Qatar, La Niña, and world population

People in Piura are waiting for rains, and, the world reaches a record with merengué steps.

 

2022 Qatar Soccer World Cup is started. Peru doesn’t participate in the tournament. However, there’s some expectation for the teams of countries around – Argentina and Brazil are favorites. Are yours too? Let me know in the comments box.

By the way, the last Peru’s world cup was 2018 Russia. Our team was eliminated in the first round. But that time, it played with the eventual world champion – France.

Get me on your favorite social media. I’m @nelsonsullana: Is this the last Messi’s championship? Will Brazil be champion for the seventh time? Does the Jules Rimet Cup stand in Europe? Your bets are open.

 

Weather News

Here in Piura, many people are concerned about rains. 2022 was a mixed year. In Piura lowlands, there was no much rain. But in Piura highlands, it rained heavy.

Blocked roads and destroyed bridges. That was the result of intense precipitations. But they were focused over the Andean Range.

Rains are typical at highlands. But they are also usual at lowlands. That happens from January to March. It matches to Austral summer.

The reason why it did not rain at lowlands is La Niña. In simple words, it consists in cooling water. The sea surface temperature, or SST, falls under its usual record. In consequence, the cold increases along Chile and Peru. The cold doesn’t cause evaporation. So the clouds have no enough water steam. In consequence, there is no rain.

Argentina Meteorological Service forecast La Niña could continue until February 2023. The phenomenon has been prevalent since 2020. Until September 2022, there was no indication the SST could rise.

The International Institute for the Weather Research and Columbia University coincide there is 75% of chance La Niña continues until February 2023. After that, it could weaken. There are two possible scenarios: the SST returns to its usual record, the SST rises, creating El Niño conditions.

Peru’s Astronomer Abraham Levy also forecast el Niño could return in 2023 austral summer. The question is… how much strong.

In Peru’s case, models show possible rains. They may fall over the Amazon Jungle. Also, it may rain at Peruvian Southern. The rest of Peru is unknown.

Meteorologist suggest to follow short-term forecasts.

For more information, go to factortierra.blogspot.com Write weather in the query box. Remember following me as @nelsonsullana.

 

Global Issues

How many people are we on Earth? Until November 15th, 8 billion exactly. This was reported by United Nations. The fact was spread for the World Day of Population.

The 8-billion baby born in Dominican Republic.

UN says the population will continue growing the next years: 8.5 billion for 2030, 9.7 billion for 2050, 10.4 billion for 2080.

In contrast, world’s population is only growing 1% per year since 1950: 2 of 3 world’s inhabitants live in countries where women have 2 babies for the lifetime. Education, health, gender equality – this could be the recipe for birth control. For 2050, 61 countries may have this rate under 1%.

Population seems to grow around Indian Ocean. Africa is raising too. The most populated country is China, currently. According to UN, no more for 2023. The first place will be… India.

For more results, go to UNhabitat.org. Also comment on the social media. Look for me as @nelsonsullana.

 

Before leaving, two stories you may be interested in.

• If any of your body parts are too sexy that people can embarrass you, go to chulucanasgym.blogspot.com. – There are some helpful tips for you.
• An actor brings to the theater, a play based upon a classic of theLatin American literature. He  got applause and recognition. That actor was born here, in Sullana. Get the full story on factortierra.blogspot.com
• The graphic artists DandyRuiz Estrada and the students of Mallaritos School made a wall paint. It’s going to be presented on Wednesday 23^rd. This is going to happen in Mallaritos, a suburb of the Sullana Metro Area. As possible, I will have a Nelson Live about it for you. Stay connected to my social media. 

55 years of rock in Piura

From playing the alien to the own – from face-to-face to the virtual platform.

 

The rock is a music genre that came out from a cultural mix in the United States as well as United Kingdom. Such disparate rhythms like the blues, the jazz, or the country were the ingredients those were used amid 20^th century for bringing the rock & roll to life, and starting from it, one decade later, to go configuring the rock like a cultural movement that globalized, even before the first Arpanet transmission, the predecessor of Internet,so far as 1969.

 

The Groove could arrive into Piura in 1967, although only covers were initially played. The experienced was not a brise but a blizzard. “More than 80 bands appeared,” Juan Francisco Facundo Silva, 43, tells me. He is one of the few genre’s advocates, at least in the two largest cities of Piura Department.

 

“I’m talking you about 1960s and 1970s like Scarface, The Delfines, The Jailers, The stones,” he remembers quoting an investigation by Miguel Almeida, who reached to systematize the movement’s beginning in Piura, in a over-30-page essay, just in case somebody wishes to go in-depth.

 

From the cover to the streaming

When the shocking 1980s ended,the Piura-based bands left to play borrowed themes and they dedicated to create their own ones. “Now,in 1990s, there is a milestone – for example, bands what made their own music like Libre and Diáfano, and the 2K already came in much later with bands like The Shokekoks, 1900,that are still struggling, and there were more,” Facundo goes on.

