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Himnos | La amargura es una bendición de Dios
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No te desanimes, no seas débil.
Dios todo te revelará.
El camino al reino no es sencillo.
No es fácil ganar bendiciones.
Todos soportarán amargas pruebas,
para fortalecer su amor por Dios.
Pero no te preocupes, pasa más tiempo ante Dios.
Pero no te preocupes, por qué has de comer o vestir.
Busca más la voluntad de Dios.
Busca más la voluntad de Dios.
Busca más Su voluntad y Él se revelará.
Paso a paso, conocerás Su corazón en toda situación.
II
Todos piensan que las bendiciones son dulces palabras,
y no amargura.
Pero compartir la amargura de Dios
es también compartir la dulzura.
Es la promesa de Dios y Su bendición.
Déjalo todo, protege el testimonio de Dios.
Ese debe ser tu objetivo.
Pero aún te hace falta fe, aún careces discernimiento,
y claridad sobre la palabra y la voluntad de Dios.
Pero no te preocupes, pasa más tiempo ante Dios.
Pero no te preocupes, por qué has de comer o vestir.
Busca más la voluntad de Dios.
Busca más la voluntad de Dios.
Busca más Su voluntad y Él se revelará.
III
Todos necesitan superar estas pruebas,
incluso las que son pequeñas.
Toma en cuenta que las circunstancias más duras
también son de Dios bendiciones.
¿Cuántos se han humillado ante Dios a menudo
para suplicar Su bendición?
Pero no te preocupes, pasa más tiempo ante Dios.
Pero no te preocupes, por qué has de comer o vestir.
Busca más la voluntad de Dios.
Busca más la voluntad de Dios.
Busca más Su voluntad y Él se revelará.
IV
Y Dios hallará la forma de caminar en cada uno de ustedes.
Nada puede detenerlo, Su corazón hoy está satisfecho.
Te bendecirá para siempre y siempre.
De “Declaraciones y testimonios de Cristo en el principio”
Recomendación: Música de adoración
bestpauljaisini.blogspot.com/2015/01/muse-gif-1.html The art conundrum; the disconnect between society and art establishment
Celebrity art dealers artists and art collectors have become superstars of such caliber F. Scott Fitzgerald would’t imagine in a wildest Great Gatsby's wet dream.
The breathtaking fables of high-flying multi-million art deals inspire the sensational and entertaining articles to be written by the writers who could barely earn a living nowadays. How many people, however, actually become the art lovers learning about the adventures of the glitzy art stars? None.
The art world is a lonely Narcissus that admires the own reflection. But desperately wants the public affection and attention unwilling to admit the need of new source for awe. Or how many art critics made a serious attempt to explain in written word the post post-modern art scene?
What about the artists… is next thought that comes to mind. Maybe this whole problem of art turning into a very sexy fast-money exchange business is due the bad quality artists?
Even television tried to popularize art in the attempt to create a show who wants to be the next American top model I mean artist. But the public only grow less interested, more so, the public wants to take over the art franchise after the so-called digital revolution. Masses of people who could never touch a camera for variety of reasons now turn to photography. For instance, 300 million photographs are uploaded every minute to Facebook, The numbers have power the sheer grandiosity. And yet the art world tries to keep its cool. And more so, continues to be disconnected.
Which could be good or bad depending how one looks at it. Good in a sense of art preservation, not good for survival of the franchise. In most recent global social phenomenon there’s a new traits of human behavior that present a real threat to what is known as highly developed Western culture.
Every year I lead an intensive workshop in Spain for beginning and intermediate wildlife photographers:
Wildlife Photography Boot Camp
Our location is the largest zoological park in the world, and with over 100 different species from the five continents, this is the perfect place to learn all the basics of wildlife photography.
This was shot on a late afternoon when it suddenly started to rain heavily. Instead of staying inside, I encouraged my group to go out and use the rain as an interesting bonus. This Watusi family preferred to stay dry though.
If you're a beginner or intermediate photographer and would like to learn more about wildlife photography and composition, and have a great time with a small group of like-minded enthusiasts, then join us on our next Wildlife Photography Boot Camp in Spain. Please have a look on my website for more information, pictures and tour impression video clips:
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Hope to see you there!
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Just like the so many thousands of years before, the Anadromous Shad fish makes its annual journey from its home in Canada's Bay Of Fundy to Florida’s St. Johns river to spawn.
RAISED IN SALTWATER
Every year by late summer, with clockwork precision, the mature male and female Shads start their journey from their ancestral home in Bay Of Fundy to the rivers along the eastern seaboard of the US from Maine to Florida.
