☘ Peanuts Strip – 7th January ’22
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☘ Peanuts Strip – ’21-12-07°
The hide and seek of winter
[diary]
Where is the climate change?
In the extreme events that occur?
Today, November 7th seems to be a mild day in early autumn …
An abnormal heat …
Is the winter playing hide and seek? Or is it climate change?
Although I live in Abruzzo, on the Adriatic coast, where the climate is rarely harsh, I don’t remember such a heat.
Today I walked on the beach, where the sea was mysteriously calm …
The Adriatic coast – for the uninitiated – is less hot than the Tyrrhenian coast, where the current of the gulf arrives,
that has always warmed the Mediterranean. Furthermore, the mountains of Abruzzo do not allow the passage of hot air
west, often exposing the coasts to perturbations coming from the east.
But now winter, regardless of its game of hide and seek, does not seem to influence climate decisions …
Mexican GP, Bottas pole! Then Hamilton and Verstappen. Sainz 6th, Leclerc 8th
The two mercedes, After suffering and struggling, disappointed in the three free practice sessions, the star has resumed to shine in the supreme moment. Bottas on pole, Hamilton in the front row, in front of both Verstappen and Perez. And now what seemed like a very favorable race for Verstappen has turned into another uncertain chapter of the challenge.
In Istanbul, Yuki Tsunoda had ‘publicly’ revealed his support for Max Verstappen in the Dutchman’s world championship battle with Lewis Hamilton, stressing that he had done everything on that occasion to keep the British driver behind him. Today, however, in a completely involuntary way and in an attempt to make himself useful, the Japanese has instead created many problems not only for the Dutchman, but for the entire Red Bull team.
The Mexican Grand Prix takes place on the track dedicated to the Rodriguez brothers in Mexico City at 2,240 meters above sea level. The high altitude causes an air thinning of over 30% compared to the density at sea level. On the one hand, this phenomenon leads to a drastic reduction in the resistance to advancement of the cars, but in fact this is the only positive consequence, counterbalanced by many other decidedly negative factors. In fact, it is no exaggeration to consider rarefaction a ruthless killer of single-seater performance as well as constituting a tangible danger to the reliability of the power units.
Houston, tragedy at the Travis Scott concert: at least 8 dead and dozens injured
The Astroworld Music Festival in Houston (Friday afternoon on November 5th) turned into a nightmare, with at least 8 boys between 16 and 23 years old killed, crushed against the stage by the crowd that pressed behind them.
There are countless injuries, over 300 of which about twenty in serious condition.
The tragedy began while the hugely popular rapper Travis Scott was performing, who repeatedly interrupted his performance to ask rescuers to intervene, until the show was suspended and the event definitively canceled by the organizers. “I am absolutely devastated by what happened. My prayers go out to the families of the victims,” commented the rapper. The videos posted on the social networks show chilling images, with the first aid that with enormous difficulty manage to bring out the teenagers who beg to be saved from the grip of the huge crowd. A push that has become increasingly devastating as panic spreads. On the spot, crowded beyond belief, there were over 50,000 people, in a state like Texas where, due to the rampant pandemic, there are still over 100 deaths and 3,300 new cases of contagion a day, the highest figure in America. Elsewhere such an event these days would be unimaginable.
Some images also show dozens of young people who have forced the entrances without paying the ticket, and without anyone stopping their race. An indication of how perhaps there were even more people inside the festival than expected, in a situation that has actually become out of control. But on the causes of the tragedy, no one still has a say. The mayor of Houston swears that the security measures have been respected and that it is being investigated to understand how this could have happened.
7th November (2021): International Inuit Day
The 2006 Utqiaġvik Declaration instructedICC to annually proclaim November 7th, the birth date of ICC visionary, Eben Hopson Sr., as “Inuit Day”.
Eben Hopson was one of the great historic political leaders of the Arctic and the founder of the Inuit Circumpolar Council.
In 1978, Eben Hopson also travelled to Europe to address the London Press Corps., stating “our entire North American Arctic homeland is a vast wildlife habitat nourishing a very fragile food chain in which we Inuit are but an important link. We Inuit are hunters. There aren’t many subsistence hunting societies left in the world, but our Inuit Circumpolar community is one of them.“
This was a time when Inuit needed the support of the world to face the challenges of large-scale oil exploration in the Arctic and the potential impacts on Arctic marine mammals.
