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Affects watered and well wooded tracts. Mango tree groves, and old tamarind and other densely foliaged trees are preferred. Parochial and a pair often inhabits the same grove year after year.
The nesting season is from November to April.
The nest is made of sticks in the fork of the trunk of a large tree preferably near water and often in the vicinity of human habitation.
Affects watered and well wooded tracts. Mango tree groves, and old tamarind and other densely foliaged trees are preferred. Parochial and a pair often inhabits the same grove year after year.
The nesting season is from November to April.
The nest is made of sticks in the fork of the trunk of a large tree preferably near water and often in the vicinity of human habitation.
A trio of poults, or juvenile Wild Turkeys, scampers along a remote section of trail in the Britannia Conservation Area.
Wild Turkeys were nearly eliminated from the Ontario landscape until a ‘trap and transfer’ program began here in 1984. The goal was to restore the bird to its traditional habitats, and then to regulate hunting to prevent the kind of impact on the population that had occurred previously.
The program was a huge success. So much so that Wild Turkeys are now (a) in places they were not expected to be, and had never been before; and (b) they are in places where hunting is not permitted, like Britannia. And there is the paradox: a bird reintroduced to restore or improve biodiversity enters a small and protected ecosystem. And the impact, created by a ground-hunting omnivore, can be damaging. Snakes, amphibians, and other species are natural targets.
As the Turkeys reproduce without any real natural predator and without being hunted, their increasing need for food will certainly have an impact on the biodiversity that pre-existed their arrival. That was something people spoke about on Pelee Island, where Turkeys were also reintroduced and hunting was even permitted.
Not claiming to have answers, but wanting to note the unanticipated ways reintroduced species can affect local ecosystems.
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Affectation plutôt insolite à Strasbourg, un Urbino habituellement affecté à d'autres lignes se retrouve ici sur la ligne G du BHNS, entre l'Espace Européen de l'Entreprise et la gare de Strasbourg.
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this butterfly was created
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Affect or effect?
How dose it appear to you?
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Created by taking a photograph of a dry leaf on the hood of a car for reflection and the sun behind it for glare with flash on.
Turned sideways and mirrored with a slight stretch to the wing sections of the butterfly of light coming over the top of the leaf.
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Day 26 of 365
When I'm tired it affects my field of view. The sight it covers decreases and edges turn darker like I would experience some sort psychological vignetting , at least it feels like it. Even bright lights don't look as bright as before. Instead they look like in some photograph where one has recovered too much highlights with a post processing software, a bit gray, flat and artificial. Then my sight starts to feel heavy. Any high contrast view with a large dynamics feels bad to look at and bright lights hurt my eyes. First it's the eyes and then it goes inside my head. If I can't escape light to some dark place, it will intensify and eventually turn into migraine which will, if I'm unlucky, continue overnight. Next morning the pain is gone and eyesight feels normal, but head is still a bit rickety and yoghurt. It takes full 24 hours to recover from this.
I've been running this blog now for 26 days and update it with a new picture and text every day. While it has been a fascinating project and I've been creating pictures I would never have done without it, I now have to admit that my original plan has been too ambitious and I have to change my concept somehow to make this work. The trouble is, with a unfinished thesis, freelance work, family life, everyday things and other routines to take care of, the blog has to be run at nights. No matter how I try to organize things I find myself post processing pictures, writing texts and updating the blog usually at two o'clock in the middle of the night. After 26 days, I can say that this doesn't work in the long run and if I want to continue doing this, and I do, I need to change my rules. I'm still working on with a new plan, but in practice it means I won't be updating my blog on daily basis. More info to come in a next few days.
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...will affect us as surely as the moon affects the tides, and affect us in some ways more deeply than anyone else can. Our children are extensions of ourselves. ~Fred Rogers
Went out to Lake Lowndes to get some shots of the trees and found this guy floatin along. This is the only one that turned out from about 15 of this duck.
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Spurn is a very unique place in the British Islands. Three and a half miles long and only fifty metres wide in places.
Extending out in to the Humber Estuary from the Yorkshire coast it has always had a big affect to the navigation of all vessels over the years. Help to some and a danger or hindrance to others. This alone makes Spurn a unique place.
