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Ellison necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 36 diseños de 18 diseñadores freelance.
Clean and simple logo for doctors' office.
We'd like a simple logo that can be used on stationery, advertisements, etc, preferably in color, though it may need to be reproduced in black and white in some cases.
Include the office name: Asheville Arthritis & Osteoporosis Center.
This office is a rheumatology office, and consists of 5 doctors, 2 nurse practitioners and 50 other staff, who specialize in the care of arthritis, autoimmune diseases such as lupus, and osteoporosis.
More information about the office is available on our office website: ashevillearthritis.com.
The office building is visible from our website, is a 1980s modern office building, and office interior design is modeled in a similar modern design.
Consider a mountain theme, Asheville is in the Blue Ridge Mountains. Note the Blue Ridge Mountains have a distinctive look, they are old and rounded and not as pointed as the Rockies or Alps.
Consider Sanlite font, used in signage in the office building.
Consider olive or sage colors that reflect the office interior design, or blues reflecting the surrounding mountains.
Our office is a very busy, technologically sophisticated medical office that serves the rheumatology needs of the people of western North Carolina. We have electronic medical records, digital Xray, a full service lab, and excellent and charming staff.
We've never had an office logo other than our name, and in conjunction with a recent complete renonvation, we'd like a logo to use on our materials.
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- Office name: Asheville Arthritis & Osteoporosis Center
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- Blade Length:4.00"
- Cutting Edge:3.875"
- Blade Thickness:0.13"
- Blade Material:Damascus
- Blade Style:Spear Point
- Blade Grind:Flat
- Edge Type:Plain
- Handle Length:5.25"
- Handle Thickness:0.49"
- Handle Material:Aluminum
- Weight:3.95 oz.
- User:Right Hand
- Pocket Clip:Tip-Up
- Knife Type:Automatic
- Opener:Push Button
- Lock Type:Plunge Lock
- Brand:Protech
- Model:Godfather
- Country of Origin:USA
- Best Use:Collection
- Finish:Damascus
- Color:Brown, Gray
- Product Type:Knife
This Custom Godfather knife features a Chad Nichols Damascus steel blade. The handle is Splash anodized aluminum with a black lip pearl push button insert. Satin finished hardware and a titanium tip-up carry pocket clip.
The design of the Protech Godfather automatic was influenced by the original Italian "stiletto" knives. It features Protech's signature bayonet style blade, a slim handle and premium materials. The Godfather utilizes a coil spring for impressive push button action that never grows old. The build, fit and finish of the Godfather is exceptional, something that is true of all Protech knives.
The Godfather is offered in a wide range of materials and finishes, click HERE to view all the Godfather knives we have in stock.

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AutoIt v3 is a freeware BASIC-like scripting language designed for automating the Windows GUI and general scripting. It uses a combination of simulated keystrokes, mouse movement and window/control manipulation in order to automate tasks in a way not possible or reliable with other languages (e.g. VBScript and SendKeys). AutoIt is also very small, self-contained and will run on all versions of Windows out-of-the-box with no annoying "runtimes" required!
AutoIt was initially designed for PC "roll out" situations to reliably automate and configure thousands of PCs. Over time it has become a powerful language that supports complex expressions, user functions, loops and everything else that veteran scripters would expect.
- Easy to learn BASIC-like syntax
- Simulate keystrokes and mouse movements
- Manipulate windows and processes
- Interact with all standard windows controls
- Scripts can be compiled into standalone executables
- Create Graphical User Interfaces (GUIs)
- COM support
- Regular expressions
- Directly call external DLL and Windows API functions
- Scriptable RunAs functions
- Detailed helpfile and large community-based support forums
- Compatible with Windows 95 / 98 / ME / NT4 / 2000 / XP / 2003 / Vista / 2008
- Unicode and x64 support
- Digitally signed for peace of mind
- Works with Windows Vista's User Account Control (UAC)
AutoIt has been designed to be as small as possible and stand-alone with no external .dll files or registry entries required making it safe to use on Servers. Scripts can be compiled into stand-alone executables with Aut2Exe.
Also supplied is a combined COM and DLL version of AutoIt called AutoItX that allows you to add the unique features of AutoIt to your own favourite scripting or programming languages!
Best of all, AutoIt continues to be FREE - but if you want to support the time, money and effort spent on the project and web hosting then you may donate using the link to your left in the menu.
Take me to the downloads page!
Features in Detail
Basic-like Syntax and Rich Function Set
AutoIt has a BASIC-like syntax which means that most people who have ever written a script or used a high-level language should be able to pick it up easily.
Although it started life as a simple automation tool, AutoIt now has functions and features that allow it to be used as a general purpose scripting language (with awesome automation as well of course!). Language features include:
- The usual high-level elements for functions, loops and expression parsing
- A staggering amount of string handling functions and a Perl compatible regular expression engine (using the PCRE library).
- COM support
- Call Win32 and third-party DLL APIs
Built-in Editor with Syntax Highlighting
AutoIt comes with a customised "lite" version of SciTe that makes editing scripts easy. Users can also download a complete version of SciTe that includes additional tools to make things even easier.
Standalone and Small
AutoIt is a very small and standalone application with no reliance on massive runtimes like .NET or VB. All you need to run AutoIt scripts are the main AutoIt executable (AutoIt3.exe) and the script. Scripts can also be encoded into standalone executables with the built-in script compiler Aut2Exe.
International and 64-bit Support
AutoIt is fully Unicode aware and also includes x64 versions of all the main components! How many other free scripting languages can you say that about?
Key and Mouse Simulation
Much time has been spent optimizing the keystroke and mouse simulation functions to be as accurate as possible on all versions of Windows. All the mouse and keyboard routines are highly configurable both in terms of simulation "speed" and functionality.
Window Management
You can expect to move, hide, show, resize, activate, close and pretty much do what you want with windows. Windows can be referenced by title, text on the window, size, position, class and even internal Win32 API handles.
Directly get information on and interact with edit boxes, check boxes, list boxes, combos, buttons, status bars without the risk of keystrokes getting lost. Even work with controls in windows that aren't active!
Graphical User Interfaces (GUIs)
AutoIt v3 will also allow you to create some complex GUIs - just like those below!
And much, much more.
You'll probably want to go to the downloads page right now...
Books Featuring AutoIt
Here are books on administration and scripting that feature AutoIt (in some small way :) ). If you have a book that features AutoIt in any way and would like to see a link here then drop me a mail.
AutoIt v3: Your Quick Guide (Andy Flesner, O'Reilly)
This guide teaches you the foundations of the AutoIt v3 language. You will learn about variables and includes, graphical user interfaces, user-defined functions, and conditional and loop statements. You will then apply what you have learned in examples related to the system administration field.
Windows Admin Scripting Little Black Book (Jesse M. Torres, O'Reilly)
Shows you how to perform Windows XP and 2003 management and administrative tasks using powerful scripts for just about every important task imaginable. It covers ways to implement these scripts in an everyday environment automating repetitive tasks, and features example scripts on every new topic which you can easily modify or combine to perform myriad tasks.
[Jon: The book is focused on VBScript but lots of different languages and scripts are looked at, including a few pages on AutoIt2 and AutoItX]


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Puppy Put Down for Having 'Unknown Demons' at San Antonio Shelter, Woman May Press Charges
An animal lover in San Antonio, Texas may be seeking legal action after a 12-week puppy she gave to a local shelter was euthanized for having "demons."
Elaine Buchhorn was devastated when she received news recently that the 12-week-old Chihuahua-Dachshund mix she had fostered for a month had been euthanized by the Humane Society of New Braunfels, near San Antonio. Buchhorn says the puppy, who she named Baby George, was sweet and docile, so much so that she allowed it to play around her young granddaughter and two other dogs. Her son had reportedly found the puppy near his apartment and taken it to his mother, who has helped take care of young animals before.
Buchhorn had fostered the puppy for a month and tried to find it a home, but when she was unable to she brought the puppy to the humane society with the hope they could find the animal a home. She tells local WOAI-TV that she then learned from the shelter on Oct. 14, three days after taking the puppy there, that the dog had been put down because he had "demons" and was showing aggression toward employees, even biting one employee.
