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|The Broadway Theatre - Peterborough
|04 February 2005
|by Liz Shave
I had a blast on the evening of 4 February, attending Rick Wakeman's, "one off" show at The Broadway Theatre Peterborough. I will give those unfortunate enough not to have attended a review in general and I hope that I can convey the atmosphere of the venue and in doing so highlight my favourite parts of the performance. Walking into the foyer I saw a table decorated with RWCC merchandise, also Mike Holden of the store in baseball cap! It was good to meet him-we had exchanged emails over shop goods so now I could put a face to the name! He is a friendly guy; did a sterling job all evening, recruiting new RWCC members throughout. I echo Rick's sentiments regarding the Theatre; formerly a cinema and seemed to have been recently "done up". I must say there was plenty of legroom and chairs were comfortable. Rick appeared in white and bespectacled, in jovial mood, providing funny stories and jokes, chatting about how he loved doing the TV show "Countdown". A varied selection of Rick's masterpieces was laid on for our consumption, spanning his celebrated long career.
My favourite piece of the evening was, "Dance of a thousand lights", during which I was impressed by the lighting system that was brought into play - a silver ball suspended from the ceiling reflected spotlights that flickered across the roof of the theatre-mimicking the thousand lights. Sadly we were not joined by the English Chamber Choir! The Grand Piano was highly instrumental this particular evening, again this was a highlight for me; an integral part of Rick's flamboyance to which his worldwide audience has become accustomed. I was fascinated to learn of some of the hardships Rick has gone through professionally and was pleased to hear how he, in inimitable style, made light of them - taking it all with a pinch of salt. Requests were duly accommodated and audience participation was not omitted! I might add that I would have shuddered if chosen to go on stage and assist the "God of Keyboards"! Not so in the case of the lady he chose! Music of "YES" was represented and Rick spoke admiringly of Jon Anderson, "YES" lead vocalist and pal.
Oh the delight of the audience, tonight Rick was joined by Ramon Remedios, an opera singer with whom he had recorded in the past; forming a fantastically humorous double act for our consumption. A selection was chosen by Ramon to be performed, but Rick was anxious to break new ground, astounding us with his skills of opera composition and performing with the tenor Ramon. I leave it to your imaginations to ponder this spectacle....... Ramon did mention, by the way, that his favourite Opera was, "The Barber of Seville"...... Lennon and McCartney were not left out on this memorable occasion. Neither were Rick's crew, Mike, Ian and Stuart who Rick gave thanks to and praised.
I thoroughly enjoyed myself and was delighted when, as icing on the cake, Rick signed merchandise at the shows end -WE MET THE MAN! As an extra treat I obtained Ramon's autograph whilst imploring him to join Rick on future jaunts. I asked Rick to consider a "gig" at Chatham, our local theatre -and so my fingers are crossed! The legend that is Rick Wakeman was in full flow and looming larger-than-life. He seemed on top of the world -and as my parting comment I reckon he thoroughly enjoyed himself on his grand piano that night!
Liz Shave
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Last day of auditions for Who's Got Talent
Tuesday, November 7, 2017
Malvern, AR
Auditions will continue today for "Who's Got Talent," a charity talent show by the Malvern Area Kiwanis Club. Auditions will be from 6 to 8 p.m. There is a $10 entry fee and the winner (for the actual talent show on Nov. 18) will get a cash prize. Auditions will be held at the Boys & Girls Club of Malvern and Hot Spring County. All proceeds go to help children in Hot Spring County.

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"I could have people saying this is going to damage your credibility as an artist or a designer, and I say I don't care, I love this woman. Someone could say you know, 'When the paparazzi surround you, how could you ... everyone knows you don't like paparazzi, but why would you, why would you be with this person? And I'm saying I'm being with this person because, you know I love this person. And she's worth it to me. She's my joy, and she brought my new joy into the world. There's no paparazzi, there's no blog comment that's going to take that joy from"
"I just dreamed about being next to her," Kanye tells Kris of his feelings for Kim before they started dating, going on to joke, "I don't want to start jumping up on the couch or anything" (a la Tom Cruise about Katie Holmes on "Oprah" in 2005).
Later in the interview, Kris asked Kanye what it was like to live amid the chaos of her house. Kanye said "It's like noise at all time happening ... I wasn't used to it, and now when I'm out, you know, I try to get home early, just to be around my family."


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Think And Grow Rich – Decision
Decision: Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is
After interviewing 25,000 people who failed, Napoleon Hill discovered lack of 'decision making' was at the top of the list. Indecision is a decision in itself. It is best to make a bad decision than no decision. Without making a decision you are prone to drifting. A drifter will always be dissatisfied with life, never successful and lacking in fulfilment. In order to feel fulfilled it is essential to have a clear vision of what you want to achieve backed my continual, persistent effort focussing on your desire to obtain success and happiness.
A drifter has no goals. Generally they have lots of ideas, which are, sadly, backed by lots of excuses. Everyone makes excuses but the successful person is aware of this and fights against it. Being successful and achieving the life you want is no walk in the park! Being a drifter IS a walk in the park, which is why drifters make up 97% of the population. They will continue to make the same mistakes, never learning. Only doing what is needed to get by. They may desire a nice home, a car and all the latest technical equipment but is UNAWARE that their decisions are not allowing them to achieve the life they really want.
To achieve success, it is mandatory to have a definite major purpose in life (Desire). A successful person will have a vision and will manage his/her resources, removing fear of lack and poverty, creating a foundation for abundance. A drifter will live in fear due to not having a vision of what he/she wants his/her life to be like. Nature doesn't like a void. Unless we create our own positive, 'definite purpose', vision, nature provides us with one. Often nature's vision is based on what we see around us and is controlled by outside influences, the recession, the weather, bad relationships, not doing well in school etc. creating a vision of lack.
Making a decision using this system to success that never fails by identifying your 'Desire' having the 'faith' to go after it, using the right language in your mind through 'autosuggestion', gaining the 'specialised knowledge' using your 'imagination' and creating an 'organised plan' will mean the decision made will move you forward to your goal and achievements. This decision may seem risky but you will know in your heart it is right. Making your decision prior to this process may lead to a bad decision or a lucky decision but not a controlled decision. Making your decisions this way can change your life in a heartbeat as it will be a rock solid decision and take you in the direction of your choosing. All you must do now is 'Persist'!
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Niva Elkin-Koren
Niva Elkin-Koren is the founding director of the Haifa Center for Law & Technology (HCLT) and the former dean of the University of Haifa Faculty of Law. Her research focuses on the legal institutions that facilitate private and public control over the production and dissemination of information. She is currently focusing on studying the legal challenges arising from crowd management, exploring the changing nature of online intermediaries, and developing a comprehensive approach to user rights under copyright law.
She is the coauthor of The Limits of Analysis: Law and Economics of Intellectual Property in the Digital Age (2012) and Law, Economics and Cyberspace: The effects of Cyberspace on the Economic Analysis of Law (2004). She is the coeditor of Law and Information Technology (2011) and The Commodification of Information (2002)
Niva Elkin-Koren received her LL.B from Tel-Aviv University Faculty of Law in 1989, her LL.M from Harvard Law School in 1991, and her S.J.D from Stanford Law School in 1995.
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For Melissa and William Plummer, asking for help isn't easy. But after their son Gavin was diagnosed with a rare brain tumor and their lives were turned upside-down, they learned what a blessing a little help can be.
"We try not to ask for help. We don't like to. But a lot of people have stepped up for us," Melissa said.
An organization that has stepped up for them is "Hogs for the Cause," the two-day barbecuing and eating benefit in City Park that raises money to help families fighting pediatric brain cancer. It began in 2008 as a pig roast in memory of one 4-year-old boy, Ben Sarrat Jr., and has grown into the premiere funding source in the country for pediatric brain cancer outreach services. It has already helped more than 100 families.
"Our grant couldn't have come at a more perfect time," Melissa said.
The 2014 Hogs for the Cause, on March 28 and 29, will feature 90 cooking teams and 13 bands.
"We bought our tickets, and then they gave us tickets, so we're going to pass along the ones we bought," William said.
"We'll be there rain or shine," Melissa said.
As I sit talking with Melissa and William in their Slidell home, I'm impressed by how upbeat they are. For them, the sun is shining.
They take me back to July 25, 2005, when Gavin and his twin brother Nolan were born several weeks early. Gavin weighed 2 pounds, and Nolan weighed 1 pound 13 ounces.
"They had to stay in the hospital for 72 days," Melissa said. "Gavin weighed 3 pounds the day Katrina hit."
Hogs for the Cause
- What: A festival to raise money for the varying expenses of families coping with pediatric brain tumors. It includes 90 teams competing in the Ben Serrat Jr. "High on the Hog" pork cook-off, public sampling for a pittance, an abundance of pork dishes for purchase, cocktails, and 13 bands..
- Where: City Park Festival Grounds.
