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טריילר רשמי חדש – 'רק בן 17? חכה ותראה!'
"בחור, אתה יודע שהמפלגה הקומוניסטית היא אתאיסטית ומתנגדת לאמונה באלוהים? באיזה אלוהים אפשר להאמין בסין? איפה האלוהים הזה שלך?" "אל תחשוב שבגלל גילך הצעיר נרחם עליך! אם תמשיך להאמין באלוהים, אתה תמות!" צועקים השוטרים הסיניים החמושים בשוקר חשמלי לנער המוכה והחבול.
שמו של הנער הוא גאו ליאנג, ובאותה שנה מלאו לו שבע-עשרה. הוא היה בדרכו הביתה עם אח מבוגר יותר מפגישה שבה הפיצו את הבשורה, כאשר נעצר על ידי המשטרה הקומוניסטית. השוטרים מנעו ממנו מזון ושינה במשך שלושה ימים שלמים. הם חקרו אותו, ניסו להוציא ממנו הודאה בכוח ועינו אותו באכזריות. הם אפילו עשו שימוש בשוקר חשמלי על סנטרו, שתי ידיו ובאזור חלציו. הם ניסו לגרום לו לבגוד באלוהים ולמסור להם מידע על מנהיגי הכנסייה ועל משאביה הכספיים באמצעות סחיטה. הם גם איימו לעצור את הוריו ולגרום לסילוקו מבית הספר. משלא הצליחה להשיג את מבוקשה, הממשלה הקומוניסטית הסינית דנה אותו לשנה של חינוך מחדש באמצעות עבודת כפייה. בכלא, בנוסף לעבודה המפרכת, גאו ליאנג גם עבר עינויים והשפלות. את מה שעבר עליו לא ניתן לכנות בשם אחר מלבד "גיהינום עלי אדמות". בזמן תהליך הזיכוך הקשה, גאו ליאנג התפלל לאלוהים ובטח בו. דברי האל הכול יכול האירו את עיניו ועזרו לו להבין את כוונות האל. הם נתנו לו אמונה וכוח, והדריכו אותו כיצד לשרוד את השנה בכלא. המעצר והרדיפות של הממשלה הקומוניסטית נחקקו לעד בלבו של גאו ליאנג. הוא חווה על בשרו וראה במו עיניו את המהות המרושעת של הממשל הקומוניסטי בסין ואת שנאתו לאלוהים. בעולם הזה שנשלט בידי כוחות השטן, רק אלוהים אוהב את האדם יותר מכול. רק אלוהים יכול להושיע את האדם. אמונתו של גאו ליאנג ורצונו לעבוד את אלוהים התחזקו אפילו יותר. לדברי גאו ליאנג, הניסיונות והתלאות שעבר הם אוצר רב-ערך שעזר לו לצמוח ולהתפתח בחייו, מתנה מיוחדת שאלוהים העניק לו ליום הולדתו ה-17…
צפה בסרט השלם： 17? חכה ותראה!
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St. Louis is an independent city and inland port in the U.S. state of Missouri. It is situated along the western bank of the Mississippi River, which marks Missouri's border with Illinois. The Missouri River merges with the Mississippi River just north of the city. These two rivers combined form the fourth longest river system in the world. The city had an estimated 2017 population of 308,626 and is the cultural and economic center of the St. Louis metropolitan area (home to nearly 3,000,000 people), which is the largest metropolitan area in Missouri, the second-largest in Illinois (after Chicago), and the 22nd-largest in the United States.
Before European settlement, the area was a regional center of Native American Mississippian culture. The city of St. Louis was founded in 1764 by French fur traders Pierre Laclède and Auguste Chouteau, and named after Louis IX of France. In 1764, following France's defeat in the Seven Years' War, the area was ceded to Spain and retroceded back to France in 1800. In 1803, the United States acquired the territory as part of the Louisiana Purchase. During the 19th century, St. Louis became a major port on the Mississippi River; at the time of the 1870 Census it was the fourth-largest city in the country. It separated from St. Louis County in 1877, becoming an independent city and limiting its own political boundaries. In 1904, it hosted the Louisiana Purchase Exposition and the Summer Olympics.
The economy of metropolitan St. Louis relies on service, manufacturing, trade, transportation of goods, and tourism. Its metro area is home to major corporations, including Anheuser-Busch, Express Scripts, Centene, Boeing Defense, Emerson, Energizer, Panera, Enterprise, Peabody Energy, Ameren, Post Holdings, Monsanto, Edward Jones, Go Jet, Purina and Sigma-Aldrich. Nine of the ten Fortune 500 companies based in Missouri are located within the St. Louis metropolitan area. The city has also become known for its growing medical, pharmaceutical, and research presence due to institutions such as Washington University in St. Louis and Barnes-Jewish Hospital. St. Louis has two professional sports teams: the St. Louis Cardinals of Major League Baseball and the St. Louis Blues of the National Hockey League. One of the city's iconic sights is the 630-foot (192 m) tall Gateway Arch in the downtown area.
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Forest Park is a public park in western St. Louis, Missouri. It is a prominent civic center and covers 1,326 acres (5.37 km2). Opened in 1876, more than a decade after its proposal, the park has hosted several significant events, including the Louisiana Purchase Exposition of 1904 and the 1904 Summer Olympics. Bounded by Washington University in St. Louis, Skinker Boulevard, Lindell Boulevard, Kingshighway Boulevard, and Oakland Avenue, it is known as the "Heart of St. Louis" and features a variety of attractions, including the St. Louis Zoo, the St. Louis Art Museum, the Missouri History Museum, and the St. Louis Science Center.
