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Christopher Columbus The Untold Story
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Pope Gives the Americas to Spain Following Columbus' "discovery",
Pope Alexander VI issued a May 4, 1493, papal bull granting official
ownership of the New World to Ferdinand and Isabella. To these
monarchs, the Pope declared: "We of our own motion, and not at
your solicitation, do give, concede, and assign for ever to you and
your successors, all the islands, and main lands, discovered; and
which may hereafter, be discovered, towards the west and south;
whether they be situated towards India,
or towards any other part whatsoever, and give you absolute
power in them." [9]
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STILL PLAYING GOD
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Mutant Killer Seaweed of Doom
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4:59 pm Written by Richard Solensky on January 25th, 2008 at 4:59 pm From DamnInteresting.com From
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A Caulerpa meadow
Back in the early 1980's, the Wilhelmina Zoo in Stuttgart was looking into various types of seaweed
for use in their aquarium displays.They settled on a species known as Caulerpa taxifolia , since its
bright green, feathery fern-like fronds were quite "pretty", and it was both hardy and fast-growing.
In addition, it produces chemicals that make it taste awful to marine animals, so it wouldn’t get eaten.
By repeatedly subjecting aquarium specimens to harsh conditions and selecting the ones that
survived the best, researchers developed Caulerpa taxifolia (Vahl) C. Agandh , a new-and-improved,
genetically distinct strain which was particularly hardy and fast-growing.
This variety was ideal for their purposes and it was shared with other museums and aquariums.
For a time, all was well and good in the world of marine botany.In 1984, however, a square meter
patch of this new variety of Caulerpa was found in the Mediterranean off the shore of Monaco,
right outside the Oceanographic Museum.
Evidently a little piece of it was flushed down a drain. But while those
organizations involved in dealing with the accidental release exercised their blame-pointing fingers,
Caulerpa spread. It was, after all, particularly hardy and fast-growing.
By the time anyone got around to doing anything about it,
the infestation covered several acres and was beyond
anyone’s control. By 2001, there were thousands of acres
of this remarkably prolific plant clogging coastal waters
around the Mediterranean.
A Caulerpa infestation looks like a vast meadow of leafy, green fronds. And nothing else.The
have been compared to fields of wet, overgrown Astroturf. It grows as much as three inches
a day, fast enough to crowd out other algae, and since it tastes awful, aquatic herbivores
won’t go near it. It grows as much as three inches a day, fast enough to crowd out other algae,
and since it tastes awful, aquatic herbivores will not go near it. Because it creates immense fields
of desert-like undersea monotony, humans are crowded out as well. The bland landscape
becomes uninteresting to divers, diminishing the tourism industry; and seaside fishermen
lose interest as their favorite fish move on to more accommodating waters.Its appearances as
far away as Spain, Croatia, and Tunisia are believed to be the result of Caulerpa being picked
up by fishing nets and anchors. Since it’s particularly hardy, it isn’t bothered by
typical harbor pollution and it happily lies waiting to hitch a ride. A tiny fragment no larger than
a fingernail is all that is needed to spawn a new plant, which means that the usual mechanical
seaweed-removal methods can actually spread an infestation rather than contain it.
Controlling the plant with natural predators is also problematic.While there are a few mollusks
that will munch happily on the other strains of Caulerpa, they cannot tolerate the temperatures
of the Mediterranean, and they would be unable to eat it fast enough to be useful
anyway. Meanwhile, Caulerpa was working its way around the globe via the aquarium trade.
In 2000, two small patches were found off the shore of San Diego, CA. Additional patches were
spotted off southeast Australia. It is believed that these were the result of people dumping the
contents of their salt-water aquaria down the drain. Aware of the danger, agencies in California
sprang into action. Aware of the danger, agencies in California sprang into action.
The state passed a law banning the possession and sale of nine species of Caulerpa.
The City of San Diego topped them by banning all Caulerpa species. The infestations were
dealt with through drastic measures.Marine biologists led an all-out assault on the invader.
