Tuesday, March 23, 2010

Ansel postumo

Canyon de Chelly Arizona - Copyright National Archives, Ansel Adams

Per chi ancora non avesse avuto occasione di vederle, segnalo le foto inedite di Ansel Adams che l’Interior Department Statunitense ha pubblicato di recente sul suo sito, dedicando alcune pagine ad un lavoro che nel 1941 fu commissionato al famoso fotografo che decise di intitolarlo “The Mural Project 1941-1942“.

Si tratta di 26 scatti eseguiti nel miglior stile di Adams, mostrati solo ora al pubblico in una esposizione visibile dal vivo nei corridoi del Dipartimento o, più facilmente cliccando qui .

Per chi volesse approfondire c’è anche un interessante video a questo indirizzo.

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Comunicazione di servizio.
Per chi fosse interessato, volevo segnalare che ho aggiunto un bottone nella colonna di destra del blog che facilita notevolmente l’iscrizione agli avvisi via email che il sistema inoltra automaticamente quando vengono pubblicati nuovi post.
Un metodo semplice e senza sforzi per rimanere sempre in contatto che si aggiunge al classico sistema dei feed RSS che trovate sempre in alto a destra.

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Sunday, March 21, 2010

A Family’s Heartbreak: A Parent’s Introduction to Parental Alienation

By:Mike Jeffries

A Family’s Heartbreak: A Parent’s Introduction to Parental Alienation, is the true story of one parent’s struggle to maintain a normal, loving relationship with his young son in the face of overwhelming odds. From the emotionally devastating actions of the child’s other parent, to a court system and mental health community ill-equipped to deal with a destructive family dynamic, A Family’s Heartbreak: A Parent’s Introduction to Parental Alienation is both an education in parental alienation and an eye opening experience for parents who don’t believe this could happen to them.

Introduction to A Family’s Heartbreak

IN THE SPAN OF SEVEN DAYS I filed for divorce, was arrested and falsely accused of child abuse. I also walked into a clinic with all the symptoms of a heart attack. But you know what? Those events were the high points of my week. Divorce, arrests, child abuse charges and heart attacks are like marching in the Disney World parade compared to the world of parental alienation.

The concept of parental alienation is pretty simple – one parent deliberately damages, and in some cases destroys, the previously healthy, loving relationship between his or her child and the child’s other parent. In a severe case the alienating parent and child work together to successfully eliminate the previously loved Mom or Dad from the child’s life.

My introduction to parental alienation began on the night of July 14, 2004. Until that night my 11-year-old son and I had a wonderful relationship. By the early morning hours of July 15, 2004 we didn’t have a relationship.

I know what you’re thinking – a normal, healthy father/son relationship doesn’t go from hugs to heartbreak in a few hours. I believed the same thing. I was wrong. Parental alienation is like a train barreling through a dark tunnel with its lights off. I was standing in the middle of the tracks when the train emerged from the darkness. I never saw it coming.

Of course, now I can look back and say I should have at least heard the train coming. Now I can point to things my then-wife said to my son one and even two years before that might have set off alarms in my mind. But my son and I had a normal, healthy relationship. I couldn’t conceive that any parent would do something so emotionally destructive to his or her child. What I didn’t realize is that a variety of emotional issues could combine with the anger, hurt and bitterness of divorce to drive some people to unimaginably vindictive and destructive heights.

On that July night my attorney hadn’t even finished drafting my divorce complaint when my future ex-wife started screaming at me within earshot of my son. According to her I was solely responsible for our impending divorce. “Your father is abandoning us,” she told him.

My ex-wife had my son sleep in her bed that night. He was still sleeping in her bed when I moved out of the house one month later. “I need you to protect me,” she kept telling him.

Before I moved out, I couldn’t even get him to have dinner with me. “Please don’t leave me,” Mom begged him. “I don’t want to be alone.”

I’ve learned a lot about parental alienation since those first nights. I’ve had a lot of time on my hands. As I write this, I haven’t spent any time alone with my son in almost three years.

One thing I’ve learned is that an alienating parent is only interested in filling his or her unhealthy emotional needs at the expense of the other parent and their child. The alienating parent doesn’t understand that he or she is also hurting the child by forcing the kid to choose a side in the parental conflict.

I’ve also learned that parental alienation is not just a single crime against the other parent, but three crimes against the child.