Spurn is made up of a series of sand and shingle banks held together with mainly Marram grass and Seabuckthorn. There are a series of sea defence works built by the Victorians and maintained by the Ministry of Defence, till they sold Spurn to the Yorkshire Wildlife Trust in the 1950s. The defences are in a poor state, breaking down and crumbling. This is making Spurn a very fragile place wide open to the ravages of the North Sea.
One of the most striking features of Spurn is the black and white lighthouse near to the end of Spurn. Now just an empty shell not used since it was closed down at dawn on the thirty first of October 1986.
There have been many Lighthouses on Spurn over the years the first recorded at around 1427. The present light was built from 1893 TO 1895. The small tower on the beach on the Estuary side was originally the low light. It was built and put in to operation at around 1852. This light was no longer needed when the present lighthouse was opened in 1895.At a later date the light was removed and it was used as a store for explosives and later as a water tower. The tank can still be seen on the top. When it was operational there was a raised walkway from the shore to the lighthouse so it could be reached at all stages of the tide.
The present lighthouse was built to replace an old lighthouse that was positioned just to the south of the present one. You can still see the round perimeter wall surrounding the old keepers cottages and the base of the old lighthouse which had to be demolished due to it settling on it's foundations making it unsafe.
The only light on Spurn today is a flashing green starboard light on the very end of the point and the fixed green lights marking the end of the Pilots jetty.
Because of Spurns ever moving position there have been many Lighthouses over the years. There is a very good book by George.de.BOAR, called History of the Spurn Lighthouses, produced by the East Yorkshire Local History Society. This is one of a series of books on local history.
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Around and about there are plenty of places to eat and drink. Starting from the north of Spurn at Kilnsea there is the Riverside hotel offering good quality food drink and accommodation. Coming south towards Spurn and still in Kilnsea there is the Crown and Anchor pub. A welcoming place serving bar meals fine beers and offering bed and breakfast at very reasonable rates. At the crossroads before you turn towards Spurn there is the Spurn heritage coast visitors centre. Where there is a small cafe and exhibition. At the entrance Spurn point nature reserve is an information centre and bird observatory selling books pamphlets, etc., and the last toilet on Spurn.
Past the lighthouse is the last car park. Two hundred metres further on you find the Humber Lifeboat and Pilot stations. Near the houses is a Small caravan selling tea, coffee, cold cans, hot and cold food, crisps and sweets.
All are open all year round apart from the heritage centre which is open thought the season.
BIRD WATCHING.
Is a very popular pastime as Spurn is internationally famous for birds. There are up to two hundred species recorded at spurn every year. Some of which are extremely rare. The Marmora's Warbler seen at Spurn In June 1992 was only the third recorded in Britain.
SEA FISHING.
The beaches of Spurn provide some of the best sea fishing in the area, with Cod and Whiting and Flats being caught through the winter and Skate, Flats and Bass through the summer. There is sport to be had all the year.
At the very end of Spurn is deep water ideal for Cod but this only fishes best two hours either side of low water, the tide is to strong at other times. All along the seaward side of Spurn is good for all species of fish at all times though over high water being the better. The riverside of Spurn is very shallow and only produces Flats and the bass over high water.
THE BEACH.
The beaches at Spurn are of soft sand and shingle. Whichever way the wind is blowing you can just pop over the dunes to the outer side. There are fossils and all manners of things to find beach combing. Swimming is not safe any were near the point end as there are very strong tides at up to six knots at times. But in side Spurn around the point car park is perfect at high water. The beach does not shelf to fast and very little tide. You can have the place to your self at times, as Spurn is never really busy weekdays.#
A very popular pastime at Spurn is Fossil hunting. There is a good abundance of fossils to be found in amongst the pebbles and shingle.
The Shark Trust has a very interesting PDF file tell you all about Shark Skate and rays the mermaids purses you find on the beach are egg shells from sharks and Rays. Click the link to down load the Shark Trust Brochure.
WALKING.