Armed with the latest weapons in botanical warfare, they completely covered and sealed
the patches with black plastic tarps to cut off sunlight. Next, they pumped deadly chlorine
under the tarps, killing every last trace of the enemy - along with anything else that had the
misfortune to be trapped along with it.
Six years and $7 million later, California can boast the world's first successful victory over a
Caulerpa invasion. Mediterranean countries are doing what they can with mechanical removal,
and Australia is trying copper sulfate, a potent herbicide. In both places, the infestations
are too large for the California treatment. In both places, the infestations are too large for the
California treatment. Meanwhile the United States has declared a war on mutant seaweed,
exercising the federal Noxious Weed Act (1999) and the federal Plant Protection Act
(2000) to ban the importation, interstate sale, and transport of the menacing Caulerpa.
A public education campaign is also underway in California.Nonetheless, a recent survey
showed that there are still stores selling the banned species. Not only do home hobbyists
frequently lack the expertise to identify the illegal immigrants, but dealers, distributors,and
inspectors may also lack this knowledge.
Bans have also been enacted in Spain, France, and Australia. .
Invasive species are certainly nothing new.The current infestation of rabbits in Australia
is perhaps the most well-known example of a foreign species causing the decline and
extinction of various indigenous species. This invasion was launched by a landowner who
immigrated from England and wanted to continue his rabbit-hunting hobby. Additionally,
in 19th Century America, "acclimation societies" were trendy among those well-to-do who
wanted to better mankind through scientific dabbling.
Members encouraged the introduction and spread of non-native species for various
beneficial uses.
Kudzu, presently infesting the southeast U.S.,was brought over from Japan for use
as animal fodder and ground cover.
House sparrows were imported from Britain to control insects, only to quickly become
annoying to the pest as the insects they were meant to control.
Even after it became apparent that the introduced species were becoming problems,
they still continued bringing in new ones.What separates Caulerpa from other invasive
varieties is that it does not occur in nature.
It is the product of selective-breeding genetic manipulation, pre-packaged with a man-made
advantage which allows it to out-compete natural species Although Genetically Modified
(GM) crops are invaluable in feeding millions of poor– usually by producing more nutrients,
growing in harsher environments, producing larger yields, and/or resisting predators–
Caulerpa serves as a sobering illustration of the risks involved in developing alternatives
which are hardier than their natural cousins. Today this mutant seaweed serves as a test
case for the control of an accidentally-released unnatural strain, demonstrating the importance
of quick and comprehensive action.
Today this mutant seaweed serves as a test case for the control of an accidentally-released
unnatural strain, demonstrating the importance of quick and comprehensive action.
The ease at which it spreads and grows has earned Caulerpa a spot on the World Conservation
Union’s "100 World’s Worst Invasive Alien Species" List.
It remains to be seen whether or not the spread of Caulerpa can be contained, or whether
it will wind up being the equivalent of aquatic kudzu. It remains to be seen whether or not the
spread of Caulerpa can be contained,or whether it will wind up being the equivalent of aquatic
kudzu.
Perhaps over time we'll find some Caulerpa-consuming sea creatures we can introduce to feast
upon the unwanted plants; and hopefully we won't need to find something to control the Caulerpa
eaters.
Failing that, some genetic tinkering might yield some kind of particularly hardy and fast-growing
Caulerpa predator, and we can pit one mutant against another mutant. With enough time, tarps,
and successive creature-eaters, ourvictory over un-nature is inevitable...
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Aware of the danger, the agencies in California took action
approving a law that prohibits the venda and possession of
nine species of Caulerpa.
The infestations have been treated through drastic measures.
Marine biologists led hunt for a plant. Armed with the latest weapons
in war botany, they completely covered areas contaminated with a canvas
of black plastic that prevented the photosynthesis.
Then they bombearam chlorine into the areas covered, killing the algae
killer and anything else that had the misfortune to be trapped along with it.
The life of a fly lasts 24 hours.