SPRING MIGRATION
The Shad, now anywhere from 4-6 years old, is full of bodyfat from a steady and plentiful diet of small fishes and microplankton of the cold waters of Bay Of Fundy. As they start swimming southward along the eastern coast, they enter almost every river they encounter on their path, e.g., Medomak and Penobscot in Maine, Merrimack in New Hampshire, Connecticut in Connecticut, Delaware in Pennsylvania, Hudson in New York, Susquehanna in Maryland, Altamaha in Georgia and St. Johns in Florida.
BORN IN FRESHWATER
In Florida, they enter the St. Johns river in Jacksonville and continue to swim south until the water becomes ‘fresh’ and the water pH acceptable. This happens in a section of the St. Johns river near the town of Sanford, east of Orlando, where they congregate by the thousands for their annual spawning.
To arrive at its destination in Florida, the Shad will use up all of its accumulated fat for this ritual of grueling, non-stop swimming for about 1400 miles in about 4 months. Upon arrival, the Shad is exhausted but for the females this saga is far from over. The female releases her eggs and then guards and protects them day and night from predators for the next few weeks, most of the time starving herself in this process. And then she finds herself with hardly any energy left to stay afloat, let alone swim to the Atlantic ocean at Jacksonville, only 140 miles away.
DIE IN FRESHWATER
Slowly but steadily, one by one the females will die from loss of energy, and some from starvation in the St Johns river. In a strange and still unexplained phenomenon, the males die too, turning the riverbed into a massive graveyard leaving the next generation swimming amidst the carcasses of their parents.
By late summer, the babies will set out for their 1400 mile trek towards their ancestral home in Bay Of Fundy, with a tragically low survival rate of 1 in 60,000. Then they will spend the next 4-6 years in their wintering waters of Bay Of Fundy.
And then they will leave for their birthplace about 1400 miles away, to breed and die.
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My 10 (Bag Limit) catch of the day of Male American Shads on ice in a cooler. All egg-carrying Females caught were gently released back to the river in the shortest possible time.
American Shad
Alosa sapidissima
Family Clupeidae
Lake Harney & St. Johns River
East of Sanford
Florida
USA
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Virginia Bluebell Wildflowers & Spring Growth
Loudoun County, Northern Virginia
Accessed via Bull Run Regional Park
Date taken: April 17, 2014
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The saying “all knees and elbows” is often attributed to someone who has yet to mature or fully grow into their frame. Nature, likewise, goes through a similar stage in spring when the forest has yet to mature into its summer greens and much of what you see is all branches and mud and chaos. This can be a huge challenge during the seasonal shift for landscape photographers considering one of the primary goals of the craft is to reduce nature’s chaos and confusion into one, easily readable, so-called “clean” frame, free from distractions. Being somewhat naturally inclined to question guidelines and to gently poke at their limits, I often shoot scenes that I know at the moment of capture are not going to be received well by those who find comfort in the well-worn confines of the sandbox or who otherwise like to position themselves as the gatekeepers to the status quo. Most of my attempts in this vain are failures, rightfully so, but fun nonetheless. Some, on the other hand, come out personally satisfying, although still largely rejected by the critics and powers that be who stand between an image and its ability to reach market. This photograph is one that appears to be falling into the latter category.
The Occoquan Stream Valley accessed via the Occoquan-Bull Run National Recreational Trail comes alive in the spring season with Virginia Bluebells, a seasonal ephemeral wildflower that paints the forest floor with a carpet of blues and light pink hues. Being an ephemeral though, these guys have to sneak in before the canopy leafs out and steals all of the sunshine from the forest floor. By late May these flowers are all but completely gone, like an illusion, only to return again next spring. Thus, when the Bluebells poke through the ground in early spring much of the surrounding environment is scraggly branches, ample boot-sucking mud, and otherwise nature’s awkward early-season “knees and elbows.” Macro opportunities abound for the small-scene inclined, but contextual landscapes are complicated at best. A few things I learned this season, my first concertedly chasing a few photographs of these wildflowers: my initial thought that overcast and calm weather would provide the most optimal conditions for getting a pop of color were somewhat misguided. I found that late evening or early morning sun on a clear day made for the most dramatic spring scenic, as looking into the light provided for beautiful backlit spring green leaves. Once I thought about this it made perfect sense: sunlight is the driver of spring growth and thus an essential element in any composition that speaks towards the story of the season. However, any light on the bluebells would cause blowouts with exposure and thus, I went in search for late evening light that would make the newly minted spring green understory dance, while also being at such an angle as to mostly shade the delicate bluebells to maintain an even single-exposure. This proved to be a strategy that I continued to follow at both sun-up and sun-down for several days with mild to moderate success.