The first crime is that the alienating parent doesn’t acknowledge that every child is one half of each parent. Every time the alienating parent tells the child how horrible the other parent is, the alienating parent is telling the child that half of him (or her) is horrible.

The second crime is that the alienating parent teaches the child that cutting off contact with people is an acceptable way to handle anger, hurt and disappointment. The world is full of people. One day the child will be an adult. The child will grow up without the appropriate coping skills to have normal, healthy relationships with other adults.

The third crime is that one day the child will look back on the alienating parent’s behavior from an adult perspective. He or she will then realize that the alienating parent robbed the child of something very precious – the love and attention of the other parent. The child-turned-adult will realize that the trust placed in the alienating parent was misplaced. He or she will feel betrayed. At that point the adult will not just have one damaged relationship with a parent, but damaged relationships with both parents.

The third crime is the worst crime of all.

I’ve learned so much about parental alienation I decided to write this book. But before you read any further there’s something you should know. I’m not a psychologist. I’m not a lawyer. I’m just a Dad. That’s all. A long time ago I would have identified myself as a journalist, but my last byline was during President Ronald Reagan’s administration. The statute of limitations on my journalism credentials expired long ago.

Yet my old journalism experience came in handy when I started studying parental alienation. My goal was to regain my relationship with my son. I knew I lived on an emotional roller coaster of anger, depression, helplessness and disillusionment. How were these emotions affecting my ability to achieve my goal? I couldn’t imagine what my son was living through. How could I address his issues when I didn’t even know what they were? What about family court judges, attorneys, family relation counselors, psychologists, and even the police? How could these divorce-war veterans help, or hurt, my chances of ever having a normal relationship with my son again?

I approached parental alienation like a journalist approaching a news story. I gathered the facts. I interviewed a variety of people – therapists, attorneys and victims. And I passed on everything I learned to the psychologists, attorneys and counselors involved in my case.

Guess what? Many of these professionals had never heard of parental alienation. And the few that had heard of it didn’t really understand how to approach a severe case legally or therapeutically. During my crash course in parental alienation I found lots of valuable books on children and divorce. These books discussed alienation-type symptoms, but few books tackled parental alienation head on.

One book that did tackle the subject was Dr. Richard Gardner’s The Parental Alienation Syndrome. Gardner’s book became my bible. I quoted Gardner chapter and verse when I talked to people involved in my case. But Gardner wrote his book for psychologists and attorneys. On the title page of The Parental Alienation Syndrome, Gardner even calls his book “a guide for mental health and legal professionals.” Naturally, Gardner used a lot of legal and psychological jargon to explain parental alienation.

Since Gardner talked about the life of an alienated parent in clinical terms, I wrote A Family’s Heartbreak: A Parent’s Introduction to Parental Alienation to address alienation in human terms. The book is based on a true story. I wrote it from a parent’s perspective. There’s a big difference between clinically dissecting the anatomy of an alienated parent and being on the receiving end of the alienating behavior. Think about the difference between studying a driver’s manual and climbing behind the wheel of a car for the very first time. Reading the manual doesn’t quite measure up to stepping on the gas pedal.

Since I’m not a psychologist, I left the psychological analysis in this book to a professional with experience helping parental alienation families. I shared my story with him. You can sit in on our “sessions” and hear him clinically explain parental alienation. I’ll also give you my perspective on parental alienation. I’ve learned a lot about the legal and psychological professionals forced to deal with this relatively new phenomenon. Perhaps my perspective will save you some time and money. Maybe my experience will help convince legal and mental health professionals that parental alienation is not something they can just dismiss as “bad parenting.” Most of all, I hope my experience will help your family avoid what my family went through.

A big part of this book relates examples of alienating behavior. Each one is true. I’ve presented some of these examples in the form of a journal. This isn’t merely a writer’s technique. I really kept a journal in the years leading up to and immediately following my divorce. How the journal developed is a story in itself.

At first I told myself I was keeping a journal because I would never remember all the incredible but true events I would need to remember if my divorce went to trial. I was right on both counts. We went to trial, and a large portion of my testimony focused on my future ex-wife’s alienating behavior. I wouldn’t have remembered a fraction of that behavior without the journal. I highly recommend keeping a journal to anyone who anticipates a nasty trial and child custody battle.

I also discovered that keeping a journal is good therapy. There were many times during my ordeal when I became frustrated or angry. My overwhelming desire at those times was to call someone, anyone, involved in my case and just start yelling. Writing down my frustrations rather than subjecting someone to them was a much better way to handle my emotions.

