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Este site dedica-se às aves e a relação com o Homem. O canto do Canário Timbrado, Canário Harz Roller, do canário Malinois e outros canários.. O objectivo de site é contar as aventuras e os arcos de descobertas relacionados com Homem e as aves. This site is dedicated to birds.singing canaries song,canaries,canaries de chant. carmelita=carmelo=jardim
30 de setembro de 2013
El Arte de Vivir el Flamenco con Maria Moreno Pérez
Maria Moreno Pérez, Natural de Cádiz Baila por Tarantos en las pruebas selectivas del Festival Internacional del Cante de las Minas celebradas 17 de julio 2013 en la terraza del Hotel Príncipe Felipe, en la Manga Club Cartagena (Murcia)
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Chi ri bi ri bi - Joselito
4.-Qué es música?
De acuerdo con el Diccionario de la Real Academia de la Lengua Española, podemos decir que la música es el arte de combinar los sonidos con el tiempo, de modo que produzca deleite el escucharlos, conmoviendo la sensibilidad del oyente. Los tres elementos esenciales de la música son: ritmo, melodía, armonía.
5.- Cualidades de la música.
Ritmo: No conviene olvidar que la música está compuesta por sonidos, y que, por tanto, en este aspecto está sujeta a las leyes del mismo y que en relación con los elementos esenciales de la música, diremos que el ritmo musical viene determinado por el orden y la proporción en el tiempo. El ritmo nace del deseo innato de la mente humana de encontrar un orden en todo cuanto percibe, así en la danza, regulando el movimiento; en la poesía, mediante la escritura métrica y los adecuados acentos; y en la música agrupando sistemáticamente sonidos sucesivos. El ritmo existió ya en los tantanes de las tribus salvajes, mucho antes de que brotara la música.
La relación entre ambos se dio cuando advino la armonía y la melodía, es decir, el ritmo precedió a la melodía, en tanto que ésta antecedió a la armonía como fruto de la lógica evolución. Por tanto, el ritmo se basa en la duración de los sonidos y se manifiesta en lo que denominamos compás. No obstante ello, no hay que confundir el ritmo con el compás, ya que una unidad rítmica puede abarcar un solo compás o varios. El compás es una unidad de notación elegida por el compositor según sus conveniencias.
La aparición del compás constituyó una necesidad técnica para conjugar a los ejecutantes, pues merced a él se percibió la realidad incontestable del ritmo y prevaleció la idea de que era fundamental conferirle una regularidad absoluta.
Melodía: es el elemento de la música que consiste en la sucesión de sonidos diversos unidos entre sí y en su conjunto con sentido musical, es decir, que en la melodía enlazan entre sí los sonidos con diferente intensidad, entonación y duración, creando música.
Armonía: es el elemento musical que consiste en la combinación de sonidos simultáneos y diferentes, pero en acordes. La diferencia entre armonía y melodía radica, fundamentalmente, en que en la melodía los sonidos se suceden uno tras otro y en la armonía los sonidos se superponen, por lo que el canario al cantar crea melodía, mientras que le corresponde al conjunto de pájaros el hacer armonía.
6.- Cantar.
En puntos anteriores se ha hecho mención al verbo cantar y podemos decir, sencillamente, que cantar es emitir con los órganos de la voz una serie de sonidos modulados.
Doce Cascabeles - Joselito
1.4. Cascabel.
El Cascabel es un giro de ritmo semicontinuo, timbre o sonoridad metálica y texto fonético limitado compuesto por las consonantes "L" y "N" y la vocal "I" (ej.: linlinlinlin... ). Se trata al igual que el timbre de agua, de un timbre especializado, si bien en el caso del cascabel, la personalidad propia como giro se la otorga su sonoridad metálica - acampanillada, que hace que el sonido de esta variación nos recuerde al del instrumento del que, precisamente, toma el nombre o al de una pequeña campanilla. La especial sonoridad acampanillada la otorga la consonante final "N".
VALOR POSITIVO: Hasta 9 Puntos.
24 de setembro de 2013
Prémio José Afonso 2013 - Quatro ao Sul são os vencedores
O júri do Prémio José Afonso 2013, composto pelo Vereador da Cultura da Câmara Municipal da Amadora, Dr. António Moreira, pela pianista Olga Prats, pelo compositor Sérgio Azevedo, e pela chefe da Divisão de Intervenção Cultural, Dra. Vanda Santos, deliberou atribuir o Prémio José Afonso 2013 ao álbum Demudado em tudo, primeira obra dos Quatro ao Sul.
