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Una casona robusta y silenciosa emerge en medio del valle, construida en piedra y madera, como si hubiese nacido del propio terreno que la sostiene. A su espalda, la ladera del monte se extiende en un mosaico de árboles desnudos, cuyos tonos ocres y pardos anuncian el reposo invernal. Sobre la cima, una franja de luz y niebla desciende y se dispersa, generando un contraste dramático con el cielo profundo. La escena captura la esencia de la arquitectura rural que resiste el paso del tiempo, envuelta en un paisaje sereno que invita a la contemplación pausada.
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A species of Echinocereus growing in a patch of cryptobiotic soil in the Maze District of Canyonlands National Park. This soil type is rich in microorganisms that fix nitrogen, which may explain why this particular cactus is so robust.
"Grevílea-robusta (Grevillea robusta) é a maior planta do gênero Grevillea. É nativa da costa leste da Austrália. É uma árvore de crescimento rápido, de folha perene, que atinge 18–35 m de altura e tem folhas verdes delicadamente denteadas e bipinuladas, semelhantes à folhagem dos fetos. As folhas têm geralmente 15–30 cm de comprimento com o lado inferior branco acinzentado ou cor de ferrugem. Suas flores são cor laranja-ouro com floração tipo Callistemon, com 8–15 cm de comprimento na primavera, num caule de 2–3 cm. As sementes, maduras no final do inverno ou começo da primavera, frutificam em folículos marrom escuro, com cerca de 2 cm de comprimento, com uma ou duas sementes chatas, com asas."
A robust Great Lakes Central train utilizing CN trackage rights from Detroit rolls past the iconic Grand Trunk station in Durand, MI. Stupid PTC pole ruins everything.
The crew will have work here before heading for Owosso with a much-reduced train. Another crew will bring the return trip back south later in the afternoon.
Tintoretto (Jacopo Robusti - Venice 1518 - 1594) - the Last Supper (1578-81) - oil on canvas (487 × 538 cm) - Scuola Grande di San Rocco - Campo San Rocco - San Polo district Venice
Qui a San rocco, a differenza delle composizioni con la stessa tematica e la stessa tipologia iconografica che si trovano nella chiesa di San Trovaso (“L’ultima cena”, 221 x 413 cm.) e nella chiesa di San Paolo (“L’ultima cena”, 228 x 535), la visione avviene in un interno molto vasto la cui dilatazione spaziale, enfatizzata da un impianto disposto in diagonale, si accresce con sapienti contrasti di luce-ombra e con linee prospettiche in un rapido ritmo decrescente.
Here in San rocco, unlike the compositions with the same theme and the same iconographic typology found in the church of San Trovaso ("The Last Supper", 221 x 413 cm.) And in the church of San Paolo ("L ' last supper ", 228 x 535), the vision takes place in a very vast interior whose spatial expansion, emphasized by a diagonally arranged system, grows with wise contrasts of light-shadow and with perspective lines in a rapid decreasing rhythm.
The Desert Channels Region is a largely unmodified environment with robust pastoral, mining, and tourism industries. Home to 14, 500 people the region covers 510 000 square kilometres, (about one-third of the state of Queensland) and incorporates the Queensland section of the Lake Eyre Basin. This region is valued for its unique and healthy inland river systems, landscapes, cultural heritage, sustainable communities and production.
The Thomson River forms part of the Lake Eyre Basin. The river was named by the explorer, Edmund Kennedy, in the 1840s. The northernmost headwaters of the river begin at Torrens Creek, inland from Charters Towers. The watercourse becomes the Thomson just north of the town of Muttaburra, where the channels of Landsborough Creek, Towerhill Creek, and Cornish Creek meet. The river continues in the southwesterly direction, passing the towns of Longreach, Stonehenge, and Jundah, before joining with the Barcoo River north of Windorah to form Cooper Creek. This is the only place in the world where the confluence of two rivers forms a creek. As with all the rivers in the Lake Eyre Basin, the waters from the Thomson never reach the sea, and instead either evaporate or, in exceptional flooding, empty into Lake Eyre. Floods are not uncommon along the river, and, due to the flat nature of the country traversed, the river can then become many kilometres wide. The area which the river flows is semi-arid blacksoil plains.
Declared pest plants and animals have an enormous impact on the Longreach Region. Competition between these invasive pest plants and native Flora has seen the destruction of habitat. The loss of feed and breeding areas has seen rapid declines in some animal species. Longreach Regional Council is committed to the eradication of pest plants and animal species and has formulated a comprehensive Pest Management Plan.
Desert Channels Queensland (DCQ) is a community-based non-for-profit group and a government-endorsed regional body. Their board membership represents landholders, Indigenous groups, the Great Artesian Basin, conservation and local governments. DCQ works with all the sectors of the community to sustainably manage the natural resources in the region. Together with the land management community, they develop projects to address the issues identified in the community-endorsed natural resource management plan, Protecting Our Assets. Assets include land, water, biodiversity, and community. Major issues DCQ considers are weeds and feral animals, vegetation management, grazing pressure, water management, land degradation, and viability and economics. The DCQ's mission is a community group dedicated to improving the quality of the life of current and future generations through leadership, innovation, knowledge, and partnerships, in the responsible management of their unique natural recourses.
Source: Desert Channels Queensland (DCQ)
Cette grande et robuste abeille solitaire, vol rapide, fort bourdonnement, si elle peut impressionner lorsque vous l'interrompez dans son savoureux repas et qu'elle vous frôle la chevelure en s'inspirant de l'avion de chasse, est en fait assez pacifique ; rapidement la voici accrochée à une nouvelle tête de chardon pour la suite de son festin.
Plus tard, elle ira pondre dans une de ces vieilles souches qui abondent dans les forêts alentour : des pentes abruptes coupées de falaises, aucune route à l'horizon, et des arbres en nombre : un lieu que l'on nomme à juste titre Le Désert.
Compact, robust, and big-headed warbler. Males are striking with a black hood contrasting with whitish throat, gray back, and red eyering. Females duller with a gray hood, white throat, and buff body. Common in many typical Mediterranean habitats including tall bushes, open woodlands, gardens, coastal scrub, and plantations; also in oases, acacia woodlands, and scrubby desert in non-breeding range. Usually first detected by its song, a fast, angry-sounding rattling "ctret-tret-tret-tret-tret" or "tetwtweer-tik-tik-tik" with whispering in between. The call is a dry "tseck."
..ging es vergangenen Sonntag für den Pingelheini in Richtung Stuhr.
Die Stadt Bremen will eine Straßenbahnlinie bis nach Leeste bauen, welche auf der Trasse der Bremer-Thedinghausener Eisenbahn verläuft.
