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1. Parties:
a) kripton a legal entity established under the laws of Turkish Republic and having its registered address at Cankaya Mah.1385 Sok. No:3/503 Yeniasir Is merkezi Konak/Izmir running the commercial activities of www.kripton.co shall be hereinafter referred to "kripton" in the contract.
b) Internet user which is member to the www.kripton.co website ("Member")
2. Subject of the Contract:
The subject of this contract is to determine the conditions of benefiting from the portal services which are presented through www.kripton.co website.
3. Rights and Obligations of the Parties:
3.1. The member declares and undertakes that the personal and similar other information provided while being member to www.kripton.co website are correct before the laws, and to shall compensate all of the damages and losses to be incurred because of the violation of kripton with the reality exactly and immediately. The member undertakes that it is not prohibited from receiving the services in accordance with the laws of the country of residence or in the other countries including the country in which the services are used.
3.2. The member could not give the password which is given t itself by kripton to the other person or corporations and the right of using the mentioned password belongs to the member in person. kripton reserves all kinds of rights of compensation and similar other requests resulting from the mentioned unauthorized usage of kripton, against all kinds of claims and requests to be put forward against kripton by the third persons or the authorized positions with the entire responsibility arising because of this reason. It agrees that the protection of the confidentiality of the passwords concerning all of the accounts which are used in access to the services and to inform kripton immediately whenever it realizes that its password is used without obtaining any authorization.
3.3. The member agrees and undertakes in advance to observe the provisions of the legal regulations while using www.kripton.co website and the portal services which are presented by kripton and not to violate them in any manner. Otherwise, all of the legal and penal obligations to arise shall bind the member completely and exclusively.
3.4. The member could not use www.kripton.co website and the portal services in any manner by means of disturbing the public order, in violation with the general ethical rules, in the manner disturbing and abusing the others, for an illegal purpose and by means of violating the copyrights and intellectual rights of the others and could not present the services received to the usage of the 3rd persons and could not make it subject for the commercial activities such as renting or presenting to sales. In addition to this, the member could not perform activities (spam, virus, Trojan horse, etc) and transactions which prevent or make difficult the usage of the services of the others.
3.5. The opinions and ideas which are declared, written and used by the members in ww.kripton.co web site are the personal opinions of the members themselves and the opinions bind the owners only. These opinions and ideas do not have any relationship with kripton. kripton does not have any responsibility because of the damages and losses to be incurred by the third persons because of the opinions and ideas to be declared by the member and the damages and losses arising from the actions and behaviors of the third persons to be incurred by the Customer during the usage of the services.
3.6. kripton shall not be responsible for using the member data by the unauthorized persons and for the damages and losses to the software and data. The member agreed in advance not to request any compensation from kripton because of any loss to be incurred because of using in www.kripton.co website and portal services.
3.7. The member agreed not to reach or not to use the software and data of the other internet users without authorization. Otherwise, the legal and penal responsibilities arising from this belong to the member completely.
3.8. The member that violates one or several of the articles which are listed in this membership contract is responsible for such violation criminally and legally and shall keep kripton free from the legal and penal consequences of these violations. In addition to this; in case the event is transferred to the legal area because of this violation, then kripton reserves the right to make request of compensation because of the failure in complying with the membership contract against the member.
3.9. kripton always reserves the right to delete the membership of the member whenever it is considered necessary unilaterally and to delete the files, information and documents belonging to the customer. The member accepts this disposal in advance. In this case, kripton does not have any responsibility at all.
3.10. The completeness, accuracy, sufficiency and actuality of all kinds of information which takes part in www.kripton.co website are not guaranteed and undertaken by kripton in any manner. The user could not claim that the information which takes part in its website and/or the portal services are faulty or they incur damages and losses based on such information. kripton could always change, correct and/or remove the mentioned information and/or portal services without further need of prior notification and/or notice in any manner or method. kripton took all kinds of measures in order to ensure that the www.kripton.co website and portal services would be error free. In addition to this, no guarantee is given relating to the present or potential failures in the website.
3.11. kripton, company owners, managers, employees, persons who prepared the information taking part in this website and/or the portal services could not be kept responsible for the access to this www.kripton.co website, all kinds of direct and/or indirect, material and/or moral positive and/or negative and in short all sorts of damages and losses resulting from the direct or indirect usage of the information taking part in the website and/or portal services.
3.12. All of the materials and documents which take part in, include but not limited with www.kripton.co website are the property of kripton, and the copyrights and/or other intellectual property rights concerning these materials and documents are legally protected, and these materials and documents could not be used, acquired and modified by the member without authorization. The other companies and their products which are mentioned in this website are the trademarks of their owners and, in addition to this, these are in the coverage of the intellectual property rights. kripton has the property rights of the information, documents, software, designs, graphics etc works which are either produced by its own and/or purchased from outside and thepropriety rights arising from the property. The members are obliged to show the necessary care for protecting the intellectual and industrial property rights belonging to the others. The members could install only the contents the copyrights of which belong to them into the system. If the member installs the writings, photographs, pictures, logos, videos and similar other contents the intellectual and industrial property rights of which belong to the others into the system without prior permission of the mentioned work and right owners, then kripton is entitled to remove the content which is subject of the violation from publication immediately and put an end to the membership of the members who realized this violation whenever it is considered necessary. The members that violate the intellectual and industrial property rights of the third persons are responsible for these violations and all kinds of damages and losses arising from these violations legally and criminally towards the third persons and the public organizations and corporations.
3.13. The materials and documents could not be modified, copied, reproduced and republished by the member in any manner in www.kripton.co website.
3.14. Some information such as the name of the internet service provider which is used for getting access to the website in the frame of the legal regulations and/or for the purpose of improving and developing www.kripton.co website by kripton and the Internet Protocol (IP) address, date and hour of access to the website, pages accessed while being in the website and the internet address of the website which ensure connecting to the website directly could be collected.
3.15. kripton could use the personal information of the members in the studies which are carried out for their related areas and according to the special preferences of the users for the usage in order to present better services to kripton users, to improve their products and services and facilitate the usage of the website. kripton reserves the right to accommodate the registration of the movements which are made on the www.kripton.co website while taking the portal services of the member. kripton could make quote allocation in the size to be considered appropriate for keeping the files of the members. It has right to increase and decrease the quotations according to the specific needs. kripton is entitled to backup and delete some or all of the files, messages and information to be accommodated in the environment during the process of benefiting from the services by the members. kripton shall not be kept responsible because of the backup and deletion transactions.
