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This is a photograph from a set of photographs taken at the second running of the Castletown-Finea/Coole/Whitehall GFC 5KM Road Race and Fun Run which was held in Finea, Co. Westmeath, Ireland on Wednesday August 21st 2013 at 19:30. The race was unique in the fact that it provided participants to run in two counties (Westmeath and Cavan) and two provinces (Ulster and Leinster) in Ireland during the same race. The race started on the Cavan side of the famous bridge of Finea and finished on the banks of the river. Finea is a beautiful Irish village which is well known for its scenery and it's position in the beautiful landscape of North Westmeath amongst the lakes and hills. The area attracts tourists for fishing and game shooting every year.
The race was very well organised with excellent stewarding and support and great community involvement. Well done to everyone involved. This race has the ability to grow in strength each year.
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Overall Race Summary
Participants: There was about 150 participants of runners, joggers, and walkers.
Weather: There was mild August evening. There was a tail wind supporting the runners for the first 3Km but this turned into a strong head-wind for the final 2km of the race.
Course: The race starts and finishes at either side of the Bridge of Finea. The Bridge End Bar was the start where the race went out 400m on the Granard road and runners turned around at cone and headed back into Co. Westmeath over the bridge and the 1km mark. Following the Castlepollard Road the race took at left at the 2km and followed a loop back past the National School and back into Finea village again for a finish down on the banks of the River Inny. The course was a tough undulating course but fair. Any short hills were balanced out by adequate down-hill the other side. The stewards provided excellent traffic management on what is a busy section of road between the 1st KM and the final KM and the finish.
Location Map: Start/finish and registration took place at the Bridge (see Google StreetView Image here goo.gl/maps/1Zqek)
Refreshments: There was a very impressive selection of refreshments including sandwiches and home-made breads in the Bridge End Bar afterwards.
Some Useful Links
Wikipedia Page about Finea: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finnea
FACEBOOK Page for the CFCW 5KM Run 2013 www.facebook.com/cfcw.bigfightnight
CFCW GAA Facebook www.facebook.com/pages/Castletown-Finea-Coole-Whitehall-G...
The song which immortalised the Bridge of Finea - 'Come back Paddy Reilly' by Percy French - sung here by Paddy Reilly [www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGmrpMT0-yo] and lyrics [www.lyricsfreak.com/i/irish+music/come+back+paddy+reilly_...]
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1ª Salidita en moto en grupo despues de una recuperacion satisfactorio. ¡Querer es poder!. Gracias a todos lo que me apoyaron.
An old Pennsy signal is lit up in the stop position a NS local crosses the diamond of the Winamac & Southern at Logansport IN.
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Rhinoceros /raɪˈnɒsərəs/, often abbreviated as rhino, is a group of five extant species of knee-less, odd-toed ungulates in the family Rhinocerotidae. Two of these species are native to Africa and three to southern Asia.
Members of the rhinoceros family are characterized by their large size (they are some of the largest remaining megafauna, with all of the species able to reach one tonne or more in weight); as well as by a herbivorous diet; a thick protective skin, 1.5–5 cm thick, formed from layers of collagen positioned in a lattice structure; relatively small brains for mammals this size (400–600 g); and a large horn. They generally eat leafy material, although their ability to ferment food in their hindgut allows them to subsist on more fibrous plant matter, if necessary. Unlike other perissodactyls, the two African species of rhinoceros lack teeth at the front of their mouths, relying instead on their powerful premolar and molar teeth to grind up plant food.[1]
Rhinoceros are killed by humans for their horns, which are bought and sold on the black market, and which are used by some cultures for ornamental or (pseudo-scientific) medicinal purposes. The horns are made of keratin, the same type of protein that makes up hair and fingernails.[2] Both African species and the Sumatran rhinoceros have two horns, while the Indian and Javan rhinoceros have a single horn.
The IUCN Red List identifies three of the species as critically endangered.
The word rhinoceros is derived through Latin from the Ancient Greek: ῥῑνόκερως, which is composed of ῥῑνο- (rhino-, "nose") and κέρας (keras, "horn"). The plural in English is rhinoceros or rhinoceroses. The collective noun for a group of rhinoceroses is crash or herd.
The five living species fall into three categories. The two African species, the white rhinoceros and the black rhinoceros, belong to the Dicerotini group, which originated in the middle Miocene, about 14.2 million years ago. The species diverged during the early Pliocene (about 5 million years ago). The main difference between black and white rhinos is the shape of their mouths - white rhinos have broad flat lips for grazing, whereas black rhinos have long pointed lips for eating foliage.
There are two living Rhinocerotini species, the Indian rhinoceros and the Javan rhinoceros, which diverged from one another about 10 million years ago. The Sumatran rhinoceros is the only surviving representative of the most primitive group, the Dicerorhinini, which emerged in the Miocene (about 20 million years ago).[3] The extinct woolly rhinoceros of northern Europe and Asia was also a member of this tribe.
A subspecific hybrid white rhino (Ceratotherium s. simum × C. s. cottoni) was bred at the Dvůr Králové Zoo (Zoological Garden Dvur Kralove nad Labem) in the Czech Republic in 1977. Interspecific hybridisation of black and white rhinoceros has also been confirmed.[4]
While the black rhinoceros has 84 chromosomes (diploid number, 2N, per cell), all other rhinoceros species have 82 chromosomes.
White rhinoceros
Main article: White rhinoceros
There are two subspecies of white rhino: the southern white rhinoceros (Ceratotherium simum simum) and the northern white rhinoceros (Ceratotherium simum cottoni). In 2007, the southern subspecies had a wild population of 17,480 (IUCN2008) - 16,266 of which were in South Africa - making them the most abundant rhino subspecies in the world. However, the northern subspecies was critically endangered, with as few as four individuals in the wild; the possibility of complete extinction in the wild having been noted since June 2008.[5] Six are known to be held in captivity, two of which reside in a zoo in San Diego. Four born in a zoo in the Czech Republic were transferred to a wildlife refuge in Kenya in December 2009, in an effort to have the animals reproduce and save the subspecies.[6]
There is no conclusive explanation of the name white rhinoceros. A popular theory that "white" is a distortion of either the Afrikaans word weid or the Dutch word wijd (or its other possible spellings whyde, weit, etc.,) meaning wide and referring to the rhino's square lips is not supported by linguistic studies.[7][8]
The white rhino has an immense body and large head, a short neck and broad chest. This rhino can exceed 3,500 kg (7,700 lb), have a head-and-body length of 3.5–4.6 m (11–15 ft) and a shoulder height of 1.8–2 m (5.9–6.6 ft). The record-sized white rhinoceros was about 4,500 kg (10,000 lb).[9] On its snout it has two horns. The front horn is larger than the other horn and averages 90 cm (35 in) in length and can reach 150 cm (59 in). The white rhinoceros also has a prominent muscular hump that supports its relatively large head. The colour of this animal can range from yellowish brown to slate grey. Most of its body hair is found on the ear fringes and tail bristles, with the rest distributed rather sparsely over the rest of the body. White rhinos have the distinctive flat broad mouth that is used for grazing.
Black rhinoceros
Main article: Black rhinoceros
The name black rhinoceros (Diceros bicornis) was chosen to distinguish this species from the white rhinoceros (Ceratotherium simum). This can be confusing, as the two species are not really distinguishable by color. There are four subspecies of black rhino: South-central (Diceros bicornis minor), the most numerous, which once ranged from central Tanzania south through Zambia, Zimbabwe and Mozambique to northern and eastern South Africa; South-western (Diceros bicornis bicornis) which are better adapted to the arid and semi-arid savannas of Namibia, southern Angola, western Botswana and western South Africa; East African (Diceros bicornis michaeli), primarily in Tanzania; and West African (Diceros bicornis longipes) which was declared extinct in November 2011.[10] The native Tswanan name Keitloa is used to describe a South African variation of the black rhino in which the posterior horn is equal to or longer than the anterior horn.[11]
An adult black rhinoceros stands 150–175 cm (59–69 in) high at the shoulder and is 3.5–3.9 m (11–13 ft) in length.[12] An adult weighs from 850 to 1,600 kg (1,900 to 3,500 lb), exceptionally to 1,800 kg (4,000 lb), with the females being smaller than the males. Two horns on the skull are made of keratin with the larger front horn typically 50 cm long, exceptionally up to 140 cm. Sometimes, a third smaller horn may develop. The black rhino is much smaller than the white rhino, and has a pointed mouth, which it uses to grasp leaves and twigs when feeding.
During the latter half of the 20th century their numbers were severely reduced from an estimated 70,000[13] in the late 1960s to only 2,410 in 1995.[14]
Indian rhinoceros
Main article: Indian rhinoceros
The Indian rhinoceros, or the greater one-horned rhinoceros, (Rhinoceros unicornis) is now found almost exclusively in Nepal and North-Eastern India. The rhino once inhabited many areas ranging from Pakistan to Burma and may have even roamed in China. However, because of human influence, their range has shrunk and now they only exist in several protected areas of India (in Assam, West Bengal, Gujarat and a few pairs in Uttar Pradesh) and Nepal, plus a few pairs in Lal Suhanra National Park in Pakistan. It is confined to the tall grasslands and forests in the foothills of the Himalayas.
The Indian rhinoceros has thick, silver-brown skin which creates huge folds all over its body. Its upper legs and shoulders are covered in wart-like bumps, and it has very little body hair. Fully grown males are larger than females in the wild, weighing from 2,500–3,200 kg (5,500–7,100 lb).The Indian rhino stands at 1.75–2.0 metres (5.75–6.5 ft). Female Indian rhinos weigh about 1,900 kg and are 3–4 metres long. The record-sized specimen of this rhino was approximately 3,800 kg. The Indian rhino has a single horn that reaches a length of between 20 and 100 cm. Its size is comparable to that of the white rhino in Africa.