Der Abschnitt Leeste-Thedinghausen wird allerdings so als Nebenbahn bleiben.
Bei der Abfahrt nach Stuhr konnte ich 992 001, welche eine Werkslok der Marke Schöma ist und 1957 ausgeliefert wurde, mit ihrem Zug in Leeste ablichten.
Hinter der Lok lief ein Güterwagen, welcher zum Fahrrad- & Generatorwagen umfunktioniert wurde.
The Sea Tower in Gdynia, which has been in operation since 2009, is with its 38 floors one of the tallest residential buildings in Poland.
I have re-visited the ID of this dragonfly. It is the highly (Maryland) state-rare Robust Baskettail (Epitheca spinosa).
This individual appears to be the Robust Basketball. Since I am not a dragonfly expert, I appreciate help with determining dragonfly ID. Thanks!
Peter Duesberg is a "scientist" who is widely recognised as being one of the foremost idiots who thinks that HIV does not cause AIDS. He thinks that everyone gets it from taking ARVs and doing too much poppers and too many recreational drugs. Celia "Thats why they put blood on my face" Farber has spent an awful long time defending this lunatic "faith".
A new Harvard study has claimed that the deaths of around 330,000 South Africans occured as a direct result of Mbeki's HIV denial.
Peter Duesberg was on Mbeki's AIDS panel, so advised him in his murderous denial.
Of course I am not pointing the finger directly at Duesberg as the buck stopped with Mbeki and his health minister Dr Beetroot, and the policies they enacted.
However it would be wrong to completely ignore the role that Duesberg and others played in the deaths of all of these people.
Duesberg is currently employed by the University of California Berkeley. Maybe in light of this new evidence they should seriously consider his position within their (ANY!) teaching institution.
Mbeki Aids policy 'led to 330,000 deaths'
Sarah Boseley Thursday November 27 2008 00.01 GMT
The Aids policies of former president Thabo Mbeki's government were directly responsible for the avoidable deaths of a third of a million people in South Africa, according to research from Harvard University.
South Africa has one of the most severe HIV/Aids epidemics in the world. About 5.5 million people, or 18.8% of the adult population, have HIV, according to the UN. In 2005 there were 900 deaths a day.
But from the late 90s Mbeki turned his back on the scientific consensus that Aids was caused by a viral infection which could be combated, though not cured, by sophisticated and expensive drugs. He came under the influence of maverick scientists known as Aids-denialists, most prominent among whom was Peter Duesberg from Berkeley, California.
In 2000 Mbeki called a round-table of experts, including Duesberg and his supporters but also their opponents, to discuss the cause of Aids. Later that year, at the international Aids conference in Durban, he publicly rejected the accepted wisdom. Aids, he said, was indeed brought about by the collapse of the immune system - but not because of a virus. The cause, he said, was poverty, bad nourishment and general ill-health. The solution was not expensive western medicine but the alleviation of poverty in Africa.
In a new paper Harvard researchers have quantified the death toll resulting from Mbeki's stance, which caused him to reject offers of free drugs and grants and led to foot-dragging over a treatment programme, even after Mbeki had taken a vow of silence on the issue.
"We contend that the South African government acted as a major obstacle in the provision of medication to patients with Aids," write Pride Chigwedere and colleagues from the Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, in the Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome.
They have made their calculations by comparing the scale-up of treatment programmes in neighbouring Botswana and Namibia with the limited availability of drugs in South Africa from 2000-2005.
Expensive antiretrovirals came down in price dramatically as a result of activists' campaigning and public pressure. In July 2000 the pharmaceutical company Boehringer Ingelheim offered to donate its drug nevirapine, which could prevent the transmission of HIV from mother to child during labour. But South Africa restricted the availability of nevirapine to two pilot sites a province until December 2002.
Eventually, under international pressure, South Africa did launch a national programme for the prevention of mother to child transmission in August 2003 and a national adult treatment programme in 2004. But by 2005, the paper's authors estimate, there was still only 23% drug coverage and less than 30% prevention of mother to child transmission.
By comparison, Botswana achieved 85% treatment coverage and Namibia 71% by 2005, and both had 70% mother to child transmission programmes coverage.
The authors estimate that more than 330,000 people died unnecessarily in South Africa over the period and that 35,000 HIV-infected babies were born who could have been protected from the virus but would now probably have a limited life.
Their calculations will withstand scrutiny, they say. "The analysis is robust," said Dr Chigwedere. "We used a transparent and accessible calculation, publicly available data, and, where we made assumptions, we explained their basis. We purposely chose very conservative assumptions and performed sensitivity analyses to test whether the results would qualitatively change if a different assumption were used."
The authors conclude: "Access to appropriate public health practice is often determined by a small number of political leaders. In the case of South Africa, many lives were lost because of a failure to accept the use of available ARVs to prevent and treat HIV/Aids in a timely manner."
Since Mbeki's ousting from the leadership of the African National Congress in September South Africa has urgently pursued new policies to get treatment to as many people as possible under a new health minister, Barbara Hogan.
November 26, 2008
Study Cites Toll of AIDS Policy in South Africa
By CELIA W. DUGGER
www.nytimes.com/2008/11/26/world/africa/26aids.html?_r=1
JOHANNESBURG — A new study by Harvard researchers estimates that the South African government would have prevented the premature deaths of 365,000 people earlier this decade if it had provided antiretroviral drugs to AIDS patients and widely administered drugs to help prevent pregnant women from infecting their babies.
The Harvard study concluded that the policies grew out of President Thabo Mbeki’s denial of the well-established scientific consensus about the viral cause of AIDS and the essential role of antiretroviral drugs in treating it.
Coming in the wake of Mr. Mbeki’s ouster in September after a power struggle in his party, the African National Congress, the report has reignited questions about why Mr. Mbeki, a man of great acumen, was so influenced by AIDS denialists.
And it has again caused soul-searching about why his colleagues in the party did not act earlier to challenge his resistance to broadly accepted methods of treating and preventing AIDS.
Reckoning with a legacy of such policies, Mr. Mbeki’s’s successor, Kgalema Motlanthe, acted on the first day of his presidency two months ago to remove the health minister, Manto Tshabalala-Msimang, a polarizing figure who had proposed garlic, lemon juice and beetroot as AIDS remedies.
He replaced her with Barbara Hogan, who has brought South Africa — the most powerful country in a region at the epicenter of the world’s AIDS pandemic — back into the mainstream.
“I feel ashamed that we have to own up to what Harvard is saying,” Ms. Hogan, an A.N.C. stalwart who was imprisoned for a decade during the anti-apartheid struggle, said in a recent interview. “The era of denialism is over completely in South Africa.”