☘ Peanuts Strip – ’21-11-07°
The post covid era
With the announcement of the vaccine, which will have to arrive for most European countries by the beginning of 2021, the future is ahead, and we can see what is defined as the light at the end of the tunnel. Although there are 3 vaccines that can be purchased from European countries, Italy seems far behind the rest of Europe, both in purchasing the vaccine and in organizing it to administer it to most of the country. My idea is that the distrust of the Italian people is very high towards the vaccine, although it is essential to be able to resume normal life, or at least partially resume it. The first to receive the vaccine will be the elderly and nurses. But besides these people I don't think there will be other people who will lend themselves to receiving the fateful drug. What is outlined is a very long recovery to normalcy and a real reconstruction is expected like the post-war period. The state has imposed a block on layoffs, but this block will last until the pandemic and with the resumption of normal life we will see the real economic crisis, because obviously the economy will not recover immediately as many will still be discouraged in spending, especially in some sectors such as tourism and catering.
7th November: International Inuit Day
7th November is International Inuit Day, a celebration set up to acknowledge and celebrate Inuit culture and contributions, but most importantly to affirm the voices of Inuit across the circumpolar world, says the organization that established the occasion.
“Inuit inhabit 40 per cent of the Arctic and in an era where exterior forces, be it countries or industries, are increasingly voicing their intentions concerning the lands we live in, Inuit need to have a united voice now more than ever and reaffirm our human rights,” says Dalee Sambo Dorough, chair of the Inuit Circumpolar Council, in an phone interview with Eye on the Arctic.
Different Inuit organizations and groups mark the occasion in different ways each year.
“We observe (International Inuit Day) by promoting it through ITK’s social media platforms and also taking this opportunity to educate on who we are as Inuit in Canada,” says Kevin Kablutsiak, ITK’s director of communications.
International initiative
International Inuit Day was established by the Inuit Circumpolar Council (ICC), the organization that represents the approximately 165,000 Inuit in Alaska, Canada, Greenland, and Chukotka, Russia.
The motion was made at their 2006 General Assembly in Barrow (now called Utqiagvik), Alaska, “to urge all Inuit governments, agencies, and communities to annually proclaim this day as Inuit Day, and conduct appropriate ceremonies and celebrations.”
November 7 was chosen as it was the birth date of Eben Hopson Sr., founder of the Inuit Circumpolar Conference, the precursor to the Inuit Circumpolar Council.
“This day is also to memorialize him, for his ingenuity and foresight in the importance of uniting Inuit voices,” Dorough said.
Inuit Circumpolar Council – Canada, the Canadian chapter of ICC, is planning to post a video marking the day on Facebook and Twitter, as well as asking people to post what they’re doing on International Inuit Day as they did last year during their #InuitDay2018 campaign.
Tungasuvvingat Inuit (TI), a counselling and resource centre for Inuit in Ottawa, Ontario, says the day is also a good occasion to think about the contributions, challenges and successes of Inuit in Canada who live outside of Canada’s four Arctic Inuit regions: the Inuvialuit Settlement Region, Nunavut, Nunavik and Nunatsiavut, an area collectively referred to by Inuit as Inuit Nunangat.
“At TI we recognize the regions outside of Inuit Nunangat (away from traditional homelands) as “The Fifth Region” and remind all that an Inuk is an Inuk is an Inuk regardless of geography and where they live,” said Joël Lamoureux TI’s communications manager. “Too often, Inuit outside of Inuit Nunangat are overlooked in celebratory days like International Inuit Day. “
7th august 1420: Construction of Brunelleschi’s Dome in Florence began
Brunelleschi’s dome is the roof of the cruise of the Florence Cathedral; at the time of construction it was the largest dome in the world and still remains the largest masonry dome ever built (the maximum diameter of the internal dome is 45.5 meters, while that of the outside is 54.8). Thanks to the fundamental importance it had for the subsequent development of architecture and the modern conception of building, it is still considered by some to be the most important architectural work ever built in Europe since Roman times.
Its size prevented the traditional construction method with the aid of ribs, causing many hypotheses to be formulated on the construction technique used.
The drum, of imperfect octagonal shape, on which the dome was supposed to rest, measured about 45 meters wide on the largest diagonal and was 54 meters high. These dimensions were considerably larger than originally predicted. The reasons for this increase, which led the size of the building to exceed those of the dome of the Pantheon, until then the largest dome in the world, so much so that legend considered it the work of the devil, are to be found not so much in the desire for primacy, but in the need to reinforce the dome drum as much as possible. The drum had in fact been raised with respect to the original model by means of a plane in which eight large eyes open, which favored the illumination of the cathedral’s apse triconco. With this expedient the dome’s tax plane was also raised above all the vaults built up until then. The very high vaults of the cathedral of Beauvais in France, which for their boldness collapsed shortly after their construction, reached “only” 48 meters in height. But the irregular octagonal shaped drum also created the main obstacle to the erection of the dome. Brunelleschi calculated every detail with precision, from the inclination of the walls to the arrangement of the herringbone bricks. In this way the dome was able to support itself, without resting on the traditional sulphurous wooden scaffolding.
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