Thus, she sees the world where everything is very slow If the fly
thought she think that the houses, the forests and mountains are
eternal. Similarly, we humans, we see the world the human
perspective.We see the mountains they seem to have always
been there.
We see that they are moving.
For us, everything will be finished in 80, 90 or no later than 120 years.
But on a scale of life of a planet, our passage through here amounts
to less than one second in an entire year. magine the misery that mean
for the Earth
A plant that grows 7.5 cm per day will cover the entire planet in
a very short time on a planetary scale.It will be a matter of a few
millennia for this thing to get out of the sea, invade the rivers,
invade the earth. She ? will take the planet. It is easy to see in
this situation a clear risk of human action on something as
complex and delicate nature.We can only condemn everything
that is transgenic or genetically modified as something vile and
potentially disastrous for humans and other living things on Earth.
Clearly, the same way that these environmental cagadas happen,
genetically modified crops are invaluable for feeding millions
of people, producing more nutrients, grow in harsher environments,
producing more fruit, and / or resisting the disease and predators.
But the Caulerpa is a beautiful lesson for all those who think they
can do what they want with the genes of an animal or plant...
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In the shadow of the swastika
By PETER MILLAR Last updated at 00:13 02 May 2008
The similarity between the drab old three-storey apartment house in Amstetten
where Josef Fritzl raped and imprisoned his daughter for 24 years, and the one
90 minutes' drive away where Adolf Hitler was born is a coincidence - but not
a comfortable one.,Austria's politicians are battling to prevent damage to the
country's reputation from the grotesque scandal of small-town incest and brutality.
Yet one kidnap victim has already made the link between her ordeal and the nation's
past.,Natasha Kampusch, who for eight years was held in a similar dungeon to the
one where Josef Fritzl imprisoned his daughter, opened a Pandora's box when
she linked both horror stories to the country's 'authoritarian education' and 'the
suppression of women' under the Nazis.Scroll down for more...Her implication was
that Fritzl, at 73 a child of the Nazi era, belongs to a generation that thought it
could get away with anything. He was educated in a system where women were
supposedly confined to 'children, church and kitchen' and were expected to offer
sex too, of course, but nobody mentioned that.,The Future Austrian president Kurt
Waldheim, with wartime colleagues truth is that, for Austria, the Nazi era is a can
of stinking worms that the country has fought for more than half a century to keep
the lid on.
While Germany has largely overcome the darkest pages of its history by laying them bare, apologising and facing up to the past in order to build a new future,
Austria never underwent this catharsis.The result is that the whole of modern Austria is in denial about its recent past; its national identity has been founded on
a tissue of lies and wishful thinking.There is a disturbing parallel between the way respectable Austrians choose to bury the truth about the country's Nazi
history and the manner in which the apparently respectable Fritzl covered up his monstrous behaviour in the cellar.To understand the country's almost
institutionalised schizophrenia, we have to go back to the days of the vast Hapsburg Austrian Empire which lasted from the Middle Ages until 1918 and was
ruled from Vienna.Dominated by German speakers, it was a multicultural hotch-potch. And when the Empire was dismembered after the First World War the
'German- speaking provinces' became a separate country called the Austrian Republic - primarily because France insisted they shouldn't be linked to a
'greater Germany' which could once again threaten world peace.This rump republic collapsed in on itself, treasuring strict Catholic, conservative values,
searching for something to make it a nation and often finding only anti-Semitism. The 1938 Anschluss - when Hitler's troops simply marched in - was seen by
many as an overdue correction. Tens of thousands lined the streets to cheer Hitler as the 'local boy made good'. Austrians were incorporated into the Reich
as equals and joined the army in droves.Ironically, it was the Second World War Allies who created the myth that Austria clings to even now, declaring in 1943
that Austria had been the first 'victim of Hitlerite aggression'. The statement was intended to bolster an Austrian resistance that didn't ever actually exist.True,
many Austrians had opposed Nazism and resented the loss of independence but at least as many shrugged their shoulders and thought Nazi rule inevitable