The resultant shot, what you see above/below, has been confirmed thus far by the critics and gatekeepers as poor composition and of little value to the commercial photography market. However, I find it honest and authentic to the chaos that is spring, and thus, for me personally, a satisfying take-away from a week of shooting. It could certainly be better, but then again, what photograph have you ever really taken that couldn’t be improved?
Have a wonderful weekend folks! Get outside if you can and enjoy the season!
Titian -
Allegory of Time governed by Prudence [~1550]
London NG
wikipedia
Here you will find an exhaustive article on possible interpretions:
www.artinsociety.com/titian-prudence-and-the-three-headed...
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Connected to Titian's late portraits is the Allegory of Time governed by Prudence. This is an exceptional portrait which depicts the aged Titian on the left above a wolf's head, his son Orazio in the centre above the head of a lion, and his nephew Marco above a dog's head. The wolf, the lion and the dog, symbolize the past, present and future. In the upper part of the painting there is an inscription which is the key to the complex allegorical meaning of the work: "EX PRAETERITO PRAESENS PRUDENTER AGIT, NI FUTURUM ACTIONE DETURPET" ("From the (experience of the) past, the present acts prudently, lest it spoil future action").
Though it was common enough during the Renaissance to use three human heads to symbolize the ages of man, and to use three animal heads to symbolize prudence, it was very unusual to use them as the theme of a painting. As Titian used personal motifs, it can be assumed that he chose the subject matter himself.
ttps://www.wga.hu/frames-e.html?/html/t/tiziano/10/3/5allegor.html
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The Allegory of Prudence (c. 1550–1565) is an oil-on-canvas painting attributed to the Italian artist Titian and his assistants. The painting portrays three human heads, each facing in a different direction, above three animal heads (from left to right, a wolf, a lion and a dog). It is in the National Gallery, London.[1]
The painting is usually interpreted as operating on a number of levels.[2][3] At the first level, the different ages of the three human heads represent the three ages of man (from left to right: old age, maturity and youth), a subject that Titian had depicted 50 years earlier in his The Three Ages of Man. The different directions in which they are facing reflect a second, wider concept of time itself as having a past, present and future. This theme is repeated in the animal heads: an animal with three heads (wolf, lion, dog) to represent the passage of time (past, present, future) is associated with Serapis in Macrobius's Saturnalia, and associated with Apollo by Petrarch, and the iconography is repeated for example in the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili of Francesco Colonna (1499), the Hieroglyphica of Pierio Valeriano (1556), and the Iconologia of Cesare Ripa (1643). The third level, from which the painting has acquired its present name, is suggested by a barely visible inscription above the portraits: EX PRÆTE/RITO // PRÆSENS PRVDEN/TER AGIT // NI FVTVRA / ACTIONĒ DE/TVRPET (Latin for "from the experience of the past, the present acts prudently, lest it spoil future actions".)
It has been argued that the human faces are actual portraits of the aged Titian, his son Orazio, and his young nephew, Marco Vecellio, who, like Orazio, lived and worked with Titian.[4] Erwin Panofsky, in his classic exposition, suggests that the painting is specifically associated with the negotiations associated with the passing on of Titian's property to the younger generations, in the light of his approaching death. The painting therefore acts as a visual counsel to the three generations to act prudently in the administration of the inheritance. Nicholas Penny is, however, highly sceptical of this, and points out discrepancies between the human heads and other evidence of the individuals' appearance. He doubts it was a personal project of any sort and feels that is "surely more likely that the painting was commissioned".[5] Others are also of the opinion that the three heads are not Titian and his family. One reason is that there are no portraits of Orazio or Marco, so confirmation that they are the figures is difficult.[6]
More recently the painting has been explained in quite different ways. Instead of an allegory of prudence, it has been seen as an allegory about sin and penitence. On this view, it amounts to an admission by Titian that his failure to act prudently in his youth and middle age has condemned him to lead a regretful old age.[7]
At the other extreme, the painting has been explained as asserting that the prudence which comes with experience and old age is an essential aspect of artistic discrimination and judgement. On this interpretation, the painting therefore acts as a rebuttal of the view that old age is the enemy of artistic achievement. On a more general level, the painting's depiction of Titian with his assistants Orazio and Marco is also intended as a defence of the prudence of the continuity of the Venetian workshop tradition.[8]
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegory_of_Prudence
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The Birds of Ireland: A Field Guide with Jim Wilson
Shorebirds of Ireland with Jim Wilson.
