March of Independence in Warsaw
Warsaw, Poland
11/11/2014
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Nationalist groups clash with police in Warsaw on Independence Day
More than 200 people have been detained as some Poles object to European Union ideals
Police in Warsaw used water cannon and fired rubber bullets into the air on Tuesday to push back several hundred masked men who broke away from a far-right march and threw stones and flares at lines of riot police. Nationalist groups who believe traditional Polish values are under threat march through the Polish capital each year to mark the anniversary of Polish independence, and for the fourth year in a row their procession turned violent. When the march, involving tens of thousands of people, crossed a bridge over the Vistula river to the eastern bank near the national soccer stadium, a group of people broke away.
They tore up paving slabs and benches from a nearby bus station and hurled them at police, a Reuters reporter said. The police responded by firing rubber bullet rounds into the air, and used jets of water, stained red by a colouring agent, from four water cannon trucks to push them back. Three men tried to move forward using a large blue road sign they had torn down as a shield but were also driven back.
The Reuters reporter saw one man bleeding from a wound to his head and Polish television showed a police officer being stretchered into an ambulance. Police spokesman Mariusz Sokolowski said more than 200 people had been detained, many of them before the march started for carrying items that could be used as weapons. He said officers had contained the rioters in the area around the soccer stadium and were bringing the confrontation under control. The majority of the marchers carried on peacefully to a rally nearby.
Led by a centre-right government, Poland is enjoying a period of prosperity unprecedented in its modern history. But some Poles feel traditional values – including a strong attachment to the Catholic church, and opposition to abortion and same-sex marriages – are being sacrificed as Poland embraces the ideals of the European Union. At the start of the march, participants chanted “Down with the European Union!” One small group in the crowd, from the city of Chelm, began making Nazi-style salutes, but organisers intervened to stop them.
Source: theguardian.com
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Romagna RFC – Rugby Noceto FC 26-11
Romagna RFC – Rugby Noceto FC 26-11
Cesena, 26/10/2014
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Okopowa Street Jewish Cemetery
Okopowa Street Jewish Cemetery
360° Panoramic Photography (with a Samsung Galaxy S5)
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List of the upcoming space missions and events
2014
- November – (Rosetta) – ESA mission reaches Comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko.
- November – (Philae) – ESA Rosetta Lander touches down on Comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko.
- Virgin Galactic will begin scheduled flights of SpaceShipTwo to sub-orbit.
2015
- February 1 – (Dawn) – NASA’s Dawn spacecraft will enter orbit around Ceres), the first spacecraft to visit a dwarf planet.
- May – The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) will launch an orbiter towards Venus.
- July 14 – NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft will arrive at Pluto, becoming the first spacecraft to flyby the dwarf planet and also returning the first close-up images of this distant world and its moons.
- August 15 – BepiColombo – Launch of ESA and ISAS Orbiter and Lander Missions to Mercury)
- October – The Google Lunar X Prize may be won by Astrobotic Technology, who has a contract with SpaceX to use one of their rockets to take a lunar rover to the Moon.
- The ESA’s Don Quijote) spacecraft will launch, a mission to impact an asteroid and study the change in its trajectory to see if such a method could be used to deflect an asteroid away from Earth.
- China will land its unmanned Chang’e 4 spacecraft on the Moon.
- Russia is expected to land two unmanned probes on the Moon, Luna-Glob 1 and 2.
2016
- March – NASA’s next Mars lander, InSight, will launch to the Red Planet to study beneath the surface using a drill.
- The first part of the ESA’s ExoMars mission, the Trace Gas Orbiter (to study the atmosphere) and the EDM lander (to test landing technologies), will launch to Mars.
- September – NASA will launch its own asteroid sample return mission, called OSIRIS-REx.
- Bearing the same name as its successful probes in the 60s, 70s and 80s, Russia will launch a new orbiter called Venera-D to Venus.
- Sierra Nevada Corporation’s Dream Chaser spacecraft will complete its first flight, launching on an Atlas V rocket.
- NASA’s solar powered Juno) spacecraft will arrive at Jupiter.
- The The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) will land its Chandrayaan-2 rover on the Moon, in tandem with a lunar orbiter.
2017
- July – The ESA’s new solar orbiter, SOLO, will launch to the Sun.
- December – First flight of NASA’s Space Launch System rocket, taking the (Orion) spacecraft on an unmanned flight around the Moon.
- China will launch another mission to the Moon, Chang’e 5, this time with the goal of returning lunar samples to Earth.
2018
- January – Inspiration Mars will launch two people to Mars on a 501-day mission to flyby the Red Planet and return to Earth.
- NASA’s Solar Probe Plus will launch and will approach the Sun to within 8.5 solar radii (0.034 AU, 5.9 million kilometres), the closest any spacecraft has been to the Sun.
- The ESA’s ExoMars rover will launch to the Red Planet, using the previously launched Trace Gas Orbiter as its means to communicate with Earth.
- NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), the successor to the Hubble Space Telescope, will launch.
2019
- A proposed NASA telescope called EXCEDE (Exoplanetary Circumstellar Environments and Disk Explorer) will launch to observe planet formation around nearby stars.
2020
- The ISS will be decommissioned and de-orbited at some point after 2020.
- Russia will launch an orbiter, lander and rover to the Moon on the Luna-Grunt 1 mission.
2021
- Russia’s next lunar lander, *Luna-Grunt 28, will return samples to Earth.
NASA’s (Orion) spacecraft will fly with a crew for the first time, possibly taking astronauts to visit an asteroid.
2023
- Mars One is expected to land the first human settlers on the Red Planet.
2024
- Solar Probe Plus will fly into the Sun’s atmosphere (or corona) for the first time.
2231
- April 5 – Pluto – is passed by Neptune in distance from the Sun for the next 20 years.
10,000
- Pioneer 10 passes within 3.8 light years of Barnard’s Star.
296,000
4,000,000
- Pioneer 11 – NASA flyby of star Lambda Aquila.
1,000,000,000
- Estimated lifespan of the two Voyager Golden Records, before the information stored on them is rendered unrecoverable.
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Selezione ufficiale al Kontinent Awards
Periodo fortunato per la mia fotografia “The Clash” che, dopo aver ricevuto la menzione d’onore al Moscow International Foto Awards, è risultata nella Selezione Ufficiale del Kontinent Awards 2014.
Il Kontinent Awards è uno dei concorsi che trovo più interessanti e per questo vi consiglio di dare un’occhiata alle fotografie e ai progetti vincitori, a questo indirizzo: kontinentawards.com/results-2014
La giuria era composta da:
- Kathleen SORIANO / Director of Exhibitions, ROYAL ACADEMY OF ARTS
- Loranza BRAVETTA / Head of Continental Europe, MAGNUM PHOTOS
- Lizabeth RONK / Photo Editor, LIFE.COM – TIME
- Peter COELN / Founder, WESTLICHT PHOTOGRAPHY MUSEUM & OSTLICHT GALLERY
- Natasha EGAN / Executive Director, MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY PHOTOGRAPHY
- Rob DAWSON / Editor in Charge – Global Picture Desk, REUTERS
- Martin ROGGE / Founder, FLATLAND GALLERY
- Caroline METCALFE / Photographic Director, CONDE NAST TRAVELLER MAGAZINE
- Chris MOORE / Publisher, RANDIAN ART MAGAZINE
- Alessandro Botteri BALLI / Founder, ARTE F GALLERY
- Jerome Huffer / Picture Desk Head Manager, PARIS MATCH
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