Israël vs Palestine : Un génocide humain et territorial depuis 71 ans !

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Du site Orient XXI :  Le parkour, une pratique de résistance !

   ¨ La colonisation israélienne a profondément déstructuré le territoire palestinien, désormais discontinu et fragmenté, symbole de dépossession pour les Palestiniens et de toute-puissance pour les Israéliens. Les checkpoints, les contrôles volants, les colonies, le mur, les routes coloniales... régissent l’espace et la temporalité des vies palestiniennes. Mais le parkour, une pratique sportive qui consiste à franchir des obstacles urbains ou naturels vient bouleverser l’ordre de l’occupant.   

   À Kufr Akab, en périphérie sud de Ramallah, dans le bus en route pour la gare centrale de la capitale palestinienne, Hazim prend son mal en patience. Assis, las, la tête avachie contre la vitre, il attend que le bus bondé se fraie un chemin dans le bouchon gigantesque qui se forme quotidiennement autour du checkpoint de Qalandiya. Le jeune homme explique que « c’est tous les jours pareil, à force de passer des heures coincés dans les bouchons, on connaît par cœur la devanture de chaque boutique qui borde la route ».

Samouraïs des temps modernes ! 

   Une pratique vient casser les règles de circulation dans ce territoire palestinien morcelé et carcéral où les gardiens portent l’uniforme israélien. Cette pratique, c’est le parkour. Le parkour a émergé dans les années 1990. Il s’est fait davantage connaître au cours des années 2000.

   Il consiste à utiliser son corps, à le mobiliser pour se déplacer dans un espace urbain selon les spécificités géographiques du territoire, en alliant vitesse, agilité et maîtrise de l’espace. Les adeptes du parkour redéfinissent les limites qui marquent leur espace. En les franchissant, ils génèrent un nouveau territoire, et surtout une manière de s’approprier les lieux.

   Mais en pratiquant le parkour, les jeunes Palestiniens veulent redevenir maîtres de leurs déplacements et se réapproprier leur quartier, leur ville, le temps de leur session sportive. Sur l’esplanade des Mosquées, Mustapha s’assoit à nos côtés pour nous expliquer que « vivre à Jérusalem c’est être un oiseau en cage. » Le parkour lui permet de retrouver sa liberté. Pour lui, les Palestiniens ont fait du parkour un sport contestataire qui permet de combattre l’espace de domination mis en place par le gouvernement israélien et d’affirmer que les rues de Jérusalem-Est leur appartiennent malgré les restrictions de mouvement et la segmentation de la ville.

 Gaza, parkour de guerre !
   Gaza est hautement symbolique : lieu d’exclusion, ghetto où ses habitants sont piégés entre les murs et la mer. La bande de Gaza est aujourd’hui dans une situation catastrophique : famine, pénurie d’eau, épidémies menacent. L’enclave est au bord de la rupture. Depuis 2007, la situation s’est aggravée avec la mise en place d’un blocus à la fois terrestre, aérien et maritime. Il enferme les Palestiniens de toutes parts. Les opérations militaires israéliennes qui se sont enchaînées de 2008 à aujourd’hui ont amplifié l’imminence d’un désastre humain. Dès 2012, L’ONU avait alerté sur le risque que Gaza devienne inhabitable d’ici 2020¨... ( Voir l'article au complet ) 

 https://orientxxi.info/magazine/jerusalem-gaza-le-parkour-defi-symbolique-a-l-occupation-israelienne,3124?fbclid=IwAR26EBv-kSrfJqdXPcA1wWP0aHRKJTPU-6WFqwt4zgAmBW0Og_hhsZQpGQM

https://orientxxi.info/magazine/en-cisjordanie-aussi-l-armee-israelienne-tue-impunement,3003

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The Infamous Angel's Landing

Over the last year or so I've had the privilege of publishing a couple of short films by Christopher R. Abbey. This includes films on climbing 14,505-foot Mt. Whitney in California, as well as a three-day backpacking trip in the Mt. Sterling area of the Great Smoky Mountains. His latest film chronicles his hike up Angel's Landing in Zion National Park, and highlights some of the crazy terrain hikers travel over to reach its summit. Hope you enjoy:





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National Park Visitor Spending Contributed $40 Billion to U.S. Economy

As the summer vacation and travel seasons opens, U.S. Secretary of the Interior David Bernhardt announced that visitor spending in communities near national parks in 2018 resulted in a $40.1 billion benefit to the nation’s economy and supported 329,000 jobs.