Freshwater Birds of Ireland with Jim Wilson NOW OUT OF PRINT
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The Grey Heron (Ardea cinerea) is a long-legged predatory wading bird of the heron family, Ardeidae, native throughout temperate Europe and Asia and also parts of Africa. It is resident in much of its range, but some populations from the more northern parts migrate southwards in autumn. A bird of wetland areas, it can be seen around lakes, rivers, ponds, marshes and on the sea coast. It feeds mostly on aquatic creatures which it catches after standing stationary beside or in the water or stalking its prey through the shallows.
Standing up to a metre tall, adults weigh from 1 to 2 kg (2.2 to 4.4 lb). They have a white head and neck with a broad black stripe that extends from the eye to the black crest. The body and wings are grey above and the underparts are greyish-white, with some black on the flanks. The long, sharply pointed beak is pinkish-yellow and the legs are brown.
The birds breed colonially in spring in "heronries", usually building their nests high in trees. A clutch of usually three to five bluish-green eggs is laid. Both birds incubate the eggs for a period of about 25 days, and then both feed the chicks, which fledge when seven or eight weeks old. Many juveniles do not survive their first winter, but if they do, they can expect to live for about five years.
The main call is a loud croaking "fraaank", but a variety of guttural and raucous noises are heard at the breeding colony. Grey herons have the ability to live in cities where habitats and nesting space are available. In the Netherlands, the grey heron has established itself over the past decades in great numbers in urban environments. In cities such as Amsterdam, they are ever present and well adapted to modern city life. They hunt as usual, but also visit street markets and snackbars. Some individuals make use of people feeding them at their homes or share the catch of recreational fishermen. Similar behaviour on a smaller scale has been reported in Ireland (Dublin, Galway and Cork). (wikipedia)
This individual was quite fearless at Trader's Wharf, Dun Laoghaire, Dublin. It landed on one of the local trawlers and proceeded to walk around the fish boxes on the quayside. Such stunning birds but looking a bit awkward trying to stand in the strong wind!
Huffington Post post about Billy Gomez.
The translation of the text that appears in the blog (which you can read below) is the work of Mark Donnelly . A great thank you to Mark for always looking for the best translation and to Billy Gomez for his great work and collaboration.
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Shadow Hunter
There are methodical photographers who dedicate hours to every photo controlling every little detail of light and composition. On the opposite side there are those who armed with their cameras are hungry for images like a hunter looking for his prey. They don’t know where nor when they’ll find this image. They’re not familiar with the place, the light or “the model”. But at any given time they’ll stumble upon it and shoot without thinking twice, feeling the rush of the hunter becoming the hunted.
Billy Gómez belongs to this lineage of camouflaged, instinctive, risk-taking, quick draw and crack shot photographers. He has become a creative and active witness of the streets of Seoul. Its inhabitants are the driving force behind his work with their hectic routines, their depression and loneliness etched on their faces. The metro, train and the streets are his usual scenes. As in this image, the people he photographs are alone, lost in thought and with an expression of defeat almost as if they were prisoners to a life they hadn’t dreamt of. They look through the windows with their imagination trying to escape but all they find are others like them who are just as lonely and lost.
Billy is aware of the fact that with his camera he is going to steal sad and intimate moments in public places with no previous permission and this has its risks. However this also turns the moment of capture into something exciting, disturbing and unpredictable. With his sensitive and lyrical voyeurism he turns everything he sees into art.
He develops his photographs in a way to increase the loneliness of the lives of the human beings he portrays. By adding a vignette to every one of his subjects and darkening the borders it seems like they are surrounded by shadows. With his camera he immortalizes these sad inhabitants and it can be said that his voyeurism of anonymous men and women is taxidermal.
Billy Gómez (Los Angeles, 1971)
Born in America he moved to Seoul in 2005 to teach English. His job leaves him with a lot of free time and soon he decides to make the most of it by taking photographs. After a few years of fooling around, experimenting and searching he starts to define his style - a combination of voyeurism and spontaneous portrait. The result is a lucid and sad x-ray of a city, Seoul and its inhabitants.
With a telephoto lens, a 50mm and lately an iPhone that allows him to go unnoticed, he hits the streets in search of the right light and perfect moment. Not being able to control light as one would in a studio makes post-production more laborious. The search for the right light is now one of this visual poet’s priorities in the streets of Seoul. A hunter of light and above all shadows.