Two-thirds of the world's Indian rhinoceroses are now confined to the Kaziranga National Park situated in the Golaghat district of Assam, India.[15]
Javan rhinoceros
Main article: Javan rhinoceros
The Javan rhinoceros (Rhinoceros sondaicus) is one of the rarest and most endangered large mammals anywhere in the world.[16] According to 2002 estimates, only about 60 remain, in Java (Indonesia) and Vietnam. Of all the rhino species, the least is known of the Javan Rhino. These animals prefer dense lowland rain forest, tall grass and reed beds that are plentiful with large floodplains and mud wallows. Though once widespread throughout Asia, by the 1930s the rhinoceros was nearly hunted to extinction in India, Burma, Peninsular Malaysia, and Sumatra for the supposed medical powers of its horn and blood. As of 2009, there are only 40 of them remaining in Ujung Kulon Conservation, Java, Indonesia. The last rhinoceros in Vietnam was reportedly killed in 2010.[17]
Like the closely related, and larger, Indian rhinoceros, the Javan rhinoceros has a single horn. Its hairless, hazy gray skin falls into folds into the shoulder, back, and rump giving it an armored-like appearance. The Javan rhino's body length reaches up to 3.1–3.2 m (10–10 ft), including its head and a height of 1.5–1.7 m (4 ft 10 in–5 ft 7 in) tall. Adults are variously reported to weigh between 900–1,400 kg[18] or 1,360–2,000 kg.[19] Male horns can reach 26 cm in length, while in females they are knobs or are not present at all.[19]
Sumatran rhinoceros
Main article: Sumatran rhinoceros
The Sumatran rhinoceros (Dicerorhinus sumatrensis) is the smallest extant rhinoceros species, as well as the one with the most hair. It can be found at very high altitudes in Borneo and Sumatra. Due to habitat loss and poaching, its numbers have declined and it is the most threatened rhinoceros. About 275 Sumatran rhinos are believed to remain.
A mature Sumatran rhino typically stands about 130 cm (51 in) high at the shoulder, with a body length of 240–315 cm (94–124 in) and weighing around 700 kg (1,500 lb), though the largest individuals have been known to weigh as much as 1,000 kilograms. Like the African species, it has two horns; the larger is the front (25–79 cm), with the smaller usually less than 10 cm long. The males have much larger horns than the females. Hair can range from dense (the densest hair in young calves) to scarce. The color of these rhinos is reddish brown. The body is short and has stubby legs. They also have a prehensile lip.
Rhinocerotoids diverged from other perissodactyls by the early Eocene. Fossils of Hyrachyus eximus found in North America date to this period. This small hornless ancestor resembled a tapir or small horse more than a rhino. Three families, sometimes grouped together as the superfamily Rhinocerotoidea, evolved in the late Eocene: Hyracodontidae, Amynodontidae and Rhinocerotidae.
Hyracodontidae, also known as 'running rhinos', showed adaptations for speed, and would have looked more like horses than modern rhinos. The smallest hyracodontids were dog-sized; the largest was Indricotherium, believed to be one of the largest land mammals that ever existed. The hornless Indricotherium was almost seven metres high, ten metres long, and weighed as much as 15 tons. Like a giraffe, it ate leaves from trees. The hyracodontids spread across Eurasia from the mid-Eocene to early Miocene.
The Amynodontidae, also known as "aquatic rhinos", dispersed across North America and Eurasia, from the late Eocene to early Oligocene. The amynodontids were hippopotamus-like in their ecology and appearance, inhabiting rivers and lakes, and sharing many of the same adaptations to aquatic life as hippos.
The family of all modern rhinoceros, the Rhinocerotidae, first appeared in the Late Eocene in Eurasia. The earliest members of Rhinocerotidae were small and numerous; at least 26 genera lived in Eurasia and North America until a wave of extinctions in the middle Oligocene wiped out most of the smaller species. However, several independent lineages survived. Menoceras, a pig-sized rhinoceros, had two horns side-by-side. The North American Teleoceras had short legs, a barrel chest and lived until about 5 million years ago. The last rhinos in the Americas became extinct during the Pliocene.
Modern rhinos are believed to have began dispersal from Asia during the Miocene. Two species survived the most recent period of glaciation and inhabited Europe as recently as 10,000 years ago: the woolly rhinoceros and Elasmotherium. The woolly rhinoceros appeared in China around 1 million years ago and first arrived in Europe around 600,000 years ago. It reappeared 200,000 years ago, alongside the woolly mammoth, and became numerous. Eventually it was hunted to extinction by early humans. Elasmotherium, also known as the giant rhinoceros, survived through the middle Pleistocene: it was two meters tall, five meters long and weighed around five tons, with a single enormous horn, hypsodont teeth and long legs for running.
Of the extant rhinoceros species, the Sumatran rhino is the most archaic, first emerging more than 15 million years ago. The Sumatran rhino was closely related to the woolly rhinoceros, but not to the other modern species. The Indian rhino and Javan rhino are closely related and form a more recent lineage of Asian rhino. The ancestors of early Indian and Javan rhino diverged 2–4 million years ago.[21]
The origin of the two living African rhinos can be traced back to the late Miocene (6 mya) species Ceratotherium neumayri. The lineages containing the living species diverged by the early Pliocene (1.5 mya), when Diceros praecox, the likely ancestor of the black rhinoceros, appears in the fossil record.[22] The black and white rhinoceros remain so closely related that they can still mate and successfully produce offspring.
In the wild, adult rhinoceros have few natural predators other than humans. Young rhinos can fall prey to predators such as big cats, crocodiles, wild dogs, and hyenas. Although rhinos are of a large size and have a reputation for being tough, they are actually very easily poached; because it visits water holes daily, the rhinoceros is easily killed while taking a drink. As of December 2009 poaching has been on a global increase whilst efforts to protect the rhinoceros are considered increasingly ineffective. The worst estimate, that only 3% of poachers are successfully countered, is reported of Zimbabwe. Rhino horn is considered to be particularly effective on fevers and even "life saving" by traditional Chinese medicine practitioners, which in turn provides a sales market. Nepal is apparently alone in avoiding the crisis while poacher-hunters grow ever more sophisticated.[26] South African officials are calling for urgent action against rhinoceros poaching after poachers killed the last female rhinoceros in the Krugersdorp Game Reserve near Johannesburg.[27] Statistics from South African National Parks show a record 333 rhinoceros have been killed in 2010.[28]
Horns
Rhinoceros horns, unlike those of other horned mammals (which have a bony core), only consist of keratin. Rhinoceros horns are used in traditional Asian medicine, and for dagger handles in Yemen and Oman. Esmond Bradley Martin has reported on the trade for dagger handles in Yemen.[29]
One repeated misconception is that rhinoceros horn in powdered form is used as an aphrodisiac in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) as Cornu Rhinoceri Asiatici It is, in fact, prescribed for fevers and convulsions.[30] Neither have been proven by evidence-based medicine. Discussions with TCM practitioners to reduce its use have met with mixed results since some TCM doctors see rhinoceros horn as a life-saving medicine of better quality than substitutes.[31] China has signed the CITES treaty however, and removed rhinoceros horn from the Chinese medicine pharmacopeia, administered by the Ministry of Health, in 1993. In 2011 in the United Kingdom, the Register of Chinese Herbal Medicine issued a formal statement condemning the use of rhinoceros horn.[32] A growing number of TCM educators have also spoken out against the practice.[33] To prevent poaching, in certain areas, rhinos have been tranquilized and their horns removed. Armed park rangers, particularly in South Africa, are also working on the front lines to combat poaching, sometimes killing poachers who are caught in the act. A recent spike in rhino killings has made conservationaists concerned about the future of rhino species. During 2011 448 rhino were killed for their horn in South Africa alone.[34] The horn is incredibly valuable: an average sized horn can bring in much as a quarter of a million dollars in Vietnam and many rhino range States have stockpiles of rhino horn.[35][36] Still, poaching is hitting record levels due to demands from China and Vietnam.[37]
Historical representations
Albrecht Dürer created a famous woodcut of a rhinoceros in 1515, based on a written description and brief sketch by an unknown artist of an Indian rhinoceros that had arrived in Lisbon earlier that year. Dürer never saw the animal itself and, as a result, Dürer's Rhinoceros is a somewhat inaccurate depiction.
There are legends about rhinoceros stamping out fire in Malaysia, India, and Burma. The mythical rhinoceros has a special name in Malay, badak api, where badak means rhinoceros and api means fire. The animal would come when a fire is lit in the forest and stamp it out.[38] There are no recent confirmations of this phenomenon. However, this legend has been reinforced by the film The Gods Must Be Crazy, where an African rhinoceros is shown to be putting out two campfires.
Conservation
International Rhino Foundation
Save the Rhino
Nicolaas Jan van Strien
Individual rhinoceroses
Abada
Clara
Rhinoceros of Versailles
See also: Fictional Rhinoceroses
Other
Rhinoceroses in ancient China
A wine vessel in the form of a bronze rhinoceros with silver inlay, from the Western Han (202 BC – 9 AD) period of China, sporting a saddle on its back
A rhinoceros depicted on a Roman mosaic in Villa Romana del Casale, an archeological site near Piazza Armerina in Sicily, Italy
Dürer's Rhinoceros, in a woodcut from 1515
Monk with rhinoceros horn. Samye, Tibet, 1938.
Indricotherium, the extinct "giant giraffe" rhinoceros. It stood 18 feet tall at the shoulder and weighed up to 20 tonnes (22 short tons).
Coelodonta, the extinct woolly rhinoceros
The thick dermal armour of the Rhinoceros evolved at the same time as shearing tusks[20]
The Sumatran rhinoceros is the smallest of the rhino species
Smaller in size than the Indian rhinoceros, the Javan rhinoceros also have a single horn
The Indian rhinoceros has a single horn
The black rhinoceros has a beak shaped lip and is similar in color to the white rhinoceros
The white rhinoceros is actually grey
Black rhinoceros (Diceros bicornis) at the Saint Louis Zoo
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Mammalia
Infraclass:Eutheria
Order:Perissodactyla
Suborder:Ceratomorpha
Superfamily:Rhinocerotoidea
Family:Rhinocerotidae
Gray, 1820
Extant Genera
Ceratotherium
Dicerorhinus
Diceros
Rhinoceros
Extinct genera, see text
NEW DELHI: A total of 631 animals, including 19 rhinos, died in the recent floods in Kaziranga National Park of Assam, the Rajya Sabha was informed today.
In a written reply to the House, forest and environment minister Jayanthi Natarajan also said that flood is a natural and recurring phenomenon in Kaziranga and it creates a variety of habitats for different species.
"Mortality of wild animals due to flood has been reported during the year only in Kaziranga Tiger Reserve. As reported by the state, a total of 631 animal deaths, including 19 rhinos, have occurred in Kaziranga due to excess water brought by the flood during June-July 2012," she said.