3.16. kripton is entitled to publish information, documents, software, design, graphics, pictures etc works (such as the messages added to the board, poems, news, files and web pages, etc) which are installed into the system with their own free wills or produced by its members and/or to carry them to another place to be considered appropriate by kripton within the website. It is possible for such information published to be copied and/or published by the other users. In such cases, the member shall not request similar other price or copyright fees from kripton.
3.17. kripton could disclose the personal information of the member whenever it is required by legal obligation or whenever it is considered necessary (a) to act in compliance with the legal requirements or to comply with the legal transactions which are served to kripton or to www.kripton.co website;(b) if considered necessary with goodwill whenever it is necessary to protect and defend the rights and property of kripton and www.kripton.co website family.
3.18. The necessary measures are taken in the frame of the possible opportunities for making www.kripton.co website free from the virus ad similar purposed software. In addition to this, the user should ensure provide its own virus protection system and to ensure the required protection in order to ensure the final security. In this respect, as the member enters into www.kripton.co website, it is considered it is responsible for all of the errors to be formed in its own software and operating system and their direct or indirect results and consequences. www.kripton.co could ensure passing the member to the other websites. In this case, the member agrees that kripton is not responsible for the contents of the web sites where it will pass.
3.19. kripton reserves to change the website contents at any time, to change or terminate any service which is provided to the users or to delete the user information and data which are registered in www.kripton.co website. The applications concerning the data protection of kripton are stated below. This policy explains how your personal information and personal confidentiality are protected whenever you use the kripton services. kripton is fully authorized on the subject of using the personal information which is sent by the user for the purpose of necessary communication, promotion, goods delivery, advertisement etc purposes in the manner not violating the personal rights of the kripton could ensure passing the member to the other websites. In this case, the member agrees that kripton is not responsible for the contest of the websites where it will pass.
3.20. kripton is entitled to change the name of the planet of the member at its sole discretion at any time throughout the term of the agreement.
3.21. While registering in a www.kripton.co account, we request you to provide us with some personal information. We could combine the information which you sent through your account with the other information which we receive from the other www.kripton.co services or from the third parties in order to ensure a better experience for you and enhance the quality of our services. We could provide the opportunity of preventing the combination of this kind of information for certain services. kripton provides these services together with or on behalf of your area administrator. Your administrator shall have access to your account information including your e-mail
3.22. Whenever you visit www.kripton.co, we send one or more cookies to your computer or to the other equipment which you use. We benefit from cookies in order to record the user preferences, develop the search results and to develop the advertisement selections and observe the user tendencies such as how the persons make search. kripton also uses cookies which help presenting and administering the advertisements in the advertisement services, but also in www.kripton.co services and on the web of the advertisers and publishers.
3.23. Whenever you reach the www.kripton.co services through a browser, an application or another client, then our servers record some information automatically. These server logs could include the information such as your web request, your interaction with a service, Internet Protocol address, browser type, browser language, your request date and hour and those which identify your grower or account originally.
3.24. Whenever you establish contact by means of sending e-mail to kripton or by means of another method, we could save these communications in order to take your inquires into process, to respond your requests and to develop our services. Whenever you send SMS messages to our services which provide SMS function or whenever you receive SMS messages from these services, we could collect and save the information such as the telephone number associated with these messages, wireless communication operator, message content and transaction date and hour associated with the telephone number. We could use your e-mail address in order to contact you about our services.
3.25. We provide some of our services through other websites. The personal information which you give to these websites could be sent to www.kripton.co in order to provide services.
3.26. www.kripton.co could present to the usage some third party applications such as gadgets or extensions through its services. Whenever you realize an application belonging to the third party, the information which is collected by www.kripton.co is processed. The information which is collected by the third party applications is managed by their own confidentiality policies of the mentioned applications.
3.27. In addition to aforesaid, we could use the information which we collect for the following purposes: To present, continue, protect and improve our services (including the advertisement services), and to develop new services; and to protect the property rights of kripton or those of our users.
3.28. kripton could change, update or cancel the conditions of the membership contract at any time without any prior notification and/or official warning notice in any manner or method. Each provision modified, updated or invalidated shall be valid with regard to all of the members on the date of publication. kripton could open additional services and could change some services either in part or in full or could make them against charge.
3.29. Not only kripton could make changes in the application of this contract without being obliged to notify the members for the purpose of complying with the related written regulations and the technical obligations arising in the future but also it could change, cancel present articles or could add new articles.
4. Validity of kripton records:
The parties agree and declare that all of the computer records belonging to kripton shall be taken into consideration in full compliance with the laws properly and as only and actual exclusive evidences and the mentioned records shall establish an evidence contract accordingly.
5. Termination of the Contract:
kripton could terminate this contract at any time desired.
6. Validity
Making membership registration by the member implies that he read all of the articles which take part in the membership contract and accepted the articles which take part in the membership contract. This Contract is executed at the moment of being member of the member and then came into force mutually.
7. Governing Law and Resolution of Disputes
This Agreement shall be governed in all respects by the laws of the Turkish Republic, without giving effect to choice of law principles. All disputes and controversies arising out of or in connection with this Agreement shall be subject to exclusive jurisdiction of Izmir Centrum Courts and Execution Offices.


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Intel's Hyper-Threading Technology: Free Performance?by Anand Lal Shimpi on January 14, 2002 2:04 PM EST
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What makes an application run? What tells your CPU what instructions to execute and on what data? This information is all contained within the compiled code of the application you're running and whenever you (the user) give the application input, the application in turn sends threads off to your CPU telling it what to do in order to respond to that input. To the CPU, a thread is a collection of instructions that must be executed. When you get hit by a rocket in Quake III Arena or when you click open in Microsoft Word, the CPU is sent a set of instructions to execute.
The CPU knows exactly where to get these instructions from because of a little mentioned register known as the Program Counter (PC). The PC points to the location in memory where the next instruction to be executed is stored; when a thread is sent to the CPU, that thread's memory address is loaded into the PC so that the CPU knows where to start executing. After every instruction, the PC is incremented and this process continues until the end of the thread. When the thread is done executing, the PC is overwritten with the location of the next instruction to be operated on. Threads can interrupt one another forcing the CPU to store the current value of the PC on a stack and load a new value into the PC. But the one limitation that does remain is that only one thread can be executed at any given time.
There is a commonly known way around this, and that is to make use of two CPUs; if each CPU can execute one thread at a time, two CPUs can then execute two threads. There are numerous problems with this approach, many of which you should already be familiar with. For starters, multiple CPUs are more expensive than just one. There is also an overhead associated with managing the two CPUs as well as the sharing of resources between the two. For example, until the release of the AMD 760MP chipset, all x86 platforms with multiprocessor support split the available FSB bandwidth between all available CPUs. But the biggest drawback of all happens to be the fact that applications and the operating system must be capable of supporting this type of execution. Being able to dispatch multiple execution threads to hardware is generally referred to as multithreading; OS support is required to enable multithreading while application support is necessary in order to gain a tangible performance increase out of having multiple processors (in most cases). Keep that in mind as we talk about another approach to the same goal - being able to execute more than one thread at a time - it's time to introduce Intel's Hyper-Threading technology.
