http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/F%C3%A4rgad_sn%C3%B6
Färgad snö är snö som av olika anledningar fått en annorlunda färg än den vanligast förekommande vita. Ofta beror det på föroreningar, men kan även orsakas av andra orsaker. Olika sorters färgad snö förekommer då och då, på olika ställen. Olikfärgad snö kan ha många olika anledningar som kan orsakas av lokala händelser. Exempelvis är det inte ovanligt att det faller röd snö i Ryssland från Mongoliets öknar, likaså i Korea från öknar i Kina, och så vidare. Förutom de nedan angivna formerna färgas snön ibland grön, förekommande i mindre fläckar orsakade av mikroskopiska fläckar, samt i bruna nyanser. I mars 1991 föll gulfärgad snö ner i Junsele i Västernorrland. Det snöfallet orsakades av Sahara emedan samma nederbördsområde hade färdats över Sahara några dagar tidigare. 2001 inträffade samma sak igen, fast i Skåne.
1954 föll klarröd snö från Kangamiut på Grönland ned, vilket var starten på en påföljande forskning. Då och då faller röd snö ovanifrån, men oftare orsakas röd snö av alger från marken. De tillfällen som röd snö faller ovanifrån i Europa beror det på stoft i luften från lösjordsbältet vid Svarta havet.
Röd snö är en inom det arktiska området och i bergstrakter förekommande rödfärgning (karmosinröd, blodröd, tegelröd) av snön till följd av riklig förekomst av alger. Algerna är rödfärgade volvocacéer, oftast Chlamydomonas nivalis (Sphærella nivalis, Hæmatococcus nivalis). De lever ofta i snö, men syns ofta vid täta förekomster. Anledningen till att algen bildar ett rödfärgat pigment täckande klorofyllet vid träffande solstrålar är att skydda algen mot den väldigt starka solstrålning som uppkommer när solen reflekteras i snön. Snön är vanligen färgad endast till ett ringa djup, intensivt på ytan, där algerna snabbast förökar sig i smältvattnet mellan snökornen. I Sveriges fjälltrakter är röd snö inte någon sällsynt företeelse och förekommer där både på så kallad evig snö och på snöfläckar, som helt töar bort under sommaren. På Svalbard finns tegelröd och grön snö. Blodsnö är snö som färgats röd av rödfärgat stoft, som virvlas upp av vindar och därefter kan färdas långa sträckor, och i vissa fall falla ned med eller på snö. Exempelvis kan sandstormar i Sahara orsaka blodsnö.

10.04.2011

Statsmetrolog Terje Alsvik Walløe på metrologisk institutt på Blindern forteller at den gul-rødebrune fargen skyldes sand fra Sahara.

- For noen dager siden blåste det kraftig vind i Sahara, og den virvlet opp mye sandstøv ganske høyt opp i atmosfæren. Samtidig har det blåst kraftig fra sør i Europa, og der har det vært lite skyer og nedbør. Dermed har sanden blåst nordover, og passerte England i går. I dag traff sanden nedbør i Nordland, og kom ned som gul-brunrød snø og regn, forteller han.

Han forteller at metrologene har fått melding fra Helgeland i sør til Narvik i nord om dette fenomenet. 

"Extra näringsämnen från himlen" Stoft från Saharaöknen orsakade det gula regnet över Riksgränsen. Enligt professor Erik Swietlicki var regnet ofarligt och till och med nyttigt.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_world_maps
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babylonian_Map_of_the_World

‘The Babylonian World Map, the earliest surviving map of the world (c. 600 BCE), is a symbolic, not a literal representation. It deliberately omits peoples such as the Persians and Egyptians, who were well known to the Babylonians. The area shown is depicted as a circular shape surrounded by water...’

The medieval T and O maps originate with the description of the world in the Etymologiae of Isidore of Sevilla (died 636). This qualitative and conceptual type of medieval cartography represents only the top-half of a spherical Earth.^[11] It was presumably tacitly considered a convenient projection of the inhabited portion of the world known in Roman and Medieval times (that is, the northern temperate half of the globe). The T is the Mediterranean, dividing the three continents, Asia, Europe and Africa, and the O is the surrounding Ocean. Jerusalem was generally represented in the center of the map. Asia was typically the size of the other two continents combined. Because the sun rose in the east, Paradise (the Garden of Eden) was generally depicted as being in Asia, and Asia was situated at the top portion of the map.

