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| Kuplipõranda grupipilt südandtkiskuvalt õhtult, 2018-10-26 (R), kui olin saadetud DDO Defendersite õnnesoovidega pikale 2018-10-29/2018-10-31 teekonnale Toronto-Pearsonist üle Keflaviki ja Lutoni Eestisse. Vasakult: astro-teadlane dr Tuba Koktay, endine DDO teleskoobioperaator ehk ööasistent pr Heide DeBond, mina ise, meie ülemitmeaastane hea sõber (ning tähtede sõber) hr A.McC. Tagaplaanil DDO 1.88-meetrine (esimene valgus 1935.a. kevade lõpul). Kuni 2008.a.-ni, kui DDO oli veel Toronto Ülikooli valduses, oli spektrograafi CCD-kaamera jahutus vedellämmastikuga. Tõravere on DDO-st moodsam, ja sisuliselt valgusreostuseta taevaste all, kuid veidi tagasihoidlikumalt varustatud: 1.88 meetri asemel 1.5 meetrit, ja jahutuseks vedellämmastikust oluliselt soojem Peltier termoelement. Pildistajaks oli dr Ian Shelton. Südamlikku tänu Sheltonite perekonnale, õhtu korraldajatena. - Observing-floor group photo from the heart-wrenching evening, 2018-10-26 (FRI), on which I was sent off by the DDO Defenders, with their good wishes, on my long 2018-10-29/2018-10-31 journey from Toronto-Pearson via Keflavik and Luton to Estonia. From the left: astro-scientist Dr Tuba Koktay; former DDO Telescope Operator (i.e., night assistant) Mrs Heide DeBond; I myself; and our good friend over the years (and friend of the stars) Mr A.McC. In the background is the DDO 1.88-metre (whose First Light was in the late spring of 1935). Until 2008, when DDO was still in the possession of the University of Toronto, the spectrograph CCD camera was cooled with liquid nitrogen. Tõravere, although more modern than DDO, and although enjoying skies free of substantive light pollution, is a little less well endowed: 1.5 metres in place of 1.88 metres, and for cooling not liquid nitrogen, but a significantly warmer Peltier thermocouple. Dr Ian Shelton took the picture. Heartfelt thanks are due to the Shelton family as organizers of the evening. |
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| Nüüd on Kanadast saanud mälestuste maa. Siin mu uue elamu aknariiul Tõraveres, ühe ja teise mälestusesemega: Korporatsioon Vironia värve (loodaksin oma liikmelisust sel hilissügisel üle kanda Torontost Eestisse); kaarte Kanada sõprade õnnesoovidega (esireas kaks kaarti DDO Defendersite praegusest juhatusest, üle antud 2018-10-26 (R) jumalagajätuõhtul, nagu ka eelmises blogspot'i fotos dokumenteeritud); Kanada looduspiltide kalender, sõbralt kingituna. Käbid on juba Tõravere, mitte Kanada, puudest. Kruus on eriti markantne lahkumistähis, kingitud mitte DDO Defendersite vaid Richmond Hill Naturalistsite DDO kaitserühma poolt. Peale on kuidagi laaserprintitud foto, mida tegi Naturalistsite rühm päeval, kui ametlikult lõppes n.ö. Dunlapi Sõda (nagu mul ka siinsamas blogspot'is kirjeldatud ajastembil 2018-06-10 (P), inglise keeles, rubriigil "The 'DDO&P Conflict', 2007-09-10 to 2018-06-09"). Riiuli serval asub väike auguline münt, Taanist, 1925.a.-st. See asus Isa-Ema asjade hulgas, mõnes kastis või lauasahtlis, kui ma poisike olin Nova Scotia paguluses. Juba tollal imetlesin ma tema viikinguajastu augulist kuju. Praegu aga hindan ma teda kui raskete aegada mälestist. See minimaalse nominaalse väärtusega Taani münt pidi tulema ajast, mil Isa ja Ema olid pagulased Kopenhaagenis. Seal toimus nende VE-päev, ehk nende 1945-05-08 (T). Kopenhaageni aeg oli mu vanemate pika põhiliselt läändesuunatud teekonna varajaseid etappe: neil järgnes Rootsi, aga siis Isa puhul Empress of Canada Inglismaalt Halifaxi, 1948.a. hilistalvel, Ema puhul Gripsholm otse Göteborgist Halifaxi, 1949.a. jaanuaris. - Now Canada has become a country of memories. Shown is the window ledge of my new sleeping-room in Tõravere, with various mementos: my colours in the Estonian academic fraternity Korporatsioon Vironia (I would hope to transfer my Vironia membership this late autumn from Toronto to Estonia); some cards from Canadian friends with the good wishes (at the front, two cards from the current executive of the DDO