"They had posted they were sad they had to put this puppy down it was filled with demons and showed aggression," Buchhorn told the local media station. The post was reportedly written by a board member at the shelter and uploaded to Facebook last week, but it has since been deleted.
Buchhorn added to My San Antonio that the Facebook post read something along the lines of: "The pup is now free, free from whatever unknown demons were causing the aggression."
Billie Zercher, executive director of the Humane Society, told WOAI-TV that the shelter's policy is that it cannot put dogs up for adoption who exhibit aggression.
"It did go after one of our employees. The employee left it alone, because it is a younger animal we wanted to give it some time to relax, went back a second time and it did try to bite her again. It was showing aggression," Zercher explained. Zercher added that the shelter stands by its decision to put the puppy to sleep, saying: "Under our shelter policies, anything that shows aggression can't be put up for adoption."
Buchhorn says she may pursue legal recourse against the shelter for unlawfully killing an animal. Another local dog lover, Patrick Greene, reportedly filed a complaint with the local New Braunfels police seeking an investigation into the incident.
Greene told My San Antonio that those working at the shelter should have been more forgiving of the animal because he was just a puppy and still learning how to socialize, saying if the puppy "does get a little aggressive, you use a low, firm voice and say 'no.' You don't kill him.'"


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North Korea's nuclear test may be aimed at showing its foes it can deliver a missile with a warhead but it is still a long way from being able to threaten the United States, experts say.
The Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Organisation (CTBTO), an international monitoring agency in Vienna, said an "explosion-like" event that North Korea described as a nuclear test had a seismic magnitude of 5. This was bigger than similar tests it carried out in 2006 and 2009.
CTBTO executive secretary Tibor Toth said the action "constitutes a clear threat to international peace and security and challenges efforts to strengthen global nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation".
North Korea said the test, which drew swift international condemnation, had used a miniaturized device.
The secretive Asian state is widely believed to be trying to develop a device that is compact and light enough to fit on top of a ballistic missile - "something that has long been considered out of the North's technical reach," the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) said.
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A successful test would bring it one step closer to having the capability of building a long-range ballistic missile which could deliver a nuclear weapon, SIPRI said.
Nuclear proliferation expert Mark Fitzpatrick of the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London said: "It won't be possible to confirm from afar, but the claim of a successful miniaturized device is consistent with expectations that the test would be of a warhead that can fit in the nose cone of one of its missiles."
Jim Walsh of Massachusetts Institute of Technology said: "It seems as if Pyongyang wants to send the message - true or not - that it can employ a missile with a nuclear warhead and that previous problems with their nuclear tests have been overcome."
However, North Korea still had a long way to go before it could credibly threaten the United States with nuclear weapons, said Daryl Kimball from the Arms Control Association, a U.S.-based research and advocacy group.
"It is likely to be years away from fielding an ICBM (Intercontinental Ballistic Missile), which could deliver a nuclear warhead to the U.S. mainland. There is still time to halt and reverse current trends before North Korea's nuclear capabilities become more substantial."
An international test-ban treaty was negotiated in the 1990s but has not yet taken effect because not all holders of nuclear technology have ratified it. The Vienna-based CBTBO monitors possible breaches, looking out for signs of atomic tests, including seismic waves and radioactive traces.
Experts say it can take days or more to detect possible radioactive signs that would confirm with absolute certainty that a nuclear test had taken place.
Seen as a cornerstone of efforts to free the world of atomic bombs, the test ban treaty enjoys wide support around the world. But of the five officially recognized nuclear weapon states, the United States and China have yet to ratify it.
"Though confirmation will take some time, given the seismic signature and the important fact (North Korea) has never lied when it comes to nuclear tests, I think we can take them at their word and assume this was the explosion of a nuclear device," a Western diplomat in the Austrian capital said.
Kimball also said the test was an embarrassment for China's leadership and Pyongyang may have jeopardized the aid and diplomatic support it receives from Beijing.
China criticized the previous tests but did not roll back on aid. But Beijing had signaled that if North Korea undertook further tests, it would not hesitate to reduce assistance.
"Indeed, Beijing could do much more to apply pressure. Past Chinese diplomatic and economic support has allowed North Korea to ignore world opinion, in spite of the desperate state of its economy and hunger-ravaged population. It is important that Beijing now demonstrate its last warning was sincere," Kimball said.


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Clubs for the Quest, formerly Clubs for the Cure, is partnering with Zumba Fitness and clubs around the United States to help raise money to find a cure for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), or Lou Gehrig's disease.
The groups' goal is to raise $1 million through one-hour Zumbathon charity events held at fitness facilities between Jan. 1, 2012, and March 15, 2012.
Pat Laus, founder of Clubs for the Quest and The Atlantic Club, Manasquan, NJ, says she would like to have 2,000 clubs participate.
Laus created Clubs for the Quest to help her friend, Augie Nieto, founder of Life Fitness, who was diagnosed with ALS in 2005. Nieto founded Augie's Quest, a foundation created to raise money for ALS research. So far, Augie's Quest has raised more than $30 million.
The money raised at Zumbathons will go to the TDI Research Center in Cambridge, MA, for ALS research, according to Clubs for the Quest.
"When we work together as one industry and harness the power of our members in making a difference in the world, anything is possible," Laus says.
To participate, club operators can visit www.clubsforthequest.com, a website that includes a one-minute video, promotional materials and a link to register a Zumbathon.


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She is so hot! I wish she would do a set on roller skates!
I Dress For Cleavage
How did Bunny enjoy her time with the gang at The SCORE Group? "I'm kind of surprised that there's not a lot of rude people," Bunny said in an interview before she flew home to California. "I've done some other modeling and most places I have been to, the makeup artists and other people are kind of rude, but everyone here has been very nice. I am enjoying being here very much. The photographers and all the studio people are very friendly." What does Bunny do for fun? "I love to go to Renaissance festivals and I always turn a lot of heads in my wench dress. It shows a lot of cleavage. The women give me looks of disgust but I don't care. I'm wearing the same kind of dress they are. I just look a lot better in it than they do!"
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The Holy Apostles of the Seventy Philemon, Apphia, Archippus, and Onesimus
February 19
Philemon, who was from Colossae, a city of Phrygia, was a man both wealthy and noble; Apphia was his wife. Archippus became Bishop of the Church in Colossae. All three were disciples of the Apostle Paul. Onesimus, who was formerly an unbeliever and slave of Philemon, stole certain of his vessels and fled to Rome. However, on finding him there, the Apostle Paul guided him onto the path of virtue and the knowledge of the truth, and sent him back to his master Philemon, to whom he wrote an epistle (this is one of the fourteen epistles of Saint Paul). In this epistle, Paul commended Onesimus to his master and reconciled the two. Onesimus was later made a bishop; in Greece he is honoured as the patron Saint of the imprisoned. All these Saints received their end by martyrdom, when they were stoned to death by the idolaters. Saint Onesimus is also commemorated on February 15.
Apolytikion of Philemon & Archippus, of the 70
Third Tone
O Holy Apostle Archippos, intercede to our merciful God, that He may grant our souls forgiveness of sins.
Kontakion of Philemon & Archippus, of the 70
Fourth Tone
Having thee, O Archippus, as her own great star, and enlightened with the rays of thy most wondrous miracles, the Church now crieth aloud to thee: Save them that faithfully honour thy memory.


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Davidon September 27, 2011
You are right it is very important to have your mask down during play time however, since the photos are all staged and making sure
Safties are on all is good from there. Thank you for your concerns though
dillonon September 26, 2011
It's a professional clinic, the guy with his mask up is Zack Wake and if you were there you would know that every time his mask was up, no paintball were to be shot and it was announced to the entire field to do so every time.
Geneon September 26, 2011
Can you explain what is going on during these photos? I am confused since it appears that the players are involved in an active game of paintball, yet the one guy en nearly every photo of him has his mask up. Does he think that he is impervious to being shot by a paintball? Why wear it on the top of his head if it's not going to be down to protect his face? Even if a game isn't actually going on at the time and he is giving instruction, it still could appear to young kids or new players that it is sometimes safe to remove your mask during a game.


