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There are the same cobblestones, near Canal Saint Martin, Paris, and the three photos where made in less then three minutes intervale.
One turning 180° and the other almost against the sun, the third near a trash can a few steps farther.
Just ponder: how different impressions they give, depending on angle, circonstances, and also... what is in our mind.
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Les trois prises à quelques minutes d'intervale sur le même pavé. Le deuxième contre soleil, le premier à 180° distance et la troisième à côté des ordures à quelques pas de là.
Quelle différences, selon l'angle de soleil, la façon qu'on tourne, nos expériences de vie: pensez-y un peu.
Running out of idea's, so spot the difference to the last one (11-05-10)?
Went to town to get a few things for Sue & buy more bird cakes!
(I had to tweak the levels in Flickr editor - due to lack of sunshine.)
Shirt: East? German Army - from Army/navy store in Hanley 20 years ago - second hand - bought for wife but since claimed back by me! - remix
Braces/Suspenders: Topshop - remix
Boots - Dr Martens 14-hole Steelie from Cloggs UK 2007 - remix
Jeans - Levis 901; from E-Bay UK - refashioned/bleached by me - remix.
Jacket - Knox Armoury CWU/45P (part of Alpha Industries) from TKMaxx - 2007 sale £25.00 - remix
Doris Leuthard, President of the Swiss Confederation 2017 and Federal Councillor of the Environment, Transport, Energy and Communications of Switzerland speaking at the Annual Meeting 2017 of the World Economic Forum in Davos, January 19, 2017
Copyright by World Economic Forum / Walter Duerst
What's the difference between jam and jelly? I can't jelly my dick in your asshole.
handwriting, jam, jelly, joke, writing.
bathroom, Clint and Carolyn's house, Alexandria, Virginia.
June 18, 2016.
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BACKSTORY: We didn't erase the whiteboard between Clint's birthday party and Carolyn's birthday party, so this is a combination of parties.
The proportion of the Irish population that is obese has increased at a rate of 1% a year between 1998 and 2000. Experts blame the worldwide rise in levels of obesity on urbanization, fast food choices, little exercise and stressful jobs. In Ireland thirty-nine percent of Irish adults are overweight and 18 percent are obese. Surveys show big differences between the East of the country – the area around Dublin - and other regions with levels of social drinking among women, obesity and cannabis use all higher in the East than in other parts.
INTRODUCTION
Peak Blue Shieldbug counts on the Kingmoor Sidings Boardwalk, Carlisle, April to September 2016.
In 2015 I accumulated a mass of data on Blue Shieldbug sightings in the Carlisle area and presented the information in histogram form in an attempt to give an indication of the life-history of the species in this locality. Basically each month was divided into three segments, the first two of tens days duration and the third comprising the rest of the month; the total number of counts summed from all sites were then included in each interval, with adults and nymphs being treated separately (for convenience this has been copied into the host album).
Although the results gave a true indication of my observations the chart bore little resemblance, structurally, to the one presented by R D Hawkins in Shieldbugs of Surrey - my only point of comparison available at the time. The most obvious difference was the lack of a clear double peak in the adult population, as the vast majority of my adult sightings occurred later in the year, whereas in the reference work a substantial proportion occurred before the mid-year dip.
A number of reasons for this discrepancy have been identified, but the most significant factor is that at the start of the year I had minimal experience of finding Blue Shieldbugs and in fact had only seen two of them before - both found at the same location in December 2014; however, as the year progressed I accumulated more and more information about the sites favoured by this species, and so I became much more proficient at finding them. Also, whenever a "hotspot" was discovered it was subsequently re-visited throughout the rest of the survey period which clearly had a distorting effect on the results.
In order to avoid this issue the original intention for 2016 was to repeatedly survey a small number of known Blue Shieldbug sites from start to finish of the survey period and only include records from these sites in the analysis - bugs found elsewhere would merely be reported. However, this was ultimately judged to be too time-consuming, and instead the decision was made to derive the data from a single location. For reasons described in the following section the site chosen was the Kingmoor Sidings boardwalk.