Walking or strolling at spurn is very easy, as there are no hills. There are various sign posted paths up and down the point. For the fit a complete walk round the whole point is about 8 miles, taking in all the point round the point end and back to the "warren" information place at the start of Spurn. You will need good footwear, as much of the paths are sand. There is limited access for disabled, but not to the point end, as you have to go via the beach.
You can park your car at the point car park and walk round the point end and back to the car park about a mile, or just stroll around the point were you choose. The only place you are not allowed to go are down the pilot's jetty and the centre square of the Lifeboat houses.
In spring and early summer Spurn is covered with a large amount of wild flowers of all species.
There are common to the not so common; from Orchids to bluebells. I must remind you Spurn is a nature reserve and the picking of all flowers is prohibited. When visiting please enjoy Spurn, as it is a very beautiful place and leave only your footprints.
Horse Riding.
There is riding available nearby at the North Humberside Riding Centre. The stables are ideally located with rides along quiet country lanes, by-ways, plus miles of sandy beach and riverbanks. The cross-country course offers a variety of fences for both the novice and the more experienced rider.
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A Brief History of Spurn Bird Observatory
Following visits to Spurn by several members of the Yorkshire Naturalists' Union in the late 1930's, a communal log for ornithological observations was instituted in 1938. This included a roll-call of species, the beginnings of a recording system, which later became standard in bird observatories. Realising the potential of the Spurn peninsula for the regular observation of bird migration a group of enthusiasts, notably Ralph Chislett, George Ainsworth, John Lord and R.M. Garnett, had the idea of setting up a bird observatory, with the Warren Cottage at the northern end of the peninsula as an ideal headquarters. Unfortunately the outbreak of war forced them to put their plans on hold but shortly after hostilities ceased a lease for Warren Cottage was obtained from the War Department and the observatory was established shortly afterwards under the auspices of the Y.N.U. with the four members mentioned above forming the first committee. A preliminary meeting was held in September 1945 to decide on the site for a Heligoland trap, work on which was begun almost immediately and the first bird (a Blackbird) was ringed on November 17th. The first minuted committee meeting was held on March 9th 1946 and the observatory was opened to visitors at Whitsuntide that year.
Initially coverage was limited to the main migration seasons, being extended to winter weekends in the early 1950's to trap and ring some of the large numbers of Snow Buntings which used to occur at that time of year and gradually coverage was increased (whenever possible) to cover the late spring and summer. In 1959 there was an important development when the Yorkshire Naturalists' Trust (now the Yorkshire Wildlife Trust) became the owners of the peninsula and thus the observatory's landlord. In 1960 a full time warden was appointed by the Trust, and although having no official connection with the observatory the fact of having an observer on the peninsula year-round inevitably helped to improve the ornithological coverage. This was especially the case from 1964 when the current warden, Barry Spence, was appointed, in conjunction with the fact that an interest in birds and their migrations was steadily growing and more bird-watchers were staying at the observatory, often for longer periods.
When the observatory opened there was accommodation for seven visitors in Warren Cottage and facilities included two chemical toilets, the Warren Heligoland trap and an ex-army hut as a ringing hut. Over the next ten years a further five Heligoland traps were constructed along the peninsula, although today only three remain in existence. In 1959 the observatory gained the use of the Annexe, one of two ex W.D. bungalows built at the Warren during the early 1950's, thus increasing the accommodation capacity to seventeen and providing much improved toilet facilities. Over the years the accommodation and facilities have been gradually improved to try to make the visitor's stay at Spurn as comfortable as possible. Other improvements have also taken place, in 1968 part of one of the derelict buildings at the Point was converted into a ringing laboratory ready for the first B.T.O. Ringing Course, held in autumn of that year and in 1971 part of one of the derelict buildings at the Warren was also converted into a ringing laboratory. The other part of this building became a laboratory for the use of students of Leeds University but this also became available to the observatory in the mid 1980's when the University no longer had a use for it. Subsequently it was converted into a self-contained accommodation unit for two, complete with kitchen facilities, and although officially known by the somewhat unimaginative name of Room F (the rooms in the Annexe being known as Rooms A, C, D & E, - whatever happened to Room B?), it was somewhat irreverently christened "Dunbirdin" by regular visitors to Spurn.