According to the annual National Park Service report, 2018 National Park Visitor Spending Effects, more than 318 million visitors spent $20.2 billion in communities within 60 miles of a park in the National Park System. Of the 329,000 jobs supported by visitor spending, more than 268,000 jobs exist in the park gateway communities.

“This report emphasizes the tremendous impact the national parks have on our nation’s economy and underscores the need to fulfill President Trump's plan to rebuild park infrastructure,” said Secretary of the Interior David Bernhardt. “With 419 sites, and at least one in every state, our national parks continue to provide visitors, both local and destination, with innumerous recreational, inspirational, and world-class experiences.”

“National parks with their iconic natural, cultural and historic landscapes represent the heart and soul of America,” said National Park Service Deputy Director P. Daniel Smith. “They are also a vital part of our nation’s economy, especially for park gateway communities where millions of visitors each year find a place to sleep and eat, hire outfitters and guides and make use of other local services that help drive a vibrant tourism and outdoor recreation industry.”

Economic benefits from visitor spending increased by $2 billion and total output increased by $4.3 billion in comparison to 2017.

As a part of the report, visitor surveys were conducted at 19 parks with the results indicating that people spent more time in the parks, stayed longer in gateway communities and spent more money during their visits.

Visitation varies across the National Park System, from big parks like Rocky Mountain National Park to Grant-Kohrs Ranch National Historic Site in Montana.

Lodging expenses account for the largest share of visitor spending totaling nearly $6.8 billion in 2018. Food expenses are the second largest spending area with visitors spending $4 billion in restaurants and bars and another $1.4 billion at grocery and convenience stores.

The peer-reviewed economics report was prepared by economists Catherine Cullinane Thomas and Egan Cornachione of the U.S. Geological Survey and Lynne Koontz of the National Park Service. It includes information by parks and by states on visitor spending, the number of jobs supported by visitor spending and other statistics.

Report authors also produce an interactive tool that enables users to explore visitor spending, jobs, labor income, value added, and output effects by sector for national, state, and local economies. Users can also view annual, trend data.



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Laïcité: réfléchir à la vie sociale en tant que citoyen !

Shenandoah National Park Announces Launch of Interactive Map “Exploring Shenandoah National Park History – One Tract at a Time”

Park Superintendent Jennifer Flynn is pleased to announce the release of “Exploring Shenandoah National Park History – One Tract at a Time (EPH)”. This new web-based interactive map provides the public with historic land tract boundaries “linked” to information about the tract including land ownership, acreage, houses, structures and land use. This information was previously published in “A Database of Shenandoah National Park’s Land Records” (Engle, 1997). The historic map is displayed with current park boundary, roads and trails.

“We are excited to offer this additional method for students, researchers and the general public to explore nearly 1,600 individual tracts of what once were private lands and are now included in Shenandoah National Park,” said Flynn. Descendants of the families who once lived on these tracts of land will find information that extends beyond simple map locations. They will discover historic photos, letters/correspondence, additional land records and oral history transcripts/recordings related to many aspects of the park history. Increasing the scope of EPH to cover more of the park history will expand the users to not only descendants and researchers of the land acquisition for the park; but will include those interested in the Civilian Conservation Corps, the Appalachian Trail and other topics and points of interest.

The launch is the culmination of a several year project led by a multi-disciplinary team of park staff and largely shaped by students and researchers at North Carolina State University’s Center for Geospatial Analytics. Now fully implemented, the EPH map application will help satisfy public interest in park museum collections while preserving original documents for future generations. Furthermore, serving this information in an intuitive, interactive web-map application will serve the growing interest in park history. Creating portals to information about the park in a digital format becomes increasingly important as our population becomes more digitally oriented.

Users can access the “Exploring Shenandoah National Park History – One Tract at a Time” map application by copying and pasting the following link into any standard web browser: https://nps.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=81acffc694a24f4692e704051526f61c




Jeff
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Smokies Tourism Generates $953 million in Visitor Spending

A new National Park Service (NPS) report shows that 11,421,203 visitors to Great Smoky Mountains National Park in 2018 spent $953 million in communities near the park. That spending supported 13,737 jobs in the local area. National park tourism is a significant driver in the national economy, with every dollar invested by American taxpayers in the National Park Service returning $10 to the economy.