Segundo os elementos do júri, “Demudado em tudo, primeiro álbum dos Quatro ao Sul, é uma revelação extraordinária, uma oportunidade rara de nos confrontarmos com a enorme riqueza do cante alentejano, membro de pleno direito da antiquíssima tradição das polifonias vocais da região mediterrânica, berço de civilizações. A abordagem séria e sem compromissos, o rigor da recolha e da interpretação, e a pura – quase comovente – beleza sonora deste disco mereceram, na opinião unânime do Júri, a atribuição do Prémio.”
O prémio relativo ao ano de 2013, premeia obras editadas em 2011 e 2012 e avaliou os seguintes
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Le Trio Joubran
Le Trio Joubran is an oud trio playing traditional Palestinian music. The trio consists of the brothers Samir, Wissam, and Adnan Joubran, originally from the city of Nazareth, now dividing their time between Nazareth, Ramallah and Paris. The Joubran brothers come from a well-known family with a rich artistic heritage. Their mother, Ibtisam Hanna Joubran, sang the Muwashahat at (poems that originated in Arab Spain) while their father is among the most renowned stringed-instrument makers in Israel and in the Arab world.
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Jazz anima o Douro em época de vindimas
O Festival Internacional Douro Jazz prossegue este ano «sobre rodas», fazendo circular a música pela região duriense numa edição que arranca no sábado e tem como cabeça de cartaz o americano Seamus Blake, anunciou hoje a organização.
Este festival, que é co-organizado pelos teatros de Vila Real, Bragança e Lamego, apresenta 14 concertos de palco e mais 15 actuações nas ruas e nas escolas.Será a formação "Douro Jazz Marchinh Band" que fará circular o "dixieland" em arruadas e na versão "Sobre Rodas".
A ideia é fazer circular a música jazz pela região demarcada mais antiga do mundo, que se encontra em plena vindima. Os músicos actuam em cima de uma carrinha que percorre algumas localidades da região.
Depois, há ainda sessões para o público infanto-juvenil na rubrica "O Douro Jazz Nas Escolas".
Segundo anunciou hoje a organização, Seamus Blake, que considera ser dos "mais influentes músicos de jazz americanos da última década", é o cabeça de cartaz desta 10.ª edição do festival.
Este saxofonista norte-americano será o convidado do quarteto de Filipe Melo e Bruno Santos, formação que, em associação com o Douro Jazz, foi criada há alguns anos com o intuito de acompanhar lendas do jazz que se deslocam a Portugal e, em particular, a este festival.
Pelos palcos do evento, passarão ainda o grego Spyros Manesis, que junta um baterista lituano e um contrabaixista português, e, em Hurricane, o saxofonista Rodrigo Amado junta-se ao jovem baterista Gabriel Ferrandini e ao DJ Ride.
O sexteto L.A. New Mainstream reúne o compositor e trombonista de origem alemã Lars Arens a cinco músicos de jazz portugueses e o quarteto de Isabel Ventura traz um trompetista convidado para apresentar o primeiro disco a solo da cantora.
O programa incluiu ainda actuações do britânico Mike Dawes e dos , uma formação de Vila Real que interpreta músicas do cancioneiro americano com espaço para a improvisação.
Paralelamente aos concertos, o quarteto de Filipe Melo ministrará ainda uma masterclasse para os músicos da região.
O festival termina no dia 12 de Outubro.
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15 de setembro de 2013
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Endless Fukushima catastrophe: 2020 Olympics under contamination threat
As the escape of radiation at Fukushima seems virtually unstoppable, there are still steps that governments all over the world should take to prevent worst case consequences. One of them would be canceling the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo.Scientific estimates predict that the radioactive plume travelling east across the Pacific will likely hit the shores of Oregon, Washington State and Canada early next year. California will probably be impacted later that year.Because the ongoing flow of water from the reactor site will be virtually impossible to stop, a radioactive plume will continue to migrate across the Pacific affecting Hawaii, North America, South America and eventually Australia for many decades.
