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Sonntag, 31. März 2013

Do everything for peace



Wow.  And how true it is. We are the system, we cant blame the system for what happens, we are part of it ourselves.  If we want war it is because we allow that someone sents us somewhere. if I dont want to kill, i just dont, no matter what another tells me, evenn when it brings me to jail for it. It is in our own hands and that is for peace and many other things.

I was discussing yesterday about the dailight saving, what for silly reason here is called 'summer time/ sommerzeit/zomertijd'
One hour less past night, in fact the hour is stolen. And it is that it is a long Easter weekend, but it still is f.ckung me up, it is 230 pm already, they stole an hour. And if the world demands us to go an hour earlier to do our things, to be at the job and whatever, it is jut working because we do accept it. o yes, we do complain, moan and cry about that hour, but no one is changing it.
The system fucks us up. So, walk at the normal time in your office, and if your boss tells you that you fuck him up with thtat hour, correct him. It is not we that did fuck up that hour. It is the system that is fucking up us with it.

Sometimes i'd wish I could see the world through John lennon's glasses indeed.  

Samstag, 30. März 2013

Laughter



"Laughter is the tonic, the relief, the surcease for pain."

~ Charlie Chaplin

Don't Let This Happen to Your Planet



Don't Let This Happen to Your Planet


Yet without it, life on Earth would be impossible.
March 29, 2013: Ozone stinks.  People who breathe it gag as their lungs burn.  The EPA classifies ground-level ozone as air pollution.
A fragile layer of ozone 25 km above Earth's surface is all that stands between us and some of the harshest UV rays from the sun. The ozone molecule O3 blocks radiation which would otherwise burn skin and cause cancer.  On Mars, which has no ozone layer to protect it, solar UV rays strafe the surface with deadly effect, leaving the apparently lifeless planet without the simplest of organic molecules in the upper millimeters of exposed Martian soil.
To keep track of our planet's ozone layer, NASA is about to launch the most sophisticated space-based ozone sensor ever: SAGE III, slated for installation on the International Space Station in 2014.
SAGE III (splash)
A new ScienceCast video explains how SAGE III onboard the International Space Station will monitor the recovery of Earth's fragile ozone layer. Play it
"The ISS is in the perfect orbit for SAGE III," says Joe Zawodny, Project Scientist for the instrument at the Langley Research Center.  "It will be able to monitor ozone all around the Earth during all seasons of the year."

"SAGE III is, essentially, analyzing the colors of the sunset to track ozone," says Zawodny. "It sounds romantic, but this is hard science."SAGE III works by using the Sun and Moon as light sources.  When either one rises or sets behind the edge of the Earth, SAGE III analyzes the light that passes through Earth's atmosphere.  Ozone and other molecules absorb specific wavelengths that reveal their density, temperature and location.
Researchers began to worry about ozone in the early 1970s when University of California chemists Frank “Sherry” Rowland and Mario Molina testified before Congress that manmade CFCs, a key ingredient of common aerosol sprays, could destroy ozone in the stratosphere.  Their fears were soon realized. In 1985, researchers with the British Antarctic Survey announced abnormally low ozone concentrations above Halley Bay near the South Pole.  Our planet had an "ozone hole," and it was rapidly growing.
SAGE III (moonrise, 200px)
Moonlight beaming through the edge of Earth's atmosphere reveals the ozone content to SAGE III. More
In a remarkable display of international cooperation, an ozone treaty was negotiated only two years later. The Montreal Protocol regulates the production of CFCs and other ozone-destroying chemicals.  First signed in September 1987, it has since been ratified by every member of the United Nations.
Because of this agreement, ozone is now on the mend.  Ozone holes still open every year above the South Pole, but thanks to the treaty, ozone-destroying chemicals have either leveled off or decreased. At this rate, the ozone layer could recover almost fully by 2050.
To insure that ozone really is recovering--and to alert the world if it is not--NASA has been flying ozone sensors in Earth orbit for decades.
The first of the SAGE sensors rode to space on Earth observing satellites in the late-1970s and early-80s.  SAGE II data helped confirm the decline of the ozone layer and measured the effect of the Mt. Pinatubo eruption on the stratosphere. A SAGE III sensor onboard the Russian Meteor-3M satellite extended the ozone record into the 2000s with higher precision than ever.
It is not unusual for researchers to refer to SAGE as "the gold standard" in ozone monitoring. "The SAGE ozone product has a high accuracy, better than 1% in the mid-to-lower stratosphere, and a very high vertical resolution of 1km or better," says Zawodny.
When SAGE III reaches the space station, it will measure ozone deeper into the atmosphere than ever before, reaching all the way down into the troposphere where planes fly and people live.
SAGE III (sage3, 200px)
Preparing for launch: SAGE III in the laboratory at Langley Research Center. More
"From ISS, SAGE III will get a global picture of tropospheric ozone," says Zawodny. "I suspect there will be a few surprises in those measurements."
Zawodny is eager to learn what SAGE III finds in the lower stratosphere over the tropics. "The recovery of ozone there is tied to changes in greenhouse gases like CO2. Given what we know about recent increases in greenhouse emissions, it is possible that ozone in the tropics will never return to 1980s levels."
SAGE III probes Arctic regions, too.  Using the Moon as a light source, SAGE III can to detect ozone during the darkness of polar winter where other satellites have trouble seeing.
It's enough to make a hard-nosed researcher wax eloquent: "Images of the moon and sun rising and setting are dramatic and spectacular,” says Zawodny. “The interplay between the source of light and the environment delights the senses and stirs the imagination. The ability for SAGE III to turn those perceptions into something meaningful is a great pleasure."
In other words, stay tuned for some beautiful ozone data.
Credits:
Author: Dr. Tony Phillips | Production editor: Dr. Tony Phillips | Credit: Science@NASA
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Freitag, 29. März 2013

