Timbuktu in the West African nation of Mali is at the intersection of an east-west and a north-south Trans Saharan trade route across the Sahara. The city-state was an intellectual and spiritual capital in the 15th and 16th centuries. After long years of decline, Timbuktu is still a tourist destination and is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. This image was captured by the ASTER image aboard the Terra spacecraft. With its 14 spectral bands from the visible to the thermal infrared wavelength region and its high spatial resolution of 15 to 90 meters (about 50 to 300 feet), ASTER images Earth to map and monitor the changing surface of our planet. ASTER is one of five Earth-observing instruments launched December 18, 1999, on NASA's Terra satellite. The instrument was built by Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry. A joint U.S./Japan science team is responsible for validation and calibration of the instrument and the data products. The broad spectral coverage and high spectral resolution of ASTER provides scientists with critical information for surface mapping and monitoring of dynamic conditions and temporal change. Image Credit: NASA/GSFC/METI/ERSDAC/JAROS, and U.S./Japan ASTER Science Team
Ndugu zanguOn the suibject line and at the bottom, kuna swali... Kwa kujibu, nadhani kipo cha kuongeza. Jibu nadhani ni kuwa tupige mzigo tupunguze malalamiko na tuwe wakujituma, wabunifu, na wepesi wa kushiriki kwenye CIVIC Duties including upigaji kura. I mean we all should push, participate and have a grand voter turn out and civic participation of say 98% of eligible voters having to turn out as an example! What do you think will happen? Let people not keep "complaining" unconstructively on one side while equally destructively keep ourselves busy listing supposedly good excuses justifying reasons for not doing something or anything constructively to help effect the desired change, at least in the thinking process. Do your part, and do it so well that you are confident and happy you are indeed doing your part so well and so confidently. That is where all the secrets lies. Nothing more, nothing else. Collectively, the desired change will eventually be achieved.Yakibaki yale yale then we know who to blame. Its You and Only You and Nobody else. It is me and only me and nobody else. It is us! Period.I think it is time to shift gears from complaining to taking action and consciously and deliberately be part of the whole process.