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- Admission: Tickets for each day are $15 now, or $25 at the gate. Kids under 12 get in free. You can also be a two-day "Boss Hog" for $150, which includes re-entry, an open bar, private bathrooms and the NOLA Brewing Stage viewing area. Tickets to the Friday night gala Seafood Jamboree, a dinner featuring seafood cooked over an open fire, are $150. Learn more and order tickets at Hogs for the Cause. Visit the Hogs for the Cause website for more details.
The Plummers had to evacuate and leave their tiny sons behind during the hurricane. When they came back, they learned that several family members had extensive damage to their homes.
"We had my parents, my brother, and an aunt and uncle living with us after the storm, but the babies were Ok, and that was all that mattered," Melissa said.
Once the boys came home, the Plummers were typical busy young parents. Their sons were thriving, and life was good. And in early 2010, they got wonderful news. Melissa was pregnant with twins again.
"The first time I learned I was going to have twins, I was ecstatic," she said. "The second time it was 'Oh, my God, I've got to do this again!'"
Melissa had to be on bed-rest for 10 weeks, and Madelyn and Katelyn were born in December, 2010.
"They were at 31 weeks and only had to stay in the hospital for three weeks," Melissa said.
A few months after they brought their daughters home, Gavin started having horrible migraine headaches. He and Nolan were in kindergarten at the time They took their son to pediatricians, an eye doctor, neurologists. Then one day, he couldn't move the right side of his body.
"He had a CT scan, and they told us, 'He's got a mass in his brain,'" Melissa said. "He was diagnosed on Dec. 30, William's birthday."
The mass was a craniopharyngioma.
"It's life-threatening because it's in the brain and can affect vision, hearing, the endocrine system," Melissa said.
On Jan. 3, 2012, Gavin had a 13-hour surgery in New Orleans to remove the tumor.
"It didn't damage his brain stem, so he recovered muscle control. Everything was restored," Melissa said. "MRIs showed the doctors had gotten all of it."
But a year later, Gavin started getting headaches again, and an MRI showed the tumor was growing back. On Jan. 28, 2013, Gavin had an eight-hour craniotomy, and doctors removed as much of the tumor as they could safely. Then they referred him to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis.
Melissa and Gavin spent three weeks at St. Jude's undergoing tests before they were sent to the University of Florida Proton Institute in Jacksonville for nine weeks, where Gavin had proton-beam radiation.
"It's a very precise kind of radiation that hits only pieces of tumor," Melissa said. "He had 30 rounds of radiation -- from Monday through Friday for six weeks."
William would go a few days at a time to Memphis and then to Jacksonville while he worked for Charter Cable in Slidell. For the three months Gavin was hospitalized, Melissa's parents, Jerry and Cindy Faust; and William's parents, Rob and Priscilla Plummer; took care of Nolan, Madelyn and Katelyn.
"William's parents drove all the way from Canada to help out," Melissa said. "We've had tremendous family support."
By the time Gavin finished his treatments, William had used all his vacation days and had taken two weeks of family medical leave.
"He wanted to be there for Gavin, but he wasn't getting paid," Melissa said.
When they came back home to face a large stack of bills and a broken lawn mower, they got their grant from Hogs for the Cause.
"The great thing about it was we could use the money however we needed to," Melissa said. "They didn't care what we did with it."
What really touched her was the way the nonprofit group kept in touch to see how they were doing. In July, both their washer and dryer died, a minor disaster in a home with four small children.
"When we told them, they brought us a new washer and dryer," Melissa said. "That was totally unexpected and totally appreciated."
The part of their story Melissa has trouble telling is about her mom, who died suddenly of a heart attack last September. She was only 57 and had never had any heart problems. It was completely unexpected.
"She did everything for us. She was very selfless," Melissa said, her eyes filling with tears. "She was definitely Gavin's biggest fan."
Her mother's death has been the hardest thing the family has dealt with. Everything else seems easy by comparison.
"She was definitely the rock of all of us," Melissa said.
She and William want to talk about the blessings in their lives: They tell me how their friends held an online auction to raise money for their medical bills and about the prayers that have been prayed at St. Luke's Catholic Church, where Gavin and Nolan made their first Communion last summer.
"And my supervisor at work has been great," William said.
"Anytime he needs to take time off, they make it work," Melissa said.
They tell me how the teachers at Mayfield Elementary School take special care of Nolan, who worries about his brother, and how they make sure Gavin stays caught up on his lessons.
"He's getting what he needs because of the teachers he's had and the extra effort they put in," Melissa said.
They talk about their Make-A-Wish trip to DisneyWorld for their whole family in December.
"It was a magical vacation," Melissa said. "A lot of really great memories were made."
One of their greatest blessings, of course, is Gavin. The Plummers' latest medical news is that he now has a cyst in his brain. They're hoping it will shrink on its own, but if it doesn't, the doctors may put in a tube to drain it during his next checkup at St. Jude's in April.
"He's amazing," Melissa said. "When we told him about the cyst, he said, 'Well, if that's what we have to do, that's what we have to do.'"
When I ask them to tell me one thing they have learned from their journey with Gavin, Melissa says, "To trust in God."
For William, all the help they've received has been a revelation.
"I grew up in Canada and had a stereotypical view of what Americans were like, he said. "But I have learned about the generosity of people."
William and Melissa are excited about attending their first Hogs for the Cause. For the Friday night Tailgate Experience, they're getting a babysitter, and on Saturday, they're bringing the whole family. They'll all be wearing T-shirts designed especially for them by Rhonda Johnson Valladares, who writes the Lil' Yat books.
What they're looking forward to most is not the music or the great food. It's finally meeting Rene Louapre and Becker Hall, who started this remarkable benefit.
"Hogs for the Cause is not like other organizations," Melissa said. "They keep reaching out to us. They really care."


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Housing Starts
In each Economic Update, the Research staff analyzes recently released economic indicators and addresses what these indicators mean for REALTORS® and their clients. Today's update discusses housing starts.
- New home construction activity continues to improve with good gains in June. Housing starts rose 7% to now 760,000 (annualized rate). This time last year, the figure was 615,000. Both single-family units and multifamily units made gains.
- Though the bottoming in housing starts occurred in 2009 with only 550,000 housing starts, the pace of recovery since that time has been very sluggish. Sharper gains are occurring this year, already up 25% year-to-date, and even bigger gains could occur next year because the inventory levels have fallen to very low levels.
- Based on the historical average of the U.S. population growing by about 3 million people each year, housing starts have been 1.5 million a year on average. However, the deep downturn after the bubble years has resulted in 1.5 million housing construction over a long 3-year time span from 2009 to 2011. There is clearly pent-up demand ready to hit the market. Do not be surprised if housing starts rise by 50 percent in 2013. Note that even with such a large percentage increase, housing starts will only be 1.15 million units, still below the normal 1.5 million historical average. If housing starts rise at a slower pace, then home prices will perk up at a faster rate.
- One unwelcome development in the nascent recovery in homebuilding is that many of the smaller builders have been shut out from participating. Construction loans are very hard to obtain. As a result the big homebuilders with the ability to tap Wall Street funds and issue bonds are the ones taking advantage of recovery over the smaller players (just like big banks getting bigger while smaller banks experiencing difficult conditions). Less competition will mean somewhat higher home prices for consumers to buy a newly constructed home.
I don't know what world you are living in but the chart that shows the "inventory of new single family houses" is WAYYY off. I can take you to many parts of my area and show you tons and tons of new houses sitting there empty…TONS.
The market is not what you or anyone is painting the picture of it to be…the market is terrible, just ask all the Realtors that are no longer in business….
I don't know where JT lives but our market is showing significant signs of improvement in both existing and new construction here in Utah. Not only from pent-up demand, but also first-time home-buyers finally taking advantage of the low prices and low rates with nothing to be afraid of. Also you got to think of the people who lost their homes in 2007, 2008, and 2009 and have waited the required number of years before they can buy again and their credit scores have been repaired and now entering the market again and taking advantage of the affordability right now too. Obviously a nationwide statistic isn't going to be a "one size fits all", however, there are are some pocket areas doing better than the average and some like JT's who are doing worse.
The housing market in my area of Montana is being compared to 2006. We are actually seeing multiple offers coming in on homes and some are selling for more than they were listed.
New construction has picked up from the last 2 years. In my own subdivision I look out my window and see 4 new homes being built. The subdivision next to us has over 10 new houses going up and they are selling!
We are experiencing a slow change from a buyers market to a sellers market.


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Arvind Kejriwal-led Aam Aadmi Party has been accused of using the Delhi Transport Corporation (DTC) to convert its illegal Rs 500 and Rs 1000 notes into legal currency. The allegation has been made by Delhi BJP president Satish Upadhyaya, who has also written a letter in this regard to Lieutenant-Governor Najeeb Jung. The matter came to light after DTC deposited Rs 3 crore revenue. Most of it was in old Rs 500 and Rs 1000 notes. It is believed that this is how AAP is converting its money that was collected through donations, Hindi daily Jansatta reported.