In 1965 a sea-watching hut was erected east of the Warren beyond the line of the former railway track. Due to coastal erosion it became necessary to move this in late 1974, when it was hoped that it would last at least as long as it had in its first position. Alas this was not to be, as the rate of erosion increased dramatically in the mid 1970's, necessitating a further move in early December 1977. In that year a clay bank had been built across the field behind Warren Cottage (Clubley's field) to prevent the flooding of arable land by wind-blown sea water, but on January 11th 1978 Spurn suffered its worst flooding ever when a strong to gale-force north-westerly wind combined with a spring tide. In late 1981 due to extensive construction works at Easington a large quantity of boulder clay became available and this was used to build up and extend the bank across Clubley's field, south towards Black Hut and north beyond Big Hedge to join up with an existing bank (which had been built in 1974) behind the scrape. In 1982 the sea-watching hut was repositioned on top of this bank, where it remained until the bank itself was washed away in the early 1990's.
A number of other changes to the observatory recording area began to take place from the early 1970's, including extensive building operations at the Point, commencing in 1974, with the construction of a new jetty for the Humber Pilot boats, new housing for the Spurn Lifeboat crew and the conversion and renovation of various existing buildings for use by the Coastguard and the Pilots. In 1978 following damage to the existing road south of the Warren area a new tarmac road was laid to the west of the original one, this lasted until 1988 when a second "new road" loop had to be laid, followed in 1991 by the construction of the existing loop road running along the Humber shore from just south of the Warren to just beyond Black Hut. The construction of this road resulted in the destruction of the actual Black Hut, although the area still bears the name. In 1981 the lines of wartime concrete anti-tank blocks running from the seashore to the Canal Zone were removed to fill in a breach at the Narrow Neck. This resulted in the southward extension of the Scrape field by the farmer up to Big Hedge and the start of a gradual decline in the condition of this hedge and its attractiveness to birds. In 1982 a local resident excavated a pond for shooting purposes in the wet area adjoining the Canal Zone. This never really proved successful and the land was later purchased by the Y.W.T. and the pond enlarged to become what is now known as Canal Scrape. In 1984 a famous Spurn landmark, the Narrows "Hut", a wooden migration watch shelter which had stood at the Narrow Neck for twenty-three years, was set fire to by person or persons unknown and completely destroyed, it was replaced the following year by a more solid construction made from breeze-blocks.
A period of considerable change began in 1988 when the Spurn peninsula was designated as part of the Spurn Heritage Coast. Projects undertaken include the enlargement of the Canal Scrape mentioned above and the erection of a hide overlooking it, a hide overlooking the Humber wader roost at Chalk Bank, a public sea-watching hide alongside the observatory one, provision of additional car-parking space, the restoration of the short-turf habitat in the Chalk Bank area, provision of footpaths, etc. A major project was the renovation of the Blue Bell in Kilnsea for use as offices, an information centre and a small cafe, which became fully operational in 1995. Another fairly recent project has been the creation of another scrape/pond on Clubley's field.
In 1996 the observatory celebrated its fiftieth anniversary, and for the first time in its history SBO employed a full time seasonal warden. This position has since been expanded and the observatory now enjoys the services of a year- round warden. In 1998, with a view to the future, a small bungalow in Kilnsea was purchased with money bequeathed by the late John Weston, a long time committee member, who regrettably died in 1996. This was followed in 1999 by the purchase of a strip of land adjacent to the property and is now known as the ‘Church Field’, this is planted with a sacrificial crop every year, and has also had several groups of trees planted and a feeding station placed in the north-east corner. Access to this field is available by becoming a member of ‘Friends of Spurn Bird Observatory’, a venture set up in 2003 to eventually help with the building of a new observatory when the old one falls way to the sea.
The affects of COVID-19 on Heritage railway operations in Australia has been damning with several organisations cancelling operations or postponing tours and events until normality returns. The Steamranger Heritage Railway has been out of action since April and has since resumed the popular Cockle Train operations between Goolwa and Victor Harbor in mid June.