Since the early 2000s, it has carried out a $100 million restoration through a public-private partnership aided by its Master Plan. Changes have extended to improving landscaping and habitat as well. The park's acreage includes meadows and trees and a variety of ponds, manmade lakes, and freshwater streams. For several years, the park has been restoring prairie and wetlands areas of the park. It has reduced flooding and attracted a much greater variety of birds and wildlife, which have settled in the new natural habitats.
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The Great Forest Park Balloon Race is an annual hot air balloon festival held in Forest Park in St. Louis, Missouri. With more than 70 entrants and 130,000 spectators, it is the most well-attended single-day hot air balloon race in the United States.
Week 40 - Graffiti
A late submission (again) but it was taken on Saturday, and we were out of town, so it couldn't be helped.
This was a welcome surprise as we stopped at a gas station in Ithaca, NY. Turns out there are walls like this throughout Ithaca, as they hired Graffiti Artists to leave their very colorful and unique marks throughout the city. My own city has a similar beautification program, but Ithaca's is different in that they only used graffiti artists. Lucky for me!
Nikon D50, ISO 200, f/4.5, 1/60, 18-55mm lens @ 34mm
Adjusted contrast in PaintSHop Pro X8
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Bruges (Dutch: Brugge; French: Bruges; German: Brügge) is the capital and largest city of the province of West Flanders in the Flemish Region of Belgium, in the northwest of the country.
The area of the whole city amounts to more than 13,840 hectares (138.4 sq km; 53.44 sq miles), including 1,075 hectares off the coast, at Zeebrugge (from Brugge aan zee, meaning "Bruges by the Sea"). The historic city centre is a prominent World Heritage Site of UNESCO. It is oval in shape and about 430 hectares in size. The city's total population is 117,073 (1 January 2008), of whom around 20,000 live in the city centre. The metropolitan area, including the outer commuter zone, covers an area of 616 km2 (238 sq mi) and has a total of 255,844 inhabitants as of 1 January 2008.
Along with a few other canal-based northern cities, such as Amsterdam, it is sometimes referred to as the Venice of the North. Bruges has a significant economic importance, thanks to its port, and was once one of the world's chief commercial cities. Bruges is well known as the seat of the College of Europe, a university institute for European studies.
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memphis,_Tennessee
Memphis is a city along the Mississippi River in southwestern Shelby County, Tennessee, United States. The 2019 population was 651,073, making Memphis the largest city on the Mississippi River, the second most populous in Tennessee, as well as the 26th largest city in the United States. Greater Memphis is the 42nd largest metropolitan area in the United States, with a population of 1,348,260 in 2017. The city is the anchor of West Tennessee and the greater Mid-South region, which includes portions of neighboring Arkansas, Mississippi, and the Missouri Bootheel. Memphis is the seat of Shelby County, Tennessee's most populous county. One of the more historic and culturally significant cities of the southern United States, Memphis has a wide variety of landscapes and distinct neighborhoods.
The first European explorer to visit the area of present-day Memphis was Spanish conquistador Hernando de Soto in 1541 with his expedition into the New World. The high Chickasaw Bluffs protecting the location from the waters of the Mississippi was then contested by the Spanish, French, and the English as Memphis took shape. Modern Memphis was founded in 1819 by three prominent Americans: John Overton, James Winchester, and future president Andrew Jackson.
Memphis grew into one of the largest cities of the Antebellum South as a market for agricultural goods, natural resources like lumber, and the American slave trade. After the American Civil War and the end of slavery, the city experienced even faster growth into the 20th century as it became among the largest world markets for cotton and lumber.
Home to Tennessee's largest African-American population, Memphis played a prominent role in the American civil rights movement and was the site of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s 1968 assassination. The city now hosts the National Civil Rights Museum—a Smithsonian affiliate institution. Since the civil rights era, Memphis has become one of the nation's leading commercial centers in transportation and logistics. Its largest employer is the multinational courier corporation FedEx, which maintains its global air hub at Memphis International Airport, making it the second-busiest cargo airport in the world. In addition to being a global air cargo leader, the International Port of Memphis also hosts the 5th busiest inland water port in the U.S., with access to the Mississippi River allowing shipments to arrive from around the world for conversion to train and trucking transport throughout the United States, making Memphis a multi-modal hub for trading goods for imports and exports despite its inland location.
Memphis is a regional center for commerce, education, media, art, and entertainment. It has long had a prominent music scene, with historic blues clubs on Beale Street originating the unique Memphis blues sound in the early 20th century. The city's music has continued to be shaped by a multicultural mix of influences: the blues, country, rock n' roll, soul, and hip-hop. Memphis barbecue has achieved international prominence, and the city hosts the World Championship Barbecue Cooking Contest, which attracts over 100,000 visitors to the city annually.
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beale_Street
Beale Street is a street in Downtown Memphis, Tennessee, which runs from the Mississippi River to East Street, a distance of approximately 1.8 miles (2.9 km). It is a significant location in the city's history, as well as in the history of blues music. Today, the blues clubs and restaurants that line Beale Street are major tourist attractions in Memphis. Festivals and outdoor concerts frequently bring large crowds to the street and its surrounding areas.