Hefang Street is the most famed street in Hangzhou City. With brilliant culture and long history, it is regarded as a typical symbol of ancient Hangzhou. Vising this busy but interesting street, you can catch a glimpse of antique buildings and long-survived stores, taste local snacks as well as savor the beautiful artifacts.
www.chinadiscovery.com/zhejiang/hangzhou/hefang-street.html
La calle Hefang es la más famosa de la ciudad de Hangzhou. Con una cultura brillante y una larga historia, se considera un símbolo típico de la antigua Hangzhou. Recorriendo esta concurrida pero interesante calle, podrá echar un vistazo a edificios antiguos y tiendas que han sobrevivido durante mucho tiempo, degustar aperitivos locales y saborear bellas cosas.
Hangzhou léase Jang-Zhóu es la capital y la ciudad más grande de la provincia de Zhejiang en la República Popular China. Está situada en las riberas del río Qiantang, cerca de su desembocadura, y a la cabeza de la bahía de Hangzhou, que separa Shanghái y Ningbo. Hangzhou cobró relevancia al ser el extremo sur del Gran Canal, y ha sido una de las ciudades chinas con más renombre durante el último milenio.
La ciudad de Hangzhou yace en el delta del río Yangtsé y hace frontera al este con la bahía de Hangzhou. Dentro de la ciudad se ubica el lago del Oeste, el cual fue nombrado Patrimonio de la Humanidad en el 2011. El río Qiantang divide la ciudad en norte y sur, siendo el norte el de mayor población.
La ciudad ganó importancia gracias a la construcción durante la dinastía Sui del Gran Canal de China. Durante ese periodo se construyó la muralla de la ciudad. Fue la capital de la dinastía Song del sur (1127-1279). A partir del año 1138 se convirtió en un importante centro de comercio. La industria de la ciudad se especializó en la porcelana y los textiles.
El explorador Marco Polo visitó Hangzhou a finales del siglo XIII y dijo de ella que era “la ciudad más suntuosa y elegante del mundo”. Hasta la dinastía Ming, fue un puerto importante. A partir de ese periodo, y como consecuencia de los continuos ataques de los piratas japoneses, Hangzhou perdió importancia. En 1555 la ciudad fue saqueada por los piratas. En 1861 sufrió el ataque de los rebeldes del Reino Celestial de los Taiping que tomaron y saquearon la ciudad. Hangzhou no fue recuperada por las tropas imperiales hasta 1863. Este conflicto entre rebeldes y tropas imperiales causó más de medio millón de bajas entre la población.
Las industrias tradicionales de Hangzhou son la de la seda, maquinaria y textil pero la industria electrónica se ha desarrollado con rapidez en la zona, sobre todo después del cambio en el sistema económico del país ocurrido en 1992. La ciudad se ha convertido también en uno de los destinos turísticos más visitados del país, lo que ha generado que una parte de la economía se dedique al sector servicios. En la zona se produce té verde; el té de la zona de Hangzhou es apreciado en todo el país por su alta calidad.
Cabe destacar que esta ciudad vio nacer al empresario Jack Ma, fundador de Alibaba, y actualmente el hombre más rico de China. La empresa que creó también vio la luz por primera vez desde el departamento de Ma en Hangzhou, en los años 1990. La sede del corporativo sigue estando en la ciudad de Hangzhou con un campus de enormes proporciones, similar al de sus pares estadounidenses en Silicon Valley.
es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hangzhou
lostraveleros.com/que-hacer-en-hangzhou/
Hangzhou (Chinese: 杭州, Hangzhounese pronunciation: [ɦɑ̃.tse], Standard Mandarin pronunciation: [xǎŋ.ʈʂóʊ]), also romanized as Hangchow, is the capital and most populous city of Zhejiang, China. It is located in the northwestern part of the province, sitting at the head of Hangzhou Bay, which separates Shanghai and Ningbo. Hangzhou grew to prominence as the southern terminus of the Grand Canal and has been one of China's most renowned and prosperous cities for much of the last millennium. It is a major economic and e-commerce hub within China, and the second biggest city in Yangtze Delta after Shanghai. Hangzhou is classified as a sub-provincial city and forms the core of the Hangzhou metropolitan area, the fourth-largest in China after Guangzhou-Shenzhen Pearl River agglomeration, Shanghai-Suzhou-Wuxi-Changzhou conurbation and Beijing. As of 2019, the Hangzhou metropolitan area was estimated to produce a gross metropolitan product (nominal) of 3.2 trillion yuan ($486.53 billion), making it larger than the economy of Nigeria (the largest in Africa). As of the 2020 Chinese census, it had a total population of 11,936,010 inhabitants. However, its metropolitan area, populated by 13.035 million people over an area of 8,107.9 km2 (3,130.5 sq mi), consists of all urban districts in Hangzhou and 3 urban districts of the city of Shaoxing.
