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La Bidassoa à Hendaye, baie de Chingoudy (France)

Dany ERDOCIO

A l'approche de l'Océan atlantique, la rivière Bidassoa prend ses aises dans la baie de Chingoudy (Txingudi) et mêle ses eaux douces descendues des monts de Navarre aux marées salines. Depuis un traité de 1659, le lit de la rivière assure la frontière entre France et Espagne. Sur la rive droite française, Urrugne et Hendaye, sur la rive gauche ibérique, Irun et Hondarribia. (Guide du Pays Basque)

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"odds are, if you're reading this in the United States, you live in a zone where U.S. Customs & Border Patrol (CBP) agents have the right to stop you and ask if you're a U.S. citizen or resident.

The Immigration and Nationality Act gives the CBP authority to operate without a warrant within a "reasonable distance" of the U.S. border. In 1953, the Justice Department defined "reasonable distance" as 100 miles -- a number that has never been revisited since, even though it means a huge chunk of the country is now a "border zone" where U.S. citizens can be stopped and questioned.

While a person's constitutional rights don't cease to exist within these zones, they do allow the CBP to set up checkpoints and interrogate travelers. Agents are supposed to have probable cause before they detain a driver or search a car -- and only for suspected immigration violations -- but civil rights experts say they often ignore these rules and go well beyond the limits of their authority.

Normal Law to have in a Normal Country

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Game Review: Border Zone

Marc Blank, Infocom, 1987

I thoroughly enjoyed this game.  The structure and gameplay is unusual for an Infocom game.  You play different but inter-connected characters in three separate chapters.  Rather than having a large world to explore with occasional encounters with puzzles, each chapter is almost just a single complex puzzle.  The first chapter finds you on a train travelling from a fictional Communist country across the “Iron Curtain” border, and a mysterious stranger asks you to take a secret document across the border.  The gameplay really pushed the limits of a text-based game.  The game is played in “real time,” with a clock in the corner ticking down the minutes.  In chapter 2, a clever puzzle has you watching the movements of border guards, represented by the symbol “>”, as they make their patrols back and forth along an electrified fence.  Maybe this kind of puzzle would have been even more effective in a graphical interface, but this way I could envision the setting myself, adding in all the thrilling little details.

The game does require you to replay each scenario over and over, trying different approaches each time as you gradually work your way to to the best possible outcome.  While I guess this could start to get annoying, I found that it was a fun and novel way to play a text-based game.  Rather than ever feeling “stuck” and unable to do anything at all, one could constantly be trying different things or doing the tasks at different times, each time coming out with a new ending for the chapter.

I suppose one criticism would be that the chapters themselves do present fairly limited little worlds, and jumping from character to character can make the game overall feel a little disjointed.  But personally, I didn’t mind this.  In fact, it was pretty clever to have a character that you interact with in chapters 1 & 3 be the character you play in chapter 2.  I felt that the story was clever and exciting, and the puzzles were the just the right level of difficulty for me.  And there’s an excellent “hint” option in case you need a push in the right direction!  9/10.

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Hundreds of Serbian police deploy in border zone with Hungary after deadly shooting among migrants - Times of India

BELGRADE: Hundreds of Serbian officers were dispatched Saturday into a border area with Hungary, where they detained several people after a shooting between migrants killed three people and injured one, police said. Reports of violence and gun battles have become common near the border between Serbia and European Union member nation Hungary. Thousands of migrants have been camping in the area,…

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Branco Cartoons: Trump Border Wall vs Biden Administration Border Zone policies

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North Korea threatens to send army into demilitarized border zone

North Korea threatens to send army into demilitarized border zone

North Korea’s military has cautioned it is prepared to enter the peaceful area separating the two Koreas.

The danger is mostly in light of deserter bunches in the South sending purposeful publicity material north.

Throughout the end of the week, Kim Yo-jong, the sister of North Korean pioneer Kim Jong-un, said she’d requested the military to get ready for the progression.

Furthermore, the…

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Accetta Minerva la sfida … la dea dai biondi capelli si corrucciò del felice successo e stracciò la trapunta tela che scopre le colpe dei numi e colpì con la spola di citoriaco bosso più volte la fronte di Aracne. Non la patì l’infelice: furente si strinse la gola con un capestro e restò penzoloni. Atena, commossa, la liberò, ma le disse: - Pur vivi o malvagia, e pendendo com’ora pendi. E perché ti tormenti nel tempo futuro, per la tua stirpe continui il castigo e pei tardi nepoti…

 “Spero che il nome non faccia schifo come il costume...”

“E tu chi sei?”

“Indossi una maschera per essere libera, per mostrare ciò che veramente sei: è... singolare”.

“Chi cazzo sei? Un nome, please”

“Combattere ... quindi è questo il tuo fine? E cosa saresti?”

“Quindi un Ragno Senza Nome?”

“E pensi di riuscirci davvero? Te e quale esercito?”

“Che cerchi, tenderfoot?”

                                                       _________

Un nome ha importanza specifica, definisce quello che sei, la tua persona. Forse per molti non lo è, ma una volta che assumi quell’identità, indossando una Maschera, ha una responsabilità. La responsabilità del nome e di quello che sei, che vuoi rappresentare. Essere libera. Combattere per qualcosa. Per sé stessi. Per gli altri. Per un Causa.

E lo ha pensato molte volte mentre cuciva quel costume, il settimo. Ed il è settimo è quello definitivo, niente più tute che si rompono e si bucano al primo proiettile. Ha studiato a lungo un tessuto adatto e forte, ha studiato e disegnato personalmente, perfezionando ferita dopo ferita e adesso eccolo stretto tra quelle dita bucate e arrossate dalle ore di cucitura. Sembrava impossibile ma alla fine è uscito fuori qualcosa di ben riuscito, che non pare più uscito da un qualche negozio dei cinesi. E mentre cuciva, mentre “tesseva”, giorno dopo giorno, è cresciuta anche quella consapevolezza che si fa carico di tante cose.

E lo vede ancora nella Border Zone il volto di quel ragazzino che è morto davanti a lei. L’ultima cosa che ha visto è stata la sua maschera. Ha visto un volto così giovane spirare. E’ stata una scena quasi allucinante, nel mezzo di una battaglia, con due proiettili in corpo.

Forse è stato lì, mentre quella vita si spegnava che qualcosa è scattato dentro di lei, che ha visto e compreso. Per essere una che ha sempre finto di fregarsene di tutto e di tutti, si è gettata nella mischia con troppa facilità.

E adesso, che ha un costume, che ha quei pensieri, che ha soprattutto un ideale, può finalmente, essere quello che vuole, quello che è. Può guardarsi allo specchio indossando la maschera e riconoscervi il suo volto.

Il volto di Aracne.

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A British family on vacation say they accidentally drove into the U.S. They’ve spent days detained with their 3-month-old baby.

“We have been treated like criminals here, stripped of our rights, and lied to,” Eileen Connors wrote in a sworn statement. “It is undoubtedly the worst experience we have ever lived through.”

'Instead of being allowed to return to Canada or the U.K., Eileen Connors alleges that her entire family, including her 3-month-old son, ended up detained at the Berks Family Residential Center in Leesport, Pa., where they have spent more than a week living in “frigid” and “filthy” conditions. As of late Monday, Bridget Cambria, the Connorses’ lawyer, told The Washington Post that the British family was still at the center waiting to be deported.'