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30 March 2010

http://lhc.web.cern.ch/lhc/Old%20default%20page/Default-old.htm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8593780.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7567926.stm
The Alice detector will investigate the moments after the Big Bang.
The Standard Model comprises 16 particles – 12 matter particles and four force-carrier particles. The Standard Model has worked remarkably well so far. But it cannot explain the best known of the so-called four fundamental forces: gravity; and it describes only ordinary matter, which makes up but a small part of the total Universe. There is an essential ingredient missing from the Standard Model. Without it, none of the 16 particles in the scheme would have any mass.
All the matter that we can see in the Universe – planets, stars and galaxies – makes up a minuscule 4% of what is actually out there. The rest is dark energy (which accounts for 73% of the cosmos) and dark matter (23%).
According to one idea, dark matter could be made up of "supersymmetric particles" - massive particles that are partners to those already known in the Standard Model. Each basic particle of "ordinary" matter has its own anti-particle. Matter and antimatter have the same mass, but opposite electric charge.
When a particle of ordinary matter meets its anti-particle, the two disappear in a flash, as their mass is transformed into energy.
They are said to "annihilate" one another. But equal amounts of matter and anti-matter must have been produced in the Big Bang. So why did matter and anti-matter not completely annihilate each another after the birth of the Universe? Today, we live in a Universe almost entirely composed of ordinary matter. Scientists will use the LHC to investigate why this is, and what happened to all the anti-matter.
Attempts to unify gravity with the other fundamental forces have come to a startling prediction: that every known particle has a massive "shadow" partner particle. All particles are classified as either fermions or bosons. A particle in one class has superpartner in the other class, "balancing the books" and doubling the number of particles in the Standard Model.

20 March 2010

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8576891.stm
People can use the data to create mashups and web applications to reveal new patterns and carry out analysis.
He envisaged that the tool would allow anyone to explore data and see whether it was relevant to them at a local, national or global scale.

19 March 2010

11 March 2010










Mary (?) in Lugano
http://www.wga.hu/html/z/zucchi/jacopo/miracle.html
http://communio.stblogs.org/2008/08/letting-gods-glory-through-the.html
http://faculty.hacc.edu/jjohnson/index.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ogham
http://www.chrono.qub.ac.uk/local/armagh/Drumconwell/
It has a flat face, a broken top and simple carved crosses inside a circle, the Ogham marks are down either edge.
The inscriptions are damaged and worn. There have been inconclusive studies by Dr. Reeves - 1883, Rhys - 1895, Hamlin - 1987 and Warner - 1990. Warner’s interpretation is CUN AM AGLOS the old Irish Conmael. The name of the townland Drumconwell being from the Irish Druim Conmhail the ridge of Conmael. There was a King Conmael, King of the Airthir (the people living in Armagh in 7th Century). Could this Drumconwell stone be his grave marker?

science often produces beautiful art. These pictures were part of an exhibit of microphotographs presented by “Arts at Argonne” during the Laboratory's Open House on September 14-15, 2001. They were made by Richard Lee of Argonne's Materials Science Division.

10 March 2010

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skype
In an interview with Kurt Sauer, Chief Security Officer Skype, he said, "We provide a safe communication option. I will not tell you whether we can listen or not." Skype's client uses an undocumented and proprietary protocol.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silver_Lake_Partners

07 March 2010

>Do you want to try something really random and fun?? Do a google search of the year you were born and find out what was happening them.
http://www.madonnadicanneto.it/history.html...the statue of the Madonna of Canneto: it is a  wood carving made in the 6th century 
...on September 19, 1954, the much venerated statue was solemnly crowned at Sora by Cardinal Aloisi Masella, at the 
end of the 1st Interdiocesan Marian Congress

06 March 2010

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion
Religion is derived from the Latin religiō, the ultimate origins of which are obscure. One possibility is derivation from a reduplicated *le-ligare, an interpretation traced to Cicero connecting lego "read", i.e. re (again) + lego in the sense of "choose", "go over again" or "consider carefully". Modern scholars such as Tom Harpur and Joseph Campbell favor the derivation from ligare "bind, connect", probably from a prefixed re-ligare, i.e. re (again) + ligare or "to reconnect," which was made prominent by St. Augustine, following the interpretation of Lactantius. However, the French scholar Daniel Dubuisson notes that relying on this etymology "tends to minimize or cancel out the role of history"; he notes that Augustine gave a lengthy definition of religio that sets it quite apart from the modern word "religion".
... What is called ancient religion today, they would have only called "law".
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8550924.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8551528.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8550614.stm
"They have a common ancestor who geneticists say lived about 3,000 years ago somewhere in north Arabia, which is the time of Moses and Aaron when the Jewish priesthood started."
The Lemba have a sacred prayer language which is a mixture of Hebrew and Arabic, pointing to their roots in Israel and Yemen.
Despite their ties to Judaism, many of the Lemba in Zimbabwe are Christians, while some are Muslims.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/feb/27/as-byatt-alice-in-wonderland

05 March 2010

(Les Choristes) Fransk drama fra 2004. Året er 1949. Den arbeidsløse musikeren Clément Mathieu får jobb på en kostskole for problembarn. Han misliker rektors framgangsmåte og starter et kor. Gjennom musikken forandrer han barnas liv.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moses
Moses (Hebrew: מֹשֶׁה, Modern Moshe Tiberian Mōšeh; Greek: Mωϋσῆς in both the Septuagint and the New Testament; Arabic: 'موسىٰ, Mūsa) was, according to the Hebrew Bible, a religious leader, lawgiver, and prophet, to whom the authorship of the Torah is traditionally attributed. Also called Moshe Rabbenu in Hebrew (Hebrew: מֹשֶׁה רַבֵּנוּ, Lit. "Moses our Teacher/Rabbi"), he is the most important prophet in Judaism, and is also considered an important prophet by Christianity, Islam, the Bahá'í Faith, Rastafari, and many other faiths. Moses has also been an important symbol in American history, from the first settlers up until the present.
...He therefore assembled the tribes, and delivered to them a parting address, which forms the Book of Deuteronomy. In this address it is commonly accepted that he recapitulated the Law, reminding them of its most important features.