In his letter, Upadhyay asked as to how DTC can submit revenue in old Rs 500 and Rs 1000 currency notes when the fares in public buses range from Rs 5 to Rs 25 and the bus conductors never have enough cash for the change. People travelling in DTC buses generally belong to lower middle classes and pay their fare in change, the letter said.
It has been found that the most part of the revenue submitted by DTC is in banned currency notes. This raises suspicion of wrongdoing and the money may be connected with the donations collected by ruling party (AAP), the letter said.
The BJP leader asked the LG to tell the DTC management to come clean on the issue of old notes so that the image of a public institution doesn't get maligned.
AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal has been running a campaign against demonetisation announced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on November 8. While the decision was considered revolutionary move against corruption and black money, Kejriwal claims it is the biggest scam in the history of India.


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I once found inspiration in a poster. It was during college spring break and I couldn't afford to travel. Instead I skated up and down empty hallways, outside lecture rooms and faculty offices. I untacked a poster from a bulletin board that was better than any of my Aerosmith artwork and hung it in my room. The poster advertised an upcoming conference in medical informatics.
I was grateful to be majoring in statistics. I really loved the possibilities but was unsure of what kind of job I could get with the degree. As the first statistics major at Carnegie-Mellon, I needed a sense of "sameness". I wanted to be part of an established tribe, like the engineers, business majors and dramatists. The promise of the poster was the existence of an interprofessional collaboration in an emerging field. It was an awakening that I could explore possibilities beyond the known, partnering with smart people who saw opportunities in different ways. That poster hung on my wall even after graduation and helped me navigate graduate school and the job market with an identity. I continue to find this sense of professional belonging among informaticists.
I have trained at the National Institutes of Health, held leadership positions at a brand new medical school in Northeastern Pennsylvania, and many hospital systems, both large and small. My work is defined by the needs of the organization and doesn't always look like "informatics." I love my job and I'm grateful that I gain everyday inspiration from an interprofessional team of physicians, pharmacists and scientists. The real world of informatics is much better than "as advertised."
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Dr. Hogan is the Director of Faculty Development at the UPMC St. Margaret Family Medicine Residency Program and Clinical Associate Professor at the University of Pittsburgh Family Medicine Department.
Prior to rejoining UPMC, Linda was a founding Professor of Medicine for The Commonwealth Medical College (TCMC) in Scranton, PA. She also served as TCMC's Assistant Dean for Medical Informatics and adjunct professor to the graduate school at the University of Scranton. Her prior experience with UPMC, includes 12 years of service to Mercy Hospital, where Dr. Hogan was the Vice President of Clinical Operations & Informatics. Her research interests include data mining of biomedical databases for new knowledge discovery, assessing the quality of health information on the Web, dissemination of evidence-based practice, and clinical analytics.


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Diet, health portals are draw as wellness searches swell
Forty-three million U.S. residents -- or 15 percent of the total population -- visited one of the top-10 health-related Web sites last month, data from comScore Media Metrix indicate. That translates into more than a quarter of all U.S.Web users for the month. WebMD drew the most unique visitors at 11 million, followed by sites affiliated with NIH.gov at eight million.
Of note, sites for eDiets (4) and Weight Watchers International (5) shared the top rankings with health portals like AOL Health (3) and Yahoo Health (7).
The rankings come as a study by the Pew Internet and American Life Project suggests a trend toward prevention as a health search topic.
Pew researchers found that looking for information about diet and nutrition saw one of the greatest increases in popularity as a health topic between 2002 and 2004, rising from 44 percent to 51 percent of Internet users.Women demonstrated the trend strongest, ratcheting up their diet and nutrition searches from 48 percent to 59 percent over the last two years.
"People are not just going online when they have a symptom or new diagnosis. They're going online for wellness and prevention information," said Susannah Fox, Pew associate director.


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Wiechers S, Müller KF, Stöver BC: Increasing data accessibility and reuse in phylogenetics by employing externally defined ontologies. 6th annual Symposium of the Münster Graduate School of Evolution; Münster, Germany; 2017 (Details)
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Wiechers S, Müller KF, Stöver BC: New comparison and annotation methods of the phylogenetic tree editor TreeGraph 2. 5th annual Münster Graduate School of Evolution Symposium; Münster, Germany; 2015 (Details)
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FLORENCE, Italy (Reuters) - Expatriate Britons gathered in Florence on Friday to voice their frustration at how Brexit will impact them, awaiting the British prime minister's arrival in the Italian city to set out her vision for future ties with the European Union.
May will try to rescue the stalled talks over terms for Britain's exit from the EU in a speech that will be scrutinized to see if she can offer enough to EU negotiators to persuade them to move forward.
Outside an imposing 14th century church in the center of the Tuscan city, protesters waved EU flags and posters showing May holding a burning passport. They called for the rights of British citizens living in other EU countries to be protected.
Rachel Pugh, a 48-year-old from north Wales who has lived in Florence since 1991, said she was worried about losing her rights to a pension in the future and had been left uninformed by the British government.
"Who do we ask? The tooth fairy? Father Christmas? The Easter Bunny? Who can we trust? None of them," she said, sporting EU and Welsh flags on her lapel. "We couldn't vote. We're invisible, in limbo."
Negotiations, which began three months ago, have effectively reached an impasse over the divorce, including the issue of how much Britain will have to pay to unspool more than 40 years of economic and political integration in the EU.
Immigration was a key issue ahead of the June 2016 EU referendum in Britain, and millions who have moved smoothly between Britain and the rest of Europe are waiting nervously to see how their lives may change.
Civil rights campaigner and former British member of parliament Roger Casale said he had come to Florence to show solidarity with all those who would be affected.
"We think the EU should be setting an example and should give unilateral guarantees now to all Brits in Europe," he said.
Citing media reports that British trade minister Liam Fox had described EU citizens living in Britain as possible "bargaining chips", Casale said May had "a hostile environment strategy vis a vis immigration, leaving people in a state of uncertainty".
Britain is keen to start negotiating the terms of its new relationship with the bloc, and discontent over the slow progress and lack of clarity is also surfacing among voters.
Visiting Florence on holiday, Malcolm Burley, a 70-year-old retired plumber from Leicestershire in central England, said he had voted to leave the EU and wanted a deal to be reached quickly.
"(May) needs to go and get it sorted as soon as possible. Time is running out," Burley said. "We need to get it sorted and make sure we get the correct deal for England."
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One easy Wiccan spell is the wish spell, which requires a new candle, a pen and a piece of paper. To perform the spell, visualize your wish before starting, write the wish down on paper and place it beneath the candle, and then light the candle as you focus on the wish.Continue Reading
Another easy Wiccan spell is for losing weight. Carve the number of your current weight into the top of a brown candle, and add at the bottom your target weight. Light the candle before bed for 15 minutes every night. By the time the candle burns down, you should start losing weight.
The candle love spell is another classic Wiccan spell that requires a pink candle, rose oil and dried rose or lavender petals. Sprinkle the petals on a surface, and set the candle in a holder on top. Rub the rose oil into the candle, and then light it. Recite an incantation like the one from Free Witchcraft Spells, which reads: "I wish to find love, I wish it to last. I wish to find love, may it come fast." Repeat the incantation three times, and then let the candle burn out.
Other easy Wiccan spells include the alter dedication ritual, a spell to break another spell, the simple luck spell, the Wiccan money spell and a motivation incantation.Learn more about Religion


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'Wall Street Journal' Somehow Tracks Down Bill Watterson
Is this the first anyone's heard from Watterson since 1995?
We don't know how we missed this, but Friday's Wall Street Journal featured a review of Schulz and Peanuts, David Michaelis's intermittently brilliant biography of Charlie Brown creator Charles M. Schulz. What makes this review notable above all the other recent reviews of this title is the author: Bill Watterson.
Yes, that Bill Watterson: the famously reclusive creator of "Calvin and Hobbes," who shut down his strip in 1995 and disappeared so completely into his hometown of Chagrin Falls, Ohio, that the Cleveland Scene made a great Roger & Me–style piece out of just trying to find the guy. As far as we know, this is
the first time one of the first times* Watterson's appeared in print since the fateful day Calvin and Hobbes rode their sled off into the wintry forest. How the hell did the Journal get him to write a book review? Did they send one of their Pulitzer-winning investigative reporters to Ohio to ferret him out?
Nothing so interesting as that, says Mark Lasswell, deputy books editor for the Journal. "He didn't leave much of a paper trail," he says, so the editors went through Watterson's old comic syndicate. "They said, 'Well, we'll send your request along, but we don't want to encourage you."
Much to the Journal's surprise, though, Watterson said yes. "The next surprise when it came through was what a wonderful piece of writing it was," Lasswell says. Watterson points out in the lede of his review how much of an impact Schulz's work had on his own, which is why, Lasswell assumes, he said yes to this request when he's said no to so many others.
How much contact did the Journal's staff have with Watterson? Did edits go through the syndicate, or did someone get to talk to him on the phone? Lasswell demurs from going into too much detail but does allow, "It was not something that required a lot of editing. Let's leave it at that."