One day I was writing in my journal when the old journalist inside me re-emerged. I began thinking about parental alienation as a story that needed telling. I found myself editing my journal entries like a copy editor – shortening sentences, comparing verb tenses and double-checking facts. At that point I began not only writing for me but also for you.

Since I was writing for both of us, I had to make some decisions on your behalf. I edited the story heavily to keep the focus on alienation rather than divorce. I also grouped similar examples of alienating behavior together in the journal chapters to illustrate certain concepts better. Finally, I had to make a decision on the use of gender and pronouns when talking about parents and children.

I couldn’t write an entire book writing Mom or Dad, him or her, he or she, every time I referred to a parent. In some chapters I thought it was important to remain gender neutral in my references to the alienating parent. Despite my best efforts, you’ll notice how awkward the language became. So in other parts of the book I picked a gender for the alienating parent, the alienated parent and the alienated child and stuck with those choices. I also had to decide whether to discuss the alienated child in the singular “child” or the plural “children.” So in the pages that follow the alienating parent is generally described as female. The alienated parent is male. The alienated child is male and referred to in the singular rather than the plural.

To be honest, I didn’t spend much time considering alternatives. I am an alienated father, I was married to an alienating mother and my son is an alienated child. I tried not to confuse either of us by using one set of pronouns to tell my family’s story and another set of pronouns for generic references.

I sincerely apologize to all alienated Moms if I make it appear that only Dads are victims of parental alienation. Fathers successfully alienate children from mothers too. I’ve heard from many alienated mothers who are suffering the pain and heartache that only an alienated parent can know. I decided to title this book, A Family’s Heartbreak: A Parent’s Introduction to Parental Alienation, because Moms, Dads and children are victims of alienating behavior. In the final analysis, an alienating parent is an alienating parent – regardless of gender. If alienated mothers were to change all my male references to female references and vice versa, the examples and explanations of parental alienation would apply equally to them.

Another decision I had to make was whether to follow Dr. Richard Gardner’s lead and write about parental alienation as a syndrome, PAS, or focus on parental alienation behaviors. In this case I did spend a long time considering my decision.

I ultimately decided to drop “Syndrome” from all my parental alienation references because PAS isn’t in the DSM — the psychology profession’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual. The manual is the clinician’s bible – a guide to symptoms and syndromes and the definitive diagnosis on any legitimate mental health condition.

PAS may not be in the DSM, but alienating behavior still inflicts pain, heartache and incalculable emotional damage on the children, parents and extended family members involved in these horrible situations. Parents on the receiving end of alienating behavior don’t really care if professionals classify the behavior as a syndrome or a bad alignment of the stars and planets. They just want someone to help them restore their previously normal, loving relationships with their children.

I believe one day mental health professionals will classify parental alienation as a “Syndrome.” Until then, I am quite comfortable writing about “parental alienation” as behavior and let others debate what to call this very destructive family dynamic. However, I did use the phrase “Parental Alienation Syndrome” or “PAS” in this book when I discussed or quoted other professionals who used the phrase in their work.

I didn’t plan on writing the definitive work on parental alienation and in that respect I’ve succeeded. Writers do their best work writing about their experiences. Not all alienation cases resemble my family’s story. An alienated parent needs to examine his or her own personal situation and consult with professionals before completely understanding the circumstances of his or her own case. But whether you are male or female, I hope this story helps you find some answers, comfort and solutions to your alienation nightmare.

I also hope you become outraged that parents alienate their children from the other parent. I hope you become further outraged that judges, attorneys and many mental health professionals consider the actions of an alienating parent just part of a normal day at the office when working divorce and child custody cases. I hope you recognize that parental alienation is a form of emotional child abuse that we can’t ignore any longer.

Most of all, I hope that this book, in some small way, helps alienated parents and children begin rebuilding their previously loving relationships.

By:Mike Jeffries

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The Lucifer Effect

I always have a propensity towards psychological effects named after people, places, phenomenon, history, or even animals… examples : halo effect, butterfly effect, sheep effect, chameleon effect, Stockholm syndrome, withdrawal effect..Abiding by Newtons 3rd law, we can work backwards and realize that there is a cause for all these, its like a cause-effect or action-reaction  like..