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|The White House
President George W. Bush
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For Immediate Release
Office of the Press Secretary
November 2, 2005
National Family Caregivers Month, 2005
A Proclamation by the President of the United States of America
Each November, as Americans reflect on our many blessings, we observe National Family Caregivers Month and give thanks for the selfless service of family caregivers on behalf of their loved ones in need. The tireless devotion of these Americans brings comfort and peace of mind to our Nation's elderly and to those who are chronically ill or disabled.
Family caregivers play an important role in communities across the United States. They provide most of the homecare services in our country and work hard to meet the emotional and physical needs of the family members and friends for whom they care. Through the National Family Caregiver Support Program, my Administration continues to encourage States and local agencies on aging to partner with faith-based, community, and tribal organizations. These partnerships can offer family caregivers the important information, counseling, training, respite care, and support services they need.
This November, enrollment begins under the new Medicare prescription drug benefit, which offers more affordable access to prescription drugs, better health care choices, and extra help to low-income seniors and beneficiaries with disabilities. This new coverage will help family caregivers, who often inform or make medical decisions for those they care for, by ensuring that their loved ones receive the best health care available.
Every day, family caregivers sacrifice their own needs to offer their loved ones the opportunity to live with dignity and independence in familiar surroundings. Their love, selflessness, and devotion inspire us all and demonstrate the compassionate spirit of America.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, GEORGE W. BUSH, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and laws of the United States, do hereby proclaim November 2005 as National Family Caregivers Month. I encourage all Americans to honor and support those who serve as caregivers to their family members, friends, and neighbors in need.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this second day of November, in the year of our Lord two thousand five, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and thirtieth.
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O poeta de hoje é Dereck Walcot.
Nascido em 1930 em Santa Lúcia, Walcot é poeta e dramaturgo. A sua obra reflecte a natureza caribenha, quer física, quer espiritual.
Foi galardoado com o Prémio Nobel da Literatura em 1992.
Fica este poema:
Dark August
So much rain, so much life like the swollen sky
of this black August. My sister, the sun,
broods in her yellow room and won't come out.
Everything goes to hell; the mountains fume
like a kettle, rivers overrun; still,
she will not rise and turn off the rain.
She is in her room, fondling old things,
my poems, turning her album. Even if thunder falls
like a crash of plates from the sky,
she does not come out.
Don't you know I love you but am hopeless
at fixing the rain ? But I am learning slowly
to love the dark days, the steaming hills,
the air with gossiping mosquitoes,
and to sip the medicine of bitterness,
so that when you emerge, my sister,
parting the beads of the rain,
with your forehead of flowers and eyes of forgiveness,
all with not be as it was, but it will be true
(you see they will not let me love
as I want), because, my sister, then
I would have learnt to love black days like bright ones,
The black rain, the white hills, when once
I loved only my happiness and you.


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For Immediate Release
Office of the Press Secretary
October 9, 2001
President to Meet with German Chancellor Schroeder
Statement by the Press Secretary
Visit to Washington by German Chancellor Schroeder
The President will meet with the Federal Chancellor of Germany, Gerhard Schroeder, on Tuesday, October 9, 2001. Germany has offered strong political and material support for our common struggle against terrorists and those who harbor them, and Chancellor Schroeder has been unstinting in his personal leadership. The President welcomes him to Washington for this visit to discuss the road ahead in this common task, and to express his thanks to the Chancellor and the German people for the outpouring of sympathy and solidarity they have shown since September 11.
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ARVADA - Two is always better than one and the Western State football program agrees. That is why the university inked scholarships for twin brothers …
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ARVADA - Two is always better than one and the Western State football program agrees.
That is why the university inked scholarships for twin brothers Zach and Zayne Anderson.
The pair from Pomona will both be able to continue their football careers together in Gunnison starting next season.
"These are two very mentally tough and very hard working kids who were a big part of the success that Pomona football has enjoyed. We are very proud of them and we are sure they are going to go on and do great things," said Pomona athletic director Mike Santarelli.
Zayne is a 6-foot-1, 210-pound linebacker, and Zach is a 6-foot, 230-pound defensive tackle. But bigger isn't better, just ask Zach.
The two may be brothers, but they are also each other's biggest competition. Whether it is snowboarding, fishing or football, these two are endlessly competitive against each other.
"I am the better snowboarder but Zach is the better fisherman," Zayne joked.
Confident but not cocky, the determined brothers always knew they were on to bigger and better things.
"Ever since we were little we would sit together and watch college football games and we just knew someday we would be playing too," Zach said.
The following is a list of local athletes provided by the schools who signed letters of intent on National Signing Day last Wednesday:
Arvada: Taylor Vaughn, football, CSU-Pueblo; Garet Krohn, wrestling, Stanford.
Bear Creek: Jake Bennett, football, CSU; Dana Lubieniecki and Amanda Perri, soccer, Montana State; Morgan Stanton, soccer, Santa Clara.
D'Evelyn: Laura Tyree, basketball, Colorado School of Mines, Austin Balbin, football, Harding; Brandon Morrison, football, Western State; Connor Skelton, football, Augustana; Dante Martinez, football, Hastings; Mate Sylvester, baseball, Utah Valley; Luke Stratman, baseball, Washington State; Cody Marvel, baseball, Colorado School of Mines; Madison Hall, soccer, Portland.
Golden: Dakota Gulley, football, Fort Hays.
Lakewood: Taylor Knestis, football, Wyoming; James Riddle, football, Northern Colorado; Derek Landis, football, Sioux Falls; Luke Niko, football, Adams State; Wade Scadden, football, Colorado Mesa; Robert Valdez, football, Western State; George Coughlin, baseball, Naval Academy; Maggie Steward, lacrosse, Regis; Danica Evans, soccer, Portland; Tori Papke, swimming, Idaho; Lauren Burndale, Track, Penn; Maddie Ivy, track, Creighton; Lauren Santi, track, Princeton.
Jefferson: Aaron Cisneros, wrestling, Northern Colorado.
Pomona: Mitch Colin, football, CSU-Pueblo; Kadeem Ahmad, baseball, Northeastern J.C.; Jordan McCoy, soccer, Concordia; Eduardo Belmar, soccer, Regis; Hayden Berg, swimming, Evansville.