To ensure that bugs were not counted more than once during any given ten-day period only the number counted in the highest scoring survey was used in the chart, regardless of the number of surveys carried out. Although this substantially reduced the record-keeping burden it's a fundamentally different approach to that adopted previously, and is considered further later.
It can be seen that the nymphs are divided into two categories: early and final-instars. As no first-instar nymphs were seen, and as only a single second-instar was found, in practice the first category essentially comprises third and fourth-instar nymphs.
The inset photographs were all taken on the boardwalk. In the case of the nymphs, they were temporarily transferred onto a piece of cm/mm scale graph paper to facilitate measurement.
A number of noteworthy findings were photographed over the monitoring period - eg a Blue Shieldbug nymph feeding on an adult. Although these photos have already been posted on Flickr, and are not directly relevant to the study, a selection have been copied into the host album in case anyone is interested.
THE KINGMOOR SIDINGS BOARDWALK
The Kingmoor Sidings Nature Reserve is positioned on the outskirts of Carlisle and a sketch map is included in the album. The boardwalk is located in Area 2, at ca NY385580. A number of photos giving an indication of the surrounding vegetation are also included in the album. The total extent of the boardwalk is about 212m, with the width ranging from 0.45 - 0.52m (with a weighted average of 0.5m) giving a total upper surface area of about 106 sq m.
There are a number of reasons why it was chosen as the site for this study, but the most important factors were that Blue Shieldbugs were frequently found here over the previous year, and that Kingmoor is my local nature reserve, with Kingmoor Sidings being just a few minutes' drive away. Also there's an excellent (free!) car park just across the road in Kingmoor South.
The choice of the boardwalk, as opposed to an area of vegetated terrain, was also critical as it allowed a comprehensive - and repeatable - survey to be carried out in under 10 minutes, with a fair degree of confidence that any bugs present had been spotted.
How the boardwalk Blue Shieldbug population at any given time (or even time-averaged) relates to the population present in the surrounding terrain is not a question I feel competent to answer; however the basic premise - possibly flawed! - is that the shape of the life-history chart derived from the boardwalk data is indicative of what's going on in the "natural" environment. (This issue it speculated on later.)
COUNT DURATION, FREQUENCY AND VOLATILITY
Although I found my first Blue Shieldbug of 2015 on 19 March (on Scaleby Moss), boardwalk monitoring only started in earnest 14 April this year when six Blue Shieldbugs were found in close proximity in a small area of Kingmoor North that I'd been studying for other purposes. Monitoring formally ceased on 20 October after having seen nothing since 24 September. As I've found Blue Shieldbugs in this area of Kingmoor Sidings as late as 5 December (in 2014), I accept that there's a possibility that the odd one may still turn up later in the year. In which case I'll just append the information to the text, without amending the chart.
Ideally I'd have liked to carry out surveys at fixed intervals over the monitoring period but this just didn't happen! Although on some days I specifically set out to visit the reserve to carry out a count, most of the surveys were done as I just happened to be passing the Kingmoor South car park en route to other sites I routinely visit. If time allowed two counts would be undertaken - one on the way in and one on the way out. Although comprehensive records were not kept (see following section), I'm confident that at least six counts were carried out over every ten-day period, and in some cases perhaps up to 15.
The most troubling aspect of the study was the extreme volatility of the counts. For example on 20 June virtually nothing was seen during a survey carried out on the way into the reserve; but when the count was repeated about an hour later on the way out, under nominally identical conditions, nine adults and five nymphs were found! At times this made me question whether anything of any value was being achieved. In fact it was only because the opportunity cost was so minimal, with a survey taking less than 10 minutes, that I carried on with the project.