One thing that caught my eye just few minutes back is the “Lucifer Effect”. The first thing i did was google “lucifer” . Lucifer refers to a pagan based or christian faith based belief that Lucifer was an angel sent to earth but ultimately became a Satan. I instantly realized that what Lucifer effect would mean. It is simple : What makes good people turn evil!

“The “Lucifer Effect” describes the point in time when an ordinary, normal person first crosses the boundary between good and evil to engage in an evil action. It represents a transformation of human character that is significant in its consequences. Such transformations are more likely to occur in novel settings, in “total situations,” where social situational forces are sufficiently powerful to overwhelm, or set aside temporally, personal attributes of morality, compassion, or sense of justice and fair play”

At the outset the subject feels/sounds very heavy and it became heavier and heavier as I digged more on Lucifer effect. Youtube has put up videos of “Stanford Prison Experiment”. I highly recommend watching all the parts : More Info:

Stanford Prison Experience: Information about the psychological study

Phil Zambardo Talks to MIT students..

The book about Lucifer Effect by Phil Zambardo can be found in the aforementioned link.

What happens when you put good people in an evil place? Does humanity win over evil, or does evil triumph? These are some of the questions we posed in this dramatic simulation of prison life conducted in the summer of 1971 at Stanford University.

The Lucifer Effect raises a fundamental question about the nature of human nature: How is it possible for ordinary, average, even good people to become perpetrators of evil? In trying to understand unusual, or aberrant behavior, we often err in focusing exclusively on the inner determinants of genes, personality, and character, as we also tend to ignore what may be the critical catalyst for behavior change in the external Situation or in the System that creates and maintains such situations.

This work finds accurate parallels with the current war torn situation in Mid East..How???? Most of you would be aware of the Abu Ghraib prison abuse scandal few years back on how military was using torture as technique for interrogation. Phil Zambardo was actively involved in the prisoner trail and he comes up with a reason that psychology has  explanation for such complex , wild behavior.  For people who just saw the Prisoners who were abused by the US military with shock and awe , Phil comes up with a simple and solid psychological reasoning for such drastic behavioral shifts even in the most noble of men.

The report said the military police within that site were part of a unit that was not properly trained for internment operations, lacked discipline and standard operating procedures, had been on duty in Iraq for far longer than its members had expected and were under constant threat of random attack by insurgents outside the prison walls. The soldiers lacked even the minimal luxuries of Army life in Iraq — like a barbershop — and were grossly understaffed. The lapses of discipline that occurred as their morale plummeted.

Kind of heavy at the outset when you just look at prison abuse, defunct morality, psychology , evil etc but from a purely medical, social and psychological perspective even such wild, weird complex, erratic, behavior have an explanation. The positive aspect of this comprehensive research is that new guards are being trained with the prison experiment videos. Every class room in psychology department uses this study to come up with logic behind why we have child killers, juvenile jihadists etc.  Hopefully it would lead to some kind of a conclusion and early detection of such psychological patterns is highly helpful in preventing the evil winning over good scenario.


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Saturday, March 20, 2010

Koji Osakaya - Downtown Portland; C-

This mediocre sushi restaurant in downtown Portland was rated subpar for two major reasons:

Reason 1: Mystery food. My pickle salad appetizer had pickled daikon, pickled ginger, and a mysterious beet-dyed pickled slivers that I thought might be pickled plums. It didn’t taste bad, but I prefer informed eating. The waitress didn’t know what it was, the cooks couldn’t identify it – I was going to have to wait for the manager to come back for identification. As the manager hadn’t returned by the time I was ready to leave, I’ll never know.

Reason 2: Bad rice. It’s glaringly obvious when rice is poorly cooked, and the rice here was gluey and unpleasant in my mouth. The fact that it was slightly warm under each piece of fish, which I usually prefer in sushi dishes, did not help the fact that it was overcooked using too much water.

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Popular Phoenix,Ariz. Council Member Michael Johnson Shoved,Cuffed, And Brutalized, By The Very Police He Put His Council Seat On The Line To Support!!!

Councilman Michael Johnson swearing in to serve the citizens of Phoenix...

Councilman Michael Johnson swearing-in to serve the citizens of Phoenix...

How ironic!!!...Lesson of the day from the Phoenix Police Departmentt: Unless you hold some political clout, getting roughed up by the cops is gonna float right under the radar.