 Beatus of Liébana (c. 730 - 798) was a Spanish monk and theologian. He corresponded with Alcuin, and took part in the Adoptionist controversy, criticizing the views of Felix of Urgel and Elipandus of Toledo. He is best remembered today as the author of his Commentary on the Apocalypse, published in 776. An illustrated manuscript known as the Saint-Sever Beatus, featuring the Commentary, was produced around 1050 at the Abbey of Saint-Sever, Aquitaine, France. It contains one of the oldest Christian world maps as an illustration of the Commentary. Although the original manuscript and map has not survived, copies of the map survives in several of the extant manuscripts.

Italian geographer Pietro Vesconte was a pioneer of the field of the portolan chart. His nautical charts are among the earliest to map the Mediterraean and Black Sea regions accurately. He also produced progressively more accurate depictions of the coastlines of northern Europe. In his world map of 1321 he brought his experience as a maker of portolans to bear; the map introduced a previously unheard of accuracy to the mappa mundi genre.

Handwritten christmas card with a coloured photo of the Tolkien family, sent by Mabel Tolkien from the Orange Free State to her relatives in Birmingham, on november 15, 1892.

Umbrellas, by Harold Pinter
Features two gentlemen in deckchairs on the terrace of a large hotel. Wearing shorts and sunglasses. Sunbathing. They do not move throughout the exchange.
A: The weather's too much for me today.
PAUSE
B: Well, you're damn lucky you've got your umbrella.
A: I'm never without it, old boy.
PAUSE
B: I think I'd do well to follow your example.
A: Yes, you would. Means the world to me. I never find myself at a loss. You understand what I mean?
B: You're a shrewd fellow, I'll say that for you.
PAUSE
A: My house is full of umbrellas.
B: You can't have too many.
A: You've never said a truer word, old boy.
PAUSE
B: I haven't got one to bless myself with.
PAUSE
A: Well, I can forsee [sic] a time you'll regret it.
B: I think the time's come, old boy.
A: You can't be too careful, old boy.
PAUSE
B: Well, you've got your feet firmly planted on the earth, there's no doubt about that.
PAUSE
A: I certainly feel secure, old boy.
B: Yes, you know where you stand, all right. You can't take that away from you.
PAUSE
A: You'll find they're a true friend to you, umbrellas.
PAUSE
B: Maybe I'll buy one.
PAUSE
A: Don't come to me. It would be like tearing my heart out, to part with any of mine.
PAUSE
B: You find them handy, eh?
PAUSE
A: Yes ... Oh, yes. When it's raining, particularly.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASTAR
ASTAR is a fictional golden humanoid robot. The character was created in the 1980s by the Canadian amputee organization The War Amps and is featured in material for their PLAYSAFE program to educate children about safety.
The original televised segment featured a performer in an elaborate costume as ASTAR performing acrobatic stunts in a world full of dangerous machines. After evading various threats such as electrical hazards and moving blades, ASTAR eventually makes a mistake causing his arm to be amputated by a large rotating saw. He then picks up his severed arm and reattaches it with ease. The segment ends with ASTAR giving the warning:
I am ASTAR, a robot. I can put my arm back on. You can't. So play safe!
The above warning is now part of Canadian popular culture for those who grew up in the 1980s. In a 1990s remake of the segment, ASTAR is now an animated CG character, and the warning is altered slightly to
"I am ASTAR, a robot from Planet Danger. I can put my arm back on. You can't. So play safe!"