For years, the South African government did not provide antiretroviral medicines, even as Botswana and Namibia, neighboring countries with epidemics of similar scale, took action, the Harvard study reported.
The Harvard researchers quantified the human cost of that inaction by comparing the number of people who got antiretrovirals in South Africa from 2000 to 2005 with the number the government could have reached had it put in place a workable treatment and prevention program.
They estimated that by 2005, South Africa could have been helping half those in need but had reached only 23 percent. By comparison, Botswana was already providing treatment to 85 percent of those in need, and Namibia to 71 percent.
The 330,000 South Africans who died for lack of treatment and the 35,000 babies who perished because they were infected with H.I.V. together lost at least 3.8 million years of life, the study concluded.
Epidemiologists and biostatisticians who reviewed the study for The New York Times said the researchers had based their estimates on conservative assumptions and used a sound methodology.
“They have truly used conservative estimates for their calculations, and I would consider their numbers quite reasonable,” James Chin, a professor of epidemiology at the University of California at Berkeley’s School of Public Health, said in an e-mail message.
The report was posted online last month and will be published on Monday in the peer-reviewed Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes.
Max Essex, the virologist who has led the Harvard School of Public Health’s AIDS research program for the past 20 years and who oversaw the study, called South Africa’s response to AIDS under Mr. Mbeki “a case of bad, or even evil, public health.”
Mr. Mbeki has maintained a silence on his AIDS legacy since his forced resignation. His spokesman, Mukoni Ratshitanga, said Mr. Mbeki would not discuss his thinking on H.I.V. and AIDS, explaining that policy decisions were made collectively by the cabinet and so questions should be addressed to the government.
The new government is now trying to hasten the expansion of antiretroviral treatments. The task is urgent. South Africa today is home to 5.7 million people who are H.I.V.-positive — more than any other nation, almost one in five adults. More than 900 people a day die here as a result of AIDS, the United Nations estimates.
Since the party forced Mr. Mbeki from office and some of his loyalists split off to start a new party, rivalries have flared and stories about what happened inside the A.N.C. have begun to tumble out, offering unsettling glimpses of how South Africa’s AIDS policies went so wrong.
From the first year of his presidency in 1999, Mr. Mbeki became consumed with the thinking of a small group of dissident scientists who argued that H.I.V. was not the cause of AIDS, his biographers say.
As president he wielded enormous power, and those who disagreed with him said they feared they would be sidelined if they spoke out. Even Nelson Mandela, the revered former president, was not immune from opprobrium.
In a column in The Sunday Times of Johannesburg on Oct. 19, Ngoako Ramatlhodi, a senior party member now running the party’s 2009 election campaign, recounted how Mr. Mandela, known affectionately as Madiba, was humiliated during a 2002 A.N.C. meeting after he made a rare appearance to question the party’s stance on AIDS.
Mr. Ramatlhodi described speakers competing to show greater loyalty to Mr. Mbeki by verbally attacking Mr. Mandela as Mr. Mbeki looked on silently. “After his vicious mauling, Madiba looked twice his age, old and ashen,” Mr. Ramatlhodi wrote.
Mr. Ramatlhodi himself acknowledged in a recent interview that in 2001 he sent a 22-page letter, drafted by Mr. Mbeki’s office, to another of Mr. Mbeki’s most credible critics, Prof. Malegapuru Makgoba, an immunologist who was one of South Africa’s leading scientists. The letter accused Professor Makgoba of defending Western science and its racist ideas about Africans at the expense of Mr. Mbeki.
In 2000 Mr. Mbeki had provided Professor Makgoba with two bound volumes containing 1,500 pages of documents written by AIDS denialists. After reading them, Professor Makgoba said in an interview that he wrote back to warn Mr. Mbeki that if he adopted the denialists’ ideas, South Africa would “become the laughingstock, if not the pariah, of the world again.”
But Mr. Mbeki indicated last year to one of his biographers, Mark Gevisser, that his views on AIDS were essentially unchanged, pointing the writer to a document that, he said, was drafted by A.N.C. leaders and accurately reflected his position.
The document’s authors conceded that H.I.V. might be one cause of AIDS but contended that there were many others, like other diseases and malnutrition.
The document maintained that antiretrovirals were toxic. And it suggested that powerful vested interests — drug companies, governments, scientists — pushed the consensus view of AIDS in a quest for money and power, while peddling centuries-old white racist beliefs that depicted Africans as sexually rapacious.
“Yes, we are sex crazy!” the document’s authors bitterly exclaimed. “Yes, we are diseased! Yes, we spread the deadly H.I. virus through our uncontrolled heterosexual sex!”
In 2002, after a prolonged outcry over Mr. Mbeki’s comments about AIDS and the government’s policies, Mr. Mbeki agreed to requests from within his party to withdraw from the public debate. That same year, the Constitutional Court ruled that the government had to provide antiretroviral drugs to prevent the infection of newborns. And in 2003, the cabinet announced plans to go forward with an antiretroviral treatment program.
“We did an enormous amount of good in the early days in South Africa, not because of the Health Ministry, but in spite of the Health Ministry,” said Randall L. Tobias, who was appointed by President Bush in 2003 to lead the United States’ $15 billion global AIDS undertaking.
In the same years, former President Clinton and his foundation were also deeply involved in helping South Africa get a treatment program going. Mr. Clinton attended Mr. Mandela’s 85th birthday celebration in Johannesburg in 2003. During the dinner, he and Mr. Mbeki slipped away to talk about AIDS, Mr. Clinton recalled in a recent interview.
Mr. Clinton said he told Mr. Mbeki how antiretroviral treatment had reduced the AIDS mortality rate in the United States and reminded him, “I’m your friend and I haven’t joined in the public condemnation.” That evening, when Mr. Clinton offered to send in a team of experts to help the country put together a national treatment plan, Mr. Mbeki took him up on it.
The Clinton Foundation helped devise a plan and mobilized 20 people to travel to South Africa in 2004 to help carry it out. But the South African government never invited them, Mr. Clinton said. So the foundation, which had projects all over Africa, was to have none in South Africa.
Changes since Mr. Mbeki’s fall from power have prompted many to hope for forceful South African political leadership on AIDS. Mr. Mbeki’s rival and successor as head of the party, Jacob Zuma, who is expected to become president after next year’s election, himself made a famously questionable remark about AIDS.
In his 2006 rape trial, in which he was acquitted of sexually assaulting a family friend, he testified that he sought to reduce his chances of being infected with H.I.V. by taking a shower after sex. Nonetheless, he seems to have more conventional views on the pandemic.