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"Ladies and gentlemen, when I first went to the Middle East -- on holiday from Belfast, of all places -- 1972, I went to Egypt, and anxious to try and pick up a few first words of Arabic, I had the misfortune of purchasing a very old book produced by the British army in Egypt in the 19th century. I still recall the three principal clauses which you were advised to learn if you were an Englishman: "We shall board the steamship, for there is talk of war," "Help," and "Where is the British embassy?" And I can tell you, I never believed I would actually watch people say these things, as I had to in Lebanon this last summer. There were all the refugees, all the foreigners, boarding the steamships because there was a real war, all wanting help and all demanding to know the way to their national embassies. “So it has come to this,” I thought to myself.
You know, in the last 30 years that I have been in the Middle East, there has been one -- no, two major changes. The first is that Muslims are no longer afraid. When I first went to Lebanon, if the Israelis crossed the border, for example, many, many, many Palestinians who were in the south would be rushing to Beirut. People would flee the south, run away. Whether it was the siege of Beirut in 1982 or not, I don’t know. But now, they do not run away. Muslims do not run away when they’re attacked, when they’re under air attack.
One of the most extraordinary events was the siege of ’82, when over and over again leaflets would fall from the sky. “If you value your loved ones, run away and take them with you.” An attempt to depopulate West Beirut. And I always remember my landlord -- I live on the seafront -- I met him at front door one day, and he was holding a little net full of fish. He had been fishing on the sea. He said, “We don't have to do as we’re told and leave our homes. We can live, you see, Mr. Robert. We can stay here.”
The other big change that has happened in the past 30 years is that when I first went to the Middle East, all the forces which were in conflict with the West were nationalist or socialist or pro-Soviet. Today, without exception, in Afghanistan, in Gaza, in the West Bank, in Iraq, in South Lebanon, all the forces which are in conflict with the West or with Israel are Islamist. That is a change that I don’t think we westerners really understand.
Do we in fact really understand the extent of injustice in the Middle East? When I finished writing my new book, I realized how amazed I was that after the past 90 years of injustice, betrayal, slaughter, terror, torture, secret policemen and dictators, how restrained Muslims had been, I realized, towards the West, because I don't think we Westerners care about Muslims. I don’t think we care about Muslim Arabs. You only have to look at the reporting of Iraq. Every time an American or British soldier is killed, we know his name, his age, whether he was married, the names of his children. But 500,000-600,000 Iraqis, how many of their names have found their way onto our television programs, our radio shows, our newspapers? They are just numbers, and we don't even know the statistic.
Do you remember the time when George Bush was pushed and pushed: what were the figures of the Iraqi dead? At that stage, it was less, and he said, “Oh, 30,000. More or less.” Can you imagine if he had been asked how many Americans had died, and he said "3,000, more or less"? Those words, “more or less,” somehow said it all.
I said earlier on today -- and I’m going to give you the example this time -- that actually, I don't think the Iraq report is going to have any effect, but I think what is meant to have an effect in the United States is the gradual drip-drip idea that the Iraqis are unworthy of us Westerners. This is why and this is how we’re going to get out.
Let me give you an example of what I mean. Here is Ralph Peters, former American Army officer, writing in USA Today. I’m not advising you to read USA Today, but I sometimes get trapped into airplanes for hours and hours and hours coming to talk to people like you. So, here is Ralph Peters writing -- remember this is quoting a mainstream newspaper. He was originally for the invasion. Obviously he needs a get-out clause now. "Our extensive investment in Iraqi law enforcement only produced death squads. Government ministers loot the country to strengthen their own factions. In reality, only a military coup could hold this artificial country together." You see? We’re already planning.
I remember back even in 2003, Daniel Pipes had a long article in which he said that what Iraq needed -- and please do not laugh at this -- what Iraq needed was a democratically minded strongman. Think about that for a moment.
But let me carry on with Ralph Peters. “For all our errors, we did give the Iraqis a unique chance to build a rule-of-law democracy. They preferred to indulge in old hatreds, confessional violence, ethnic bigotry and a culture of corruption.” You see what we’re doing. We’re denigrating and bestializing the people we came allegedly to save. It's their tragedy, not ours, he writes. Iraq -- listen to this, “Iraq was the Arab world’s last chance to board the train to modernity, to give the region a future, not just a bitter past. But now, the violence staining Baghdad’s streets with gore isn’t only a symptom of the Iraqi government’s incompetence,” he says. “It is symbolic of the comprehensive inability of the Arab world to progress in any sphere of organized human endeavor.” Yes, that's what I thought when I read it. No letters to the editor about this. “If they continue to revel” -- revel, get that word -- “to revel in fratricidal slaughter, we must leave.” You see, the ground is being prepared.
Take David Brooks, now, this is the New York Times. This is really mainstream. He’s been reading some history books, remembering how the British occupation of Iraq came to grief in 1920. Pity he didn’t read the history books before he supported the invasion of Iraq. But anyway, he’s getting ’round to reading history now. “Today,” he says, “Iraq is in much worse shape than when the British were there. The most perceptive reports,” he says, “talk not of a civil war, but of complete social disintegration.” We’re already rubbing Iraq like this and turning it to dust, so there’s nothing left to leave. “This latest descent,” he says, “was initiated by American blunders but is exacerbated by” -- wait for it -- “the same old Iraqi demons: greed, bloodlust and a mind-boggling unwillingness to compromise for the common good, even in the face of self-immolation.” This is similar to the Thomas Friedman line of the child-sacrificing Palestinians. “Iraq,” says Brooks, “is teetering on the edge of futility.” What does that mean? “It will be time to effectively end Iraq. It will be time soon,” he says, “to radically diffuse authority down to the only communities that are viable in Iraq: the clan, the tribe or sect.”