http://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arne_Skouen
Tematisk handler mange av filmene om mennesker som "kommer inn i varmen". Budskapet hadde ofte med samhold, solidaritet og avhengighet mellom mennesker å gjøre, og han hadde gjerne outsidere som hovedpersoner. Han ble fascinert av nettopp dette tema i miljøet rundt Cirkus Arnardo og laget filmen "Cirkus Fandango" i 1954. Arnardo spilte selv sammen med Toralf Maurstad og Joachim Holst-Jensen.
Mellom 1965 og 1967 lager han en trilogi om psykisk utviklingshemmete barn. Han hadde selv fått en psykisk utviklingshemmet datter og ble opptatt av dette temaet. Den første filmen, "Om Tilla", er en slags drømmevisjon om hvordan psykisk utviklingshemmede kan fungere og passe inn i samfunnet.
Den andre filmen i triologien het "Vaktpostene" og handler om institusjoner for psykisk utviklingshemmede som ikke strekker til. Den tredje, "Reisen til havet", handler om utilstrekkeligheten i ettervernet for de som bryter ut av institusjonene. I disse filmene jobbet han med sin andre datter, Synne, i hovedrollen.

• Om Tilla (1963)
• Vaktpostene (1965
• Reisen til havet (1966)

Daughter Wrote


The flowers in the tree
are blooming so eyes can see.
The ripples on the water
get smaller and smaller
As the duck flutters
passed the daughter.
As the frog croaks,
the daughter strokes
In a little row boat
as the daughter wrote.

8/18/05

"I am your creator. You were in my care even before you were born." Isaiah 44:2

Krista Addison

S T Ä D R O C K
Mönster :::
Omlottklänning ur Sy till barnen av Elsebeth Gynther.
Tyg :::
Pompeja av Märta-Lena Bjerhagen, för Borås textil. Detta bomullstyg från tidigt 70-tal finns i flera olika färgställningar...
Plus :::
Gynthers omlottklänning är genial i sin enkelhet. Förutom att den är snygg, så är den också perfekt att växa i. Omlottskärningen gör att den först kan användas som klänning och sedan som en kortare tunika när barnet växer.


http://www.space.com/13336-universe-history-structure-evolution-infographic.html

O V E R V I E W  space time 
It can look like a toppled water glass. With us hanging on the opening curve of the rim. Some of us are probably being washed away right now.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steward_%28office%29
A steward is an official who is appointed by the legal ruling monarch to represent him or her in a country, and may have a mandate to govern it in his or her name; in the latter case, it roughly corresponds with the position of governor or deputy (the Roman rector, praefectus or vicarius).
From Old English stíweard, stiȝweard, from stiȝ "hall, household" + weard "wikt:warden, keeper"; corresponding to Dutch: stadhouder, German Statthalter "place holder", a Germanic parallel to French lieutenant.
The Old English term stíweard is attested from the 11th century. Its first element is most probably stiȝ- "house, hall" (attested only in composition; its cognate stiȝu is the ancestor of Modern English sty). Old French estuard and Old Norse stívarðr are adopted from the Old English.
The German and Dutch term (Middle High German stat-halter) is a parallel but independent formation (a calque of lieutenant) corresponding to obsolete English stead holder (stede haldare 1456; also stedys beryng (1460), sted-haldande (1375) steadward, steadsman).
In medieval times, the steward was initially a servant who supervised both the lord's estate and his household.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tributary
A tributary or affluent is a stream or river that flows into a main stem (or parent) river or a lake. A tributary does not flow directly into a sea or ocean.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jelly_roll_%28battery%29

Ms dröm i natt: Hon sitter bredvid Kung Carl Gustaf och Drottning Silvia. Kungen försöker förklara var Karlsruhe är beläget. Han ritar på en serviett.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karlsruhe
Karlsruhe was founded in 1715 as Karlsruhe Palace, when Germany was a series of principalities and city states... It therefore considers itself the home of justice in Germany...
Due to similarities to the United States capital city, it has been speculated that Karlsruhe was a model city for the cityscape of Washington, D.C. Both cities have a center — in Karlsruhe the palace and in D.C. the Capitol Building — from which the streets radiate outward. L'Enfant, Washington's city planner, had been given the plans of Karlsruhe (among numerous other European cities) as an inspiration.
According to legend, the name Karlsruhe, which translates as Charles’ repose, was given to the new city after a hunting trip when Margrave Charles III William, Margrave of Baden-Durlach, woke from a dream in which he dreamt of founding his new city.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karlsruhe,_North_Dakota

http://www.acownersclub.co.uk/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=1810
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opalescence
OPALESCENT SILVER BLUE

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustave_Dor%C3%A9