29 December 2009
28 December 2009
It was more probably a Rover that father and you set out to buy that day.
http://autos.groups.yahoo.com/group/audi100c1series/
27 December 2009
"attention is a form of love"
"...They might be looking for attention, thinking that attention is a form of love, without knowing that they might be receiving bad attention..."
http://theparentthekidthewardrobe.com/
"...But we went over many a sequence, incident, chapter break, transition—then over and over them again. He seemed, sometimes, uncertain of his powers, even as he demonstrated them in the unflagging, keenly focused attention he gave to every detail. He wanted me to pay attention, too. Auden says that paying attention is a form of love; well, then, I tried to love Saul Bellow...."
http://slate.msn.com/id/2116502/
A Contemporary Nursing Process: The (Un)bearable Weight of Knowing in Nursing
By Rozzano C. Locsin, Marguerite J. Purnell
http://books.google.com/
...
"...They might be looking for attention, thinking that attention is a form of love, without knowing that they might be receiving bad attention..."
http://theparentthekidthewardrobe.com/
"...But we went over many a sequence, incident, chapter break, transition—then over and over them again. He seemed, sometimes, uncertain of his powers, even as he demonstrated them in the unflagging, keenly focused attention he gave to every detail. He wanted me to pay attention, too. Auden says that paying attention is a form of love; well, then, I tried to love Saul Bellow...."
http://slate.msn.com/id/2116502/
A Contemporary Nursing Process: The (Un)bearable Weight of Knowing in Nursing
By Rozzano C. Locsin, Marguerite J. Purnell
http://books.google.com/
...
"...Perhaps the most insightful review harvested by Hentoff came from the Cleveland Press: "Boys and girls may have to shield their parents from this book. Parents are very easily scared."
"...children's books whose expurgated vision has no relation to the way real children live. … The popularity of such books is proof of endless pussyfooting about the grim aspects of child life, pussyfooting that attempts to justify itself by reminding us that we must not frighten our children..."
http://www.slate.com/id/2232550/pagenum/all/#p2
16 December 2009
15 December 2009
13 December 2009
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Lucy%27s_Day
Acts of the Apostles tells the story of how Stephen was tried by the Sanhedrin (high priests) for blasphemy against Moses and God (Acts 6:11) and speaking against the Temple and the Law (Acts 6:13-14) (see also Antinomianism). He was stoned to death (c. A.D. 34–35) by an infuriated mob encouraged by Saul of Tarsus, the future Saint Paul
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Stephen
Acts of the Apostles tells the story of how Stephen was tried by the Sanhedrin (high priests) for blasphemy against Moses and God (Acts 6:11) and speaking against the Temple and the Law (Acts 6:13-14) (see also Antinomianism). He was stoned to death (c. A.D. 34–35) by an infuriated mob encouraged by Saul of Tarsus, the future Saint Paul
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Stephen
12 December 2009
11 December 2009
10 December 2009
http://www.namdalsavisa.no/Nyhet/article4747475.ece?service=print
JØA: Med sine 35 meter i lengde, åtte meter i bredde og ei vekt på 70 tonn, blir draken Harald Hårfagre det største vikingskipet som er bygd i moderne tid...Skipet skal bygges i eik på Vibrandsøy i Haugesund og får et segl på 300 kvadratmeter - levert av Seglloftet på Jøa... Ifølge sagaen anslås Ormen Lange å ha vært mellom 41 og 44 meter lang, med et mannskap på 574 mann. Draken Harald Hårfagre skal ha de samme kvalitetene som Ormen Lange. Det blir et drakeskip som kombinerer havskipets gode seilingsegenskaper med krigsskipetes bruk av årer... Forretningsmannen Sigurd Aase er oppdragsgiver for bygginga av draken Harald Hårfagre, som er fullfinansiert gjennom tre internasjonale selskaper som jobber med høyteknologi... Harald Hårfagre vil tilbringe storparten av tida på havet, og skal etter planen seile i de farvann vikingene seilte slike skip, det vil si fra Vinlandskysten til Svartehavet.