.The Von Trapp family story, made famous in The Sound of Music, was a mythologised exception rather than the rule.After 1945 redefinition started all over
again, as Austria revelled in the 'victim' status, pretending Nazism was something that happened to Austria rather than in it. A wave of collective amnesia was
hypocritically cloaked in Catholic morality, folksy loden coats and winter sportswear.Not many today boast that Hitler was a fellow Austrian, born in the border
town of Braunau-am-Inn, spent his youth in Vienna, and that the resentful bitterness of a great cosmopolitan city stripped of its empire rubbed off on him. Best
not mentioned in public, that. Best kept quiet, like Fritzl's other family in the basement. I had my own creepy experience first hand of Austria's schizophrenia in
the early 1980s when I joined a mostly-German skiing lesson in the Austrian Alps.At the end of the day our flaxenhaired, wasp-waisted, Ray-Banwearing
instructor told us we should raise one ski, hold our sticks in the air and shout a triple 'Ski-Heil!' It meant "Long live skiing!" and we would be "silly to think it
made us sound like old Nazis", he explained. The trouble was - I could see my German fellow-learners felt the same as we obediently chanted the totemic
phrase for the third time - it was just a bit too close to 'Sieg Heil!'MIn Germany it would have been unthinkable, but this was jolly old Gl¸hwein-drinking, yodelling
Austria. They were victims. They could get away with anything: they just had! The national schizophrenia was again laid bare in the 1980s when Kurt Waldheim,
Austrian president and former United Nations Secretary General - a post unthinkable for a German - was revealed to have lied about his service in the wartime
German Wehrmacht. Simon Wiesenthal, the late Viennabased Nazi hunter, defended Waldheim against allegations of war crimes, but he had unarguably purged 'awkward' details of his army service. He was not the only Austrian to have found it convenient to partition off part of his life.Outside Hitler's birthplace in Braunau
there is now a chunk of granite from Mauthausen concentration camp bearing the words 'Never Again'.There might soon be something similar outside the bleak
building in Amstetten.Peter Millar is author of Tomorrow Belongs To Me, an oral history of Germany 1945 to 1990
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In the shadow of the swastika
By PETER MILLAR Last updated at 00:13 02 May 2008
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The art of photo montage could be said to have started just after the First World War, but the manipulation
of photographs already had a history going back to the invention of photography in the mid 19th century.
Direct contact printing of objects placed on photographic plates, double exposures, and composite pictures
made by darkroom masking were all popular in the Victorian era. Besides this practical use of combination
photography, Victorians discovered the amusement to be had from postcards of the wrong head stuck on a
different body, or the creation of strange or impossible creatures.
But it was not until the revolutionary times following the "Great War" that artists began to see the use of
montage as a truly new art form. The centre of this explosion of creativity was Berlin, where a group of
artists calling themselves Dada was looking for a new means of expression: one that had more meaning
than the prevailing drift into abstraction, but that did not simply return to the traditions of figurative painting.
As Surrealism became the dominant European art form, photomontage gradually faded into obscurity for
many years, until there was a revival in the 1960s, partly inspired by a renewed interest in Dada. Several
of the artists connected with the Pop Art movement used magazine photos and text to convey the ethos of
the age.
At this time, and to an extent in response to the increasing populism of art, advertisers jumped on
the bandwagon and started to produce more photomontages, a trend that continues to this day.
The next great revival in the use of montage in Europe was connected with the politics of the anti-nuclear
movement of the 1980s.
Much of the imagery at this time was designed for use in banners for demonstrations, producing a very
graphic means of communication.
The history of the "cut-up" started with the still image and cinema, but since those days the field has
expanded to include text, sound, and digital montage using graphics programs like Photoshop, which
will be included in version 2 of this site.
My own photomontages and animations can be seen at my personal portfolio site Pabulum Pix.
Please email me with your feedback and ideas.
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