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June 22, 2011
WIP Wednesday - QAL Progress Report
Here is a quick run-down of my projects and at least my fabric choices since that is the stage I am at with most of these :)
1. Kaleidescope QAL:
Fabric Choice: Rainy Days and Mondays - with Moda Basics Gray as my solid
2. We Can Do It! - Skill Builder Sampler:
Fabric Choice: Ta Dot - Michael Miller - around 22 prints, plus white as needed
Block 1 Completed:
3. Embroidery 101 - Stitch & QAL:
Fabric Choice: Deciding between Miss Modd and Just Wing It!
Progress: Embroidery for block 1 released - I still need to pick my fabric, make the block, and start stitching! :)
4. A Zig & A Zag QAL:
Fabric Choice: QAL Leader made bundle + Kona Coal/Charcoal/White as the background color - still deciding
Progress: Need to choose a solid, cutting requirements already released
5. Rainbow Charm Swap:
Finally got my charms cut last night - mailing off tonight - deadline is this Saturday the 25th so I should be fine
I will be receiving 56 5" charm squares back - 2 of my own and 27 others in 7 various colors - 2 of each print
6. Garden Fence Quilt:
Fabric Choice: Aviary 2 - Saffron + Kona Cotton & Linen Solids
Progress: Drooling over the pretty fabric - will start cutting after 4th of July weekend
7. Farmer's Wife QAL:
Fabric Choice: Maybe fat 1/8th bundle of Just Wing It? - Will decide for sure after the 4th of July weekend and get started then
Progress: Enjoying browsing the book and contemplating my fabric choices :) I will be making the 55 block smaller version of this sampler
8. Gift Exchange
I have until 1 week from today make and mail a lovely gift for my partner - not 100% sure yet what it will be but I have some cute ideas
Also working on my "ginormous secret project" which is soooooo close to being completed! I should be done by Friday night if all goes well and will be able to share pics over 4th of July weekend - stay tuned :)
Happy WIP Wednesday - Don't let your WIPs become UFOs! :)
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19 comments:
- Impera_Magna said...
My stars! You do have a lot of irons in the fire! I'm looking forward to the Kaleidoscope QAL start tomorrow and love the fabrics you've selected!
- June 22, 2011 at 7:01 AM
- Bree said...
Ummm...holy cow, girl! I didn't realized you had so much going on, but when you list it all out together, it's huge! Where do you find the time?! ;) Can't wait to see progress on everything you're working on. I'd be worried in my current state of mind that I'd start mixing up the fabrics & end up with some umbrellas in my polka dots quilt. :)
- June 22, 2011 at 8:01 AM
- Melinda said...
I love that Miss Modd for Embroidery 101! I will say, once you get your blocks done for that it's fairly easy. You just pull one out to embroider when they post a new pattern. You are one busy chick! Good luck!
- June 22, 2011 at 8:35 AM
- Cindy said...
This may be the most beautiful collection of fabric I have ever seen! They're so lovely :)
- June 22, 2011 at 8:41 AM
- noga quilts said...
Wow! You have so many projects! Your fabric choices for the QALs is amazing, good luck with all of them!
- June 22, 2011 at 9:00 AM
- Kelly Irene said...
It's so hard to say no to the quilt alongs; I totally understand why you are doing those! I like your fabric choices for each one, but my favorites are the Rainy Days and Zig Zag bundles. I'm looking forward to seeing some blocks come together for you :)
- June 22, 2011 at 9:57 AM
- Susan said...
Great post idea about an update on your QAL's. Great fabric choices for all. :)
- June 22, 2011 at 10:16 AM
- Melissa @ Love Affair With My Brother said...
Wow, you are a busy bee. I just found you over on The Intrepid Thread's site. Thanks so much for your tip about loading pictures, I am now following you! Good luck on all your QALs, I have limited myself to 2 and I am only keeping up with 1 so far - bad quilter :)
- June 22, 2011 at 10:22 AM
- Debbie said...
Oh my goodness - I love your taste in fabrics! I hadn't seen 'Rainy Days' - fun! And I adore the Ta Dots! The ziq & a zag is awesome! Alot of cool projects you are working on!
- June 22, 2011 at 10:37 AM
- Lindsay said...
and i thought i had a lot on my mind/hands. i love your projects. can't wait to see how they all turn out. and, i might have to join one or two of these; much to the dismay of my hubby! haha.
- June 22, 2011 at 10:37 AM
- Amy said...
Wow you have alot of WIPS going... I really like all the fabrics for them.
- June 22, 2011 at 11:03 AM
- Kimberlee said...
I am loving all your different fabric choices, yummy!
- June 22, 2011 at 11:16 AM
- Mrs. Darling said...
Oh my goodness! You are SO busy! I can't wait to see how all of your quilts/projects turn out!
<3 Amanda @ acraftyfox
- June 22, 2011 at 12:59 PM
- Katie B. said...
Wow! Your fabric choices are awesome. Love the Rainy Days for the kaleidoscope QAL. And all of those ta-dots for the skill builder! That's going to be so fun.
- June 22, 2011 at 1:46 PM
Yum...all your fabric bundles look wonderful!
- June 22, 2011 at 2:25 PM
- Jenniffier said...
oh my gosh what lovely stacks of fabric. Looks like you have a lot of fun projects going on.
- June 23, 2011 at 2:25 AM
- Leanne said...
Thanks for all the inspiring fabric combinations! I have to pick some myself and those dots especially are giving me ideas.
- June 23, 2011 at 9:09 AM
- **nicke... said...
wow wow wow! you are going to be one busy fox! i love the fabrics you have chosen!
- June 23, 2011 at 1:15 PM
- Angela said...
yay! I'm glad that you are sucked into my QAL! If it makes you feel any better, I have a TON of other quilts to do as well!
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Higher income earners more likely to get doctors' appointments than lower income people
People of high socioeconomic status are more likely to be able to access primary care than those of low socioeconomic status, even within a universal health care system in which physicians are reimbursed equally for each patient, found an article published in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal).
"A person calling a physician's office and asking to be seen as a new primary care patient was more than 50% more likely to be given an appointment if he or she presented as being of high socioeconomic status," says senior author Dr. Stephen Hwang from the Centre for Research on Inner City Health, Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, St. Michael's Hospital, and the Department of Medicine, University of Toronto. "Because we see this finding in a single-payer universal health insurance system, it provides evidence of discrimination by physicians' offices on the basis of socioeconomic status."
Researchers undertook a randomized controlled audit study to determine whether socioeconomic status as well as health status affected a potential patient's ability to secure an appointment with a primary care physician. They telephoned 568 family physician and general practitioner offices in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, posing as a bank employee (someone of high socioeconomic status) and a welfare recipient (low socioeconomic status) with chronic health conditions (diabetes and back pain) or no major conditions. Final data were available from 375 offices; most responses were from administrative staff.
Canada has a universal health insurance system in which all patients may receive care, because health care fees are paid through a third party. Inability to pay is not a barrier to care as in some countries where users pay for health care. However, about 15% of Canadians do not have a regular medical doctor; a key reason is that physicians are not accepting new patients.
In this study, people of high socioeconomic status were more likely than people of low socioeconomic status to receive an appointment offer (23% v. 14%) or an offer of an appointment, screening visit or place on a waiting list (37% v. 24%). On the positive side, people with chronic health conditions were more likely to receive appointment offers than people without these conditions (24% v. 13%).
"Although it is reassuring that patients with chronic health conditions received prioritized access to primary care, our results suggest a need for greater efforts to ensure that physicians and their office staff do not discriminate against people of low socioeconomic status," state the authors.
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Naturism. The internet is loaded with it… …but it's not naturism. According to the internet at large, naturism is sex, porn, bad stuff, naked people doing 'the unmentionable…
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Scrolling through Instagram and seeing "perfect" bodies can often make us feel insecure. As it turns out, even the most prominent women in Hollywood struggle with body image. With time, they've changed…
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A few weeks ago, we were staying at one of those brilliant French campsites. It had fantastic facilities, including a "balneo" – a kind of walled garden, laid out in classical Roman style… I knew it would be professionally remiss of me not to see what the nudists were up to…
Source: www.independent.ie/life/getting-naked-to-feel-free-31408910.html
In 2010, Taylor got a phone call that would, at least temporarily, blow up her life. Someone had posted nude photos of her on a revenge porn website called IsAnyoneUp.com and sent her former employer the link. Her friend, who happened to be dating her ex-boss, called to let her know… "I had a full-blown panic attack on the phone as soon as she called me."
