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“Desde el pueblo nassa tenemos expectativas grandes de esperanza, de esperanza por la vida, por la paz, por el territorio y, sobre todo, por la defensa de nuestra madre tierra, porque para nosotros la madre tierra es a la que tenemos que defender mucho más. Por eso, debemos protegerla y proteger mucho a los defensores de esta vida”. Esas fueron las palabras de Alcides Muse, indígena de la comunidad nassa del Cauca, quien participó en el primer Puesto de Mando Unificado (PMU) por la Vida del Gobierno del presidente Gustavo Petro.
En este PMU, que contó con la participación y el compromiso de la ministra de Ambiente y Desarrollo Sostenible, Susana Muhamad, el Gobierno Nacional escuchó a diferentes comunidades indígenas, afrodescendientes y campesinas del Cauca, escenario en el que le presentó al país el plan de emergencia para la protección de los líderes y defensores ambientales.
“Veinte líderes sociales ambientales del Magdalena Medio fueron amenazados por oponerse al fracking, 17 funcionarios de Parques Nacionales Naturales fueron asesinados durante la última década. Por eso, como ministra de Ambiente hago presencia en este PMU. Vamos a aportar de formas concretas: mapeando los conflictos socioambientales en todo el país, trabajando para ampliar la democracia ambiental, como también alertando situaciones especiales de colectivos que defienden el ambiente”, afirmó la jefe de la cartera ambiental.
Asimismo, la ministra Muhamad resaltó el compromiso del Gobierno para la pronta ratificación del Acuerdo de Escazú: “Queremos que los actores ambientales tengan un canal para ejercer la democracia ambiental que, además, se debe profundizar con la ratificación del Acuerdo de Escazú en el Congreso. Lo que estamos haciendo hoy aquí, aporta a ese avance del acuerdo, aunque no haya sido aprobado”.
El plan de emergencia cuenta con siete ejes y priorizará sus acciones en 65 municipios y seis capitales: Barranquilla, Bucaramanga, Cali, Medellín, Popayán y Santa Marta.
La estrategia, que se ajustará a las distintas realidades territoriales, dinámicas de la violencia, fuentes de riesgo, conflictos socioambientales, entre otros factores, trabajará en la presencia territorial del Estado y el acompañamiento de la comunidad internacional, en la acción preventiva y estratégica de la fuerza pública en terreno y en medidas de justicia y contra la impunidad.
El Puesto de Mando Unificado por la Vida también contó con la participación del ministro del Interior, Alfonso Prada; el alto comisionado para la Paz, Danilo Rueda; el presidente del Congreso de la República, Roy Barreras, y el defensor del Pueblo, Carlos Camargo, entre otros funcionarios del Gobierno Nacional, líderes de las comunidades, alcaldes y miembros de las fuerzas de seguridad del Estado. / Ago. 20, 2022. (Fotografía Oficial Ministerio de Ambiente y Desarrollo Sostenible / Juan Fernando Betancourt).
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Took tons of pictures of my friend Allison and her husband Jeff this weekend. She is expecting twins in about 6 weeks! Lots of processing to do. This is the first one I think I have fairly close to "done".
Strobist: borrowed studio strobe with shoot-through umbrella camera right, angled about 45 degrees down and in front of them. Reflector just out of frame camera left by their heads to fill in shadows around the necks.
A woman eagerly expects her date/friend/boss? inside a busy street-side restaurant, Paris, France.
Nikon D300 with 80-200mm f/2.8
I keep expecting to see Gandalf striding along with his staff, with little Hobbits scurrying after him!
Wasn't expecting to see these in Dover today!, and these vehicles are newly aquired by J.D. Smiths Coaching of Challock near Assford, with the Rare Porto? Coach aquired from Carr's Coaches of Pluckley also near Assford, and they had brought School Groups to Dover Castle which is now open again daily except Mondays.
And be sure to check by my other acount: www.flickr.com/photos_user.gne?path=&nsid=77145939%40..., to see what else I saw Very Recently!!
Sagrada Família Barcelona, Spain - situation 2017
Construction of the Temple Expiatori de la Sagrada Família began in 1882. The temple is still under construction, with completion expected in 2026. It is perhaps the best known structure of Catalan Modernism, drawing over three million visitors annually. Architect Antoni Gaudi worked on the project until his death in 1926, in full anticipation he would not live to see it finished.