“Year after year, the Smokies staff care for this special place and provide rewarding experiences for visitors,” said Superintendent Cassius Cash. “Since last November, we’ve welcomed nearly 1 million visitors to the new section of the Foothills Parkway, offering a new park experience with magnificent views of the highest peaks of the Smokies. We appreciate the long-standing support of our gateway communities and are glad to have this opportunity to give back by helping support the local economy.”

The peer-reviewed visitor spending analysis was conducted by economists Catherine Cullinane Thomas and Egan Cornachione of the U.S. Geological Survey and Lynne Koontz of the National Park Service. The report shows $20.2 billion of direct spending by more than 318 million park visitors in communities within 60 miles of a national park. This spending supported 329,000 jobs nationally; 268,000 of those jobs are found in these gateway communities. The cumulative benefit to the U.S. economy was $40.1 billion.

Lodging expenses account for the largest share of visitor spending, about $6.8 billion in 2018. Food expenses are the second largest spending area and visitors spent $4 billion in restaurants and bars and another $1.4 billion at grocery and convenience stores.

Visitor spending on lodging supported more than 58,000 jobs and more than 61,000 jobs in restaurants. Visitor spending in the recreation industries supported more than 28,000 jobs and spending in retail supported more than 20,000 jobs.

Report authors also produce an interactive tool that enables users to explore visitor spending, jobs, labor income, value added, and output effects by sector for national, state, and local economies. Users can also view year-by-year trend data. The interactive tool and report are available at the NPS Social Science Program webpage: https://www.nps.gov/subjects/socialscience/vse.htm The report includes information for visitor spending at individual parks and by state.

To learn more about national parks in North Carolina or Tennessee and how the National Park Service works with North Carolina and Tennessee communities to help preserve local history, conserve the environment, and provide outdoor recreation, go to www.nps.gov/NorthCarolina or www.nps.gov/Tennessee.



Jeff
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Hiker’s How-To: Proper etiquette for your trail adventures

Though this article is from Colorado Parks and Wildlife, this information applies to all hikers:

Colorado has a reputation for our outdoorsy ways and adventurous attitudes. We love to raft and kayak in whitewater, such as in the Arkansas Headwaters Recreation Area. We water ski at places like Lake Pueblo State Park. We plunge down snowpacked mountainsides on skis. We mountain bike on remote single-tracks. We climb cliffs. We run steep inclines for exercise and fun. We fish and hunt and go wildlife viewing.

But we have one activity that reigns above all others: Hiking. A reader poll on Ranker.com puts Colorado well ahead of Washington, Utah, Oregon and Alaska in the top 5 states for hiking.

We’re talking everything from gentle walks through the meadows and forests of places like Mueller State Park in Teller County, to steep trails with incredible exposures along cliffs like the Dixon Trail in Cheyenne Mountain State Park, or the hundreds of miles of trails that meander through Rocky Mountain National Park.

And we hike 14ers. That’s shorthand for mountains with summits reaching 14,000 feet above sea level and higher. These are generally difficult trails due to elevation gain, length and oxygen-depleted altitude. We have more than four dozen 14ers in Colorado and it’s a badge of honor to conquer them on foot. Last summer, it’s estimated more than 334,000 people hiked Colorado’s 14ers. I can only imagine how many more people are hiking simple, everyday trails.

That’s a lot of people wandering around our outdoor spaces. And because a lot of them are new to Colorado and the outdoors, it’s a good time to talk about trail etiquette to keep the trip safe for yourself, others and the environment.

First, you need to approach a hike as you would a long vacation. Scope out your route to make sure it is the safest and most effective way of getting where we want to go. Don’t let your new trail adventure turn into a nightmare by getting lost. Research where trails begin and end and be realistic in judging your ability to cover the distance. Then plan to start early enough so you don’t end up hiking at a time of day that makes you feel unsafe. This is especially important if you get lost. Best to have daylight for searchers to have a chance of finding you.

Just as important is knowing the terrain. Anyone who has stepped on different textures of land understands that not all shoes work for all textures and trail grades. Walking shoes may be fine on a hard surfaced, flat trail but lousy if you will be on a dirt-and-gravel trail requiring climbing or a steep descent.

Make sure you have the proper gear to get you to and from, in an enjoyable and safe manner.

Next you need to think about food and water. And don’t tell me you don’t need to pack food because you’ll only be gone an hour or two. Think about what might happen if you get lost. Or if you get tired from exerting yourself at altitude more than you expected. Or you just get hungry. You will start to feel stressed and confused. Food and water are going to help you out.

