Muitas vezes conhecida pelas suas praias, e pouco conhecida pelos seus vinhedos únicos, a ilha de Lanzarote faz parte do arquipélago das Canárias, território pertencente a Espanha. A ilha possuir cerca de 300 vulcões cujas erupções tornaram a terra extremamente fértil para o cultivo de uvas.
As vinhas de Lanzarote são mais um exemplo de engenhosidade, harmonia humana e integração com a natureza.
As mudas de uva são plantadas especialmente em valas cavadas sobre o solo Vulcânico que possuem de vários metros de profundidade, essa técnica é conhecida como ” Zocos”.
Para que suas raízes possam alcançar a camada fértil do solo da ilha e a umidade das uvas seja preservada no clima seco da região, munidos de picaretas e até dinamites, os agricultores rompem a espessa camada superficial do duro solo vulcânico, em muitos casos com mais de 3 metros de espessura, antes de alcançar terras férteis e aráveis no sub-solo.
Então, eles criam essas pequenas crateras em forma de cone invertido que caracterizam a paisagem, e dão um aspecto único, quase espacial a esse tipo de plantação.
Quase todas as atividades do vinhedo são feitas de forma manual, porque esse modelo de plantação obviamente impede a mecanização e a irrigação do plantio.
Eles plantam até três mudas em cada buraco. Para complementar essa contrução, com o intuito de proteger as vinhas dos ventos fortes presentes na ilha, também são construídos pequenos muretas semicirculares de pedra seca com cerca de 60 cm de altura em entorno dos Zocos.
Toda essa técnica possibilita que o solo vulcânico, que é eficaz em reter umidade, capte mais eficientemente o pouco de chuva que ocasionalmente precipita durante o ano, de modo que mesmo em dias sem chuva, a planta receba o suficiente de água para que floresça.
Este é o tamanho das pedras usadas para construir a grande pirâmide do Egito.
Existem 2 milhões e 500 mil blocos no total, ou seja, em 20 anos, teriam que extrair, transportar centenas de quilômetros, atravessar um rio, levantar e colocar um bloco de dezenas de toneladas CADA 9 SEGUNDOS, 24h por dia, de forma ininterrupta!
Para chegar ao topo, teria que haver uma rampa de 3 km para atingir os 150 metros de altura sem ficar muito empinado.
Alguns engenheiros atuais revelam que isso não é possível mesmo com métodos e equipamentos pesados.
Um enorme e avançado trabalho de engenharia foi usado no passado remoto, sem dúvida.
Conforme diz o nosso amado líder, Camarada Vladimir Putin, a ‘operação militar especial’ na Ucrânia é, na verdade, um conflito entre a Rússia e a Nato.
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— A Rússia perdeu 15 mil militares, 6 generais, 500 tanques, 3 navios, 100 aviões e 1000 camiões.
E a Nato?
— A Nato ainda não chegou.
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Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has conceded defeat in a national election, saying that while vote counting is incomplete, the opposition Labor Party looks likely to form a government.
Australian PM concedes election defeat as Labor Party looks likely to form government
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Scott Morrison quits as party leader, Anthony Albanese wants to unite the country
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Prime Minister Scott Morrison concedes defeat following release of the partial results of Australia’s federal election, at a Liberal Party event in Sydney on Saturday. The opposition Labor Party is set to end almost a decade of conservative rule. (Asanka Ratnayake/Getty Images)
Prime Minister Scott Morrison conceded defeat Saturday after a federal election in Australia, and the opposition Labor Party was set to end almost a decade of conservative rule, possibly with the support of pro-environment independents.
Morrison acted quickly after Saturday’s election, despite millions of votes yet to be counted, because an Australian prime minister must attend a Tokyo summit on Tuesday with U.S., Japanese and Indian leaders.
“Tonight, I have spoken to the leader of the opposition and the incoming prime minister, Anthony Albanese. And I’ve congratulated him on his election victory this evening,” Morrison told supporters.
“I believe it’s very important that this country has certainty. I think it’s very important this country can move forward,” Morrison said.
Liberal Party faithful react as they watch election results on a large video screen at an event in Sydney on Saturday. (Mark Baker/The Associated Press)
“And particularly over the course of this week with the important meetings that are being held, I think it’s vitally important there’s a very clear understanding about the government of this country.”
Albanese will be sworn in as prime minister, with his centre-left Australian Labor Party getting its first electoral win since 2007.
Anthony Albanese, centre, leader of Australia’s Labor Party, celebrates with his son, Nathan, right, and his partner, Jodie Haydon, in Sydney on Sunday. (Rick Rycroft/The Associated Press)
In conceding defeat, Morrison said he would stand down as leader of the Liberal Party of Australia, which was seeking a fourth three-year term.