Knowledge is dangerous – pass it on (from a donor to Wikipedia)
http://www.ahorie.net/On_Daniel.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blogger_%28service%29
http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2009/12/02/a-little-snow-for-the-holidays/
Knowledge is dangerous – pass it on (from a donor to Wikipedia)
http://www.ahorie.net/On_Daniel.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blogger_%28service%29
http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2009/12/02/a-little-snow-for-the-holidays/
09 December 2009
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8401374.stm
This highly sensitive camera can see starlight from far-off objects - light that has been "stretched" by the expanding Universe.
The camera is sensitive to infrared light, which has wavelengths about twice as long as visible light and cannot be detected by the human eye. It is described as "beyond red".
"We can now look even further back in time, identifying galaxies when the Universe was only 5% of its current age - within one billion years of the Big Bang."
"These new observations are likely to be the most sensitive images Hubble will ever take." The follow-up studies, he added, would be possible when Hubble's successor, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), was [sic] launched in 2014.
...employed a technique called gravitational lensing, which uses of the gravity of relatively nearby objects to magnify the light coming from much more distant objects.
This highly sensitive camera can see starlight from far-off objects - light that has been "stretched" by the expanding Universe.
The camera is sensitive to infrared light, which has wavelengths about twice as long as visible light and cannot be detected by the human eye. It is described as "beyond red".
"We can now look even further back in time, identifying galaxies when the Universe was only 5% of its current age - within one billion years of the Big Bang."
"These new observations are likely to be the most sensitive images Hubble will ever take." The follow-up studies, he added, would be possible when Hubble's successor, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), was [sic] launched in 2014.
...employed a technique called gravitational lensing, which uses of the gravity of relatively nearby objects to magnify the light coming from much more distant objects.
The light from very distant objects appears redder
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sic
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_skeleton
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruby
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damien_Hirst
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sic
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_skeleton
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruby
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damien_Hirst
In June-July 2007, Beyond Belief, an exhibition of Hirst's new work, opened at the White Cube gallery in London. The centre-piece, a Memento Mori titled For the Love of God, was a human skull recreated in platinum and adorned with diamonds
06 December 2009
05 December 2009
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/albeit
http://litteraturbanken.se/#start
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broder_Daniel
http://bede.se/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time
"var och en ansvarar inför hela världen"
"Our respect for other people, for other nations, and for other cultures, can only grow from a humble respect for the cosmic order and from an awareness that we are a part of it, that we share in it and that nothing of what we do is lost, but rather becomes part of the eternal memory of Being, where it is judged." VÁCLAV HAVEL
http://www.vaclavhavel.cz/Index.php?&setln=2
http://litteraturbanken.se/#start
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broder_Daniel
http://bede.se/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time
"var och en ansvarar inför hela världen"
"Our respect for other people, for other nations, and for other cultures, can only grow from a humble respect for the cosmic order and from an awareness that we are a part of it, that we share in it and that nothing of what we do is lost, but rather becomes part of the eternal memory of Being, where it is judged." VÁCLAV HAVEL
http://www.vaclavhavel.cz/Index.php?&setln=2
03 December 2009
02 December 2009
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Es_ist_ein_Ros_entsprungen
http://www.hymnsandcarolsofchristmas.com/Hymns_and_Carols/lo_how_a_rose_eer_blooming1.htm
http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/lo-and-behold.html
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/lo
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/lo
BLUR http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parklife
http://www.hymnsandcarolsofchristmas.com/Hymns_and_Carols/lo_how_a_rose_eer_blooming1.htm
http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/lo-and-behold.html
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/lo
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/lo
BLUR http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parklife
Confidence is a preference for the habitual voyeur of what is known as (parklife) And morning soup can be avoided if you take a route straight through what is known as (parklife) John's got brewers droop he gets intimidated by the dirty pigeons They love a bit of it (parklife) Who's that gut lord marching... you should cut down on your porklife mate... get some Exercise
ALL THE PEOPLE SO MANY PEOPLE THEY ALL GO HAND IN HAND HAND IN HAND THROUGH THEIR PARKLIFE
Know what I mean I get up when I want except on Wednesdays when I get rudely awakened by the dustmen (Parklife) I put my trousers on, have a cup of tea and I think about leaving the house (parklife) I feed the pigeons I sometimes feed the sparrows too it gives me a sense of enormous well Being (parklife) And then I'm happy for the rest of the day safe in the knowledge there will always be a bit Of my heart devoted to it
(parklife) It's got nothing to do with vorsprung durch technic you know And it's not about you joggers who go round and round and round Parklife (parklife)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Know_thyself
try to KNOW MYSELF better try to KNOW THYSELF better try to KNOW OURSELVES better
28 November 2009
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8382348.stm
Its end days see it spew vast quantities of gas and dust into interstellar space, including elements such as carbon, oxygen and nitrogen - the raw materials that will go into the production of future planets, and, who knows, perhaps life elsewhere in the galaxy.