“Who would have thought Jacob Zuma would be better than Mbeki, but he is,” said Richard C. Holbrooke, the former ambassador to the United Nations in the Clinton administration who heads a coalition of businesses fighting AIDS. “The tragedy of Thabo Mbeki is that he’s a smart man who could have been an international statesman on this issue. To this day, you wonder what got into him.”
For South Africans who watched the dying and were powerless to stop it, the grief is still raw. Zackie Achmat, the country’s most prominent advocate for people with AIDS, became sick during the almost five years he refused to take antiretrovirals until they were made widely available. He cast Mr. Mbeki as the leading man in this African tragedy.
“He is like Macbeth,” Mr. Achmat said. “It’s easier to walk through the blood than to turn back and admit you made a mistake.”
Mbeki's opposition to ARVs cost 330,000 lives, shows study
Michael Carter, Thursday, November 27, 2008
www.aidsmap.com/en/news/97BFC49D-E43C-4028-8E4D-CACF15F82...
The refusal of the Mbeki government to roll-out antiretroviral therapy and treatment to prevent mother-to child transmission in South Africa resulted in 330,000 needlessly premature HIV-related deaths and 35,000 avoidable case of mother-to-child HIV transmission according to estimates published in the December 1st edition of the Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes.
South Africa is one of the countries hardest hit by HIV. UNAIDS estimates that 19% of the adult population is HIV-positive, some 5.5 million individuals. In 2005, an estimated 320,000 individuals died because of HIV.
President Thabo Mbeki’s government consistently resisted the provision of antiretroviral therapy. The first important evidence of this was in 1999 when, under pressure to provide AZT monotherapy to prevent mother-to-child transmission of HIV, President Mbeki announced that the drug was dangerous and that it would therefore not be provided by his government. This was followed by Mbeki publicly questioning that HIV caused AIDS and the efficacy of antiretroviral therapy. The Mbeki administration then resisted the use of nevirapine to prevent mother-to-child transmission and obstructed the acquisition of grants from the Global Fund.
US investigators estimated the lost benefits resulting from the Mbeki government’s opposition to provision of antiretroviral therapy and treatment to prevent mother-to-child transmission. To do this, they compared the actual number of people who received HIV treatment or therapy to prevent mother-to-child transmission between 2000 and 2005 and compared this to the number that could feasibly have been treated during this period. This difference was multiplied by the average efficacy of antiretroviral treatment and treatment to prevent mother-to-child transmission to give the lost benefits consequent upon the South African government’s decision to prevent access to anti-HIV drugs.
“Our overriding values in choosing methods were transparency and minimization of assumptions and we were purposely conservative”, write the investigators.
When estimating the number of people who could reasonably have been provided with antiretroviral therapy or treatment to prevent mother-to-child transmission, the investigators noted that HIV treatment became significantly more accessible between 2000-2005. This was because:
* The price of anti-HIV drugs fell significantly in this period.
* More money was available for donor organisations, such as the Global Fund and PEPFAR, to purchase antiretroviral drugs.
Nevertheless, the South African government still maintained opposition to the provision of HIV drugs.
To estimate the number of people who should have been eligible to receive antiretroviral therapy, the investigators obtained from UNAIDS the number of HIV-related deaths in South Africa between 2000-2005. Patients who died of HIV without receiving anti-HIV drugs lost the entire potential benefits of antiretroviral therapy.
Next, the investigators obtained figures showing how many individuals received antiretroviral therapy in the same period. Their sources were UNAIDS and the World Health Organization’s (WHO’s) “3 x 5” antiretroviral treatment access programme. These figures showed that fewer than 3% of patients received antiretroviral treatment in 2000, increasing to approximately 10% in 2003 and 23% in 2005.
The researchers considered it reasonable that South Africa could have treated no more than 5% of eligible patients with HIV in 2000. However, because drugs became less expensive and more international funding became available, “ramping up” access to treatment was feasible, meaning that by 2005, 50% of HIV-positive patients in South Africa should have been receiving antiretroviral therapy. They note that the maximum of 50% treatment coverage is significantly lower than the 71% achieved by Namibia and the 85% achieved by Botswana.
Finally they estimated the number of life years that would be gained per patient due to antiretroviral therapy. They used the most conservative estimate of 6.7 years.
Their calculations showed that 330,000 lives and 2.2 million person years were lost because the Mbeki government resisted the implementation of a reasonable antiretroviral treatment programme.
They tested their model using a number of other assumptions. For example, if they reduced the number of patients who could reasonably be expected to receive antiretroviral therapy in 2005 to 40%, then the number of lives lost fell to 226,800 or 1.5 million person years.
Consequences of opposition to treatment to prevent mother-to-child transmission
The researchers' model to test the impact of the Mbeki administration’s opposition to treatment to prevent mother-to-child transmission also included a number of conservative assumptions.
First, they calculated the number of children infected with HIV vertically. They looked at a number of sources and selected the lowest estimate of 68,000 per year and revised this down to 60,000 to take into account the high adult HIV population and marginal increase in population growth in South Africa during this period.
A number of sources suggested that in 2005, coverage of treatment to prevent mother-to-child transmission was 30%, having increased from below 3% before 2000.
To estimate the proportion of women who could have received treatment to prevent mother-to-child transmission, they considered that treatment would have been free during this period, that it is easy to administer and that 84% of pregnant women in South Africa receive antenatal care.
Based on these assumptions, the investigators calculated that no more than 5% of women would have received treatment to prevent mother-to-child transmission in 2000, but that this could have increased to 55% by 2005.
Next the investigators estimated the efficacy of such therapy, taking as their benchmark the HIVNET 012 study which showed that single-dose nevirapine reduced the risk of transmission by 47% compared to short-course AZT amongst women who breastfeed.
Finally, they assumed an average life-expectancy at birth of 48 years, and subtracted from this the average three year life-expectancy of infants infected with HIV at birth.
The investigators therefore estimated that 35,000 cases of mother-to-child transmission (or 1.6 million life years) were the result of the Mbeki administration’s policies.
One again, the investigators tested their results using other assumptions. If they accepted 40% coverage of treatment as acceptable, then the excess number of babies infected because of government policies was 18,000, a loss of 800,00 life years. However, had there been 70% coverage (still below what was achieved in Namibia and Botswana), then HIV infections in 44,000 babies (or 2 million life years), would have been avoided.
When the investigators combined their two estimates – years of life lost because of opposition to antiretroviral treatment, and life years lost because of the failure to provide treatment to prevent vertical transmission – they found that some 3.8 million life years were lost because of the Mbeki administration’s policies.
