” The Fantastic Sinking Boat …” !

Love-love is a perpetually sinking boat created by French artist Julien Berthier. The boat appears to be sinking but never actually does, thanks to its clever design.

For this piece he adapted an abandoned 6.5 meter yacht so that it appears to be perpetually sinking. To create this, the vessel was split and a new keel was constructed allowing it to be sailed by Berthier at a 45 degree angle off the coast of Normandy.

 

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In this project, the artist invests his energies and resources into creating an art of fiasco, aiming in his words to “fix an object at the moment of its deregulation.” The image, and metaphor of the sinking ship is an iconic one – it signifies death, lost hope and sinking dreams. Berthier’s Love-Love freezes those sentiments permanently both celebrating and overturning them. On display in the gallery will be the boat itself as well as a series of accompanying photographs and documentary video showing the performance in Normandy.

The boat now belongs to some wealthy London Banker to whom he sold it for £50,000.

 

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” Did You Know that You Speak 3 Different Languages….? “

Few people know that when you encounter a problem without a solution, the best way to deal with it is to think about it in another language. When you use another language, your thinking patterns are different to how you contemplate problems in your mother tongue. But whatever your mother tongue is, think about it as three separate languages: The way you speak when you’re positive, negative, and neutral.

Whenever you’re in one of these states of mind, your thinking and speaking patterns differ. This led experts to name these three language variations Positivese, Negativese, and Neutralese. These all have their time and place, but do you know when to use each one? Here are eight tips that’ll teach you when to use which language.

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1. Acknowledge That You Speak in 3 Languages

Just like everyone else, your vocabulary is different when you’re praising someone, criticizing them, or are ambivalent towards them. Acknowledge that you react differently in every situation, and use different vocabulary to convey messages depending on the situation. We all do this subconsciously, but try to be aware when it’s happening. Once you understand that the language you use affects your decisions or the message you try to convey to others, you’ll be able to adjust it to work for you.

2. Don’t Try to Ignore the Negativese

People might tell you that being negative is a bad thing, and only dishonest people will claim they don’t have an ounce of negativity in them. These people will tell you that if you practice enough, you’ll stop being negative, and that this is what you’re supposed to do, because there’s no reason to stay in that state of mind. This attitude is flawed because it is impossible to completely avoid negative feelings. We all experience them and at times they can even be useful. The question is not whether you allow negativity into your life, but rather when and why.

Many a time you think you’re being neutral, but still express negative emotions. This usually happens by saying things like “I don’t mean to be negative, but…”, as if by declaring you’re not being negative you convince yourself that is how you really feel. When you avoid negative feelings and negative language, you end up lying to yourself – a prime example of not knowing what language you’re truly speaking.

Accept negative emotions and don’t suppress them, because you have to be in touch with your emotions to be able to convey a specific message. No matter how you phrase it, whatever you have to say will be negative, so at least be honest with yourself.

3. Don’t Pretend You’re Neutral When You Aren’t

People often pretend that they’re neutral observers, and this is easy to understand. Being objective gives you power – lawyers are paid to take one side or the other, while judges are impartial, and that’s why they have the final say in  legal matters. Pretending to be neutral makes you feel like you get the final say in a matter, but you’re not a judge or jury, and the person you’re talking to is not (usually) a lawyer. They’re not paid to side one way or another. If you support your own argument sensibly, the other person should be inclined to listen to it, whether they agree with it or not.

4. Use Neutralese Wisely

As a rule of thumb, when you decide to use neutralese, immediately try change your thinking and speaking into positivese to strengthen your decision, and negativese to rule out alternative options. Once you’ve explored these fields of thought, go back to neutralese.

This is the best way to come to an educated decision that focuses on your aspirations. After weighing up all the alternatives, you’re left with the best choice of action for you.

5. Use the “Carrot and Stick” Method Correctly

When you try to motivate others, you often use the carrot and the stick method – reward and punishment. Both are effective, but they can also backfire. While rewards encourage action, it also encourages complacency. This is why teachers don’t tell their students that they’ll all get A’s by the end of the year. Sure, it can give students the confidence to try without the fear of failing, but they can also think “why try harder? I’m going to succeed anyway.” On the other hand, punishments can deter, paralyze, and even create resentment, which is why teachers also won’t say “I’ll give everyone here, except for the top-5 students an F”. This can cause students to think that “I’m not good enough, so I might as well quit.”