The observatory is tuned to see the Universe in the far-infrared.
The death throes of the biggest star known to science have been observed by Europe's new space telescope, Herschel.
The observatory, launched in May, has subjected VY Canis Majoris, to a detailed spectroscopic analysis.Its end days see it spew vast quantities of gas and dust into interstellar space, including elements such as carbon, oxygen and nitrogen - the raw materials that will go into the production of future planets, and, who knows, perhaps life elsewhere in the galaxy.
Its 3.5m diameter mirror is the largest ever flown in space.
Herschel can probe clouds of gas and dust to see stars being born.
It will investigate how galaxies have evolved through time.
The mission will end when its helium refrigerant boils off.
The Herschel observatory was sent into orbit on 14 May on an Ariane rocket. It has been positioned far from Earth to give it an unobstructed view of deep space. The observatory works at longer wavelengths - in the far-infrared and sub-millimetre range.
However, its third instrument is currently down after experiencing a fault.
Engineers are expected to upload the software next month needed to reactivate the Heterodyne Instrument for the Far Infrared (HiFi).
The data on Comet Garradd shows up a strong water signal as is expected from an object composed of ice and dust.
"Everything we have done so far, we've done extremely well," said Dr Göran Pilbratt, Herschel's project scientist.
"We have not been able to do everything we wanted because of HiFi, of course; but what we have released today and put on the [Esa website] for instance, you can judge for yourself. I think it is very impressive."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incitement
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antisocial
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-social_behaviour
asocial – 1.not social 2.not sociable 3.antisocial
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loner
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosocial_behavior
The Herschel observatory was sent into orbit on 14 May on an Ariane rocket. It has been positioned far from Earth to give it an unobstructed view of deep space. The observatory works at longer wavelengths - in the far-infrared and sub-millimetre range.
However, its third instrument is currently down after experiencing a fault.
Engineers are expected to upload the software next month needed to reactivate the Heterodyne Instrument for the Far Infrared (HiFi).
The data on Comet Garradd shows up a strong water signal as is expected from an object composed of ice and dust.
"Everything we have done so far, we've done extremely well," said Dr Göran Pilbratt, Herschel's project scientist.
"We have not been able to do everything we wanted because of HiFi, of course; but what we have released today and put on the [Esa website] for instance, you can judge for yourself. I think it is very impressive."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incitement
Etymology: Middle French inciter, from Latin incitare, from in- + citare to put in motion — more at cite
Date: 15th century
: to move to action : stir up : spur on : urge on
synonyms incite, instigate, abet, foment mean to spur to action. incite stresses a stirring up and urging on, and may or may not imply initiating <inciting a riot>. instigate definitely implies responsibility for initiating another's action and often connotes underhandedness or evil intention <instigated a conspiracy>. abet implies both assisting and encouraging abetting the enemy> . foment implies persistence in goading <fomenting rebellion>.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antisocial
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-social_behaviour
asocial – 1.not social 2.not sociable 3.antisocial
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loner
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosocial_behavior
27 November 2009
1931 London Underground map
Double-headed serpent, 15th-16th century from Mexico: This serpent embodies how the Aztec empire flourished and the story of their destruction. Photograph: The Trustees of the British Museum
Chinese Zhou ritual bowl, c. 1100-1000 BC, possibly from the Henan province, China: This bowl made to feed the ancestors documents one of the major transformations in China.