RECORDS AND RECORD KEEPING
Rightly or wrongly, I made the decision fairly early on that the parameter I'd be plotting on the life-history chart was peak counts. This significantly reduced the requirement for record keeping - for example if five adults were counted on day one of a ten-day period, then there was no need to record any further sightings of adult bugs over that period till a higher number was achieved. On reflection I regret this decision, because if comprehensive records had been kept then it would have been possible to analyse the data in several different ways (for example using average counts over each 10-day period) which might have been revealing.
Also record keeping wasn't as good as it might have been for the nymphs. Although I initially recorded the numbers of third and fourth-instars separately, on some occasions I only recorded the total number of thirds and fourths together - although final-instar nymphs were always recorded as a separate item. For this reason only two classes of nymph - "early" and final-instars -have been charted.
Adults were found from 14 April to 24 September, and nymphs as follows:
Second-instar nymph: 20 June (single record)
Third-instar nymphs: 12 June - 30 June
Fourth-instar nymphs: 12 June - 16 July
Fifth-instar nymphs: 30 June - 5 August
RESULTS
Despite the reservations expressed above about various aspects of this study, the forms of the life-history charts, for both adults and nymphs, are broadly consistent with expectations for shieldbugs. Specifically, the adult chart is twin-peaked with a mid-year dip, indicative of last year's population dying off before this year's adults made a showing. In the case of the nymphs, the rise and fall of the early-instars is followed - as expected - by the rise and fall of the final-instars, with a noticeable degree of overlap. One might rationally have anticipated a gap between the peaks of the final-instar nymphs and this year's adults but this isn't apparent. However, it's noted that these peaks were coincident for a number of shieldbug species covered in R D Hawkins' Shieldbugs of Surrey as well.
Had average as opposed to peak shieldbug counts been used in the study, then presumably the charts would have been much smoother, but as noted above this option was precluded due to lax record keeping!
The question remains of how the boardwalk Blue Shieldbug population at any given time (or even time-averaged) relates to the population present in the surrounding terrain. In particular, are the densities comparable, or are the bugs attracted to the boardwalk resulting in higher counts?
Although Blue Shieldbugs were seen adjacent to the boardwalk on a number of occasions, no attempt was made to survey this terrain and so there is no directly relevant data available to answer this question. However, a number of surveys were recently carried out on a broadly comparable 0.5 hectare site in Kingmoor North (designated Area 5), and highest number of Blue Shieldbugs recorded was 17, or 0.0034/sq m, on 4 September. Applying this figure simplistically to the boardwalk area of 106 sq m gives an equivalent bug count of 0.36. As four Blue Shieldbugs were recorded on boardwalk on 1 September (the nearest date for which a count was recorded) this might seem to imply - all things being equal - that the boardwalk count was artificially high. However, if an allowance is made for the fact that only a proportion of the Kingmoor North bugs would have been seen, and that a more typical boardwalk count for early September was one rather than four, then the case is less clear cut.
For what it's worth my own view is that the boardwalk counts are probably artificially high with reference to the surrounding terrain. This could be for a number of reasons - for example on several occasions Blue Shieldbugs were seen feeding on the carcases of insects crushed by the boardwalk foot traffic, and so perhaps bugs are drawn here for an easy - if risky - meal? (At least 20 crushed Blue Shieldbugs were found on the boardwalk over the period of the survey!)
However, even if this were true, there's no reason to believe that it invalidates the findings qualitatively.
(Text to be checked - and probably revised!)
The Bureau of Land Management recognized the winners of the 2018 “Making a Difference” National Volunteer Awards. These awards acknowledge the winners’ exceptional volunteer service on BLM-managed public lands in 2017. This year’s awardees were honored during a ceremony that connected winners across the country via video teleconferences at BLM offices in several states and in Washington, D.C.
There are 12 hard to spot differences between this altered image and the original picture posted next to it.
No prizes for guessing correctly, just a bit of fun. :-)
Photo: Buchanan Bus Station,Glasgow, 28th March 1981.
The difference between a walk and a wander is the time spent. I had little over an hour spare once I arrived, so instead of getting some lunch, I took photos instead.
Down the street lined with shops to the town square with the large church, town hall and many wonderful looking bars and restaurants.
