secondo film ("Le storie minime di uomini soli") che modifica/ viene modificato l'/dall' andamento della pellicola principale. L'output audio del secondo film è ovviamente a bassissimo volume, non di meno quando le riprese inquadrano un uomo affetto da dolori lancinanti da neoplasia al colon, i suoi gemiti si intrecciano con quelli del film principale, nella scena della tortura di Guapo (uno dei pastori), quando al poveretto vengono "saldate" le palpebre con rame e fiamma ossidrica. Decisiva sul finale la scelta di riprendere tutto dalla soggettiva di Milo, mentre un coro gregoriano decontestualizza l'azione e una sovrapposizone multipla della pellicola con otturatore aperto consente di saturare lo schermo con i corpi/proiezioni dei 5 berberi vendicatori e del loro sottofilm.
Seminale.

PS esiste un'altra pellicola con lo stesso titolo, pare sia immonda, una colata di merda lavica, un filmaccio pseudo-horror con un povero Carlyle che per mantener famiglia e amante si trova a vomitare sangue e a mangiare i colli altrui. Disgustorama.