This, ladies and gentlemen, is the way in which we are being prepared for what is to happen. This is the grit, which will be laid on the desert floor to help our tanks move. Don't say there were never predictions about the future in the Middle East.
So, but don't say there were no predictions of the future in the Middle East. The record of that 1920 insurgency against the British occupation is a fingerprint-perfect copy of the insurgency against the Americans and the British today. But on the other hand, don't say that no one warned many, many years before here now, before even the Second World War, of what was to happen in Palestine.
I’m going to read you a very brief paragraph by Winston Churchill, not about the Battle of Britain. It is Churchill prophesying the future from 1937, eleven years before the Nakba. This is Winston Churchill writing in a totally forgotten essay. He reflected upon the future and wrote of the impossibility of a partitioned Palestine. And he talked of how, I quote -- this is Winston Churchill in 1937 -- “The wealthy, crowded, progressive Jewish state” -- see, it doesn’t exist yet, but he’s already getting it right -- “lies in the plains and on the sea coast of Palestine. Around it, in the hills and the uplands, stretching far and wide into the illimitable deserts, the warlike Arabs of Syria of Transjordania, of Arabia, backed by the armed forces of Iraq, offer the ceaseless menace of war. To maintain itself,” -- 1937, remember, -- “To maintain itself, the Jewish state will have to be armed to the teeth and must bring in every able-bodied man to strengthen its army. But how long will this process be allowed to continue by the great Arab populations in Iraq and Palestine? Can it be expected that the Arabs would stand by impassively and watch the building up, with Jewish world capital and resources, of a Jewish army, equipped with the most deadly weapons of war until it was strong enough not to be afraid of them? And if ever the Jewish army reached that point, who can be sure,” Churchill asked, “that, cramped within their narrow limits, they would not plunge out into the new undeveloped lands that lay around them?”
“Ouch,” I said when I read that. 1937."
--Robert Fisk, the veteran mid-east reporter for The Independent, addressing the sixth annual convention of the Muslim Public Affairs Council in Long Beach, California, December 20, 2006
From Mind the Light: The Storied Swarthmore
Artist Statement from the exhibition
"Mind the Light" is a Quaker saying, often invoked by the founders of Swarthmore College, that refers to the practice of learning to see divine light in others and ourselves. It is also the main principle of photography (phōtos + graphé = "drawing with light") and, in many ways, it reflects the way I approach portraits of the people in my life. Through instant and medium format film, digital images, and video projections, I've attempted to process my experience at Swarthmore as it relates to the school's broader history. A portrait of a friend alludes to the Tarble Center fire of 1983, while also calling to mind the Great Parrish Fire of 1881 and the phoenix-like rebirth of both buildings. Another image was inspired by our debate society's namesake, Amos J. Peaslee, who was almost expelled in 1904 for throwing a fellow freshman into Crum Creek. The projection on the wall blends early film footage of the college with present-day images of students, serving as evidence that — in the most basic ways — our campus has remained untouched.
At the same time, the images remind us of how much Swarthmore has developed. Several portraits refer to charged issues that the community has challenged head-on in the past century, and strips of real and imagined scenes demonstrate the changing soul of the campus. On a more personal level, for me, the images reflect my growing-up at Swarthmore and the characters who have been a part of my daily life these past four years.
This exhibition is about light and darkness, heroes and ghosts. But more than anything else, it's a story about my home.
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By the turn of the 16th century, wolves were extinct in England and Wales. However, they held for for longer in other parts of the British realm. In Scotland, wolves survived almost 200 years more, despite regular wolf hunts organized by nobility and decrees by Scottish kings for their destruction. Wolves held on in Ireland until the middle of the 18th century. By 1760, the English wolf in the British Isles was completely exterminated.
(By Susan Leisure)
Fauna Boica oder gemeinnützige Naturgeschichte der Thiere Bayerns /.
Nürnberg :in der E.H. Zeh'schen Buchhandlung,1832..
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Para no perderse en los caminos sumergidos, bajo el sol y el agua tan anchos como el cielo, Palmodictyon perla a perla, en verde, se abre el suyo, paredes suaves de transparencia, dejando paso a paso su rastro de lunares vivos que hacen collarcitos de agua.
Palmodictyon recorre los fondos poco profundos y se abraza a las plantas sumergidas de la orilla en carreras de lunares verdes que en tubos transparentes se deshacen casi al nombrarlos. Tremendamente delicados, permiten que Palmodictyon no se vea expuesta directamente al ataque de los pequeños depredadores que la rondan bajo el agua, amebas, rotíferos, algunos ciliados y pequeños crustáceos.
Los tubos con los que Palmodictyon se abre paso en su camino seguro se pueden ramificar o ensanchar de tramo en tramo, pero siempre sin excesos. Están hechos de una matriz mucilaginosa que con el paso del tiempo se puede ir tiñendo de color rosado. En su interior, las células se dividen y se alejan ligeramente, manteniéndose próximas, pero guardando su independencia.