I was in town for a few hours for a meeting, I drove over, then drove back. As you do.
Not a bad day, but I think I will try the train next time....
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Leuven (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈløːvə(n)] ( listen); French: Louvain, pronounced: [luvɛ̃], often used in English) is the capital of the province of Flemish Brabant in Belgium. It is located about 25 kilometres (16 miles) east of Brussels, close to other neighbouring towns such as Mechelen, Aarschot, Tienen, and Wavre. The municipality itself comprises the historical city of Leuven and the former municipalities of Heverlee, Kessel-Lo, a part of Korbeek-Lo, Wilsele and Wijgmaal.
It is home to Anheuser-Busch InBev, the world's largest brewing group and one of the five largest consumer-goods companies in the world; and to the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, the largest and oldest university of the Low Countries and the oldest Catholic university still in existence.[2] It is also home to the UZ Leuven, one of the largest hospitals of Europe.
The earliest mention of Leuven ("Loven") is from 891, when a Viking army was defeated by the Frankish king Arnulf of Carinthia (see: Battle of Leuven). According to a legend the city's red and white arms depict the blood-stained shores of the river Dyle after this battle.
Situated beside this river, and near to the stronghold of the Dukes of Brabant, Leuven became the most important centre of trade in the duchy between the 11th and 14th centuries. A token of its former importance as a centre of cloth manufacture is shown in that ordinary linen cloth is known in late-14th-century and 15th-century texts as lewyn (other spellings: Leuwyn, Levyne, Lewan(e), Lovanium, Louvain).[3]
In the 15th century a new golden era began with the founding of what is now the largest and oldest university in the Low Countries, the Catholic University of Leuven, in 1425.[4]
In the 18th century the brewery Den Horen (meaning "the horn") flourished. In 1708 Sebastien Artois became the master brewer at Den Horen, and gave his name to the brewery in 1717, now part of AB InBev, whose flagship beer, Stella Artois, is brewed in Leuven and sold in many countries.
Leuven has several times been besieged or occupied by foreign armies; these include the Battle of Leuven (891), Siege of Leuven (1635) and Battle of Leuven (1831).
Both world wars in the 20th century inflicted major damage upon the city. Upon Germany's entry into World War I, the town was heavily damaged by rampaging soldiers. Some German soldiers shot the burgomaster, the university rector and all of the city's police officers.[5] In all, about 300 civilians lost their lives.[6] The university library was also destroyed on 25 August 1914, using petrol and incendiary pastilles.[7][8] 230,000 volumes were lost in the destruction, including Gothic and Renaissance manuscripts, a collection of 750 medieval manuscripts, and more than 1,000 incunabula (books printed before 1501).[8][9] The destruction of the library shocked the world, with the Daily Chronicle describing it as war not only against civilians but also against "posterity to the utmost generation."[10] It was rebuilt after the war, and much of the collection was replaced. Great Britain (on the initiative of the John Rylands Library, Manchester) and the United States were major providers of material for the replenishment of the collection.[6] The new library building was financed by the National Committee of the United States for the Restoration of the University of Louvain and built to the design of architect Whitney Warren; it was officially opened on 4 July 1928.[11]
In World War II, after the start of the German offensive, Leuven formed part of the British Expeditionary Force's front line and was defended by units of the 3rd Division and Belgian troops. From 14 to 16 May 1940, the German Army Group B assaulted the city with heavy air and artillery support. The British withdrew their forces to the River Senne on the night of 16 May and the town was occupied the next day.[12] The new university library building was set on fire by shelling on 16 May and nearly a million books were lost.
The Town Hall, built by Sulpitius van Vorst (nl), Jan II Keldermans, and, after both of them died, Matheus de Layens between 1439 and 1463 in a Brabantian late-Gothic style. In the 19th century, 236 statues were added to the exterior, each representing a prominent local scholar, artist or noble from the city’s history. The reception hall dates from 1750.