We are only talking about ocean currents, however, fish swim thousands of miles and don’t necessarily follow the currents.As noted in Part I, big fish concentrate radiation most efficiently, and tuna have already been caught off the coast of California containing cesium from Fukushima. Seaweed also efficiently concentrates radioactive elements.
As I contemplate the future at Fukushima, it seems that the escape of radiation is virtually unstoppable.
The levels of radiation in buildings 1, 2 and 3 are now so high that no human can enter or get close to the molten cores. It will therefore be impossible to remove these cores for hundreds of years if ever.
Buildings 1, 2 & 3
If one of these buildings collapses, the targeted flow of cooling water to the pools and cores would cease, the cores would become red hot and possibly ignite releasing massive amounts of radiation into the air and water and the fuel in the cooling pools could ignite. It is strange that neither the US government in particular nor the global community seem to be concerned about these imminent possibilities and exhibit no urge to avert catastrophe.
Similarly the global media is strangely disconnected with the ongoing crisis. Most importantly, the Japanese government until very recently has obstinately refused to invite and collaborate with foreign experts from nuclear engineering companies and/or governments.
Building 4
This structure was severely damaged during the initial quake, its walls are bulging, and it sank 31 inches (79cm) into the ground. On the roof sits a cooling pool containing about 250 tons of hot fuel rods, most of which had just been removed from the reactor core days before the earthquake struck.This particular core did not melt because TEPCO was able maintain a continuous flow of cooling water, so the rods and their holding racks are still intact, but geometrically deformed due to the force of the hydrogen explosion.
The cooling pool contains 8,800 pounds of plutonium plus over 100 other highly radioactive isotopes. Instead of this core melting into a larval mass like the other three cores, it sits exposed to the air atop the shaky building.
A large earthquake could disrupt the integrity of the building, causing it to collapse and taking the hot fuel rods with it. The cooling water would evaporate and the intrinsic heat of the radioactive rods would ignite a fire as the zirconium cladding reacted with air, releasing the radioactive equivalent of 14,000 Hiroshima-sized bombs and 10 times more cesium than Chernobyl.
TEPCO has constructed a steel frame to strengthen the shaky building in order to place a massive crane on the roof so they can extract the hot rods by remote control.
This operation is always performed by computer and a remote manually-controlled extraction has never been attempted before. If the rods are deformed, a rod could fracture releasing so much radiation that the workers would have to evacuate or, should they touch each other, a chain reaction could release huge amounts of radiation.
I defer to Arnie Gundersen, a nuclear engineer in whom I have great faith.
He says that a 2-meter thick zeolite wall should be constructed some distance from the reactors on the mountainside, which would effectively absorb the cesium from the water surrounding the reactor cores so it could not get out and further pollute the pure water descending from the mountain.
At the same time, channels must be constructed to pump and divert the unpolluted mountain water into the sea. Then the three molten cores and their associated buildings could be immersed in concrete as the Soviets did at Chernobyl, and the situation could possibly be neutralized for about 100 years.
What our poor descendants will then decide to do with this radioactive rubbish dump is beyond my comprehension.
However, as one Japanese official said, “If we just buried them no one would look at another nuclear plant for years.” An interesting reaction, so it is perfectly obvious that despite the calamity, they still want to pursue the nuclear option.
North America and Canada the EPA should immediately start monitoring the fish routinely caught off the west coast and it must also, as a matter of urgency, establish many effective airborne monitors up and down the west coast and across the US continent, so that if there is another large release of radiation it will be effectively measured and the information rapidly passed on to the public.
The same holds true for Canada.
The US and Canadian governments must forthwith ban imported food from Japan, unless each batch is monitored for contamination, and the food grown in the US and Canada needs to be effectively monitored pending another major accident.
The US has allowed food measuring up to 1,200 Becquerels per kilo to be sold in the US from Japan, while the Japanese allowable concentration for food is only 100 Becquerels per kilo. What does the US government think it is doing purposely exposing people to radioactive food? This situation must be urgently amended.
more http://rt.com/op-edge/fukushima-catastrophe-nuclear-olympics-883/
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Conociendo Gran Canaria - Conhecendo Grande Canária
Foto: Juan R. Rodríguez Sosa
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Endless Fukushima catastrophe: Many generations’ health at stake
Bio-accumulation of radioactive elements around Fukushima will devastate many future Japanese generations, while the Pacific Ocean is also being contaminated by leaking radioactive water. Yet there is still no good solution from the Japanese government.
