domingo, dezembro 31, 2017

Gurgel X12 1985 - Teste de Tração "Selectraction"

 Freio seletivo

Bom recurso para off-road. Basta frear a roda que está derrapando e o diferencial começa a girar a roda parada, ajudando a sair do atoleiro.Uma idéia simples, barata e bastante funcional.

sábado, dezembro 09, 2017

Warship in rough seas

My warship during a storm

Really the Sea is not for sissies!

During the middle of afternoon, in South Atlantic I looked at the Sea through the bow and I could feel the weather would change in half-hour or less. There was a storm blowing up in front us… the sun vanished from sight behind the dark clouds, the wind blow so hard and the waves became high and high. Suddenly we were caught in a terrible storm on the high seas! Someone could ask: - And were you scared? Of course I was. But after a quarter I felt the warship was behaved so good, the crew was brave and the Captain was a qualified Old Salt. So I kicked my fears out and rose to the bridge where I could see all the fight, at bow – very big waves slammed against the hull, with a boring noise. Iron, steel, machines and men against the angry Nature! But the warship rode the billows as a bold cowboy tamed a savage mustang in a rodeo. After an hour the storm calmed down… Really we won! 

LT-MD A. Zullino 
South Atlantic
(1976)


quinta-feira, novembro 09, 2017

Origem dos ZULLINOS

FAMÍLIA ZULLINO

Origem:

Famiglia ZULLINO è oriunda da Svizzera. Poi alcuni Zullinos sono andato in Italia, Castellamonte (Piemonte - provincia di Torino). Appartenne ad essa Vittorio Zullino (nato Lucedio, 5 gennaio 1799, defunto Novara, 8 gennaio 1841), di Giacinto Zullino, il quale fu intendente di finanza di prima classe, e il 12 dicembre 1840 ebbe la carica di reggente una Divisione nella Segreteria interna. Da costui nacque Giacinto (nato ad Alba, 24 gennaio 1837, defunto Baldissero Canavese, 17 agosto 1898), che fu ispettore generale del genio navale.
La distanza in linea retta tra Castellamonte (Torino) e Torino (Torino) è 35 km, ma la distanza di guida è 48 km. Ci vogliono 45 min per andare da Castellamonte a Torino.

Castellamonte é uma comuna italiana da região do Piemonteprovíncia de Turim, com cerca de 8.999 habitantes. Estende-se por uma área de 38 km², tendo uma densidade populacional de 237 hab/km².
A família depois foi se transferindo para o Sul, por ter encontrado maiores oportunidades de trabalho. Muitos Zullino acabaram se estabelecendo em Venosa, Lucania (Basilicata), província de Potenza.

Atualmente existem Zullinos na Suíça, no Piemonte, na Lombardia, em Venosa (Lucania) e até na Sicília. Outros vieram para São Paulo, Brasil. 












terça-feira, outubro 31, 2017

Yevgenia Albats





Yevgenia Albats

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Yevgenia Markovna Albats
Yevgenia Albats.jpg
Born5 September 1958 (age 59)
MoscowRussian SFSR
NationalityRussian
Alma materMoscow State University
Harvard University
OccupationChief Editor of The New Timesmagazine
Spouse(s)Yaroslav Golovanov
ChildrenOlga (b. 1988)
Yevgenia Markovna Albats (RussianЕвге́ния Ма́рковна Альба́ц, born 5 September 1958[1][2]) is a Russian investigative journalistpolitical scientist, writer and radio host. As of 2011, she works as a chief editor of The New Times magazine.[3] She holds a position in the leadership of the Russian Jewish Congress.

Early life and education[edit]

Albats' father, Mark Yefremovich Albats, was a member of a GRU military reconnaissance team during World War II, residing in German-occupied Ukraine.[4] In 1943 he was wounded and discharged from the Army. Afterward he worked as an engineer at a scientific institution, designing radiolocation systems for the Soviet Army.[1][5] Albats' mother, Yelena Izmaylovskaya, was an actress and a radio news host.[5][6] Albats' elder sister, Tatyana Komarova, is a television host/anchor.[5]
Yevgenia Albats graduated from the Department of Journalism of Moscow State University in 1980. One of her classmates and friends was Anna Politkovskaya, who would become an investigative journalist and was assassinated in 2006.[7]

Journalism career[edit]

Albats started her professional work as a science observer writing about astrophysics and particle physics for the Izvestia newspaper's Sunday supplement, Nedelya. From 1986 to 1992, she worked for the Moscow News. In 1996 to 2006, she worked for Izvestia (led the weekly column We and Our Children) and Novaya Gazeta.[8]
She received the Golden Pen Award from the Russian Union of Journalists for exposing poor conditions in maternity wards in 1989.[9]
Albats was fired from Izvestia in 1997 after she had completed a major article exposing alleged illegal activities by the FSB.[10] She was restored to her position by a court decision on 15 March 1997.[1]
In 2007, Albats became a deputy chief editor of The New Times magazine.[11] On 16 January 2009 she replaced Irena Lisnevskaya as the Chief Editor of the magazine.[12]

Political activities[edit]

From 1993 to 2000, she was a member of the Clemency Commission at the Executive Office of the President of the Russian Federation.