Photograph: The Trustees of the British Museum
None the less, when we look at the practice of psychiatry today, we find that, in the case of the most severe mental illnesses at least, the outcomes obtained are little, if at all, better than those obtained at the end of the 19th century. Astonishingly, cross-cultural comparisons show that patients in the developing world do rather better than those in the industrialised nations, and have a greater chance of recovering from their difficulties.
The discovery that many people live relatively happy lives despite their psychotic experiences raises the possibility that some patients may do best without any treatment.November 2003. From a lecture by Richard Bentall, professor of experimental clinical psychology at Manchester University.
thisemperor has shared a video with you on December 14 2008
Most if not all galaxies, including our own Milky Way, are believed to have massive black holes at their cores.
It was unclear whether black holes came first, helping create galaxies by pulling matter towards them, or whether they arose in already formed galaxies.
"It looks like the black holes came first," said Dr Chris Carilli, from the US National Radio Astronomy Observatory in Socorro, New Mexico, who took part in the study.
"The evidence is piling up."
Forskarna kartlade släktbanden mellan drygt 76.000 personer med antingen schizofreni eller bipolär "sjukdom". De kom fram till att "sjukdomarna" har samma genetiska rötter. (from The Lancet)
Astronomers are increasingly listening into stars and other space sounds, according to Dr Tim O'Brien, of Manchester University's Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics. "It's interesting in itself," he said. "It's also scientifically useful."
"All you are really doing when you're collecting stuff from space is that you've got to get that information into your brain so you can think about it," he explained in his podcast. http://www.jodcast.net/
HD49933 was one of the stars observed using the Corot telescope
Am I building a Telescope?
http://soi.stanford.edu/results/sounds.html
frostade "svarvade" glaspelare på verandan av förfallet grått timmerhus i skog (dröm)
diam.11,7x6 cm B R11/6 Clearview round glass block
http://www.sevesglassblock.com/pedonabili.html
20 November 2009
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2009/nov/18/mental-health-psychiatric-patients-rights
http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/PNG
"I think like a genius," he once wrote, "I write like a distinguished author, and I speak like a child."
V. Nabokov
http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/PNG
"I think like a genius," he once wrote, "I write like a distinguished author, and I speak like a child."
V. Nabokov
“Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans” — what an ungainly title for a movie. What does it mean? What kind of sense does it make? You might ask the same questions of the film itself, directed by Werner Herzog and related, by some equally puzzling movie-business genealogy, to another “Bad Lieutenant,” Abel Ferrara’s 1992 tour of New York law-enforcement hell. Neither remake nor sequel, this “Bad Lieutenant” is its own special fever-swamp of a movie, an anarchist film noir that seems, at times, almost as unhinged as its protagonist. Fueled by Nicolas Cage’s performance — which requires adjectives as yet uncoined, typed with both the caps-lock key and the italics button engaged — Mr. Herzog’s film is a pulpy, glorious mess. — A. O. Scott, The New York Times
15 November 2009
och ser du – det där vackra vill jag ha kvar
P M P
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1282252/
http://www.lakartidningen.se/engine.php?articleId=8349
P M P
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1282252/
http://www.lakartidningen.se/engine.php?articleId=8349
13 November 2009
12 November 2009
A survey of stars known to possess planets shows the vast majority to be severely depleted in lithium.
Scientists think events early in the star's formation may be responsible for producing the lithium phenomenon.