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Naturism is the practice of going without clothes – whether that is just occasionally at a beach or in your garden, or as a more general part of everyday life. Naturism is healthy, sensible – who wants to wear clothes when the weather is hot – and great fun!
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An ultradeep image that's *full* of galaxies!
What happens when you take a monster 4.1 meter telescope in the southern hemisphere and point it at the same patch of sky for 55 hours?
This. Oh my, this:
[Click to embiggen.]
OK, I know. At first glance it doesn't look like much, does it? Just a field of stars. However, here's the important bit: I had to take the somewhat larger original image and reduce it in size to fit my 610-pixel-wide blog. So how much bigger is the original?
It's 17,000 x 11,000 pixels! If you happen to be sitting on a T1 line, then you can grab this massive 250 Mb file. And I surely suggest you do.
Because yeah, the brightest objects you see in this are stars. Probably a few hundred of them. But you have to look at the bigger image ! Why? Because what's amazing, truly jaw-dropping and incredible is this:
There are over 200,000 galaxies filling this image!
Ye. Gads.
Here's a zoom of the image, centered on what looked to me to be one of the biggest galaxies in the frame, a nice edge-on spiral.
With the exception of a handful of blue-looking stars, everything in this zoom is a galaxy, probably billions of light years away. Those tiny red dots are galaxies so far away they crush our minds to dust: we're seeing them with light that left them shortly after the Universe itself formed.
This light is ancient. And it came a long, long way.
By the way, that picture of the spiral there is not even at full resolution! Just to give you an idea, I cropped out just that galaxy in the full-res image and inset it here. If you want to find it in the full frame, it's about one-third of the way in from the left, and one-third of the way down from the top. Happy hunting.
[Edited to add: I forgot to add that this galaxy is warped! See how the disk flares up on the left and down on the right, just a bit? This is very common in disk galaxies, and our own Milky Way does it too (see #9 at that link). It's usually caused when a nearby galaxy's gravity torques on the stars in the disk.]
These images were taken with VISTA, the European Southern Observatory's Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy (VISTA), a 4.1 meter telescope in Chile. This huge image is actually composed of 6000 separate images, and is the single deepest infrared picture of the sky ever taken with this field of view. Hubble can get deeper, for example, but sees a much, much smaller part of the sky.
By looking in the infrared we can see farther into space. Because space is expanding, light from distant galaxies gets red-shifted (like the Doppler effect on a cosmic scale). Young galaxies are generally furiously forming stars, and that makes them blast out ultraviolet light. But a young galaxy seen from very far away has that UV light red shifted into the infrared. So to us, billions of light years distant, we see it pouring out IR light. Looking there means we can see these extraordinarily remote galaxies more easily. If you scan the full-size image, you'll see lots of tiny, very red dots. Those are most likely the most distant objects in this picture, appearing redshifted, dimmed, and shrunken due to their terrible distance.
Also, looking in the infrared makes stars that look red to our eyes appear blue in the image! Most of the stars in this image are weak, cool, dim red dwarfs. They look blue because this image is false color. It uses three filters to isolate different colors of infrared: 1.3 microns, 1.7 microns, and 2.2 microns (colored blue, green, and red in this image, respectively). The reddest light the human eye can typically see is about 0.7 microns, so these are well outside human range. Many red dwarfs put out light at 1.3 microns, but not nearly as much at 1.7 and 2.2. Since the 1.3 micron light is colored blue in the image, that makes the stars look blue, even though to you they'd look red!
And what a view! Here's another interesting bit I happened to stumble on while just scanning this monster image:
Isn't that interesting? There's a long jet of material apparently coming from that bloated galaxy on the left (I increased the brightness and contrast of this picture to make it more obvious; it was subtle in the original image but I have a lot of practice picking out things like this). Big galaxies have supermassive black holes in their cores, and these sometimes accelerate huge beams of matter and energy that blast out. But wait! The stream goes right through that smaller galaxy on the right. Is that a coincidence — the jet is coming from the big one and happens to pass in front of a more distant galaxy? Or is that smaller one the source of the jet, and actually has two jets coming out of either side? That's actually a more common occurrence. Beats me. I could argue either way. We'd need spectra of the galaxies to know for sure.
And funny: I went back to the original image to see where I cut that galaxy out, and now I can't find it. Holy crap. I mean, seriously, I couldn't find it. That's how big this image is.
Of course, you can find a dozen galaxies just like it. I also found several gorgeous spirals (look all the way on the left; one is cut off on the edge of the frame and it's really something). Some were edge-on like the one above, others face-on. There are countless blobby ones, and even more that are just dots, so far away we see them as dimensionless points.
I've spent years studying all this, and it still sometimes gets to me: just how flipping BIG the Universe is! And this picture is still just a tiny piece of it: it's 1.2 x 1.5 degrees in size, which means it's only 0.004% of the sky! And it's not even complete: more observations of this region are planned, allowing astronomers to see even deeper yet.
Science is wonderful. Building on the knowledge developed before us, our tools improve and our ability to explore expands. Piece by piece, photon by photon, galaxy by galaxy, we're examining this Universe we live in and understanding it better every day.
Image credit: ESO/UltraVISTA team. Acknowledgement: TERAPIX/CNRS/INSU/CASU
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Found the galaxy you lost. Center frame, 1/8th from the bottom edge.
Phil, just thought I'd drop a note here about the venerable T1. We have one at my office. It's 1.5 megaBITS per second. That means 192 kB/s max download speed. Which means it's going to take upwards of 30 minutes to download this image. My cable modem at home is actually over 10 times faster!
… of course, I AM downloading it nonetheless.
What's even more amazing is there are still people on our planet who believe the entire universe was created just for them.
Thanks Mr. Plait, wonderful write-up and attempt to help us understand just how vast and amazing our Universe is.
Nothing inspires quite the way a deep field inspires. Wonderful, wonderful.
That just made me very happy.
i've never been terribly interested in deep sky astronomy, i'm more interested in planetary science. but this image, i have to admit, blows my effing mind.
It makes a wonderful desktop background.
It's really cool that we can get these sort of images from ground based observatories. While not feasible yet, and the ROI may be difficult to justify, I would love to see what sort of observations a similar telescope placed on the far side of the moon would get.
And whenever I see images like this, I am always reminded of two quotes by Carl Sagan:
In some respects, science has far surpassed religion in delivering awe. How is it that hardly any major religion has looked at science and concluded, "This is better than we thought! The Universe is much bigger than our prophets said, grander, more subtle, more elegant. God must be even greater than we dreamed"? Instead they say, "No, no, no! My god is a little god, and I want him to stay that way."
Once we overcome our fear of being tiny, we find ourselves on the threshold of a vast and awesome Universe that utterly dwarfs — in time, in space, and in potential — the tidy anthropocentric proscenium of our ancestors. We gaze across billions of light-years of space to view the Universe shortly after the Big Bang, and plumb the fine structure of matter. We peer down into the core of our planet, and the blazing interior of our star. We read the genetic language in which is written the diverse skills and propensities of every being on Earth. We uncover hidden chapters in the record of our origins, and with some anguish better understand our nature and prospects. We invent and refine agriculture, without which almost all of us would starve to death. We create medicines and vaccines that save the lives of billions. We communicate at the speed of light, and whip around the Earth in an hour and a half. We have sent dozens of ships to more than seventy worlds, and four spacecraft to the stars. We are right to rejoice in our accomplishments, to be proud that our species has been able to see so far, and to judge our merit in part by the very science that has so deflated our pretensions.
Both from the same book that should be required reading for every human being on the planet!
I gasped at the closeup. It's mind-bogglingly beautiful.
I love the deep field pictures. I can't get enough of them. No one has mentioned this yet, but there is a gorgeous ghostly bar galaxy on the left edge of the picture. This picture has made my day. Thanks Phil!!
I love images like this and the Hubble (Ultra) Deep Field. They're awe inspiring. They're humbling. They're just plain natural beauty.
But one other thing that just flips my brain – any stars we see are in the **foreground**. ANY other image of any kind the stars are the backdrop. Yet here they are the exact opposite, and I just love that.