As I watched the tsunami power into the reactor complex at Fukushima on March 11, 2011, I realized the world would never be the same again. No nuclear reactor can withstand being drowned in a massive wave of water without catastrophic consequences.
There were three nuclear reactors undergoing fission at the time while one, unit four, had just been emptied of its radioactive core, which was now situated in an unprotected cooling pool on the roof of the building, 100 feet (30 meters) above the ground. As the power supply to the reactors was disrupted during the earthquake, and the auxiliary diesel generators in the basements of the reactors failed because they were flooded, the pumps which supplied up to 1 million gallons of cooling water to each reactor failed.
Within hours the intensely hot radioactive cores in units one, two and three started to melt. As they melted, the zirconium metal cladding on the uranium fuel rods reacted with water to produce hydrogen which exploded with overwhelming intensity in the buildings of units one, two, three and four releasing huge amounts of radioactive elements into the air.
On March 15 alone, it is estimated that 100 quadrillion Becquerels of cesium, 400 quadrillion of iodine plus 400 quadrillion of inert noble gases (xenon, krypton and argon) escaped. Over a period of time two-and-a-half to three times more noble gases were released into the air than at Chernobyl.
Noble gases are very high energy gamma emitters similar to x-rays, which penetrate human bodies externally and, when inhaled, are absorbed from the lungs and stored in fatty tissue exposing nearby organs, including the gonads, to gamma radiation. Cesium and iodine 131 are also gamma and beta emitters which enter the body by inhalation and ingestion. But over 100 other radioactive elements were also released during the weeks and months of the accident and thousands of people were exposed to clouds of radiation. The damaged reactors continue to emit radioactive airborne releases to this day.
At the time of the Fukushima accident an unprecedented quantity of highly radioactive water was also released into the Pacific Ocean. But it hasn’t stopped. TEPCO (Tokyo Electric Power Company) now admits that 300 tons of this water has been leaking into the Pacific every day since the accident 30 months ago and so far 270,000 tons of water has been released.
It is becoming apparent that the three molten cores, each weighing 120 to 130 tons have not only melted their way through 6 inches of steel in the reactor vessels, but they now either sit on concrete floors of the severely cracked containment buildings or they have melted their way into the earth itself – this, in nuclear parlance, is called ‘A Melt Through to China Syndrome’.
Because the reactor complex was built upon an ancient river bed located at the base of a mountain range, huge quantities of water flowing down from the mountains (1,000 tons daily) are circulating around these highly radioactive cores absorbing large concentrations of radioactive elements.
TEPCO constructed a type of concrete dam near the sea front to prevent this radioactive water from entering the sea. But the continuous flow of water built up behind the dam and overflowed into the Pacific Ocean. Each reactor core contains as much radiation as that released by 1,000 Hiroshima-sized bombs and contains more than 200 different radioactive elements, which variously last seconds to millions of years.
Medical implications
Water in the bay beside Fukushima is highly contaminated with tritium, which is constantly increasing in concentration and now measures 4,700 Becquerels per liter - the highest level ever recorded in seawater. Furthermore a total of 20 to 40 trillion Becquerels of tritium have now been discharged into the Pacific Ocean –a Becquerel is one disintegration of radiation per second. Tritium is radioactive hydrogen, H3. It combines with oxygen to form tritiated water HTO, which is very dangerous. It emits an electron, or beta particle which, if lodged in the body, is very energetic.Tritium combines within the DNA molecule inducing mutations. In numerous animal experiments tritium causes birth defects, cancers of various organs including brain and ovaries, and it induces testicular atrophy and mental retardation at surprisingly low doses. Tritium is organically taken up in food and is concentrated in fish, vegetables, and other food groups, and it remains radioactive for over 120 years. Ingestion of contaminated food causes 10 percent to combine in the human body where it can remain for many years continuously irradiating cells.
One of the main elements is cesium, a potassium mimicker, which concentrates in the heart, endocrine organs and muscles where it can induce cardiac irregularities, heart attacks, diabetes, hypothyroidism or thyroid cancer and a very malignant muscle cancer called rhabdomyosarcoma. Cesium remains radioactive for 300 years and concentrates in the food chain.