Defenders, given to me in the farewell evening of 2018-10-26 (FRI), as documented also in the previous blogspot photo); a calendar with Canadian nature photos, from a friend. The cones are for their part already from Tõravere, not from Canadian, trees. The mug is a particularly notable memento, given to me not by the DDO Defenders but by the Richmond Hill Naturalists' DDO conservation team. On it has somehow been laser-printed a photo which the Naturalists' team took on the day the Dunlap War officially ended (as I have recounted here in blogspot under the timestamp 2018-06-10 (SUN), in English, under the title "The 'DDO&P Conflict', 2007-09-10 to 2018-06-09"). At the front edge of the window embrasure is a small coin, with central hole, from Denmark, dated 1925. This item lay among Mum's and Dad's things, in some box or drawer, when I was a little boy in the Nova Scotian segment of our national postwar diaspora. Already back then I marvelled at its Viking-era perforated design. Now, however, I keep it as a memento of hard times. This coin, of minimal nominal value, must have come from the period when Mum and Dad were exiles in Copenhagen. It was in that city that they had their VE Day, in other words their 1945-05-08 (TUE). Their Copenhagen time was one of the early stages in their long, in essence westward, journey: Sweden came next for them, but then in my Dad's case the Empress of Canada from England to Halifax, in the late winter of 1948, and in my Mum's case the Gripsholm directly from Göteborg to Halifax, in January of 1949. |
Kvaliteedihinnang: - Quality assessment:
Selle viiepallilise skaala kohaselt, mis kehtib praegu Eestis, ja kindlasti ka naaberriikides, ja on tuttav kadunud, mitte tagantjärele leinatud, NSVL-i akadeemilise elu vaatlejatele (siin rakendades neid kergeid, lõtvu, kriteeriume, mida Kmo rakendab oma nõgises fantaseeritud "Aleksandr Stepanovitsh Popovi nimelises sangarliku raadio instituudis" ja oma nõgises fantaseeritud "Nikolai Ivanovitsh Lobatshevki nimelises sotsialistliku matemaatika instituudis" - kus, fantaasias ette kujutatud kaksikinstituutide lõdva ja vähenõudliku hindamisreeglite kohaselt 1/5 on "eepiline läbikukkukmine", 2/5 "läbikukkumine, mis poli nii katastrofaalne, et eepilusust saavutada", 3/5 on "kehvavõitu läbipääsemine", 4/5 on "hea" ja 5/5 on "eeskujulik": 3/5. Põhjendus: Tähtis teema leidis veidi kiire käsitluse. - On the 5-point scale current in Estonia, and surely in nearby nations, and familiar to observers of the academic arrangements of the late, unlamented, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (applying the easy and lax standards Kmo deploys in his grubby imaginary "Aleksandr Stepanovitsh Popovi nimeline sangarliku raadio instituut" (the "Alexandr Stepanovitch Popov Institute of Heroic Radio") and his grubby imaginary "Nikolai Ivanovitsh Lobatshevski nimeline sotsalitsliku matemaatika instituut" (the "Nicolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky Institute of Socialist Mathematics") - where, on the lax and easy grading philosophy of the twin Institutes, 1/5 is "epic fail", 2/5 is "failure not so disastrous as to be epic", 3/5 is "mediocre pass", 4/5 is "good", and 5/5 is "excellent"): 3/5. Justification: An important theme got treated a little rapidly.
Variandikroonika: - Revision history:
Kõik kalendripäevad-kellaajad variandikroonikas on ära toodud UTC-s. UTC, ehk "Maailmakell", on vana GMT-i, ehk "Greenwich Mean Time"-i, täpsustus. Tarvitusel on ISO ettekirjutatud YYYYMMDDThhmmZ ajastembi formaat (kusjuures YYYY on UTC aasta, MM UTC kuu, DD UTC kuupäev, hh UTC tunniarv, mm UTC minutiarv). UTC praegu jookseb Toronto tsiviilkellast 5 tundi ette, Tallinna tsiviilkellast 2 tundi taga. - All times in these blog "revision histories" are stated in UTC (Universal Coordinated Time/ Temps Universel Coordoné, a precisification of the old GMT, or "Greenwich Mean Time"), in the ISO-prescribed YYYYMMDDThhmmZ timestamping format. UTC currently leads Toronto civil time by 5 hours and currently lags Tallinn civil time by 2 hours.