The punishment and reward method can be used to motivate, but it can also have the opposite effect, so be careful when you use it. When you want to reward someone, use positivese, and like any other reward – it should be given after the task has been completed, and done well. If you need to dispense a punishment, use negativese, but only after the fact. Up to that point, use neutral language.

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6. Be Careful Not to Jump Between Positivese and Negativese

When you try and motivate someone, you need to create the correct combination of positive, negative, and neutral languages. If you start with the positive language (“Well done, I see you’ve improved!”) it may lead to complacency. Alternatively, you can try negativese (“This is not as good as what you’ve done before”) but if it leads to fear or resentment, you’ll go back to positivese. If you use this back and forth method with children, telling them they’re doing well, only to then give them a negative response when they become complacent, you’ll confuse them and probably hear “But you said I was doing better”.

Try stick to one approach, both when you’re being positive or negative. If you choose positive reinforcements, continue giving them unless the improvement stops. If that happens, don’t automatically go with the negative approach, but rather stick to the neutral one. If you use the negative approach from the get-go, stick to it and use the neutral approach when the negative is not needed. If you see that after a while your approach isn’t working – it may be time to change it.

 

7. You Build Your Own Maze Walls

Think of life as running through a maze you have been creating. When you try and motivate yourself, negativity appears as the walls that block the way, while positivity is the paths that lead you to your goals. If you can’t decide if your path is the right one, or has a dead end, try being neutral with yourself.

Don’t try think there are no walls, and that you can go wherever you want, because you’ll end up wandering around, lost and confused. There are always paths that are better than the others, to find them, you have to accept the fact that the walls exist and you just need to navigate them correctly.

Sometimes, using negative language to erect walls and push yourself in the right way works, but if you use it too often, you’ll find that you’ve walled off all of your paths and you become stuck. If you’re at that place, feeling stuck, turn to the neutral language. Neutralese will lead you around the maze and give you a better understanding of the path you’re on: “What is it that I truly want to do? Which choices will lead to dead ends? Which path is the one I should be walking?” Once you’ve realized what you want to do and where you wish to go, go back to being positive and let it carry you forward.

8. Get to Know the Vocabulary of Each Language

Any word in neutralese can be translated into positivese or negativese. When you stick to your decisions, in positivese it translates to commitment and perseverance. In negativese it translates to stubbornness and nay-saying. Similarly, changing your mind will translate to “flexibility” in the positive, and “indecisiveness” in the negative language.

The more you understand the volcabulary of each language, the better you can control your decisions. It will make you more resilient to people who try to discourage you with opposing opinions. Once you know your reasons for what it is that you’re doing, you can be at peace with your decisions, but can remain open enough to accept criticism.

As you see, every language is basically comprised of 3 variations, which we all use every day without even being aware of it. Learn to differentiate between the languages you speak when you’re trying to make a decision or trying to influence another person. You may have been doing it for years without realizing it, but now that you have the tools to understand it, you’ll finally be able to achieve your goals.

 

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New Year money tips for your child……..!!!

The over-concerned species that we parents are, New Year is a great time to ensure that we leave our children with something to learn by, says Murad Nathani

It’s the time of new beginnings and new resolutions. While some resolutions fade out in the course of the year, some are successfully carried out; those which stay close to our hearts and which truly make a difference to our lives! So how about starting off the New Year with conversations that can make a difference to your child’s life, in the long run?

I am talking about talking to them on the topic of money in a way that they understand the importance of good money habits early on in their lives. Here is a low-down on the conversations you must have with your child on the big ‘M’:

Understanding Money

The younger your children are, the bigger their demands are. What they lack is a basic understanding of money and which is precisely what they need to learn. No, we don’t want them to become too concerned about money either but let’s say, a hands-on experiential learning would help a great deal.

For starters, a learning tip in this direction would be allowing your child to pay at the toy store or grocery, so that they can see the physical transaction take place, thereby helping them learn the value of a certain amount and what you got them for that amount.

In addition to this, it is essential that they learn, all money spent is money earned in exchange for work and therefore needs to be spent a little more carefully.

Managing Money

Once your child understands the basics of barter and what a certain amount of money can buy them, you can take the conversation a notch higher. A pre-teen or a teenager influenced by peer pressure may come to you not with demands on what they are doing, but rather what their friends are doing. A strong realisation between wants and needs is therefore required at this stage.

As a parent, you don’t want to turn your child down with a straight no, but give them the explanation behind your ‘no’.

Moreover, many parents are from the school of thought that they should give their child what they didn’t get when they were younger. This may however not be the right approach if it is not well-balanced with an understanding of money.

