Overloaded And OverCrowded Part 2

Overloaded And OverCrowded :) 

 

 

17. A man rides a motorcycle carrying six children on their way back home from school at Greater Noida in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh September 10, 2010. REUTERS/Parivartan Sharma

 

18. Residents ride on a pick-up truck that supplies milk and other items in Somalia's capital Mogadishu, September 2, 2009. REUTERS/Omar Faruk 

 

19. A pick-up truck carrying tobacco bales arrives at the auction floors in central Malawi district of Kasungu August 24, 2009. REUTERS/Eldson Chagara 

 

20. Passengers travel atop a train headed for Mymensing from Dhaka September 19, 2009. Millions of residents in Dhaka have started the exodus home from the capital city ahead of the Muslim Eid al-Fitr holiday, which marks the end of the fasting month of Ramadan. REUTERS/Andrew Biraj 

 

21. An Indian labourer pulls his overloaded handcart on a road in the western Indian city of Bombay July 14, 2005. Hundreds of millions of Indians, including children and elders, struggle to survive on less than $1 a day. REUTERS/Adeel Halim 

 

22. An overcrowded train leaves Dhaka's Airport rail station ahead of the Muslim festival Eid-al-Adha December 20, 2007. Bangladeshi Muslims will celebrate the festival on Friday. Muslims around the world celebrate Eid-al-Adha to mark the end of the haj by slaughtering sheep, goats, cows and camels to commemorate Prophet Abraham's willingness to sacrifice his son Ismail on God's command. REUTERS/Rafiqur Rahman

 

23. A woman rides a tricycle bearing a newly purchased couch along a main road in central Beijing October 14, 2008. REUTERS/David Gray

 

24. A farmer carries bundles of straw on his bicycle at Dhanpur village, about 80 km (50 miles) south of Agartala, capital of India's northeastern state of Tripura, November 8, 2008. REUTERS/Jayanta Dey 

 

25. An overcrowded train leaves for the city after the final prayer ceremony of Bishwa Ijtema in Tongi, on the outskirts of Dhaka, February 1, 2009. The three-day long Bishwa Ijtema, Islam's second biggest pilgrimage, ends on Sunday. REUTERS/Andrew Biraj

 

26. A delivery man peers out from behind the load of bamboo baskets he carries on his flat bed bicycle in a Beijing street March 12. Unable to afford a car or truck, he makes do with the bicycle he bought for 450 yuan ($54.00) as he makes a living delivering goods in and around the national capital

 

 

27. A vendor pulls a cart loaded with various rattan chairs for sale on a street in Shanghai May 22, 2009. REUTERS/Stringer

 

28. A Moroccan woman sells empty bottles for people arriving from and travelling to Morocco next to the border area which separates Spain and its Maghreb neighbour in Spain's North African enclave of Melilla August 16, 2010. Tensions between Morocco and Spain over immigration and disputed territories have flared into a row, straining ties that are crucial to European efforts to tackle terrorism and illegal migrants. REUTERS/Jon Nazca

 

29. People try to board a crowded passenger train to take part in the Nat, or spirits, festival, at Taungbyone station, near Mandalay August 21, 2010. The festival is popular with young people for merrymaking and drinking. Spirit mediums take part in the festival and people of
all ages can join in the Nat dance. REUTERS/Soe Zeya Tun

 

30. A rickshaw puller transports sacks filled with plastic balls on the outskirts of Agartala, capital of India's northeastern state of Tripura, October 9, 2010. REUTERS/Jayanta Dey

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Overloaded And OverCrowded Part 1

OVERLOADED AND OVERCROWDED :)



01. People hang onto an entrance of a commuter train which will transport them to Jakarta, in Depok, Indonesia's West Java province May 31, 2010. According to PT Kereta Api Indonesia, their trains operate 300 cars each day to serve about 500,000 commuters in Jakarta. In 2007 as many as 26 people were killed due to electricity shock and from falling off the roofs of trains. REUTERS/Crack Palinggi Call it crazy, dangerous, nuts, efficient or what you will, but one thing we can agree upon is that things seems to be a little bit overloaded and overcrowded in these images.

