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São Pedro da Aldeia é um município brasileiro da Região dos Lagos do estado do Rio de Janeiro. Localiza-se na latitude 22º50'21" sul e na longitude 42º06'10" oeste. Possui uma área de 358,66 km² e sua população, conforme estimativas do IBGE de 2020, era de  habitantes.

É um dos principais centros históricos e culturais, cuja história se entrelaça com o enredo nacional e também do Estado do [Rio de Janeiro. Abriga monumentos de grande importância como a Casa da Flor, a qual recebeu o Prêmio Culturas Populares pela Secretaria da Identidade e da Diversidade Cultural/ Ministério da Cultura em 2007, e igrejas construídas pelos padres na fundação da aldeia, como a Igreja Matriz de São Pedro.

Neste município, encontra-se a Base Aérea Naval de São Pedro da Aldeia, única de seu tipo no país, sede da Força Aeronaval da Marinha do Brasil, exercendo uma importantíssimo papel na defesa nacional. A Base de São Pedro abriga o Museu da Aviação Naval, único do seu gênero em todo o Brasil.

História

A História de São Pedro da Aldeia está diretamente ligada a experiência gerada da invasão francesa ao Rio de Janeiro. Do século XVI aos dias atuais, a terra aldeense refletiu em sua epopeia, em seu pequeno microcosmos, as fases pelas quais passou o próprio Brasil.

Período Colonial
A data de fundação da Aldeia de São Pedro do Cabo Frio não constituiu para os primeiros historiadores que dela se ocuparam um ponto pacífico. No entanto, Silva Lisboa, Alberto Lamego e Padre Serafim Leite concordam que a data de 31 de Maio ("derradeiro de Maio") seria o dia exato do despacho do Capitão-Mor de Cabo Frio, Estevam Gomes, ao requerimento que lhe fora interposto pelo Padre Antônio de Mattos, Reitor do Colégio dos Jesuítas, no Rio de Janeiro. A carta da sesmaria foi passada em 2 de Junho seguinte e a posse verificou-se no dia 16 do dito mês. As terras que seriam concedidas aos índios, ficaram em sua terça parte na posse dos padres da Companhia. Elas abrangiam duas sesmarias, uma em lugar determinado - Jacuruna -, provável primeiro nome da região onde hoje se encontra São Pedro, e cujo nome vem do Jacu, ave comum na região, e una preto, cor da sua penugem - a outra região escolhida seria na Ponta de Armação dos Búzios ou em Iguna, "sendo que rejeitada, seria repartida pelo povo, o que nunca se fez", conforme Lamego, em A Terra Goytacá.

O núcleo original da Aldeia de São Pedro foi constituído por 500 índios já catequizados, trazidos do Espírito Santo, da aldeia de Reritiba, na qual havia exercido o sacerdócio o padre José de Anchieta, e que hoje, em sua homenagem leva seu nome.

A primeira página da história aldeense nos dá Serafim Leite, citando em tradução, trecho da obra de Baltasar de Siqueira, intitulada "TRIENNIUM LITTERARUM AB ANNO MILESIMO SEXCENTESIMO DECIMO SEPTIMO AD DECIMUM NONUS". "Esta teve início no ano de 1617. Exercitam nela os mistérios da Companhia dos Padres, que trouxeram para ela, da Capitania do Espírito Santo, 500 índios; O Capitão de Cabo Frio, Estevam Gomes, recebeu-os com todo o obséquio e cortesia. E os padres, feito o desembarque, principiaram por Deus, sem o qual nenhum começo das coisas pode ser feliz. Celebrou solenemente o Santo Sacrofício da Missa, com cantos a duas vozes, pelo índios que trouxeram consigo. Depois seguiram para o lugar escolhido, levantaram a Igreja Matriz de São Pedro e construíram casas".

Para ter uma ideia do crescimento da aldeia, em 1689, a Aldeia de São Pedro do Cabo Frio tinha três vezes a população de Niterói. Assustados pela fome e pelas guerras, muitos índios pertenciam ao temido povo dos Goitacases.

Em novembro de 1759, o desembargador João Cardozo de Azevedo realizou o sequestro da Aldeia de São Pedro e aprisionou três jesuítas que trabalhavam na conversão dos gentios. Extinta a Companhia de Jesus, o cargo de doutrina e administração do povoado foi entregue aos padres Capuchos da Província da Conceição, até a posterior transformação em Paróquia. A elevação a esta categoria, que se deu em 2 de dezembro de 1795, serviu para impulsionar a participação efetiva de São Pedro na vida da Província e também marcou o começo da efetiva migração dos "brancos" para a antiga aldeia. O primeiro pároco, Manuel da Almeida Barreto, foi o primeiro clérigo secular dentro desta nova prerrogativa.

Longe de cassarem os conflitos na região, São Pedro viu surgir uma nova rusga no relacionamento entre Metrópole e colônia. Comercialização do sal era monopólio régio, ou seja, todo o sal consumido na colônia deveria vir da metrópole. O problema é que já no final do século XVIII, desde a cidade de Cabo Frio, até a lagoa de Araruama, os habitantes começavam a explorar o sal. Queimando a parte superior das dunas salinas, eles formavam uma casca que permitia a conservação e a posterior comercialização, o que prejudicava o monopólio português. A fartura conseguida, evidentemente que diminuiu o consumo de sal de Portugal. Depois de inúmeras queixas, o Reino Português começou a ceder, mas já era tarde. Conforme notícia de 1797, " a preguiça dos povoadores atuais em extrair o lodo e as ervas podres do lugar onde se faz a colhedura, fez com que se perdesse maior parte da produção no lodo", mas ressaltava, "isso não se perdeu assim na salina dos índios da Aldeia de São Pedro, formada em terra firme, em lugar denominado Apicuz, que beneficiada em termos, deu o sal tão puro como um cristal e nenhum grão se desperdiçou".

Período Imperial

Os brancos, através do instituto do orfanamento, foram gradualmente se infiltrando nas terras da aldeia, e iniciando uma exploração de braço escravo, a mão-de-obra negra chegava a São Pedro, principalmente com a cultura do café. Data desta época a construção das primeiras casas de residência e fazenda, feitas com óleo de baleia, pedra e cal.

Em 2 de fevereiro de 1840, os brancos de São Pedro fundam a  Venerável Irmandade do Santíssimo Sacramento, responsável pela construção do cemitério da Irmandade e também pela construção da nova igreja, na frente da antiga e simplória igreja dos jesuítas. O motivo principal desta construção foi que o homem branco do século XIX, voltado para a cultura européia, decidiu substituir a tosca e simples igreja dos índios por um templo mais de acordo com os "padrões do século". Quando de passagem pela região, em 10 de julho de 1865, a Princesa Isabel e o Conde D'Eu, seu marido, passaram a fazer parte da Venerável Irmandade do Santíssimo Sacramento.

República Velha
Pelo Decreto nº 118, de 10 de setembro de 1890, foi criada a Vila de Sapiatiba (abundante em sapê, conforme em Tupi), com sede na Freguesia da Aldeia de São Pedro, abrangendo seus limites. O Município de Sapiatiba foi desanexado de Cabo Frio, ainda que permanecesse fazendo parte da comarca do mesmo. O decreto foi assinado pelo então governador do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Francisco Portella.

Quase dois anos depois, pelo Decreto nº I, de 28 de Maio de 1892, o então presidente do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, José Thomaz da Porciúncula, declarou extinto o município de Sapiatiba, voltando a integrar o de Cabo Frio. Para esta medida, ele alegou que a vila não tinha população necessária (10 mil habitantes) para ser independente.

A situação econômica, social e política dos habitantes da Freguesia da Aldeia de São Pedro não podia aceitar passivamente essa regressão política e administrativa, e suas reivindicações justas e clamorosas, resultaram na Lei nº 35, de 17 de dezembro de 1892 que restaurou o Município de Sapiatiba, atribuindo-lhe desta vez, o histórico e antigo nome do padroeiro da aldeia e da freguesia: São Pedro da Aldeia.

O Município passou então a possuir dois distritos: o 1º Distrito era composto pela cidade de São Pedro da Aldeia e 2º Distrito pela localidade de Iguaba Grande, criado em 8 de junho de 1954, pela Lei nº2.161.

Sexta República

No dia 13 de março de 1994, ocorreu a votação para determinar a separação político-administrativa do 2º distrito aldeense. Cerca de 94% dos eleitores foram as urnas concordando com a emancipação do distrito de Iguaba Grande, e então em 8 de junho de 1995, pela Lei Estadual nº 2.407, o distrito de Iguaba Grande se torna independente de São Pedro da Aldeia sendo emancipada pelo então prefeito Rodolfo José Mesquita Pedrosa.

Economia

A economia aldeiense se baseia basicamente em Pesca artesanal, turismo, comércio local e extração de sal marinho, atualmente em pouca quantidade.

São Pedro da Aldeia é sede regional de importantes órgãos da sociedade como o ETRL/ IPHAN-RJ, Prolagos (empresa de distribuição de água da região) e o Tribunal Regional Federal da 2ª Região (TRF2).