Easter 2013


This year we do have an early easter, in the very last weekend of March.
We switch dailight saving, or, in good Dutch Zomertijd/Summertime, what is a silly word because it is long not summer yet

This years'  topic is that it even is not spring and it is the talk of the day that it is STILL cold, STILL snowing, and that we do have a colder Easter as that it was at Christmas.
The coldest spring in more then 50 years, they say.  Here at my computer are pictures of a few years ago, made on Easter morning. They are then building up the appartments in front of our house, and at Easter it was beautiful white as well.
5 years ago Easter was even a few days earlier. And whiter then this year.

In that time there was hardly anyone bothering about that. And now, everyone is telling their own weather report on line.  The blessings of Facebook, that make me fed up more with the people messaging about the weather, then with the weather itself.

Happy Easter! It still are the weeks in what I think back to 2 years ago.  Love you mama!



Mittwoch, 27. März 2013

Boring!

What a BORING week it was.

I did catch that nasty flue that is swinging aaround over the world those days, and I must say that I am fed up with it, after a week. It took away not only my voice, but as welll all the energy as well. Consequently I have been forced to a kind of winter sleep the past week. Not that the world did miss me too much, but, fact is, I have been lower productive then I was planning to be. And I was less outside then I use to be. Okay, the temperature is still so low that it is better to extend the wintersleep to a spring sleep, but still, the idea to be locked up is not my kind of cake.  ha, don't talk about cake, even the COFFEE didnt taste for a couple of days :)

now, a week later and about 200 packages of tissues, I feel much beter. My voice is as if I did drink 10 bottles of finest whisky, and  I have the energy of a retired snai,  but.. I am back and definitly plannnng to make a nice walk tomorrow. No matter what the weather is. No matter what has to be done, shioppinng. It is that strange easter week here, with everyone in stress becuase of the extra days off. One advantage of the cold weather is that we shall be prevented from the smoke of burnt steaks, this easter. Every thing has its advantages, they say!

Dienstag, 12. März 2013

In the artist group I did drop a few lines, earlier this week. It had to do with the words that were constantly bubbling in my head:

You can delete my number
but you never can forget my name

Well it is easy to know where those words did come from. The song is at the radio now, an EXCELLENT song from Adele, with a good movie, Skyfall.

And it is as well symbolic for me, the way I did feel a bit. I can say I am over it. :)  But the words, tehy did not come to an end. Now that my dear and lovely poet friends Eliza, Sandra and Teddy did post their versions, I did write my lines. Not 100 percent, but 85 percent, I guess. Also here they are, and I think that the person who did drop that door... okay, wont read it at all . We all get over it in our own way, right!

It is time to forget
No regret
It is time to say farewell
Oh well

We had a good time together

You were there when I needed you most
Now all the sudden it doesnt mater
From a face you did transform to a ghost

I told you, it is over now

We shall walk on, somehow
No longer side by side
But at our own path, you left, me right

I thought that we just could continue the ride

It was you who did alternatively decide
You could not handle it anymore
Did close the chapter, shut the door

A big bang was all

And honestly? I didnt care at all
Because while you were still standing in anger, at the point we did quit
I did walk on forward, taking advantage of the split

No, you cannot throw the memories away

We did share so much, you cant fade it away
I am not sorry for wat was, And I dont feel no shame
and you, you can delete my number
But you never shall forget my name

12 03 2013


Sonntag, 10. März 2013

The challenge

1. using this as an additional Place for Poetry and progression. A Notebook in fact
2. Personal Blogs that are worth to be Seen
3. collecting my projects

But for all, my Place. My officially home of chaos

Back?

I think I can er activate this Blog. I have one followed now, when I Double the amount next week... I might be back here. Tons of ideas.. Here or anywhere.