She also informed the House that the flooding results in damage to infrastructure such as roads, anti-poaching camps, artificial high grounds.
"Similar high floods of 1988 and 1998 recorded animal mortality of 1203 and 652 respectively," Natarajan said.
Replying to a separate question on tiger deaths reported in Corbett National Park in Uttarakhand, she said from 2008 till now, there are 19 such incidents of the big cats dying due to natural and other causes.
She said only two incidents of poaching were reported from the national park.
In reply to another question on Tiger Project, she said, "The country level tiger population, estimated once in every four years using the refined methodology, is 1706."
While the lower limit of the tiger population is estimated to be 1520, the upper limit has been fixed at 1909.
Providing details of the 'India State Survey of Forest Report 2011', Natarajan told the House that "Forest and tree cover in the country is 78.29 million hectare, which is 23.81 per cent of the total geographical cover. This includes 2.76 per cent of tree cover."
On the forest cover in hilly and tribal areas, she said, "In the hill and tribal districts of the country, a decrease in forest dover of 548 sq km and 679 sq km respectively has been reported as compared to the previous assessment."
The northeastern states account for one-fourth of the country's forest cover but, "A decline of 549 sq km in forest cover as compared to the previous assessment", she said.
Replying to a query on mangrove cover in the country, Natarajan said there has been an increase of 23.34 sq km during the same period.
More expensive than cocaine, rhino horn is now the party drug of choice among Vietnam’s young things.
Instead of a razor blade and mirror, a textured ceramic bowl is used for grinding down rhinoceros horn into a powder to be mixed with water or wine.
Rhino horn is made of keratin, the same protein as fingernails. Scientists say it has no medicinal value, and users aren’t getting high. The belief in Vietnam is that drinking a tonic made from the horn will detoxify the body after a night of heavy boozing, and prevent a hangover. One Vietnamese news website described rhino horn wine as “the alcoholic drink of millionaires.”
This is the latest twist in South Africa’s devastating rhino poaching crisis, which began with a sudden boom in illegal killings of the endangered animal in 2008 and has worsened every year since. Demand among the newly wealthy in Vietnam is the root of the problem, says TRAFFIC, the wildlife trade monitoring group.
Tom Milliken, a rhino expert with TRAFFIC, said that in Vietnam, offering your friends rhino horn at a party has become a fashionable way to show wealth and status.
The way it happens is like this: “I would get my closest friends and we’d go into another room. I would bring out some rhino horn and we’d all take it and then come back to the party,” said Milliken, who studied the phenomenon.
A new TRAFFIC report, co-authored by Milliken, details how surging demand for horn in Vietnam, corruption in South Africa’s wildlife industry, loopholes in regulations and criminal networks have all fed into the poaching epidemic.
Vietnam’s new rich have become the world’s largest consumer group of rhino horn, spurring demand and the continued slaughter of rhinos in South Africa.
Another key group of Vietnamese consumers is people with serious illnesses, in particular cancer, who believe rhino horn can cure them despite the lack of any medical evidence. The TRAFFIC report describes the phenomenon of “rhino horn touts” stalking the corridors at hospitals, seeking out desperate patients with cancer.
An update released by South Africa’s Department of Environmental Affairs said that 339 rhino have been killed illegally in the country since the start of 2012, on track to be the worst year for poaching yet. There have also been 192 poaching-related arrests this year.
South Africa is the primary target for poachers because it is home to 21,000 rhinos, or more than 80 per cent of the world population.
South Africa and Vietnam are beginning to cooperate on the problem, although progress has been slow.
Vietnam’s deputy foreign affairs minister Le Loung Minh visited South Africa last week for talks on illegal trade in wildlife with his counterpart Ebrahim Ebrahim. The two governments are set to sign a memorandum of understanding that would encompass cooperation in criminal investigations. But it has taken a year of sporadic talks to reach this point — a sign of the lack of urgent action.
“South Africa has progressively scaled up its response to rhino crime,” the report noted, pointing to a plan that is being implemented and the recent increase in “high-value arrests.”
South Africa’s environment ministry hired Mavuso Msimang to bring together South Africans in private and public sectors to find the best way to save the rhino.
The project involves studying the potential legalising of the rhino horn trade, a contentious issue. “The government has done a good job of putting their effort behind the saving of the rhino,” Msimang said at the launch of the TRAFFIC report. “It’s got shortcomings, coordination is not always great, but the will to do well is with us,” he said.
Every day in South Africa, a rhinoceros will bleed to death after its horn has been hacked off by poachers. The horns are sold on the black market in Asia, mostly in Vietnam, where they’re believed to have powerful medicinal properties. Dutch veterinarian Martine van Zijl Langhout works together with local wardens to try and protect this threatened species.
Van Zijll Langhout stalks as quietly as possible through the tall grass at Mauricedale Park in the east of South Africa near the famous Kruger Park. She pulls back the trigger on her special tranquiliser rifle, takes aim and fires. The rhinoceros in her sights wobbles groggily for a few minutes before sinking onto its knees and rolling unconscious onto its side. Van Zijll Langhout and her team, carrying a chainsaw, approach the animal cautiously.
Brutal killings
There are some 20,000 rhinos in South Africa, 80 percent of the world population. And every day these animals are slaughtered savagely by poachers. First the rhino is shot to bring it down, and then the horn is hacked off with axes and machetes. The poachers cut as deeply into the animal’s head as possible. Every extra centimetre of horn means more money in their pockets. In 2007, thirteen rhinos in South Africa fell victim to poachers. Last year that number had soared to 448, and the toll so far this year is 312.
Reducing risk
Loud snoring can be heard. The vet blindfolds the rhinoceros and then the park manager starts up the chainsaw and proceeds to slice into the beast’s horn. Van Zijll Langhout monitors its breathing: “This is one way to stop the poachers” she explains. “They want as much horn as possible so rhinos with a small horn are a less attractive target”.
Van Zijll Langhout came to South Africa in 1997 when she was still a student and worked at Kruger Park with lions, elephants and rhinos. She knew she’d found her dream job, and five years ago she returned as a qualified vet. “It’s an unquenchable passion, such an adventure, and every day is different,” she says, “It’s such a privilege to work with African animals and an honour to be able to do something for them”.
No better option
The preventive removal of the rhinoceros’ horn takes about ten minutes. Van Zijll Langhout, an energetic woman in her thirties with wildly curly hair, compares the process to clipping nails or having a haircut: “It’s completely painless; we cut above the blood vessels”. Again she checks the animal’s breathing as its snores echo through the bush. “It’s not nice that we have to do this, but I don’t really see a better option”, she sighs, “and the horn does grow back, otherwise we wouldn’t do it.” The fact that visitors to the park might be disappointed and expect to see rhinos complete with proud curving horns doesn’t bother her: “What matters is the animals’ survival”.
Organised crime
The fight against poaching is a difficult one. “These are professional criminals”, explains Van Zijll Langhout. “This isn’t about poor locals living in huts. Poachers have advanced weapons and sometimes even use helicopters.” The horns are worth more than their weight in gold, so it’s a lucrative trade for organised crime syndicates.
The horn falls to the ground; the team will preserve it and register it. The rhino is given an injection. Within minutes he’s back on his feet and walking off into the bush. His newly weightless head is no guarantee of safety though. A rhino was poached in the park the same week as the horns were sawn off. Even the stump that remains after the procedure is worth big money.
Both black and white rhinoceroses are actually gray. They are different not in color but in lip shape. The black rhino has a pointed upper lip, while its white relative has a squared lip. The difference in lip shape is related to the animals' diets. Black rhinos are browsers that get most of their sustenance from eating trees and bushes. They use their lips to pluck leaves and fruit from the branches. White rhinos graze on grasses, walking with their enormous heads and squared lips lowered to the ground.
White rhinos live on Africa's grassy plains, where they sometimes gather in groups of as many as a dozen individuals. Females reproduce only every two and a half to five years. Their single calf does not live on its own until it is about three years old.
Under the hot African sun, white rhinos take cover by lying in the shade. Rhinos are also wallowers. They find a suitable water hole and roll in its mud, coating their skin with a natural bug repellent and sun block.
Rhinos have sharp hearing and a keen sense of smell. They may find one another by following the trail of scent each enormous animal leaves behind it on the landscape.
White rhinos have two horns, the foremost more prominent than the other. Rhino horns grow as much as three inches (eight centimeters) a year, and have been known to grow up to 5 feet (1.5 meters) long. Females use their horns to protect their young, while males use them to battle attackers.
The prominent horn for which rhinos are so well known has been their downfall. Many animals have been killed for this hard, hair-like growth, which is revered for medicinal use in China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Singapore. The horn is also valued in North Africa and the Middle East as an ornamental dagger handle.
The white rhino once roamed much of sub-Saharan Africa, but today is on the verge of extinction due to poaching fueled by these commercial uses. Only about 11,000 white rhinos survive in the wild, and many organizations are working to protect this much loved animal.Fast Facts
Type:
Mammal
Diet:
Herbivore
Size:
Head and body, 11 to 13.75 ft (3.4 to 4.2 m); tail, 20 to 27.5 in (50 to 70 cm)
Weight:
3,168 to 7,920 lbs (1,440 to 3,600 kg)
Protection status:
Endangered
Size relative to a 6-ft (2-m) man:
Both black and white rhinoceroses are actually gray. They are different not in color but in lip shape. The black rhino has a pointed upper lip, while its white relative has a squared lip. The difference in lip shape is related to the animals' diets. Black rhinos are browsers that get most of their sustenance from eating trees and bushes. They use their lips to pluck leaves and fruit from the branches. White rhinos graze on grasses, walking with their enormous heads and squared lips lowered to the ground.
Except for females and their offspring, black rhinos are solitary. Females reproduce only every two and a half to five years. Their single calf does not live on its own until it is about three years old.
Black rhinos feed at night and during the gloaming hours of dawn and dusk. Under the hot African sun, they take cover by lying in the shade. Rhinos are also wallowers. They often find a suitable water hole and roll in its mud, coating their skin with a natural bug repellent and sun block.
Rhinos have sharp hearing and a keen sense of smell. They may find one another by following the trail of scent each enormous animal leaves behind it on the landscape.