What can one do?
Nothing. Almost nothing. 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Sea_scrolls
The Dead Sea Scrolls are a collection of about 900 documents, including texts from the Hebrew Bible, discovered between 1947 and 1956 in eleven caves in and around the ruins of the ancient settlement of Khirbet Qumran on the northwest shore of the Dead Sea in the present day West Bank.
The texts are of great religious and historical significance, as they include the oldest known surviving copies of Biblical and extra-biblical documents and preserve evidence of great diversity in late Second Temple Judaism. They are written in Hebrew, Aramaic and Greek, mostly on parchment, but with some written on papyrus. These manuscripts generally date between 150 BCE to 70 CE.
It is now becoming increasingly clear that the Old Testament scripture was extremely fluid until its canonization around A.D. 100.
About 35% of the DSS biblical manuscripts belong to the Masoretic tradition, 5% to the Septuagint family, and 5% to the Samaritan, with the remainder unaligned. The non-aligned fall into two categories, those inconsistent in agreeing with other known types, and those that diverge significantly from all other known readings. The DSS thus form a significant witness to the mutability of biblical texts at this period.
Edö säteri har varit sätesgård ända sedan 1100-talet. Det ursprungliga namnet var Edh. Den mest kända ägaren till gården var den heliga Birgitta och hennes make Ulf Gudmarsson som ärvde gården efter Birgittas far Birger Persson år 1327.
Stjärnsunds slott är byggt 1798-1808 och sägs vara ett av Sveriges vackraste slott. Här bodde i mitten på 1800-talet sångarprinsen, prins Gustav, yngre bror till Karl XV och Oscar II. Han lär på denna plats komponerat musiken till många av sina sånger, bl.a. "Glad såsom fågeln" och "Sjung om studentens lyckliga dar". En gång i tiden fanns en bondby på platsen. Denna by revs under första halvan av 1600-talet av greve Johan Gabrielsson Oxenstierna för att bygga ett slott. Slottet namngavs efter honom själv; Stjärnsund. Detta slott revs 1789 av Olof Burenstam för att bygga det nuvarande. Idag ägs slottet av Vitterhetsakademin för att bevara det som byggnadsminnesmärke.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cameroon
ALLAND
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heiligenkreuz_Abbey
Heiligenkreuz Abbey (Stift Heiligenkreuz, Closter Heiligen Creyz or Santa Crux) is a Cistercian monastery in the village of Heiligenkreuz in the southern part of the Vienna woods, eight miles north-west of Baden in Lower Austria. It has existed without interruption since its foundation in 1133 and is thus the second oldest continuously occupied Cistercian monastery in the world
Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, nephew of reigning abbot Gregor Henckel Donnersmarck, wrote the screenplay for his film The Lives of Others in a cell at the abbey in November 2003.
http://blog.oregonlive.com/madaboutmovies/2007/02/the_lives_of_others_florian_he.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unus_pro_omnibus,_omnes_pro_uno

04 March 2010

ALAND

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%85land_Islands Mariehamn was the base for the last large oceanic commercial sailing ships in the world. Their final tasks were bringing Australian wheat to Great Britain, on which Aland shipowner Erikson kept going until after WW2, 1947 being his last year. The ships latterly made only one round-trip from South Australia to Britain per year, after each marathon voyage going back to Mariehamn to lay up for a few months. The ship Pommern, now a museum in Mariehamn, was one of these last vessels.
 












http://www.auroraskystation.se/livecamera/

02 March 2010

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pascal%27s_Wager
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetragrammaton
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paleo-Hebrew_alphabet
Torah was given in the Ashuri script. The prove comes from Talmud (Mesechet Megillah 2b), which states that a miracle was needed to hold the letters ם (mem) and ס (samech) on the stone tablets. However, because of script's sanctity, it was not used for mundane writings, but kept in the Holy of Holies. A non-holy (and easier to write) Ivri script was adopted to the point where even the Torahs used for mass study were written in it. Eventually, the Ashuri script became forgotten by the common people, and was only preserved by the Sages. For this reason, only Daniel (a sage) could decipher the "writings on the wall" (Daniel 5:5 - 5:28), which appeared in the Ashuri script. After the Assyrian-Babylonian exile, the Ashuri script was reintroduced, and gained popularity even among the common people. According to the Talmud (Mesechet, Sanhendrin 22a) the name Ashuri comes from the fact that its an "upright" (מאושר) script, or because it became popular, when Jews returned from the Assyrian (אשור) exile. The Dead Sea Scrolls support Ritva's view, in that Ashuri is the holiest script. Most Qumran fragments were written in this script. In many cases, however, God's name (YHWH) appears to be referenced to by four dots, or is written in the Ivri script (see picture). The reason for this is related to the sanctity of the name of God in Jewish tradition. As soon as God's name is written in the Ashuri (holy) script, it requires extra care and more caution
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01 March 2010


http://oneredrobin.com/2008/09/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Osbournes 
Profanity was censored during MTV broadcasts of the series in the United States. In an interview Ozzy himself stated that, while he was happy that the Canadian broadcasts were uncensored, he preferred the censored version because the cursing was more noticeable due to the bleeps.
http://www.abeautifulmess.typepad.com/

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