In the conflict of being a parent versus a friend, it is essential that one strikes the right balance. You could work towards an understanding where you make sure what they ask for is relevant at that age or if they can make better use of it when they are a little older. You can also ask them to set a certain goal or target to achieve, either a financial or non-financial goal to help them understand how to achieve something by working towards it.

Smart Money Management

As your child begins to grasp a better understanding of money, the next step is to learn the next level of money management. To learn how to better manage their money as young adults, and learn the art of budgeting and how to spend within a certain limit.

Investments and credit should also become a greater part of their vocabulary here. It’s not anymore only about how much they save and spend, but also about building their own financially independent future.

Remember, the topic of money is not part of their school or college curriculum and hence it is difficult for our children to identify what is the next step for them. For teens especially, it shouldn’t be that they step into college and don’t know what goes where in managing their finances!

Planning at the start of the month along with different needs and requirements corresponding to the amount of money is just one step in this direction, but what about paying back on time, the dynamics of credit?

Or do they know the role of credit institutions and how it could impact their ability in future to get a loan? Decisions made based on a lack of sound financial knowledge can potentially affect the success of a child’s future.

Hence, it is essential that your child is actively involved in the understanding of money management from spending and saving to managing and investing.

Photograph: swister_p/Creative Commons

Murad Nathani is Co-Founder & CEO — Slonkit, first of its kind money management tool that aims to become a guide for today’s digital savvy children, in terms of understanding and managing money

Source…….www.rediff.com

Natarajan

” வாக்குண்டாம் நல்ல மனமுண்டாம் …”