The Grief That Made 'Peanuts' Good [WSJ]
Missing! [Cleveland Scene]
Earlier: The Closest We Might Ever Come to a 'Calvin and Hobbes' Movie
*Thanks to readers who reminded us that Watterson wrote a farewell to "Peanuts" for the Los Angeles Times in 1999, and answered questions from readers in 2005.


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Welcome everyone to universe evolution.well this a compulsory site one(universe lovers) has to look through.. i'll be posting some thrilling,mysterious facts about our solar system...
dilaton can be described as the sister particle of the "HIGGS" particle. it almost has the similar characters as that of the "higgs" particle. Astonishingly it's properties are some what that of the "DARK ENERGY"- it is the force which is responsible for the expansion of the universe..
dilaton is also said to have a significance in type II A string theory.....
Subatomic particles are particles that are smaller than an atom. In 1940,
the number of subatomic particles known to science could be counted on the
fingers of one hand: protons, neutrons, electrons, neutrinos, and
positrons. The first three particles were known to be the building blocks
from which atoms are made: protons and neutrons in atomic nuclei and
electrons in orbit around those nuclei. Neutrinos and positrons were
somewhat peculiar particles discovered outside Earth's atmosphere
and of uncertain origin or significance.
That view of matter changed dramatically over the next two decades. With
the invention of particle accelerators (atom-smashers) and the discovery
of nuclear fission and fusion, the number of known subatomic particles
increased. Scientists discovered a number of particles that exist at
energies higher than those normally observed in our everyday lives: sigma
particles, lambda particles, delta particles, epsilon particles, and other
particles in positive, negative, and neutral forms. By the end of the
1950s, so many subatomic particles had been discovered that some
physicists referred to their list as a "particle zoo."
The quark model
In 1964, American physicist Murray Gell-Mann (1929– ) and Swiss physicist George Zweig (1937– ) independently suggested a way out of the particle zoo. They suggested that the nearly 100 subatomic particles that had been discovered so far were not really elementary (fundamental) particles. Instead, they suggested that only a relatively few elementary particles existed, and the other subatomic particles that had been discovered were composed of various combinations of these truly elementary particles.
Words to Know
Antiparticles: Subatomic particles similar to the proton, neutron, electron, and other subatomic particles, but having one property (such as electric charge) opposite them.
Atomic mass unit (amu): A unit of mass measurement for small particles.
Atomic number: The number of protons in the nucleus of an atom.
Elementary particle: A subatomic particle that cannot be broken down into any simpler particle.
Energy levels: The regions in an atom in which electrons are most likely to be found.
Gluon: The elementary particle thought to be responsible for carrying the strong force (which binds together neutrons and protons in the atomic nucleus).
Graviton: The elementary particle thought to be responsible for carrying the gravitational force.
Isotopes: Forms of an element in which atoms have the same number of protons but different numbers of neutrons.
Lepton: A type of elementary particle.
Photon: An elementary particle that carries electromagnetic force.
Quark: A type of elementary particle
A fundamental property of all subatomic particles corresponding to
their rotation on their axes.
The truly elementary particles were given the names quarks and leptons.
Each group of particles, in turn, consists of six different types of
particles. The six quarks, for example, were given the rather fanciful
names of up, down, charm, strange, top (or truth), and bottom (or beauty).
These six quarks could be combined, according to Gell-Mann and Zweig, to
produce particles such as the proton (two up quarks and one down quark)
and the neutron (one up quark and two down quarks).
In addition to quarks and leptons, scientists hypothesized the existence
of certain particles that "carry" various kinds of forces.
One of those particles was already well known, the photon. The photon is a
strange type of particle with no mass that apparently is responsible for
the transmission of electromagnetic energy from one place to another.
In the 1980s, three other force-carrying particles were also discovered:
the W
, and Z
bosons. These particles carry certain forces that can be observed during
the radioactive decay of matter. (Radioactive elements spontaneously emit
energy in the form of particles or waves by disintegration of their atomic
nuclei.) Scientists have hypothesized the existence of two other
force-carrying particles, one that carries the strong force, the gluon
(which binds together protons and neutrons in the nucleus), and one that
carries gravitational force, the graviton.
Five important subatomic particles
For most beginning science students, the five most important sub-atomic particles are the PROTON, NEUTRON, ELECTRON, NEUTRINO, and POSITRON. Each of these particles can be described completely by its mass, electric charge, and spin. Because the mass of subatomic particles is so small, it is usually not measured in ounces or grams but in atomic mass units (label: amu) or electron volts (label: eV). An atomic mass unit is approximately equal to the mass of a proton or neutron. An electron volt is actually a unit of energy but can be used to measure mass because of the relationship between mass and energy (E = mc 2 ).
All subatomic particles (indeed, all particles) can have one of three
electric charges: positive, negative, or none (neutral). All subatomic
particles also have a property known as spin, meaning that they rotate on
their axes in much the same way that planets such as Earth do. In general,
the spin of a subatomic particle can be clockwise or counterclockwise,
although the details of particle spin can become quite complex.
PROTON:The proton is a positively charged subatomic particle with an atomic mass of about 1 amu. Protons are one of the fundamental constituents of all atoms. Along with neutrons, they are found in a very concentrated region of space within atoms referred to as the nucleus.The number of protons determines the chemical identity of an atom. This property is so important that it is given a special name: the atomic number. Each element in the periodic table has a unique number of protons in its nucleus and, hence, a unique atomic number.NEUTRON. A neutron has a mass of about 1 amu and no electric charge. It is found in the nuclei of atoms along with protons. The neutron is normally a stable particle in that it can remain unchanged within the nucleus for an infinite period of time. Under some circumstances, however, a neutron can undergo spontaneous decay, breaking apart into a proton and an electron. When not contained with an atomic nucleus, the half-life for this change—the time required for half of any sample of neutrons to undergo decay—is about 11 minutes.
The nuclei of all atoms with the exception of the hydrogen-1 isotope contain neutrons. The nuclei of atoms of any one element may contain different numbers of neutrons. For example, the element carbon is made of at least three different kinds of atoms. The nuclei of all three kinds of atoms contain six protons. But some nuclei contain six neutrons, others contain seven neutrons, and still others contain eight neutrons. These forms of an element that contain the same number of protons but different numbers of neutrons are known as isotopes of the element.
Electron. Electrons are particles carrying a single unit of negative electricity with a mass of about 1/1800 amu, or 0.0055 amu. All atoms contain one or more electrons located in the space outside the atomic nucleus. Electrons are arranged in specific regions of the atom known as energy levels. Each energy level in an atom may contain some maximum number of electrons, ranging from a minimum of two to a maximum of eight.
ELECTRONS AND LEPTONS: Unlike protons and neutrons, they are not thought
to consist of any smaller particles but are regarded themselves as
elementary particles that cannot be broken down into anything simpler.
All electrical phenomena are caused by the existence or absence of
electrons or by their movement through a material.
Properties of the Leptons
Neutrinos are elusive subatomic particles that are created by some of the
most basic physical processes of the universe, like decay of radioactive
elements and fusion reactions that power the Sun. They were originally
hypothesized in 1930 by Swiss physicist Wolfgang Pauli (1900–1958).
Pauli was trying to find a way to explain the apparent loss of energy that
occurs during certain nuclear reactions.
Neutrinos ("little neutrons") proved very difficult to
actually find in nature, however. They have no electrical charge and
possibly no mass. They rarely interact with other matter. They can
penetrate nearly any form of matter by sliding through the spaces between
atoms. Because of these properties, neutrinos escaped detection for 25
years after Pauli's prediction.
Then, in 1956, American physicists Frederick Reines and Clyde Cowan
succeeded in detecting neutrinos produced by the nuclear reactors at the
Savannah River Reactor. By 1962, the particle accelerator at
Brookhaven National Laboratory was generating enough neutrinos to conduct
an experiment on their properties. Later, physicists discovered a second
type of neutrino, the muon neutrino.
Traditionally, scientists have thought that neutrinos have zero mass
because no experiment has ever detected mass. If neutrinos do have a mass,
it must be less than about one hundred-millionth the mass of the proton,
the sensitivity limit of the experiments. Experiments conducted during
late 1994 at Los Alamos National Laboratory hinted at the possibility that
neutrinos do have a very small, but nonzero, mass. Then in 1998, Japanese
researchers found evidence that neutrinos have at least a small mass, but
their experiments did not allow them to determine the exact value for the
In 2000, at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory near Chicago, a team
of 54 physicists from the United States, Japan, South Korea, and
Greece detected a third type of neutrino, the tau neutrino, considered to be the most elusive member of the neutrino family.
A positron is a subatomic particle identical in every way to an electron
except for its electric charge. It carries a single unit of positive
electricity rather than a single unit of negative electricity.
The positron was hypothesized in the late 1900s by English physicist Paul
Dirac (1902–1984) and was first observed by American physicist Carl
Anderson (1905–1991) in a cosmic ray shower. The positron was the
first antiparticle discovered—the first particle that has
properties similar to protons, neutrons, and electrons, but with one
property exactly the opposite of them.
