MASANOBU FUKUOKA

El campesino humilde y el sabio taoísta, el poeta, el filósofo, el intelectual, el padre de lo que se llamó la agricultura natural. El pasado 16 de agosto del 2008, abandonó su dimensión física el gran maestro que ha inspirado durante casi 100 años a millones de personas, con su propuesta de agricultura natural y la aplicación de su filosofía del No hacer.

El campesino humilde y el sabio taoísta, el autor de La revolución de una brizna de paja, el poeta, el filósofo, el intelectual, el padre de lo que se llamó la agricultura natural, el inventor del nendo dango y uno de los máximos inspiradores del movimiento permacultural.

Fukuoka se ha ido a los 95 años, dejando tras de si el ejemplo vivo de una manera radical y revolucionaria de entender la relación con la tierra y un método agrícola basado en la contemplación de la naturaleza y en la mínima intervención humana. Un método capaz de reverdecer y reforestar zonas áridas. Capaz de obtener los mejores resultados de la tierra desde el No hacer.

Para Masanobu Fukuoka sanar la tierra y purificar el espíritu humano eran un mismo proceso. Su filosofía del "No Hacer" partía de la idea de que, en lugar de preguntarse qué pasaría si se hiciese esto o aquello, los seres humanos nos deberíamos preguntar qué pasaría si no se hiciese.

Fukuoka no labraba, ni araba, ni usaba abonos químicos, ni compost preparado, ni quitaba las hierbas que crecían en sus campos de arroz, centeno o cebada.Practicaba la agricultura cooperando con la naturaleza, en lugar de querer mejorarla, exigiéndole resultados. Dándole primero, para luego recibir de ella. Respetaba sus ciclos e interfería en las comunidades animales y vegetales de sus campos lo menos posible.

Para mejorar la producción de la naturaleza, y convertir desiertos en bosques, creó el nendo dango, un método de sembrado que no requiere arado y que consiste en mezclar semillas dentro de unas bolitas de barro que se esparcen por el campo y que brotan cuando la primera lluvia intensa la libera de su cascarón.

El método de reforestación, denominado "Nendo dango".

Su legado a la humanidad, aparte de toda su ejemplar vida y aportación a la elevacion espiritual y comprensión de la necesaria unión del hombre con la naturaleza se condensa básicamente en su primer libro "La revolución de la brinza de paja", compendio de la esencia de su filosofía y retrospección e investigación in situ de los metodos de agricultura natural.

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HMS WARRIOR 1860

Warrior began active service most inauspiciously. She froze to the slipway when she was launched on December 29th 1860 during the coldest winter for 50 years. Frozen snow covered the dockyard and Thames braziers blazed down the ship's sides but when Sir John Pakington, First Lord of the Admiralty, came to do the honours, she refused to budge.

Extra tugs and hydraulic rams pulled her while hundreds of men ran from side to side on her upper deck, trying to rock her free. After 20 minutes, she finally gave way. Sir John smashed a bottle of wine over her bow with the words "God speed the Warrior"

The Hon Arthur Cochrane, son of the Earl of Dundonald, became her captain after her commission on August 1st 1861. The ship underwent minor modifications after a sea trial. In June 1862, she started active service in the Channel Squadron, patrolling coastal waters and sailing to Lisbon and Gibraltar.

Crowds of up to 6,000 people turned out to see the new superchip as she visited British ports. She never once fired a shot in anger. Her strength was her ability to keep the peace.
Foreign navies soon imitated her advanced features, and armour-plated lookalikes with even greater firepower rolled down dockyard slipways. Engine designs improved steadily, with coaling stations springing up in ports all over the world.

Warrior was obsolete within a decade. She was relegated to the Reserve Fleet ranks and in 1883, withdrawn from sea service. She was now little more than a floating hulk, although still officially classed an armoured cruiser.

Her masts and guns were stripped when she was used as a depot ship for two years. Her name became Vernon III in 1904, when she joined Portsmouth-based HMS Vernon, the Navy's torpedo training school. Her role was supplying steam and electricity to neighboring hulks. A year later, another armored cruiser called Warrior was launched.

Nobody wanted the old battleship when she went up for sale in 1924. Five years on, she inherited the name Oil Fuel Hulk C77 when starting life as a ship keeper’s home and floating oil jetty at Pembroke Dock in Wales.Some 5,000 ships refueled alongside her in her 50 years at Pembroke. However, the Royal Navy kept her in reasonable condition with occasional maintenance trips into dry dock keeping her hull intact. Warrior was the only example of the 45 ironhulls built between 1861 and 1877 to survive.

Garza

La garza real europea (Ardea cinerea) es un ave zancuda de las garzas en la familia Ardeidae, nativa de Europa y de Asia templada, incluso partes de África. Es residente en el medio sur y el oeste, pero muchos migran en invierno del hielo de regiones más frías.

Es un ave grande, parada mide 9 a 10 dm de altura, con una envergadura de alas de 17 a 20 dm y un peso de 1 a 2 kg. Su plumaje es mayormente gris arriba, y algo blanco debajo. Los adultos tienen la cabeza blanca con un copete negro superciliar y una cresta delgada, en los juveniles toda la cabeza es gris. Tiene un pico fuerte rosa-amarillento, brillante cuando adultos. Tiene un vuelo lento, con su largo cuello retraído (forma de S). Cuando extiende su cuello, el pico semeja una cuchara. Esto es característico de las garzas y garcetas, y los distingue de las cigüeñas.