Selle viiepallilise skaala kohaselt, mis kehtib praegu Eestis, ja kindlasti ka naaberriikides, ja on tuttav kadunud, mitte tagantjärele leinatud, NSVL-i akadeemilise elu vaatlejatele (siin rakendades neid kergeid, lõtvu, kriteeriume, mida Kmo rakendab oma nõgises fantaseeritud "Aleksandr Stepanovitsh Popovi nimelises sangarliku raadio instituudis" ja oma nõgises fantaseeritud "Nikolai Ivanovitsh Lobatshevki nimelises sotsialistliku matemaatika instituudis" - kus, fantaasias ette kujutatud kaksikinstituutide lõdva ja vähenõudliku hindamisreeglite kohaselt 1/5 on "eepiline läbikukkukmine", 2/5 "läbikukkumine, mis poli nii katastrofaalne, et eepilusust saavutada", 3/5 on "kehvavõitu läbipääsemine", 4/5 on "hea" ja 5/5 on "eeskujulik": 3/5. Põhjendus: Tähtis teema leidis veidi kiire käsitluse. - On the 5-point scale current in Estonia, and surely in nearby nations, and familiar to observers of the academic arrangements of the late, unlamented, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (applying the easy and lax standards Kmo deploys in his grubby imaginary "Aleksandr Stepanovitsh Popovi nimeline sangarliku raadio instituut" (the "Alexandr Stepanovitch Popov Institute of Heroic Radio") and his grubby imaginary "Nikolai Ivanovitsh Lobatshevski nimeline sotsalitsliku matemaatika instituut" (the "Nicolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky Institute of Socialist Mathematics") - where, on the lax and easy grading philosophy of the twin Institutes, 1/5 is "epic fail", 2/5 is "failure not so disastrous as to be epic", 3/5 is "mediocre pass", 4/5 is "good", and 5/5 is "excellent"): 3/5. Justification: An important theme got treated a little rapidly.
Variandikroonika: - Revision history:
Kõik kalendripäevad-kellaajad variandikroonikas on ära toodud UTC-s. UTC, ehk "Maailmakell", on vana GMT-i, ehk "Greenwich Mean Time"-i, täpsustus. Tarvitusel on ISO ettekirjutatud YYYYMMDDThhmmZ ajastembi formaat (kusjuures YYYY on UTC aasta, MM UTC kuu, DD UTC kuupäev, hh UTC tunniarv, mm UTC minutiarv). UTC praegu jookseb Toronto tsiviilkellast 5 tundi ette, Tallinna tsiviilkellast 2 tundi taga. - All times in these blog "revision histories" are stated in UTC (Universal Coordinated Time/ Temps Universel Coordoné, a precisification of the old GMT, or "Greenwich Mean Time"), in the ISO-prescribed YYYYMMDDThhmmZ timestamping format. UTC currently leads Toronto civil time by 5 hours and currently lags Tallinn civil time by 2 hours.
- 20181112T1625Z/variant 1.0.0: Kmo laadis piisavalt lihtivud tööd blogspoti serverile. Ta jättis enda kätte õiguse teha veel pisikesi, sisusliselt tähtsusetuid, puhtkosmeetilisi õiendusi, järgmise 48 tunni jooksul, kui siin protkollimata variandid 1.0.1, 1.0.2, 1.0.3, ... - Kmo uploaded an adequately polished version to the blogspot server. He reserved the right to make further tiny, nonsubstantive, purely cosmetic, tweaks, over the coming 48 hours, as here-undocumented versions 1.0.1, 1.0.2, 1.0.3, ... .