The 14:45 Cockle Train service from Goolwa to Victor Harbour rolls along Encounter Bay with 106 year old RX207 in charge on Wednesday the 8th of July 2020. Typically July school holiday services are usually Railcar or Diesel hauled however the RX has been rostered for these workings to try and regain lost profits from earlier in the year.
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After some discourse regarding the effects of global warming on the planet (see my friend John's photostream: www.flickr.com/photos/johnfrisch/51368038468/in/dateposted/ ), I decided on posting a futuristic conceptual image of what the planet would look like.
I think I could live with that. Picture those evergreens replaced with Palm trees. Hmmm
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Thalia: The mashing does have a truly disturbing affect on the extremities, unless that is your own 'painterly' touching up. Reading bacon, ham or gammon might be a kind of auguristic activity, or is that tea-leaves?
Ruin: Those fatty tributaries are mesmerising, perhaps more dependable than tea-slops. Nope, it's all chance, that disturbance you have rightly referred to.
It's an original oil on canvas, a rumoured, unsigned, mid-career throwback F. Bacon (disputed).
De Selby mentioned it in his (now sadly lost) authoritative treatise: 'On Augury and Ham-fistedness' (1954-ish).
Yes, I can see that one of the side-effects of 'Parma Ham Divining' is that one can become ham-fisted. It seems to be becoming endemic too, if the evidence of A.I. is anything to go by.
I believe that it was the first recording (in what we call the 'Fine Arts') of three-fingeredness relative to ham-reading. I could, of course, be wrong.
Either way, It isn't over until the indeterminate-gender personage of corporeally-generous proportions ululates.
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New research on nine craters of Saturn's largest moon provides more details about how weathering affects the evolution of the surface – and what lies beneath.
Scientists have used data from NASA's Cassini mission to delve into the impact craters on the surface of Titan, revealing more detail than ever before about how the craters evolve and how weather drives changes on the surface of Saturn's mammoth moon.
Some of the new results reinforce what scientists knew about the craters – that the mixture of organic material and water ice is created by the heat of impact, and those surfaces are then washed by methane rain. But while researchers found that cleaning process happening in the midlatitude plains, they discovered that it's not happening in the equatorial region; instead, those impact areas are quickly covered by a thin layer of sand sediment.
That means Titan's atmosphere and weather aren't just shaping the surface of Titan; they're also driving a physical process that affects which materials remain exposed at the surface, the authors found.
This composite image shows an infrared view of Saturn's moon Titan from NASA's Cassini spacecraft, captured in 2015. Several places on the image, visible through the moon’s hazy atmosphere, show more detail because those areas were acquired near closest approach.
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The sight and sound of a calling Chaffinch is something that doesn't really generate a lot of interest and yet to me our gardens and woodlands would be a different place without them.
From a high base they are sadly in decline. There are two diseases that affect the Chaffinches, Fringilla Papillomavirus and Trichomonosis. Fringilla Papillomavirus is a mite which causes lumps and a ‘scaly’ look on the birds legs/feet. It can also spread to their beak. Trichomonosis affects a bird’s digestive system and is a disease caused by a parasite which is spread during breeding season when a bird regurgitates its food to feed its young.
This photo was taken in the woodlands closeby the visitors centre at Bempton. It is a great example of the variety to be found at this RSPB managed reserve. Everyone automatically thinks, seabirds when Bempton is mentioned, but there is also a good variety of farmland and woodland birds to be found.
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The authorities released pink dye into the ocean in and around Imperial Beach, CA, in order to better understand how tides and rips affect sewage flowing out from the Tijuana River.
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Taken Out The Kitchen Window.
To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.
I do love some of the vignettes I see in my backyard.
I don't know if this affects anyone else, but since shielding ended I have struggled to get out. My default setting, it seems, has become 'stay at home'. To combat this, I'd just begun to make a list of all the places I have really missed and want to visit with my camera... just in time for a new covid 'firebreak' lockdown' here in Wales, which starts on Friday evening.
This photo is from the weekend, at Abermawr, where the very low tide exposed a wide variety of living things that we normally never see.