Research and works[edit]

In 2004 Albats was awarded a PhD in political science from Harvard University.[13] She works at the radio station Echo of Moscow and writes for the Moscow Times.
In 1992 Albats was appointed a member of a governmental commission to examine KGB involvement in Soviet coup attempt of 1991.[14][15] As a member of this commission she interviewed KGB officers. Albats described her findings in The State Within a State: The KGB and Its Hold on Russia – Past, Present, and Future[16] in 1994. KGB chairman Vadim Bakatin gave Albats the number of KGB officers as 180,000 in a post-1991 interview. Using the "rule of thumb", "four non-ranking KGB employees for every officer", Albats estimated that the number of KGB employees in Russia in 1992 approached 700,000, "one [political police agent] for every 297 citizens of Russia", as opposed to "one Chekist for every 428 Soviet citizens."[16]
Albats described the KGB as a leading political force rather than a security organization. She wrote that KGB directors Lavrenty BeriaYuri Andropov and Vladimir Kryuchkovmanipulated Communist Party leaders. She asserted that FSB, the successor of KGB, became a totalitarian party.[16] Journalist John Barron,[17] retired KGB Major General Oleg Kalugin[18] and the highest-ranking known Soviet bloc defector, Lt. Gen. Ion Mihai Pacepa[19] reportedly shared Albats's point of view.
In 1992 Albats published an article in Izvestia quoting documents from KGB archives that David Karr was "a competent KGB source" who "submitted information to the KGB on the technical capabilities of the United States and other capitalist countries".[20] She cited KGB notes describing transfers of money to communist parties of United States, Finland, France, Italy, as well as "commercial dealings" of Rajiv Gandhi's family with Soviet foreign trade.[21][22] Albats learned that the KGB employed the future Russian Patriarch Alexius IIas an agent under a nickname Drozdov.[16] KGB defector Vasili Mitrokhin and dissident priest Gleb Yakunin who had access to KGB archives reported the same.[16][23]
Albats published a book, The Jewish question, in 1995.[24][25]

Talk shows[edit]

As of 2009 Albats hosted a radio talk program at Echo of Moscow. In February 2007 she held a talk with Olga Kryshtanovskaya, director of the Moscow-based Centre for the Study of Elites. Kryshtanovskaya said that FSB members and other "siloviks" took key positions in the Russian government, Parliament and business. These members share their military background and nationalistic views. She noted that most FSB members remain in the "acting reserve" even when they formally leave the organization. All "acting reserve" members receive an FSB salary, follow FSB instructions, and remain above the law because their organization protects them, according to Kryshtanovskaya.[26][27]
In 2006, Albats criticized Anna Arutunyan[28] who had written an article in the Moscow News about the murdered journalist Anna Politkovskaya.[29] Arutunyan wrote that Politkovskaya became an activist and that her articles contained "inaccuracies".
Online columnists Yelena Kalashnikova and Oleg Kashin found "boorishness" in Albats's criticism.[30][31]

Family and personal life[edit]

Albats was married to journalist, writer and science popularizer Yaroslav Golovanov and had a daughter, Olga (b. 1988).

sábado, maio 06, 2017

VW RAIL BUGGY (off-road)

Wheelbase = 1,80 m




 CASTER


VW RAIL BUGGY Cronos Crotalus - wheelbase = 1,80 m
VW BUGGY - wheelbase = 2,10 m
VW BAJA - wheelbase = 2,40 m



REAR WHEEL




quarta-feira, janeiro 25, 2017

Vista aérea da cidade do PORTO - OPORTO aerial view





OPORTO was the motherland of my Mom. She was born at Rua de Camões, Freguesia de Santo Ildefonso, at dawn, in JUNE 13, 1923. Douro River, Ribeira, D. Luiz bridge, Clérigos towner, etc. are wonderful. Of course OPORTO is a nice and puissant city. 50% of my DNA came from OPORTO and Lamego. The other 50% came from Campania and Lucania (Italy). I love Portugal and Italy.

sábado, janeiro 14, 2017

Tanque de gasolina com barril de chope

Tamanho 30 ou 50 litros. Espessura da chapa de inox 1,5 a 2 mm. O antigo era metade disto. Originalmente são feitos para suportar até 3 Bar de pressão (43 libras - PSI), algo desnecessário para tanque de gasolina, mas obriga uma construção mais robusta e esmerada. Comprando-se usado o preço varia de R$ 150,00 a 300,00. Não enferruja e existem várias marcas à disposição. No meu caso optei por 30 litros e foi possível instalar na posição vertical. A vantagem é que o fundo é côncavo e o tubo de combustível pode ser soldado no centro, captando otimamente bem o combustível. Mas quem optar por 50 litros poderá instalar na posição horizontal, como a maioria das Gaiolas. Dois tubinhos soldados na lateral permitem a confecção de um singelo e eficaz medidor de combustível, através de uma mangueira de plástico transparente.