நவராத்ரிக்கு முந்தின வாரம். பெரியவாளை தர்ஶனம் பண்ண ஒரு தம்பதிகள், தங்கள் ஐந்து வயதுக் குழந்தையோடு வந்து நமஸ்காரம் பண்ணினார்கள்.
“பெரியவாகிட்ட ஒரு ப்ரார்த்தனை… கொழந்தைக்கு விஜயதஸமியன்னிக்கி அக்ஷராப்யாஸம் பண்ணணும்… நவராத்ரி டைம்-ங்கறதால ஆத்தை விட்டு வரது கொஞ்சம் கஷ்டம்… கொழந்தை நன்னா படிச்சு, நன்னா வரணும்…. அதுக்கு பெரியவா அனுக்ரஹம் பண்ணணும்…”
பெரியவா தன் முன்னால் அப்பா, அம்மாவைப் போலவே கை கூப்பிக் கொண்டு, அம்மாவையும், தன்னையும் மாறி மாறிப் பார்த்துக் கொண்டு நிற்கும் குழந்தையை கடாக்ஷித்தார்…
“பெரியவாளோட திருவாக்கால, கொழந்தைக்கு எதாவுது வார்த்தை சொல்லித் தரணும்….”
“இங்க வா……”
‘ஸரஸ்வதி’ அழைத்தாள்!
“நா…..சொல்றதை திருப்பி சொல்றியா?…”
“சொல்றேன்..உம்மாச்சி தாத்தா!…”
“சொல்லு….வாக்குண்டாம்!…..”
“வாகுந்தாம்…..”
“நல்ல மனமுண்டாம்”
“நல்ல மனமுந்தாம்”
“மாமலராள் ….”
“மாமலரால் ..”
“நோக்குண்டாம்….”
“நோக்குந்தாம்..”
“மேனி…”
“மேனி..”
“நுடங்காது….”
“நுங்காது…”
“பூக்கொண்டு…”
“பூக்கொந்து…”
“துப்பார்….”
“துப்பார்….”
“திருமேனி……”
“தியுமேனி….”
“தும்பிக்கையான் பாதம்”
“தும்பிக்கியான் பாதம்”
“தப்பாமல்…”
“தப்பாமல்”
“சார்வார் தமக்கு….”
“சார்வார் தமக்கு….”
குழந்தைக்கு கொள்ளை ஸந்தோஷம்! உம்மாச்சித் தாத்தா சொன்னதை, தான் அப்படியே ‘கரெக்டாக’ சொல்லிய பெருமை!
“வாக்குண்டாம், நல்ல மனமுண்டாம்,
மாமலராள் நோக்குண்டாம், மேனி நுடங்காது….
பூக்கொண்டு துப்பார் திருமேனி
தும்பிக்கையான் பாதம்
தப்பாமற் சார்வார் தமக்கு!…..”
“….ஒனக்கு ஔவைப்பாட்டி தெரியுமா?…”
“தெரியும் தாத்தா!…”
“இது….ஔவைப்பாட்டி பாடினது….தெரியுமோ? தெனோமும் சொல்லு….நன்னா படிப்பே!…”
“செரி…தாத்தா!…”
வாய்க்கு கல்கண்டும், ஞானக்கல்கண்டு மலையிலிருந்து உண்மையான நல்லறிவுக்கு கல்கண்டும், குழந்தைக்கு கிடைத்தது!
அப்போது அங்கே சில தமிழ் அறிஞர்களும் இருந்தார்கள். பெரியவா, ஸமஸ்க்ருதத்தை மட்டுந்தான் போஷிப்பார்; ஆதரிப்பார்; என்ற தவறான கருத்து அப்போது பரவியிருந்ததால், இந்த பெற்றோர் வந்து அக்ஷராப்யாஸம் செய்து வைக்க வேண்டி, பெரியவாளிடம் ப்ரார்த்தனை செய்ததும், அங்கிருந்த தமிழ் அறிஞர்கள் எதிர்பார்த்தது…..
“மூஷிக வாஹன மோதகஹஸ்தா…..” என்ற ஸம்ஸ்க்ருத ஸ்லோகத்தைத்தான்! ஆனால், அத்தனை மொழிகளுக்கும் ஆதார ஶக்தியான ‘ஸரஸ்வதி’க்கு மொழி பேதம் ஏது?
“வாக்குண்டாம்…..” என்று பெரியவா ஆரம்பித்ததும், அவர்களுக்கு ஆஸ்சர்யம்! ஸந்தோஷம்!
“பெரியவா கொழந்தைக்கு மட்டும் உபதேஸிக்கல……எங்க எல்லாருக்குந்தான் இந்த அருமையான உபதேஸம்! இனிமே எங்க வீடுகள்ளயும், வாக்குண்டாம்-தான் மொதல் பாடம் !…”
உண்மைதான்! இன்றைய கல்வியறிவு “வாக்குண்டாம்……” ஸ்லோகத்தில் சொல்லிய ஏதாவது ஒன்றையாவது குழந்தைகளுக்கும், பெரியவர்களுக்கும் தந்திருக்கிறதா? என்று மூளையை குடைந்து குடைந்து யோஜித்தாலும், “இல்லை” என்றுதான் ஸத்யமான பதிலாக வரும். இது பெரியவா நம் அத்தனை பேருக்குமே அனுக்ரஹித்த அக்ஷராப்யாஸம்!
இந்த புது வர்ஷத்தில், நல்ல, உயர்ந்த ஸத்யமான வார்த்தைகள், நல்ல தர்மங்களை எடுத்துக் கொண்டு கடைப்பிடிக்கும் தாராள மனது, இந்த ரெண்டையும் அனுக்ரஹிக்க “ஜகத்குரு” காட்டிய விக்னேஶ்வர மூர்த்தியின் பாதங்களை பணிவோம். குழந்தைகள் இதை தினமும் சொல்லி வந்தாலே, மனஸும் ஶுத்தமாகும், அதனால் வாக்கும் ஶுத்தமாகும், தெளிந்த நல்லறிவும் உண்டாகும்.
Source…input from a friend of mine
Natarajan

Message for the Day….” For a true devotee, every day is a festival. Consider every minute, every day as new and live in joy.”

Sathya Sai Baba

Today everybody is enthusiastic about New Year’s Day. For a true devotee, every day is a festival. Consider every minute, every day as new and live in joy. All great men and women have sanctified their lives only by serving humanity. Service is not merely helping people in difficulty. Every limb in the human body has been granted by God forkarmopasana (worshipping God through service). Karmopasana is the only means by which the human life can be sanctified. So undertake selfless service, and when you do good work, you will enjoy peace in life. Cultivate good qualities and prepare yourself for sacrifices. Sacrifice bestows eternal bliss. Share your education and wealth with your fellow human beings. In fact, God is the real owner of your earnings. As God’s trustee, use your earnings properly. Constantly contemplate on God with faith that He is always with you and win over your demonic qualities.

Message for the Day….” Remember the name of God Every minute….”