Amongst the many other radioactive elements which are almost certainly escaping into the sea is plutonium which lasts for 240,000 years and is one of the most potent carcinogens known, such that a millionth of a gram can cause cancer. Each reactor core contains 500lbs of plutonium, but Reactor 3 contains even more, because it also contained plutonium/uranium fuel rods which were placed inside the core as an experiment.
As plutonium resembles iron in the body, it induces cancers in the lung if inhaled, and also cancers in the liver, bone, testicle and ovary. As an iron analogue, it readily crosses the placenta causing severe birth deformities similar to those produced by the drug thalidomide. All radioactive elements which irradiate the reproductive organs will induce genetic mutations in the sperm and eggs, thereby increasing the incidence of genetic diseases over future generations such as diabetes, cystic fibrosis, hemophilia, hemochromatosis and 6000 others.
These are only several of over 100 deadly radioactive poisons polluting the Pacific Ocean and the air, each of which has its own pathway in the food chain and the human body. Radioactive elements are tasteless, odorless and invisible, and it takes many years for cancers and other radiation-related diseases to manifest – five to 80 years for most cancers.
Children are 10 to 20 times more sensitive to the carcinogenic effects of radiation than adults, fetuses are thousands of times more so. One x-ray to the pregnant abdomen doubles the likelihood of leukemia in the baby. Females are also more sensitive than men at all ages. Radiation is cumulative, there is no safe dose and each dose received by a person adds to the risk of developing cancer.
Of great concern is the fact that 18 cases of childhood thyroid cancer in children under the age of 18 have already been diagnosed and 25 more are suspected in Fukushima. This is a remarkably short incubation time for cancer, indicating that these children almost certainly received a very high dose of iodine 131 plus other carcinogenic radioactive elements that were and are still being inhaled and ingested.
Food in the contaminated zone will remain radioactive for hundreds of years because it will continue to bio-accumulate radioactive elements from the soil, thus ensuring that an increased incidence of cancer will devastate many future Japanese generations.
Medical doctors in Japan are reporting that they have been ordered by their superiors not to tell the patients that their problems are radiation related.
Water and the Pacific Ocean
Now back to the reactor complex. TEPCO is still pumping hundreds of tons of salt water over molten reactor cores daily as another 1,000 tons of underground water also flows through the damaged reactors. In order to try and control this frightening situation, TEPCO is pumping 300 to 400 tons of this highly contaminated water on a daily basis into 1,060 huge holding tanks adjacent to the reactor complex. These tanks now contain 350,000 tons of water and more tanks are being added each week to accommodate this endless flow of water.TEPCO originally attempted to filter this water using an Advanced Liquid Processing System to remove some of the radioactive contaminants, but one of its tanks corroded and it was closed down in June this year.
The tanks have been hastily constructed to last five years, some have rubber seams, others have metal bolts which are corroding and very few are securely welded. Recently, workers discovered that the highly radioactive water is leaking and contaminating the tank site. Three hundred tons of water escaped from a tank measuring 100 millisieverts, or 10 rems, per hour and some of this water had also drained into the sea. A nuclear worker is allowed a yearly exposure of 5 rems. Because of this finding the present accident level was raised from 1 to 3, the original accident being labeled 7 - equivalent to Chernobyl, and the worst possible case.
It is suspected that many more tanks are leaking. Until recently TEPCO had only two men patrolling 1,060 tanks twice a day armed with inadequate Geiger counters. When new instruments were provided, radiation of 1,800 millisieverts per hour, or 180 rems, was discovered in leaked water at another tank, while several days later a reading measuring 2,200 millsieverts, or 220 rems, per hour was discovered! This was estimated to be mostly beta radiation, which would not penetrate the clothing of the workers. However high levels of gamma are radiating continually from the tanks and gamma, like x-rays goes right through a human body unimpeded.
The LD 50, a dose at which half an exposed population dies, is 250 rems! Not only are these workers in serious jeopardy, but TEPCO is fast running out of people to manage this disaster which could continue for 100 years or more. TEPCO said tritium levels in water taken from a well close to a number of storage tanks holding irradiated water rose to 64,000 becquerels per liter on Tuesday September 10, from 4,200 becquerels/liter at the same location on Sunday.