Sede da Prolagos em São Pedro da Aldeia

A cidade detém o mais importante pólo de empresas de distribuição de toda a região, contanto com aproximadamente 10 empresas.

O Aterro Sanitário Dois Arcos, o único da Região dos Lagos. Em 04 de Agosto de 2013 foi inaugurado no aterro a primeira Usina de Tratamento de Biogás do Brasil, um projeto de gás natural renovável (GNR), tornando São Pedro da Aldeia a cidade brasileira pioneira na geração de biogás em um aterro sanitário.

Extração de Sal
Seguindo a vocação da região abundante em vento e sol, São Pedro da Aldeia teve como principal atividade econômica a extração de sal marinho desde a época do Brasil Colônia que enriqueceu a elite aldeense com o "ouro branco", o qual era o mais puro e menos custoso de todo o Império Português gerando grandes lucros. Contudo a atividade decaiu com a competição com o sal do Rio Grande do Norte e com a ajuda da especulação imobiliária gerada pelo turismo.

Por do sol nas salinas

Turismo

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São Pedro da Aldeia é destaque por ser a cidade conservadora da história não só do município mas de toda a região.

Na cidade é possível encontrar a Casa da Flor e a Igreja Matriz, ambas tombadas pelo Patrimônio histórico. Também sedia museus de grande importância como o único Museu da Aviação Naval do Brasil, e em fase de conclusão o Museu ferroviário da Região dos Lagos na Antiga estação São Pedro que está sendo implementado pelo IPHAN.

As praias são um capítulo a parte, águas termicamente agradáveis banhadas pela Laguna Araruama, a maior laguna hipersalina do mundo. Esportivamente São Pedro da Aldeia é excelente para prática de esportes náuticos, como kitesurf, Windsurf e Iatismo, por ter ventos fortes e águas tranquilas.

Atualmente São Pedro da Aldeia tem como principal atividade econômica o turismo. Suas belíssimas praias, centro histórico, áreas de preservação de Mata Atlântica, museus, festividades entre outros variados atrativos fazem de São Pedro da Aldeia um dos principais destinos turísticos da Região da Costa do Sol.

Entre as principais atrações culturais da cidade estão:
 Igreja Matriz de São Pedro: erguida na época da União Ibérica na Aldeia de São Pedro, serviu como colégio jesuítico para a região. Os materiais adotados para a construção da igreja foram basicamente a pedra, a cal e também o tijolo. Hoje é tombada pelo Patrimônio histórico.
 Casa da Flor: a casa, iniciada em 1912, a partir de 1923, após um sonho do artista, passou a ser acrescida aos poucos de objetos encontrados no lixo, cacos de cerâmica, de louça, de vidro, de ladrilhos e de outros objetos considerados imprestáveis para o uso: lâmpadas queimadas, conchas, pedrinhas, correntes, tampas de metal, manilhas, faróis de automóveis... Aos poucos foram formadas flores, folhas, mosaicos, cachos de uvas, colunas e esculturas fantásticas, fixados dentro e fora da casa. Edificação tombada pelo patrimônio histórico.
 Base Aérea Naval de São Pedro da Aldeia: única de seu tipo no país, foi criada pelo Decreto n° 58.378, de 10 de maio de 1966, assinado pelo então presidente da República Marechal Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco. A BAeNSPA atua ainda como um órgão de execução e fiscalização do Serviço Militar, dispondo de um aeródromo militar que, por força da legislação brasileira em vigor, opera como aeródromo alternativo para o tráfego da região do Rio de Janeiro.
 Museu da Aviação Naval: o Museu da Aviação Naval brasileira, foi criado em 23 de Agosto de 2.000, está localizado na Base Aérea Naval de São Pedro da Aldeia na cidade de São Pedro da Aldeia, é o único do gênero em todo o Brasil. O Museu conta com um acervo diversificado com aeronaves originais e réplicas, diversos motores, inúmeras maquetes, fotos, documentos e manuais das OM do Complexo da Força Aeronaval.
 Estação Ferroviária de São Pedro da Aldeia: o monumento que fez parte da extinta Rede Ferroviária Federal já havia sido vendido, e a prefeitura municipal readquiriu o imóvel para dar início a restauração. As obras começaram em 2010 por iniciativa do IPHAN, fazendo a população e turistas voltarem a se interessar pela velha construção, de estilo art déco e cor amarelo ocre, antes encoberta sob diversas camadas de tintas. Em 17 de Agosto de 2011 foi entregue a população a 1ª fase de restauros da estação com implementação do escritório regional do IPHAN, o Centro de Memória Ferroviária de São Pedro da Aldeia e a videoteca do projeto Cine Estação São Pedro.
 Praça do Canhão: também denominada Praça Dr. Plinio de Assis Tavares, nela se encontra um canhão de fabricação inglesa do séc. XVI, usado para sinalizar ao Forte de São Mateus do Cabo Frio, em Cabo Frio, a presença de navios hostis.
 Casa dos Azulejos: trata-se de um imóvel em estilo colonial construído pela família do fazendeiro português de Feliciano Gonçalves Negreiro no ano de 1847. O material utilizado na construção foi argamassa de argila, conchas e óleo de baleia, com telhas do tipo que os escravos modelavam uma a uma sobre suas coxas, além de um revestimento em azulejos fabricados em Portugal, fato que tornou o imóvel característico e requintado. Recebeu visitas ilustres, sendo uma delas a herdeira do trono do Império do Brasil, a Princesa Isabel e seu marido Gastão de Orléans, o Conde D'EU.

Entre as principais atrações naturais da cidade estão:
 Serra de Sapeatiba: constitui uma das poucas áreas de preservação ambiental da Região dos Lagos, a partir do Decreto nº 15.136 de 20 de julho de 1990 sob tutela do Inea, passou a integrar o Parque Estadual da Costa do Sol. Se Localiza com maior parte nos bairros rurais de Sapeatiba Mirim e menor parte no bairro Flexeiras.Serra de Sapeatiba ao fundo.
 Laguna Araruama: banha todo o município e é a maior laguna hipersalina do mundo. É chamada pelos leigos erroneamente de lagoa, entretanto possui características de laguna pois além de ser salobra tem ligação com o mar através do Canal do Itajuru. Com ventos fortes é ótima para práticas de esportes como Kitesurf, Windsurf, Iatismo e etc. Amanhecer na Laguna
 Praias: A cidade possui belas praias com águas límpidas e tranquilas. Alguns exemplos são a Praia do Sudoeste, Praia do Sol, Praia da Pitória, Ilha do Boi e Fazenda Roberto Marinho.

Geografia
O município localiza-se na latitude 22º50'21" sul e na longitude 42º06'10" oeste na Região dos lagos do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, atualmente classificada como Região da Costa do Sol. A região é formada pelos municípios de Arraial do Cabo, Cabo Frio, São Pedro da Aldeia, Iguaba Grande, Armação dos Búzios, Araruama e Saquarema.

O município já teve outros dois nomes, Jacuruna, provável primeiro nome da região onde hoje se encontra São Pedro, e cujo nome vem do Jacu, ave comum na região, e una preto, cor da sua penugem e Vila de Sapiatiba Pelo Decreto nº 118, de 10 de setembro de 1890 (abundante em sapê, conforme em Tupi). Sapiatiba significa "lugar com abundância de sabiás e sapê". Com o tempo e atualização histórico cultural do lugar e desaparição do sabiá de uma parte da área o termo Sapiatiba passou a denominar Sapeatiba, dando origem a um bairro, o que ficou em forma de homenagem a antiga Vila de Sapiatiba, onde hoje é composta pelos bairros de Balneário, Praia Linda e Sapeatiba Mirim (onde se localiza a Serra de Sapeatiba - composta em uma pequena parte pelo bairro anteriormente denominado Frecheiras'', que também com o tempo e atualização histórico cultural do lugar e da língua portuguesa passou a denominar Flexeiras).

Sua população segundo o IBGE em 2010 é de 88.013 habitantes distribuídos numa área de 358,66 km².

Municípios limítrofes
São Pedro da Aldeia faz limite com as cidades de Arraial do Cabo, Araruama, Cabo Frio e Iguaba Grande.

Bioma
o Bioma do município é de Mata Atlântica. São Pedro da Aldeia faz parte do Parque Estadual da Costa do Sol, uma área de preservação de 5.500 hectares abrangendo Saquarema a Armação dos Búzios.

Relevo
São Pedro da Aldeia tem um litoral circundando a Laguna de Araruama, formando pontas e enseadas. O solo aldeense é rico em material conchífero, e é de formação calcária. Parte do município encontra-se localizada na Serra de Sapeatiba, protegida pelo Decreto nº 15.136 de 20 de julho de 1990 como uma Área de Proteção Ambiental, que apresenta, junto com o município de Iguaba Grande, uma área de 6000 ha.

 Serra de Sapeatiba: A Serra ocupa 60 km² e atinge mais de 350 metros de altitude em São Pedro da Aldeia. Constitui uma da poucas áreas de preservação da região, tornando Área de Proteção Ambiental - APA - através do Decreto nº 15.136 de 20 de julho de 1990 sob tutela do Inea, sendo parte integrante da Parque Estadual da Costa do Sol (Pecs).