Rencontres de Noël:
- Alors, vous préparez le réveillon? demande le vacataire qui m'est affecté au vaccinodrome de Toulouse ce lundi 27 décembre au soir alors que le bourdonnement de cette immense ruche où des centaines de professionnels, parfois bénévoles et souvent jeunes accueillent les candidats au vaccin (qui nous décevra beaucoup par son incapacité à nous protéger tant du Covid que de la transmission du virus…), le bourdonnement donc s'est calmé dans l'attente des doses de Moderna et Pfizer.
- Je suis prêtre et nous sommes, comme vous, mobilisés durant les fêtes alors nous ne préparons pas de Réveillon sauf si nous pouvons en organiser un pour des personnes pauvres ou isolées.
Ainsi hier, jour de Noël, je suis aller prier auprès d'une défunte à la demande de ses enfants avant de rendre une longue visite à une personne en longue maladie qui unit ses souffrances à celles du Christ crucifié.
- Je compris plus tard que mon interlocuteur avait déjà repéré à mon col et ma croix qu'il accueillait un prêtre et que sa question sur le Réveillon n'était qu'un prélude à ce qu'il allait me confier ensuite.
C'est ma troisième visite en ce lieu, toujours à la nuit tombée et l'impeccable organisation permet une belle fluidité du mouvement à travers les huit étapes du processus vaccinal depuis le premier accueil jusqu'à la sortie après les 15 minutes d'observations qui suivent la vaccination proprement dite.
Un autre mérite de cette organisation réside dans l'accueil qui nous est réservé à chaque étape: professionnel et souriant. Avec le charme additionnel des nombreux jeunes gens et jeunes filles mobilisés.
Est-ce un bénéfice additionnel de cette organisation anti-stress ou l'apanage de mes visites en fin de journées qui m'ont permis à chaque fois d'avoir de belles rencontres avec les accueillants heureux de converser avec un prêtre?
- Ce vieux pompier volontaire qui me piqua la première fois, après 21 heure alors qu'il avait une heure de route à faire pour rentrer chez lui à Saint Gaudens.
- Ce jeune professionnel africain, à ma deuxième visite, avec qui nous avons pu parler de son éducation chrétienne au Burundi et de son concitoyen et aumônier, notre ami le P. Jean.
- Et ce soir de Noël, cet homme de ma troisième dose, qui me confiait sa fierté d'être allé à la messe de la nuit de Noël, à Saint-Lizier, en compagnie de ses belles-filles de 10 et 14 ans et du père de ces dernières:
- Cela faisait des années que je n'étais plus allé à la messe.
- Qu'est-ce qui vous y a poussé?
- Je ne sais pas… Mais le plus beau est d'avoir réussi à convaincre mes belles-filles de venir.
- Leu mère y était aussi?
- Non, c'est leur père qui voulait mais elles ne voulaient pas au début. Et c'est moi, le compagnon de leur mère, non pratiquant, qui les ai convaincus de venir voir ce que c'est que la messe.
- Elles n'ont pas fait de catéchisme?
- Non et pourtant, finalement, elles ont voulu absolument venir.
- Et elles étaient contentes à la sortie?
- Oui, et j'espère surtout qu'il va se passer quelque chose pour elles.
- Qu'elle rencontrent Dieu, expérimentent l'amour du Christ?
- Oui, c'est ça.
À la sortie, un pompier volontaire repérant que je suis prêtre me parle de son bonheur d'avoir pris en blablacar pour un long trajet jusqu'à Paris, un prêtre pompier volontaire lui-aussi, le P. Moïse Kaboré, ancien curé de Castanet près Toulouse et ancien curé et pompier à Saint-Céré, dans mon diocèse de Cahors.
3 doses, 4 rencontres chaleureuses qui sont autant de motifs d'action de grâce et de confirmation de cette certitude qui a grandi en moi: ces rencontres d'ici-bas qui sont les vraies richesse de nos vies sont un préludes aux rencontres de là-haut, avec nos frères et sœurs, concitoyens du Ciel.