Black rhinos boast two horns, the foremost more prominent than the other. Rhino horns grow as much as three inches (eight centimeters) a year, and have been known to grow up to five feet (one and a half meters) long. Females use their horns to protect their young, while males use them to battle attackers.
The prominent horn for which rhinos are so well known has also been their downfall. Many animals have been killed for the hard, hairlike growth, which is revered for medicinal uses in China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Singapore. The horn is also valued in North Africa and the Middle East as an ornamental dagger handle.
The black rhino once roamed most of sub-Saharan Africa, but today is on the verge of extinction due to poaching fueled by commercial demand.
The rifle shot boomed through the darkening forest just as Damien Mander arrived at his campfire after a long day training game ranger recruits in western Zimbabwe's Nakavango game reserve. His thoughts flew to Basta, a pregnant black rhinoceros, and her two-year-old calf. That afternoon one of his rangers had discovered human footprints following the pair's tracks as Basta sought cover in deep bush to deliver the newest member of her threatened species.
Damien, a hard-muscled former Australian Special Forces sniper with an imposing menagerie of tattoos, including "Seek & Destroy" in gothic lettering across his chest, swiveled his head, trying to place the direction of the shot. "There, near the eastern boundary," he pointed into the blackness. "Sounded like a .223," he said, identifying the position and caliber, a habit left over from 12 tours in Iraq. He and his rangers grabbed shotguns, radios, and medical kits and piled into two Land Cruisers. They roared into the night, hoping to cut off the shooter. The rangers rolled down their windows and listened for a second shot, which would likely signal Basta's calf was taken as well.
It was an ideal poacher's setup: half-moon, almost no wind. The human tracks were especially ominous. Poaching crews often pay trackers to find the rhinos, follow them until dusk, then radio their position to a shooter with a high-powered rifle. After the animal is down, the two horns on its snout are hacked off in minutes, and the massive carcass is left to hyenas and vultures. Nearly always the horns are fenced to an Asian buyer; an enterprising crew might also cut out Basta's fetus and the eyes of the mother and calf to sell to black magic or muti practitioners. If this gang was well organized, a group of heavily armed men would be covering the escape route, ready to ambush the rangers.
As the Land Cruiser bucked over rutted tracks, Damien did a quick calculation—between his vehicles he had two antiquated shotguns with about a dozen shells. Based on the sound of the shot, the poachers held an advantage in firepower. If the rangers did pick up a trail and followed on foot, they would have to contend with lions, leopards, and hyenas out hunting in the dark.
In the backseat of one of the speeding Land Cruisers, Benzene, a Zimbabwean ranger who had spent nearly a year watching over Basta and her calf and knew the pair intimately, loaded three shells into his shotgun, flicked on the safety, and chambered a round. As we bounced into the night, he said, "It is better for the poachers if they meet a lion than if they meet us."
AND SO GOES A NIGHT on the front lines of southern Africa's ruthless and murky rhino war, which since 2006 has seen more than a thousand rhinos slaughtered, some 22 poachers gunned down and more than 200 arrested last year in South Africa alone. At the bloody heart of this conflict is the rhino's horn, a prized ingredient in traditional Asian medicines. Though black market prices vary widely, as of last fall dealers in Vietnam quoted prices ranging from $33 to $133 a gram, which at the top end is double the price of gold and can exceed the price of cocaine.
Although the range of the two African species—the white rhino and its smaller cousin, the black rhino—has been reduced primarily to southern Africa and Kenya, their populations had shown encouraging improvement. In 2007 white rhinos numbered 17,470, while blacks had nearly doubled to 4,230 since the mid '90s.
For conservationists these numbers represented a triumph. In the 1970s and '80s, poaching had devastated the two species. Then China banned rhino horn from traditional medicine, and Yemen forbade its use for ceremonial dagger handles. All signs seemed to point to better days. But in 2008 the number of poached rhinos in South Africa shot up to 83, from just 13 in 2007. By 2010 the figure had soared to 333, followed by over 400 last year. Traffic, a wildlife trade monitoring network, found most of the horn trade now leads to Vietnam, a shift that coincided with a swell of rumors that a high-ranking Vietnamese official used rhino horn to cure his cancer.
Meanwhile in South Africa, attracted by spiraling prices—and profits—crime syndicates began adding rhino poaching to their portfolios.
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"Frieden mit Russland" vereint mit DKP, Verschwörungsideologen des Coop-Cafe sowie Querdenkern beim diesjährigen Ostermarsch in Berlin
Am 16. April 2022 erfolgte in Berlin erneut der traditionell von der FRIKO Berlin (Friedenskoordination Berlin) organisierte Ostermarsch, der seit diesem Jahr unter dem Schatten des am 24. Februar begonnenen Angriffskrieges durch den russischen agierenden Despoten Wladimir Putin auf die Ukraine steht.
Unter dem Motto: „Die Waffen nieder! Politische Lösungen sind das Gebot der Stunde! Für eine neue Sicherheitsarchitektur von Lissabon bis Wladiwostok!“ trafen sich am 16. April ab 12 Uhr hunderte Kriegsgegner am Oranienplatz in Berlin-Kreuzberg.
Die eindeutig kremlfreundliche Veranstaltung, die überwiegend von älterem Publikum durchsetzt war, zog wie in den Jahren schon zuvor: rechtsoffenes, verschwörungsideologisches und demokratiefeindliches Klientel an, von denen man sich erneut vor Ort nicht distanzierte. Einzig der rechtsextreme „Volksbote“ wurde der Demonstration verwiesen, der sich seit einiger Zeit als „Journalist“ mit prorussischer Ausrichtung versucht.
Ebenfalls war das Mahnwachenspektrum auf dem diesjährigen Ostermarsch mit bekannten Akteuren wieder vertreten, die mit Daniele Ganser und dem Propagandafilm „Ukranian Agony“ von Mark Bartalmai warben. Auf der Rückseite ihres Schildes forderten sie u.a. ein „Nein zum Impfzwang“, „Nein zur Medienpropaganda“, „Nein zur WHO“ oder „Nein zur USA-NATO Politik“.
Weiter waren mehrere Mitglieder der Partei „die Basis“ (mit Megaphone) vor Ort, die selbst ernannte „Freie Linke“ (die ihre Website auf einer russischen Domain lagert) konnte sogar ihr Frontbanner ausgebreitet durch die Straßen Berlins tragen. Es waren Impfgegner und Sympathisanten der Corona-Querfront „Freedom Parade“ vor Ort, abseits davon wurde von der DKP und vom Coop-Cafe für Russland (und China) geworben; weiter war dort von anderen Protagonisten zu lesen „keine Waffen für US-inszenierte Kriege“, explizit keine Waffen an die Ukraine, "Banderas raus aus der Ukraine", für ein Eurasien welches auch die Ukraine beinhaltet, das die NATO gleich Krieg bedeutet – obwohl gerade zu dieser Zeit das „Eurasienfordernde Land“ diesen Krieg grausam, völkerrechtswidrig und kriegsverbrecherisch führt.
Redner auf dem diesjährigen Ostermarsch waren: Wolfram Adolphi (Journalist), Monika Auener (Religionspädagogin), Taylan Çiftçi (DIDF), Lühr Henken (Bundesausschuss Friedensratschlag, Christiane Reymann (Autorin) und N.N. (SDAJ-Jugendorganisation der DKP); die Moderation betrieb Jutta Kausch-Henken. Die Reden sind nachhörbar bei den Machern des Youtube-Kanals antikriegTV gelistet, die auch im Anna-News-Leak aus 2014 Erwähnung fanden und sich in Sachen Propaganda bis heute alle Ehre erweisen.
In den Fragen nach der Schuld am Krieg in der Ukraine sowie nach seinen Lösungsmöglichkeiten sieht sich die Friedensbewegung laut taz vor der Zerreißprobe. „Es gibt viele unterschiedliche Positionen zum Krieg“, sagte Reymann im Vorfeld des Ostermarsches, die dort eine Rede hielt. Von Wimmersperg betonte zuvor, eine „Dämonisierung des Feindes“ sei nicht zielführend. Und weiter: Nationalflaggen seien auf dem Ostermarsch nicht verboten, sagte die Initiative auf Nachfrage. Deswegen würde man auch nicht einschreiten, wenn Teilnehmer die russische Flagge tragen würden.
Banner mit Aufschriften wie „Putin der Aggressor“ seien hingegen nicht erwünscht, sie würden nicht zu den Positionen des Ostermarschs passen.
Bei der FRIKO suchte man am Samstag eine Verurteilung des russischen Aggressors vergebens. Nur konsequent, dass dann nicht nur Waffenlieferungen an die Ukraine, sondern auch weiterhin jegliche Sanktionen gegen Russland abgelehnt werden.
Die Forscherin Claudia Baumgart-Ochse vom Leibniz-Institut Hessische Stiftung Friedens- und Konfliktforschung sprach sich im rbb-Inforadio für einen differenzierten Blick auf die Friedensbewegung aus. Der Impuls, für Frieden zu demonstrieren, sei erstmal eine gute Sache. Sie riet aber dazu, sich genau zu überlegen, mit wem man auf die Straße gehe, wer das organisiere und was die Begründungen für den Protest seien. In manchen Aufrufen habe sie den Eindruck, dass russische Propaganda durchscheine.
Alternativer Ostermarsch 2022
Aufgrund des haltungslosen Aufrufs der FRIKO organisierte -ähnlich wie Ende Februar- ein Bündnis aus ukrainischen Organisationen und syrischen Aktivisten (Vitsche Berlin-Allianz Ukrainischer Organisationen, Adopt a Revolution, SyriaNotSafe, Belarussische Gemeinschaft RAZAM e.V. und LeaveNoOneBehind) erstmalig den „Alternativen Ostermarsch“, der am Bebelplatz in Berlin-Mitte statt fand und im Laufe des Tages auf fast 1.000 Teilnehmer anwuchs.
Dort hieß es: Der Aufruf des “Berliner Ostermarsch” erwähnt die russische Aggression und das Recht auf Selbstverteidigung mit keinem Wort. Das entsetzt uns und bewegt uns, ukrainische und syrische Aktivisten, gemeinsam mit solidarischen Unterstützern, einen eigenen Ostermarsch anzumelden. Für Frieden, Freiheit und Gerechtigkeit und gegen russische Angriffskriege! Und weiter:
Auch in den letzten Jahren haben viele Ostermärsche sich vor allem darin geübt, die Aufrüstung der NATO zu kritisieren und eine Entwaffnung der Bundeswehr zu fordern. Dieser fundamentalistische Pazifismus blendet die Aggressoren aus – und hat so den Kriegen von Diktatoren und Autokraten rhetorisch den Weg bereitet. Wir finden: Es ist an der Zeit, endlich den Opfern der Kriege zuzuhören!