Vegetação
A vegetação é característica das Baixadas Litorâneas, com incidência de árvores como Amarelo, Paineiras, Cambuinha, Maricá, Pau-Ferro, Sapucaia, Aroeira, Cajá-Mirim, Pau d'Alho, Sibipiruna, Jacarandá, Jequitibá, além de sapê, orquídeas, bromélias e plantas de uso medicinal, em suma, Mata Atlântica.

Hidrografia
Ao contrário que muitos pensam, São Pedro da Aldeia tem uma grande rede hidrográfica, com rios, riachos e córregos. Veja: Rios Una, Paupicu, Ramalho, São Mateus, Cabista, Ubá, da Pedra, Iguaçaba, Frecheiras e Itai. Riachos: Cândido, Pereira e Tio Mariano. Córregos: Joaquim da Mota, Pau Rachado, Bogã, Retiro e Piripiri.
 Laguna Araruama: é a maior laguna hipersalina do mundo, sendo classificada como lagoa erroneamente, pois além de ter conexão com o mar através do Canal do Itajuru é salobra, ou seja, trata-se de uma laguna. A sua história econômica está relacionada à extração de sal (pela elevada salinidade de suas águas), à pesca (principalmente tainha, carapeba, carapicu e camarões) e à extração de moluscos para moagem.

Clima

Clima Tropical, quase semi-árido, com índice de precipitação anual de 916 mm segundo a Somar Meteorologia sendo no inverno reduzido bastante. Os meses de Novembro e Dezembro são os mais chuvosos e os meses de Junho e Julho os mais secos. As médias de temperatura anuais são altas variando entre 24 °C e 28 °C. O inverno apresenta temperaturas amenas, com média das mínimas ficando entre 11 °C a 16 °C. Entretanto, o verão é quente, não raramente atingindo temperaturas superiores a 35 °C. A região dos Lagos é influenciada por grandes rajadas de ventos na maioria dos dias do ano, esse fenômeno determina a região como: "Região Dispersora de Ventos". A presença destes ventos empurram a maioria das chuvas de verão para o interior do estado do Rio de Janeiro assim como também a maior parte das frentes frias, deixando assim um clima quase que semi-árido. A presença de vegetação rasteira e espinhosa é uma prova da quase ausência de chuvas na região do Lagos. Os ventos frescos e quase que constantes advindos da Laguna Araruama e do oceano atlântico atenuam o clima na região tornando a maioria das noites do ano frescas e os dias menos abafados com temperaturas que quase nunca excedem 35ºC e que nunca alcança 40ºC como na Capital do Estado. A presença da Corrente das Falklands e o fenômeno da Ressurgência também mantêm o clima mais ameno que uma mesma cidade numa mesma latitude que São Pedro quando influenciada por correntes quentes.

Subdivisões
Essa é uma lista de bairros do município de São Pedro da Aldeia.

Política

A cidade conta com a única sede da Justiça Federal com 2 varas, sendo a segunda inaugurada em 9 de março de 2012 em toda a Região dos Lagos.

Cidades irmãs

Demografia
Em 2010 a população do município foi contada pelo Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística (IBGE) em 88.013 habitantes, sendo o trigésimo mais populoso do estado e apresentando uma densidade populacional de 265,05 habitantes por km². Segundo este mesmo censo, 43.431 homens (48.4%), 44.444 mulheres (50.6%), 82.148(93.5%) vivia na zona urbana e 5.727(6.5%) na zona rural. De acordo com o IBGE, São Pedro da Aldeia possuía 50.227 eleitores em 2010.

A incidência da pobreza, medida pelo IBGE, é de 24,56%, o limite inferior da incidência de pobreza é de 20,68%, o superior é de 28,45% e a incidência da pobreza subjetiva é de 21,18%. De acordo com o IBGE, São Pedro da Aldeia possuía 50.227 eleitores em 2010.

Etnias
No ano de 2010, de acordo com o IBGE a população aldeense era composta por 42.280 brancos; 34.898 pardos; 9.983 pretos; 136 indígenas e 578 amarelos.

Religião
Tal como a variedade cultural em São Pedro da Aldeia, são diversas as manifestações religiosas presentes na cidade. Embora tenha se desenvolvido sobre uma matriz social eminentemente católica é possível encontrar atualmente na cidade dezenas de denominações protestantes diferentes. Além disso o crescimento dos sem-religião também vem sido notado chegando a quase de 18,69% da população.

A cidade de São Pedro da Aldeia está localizada no país mais católico do mundo em números absolutos. A Igreja Católica teve seu estatuto jurídico reconhecido pelo governo federal em outubro de 2009, ainda que o Brasil seja atualmente um estado oficialmente laico. A cidade possui os mais diversos credos protestantes ou reformados, como por exemplo a Assembleia de Deus. De acordo com dados do censo de 2000, realizado pelo Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística, a população de São Pedro da Aldeia é composta por: Católicos (44,31%), evangélicos (33,29%), pessoas sem religião (18,69%), espíritas (1,36%), umbandistas (0,33%), oriental (0.24%) e outras (1,09%).

Indicadores socioeconômicos
São Pedro da Aldeia possui um IDH médio(0,780). Porém a distribuição do desenvolvimento humano na cidade não é homogênea.

O IDH estabelece três critérios para avaliação: o índice de educação, longevidade e renda. O fator "educação" do IDH no município atingiu em 2000 a marca de 0,876 – patamar consideravelmente elevado, em conformidade aos padrões do Programa das Nações Unidas para o Desenvolvimento (PNUD). A taxa de alfabetização de São Pedro da Aldeia é alta, de acordo com o censo do IBGE de 2000, atingindo 90.9% de alfabetização.

Criminalidade
Em 2011, São Pedro da Aldeia foi eleita a 266º cidade mais perigosa do Brasil segundo ranking da ONU, ficando como a 11ª cidade mais violenta do estado do Rio de Janeiro. A taxa de assassinatos é de 41,2, com pouco mais de 37 mortes/ano.

Cultura

Museus
Por ter feito parte da história política e econômica do Brasil, São Pedro da Aldeia é praticamente um museu a céu aberto, com bairros e edifícios de incalculável valor histórico. A cidade possui dois museus de grande relevância nacional: o Museu da Aviação Naval, o único de seu gênero no país e a Casa do Patrimônio, na antiga estação ferroviária da cidade, a qual é sede do escritório regional do IPHAN.

 Museu da Aviação Naval: O Museu da Aviação Naval brasileira, foi criado em 23 de Agosto de 2000, está localizado na Base Aérea Naval de São Pedro da Aldeia na cidade de São Pedro da Aldeia, é o único do gênero em todo o Brasil. O Museu conta com um acervo diversificado com aeronaves originais e réplicas, diversos motores, inúmeras maquetes, fotos, documentos e manuais das OM do Complexo da Força Aeronaval.

 Museu Regional do Sal Manoel Maria Mattos: O museu, inaugurado em 30 de dezembro de 2020, está localizado às margens da RJ-140 no bairro Balneário. Ele é o primeiro museu do sal do Brasil. Os visitantes poderão contemplar imagens e objetos referentes às salinas, como rodos, moinhos, carrinhos e outros, além da estátua de um salineiro em tamanho natural e outros atrativos relacionados à essa indústria e cultura.

 Casa do Patrimônio: A antiga Estação Ferroviária de São Pedro da Aldeia, que tinha a função de escoamento da produção na região e de comunicação com a capital Rio de Janeiro, foi restaurada pelo IPHAN e entregue a população em 17 de Agosto de 2011. Atualmente abriga Centro de Memória Ferroviária de São Pedro da Aldeia, com a história da estação que tanto ajudou ao desenvolvimento da região. O prédio histórico também é sede do escritório regional do IPHAN e do Cine Estação São Pedro, uma iniciativa do IPHAN com o Audiovisual do Ministério da Cultura (MinC). O objetivo é implantar em cidades históricas brasileiras salas de cinema que possibilitem o uso da ferramenta como instrumento de difusão e debate do patrimônio para o público em geral.

Teatros
São Pedro da Aldeia possui o maior teatro da Região dos Lagos, palco de diversos espetáculos tanto regionais quanto a nível nacional.
 Teatro Átila Costa: É o maior teatro da Região dos Lagos, possui uma área de 1.330,26m², a caixa cênica do teatro foi elaborada por José Dias, o qual foi consultor técnico responsável pela reforma do Theatro Municipal do Rio de Janeiro na reforma de 2009-2010, assim como o Teatro Oi Casa Grande (Leblon). Possui "palco italiano" com 14x8m, capacidade para 404 lugares, ar condicionado central silencioso, assentos confortáveis e especiais para pessoas com obesidade, adaptado a deficientes físicos (espaço para cadeirantes e portadores de necessidades especiais, assim como rampas de fácil acesso), camarins, área para cenários e uma Escola de Artes, com quatro grandes salas para oficinas, salas de som e iluminação e banheiros. O salão de entrada é amplo e pode abrigar exposições de artes plásticas.