Hangzhou has been repeatedly rated as the best commercial city in mainland China by Forbes and the Chinese city with the highest growth potential by the Economist Intelligence Unit, and it boasts the eighth largest GDP among cities in mainland China with a GDP of around 1.8 trillion RMB ($280 billion). Home to the headquarters of large global tech companies such as the Alibaba Group, Ant Group and NetEase, Hangzhou is known for attracting professionals and entrepreneurs who work in information technology. Since 2014, its rapid population growth has led to a steady increase in local housing prices. According to the 2020 Hurun Global Rich List, Hangzhou ranks 11th in the world and 6th in China (after Beijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Shenzhen and Guangzhou) in the number of resident billionaires.
Hangzhou is a major city for scientific research in the Asia-Pacific, ranking 19th globally by scientific outputs. It hosts several notable universities, including Zhejiang, Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou Normal, Hangzhou Dianzi, Zhejiang A&F, Zhejiang Sci-Tech, Zhejiang Chinese Medical, Westlake, China Jiliang and Zhejiang University of Finance and Economics. In September 2015, Hangzhou was awarded the 2022 Asian Games. Its West Lake, a UNESCO World Heritage Site west of the city, is among its best-known attractions.[7] A study conducted by PwC and China Development Research Foundation ranked Hangzhou first among "Chinese Cities of Opportunity". According to the Globalization and World Cities Research Network (GaWC), the city is classified as Beta (global second-tier) city, together with Chongqing, Nanjing and Tianjin in China. Hangzhou is also one of the world's top 100 financial centers, according to the Global Financial Centres Index. It will be the third Chinese city to host the Asian Games, after Beijing 1990 and Guangzhou 2010. Hangzhou also hosted the 11th G20 summit in 2016.
Yuan China was very open to foreign visitors, and several returned west describing Hangzhou—under the names Khinzai, Campsay, etc. - as one of the foremost cities in the world. The Venetian merchant Marco Polo supposedly visited Hangzhou in the late 13th century. In his book, he records that the city was "greater than any in the world" and that "the number and wealth of the merchants, and the amount of goods that passed through their hands, was so enormous that no man could form a just estimate thereof." Polo's account greatly exaggerates the city's size, although it has been argued that the "hundred miles" of walls would be plausible if Chinese miles were intended instead of Italian ones and that the "12,000 stone bridges" might have been a copyist error born from the city's 12 gates. In the 14th century, the Moroccan traveler Ibn Battuta arrived; his later account concurred that al-Khansā was "the biggest city I have ever seen on the face of the earth." He visited Hangzhou in 1345 and noted its charm and described how the city sat on a beautiful lake and was surrounded by gentle green hills. He was particularly impressed by the large number of well-crafted and well-painted Chinese wooden ships with colored sails and silk awnings in the canals. He attended a banquet held by Qurtai, the Yuan Mongol administrator of the city, who according to Ibn Battuta, was fond of the skills of local Chinese conjurers.
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Hope
When all is said and done
The votes counted
And the wrong one chosen
As Gloom descends
And Doom surrounds us
Like heavy winter fog
As Despair with her long fingers
Grasps at our throats
We must stand tall
With hope and courage
Taking up the pen
The placard
And the microphone
Speaking of justice for all
Decency
And an America of dreams
Not nightmares
An America of open arms
Love and peace
Land of the free
And home of the brave
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You will find more of my poems and songs here
and in The Storm in Its Passing and Flights of Fancy.
My songs are at
✰ Credit ✰
[ZOS x KOUD] - Licy Eyes FATPACK (LeL EvoX, BoM) - Gothcore
SLAUGHTER - Vampur EvoX Face (Ears + Veins) - Gothcore
coquille. - Moon Lashes for Megalash - Planet 29
coquille. - Luna Lips (EVOX HD) - Planet 29
[SG] - Hello Munchkin Gauged - Planet 29
NEW ATTITUDE
● Tumblr
● Flickr
● Primfeed
✰ Credit ✰
::Loa:: - April Brows ~LeLutka EVO X~ [BOM]
Aura De La Luna - Eyeshadow #14 - DollHolic Event
Aura De La Luna - Animation Cross Earring - Gothcore
CODEX - Marzia necklace - Kinky Event
NEW ATTITUDE
● Tumblr
● Flickr
✰ Credit ✰
For Her
Kaithleen's - Beach Bar Outfit
Hoodlem - Vlone Tattoo
For Him
[Elementtare] - BCalif T-Shirt
[Elementtare] - BCalif Shorts
NEW ATTITUDE
● Tumblr
● Flickr
FaceBook｜Blogger ｜Instagram ｜500PX
You can licence images through My Getty image
All of My Reviews｜心得文：
Olympus MZD 17mm f/1.2 PRO Review
Olympus MZD 25mm f/1.2 PRO Review
Olympus MZD 45mm f/1.2 PRO Review
Panasonic LEICA DG 12mm f/1.4 Review
Panasonic LEICA DG 8-18mm f/2.8-4 Review
A Five-Year Photographic Journey with the M4/3 Series.