[HOIATAV TEAVE: Tunduvalt vigane bloggeri-nimeline serveri tarkvara on viimaste kuude jooksul näidanud kalduvusi paigutada soovimatut valgevahet niimõnesse siia laaditud esseesse. Kui tundub, et ekraan lõpeb tühja ruumiga, tuleb veel allapoole liikuda, hiire abil. Essee lõpp ei ole käes enne, kui esineb tavaline bloggeri sõnum "Posted by Toomas (Tom) Karmo at". - Bloggeri tarkvara on ka näidanud kalduvusi, vähemalt kui rakendatud minu varema, aegunud, veebi esseedekirjutamise brauseri kaudu, toota HTML-i, mida eri allalaadivad brauserid formaadivad erinevatel viisidel. Mõned allalaadivad brauserid on võimalikult vahest mitte korralikult sisse lugenud kõik need "Cascading Style Sheets'e" (CSS-e), mis igas tavalises veebibrausers juhivad lehekülje servade, kõrvalparagrahvide jms. paigutamist. Kui Te oletate, et Teie kasutuselevõetud brauseris esineb CSS-e probleeme, olge kannatlikud: tõenäone on, et ehkki osa sisust on paigutatud mõnda veidrasse kohta (näiteks, brauseri alumise serva vastu, kui ta pidanuks minema parema serva vastu), siiski kõik serveri sisu on lükatud Teie brauserisse ühte või teisse kätteleitavasse paika. - Viimaseks, on võimalik et on bloggeri iseärasusi-eksitusi, väljaspool minu kontrolli, tähtede suuruse määramises, ridade vahemaa määramises või trükiploki parema serva õgvendamisstiili määramises. - Kes soovib aidata sääraste veebivigade parandamisega, või kes soovib ka teisigi tehnilisi nõuandeid pakkuda, võiks julgesti mulle kirjutada aadressil Toomas.Karmo@gmail.com. - CAUTION: A bug in the blogger server-side software has in some past months shown a propensity to insert inappropriate whitespace at some points in some of my posted essays. If a screen seems to end in empty space, keep scrolling down. The end of the posting is not reached until the usual blogger "Posted by Toomas (Tom) Karmo at" appears. - The bloggersoftware has also shown a propensity, at any rate when coupled with my erstwhile, out-of-date, Web-authoring uploading browser, to generate HTML that gets formatted in different ways on different downloading browsers. Some downloading browsers have sometimes perhaps not correctly read in the entirety of the "Cascading Style Sheets" (CSS) which on all ordinary Web servers control the browser placement of margins, sidebars, and the like. If you suspect CSS problems in your particular browser, be patient: it is probable that while some content has been shoved into some odd place (for instance, down to the bottom of your browser, where it ought to appear in the right-hand margin), all the server content has been pushed down into your browser in some place or other. - Finally, there may be bloggervagaries, outside my control, in font sizing or interlinear spacing or right-margin justification. - Anyone inclined to help with trouble-shooting, or to offer other kinds of technical advice, is welcome to write me via Toomas.Karmo@gmail.com.]
Maailmakella ehk Temps universel coordonné ehk UTC järgi 20181031T0851Z lõppes mu pereringi Teine maailmasõda. Sõda oli mu vanemad Eestist pagulusse heitnud 1944.a. sügisel. Täheldud hetkel läbisin, kiiresti ja kergelt, Vabariigi passiga Tallinn-Ülemiste lennujaama passikontrolli. Vahest tundub asi, nüüd Tõravere põldude-puude kõrval kõndides, või nüüd Tartu hoonestikku uurides emale ja isale nii tuttavaks saanud munakivisillutistelt, pisut ebareaalne. On vahetevahelt nagu 126. Lauluski: "Kui Jehoova tõi tagasi Siioni vangid, olime kui unenäos." - In the framework of Universal Coordinated Time, or UTC, the Second World War ended for my immediate family circle at 20181031T0851Z. That was the instant at which I passed, easily and rapidly, with my Republic of Estonia passport, through passport control at the Tallinn-Ülemiste air terminal. At times it feels, as I now stroll past the trees and fields of Tõravere, or as I now inspect Tartu streetscapes from some cobblestone paving grown so familiar to my mother and father, unreal. It feels at times as in Psalm 126: "When the Lord brought Zion's captives home, we were like people dreaming."
Alles nüüd saan ma aru, kuivõrd raske oli läbi aastakümnete nii mõne paguluse väljakutsega toime tulla. Nüüdse tagasiheidetud pilguga tundub, et on pagulus mul sageli tähendanud mingisugust varjatud kaost: mõnda nuansseeritud mõtetust, kus ma kippusin vastuollu langema ebaratsionaalsete inimeste või ebaratsionaalsete ühiskonnatavade või ebaratsionaalsete asutustega. - Only now do I grasp how hard it was, through the decades, to come to terms with some of the challenges of exile. Now, in hindsight, it appears that the exile decades often meant for me a confrontation with a kind of camouflaged chaos - confrontation with a kind of nuanced thoughtlessness, making me liable to stumble into conflict with irrational people, or with irrational communal customs, or with irrational institutions.