Researchers who have studied meteorites with compositions unchanged since the beginning of the Solar System say the element's presence in our star ought to be 140 times greater than is observed.
Another approach is to monitor a star for extended periods in the hope a planet will pass across its face. This transit reveals the planet's presence by making the star's light dim ever so slightly.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8354522.stm
Scientists think events early in the star's formation may be responsible for producing the lithium phenomenon.
Researchers who have studied meteorites with compositions unchanged since the beginning of the Solar System say the element's presence in our star ought to be 140 times greater than is observed.
Another approach is to monitor a star for extended periods in the hope a planet will pass across its face. This transit reveals the planet's presence by making the star's light dim ever so slightly.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8354522.stm
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Mass Readings
| First reading | Wisdom 7:22-8:1 © |
|---|---|
Within Wisdom is a spirit intelligent, holy, unique, manifold, subtle, active, incisive, unsullied, lucid, invulnerable, benevolent, sharp, irresistible, beneficent, loving to man, steadfast, dependable, unperturbed, almighty, all-surveying, penetrating all intelligent, pure and most subtle spirits; for Wisdom is quicker to move than any motion; she is so pure, she pervades and permeates all things. She is a breath of the power of God, pure emanation of the glory of the Almighty; hence nothing impure can find a way into her. She is a reflection of the eternal light, untarnished mirror of God’s active power, image of his goodness. Although alone, she can do all; herself unchanging, she makes all things new. In each generation she passes into holy souls, she makes them friends of God and prophets; for God loves only the man who lives with Wisdom. She is indeed more splendid than the sun, she outshines all the constellations; compared with light, she takes first place, for light must yield to night, but over Wisdom evil can never triumph. She deploys her strength from one end of the earth to the other, ordering all things for good. | |
| Psalm or canticle: Psalm 118:89-91,130,135,175 |
| Gospel | Luke 17:20-25 © |
|---|---|
Asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God was to come, Jesus gave them this answer, ‘The coming of the kingdom of God does not admit of observation and there will be no one to say, “Look here! Look there!” For, you must know, the kingdom of God is among you.’ He said to the disciples, ‘A time will come when you will long to see one of the days of the Son of Man and will not see it. They will say to you, “Look there!” or, “Look here!” Make no move; do not set off in pursuit; for as the lightning flashing from one part of heaven lights up the other, so will be the Son of Man when his day comes. But first he must suffer grievously and be rejected by this generation.’ | |
11 November 2009
08 November 2009
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epigenetics Marcus Pembrey and colleagues also observed that the paternal (but not maternal) grandsons of Swedish boys who were exposed during preadolescence to famine in the 19th century were less likely to die of cardiovascular disease; if food was plentiful then diabetes mortality in the grandchildren increased, suggesting that this was a transgenerational epigenetic inheritance.[40] The opposite effect was observed for females -- the paternal (but not maternal) granddaughters of women who experienced famine while in the womb (and their eggs were being formed) lived shorter lives on average.[41]
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sn/tvradio/programmes/horizon/ghostgenes.shtml
05 November 2009
"See the way she grabs the book out of the other woman's hands? That's manic. Hear how fast she talks when she is repeating a rhyme in the book? That is manic."
"Ok great. There is no hurry.. no need for a manic panic.. I can rhyme on a dime while manic at the time it's oh so sublime. It's nearing medication time."
Quotes from chats at sza.org
01 November 2009
31 October 2009
30 October 2009
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microscope
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scanning_tunneling_microscopy
http://www.astro.virginia.edu/class/whittle/astr124/matter/atom_lattice.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niobium
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selenium
http://hubblesite.org/gallery/album/entire/pr2004028b/
About 500 atoms of Niobium and Selenium
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scanning_tunneling_microscopy
http://www.astro.virginia.edu/class/whittle/astr124/matter/atom_lattice.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niobium
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selenium
http://hubblesite.org/gallery/album/entire/pr2004028b/
Most Distant Galaxy Candidates in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field
About 500 atoms of Niobium and Selenium
29 October 2009
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/8325665.stm
What makes an otherwise stupid act of vandalism interesting is the reason given in justification.