It's a perfectly cromu… meh, too easy.
I think that looks more like a tidal tail than a jet (see NGC4676 for example).
Phil, you found your missing galaxies; now I have a real challenge for you….;-)
Find the starship Destiny in this picture 😉
My god! It's full of sta….galaxies!
Unfreaking believable.
I can honestly say that this image has made my day.
I might try and get this printed.
This is awesome, Thanks for sharing. I downloaded the ginormous version and was checking it out. About ⅙ the way down from the upper left corner, right on the edge of the shot is a brighter than usual galaxy. Just a little ways directly to the right of that are three galaxies forming an arc. The galaxy on the right looks like it has been lensed, only there's nothing showing that could have caused the lensing. Is there something else that could cause a deformity like this?
What is the minimum magnitude able to be seen in this picture?
Images like this never fail to awe and humble me. I have the original Hubble Ultra-Deep Field photograph framed and on my desk, as a constant reminder of how awesome the universe is.
At 17,000×11,000, and printing at 180ppi, this image would result in a poster 61 x 94 inches large or about 5 feet by 7.5 feet. This might make for good "ceiling wallpaper." Affix the poster to the ceiling of your office (or some other room you're in often) and you can gaze up at the stars/galaxies.
This is blow-your-mind enough as it is. However, given what we've been finding out about galaxies and planets, those 200,000 galaxies probably have about a billion stars each and hundreds of millions, if not billions, of planets each. The sheer number of planets out there virtually guarantees that life is out there somewhere, even if it is so far away that we have no hope of ever detecting it. (I like to think that somewhere, halfway across the Universe, some alien is posting a very similar message to their equivalent to a blog in response to a deep field image their telescopes produced which includes the Milky Way.)
When you posted about the resolution of the new iPad's "retina" screen a week or two ago, I couldn't wait to try scrolling around ultradeep field images on one. I might just have to drop this onto a USB and go to the store today to test drive various ridiculously expensive monitors I can't possibly afford to buy.
That is just mind-blowing.
I just don't believe how vastly, hugely, mindbogglingly big it is.
Scroll, scroll, scroll your boat gently down the datastream…merrily merrily merrily merrily, Life is but a Dream….
Aw, these pictures don't show up on my fed gov computer. Sad face.
There's a zoomable version of the image here: http://www.eso.org/public/images/eso1213a/zoomable/
(Use the button at the bottom right to make it run full screen.)
Other versions & sizes here: http://www.eso.org/public/images/eso1213a/
Thanks so much for this image and this post. Mind = blown.
Magnificent image. If only it would inspire a reconsideration of the quaint notion which survives from the early 20th century (when the known universe was galactic in scale) that this vast expanse can be treated as a singular entity!
What is the width of field of this photo? (That is, how narrow a bit of our sky is this?)
Ye Gads is perhaps the understatement of the year. What can they do for an encore?
JoeTheJuggler: The press release says 1.5 square degrees (8 full moons of area)
I'd have to agree with Edd's comment (#15). My guess would be a tidal stream of stars created through galaxy interaction instead of a jet. Active galaxy jets tend to be straighter.
Dang, Zathras @17 beat me to it…ellipses and all. Zathras understand.
Forget Disney World, I want to go out THERE.
Coincidentally enough, the site serving the image is capable of only about T1 speeds with four download segments.
It's been quite some time since a T1 was considered fast. My home connection is about 75 times faster, and costs about one fifth as much (only 10 times faster on upload, though).
Galaxies like grains of sand… (also the title of an old Brian Aldiss SF book)
And as usual I can't open the super huge picture again. I have a Windows XP and I use Firefox. Is there a limit to how big a picture a my PC can open? It is troubling.
Torny wrote (#6): "Embiggen?"
Etymology: Ad-hoc coinage, attested in 1884.
Verb: embiggen (nonce word) — To make or become bigger.
Somewhat related (embiggen your knowledge)
If you'll excuse a minor digression, that image reminded me of this:
Galaxies Like Grains of Sand
Brian Aldiss
Faber & Faber, 1966
You beat me to it.
That missing galaxy is about 90% of the way down, and dead-center left-t0-right.
apart from the galaxies themselves, i love how clearly foamy their structure looks. it's a nice coincidence that the redder galaxies (i.e., redshifted, so further away) actually look farther away, giving the image a 3-d texture. it really does look like the galaxies are on the edges of giant bubbles.
How do the analysts of this picture determine which of those extremely small clusters of red pixels are galaxies, versus much closer red dwarfs/sub-dwarfs of M type? As far as those galaxies are, I doubt they subtend enough angular size to be truly resolved as galaxies.
If someone could upload the large (250mb) version as a torrent we could all get a nice look at it. I am trying to load it now, but it looks like it will take a few thousand years with my connection.
I decided to see if anyone has estimated the number of grains of sand on Earth. The answer I found was between 10^17 and 10^20 grains. On Google+, Phil did some math and estimated there are 400 billion galaxies in the Universe. Given that each galaxy has about a billion stars (probably more), I estimated the number of stars at 400 Quintillion, or 4 * 10^20. So there are literally more stars in the Universe than grains of sand on Earth.
I love LOVE how the universe goes on and on and how, before dropping off to sleep, I can fly really fast, passing stars and galaxies and it never ends. There is no end. Blows me away.
Anyone that know what galaxy we have at the bottom right corner, it is clearly much closer to us than almost all the other galaxies. What about the one in the centre but all the way too the left?
One of my favorite things to do with the Astronomy Picture of the Day (http://apod.nasa.gov) is to see how many deep field objects like galaxies I can spot. Today's closeup of M9 is tricky, but there's a bunch in yesterday's image of M95 with the supernova.
Thanks, Phil, for bringing this image to our attention. Being a skeptic, I would hope you'd agree that a mandatory preface to all statements of knowledge in the material sciences is: "Based on our current level of IGNORANCE, this is what WE THINK we know…" Consider how Galileo thought the stars were fixed to a sphere in the sky, and how Einstein thought the Universe was eternal, etc. And then, consider the questions, "Where did all these galaxies and space and the "law" of gravity, and … come from?" Be brave and always seek the Truth, no matter where it leads, in answering such questions; do not succumb to the fear of ridicule by your fellow scientists and questionnners.
Oh my stars and garters! Thank you, Phil, for tying up my Mac during the download! It was well worth it!
@15 Edd/37 Richard,
I suspected the same wrt to tidal tails(and 'knew' I've seen this system somewhere before). Turns out it IS very likely a tidal interaction between two galaxies. The large elliptical is COSMOS J1000003+020146: http://www.subarutelescope.org/Pressrelease/2004/11/16/cosmos.jpg
A 2006 study called this a likely 'galaxy threshing system', only the second known, with a projected separation of 102 kpc between galaxies and tidal tails extending over 150 kpc: http://arxiv.org/pdf/astro-ph/0612351v1.pdf
The two galaxies are estimated to have been closest about 500 Myr ago.
Additional images of the two galaxies (and the other known 'threshing system') can be found here: http://www.astr.tohoku.ac.jp/~sasaki/thresh-E.html
Further info on the other known galaxy threshing system, a spiral galaxy-dwarf interacting system in the same Hubble image as the Tadpole Galaxy, UGC 10214, can be found here: http://arxiv.org/pdf/astro-ph/0309020.pdf
Given that I love science and think modern astronomy is one of the most important achievements of the human species, I really don´t know how an obvious technological growth allows someone to jump to the conclusion that science (and our understanding of the universe) steadily and surely progresses. That´s not logically garanteed, I think, but anyway sorry for the disturbance. I just love your work, Phil. Gratz!
@ Tara Li:
Phil has a paragraph in this post about distant UV objects being redshifted into the infra-red. All of the dim red stars within our galaxy appear blue, because that's the way this image is coloured. They are closer to the blue end of the spectrum.
The 'missing' galaxy in question can be found at (8820, 9250).
Check out (12745, 9040)
@10. LarianLeQuella :
..And whenever I see images like this, I am always reminded of two quotes by Carl Sagan …(snip) .. Both from the same book that should be required reading for every human being on the planet!
Those would be from 'Pale Blue Dot' right? 😉
Agreed whole-heartedly.