They are also running out of room to accommodate more tanks, the water keeps coming, and if there is another earthquake measuring 6 or above on the Richter scale, the plastic piping connecting the tanks and the tanks themselves could shatter releasing their contents into the ocean. If an earthquake does not eventuate, what will the Japanese do with this water? Obviously it is going to have to be discharged into the Pacific Ocean. However Prime Minister Abe recently announced that the government will spend $320 million dollars to construct a wall of ice 0.9 miles (1.45km) in length and 100 feet deep behind and around the complex to prevent the mountain aquifer from rushing in to engulf the damaged cores.
Arnie Gundersen, a nuclear engineer estimates that trying to clean the site and control the situation would cost at the minimum half a trillion dollars, and he says that the ice wall may not even be deep enough to block the water.
Furthermore maintaining the ice wall would require huge amounts of electricity, presumably to be generated by coal as the reactors will all be closed, which will add to global warming and obviously the ice will melt should there be a power outage. Not a good solution as the ice must remain intact for over 100 years. The government also plans to spend $150 million attempting to remove the radioactive elements from the water so they can be discharged into the sea, a Sisyphean task, virtually impossible to conduct successfully.
But there are other problems which defy solution. The whole reactor site sits on sodden ground, which has now become unstable, muddy and possibly liquefied. The site itself experiences many minor earthquakes each day, but should a quake greater than 6 or 7 on the Richter scale occur, it is likely that one or several of the buildings could collapse with absolutely disastrous consequences.
To be continued...
in http://rt.com/op-edge/fukushima-catastrophe-health-japan-803/
Master Radio Canaries "Mexicali Rose and Aloa Oe" 1955
This is an advertising record distributed to all customers in the early to mid- 1950s buying Hartz Mountain bird food. Those records were made to teach the birds to sing. Another record by the same company, which I will upload later, is to teach a parakeet to talk..
The history behind this brand is quite interesting. Two German brothers, Max and Gustav Stern emigrated to the US in 1926 with 5000 singing canaries and began manuafacturing bird food in 1932. Later they started to sell pet animals and introduced pet supplies into tens of thousands of supermarkets. Today this company still exists as a private family-owned and-operated company.
12 de setembro de 2013
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Fukushima tritium levels spike 15-fold in three days
In just three days, readings of tritium in groundwater near the wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant have soared more than 15 times, the operator of the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant admitted.
Results of recently tested water taken from the well some 20 meters south from a number of storage tanks have showed that levels of tritium have now reached 64,000 becquerels per liter.
Back on September 9, the level of tritium – a potentially dangerous radioactive isotope – from the same location stood at 29,000 compared to 4,200 becquerels per liter on Sunday.
On Monday a new hotspot of radiation was detected in groundwater from an observation well next to a faulty water storage tank. Some 3,200 becquerels per liter of radioactive substances were recorded in the well.
Prior to that the company announced the discovery of 650 becquerels per liter of radioactive waste in another well, located about 20 meters south of the storage tank.
TEPCO said in the recent press-release it will continue monitoring the situation and will keep investigating the “leakage range”.
Last month TEPCO reported 300 tonnes of highly contaminated groundwater seeping into the Pacific Ocean daily. Meanwhile, September, 11 marks two-and-a half years since triple meltdowns, caused by an earthquake and tsunami in March 2011. With a crisis over radiation-contaminated water at the plant, Tepco Electric has been criticized for its ad hoc response to the disaster.
As Tokyo beat Madrid and Istanbul to host the 2020 Olympics, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said he would be personally responsible for a plan to cope with the consequences.
in http://rt.com/news/fukushima-tritium-levels-spike-738/
11 de setembro de 2013
A não perder em Tondela ...
A Feira Industrial e Comercial do Concelho de Tondela é uma referência regional, registando níveis de prosperidade e projecção que atrai à cidade inúmeros visitantes.
O dinamismo ímpar do Concelho de Tondela é reflexo do empreendedorismo das suas empresas e das suas gentes, sendo as festividades do Concelho um momento crucial para a promoção do nosso território. É neste contexto que queremos inverter o actual ciclo depressivo e manter a dinâmica que sempre caracterizou Tondela.
A edição de 2013 será um modelo de vitalidade, numa animação permanente do recinto, onde também não faltarão eventos desportivos e culturais.
A par desse dinamismo, a FICTON terá como missão principal o incentivo à economia local, gerando dessa forma riqueza e diferenciando o território.
