OPEC, Amino Acids, and Virgen de las Nieves
OPEC
The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) is an international economic organization based in Vienna, Austria. It was created in response to the official price cut agreed upon unilaterally by large distribution companies in August 1960 (which were foreign).
Objective:
Its purposes are the unification and coordination of the petroleum policies of member countries to defend their interests as producing nations. Consumer countries consider OPEC a cartel.[1]
Amino Acids
An amino acid, as its name implies, is an organic molecule with an amino group (-NH2) and a carboxyl group (-COOH, acidic). The most common amino acids, and those of greatest interest, are those that are part of proteins. Two amino acids combine in a condensation reaction that releases water to form a peptide bond.
OPEC Member Countries
- Founding Members: Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Iran, Kuwait, and Venezuela.
- Later Members: Ecuador, Qatar, Indonesia, UAE, Nigeria, Angola, and Algeria.
An amino acid, as its name implies, is an organic molecule with an amino group (-NH2) and a carboxyl group (-COOH, acidic). The most common amino acids, and of greatest interest, are those that are part of proteins. Two amino acids combine in a condensation reaction that releases water to form a peptide bond.
Organic compounds from which proteins are built.
Virgen de las Nieves
If anything I expected when I went to Pico Bolivar through the Mérida cable car last weekend, was that snow would fall or that there would be enough visibility at more than 4,000 meters above sea level. However, I did not get any of those things, other than good fatigue from the altitude and a shock from thinking that a railing was going to fall (and I would roll down to the city of Merida).
The last section is undoubtedly the most spectacular; it is so impressive to see and be tired from having spent three previous seasons. Here is the Virgen de las Nieves, a sculpture that, if it could talk, would tell us about the heavy snow on the peak, the kids who vomited at her feet, or the fainting spells that have motivated more than one person to go to the nursing station. Since I had a proper camera, I got two good pictures of this figure in one of the stations (either side, of course), which of course the public, through the Internet, plagiarizes and uses to comment on hypertextual absurdities.
If anything I expected when I went to Pico Bolivar through the Mérida cable car last weekend, was that snow would fall or that there would be enough visibility at more than 4,000 meters above sea level. However, I did not get any of those things, other than good fatigue from the altitude and a shock from thinking that a railing was going to fall (and I would roll down to the city of Merida).
The last section is undoubtedly the most spectacular; it is so impressive to see and be tired from having spent three previous seasons. Here is the Virgen de las Nieves, a sculpture that, if it could talk, would tell us about the heavy snow on the peak, the kids who vomited at her feet, or the fainting spells that have motivated more than one person to go to the nursing station. Since I had a proper camera, I got two good pictures of this figure in one of the stations (either side, of course), which of course the public, through the Internet, plagiarizes and uses to comment on hypertextual absurdities.