Palmodictyon parece manifestarse siempre así, de manera discreta, no es abundante, pero está presente en zonas en las que se estanca el agua limpia y rara vez llega a formar densas masas filamentosas visibles, como las de Spirogyra o muchas otras algas verdes.
La presencia de un solo cloroplasto en cada célula es característica de Palmodictyon varium que vive y adorna el agua en guirnaldas de collar. La fotografía se ha tomado en una muestra recogida el 5 de enero de 2018 junto a un pequeño regato situado en las proximidades de Mahíde (Zamora) en la Sierra de la Culebra. La hemos fotografiado a 400 aumentos empleando la técnica de contraste de fase.
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Verde sobre un lago verde que fue de aguas de cristal...
Elakatothrix es una alga solitaria o colonial de cuerpo alargado y verde y extremos agudos. En algunas especies, como en la que mostramos hoy aquí estos extremos se cierran progresivamente, pero es frecuente que formen una punta de ángulo casi obtuso. En cualquier caso la consistencia de estas algas es muy delicada y quizá por ello viven protegidas dentro de una gruesa capa gelatinosa que las envuelve.
El género Elakatothrix está representado por una quincena de especies y se encuentra repartido por todas las aguas dulces del planeta.
Las células de Elakatothrix navegan a la deriva en las capas superficiales del agua a las que llega la luz, allí son fácilmente empujadas por las corrientes que las llevan en un viaje incierto. A veces también, como ocurre aquí en el Lago de Sanabria, se pueden sumergir hacia los oscuros abismos donde llegan para reposar varios meses del año alejadas de sus depredadores habituales y volver a luz tras su viaje a los fondos.
Elakatothrix se multiplica siempre asexualmente, no se han descubierto hasta el momento procesos de reproducción sexual. La reproducción asexual se puede llevar a cabo mediante dos mecanismos, la formación de esporas inmóviles y la división longitudinal de las células, éste último mecanismo, es el más frecuente y tiene como resultado el que las células formadas tras la división queden alineadas y juntas orientadas en una misma dirección.
La forma de las células en estas algas siempre es alargada, pero variable en cuanto a su anchura y al remate de sus extremos. La membrana celular de Elakatothrix es muy fina e hilaina y siempre está protegida por una capa mucilaginosa de grosor variable.
En el interior de las células de Elakatothrix se encierra un solo cloroplasto laminar pegado a la membrana que puede presentar forma de copa o de banda en faja o en espiral.
La taxonomía del género no está completamente clara y especies como la de hoy, muy probablemente Elakatothrix lacustris según el criterio de Korshikov, han sido asignadas a otras entidades taxonómicas como Elakatothrix gelatinosa e incluso consignadas en otros géneros como Quadrigula o Pseudocuadrigula.
El tamaño, la forma, la distribución de los individuos dentro de la envuelta gelatinosa y la disposición de los cloroplastos en los ejemplares que mostramos aquí parecen aproximarlos al referido taxón descrito por Korshikov en 1953, Elakatothrix lacustris y representaría una nueva cita para el Lago de Sanabria y una destacada referencia para la Península Ibérica.
Elakatothrix lacustris, junto con otra buena representación de clorofíceas planctónicas, más propias de medios mesotróficos que oligotróficos, proliferan en estos momentos en el fitoplancton del Lago de Sanabria tiñéndolo de color verde, mientras una administración, que defiende los intereses de corruptos y no los del bien común, continúa negando las evidencias de su degradación como consecuencia de los inoperativos sistemas de depuración y de los vertidos de aguas residuales que inexplicablemente no se han paralizado y que están llevando a esta joya de los ecosistemas acuáticos peninsulares a un penoso estado de deterioro.
La fotografía que mostramos, realizada a 400 aumentos empleando la técnica de contraste de interferencia, se ha tomado sobre una muestra integrada, recolectada el día 4 de febrero de 2016 junto a la boya de Bouzas 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
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Gordon
Fort Gordon, formerly known as Camp Gordon, is a United States Army installation established in October 1941. It is the current home of the United States Army Signal Corps , United States Army Cyber Corps, and Cyber Center of Excellence. It was once the home of The Provost Marshal General School and Civil Affairs School. The fort is located slightly southeast of Grovetown, Georgia and southwest of the city Augusta, Georgia. The main component of the post is the Advanced Individual Training for Signal Corps military occupational specialties. In 1966–68 the Army's Signal Officer Candidate School (located at Fort Monmouth during World War II and the Korean War) graduated over 2,200 Signal officers. Signals Intelligence has become more visible and comprises more and more of the fort's duties.
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independence_Day_(United_States)
Independence Day (colloquial: the Fourth of July) is a federal holiday in the United States commemorating the Declaration of Independence of the United States on July 4, 1776. The Continental Congress declared that the thirteen American colonies were no longer subject (and subordinate) to the monarch of Britain and were now united, free, and independent states. The Congress had voted to declare independence two days earlier, on July 2, but it was not declared until July 4.
Independence Day is commonly associated with fireworks, parades, barbecues, carnivals, fairs, picnics, concerts, baseball games, family reunions, and political speeches and ceremonies, in addition to various other public and private events celebrating the history, government, and traditions of the United States. Independence Day is the National Day of the United States.
