samedi 22 mai 2010

Annette Messager Project Number Five


The headline of the article in "Floyd Landis takes aim after drugs admission".
It is an article issued of "TimesOnline".
The article was written the 21st May of 2010 by Owen Slot.

The article focuses on an American cyclist Floyd Landis, whose victory in the Tour de France had been annulled following a positive drug test, sent a series of emails to cycling authorities and sponsors in which he admits he doped consistently throughout his career. He also accused other riders and team managers have been involved in doping, including his countryman, Seven-time winner of the Tour de France, Lance Armstrong. So far, Landis had always denied having doped during the Tour de France 2006. He specifically said shortly after he tested positive in 2006: "I am proud to have won the Tour de France, because I was the fittest." The Wall Street Journal, which had access to three of those emails where Landis says his former coach and friend of Lance Armstrong, Johan Bruyneel, had introduced him to the patches of steroids, blood doping and growth hormones during his first years at U.S. Postal in 2002 and 2003. He also writes that Armstrong, he helped win three loops in U.S. Postal Service from 2002 to 2004, has helped him better understand the mechanisms of doping, they had long discussions about it during training, Lance Armstrong was explaining the evolution of how to test for EPO and blood transfusions became necessary because of these new tests inconvenient. Landis scratches in passing the current anti-doping system, calling it a comic, and explains how to take EPO without getting caught.

To my mind,I think that Floyd Landis seeks to bring down as many people as possible in the fall especially Lance Armstrong, since these comments came a few weeks of the Tour de France and California during the dispute that Armstrong, even if it is not quite clear since it does have some precedent in the middle of doping.

dimanche 2 mai 2010

Annette Messager Project Number Four

The headline of the article in "Gulf of Mexico oil spill sparks new US drilling ban".
It is an article from "BBC".
The article was written the 30th April of 2010 by Paul Adams.

The article focuses on a catastrophe that could become more the biggest oil disaster, indeed, the April 20, of 2010, a platform of the energy giant british BP Deepwater Horizon, situated in the Gulf of Mexico, which the well is located 50 miles (80km) from the coast and to 4.900 feet (1.500m) depth.
Sank Thurday, two days after a massive explosion followed by fire, causing a gigantic oil spill estimated at 3.850 sq. miles (9.900 km²).
This cloth which grows, feeds 5.000 barrels (820.000 l) that gush every days, threatening the Louisiana coast.
Eco-system and sinners of Louisiana, barely recovered from the storm Katrina, are again the victim of a disaster.
Bad weather conditions do not facilitate the work of emergency workers and nearly 300 ships and aircraft, in fact, strong winds could bring the petrol in many streams, ponds and lakes of southeast of Louisiana.
To limit damages, the dispersant are sprayed by aircraft from U.S. AIR Force and by BP, 1 million feet (304km) of floating boom have been deployed, portions of the cloth have been inflamed and robot submarines have been sent to stop the leak but so far no success.

To my mind, the tanker group has not taken seriously enough the risks accidents on an oil platform and now that the disaster happened, they have at their disposal that means derisive that can not prevent the ravages of the black tide.