The capitulation ends eight years and nine months in power for Morrison’s conservative coalition. He became prime minister in 2018 after several leadership changes.
A ‘sense of common purpose’
Albanese said he wanted to bring Australians together as he made his first comments after Morrison’s announcement and nine years in opposition.
“I want to unite the country,” Albanese told reporters as he left his home late on Saturday night to attend a Labor Party celebration in Sydney.
“I think people want to come together, look for our common interest, look toward that sense of common purpose. I think people have had enough of division, what they want is to come together as a nation, and I intend to lead that.”
Labor focused on inflation, wages
Labor had promised more financial assistance and a robust social safety net as Australia grapples with its highest inflation since 2001 and soaring housing prices.
The party also said it would increase minimum wages — and on the foreign policy front, it proposed to establish a Pacific defence school to train neighbouring armies in response to China’s potential military presence on the Solomon Islands, on Australia’s doorstep.
Labor Party supporters react to election updates broadcast on a screen in Sydney on Saturday while they wait for Albanese to speak about the outcome of the country’s general election. (Jaimi Joy/Reuters)
It also wants to tackle climate change with a more ambitious 43 per cent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.
As Labor focused on spiking inflation and sluggish wage growth, Morrison made the country’s lowest unemployment in almost half a century the centrepiece of his campaign’s final hours.
In early counting on Saturday, Morrison’s coalition was on track to win 38 seats and Labor 71, while seven were unaligned legislators and 23 races were too close to call.
Labor had yet to reach the 76 of the 151 lower house seats required to form a government alone. Final results could take time as counting of a record number of mail-in votes is completed. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, more than 48 per cent of Australia’s 17 million electors voted early or applied to vote by mail.
Independents gaining
Minor parties and independents appeared to be taking votes from the major parties, which increases the likelihood of a minority government.
Partial results showed Morrison’s Liberal-National coalition had been punished by voters in Western Australia and affluent urban seats in particular.
In at least five affluent Liberal-held seats, “teal independents” looked set to win, tapping voter anger over inaction on climate change after some of the worst floods and fires to ever hit Australia.
Early returns suggested the Greens had also made ground, looking to pick up to three seats in Queensland state.
Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has conceded defeat in a national election, saying that while vote counting is incomplete, the opposition Labor Party looks likely to form a government.
Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has conceded defeat in a national election, saying that while vote counting is incomplete, the opposition Labor Party looks likely to form a government.
A Região foi surpreendida, na semana passada, com a súbita exoneração, pelo Secretário Regional da Saúde e Desporto, do médico Dr. António Salgado das funções de Presidente da Unidade de Saúde da Ilha do Corvo.
A Região tomou, de seguida, conhecimento de que tinha sido nomeado, pelo mesmo Secretário Regional, para esse cargo o médico Dr. Paulo Margato. Aqui não houve, para os mais informados, qualquer surpresa, pois o Dr. Margato foi cabeça de lista do PPM em S. Miguel e é publico que o Deputado do Corvo e dirigente regional do PPM, Dr. Paulo Estevão, sempre quis esse médico no Corvo.
É necessário que se perceba que o cargo de médico do Corvo, em si mesmo, não é um lugar de escolha e que o Dr. Salgado percorreu todos os tramites legais para exercer o cargo, do qual é titular efetivo. Apenas o cargo de Presidente da Unidade de Saúde é que é de escolha. No caso do Corvo, depois de ter sido criada a instituição Unidade de Saúde, houve sempre o consenso de que seria o médico a presidir, dada a muito pequena dimensão humana dessa unidade orgânica.
Entretanto o Dr. António Salgado, com mais de dois anos de um competente, empenhado, atento e muito humano exercício da medicina naquela muito pequena e isolada comunidade insular, ganhou o apoio esmagador da população, tal como vimos, na passada 6ª feira, dia 13/5, na RTP/A.
Ouvi ontem na RDP/A o Dr. Salgado afirmar, e bem na minha opinião, que permanece no Corvo como médico do quadro da Unidade de Saúde da Ilha. O Dr. Salgado justifica esta sua decisão “com o enorme apoio da população do Corvo” que foi explicitamente demonstrado, quer na manifestação que a RTP/A mostrou, quer no abaixo assinado que corre, quer de várias outras maneiras.