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Semana Mundial de la Lactancia Materna - Apoyo a las madres que amamantan: cercano, continuo y oportuno
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barcelona
Barcelona is a city in Spain. It is the capital and largest city of the autonomous community of Catalonia, as well as the second most populous municipality of Spain. With a population of 1.6 million within city limits, its urban area extends to numerous neighbouring municipalities within the Province of Barcelona and is home to around 4.8 million people, making it the sixth most populous urban area in the European Union after Paris, London, Madrid, the Ruhr area and Milan. It is one of the largest metropolises on the Mediterranean Sea, located on the coast between the mouths of the rivers Llobregat and Besòs, and bounded to the west by the Serra de Collserola mountain range, the tallest peak of which is 512 metres (1,680 feet) high.
Founded as a Roman city, in the Middle Ages Barcelona became the capital of the County of Barcelona. After merging with the Kingdom of Aragon, Barcelona continued to be an important city in the Crown of Aragon as an economic and administrative centre of this Crown and the capital of the Principality of Catalonia. Barcelona has a rich cultural heritage and is today an important cultural centre and a major tourist destination. Particularly renowned are the architectural works of Antoni Gaudí and Lluís Domènech i Montaner, which have been designated UNESCO World Heritage Sites. The headquarters of the Union for the Mediterranean are located in Barcelona. The city is known for hosting the 1992 Summer Olympics as well as world-class conferences and expositions and also many international sport tournaments.
Barcelona is one of the world's leading tourist, economic, trade fair and cultural centres, and its influence in commerce, education, entertainment, media, fashion, science, and the arts all contribute to its status as one of the world's major global cities. It is a major cultural and economic centre in southwestern Europe, 24th in the world (before Zürich, after Frankfurt) and a financial centre. In 2008 it was the fourth most economically powerful city by GDP in the European Union and 35th in the world with GDP amounting to €177 billion. In 2012 Barcelona had a GDP of $170 billion; and it was leading Spain in employment rate in that moment.
In 2009 the city was ranked Europe's third and one of the world's most successful as a city brand. In the same year the city was ranked Europe's fourth best city for business and fastest improving European city, with growth improved by 17% per year, and the city has been experiencing strong and renewed growth for the past three years. Since 2011 Barcelona has been a leading smart city in Europe. Barcelona is a transport hub, with the Port of Barcelona being one of Europe's principal seaports and busiest European passenger port, an international airport, Barcelona–El Prat Airport, which handles over 50 million passengers per year, an extensive motorway network, and a high-speed rail line with a link to France and the rest of Europe.
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sagrada_Fam%C3%ADlia
The Temple Expiatori de la Sagrada Família (Spanish: Templo Expiatorio de la Sagrada Familia; "Expiatory Church of the Holy Family") is a large unfinished Roman Catholic church in Barcelona, Spain, designed by Catalan architect Antoni Gaudí (1852–1926). Gaudí's work on the building is part of a UNESCO World Heritage Site. In November 2010 Pope Benedict XVI consecrated the church and proclaimed it a minor basilica.
In 1882, construction of Sagrada Família started under architect Francisco de Paula del Villar. In 1883, when Villar resigned, Gaudí took over as chief architect, transforming the project with his architectural and engineering style, combining Gothic and curvilinear Art Nouveau forms. Gaudí devoted the remainder of his life to the project, and he is buried in the crypt. At the time of his death at age 73 in 1926, when he was run down by a tram, less than a quarter of the project was complete.
Relying solely on private donations, Sagrada Familia's construction progressed slowly and was interrupted by the Spanish Civil War. In July 1936, revolutionaries set fire to the crypt and broke their way into the workshop, partially destroying Gaudí's original plans, drawings and plaster models, which led to 16 years work to piece together the fragments of the master model. Construction resumed to intermittent progress in the 1950s. Advancements in technologies such as computer aided design and computerised numerical control (CNC) have since enabled faster progress and construction past the midpoint in 2010. However, some of the project's greatest challenges remain, including the construction of ten more spires, each symbolising an important Biblical figure in the New Testament. It is anticipated that the building can be completed by 2026—the centenary of Gaudí's death.
The basilica has a long history of dividing the citizens of Barcelona: over the initial possibility it might compete with Barcelona's cathedral, over Gaudí's design itself, over the possibility that work after Gaudí's death disregarded his design, and the 2007 proposal to build a tunnel of Spain's high-speed rail link to France which could disturb its stability. Describing Sagrada Família, art critic Rainer Zerbst said "it is probably impossible to find a church building anything like it in the entire history of art", and Paul Goldberger describes it as "the most extraordinary personal interpretation of Gothic architecture since the Middle Ages".
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La diatomea, Fragilaria crotonensis teje de una sola hilada largas pasarelas que son delicadas alfombras de cristal, y en el mundo mágico del agua flotan como las de Aladino en el aire, hoy también con pasajeros muy livianos. La alfombras de Fragilaria vuelan siempre despacio empujadas por soplos de aire o acunadas por las corrientes que las hacen ascender y descender por montañas imaginarias, desde la luz de la superficie en primavera hasta la tarde o la noche de las profundidades en invierno en un viaje anual que en lagos como el de Sanabria permite la mezcla del agua, el viaje de muchos organismos y la renovación de la vida en estos ecosistemas.
Para tejer estas pasarelas transparentes, los estuches de cristal de Fragilaria se unen por su costado más estrecho, el valvar, de apenas tres milésimas de milímetro de espesor y dejan ver su cara frontal, más ancha, en este tejido que es un entarimado de cuarzo ensamblado pieza a pieza gracias a un invisible pegamento de gelatina y con la perfección propia de estas minúsculas esculturas vivientes, de las que el el microscopio óptico apenas permite ver sus delicados adornos en forma de estrías construidas a base de pequeñas ventanas alineadas.