Der Ostermarsch Berlin im Rückblick
Der Ostermarsch Berlin wird tradtionell seit vielen Jahren von der Friedenskoordination Berlin (FRIKO Berlin) unter der Schirmherrschaft von Laura von Wimmersperg organisiert und mit teils gleichbleibenden Bündnissen abgehalten. An ihrer Seite steht Jutta Kausch-Henken.
In der Berliner Friedenskoordination treffen sich seit Herbst 1980 Vertreter aus weltanschaulich sehr unterschiedlichen Gruppierungen, um über ihre friedenspolitischen Aktivitäten zu informieren, ihre Arbeit zu vernetzen und gemeinsame Vorhaben zu planen. So schreibt es die Seite Friedenskooperative in der Vorstellung der FRIKO Berlin.
Gleichbleibend sind seit Beginn und seit sehr vielen Jahren und bis 2014 weitestgehend auch die Forderungen (jährliche Aufrufe) z.B. zur Abrüstung, des Dialogs, der Beendigung von Kriegen, der Abschaffung der NATO und somit die Abschaffung von Atomwaffen (und Stützpunkten), Abzug der Bundeswehr aus Afghanistan und Mali, Abschaffung von Drohnen usw. geblieben.
Unterstütztung in Sachen Friedensproteste bekommt von Wimmersperg dabei auch vom ehemaligen Stasi-Major Klaus (Peter) Meinel, der seit 1992 die LL-Demo in Berlin anmeldet und heute in der DKP ist. Meinel stieß gleich nach Mauerfall auf die westdeutsche Friedensbewegung FRIKO. Von Wimmersperg sagte gegenüber der taz, seine Stasi-Zeit spiele für sie keine Rolle, "Klaus ist kein Verräter". Er wisse immer so gut, was zu tun ist.
Im Februar 2014, also nur kurze Zeit vor dem Ostermarsch 2014, begann der von Putin anfangs noch versucht verdeckte Krieg in der Ostukraine. Es war das Jahr des plötzlichen Beginn´s der „Mahnwachen für den Frieden“ und dem Versuch vom „Friedenswinter“, was man wegen angeblicher „Solidarität zur Ukraine“ (gemeint ist die Solidarität und propagandistische Unterstützung von Putins Krieg „nur“ für die russisch besetzte Ostukraine) bundesweit „zum Leben erweckte“.
Die Mahnwachen und kommunistische Bündnisse/Parteien samt prorussischen Aktivisten rund um das Coop-Cafe, Mütter gegen den Krieg, Anti-Nato-Gruppe Berlin rund um den prorussisch, propagandandistisch agierenden Aktivisten Oleg Muzyka (Global Rights of Peaceful People) warben von Anfang an für Putin´s Politik und für einen „Frieden mit Russland“. Sie mischten sich seit 2014 auf fast jede relevanten Proteste und versuchten so, Menschen für ihre Ideologien anzuwerben. Muzyka selbst war mit Mitstreitern dabei auch auf rechten Protesten (Reichsbürger), aber Teile der LINKS-Partei hofierten und förderten trotz Belege weiterhin seine Propaganda-Ausstellungen und warben für diese. Das DDR-Kampfblatt junge Welt übernahm die entsprechende Berichterstattung.
Zu dieser Zeit entstanden auch unzählige prorussisch(rechts) besetzte Vereine und Organisationen unter dem Deckmantel von Solidarität (z.B. FBKO-Friedensbrücke Kriegsopferhilfe), Kunst & Kultur (z.B. das Tolstoi-Instutut), die sich gegen die Sanktionen in Russland stark machten und die -mal mehr, mal weniger offen- mit Positionen für die AfD, Compact & Co. warben; siehe auch das Druschba-Projekt des Rainer Rothfuß, der mittlerweile und seit 2018 offen bei der AfD angekommen ist.
Anfang 2015 bekam von Wimmersperg den „Menschenrechtspreis 2014“ der GBM („Gesellschaft zum Schutz von Bürgerrecht und Menschenwürde“) verliehen. Die Laudatio hielt neben Jutta Kausch – Wolfgang Richter, Mitbegründer der GBM, der laut Berliner Verfassungsschutz die Verfolgung von Regimegegnern durch die DDR und die Staatssicherheit rechtfertigte. Hinter der GBM und dem zugehörigen weit verzweigten Vereinsnetzwerk verbirgt sich laut Berliner Innenverwaltung und T-Online eine „Interessenvertretung ehemaliger (alter) Stasimitarbeiter“. Vor ca. 15 Jahren versuchte die Berliner SPD, sie aus öffentlichen Einrichtungen zu verbannen, weil sich dort alte Kader organisieren.
Ab 2015 war auf den Ostermärschen vermehrt und -von fast immer gleichen Akteuren- prorussische Propaganda vertreten, wie auch in meinen anderen Alben zum Ostermarsch, Friedensbewegung & Co. dokumentiert. Das war neu – zumindest in dieser Intensität (siehe zum Vgl. Zeitleiste auf der Seite der FRIKO sowie vergangene Fotoreportagen von anwesenden Fotografen). Auch Gabriele Krone-Schmalz war 2015 in Berlin am Rande des Ostermarsches in Erscheinung getreten. In jenem Jahr veröffentlichte sie ihr Buch: „Russland verstehen. Der Kampf um die Ukraine und die Arroganz des Westens“.
Nachtrag: Die Ex-Moskau-Korrespondentin Krone-Schmalz geht mit Stand 11/2022 mit Anwälten gegen eine Historikerin und Kritikerin vor, die ihr u.a. "Kremlpropaganda & Pseudo-Expertise in Deutschland" vorwarf. Derzeit rudert Krone-Schmalz allerdings wieder zurück, nachdem eine Feststellungsklage (Kritikpunkte wie Kreml-Nähe, Leugnung von /Kriegsverbrechen, Vorwürfe der Lügen und Falschbehauptungen auf Veranstaltungen und in Büchern, Verachtung von Putin-Opfern) angedroht wurde.
Den (optischen) Höhepunkt bildete meines Erachtens das Jahr 2018, wie auf einer Bildstrecke von Thorsten Strasas zu sehen ist. Neben DDR, Nordkorea- und „Neurussland“ Beflaggung war dort auch Diether Dehm anwesend, der den Außenminister Heiko Maas mit den vulgären und homophoben Worten: „gut gestylter NATO-Strichjunge“ öffentlich beim Ostermarsch diffamierte. Hintergrund der Äußerung war die Ausweisung russischer Diplomaten aus mehreren NATO-Staaten als Reaktion auf den Nervengiftanschlag auf den Doppelagenten Sergej Skripal und seine Tochter.
2021 stand der Ostermarsch im Zeichen der Pandemie, entsprechend verschwörungsideologisch untermauert war dieser in jenem Jahr von Corona-Leugnern und Querdenkern, was man anhand der unten verlinkten Bildstrecke in den Quellenangaben auch noch einmal nachverfolgen kann.
Die „Anti-Krieg“-Initative rund um das Coop-Cafe beteiligte sich zwar nicht an den „Corona-Diktatur“ Slogans, nein – sie forderte propagandistisch u.a. Deutschland auf, Impfstoffe aus Kuba, China und Russland zuzulassen. Sie plakatierten ab 2020/21 auch die Berliner Innenstadt damit zu und versuchten sich in einer Art „Streetart“, welche in Pandemiezeiten besonders boomte und viele Menschen anzog. Im bis 2022 autoritär regierten Russland starben indes sehr viele Menschen, weil sie dem russischen Vakzin resp. dem russischen Staatspräsidenten Wladimir Putin nicht trauen.
Der Umgang mit Kritikern damals und heute
Kritik übte schon mit Beginn der Mahnwachen-Bewegung ab 2014 der ehemalige Vorsitzende der DFG-VK Monty Schädel, der der Friedensbewegung eine Nicht-Abgrenzung zu den Mahnwachen „für den Frieden“ sowie die nachfolgenden Kampagnen „Friedenswinter“ und „Stopp Ramstein“ öffentlich attestierte, was Schädel eine Menge Gegenwind einbrachte. U.a. wurde er auf den „Mahnwachen für den Frieden“ von Ken Jebsen zum Feind ausgerufen. Nach schwerer Erkrankung wurde Schädel vom DFG-VK gekündigt, wie es in seiner Veröffentlichung aus 2017 heißt. Laut einem Interview mit der Junge Welt aus 2015 sprach Schädel von einer wahrgenommenen „organisierten Beeinflussung“, ähnlich schrieb es auch das Netzwerk gegen Islamfeindlichkeit und Rassismus Leipzig (man beachte unten in den Quellen die dort erwähnten Akteure).
Weil die Junge Welt dieses Interview mit Schädel bzgl. dieser neuen „Friedensbewegung“ führte, kündigte Rainer Rupp (Ex-Stasi-Spion im Westen/NATO-Hauptquartier) dort seine Tätigkeit auf und veröffentlichte später noch einen Offenen Schmähbrief.
Wenn heute Kritiker dieser putingerichteten Friedensbewegung durch z.B. die LINKEN-Politikerin Sevim Dagdelen als reaktionäre Kriegstreiber betitelt werden, weil diese offen legen, das Frieden für jene Schein-Pazifisten nicht das Ziel, sondern nur das Mittel ist; dann hat man scheinbar den Kern getroffen. Sascha Lobo nennt diesen Teil der Friedensbewegung: Lumpenpazifismus – als eine zutiefst egozentrische Ideologie, die den eigenen Befindlichkeitsstolz über das Leid anderer Menschen stellt.
Viele kommunistische Friedensbewegte realisieren bis heute nicht, das Russland nicht die ehemalige Sowjetunion ist. Sie biedern sich in ihrer tief verankerten Ideologie einem Mann an, der einen faschistischen Krieg führt. Positionieren sie sich sonst angeblich gegen den Faschismus, laufen sie ihm weiter devot hinterher.