Gaudi was appointed architect in 1883 at 31 years of age, following disagreements between the temple’s promoters and the original architect, Francisco de Paula del Villar y Lozano. He maintained del Villar’s Latin cross plan, typical of Gothic cathedrals, but departed from the Gothic in several significant ways. Most notably, Gaudi developed a system of angled columns and hyperbolical vaults to eliminate the need for flying buttresses. Rather than relying on exterior elements, horizontal loads are transferred through columns on the interior. La Sagrada Familia utilizes three-dimensional forms comprised of ruled surfaces, including hyperboloids, parabolas, helicoids, and conoids. These complex shapes allow for a thinner, finer structure, and are intended to enhance the temple’s acoustics and quality of light. Gaudi used plaster models to develop the design, including a 1:10 scale model of the main nave measuring five meters in height and width by two meters in depth. He also devised a system of strings and weights suspended from a plan of the temple on the ceiling. From this inverted model he derived the necessary angles of the columns, vaults, and arches. This is evident in the slanted columns of the Passion facade, which recall tensile structures but act in compression.
Gaudi embedded religious symbolism in each aspect of La Sagrada Familia, creating a visual representation of Christian beliefs. He designed three iconic facades for the basilica, the Glory, Nativity, and Passion facades, facing south, east, and west, respectively. The sculpting of the Nativity facade recalls smooth, intricate corbelling and was overseen by Gaudi. The Passion Facade is characterized by the work of Josep Maria Subirachs, whose angular sculptures extend the modernist character of the temple. The sculptor Etsuro Sotoo is responsible for the window ornaments and finials, which symbolize the Eucharist. The central nave soars to a height of 45 meters, and is designed to resemble a forest of multi-hued piers in Montjuïc and granite. The piers change in cross section from base to terminus, increasing in number of vertices from polygonal to circular. The slender, bifurcating columns draw the eye upward, where light filters through circular apertures in the vaults. These are finished in Venetian glass tiles of green and gold, articulating the lines of the hyperboloids.
Once completed, La Sagrada Familia will feature eighteen towers. Four bell towers representing the Apostles crown each facade, reaching approximately 100 meters in height. At the north end, a tower representing the Virgin Mary will stand over the apse. The central tower will reach 72 meters in height and symbolize Christ, surrounded by four towers representing the Evangelists. Even as construction continues, older portions are undergoing cleaning and restoration. The temple has relied entirely on private donations since its inception, and has seen many delays due to lack of funding. A particularly significant setback occurred during the Spanish Civil War, when Gaudi’s workshop was destroyed, including much of the documentation he left behind. Subsequent generations of craftsman and architects have relied on the remaining drawings and plaster models to advance the project, adhering to Gaudi’s vision as closely as possible. As a result, the design of the temple is a collaboration spanning centuries. Gaudi himself viewed the project as the collective work of generations. "I will grow old but others will come after me. What must always be conserved is the spirit of the work, but its life has to depend on the generations it is handed down to and with whom it lives and is incarnated."
In recent decades, La Sagrada Familia has adopted contemporary digital design and construction technologies. Architects and craftsmen use Rhinoceros, Cadds5, Catia, and CAM to understand the complex geometries and visualize the building as a whole. Plaster models are still used as a design tool, now generated by a 3-D printer to accelerate the process.
Architect: Antoni Gaudi
Present Chief Architect: Jordi Fauli
Former Chief Architects: Jordi Bonet, Francesc de Paula Quintana i Vidal, Isidre Puig i Boada, Lluís Bonet i Garí, , Francesc de Paula del Villar y Lozano
Deputy Chief Architects: Carles Buxadé, Joan Margarit, Josep Gómez Serrano
Technical Consultants: Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology
Project Department: Jordi Coll, Andrés de Mesa
Sculptors: Etsuro Sotoo, Josep Maria Subirachs
Stained Glass: Joan Vila-Grau
Area: 4.500 m2
These are my personal notes taken during a geology presentation. I give them here because they may be of some interest. Do not expect the notes to always be in complete sentences, etc.
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Mammals and the Cretaceous-Tertiary Mass Extinction
Presented by: John Hunter (Department of Evolution, Ecology, and Organismal Biology, Ohio State University at Newark, Newark, Ohio, USA) (newark.osu.edu/directory/hunter-john.html)
22 May 2012
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There are 3 groups of mammals today: monotremes, marsupials, and placentals.
The monotremes are the duck-billed platypus and the echidna. They were widespread across Gondwana in the past. They are now restricted to Australasia.
Marsupials are in Australasia and in North America today.
There are 20 or so orders of placental mammals, living and extinct.
Placentals include primates, which turn out to be related to bats and flying lemurs. Placentals also include the ungulates - the hoofed mammals. The ungulates are an artificial group - they consist of 3 separate groups, actually.