Las formaciones de Fragilaria crotonensis son resistentes y flexibles, la unión hace la fuerza en esta diatomea tan delicada que podría quebrarse con el más mínimo roce si viviese aislada. Hoy sobre ella se han asentado pequeñas bacterias, bacilos, que son sus pasajeros hacia algún destino desconocido.
Fragilaria crotonensis es hermana de Fragilaria capucina , que suele presentar un mayor tamaño y formar bandas de mayor anchura con traviesas rematadas en punta. Tanto una como otra son indicadoras de aguas cargadas con algo de materia orgánica, pero no soportan altos niveles de contaminación por lo que su progresiva desaparición en algunos ecosistemas puede ser una señala de alarma.
La imagen, tomada a 400 aumentos con la técnica de contraste de interferencia, procede de una muestra recogida por Ruth Centeno en Navaldelpozo, junto al Lago de Sanabria (Zamora) dentro del proyecto que se desarrolla desde el catamarán Helios Sanabria el primer catamarán del mundo propulsado por energía eólica y solar.
Herpetologia Mexicana, seu Descriptio amphibiorum Novae Hispaniae :
Berolini :Sumptibus C.G. Lüderitz,1834.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Side,_Turkey
Side (Greek: Σίδη) is an ancient Greek city on the southern Mediterranean coast of Turkey, a resort town and one of the best-known classical sites in the country. It lies near Manavgat and the village of Selimiye, 78 km from Antalya in the province of Antalya.[1]
It is located on the eastern part of the Pamphylian coast, which lies about 20 km east of the mouth of the Eurymedon River. Today, as in antiquity, the ancient city is situated on a small north-south peninsula about 1 km long and 400 m across.
History[edit]
Strabo and Arrian both record that Side was founded by Greek settlers from Cyme in Aeolis, a region of western Anatolia. This most likely occurred in the 7th century BC. Its tutelary deity was Athena, whose head adorned its coinage.
Dating from the tenth century B.C., its coinage bore the head of Athena (Minerva), the patroness of the city, with a legend. Its people, a piratical horde, quickly forgot their own language to adopt that of the aborigines.
Possessing a good harbour for small-craft boats, Side's natural geography made it one of the most important places in Pamphylia and one of the most important trade centres in the region. According to Arrian, when settlers from Cyme came to Side, they could not understand the dialect. After a short while, the influence of this indigenous tongue was so great that the newcomers forgot their native Greek and started using the language of Side. Excavations have revealed several inscriptions written in this language. The inscriptions, dating from the 3rd and 2nd centuries BC, remain undeciphered, but testify that the local language was still in use several centuries after colonisation. Another object found in the excavations at Side, a basalt column base from the 7th century BC and attributable to the Neo-Hittites, provides further evidence of the site's early history. The name Side may be Anatolian in origin, meaning pomegranate.[citation needed]
Next to no information exists concerning Side under Lydian and Persian sovereignty.
Alexander the Great[edit]
Vespasian Gate
Temple of Apollo
Alexander the Great occupied Side without a struggle in 333 BC. Alexander left only a single garrison behind to occupy the city. This occupation, in turn, introduced the people of Side to Hellenistic culture, which flourished from the 4th to the 1st century BC. After Alexander's death, Side fell under the control of one of Alexander's generals, Ptolemy I Soter, who declared himself king of Egypt in 305 BC. The Ptolemaic dynasty controlled Side until it was captured by the Seleucid Empire in the 2nd century BC. Yet, despite these occupations, Side managed to preserve some autonomy, grew prosperous, and became an important cultural centre.
Walls of the ancient theatre of Side
In 190 BC a fleet from the Greek island city-state of Rhodes, supported by Rome and Pergamum, defeated the Seleucid King Antiochus the Great's fleet, which was under the command of the fugitive Carthaginian general Hannibal. The defeat of Hannibal and Antiochus the Great meant that Side freed itself from the overlord-ship of the Seleucid Empire. The Treaty of Apamea (188 BC) forced Antiochus to abandon all European territories and to cede all of Asia Minor north of the Taurus Mountains to Pergamum. However, the dominion of Pergamum only reached de facto as far as Perga, leaving Eastern Pamphylia in a state of uncertain freedom. This led Attalus II Philadelphus to construct a new harbour in the city of Attalia (the present Antalya), although Side already possessed an important harbour of its own. Between 188 and 36 BC Side minted its own money, tetradrachms showing Nike and a laurel wreath (the sign of victory).
In the 1st century BC, Side reached a peak when the Cilician pirates established their chief naval base and a centre for their slave-trade.
Romans[edit]
The consul Servilius Vatia defeated these brigands in 78 BC and later the Roman general Pompey in 67 BC, bringing Side under the control of Rome and beginning its second period of ascendancy, when it established and maintained a good working relationship with the Roman Empire.[2]
Emperor Augustus reformed the state administration and placed Pamphylia and Side in the Roman province of Galatia in 25 BC, after the short reign of Amyntas of Galatia between 36 and 25 BC. Side began another prosperous period as a commercial centre in Asia Minor through its trade in olive oil. Its population grew to 60,000 inhabitants. This period would last well into the 3rd century AD. Side also established itself as a slave-trading centre in the Mediterranean. Its large commercial fleet engaged in acts of piracy, while wealthy merchants paid for such tributes as public works, monuments, and competitions as well as the games and gladiator fights. Most of the extant ruins at Side date from this period of prosperity.
