martes, 24 de abril de 2012

The hen asked for books

Long time ago, a hen went to a library and told to the seller:

-- Book, book!!

The seller, astonished, gave her a book and put it on her head. Then, the hen left the store. But, 15 minutes later, the hen came back and threw the book onto the counter.

-- Book, book!! -- told again.

The seller, astonished again, gave her an other book and put it on her head. Then, the hen left the store. But, 15 minutes later, the hen came back again and threw the book onto the counter.

-- Book, book!!! -- for the thirth time.

The seller, seriously than before, gave her an other book and put it on her head, and the hen left the store. But the seller, tiptoeing, closed the store and followed her. When the hen came to a river bank, the seller opened her eyes surprised. There was a huge frog, who told:

--Read it, read it...


by Peter Fuchs CC NC SA

martes, 28 de febrero de 2012

Contaminating flow on Oiartzun river (27-2-2012)

Translated from the original post.

Yesterday noon, we had lunch in Merka-Oiartzun and when we left, we saw the Oiartzun river all white (here). I decided to call 112 and I shortly learnt two things:

That´s posible, nowadays, to call 112 and be answered by a monolingual person. I begged for an Euskara speaker and, in the second try, a young boy answered. The trouble wasn´t more than 20 seconds, but I felt it a few long. Thanks to God that there "only" was endangered the life of river fauna, and not myself or another human... I asked for an Euskara speaker, I did act... on an egoist (and anthropocentric) way. Again.

And I also learnt that a contaminated river can clean itself on a hour! When I called to 112, till somebody came, I went upwards the river, taking photos, and when I came back to my factory the river was clean in front of it. Thanks to having the camera. "But what are you saying? it´s clean!" Told me my colleague. 

I´ve listened that people from 112 work great and I believe. But if want to improve the service, I suggest these two ways.

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You can see there, that the white stuff is coming from Tajo, Alcampo... not from Iurrita watermill.

I got into the factory, while I had to do a pare of things before 15:00, and took the car and looked for the origin again at 15:10. I saw a worker of the Water Agency or the Basque Goverment. He already had found wich draining hole the liquid had came from (from here) and the trace took him to a small chest, into the polygon, among some companys. I don´t know, but I think he wasn´t pretty sure the responsible was going to be caught. He was kind. While I wanted to send him the pictures, I begged him an e-mail but I think it was the first time for him and he didn´t know any e-mail by heart. I gave him my telefone number (as I did with people from 112). I´m not sure they are calling...

We have an  album, at least.

I don´t want any mess, I´m not denouncing more than I´m doing here.