The St. Peter's Church (1425–1500) was finished by Jan Keldermans and Matheus de Layens. During the Second World War the church was damaged; during the restoration a Romanesque crypt from the 11th century was found. In the church itself there are several paintings from the 17th and 18th centuries (among others, Dirk Bouts's famous painting of the last supper) and the grave of Duke Henry I of Brabant. The 50-metre-high tower — which was meant to be 169 metres high, but was never completed — is home to a carillon. The tower was included in UNESCO's list of Belfries of Belgium and France in 1999.
Saint-Anthony's Chapel, Pater Damiaanplein, from the 17th to the 20th centuries, contains the tomb of Father Damien, the "leper priest" of Molokai, who was canonized by Pope Benedict XVI on Sunday October 11, 2009.[15][16] The Catholic Encyclopedia calls him "the Apostle of the Lepers",[17] and elsewhere he is known as the "leper priest". The Catholic priest's remains were returned in Belgium with great fanfare in 1936, after having been originally buried on the Hawaiian Island of Molokai where he had served the outcast lepers until his death.
The Linen-hall, in an early-Gothic style, with baroque addition, is today the University Hall.
The Church of Saint Michael was built in the typical Jesuit Baroque Style.
The Church of Saint Quinten incorporates remains of a Romanesque church built in the 13th century.
The University Library on the Ladeuzeplein was built by the American architect Whitney Warren. It was a gift from the American people to Leuven after World War I, during which the Germans burned down the original library. The tower houses one of the largest carillons in the world.
Totem is a statue at the centre of the Ladeuzeplein; it is a work of the Belgian artist Jan Fabre. Featuring a 23-metre-high needle impaling a giant jewelled beetle, the statue towers over the square in front of the university library.
There is a neo-Romanesque Abbey on the Keizersberg ("Emperor's Mountain"), where there once stood a 12th-century ducal castle, which was demolished in the 17th Century.
The Large Beguinage is one of the world's best remaining examples of its architectural type. It was recognized by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site in 1998.
There are several other smaller churches and chapels throughout the town.
"Fonske" is a statue near the centre of town. Its full name is Fons Sapientiae, Latin for "fountain of wisdom". The statue represents a university student who, while reading a book, lets wisdom flow into his head as liquid from a glass. Just like Manneken Pis in Brussels, Fonske is, from time to time, dressed in costumes appropriate for specific occasions.
The 'Oude Markt' or "Old Market" square located in the center of Leuven features a vibrant social scene the center of which displays a lifesize statue of 'De Kotmadam', or "The Landlady" resting on a bench.
Lerkeveld is a famous Jesuit abbey, and headquarters of the Jesuits in Belgium.
St Anthony's College, Leuven was located in the city, on Pater Damiaanplein. The Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe is now located on the premises.
Sint-Donatus Park contains remains of the medieval city wall
monday 30th march 2015
in part 10 we consolidated our comprehending of the thinghood of a thing and of its constituent phenomena. our task now is to look more carefully at the temporality of the thing 'through the eyes' of its constituent phenomenon {r(gv)}.
we must re-emphasise that these articulations of temporality are instantaneous, and that proper time would only appear to flow as a remembered accumulation for {r(gv)}, and only then if it were possessed of a brain.
likewise we should also note that there are no fractional states. these are temporal articulations of sheer absolute difference - which is in every case our own quantized or discrete comprehending, as the alterity of pure singleness.
(although the discrete nature of the electron shells of an atom are vastly more complex than this primitive thing, we hope to go there eventually.)
but let us here begin by simply adding up the total instances of the constituents at every moment of the thing’s existence. note that at any moment, the phenomenon 'is what it is at the present', and these are the accumulating quantities of interest.