The sense of perspective and awe and the poetry over and affirmed by the science found there – in almost everything Carl Sagan has written and said – is just wonderful.
As for this galaxy-rich image : Wow. Just. Wow. Plus thankyou BA.
"Cosmology also tells us that there are perhaps 100 billion galaxies in the universe and that each contains roughly 100 billion stars. By a curious co-incidence, 100 billion is also the approximate number of cells in a human brain."
– Page 237, 'StarGazer', Dr Fred Watson, Allen & Unwin, 2004.
"If you put three grains of sand inside a vast cathedral, that cathedral will be more densely packed with grains of sand than stars are found apart in space."
– Page 28, 'Skywatching', David H. Levy, Ken Fin Books, 1995.
"Yet here we are with our eyes and our minds and our curiosity, six billion passengers aboard a tiny blue boat, bobbing and wheeling our way around one vast Catherine wheel among many."
– P.246, Ferris, 'Seeing in the Dark', Simon & Schuster, 2002.
@58 – How would the even colder stars (and brown dwarfs) than M class appear, then? I would expect to see some of those ultra-far galaxies – not quite as far – showing up as green or yellow. I just feel like I'm seeing an awful lot of soup made from a very small stone.
Tara: They would be far too dim to be seen. If they were big enough to be seen, they would also be too hot to be shown as red, or near enough to be resolved.
The combination of amount of light and colour of light could only be produced by a redshifted galaxy. Cold items output too little light to be seen.
And ultra-far galaxies could not show as green. In order for them to be green, the light they output would have had to be beyond the top of the ultra-violet end of the spectrum, X and Gamma rays. Galaxies don't emit enough of that sort of radiation. Oh, and there was no detector used for 'yellow', yellow items in the image would be ones far enough away for all their light to be redshifted out of the range of the filter who's output was represented as blue. (This false colour stuff can get confusing!)
"I've spent years studying all this, and it still sometimes gets to me: just how flipping BIG the Universe is!"
Meh! Chances are this is merely an average sized universe.
i love this stuff.
we are so small in comparison yet so big with our dreams.
life at it's best!
@10 Larian:
That is exactly why, in my opinion, science is the best religion :).
Not as an institution of ignorance, but as an instrument to attain transcendence above the dullness of life, feel connected with our planet, the universe and with each other – which is the purpose of all religion IMHO. Other religions do this, but science is better than every one of them – because it is true. It's teachings are based on fact and a reality we can measure and observe. We can trust it more than any other religion, myth or superstition – because IT IS TRUE. And these facts are more exciting, romantic, unthinkable and beautiful than any myth ever was, or will be….
The only thing it doesn't have that other religions do is a way to help us be moral….
(not to say that morality comes from religion or that every religious teaching is moral, but the two are connected…)
And then add in the objects in the image which are not emitting visible light.
Reminds me of this…
"In some respects, science has far surpassed religion in delivering awe. How is it that hardly any major religion has looked at science and concluded, "This is better than we thought! The Universe is much bigger than our prophets said, grander, more subtle, more elegant. God must be even greater than we dreamed!"? Instead they say, "No, no, no! My god is a little god, and I want him to stay that way." " CS
Edit: Should've known someone else in this audience would have beaten me to the punch.
@Sam H.
Science is great because it just reveals the truths of the Creator. I'm glad no one considers your opinion as science Religion explains why we are here. Science explains how it happened. There can be no contradiction between the two….unless it's in our little brains.
I have to say that creation is beautiful and it's shows that the Artist is so worth it. But be careful not to worship the art and not the Artist.
CS was wrong in his assumption. Every scientific breakthrough has always proven that God is greater than people imagine. Still.
I did some farting around with this image and the new iPad's high-rsolution display … which really shows off the detail beautifully.
The deep cosmos at 264 pixels per inch
@Penelope wrote "CS was wrong in his assumption. Every scientific breakthrough has always proven that God is greater than people imagine. Still."
Another perfect summary of the "god of the gaps" argument.
@61. Tara Li :
@58 – How would the even colder stars (and brown dwarfs) than M class appear, then? I would expect to see some of those ultra-far galaxies – not quite as far – showing up as green or yellow. I just feel like I'm seeing an awful lot of soup made from a very small stone.
Apparently some "brown dwarfs" would look mauve from what I've read!
The BA has an article here :
Which notes :
.. what color would these things appear if you were near one?
That's hard to say. Low-mass stars, say down to about a tenth the Sun's mass, look red. But as you look at cooler objects like brown dwarfs, things get complicated. For example, once the temperature is low enough, molecules like water and even methane can exist in the object's atmosphere. These absorb certain colors of light, changing the color of the BD itself. There's some thinking that very cool stars, like Y dwarfs, might be magenta in color! I'd love to see that. But that's why the artist's representation of a Y dwarf, shown here, is colored purple. No one's really sure, though.
Phil Plait also has more here :
& this site :
with the news about the discovery of 3 Earth mass exoplanet MOA-2007-BLG-192Lb – which orbits either a brown dwarf or a very small red dwarf at the distance of Venus but with perhaps Pluto's surface temperature – has an artistic comparison of how each appears which is pretty neat. That last link is via the BA blog article linked to my name here.
Hope this helps.
Those foreground stars are pretty big… is their apparent radius an affect of light bleed-over to adjacent pixels, or are we actually seeing the disks of the stars?
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Thanks a lot for the article. It is impossible to realise how big the universe is.
wow really interesting, took me only 5min to download the picture
This is unreal. It is on my desktop and it brings an overwhelming presence.
"It is impossible to realise how big the universe is."
Truly humbling. We can say science is wonderful, but it's really the universe that is wonderful, science is merely the beholding of that wonder in a way we can share and build on.
I have the Hubble Deep Space photo and it's 18.1 MB which I thought was pretty large but this one is massive. Although it's not used for the desktop.
Great pic. Its worth downloading the 250 MB image.
It is sad that most of the people do not understand anything about this incredible beauty and practically endless size of universe. Thank you for sharing. The science shows us unbelievable secrets of existence, but for the most of people fairy tales are more important source of "knowledge".
This is the bit I never understand – the furthest ones away are billions of light-years away so are close to the beginning of the universe (from time spent from light travelling), but if nothing can travel faster than the speed of light, how did they get there, since we are probably not sitting right in the middle of the universe (and that would halve the time anyway)?
Or is space not the surface of the classic balloon analogy but the atoms of gas within a terrestrial ballon as it travels up through our atmosphere and so is rarified?
Josh (68) said:
Religion explains why we are here.
Only if you unquestioningly accept its starting point (that some sort of god exists).
If one expects to be shown evidence in support of that claim before accepting it, then religion cannot explain anything.
Science explains how it happened.
And, increasingly, why.
Sam H (65) said:
That is exactly why, in my opinion, science is the best religion .
Not as an institution of ignorance, . . .
But here's a contradiction. Unless you redefine "religion" to be such a broad term that it becomes essentially meaningless, science is the total opposite of religion.
Science has no sacred text.
Science has no god or messiah.
Science demands that no-one unquestioningly accept dogma.
Science demands no faith.
Science has no temples.
The only thing it doesn't have that other religions do is a way to help us be moral….
Actually, it could be argued that very little of our modern morality arises from religion. Certainly, if you look at the Ten Commandments, we have plenty of digression without it being considered immoral.
If you look at the teachings of Jesus ("turn the other cheek", for example), we have opposite behaviour that is not considered immoral (the US / UK invasion of Afghanistan, for instance, was essentially revenge for 11/9). The existence of the death penalty in the US indicates that revenge is considered to be moral.
And coveting one's neighbour's possessions has been raised to an art form in North America and western Europe.
"Click to embiggen"?
@89 Steve
The short answer to your question is "the expanding universe". Because space, and everything in it is growing, and has been, albeit at a slower and slower rate, since the big bang, we can "see father than the age of the universe". there is a ton of excellent material on this topic. Another excellent site (btw – Great Job Phil!) geared towards non technical information is scienceblogs.com/startswithabang/. And I totally agree, awesome photo.
"What happens when you take a monster 4.1 meter telescope in the southern hemisphere and point it at the same patch of sky for 55 hours?"