 

02. A woman carries styrofoam for recycling on her bicycle in a street in Shanghai October 5, 2006. REUTERS/ Nir Elias

03. Men transport plastic pots on a motorbike to a market in the southern Indian city of Hyderabad November 15, 2006. REUTERS/Krishnendu Halder

04. A labourer transports goods using a tricycle on a street in Shenyang, in northeast China's Liaoning province, November 20, 2006. REUTERS/Sheng Li

05. A farmer drives a car transporting dried stalks in Guye, north China's Hebei Province,February 7, 2007. China's processing trade grew slower than overall trade last year, according to commerce ministry figures, suggesting that a drive to nudge exporters up the value chain is paying off. REUTERS/Jason Lee

06. A passenger climbs through a window of a train at a railway station in Hefei, east China's Anhui province February 26, 2007. The country's transport system was working at full steam as people began ending their Spring Festival holidays and returning to major cities, China Daily reported. REUTERS/Jianan Yu

07. Palestinians wait inside a bus to pass through the Rafah border crossing, after it was reopened in the southern Gaza Strip March 6, 2007. The Rafah crossing, the Palestinians' only window to the outside world, has been closed most of the time since Palestinian militants abducted an Israeli soldier on June 25 in a cross-border attack inside an Israeli army base near Gaza. REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa

08. Garment workers in Phnom Penh ride a van home March 31, 2007. REUTERS/Chor Sokunthea

09. Bangladeshi labourers pull a cart of used containers to the market in Dhaka April 26, 2007. REUTERS/Rafiqur Rahman

10. Passengers react as another climbs through the window of a crowded train at the train station in Jakarta October 9, 2007. Millions of residents in Jakarta have started the exodus home from the capital city ahead of the Muslim Eid al-Fitr holiday which marks the end of the fasting month of Ramadan. REUTERS/Beawiharta

11. A Palestinian family falls from a donkey cart after they crossed a breach on the border wall between the Gaza Strip and Egypt January 27, 2008. Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas will hold crisis talks on Sunday on how to limit Hamas control over Gaza's breached border with Egypt. REUTERS/Suhaib Salem

12. An overloaded truck carries bales of rice stalks near Rosso, as it heads for the capital Nouakchott, January 30, 2008. Picture taken January 30, 2008. REUTERS/Normand Blouin

13. Commuters make their way into a crowded compartment of a suburban train in Mumbai February 26, 2008. India's Railways Minister Lalu Prasad Yadav announced a cut of 50 rupees ($1.25) in passenger fares for express trains as he presented the annual budget for one of the world's largest networks on Tuesday. REUTERS/Punit Paranjpe

14. A recyclable materials collector stands in front of her overloaded tricycle on a main street in central Beijing March 12, 2010. REUTERS/David Gray

15. North Koreans look at a Chinese boat for tourists on Yalu River near the North Korean town of Sinuiju July 27, 2010. REUTERS/Jacky Chen

 

16. Buddhist novice monks cling on to the back of a vehicle filled with passengers in central Mandalay August 20 ,2010 .REUTERS/Soe Zeya Tun

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Concordia – Research Station At The End Of The World

Concordia – Research Station at the End of the World :)

These pictures could easily be publicity stills from a new science fiction blockbuster set on an ice bound planet circling a distant sun. It is, however, the Concordia Research Station which is located on the Antarctic Plateau in Antartcica – the largest desert in the world. It is one of only three research stations on the plateau to operate permanently on a year round basis.

 

Opened in 2005, the station which is run jointly by France and Italy is over 500 kilometers away from the nearest human presence on the plateau, those who reside in the Russian station Vostok. It is over 1000 kilometers away from all other permanent and semi-permanent stations in Antarctica which means that this may well be the most isolated human outpost on the planet.

It sits atop Dome Charlie (otherwise known as Dome C or Dome Circe) which is a naturally occurring dome (or summit) of the Antarctic Ice Sheet. It is a staggering 3233 meters above sea level. One of the coldest places on earth, Dome C has an average summer temperature of -25°C. In the winter the temperature often goes below -80°C and it is also incredibly dry. The humidity is low and there is hardly and precipitation at all.

The project goes back to 1992 when the French decided that a new station should be built on Dome C – they were later joined by Italy and formed a summer camp there. Fully operational by 2005 the research station saw its first 13 person winter-over the same year. The actual construction and running of the facility was one of the two primary objectives – enough of a labor in itself to qualify. The other was to provide support in logistics for the European Project for Ice Coring in Antarctica – otherwise known as EPICA. EPICA aims to fully document the atmospheric and climatic record which this unique place has naturally archived in its core. Atronomy has more recently been introduced as a third objective.






 

 

Two ice cores are to be fully drilled and these will be compared to two similar projects in Greenland. It is hoped that the information within the cores will give a vast insight in to what extent our climate has a natural variability. Additionally – and extremely relevant today – the research station is discovering vast new swathes of information about the mechanisms of rapid climatic change – as it happened during the earth’s last glacial epoch. The core goes back quite a time – 740,000 years and has revealed information about the last 8 glacial cycles.


So how do people (and equipment) get to Concordia (named incidentally after the Greek goddess of agreement and harmony)? The heavy cargo arrives by traverse from its first point at the Dumont d’Urville Station – a mere 1,100 kilometers away. The journey takes between seven and twelve days – very much dependent on what the weather is like at the time.

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