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tuesday 31st march 2015
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we can see from the diagram that although {r(gv)} auto-comprehends as a simple alterity (i am spatially different from the other for a time), this 'binary' alterity is always comprised of a proportionality of three. we can also see that for each succeeding moment of time, their proportions are different. in other words, the complex (but symmetrical) proportional understandings of {r(gv)} are reduced at every moment to a simple, but gravitationally different (asymmetrical) alterity. (vis. a-symmetry).
moment 0
pure singleness extends as the elementary moment of a threefold thing {r(gv)}
moment 1
thingly phenomenon {r(gv)} instantaneously realises its binary alterity of proportions
red 0, green 1, violet 1...
(∴ phenomenal proportionality = 0 : 2)
moment 2
...which instantly presents its binary alterity of proportions
red 2, green 1, violet 1...
(∴ phenomenal proportionality = 1 : 1)
moment 3
...which instantly re-presents its binary alterity of proportions
red 2, green 3, violet 3...
(∴ phenomenal proportionality = 1 : 3)
moment 4
...which instantly re-presents its binary alterity of proportions
red 6, green 5, violet 5...
(∴ phenomenal proportionality = 3 : 5)
moment 5
...which instantly re-presents its binary alterity of proportions
red 10, green 11, violet 11...
(∴ phenomenal proportionality = 5 : 11)
we have raised a few terms here which we should try to consolidate.
things and phenomena
a 'thing' is constituted by 'phenomena' (later we will see that it is always three phenomena that constitute any thing - things are always comprised of threefold entanglements of their constituent phenomena.)
but things are always also the entangled phenomena of other more complex things. in other words, 'things' and 'phenomena' are our comprehending of regional entanglements of alter-universes.
‘phenomenal proportionality’ refers to the differential gravitation of momentary understanding among entangled phenomena. it is the measure of force of self-at-a-distance for any phenomenon of our comprehending.
whereas ‘thingly proportionality’ is the gravitational potential of a thing at any moment of its proper time; and is the product of dividing the quantity of phenomenal alterity by phenomenal self. it is the force of self-not-at-a-distance which the thing carries over into any subsequent phenomenality. thingly proportionality is gravity.
wednesday 1st april 2015
let us look further into the proportionality of the first few moments of thing {r(gv)}. (let us re-emphasise that these arguments are theoretical - concerning an impossibly isolated phenomenal thing {r(gv)}, and its thingly phenomena - rgv.) (we should also remember that what applies to red also applies equally and simultaneously to green and violet). (and also we will try wherever possible to make the pronouns personal, to reflect the fact that it is always our own comprehending under discussion).
moment 1 - the moment when the phenomenal thing {r(gv)} comes into existence, and thingly phenomenon r becomes real as the gravitational difference of its others (gv).
there being zero instances of red with one instance each of green and violet, let us assume that at the start of any thing’s existence, our phenomenal red self (whom we are trying to comprehend and which is in every case the one who is entangled with the others) is only real as the alterity of our phenomenal others, green and violet. therefore when we divide the instances of our alterity by the instances of our self, we see that at moment 1 the thing {r(gv)} is infinitely other. (2÷0 = ∞).
given that our self is nothing but its differential gravitation from alterity, this is to say that at the first moment of any thing’s existence, our gravitation to the other from which comes our differential existence, is infinite.
at the first real moment of any isolated thing, that thing has infinite gravity. (a thing only appears isolated to the thing which comprehends itself as isolated - therefore 'with infinite gravity at the beginning of time'.
moment 2 - at the second moment of any thing’s existence, there are two instances of our red self, with one each of our green and violet alterity. so we describe moment 2 as being of 1 : 1 phenomenal proportionality, and of gravity (1÷1 = 1).
(these numbers simply reflect the constitution of our alterity at the previous moment r(gv)- the constitution of our red self at any moment is always that of the constitution of our alterity green and violet at the previous moment of our co-existence).