Ligações externas
 Página da Prefeitura
 Site da Câmara Municipal
 Turismo em São Pedro da Aldeia
 Portal da Transparência de São Pedro da Aldeia
 Paróquia de São Pedro

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Accuser: Archdiocese Did Not Tell the Truth About Katinas
Author: Dan Ziagos
Publication: The National Herald
The following letter was written by Dan Ziagos, one of former priest Nicholas Katinas' accusers.
I am deeply angered and saddened by the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America's (GOAA) recent press release from October 30, 2008, "Archdiocese Settles Dallas Lawsuit." The GOAA did not tell the truth about the Katinas case and his predatory acts of sexual molestation of children.
First of all, the GOAA plants a seed of doubt of whether Katinas actually sexually abused children by using the word "alleged" in the phrase "alleged misconduct by Katinas in the 1970s."
This is not true! Katinas' sexual misconduct is not "alleged". Katinas' pedophilia is very real. In the spring of 2006, Katinas admitted to Assistant Chancellor Kontogiorgis that he had molested children. This admission culminated in the GOAA suspending
Katinas and his eventual defrocking.
Secondly, the press release states that "The Archdiocese and Holy Trinity Church had no knowledge of Mr. Katinas' wrongdoing prior to a complaint made to the Archdiocesan Chancellor's Office in late 2005."
Again, another false statement! There are sworn testimonies in the legal pleadings that clearly show church officials received notice of Katinas' misconduct as early as 1977 when Katinas was the priest of the Assumption church in Olympia Fields, Illinois.
An Assumption parish council member had been advised by his own doctor, a psychiatrist who also counseled Katinas, that Katinas "should be kept away from boys".
This council member acted upon the psychiatrist's information and advised the GOAA and the Greek Orthodox Diocese in Chicago for the purpose of protecting the children in the church. When a job opportunity became available in Dallas, the GOAA transferred Katinas there and told the Assumption parish that it was an opportunity for Katinas to better provide for his large family.
The real reason (sexual abuse of children) for Katinas' transfer was kept secret in order to protect Katinas' family and avoid scandal to the church.
Moreover, in 1987 parishioners at Holy Trinity, whose son was an altar boy serving under Katinas, made a sexual abuse report to the GOAA. Several witnesses — including Fr. Triantafillou, the Vicar General doing the investigation — gave sworn testimony that this investigation took place. The outcome? Yet another cover-up that resulted in the sexual abuse of many future victims.
Thirdly, the GOAA states that "the case was handled according to the protocols laid out in the Archdiocesan clergy misconduct policy." The GOAA did not follow their policy! The clergy misconduct policy states that the disciplining of a clergyman shall be disclosed by the GOAA to all the parishes of the clergyman.
In this case, the GOAA only met with the Holy Trinity parish, even though the original sexual abuse complaint occurred at the Assumption church. Moreover, the GOAA never met with the Madison (Wisconsin) parish, where Katinas also served.
Finally, the GOAA states that "Katinas was suspended from all priestly functions after a prompt investigation of the charges?".
I don't believe the investigation was "prompt." The original sexual misconduct complaint was filed in October, 2005. Katinas was secretly suspended nine months later, in July, 2006, and his suspension, due to sexual misconduct with children, was announced to the Holy Trinity parish in February, 2007. In October, 2005, Katinas should have immediately been suspended, and kept away from the parish's children, pending an investigation. The GOAA placed the parish children at
great risk in the nine months it took to suspend Katinas, and caused much confusion and disruption in the parish by waiting seven months to explain the reason for the suspension.
The settlement does bring some closure for the victims/survivors and the GOAA did correctly identify this as a painful matter. The church teaches us to follow Christ's teachings and to try to be honest with each other in our daily lives. However the GOAA is not serving as a role model for its parishioners in how they handled this
case. The GOAA's actions are making a painful matter much worse for everyone, especially the victims/survivors. To date, seven victims/survivors have come forward to the GOAA. How many other silent Katinas victims are there, who have not yet come forward, and who could benefit by the church sincerely reaching out to help them
start the healing process?
Dan Ziagos
GOA Assumption GOC (Madison WI)
GOA Holy Trinity GOC (Dallas TX)
GOA Assumption GOC (Olympia Fields IL)
GOA Metropolis of Chicago
Father Michael Kontogiorgis
Father Nicholas Triantafilou