Entre 13 e 16 de Setembro o recinto da Feira contará com as tradicionais “Tasquinhas”, dinamizadas pelo movimento associativo em paralelo com as exposições dos diferentes agentes económicos, que estarão dentro e fora do Pavilhão Municipal. Será dado especial importância aos produtos locais, nomeadamente artesanato e produção agro-alimentar, bens geradores de valor acrescentado, que potenciam emprego e desenvolvem a economia do nosso concelho.
10 de setembro de 2013
GNR recebe queixa contra galo que canta antes da alvorada
Um galo está a agitar a vila de Resende. Não espera pela alvorada, canta de madrugada e os vizinhos não conseguem dormir. Alguns decidiram apresentar uma queixa na GNR. Surgem ameaças de processos judiciais, apesar de alguns até gostarem do cantar prematuro. Há também quem sugira uma cabidela entre donos e queixosos, para se fumar o cachimbo da paz…
Transformou-se no galo mais famoso de Resende, pelo seu cantar madrugador, muito antes da alvorada, interrompendo o silêncio que a população não dispensa, para descansar.
Os vizinhos não gostam e queixam-se do barulho. Queixam-se, literalmente. Apresentaram uma queixa na GNR, ao mesmo tempo que avançam com ameaças de processos judiciais contra os donos do galo desregulado.
Os donos do galo alegam à SIC que há 10 anos fazem criação e garantem que se ouvem galos a cantar em toda a vila de Resende. “Isto tem-me dado cabo da cabeça e não tem lógica nenhuma. Não cabe na cabeça de ninguém…
Onde é que já se viu uma coisa dessas?!”, diz a proprietária Fernanda Loureiro, àquele canal.
Mas se uns protestam, outros gostam do cantar madrugador… E há sugestões para pôr termo ao diferendo: um arroz de cabidela entre donos e queixosos…
in http://www.ptjornal.com/2013091018183/geral/insolito/gnr-recebe-queixa-contra-galo-que-canta-antes-da-alvorada.html
Speciation
There is a dizzying diversity of species on our planet. From genetic evidence we know that all of those species evolved from a single ancient ancestor. But how does one species split in to many? Through the evolutionary process of speciation — which begins when populations become isolated by changes in geography or by shifts in behavior so that they no longer interbreed. This video illustrates the speciation process in birds to help you understand the basis of earth's biodiversity.
Explore more at http://www.birdsofparadiseproject.org.
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Errors Cast Doubt on Japan’s Cleanup of Nuclear Accident Site
Nearby, thousands of workers and a small fleet of cranes are preparing for one of the latest efforts to avoid a deepening environmental disaster that has China and other neighbors increasingly worried: removing spent fuel rods from the damaged No. 4 reactor building and storing them in a safer place.
The government announced Tuesday that it would spend $500 million on new steps to stabilize the plant, including an even bigger project: the construction of a frozen wall to block a flood of groundwater into the contaminated buildings. The government is taking control of the cleanup from the plant’s operator, the Tokyo Electric Power Company.
The triple meltdown at Fukushima in 2011 is already considered the world’s worst nuclear accident since Chernobyl. The new efforts, as risky and technically complex as they are expensive, were developed in response to a series of accidents, miscalculations and delays that have plagued the cleanup effort, making a mockery of the authorities’ early vows to “return the site to an empty field” and leading to the release of enormous quantities of contaminated water.
As the environmental damage around the plant and in the ocean nearby continues to accumulate more than two years after the disaster, analysts are beginning to question whether the government and the plant’s operator, known as Tepco, have the expertise and ability to manage such a complex crisis.
In the past, they say, Tepco has resorted to technological quick fixes that have failed to control the crisis, further damaged Japan’s flagging credibility and only deflected hard decisions into the future. Some critics said the government’s new proposals offer just more of the same.
“Japan is clearly living in denial,” said Kiyoshi Kurokawa, a medical doctor who led Parliament’s independent investigation last year into the causes of the nuclear accident. “Water keeps building up inside the plant, and debris keeps piling up outside of it. This is all just one big shell game aimed at pushing off the problems until the future.”
Problems at the plant seemed to take a sharp turn for the worse in July with the discovery of leaks of contaminated water into the Pacific Ocean. Two weeks ago, Tepco announced that 300 tons of water laced with radioactive strontium, a particle that can be absorbed into human bones, had drained from a faulty tank into the sea.