La sp. crece en colonias, en árboles cerca de espejos de agua, o áreas inundables, y aún es capaz de anidar en juncales. Hace un nido compacto de ramitas.

Caza y come en aguas bajas, peces, ranas con su largo y afilado pico. Las garzas son capaces de coger pequeños mamíferos y pájaros. Frecuentemente espera que la presa se aquiete para atraparla, o puede lentamente cazar al acecho.

POLESDEN LACY

This Regency house is in an exceptional setting on the Surrey Hills and enjoys stunning views. The house was remodelled in 1906-09 by the Hon. Mrs Ronald Greville, a well-known Edwardian hostess. Her collections of fine paintings, furniture, porcelain and silver are displayed in the reception rooms and galleries, as they were at the time of her celebrated house parties. There are also extensive grounds, a beautiful walled rose garden, lawns and landscape walks for visitors to enjoy. Once the home of poet and playwright Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Polesden Lacey was the venue for the honeymoon of the future King George VI and Queen Elizabeth in 1923.

brookclands museum

For three decades this famous racing track, placed like a giant footprint in the Surrey countryside, just 20 miles south west of London, was the centre of British Motor Sport. The two and half mile circuit with its two massive concrete bankings was the very epitome of speed and captured the imagination of the period.

What happened at Brooklands was news and the drivers that raced there became household names.

In the summer of 1906 at a dinner party with some influential friends in the motoring world, Hugh Locke King found that he had volunteered to build, at his own expense and on his own land, the world's first purpose-built motor-racing track.

Locke King was himself a keen motoring enthusiast and had been to see a big international motor race on the continent and was very disappointed that there were no British competitors. He was told that Britain stood no chance in trials and competitions because there was nowhere in this country that British cars could be tested or raced.

As soon as the design of the track was entrusted to Colonel H.C.L. Holden of the Royal Artillery, the original plans began to grow beyond Locke King's wildest expectations. Far from the idea of a simple road circuit, Locke King was persuaded that, in order for cars to achieve the highest possible speeds, with the greatest possible safety, the 2¾ mile circuit would need to be provided with two huge banked sections nearly 30 ft. high. The track would be 100 ft. wide, hard-surfaced and include two long straights, one running for half a mile beside the London to Southampton Railway, and an additional 'Finishing Straight' passing the Paddock and enclosures, bringing the total length of the track to 3¼ miles.

Because Brooklands was the world's first purpose-built motor-racing circuit there were no previous examples to follow. To begin with, many of the rules and procedures were based on horse racing in order to try and attract a ready made audience to this new and somewhat curious sporting venue.

In addition to the unique banked curves, features of the new motor course included the distinctive green-domed Clubhouse complete with a weighbridge for cars and changing rooms for competitors.

On the 17th June 1907 after just nine months of work the still unfinished Brooklands Motor Course was opened - this outstanding feat of engineering having eventually cost Hugh Locke King a personal fortune of £150,000, a price equal to millions of pounds today.

The first official race, on 6th July 1907, was heralded by the motoring press as a 'Motor Ascot'. SPEED RECORDS

Before the first race was even run, Brooklands was the venue for a dramatic speed record attempt. A few days after the ceremonial opening of the Motor Course in June 1907, the motor-racing pioneer, Selwyn Francis Edge, used the Track for establishing a 24 hour record.

With hundreds of roadside lanterns to mark the inner edge of the Track and bright flares to illuminate the rim Edge drove his green six-cylinder Napier for the whole 24 hours covering 1,581 miles at an average speed of almost 66 miles an hour. Supported by two other Napiers on the run, Edge established a record which stood for 17 years.

However on the morning of 15th February 1913, in front of a large crowd of press and public, the small but courageous Brooklands racing driver, Percy Lambert, achieved 103.84 mph.

Tragically, while trying to improve his own record a few months later, after promising his fiancée that he would attempt no more, he crashed and was killed on the Track. Many still say his ghost regularly walks at Brooklands in full racing attire.

LA INVESTIGACIÓN EN COLLÍA DE PERSONAS MAYORES SOBRE SU OCIO Y TIEMPO LIBRE

CONCLUSIONES:

Tras haber analizado y comentado los resultados expuestos en las tablas y gráficas sobre el cuestionario aplicado a las personas mayores de Collía, podemos concluir que nuestra actividad abarcaría aproximadamente al 60% de la población, de la cual tanto hombres como mujeres estarían repartidos equitativamente.

La mayoría de esa franja de población residiría en la zona de el Campón; teniendo como centro de nuestras actividades dicha zona. El estado civil de estas personas no nos influiría, ya que todos desean realizar algún tipo de actividad o salida. El 70% de estas personas mayores tienen hijos/as y nietos/as, pero principalmente desean realizar las actividades con sus nietos/as.

Dado que nuestro estudio indica claramente el deseo de realizar salidas en grupo con conocidos y amigos; siendo dichas actividades y salidas de tipo histórico, social y de senderismo. Nuestras salidas se centraran principalmente en el sector femenino ya que son las que desean realizar un mayor número de salidas, por lo tanto, la mayor parte de las salidas que realizaremos serán en torno a las que ellas hayan escogido.

El esfuerzo de promocionar salidas se centraría, principalmente, desde los 55 hasta los 70 años ya que son el sector de la población de Collía que menos o ninguna salida realizan, teniendo asegurados los mayores de 71 años debido a su alta disponibilidad para realizar diferentes actividades.

En conclusión sería un servicio a la comunidad, que tendría grandes posibilidades de éxito.