They conclude, “in the case of South Africa, many lives were lost because of failure to accept the use of available antiretrovirals to prevent and treat HIV/AIDS in a timely manner.”
Reference
Chigwedere, P. et al. Estimating the lost benefits of antiretroviral drug use in South Africa. J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr 49: 410-15, 2008.
Salzglasierte Töpferware ... auch hier liebevoll gepflegte Ecken eine Augenweide. Seit über 500 Jahren gibt es salzgebranntes Steinzeug bekannt sind vor allem die blaugrauen Einmachtöpfe. Salzglasierte Töpferwaren sind vollkommen robust, wasser-dicht und geschmacksneutral.
Tintoretto (Jacopo Robusti 1519 - 1594) Trinity (1561-62) dimensions 122 x 181 cm - Galleria Sabauda Torino
La tela è il frammento di una pala d’altare. L’iconografia è comunque identificabile con la Trinità, ripensata però da Tintoretto in modo originale e personale. Dio Padre con le braccia aperte con un gesto insieme di pietà e accoglimento sovrasta la croce con Cristo morto, realizzata in una prospettiva molto scorciata. Tra i due è collocata la colomba dello Spirito Santo. Ai lati due angeli vegliano il crocifisso. Più in basso, in parte tagliati, due putti alati pregano con le mani giunte. Sullo sfondo si intravedono teste di cherubini appena abbozzate. I colori intensi delle vesti dei personaggi, a suggerirne la consistenza serica, sono esaltati da un sapiente uso del chiaroscuro e della pittura tonale. Una luce diffusa giallo-ambra illumina la porzione di scena dando risalto alle ombre sui volti e sui corpi, sottolineando quindi la tragicità dell’evento. Questa porzione di dipinto è fortunosamente scampata a un rovinoso incendio. Proviene dalla chiesa veneziana di San Girolamo, andata a fuoco nel 1705. Pare dunque probabile che il genovese Gerolamo Ignazio Durazzo l’avesse acquistato a seguito di quelle drammatiche circostanze. Secondo recenti segnalazioni documentarie, sembra che il dipinto fosse collocato sull’altare dedicato a Sant’Adriano, edificato nel 1560 per conto di Piero Alessandro Lippomano, già antico committente del pittore. Oltre al gruppo trinitario la pala si componeva della presenza dei santi Adriano, Francesco e Agostino ai piedi della croce. La sua datazione si orienta intorno al 1561-62. L’opera venne acquistata da Carlo Felice di Savoia nel 1824.
The canvas is the fragment of an altarpiece. The iconography is however identifiable with the Trinity, however rethought by Tintoretto in an original and personal way. God the Father with open arms with a gesture of piety and acceptance overwhelms the cross with the dead Christ, realized in a very shortened perspective. The dove of the Holy Spirit is placed between the two. At the sides two angels watch over the crucifix. Lower down, partly cut, two winged cherubs pray with folded hands. In the background one can see the heads of cherubs that have just been sketched. The intense colors of the characters' robes, to suggest their silky consistency, are enhanced by a clever use of chiaroscuro and tonal painting. A diffuse amber-yellow light illuminates the portion of the scene giving prominence to the shadows on faces and bodies, thus emphasizing the tragedy of the event. This portion of the painting has fortunately escaped a disastrous fire. It comes from the Venetian church of San Girolamo, which was burnt down in 1705. It therefore seems probable that the Genoese Gerolamo Ignazio Durazzo had bought it following those dramatic circumstances. According to recent documentary reports, it seems that the painting was placed on the altar dedicated to Sant’Adriano, built in 1560 on behalf of Piero Alessandro Lippomano, the former commissioner of the painter. In addition to the Trinitarian group, the altarpiece consisted of the presence of Saints Adriano, Francesco and Agostino at the foot of the cross. Its dating is around 1561-62. The work was purchased by Carlo Felice of Savoy in 1824.
Robust, agile, and adaptable, the Vespula drone is ideal for all your security, protection and combat requirements.
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Il y a quelques années, j'ai réalisé la conception architecturale de ma maison et j'ai décidé que le sol serait en bois noble. Planches de vingt mètres dans la pièce principale.
J'ai attendu plusieurs mois pour obtenir l'autorisation d'acheter les planches de vingt mètres !
Si c'était encore aujourd'hui, je referais le sol en granit.
Arbres robustes de plus de vingt mètres de haut !
Je ferais le sol en granit même si j'adore le parquet en bois dans ma maison.
Il y a de nombreuses années, le mot écologie ne résonnait pas tellement dans mon âme.
Aujourd'hui, je marche parmi les arbres et j'écoute le vent qui souffle entre eux et j'ai l'impression de leur demander pardon.
Oui, les grands arbres sont aussi vivants que moi et sont beaucoup plus vieux que moi et je leur dois du respect.
Ivan
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A some years ago I did the architectural design of my house and decided that the floor would be made of noble wood. Twenty-meter boards in the main room.
I waited several months to get permission to buy the twenty-meter boards !
If it were still today, I would redo the floor in granite.
Robust trees over twenty meters high !
I would do the floor in granite even though I love the wooden floor in my house.
Many years ago, the word ecology did not resonate so much in my soul.
Today, I walk among the trees and listen to the wind blowing between them and I feel like I am asking them for forgiveness.
Yes, the big trees are as alive as I am and are much older than me and I owe them respect.
Ivan
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This tall, robust, leafless aquatic plant can grow 4 to 5 m (13 to 16 ft) high. It forms a grass-like clump of triangular green stems that rise up from thick, woody rhizomes. Each stem is topped by a dense cluster of thin, bright green, thread-like stems around 10 to 30 cm (4 to 10 in) in length, resembling a feather duster when the plant is young. Greenish-brown flower clusters eventually appear at the ends of the rays, giving way to brown, nut-like fruits.
The younger parts of the rhizome are covered by red-brown, papery, triangular scales, which also cover the base of the culms. Botanically, these represent reduced leaves, so strictly it is not quite correct to call this plant fully "leafless".
Egyptians used the plant (which they called aaru) for many purposes, most famously for making papyrus. Its name in Greek and in English is widely believed to have come from Egyptian. Cyperus papyrus is now used mainly for decoration, as it is nearly extinct in its native habitat in the Nile Delta, where in ancient times it was widely cultivated.
Theophrastus's History of Plants (Book iv. 10) states that it grew in Syria, and according to Pliny's Natural History, it was also a native plant of the Niger River and the Euphrates.