4 de setembro de 2013
Piccolo flute
Gudrun Hinze - principal piccoloist at the Gewandhaus Orchestra performs "TWEET" in the charming atmosphere of the Gohlis Castle in Leipzig.
Radiation levels hit new high near Fukushima water tanks
Radiation levels around tanks storing contaminated water at Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear plant have risen by a fifth to a new high, officials say.
Ground readings near one set of tanks stood at 2,200 millisieverts (mSv) on Tuesday, the plant operator and Japan's nuclear authority said.
Saturday's reading was 1,800 mSv.
Last month, plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Company (Tepco) said it had found highly contaminated water leaking from a storage tank.Other leaks have also been reported, prompting the government on Tuesday to pledge 47bn yen ($473m, £304m) in funding to tackle the problem.The spike in radiation levels found on Tuesday was in the same area where the 1,800 mSv level was detected on Saturday, a spokeswoman from Tepco told Bloomberg.The readings are thought to be high enough to provide a lethal radiation dose to someone standing near contaminated areas without protective gear within hours.But Japan's Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA) also said the areas were easily contained.'Drastic measures' The earthquake and tsunami in March 2011 knocked out cooling systems to reactors at the Fukushima plant, three of which melted down.Water is now being pumped in to cool the reactors, but storing the resultant large quantities of radioactive water has proved a challenge for Tepco.
The process creates an extra 400 tonnes of contaminated water every day, which must be stored in temporary tanks.But leaks of contaminated water, both from the tanks, pipes and through damaged structures, have been a persistent problem. Groundwater from the hills surrounding the plant also flows down and into the radioactive areas.Under the government plan announced on Tuesday, a wall of frozen earth will be created around the reactors using pipes filled with coolant. This aims to prevent groundwater coming into contact with contaminated water being used to cool fuel rods.Water treatment systems would also be upgraded to tackle the build-up of contaminated water, officials said.
On Wednesday, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe told journalists in Tokyo that the government was willing "to take drastic measures of a maximum scale" to resolve the issue ahead of the 2020 summer Olympic Games."We are aware of concerns over the issue of contaminated water leakages at Fukushima, the government will take charge and will definitely resolve this problem," he said.Tokyo is a candidate as a host nation for the Olympics, and the decision is expected in days.
3 de setembro de 2013
serinette
A late 19th century walnut cased eight air Serinette by JR Lafleur & Son, Green Street, Leicester Square, London, playing eight piped bird song airs, 28 x 22cm, height 16cm.
Category: Mechanical Music
Estimate: £150 - £200
Part of The John Nixon Collection of Mechanical Music to be sold by Adam Partridge Auctioneers on the 21st November 2009. Contact Mark Littler or Adam Partridge on 01260 223675 or auctions@adampartridge.co.uk
2 de setembro de 2013
1 de setembro de 2013
Jerez será escenario del rodaje de un documental sobre flamenco
La productora independiente 'Barbarroja', formada por el músico sueco Majk Jutbow y el realizador sevillano Jonathan González, inició ayer en Málaga el rodaje de 'Flamencas: Mujeres, fuerza y duende', que en los próximos días visitará también Jerez y Sevilla.
Según ha informado a Europa Press la organización, el proyecto incluye un documental de creación y un libro de autor, "que hará un recorrido desde principios de siglo XX hasta nuestros días, de las mujeres que han dedicado o dedican su vida a esta cultura, mostrando un gran abanico de personalidades diferentes". Lo "más significativo" de este proyecto es la intención de mostrar no solo a las mujeres que se dedican al flamenco "de raíz sino también a las mujeres que, sin hacer flamenco puro, beben de él, y lo fusionan de una manera magistral con otros estilos o folklores".
La obra será un documento "intergeneracional" que conversa con las mujeres sobre sus experiencias de vida, sus pasiones y sus opiniones más sinceras. Algunas de las protagonistas son Martirio, Carmen Linares, Belén Maya o Rocío Márquez.
Además, la artista Romina Bassú se encargará de fotografíar a cada una de las mujeres nombradas en el libro y la pintora Ana Campos aportará sus pinturas dedicadas a la mujer flamenca. Por su parte, José Torres compondrá la banda sonora del documental, y Antonio Cid se encargará de la foto fija en el rodaje.
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