Das oft gebrauchte Zitat -in der Überlieferung- von Ignazio Silone hat leider eine beängstigende Aktualität bekommen, das da heißt: „Wenn der Faschismus wiederkehrt, wird er nicht sagen: «Ich bin der Faschismus» Nein, er wird sagen: «Ich bin der Antifaschismus». – Kreml-Sprech und Agitation seit 2014 von links und rechts (Friedensquerfront), wenn es darum geht, die Öffentlichkeit zu täuschen und diesen manipulativ Putin´s AgitProp weiterhin als "links" zu präsentieren.
Der frühere Bundestagspräsident Wolfgang Thierse (SPD) warnte vor „Pazifismus auf Kosten anderer“. Der FDP-Politiker Alexander Graf Lambsdorff nannte die Ostermarschierer „die fünfte Kolonne Putins“. Ein Argument, wie es auch die russische Seite für „westliche“ Aktivisten benutzt; benennen diese den Aggressor. Lambsdorff beschuldigte die Ostermarsch-Organisatoren laut Tagesspiege im WDR-Radio, sie seien keine Pazifisten, sondern „Interessenvertreter der russischen Position“ und versuchten, den Westen zu schwächen und die Ukraine zu diskreditieren.
Der Sprecher des Netzwerks Friedenskooperative, Kristian Golla, wies die Anschuldigungen Lambsdorffs als reine Polemik zurück. Das Netzwerk koordiniert die lokal und regional verantworteten Aktionen der Friedensbewegung, u.a. auch die für Berlin.
Unterwanderung der Friedensbewegung nach 1989
Die Friedensbewegung, zu der auch Ostermärsche zählen, wurde bereits ab den 60er Jahren durch u.a. die kommunistische Partei DKP vereinnahmt. Das die DDR die DKP als „Schläfer des Kalten Krieges“ finanziert und paramilitärisch für Anschläge („im bösen Nazi-Westen“) ausgebildet hat, ist keine Theorie oder Legende, auch wenn das die DKP samt Sympathisanten bis heute bestreitet. Die wenigstens wissen von dieser Historie; es erklärt auch die Parallelen bis in die heutige Zeit, was den „Westen“ und größtenteils auch die NATO betrifft. Die von der Stasi in Obhut genommene und einst mit neuer Identität ausgestattete frühere RAF-Terroristin Inge Viett ist z.B. bis heute ein gern gesehener Gast z.B. auf dem Ostermarsch, die nachweislich 2015 und 2016 im Duo in Berlin aktiv teilnahm. Es wurde mit einem "Frieden mit Russland" geworben (Plakat des Coop-Cafe) bzw. mit "Krieg ist Terror! Kriegstreiber sind Terroristen."
Ein doch sehr seltsam bekennender Pazifismus, der beim Ostermarsch zelebriert wird, bedenkt man, das auch der antiimperialistische Stopp Ramstein Sympathisant, ehemaliger AIZ-Terrorist (als Wannabe-Nachfolger der RAF) und heutiger Salafist Bernhard Falk immer wieder Gast bei diversen Stasi-Verbänden und der DKP vertreten ist.
Ganz groß in Mode gekommen ist auch die Zweckentfremdung von „Schwerter zu Pflugscharen“. Diese Friedensbewegung war die einzig nicht parteigesteuerte Bewegung in der DDR, die im Umfeld der Kirchen angesiedelt war. Wenn also Schilder wie „Schwerter zu Pflugscharen“ auf z.B. traditionellen Ostermärschen oder prorussisch abgehaltenen Veranstaltungen zu sehen sind, ist dies mehr als anmaßend und abstoßend, wenn damit Überzeugungen pro Diktatur resp. Faschismus und pro russische Besatzung anderer Länder vertreten sind. Es ist politisches Mimikry.
Diese zweckentfremdete Aneignung konnte ich bereits ab 2014 so auf Ostermärschen und beim Friedenswinter (mit DDR-Fahne) beobachten, aber auch auf den Corona-Protesten der Querdenker ab 2021, die ebenfalls versuchen, dieses Kapitel der Zeitgeschichte für sich und ihre antidemokratische Ideologie zu vereinnahmen und geschichtlich sowie politisch für sich umzudeuten.
So wie einst die prorussische, antisemitische, verschwörungsideologische, antiamerikanische und rechtsoffene Mahnwachenbewegung ab 2014/15 als selbsternannte „neue Friedensbewegung“ auf Ostermärschen vertreten war, sind es heute die Corona-Leugner und Querdenker; teils aus der Mahnwachenbewegung hervorgegangen, die damals wie heute und weiterhin -nebst „alten Friedensbewegten“- ihre prorussische Kriegspropaganda und verschwörungsideologische Agenda unter die Leute und in die Mitte der Gesellschaft ausbreiten wollen. Acht Jahre sind seit dem Beginn des Ukraine-Krieges vergangen und es wurde kein bisschen dazu gelernt.
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The Soviet amphibious Infantry Fighting Vehicle which combined the properties of a light tank and an Armoured Personnel Carrier.
Crew of three, Driver: Commander & a Gunner with positions for 8 troops in the rear.
Armed with a 73mm 2A28 "Grom" low pressure smoothbore semi-automatic gun.
Southport Airshow 2017
Southport September 16th, 2017
Chandler Parker's Mortar design, saw the shell idea elsewhere, unfortunately I do not remember where.
From The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser
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This is a photograph from the second running of the newly situated Irish 3/4 Marathon (formerly the Athlone 3/4) which was held in Longwood, Enfield, Co. Meath, Ireland on Sunday 8th of October 2017 at 10:00. The event is positioned perfectly in the calendar as a key training race before the Dublin City Marathon at the end of the month. This year was the second year that the event was held in Longwood, Co. Meath which is now well known for its hosting of the Longwood 10KM/5KM annual races and a host venue for East of Ireland Marathon series marathons on a bi-annual basis. The race started and finished at Longwood GAA club just outside the village of Longwood. It followed an anti-clockwise course around the beautiful picturesque countryside of south Meath. The course went through the townlands of Longwood, Castlerickard, Killyon, Hill-of-Down, Anneville and Ashfield Clonard, Blackshare, Stoneyford and back to Longwood. The river Boyne and Blackwater were crossed as was the Royal Canal and the Dublin-Sligo Railway line at Hill-of-Down. Overall this was a very different course to the previous years in Athlone. The overall elevation of the course works out at 3/4 of the total elevation of the Dublin Marathon course. What most stood out about today's race was the course and how the countryside around it looked on a beautiful almost perfect Autumn morning. There was a large local effort with stewarding and many local people watched from their gardens as the race passed by. The organisation of the race was first class with every detail taken care of from the start until the finish. There was some rain showers from about 13:00 onwards but these soon passed.
There is a large set of photographs from today's race - taken at the start in Longwood village and the 25KM mark outside near our home.
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The Britcar Endurance Series Made an Epic Return to the Brands Hatch Indy Circuit for The End of the Year Championship that Would Decide who the Overall Champion would be For Britcar.
Other Support Races were Also Present I the Paddock including The Ever so Popular Dunlop Mini Winter Challenge who had brought with them some Fantastic Racing Mini's Ready to do Battle on the World Famous Circuit.
Other Support Races Included The Ginetta Junior Championship as well as The Silverlake C1 Racing Club who would be Partaking in an Endurance Race that Would Lead Them Into the Night as they Raced for 3 Hours and 145 Laps around the Circuit.
With A Busy Two Days of Both Racing and Qualifying Action Ahead Lets turn to the First Qualifying Session of the Weekend.
Dunlop Mini Winter Challenge-(Qualifying)
First Up on to the Track was the Ever so Popular Dunlop Mini Winter Challenge a Series that Focuses on Mini Racing Thought The Entire Season.
Thease Mini's are Based on both the Mini Sevens and Mini Miglia Spec of Racing Mini's and a Combined Qualifying Session saw both Mini Sevens and Mini Miglia's Together on the Circuit.
Lets Take a Look at Who will be Starting on Pole come the First Race of the Weekend.
In First Place Taking Pole Position and The Fastest Lap was (Rupert Deeth) in his Mini Miglia 1293 with a Best Lap Time of 55.096 and a Top Speed of 78.92mph. Fantastic Work there Rupert Amazing Lap and an Incredible Car Too.
In Second Place was (Colin Peacock) in his Mini Miglia 1293 with a Best Lap Time of 55.142 and a Top Speed of 78.86mph. Brilliant Drive from Colin Who was Pushing Himself Hard to Catch and Beat Rupert's Time.
In Third Place was (Endaf Owens) in his Mini Miglia 1298 with a Best Lap Time of 55.226 and a Top Speed of 78.74mph. Great Work there Endaf A Very Quick Driver who knows a Thing or two about Racing Miglia's.
What an Intense Qualifying Session for both the Mini Miglia's and The Mini Sevens and Some Incredible Drives from the likes of Rupert Colin and Endaf but will Anyone Else be able to Steal that Glory from them During the Race or Will the Likes of Colin and Endaf Manage to Improve their Positions during the Race?
We Will Have to Wait to Find Out
Britcar Endurance Championship- (Qualifying)
Next Up on to the Track was the Britcar Endurance Trophy and Thease Cars will Later be Taking Part in a Very Intense 1 Hour and 45 Minute Endurance Race on the Sunday with Pitstops Included.
A Range of Many Different Machines Align the Grid with the Likes of Porsche 718 GT4'S BMW M3's and Ginetta G55's it will make for an Interesting Race to see who can push their Machinery to its Limits and take Home Glory. But for Now Lets take a Look at Qualifying and who has come out on top.
In First Place Taking Pole and the Fastest Lap was (Team Valluga's Carl Cavers and Sean Doyle) in their Porsche 718 GT4 Club Sport with a Best Lap Time of 50.145 and a Top Speed of 86.72mph. Fantastic Work Guys Really Well Done and a Stunning Lap for Pole Position.
In Second Place was (Team Valluga's Ian Humphries and Benji Hetherington) in their Porsche 718 GT4 Club Sport with a Best Lap Time of 50.415 and a Top Speed of 86.25mph. Another Fantastic P2 for Team Valluga's Well Done To both Teams for Getting P1 and P2 on the Grid.
In Third Place was (Nial Bradley) in his BMW M3 E46 with a Best Lap Time of 50.816 and a Top Speed of 85.57mph. Superb Job there Nial Really Working Hard to Push that BMW into P3.