Aside from papyrus, several other members of the genus Cyperus may also have been involved in the multiple uses Egyptians found for the plant. Its flowering heads were linked to make garlands for the gods in gratitude. The pith of young shoots was eaten both cooked and raw. Its woody root made bowls and other utensils and was burned for fuel. From the stems were made reed boats (seen in bas-reliefs of the Fourth Dynasty showing men cutting papyrus to build a boat; similar boats are still made in southern Sudan), sails, mats, cloth, cordage, and sandals. Theophrastus states that King Antigonus made the rigging of his fleet of papyrus, an old practice illustrated by the ship's cable, wherewith the doors were fastened when Odysseus slew the suitors in his hall (Odyssey xxi. 390)
The "rush" or "reed" basket in which the Biblical figure Moses was placed may have been made from papyrus.
Farichild Tropical Botanic Garden, Miami FL
Paddan är ett robust och satt groddjur, inte lika slank som grodorna. Huden är tjock och vårtig. Färgen är brunaktig men varierar i ljust och mörkt. Honan blir 123 mm lång, hanen bara 78 mm.
Paddan förekommer i större delen av Sverige, med undantag för fjällen. Den föredrar inte någon speciell terrängtyp. Vad den däremot behöver, är fuktiga gömställen under dagen, såsom under stenar, rötter, omkullfallna träd, tuvor, buskar, eller i lövhögar. Det är därför vi ofta hittar den i våra trädgårdar och parker.
Paddan är solitär. Den är ett skymnings- och nattdjur med gott mörkerseende, och patrullerar ett litet revir. Den är också stationär, man kan återfinna den på samma ställe i veckor eller månadsvis.
Paddan kan klättra och intar stundtals dagplatser högt upp, på murar och i häckar. Vid regn eller fuktigt väder, blir de även aktiva på dagen och kan jaga daggmaskar.
De övervintrar på frostfritt djup, från september-oktober till april-maj. Flera paddor kan övervintra på samma ställe, ibland i sällskap av kopparödla och huggorm.
Fridlyst
Den vanliga paddan, liksom alla våra paddor, grodor, ödlor och ormar är fridlysta i hela landet.
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The Kingston Bridge is a balanced cantilever dual-span ten lane road bridge made of triple-cell segmented prestressed concrete box girders crossing the River Clyde in Glasgow, Scotland.
Carrying the M8 motorway through the city centre, the Kingston Bridge is one of the busiest road bridges in Europe, carrying around 150,000 vehicles every day.
The name of the bridge referred to the erstwhile Kingston Dock which was located on the south bank of the river. It had been completed in 1867 between Windmillcroft Quay and the former headquarters of the Scottish Co-operative Wholesale Society on Morrison Street in Tradeston, adjacent to where the bridge now stands. It was Glasgow's first enclosed dock. The dock was eventually closed to navigation in 1966, when work began on the construction of the Kingston Bridge; the basin was subsequently filled in and apartments built on the site. At the time of construction, however, the Clyde Port Authority still insisted that the bridge have a clearance height of 18 m (60 ft) in order to allow dredgers to go upstream as far as the King George V Bridge. The bridge was designed by William Fairhurst and built by Logan-Marples Ridgway.
Location
The bridge connects Anderston and the city centre at Junction 18/19 with Tradeston and the Gorbals at Junction 20. It consists of two parallel spans, each 21 m (68 ft) wide, with each supporting a five lane deck. The eastern span carrying southbound traffic and the western span carrying northbound traffic over the river. The approaches to the bridge are also linked with many junctions of their own, including major city centre ramps and the M77, that are two lanes wide. The outer spandrels of the bridge are clad with exposed-aggregate panels showing vertical joints.
Refurbishment
When opened by Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother in 1970, the bridge was designed to handle 120,000 vehicles a day.[3] By 1990, the sheer excess volume and weight of traffic, combined with poor design and flaws in construction, resulted in serious structural deterioration.[4] A decade-long repair and renovation programme was initiated to repair and strengthen the bridge. These repairs have involved strengthening the quay walls and jacking-up the 52,000-tonne deck of the bridge, while still operational, to allow the construction of new supporting Piers, before lowering the bridge back onto the new, more robust supports. It was described by the contractor, Balfour Beatty, as one of the most ambitious civil engineering projects to take place in the city. Indeed, the operation involved 128 hydraulic jacks, making it the biggest ever bridge lift, qualifying for the Guinness Book of Records.
A longer-term attempt to solve the problem of chronic congestion is the M74 northern extension, to act as the southern flank of the unbuilt Glasgow Inner Ring Road first planned in the 1960s. The existing "ski ramp" where the Inner Ring was intended to continue on has remained unused; the extended M74 meets the M8 secondary carriageways a few hundred yards further south at Scotland Street. This change of plan from the Scottish Executive was because of the Kingston Bridge's inability to handle an increase in traffic: the thinking was that the increased traffic from the new road will not then go straight over the bridge and will enable traffic from the south east, heading west to Ayrshire, Glasgow International Airport, Glasgow Prestwick Airport, or the docks at Greenock, Hunterston and Braehead, to bypass the Glasgow city centre section of the M8.[citation needed] At the Public Inquiry into the road scheme, critics countered that this would mean an increase in ground-level traffic in the Tradeston area as commuters attempt to gain access to the bridge's access ramps.[6] Prior to the M74 completion, a solution to the congestion problems has been the Clyde Arc or "Squinty Bridge", which opened in September 2006 – this route is expected to take at least some of the local short-distance traffic away from the Kingston. The M74 extension opened on 28 June 2011.
There is a dubious urban myth that the fourth man in the Linwood bank robbery is buried in the pillars of the bridge. It features in the music video for the Simple Minds single Speed Your
The robust Lada Niva series was introduced in 1977. The series is continued till the present day. The boxy design was kept almost equal for over 35 years.
Chief designers were Pyotr Prusov and Vladimir Solovyev. Prototypes appeared in 1976.
The AWD Lada was also known as LADA-VAZ 2121 or Lada Niva 2121.
1568 cc L4 petrol engine.
Performance: 77 bhp.
1150 kg.
General production Lada Niva series: April 1977-present.
Production Niva 2121 this Phase I: April 1977-1996.
Original first reg. number: March 25, 1988.
New Dutch reg. number: June 2, 2015 (private import, still valid).
With current owner since Febr. 24, 2017.
Amsterdam-Noord, Volendammerweg, April 15, 2018.
© 2018 Sander Toonen Amsterdam/Halfweg | All Rights Reserved
Herzliya is an affluent city in the central coast of Israel, at the Northern part of the Tel Aviv District known for its robust start-up and entrepreneurial culture. In 2019 it had a population of 97,470. Named after Theodor Herzl, the founder of modern Zionism, Herzliya covers an area of 21.6 square kilometres (8.3 sq mi). Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herzliya
Robust Colors.