Well… a fake happens. This is a computer-generated image and I can do it by myself using sky-map-like programs, in few minutes, for every resolution you like. There is impossible to get an image like this by looking to the sky, no matter with what (radio)telescope or bare eyes, because of the rotation of the earth and the solar system, all objects will move compared to a reference point and compared to each other, you would get lines, and spots, and arcs, and circles, but not fixed points. Ask any serious astronomer.
@68 Josh
@69 Penelope
your comments are completely wrong. Carl Sagan was/is quite correct. Please point to Any evidence for your point of view. I'll save you the effort, there is none. In the history of man, there has never been one example for the existence of the supernatural, or any 'god'. Religion has never contributed any knowledge about the universe we live in. Art/artist talk is pure sophistry, the same as 'how many angels can dance…'. Religion certainly does not explain why we are here. Not in any shape or form. There are so many excellent books I can point you to, to help in your understanding, The God Delusion is a good starting point. And I do not agree (at all) that human morality comes from religion. Do you need religion to know not to kill someone? I certainly hope not.
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This is the bit I never understand – the furthest ones away are billions of light-years away so are close to the beginning of the universe (from time spent from light travelling), but if nothing can travel faster than the speed of light, how did they get there, . . .
They are – more or less – where they started. Matter and energy pervaded space until everything weas cool enough to condense. Even though space itself expands more rapidly with greater distance from our viewpoint, those distant objects we observe are not moving rapidly through local space. The expansion of the universe is not about galaxies moving apart through space, it is about space itself expanding.
3 When I consider your heavens,
the work of your fingers,
the moon and the stars,
which you have set in place,
4 what is mankind that you are mindful of them,
human beings that you care for them? Psalm 8
Laurel (95) said:
"What happens when you take a monster 4.1 meter telescope in the southern hemisphere and point it at the same patch of sky for 55 hours?"
Well… a fake happens. This is a computer-generated image and I can do it by myself using sky-map-like programs, in few minutes, for every resolution you like.
No, you can't, because this is a set of stacked images of real objects. Your simulation would be equally pretty, but would be based on speculation, whereas this is based on real data acquired from real photons emitted by real (and really distant) objects.
There is impossible to get an image like this by looking to the sky, no matter with what (radio)telescope or bare eyes, because of the rotation of the earth and the solar system, all objects will move compared to a reference point and compared to each other, you would get lines, and spots, and arcs, and circles, but not fixed points. Ask any serious astronomer.
Even most not-very-serious astronomers know about equatorial tracking mounts. The rotation of the Earth is compensated for.
As for the movement of the Earth about the sun and the movement of the solar system about the Milky Way . . . seriously, do you think a significant parallax error would be introduced over a mere handful of days when observing objects that are billions of light-years distant?
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CS was wrong in his assumption. Every scientific breakthrough has always proven that God is greater than people imagine. Still.
No. Your postulate cannot explain that religious organisations often reject the findings of science.
Take "Intelligent Design" as an example. Aside from its lack of logic and evidence, it has also been theologically criticised because it demands a god that leaves his sticky fingerprints all over his creation for us to find. This is indeed a little god.
If this image has 200,000 galaxies and covers 0.0004% of the sky, that implies we could see 5 BILLION galaxies with this telescope across the enstire sky!
middle right star. Is that a planet in front of that star? It looks like one to me
What's the solid angle of this image?
beautiful, thanks science
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(b Amsterdam, 29 April 1829; d Antwerp, 6 Feb 1908). Dutch painter. He studied under Valentijn Bing (1812-95) in Amsterdam and later with Jan Braet von Uberveldt (1807-94). In 1849 he went to the Koninklijke Academie voor Schone Kunsten in Antwerp, where he took lessons with J.-L. Dyckmans (1811-88). After this period of training he spent two years in Paris and travelled in France and Germany. Settling in Brussels, he made a name for himself as a portrait painter, especially in English circles. He also received commissions from Dutch and American patrons. Between 1857 and 1884 he took part in exhibitions in Amsterdam and The Hague. He painted genre scenes and portraits (Gypsy Woman, c. 1873; Rotterdam, Mus. Boymans-van Beuningen; Woman in Historical Costume, The Hague, Rijksdienst Beeld. Kst). He also worked with Frans Lebret (1820-1909) and Eug?ne R. Maes (1849-1931). His sons Edward (1861-1949) and G?rard (1856-1929) were also painters.


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Recipes of a Lifetime
By Edith R. Gruebele
Published by Cookbook Publishers, Lenexa, Kansas, 2001, 186 pages, Softcover.
The Germans from Russia Heritage Collection is pleased to provide Edith R. Grosshans Gruebele's cookbook, Favorite Recipes of a Lifetime. Edith Gruebele was born in Friedentstal, Bessarabia, leaving there as a child in 1944 for Poland and Germany. She immigrated to Lodi, California, in 1952.
Edith Gruebele grew up in a Bessarabian German home learning the many recipes of her roots. She shares these wonderful recipes including: Edith's Pinwheels, Christmas sausage - weistwurst or bockwurst, kahlua, black bean soup, chicken noodle soup, German salad dressing, and potato soup.
Recipes for German dishes include: baked noodles, cabbage rolls or holubzi, cheesbuttor or Kasenoepfla, cheese kuchen, cooked cheese, creamy potato sticks, dumplings, Filsel - sweet stuffing, German pancakes, homemade sauerkraut, bread dumplings, Kraut Strudel, Kuchen, Kuechla, pork chops with lemon, pumpkin soup, sauce for cheese buttons, rice pudding, snowballs, stirum, strudel, stuffed baked potatoes, Schlitz Kuechla, and sweet rice with raisins.
In the Miscellaneous Section, Edith includes picked bell peppers, mushrooms, tomatoes, vegetables, watermelon, zucchini, ice cream pickles and many other tasty recipes.
There are many other German recipes for main dishes, breads and rolls, and desserts.
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Update 12/21/12 - Audio Radio Scanner caught "End Adama's life" that day, plus other videos.
Update 12/23/12 - Video of Outright Proven Lie by the media.
Update 12/29/12 - Pictures of guns from trunk of car.
Edit to add 1/8/13 - NRA is not just about Guns it is about our FREEDOMS!
If there is something that bothers me, I want to know more about it.
I want to say I feel deeply for all the children and adults lost that day. I feel grief for those families. What I am doing is not trying to discount their loss nor make it trivial at all!
What I have been doing is researching what seems to be stories that keep changing all the time from those investigating it and the media.
Yesterday I listed the changing story oddities and what were "facts" they became silent about. I am very bothered by the disappearance and silence of the second shooter. The police have it on their radio calls about the 2nd shooter... then nothing. They have not even tried to clear up what everyone heard nor have they clarified who it was they had caught in the woods. I am not going over what I wrote about yesterday, you can read that at the above link.
I came across something VERY ODD when I was researching and trying to find out if Newtown Connecticut schools have security cameras installed. I did this due to the fact there has not been one mention of reviewing any security video of the horrible shootings of those beautiful children.
I began searching for the School Board of Fairfield County Connecticut where Newtown is located. After a lot of searching as it would not come up, only news stories about the shootings. I changed the way I searched for it multiple times.... I finally got it - The Newtown Board of Education site.
I wanted to find out their policy on security cameras in the schools. From the site linked above I went to the Sandy Hook school website.
(FYI - Every single screen shot I left the web address in the shot... so people can see I got the screen shots directly from the websites I have linked.)
I couldn't find anything on security cameras at that time, but I did decide to go to the Sandy Hook school faculty page to see all the staff of the school. When I did that it wasn't in mind to check the list against the adult victims. But once I was there, I decided to see what grade the teachers/victims were (since the mass media didn't list that) and that is when I got a big surprise!
I copied the names of the teachers:
Victoria Soto, 27
Three of the victims are on the website as staff at the school.
Dawn Hochsprung, 47 (Principal)
Victoria Soto, 27 (First Grade Teacher)
Mary Sherlach, 56 (Psychologist)
The other three were not listed as being teachers nor staff at the school:
Rachel Davino, 29
I then went to the main Newtown School board site and found the page below (you have to go to the "parents" tab at the top of the site to get to the page below) at that site and then had to choose what school. The list of teachers came up there for the school.