A Fantastic Qualifying Session for the Britcar Endurance Trophy and With Their Respective Races coming on Sunday it will be Fascinating to See who will come out on Top and Hold onto their Positions Thought the Race. But who will be The Overall Victor?
Stay Tuned to Find Out!
Ginetta Junior Championship-(Qualifying)
The Ginetta Juniors were Up next and Every Year when they Come to Brands Hatch they Remain Ever so Popular with Fans and Spectators alike.
The Racing Series itself is Designed for Junior Races Between the ages of 13-17 Years of Age Before those who turn 18 Can then Enter The Ginetta Senior Classes of Racing.
The Cars Used are Ginetta Racing Cars all of which are Run by Different Teams Looking to Extract as Much Power as Possible from those Engines and they Always Manage to Provide Fantastic and Exciting Racing.
With 2 Races for Today it will be Great to see who can Come out on top and Take their First Victory in Ginetta Junior Racing for the Weekend.
Lets First Take a Look at Qualifying and Find Out who Took Pole and who was Following Closely Behind.
In First Place Taking Pole Position and The fastest Lap was (Josh Rowledge) in his GBR R Racing with a Best Lap Time of 57.996 and a Top Speed of 75.01mph. Brilliant Drive there from Josh who Takes the First Qualifying Session Pole of the Weekend for Ginette's.
In Second Place was (Harri Reynolds) in his GBR Assetto Motorsport with a Best Lap Time of 58.075 and a Top Speed of 74.87mph. Amazing Job there Harri Fantastic P2 and not too Far of Josh's Pole Time either. Looking forward to Race 1.
In Third Place was (Maurice Hendry) in his GBR Fox Motorsport with a Best Lap Time of 58.119 and a Top Speed of 74.82mph. Great Work there Maurice Really showing his Skills in that Ginetta and Pushing Hard for that P3 on the Grid.
An Incredible Qualifying Session for the Ginetta's and with Three Amazing Drivers on the front Row of the Grid in Josh Harri and Maurice This is going to be One Intense Race with All Three Drivers Separated by Less than Half a Second.
With Qualifying Second Fastest Up Next who will be able to Improve and will anyone Else be able to try and Have a go at Making it to the front of the Grid come Race 1?
Ginetta Junior Championship-(Qualifying Second Fastest)
In First Place Taking Pole Position and the Fastest Lap was (Josh Rowledge) in his R Racing with a Best Lap Time of 58.119 and a Top Speed of 74.82mph. Congratulations Josh another Incredible Lap sees him take The Pole for Race 1 This Weekend and in a Superb Style too.
In Second Place was (Liam McNeilly) in his GBR Fox Motorsport with a Best Lap Time of 58.251 and a Top Speed of 74.65mph. Really Great Work there Liam What a Fantastic Achievement and to Beat back the Likes of Harri Reynolds Must be Making him Feel Really Good.
In Third Place was (Harri Reynolds) in his Assetto Motorsport with a Best Lap Time of 58.409 and a Top Speed of 74.45mph. Brilliant work Once Again from Harri who Still was Doing all he Could behind the Wheel to take Back his P2 Position while Battling with Liam for The Second Fastest Lap.
What a Qualifying Session with One New Driver in Liam starting P2 and the likes of Both Josh and Harri in P1 and P3 Respectively, This Up Coming Race is one to not be Missed. Lets get into it and Find out who will take The Victory.
Ginetta Junior Championship-(Race 1 Results)
In First Place taking the Race Victory and The Fastest Lap was (Josh Rowledge) in his R Racing with a Best Lap Time of 57.300 and an Average Speed of 74.84mph. Congratulations Josh who has taken a Fantastic First Victory here at Brands Hatch and I'm Sure he was Feeling Very Proud Afterwards, Superb job by Him and The Team.
In Second Place was (Harri Reynolds) in his Assetto Motorsport with a Best Lap Time of 57.375 and an Average Speed of 74.80mph. Brilliant Work there from Harri who crosses the Line to Finnish in a Brilliant P2 and Take back the Hard work he Done During Qualifying. Fantastic.
In Third Place was (Joe Warhurst) in his GBR Elite Motorsport with a Best Lap Time of 57.448 and an Average Speed of 74.79mph. Another New Driver has Achieved P3 in Joe Warhurst, Fantastic Job Joe a Really Well Deserved Victory for you and The Rest of the Team.
What a Race and what a Set of Drivers in Josh Harri and Joe who All Push Themselves Hard and Took Home some Incredible Victories During Race 1. With One More Race to Come will Anyone Else be Able to do The Same?
Ginetta Junior Championship-(Race 2 Results)
In First Place Taking the Victory and The Fastest Lap was (Josh Rowledge) in his R Racing with a Best Lap Time of 57.510 and an Average Speed of 74.68mph. I'm Starting to get the Feeling that This Guy Knows a Thing or two about Racing. Congratulations Josh for Another Superb Drive and Dominant Display Making it two out of Two Wins so Far.
In Second Place was (Liam McNeilly) in his Fox Motorsport with a Best Lap Time of 57.496 and an Average Speed of 74.53mph. Congratulations Liam a Very Well Deserved Come Back Drive after a Not so Good P4 Finish Really Well Deserved Brilliant Driving.
In Third Place was (Max Dodd's)
In His GBR Assetto Motorsport with a Best Lap Time of 57.516 and an Average Speed of 74.10mph. Fantastic To see Another New Driver take His First Step onto the Podium. Congratulations Max a Fine Drive for P3.
What an Amazing Set of Races Seen by the Ginetta Junior Championship with the likes of Josh Liam Max Joe Maurice and Harri all taking Fantastic Victories in their Respective Cars. Looking Forward to Seeing what DAY 2 Brings for the Ginetta's but for Now its Over to the Final Qualifying and Race of the Day.
Silverlake C1 Racing Series-(Qualifying)
The Final Qualifying Session of the Day is now Making its way onto the Circuit and its the Silverlake C1 Racing Series in Preparation for their 4 Hour Endurance Race After.
This Group of 44 Teams are All Racing as Part of the Silverlake C1 Championship which Sees them Travel all over the Country from Silverstone to Knock Hill to Snetterton.
The Series itself uses Citroen C1's (998cc) that Have Been made to go Racing for Extended Period's of Time. With an Insane Grid of 44 Competitors and Teams All Looking for that Victory come the Final few Seconds of the Race it will be interesting to see how Qualifying stacks up and who has the Fastest Machine.
In First Place Taking the Pole and Fastest Lap was (Team Lady Bird Daddy's Patrick Watt's/ Aimee Watt's/Orlando Linsey) in their Citroen C1 998cc with a Best Lap Time of 1:04.743 and a Top Speed of 67.16mph. Fantastic work Team Lady Brid Daddy Taking Pole and The Fastest Lap for P1 on the Gird.
In Second Place was (JW Bird Motorsport's Nick Beaumont and Kieran Griffin) in their Citroen C1 998cc with a Best Lap Time of 1:04.759 and a Top Speed of 67.15mph. Brilliant work to Team JW Bird Motorsport Fantastic Team Effort and a Great Starting Point for the Endurance Race.
In Third Place was (Emax Motorsport's James Little Jake Little and Stuart Ratcliffe) in their Citroen C1 998cc with a Best Lap Time of 1:04.936 and a Top Speed of 66.96mph. Great Work there Team Emax Pushing to the Limits and Holding onto that Important P3 Grid Slot.
With a 3 Hour Endurance Race Anything can Happen and with the Current Top Three Having to do Battle Against a Grid of 41 Other Teams and Drivers All with Varying Skill Level's This Race to Win could be Anybody's for the Taking Good Luck to All Teams Competing and May the Best Team Win.
Silverlake C1 Racing Series-(Race 1 Results)
(Hour 1)
With The Grid set for Racing The Lights slowly began to turn on until All Five Lights were Illuminated and then Simultaneously went out and 44 1000cc Citroen's with 44 Competitive Drivers Behind the Wheel Made their way through Paddock Hill Bend being careful to Avoid One Another while scrapping for Places.
As they Race Towards to the Top of Druids All was Good as they made their way Down towards Graham Hill Bend and onto the Cooper Straight. So Far so Good and All The Citroens came Round the Last Corner with Ladybird Daddy Number 506 Still Leading followed by Emax Motorsport Number 345 and JW Bird Motorsport Number In 3rd Place.
(Hour 2)
As The Second Hour Approached it was time for Some Teams to Start thinking about Pit Stop Strategy and How this Might Move them either up a Position or Down Depending Upon the Time and Driver Driving.
Many of the Teams Pulled into the Pits with Only a Few Cars Out there Still going trying to get a Head Start while the other Teams opted to Pit and Change Drivers or take on Fuel for the Rest of the Race.
11 Minutes after 2 O'clock and the Number 446 Car of Team TAC Racing has made a Trip into the Gravel Trap at the Top of Paddock Hill Bend and had to be towed Out Resulting in a Penalty for Outside Assistance.
They Re-join the Race but will be at least 2 or 3 Laps down on the Rest of the Field for this Costly Mistake.
(Hour 3 The Final Hour)
As 3 O'clock Approached the Headlights of Most Drivers began To Turn On as The Light Around the Circuit began to get even Darker Meaning the Race was Entering its Night Stage.
With Some Drivers being Good in the Day and other being Good in the Night it was Anybody's Race Still as All 44 Cars Continued to Race around the Indy Circuit Lady Bird Daddy was Still in the Lead and Creating a Sizable Gap at The Front of the Pack as they Continued on into the Darkness of Night.
As the Race Continued into the Last Hour a Loud Crash was Heard from the Bottom of Paddock Hill Bend with the Number 320 Car of M Barrand and S Barrand was seen Rolling after a Slide while coming out of Paddock Hill Bend The Marshalls Raced in and Managed to get the Car Right Side Up as the Citroen had Flipped Over onto its Roof during the Crash, Thankfully the Driver Escaped with No Injuries.
As The Race Reached its Conclusion Lets take a Look at the Final Results and see who Won The 3 Hour Endurance Race for Silverlake C1's.
In First Place After Securing Pole During Qualifying and taking a Very Dominant Victory was (Team Lady Bird Daddy's Patrick Watt's/ Aimee Watt's/Orlando Linsey) Congratulations Everybody Some Fantastic Driving and a Well Deserved Win after such a Heroic Drive Thought the 3 Hours.