According to "STRING THEORY" - a relatively new theory which attempts to combine all the forces known to physics in a single unified WHOLE - there may be any number of universes in existence. However, each of them might be governed by different natural laws. For this reason most of these universes could not sustain life, since to find a combination of natural laws that would allow life to exist would be exceptional.
However rare such a combination may be, any universe containing an intelligent observer would inevitably be an exceptional universe of this kind. Some scientists this is one way of explaining why it is that the natural laws in our universe seem designed to allow life to exist - because we are here to observe it. Or it may be merely a matter of chance that this is how it is.
Only the astronomer's professional organization, the "INTERNATIONAL ASTRONOMICAL UNION"(IAU) can decide on names, & there are strict rules surrounding the naming of celestial bodies.For example, comets are always named after their discoverer.In the case of asteroids, the discoverer is entitled to suggest a name but it must be approved by a committee of the IAU. These days, most stars are merely given a catalogue number which usually contains a set of celestial coordinates indicating the body's position in the sky.
for more info about IAU you can check their official website..
Unlike earth, the sun has an extremely complicated magnetic field.A large part of this magnetic field runs beneath the surface of the sun in the form of so - called "magnetic tubes".Sometimes these tubes can break through the sun's surface, and where they do so,strong magnetic fields prevent hot matters from rising out of the sun's interior,cooling the affected areas of the surface to a temperature of 4000^o c. Because of their lower temperature, these regions aren't bright as the rest of the sun - which is about 1500^o c hotter - & thus they appear as dark spots on the sun's surface.Sunspots are between 2500 km and 50000 km wide, which means they can be several times larger than earth.The life span of individual sunspots varies from days to months.
Sunspots numbers rise and fall in a cycle of approximately 11 years. The last sunspot maximum was in 2000,so the next one is expected in 2011.The sunspot cycle is controlled by the sun's magnetic field,which changes direction every 11 years.
Our sun is definitely not exceptional,and other stars also have dark spots in number's that fluctuate in accordance with a regular cycle.The magnetic processes at work appear to be very similar. These 'starspots' can be even larger than the spots on our sun.
The "CORONA" is the sun's thin external atmosphere. Sound waves & magnetic fields heat the gas in the corona to a temperature of over 1 million degrees celsius. This high temperature causes the corona to emit x-rays.However, it also emits a lot of light, which is why the corona can be seen with the naked eye when the sun's bright disc is covered,as is the case during a total eclipse of the sun. In order to observe the corona, space scientists use a special telescope,like the one aboard the solar and heliospheric observatory(SOHO) spacecraft, which has been fitted with a device to cover the disc of the sun. The corona stretches several million kilometres in to space two or three times the diametre of the sun
Well it's a fact that scientists are hunting for neutrino's. but why? this has been our question right? so here it is......
The process of "nuclear fusion" within the sun generates a huge no of neutriono's as well as EMR( Electro Magnetic Radiations). Neutrinos are mysterious elementary particles. They have miniscule mass and are able to pass through matter almost undisturbed, which is why, in contrast to radiation, the neutrino's that originate in the core of the sun arrive at the earth in only 8 minutes. About 70 billion neutrinos strike each square centimetre of our planet every second. Physicists are developing gigantic detectors in their efforts to catch at least a few of these elusive particles to help them understand a few more of the mysteries of the sun's interior.
One such detector is The "SUPER KAMIOKANDE" detector which is 59m high and fitted with more than 11000 photomultiplier tubes which are used to detect neutrinos.
you see the tiny tiny things here in the picture these are the "photomultiplier tubes"
So far scientists have found liquid water only on earth.That is the reason maybe life was first originated on earth. Some suspect that there may be frozen water in the perpetually shaded regions around Mercury's poles. Frozen water is also present near the poles on mars, and it is highly probable that there is an ocean on jupiter's moon "EUROPA"
Magnetic field measurements indicate that an ocean about 100 km deep is concealed under a 1 km thick layer of ice on jupiter's moon- europa.It may be that the giant planet's gravity heats the inside of the moon by 'squeezing' it thoroughly, maintaining any water in a liquid form.The american space agency NASA is currently working on plans to send a space probe to this moon in an attempt to find out what exactly is happening there.
"VULCANISM" - Well vulcanism(verb) means volcanic activity or volcanic eruption....
Astronomers have discovered old volcanoes on venus, as well as on mars. So far, no active vulcanism has been detected on any other planet, although it has been detected in jupiter's moon "IO". However, atmospheric gases on venus indicate that there may be active volcanoes on that planet as well....
there you see the small one is the "IO"
In the inner solar system, the young sun's radiation blew away any leftover gas at an early stage, but it was preserved for a longer period in the outer areas.This is why those planets that formed in the outer regions of the solar system had more time to attract the gas present in their surroundings, and so grew for much longer.
WORM HOLES:- A Wormhole is just like a space portal which acts as a shortcut for a journey to other galaxies.... it's just an assumption well there is no proof at present for the existence of "wormhole's"...
Because we are restricted to velocities below the speed of light, the kind of space travel to distant stars and galaxies we see depicted in science fiction films is impossible.The realisation that this is the case, & that humankind may never visit even a fraction of the "vast" universe, is a situation that even some physicists find unsatisfactory.This has lead to a search for loopholes in the laws of physics that may make intergalactic space travel possible. One such loophole involves the possibility of so called "wormholes" in space. These strange entities are a consequence of the theory of relativity, and the suggestion is that distant regions of the universe may be connected by a kind of space-time tunnel.However,theory predicts that wormholes will be unstable and so unsuitable for use as shortcuts by future astronauts. As soon as they have formed- if indeed they do form - they would collapse again. One suggestion is that wormholes could be stabilized by matter with "NEGATIVE ENERGY & NEGATIVE GRAVITY". Unfortunately - like wormholes themselves - this kind of matter exists only in theory so far.
WELl you know guys.... this question got in to my mind when i was in 7th class...... :P it seems strange but when i asked someone i know who are elder to me they haven't answered to me .....
it's quite simple.... of course i would go somewhat logic wise..
The earth rotates very rapidly, it's speed at the equator being almost 1700 km/h. To keep all of the inhabitants of the earth firmly on the ground and rotating along with the planet,requires the gravitational pull of the earth's immense mass. It is "GRAVITY" that keeps our feet on the ground.In fact, there is a reduction in weight due to rotational speed that means we weigh around 0.5% more at North & South poles than we do at the Equator.If there was a planet that actually rotated so fast that it was impossible for it's inhabitants to be held down by gravity if they stood at it's equator, the planet itself would fly apart.
In 1928 an Indian graduate student named subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar set sail for england to study at cambridge with the british astronomer Sir Arthur Eddington.Eddington was an expert on general relativity.
During his voyage to india,Chandrasekhar worked on how big a star could be and still separate itself under it's own gravity after it had used up all it's fuel.The idea was this: when the star becomes small, the matter particles get very near to each other.But the pauli exclusion principle says that two matter particles can't have both the same position and the same velocity.The matter particles must therefore have very different velocities.
This makes them move away from each other,and so tends to make the star expand. A star can therefore maintain itself at a constant radius by a balance between the attraction of gravity and the repulsion that arises from the exclusion principle, just as earlier in it's life the gravity was balanced by the heat.
Chandrasekhar realized, however, that there is a limit to the repulsion that the exclusion principle can provide.The theory of relativity limits the max difference in the velocities of the matter particles in the star to the speed of light. That meant that when the star got sufficiently dense, the repulsion caused by the exclusion principle would be less than the attraction of gravity.Chandrasekhar calculated that a cold star of more than one and a half times the mass of the sun wouldn't be able to support itself against it's own gravity. This mass is now known as the "CHANDRASEKHAR LIMIT".
Well before going for the question i'll quickly post some properties abt light. well "light" can travel with a speed of 3 lakh m/s where as in miles it is 6.702 * 10^8 miles/hour.
Scientists stop light completely for a record-breaking MINUTE by trapping it inside a crystal!
Scientists in Germany have succeeded in stopping light - the fastest thing in the universe - for a whole minute, smashing earlier records.
Researchers at Darmstadt Technical University achieved the remarkable feat by trapping it in a crystal.
In a paper published this month in the journal Physical Review Letters, the scientists explained how they stopped the light using a technique called electromagnetically induced transparency.
At full pelt, light would normally travel about 11 million miles in one minute – equivalent to more than 20 round trips to the moon.
'One minute is extremely, extremely long,' Thomas Krauss, Professor of optoelectronics at the University of St Andrews, UK, commented to the New Scientist. 'This is indeed a major milestone.'
The physicists, Professor Thomas Halfmann, Christian Hubrich and PhD student Georg Heinze, also used the same technique to store and then retrieve an image consisting of three stripes. 'We showed you can imprint complex information on your light beam,' said researcher Georg Heinze.
