Flamenco

Friday monster blogging

For anyone who liked Dr C's crab (last week), or my frog (earlier today), you mustn't miss the latest instalment in the saga (from Ray G) HERE.

Pay no attention to his protestations of innocence...

Friday frog blogging

Inspired by Dr C's Doctor necrophagia video, I have created one of my own. It shows Rana salaria, observed in its natural habitat.

Note that frog blogging is not to be confused with the thoroughly reprehensible practice of brog flogging.

A sequence in another place

Having put up something which was specifically not a sequence, last night, I find that AcerOne posted an image sequence at around the same time – and (I can never resist flattery!) claimed to have been "inspired" by my previous posts on sequences.

A well judged exit ... and an example to us all.

Tonight was the final performance by Royal Ballet's principal dancer Darcey Bussell. Along with much of Britain, we watched the televised broadcast as she danced Song of the Earth^[1].

She is everything they say of her ( superb dancer, perfectionist, unafraid of the popular, apparently warm human being) ... but the thing which really impresses me is the fact that she has retired from her glittering ballet career while it is still glittering - possibly even before reaching its potential peak. She has decided to walk away from what she does superbly well, when she could continue to enthusiastic demand, and start something new. I don't have the exact words, but she's said something very like "better to go while people still want you to stay than still to be here when people want you to go".

That takes confidence, strength and courage. It's a decision from which many of us could learn ... presidents and prime ministers in particular, for example.

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1. (I'm not a full on ballet follower, just an occasional admirer. For others in the same position, Song of the Earth was choreographed from Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde by Bussell's discoverer Kenneth MacMillan.)

Aegean clays data set (Table 2)

Data set: Relative element abundance in Aegean clay samples
Courtesy of Dr I Liritsis, Dept of Archaeometry, University of the Aegean at Rhodes
 

Site	Grp	Zn	As	Sr	Zr	Mo	Pb	Rb	Ba
YB1	Y	620	71	458	191	3	33	85	1009
YALDNK	Y	149	31	449	230			45	667
SAR 253	S	234		195	82	7		43	96
SAR 417	S	214		209	64	9	720	57	67
YAL6CP	Y	79	49	728	173			70	511
SAR 392	S	347		338	56	7	216	11	104
SAR 80	S	615	86	196	76	8		66	112
YB2	Y	149	72	206	184			136	442
SAR 20	S	319	29	213	91	5		37	119
SAR 152	S	251	52	254	78	6	15	55	103
YAL4NK	Y	144	102	1074	173			101	1129
SAR 345	S	244		238	67	5		36	115
YD1	Y	157	52	550	219			73	474
SAR 308	S	233	42	229	63	4		57	107
SAR 303	S	255		221	63	8		57	109
SAR 316	S	251	55	176	92	8	21	67	110
SAR 357	S	287		302	99	2	27	45	136
SAR 324	S	324	42	181	95	5		46	114
YNZ2	Y	324		399	129			75	1027
SAR 265	S	245	66	239	85	3		49	133
PERG2	P	506	97	700	225	4		81	1041
SAR 377	S	293	72	196	95	5	31	46	105
YAL2NK	Y	115	60	476	200	5		82	634
YALD3	Y	144	52	544	176			88	562
SAR 48	S	544	71	257	108	6		53	175
YAL9TG	Y	116	45	725	210	3		36	477
SAR 366	S	224	63	302	76	8		60	105
SAR 268	S	222	55	220	82	5		54	101
YNB1	Y	663	65	529	209		19	61	882
YA1	Y	285	40	582	166	4	15	71	990
YALD4	Y	87	86	426	209			74	806
SAR 60	S	461	85	163	113	5	32	66	127
SAR 135	S	298	120	198	83	5		43	110
SAR 232	S	179	43	308	59	6		40	101
SAR 386	S	404		274	75	4	197	36	191