Alles nüüd saan ma aru, kuivõrd raske oli läbi aastakümnete nii mõne paguluse väljakutsega toime tulla. Nüüdse tagasiheidetud pilguga tundub, et on pagulus mul sageli tähendanud mingisugust varjatud kaost: mõnda nuansseeritud mõtetust, kus ma kippusin vastuollu langema ebaratsionaalsete inimeste või ebaratsionaalsete ühiskonnatavade või ebaratsionaalsete asutustega. - Only now do I grasp how hard it was, through the decades, to come to terms with some of the challenges of exile. Now, in hindsight, it appears that the exile decades often meant for me a confrontation with a kind of camouflaged chaos - confrontation with a kind of nuanced thoughtlessness, making me liable to stumble into conflict with irrational people, or with irrational communal customs, or with irrational institutions.
Sellest eriti eredaks näiteks sai Kanada Richmond Hilli linnas, David Dunlapi nimelise 77-hektarilise observatooriumi (DDO) pargi 32-hektarilise rohelise alamala kaitseaktsiooni nurjumine. Kaduma läks 32 hektarit, umbes 530-580 elamu arvel, ehkki samaagselt on umbes samasuurune maatükk, Richmond Hilli peamise tuiksoone Yonge Streeti idaserval, lagedaks ja väljaehitamatuks jääanud. Dunlapi piirkonna ühistransport, Bayview Avenuel, on Yonge Streetist paratamatult kehvem. Juba sellest seisukohast, astrofüüsikast ning Kanada kultuuripärandist rääkimata, näib, kuivõrd on kohalikud munitsipaalsed asjad sassi läinud. See veel linnas, mille ajalooline tsentrum, otseselt mainitud Yonge Streeti tühimiku lõunaserva all, mädaneb, olles ka keskpäeval jalakäijatest tühi (postkontoritki pole tsentrumis olemas; samuti pole õiget pangandust ega õigeid toidusisseostude võimalusi). Samuti see linnas, mille raekoda asub tsentrumist kilomeetrite kaugusel, peaaegu linna kagupiiri vastu. - A particularly vivid instance of this was in Canada's town of Richmond Hill, with the failure of efforts to save a 32-hectare greenspace portion of the 77-hectare David Dunlap Observatory (DDO). Lost were 32 hectares, through the construction of some 530-580 units of housing, even while a terrain of about the same area, on the eastern edge of Richmond Hill's principal artery Yonge Street, lay empty and undeveloped. The Dunlap-area public transport, along Bayview Avenue, is of necessity inferior to public transport on Yonge. Already from this public-transit standpoint, without regard for astrophysics and Canada's cultural heritage, it is evident what a mess has been made of municipal affairs. And this in a community whose historical downtown, immediately beside the southern edge of the Yonge Street wasteland, is decaying, lacking pedestrians even at midday. (There is not even a post office in the historic downtown core, nor proper banking, nor proper grocery shopping.) And this in a community whose town hall lies kilometres away from its historic core, almost on the southeastern municipal border.
Ärinduslik põhjendus kaitseaktsiooni nurjumiseks on küll olemas: Yonge Streedi idaserva tontidelejääanud maatükk oli paarkümmend aastat tagasi veel tööstushoonete all, kusjuures selle kannatadasaanud muld vajanuks tänapäeval kulukat puhastamist või kulukat eemaldamist enne elamute püstitamist. Selle vastu oli 32-hektariline kaotsiläinud Dunlapi ala pristiinne haljasmaa, kus polnud midagi muud vaja kui mets maha raiuda. Aga isegi kui too mets poleks olnud osa viimasest olulisest linnakesksest metsast meie York Regioni nurgas, hullumeelne oleks vaadata Dunlapi Observatooriumi läbi sääraste äriprillide. - There is, to be sure, a business case to justify the failure of the environmental conservationist action. The wasteland along the east edge of Yonge was a couple of decades ago still under industrial use. Its damaged soil would today require expensive remediation or expensive removal before housing could be erected. The destroyed 32-hectare Dunlap terrain, on the other hand, was pristine greenspace, where nothing had to be done beyond felling the forest. But even had this woodland not been part of the last remaining significant stretch of urban forest in our corner of York Region, it would be insane to view the Dunlap Observatory through such commercial spectacles.
Nüüd saab hingata kergemini, ehkki elu ka siin ei saa tulevikus täiesti mõnus olla, nii noores ja nii majanduslikult kitsas pisivabariigis. - Now it becomes possible to breathe more easily, even though life cannot in future be fully pleasant even here, in so young and so economically constrained a micro-republic.