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stuff white people do
The ways of white folks, I mean, some white folks . . . (Langston Hughes)
shop with a lack of racial self-awareness
5. I can go shopping alone most of the time, fairly well assured that I will not be followed or harassed by store detectives.
--Peggy McIntosh, "White Privilege and Male Privilege: A Personal Account of Coming to See Correspondences through Work in Women's Studies"
"Def Poetry Jam"
Posted by macon d at 10:48 AM
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Naima January 1, 2009 at 12:14 PM
Being followed in a store is so normal to me. I don't even pay attention anymore, I just say "No," when someone asks me if I need help looking for something for the 100th time. Anyway, yesterday at my friend's house I got the "all black people look alike thing" because a family friend of my friend's referred to me by the name of another black girl. It was funny cause I had never met that family friend and I def. don't like ANYTHING like the other girl. There are very very obvious difference between us, hieght, hair length, skin color!, etc. I was kind of suprised that she would even confuse me with her. Not that the other girl was ugly, just we look VERY different.
I love the line, "I don't do generalizations, but I do percentages and averages."
Calling Asians "Chinaman" is racist, by the way.
ho January 2, 2009 at 12:08 PM
interesting that you chose this youtube piece. another thing that white people do: highlight when people of color don't like each other. why didn't you offer an explanation of korean/black relations in urban america? this youtube clip was without any context.
macon d January 2, 2009 at 1:32 PM
ho, the clip has several issues and messages, one of them being the reason I chose it: it illustrates how blacks often feel watched while shopping, merely because they're seen as "black" (which, in the context of this blog, is a specific mode of racial self-consciousness that whites rarely feel). I didn't chose it in order to "highlight when people of color don't like each other." Also, as a white person, I don't believe that I'm properly positioned to speak for or to korean/black relations in urban America. You seem to know something about that--perhaps you could supply some of that context yourself?
[eam] January 2, 2009 at 6:51 PM
I would second ho's comment. This clip was taken outside of its context and placed on a site which (I would assume) is mostly read by white people. It's this kind of thing that pits people of color against each other to assure white folks that THEIR racism is justified since POC do it too. By taking any mention of the white supremacist structures that have historically pitted Koreans and African-Americans against each other out of this conversation, whiteness again is the victor.
K V February 16, 2009 at 6:40 PM
So, when hipsters act ironically racist, it's just racist. But when Dave Chappelle does it, it's subtle and nuanced commentary on the effects of white supremacy on Black-Korean relationships?
macon d February 16, 2009 at 6:58 PM
KVF, in a white supremacist society, it's different when whites do it to non-whites than when non-whites do it to each other.
This issue also came up late in the discussion thread here, beginning at Comment # 72, which seems a lot like yours. Check out Sobia's response at #81, which seems like a good response to yours:
Its all about who has power. When ethnic minority comedians (ie Russell Peters, Shaun Majumdar, Maz Jobrani etc) do "ethnic" comedy and joke around about race issues its not necessarily the same.
First, these comedians are making fun of the stereotypes and racism as opposed to perpetuating it. And this is clear from their comedy.
Second, these comedians do not come from the dominant, powerful racial group in North America - White. If a person of colour "makes fun" of the stereotypes of South Asians, I don't feel threatened. This person does not have more power than me. But if a White comedian were to do it, it feels threatening because no matter what the intention may be, this comedian has more power than me in society.
Now of course, all this does still depend on the comedy itself because not all comedy coming from ethnic minority comedians is safe. I hate Carlos Mencia. His stuff is just rude and offensive. He doesn't make fun of the stereotypes but rather perpetuates them.
White people do have to understand that, because of their history of oppressing people of colour, they can't have certain "privileges" that we can. We don't have as many as White people to begin with so let this be ours at least. Not to sound rude but….tough. Once we have the privilages White people do then White people can complain about ethnic comedy.
I never said it wasn't different. Obviously it's different.
But it seems to me that in working out imbalances of power, one would want to address stereotypes so as to dismantle them, rather than play tit-for-tat. If double standards are bad when it comes to privilege and access to wealth, then double standards are bad when it comes to culture and access to.. comedy?
Sobia and I disagree on a couple counts - I, for one, think Carlos Mencia is hilarious. But also, we disagree fundamentally about the dangers of stereotyping between nonwhite groups. It's deadly dangerous. Anyone who disagrees is welcome to Google "Latasha Harlins", assuming they're unfamiliar with her, and we can pick it up from there.
katerr February 17, 2009 at 1:37 PM
i don't think chappelle is playing "tit for tat" here, i think he's pointing out how ridiculous the racial stereotyping is. his character in the story poem uses racism against the shop keeper to point out how ridiculous the shop keeper's racism against him is. i find it quite insightful, and funny!
vanishing point February 17, 2009 at 3:16 PM
Macon, I thought that this post was about Peggy McInstosh and white privilege, but instead, you chose a video clip that has sidesteped white privilege. What's the reason for this choice? Also, what Chappelle doesn't say, but probably holds true, is that white customers are preferred over other non-whites?
"Over other non-whites"? I can't understand what you're asking there.
I paired this clip with that quote because it exemplifies a common problem that white people usually have the privilege of shopping without. What's the reason for this choice, you ask? Again, this choice is an effort to show how non-white people commonly have a problem that white people usually don't have, in order to clarify and/or demonstrate this particular white privilege.
Hi Macon,
ho and Liz have already pointed out to you that the video you used to highlight your post does not correspond, the video is about bias and predjudice between two marginalized groups who have both suffered the effects of white supremacy and have been painted under white supremacy as "the other", or "evil", and historically both Asian Americans and African Americans have been treated as non-humans, with less rights or privileges than those ethnic groups identified as white.
The video does not highlight or illuminate white privilege in the context of power, so, to me, it makes no sense.
Kathy, yes, "the video is about bias and predjudice between two marginalized groups who have both suffered the effects of white supremacy and have been painted under white supremacy as "the other", or "evil", and historically both Asian Americans and African Americans have been treated as non-humans, with less rights or privileges than those ethnic groups identified as white." But the video is also about what a pain it is to be watched while shopping. And that's something that rarely happens to white people on the mere basis of their skin color.
Think of it this way--imagine if a white person walked into the shop that Chappelle talks about. He or she probably wouldn't be watched suspiciously just because of their skin color, right? That's a white privilege that's clarified by Chappelle's description of his own lack of such a privilege.
As Peggy McIntosh's article more or less states, when whites perceive common negative experiences endured by nonwhites on the mere basis of their skin color that whites rarely have to endure on the basis of their own skin color, they can better understand their own white privilege. As McIntosh says about the list of white privileges from her own life, "As far as I can tell, my African American coworkers, friends, and
acquaintances with whom I come into daily or frequent contact . . . cannot count on most of these conditions."
Macon D,
I happen to believe that a video highlighting a white shopkeeper's disdain and ill treatement of a non-white person would be a much more accurate illustration of your post, the video you chose highlights bias and prejudice but not power of white supremacy that underscores white privilege.
BlkSmarTee September 8, 2009 at 6:09 PM
As a black woman who has worked in department stores, I purposefully try to put all people at ease when they are shopping, its part of my job. But when it comes to POC I try especially hard to offer them help but get out of their way and let them shop. I know the paranoia and anxiety shopping can bring and I don't want to seem the agent of oppression for them. I know when I am in stores I try to …
1. Stay in plain view
2. Not carry small objects
3. Have my hands visible as I'm leaving
On another note, whenever I walk through the mall or shop in area that is predominantly white, I find myself gawked at and met with looks of surprise, as if these people have never seen black people before. It's annoying and curious. As well, I have noticed a strange tendency of white male customers to invade my personal space. It is REALLY obnoxious when someone speaks directly into your face with a dumb smirk as if what I have to say is childish or irrelevant; like their speaking to someone who isn't on their level. Is it because I'm young; a woman; black; or all the above? I do not know but this condescending nature is very common in my interaction with whites when shopping or working in a department store.
Victoria October 21, 2009 at 4:42 AM
I've noticed that I'm followed around (not always, but enough for me to have noticed) if I'm with either of my half-black cousins or my Jamaican boyfriend. All of a sudden the same sloths who can't be bothered to find a shirt in my size when I'm by myself want to be Salesman of the Year and "help" us by sticking to us like flies on shit the whole time. When I worked retail for a few years, because of those experiences, I *never* would follow people around. Ever.
Interpersonal Computing January 18, 2010 at 6:34 PM
I face racial inequality today at a Macy's, I was walking and all of a sudden, a beautiful White Northern European American was questioning us, I am a Spaniard, techinically Caucasian, I too face alot of the same racial inequality in the US.
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Damien Love's TV pick of the week (Dec 29-Jan 4)
WARNING: Embargoed for publication until 00:00:01 on 07/12/2019 - Programme Name: Dracula - TX: n/a - Episode: Dracula - episode 1 (No. n/a) - Picture Shows: Dracula (CLAES BANG) - (C) Hartswood Films - Photographer: Robert Viglasky
9pm, BBC One
"I don't drink…wine."
With those four words, co-writers Mark Gatiss and Steven Moffat shamelessly send out the signal that sets the tone for their mad and breathless new attack on Dracula, a giggling, drooling whirlwind of a thing that launches television's new season at a pace other British dramas will surely struggle to match. Seriously, if you're feeling fragile after marking Hogmanay, it's maybe best to avoid this until your stomach has settled: not only because it revels in icky, flesh-stripping, head-ripping gore, but also because it just clatters along at such a frantic pace, tossing out surprises that could leave you whiplashed and dizzy trying to keep up.
That famous line about the wine stems not from Bram Stoker's 1897 novel, but from the 1931 Hollywood production that introduced Bela Lugosi's deathless incarnation of the undead count. It wasn't the first movie based on Stoker's book – that was Nosferatu, the unofficial, masterly, 1922 German silent adaptation – but it was the first to hypnotise the world. Like the Count creating followers by infecting them with his cursed bite, Lugosi's film is the Patient Zero responsible for spawning all the countless Draculas that have followed.
And, the point is, they're all in here. Gatiss and Moffat's Dracula isn't simply yet another rendering of Stoker's story – although, beginning with young English solicitor Joanathan Harker's journey to Transylvania to conclude a real estate deal with the mysterious Count, it is that, too. Beneath the skin, though, their series is really a wild celebration of almost every Dracula there has ever been, a rabid fan festival disguised as a drama: DracCon 2020.
The references fly thicker than the swarms of bats: allusions to the stern theatricality of the Lugosi era, the claustrophobia of the BBC's excellent 1977 TV version with Louis Jourdan, and the stylised frenzy of Francis Ford Coppola's 1992 movie; hints of the sooty expressionism of Nosferatu and, in the pale, ancient walls of Dracula's castle (one of several stunning locations), even faint echoes of Werner Herzog's brilliantly raw and rotten 1978 Nosferatu remake.
Elsewhere come nods to more obscure sources (I might even have spotted a canny lift from Dracula 2000, a terrible film that had one really great idea about Dracula's traditional nemesis, Van Helsing). Above all, though, this series bows at the vividly bloodstained altars of the Hammer movies, their pulp adventure muscle and lush gothic atmosphere.
Just as in the evolving Hammer cycle, each episode of this series, going out nightly in three feature-length chunks, has a different style. The second, a wickedly drawn-out account of the Count's journey by sea toward Whitby aboard a ship from which people keep vanishing, turns Agatha Christie inside out, while also working in a long, maniacal tribute to Inside No. 9, the twisty show created by Gatiss's League Of Gentlemen colleagues Reese Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton.
Miraculously, for all these nods and winks, it also works wonderfully as a rip-roaring Dracula drama. Much of this is due to the two leads. Just as Hammer got it right by pairing Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing, the series scores by giving us Claes Bang and Dolly Wells. Bang is terrific as the vampire, spiking Lee's genuinely foreboding presence and dark sexuality with a sense of humour and camp that's part Jason King, part Carry On Screaming. Opposite him, Wells is simply fantastic as Sister Agatha, a nun well versed in vampire lore. If she doesn't get her own series after this, there's no justice.
Maybe it's just the right season, the right kind of long dark nights. Stuffed with ideas and flaunting its own cleverness, at other times of year this Dracula might just be too rich for the blood. But now is the time for overindulgence, and this is a treat to sink your teeth into. Or vice versa.
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Searching For Sam: Adrian Dunbar On Samuel Beckett 10pm, BBC Four Marking the 30th anniversary of Beckett's death, Dunbar puts that Line Of Duty success to good use with this documentary, a personal essay on his love for the great Irish writer. Dunbar, who has directed several of Beckett's plays, knows the work well and pushes past the "bleak" label routinely applied to find the compassion, heart and humour present amid the absurdity and angst. Following Beckett's footsteps, from childhood in Dublin and the Wicklow hills, through his school years in Enniskillen to his decisive move to Paris to work with James Joyce, Dunbar traces how these landscapes and experiences shaped Beckett's imagination – including his war years, working with the Resistance and dodging Nazis in southern France. Contributors include actor Stephen Rhea, who worked with Beckett, and photographer John Minihan, who took some of the most stunning portraits of the man.
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Susan Calman takes control of the BBC's New Year's Eve mission this year. At 9pm, you can catch her Not Quite The End Of The Year Show (BBC Scotland), as she looks back over the lows of 2019. But the main event is Hogmanay (11.30pm, BBC One), as Calman leads us into the buzzsaw of the bells with guests James Cosmo, Mark Bonnar, Jane McCarry and Martin Compston, and music from Travis and Julie Fowlis. There's more music with Jools's Annual Hootenanny (11.15pm, BBC Two), welcoming in the new by rolling out old stuff like Stereophonics. On STV, Sean's Very Scottish Hogmanay (11.30pm) sees Sean Batty at Ayrshire's Craufurdland Castle with Dougie MacLean and Mairi Campbell. Meanwhile, on The Last Leg Of The Year (9pm, Channel 4), Alex Hill and guests make another attempt at finding the funny side of the past 12 months.
10pm, Sky Atlantic
The third and final series of this superb series about the sex industry in late-1970s New York. Created by The Wire's David Simon and crime writer George Pelecanos, it's a tough and seedy subject, but this show has handled it with open eyes and a careful, complex feel for the characters caught in the trade, as well as a masterful evocation of time and place. We've jumped ahead several years to late 1984 now, and, as the Times Square neighbourhood flickers on the verge of gentrification, porn is also changing, moving toward being a mainstream business with the explosion of the home video market. But Eileen (Maggie Gyllenhaal) and her mentor Harvey have very different ideas about the market, and the kind of material they want to create. Meanwhile, a darker change has come, with the Aids crisis at its worst.
Top Of The Pops: The Story Of 1989 - 8.30pm, BBC Four In Search Of Dracula With Mark Gatiss - 10.35pm, BBC Two
1989 already? The ongoing Top Of The Pops reruns continue to be the gift that keeps giving for BBC Four and, to kick off a new year of repeats, tonight comes the traditional documentary overview of the era under the spotlight, the period that saw the rise of Madchester, the dawn of Milli Vanilli, and plenty of peak Madonna. Marc Almond is among the contributors looking back on events – look out later for more from the man with a repeat of this year's excellent Soft Cell documentary, Say Hello, Wave Goodbye (10.30pm). Elsewhere, Mark Gatiss shows off the research he did for Dracula with an excellent documentary on the origins and many incarnations of Bram Stoker's creation, including happy memories from some of the Hammer studio's former brides.
Clive James: Postcard From Sydney
8.15pm, BBC Two
The first of three programmes tonight marking the recent passing of the great writer, broadcaster, poet, novelist, thinker, critic, translator and general good Australian. James always cited the Postcards From… series as among his most personal work and this 1991 episode, in which he returns to his hometown after living abroad many years, shows why, as he visits formative haunts including the derelict Luna Park, and the hill at Sydney Cricket Ground. The following episode, Postcard From London (9.05pm), while bristling with his customary caustic wit, is even more poignant, as James recalls moving to London as a young man in the early 1960s, and experiencing the town at full swing – along the way he chats with Peter Cook, Victoria Wood, Terence Donavan and Michael Caine. The evening ends with another showing of the moving 2018 interview When Mary Beard Met Clive James (9.55pm).