Ralston Valley: Jennifer Adams, lacrosse, Aquinas College; Jordan Anderson, football, CSU-Pueblo; Pete Aplet, lacrosse, Denver University; Jakob Buys, football, CSU; Justin Buys, football, Colorado Mesa University; Rebecca Fallon, softball, Colorado School of Mines; Josh Kaufling, lacrosse, Notre Dame De Namur; Kristen Lenahan, soccer, Concordia University; Dillon McTague, baseball, New Mexico Military Institute; Hunter Price, football, Lafayette College; Karli Rich, volleyball, Johnson and Wales University; Nicole Schafer, lacrosse, Adams State; Daniel Skipper, football, University of Arkansas; Giulianna Vessa, track, United States Air Force Academy; Lauren Yowell, basketball, Black Hills State University.
Wheat Ridge: Pete Aplet, lacrosse, Denver; Josh Kaufling, lacrosse, Notre Dame de Namur; Katelin Blosser, soccer, Nebraska Wesleyan; Carly Manahan, soccer, Mount Marty College.
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Despite growing privacy concerns, an astonishing 540 million Internet users worldwide visited Facebook in April 2010, or 35.2% of the entire population of Web users, according to new data from Google. Even more incredibly, those users clicked on 570 billion Facebook pages in April, a number eight times larger than Facebook's nearest competitor.
Ten of the World's Strangest Social Networks
The new figures come from Google's DoubleClick Ad Planner, and rate the top 1,000 most-visited sites on the Web (excluding Google itself, YouTube and Gmail).
Yahoo came in second place after Facebook, with 490 million unique visitors, 31.8% of the world's Internet-connected population, and 70 billion page views. Next was Microsoft's Live.com, with 370 million unique visitors and 39 billion page views.
The most popular sites after Live.com were Wikipedia, MSN.com, Microsoft.com, Blogspot.com, Baidu.com, GG.com and Mozilla.com.
The numbers show that Facebook is the undisputed king of social networking, with rival Twitter attracting a comparatively modest 96 million unique visitors and 5.4 billion page views in April 2010.
Facebook has courted controversy with new privacy settings that have made it difficult to hide personal information, and users have threatened to shut their Facebook accounts down. More than half of Facebook users are considering dumping their Facebook accounts because of privacy concerns, according to one poll by Sophos.
But the threats may ring hollow when looking at Facebook's actual web traffic. In the United States Alone, Facebook attracted 135 million unique visitors in April 2010 -- 43% of the total U.S. population -- compared to 145 million for Google, according to separate data released by Compete, an analytics firm.
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1048: Emotion
Title text: Fortunately, the internet has a virtually inexhaustible supply of code that doesn't work and people who are wrong, which bodes well for a return to normalcy. [Note: Click to read context for the cancer comics. She's doing well.]
In October my fiancée was diagnosed with stage III breast cancer. [...] She's been in nonstop treatment for the last eight months, which has been an emotional and physical ordeal that's hard to describe. We both have all the support we could ask for—including an incredible medical team—and we've had some really good moments during these months, but it's still a terrifying and isolating experience. Treatment is ongoing, and there's no well-defined end point; things are going to continue to be scary and difficult for a while.
Here's the link referenced in the image text, which is a blog post from 2011 regarding his fiancée's breast cancer.
This is a mostly serious comic in which Randall expresses his thoughts while his fiancée started to suffer from breast cancer. He doesn't care about many things like politics anymore, there is just his fiancée's cancer and his romance with her. This is one of many comics about cancer he made because of her cancer.
Some of his withdrawn activities are shown here:
- Politics became prominent in 2008 due to the upcoming US presidential elections in November 2008.
- "Code not working even though it should work" is a common frustration in software development, when the developer is convinced to have covered every possible scenario, but their code still does not run as expected, because of some obscure tiny problem which they didn't think of and which often takes much time (and frustration) to find.
- Joss Whedon is best known as the creator and showrunner of the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997–2003), Angel (1999–2004) and Firefly (2002), so he's the "cause" of emotions for Randall during the time they were aired.
- "People being wrong on the internet" is something that can easily annoy and preoccupy an internet-savvy guy like Randall, who knows the things they're (incorrectly) talking about; this was previously dealt with in the comic 386: Duty Calls.
Eventually, Randall's fiancée's cancer, once diagnosed, monopolizes all of his emotions, wiping out everything else as insignificant in comparison. Only the romance can get back a little bit of room as time passes. As the threat posed by the cancer wanes, a space opens up (the question marks) that the cancer concern used to occupy. The ordeal wiped out all the previous, more trivial concerns, pre-occupying him entirely with the disease. Now that there is a little less reason to worry, he's not used to thinking about anything else. His previous preoccupations no longer seem important, so what to fill his time with?
- [A graph showing the approximate fractional causes of Randall's emotions, with percentages on the Y axis and time on the X axis. "Politics", "Romance", "Code not working even though it should work", "people being wrong on the internet", and "other" all vary all throughout the time period from 2006 to midway 2010. There is a wedge of Joss Whedon that tapers out starting from 2006 to around mid 2007. There is a noticeable increase in "Politics" around fall, 2008 that tapers off sharply afterwards and appears again in the second half on 2010, until..
- Around approximately September 2010, everything else is compressed into a tiny fraction of around 2-3%. The rest is filled with cancer. The tiny wedge of everything does begin to slowly expand to be filled half with romance and half with an area filled with question marks.]
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Damn. Well, she's still going strong. I suppose that's a good thing. Davidy22[talk] 13:58, 8 January 2013 (UTC)
I was surprised nobody noted the big increase in romance around early 2009 -- presumably when Randall met his future wife? 126.96.36.199 11:18, 19 May 2014 (UTC)
- My interpretation was just that "politics" peaked in 2008 (for the election), and then receded. Romance wasn't so much increasing as it was going back to its normal value. 184.108.40.206 19:07, 11 May 2015 (UTC)
I am concerned about the ending of Joss Whedon's influence. Didn't Randall like the Avengers at all? I will grant you that Nathon Fillion has not been in those movies, but there should be some response!--18.104.22.168 14:46, 20 May 2014 (UTC)
"This comic does not show any joke." Hm... I thought putting "people being wrong on the internet" as a major source of emotions was meant to be a joke...? I know this is a mostly serious comic, but saying that it doesn't have any jokes at all seems a bit inaccurate... Not sure though, so I'll just leave it. Just some random derp (talk) 02:11, 22 April 2015 (UTC)
- Okay, I edited it a little bit. How does that look? Just some random derp (talk) 22:51, 27 April 2015 (UTC)
Alas, mourn the death of the once mighty People Being Wrong on the Internet. -BlackSocks
2017: 100% politics, blended with people being wrong on the internet. PotatoGod (talk) 18:11, 22 September 2017 (UTC)
cancer sucks. An user who has no account yet (talk) 21:04, 5 September 2023 (UTC)


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Since the wind does not always blow, the team has designed two chambers located under the area covered by the poles that play the role of batteries. These chambers are used to store the energy produced and a series of pumps move water from the lower chamber to the upper one. When wind stops blowing, water flows down from the upper chamber, turning the pumps into generators. The owners of the concept estimate that the overall output of the project is the same of a wind turbine array.