Tiefe Euphemismen grabende wesentliche Farbtöne explodierende Staffelei offene Gelbs dunkel Blues hell laute Rottöne schimmernde Bedingungen geheimnisvolle Schatten Grüns,
pwyntiau uniongyrchol lliwiau dadleuol arwyddion esthetig gwerthoedd amhenodol lluniau gweledol llinellau hyfryd cyfatebiaeth addurniadol,
Effets spectaculaires syntaxe individuelle Vitesse artistique de la virtuosité mise en évidence points éclaboussures efforts créatifs évolution passionnante développement énergétique,
calcolare orizzonti geometriche persuasioni valido pointillismo simbolismo espressionismo caleidoscopio sogni risposte pazzo moderni ostacoli arrabbiare nemici nemici,
διακεκομμένες μεταφορές φλογερά σύμβολα δυσάρεστες διαδρομές δυσανεξίες αντανακλάσεις που ταξιδεύουν μουσικό υπόβαθρο ξεχωριστό αισθησιακό μέσο,
不安な形が遠くに浮かび上がる奇妙な表面空間的な深さ視覚的な混合的な印象平行な縞模様の同化激しい急いで触れるアート.
Steve.D.Hammond.
Zinnien stammen ursprünglich aus Mexiko, wo sie schon vor der Ankunft der Spanier von den Azteken kultiviert wurden. Heute gehören ihre leuchtenden Blüten zu jedem Sommerblumenbeet. Eine Augenweide im Garten und als Strauß! Ihrer Heimat entsprechend, zeichnen sie sich durch eine hohe Hitze- und Trockenheitsverträglichkeit aus und dienen oftmals Schmetterlingen als willkommene Nektarpflanze. Außerdem können Zinnien zur Abwehr von Nematoden, auch Fadenwürmer genannt, zwischen Tomaten gepflanzt werden.
Ich hatte im Frühjahr 10 Pflanzen auf dem Wochenmarkt gekauft. Nun blühen sie der Reihe nach auf und siehe da: weiß, gelb, rosa, pink, korallenrot... mein Blumenbeet leuchtet in allen Farben!
Tintoretto (Jacopo Robusti - Venice 1518 - 1594) - Jewish Passover (1587) - oil on canvas, 265 x 370 cm. - Scuola Grande di San Rocco - Campo San Rocco - District of San Polo Venice
Robusta composizione per questo merci di auto da San Nicola di Melfi a Foggia qui ripreso, nei pressi di Ascoli Satriano alle ultime luci del giorno.
Timmallallie National Park, NSW, Australia
Contact me on jono_dashper@hotmail.com for use of this image.
---- procession of Holy Agate, Catania (Sicily). On February 4th: the procession makes the so-called "external tour" which touches some places of martyrdom of the young Saint Agate in the Catania city. On February 5th: he procession take place along the "aristocrat path", which runs along the main street of Catania, Etnea street, the parlor of Catania. On this day the devotees carry on their shoulders long candles of varying thickness, while the "candlemas" anticipate with their passage the arrival of the float of Saint Agatha. ----
---- processione di Sant'Agata, Catania (Sicilia). Il 4 febbraio: il corteo compie il cosiddetto "giro esterno" che tocca alcuni luoghi del martirio della giovane "Santuzza Agata" nella città catanese. Il 5 febbraio: il corteo avanza lungo via Etnea, la principale strada di Catania, in questo giorno i devoti porteranno in spalla ceri di tutte le misure, che verranno accesi all’imbrunire, anticipando, insieme al passaggio delle “candelore” l’arrivo della vara di Sant’Agata. -----
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In the city of Catania (Sicily) in occasion of the feast of her patron Saint Agatha, which took place on the 3, 4 and 5 February (this dates commemorates the martyrdom of the young Saint), and on 17 August too (this date celebrates the return to Catania of her remains, after these had been transferred to Constantinople by the Byzantine general Maniaces as war booty, and there remained for 86 years), when the Sicilian city is dressed up to feast, with a scent of orange blossom and mandarins, and its citizens show that they possess an extraordinary love and bond with the young martyr saint Agatha.
The religious sicilian feast of Saint Agatha is the most important feast of Catania, its inhabitants from five centuries, during the three days of the feast in honor of her "Santuzza" (young Saint), create a unique setting, with celebrations and rituals impressive, which means that this event is regarded as the third religious festival in the world (some say the second ...) after the "Semana Santa" in Seville and the "Corpus Christi" in Cuzco, Peru. Unlike other religious holidays, more sober, to Sant'Agata highlights a vocation exuberant typical of the south Italy, who loves to combine the sacred with the profane.
The cult of the young Santa dates back to the third century, when the teenager Agatha was martyred for refusing the roman proconsul Quintiziano. One year after the death of the young Agatha, on 5 February of the year 252, his virginal veil was carried in procession, and it is said it was able to save Catania from destruction due to a devastating eruption of Mount Etna.
The festivities begin with the procession of the "Candlemas", that are giant Baroque wooden "candlesticks" paintings in gold, each representing an ancient guild (butchers, fishmongers, grocers, greengrocers, etc.), which are brought by eight devotees; the candlemas anticipate the arrival of the "float" of Saint Agatha during the procession. Devotees, men and women, wearing a traditional garment similar to a white bag, cinched at the waist by a black rope, gloves and a white handkerchief, and a black velvet cap, and it seems that such clothing evoke nightgown with the qule the Catanese, awakened with a start by the touch of the bells of the Cathedral, welcomed the naval port, in 1126, the relics of the Holy which fell from Constantinople. On float, consisting of a silver chariot sixteenth of thirty tons, which is driven by a double and long line of devotees with the robust and long ropes, takes place the bust of Saint Agatha, completely covered with precious stones and jewels. On February 4, the parade celebrates the so-called "external path" that touches some places of martyrdom in the city of Catania; the next day, the 5 instead the procession along the "aristocrat path", which runs along the main street, Via Etnea, the parlor of Catania. On this day the devotees carry on their shoulders the long candles of varying thickness, there are some not very big, others are fairly heavy, but some skim exceptional weights.
I am posting here, on Flickr, photographs taken during the two days of February 4 and 5 of this year 2023.
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Nella città di Catania (Sicilia) in occasione della festa della sua giovane santa patrona Agata, che ha avuto luogo come ogni anno il 3, il 4 ed il 5 di febbraio (questa data commemora il martirio della Santa giovinetta), festa che viene ripetuta anche il 17 agosto (questa data rievoca il ritorno a Catania delle sue spoglie, dopo che queste erano state trasferite a Costantinopoli da parte del generale bizantino Maniace come bottino di guerra, spoglie che ivi rimasero per 86 anni); per questa occasione la città siciliana è vestita a festa con profumi di fiori d'arancio e mandarini, coi suoi cittadini che mostrano di possedere uno straordinario amore e legame con la giovane martire Agata.