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Note: Since this article was first published, viewzone has received more information on "doomsday," including visual and scientific evidence that a solar "extinction event" happened in the past. See Part 2 - The Previous Doomsday of 12,950 BC: what was it like? for details.
ViewZone asked me to write a story about the Mayan Calendar. There is a common belief that the calendar holds a prophecy that the world will end in 2012. I knew very little about the whole topic when I began doing the research. I like to think I had an open mind. My investigation began with mainstream archaeology and expert interpretations of the calendar. But it soon took a turn that made my hair literally stand on end. I am now convinced that these prophecies are true.
To understand what is likely to happen to Earth and its people, you will need to remain calm and try to follow the facts. It's not as simple as some people describe. It requires an understanding of some fairly complicated science, but I think I can explain this in a way that you will easily understand.
The Calendar -- A Descrption
First, the Mayan calendar is also sometimes called the Aztec Calendar. This calendar is recorded as a carving on the Aztec "sun stone," currently on exhibit in the National Museum of Anthropology and History located within Chapultepec Park, Mexico City. There's a lot we could say about this carved stone but most of those details are irrelevant to the "end times."
Our modern calendar, called the Gregorian Calendar, has days, weeks, months and years. In the Mayan Calendar it's more complex. In fact, it's really three calendars at the same time.
First there's a religious calendar that takes 260 days to complete a full religious cycle. There are 20 "weeks" made up of 13 days. Each week has a special name, a graphic logo and unique meaning associated with it. This reminds me of the Chinese years which cycle through "the year of the rat" and "the year of the monkey," etc., each with it's special image and meaning.
Graphic logos for each of the 20 religious weeks.
Next there is the solar calendar. This has 365 days, like our modern calendar. It's divided in 18 months of 20 days each. At the end of the cycle there's five special days considered to be unlucky because they don't belong to any month. Each of the months has a special name, graphic logo and some special significance, similar to the icons for the weeks in the religious calendar.
So it is possible, for any specific date, the calculate the religious week and the solar month and to predict the influences that might be guiding fate. But that's not really what's involved with the prophecy of 2012. To understand that we must look at the third calendar, called the long count.
While the first two cycles could be thought of as cogs or gears (see below) revolving through time, the long count is a linear number of days, starting from the first day, "1," and counting through each day to the present. Any day in history can be recorded using the long count and, with some simple mathematics, the corresponding religious week and solar month can also be found.
In writing this article, I thought about creating a javascript program that would do this calculation. My friend, Gene Matlock, then told me that when he was in Mexico, he found a place that sold wooden, mechanical calculators with gears that did just that. He said that Mexicans sometimes used these mechanical calendars to foretell the future or to find auspicious times for special events like marriage or births. Anyway, although it might be nice to know the religious and solar significance, it's the long count that foretells Doomsday.
Cog or "gears" can be used to compute the religious and solar cycles for any date.
The days of the long count are numbered with an unusual system. Instead of writing numbers as we do, from right to left with each place being a multiple of 10 (i.e. 10000, 1000, 100, 10, 1), the Mayans had only 5 places.
The first place recorded a number from 0 to 20. To the left, the second place could have a range from 0 to 17; the third from 0 to 19; the fourth from 0 to 19 and the last from 0 to 12. The numbers were written from right to left, like our system, separated by a dot. Instead of multiples of 10, the first place had a multiple of 1 (like our system); the second place a multiple of 20; the third a multiple of 360; the fourth a multiple of 7200 and the fifth a multiple of 144000.
So a long count number, for example, could be written as 4.12.5.9.0 and would be calculated as follows:
(4 x 144000) + (12 x 7200) + (5 x 360) + (9 x 20) + (0 x 1) or a long count of 664,380.
It's not too difficult to realize that the maximum number which can be recorded this way would be 12.19.19.17.20, although some researchers like to write it as 13.0.0.0.0. This amounts to a long count number of 1,872,000 days or 5125.36 years of our modern calculations. Obviously, the calendar is very old!
Over the years, archaeologists have found carved monuments that recorded the long count for known dates in Mayan history. Once a date was fixed in time, it was easy to determine "day 1" as August 11th, 3114 BC. And it was also easy to calculate the date at which the calendar would end -- December 21st, 2012.
The 'Comalcalco Brick' [right], is the second fragment known to reference to Dec. 21, 2012 or Dec. 23, 2012.
The date inscribed on the brick is a 'Calendar Round', a combination of a day and month position that will repeats every 52 years. The brick date does coincide with the end of the 13th Baktun; Baktuns were roughly 394-year periods and 13 was a significant, sacred number for the Mayas. The Mayan Long Count calendar begins in 3114 B.C., and the 13th Baktun ends around Dec. 21, 2012.
The third glyph on the brick seems to read as the verb huli, "he/she/it arrives."
Both inscriptions -- the Tortuguero tablet and the Comalcalco brick -- were probably carved about 1,300 years ago and both are cryptic in some ways.
The Tortuguero inscription describes something that is supposed to occur in 2012 involving Bolon Yokte, a mysterious Mayan god associated with both war and creation. However, erosion and a crack in the stone make the end of the passage almost illegible, though some read the last eroded glyphs as perhaps saying, "He will descend from the sky."
Trust me. Just because the calendar ends doesn't prove that time, or the world, or life will end. We need to look carefully at December 21, 2012 and try to understand why the Mayans never calculated a date beyond this point in time. To do this we must move from Archaeology to the science of Astronomy and Astrophysics. These old Mayan methods are just as effective as using runes or the free tarot readings from tarot-explained to predict the future.
It's all about the Sun
It's ironic (or maybe not) that the Mayan Calendar is often called the "sun stone." While the calendar does have "solar" days, acknowledging the 365 days it takes for Earth to rotate around the Sun, it is also true that the Sun plays a key role in the final day of the "long count." To understand what will happen to the Sun on December 21, 2012, we need to review some scientific terms like "ecliptic," "barycenter," and "sunspots." These are important in the discussion that follows. We'll start with the most difficult one first.
Terms we will encounter...
What is the Barycenter?
You've no doubt heard that Earth revolves around the sun. Well, actually, that's not quite true!
Have you heard the term "center of gravity"? It's a technical-sounding term for something pretty simple. It's the exact center of all the material (that is, mass) that makes up the object. For example, if you have a straight stick, like a ruler or yardstick, there's a place at the middle where you can balance it on your finger. That's its center of gravity.
But the center of gravity may or may not be the point that is exactly in the middle, distance-wise, of the object. Some parts of the object may be heavier (denser) than others. If you have something like a sledge hammer that is heavier on one end than the other, the center of gravity will be much closer to the heavy end than the lighter end.
To get an idea of where the center of gravity is, rest the ends of any object like the ruler or a pencil on one finger from each hand. Slowly move your fingers together without dropping the object. Your fingers will meet underneath the object's center of gravity. You can balance the object on one finger at that special place.
The actual center of gravity could be close to the surface or deep inside, depending on whether the object is flat like a ruler or a dinner plate, or "three-dimensional," like a box or a ball. And if you let the object spin (like when you throw it), it will try to spin about that point.
In the case of the Earth and the sun, both bodies actually revolve, or spin, around the very center of the mass (similar to center of gravity) between them. This point is called the "barycenter." Earth and the sun are "connected" by the gravity pulling them together. It's just like the light end and heavy end of the sledge hammer. Compared to the size of the sun, Earth is about like a flea on a cat! So the center of mass between the Earth and the sun is almost--but not quite--the very center of the sun.
In the case of a planet the size of Jupiter, which is 318 times as massive as Earth, the barycenter of Jupiter and the sun is a bit further from the sun's center. So, as Jupiter revolves around the sun, the sun itself is actually revolving around this slightly off-center point, located just outside its center. Thus, a planet the size of Jupiter will make the sun (or any star) appear to wobble a tiny bit. This picture shows you that the center of mass and barycenter can be slightly different points. It isn't meant to be very accurate!
We can take advantage of this bit of knowledge and look for large planets in other solar systems by learning to detect this type of tiny wobble in the star's position.
For now, let's forget all the small planets and focus on Jupiter. It makes one complete trip around the Sun every 11.861773 years. There's a new theory put forth by Dr. Rollin Gillespie which shows that Jupiter, and to a smaller degree the other less massive planets, may trigger the 11 year cycle of sunspots and solar flares.
The internet has many interesting videos about December 21, 2012 on YouTube, some with good information and some which sensationalize the truth. For sure some of the people making these videos buy YouTube views or use some kind of other promotion method to help get the video seen by the masses. Use your own judgement when viewing these.
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We have a very complicated story to tell. It becomes an even more complex one to tell when speaking to a general audience.
While we do provide an enterprise solution, the scope of our platform goes beyond the world of business — to game theory economics, complex distributed database systems, and advanced cryptography.
We spend a lot of time thinking about how we should explain what Aergo is all about, and where it fits in the market.
Just last Friday, I attended the Distributed Economy 2019 conference to do just that: pitch Aergo to an audience of crypto lovers, venture capitalists, and industry personnel.
Here's 419 #2. This is the presentation I gave explaining what the hypothesis is for Aergo at Deconomy.
In 1991, a single event occurred that triggered a series of associated technological developments that would change the world. Collectively, these subsequent developments have given us the world wide web, global internet access, advanced mobile phones, social media, and cloud computing.
It was the announcement by Linus Torvalds from Finland that GNU/Linux had arrived. It was an operating system that would replace Unix and become the de-facto platform for running most of the world's software applications.
These events caused the unbundling of applications, middleware, operating systems, and underlying IT hardware — challenging the status quo set by existing large IT vendors like IBM, HP, and Dell. They allowed businesses to use best of breed technologies and solutions in hybrid — not locked-in — technology stacks.
And now, with a powerful mix of open-source, cloud computing, and DLT: they can run these in a distributed yet secure and robust architecture.
It wasn't just Linux though. A cascade of other open-source-based technologies would be unleashed: Bind, DNS, the Apache web server, the Spring programming language and then virtualization. Suddenly, it was possible to unbundle applications and the operating system they run on from the underlying IT computing architecture.