The beauty of the project is completed by the LED lights placed at the top of every pole (stalks are 55 meters high). The lights glow and dim depending on wind strength, and poles look dark when wind does not blow. Vegetation grows wild among the bases of the stalks, watered by the scarce rain that flows down the bases and concentrates within these green spaces.
The "Windstalk concept" was presented by New York based Atelier DNA, a studio started in 2008 with the aim of reaching equilibrium between humans and the world we live in, and designed for Masdar city, the clean technology cluster in Abu Dhabi.
The team was formed by Darío Núñez Ameni and Thomas Siegl, creators and designers of the concept from Atelier DNA ; Ian Lipsky, ecological and renewable energy consultant from eDesign Dynamics; Radhi Majmudar, responsible for the structure and engineering from ISSE Innovative Structural and Specialty Engineering; and Gabrielle Jesiolowski, who provided the narrative and poetics.


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Windows 7: Extending Battery Life with Energy Efficient Applications
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Windows 7: Developing Multi-touch Applications
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Windows 7: New Text and Graphics APIs
Windows 7: Designing Efficient Background Processes
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Windows 7: Design Principles for Windows 7
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Windows 7: New APIs for Building Context-Aware Applications
Windows 7: Deploying Your Application with Windows Installer (MSI) and ClickOnce
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Windows 7: Deep Dive: What's New with user32 and comctl32 in Win32
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Windows 7: Programming Sync Providers That Work Great with Windows
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Windows 7: Best Practices for Developing for Windows Standard User
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Democrats struggling to hold onto their congressional seats — or just make it to Washington — are getting backup, a cash infusion and a dash of star power from a political spouse who's making a highly anticipated return to the campaign trail: first lady Michelle Obama.
Not seen on the stump since the 2008 campaign that elevated her husband to the White House, Mrs. Obama is venturing out this week to support a group of candidates — mostly senators — whose help President Barack Obama needs to keep advancing his agenda through Congress in the two years left in his term.
The first lady basically has avoided politics since coming to Washington, but last week she declared herself "fired up and ready to go" to do her part to help Democrats stay in power on Capitol Hill.
"I'm looking forward to getting back out there," Mrs. Obama — recently crowned the most powerful woman in the world by Forbes magazine — said during a conference call with Obama supporters. "I'm excited."
She steps back into the rough and tumble of politics on Wednesday, headlining a fundraiser at the U.S. Cellular Arena in Milwaukee for Sen. Russ Feingold, who is in a difficult re-election battle for a fourth term.
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On Thursday, Mrs. Obama drops into Denver, the mile-high city where Obama accepted the Democratic presidential nomination, for a money-raising luncheon for Sen. Michael Bennet.
She and the president plan their first joint appearance of the campaign season on Sunday in Ohio.
Mrs. Obama is one of the most popular figures in the administration. A recent Associated Press-GfK poll found that she is viewed favorably by 68 percent of adults compared to 57 percent who have a positive view of the president. She is so popular that some candidates have expressed more excitement at the prospect of campaigning with her than with her husband.
"It's wonderful to have him," said first lady historian Myra Gutin, "but she's got the star power."
Don't expect Mrs. Obama to get ahead of the president, though.
Obama has campaigned, in some cases more than once, with the Senate candidates on his wife's political schedule — all of whom are defending Democratic turf and are by no means assured of victory on the night of Nov. 2.
Obama — and now Mrs. Obama — are looking to the Senate because losing any of the 59 seats the party holds would seriously crimp Obama's ability to move his agenda through Congress.
Mrs. Obama will also sound the same themes as her husband — about the economy growing slowly but moving in the right direction, about how they understand the frustration that's out there and that voting three weeks from Tuesday is the only way to bring about the change people voted for two years ago.
She's also likely to wrap in a word about her own causes, from childhood obesity to military families.
In short, expect a no-drama version of Mrs. Obama.
"I would urge all of you out there, as you're knocking on doors, to remind people that change is difficult and we're just beginning to see the results of our work," the first lady told supporters on last week's conference call. "So don't stay home. Don't let frustration keep you from voting."
She won't directly criticize the opposing candidates, but instead will talk about how the Democrat could help her husband, added Gutin.
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"She's not the heavy in this," said Gutin, who teaches at Rider University in New Jersey. "She's not the person who's going to really be critical and say nasty things about the Republicans."
That's a job for the president and his other surrogates.
Mrs. Obama's political schedule so far amounts to 10 fundraisers in seven states over 12 days — from Oct. 13-27. Additional stops are expected in the final week before Election Day.
Besides Milwaukee and Chicago, she'll head west for Sens. Patty Murray of Washington and Barbara Boxer of California, and to the northeast for Senate candidate Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut.
Mrs. Obama and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of California plan a joint appearance, and the first lady also is scheduled to address Democratic Party fundraisers in New York and California.
Mrs. Obama's campaign schedule is taking her to places where she could be most helpful politically while staying on top of her first lady duties and being available for daughters Malia, 12, and Sasha, 9, aides say.
She so far is not making solo appearances at any of the thousand-person rallies where Obama has been speaking because she tries to avoid traveling on weekends, when her daughters are home from school.
First ladies, especially the ones who are more popular than their husbands, seem to have little choice but to hit the campaign trail — whether they relish being out there or not.
Laura Bush, who often said husband George W. Bush promised her she'd never have to give a political speech, campaigned often during the 2002 and 2006 congressional elections.
"When your spouse is in politics, you're involved whether you want to be or not," she joked in 2006.
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IYA2009 Updates
TWAN Newsletter
25 December 2009
- TWAN events started in Scandinavia with a traveling exhibition in Sweden, supported by the Swedish Astronomical Society. More
- A traveling exhibition and side programs of The World at Night in Hungary, in conjunction with the International Year of Astronomy 2009 made major public attention t the night sky. More
There are new stunning photos and time-lapse videos on TWAN website, featuring starry nights of the planet's landmarks from across the world.