Missas ei ole ma sunnitud enam inglise keeles mõtlema, ammugi mitte mulle 1958. aastast saadik koolides vajalikuks osutunud inglise keeles palvetama. Tartu kohalikus koguduses pühapäeviti kell 12.00 jäävad Kanadas tavaks saanud (Missal kahestusväärsed) liturgilised kitarridki ära. Nende asemel
oli eile natuke gregooriust a capella, ühel õnnelikul puhul koguni keskajamoodi neljarealisest partituurist (ehkki mindi varstu üle tänapäevasele viierealisele - võimalikult samal koraalihetkel, kui ladina keelt vahetati eesti keelega välja). Nüüd pean edasi arendama omaenda ladinakeelse breviaariumi tarbimist, silmas pidades muuseas meie Tartu kiriku liturgilist korrektsust. Sealjuures tuleks mul rõhku asetada just universalis.com-i pakutud ladinakeelsele variandile (nagu näiteks näha lehelt http://www.universalis.com/L/europe.sweden/0/i-lauds.htm). Selles pean ma üle minema pelgast hommikupalvest rangema hommikupalve-õhtupalve-kompliini argipäeva rutiinile. - I am no longer forced to think in English during Mass, and certainly am not obliged to pray in the English language that has since 1958 proved necessary in my schooling. Even the liturgical guitars customary in Canada (regrettable instruments in a Mass) are absent in Tartu at the 12:00. In place of guitars, we yesterday had some Gregorian chant a capella, at one happy moment even from the old 4-line mediaeval staves. (We did move over soon enough to the usual modern 5-line staff, possibly at the same instant in our hymnody at which Latin gave way to Estonian.) Now I must continue developing my use of the Latin breviary, keeping in view, among other things, the liturgical correctness of the church in Tartu. In that work, I ought to be placing particular emphasis onto the Latin option at universalis.com (as viewable from, for example, the page http://www.universalis.com/L/europe.sweden/0/i-lauds.htm). And I must make the transition from a bare praying of the morning office to a more strict morning-plus-evening-plus-Compline workday routine.
oli eile natuke gregooriust a capella, ühel õnnelikul puhul koguni keskajamoodi neljarealisest partituurist (ehkki mindi varstu üle tänapäevasele viierealisele - võimalikult samal koraalihetkel, kui ladina keelt vahetati eesti keelega välja). Nüüd pean edasi arendama omaenda ladinakeelse breviaariumi tarbimist, silmas pidades muuseas meie Tartu kiriku liturgilist korrektsust. Sealjuures tuleks mul rõhku asetada just universalis.com-i pakutud ladinakeelsele variandile (nagu näiteks näha lehelt http://www.universalis.com/L/europe.sweden/0/i-lauds.htm). Selles pean ma üle minema pelgast hommikupalvest rangema hommikupalve-õhtupalve-kompliini argipäeva rutiinile. - I am no longer forced to think in English during Mass, and certainly am not obliged to pray in the English language that has since 1958 proved necessary in my schooling. Even the liturgical guitars customary in Canada (regrettable instruments in a Mass) are absent in Tartu at the 12:00. In place of guitars, we yesterday had some Gregorian chant a capella, at one happy moment even from the old 4-line mediaeval staves. (We did move over soon enough to the usual modern 5-line staff, possibly at the same instant in our hymnody at which Latin gave way to Estonian.) Now I must continue developing my use of the Latin breviary, keeping in view, among other things, the liturgical correctness of the church in Tartu. In that work, I ought to be placing particular emphasis onto the Latin option at universalis.com (as viewable from, for example, the page http://www.universalis.com/L/europe.sweden/0/i-lauds.htm). And I must make the transition from a bare praying of the morning office to a more strict morning-plus-evening-plus-Compline workday routine.
Loodan, et saan Eesti kui väikseriigi suhtelises vaikuses ka jätkata heebrea keele õppimist. Sellele ma juba vihjasin Eesti kontekstis siinsamas blogspot'is ajatsembil 2018-01-08. Lugeja, kes sellest huvitatud, peaks eriti vaatama 2018-01-08 pala lõik, mille alguse ligidal seletus "[Ladina keel] peaks meie kaasaegses katoliku maailmas olema vaid auväärne sild pühakirja algkeeltesse, s.o. heebrea ning koiné sõnastusse". - I hope that I shall be able to continue studies in Hebrew, given the comparative quietness of small-nation Estonia. I already referred to such studies in an Estonian context here at blogspot under the timestamp 2018-01-08. The interested reader might want to look in particular at that portion of the 2018-01-08 posting which contains, soon after its beginning, the words In the present-day Catholic world, Latin should be only a respected, honoured bridge to the scriptural source languages, in other words to the Hebrew and the koiné texts.