Estamos perante uma forma de exercer o poder que é absurda, o que não me parece difícil de demonstrar! Conheço bem o Corvo, em função das responsabilidades políticas regionais que exerci por muitos anos, conheço e até tenho relacionamento amistoso com muitas pessoas daquela Ilha, incluindo antigos e atuais figuras importantes de várias áreas. Ouvi em publico (OCS) e em privado as opiniões, as convicções e o conhecimento concreto de muitas dessas pessoas e para mim fica claro o que se está a passar. Na origem desta questão está o Deputado Paulo Estevão do PPM, cujo partido, que ele lidera na Região, faz parte da coligação governante nos Açores. Com mais três ou quatro fiéis e com alegações não verdadeiras, pressionou o principal partido da coligação – o PSD – para que o Dr. Salgado fosse demitido de Presidente do Conselho de Gestão da US indicando, ao mesmo tempo, um médico que exerce em S. Miguel, onde encabeçou a lista do PPM. Esqueceu-se, entretanto, que a Unidade de Saúde do Corvo, tem um quadro de funcionários, um dos quais é médico, e esse lugar está preenchido! A partir de hoje temos no Corvo dois médicos, um que preside à gestão e outro que atende a lista de 370 utentes. O Deputado Paulo Estevão, muito conhecido por “Rei do Corvo”, suponho que por ter passado do CDS para o PPM, vive de facto obcecado por ter poder naquela ilha isolada, tal como tem demonstrado desde que optou por ir viver para lá. Nas declarações que fez à RTP Paulo Estevão “jurou a pés juntos” que não tinha nada a ver com isto, mas ele sabe que todos os corvinos e muitos outros açorianos sabem que ele tem tudo a ver com esta forma absurda de estar e de exercer o poder regional, muito bem exemplificada com este caso.
Disponho, desde meados da semana passada, de uma informação muito credível, segundo a qual o gabinete do Senhor Presidente do Governo Regional, assegurava a quem estava preocupado com esta possível situação, que a “exoneração do Presidente da US do Corvo não se daria pelo menos por agora” e, entretanto, pouco mais de 24 horas depois o Secretário Regional da Saúde e Desporto, Dr. Clélio Meneses (PSD), exonerou o Dr. Salgado e nomeou o Dr. Margato para Presidente da US.
Este facto é revelador da instabilidade dentro da Coligação e ajuda a perceber mesmo que há Secretários Regionais do partido maior, que atuando sobre pressão primária dos parceiros mais pequenos, deixam de ter em conta aquilo que presumo ser uma visão mais equilibrada do Dr. Bolieiro, Presidente do Governo. Noto que esta situação não é a primeira deste tipo que registo.
Entretanto a RDP/Açores revelou hoje que a maioria (todos menos um) dos trabalhadores da US Corvo escreveram ao Presidente do Governo, ao Secretário da Saúde e à ALRAA pedindo a reversão da infundada exoneração do Dr. Salgado e sublinhando que ele é parte da solução do problema criado por um outro membro do Conselho de Gestão e não pelos restantes dois, como foi mentirosamente afirmado. Juntando esta informação publica, com o conhecimento que tenho sobre as pessoas, concluo com facilidade quem serão “os três ou quatro fiéis” referidos atrás que congeminaram com Paulo Estevão esta tramoia que visa, em primeiro lugar, reforçar o próprio Paulo Estevão que está a perder claramente credibilidade e apoio e, em segundo lugar, afastar do território da Ilha um cidadão que, pela sua forma de ser e estar, dá todos os dias contributos positivos à vida daquela comunidade muito isolada.
É do conhecimento geral que o Dr. António Salgado é militante do PCP e ativista da CDU. Sendo, como é, funcionário publico não pode ser prejudicado na sua vida profissional por esse facto. São certamente na ordem de alguns milhares os funcionários públicos que são militantes do PCP e nunca houve, nem pode haver em democracia, saneamentos ou afastamentos geográficos por esse facto. Os que assim pensam e agem são de outro tempo.
Não sei qual será o desfecho deste caso, mas sei que na sua origem está uma “manobra política” indigna, sem ética de espécie nenhuma e profundamente afrontosa para o visado que é um funcionário irrepreensível e, acima de tudo, um homem de bem; sei também que esta afronta atingiu em cheio a esmagadora maioria da população do Corvo; sei ainda que a actual Coligação Governamental Regional abriu um profundo buraco na sua, já muito débil, credibilidade política.
Termino dizendo ao Senhor Presidente do Governo, Dr. José Manuel Bolieiro, pessoa que, para além de todas e óbvias diferenças políticas, sempre estimei e considerei ligado a valores democráticos essenciais, que governar assim, fazendo tudo o que parceiros agressivos querem, não vale mesmo a pena!
The Eurasian multi-millionaire blazed a trail through the commercial and social life of Macao and Hong Kong leaving a legacy that endures today.