Sathya Sai Baba

Look at the blossoms in the garden! When the gardener plucks the flowers, the buds exult that tomorrow is their turn to be gathered into the gardener’s hands, and their faces are full of joy when they unfold in that hope. Do they feel any sadness? Do their faces droop? Are they any the less bright? No. The moment they know that the next day is their turn, they make themselves ready with great gusto and excitement. In the same way, you must be ready on the path of spiritual practice! Enthusiastically remember the name of the Lord every minute, without worrying and feeling sad that your turn is tomorrow or because someone died today. For people who transformed themselves into spiritual aspirants, their mind (manas)is Mathura, the birthplace of Lord Krishna), their heart is Dwaraka (Lord Krishna’s playground), and their body is Kashi (holiest land of Lord Shiva).

WHY DOES THE NEW YEAR BEGIN ON JANUARY FIRST IN MANY COUNTRIES…?

Because Julius Caesar said so.

Early Roman Calendar

Since long before Caesar’s time, date keeping was dicey. In fact, the 355-day Roman calendar that immediately preceded Caesar’s Julian, worked on a four year cycle where every other year, an additional month was inserted between February (Februarius), the last month of that calendar year, and March (Martius), the first month of the year; this was done in order to catch the calendar up with the Earth’s orbit of the Sun. That additional month, called the Mensis intercalaris, brought in the missing 22 or 23 days, and to even things up, took another five days from February in the years it was present.

Since the calendar had been designed to ensure the proper observance of religious dates, priests, calledpontifices, were responsible for declaring when theinterclaris month should begin and end. Since these priests were also involved with politics, they sometimes:

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Misused their power by intercalating days or not intercalating them, merely in order to lengthen or shorten some magistrate’s year of office, or to increase the gains of some government contractor, or to inflict loss upon him.

By the time Caesar came around, the Roman calendar was in shambles, and in 46 BC, Julius Caesar commanded that it be changed.

Julian Calendar

The Julian calendar’s beginnings were as crazy as the old Roman calendar at its worst:

In order to wipe out the consequences of past neglect, it was necessary that the year 46 BC (called by Macrobius the annus confusionis) should extend to 445 days. The normal number of 355 days had already been increased by the addition of the ordinary 23 days, inserted after Feb. 23. As many as 67 days, divided into two menses intercalares . . . were now interposed between November and December. . . . This year thus consisted of 15 months.

After this “year of confusion,” the new calendar really started. Intercalation was abolished, and each year was increased to 365 days, with a leap year added every fourth year (quarto quoque anno) to February. The months of the calendar after Caesar’s shake-up followed the old Roman calendar closely and most are familiar to us even today: Ianuarius, Februarius, Martius, Aprilis, Maius, Iunius, Guintilis, Sextilis, September, October, November and December.

Along with these changes, Caesar set the New Year to January 1.  Why? Since 153 BC, January 1 was the day new consuls in Rome took office and Romans had commonly used the name of the two consuls to identify a specific year in question.  Thus, by officially making January 1 start the New Year, it simply lined up with the consular year.

As to why the consular year started on January 1 instead of the original Roman Calendar New Year’s day of March 1, this isn’t known.  That said, there are references that seem to imply that January 1 may have begun marking the New Year as early as 189 BC, which precedes when the consular year started beginning on that day.

One proposed reason for this switch is that January is thought by most to have been named after the god of transitions and beginnings, Janus, during the reign of the second King of Rome, Numa Pompilius, who lived from 753-673 BC.  Thus, it was naturally enough for the Romans to eventually decide to make the switch. However, whether this is the reason or not is very much up for debate.

Gregorian Calendar

Although the Julian Calendar was relatively accurate, its use of 365.25 days in a calendar year, as opposed to the precise 365.2425 days, over centuries, created a discrepancy in the calendar. In fact, by the time Pope Gregory XIII (1572-1585) became the Bishop of Rome, the Julian calendar had lost 10 days.

It was this discrepancy that brought about the reformed calendar. Actually beginning 20 years before the calendar took effect with the Council of Trent in 1563, church leaders wanted to restore the spring equinox to the date it was when the First Council of Nicaea was convened in 325 (by 1563, the equinox was falling on March 11, rather than March 21).

As simple as making a Papal decree, Gregory issued the Inter gravissimas on February 24, 1582, and nearly eight months later, the last day of the Julian calendar, October 4, 1582, was followed by the first day of the Gregorian calendar, October 15, 1582. Voila!

Today, the Gregorian calendar is the unofficial calendar of the United States and the United Nations, as well as most countries in the world.