Moderately Conservative Democratic and popular prominent city council member Michael Johnson, of Phoenix,Arizona, was beat up and handcuffed by an officer of the Phoenix Police Departmentt, on the scene of a neighbor’s house that was on fire. Councilman Johnson is a former Phoenix Police detective for 20 years and is now retired and serving as an elected official on the Phoenix City Council.(SOURCE)

Councilman Johnson, having served as an officer of the law, and supporter the “thin-blue-line”for over 20 years,has been a staunch supporter of “Americas toughestt sheriff” Joe Arpaio, and he bravely put his council seat on the line when he supported and campaigned for a sales tax to be waged in order to provide the police force with more financial stability.

Maybe some police officers can get raises, keep their jobs, and more officers can be hired to put out on the streets, so the citizens of Phoenix can continue to have safe and secure lives for their family and friends.

Beloved,yet brutalized by the cops,Councilman Michael Johnson

Beloved,yet brutalized by the cops,Councilman Michael Johnson

Well, early this morning,two members of the Phoenix police department let Council member Johnson see just how much they appreciate his support–they beat him down, and treated him like every other powerless citizen that they routinely victimize,if you should DARE disagree or simply engage a street officer in a reasonable conversation that does not allow him or her to intimidate or dominate the situation at hand.

The practice of utilizing lethal physical force and the routine abuse of power by the police on the proletariat is an injustice that typically goes unreported in the media,and is widely known to be true, but there has rarely been any credible evidence to prove this fact, because of the strength of the thin blue line, and the sycophantic blind faith hero-worship by many in the neo-conservative public at large society.

Most neocons and frightened citizens believe that the police can do no wrong, and that their actions should never be questioned.

This is the genesis of the problem…Anybody that carries a gun legally, and knows that they have a legal right to kill or severely whoever they choose to unchecked ,…unfortunately will.

They are what you call Fascist…and they enjoy abusing their power, and terrorizing their community, under the cover of the badge.

The name of the offending, rouge officer involved in this event, 27-year-old Officer Brian Authement.

Now…Officer Authement does not too much to worry about, given the recent national history of similar events.

Councilman Johnson is black and a Democrat, so a lot of citizens in Phoenix and around the country are going to immediately believe that he was at fault, and disregard the evidence…as well as the police apologist running for city council will whore this unseemly event out to their tea-party constituents, and fire up the haters and bigots in their community that applaud such abuses of power,and why not… the thin-blue-line has gotten away with blatant murder without any repercussions,..so why should they worry in this instance????…

The dark side of the phoenix police department.

The dark side of the phoenix police department.

…he’s just a black liberal Democrat, and he probably deserved it!!!He must have done something to provoke that young princely police officer!!!…who is probably Republican.i mean, if he did not beat him down for asking him a question, then he would not have been doing his job!!!..

Michael Johnson was concerned about a neighbor whose house was on fire, and he had known this neighbor as a good friend for many years, and the neighbor is an invalid. He was just trying to be a Good Samaritan,just like when he voted to finance raises for the police department.(SOURCE)

It was the middle of the night, and he was startled awake to the sounds of sirens,and the blazing fire next door….he was concerned for his neighbor.He used his police training to get permission from the fire chief on the scene to go to the property to check on the neighbor, because he thought he might be trapped inside, given the fact that he is bed ridden.The emergency responders did not know that!

Upon approaching the house, he came into contact with the 27-year-old junior officer Brian Authement who was acting erratically, and was quite possibly looking to exhort his own perceived power on the “perps”in the community, where the house was burning, because when Johnson explained to him what he was doing there, and his authorization to proceed,… the officer decided to escalate the discussion to a physical altercation.(SOURCE)

The officer allegedly told him to stay where he was and not move.

At that point Councilman Johnson once again asked a fire battalion chief if he could go check on his neighbor and the fire battalion chief said it was okay.

When Officer Authement saw the council member he confronted him about leaving the area in front of his home and the fact that he had moved. The officer then reportedly threw the council member to the ground and handcuffed him as punishment for his movement.(SOURCE)

What happened next is reprehensible!!!…the officer brutalized the council member, and threatened to drag him across the street like a slave, and other unnecessary actions that are simply unprofessional.

Michael Johnson was rescued from the beating only because a fireman recognized him and the police chief was notified to come out to the scene.

….obviously, given that the two officers involved are white, and Michael Johnson is a black man,many are rushing to claim that this racially,power abusing , racial event… could not be racially motivated.(SOURCE)

You know, that’s the New Racism that allows you to participate in and do racist things, with the comfort of knowing that you can then turn around ,and claim those that confront you about it-are the racist, and you are not!!!..WTF?!?