One of the maps (portolani) of Piri Reis, taken from the Kitab-i Bahriye, which Piri produced in several editions, supplementing in 1520, but integrating it into subsequent editions.
Side was the home of Eustathius of Antioch, of the philosopher Troilus, of the fifth-century ecclesiastical writer Philip; of the famous lawyer Tribonian.[3]
Decline[edit]
Side began a steady decline from the 4th century on. Even defensive walls could not stop successive invasions of highlanders from the Taurus Mountains. During the 5th and 6th centuries, Side experienced a revival, and became the seat of the Bishopric of Eastern Pamphylia. Arab fleets, nevertheless, raided and burned Side during the 7th century, contributing to its decline. The combination of earthquakes, Christian zealots and Arab raids, left the site abandoned by the 10th century, its citizens having emigrated to nearby Antalya.[2]
In the 12th century, Side temporarily established itself once more as a large city. An inscription found on the site of the former ancient city shows a considerable Jewish population in early Byzantine times. However, Side was abandoned again after being sacked. Its population moved to Antalya, and Side became known as Eski Adalia 'Old Antalya' and was buried.
A hospital dating back to the 6th century.
This portion of the main street in Side is lined with the ruins of homes or shops, many of which feature their original mosaic tile flooring.
Ecclesiastical history[edit]
As capital of the Roman province of Pamphylia Prima, Side was ecclesiastically the metropolitan see. The earliest known bishop was Epidaurus, presiding at the Synod of Ancyra, 314. Others are John, fourth century; Eustathius, 381; Amphilochius, 426-458, who played an important part in the history of the time; Conon, 536; Peter, 553; John, 680-692; Mark, 879; Theodore, 1027-1028; Anthimus, present at the synod held at Constantinople in 1054; John, then counsellor to the Emperor Michael VII Ducas, presided at a council on the worship of images, 1082; Theodosius and his successor Nicetas, twelfth century. John, present at a synod at Constantinople in 1156. The Notitiae Episcopatuum continued to mention Side as a metropolis of Pamphylia until the thirteenth century. It does not appear in the "Notitia" of Andronicus III. From other documents we learn that in 1315 and for some time previous to that, Sidon had bishops of its own — the Bishop of Sinope was called to the position, but was unable to leave his own diocese; this call was repeated in 1338 and 1345. In 1397 the diocese was united with that of Attalia; in 1400 the Metropolitan of Perge and Attalia was at the same time the administrator of Side.[4][citation needed]
No longer a residential see, Side is today included in the Catholic Church's list of titular sees.[5]
Ruins[edit]
The great ruins are among the most notable in Asia Minor. They cover a large promontory where a wall and a moat separate it from the mainland. During medieval times, the wall and moat were repaired and the promontory houses a wealth of structures.
There are colossal ruins of a theatre complex, the largest of Pamphylia, built much like a Roman amphitheatre that relies on arches to support the sheer verticals. The Roman style was adopted because Side lacked a convenient hillside that could be hollowed out in the usual Greek fashion more typical of Asia Minor. The theatre is less preserved than the theatre at Aspendos, but it is almost as large, seating 15,000–20,000 people. With time and the shifting of the earth, the scena wall has collapsed over the stage and the proscenium is in a cataract of loose blocks. It was converted into an open-air sanctuary with two chapels during Byzantine times (5th or 6th century).
The well-preserved city walls provide an entrance to the site through the Hellenistic main gate (Megale Pyle) of the ancient city, although this gate from the 2nd century BC is badly damaged. Next comes the colonnaded street, whose marble columns are no longer extant; all that remains are a few broken stubs near the old Roman baths. The street leads to the public bath, restored as a museum displaying statues and sarcophagi from the Roman period. Next is the square agora with the remains of the round Tyche and Fortuna temple (2nd century BC), a periptery with twelve columns, in the middle. In later times it was used as a trading centre where pirates sold slaves. The remains of the theatre, which was used for gladiator fights and later as a church, and the monumental gate date back to the 2nd century. The early Roman Temple of Dionysus is near the theatre. The fountain gracing the entrance is restored. At the left side are the remains of a Byzantine Basilica. A public bath has also been restored.[2]
The remaining ruins of Side include three temples, an aqueduct, and a nymphaeum. Side's nymphaeum – a grotto with a natural water supply dedicated to the nymphs – was an artificial grotto or fountain building of elaborate design.
There is also a virtually unknown, but expansive site, up in the Taurus foothills, several miles inland, known locally as Seleucia. Virtually unknown to the outside world and not represented on the internet at all, it is the Roman garrison, built by Marc Anthony, to support the city of Side. It covers at least a couple of square miles and is almost completely unexcavated, apart from two weeks in 1975, when the Turkish government funded two weeks of excavations. The site was, apparently, finally abandoned in the 7th century, when an earthquake caused the spring which fed the site with water to dry up completely. Many of the buildings are in remarkably good shape, particularly since, due to the lack of available stone, a significant quantity of the sites stonework contains egg and gravel based concrete blocks.[citation needed]
Turkish archaeologists have been excavating Side since 1947 and intermittently continue to do so