- Mojave Desert Fireball by Wally Pacholka
- Geminid Meteor over Monument Valley by Wally Pacholka
- Monument Valley Falling Star by Wally Pacholka
- Jupiter and Arch by Wally Pacholka
- Sky above Iceberg (time-lapse video) by Yuichi Takasaka
- The Night Show of Aurora Village (time-lapse video) by Yuichi Takasaka
- Meteor in Brittany Morning Sky by Laurent Laveder
- Normandy Panorama by Laurent Laveder
- Starry Self Portrait by Laurent Laveder
- Moon and Planets from an Ancient Crater by Stefan Seip
- Solstice Sun Over Sounion by Anthony Ayiomamitis
- Oropos Sunset by Anthony Ayiomamitis
- Gotland Moonset by P-M Heden
- Northern Hemisphere Milky Way by P-M Heden
- Starryscape at 69 North by Babak A. Tafreshi
- Aurora above Fjord Landscape by Babak A. Tafreshi
- A Glimpse of Far North (time-lapse video) by Bernd Proschold
- Above Thousand Peaks (time-lapse video) by Bernd Proschold
- Caparra by Moonlight by Juan Carlos Casado
- Lying under the Galactic Arch by Juan Carlos Casado
- Monfrague Milky Way by Juan Carlos Casado
- ISS-Atlantis Trail by Tamas Ladanyi
- Windmill Surprise by Tamas Ladanyi
- Sunset to Moonrise Panorama by Tamas Ladanyi
- Moonlit Autumn Night of Hungary by Tamas Ladanyi
Asia and Middle East
- Meteors and Winter Milky Way by Babak A. Tafreshi
- Falling Star and Historic Ruin by Babak A. Tafreshi
- Geminid Meteor Shower in Video (time-lapse video) by Babak A. Tafreshi
- Sirius and a Striking Meteor by Babak A. Tafreshi
- Imam Reza Moonrise by Oshin D. Zakarian
- Autumn Night of Mazandaran by Oshin D. Zakarian
- Double Meteors above Turkey by Tunc Tezel
- All-sky Composite of Geminid Meteors by Tunc Tezel
- Starry Sky of a Mediterranean Harbor by Tunc Tezel
- Sky of Ancients by Tunc Tezel
- Edge-on Milky Way by Tunc Tezel
- Orion Trails above Himalaya by Oshin D. Zakarian
- The Top of the World by Babak A. Tafreshi
- Orion Rises above Himalaya (time-lapse video) by Babak A. Tafreshi
- Ama Dablam Martian Rise (time-lapse video) by Babak A. Tafreshi
- Himalayan Skyscape by Babak A. Tafreshi
- Night in the Land of Temples by Oshin D. Zakarian
- Himalayan Dream by Oshin D. Zakarian
- Starry Night of Buddha by Oshin D. Zakarian
- The Little Bear by P.K. Chen
- Milky Way of Yunnan by P.K. Chen
- Great Wall Halo by Juan Carlos Casado
- Robotic Telescope by P.K. Chen
- Yunnan Astronomical Observatory by P.K. Chen
- Orion Rises in Yunnan by P.K. Chen
- Amateur Observatory by P.K. Chen
Australia and Pacific
Chile (Easter Island)
- Night Arrives in Easter Island by Stephane Guisard
- Meteor, Galaxy, and Volcano by Stephane Guisard
- The Large Magellanic above Easter Island by Stephane Guisard
- Evening Twilight and the Living Desert by John Goldsmith
Guest Gallery is a well-received section on TWAN website to feature selected outstanding Earth and sky photos by non-TWAN creative photographers from around the globe. If you have such remarkable photos to share with TWAN Guest Gallery, please contact us. There are new featured photos on the Guest Gallery:
- Milky Way from Valle de la Luna (Chile) by Manel Soria
- Crepuscular Rays from Capuchos (Portugal) by Miguel Claro
- Per Aspera ad Astra (Poland) by Marek Nikodem
- Moon and Jupiter over Cahore Strand (Ireland) by Eric Clarke
- Medieval Moon (Italy) by Marco Candotti
- Gazing at the Sky (Iran) by Sara Khalafinejad
- Moon and Jupiter over Hogehall (Sweden) by Jimmy Nordstrom
- Ft. McKavett Ruins at Night (USA) by Bryan R. Tobias
- ISS above Bad Mergentheim (Germany) by Jens Hackmann
- Observing the Night Skies (Romania) by Cristina Tinta-Vass
- Sariska Jungle Milky Way Trails (India) by C B Devgun
- Moon and Jupiter above Olympus Mountain (Greece) by Chris Kotsiopoulos
- Band of the Milky Way (Iran) by Mahdi Zamani
- Iridium Flare over Cottage (Slovakia) by Tomas Maruska
- Night Sky from Ft. McKavett (USA) by Bryan R. Tobias
Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD), a NASA's world-known website, has featured new photos by TWAN photographers:
- Comet Hyakutake Passes the Earth by Doug Zubenel
- Geminid Meteor over Monument Valley by Wally Pacholka
- Himalayan Skyscape by Babak Tafreshi
- TWAN is featuring six special galleries:
Latest Images
Dark Skies Importance
Cosmic Motions
World Heritage Sites
TWAN APODs
TWAN Podcast
TWAN is a global program of Astronomers Without Borders (www.astrowb.org) and a Special Project of International Year of Astronomy 2009, an initiative by IAU and UNESCO. The World at Night is to produce and present a collection of stunning photographs of the world's most beautiful and historic sites against the nighttime backdrop of stars, planets and celestial events. The eternally peaceful sky looks the same above all symbols of different nations and regions, attesting to the truly unified nature of Earth as a planet rather than an amalgam of human-designated territories.
Building bridges through the sky
The World at Night
Galilean Nights: Astrophotography competition winners
23 December 2009
Many congratulations to the winners and runners-up of the Galilean Nights Astrophotography competition. The judges had a difficult task in assessing the many excellent entries and the winning photos were of outstanding quality.
Overall Winner: Masahiro Miyasaka of Japan for the image "Milky Way Waterfall":http://www.flickr.com/photos/43894176@N07/4041205097/in/pool-galileannights
Beyond Earth
Winner: Luis Santo for his image of M42:http://www.flickr.com/photos/44050495@N05/4051547780/in/pool-galileannights
First runner-up: Richie Jarvis for his image of M45:http://www.flickr.com/photos/richiejarvis/4046461726/in/pool-galileannights
Second runner-up: ANIC Asociación de nińos indagadores del cosmos for their image "Moon Waning": http://www.flickr.com/photos/astroanic/4047871344/in/pool-galileannights
Earth and Sky
Winner: Masahiro Miyasaka for the image "Milky Way Waterfall":http://www.flickr.com/photos/43894176@N07/4041205097/in/pool-galileannights
First runner-up: Pablo Díez Vigil for "CTBA 07:45"http://www.flickr.com/photos/pdiezvig/4032270507/in/pool-galileannights and Second runner-up: Kouji Ohnishi for "Pleiades Dance"http://www.flickr.com/photos/microlensing/4046384368/in/pool-galileannights
Close IYA2009 by journeying into a black hole!