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Avant d'être affectés au musée, les bâtiments étaient une maison de l'ordre des Ermites de saint Augustin. Dans son emplacement actuel, à l'intérieur des murs de la cité, le couvent des Augustins de Toulouse fut construit à partir de 1310 après l'autorisation du pape Clément V donnée par un rescrit daté du 28 janvier 1310.
Le couvent des Augustins devient bien national par décret le 2 novembre 1789. Il est désaffecté puis démembré en 1790 lors de la suppression des ordres monastiques. Il fut transformé en musée après la suppression des ordres religieux à la Révolution française.
La saisie des œuvres les plus utiles pour la création d'un « Muséum du Midi de la République » est décidée par le Conseil du département de Haute-Garonne le 12 décembre 1793. Il s'installe aux Augustins et ouvre solennellement ses portes le 27 août 1795, ce qui en fait l'un des plus anciens musées de France, très peu de temps après le Louvre.
Fermé à partir du 31 mai 2019 pour réfection des verrières, le musée devait rouvrir début 2020 mais les travaux sont prolongés jusqu'à début 2025.
Lacking in inspiration again today. Possibly because I had my flu vacc yesterday and woke up this morning with mother of all colds., despite the fact that there’s little evidence to suggest it can affect you - it being a ‘live ‘ vaccine.Just to be on the safe side i did a Lateral Flow Test which thankfully turned out negative.
Rainbow
An individual raindrop has a different shape and consistency than a glass prism, but it affects light in a similar way. When white sunlight hits a collection of raindrops at a fairly low angle, you can see the component colors red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet -- a rainbow. For simplicity's sake, we'll only look at red and violet, the colors of light on the ends of the visible light spectrum.
The diagram below shows what happens when the sunlight hits one individual raindrop.
When the white light passes from air into the drop of water, the component colors of light slow down to different speeds depending on their frequency. The violet light bends at a relatively sharp angle when it enters the raindrop. At the right-hand side of the drop, some of the light passes back out into the air, and the rest is reflected backward. Some of the reflected light passes out of the left side of the drop, bending as it moves into the air again.
In this way, each individual raindrop disperses white sunlight into its component colors. So why do we see wide bands of color, as if different rainy areas were dispersing a different single color? Because we only see one color from each raindrop. You can see how this works in the diagram below.
When raindrop A disperses light, only the red light exits at the correct angle to travel to the observer's eyes. The other colored beams exit at a lower angle, so the observer doesn't see them. The sunlight will hit all the surrounding raindrops in the same way, so they will all bounce red light onto the observer.
Raindrop B is much lower in the sky, so it doesn't bounce red light to the observer. At its height, the violet light exits at the correct angle to travel to the observer's eye. All the drops surrounding raindrop B bounce light in the same way. The raindrops in between A and B all bounce different colors of light to the observer, so the observer sees the full color spectrum. If you were up above the rain, you would see the rainbow as a full circle, because the light would bounce back from all around you. On the ground, we see the arc of the rainbow that is visible above the horizon.
Sometimes you see a double rainbow -- a sharp rainbow with a fainter rainbow on top of it. The fainter rainbow is produced in the same way as the sharper rainbow, but instead of the light reflecting once inside the raindrop, it's reflected twice. As a result of this double reflection, the light exits the raindrop at a different angle, so we see it higher up. If you look carefully, you'll see that the colors in the second rainbow are in the reverse order of the primary rainbow.
Source: science.howstuffworks.com/nature/climate-weather/storms/r...
Artificial lighting at night affects the behavior of urban wildlife, according to a recent study published in Nature Scientific Reports, which examined animals in the laboratory and the field. The researchers mapped light levels in the city of Chicago using publicly available images of Earth taken by astronauts from the International Space Station.
The study is only one example of the wide variety of scientific research based on images taken by crew members from space using the Crew Earth Observations (CEO) facility.
Here, an image of the city of Chicago at night taken by crew aboard the International Space Station. Scientists have used images such as this one in studies demonstrating the effects of artificial light on urban wildlife and research on the proximity of urban greenspaces to residential areas.
Image Credit: Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit, NASA Johnson Space Center