Robert Ho Tung was born at the perfect time in the perfect place, two strokes of luck that set him on the fast track to success throughout his life.
Half European, half Chinese he bridged the two sides of society in Hong Kong while it was developing from a fledgeling colony to an international entrepot.
What’s more, Ho Tung was highly intelligent, a hard worker, charismatic and filled with boundless curiosity.
Small wonder that he prospered, that his descendants rose to become some of the region’s most influential entrepreneurs, and that his name is commemorated in both Hong Kong and Macao.
There is no more sterling example of Ho Tung’s achievements than the library that bears his name in central Macao.
The elegant three-storey building with arched windows and a gentle ochre façade set in a century-old garden in São Lourenço is the largest library in the city.
Containing 100,000 volumes, including a treasure trove of 5,000 ancient Chinese classics, it is but one of many legacies left by the remarkable Sir Robert Ho Tung, who was – needless to say – an avid bibliophile.
Born in December 1862, he became the richest man in Hong Kong, was the first Chinese to live in an exclusive area of the colony previously reserved for Europeans, and was decorated for his charitable and educational work.
Ho Tung’s golden gift was his cosmopolitan background, which allowed him to switch back and forth between different ethnic communities and made him an ideal comprador – the middlemen between exporters of Chinese goods and foreign companies who bought them.
He became one of the first international Hong Kong businessmen, investing in many cities outside the colony and travelling frequently to Europe and North America.
Since Hong Kong’s colonial government did little for its Chinese population, it was left to Ho Tung and other merchants to pay for schools, hospitals and other welfare facilities.
Nor did he neglect his mother country – he supported Dr Sun Yat-sen in his revolution against the Qing dynasty.
One day he would dress in ceremonial uniform to receive a Qing official, and the next he would be giving money to the revolutionary cause.
He was also a friend of reformers Kang You-wei and Chiang Kai-shek, two of the most important figures of modern China.
Built to last
The library was his largest gift to Macao.
It was built in 1894 for Carolina Antonia da Cunha, the wife of a colonial official, and passed through several owners before Ho Tung purchased it in 1918 for MOP 16,000 intending to use it as a summer retreat.
Then, as now, it occupied a prime site, next to the St Joseph Seminary and the Church of Saint Augustine.
The area today is part of the World Heritage Site of Macao.
When the Japanese army overran Hong Kong in December 1941, he moved with his family to Macao, which being a city under Portuguese administration was neutral, and remained there for the rest of the war.
After his death in April 1956, he bequeathed the house to the government as a Chinese library, with a legacy of HK$25,000 to buy books.
It opened officially as a public library on 1 August 1958, with 3,000 volumes.
After the handover of the Portuguese administration to the Chinese in 1999, the government invested MOP 10 million in a new structure at the back of the building, to hold more books and provide all the attributes of a modern library.
Reopened on 13 November 2006, the new temperature-controlled library and its 544 work stations spread over 3,000 square metres, while the garden was half as big again.
The new facility held 100,000 books, and was equipped with a multimedia room, exhibition space, broadband computers and music and film rooms.
Fifteen years on, it’s incredibly popular, pulling in more than 1,000 readers a day.
“He was a man of culture and bought these books over many years,” says Gary Ngai, founder of the Macao Association for the Promotion of Exchanges between Asia-Pacific and Latin America.
“Other people would buy books and then sell them on after reading them.
Ho did not need the money so he kept them.
There are few libraries in the mainland with such a collection of ancient books.
The Red Guards destroyed many of them during the Cultural Revolution.
Scholars from the mainland come to see the library and express their admiration.”
Youthful millionaire
The story began just before Christmas 1862 when Ho Tung was born in Hong Kong to a Dutch Jewish father, Charles Henry Maurice Bosman, who later took British citizenship, and a Chinese mother named Sze Tai (施娣) from Baoan county, now Shenzhen, in Guangdong.
They had five sons and three daughters.
His father left the colony after his business failed, and the children were raised as Chinese by their mother.
Ho Tung had private tutors and attended Queen’s College in Causeway Bay, where he achieved outstanding results in his exams.
After graduating in 1878, Ho Tung took a job in the Guangzhou customs office.
MIn 1880, he moved to Jardine Matheson, the biggest British trading company in Hong Kong, working as an interpreter and assistant.
He rose quickly in the firm, and within two years was given responsibility for two of its insurance companies.
He also set up his own firm, Ho Tong & Company, which initially traded in sugar.
In 1894, he was appointed manager of Jardine Matheson’s China operations, a post he held until 1900, when he resigned to devote himself to his own business.
His brother Ho Fook replaced him.