19 December 2009
To celebrate the closing of the International Year of Astronomy 2009, AthenaWeb and the scientific magazine Science et Avenir invite you to an incredible virtual space odyssey: Journey to the Heart of a Black Hole.
The astrophysicist Alain Riazuelo leads us into an incredible virtual journey towards the heart of a black hole. The interstellar flight's objective is to move towards Epsilon Eridani. Smaller and cooler than our own Sun, this mythic star is located only about 10.5 light-years away from us and became famous as the possible home planet of Star Trek's pointy ears character, Mr Spock.
On our way, we discover the physical phenomenon called the aberration of light, before getting to the heart of the black hole itself… from which we will never be able to come back!
The video, and more information about it, is available here: http://www.athenaweb.org/backoffice/newsletter/preview.php?id=28
IYA2009 News Round-up
19 December 2009
It's still IYA2009, which means that it's news round-up time. Hoooo-rah!
Story of the Week must surely go to Physics World's feature on Pakistani astronomers. Written by the president of the Khwarizmi Science Society, it looks at how IYA2009 events have boosted the public's interest. We shouldn't be surprised, given that they built a roving observatory to go to rural schools. That'd spark anyone's interest. Apparently "...older people were particularly delighted as they were shown various stellar constellations that matched their horoscopes." Hmm!
Why is astronomy so great? Big numbers, nice pictures. Bad Astronomy at Discover Blogs is going down this second route with its article on the top ten astronomy pictures of 2009. They are all corkers.
Fancy a laugh? Give the Science Comedian Brian Malow a chance, courtesy of Fora.tv. He mentions IYA2009 (to a bit of a cheer), and also talks about the Cosmic Diary's very own Brother Guy.
To Yahoo! now, for their 2009 Year in Review article. IYA2009 has prompted them to make it an astronomy-inspired feature which talks about meteor showers, Galileo, NASA, and the upcoming Blue Moon. Plenty of hyperlinks are scattered around the text, should your insatiable curiosity get the better of you.
Attention astrophotographers! Actually, attention Indian astrophotographers! You should run over to The Times of India who are advertising a competition to mark the end of IYA2009. Called "Snap the vibrant universe", some entries will be displayed in an exhibition and it sounds like there will be awards. Although it's a bit vague on that point. Fingers crossed.
This one is a bit different. The Gilroy Dispatch have written a seasonal article about the connections between Christmas and astronomy. Apparently "It goes far beyond the Gospel of Matthew's Nativity star." There are 11 paragraphs and IYA2009 is mentioned in number three, which isn't bad going.
Let's pay a visit to AlphaGalileo who have a news release about events marking IYA2009's end. The biggie is astronomers an archaeologists celebrating five millennia of astronomical heritage at Stonehenge in the UK. IYA2009 UK chair Ian Robson is involved, giving tours and things. Oh, and From Earth To The Universe have an exhibition there as well. Nice!
That's it. You'll miss these news round-ups when they're over, won't you? Your silence is taken as a "yes".
IYA2009 Updates
18 December 2009
*Stunning video takes us to the edge of the Universe*
The Known Universe takes viewers from the Himalayas through our atmosphere and the inky black of space to the afterglow of the Big Bang. Every star, planet, and quasar seen in the film is possible because of the world's most complete four-dimensional map of the Universe, the Digital Universe Atlas that is maintained and updated by astrophysicists at the American Museum of Natural History.
The new film, created by the Museum, is part of an exhibition Visions of the Cosmos: From the Milky Ocean to an Evolving Universe, at the Rubin Museum of Art in Manhattan through May 2010. See it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17jymDn0W6U&fmt=22
*IYA2009 news from Uruguay*
*The sky is the limit for students in Hungary*
To celebrate IYA2009, Hungary's Konkoly Observatory offered a opportunity to young enthusiasts of the starry sky. High-school students were invited to apply for one hour of telescope time to record their favourite celestial object with the 60/90/180cm Schmidt telescope and CCD camera located in Piszkesteto Mountain Station. This is one of Hungary's largest telescopes. http://www.astronomy2009.org/news/updates/690/
*Generating global interest in the night sky and astrophotography*
While TWAN exhibitions, workshops, and media contacts exposed many people to the beauties of the universal message of night sky, the project website displays an enlarging collection of over a thousand stunning images. http://www.astronomy2009.org/news/updates/689/
*Taking The World at Night to the land of Himalaya*
One of the last major TWAN activity during IYA2009 was a collection of programs including a night sky imaging workshop, public presentation and starparty, media contact, and imaging mission in the land of Himalaya. Through collaboration with a group of active young astronomers in the Nepal Astronomical Society, The World at Night travelled to Kathmandu and Mount Everest region of Himalaya during November 2009. http://www.astronomy2009.org/news/updates/688/
*Call for Papers: Science and the Public 2010*
Imperial College, London, 3rd and 4th of July 2010.