Argielus osutub Eesti Tartumaal lihtsamaks kui Kanada Richmond Hillis elada ilma vee- ning elektripillumiseta, ka ilma suure prügitegemiseta. Korteriperemehe poolt lahkelt muretsetud pesumasinal on õnneks vaid väike trummimaht; on lihtne lülitada korteri boiler sisse ainult pooleks tunniks päeval, veidi enne duššitamist; ja Tartu Tarbijate Co-op'ilt, ülikooli pearaamatukogu rajoonis, saab osta rosinaid-maapähkleid-tomateid kaalu järgi, omaenda kaasatoodud kilekottidega, pannes need kaalupannile otse müügiriiuli kõrval. Üldse tundub, pisut paradoksaalsel kujul, et paavst Franciscuse "Laudato sì'" põhimõtteid on kergem realiseerida usuliselt nii ükskõikses Eestis kui formaalselt katoliiklasemas Kanadas. - In everyday living, it proves easier in Estonia's Tartu County than in Canada's Richmond Hill to get on without wasting electric energy and water, and also without generating much garbage. The washing machine which my landlord has generously procured is, fortunately, of low drum volume; it is easy to energize the hot-water tank for just half an hour a day, a little before taking a shower; and it is possible to buy peanuts-raisins-tomatoes in the Tartu Consumer Co-op, in the neighbourhood of the main university library, by weight, using plastic bags brought from home, and putting one's prospective purchases onto a weighing pan right beside the retail shelf. In general it seems, a little paradoxically, easier to implement the principles of Pope Francis's "Laudato sì'" in theologically apathetic Estonia than in more formally Catholic Canada.
Argielus osutub Eesti Tartumaal lihtsamaks kui Kanada Richmond Hillis elada ilma vee- ning elektripillumiseta, ka ilma suure prügitegemiseta. Korteriperemehe poolt lahkelt muretsetud pesumasinal on õnneks vaid väike trummimaht; on lihtne lülitada korteri boiler sisse ainult pooleks tunniks päeval, veidi enne duššitamist; ja Tartu Tarbijate Co-op'ilt, ülikooli pearaamatukogu rajoonis, saab osta rosinaid-maapähkleid-tomateid kaalu järgi, omaenda kaasatoodud kilekottidega, pannes need kaalupannile otse müügiriiuli kõrval. Üldse tundub, pisut paradoksaalsel kujul, et paavst Franciscuse "Laudato sì'" põhimõtteid on kergem realiseerida usuliselt nii ükskõikses Eestis kui formaalselt katoliiklasemas Kanadas. - In everyday living, it proves easier in Estonia's Tartu County than in Canada's Richmond Hill to get on without wasting electric energy and water, and also without generating much garbage. The washing machine which my landlord has generously procured is, fortunately, of low drum volume; it is easy to energize the hot-water tank for just half an hour a day, a little before taking a shower; and it is possible to buy peanuts-raisins-tomatoes in the Tartu Consumer Co-op, in the neighbourhood of the main university library, by weight, using plastic bags brought from home, and putting one's prospective purchases onto a weighing pan right beside the retail shelf. In general it seems, a little paradoxically, easier to implement the principles of Pope Francis's "Laudato sì'" in theologically apathetic Estonia than in more formally Catholic Canada.
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Enne lõpetamist, paneksin veel paar asja kirja, lühidalt: - Before finishing, I would like to set down a couple of further points, briefly:
(1) Ei ole unustanud, et peaksin ka tulevikus edasi viima oma blogspot'i eesseedesarja "Perception, Action, and 'Subjectivity'". See on viimaste kuude jooksul soiku jääanud, logistiliste olude sunnil. - I have not forgotten that I ought in future to carry on with my blogspot essay series "Perception, Action, and 'Subjectivity'". In recent months, logistical pressures have obliged me to neglect the task.