New Year’s Day

Since before even Caesar’s time, people celebrated the New Year. In ancient Babylon, this began after the spring equinox in March, and part of the celebration including subjecting the king to ritual humiliation. In fact, “if royal tears were shed, it was seen as a sign that Marduk [a god] was satisfied and had symbolically extended the king’s rule.”

After he was murdered by a small group of his “friends” (“Et tu, Brute?”), the Roman Senate made Caesar a god on January 1, 42 BC, a date which coincided with the time-honored practice of making offerings to Janus in the hope of having good fortune throughout the year.

Throughout the Middle Ages in Europe, January 1st’s New Year’s celebrations were discouraged, as they were seen by church leaders as a pagan practice.  Instead, other days were often used as a substitute varying from nation to nation.  This changed when the Gregorian calendar was instituted and, at least in the Catholic nations, January 1 once again became the official New Year, and it slowly spread from there with the Gregorian calendar.

Bonus Facts:

  • As mentioned, many protestant nations ignored the Gregorian calendar for some time. England stuck to the Julian Calendar until 1751 before finally making the switch. Orthodox countries took even longer to accept the change in calendars. Russia, for one did not convert to the Gregorian calendar until after the Russian Revolution in 1917. The funny thing was, in 1908, the Russian Olympic team arrived 12 days late to the London Olympics because of it.
  • Under the Gregorian calendar we do not have a leap year every four years, since to properly align the calendar with the Earth’s orbit, an additional day is required in only 97 out of 400 years. So, leap years are calculated as follows:

Every year that is exactly divisible by four is a leap year, except for years that are exactly divisible by 100, but these centurial years are leap years if they are exactly divisible by 400. For example, the years 1700, 1800 and 1900 are not leap years, but the year 2000 is.

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Message for the Day….” The Lord showers grace on those endowed with righteousness, irrespective of race, wealth and gender.”

These are the two chief enemies of every spiritual aspirant: Conceit (that you know everything) and Doubt (Is it or is it not). Simply decide to be firmly fixed in your reality. If that is pure, everything is pure. If that is true, everything is true. If you wear blue eyeglasses, you see only blue, even though Nature is resplendent with many colours. So too, if the world appears to you as full of differences, that is due only to the fault in you. If all appears as one love, that too is only your love. The feelings within you, is the cause in both situations. The question that may arise next is whether the Lord has faults, for He too identifies faults. The Lord only searches for goodness in a devotee, not faults and sins. Your assessment of the Lord is dependent on your feelings. The Lord showers grace on those endowed with righteousness, irrespective of race, wealth and gender.

Sathya Sai Baba

Unusual Airport Runways Around the World….!!!

1. Gisborne
Airport, New Zealand

This North Island airport is one of the few in the
World that has a railway line running through its runway. Both the railway
And the airport are active, so let’s hope they are precise about their
Scheduling.

2. Juancho E. Yrausquin Airport, Saba Island

Blink and you might miss it. With only 400m in length, this Caribbean island has the shortest commercial

air strip on the planet. Obviously, this tiny runway is only suitable for small aircraft.

3. Courchevel Altiport, France

This airfield high in the French Alps is a convenient yet treacherous drop-off point for wealthy skiers

at the chi-chi Courchevel slopes. In fact, there are ski runs no far from the 1,762 ft (537 m) mountaintop

runway. Frequent fog, snow, ice and low clouds make it even more extreme. You’ll want to make sure your

small plane or helicopter pilot is well trained.

4. Don Mueang Airport, Thailand

There aren’t many airports in the world that have an 18 hole golf course right amongst the runways. Fore!

5. Tenzing-Hillary Airport, Nepal

If you’re planning on trekking to Mount Everest, chances are you’ll arrive via this small Nepalese airport

in Lukla. It has a short runway with a 9,334 feet (2900 meter) drop off the edge. Not for the faint of heart.

6. Agatti Aerodrome, Lakshadweep, India

This 4000 feet long island runway doesn’t leave much margin for error. A few more inches, and passengers

are going to be swimming sooner than they bargained for.

7. Barra International Airport, Scotland

Barra International Airport, on a remote northern island in Scotland, has the only beach runway for scheduled

flights in the world. At high tide, some of the runways are underwater..

8. Gibraltar International Airport

These are red lights you don’t want to run..

9. Gustaf III Airport, Saint-Barthélemy

This runway is so tiny, only planes with a maximum of 20 people can land here. That helps keep St. Barts

an exclusive upscale Caribbean haven for the rich and famous.