This unbundling attacked the status quo of many large traditional IT vendors such as Sun Microsystems, HP, IBM, and Microsoft. It unlocked the real potential of building innovative applications, services, and ecosystems (whether they are social media ecosystems, game platforms or business ecosystems) built on top of an open architecture.
But it was a little-known event in 1998 that accelerated the adoption of Linux and triggered a cascade of customer adoption. It was the announcement that Oracle would support and run its database technologies on Linux. A database is central to almost every business as this is where most records and value is recorded for companies. Oracle's announcement opened the eyes of millions of customers around the world to consider this new operating platform. The rest is history. Today, around 40% of business IT runs on Linux systems. In the public internet and cloud, the figure is closer to a staggering 90%.
I know these facts because for the past 30 years I worked for many of the companies that transformed the technology world — supporting giants like Intel, AMD and Arm — working for Red Hat, Novell and VMWare. I also built entirely new hybrid cloud-based businesses on open architectures like Linux and Hadoop for one of the world's largest telecommunications companies (Deutsche Telekom of Germany). For three decades I have worked closely with developers, and IT teams to figure out how to adopt and embrace new technologies within their business.
Business is about delivering value, delighting customers, and extracting some form of economic benefit along the way. Replacing existing systems with entirely new technologies is costly. This is the reason why almost all modern systems have to be connected, integrated, and built around existing IT systems. The vast majority of businesses run on hybrid architectures. Within the next five years, 75% of all companies connected to the internet will likely be using a hybrid cloud-based computing platform. Today, over 50% of businesses already use some form of cloud for their IT needs.
Now back to blockchain. One year ago there were religious wars, binary predictions, and big-bet investments being made in two opposing camps — either "the future will only be built on a truly distributed public blockchain" — or "it is only possible to run on private, permissioned blockchains to achieve the performance, governance, and control needed for business".
They say history does not repeat itself, but in technology, it rhymes. The future, much like the past, will be hybrid. For that, you can be sure.
Forget about religious private versus public battles. Business is about delivering value — at the lowest cost possible. Business will continue to happen on hybrid systems for many years to come.
Just like Oracle in 1998, twenty years later, in 2018: major IT vendors endorse blockchain as a future platform for services: including IBM, Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Huawei — even Facebook, Twitter, Tencent, Alibaba, and Paypal have entered the fray.
Customers around the world are now ready to understand and use distributed ledger-based technologies like blockchain for their business.
Now is the opportunity for blockchain to transform the future of business. The next 10–15 years will see amazing new applications, services, and trust-based ecosystems form around a hybrid architecture; built around an increasingly decentralized blockchain fabric. These will take advantage of new disruptive technologies that are just around the corner in terms of adoption: 5G, IoT, Machine Learning/AI, trusted computing, autonomous "things" and probably (sooner rather than later) quantum computing.
The future of IT is hybrid. The future of business will also be hybrid AND be distributed.
The World Economic Forum (WEF) is predicting that 10% of the worlds GDP will run on blockchain based systems within the next 5–7 years. For example, blockchain will dramatically boost trade finance across the world: generating a whopping one trillion US dollars in international trade finance.
One of the world's largest technology companies recently used the above diagram to project their view of this future to an audience of 30,000 developers. It's a great slide!
We are well and truly into the era of the intelligent technology world. This includes an intelligent hybrid and distributed cloud providing services to users, businesses, and even devices in what is called the intelligent edge. Computing is getting embedded in the real world in almost every — place whether it be home, work, a stadium, a hospital, the oil or global financial services market. All of these industries are being transformed by digital technology and computing.
The entire world and this computing power are being used to generate that next generation of AI-driven business and business ecosystems. Multi-device experiences that are much more data, trust and of course people centric. Companies need to embrace new tech innovation, but it means they have got to build this into their existing systems. This is not an easy task.
The combination of intelligent cloud surrounded and enriched by intelligent "things" is already starting to transform the way we work, play and interact with each other — whether it's in a B2B or B2C or B2B2X business ecosystem context.
However, as has been the case for the past forty years, large IT vendors tend to "bend" the future — so it relies and is dependent on prior technologies. Some call this vendor lock-in.
What these same vendors don't say — is that the future world they portray could be even more exciting and transformative. When you combine intelligent cloud, a network of intelligent things, and an open source-based model — all with a distributed architecture built on blockchain — the future looks even brighter.
This is the power of blockchain. Existing IT vendors cannot and will not tell you the full story.
Despite what many have reported, this future is already possible today in many, many industries.
Businesses need to interact with each other. Especially in industries such as manufacturing, supply chain, and distribution.
For many years, businesses have used technology and IT to run their operations. However, the technologies they used was complex and split into various layers.
Applications and services need to perform specific functions that are codified into business logic. This all works on data that is processed to generate specific results (i.e., value). Finally, the resulting actions need to communicate with a business partner who will have to perform the exact tasks (in reverse) to receive the resulting service.
During the eighties, these technology stacks were built on proprietary solutions — often delivered by a single vendor, hence the long term vendor lock-in of the past decades. It is not unheard of that many businesses around the world spend around 75% of their IT spend on the underlying technology stack. Only 25% is being spent on the application or service that the business (or end customer) uses.
At the turn of the century, the internet enabled businesses across the world to talk and work with each other using a single communication protocol: the world-wide-web. This removed one of the significant cost barriers to the underlying technology stack. It was a colossal evolution — but not a revolution (in terms of cost impact) to these firms. Data was recorded and stored in siloed warehouses within each organization. No sharing was possible, even if they wanted to make it happen.
Today, with blockchain, businesses can share and automate much of their complex business logic with smart contracts: removing costs and removing labor that can be redeployed to more value-adding tasks for the firm.
Data that was previously siloed and centralized can now be fully distributed and shared. Securely. All through anchoring and bridging this data and associated business transactions to a public blockchain, where all business transactions are hashed and stored in or shared through a tamper-proof ledger.
This new paradigm not only shifts the balance of costs from 75% on IT and 25% on business application or service — allowing the majority of the value and innovation to be created at the application or service layer.
Most importantly, it allows entirely new ways of building business ecosystems — and in fact industries — where trust is assured. Even when no trust is assumed.
It is only blockchain that allows this. This is the future. And it's possible today!
But this vision can only truly be fulfilled if important customer concerns are addressed. All of them.
When it comes to adopting core new technologies in business — there are a number of requirements that must be met — if these new solutions are going to move past simple proofs-of-concept (PoCs) and into production.
The need to protect their brand, reputation, and intellectual property. Security is paramount: data needs to be controlled and carefully managed.
The need for systems to be enterprise-grade (i.e., high performance) — but also to work with existing legacy systems to provide a better long-term return by leveraging prior spends on IT.
Having bleeding edge systems that need highly skilled (and highly paid) engineers — may be acceptable in high-profit markets (like investment banking) — but over 95% of businesses need good enough solutions that are easy to understand.
To maximize the usefulness and application of these systems — they need to be easy-to-program-and-manage.
Lastly, instead of building close centralized systems — companies want to expand into new areas and new markets. This can only be achieved with more open systems.
The Aergo platform and architecture addresses each one of these points directly.
It supports a hybrid approach allowing the best of many worlds — whilst allowing companies to share data, trust, and operations — with many other firms.
Unlike the many blockchains out there, Aergo is a completely battle-tested, clean room solution built from the ground up for business. The technology has been incubated in South Korea for five years with some of the region's largest organizations (i.e., Samsung, Hyundai, Shinhan Bank). It has even been used by local government to provide secure and trusted e-voting — as well as allowing the Korean Stock Exchange (KRX) to build new innovative financial instruments secured and anchored on a blockchain.
Whilst it supports new and advanced programming languages — it also supports perhaps the world's only simple to use SQL and Lua based blockchain programming framework. This potentially opens up blockchain to over 8 million SQL developers and the huge potential of many thousands of new applications they could build on Aergo.
Deploying modern IT systems requires the ability to utilize lower-cost hybrid cloud solutions so that businesses can reduce costs — whilst also focusing more of their resources on the business (application) rather than the underlying IT. Aergo enables this by supporting a hybrid (public + private) blockchain model that leverages existing cloud solutions.
Lastly, Aergo is an open source platform. Open to developers, to partners, system integrators and of course open to businesses. No central control. No rigid architecture and no vendor lock-in.
Built and curated with customers for customers — and built by developers, for developers: Aergo has been incubated for five years by Blocko — the leading blockchain provider in South Korea. Aergo is now being readied for mass market adoption — with easy to use tools, deployment blueprints, and of course applications.
We don't talk or write much — we would rather code and let our customers and partners do the talking. Here are a few that helped us to test, validate and implement many of the technologies that are now part of Aergo mainnet. You may recognize a few of them!
We have more to share. In fact, much much more. Much will be revealed within seven days at our global main net launch — at the birthplace of Aergo at Seoul in South Korea; on April 17, at our mainnet launch event.
Thank you to Linus Torvalds of Linux for showing us the way with Linux.
Aergo will take it from here!
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Q: Save Data From Recordset to XML With VB 6.0 Dim Rs As New `Adodb.Recordset`
Rs.Open "select * from Customer ",Conn,adOpenDynamic,adLockOptimistic
if Rs.RecordCount > 0 then
    rs.Save App.Path & "\Customer.xml" , adPersistXML
end if