Whales turn out to be in the Artiodactyla.
Mammals have been around since the Late Triassic. A Middle Triassic busted-up mammal braincase has been found in southwestern USA. Well-preserved mammal fossils start in the Late Triassic. Mammals diversify after the Cretaceous. Modern placental orders go to near the base of the Paleocene. Marsupials and monotremes do go into the Cretaceous.
Early mammals include:
Morganucodonts (Late Triassic to Early Jurassic) - they are stem mammals. They have teeth with cusps that slide past each other. These mammals were likely insectivores (insect eaters).
Docodonts (Late Triassic-Late Jurassic) - they have broad, crushing teeth and were likely frugivores (fruit eaters). Their bodies ranged from small & shrew-like to beaver-sized.
Australosphenids (stem monotremes) - they are known from across Gondwana - Australia, Madagascar, South America.
Eutriconodonts (Jurassic-Cretaceous) - bigger & badder mammals, up to ~possum-sized.
Multituberculates (Jurassic-Eocene) - “rodents” of the Mesozoic, although they wouldn’t be mistaken for living rodents. These mammals had cheek teeth with cusps in multiple rows, like a modern rodent molar. Multituberculate mammals had splayed-out-to-the-side limbs. They could reverse their hind feet to hang from tress, like squirrels today.
Stem eutherians (Jurassic-Cretaceous)
Mammals in the Mesozoic were not ecologically dominant - they were small-bodied, nocturnal, and had a small biomass compared with the archosaurs/dinosaurs.
After the Cretaceous-Tertiary extinction, there was a survivorship period in the mammals.
Survivors of the extinction included marsupials (they were in & are still in North America) and multituberculates. The multituberculate mammals persisted until the Eocene, when rodents migrated into North America from Asia. The rodents probably outcompeted the multituberculates.
Mammals diversified in the Paleogene-Neogene.
The Cretaceous-Tertiary transition (K-T) had the greatest number of originations per unit species and the greatest number of extinctions per unit species - lots of turnover.
Mammal body sizes increased through time. The largest single increase occurred at the Cretaceous-Tertiary. After that, there was continued increase in mammal body sizes through the Cenozoic.
See Schulte et al. (2010) - Science 327(1214).
There was a large impact in the Gulf of Mexico, at the Yucatan Peninsula, at 65.5 million years ago - now the Chicxulub Impact Crater. The timing of the impact corresponds with extinction of Cretaceous-only species of plants and animals, and corresponds with a sudden spike in iridium (Ir) in Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary sediments, and also corresponds with a δ13C excursion.
The iridium spike and extinction event also correspond with periods of volcanism in India - the Deccan Traps. Imagine an area the size of Texas suddenly being filled with lava, with lots of poison gases being released. There were multiple episodes of Deccan Traps volcanism - not all of them correspond with the extinction horizon.
Deccan Traps volcanism could have caused the Cretaceous-Tertiay mass extinction, some say.
Others say Deccan Traps volcanism did not cause the mass extinction.
Close to Chicxulub, boundary sections have dozens of meters thick tsunami deposits - very coarse grained sediments - formed quickly and dewatered quickly.
Far away from Chicxulub, for example at Agost, Spain, the boundary section is quite thin.
See Archibald et al. (2010) - Science 328 (21 May 2010). This paper says that the Cretaceous-Tertiary mass extinction had multiple causes - impact + volcanism + marine regression + climate change.
Early Paleocene first appearances of mammals include Purgatorius (Plesiadapiformes) - a primate that possibly goes into the Cretaceous (based on one tooth in a probably-contaminated fossil washing screen) - and Protungulatum (Condylarthra) - now known in the Cretaceous.
John Hunter does mammal fossil field work in southwestern North Dakota, in the Williston Basin. The area has Paleocene- and Cretaceous-aged sedimentary rocks. The contact in the area potentially has Cretaceous-Tertiary fossil records. The area is mostly rangelands/grasslands. It’s usually only the river valleys that have adequate rock exposures, such as along the Yellowstone River and the Little Missouri River, etc. Going north in this field area, one encounters younger sites. Going south in this field area, one encounters older sites.
The area has outcrops of Hell Creek Formation (upper Upper Cretaceous) - it contains dinosaurs + lots of mammal sites. Above that is the Fort Union Group (Paleocene) - its has lots of mammal sites.
Marine rocks occur below the Hell Creek Fm. Marine rocks also come in from the east during the Paleocene - there’s a regression to Hudson Bay in the Middle Paleocene.