10. Kansai International Airport, Japan

With land at a premium in Japan, they decided to build this major airport on an artificial island offshore in

Osaka Bay. If its ocean setting doesn’t give you chills, its also regularly subjected to earthquakes, typhoons

and storm surges. Oh, and the island is also sinking. This airport’s construction and constant reinforcement

makes it the most expensive civil works project in modern history.

11. Madeira Airport, Portugal

The previous airport on this Portuguese archipelago was notoriously challenging due to its short runway

surrounded by high mountains and the ocean. So, they extended it with an impressive – yet frightening –

platform supported by 180 columns off the edge of the land.

12. Narsarsuaq Airport, Greenland

This runway is short and sweet whether you’re coming or going. It is considered one of the world’s most

challenging approaches.. Pilots have to fly up a fjord known for its turbulence and wind gusts.

13. Savannah-Hilton Head International Airport

A pair of grave makers are embedded into Runway 10 at this airport, in remembrance to the Dotson Family who

used to own the land. One of the graves dates back to 1857. The law states that next of kin need to authorize

the moving of family graves, and when they couldn’t be located, the airport engineers let them be.

14. Wellington Airport, New Zealand

This airport in New Zealand’s capital city has a short runway, so only smaller aircraft can land there.

It’s known for turbulent landings due to the channeling effect of the Cook Strait creating gusty winds.

15. Princess Juliana International Airport, Sint Maarten

This beachside airport on the Dutch side of Saint Martin is right across the street from Maho Beach. It is

known for its extremely low-altitude flyover landing approach, and tourists flock here to experience the rush

of the planes overhead. Definitely one of the craziest airport runways you got to see to believe.

16. Ice Camp Barneo, North Pole

This snowy strip not far from the North Pole is open for just 4 weeks per year. Built on a drifting ice

base, it’s a fully functional runway suitable for cargo planes like the Antonov AN-74. Perhaps Santa

Claus uses it too.

 

Curiosity’s 10 best images of Mars in 2015….

As of December, 2015, Curiosity has acquired over 292,000 images from Mars’ surface. Here are our picks for the top 10 images by the rover in 2015.

Strata rocks and dark sand in an area that has been named

Strata rocks and dark sand in an area that has been named ‘Kimberley.’ The strata in the foreground dip towards the base of Mount Sharp, indicating flow of water toward a basin that existed before the larger bulk of the mountain formed. The images obtained by NASA’s Curiosity rover in October, 2015, led scientists conclude there were ancient lakes on this area. Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS

Since its August 5-6, 2012 landing on Mars – an event known to space scientists as seven minutes of terror – NASA’s Curiosity rover has been studying the surface of Mars. Its job now is to determine whether the Gale Crater area, the area in which it landed, ever had the right conditions to support microbial life. As of December, 2015 – using its 17 cameras – Curiosity has acquired over 292,000 images from the surface of Mars. The images on this page are our picks of some of the best images captured by the rover in 2015.

Curiosity has seen a lot of layered rocks on the surface of Mars, like these amazing rocks captured on July, 2015. Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS

Curiosity has seen a lot of layered rocks on the surface of Mars, like these amazing rocks captured in July, 2015.Read more about this image. Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS

The rover mission’s official name is the Mars Science Laboratory. The rover itself is 9 feet (about 3 meters) long and 7 feet (about 2.7 meters) wide, and weighs about 2,000 pounds (900 kg).

 It is not Arizona or Utah...this is planet Mars as seen by Curiosity on September, 2015.  This image shows regions that include a long ridge teeming with hematite, an iron oxide. Just beyond is an undulating plain rich in clay minerals. And just beyond that are a multitude of rounded buttes, all high in sulfate minerals. The changing mineralogy in these layers of Mount Sharp suggests a changing environment in early Mars, though all involve exposure to water billions of years ago. Image via NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS

It’s not Arizona or Utah … this is planet Mars as seen by Curiosity on September, 2015. This image shows regions that include a long ridge teeming with hematite, an iron oxide. Just beyond is an undulating plain rich in clay minerals. And just beyond that are a multitude of rounded buttes, all high in sulfate minerals. The changing mineralogy in these layers of Mount Sharp suggests a changing environment in early Mars, though all involve exposure to water billions of years ago. Image via NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS

Sunset in Mars' Gale Crater. NASA's Curiosity Mars rover captured the sun setting on April 15, 2015 from the rover's location in Gale Crater. The color has been calibrated and white-balanced to remove camera artifacts. Mastcam sees color very similarly to what human eyes see, although it is actually a little less sensitive to blue than people are. Dust in the Martian atmosphere has fine particles that permit blue light to penetrate the atmosphere more efficiently than longer-wavelength colors. That causes the blue colors in the mixed light coming from the sun to stay closer to sun's part of the sky, compared to the wider scattering of yellow and red colors. Image via NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS

Sunset on Mars. The Curiosity rover captured the sun setting on April 15, 2015 from the Gale Crater. The color has been calibrated and white-balanced to remove camera artifacts. The rover’s ‘Mastcam’ sees color very similarly to what human eyes see, although it is actually a little less sensitive to blue than people are. Dust in the Martian atmosphere has fine particles that permit blue light to penetrate the atmosphere more efficiently than longer-wavelength colors. That causes the blue colors in the mixed light coming from the sun to stay closer to sun’s part of the sky, compared to the wider scattering of yellow and red colors. Image via NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS

Two orbiters that were already studying Mars when Curiosity arrived. They are the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, and Mars Odyssey. These two act as satellites, relaying pictures and data from the rover back to Earth.]

Diverse composition of mineral veins at the

Diverse composition of mineral veins at the ‘Garden City’ site investigated by Curiosity suggests multiple episodes of groundwater activity. The prominent mineral veins vary in thickness and brightness, and include: 1) thin, dark-toned fracture filling material; 2) thick, dark-toned vein material in large fractures; 3) light-toned vein material, which was deposited last. Researchers used the Mastcam and other instruments on Curiosity in March and April 2015 to study the structure and composition of mineral veins at Garden City, for information about fluids that deposited minerals in fractured rock there. Image via NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS

Because color images use much more data or bandwidth to be transmitted to our planet, a lot of black and white images are sent to the orbiting spacecraft that occasionally passes over t

he rover’s location for a short time. However, some color images are eventually sent.

This is an area lining the northwestern edge of Mount Sharp. The scene combines multiple images taken with the Mast Camera on NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover on Sept. 25, 2015. Dunes are larger than wind-blown ripples of sand or dust that Curiosity and other rovers have visited previously. You can see the dark dunes by clicking again after opening this panorama. Image via NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS

Giant antennas at California (USA), Australia and Spain compose the Deep Space Network that receives pictures and data from the Mars spacecraft as well as from other interplanetary spacecraft.

A Selfie on Mars. Curiosity extended its robotic arm and used the camera on the arm's end to capture this self portrait on October 6,2015. The image was taken at the

A selfie on Mars. Curiosity extended its robotic arm and used the camera on the arm’s end to capture this self portrait on October 6, 2015. The image was taken at the ‘Big Sky’ site, where its drill collected the mission’s fifth taste of Mount Sharp. Image via NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS

Dark rocks on route to Mountains. Diverse terrain is visible on this image taken on Mount Sharp on April 10, 2015. The color has been approximately white-balanced to resemble how the scene would appear under daytime lighting conditions on Earth. Image via NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS]

Dark rocks on route to mountains. Diverse terrain is visible on this image taken on Mount Sharp on April 10, 2015. The color has been approximately white-balanced to resemble how the scene would appear under daytime lighting conditions on Earth. Image via NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS

Damage on the aluminum wheels is evident after 7 miles (11.3 km) on the odometer of the Curiosity rover. Mars' terrain and diverse rocks led to more wheel damage than was expected. However scientists think the 20 inches (51 cm) wheels may permit the rover to continue its mission. Image via NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS

Damage on the aluminum wheels is evident after 7 miles (11.3 km) on the odometer of the Curiosity rover. Mars’ terrain and diverse rocks led to more wheel damage than was expected. However scientists think the 20 inches (51 cm) wheels may permit the rover to continue its mission. Image via NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS

A Solar Eclipse from Mars. Curiosity captured Phobos, one of the two small martian moons passing in front of the Sun in July, 2015. Although Phobos is only about 14 miles (22.5 km) in diameter, it orbits Mars at just 6,000 km ( 3,728 miles) which is relatively close. Image via NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS

A Solar Eclipse from Mars. Curiosity captured Phobos, one of the two small martian moons passing in front of the Sun in July, 2015. Although Phobos is only about 14 miles (22.5 km) in diameter, it orbits Mars at just 6,000 km ( 3,728 miles) which is relatively close. Image via NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS

Where is Curiosity right now? The rover is located in an area of Mount Sharp that has been named Namib dune. The rover is analyzing the composition and grain size of a ripple.

Source….www.earthsky.org

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