The results may further light-bas
well, a scientist inspired by the "EIFFEL TOWER" construction had a thought in his mind.He decided to construct a tower of height 348000 km near our earth's equator.At the top of this tower if a person reaches he will be able to easily float in the space,and the tower's speed would match the earth's orbit speed.Neverthless that ain't gonna happen.But the idea is nice isn't it? An american scientist realized that the tower itself wasn't necessary.All that was needed was a rope that could tie the lift from a satellite to the earth. But the only problem is the material with which that rope would me made of. Even steal of width 90 km can't hold that much weight.Well still an american space organization has planned to launch a lift into the space by 2025.They decided to make the rope from "carbon micro nanotubes".
Although the universe as a whole is expanding, there are still galaxies moving in our direction- for example the nearby "ANDROMA GALAXY" which is travelling towards us at rate of about 3000 km/sec.
To understand this apparent contradiction we have to differentiate between two phenomena: on the one other hand the motion of galaxies through space,on the other hand the expansion of the cosmos itself.Random motions of galaxies in space are typically in the order of a few hundred kilometres per sec. For galaxies that are very close to our milky way galaxy, the expansion is negligible compared to that of expansion.Hence all distant galaxies seem to be rushing away from as a result of expansion,whereas near by galaxies can be moving either towards us or away from us.
When it was discovered that nearly all galaxies are moving away from us,scientists wondered whether the milky way might be situated at the centre of the universe.Plausible as the idea may seem,it is incorrect.In reality, galaxies scarcely move, it is the space between them that stretches - just like the surface of a balloon when it is inflated. Every point moves away from every point , surface.This would also be true if the universe were not curved like the balloon's surface but infinite.Although we may find this hard to imagine, even a universe of this kind would have no centre.
Many different methods are used to measure distance in space.Apollo 11 astronauts left a laser reflector on the moon, making possible to measure the centimetre the precise distance the moon and earth.
The distances of other bodies in our solar system, such as the planets & asteroids, can be measured by RADAR,that is reflecting radio waves off them.However,this method wonn't work for stars,which are much further away.For these, astronomers use a technique that measures tiny differences in the position of a star when it is observed from opposite side of the earth's orbit,that is at intervals six months apart.Since the diameter of the earth's orbit is known, the change in angular position of a star at either side of the orbit can be used to calculate it's distance known as the "PARALLAX" method this works for objects at distances of upto about 1000 light years.
For still more distant objects,such as galaxies astronomers use indirect methods.One of these involves cepheid variables, a type of star which has the convenient property of varying in brightness at regular intervals.We know that the length of the intervals depend on a star's luminosity,which means that by measuring a cepheid variable's brightness it is possible to calculate how far away it- and the galaxy that it is a part of- is from us.
What's So Special About The Celestial Body That Shone Over Bethlehem?
There have been many attempts to explain the star of bethlehem said to have guided the three wise men to the birthplace of "JESUS" as a natural celestial phenomenon.It has been suggested that it might have been a comet or even a supernova, an exploding star.
Many researchers believe the most likely possibility to be the meeting of two or more bright planets - a celestial event known as a conjunction- and there are a number of candidates in the relevant period of time.Among the possibilities are the rare triple conjunction of jupiter and saturn in 7 BC or the conjunctions of venus & jupiter in 3 BC and again in 2 BC. However none of these hypotheses has so far been proven and none may ever be.
GALAXIES are mixture of several hundred billion stars. Stars are not evenly scattered across the universe,instead they form large systems that's what i call as a galaxy. Galaxies exist in a variety of different shapes and sizes,from gigantic elliptical galaxies,through to spiral galaxies like our own "MILKY WAY", and small, irregular galaxies such as the large and small magnetic clouds.
what are clusters of galaxies?
well galaxies themselves are not distributed randomly or evenly through the cosmos.They collect in groups and clusters.For example,our milky way belongs to the local group of galaxies which comprises about 30 star systems. Other galaxies are located in the clusters which have several thousand members. One example is a cluster within the constellation VIRGO, which is made of more than 2000 galaxies.
Between september 2003 and jan 2004, The "HUBBLE" space telescope took the longest ever exposure of the sky in the history of astronomy - more than 270 hours.Based on the number of galaxies visible in the spectacular "HUBBLE ULTRA DEEP FIELD" scientists estimate that with the technology available today some 50 billion galaxies can be observed.
How Far Is To The Nearest Galaxy?
It is currently thought that the "CANIS" major dwarf galaxy in the constellation of the great dog is the nearest galaxy closest to us. It is only 25,000 light years away from the centre of the milky way. This small system appears to be disintegrating as the gravitational pull of the much larger milky way is tearing it apart and absorbing it's stars.
Quasars are among the brightest objects in the universe,radiating more energy than entire galaxies! great aren't they? After speculating for years about the mysterious nature of quasars, astronomers had known that they lie at the heart of some galaxies.They draw their energy from enormous black holes which have masses billions of times greater than of our sun.Like cosmic vacuum cleaners these gravitational "MONSTERS" suck up matter from their surroundings,releasing unimaginable quantities of energy in the process.
now if anybody asks you what are the most brightest objects in our sky? you should say "quasars" but not stars.....
well u may be thinking it's nice knowing abt quasars but how are they "DISCOVERED"
Light rays are subject to the effects of gravity. If a ray passes close to a star or galaxy its path is curved by an effect known as "GRAVITATIONAL LENSING". This can produce some interesting effects.This is how scientists can observe quasars which would otherwise be hidden from us behind a much closer galaxy. Thanks to this phenomenon, astronomers have discovered several planets orbiting other stars.
They draw their energy from enormous black holes which have masses billions of times greater than of our sun. this was my sentence in the very first paragraph. all may be amused at the first look at this sentence, wondering what exactly that sentence meant... well here i explain it clearly....
. Quasars Are So Bright, In Fact, That They Can Be Seen At Very Large Distances When The Universe Was Quite Young.
Although stars seem constant to us,there is in fact a relentless cycle of life and death going on in a space.Astronomers can identify regions where new stars are being born as well as the remains of stars that have exploded. the stars appear unchanged to us only because they take an almost inconceivably long time - millions & billions of years - to develop. Spectacular and rapid events like a "SUPERNOVA"- a star exploding- are very rare.The course of a star's life and it's eventual death depend on the amount of mass it accrued during it's formation.
how are stars and planets formed?
The life of a star begins with a gigantic cloud of cool hydrogen gas with an initial temperature no more than a few degrees above absolute zero(-273.15^o c). The cloud gradually collapses under it's own gravity and clumps of material begin to form inside it,causing it to collapse at ever increasing speeds,while the temperature of the gas rises steadily.The cloud eventually starts to glow,giving off thermal radiation which can be detected by infrared telescopes.The internal density and temperature ultimately increase to a point where "nuclear fusion" takes place.in which hydrogen is converted into helium,& so a new star is "BORN"
Typically many stars of different sizes emerge from one large gas cloud.Sometimes,stars clusters made up of thousands or even millions of stars are created all at once.A rapidly rotating cloud of gas and dust( the remnants of original cloud) floats around many of the young stars, and inside this cloud there are further clumps of matter which have the potential to develop into planets and other smaller celestial bodies. It is thought that planets may be formed around most stars.
what about age of stars?
The first stars found in the cosmos were formed 400 million years after the big bang.Some stars are very frugal in using their supply of fuel,that even today we are still able to see the stars belonging to the very first generations.This is especially the case with globular clusters,where we find stars that are more than 13 billion years old,although new stars are being formed all the time. One of the best known starbirth regions is the "GREAT ORION NEBULA". which is 1600 light years away and visible with the naked eye as part of the constellation orion. The hubble and spitzer telescopes have revealed that many young stars in the orion region have discs of matter rotating around them in which planets may be forming.
how long does a star live and how do they "die"?
The duration of star's life and the manner of it's death depend on it's "MASS".This is because large,high mass stars use up their energy reserves more rapidly than smaller,low mass stars.This is the reason why large stars shine brightly for no more than a few million years,while smaller stars can live for billions of years.Stars produce their energy as a result of a process known as nuclear fusion- during which hydrogen is converted into helium.However the time inevitably comes when all the hydrogen at the core of a star has been used up.
Once a star's hydrogen reserves are used up, the star enters the final phase of it's life.It swells up to become what is known as "red giant".Our own sun will one day turn into a red giant,and in so doing may even devour the earth,along with several more of inner planets.further fusion processes occur in the core of the enlarged star over millions of years,during which,for example helium is converted in to carbon and oxygen.when all of a star's stock of potential nuclear fuel has benn exhausted,it collapses and turns into a "WHITE DWARF". At this stage the star is only about the same size as "EARTH" and it takes billions more years for it to cool down
When a star has a mass of more than 8 times than that of our sun it's end is considerably more dramatic than that of most regular stars.In it's final stages the dying star hurls it's outer layers into space with a mighty explosion which is called as "SUPERNOVA".
at the same time,the star's interior's collapses to form a small,extremely dense body,which can form either of a "neutron star or a black hole".