With food and water you usually produce trash. And that brings me to an important trail etiquette rule: Pack it in, pack it out. It’s part of the “leave no trace” ethic of the outdoors. You’ve heard the expression: Leave only footprints and take only memories. Do not leave anything behind. Trash includes wrappers, bottles, toilet paper, bags with your pet poop, grocery bags and un-eaten food. This is critical because we share our trails with millions of people and other species.

Leaving no trace also means not cutting trees or moving rocks or picking plants. The ecosystem operates in the way it is intended, and we unfortunately don’t know enough to change it safely.

If you are lucky enough to hike a trail in solitude, don’t forget that there is always someone else who wants to enjoy the same scenery. Don’t ruin by leaving your trash - this includes dog waste bags where dogs are permitted on trails.

But more often, you won’t be alone on a route. Just like respecting other people on the highway, we must respect other people, and animals, on the trails. And the others you encounter won’t always be fellow hikers.

We share our trails with bikers and horse riders. While they may not be using the trails quite like you, they deserve just as much recreational freedom. It’s like the old saying, be nice to people and hopefully they will be nice back. If you share the trails with respect and dignity, they probably will, too.

One last request: Please keep your phone in your pocket while you are outdoors. OK, take a photo or two. Even a selfie, if you must. But do everyone a favor and don’t share every step of your journey. We are seeing headlines every day about people who die in the outdoors taking a dangerous selfie or walking off a cliff because they are looking at their phone instead of the trail and scenery.

The outdoors is a great chance to escape from the noise of your busy life. Immerse yourself in the serenity of Colorado’s great outdoor spaces. Put your phone away so that you aren’t distracted from the wonders around you.

Apply the right etiquette to your outdoor adventures, and you are sure to have no problems.

Just like everything else in life, we can enjoy the moments in what we do, while still managing to be safe doing it. Keep calm, and adventure on!




Jeff
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La vie de Vincent Lambert est-elle encore une "vie" ?

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Du site HuffPost.fr :La liesse autour de l’avocat des parents en dit long sur le délire collectif que Vincent Lambert inspire. A son insu, il incarne toute l’ambiguïté du mot “vivre”. Le désir, voilà ce qui distingue le plus un vivant d’un mort.  


    ¨ La vie de Vincent Lambert est-elle encore une “vie”? C’est finalement la seule et unique question que nous pouvons poser, au lendemain de la décision de justice exigeant le rétablissement des traitements prodigués à cet homme depuis dix ans, malgré son état neurovégétatif.

   En tant que psychanalyste, diplômé en psychotraumatologie, j’ai rencontré trop de familles confrontées à cette question fatidique au cours de mon travail. Des mères quittent leur enfant le matin même en pleine forme et se retrouvent face à un corps inerte. Elle n’ont pas le temps de comprendre que des médecins les invitent à signer une décharge pour autoriser le don d’organe.

   C’est ce qu’on appelle un “effet de réel” dans mon métier. La mort, on la rêve, on la cauchemarde, on la fantasme, on l’imagine, mais on la vit rarement “pour de vrai”. Quand elle surgit, soudain, au détour d’un talus, à la suite d’un de ces accidents littéralement imprévisibles, le Réel envahit tout, empêche parfois même la pensée, menant les individus aux portes de la sidération, de la stupeur. Il y a comme une impossibilité d’en découdre avec une réalité trop abrupte pour être intégrée, assimilée.
Seul le temps permet le deuil, le retissage d’un désir de vivre. Le temps passe et on peut faire sans le   mort, amadouer son absence. On honore sa mémoire tout en acceptant sa disparition. Parce qu’il faut poursuivre le chemin. Parce que nos forces l’emportent sur le chagrin.

   Quand la personne reste en vie, maintenue par des machines dans un coma artificiel, ou dans un état pauci-relationnel, comme c’est le cas pour Vincent Lambert, il y a un entre-deux plus insoutenable encore.

   L’être a perdu sa subjectivité, ne peut psychiquement plus soutenir son identité, dans une ultra-dépendance à son environnement. Il existe néanmoins, dans une activité corporelle signant sa persistance au monde et créant toute l’ambiguïté du mot “vivre”.

   Les deux camps de la famille de Vincent Lambert incarnent parfaitement ce combat sémantique¨...

 ( Voir l'article au complet )

https://www.huffingtonpost.fr/entry/la-vie-de-vincent-lambert-est-elle-encore-une-vie_fr_5ce3c554e4b075a35a2cc30e?utm_hp_ref=fr-cest-la-vie&ncid=tweetlnkfrhpmg00000001

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