wisho's blog: enero 2011

23.1.11

Un pequeño sacrificio

Un día, uno de los hijos de los vecinos que viven a dos casas de la nuestra, vino con Mamá a venderle un boleto para una Rifa de un juego de mesa, un "Jenga", mi mamá acepto pensando que no se iba a ganar nada, eran 10 pesos del boleto.

Al final del día el niño regresa y le trae este pequeño papelito, y el Jenga.

El Jenga era usado, era de ellos y necesitaban el dinero para comprar algo para comer, cuando me entere se me partió el corazón.

Por una necesidad los niños tuvieron que vender su juego, es algo que te pone la piel chinita.

Mamá les presta dinero de vez en cuando porque a veces no tienen ni para comer.

Que triste es ver este tipo de situaciones, y saber que hay mas gente pasando por lo mismo o peor.

Por eso, siempre hay que ayudar, no nos hacemos ni mas, ni menos ricos al hacerlo, pero si engrandece nuestro corazón.

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Location:Reynosa, Tamaulipas; Mexico

18.1.11

China: Qingdao Haiwan Bridge

fue construida por 10.000 trabajadores en 4 años y costó US$8.700
millonesde seis pistas por cada lado se sostiene sobre 5.200 pilares
se usaron 450.000 toneladas de acero y 2,3 millones de metros cúbicos
de cemento.podrá soportar terremotos de grado 8 y tifones.Una
maravilla de la ingeniería.

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17.1.11

Flooding in Australia

The airport, the Bruce Highway, and large swaths of Rockhampton, Australia, remained under water on January 9, 2011. Days of rain pushed the Fitzroy River over its banks, inundating parts of the city near the Queensland coast. Damage to the Bruce Highway was not confined to Rockhampton, as ABC News Australia reported other parts of the highway were expected to remain under water for some time.

In this image, acquired by the Advanced Land Imager (ALI) on NASA’s Earth Observing-1 (EO-1) satellite on January 9, 2011, isolated islands of cityscape poke through murky brown flood waters. The Fitzroy River cuts through the upper right quadrant of the image and, just west of the river, relatively high land remains above the flood.

Rockhampton was just one of many Australian communities reeling from floods. Farmers along the Sunshine Coast were stranded by high waters that washed out roads. Authorities in Brisbane, Australia’s third-largest city, told residents to evacuate in anticipation of the worst flooding in several decades.

References
ABC Australia. (2011, January 11). Bruce Highway still cut, residents stranded.Accessed January 11. 2011.
Edwards, M. (2011, January 7). Flood recovery chief visits flood-ravaged Rockhampton.ABC Australia. Accessed January 11, 2011.
Rourke, A., Jones, S. (2011, January 11). Brisbane residents flee homes as floodwaters rise. The Guardian. Accessed January 11, 2010.

NASA Earth Observatory image created by Jesse Allen, using EO-1 ALI data provided courtesy of the NASA EO-1 team. Caption by Michon Scott.