By that time, he had already become one of Hong Kong’s richest men, with a personal fortune of more than HK$2 million, which would be equivalent to about HK$62 million today.
Power behind the throne
When he was 18, Ho Tung married Margaret Mak, the Eurasian daughter of Hector Coll Maclean of Jardines, when she was 16.
As she could not bear him children, he took a concubine named Zhou Jiwen 周綺文.
After three years, it emerged that she was also unable to conceive.
So, nothing if not pragmatic, Mak introduced her cousin, Clara Cheung Lin-kok, as Ho Tung’s second wife.
She bore him three sons and seven daughters.
Cheung was a devout Buddhist and encouraged him to engage in charity work which occupied an important part of his later life.
In 1906, he obtained the permission of the governor, Sir Matthew Nathan, to live on Victoria Peak, the first Chinese to inhabit this most expensive and secluded district of Hong Kong, which had been previously reserved for whites.
It was a step up the social ladder which in its way exceeded his achievements in business.
Ho Tung came to own four houses on the Peak, and to minimise conflict among his women, he put his two wives, his concubine and their families in separate houses.
In 1910, he fell dangerously ill from overwork and his weight fell to less than 60 pounds.
He was confined to bed for over a year but Cheung nursed him through this crisis, caring for him night and day and reciting Buddhist scriptures.
Thanks to both her care and his doctor’s efforts, he recovered from the illness and lived for another 45 years.
Ho Tung also founded the Chinese Club, which he set up in response to the Hong Kong Club, a colonial institution which did not admit non-white members.
Other members of the family were just as productive.
His brother Ho Fook had 13 sons, of whom five worked as compradors for foreign companies.
One of his grandsons is Stanley Ho, the Macao casino and shipping magnate.
Another brother, Ho Kom-tong, had 12 wives and more than 30 children.
One of them was the mother of Kung Fu star Bruce Lee.
His former house, Kom Tong Hall, in Mid-Levels, now houses the Dr Sun Yat-sen Museum.
Knight of the realm
After enjoying considerable success in business in Asia and other parts of the world, in his twilight years, Ho Tung devoted much of his time and money to charity and education.
He was one of the founders of Hong Kong University and a director of Tung Wah Hospitals and Po Leung Kuk.
The first Tung Wah hospital was established in 1870, providing free Chinese medical services to the sick and the poor.
It built two more hospitals in 1911 and 1929, and has become the largest charitable organisation in Hong Kong, with 2,670 beds in five hospitals, 2,000 service centres and an annual turnover of HK$4.7 billion.
Po Leung Kuk, which was founded in 1878, has become Hong Kong’s largest non-government provider of social services.
Ho Tung also donated substantial sums to the Kiang Wu Hospital and the Bao Jue Yi Xue Buddhist centre in Macao.
In his will, Ho Tung bequeathed HK$500,000 to the Sir Robert Ho Tung Charitable Fund, which continues to donate about HK$10 million a year to such charities as the Hong Kong Red Cross, the Salvation Army, the Hong Kong Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and the Family Planning Association.
Ho Tung’s philanthropic work did not pass unrecognised.
Among a slew of awards, he was knighted by King George V of Britain in 1915 and decorated by the Portuguese government in 1952.
He died on 26 April 1956 in Hong Kong, aged 93, and was greatly mourned.
In Hong Kong and Macao, many schools and buildings are named after him, including the Lady Hotung Hall at Hong Kong University, the Hotung Secondary School and the Tung Lin Kok-yuen Buddhist temple.
“He was a diplomat in the civil sector,” said Ngai.
“He was a bridge between China and the West. He was equally at home in the strict rituals of both the Qing government and the British aristocracy.”
Normalmente nestas alturas de comemorações oficiais as entidades nacionais costumam citar os grandes poetas do país. Uma pena que nos discursos oficiais dos vinte anos da independência de Timor-Leste nenhum dos nossos grandes poetas como Borja Costa ou Fernando Sylvan tivesse sido lembrado. Ambos são grandes poetas em língua portuguesa. Combateram com a língua portuguesa. Borja Costa, autor da letra do hino nacional, também do Foho Ramelau, também do Kdadalak, foi morto no dia em que os indonésios invadiram Timor. Um herói nacional.
The recently unearthed 1,500 year old manuscript is being held at the British Library. According to Professor Barrie Wilson and writer Simcha Jacobovic, who spent months translating the text from Aramaic, the “Lost Gospel” reveals that Jesus married and had children with Mary Magdalene before he started his ministry, at 30 years old
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An ancient writing has recently been translated evidence that Jesus was married to Mary the Magdalene and had children with her.