There is a story about a Chinese professor living in exile in the UK who visited Ely Cathedral. On walking into the starkly beautiful Lady Chapel he said "Ah, I see you've had a Cultural Revolution of your own."
He was referring to the dozens of medieval sculptures of saints, mutilated during the 16th-Century Reformation. The violence directed at art and culture reminded him of China in the 1960s.
So what was behind the furious destruction of thousands of sacred works of art in Britain by the Protestant destroyers of images?
"It was the dismantling of what they saw as the great deception of Catholicism," says Eamonn Duffy, Cambridge Professor of the History of Christianity.
"Iconoclasm is a complicated thing psychologically and the reformers often targeted the eyes, the mouths, the ears as a way of silencing and blinding empty idols. In England in particular, reformers saw artworks as substituting false gods for the true God. You could argue English art never recovered," he adds.
*
Her complaint, that the country cared more for a work of art than for a suffering human being (Mrs Pankhurst) has interesting echoes in possibly the most famous act of vandalism of recent years, the destruction by the Taliban in 2001 of the huge Afghan sculptures known as the Buddhas of Bamiyan.
"That winter there was a famine, the second year of drought, there wasn't enough aid, the gaps between the Taliban and the west just grew and grew," says the BBC correspondent David Loyn.
"International aid agencies said they would pay to look after the buddhas, put money into the area and it had the opposite effect. The Taliban said 'you care more about this history than about the Afghan people so we'll destroy them'."
The dynamiting in Bamiyan was meant to be heard round the world.
*
Mr Pinoncelli was so annoyed at how a once radical work of art had become institutionalised, that he attacked it.
"I made it fresh and new, I created something new of which Duchamp would have approved, he'd have said 'Bravo!'"
Mr Pinoncelli narrowly avoided three months in jail and a fine of 400,000 euros (£368,566). Not, he says, for being a vandal, but for causing a scandal.
What makes an otherwise stupid act of vandalism interesting is the reason given in justification.
There is a story about a Chinese professor living in exile in the UK who visited Ely Cathedral. On walking into the starkly beautiful Lady Chapel he said "Ah, I see you've had a Cultural Revolution of your own."
He was referring to the dozens of medieval sculptures of saints, mutilated during the 16th-Century Reformation. The violence directed at art and culture reminded him of China in the 1960s.
So what was behind the furious destruction of thousands of sacred works of art in Britain by the Protestant destroyers of images?
"It was the dismantling of what they saw as the great deception of Catholicism," says Eamonn Duffy, Cambridge Professor of the History of Christianity.
"Iconoclasm is a complicated thing psychologically and the reformers often targeted the eyes, the mouths, the ears as a way of silencing and blinding empty idols. In England in particular, reformers saw artworks as substituting false gods for the true God. You could argue English art never recovered," he adds.
*
Her complaint, that the country cared more for a work of art than for a suffering human being (Mrs Pankhurst) has interesting echoes in possibly the most famous act of vandalism of recent years, the destruction by the Taliban in 2001 of the huge Afghan sculptures known as the Buddhas of Bamiyan.
"That winter there was a famine, the second year of drought, there wasn't enough aid, the gaps between the Taliban and the west just grew and grew," says the BBC correspondent David Loyn.
"International aid agencies said they would pay to look after the buddhas, put money into the area and it had the opposite effect. The Taliban said 'you care more about this history than about the Afghan people so we'll destroy them'."
The dynamiting in Bamiyan was meant to be heard round the world.
*
Mr Pinoncelli was so annoyed at how a once radical work of art had become institutionalised, that he attacked it.
"I made it fresh and new, I created something new of which Duchamp would have approved, he'd have said 'Bravo!'"
Mr Pinoncelli narrowly avoided three months in jail and a fine of 400,000 euros (£368,566). Not, he says, for being a vandal, but for causing a scandal.
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