Now in its fifth year, the Science and the Public conference aims to bring together the various strands of academia which consider science's relationships with groups generally called "the public". http://www.astronomy2009.org/news/updates/687/
*Index to Astronomy in Scientific American Magazine*
Scientific American magazine often presents readable overviews of new ideas and discoveries in astronomy. However, astronomy articles are randomly scattered among the magazine's coverage of all other fields of science and the titles of articles do not always provide a perfect guide to their contents. As a service to the astronomy education community, we have compiled a subject index of astronomy articles in the magazine from the late summer of 1999 to the late summer of 2009, with brief descriptions of their contents. The index is published in the online journal, Astronomy Education Review, at: http://dx.doi.org/10.3847/AER2009060
*Galilean Nights: Astrophotography Competition shortlist announced!*
On 22-24 October 2009, the Galilean Nights Cornerstone Project took place all over the world and was a great success, with over 1300 events in almost 90 countries. Alongside the public observing sessions where hundreds of thousands of people looked to the night sky, many also turned their cameras to the stars and took part in the Galilean Nights Astrophotography Competition. http://www.astronomy2009.org/news/updates/686/
*Cosmos in the Classroom Symposium*
As you are planning your 2010 calendar and budget, we wanted to let you know that plans are moving along for the 122nd Annual Meeting of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific (ASP), July 31 - Aug. 4 at the University of Colorado in Boulder, in one of the most beautiful settings in the U.S., and featuring two concurrent 3-day conferences Aug. 2 - 4. http://www.astronomy2009.org/news/updates/684/
*Ethiopian astronomers bring IYA2009 to the masses*
The Ethiopian Space Science Society (ESSS) has been celebrating IYA2009 throughout the year. In the case of Ethiopia, it is considered a prime way of promoting astronomy by stimulating interest, especially among young people and as well using the appreciation of the inspirational aspects of astronomy. http://www.astronomy2009.org/news/updates/680/
*IYA2009 logo adorns German observatory*
IYA2009 enthusiasts from Dresden, Germany, decided to go one step further than most in celebrating this special year. They took it upon themselves to decorate their observatory by painting the IYA2009 logo, and inscribing the slogan on the side. Anyone passing by will be left in no doubt as to IYA2009's importance. http://www.astronomy2009.org/news/updates/682/
*Young astronomers meet for International School*
The International School for Young Astronomers 2009 is currently taking place in St Augustine, West Indies, Trinidad & Tobago. It will be running until 18 December. The objectives of the School include encouraging astronomy to grow in the region, allowing students from the Caribbean to network with professional astronomers, increasing collaborations, showing that astronomy promotes transferrable skills, enhancing research, and to expose local students to training not available locally. For more information, please see: http://sta.uwi.edu/fsa/physics/ISYA2009.asp
*Netherlands host IYA2009 concerts*
An IYA2009-themed concert given in September together with the Grieg Pianoduo was a huge success. The world premier of Sisask's "Sombrero Galaxy" was presented, together with other works by him and by Schubert, for a sold out hall in Groningen, in the Netherlands. The composer attended, as well as the ambassador of Estonia. http://www.astronomy2009.org/news/updates/679/
*Celebrating 5000 years of astronomy*
In a fitting finale for IYA2009, astronomers and archaeologists will celebrate the five millennia of astronomical heritage at Stonehenge, the most sophisticated stone circle in the world and amongst Europe's most important Neolithic sites. The attractions include a free public astronomy exhibition and expert-led tours of the site and surrounding landscape. http://www.astronomy2009.org/news/updates/678/
Stunning video takes us to the edge of the Universe
18 December 2009
The Known Universe takes viewers from the Himalayas through our atmosphere and the inky black of space to the afterglow of the Big Bang. Every star, planet, and quasar seen in the film is possible because of the world's most complete four-dimensional map of the Universe, the Digital Universe Atlas that is maintained and updated by astrophysicists at the American Museum of Natural History.
The new film, created by the Museum, is part of an exhibition Visions of the Cosmos: From the Milky Ocean to an Evolving Universe, at the Rubin Museum of Art in Manhattan through May 2010.
See it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17jymDn0W6U&fmt=22
IYA2009 news from Uruguay
18 December 2009
News has reached the IYA2009 Secretariat of several highly successful astronomy popularisation initiatives from Uruguay.
A mobile digital planetarium with a dome of 8 metre diameter travelled around the whole country throughout the year, providing sessions to 50,000 people, mainly children from local schools that never before had seen a planetarium session (http://www.kappacrucis.com.uy/).
Uruguay has been developing astronomy at high school since 1889 and recently with strong emphasis in observatories (http://astronomia2009.org.uy/aia/observatorios/observatorios-en-uruguay/). After several years of preparation, in 2009 astronomy was introduced in primary school also, from ages 4 to 11 years.
Uruguay held the Second Iberoamerican School of Astrobiology with lectures given by 20 prominent researchers in this field (http://www.astronomia.edu.uy/astrobiologia2009/).
In 2008 the Latinamerican Olympiads of Astronomy and Astronautics was founded, and the first implementation was in Brazil during IYA2009.
The sky is the limit for students in Hungary
18 December 2009
To celebrate IYA2009, Hungary's Konkoly Observatory offered a opportunity to young enthusiasts of the starry sky. High-school students were invited to apply for one hour of telescope time to record their favourite celestial object with the 60/90/180cm Schmidt telescope and CCD camera located in Piszkesteto Mountain Station. This is one of Hungary's largest telescopes.
The best images were widely disseminated on the internet and popular science magazines. The goals were to:
- widen mathematical, physical and astronomical literacy;
- attract young talents to natural sciences and technology;
- allow students to use real astronomical instruments;
- teach the basics of image processing and astronomical data evaluation;
- repeat the "Galileo-experience'" but this time using modern astronomical instrumentation.
For more information, please see:
Generating Global Interest in Night Sky and Astrophotography
17 December 2009
While TWAN exhibitions, workshops, and media contacts exposed many people to the beauties of the universal message of night sky, the project website displays an enlarging collection of over a thousand stunning images. From 2008 to the end of IYA2009 the website received about 4 million visits from 197 countries and territories including remote islands and bizarre locations such as the South Pole! TWAN attracted attention of photographers and amateur astronomers toward astrophotography and for the effort of reclaiming the night sky, the world's most prestigious award for scientific photography (Lennart Nilsson Award) was received by TWAN director and creator Babak Tafreshi in October 2009.
Taking The World at Night to the land of Himalaya
16 December 2009
One of the last major TWAN activity during IYA2009 was a collection of programs including a night sky imaging workshop, public presentation and starparty, media contact, and imaging mission in the land of Himalaya. Through collaboration with a group of active young astronomers in the Nepal Astronomical Society, The World at Night traveled to Kathmandu and Mount Everest region of Himalaya during November 2009. While the first ever TWAN images of world's highest mountains under starry sky touched many around the world, another highlight of TWAN activity in Nepal was a major starparty together with the Nepal Astronomical Society in the World Heritage Site of Bhaktapur. Hundreds of local people gathered in the central square surrounded by dozens of amazing temples, to view the Moon and Jupiter for their first time through a telescope. The 8-inch motorized reflector which was brought and partly donated by TWAN is currently the largest amateur telescope in Nepal, and of the only few telescopes in the whole country.
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Candace Payne donned a Chewbacca mask in her car while the Internet gaped.
Within hours, it rose to become the most viewed Facebook Live video of all time, with more than 105 million views as of Saturday morning.
The Texas mother's random purchase at her local Kohl's was not expected. In the video, recorded at the store's parking lot, Payne says she was returning some items when she found the mask.
In an phone interview with 'Today,' Payne said: "I feel like I really helped people, and that's all that matters. People reach out to me, and they say, you know, 'I battle depression,' or, 'I haven't laughed out loud since such-and-such event.' And that's been so great. I've only been seeing positive feedback."