✰ Credit ✰
Scandalize - Leilani Set
Pose : Lush Poses - Sweet Pumpkins - Couple Bento Pose - Blue SL Event
NEW ATTITUDE
● Tumblr
● Flickr
me made;
・coat / April 2015
pattern by「大人のふだん着」
(Japanese sewing book)
・blouse / March 2013
ginghamstar.blog121.fc2.com/blog-entry-178.html
・pants / March? 2015
An impression of the exhibition location of Ziki Questi’s exhibition „Line and Shadow“ at Enoki.
Read more at zikiquesti.blogspot.de/2015/09/line-and-shadow.html
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About Ziki Questi (by exhibition info)
Ziki Questi is a blogger and photographer whose works have been widely featured in Second Life exhibitions.
She was a featured artist at SL12B with her exhibition Matter and Memory. Her works have been exhibited at Amore Perduto (2011-2013), Artists for SL (2012), the Avalon Arts Initiative (2011), Dryland (2012 and again 2013-14 for exhibition Lost Second Life), the Eagle Eye Gallery (2013), Holtwaye ArtSpace (2014-2015), Lollygagger Lane Art Center (2014-2015), Plusia Ars Island (2013), Red Lines Gallery (presented by Tanalois Art and torno Kohime Foundation) (2013), RoHaus (Radio Days tribute to AM Radio, 2011), Serena Imagine Arts Center at Wolves Land (2014), Serenity Gallery (2011), the Skywalk Gallery at The Station (2014), the Town Hall of Dee (2011) and the Virtual Chelsea Hotel Gallery 23 (2013). She maintains a galleries of her work in Dreamworld North and has also maintained galleries at Avalon Town, Aakriti Arts and Babele Fashion, and also has a small gallery of free items at Remood United Portugal.
She participated in the sim-wide "A Rusted Development" (2012-13) at LEA1 with her work "All the Alruses of the Which Ones," at Burn2 (2012) with the installation "lippes in smiling mood, kiss akiss after kisokushk (thank you Mr. Joyce)," and at HaveIt Neox's sim-wide build "Stirring the Dreams" with her installation "The Bridge of Quests" (2012-ongoing). She curated an Avalon Collector's Circle exhibition (2012-2013) at the Avalon Art District Exhibition Hall. With her partner Kinn, she curates AM Radio's The Far Away.
As a blogger, Ziki Questi writes about the arts, destinations and other Second Life subjects. She was a staff writer and photographer for AVENUE Magazine (2012-2013) and serves as an adjudicator for the University of Western Australia (UWA) 3D Art Challenges and Machinima Challenges (2013, 2014, 2015).
As a performing artist in real life, Ziki Questi's human has presented work throughout the United States and Europe, has collaborated with other artists in dance, music, television, film and theatre, and has been published and cited in books, journals and other media.
Blog: zikiquesti.blogspot.com
Gallery:
Flickr: www.flickr.com/photos/zikiquesti/
Vimeo: vimeo.com/zikiquesti
Twitter: twitter.com/zikiquesti
Plurk: www.plurk.com/zikiquesti
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The "Somewhere in sl" picture series (or "The Adventures of WuWai in Second Life") is my guide and bookmark folder to wonderful, artful, curious or in other way remarkably sims of second life with travel guide WuWai Chun.
(More pictures of WuWai's adventures: Follow this link)
You can find more pictures (raw caps) with slurls to sl-destinations at my travel logue
in the photo section of my second life profile (my notebook and private destination guide):
or the same raw pictures in higher resolution following at:
my.secondlife.com/wuwai.chun/snapshots/
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Explore #439 06/16/08
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y también Twiter
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El corazón rizado de Genicularia hoy se muestra en rojos de atención. Hace apenas un año se pudo citar por vez primera para la Península Ibérica desde esta galería, a esta alga de corazón alargado y espiral en los fondos poco profundos del Lago de Sanabria. Allí crece Genicularia spirotaenia como un tesoro oculto entre la maraña de otras algas filamentosas que se extienden como una lava fría sepultando todo lo que encuentran a su paso y arruinando los gigantes bosques de Miryophyllum . Es la lay de la vida, cuando el hombre interviene y altera en un instante un equilibrio fraguado durante milenios.