Gli abitanti di Catania, oramai da cinque secoli, nei tre giorni della festa in onore della "Santuzza", danno vita ad una scenografia unica, con celebrazioni e riti imponenti, che fanno si che questo evento sia considerato come la terza festa religiosa al mondo (qualcuno dice la seconda ...) dopo la "Semana Santa" di Siviglia ed il "Corpus Domini" a Cuzco, in Perù. A differenza di altre feste religiose, più sobrie, quella di Sant'Agata mette in luce una vocazione esuberante tipica del meridione, che ama unire il sacro col profano.
Il culto della giovane Santa risale al terzo secolo, quando l'adolescente Agata fu martirizzata per aver rifiutato il proconsole romano Quintiziano. Un anno dopo la morte della giovane Agata, avvenuta il 5 febbraio dell'anno 252, il suo velo virginale venne portato in processione, e si narra esso riuscì a salvare Catania dalla sua distruzione a causa di una devastante eruzione del vulcano Etna.
I festeggiamenti iniziano con il corteo delle "candelore", le quali sono dei giganteschi e pesanti "candelabri" in legno, in stile barocco, dipinti in oro, ognuna rappresentante una antica corporazione (macellai, pescivendoli, pizzicagnoli, fruttivendoli, ecc.), che vengono portati da otto devoti: esse anticipano l'arrivo della "vara" di Sant'Agata durante la processione. I devoti, sia donne che uomini, indossano un tipico indumento simile ad un sacco bianco, stretto in vita da una cordicella nera, guanti ed un fazzoletto bianchi, ed infine una papalina di velluto nero, sembra che tale abbigliamento rievochi la camicia da notte con la quale i Catanesi, svegliatisi di soprassalto dal tocco improvviso delle campane del Duomo, accolsero al porto navale, nel 1126, le reliquie della Santa che rientravano da Costantinopoli. Sulla vara, costituita da un carro argentato cinquecentesco di trenta quintali, trainata da una doppia e lunghissima fila di devoti tramite delle robuste e lunghe funi, prende posto il busto di Sant'Agata, completamente ricoperto di pietre preziose e gioielli. Il 4 febbraio, il corteo compie il cosiddetto "giro esterno" che tocca alcuni luoghi del martirio nella città catanese; il giorno dopo, il 5, il corteo percorre il "giro aristocratico", che percorre la strada principale, la via Etnea, salotto buono di Catania. In questo giorno i devoti portano in spalla dei lunghi ceri di vario spessore, ce ne sono alcuni non molto grossi, altri sono discretamente pesanti, ma alcuni sfiorano pesi eccezionali.
Io sto postando qui, su Flickr, fotografie realizzate nelle due giornate del 4, e del 5 febbraio di quest'anno 2023.
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Festa S. Agata ‘23 - Catania. Uscita Trionfale 04.02.2023
Festa S. Agata ‘23 - Catania. Emozionante Svelata prima della messa dell’Aurora
Festa S. Agata ‘23 - Catania. Momenti della lunga notte dei Devoti di S . Agata
Sant'Agata 2017 - I Ceri dei Devoti
I ceri di Sant'Agata - Elena Fichera 2015
Festa di S. Agata 2013 - La notte del 5 febbraio
Festa S. Agata ‘23 - Catania. La Carrozza del Senato
La Salita Dei Cappuccini, come non l'avete mai vista! - Sant'Agata 2019
SANT’AGATA 2018 | SALITA DI SAN GIULIANO | CATANIA
SANT’AGATA 2023 | RIENTRO DI SANT’AGATA IN CATTEDRALE | 6 FEBBRAIO CATANIA
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Troppa Grazia | Trailer Ufficiale Italiano HD
I Cani - Nascosta in piena vista
Troppa Grazia | Clip 2 "Sono qui per te"
Troppa Grazia: Hadas Yaron e Gianni Zanasi - Intervista Esclusiva
Troppa Grazia | Clip 1 "WhatsApp"
Troppa Grazia: Elio Germano e Alba Rohrwacher - Intervista Esclusiva
Lucia's Grace' ('Troppa Grazia'): Film Review | Cannes 2018
Troppa Grazia | Clip "Patatine"
Troppa Grazia | Clip Extra "Respect"
Troppa Grazia | Clip Extra "Fritto"
Troppa Grazia | Clip "Codice Orange"
Troppa Grazia | Clip 4 "Ti invidio"
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Robust und nachhaltig.
Der neue Autosalon befindet sich hier: www.galleryofsteelfigures.com/berlin/de/
Scrap metal: robust and sustainable.
a large, robust warbler commonly found in dense reed beds along freshwater bodies such as lakes, rivers, marshes, and canals. It favors tall stands of common reed (Phragmites australis) for nesting and foraging, often choosing territories with a mix of open water and dense vegetation. These reed beds offer both concealment from predators and abundant insect prey, which the bird relies on during the breeding season. The species is highly territorial, with males singing loudly from exposed reed stems to defend their nesting sites and attract mates.
In terms of distribution, the great reed warbler breeds across a wide range of Europe and western Asia, extending from southern Scandinavia and central Europe through eastern Europe into parts of the Middle East and Central Asia. Its breeding range corresponds closely to the availability of large wetland habitats. Unlike many other reed-dwelling warblers, the great reed warbler is a long-distance migrant, wintering in sub-Saharan Africa, particularly in tropical and southern regions. Migration takes place in two main phases: birds leave European breeding grounds in late summer or early autumn and return in spring. These migrations are extensive, and individuals often travel thousands of kilometers between breeding and wintering sites, demonstrating strong site fidelity and a reliance on intact stopover habitats along their migratory routes.
Tintoretto (Jacopo Robusti 1519 - 1594) - Adoration of the Magi (1538-1539) - Madrid, Museo Nacional del Prado - Exhibition of the young Tintoretto Academy Gallery - Venice
Truly robust, hearty and heavily built, this cap fully 10" (25cm) across, while the girth of it's stem as thick as my forearm. Attached ring, perhaps double, showing how and where the cap was coupled to the stem, in early stages.
A magnificent autumn dweller of the spruce woods, I have no idea of it's identification, other than to guess it is in the Russula family, a family of... thousands.
My best guess is Catathelasma ventricosa.... or Catathelasma imperialis, 'king of mushrooms'. A grand moniker for this hefty beauty.
(the following links from www.mushroomexpert.com)