The Problem is when record is null then the data is not stored in xml.
So how to make all the stored data into xml data including null.

A: if u can show us XML structure it will be more helpful. you cannot store null directly in XML. But you have two option

*

*Either a missing tag which will be considered as null

*Make attribute nillable = true

A: You can't force a Null value to export as XML that way.  The ADO rowset schema is designed to "omit" them intentionally.
You also didn't give a specific schema to create, but you can easily mimic the ADO schema if you wanted to.
The best way is to take control of the process yourself.  Here is a SAX example though I didn't bother to imitate the ADO schema here:
Option Explicit
'
'Requires references to:
'
'   Microsoft ActiveX Data Objects, version 2.5 or later.
'   Microsoft XML 6.0, can be rewritten to use 3.0 as well.
'

Private Enum HRESULT
    S_OK = 0
End Enum

Private Enum STGM
    STGM_READ = &H0&
    STGM_WRITE = &H1&
    STGM_READWRITE = &H2&
    STGM_SHARE_EXCLUSIVE = &H10&
    STGM_SHARE_DENY_WRITE = &H20&
    STGM_SHARE_DENY_READ = &H30&
    STGM_SHARE_DENY_NONE = &H40&
    STGM_FAILIFTHERE = &H0&
    STGM_CREATE = &H1000&
End Enum

Private Declare Function SHCreateStreamOnFile Lib "shlwapi" _
    Alias "SHCreateStreamOnFileW" ( _
    ByVal pszFile As Long, _
    ByVal grfMode As STGM, _
    ByRef stm As IUnknown) As HRESULT

Private Sub CustomSaveXML( _
    ByVal Recordset As ADODB.Recordset, _
    ByVal FilePath As String)
    Dim Stream As IUnknown
    Dim HRESULT As HRESULT
    Dim Attributes As SAXAttributes60
    Dim Writer As MSXML2.MXXMLWriter60
    Dim Handler As MSXML2.IVBSAXContentHandler
    Dim Field As ADODB.Field
    Dim StringValue As String

    Set Stream = Nothing 'Force creation on 64-bit Windows.  Not sure why
                         'this is required or why it works.
    HRESULT = SHCreateStreamOnFile(StrPtr(FilePath), _
                                   STGM_CREATE _
                                Or STGM_WRITE _
                                Or STGM_SHARE_EXCLUSIVE, _
                                   Stream)
    If HRESULT <> S_OK Then
        Err.Raise &H80044900, _
                  "CustomSaveXML", _
                  "SHCreateStreamOnFile error " & Hex$(HRESULT)
    End If
    Set Attributes = New MSXML2.SAXAttributes60
    Set Writer = New MSXML2.MXXMLWriter60
    Set Handler = Writer
    With Writer
        .omitXMLDeclaration = True
        .standalone = True
        .disableOutputEscaping = False
        .indent = True
        .encoding = "utf-8"
        .output = Stream
    End With
    With Handler
        .startDocument
        .startElement "", "", "data", Attributes
        Do Until Recordset.EOF
            With Attributes
                For Each Field In Recordset.Fields
                    Select Case VarType(Field.Value)
                        Case vbNull
                            'Force as empty String:
                            StringValue = ""
                        Case vbString
                            StringValue = Field.Value
                        Case Else
                            'This converts to a String value using the
                            'Invariant Locale:
                            StringValue = LTrim$(Str$(Field.Value))
                    End Select
                    .addAttribute "", "", Field.Name, "", StringValue
                Next
            End With
            .startElement "", "", "row", Attributes
            .endElement "", "", "row"
            Attributes.Clear
            Recordset.MoveNext
        Loop
        .endElement "", "", "data"
        .endDocument
    End With
End Sub

Private Sub Main()
    Dim RS As ADODB.Recordset

    With New ADODB.Connection
        .Open "Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;Data Source='.';" _
              & "Extended Properties='Text;CSVDelimited=True;Hdr=True'"
        Set RS = .Execute("sample.csv", , adCmdTableDirect)
        CustomSaveXML RS, "sample2.xml"
        RS.Close
        .Close
    End With
End Sub

Input data:
LongVal,StringVal,DoubleVal
65536,Fred,3.5
,Has-Null,1.23456
65537,Barney,37

Output XML:
<data>
    <row LongVal="65536" StringVal="Fred" DoubleVal="3.5"/>
    <row LongVal="" StringVal="Has-Null" DoubleVal="1.23456"/>
    <row LongVal="65537" StringVal="Barney" DoubleVal="37"/>
</data>

You could also brute-force things and just write it as a file using conventional logic and the intrinsic VB6 I/O statements.  It just gets a little tricker if you need true UTF-8 output or something, or your XML schema is more complex.


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"The development of several key cyclical indicators is telling us that the German economy is drifting towards recession right now," the Frankfurt-based bank said in a research note on Tuesday.
On February 14, the Statistics Office publishes its fourth-quarter gross domestic product (GDP) estimate, which - if negative - would put Germany in a state of recession after contracting in the third quarter.
Europe's largest economy shrank by 0.2 per cent in the third-quarter of 2018, largely due to problems in its key automotive sector.
"Given much weaker than expected January business surveys and in particular the slump in their more forward looking components we are now expecting the German economy to contract again in Q1 2019," Deutsche Bank wrote in the note, adding that it expects a 0.2-per-cent contraction to start off 2019.
"Global economic policy uncertainty jumped in December marking a new all-time high," the note from Germany's largest lender added.
Last week, the German government reduced its gross domestic product forecast for 2019 to 1 per cent due to Brexit fears and recent developments in international trade wars, down from its 1.8-per-cent estimate made just a few months earlier.


watt (W) is the internationally accepted measurement of power. One thousand watts are a kilowatt, and a million watts are a megawatt. A Watt is the power used when one Joule of energy is used every second (ie, 1 Watt = Joule/second; 1 Joule = 1 Watt second; 1 Watt hour/Wh = 3.6 thousand Joules/kJ; 1 kWh = 3.6 MegaJoules/MJ).