La Naturaleza se quiebra y dobla su rodilla como lo hace Genicularia , pero esta flexión no es más que la toma de un impulso para reaccionar e intentar con energía para recuperar el equilibrio que forzadamente se ha perdido por las manos codiciosas y corruptas de quienes pensaron que mejor que beneficiar al Lago sería beneficiarse a sí mismos.
El desarrollo en masa de algas filamentosas sobre los fondos del Lago, no es más que la reacción a este forzado poner la Naturaleza de rodillas en un atropello que nos afecta a todos y ante el que ella reacciona desplegándose en mil formas de vida que intentarán devolver al Lago la paz que le ha caracterizado en su camino hacia su equilibrio.
Un año después de ser hallada en estos fondos, Genicularia sobrevive a la sombra de las marañas de algas que el hombre sembró cuando decidió convertir a este Lago de aguas de cristal en una depuradora rodeada de un paisaje de ensueño.
Genicularia es un alga de rizos verdes y sus rizos podrían pasar casi inadvertidos entre otros también acuáticos como los de los largos filamentos de seda de Spirogyra o las alargadas píldoras de Spirotaenia . Pero Genicularia es un alga muy especial y lo es por su rareza.
Genicularia forma frágiles filamentos que se desmontan con suma facilidad para dejar libres a sus células. Éstas, tubulares y con un característico ensanchamiento en sus dos extremos, carecen de constricción central y presentan su pared celular recubierta de minúsculos granos y ocasionalmente de una muy tenue envuelta gelatinosa salpicada de bacterias.
Lo que da el nombre a Genicularia , esta alga de contorno de hueso, es la curvatura en forma de rodilla que también, con relativa frecuencia, presentan algunas de sus células.
Según West el género Genicularia es uno de los más raros de entre todos los désmidos. Este autor se refiere a la variabilidad que pueden presentar sus células y describió dos especies Genicularia spirotaenia De Bary 1858 que presenta células grandes, de hasta 200 y 400 micras de longitud y 20-25 de anchura y otra más esbelta Genicularia elegans W.& G.S.West, ligeramente más corta que la anterior, de entre 222,5 hasta 300 micras de longitud y de menor anchura que ella, de 14 a 18,5 micras.
Las células de Genicularia presentan dos cloroplastos
que se disponen en su pared, retorciéndose en espiral de dos a seis veces, una espiral delicada, más o menos rizada pero siempre poco comprimida y que con frecuencia se va deshaciendo con el paso del tiempo. Esta disposición en espiral de sus cloroplastos es muy similar a la que muestran todas las especies del género Spirogyra con la que se podría confundir en ocasiones.
La presencia de pequeños poros en su pared celular como los que muestra Gonatozygon , además de otros caracteres ha hecho que se haya incluido a Genicularia dentro de la familia Gonatozygaceae e incluso que sus especies se hayan adscrito al género Gonatozygon
En el Lago de Sanabria, Genicularia crece sobre los fondos entre filamentos de Spirogyra y junto a Nitella entrelazada también con largas cadenas de Tabellaria , tapizando de pardo los fondos de gruesa arena, antes limpia.
En Europa se conocen de ella escasas localidades de Gran Bretaña, Escocia, Italia, Francia, Alemania y Rumanía en las que esta especie está presente. También se ha encontrado en Nueva Zelanda y Australia, pero al parecer, no ha sido hallada todavía en el continente americano. ¨
Ésta es la primera vez que se cita y fotografía en territorio ibérico. La fotografía tomada a 400 aumentos con la técnica de epifluorescencia procede de una muestra recogida a 5 metros de profundidad el 26 de marzo de 2016 en el Lago de Sanabria, junto a la Isla de Moras, desde el catamarán Helios Sanabria el primer catamarán construido en el Planeta propulsado por energía eólica y solar.
La fotografía que mostramos, realizada a 400 aumentos empleando la técnica de contraste de interferencia, se ha tomado sobre una muestra de fondo, recolectada el día 25 de marzo de 2016 junto a la Isla de Moras por Andrés Blanco en el Lago de Sanabria (Zamora), desde el catamarán Helios Sanabria el primer catamarán construido en el Planeta propulsado por energía eólica y solar.
LIBRO: Lago de Sanabria 2015, presente y futuro de un ecosistema en desequilibrio
Presentación ponencia congreso internacional de Limnología de la AIL
Informes de contaminación en el Lago de Sanabria
informe de evolución de la contaminación en el Lago de Sanabria