This is the screen shot from that site - you will see the teachers are not listed there either. In fact Soto is not listed either for some reason. She is on the Sandy Hook school site though. I would assume this list is not an updated one. But I am putting it here (and went to that list) to confirm as a second source that the teachers/victims were not listed.
One other weird thing... this MSM site with the names and bio of all the victims does not have one listed: Rachel Davino, 29. How in the world could a victim be left off a list. Rachel is not on the faculty list either.
Under the same link above Lauren Rousseau, 30, is said to be a full time teacher at the school.
There are so many questions about the whole horrible mass murder and now this adds more questions, in my opinion.
After discovering this I was still determined to find out if the schools have security cameras or not. OH.. I did find the letter the principal had sent out to all the parents about the new security measures of locked doors at 9:30 am and ID's having to be shown. I saved it on my computer and will copy it at the bottom of this article.
I went back to the Board of Education site and went to this page on it... "Student Policies."
Go to mid page and you will see 7.406.1 on the list. The title is " CAMERA SURVEILLANCE ON SCHOOL GROUNDS"
That then takes you to the document I screen shot and is below. You will see this was enacted in 2003.
I can not confirm if Sandy Hook had cameras or not. I simply researched if it was a policy for the Newtown Connecticut schools to have cameras and found it was.
There seems to be lots of new questions that have come up that I did not even write about yesterday in my article regarding the "oddities" of this horrible shooting.
I do know it is now a launch for taking away gun rights we have at this time. I do know that Feinstein plans on immediately submitting a bill in the Senate to take away guns.
She is always out first to take away the rights of the U.S. citizens anyway. That is her favorite thing to do it seems. She always gets behind anything that suppresses the people more.
Besides another Democrat saying that Obama needed to Exploit this horrible shooting to get "gun control."
I do find it very odd that the teachers are not listed. Also I found when I was reading about them from MSM, there was a vagueness about them.
Is this all a conspiracy? I am not saying it is.... I am saying that there are more UNanswered questions now as the "story" gets told to us from the media.
I really wish the MSM would get some balls and ask about the second shooter, security cameras, etc.
OH.... don't cha just love how MSM is making the mom seem like a "nut" because she had guns. What I have read is disgusting. OH... the comments on all the MSM sites calling for a complete ban of all guns.... WOW, the sheeple sure are asleep and not bothering to ask one question about this horrible shooting.
UPDATE 1/14/13 - My message to MSM and them calling anyone questioning Sandy Hook "Nuts and Conspiracy Theorist>"


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Camilo Pessanha, (born Sept. 7, 1867, Coimbra, Port.—died 1926, Macao), Portuguese poet whose work is the representative in Portuguese poetry of Symbolism in its purest and most genuine form and the chief precursor of Modernist poetry.
After studying law at the university at Coimbra in 1891, Pessanha became a high-school teacher in the Portuguese colony of Macao in China. Pessanha began to practice various Oriental customs, including the opium habit, and learned Cantonese, from which he translated some elegies, Oito elegias Chinesas ("Eight Chinese Elegies"). He also collected Chinese objets d'art, which he bequeathed to the Machado de Castro Museum in Coimbra. His writings on China, in particular the Introdução a um estudo sobre a civilização Chinesa and the Elegias, were collected in China (1943).
Although he had begun to write verse in Coimbra, Pessanha was virtually unknown until 1916, when his innovative Symbolist poetry was published in the progressive review Centauro. Later collected in Clépsidra (1920), it became a breviary for the Modernist poets. Pessanha's imagery and musicality influenced poet Fernando Pessoa, with whom he exchanged some correspondence.


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text: The Penny Arcade News Home 10.21.13 By: Mark Tarnacki The pennies on the wall outside Tim Whiteford's office on the third floor of Saint Edmund's Hall illustrate math concepts - Pi, angle degrees, Fibonacci sequences, fractals - but as he sees it, they're just as much about art and poetry. "I spend my life understanding how children learn math, and the idea I want to convey with this penny thing is that we have to captivate kids in math with an aesthetic component," says Whiteford, a Saint Michael's College education professor who for years has been looking for a vehicle "to push the idea that math is 'the science of pattern and the art of making sense.'" Inspired by a project created by his student, Lydia Koch '14, he's lately been adding a new clause to that mantra: "Now I also put, '…and the art of using cents!'" says Whiteford, a white-haired and bearded Englishman with a passion for Celtic music besides his love of math education. "When you see key concepts aesthetically presented, and not just with numbers, it changes everything. I think all faculty will agree that we learn so much from our students, and every so often it's something really tangible," he says. "That's what happened here with Lydia." Koch is a senior education and English major from Essex Junction who long has been fascinated by pennies, particularly after she started using them as a three-dimensional medium to create art several years ago. "Basically I'm obsessed by them," Koch says. "I want to make a kitchen floor out of them in the future when I get a house! It's just a decorative art interest, and it's the only 3-D art medium I've ever worked with." Her personal, ever-growing collection of thousands of pennies is divided by decade minted. She's fascinated by old "wheat-back" pennies (pre-1958), and her oldest is from 1909 - the first year Lincoln pennies were minted. "The color and shape and demarcation on them are different based on the era, and the art potential with different shades based on history, I love that idea," she says. When Professor Whiteford assigned students in a class that she took last spring - Elementary Math and Science 325 - to find and explain 12 examples of math found in some aspect of the everyday world, her choice was clear. "I knew pennies had a lot of geometry because of the shape, and also data analysis with so many ways to classify them," she says. The goal of the project, Whiteford says, "is to help them see math is relevant to life." He was impressed enough by Koch's PowerPoint for the class about the math of pennies that he put up a printed paper copy of it on the wall near his office. In order to draw more eyes to it and get conversations going, he had the idea to create a few of the basic patterns from her project out of real pennies, which he stuck with Elmer's Tack to the painted cinderblock walls. "That's where it started," Whiteford says of his subsequent explorations of recent months, which have taken Koch's penny math to a whole new level. "I thought, 'This is neat showing all these relationships with pennies because it had never occurred to me before. I realized how simple and quick and easy it was to show fractals, for instance, since it's all based on the idea of three." He pours out some pennies on a table and makes fast triangles out of three of them pushed together to illustrate. Larger subsequent triangles built with ever more pennies get to the heart of the fractal concept, he demonstrates. One fractal-based figure that he built on his wall from Koch's presentation was something called the Sierpinski Triangle, based on a Polish mathematician's work. From there, his imagination just took over until the walls near his office became covered with math concepts explained with pennies: There's a huge penny circle that people can stand against and show angle degrees with their hands and body; or the pi ratio, illustrated by 22 pennies making a circle with a diameter of 7 pennies; a 44-penny circle has a 14-penny diameter. Both Whiteford and Koch love the coincidence that there is a well-known math phenomenon called the "Koch Snowflake Fractal" that's named for a famous old-time Swedish mathematician, Helge von Koch, who shares Lydia's family name. Naturally, a Koch Snowflake illustrated with pennies now is on Whiteford's wall too. "These concepts are not beyond what elementary students learn – after all, they learn algebra from kindergarten with a problem like, '3 + ? = 9,' for instance," Whiteford says. "Everything is a pattern. If you can see the pattern in math, you can understand it, you can predict, and once you predict, you know you'll understand." He's determined to challenge a "fixed mindset" that so many people have, and often express to him: that they "can't do math." "I tell them, 'it's not your fault' - this this notion usually is based on a two-week experience in third grade where they had a problem with math!" he says. Whiteford preaches the imperative of "knocking out" fixed mindsets in human lives, whether with kids or politicians. "It's easy to get into a fixed mindset, and once you do, that's the death of learning," he says. "I see pennies as a way of helping our students, and maybe some faculty, open up about math." Koch says she was "blown away" when she returned from summer vacation and saw what Whiteford had done with her initial idea. While she continues to collect pennies, she's handed off the teaching aspect of them to her professor. "If I need a stress reliever, I'll still lay them out in geometric patterns, and all my friends still bring me their pennies - I still collect them!" she says. Whiteford says students, faculty, staff and even parents on tours will walk by his pennies-on-the-wall displays and engage the interactive displays, or seek him out for extended conversations. "I started calling it the penny arcade," he says.