In the field, the Hell Creek Fm. outcrops have drab gray colors. Above that, the Fort Union Group outcrops are colored tan + gray.
The Pioneer Trails Region Museum in Bowman, North Dakota has a paleontology curator, Dean Pearson. John Hunter works with him, plus Joe Hartman (works on invertebrate fossils), Dan Peppe (works on fossil plants & paleomagnetic analysis), Antoine Bercovici (works on fossil pollen), and others.
The asteroid layer is a tonstein at the Cretaceous-Tertiary (K-T) boundary in some sections - iridium has been identified in these sections. A good K-T section occurs at Mud Buttes, North Dakota - it has shocked quartz + a pollen change + an iridium spike + spherules.
Sandstone channels can cut out parts of these sections, including the K-T transition. So, the K-T asteroid layer is not found everywhere.
Mammal fossils: mostly isolated teeth + jaw fragments.
See Hunter (1999) - North Dakota Academy of Science.
See Pearson et al. (2002) - Geological Society of America Special Paper 361.
There is very little ecological change in Hell Creek Formation fossils through time. There is no evidence of dinosaurs (or other groups) declining.
At one locality, <1 meter above the K-T boundary, lenses of sediments have the earliest mammals and plants recovered from the post-Cretaceous - these are “day after” biotas. They are the closest-to-the-Cretaceous biotas of Paleocene age identified so far.
The Hell Creek Fm.-Fort Union Group contact is arbitrary - it’s placed at a mappable coal bed. This is somewhat correlative with the Z Coal. “Z Coal” is a term used in eastern Montana - the coal bed splits and joins. The formation contact (= coal bed) is within 1 to 0.5 meters of the iridium spike. So, the “Z Coal” and the iridium spike are pretty close.
Bercovici et al. (2009) - Cretaceous Research.
Floras have been also recovered in these close-to-the-Cretaceous sands.
The fossil record looked at just above the K-T is environmentally sensitive.
Wilkening locality - 5341 fossil vertebrate specimens were recovered (mostly fish, but some mammals, too). The fossils were retrieved by screening/sieving. A freshwater ponding event occurred after K-T at this locality. Found a new species of Mesodma, a multituberculate mammal. Got archaic placental mammals and archaic ungulates. The site is dominated by one species of multituberculate - Mesodma. This animal was 80% of the mammal fauna at the Wilkening locality.
Seeing a surge in multituberculate mammals in the transitional period between the Late Cretaceous and the Early Paleocene. The multituberculates were an opportunistic group following the K-T extinction event. Also seeing a fern spore spike just above K-T. This is the first time a spike in mammals has been found after the K-T.
At other sites, reports of increased numbers of mammals after K-T were dubious - there was often evidence of reworking - hundreds or thousands of years of time may have been compressed, including through the boundary. This will disproportionately represent forms that go extinct.
The Wilkening locality is the first confident occurrence of a multituberculate mammal site after the K-T boundary.
Also looked at Merle’s Mecca locality - dates to ~100,000 years after the K-T (= Eary Paleocene). It is more diverse that the Wilkening locality, in terms of mammal fossils. The mammals at Merle’s Mecca are also more derived.
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The exterior of the new station building at Oxford Parkway. This station is expected to become an important railhead for towns and villages to the north and west of Oxford, and even from parts of Oxford itself - there was evidence on the first day that people were using the frequent no. 2 buses from Kidlington and Summertown, which pass by on the adjacent Banbury Road, to access the station instead of struggling into central Oxford.
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Chiltern Railways commenced its much-anticipated new service between London Marylebone and Oxford Parkway on Monday 26th October, a few weeks later than originally planned.
The route makes use of a new curve at Bicester, rebuilt stations at Bicester Town (now renamed Bicester Village) and Islip, and a completely new station at Oxford Parkway, adjacent to the former Water eaton Park-and-Ride site in North Oxford (which has been renamed). Trains will run into Oxford itself sometime in Spring 2016, completing what is being heralded as the first new rail link between London and another major UK city for over 100 years.
05.09
Sometimes you can't really expect people to just get things like it's their second nature. I know I'm guilty of that with some things in life. It just hurts a little sometimes when you feel like you aren't really a priority.
So what do you do?
Make yourself your own priority.
Damn, I'm slowly getting so pessimistic about these kind of things and trying to rely more on myself to just stay happy.
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It was an afternoon out with Jen :). Just us two. Which we haven't done in SO SO long. We had a long talk and caught up at Half and Half then went to Target to grab some "shtuff". That was mainly it, but trust me, we took forever doing just those two things, haha. It felt good. Thank you Jen :))... you gave me the laughs, hahaha.