The matter in a neutron star is packed as densely as the matter in an atomic nucleus.It is so tightly packed.that a tiny piece of a neutron star the size of a pinhead would weigh more than one million tonnes.The immense pressure in the interior of this kind of object pushes the electrons into the atomic nuclei's protons- leaving nothing but neutrons behind.Neutron stars have a diameter of only about 20 km but contain about the same mass as our sun.
If the mass of a star's collapsing interior is more than about 3 times that of our sun,it's gravity becomes so strong that even the neutrons can't halt the process. Inexorably, the star continues to collapse until it becomes a "BLACK HOLE". the name given to a region where gravity is so powerful that nothing,literally not even light, is able to escape. this is why these gravity holes are "BLACK".
what are star's?
Stars are nothing other than suns. just like our own sun, they too are huge balls of incandescent gas,inside which "NUCLEAR FUSION" transforms hydrogen into helium.This process releases enormous amounts of energy,which is why stars shine and radiate heat.It is only because stars are so far away that they appear in the night sky as no more than tiny points of light.In reality,many stars are considerably larger than our sun.
Mercury is the closest planet to the sun in our solar system.since it's average distance from the sun is only 58 million km(compare with 150 million km between the earth and the sun),it's position in the sky is also very close to the sun.seen from earth,mercury can't move any further from the sun than 28^o, and most of the time it is even closer than that,or even directly in front of or behind the sun.from earth the planet is nearly always obscured by the sun's brilliant light.mercury is only visible for most people when the sun is not in the sky at the same time - which is obviously at dawn and dusk.then mercury can be seen low on the horizon either rising or setting just before or just after the sun.
well everybody loves moon. don't they? but do you know what makes our earth and the moon in our solar system special?
well as all know there are 8 planets in our solar system, and most have moons, but there is something special about the earth and it's moon.
The fact that there is life on earth is one important factor that makes it special,but there is another- astronomical reason as well.
And that is "NO" other planet has such a large moon relative to the planet's size.This is why some scientists don't consider the earth and it's moon to be a typical planet moon system,but prefer to think of it as a "DOUBLE PLANET".
it's very difficult for the scientists to measure exactly the age of our universe.
coming to the question how scientists would have measured the age of our universe?
well, does anybody know about "cosmic microwave background radiation"?
cosmic microwave background radiation:- Cosmic microwave background reaches the earth from all the directions and is like an echo of the big bang.
The background pattern we see today emerged when the cosmos was only 400000 years old. by that time it's temperature had dropped to less than 2700 c. and what had been hot,opaque plasma became transparent gas through which electromagnetic radiation could travel freely.since then,the universe has expanded and cooled so that the temperature of the cosmic background radiation is now only 2.7 c above absolute zero(-273.15 c). so thanks to tiny variations in the cosmic background radiation we can hope to learn what happened at the time of big bang.
the most accurate measurement of cosmic microwave background radiation so far was made by,the US satellite "WILKINSON MICROWAVE ANISOTROPY PROBE.(WMAP). which found our universe to be "13.7" billion years old.by comparison, earth came into existence into being some "4.5" billion years ago.
is universe finite?
1) firstly how many of you know that our universe is expanding day by day?
2)if so why? according to some space scientists our present universe is expanding day by day.coming to the point why the universe is expanding? In 1929 Edwin Hubble, working at the Carnegie Observatories in Pasadena, California, measured the redshifts of a number of distant galaxies. He also measured their relative distances by measuring the apparent brightness of a class of variable stars called Cepheids in each galaxy. When he plotted redshift against relative distance, he found that the redshift of distant galaxies increased as a linear function of their distance. The only explanation for this observation is that the universe was expanding.
take a keen look at this.this would do the understanding.
1) would you believe during the explosion of big bang the size of our universe was 10-36 m.
2)usually everyone loves moon. did anyone know that every year moon comes 3.7 cm close to earth?
3) does anybody knows a place on this earth where people can indirectly watch the earth's rotation? well there is a place named "pantheon" in paris. There people can observe the rotation of the earth indirectly by means of a "foucault" pendulum.
4)It(light ray emitted by moon) takes "8.3" seconds to reach the earth's surface. where as a sun ray takes 8.248 minutes.
4)It(light ray emitted by moon) takes "8.3" seconds to reach the earth's surface. where as a sun ray takes 8.248 minutes.
well i love any thing,topic and whatever related to our universe....... i'll post some interesting.thrilling,mysterious facts about our universe.....
well....... as everyone know how our universe was evolved... actually nobody know's how it has evolved ... because there was nothing before the evolution of universe... after the evolution of universe came "time,matter, etc..... everything. well by the time you read this three sentences you will be getting bored.. so i'm not gonna waste time of your's by elongating the current topic..
1)BIG BANG THEORY:- as everyone know... the main theory(just an assumption) big bang was very much helpful in understanding about how our present universe has evolved..
IT states that the origin of our universe took place by a huge(literally very huge) explosion.. and thus how the name "BIG BANG" was given to it.
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To Everything There is a Season
and a time for every purpose under heaven.
A time to be born and a time to die.
A time to plant and a time to harvest.
A time to kill and a time to heal.
A time to tear down and a time to build up.
A time to cry and a time to laugh.
A time to grieve and a time to dance.
A time to scatter stones and a time to gather stones.
A time to embrace and a time to turn away.
A time to search and a time to quit searching.
A time to keep and a time to throw away.
A time to tear and a time to mend.
A time to be quiet and a time to speak.
A time to love and a time to hate.
A time for war and a time for peace.
I always said it would be a cold day in hell,
And it is…
The moment I step through the threshold where daydreams meet reality
I'm accosted by a frigid wind, instantly evicting all breath from my body.
I balance, terrified, on the plateau of hell frozen over,
gazing into the abyss of what once composed my soul.
Fragments of my former existence lie all blurred together,
no longer defined by anything other than the blanket of white that covers them.
There is nothing left for me here, I have nothing left to give.
I have fought with myself… with you… with everyone.
I fought with more fight than I ever knew I had inside me,
and it still wasn't enough.
Not for you.
My tears freeze the instant they fall,
shattering like the rest of the broken glass;
the glass that once protected our family,
in a frame encapsulating what we used to be.
Those days are long gone, dead and buried like those in the graveyard I'm passing by.
Everything is covered in ice…
So many layers that I've lost sight of what was inside to begin with.
The winter months are long, dark, and lonely stuffed in a room full of people,
all the while being alone… I resented that time.
The time you stole from me, the time you froze me in,
stuck in an ice age of empty promises, deceit and lies.
If only I had known that was merely the tip of the iceberg.
I think I would have rather walked through a tornado of broken glass…
I would have come out less wounded.
You're going to catch a cold, from the ice inside your soul…
So don't come back for me,
Don't come back at all.
So melted the ice,
with it releasing the wrath-ridden choke-hold of winter,
breathing life into the sharp daggers of truth
rising from the ground that once housed
the walls of ice I intricately and deliberately surrounded myself with.
I had been safe there…
Up came everything that I had purposely kept
tucked neatly inside my core…
slowly defiling me from the inside out.
I find myself suffocating in the lull of a room
filled with plants that bloom
filled with plants that bloom
no matter what the season.
Re-telling the same stories,
as if reliving them would give me a chance to change the ending.
as if reliving them would give me a chance to change the ending.
I began again just for the sake of starting over
with the rest of the universe.
And so I started over, chained to the burdens of seasons past
moving forward, yet going nowhere.
The April showers mirror the cascade of tears falling down my face
after been held back for far too long.
Eventually they bring May flowers to remind me that
everything worth having is worth fighting for…
Even in the dead of winter
something lives.
I can feel it.
I am angry still.
I have such a furious fire burning in my soul…
I should be ashes by now,
but I am letting go.
So melts the ice…
out with the old, in with the new.
Sunrise, sunrise,
you couldn't stop me if you tried.
Free at last.
I am as free as the wind blows,
free as the sun to rise and set as it pleases,
finding the joy in elongating the light of each new day.
Free like the honeysuckle vine
wrapping desperately around everything it touches
begging to expand its ability
to make something crippling, beautiful.
Free like the dandelion seeds floating through the air,
finding 'home' wherever the winds of life take them,
expanding their 'family' to those encountered along the way.
The world around me is bursting with life,
and for the first time in years,
I see it for what it is,
instead of what it is not.
I counted the stars on the fourth of July
knowing that this independence day meant much, much more
than rockets bursting in the sky.
Talking about redemption and leaving things behind…
At peace with how I played the hand I was dealt,
at peace with the beauty in the breakdown.
Encompassed by the eternal serenity bestowed upon me
by the angels I spent time with,
just passing through the crossroads.
The warmth of the air is comparable
to the heart I finally allowed the chance to thaw.
Through the changing tides of time
I've come to understand,
I must write the good in stone,
and lie the bad down on the sand.
It is true what they say;
a journey of a thousand miles
does indeed begin with the first step.
I took that step, and many, many thousands beyond it.
Though my feet may hurt, I'll never stop walking.
I'm starting over,
for the sake of starting over
without the rest of the universe.