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the complete photo/video collection (1972-2016) of Stan Bonnar's artworks is accessible here :
Bird Island | Seychelles
Saunders’ Tern (Sterna saundersi
A highly active, small, tern, which is almost indistinguishable from the Little Tern (Sterna albifrons) outside the breeding season. In fact, for many years we thought that these birds down at North Point were Little Terns. It was only last year (2014), in talking to the owner of the island, that we found out that they were Saunders’ Tern. From what I understand, this race breeds from the Red Sea and Persian Gulf east to northwest India, dispersing southwards into the Indian Ocean from about September to April. The most notable difference to the Little Tern at this time of year is that the outermost primary wing feathers are blacker and more extensive. They are regular visitors to the northernmost tip of Bird Island where they stay for a few months, before heading back to their breeding grounds. Photographing them is always a challenge as they are very ‘flighty’ and difficult to approach.
On Friday, I went to the Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest for the third time this summer, this time with some photo friends from work. These guys are on the Discovery trail in Schulmann Grove. I tried light-painting them too, but I liked this better.
Pristine environments, limited resources, and near-complete isolation are just some of the attractions of Antarctica, often termed the White Desert. Numerous research stations dot the outer regions of the continent where scientists gather data on glaciology, seismology, climate change and the stars.
The French-Italian Concordia research station is one of three year-round stations and is located on Dome C, a plateau some 3200 m above sea level. Secluded from the world in inhospitable conditions, the crew stationed there tackle temperatures that can drop to –80°C in the winter, with a yearly average temperature of –50°C.
The air is extremely dry, so the crew suffer from continuously chapped lips and irritated eyes. The great open landscape alternates between months of night and months of daylight, and colours, smells and sounds are almost non-existent, adding to the sense of loneliness.
In other words, Concordia is perfect.
Here, researchers study the atmosphere, free from pollution, to gain insights into how the world’s population is changing Earth’s climate. Scientists conduct glaciology research by analysing the Antarctic plateau to reveal clues to our past as chemicals are trapped and frozen in the ice.
The thin atmosphere, clear skies and zero light-pollution around Concordia make it an enviable place for observing the Universe. The very southern location of Antarctica also makes it ideal for studying Earth’s magnetic field.
Delving deeper, Concordia is looking at the inside movements of Earth. A seismograph at Concordia measures movement and the research base is part of the international network of seismograph stations.
And then there is the human factor. Despite all the hardships of life in Antarctica, up to 16 people spend around a year at a time living in Concordia in the name of science. In addition to helping conduct other experiments and station maintenance, they are an experiment themselves. And ESA sends a medical doctor to Concordia to study the crew, like this year’s resident Dr Carmen Possnig, imaged above.
The elevation, isolation and sensory deprivation can wreak havoc on crewmembers’ biological clock, making it hard to get a good night’s sleep. Researchers track the effects of this on the human body and mind which adds to data being collected on astronauts on the International Space Station.
Insights are used to help people on Earth like shift workers, bedridden patients and those suffering from sleep disorders, and of course, astronauts serving in low Earth orbit.
Antarctic research at Concordia is helping humans adapt, mentally and physically, to a changing climate, a longer voyage in space, and eventually, life on another planet.
Read more about life at Concordia on the Chronicles from Concordia blog.
Credits: ESA/IPEV/PNRA–C. Possnig and C. Verseux
First bunny was knit shortly after I started to learn last May. Purple one was knit about 3 weeks ago--huge difference in how I knit and my gauge. Both were done with the same size needles and yarns.
I'm now subtracting 3 in the 3rd position from the left. This is done in 2 steps: subtract 5, add 2. In this step I add 2.
Photography Subject: Twins,The Vera/Wingate Twins. Identical, Except one is married to one of the Wingate Twins & has 2 children. The other is single. One is shy & modest while the other is outspoken & open minded.
What a difference a day makes! Shot from my hotel window Sunday morning, much better than the thunderstorm we had to deal with Saturday morning.
Difference in the length of wheelbase.
TS005 is only for one block longer than TS003.
I got advice from " Tommy ñ " (Thanks for " Tommy ñ ")
Today's update is end. I wanted to take a in-depth photo, but there was no time. Soon, a picture is added again. (next week??)
2008-02-16, Forellenhof
VI K 99 1715 and IV k 99 1568 rolling downgrade with their short freight towards Steinbach.
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