Other than that, my day sorta turned to poo when my night plans fell through. Then I just waited. And waited.
Maybe I was a bit impatient. But come to think about it, I shouldn't have really waited in the first place.
These images are of my friend visiting her mother at Hospice. Her mother has cancer. We thought it would be nice to include her in some maternity photos.
The last thing we expected to see at Gunnedah, a small country town 1 hr west of Tamworth, is a TV celebrity. Tom Williams in Gunnedah to do a story for "The Great Outdoors" because Gunnedah is known as the "koala capital". Frankly I believe that koalas are not really common and I've yet to see more than 6 different koalas in my 3yrs of going on the summer mission there.
The Postcard
A postally unused postcard that was published by C. Richter (Publishers) ltd. of London NW6. The artwork was by Trow, and the card has a divided back.
Trow
"Trow" has been claimed as the pseudonym of Frank Eric Smith, who was born in Salisbury on the 2nd. March 1908, and who lived most of his life in Dorset and Wiltshire. He died on the 5th. October 1985.
According to Smith's family, he drew many seaside postcards in the late 40's and early 50's, and derived his pseudonym from 'Trowbridge', the county town of Wiltshire.
However, Smith claimed to have stopped drawing in 1952, whilst new cards signed "Trow" continued to appear in large numbers until the late 1960's.
It seems that the cards prosecuted by the DPP for indecency in the 1950's were in fact drawn by Thomas Trow (1909-1971) of Stoke on Trent, whose address appears on the reverse of surviving artwork, as the Greyfriars Art Studio.
“You expected to be sad in the fall. Part of you died each year when the leaves fell from the trees and their branches were bare against the wind and the cold, wintery light. But you knew there would always be the spring, as you knew the river would flow again after it was frozen. When the cold rains kept on and killed the spring, it was as though a young person died for no reason.”
― Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast
Seneca Forest North Virginia - Fall of 2013
November 20, 2013
(Not As You Would Expect) Fairy Tales on the Fourth Plinth (One and Other) performance art in Trafalgar Square, London.
Once upon a time, there was a little princess, who sat upon a big stone plinth in the square and told deliciously dark fairy tales, just because everybody likes storytime
in the afternoon. She took her dearest companion, Mr Teddy, with his very best black satin bow, and wore her favourite green taffeta party dress, and had a nice cup
of tea and some ginger beer.
Miss Leanna (From The One and Other site - edited)
Okay, I'll admit, I'm not trying to be something I'm clearly not, and that is a portrait photographer.
I have a very hard time shooting people. I'm great at meeting people, talking to people and mingling, but I'm not good at working with people who want their photos taken.
Luckily, this is my wife and the pressure was off....somewhat!
I was hoping to marry my passion for landscape photography, something I know, with taking a photo of a person, something I don't know and get a respectable outcome.
I have to admit I'm pretty happy with these for my experience. I left the pose up to her as she knew what she wanted.
Expecting mother with the Accredited Social Health Activist (ASHA) - a type of community health worker in India - who accompanied her to the facility for an antenatal care visit. Urban Primary Health Center (UPHC), Ambapua, Berhampur.
Photo Credit: Mubeen Siddiqui/MCSP
Gee, thanks Tips!
Steeles Avenue on the northern border of Toronto is being resurfaced this summer. A stretch of my commute that normally takes 5 minutes suddenly takes 25 minutes. Fortunately there are alternatives.
I love the addition to the sign "O Snap, What of my dentist" :)
expected overlaps
Choreografie: Mario Heinemann Jaillet
Tänzerin: Gaëlle Morello
Darsteller: Nicolas Menze
Puppenspieler: Werner Ries
Licht: Norbert Mohr
Koordination: Sophie Jaillet Heinemann
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Photos: Günter Krämmer
Sunshine + nice temperatures all over Berlin and the Tempelhof Airport. Another great day of music and energy is expected at the Berlin Festival with Alfa Romeo
wasnt expecting too much but was impressed by how this place was laid out and the assortment of artifacts inside. I had hoped this building was the original Fort Pierce railroad station but was told it is only a replica.
Wayne Rooney expecting third child with Coleen: Wayne Rooney and his wife Coleen are expecting their third child. That made the couple Wednesday evening known via Twitter.
“Overjoyed that I and @ColeenRoo our third child on the way,” wrote the English footballer. His wife tweeted: &...
celebbee.com/wayne-rooney-expecting-third-child-with-coleen/