In Second Place After Taking on the Indy Circuit and Starting P4 was (Team Quattro Formaggio's Alistair May and Chris Parkes) A Phenomenal Drive by Both Drivers Each Working Hard to Keep the Car in a Competitive Spot thought the Entire 3 Hour Race.
In Third Place After a Very Promising start in Qualifying with P2 was JW Bird Motorsport's Tony Prendergast and Robin Welsh. Congratulations to Both Tony and Robin Another Dynamic Duo Who Managed to take the Final Spot on the Podium after an Intense Race.
What a Fantastic Finish to the First Day of Britcar Into The Night at Brands Hatch I Look Forward to Tomorrow where Even more Support Races will be Joining and Maybe even some New Champions Will be Crowned.
Until Then Keep Racing!
*PART ZERO: Starts at 13:30
A fat belly, a lean brain? Let's investigate this expression and meet for a BRAIN BRUNCH in the MPA-Mensa and share a smoking introduction to the slippery road of artistic research, practice as research, research as practice, research through practice, art practice as research, performance as research, performative writing... This brunch will be in English, German, Latin and international food language.
*PART TWO: Starts at 15:00
COYOTE: THE BELIEF IN THE POWER OF THE INDIVIDUAL TO SOCIAL CHANGE // KOJOTE: DER GLAUBEN AN DIE KRAFT DES EINZELNEN ZUR GESELLSCHAFTLICHEN VERÄNDERUNG)
A close reading of a text on Joseph Beuys’s most famous performance, I Like America and America Likes Me, New York, May 1974 to mark its 40th anniversary. Written by Caroline Tisdall, this text is an attempt to capture the performance by Beuys in book form, published by Thames & Hudson in 2008. In reference to the original performance, we will put any potential meaning and valuation of the text at the mercy of the reader and every individual witness. The reading positions itself in stark contrast to the "objectivity" of sciences in order to discover how a text can function as a self-contained, self-referential aesthetic object. The reading will be held in English and is expected to last approximately 30 minutes.
*PART THREE: Starts at 16:00
PERFORMATIVITY AND THE FALLACY OF AMBIGUITY // PERFORMATIVITÄT UND TEUFELSKREIS IRRTÜM
Based on the premise that "belief" holds a central position within any performance art practice, we want to find out if this belief can be anything other than a hypothetical construction (abstraction). If the performance artist believes in the sensemaking experience of his/her action (creating a shared reality), and simultaneously holds his/her notion of belief as a pure hypothetical construction (abstraction), the performance (art) itself falls subject to the so called fallacy of ambiguity (Teufelskreis Irrtüm). This means that the artist is treating his/her hypothetical construction as a concrete thing - something which by definition an abstraction is not: it is merely an idea. The artist is thus confusing a model (abstract belief) with the real. The notion of the performative contradicts this argument and calls for a materialisation of belief. Here, the sensemaking experience of the artists' action (realitätsbildenden Aspekt // constituent quality of all performance art) is to be found in the mind of the witness through a reflection of the ephemeral nature of the performance. Accordingly, the performance is determined by the receiving side. This notion turns any belief held by the artist into a profane and trivial pursuit. The question remains as to how the notion of belief (including the central position it holds for performance artists) should be understood. The talk will be held in German and is expected to last approximately 90 minutes.
*PART FOUR: Starts at 18:00
PERSONALLY, I'M MOST INTERESTED IN THE SHAPES AND COLOURS. LECTURE PERFORMANCE BY LUDOVIK VERMEERSCH.
A case study in performing abstraction, featuring works by Sarah Bal, Marc Bergson, Anna Ernst, Alexej Miroschnitshenko, Stella Pinson, Jens Presser, and Bohumil Rosendorf. Abstract art today is often seen as a disempowered category belonging to the past. It has lost its claims to utopian, ideological or spiritual content, and it has stopped identifying itself through the old antagonism with the figurative. Yet, formal abstract art remains noticeably alive and popular from the museum over to the gallery to the artist-run space. Does this mean it has become harmless and generally accepted, a kind of omnipresent ornament? Or are today´s strategies of abstraction still capable of eliciting strong responses? Ludovik Vermeersch, a writer and visual artist based in Berlin, has invited seven young abstract painters to be involved in a research project that tackled this very issue: how can abstract painting today manage to "perform abstraction" rather than just refer to it as to a historical fait accompli? A series of exhibitions was organised, in which the interactions of viewers with the artworks and the artists were recorded on video, in order to investigate their response to different approaches to abstraction – from those embracing the challenge to operate within the ornamental to those trying to transcend it. The lecture performance presents some of the project’s findings and proposes a way of revalidating abstraction as a strategy in art production today. The video recordings will be used to substantiate the claim that, by considering narrative as a crucial ally, it becomes possible to enhance the "performativity" of abstract paintings.
Duration: approx. 80 minutes, followed by a discussion (in English) between the curators Joel Verwimp and Teena Lange and the audience.
This is the result of Quinn's first nap in her big girl bed (her crib). Sadly there were some weighty head issues -- not that she woke up or anything.
The "prone position" or "prone pilot" Meteor at the RAF Museum, Cosford. This Meteor F.8 was modified for the RAF Institute of Aviation Medicine to use to evaluate the feasibility of a pilot flying an aircraft whilst lying down on his stomach, which was thought to enable the pilot to withstand higher G forces. This was found to be feasible but impractical, and the development of G-suits offered a better solution.
Positioned in a beautiful waterside location near the Waterside Shopping Centre, the Witch & Wardrobe is a traditional pub.
Parts of this building date back to the 13th century, but it is mainly 16th-century in date. Many people will remember it as a fish and chip shop, as it was for most of the 20th century, but from the 1850s-70s it was a basket maker’s workshop, then the Liberal Club until 1890 and even a brothel . It was restored and opened as a pub in 1979, taking its name from the popular story by C S Lewis. There have been reports of paranormal activity at the pub, including a former brothel employee on the first floor with her lover, the pumps have been known to activate themselves, and ice is thrown around by an invisible hand.
F-4EJ Kai,5AW/301SQ,Japan air self defence force
,12Dec.'94 Air base NYUTABARU,JAPAN
,Nikon F90s,AF Nikkor ED80-200mmF2.8
This is a photograph from the second running of the newly situated Irish 3/4 Marathon (formerly the Athlone 3/4) which was held in Longwood, Enfield, Co. Meath, Ireland on Sunday 8th of October 2017 at 10:00. The event is positioned perfectly in the calendar as a key training race before the Dublin City Marathon at the end of the month. This year was the second year that the event was held in Longwood, Co. Meath which is now well known for its hosting of the Longwood 10KM/5KM annual races and a host venue for East of Ireland Marathon series marathons on a bi-annual basis. The race started and finished at Longwood GAA club just outside the village of Longwood. It followed an anti-clockwise course around the beautiful picturesque countryside of south Meath. The course went through the townlands of Longwood, Castlerickard, Killyon, Hill-of-Down, Anneville and Ashfield Clonard, Blackshare, Stoneyford and back to Longwood. The river Boyne and Blackwater were crossed as was the Royal Canal and the Dublin-Sligo Railway line at Hill-of-Down. Overall this was a very different course to the previous years in Athlone. The overall elevation of the course works out at 3/4 of the total elevation of the Dublin Marathon course. What most stood out about today's race was the course and how the countryside around it looked on a beautiful almost perfect Autumn morning. There was a large local effort with stewarding and many local people watched from their gardens as the race passed by. The organisation of the race was first class with every detail taken care of from the start until the finish. There was some rain showers from about 13:00 onwards but these soon passed.
There is a large set of photographs from today's race - taken at the start in Longwood village and the 25KM mark outside near our home.
They are available on our Flickr photostream at the following set. www.flickr.com/photos/peterm7/albums/72157687694983023
Photographs from 2016's race are available on our Flickr photostream: www.flickr.com/photos/peterm7/albums/72157673672195732
NOTE: These are completely unofficial photographs are not connected commercially with the Irish 3/4 marathon event photography. Please check the Official Website www.irish3quartermarathon.ie/ for official photographs and other media.
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I ran in the race - but my photograph doesn't appear here in your Flickr set! What gives?
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►You were hidden behind another participant as you passed our camera
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►There were too many people - some races attract thousands of participants and as amateur photographs we cannot hope to capture photographs of everyone
►We simply missed you - sorry about that - we did our best!
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This picture is a composition of five separate pictures.
Each saguaro was shot separately with one bare flash at full power and one with a CTO gel at full power. The angle isn't the same for all, but generally I put one flash on each side. The fifth shot is the foreground, which I lit with a flash just out of frame to the left and one just out of frame to the right.
After seeing the pictures in Photoshop I realized it would be impossible to match the sky color in each picture and decided to go with the more forgiving black and white. I was facing west right after sunset, so the color of the sky and the position of the clouds was different in each shot.
Sketch for sculpture involving planar solids that are repositionable. Spots indicate corner positions, which might be decoration on platform that displays the movable piece.
This is a collection of photographs from the 33rd running of the Dublin City Marathon - on Monday October 29th 2012 at 09:00. The event had over 14,000 participants which started in three separate wave starts. These photographs are of the three way starts and of the finish of the marathon - from a position on Nassau Street - from the winner until about the 3:40 finish time. The weather was very cold with a slight breeze in Dublin. The city of Dublin looked great, the support was amazing - this lived up to it's billing as 'The Friendly Marathon'. Congratulations to everyone who took part. This is an amazing event. Well done to everyone from the last person home to the first steward on the course.
There are some gaps in photographs. We may not have captured everyone in this time bracket.
THESE ARE COMPLETELY UNOFFICIAL PHOTOGRAPHS These are not linked in any way to the official race photography of the Dublin Marathon. We are in no way affiliated to the official photographers or their companies who offer photography services for the Dublin Marathon or Dublin Race Series. You will need to refer to the website of the Race Series or the Dublin Marathon for official photography.
Overall this is a very nice race - with a testing course. There was a really nice spread of refreshments afterwards provided by the GAA and the local community.
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Please email petermooney78 AT gmail DOT com with the links to the photographs you would like to obtain a full resolution copy of. We also ask race organisers, media, etc to ask for permission before use of our images for flyers, posters, etc. We reserve the right to refuse a request.
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