Once upon a time,
I wanted everything to stay the same.
Once upon a time,
it was better that it changed.
I changed.
What if trials of this life,
the rain, the storms, the darkest nights,
are really mercies in disguise?
What doesn't kill you builds character.
The winds of grace are always blowing
but you must raise the sail…
The combination of the sunshine on my face,
the chill in the air, and the hues of every season
joining together in a grand finale
reminds me of the journey…
and that it is far from over.
I walk down the paths I've walked before,
past the graveyard I used to call home,
and in the absence of disdain, I'm planting seeds…
Seeds of the memories that now compose my soul
coupled with the desire to cultivate new ones.
You reap what you sow.
I'm reminded by the leaves,
as they fall from the trees,
that there IS beauty in the breakdown.
It is true that in order to gain something worth having,
it may be necessary to lose everything else.
Like the flowers shriveling up
into nothing but the seedpod fruits of their labor,
I will find something worth leaving behind.
I will go into winter knowing
that I used everything I was given
to cultivate for myself a new existence,
a new and deeply impassioned ambition;
a new and selflessly loving family;
a new and eternal inspiration to be the change;
a new and unparalleled happiness.
I will go into winter
knowing there is no need to shelter my heart with walls of ice;
knowing that it is better to love and lose;
knowing that even in death there opens doors for life to enter;
knowing that it is not always about what is ending, but what's beginning.
So starts the beginning to my new ending:
May God grant me the serenity
to accept the things I cannot change,
the courage to change the things I can,
and the wisdom to know the difference,
and the strength to do all the good I can,
in all the ways I can,
for all the people I can,
for as long as I can.
forever and always,
always and forever,
till death do I part from this earth.


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The European Commission and Europe's data industry have committed to invest €2.5bn (£2bn) in a public-private partnership focusing on development of big data applications to improve energy efficiency, health care and industrial processes.
A Memorandum of Understanding, laying down the framework for the public-private partnership (PPP), was signed today by European Commission Vice President Neelie Kroes and President of the Big Data Value Association, Jan Sundelin, who acts on behalf of companies including ATOS, Nokia Solutions and Networks, Orange, SAP, SIEMENS, and research bodies such as Fraunhofer and the German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence.
The EU has earmarked over €500m of investment from the Horizon 2020 research programme to be allocated over a five-year period between 2016 and 2020 to big data research. The private partners are expected to provide the additional €2bn.
"Data is the motor and foundation of the future economy. Every kind of organisation needs the building blocks to boost their performance, from farm to factory, from the lab to the shop floor," Kroes said.
The PPP hopes to contribute to the creation of up to 100,000 new data-related jobs in Europe by 2020 and facilitate development of personalised big-data applications to improve efficiency of various industries including health care, food logistics, manufacturing and energy.
The PPP will also support "Innovation Spaces" that will offer secure environments for experimenting with both private and open data. These will also act as business incubators and hubs for the development of skills and best practices.
The PPP, due to start on 1 January 2015, is one of the first outcomes of the European Commission's recent policy and action plan to accelerate the development of Europe's data-driven economy.
The big data sector has been growing at a staggering 40 per cent rate in the past years, which is seven times faster than the overall information and communications market.
Businesses that base their decision-making processes on knowledge generated from big data analysis have reported a 5 to 6 per cent increase in productivity.
The relatively new field presents not only opportunities but also multiple challenges as analysing enormous data sets requires developing new processes and tools.
The Data PPP is one of nine key strategic public-private partnerships funded under the Horizon 2020 research programme, focusing on innovative technologies identified for their potential to address key societal challenges and create highly skilled job opportunities.
The public-private partnerships funded under the Horizon 2020 research programme cover areas such as photonics, robotics, high performance computing, advanced 5G networks for the future internet and factories of the future.


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Dylan & Levi
Easy-going but hard to tell apart – twins Dylan and Levi were born with a double dose of heart trouble. Just hours old, they came to Children's Hospital and Medical Center.
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Starting Where You Are
Every family brings its own beliefs and background to decisions. These beliefs come from many places:
We always want to start where you are. Talking clearly about your beliefs among yourselves and with the health care team makes decision making clearer.
Treatment as a Bridge to Achieve Health
We accept a lot of treatments that are painful – surgeries, medication side effects, ventilators – if they can potentially return us to good health. The decision to use those treatments long-term or permanently becomes harder if they will delay death for a time – but not give a good quality of life or a return to health. It is always reasonable to ask whether a treatment will be a bridge to better health or a permanent situation.
Realistic Life Goals
Good decisions about medical treatment take into account who each person is – and what is possible for their life. This is hard when we talk about medical conditions and life-and-death issues for children. Choices about treatment, however, need to be made with understanding about the realistic life goals parents have for their child.
The Child's Point of View
As you think about what is best, it is important to spend some time looking at the world as your child experiences it. Your child's experience of their body, their thoughts and feelings about themselves and their world, and their interactions with others (being comforted, feeling loved, feeling lonely) are all important aspects of experience.
The Family as a Whole
Any decision-making process needs to take into account both how your child is part of your family – and how medical decisions you make affect your family. Things like nurses in your home, numbers of doctors' appointments, and the time and expense it takes to do treatments all need to be taken into account and planned for along with the opportunities for joy, loyalty and embracing life.
Source: Children's Hospital and Clinics of Minnesota


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The great news is that a Google search on either of Kwik Fit Newcastle upon Tyne or Mini Trolleys will (as of the time of writing) give you some incredible content. I must be an authoritative source on both Kwik Fit and Mini Trolleys. Fair enoughski!
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The BBC have done it this time. Attempting to rise above a tabloid rumour, they've revealed more about themselves that they intended, probably.
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I've put some old backlash articles out to pasture in the backlash archive. However, a retrospective on some of the supermarket woes of the past is only a part of tonight's update. I also tell three new tales of fun with Safeway staff. These tales are heartwarming (mine's roasting) and (hopefully) reasonably amusing.
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Bobcat Boardwalk Trail is a 0.4 mile heavily trafficked loop trail located near Miami, Florida that offers the chance to see wildlife and is good for all skill levels. The trail is primarily used for hiking and walking and is accessible year-round.
kid friendly
no dogs
Directions from Miami, FL: Travel west for 30 miles along U.S. Highway 41. Shark Valley is on the left, adjacent to the Miccosukee Indian Valley. From the visitor center, hike down the tram road about 100 yards to the trailhead / boardwalk.


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Allen West last weekend spoke at the Florida State Lodge Fraternal Order of Police (FOP) 63rd Annual Conference and of all the things he said he could talk to them about, he choose to convey to them the current situation of our great nation and how we are losing it. He starts off this way:
I'm 51 years of age and I've never seen our country in the situation that it finds itself right now. We are losing the United States of America. We are in a country that is 16 trillion dollars in debt. We are in a country that is borrowing 42 cents on ever dollar. We are in a country where people say the unemployment rate is at 8.2%. The unemployment rate in the United States of America is not 8.2%, it is closer to 15%.
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First Class is worth its cash mostly for longer flights. For a puddle jumper flight coach is more advisable. The only people I've seen in First for short flights are those who can really afford it (or think they can) and people with back problems or those who do not 'fit' into the regular coach seats. Yes, those.
However, for transatlantic flights and the likes, First Class is the way to go for the following reasons:
Comfort. Depending on the airline, First Class seats range from comfy to dreamy. Extended legroom, increased width and deeper cushions make the sitting experience bearable. Besides that they lean back further and give you more comfort when sleeping -- some seats even turn into real beds. Also, during the flight it is easier to get up more often and stretch your legs. Some of the truly first First Class flights also offer additional space -- aboard some 747s for example -- such as a lounge and bar. Boarding time is also reduced and you get on and off quicker. Some airports even have First Class-only terminals and waiting lounges, so the comfort may begin even before boarding.
Privacy. Less people means less crowding. Especially at the toilet and when it comes to getting the attention of the flight crew. The only people you may run into on the way to the toilet are the few other passengers and the pilots. Not having to be around the noisy families in coach is also a blessing. The same goes for having individual screens and personalized entertainment, environmental controls and in some airlines each seat turns into a sort of private cubicle.
Service. The chief flight attendant or cabin manager, called the Purser, runs personally the First Class area, so you can be assured of the most personal attention. Not that they don't want to take care of the coach cattle, but serving an extra drink to someone sitting five feet away is easier than to someone halfway down the plane. Also, maybe it's just me, but I have had the impression that the crews in First are often more physically attractive and less stressed. Or maybe they are more attractive because they are less stressed. As it were, depending on the carrier, crews do prefer to work in First as opposed to coach.
Food. Airline food does not exactly enjoy the best reputation. One wouldn't know, flying First. The selection is larger and the dishes of higher quality. Most of the drinks are also probably included and you don't have to pay extra for everything -- since you are already paying extra.
In conclusion, First Class is for those seeking real comfort, not bargains. Some of the best airlines in this area are Europeans and Asians -- although nobody beats the Middle East airlines.
Emirates First Class cabin
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