 

That time, almost every province’s capital city had, at least,one formation dedicated to the rock, like The Sepultureros, in Ayabaca City, that started to play circa 1995. It also started the division into sub-genres with so much diverse influences like the ska or the punk. The to pogue verb (dancing collectively by a friendly push) began to be part of the youth’s vocabulary of Piura.

 

Since 2010 up to now, there are new bands and new challenges to compete in a world what seems to leave step by step behind the classic media like the vinil (although it resists to die), the compact cassette (that already have disappear almost at all), the compact disc (that survives hard-working), and delivers up to the casting at the virtual cloud through the streaming, migration accelerated  after the Covid-19 pandemic

, that forced to close the public places for one entire year.

 

Facundo himself had to go through the FM-broadcasting until creating his own Facebook page, Facundo Rock, that dedicates long editions to present themes, groups, and analyzing the rock frame with interactions inside and outside Peru, inclusive. Some users follow him from furthest sites like Australia.

 

Self-managed movement

“Nowadays, the problem is there’s no support by regional governments,”  the presenter criticizes. “There are places that are closed like Piura Municipal Theater, Manuel Vegas Castillo Theater, also the Acoustic Shell (of Miguel Cortés Children Park] that requires to fix for cultural & sports events.”

 

After 55 years the first rock band played in Piura, even the district’s capital cities have theaters or stages especially built for  shows. In other words, there is much offer and the demand seems not to have decreased despite the urban genre looks like to have drowned it worldwide.

“Mostly, who  dedicate to make events or sessions are the independent people who like the rock – the bands themselves also self-manage but they are few,” Facundo explains.

 

The independent funding model  with private facilities is based upon the owner gains from sales of food and drinks, the producer gains from the box office. If the show is made for free and outdoors, like Facundo made in Sullana, October 15^{th (to celebrate  the}  Facundo Rock’s 2^nd anniversary), the public support basically consists in allowing the use of the place (in this case, the Convention Center’s amphitheater). The rest is gotten through sponsorship.

 

What is clear, in fact, is that amid this half-a-century of rock in Piura, the teenagers and youth of that time are this generation’s grandparents. And, very despite the cultural, technological  evolution,they have eased the seed follows growing, giving fruits.

 

The challenge for the rock in Piura is understanding that, not quitting to be a relatively marked local place, today has better chances than 55 years ago for becoming global. There’s talent – let’s see how much it’s able to shine.

  

From Mallaritos to Salerno – Peruvian el Dandy gets to an Italian gallery

The graphic & plastic artist Dandy Ruiz Estrada, a.k.a. el Dandy, is focused in placing that brand to pitch a surrealistic-basis proposal that explores the introspection and the rraw analysis of our society leading in something as basic as the human shape without much decoration but as part of a pretty symbolic environment – optical games, brain challenges, sensual references.

 

But el Dandy wants to link his brand to the place where he born in 1982 – Mallaritos [Mayareetos], a former Marcavelica District’s rural village, now a suburb of Sullana City, here in Peru. In fact, the slogan he uses is “from Mallaritos to the world.”

 

Meanwhile, el Dandy has achieved something that many artist of his kind look for in lifetime – exposing in Europe. In fact, he was invited to join the 4^th Biennial of Contemporary Art, and his pictures were addressed to Salerno, the second largest city in Campania Region, Central Italy, near the classic Naples.

 

el Dandy’s participation was possible because of recommendations by the Colombian cultural stringer Jorge Enrique Londoño with expolatina de Arte, and the art curator Giuseppe Gorga, vice-president of Bienale de Salerno, who got the scientific committee of the exposition chose two works from the Mallaritos-native artist: We inherit from the same father and Releasing Lies.

 

The 4th Biennial was scheduled for November 6^th to 21^st, 2021, in Salerno, and it’s the very first European exposition that el Dandy joins. Before, he was exposing in Ecuador, Colombia, Chile, Argentina, as well as Peru, and obviously Sullana. Other Peruvian artists were also invited to the same biennial.

 

“It’s a pride for me to represent Mallaritos in a too important event like it’s going to happen across Europe, and Italy in particular, that as we know, it’s one of the sources of Modern and Contemporary Art in the whole humankind history,” the plastic & visual artist said in a public statement. “I’m very excited and thankful to have this opportunity and I hope to enlarge my participation in the Old Continent and around the world.”

 

Dandy Ruiz’s work is not only concentrated in painting but video-art, photography (for what he even posed as his own model, and did bodybuilding for a while purposed to that). He also works as a teacher and he has pitched an innovative pedagogic proposal to teach fine arts at schools across Chira Valley. He is also a recurrent contributor for FACTORTIERRA and ChulucanasGym, plus being an illustrator and art advisor.

 

Salerno is a 131,000-people city best known for his medical research, but it owns an archaeological museum, a municipal gallery, and a museum dedicated to History of Medicine. It was also the most important city of Lombardy Kingdom.

 

Get a preview of the works that el Dandy presents right there, and his whole artistic background by visiting and following his Facebook account.