You are just having fun…albeit a “Compton Cookout”!!!

I guess that’s what the racist mean when they say that we are living in Post Racist America..they get to be 1000% more racist, and lie about it that much more.

Cowards….

This past summer, Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates was brutalized by a cop in a racially motivated event, and the neocons and police sycophantic fanatics twisted the truth behind the motivation for the arrest, and got away with it simply because they hate the fact that the President is black,we will have universal healthcare for all, and the proletariat feels empowered.

They got away with it the Gates scandal because the Professor acted belligerently to the officer, but that is not the case with the 20 year veteran cop, currently city council member Johnson…

In this case, they just got caught@!!!..(Click here to read a statement from Councilman Michael Johnson)

The officer has been put on paid administrative leave pending and internal affair’s investigation, which is like a paid vacation.I think he should be immediately relieved of his duty and his badge.Let him go be a stormtrooper for the skinhead KKKlan and just be done with it!!!(SOURCE)

Believe me,we will be following the developments surrounding this case, as Council member Johnson is a close personal friend of my family, and I can guarantee you, the KKKops are in the wrong in this sordid affair!!!…

Brutal rouge Phoenix P.D. KKKop Officer  Brian Authement

Brutal rouge Phoenix P.D. KKKop Officer Brian Authement

Read more of this story here…

AZCentral.com

Phoenix NewTimes

AZFamily.com

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Thursday, March 18, 2010

Thác Niagara

Nếu có dịp đến thăm viếng New York nơi tôi đang sống, mời các bạn thử tham quan thác Niagara nằm giữa tiểu bang New York và Canada, đẹp và thơ mộng, nơi hẹn hò của tình nhân khắp thế giới, nhiều người tới đây thăm viếng và tổ chức đám cưới ở đây.

Việt Nam mình có “Miền Nam để nhất Thác”, thác Pongour ở Đà Lạt. Mời các bạn cùng chúng tôi thăm viếng Niagara Falls, một thác nước nổi tiếng khắp thế giới, đẹp, thơ mộng và vỉ đại, để xem thác Niagara có thể so sánh được với thác Pongour không. Mỗi thác một vẻ, thác nào cũng đẹp và thơ mộng phải không? Ở một nước nhỏ, thác lớn quá sẽ không cân xứng, phải không? Mời các bạn thưởng thức nét đẹp thác Niagara Trời cho chúng ta.

Cả nước Việt Nam mình có 3 triệu du khách đến thăm mỗi năm. Riêng thác Niagara mỗi năm có hơn 14 triệu du khách khắp thế giới đến tham quan, trong số đó có rất nhiều cặp tình nhân đến đây hẹn hò hoặc hưởng tuần trăng mật. Niagara nổi tiếng thế giới nhờ cuốn phim nổi tiếng do Marilyn Monroe đóng vào năm 1954, và mới đây phim Superman II. Bài hát “The river of no return” nói về giòng sông Niagara đổ vào Thác..(Sẽ bổ túc sau)

“Thác Niagara (tiếng Anh: Niagara Falls; tiếng Pháp: les Chutes du Niagara) là thác nước ở sông Niagara tại Bắc Mỹ, nằm ở đường biên giới của Hoa Kỳ và Canada.

Thác Niagara bao gồm 3 thác riêng biệt: thác Horseshoe (Canada) (đôi lúc gọi là thác Canada), thác Mỹ và một thác nhỏ hơn gần đó là thác Bridal Veil. Dù thác không cao nhưng các thác Niagara rất rộng.

Với hơn 168.000 m³ nước rơi xuống mỗi phút vào thời điểm nhiều nhất, và trung bình gần 110.000 m³ mỗi phút, đây là thác nước mạnh nhất ở Bắc Mỹ. Thác Niagara tọa lạc khoảng 20 phút đi từ thành phố Buffalo của Hoa Kỳ và Toronto của Canada.

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Thác Mỹ và một thác nhỏ hơn gần đó là thác Bridal Veil giống như khăn che mặt cô dâu

Thác Horseshoe Falls cao khoảng 173 feet (53m).

Đi tàu Maid of the Mist (Tàu du lịch ở thác Niagara) ra tận chân Thác Horseshoe…

Quang cảnh thành phố Niagara bên phần đất Canada

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Splitting the Sky Versus the War Criminals

STS Versus the War Criminals cc Edna Spennato 2010.

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