(2) Astronoomiatöö liigub edasi siin, hetkel peamiselt just Royal Astronomical Society of Canada (RASC) https://www.rasc.ca/sites/default/files/Bright_Stars_extra_rows_2019.pdf väljaande laiendamise-täiendamise näol, umbes 2018-12-31 kavandatud lõpuleviimisega. Ilmad on olnud sedavõrd halvad, et ei ole olnud võimalik kasvõi praegu kaasasoleva 7x35 binoklikga Tõravere taevast uurida. Tihe pilvede kate aga omamoodi selgitab Tõravere olusid: kui selge taeva juures on selle Tartu Observatooriumi vaatluskompleksi taevõlv lootuste kohaselt pime zeniidist ilmakaareni, siis praeguse halva ilma juures on paraku näha valguslompe vastu pilvi, nii Elva kui ka Nõo-Tartu suunas. Õnneks on need heledad valguslombid, pilvekihi alumisel serval, vaid umbkaudselt 10-20 kraadi kõrgusega. - Astronomy moves ahead here, at the moment for the most part just in my updating and expanding of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada (RASC) publication https://www.rasc.ca/sites/default/files/Bright_Stars_extra_rows_2019.pdf. Completion is envisaged for roughly 2018-12-31. The weather has been so bad lately that I have not been able to view the Tõravere astronomical sights, even with the 7x35 binoculars currently accompanying me. However, the thick cloud cover in its own way clarifies Tõravere conditons: whereas with a clear sky it is possible to inspect the celestial vault of that Tartu Observatory dark-sky compound from the zenith right down (as one would desire) to the horizon, with the present bad weather two patches of light unfortunately appear against the clouds, in the respective directions of Elva and of Nõo-Tartu. Happily, on the other hand, these bright puddles of light, on the bottom surface of the cloud deck, extend to an altitude of just 10 or 20 degrees.
(3) Nii ühelt poolt minu vanad RASC-i ning DDO Defendersite (DDOD) sõbrad praeguses Dunlapis (eriti DDOD ridadest astroteadlane dr Ian Shelton, oma astroteadlasest abikaasa dr Tuba Koktay'ga) kui ka teiseilt poolt minu tulevased sõbrad Tõraveres peaksid silmas pidama DDO-Tõravere tulevikulisi koostöövõimalusi, kasvõi lihtsas Johnson-Morgan UBV-fotomeetrias. Seda ma kirjutan silmas pidades muuseas Tartu Observatooriumi (Tõravere) dr Taavi Tuvikest, kes on laiaulatuslikus kampaanias uurinud SX Phe klassi kuuluvat muutlikut tähte CY Aqr-i. Kampaania hõlmas kuulsate observatooriumite kõrval, muuseas USNO-Flagstaffi, ka Itaalia Südtirolis asuva Realgymnasium Brunecki lihtsat 10.-sentimeetrilist Meade'i. Ilmselt ka tagasihoidlikes tingimusis, nagu Bruneckis, osatakse sisulist korda saata. Ehk Richmond Hilli linnavolikogu, pidades CY Aqr-i eeskuju meeles, saaks suunata mõningaid resursse Sheltonite poole DDO fotomeetria taaselustamiseks - ja see nüüd eriti olukorras, kus DDO Pätsi-epohhi pitoreskse 1935.a. peahoone filmimisvõimalusi on hakanud rahasid tooma selle munitsipaaliteedi laegastesse? - On the one hand my old RASC and DDO Defenders (DDOD) friends at the present-day Dunlap (particularly, from the ranks of DDOD, astro-scientist Dr Ian Shelton, with his astro-scientist wife Dr Tuba Koktay), and on the other hand my future friends at Tõravere, ought to keep in view possibilities for future DDO-Tõravere collaboration, at any rate in simple Johnson-Morgan UBV photometry. I write this while recalling, among other things, the example of Dr Taavi Tuvikene at Tartu Observatory-Tõravere, who has in the course of a wide-ranging campaign observed the SX Phe variable CY Aqr. The campaign drew in not only well-known observatories, among them USNO Flagstaff, but also the humble 10-centimetre at Realgymnasium Bruneck, in Italy's Südtirol. Evidently the skills exist for procuring substantive scientific results even in such simple settings as Bruneck. Perhaps Richmond Hill Town Council, mindful of the CY Aqr example, could direct some resources toward the Sheltons, for the revival of DDO photometry - and this particularly now in a situation in which filmshoot opportunities at DDO's Konstantin-Päts-era 1935 Administration Building have begun generating monies for the municipal coffers? [Note added: In Estonia, a thing from the "Päts era" is a thing redolent of Joan Crawford, of Wallis Simpson, or of DC-3 stewardesses - in other words a thing exuding a prewar elegance in some instances risible, but in others (as with DDO) prized by cognoscenti.]
