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torsdag, januari 31, 2013

Good Night

Diet myth-busters: Experts burst some bubbles about losing weight

Se blogginlägget om NEJM tidigare i dag

L A Times:
Attention dieters: Many of the “facts” you think you know about obesity and weight loss are wrong.
So says a report published in Thursday’s edition of the New England Journal of Medicine. An international team of dietitians, doctors and other experts examined more than a dozen ideas about obesity that are widely believed to be true but aren’t actually supported by reliable medical evidence. It’s not just dieters who buy into these mistaken notions, the study authors note – much of this incorrect conventional wisdom is espoused by physicians, academic... More: http://www.latimes.com/health/boostershots/la-heb-weight-loss-myths-20130130,0,3478156.story

Garbage Day


What to do with the dozens of abandoned aircraft littered about the country? For a long time, Nigeria's answer was "nothing." Now, however, workers have begun the process of dismantling the 65 abandoned aircraft that clutter up airports around the country. At Lagos International Airport alone, there are 13 of them, including this one. /Der Spiegel
Everton erbjuder 10 miljoner euro för Negredo, men Sevilla kräver 15 miljoner euro.
Ekonomisk kris , katastrofal arbetslöshet mm. Hur fotbollsintresserad man än är så
må man anse penningcirkusen i fotbollsvärlden är något mycket sjukt.




Thousands displaced by floodwaters




NASA Launches Next-Generation Communications Satellite



 
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- The first of NASA's three next-generation Tracking and Data Relay Satellites (TDRS), known as TDRS-K, launched at 8:48 p.m. EST Wednesday from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.

"TDRS-K bolsters our network of satellites that provides essential communications to support space exploration," said Badri Younes, deputy associate administrator for Space Communications and Navigation at NASA Headquarters in Washington. "It will improve the overall health and longevity of our system."

The TDRS system provides tracking, telemetry, command and high-bandwidth data return services for numerous science and human exploration missions orbiting Earth. These include the International Space Station and NASA's Hubble Space Telescope.

"With this launch, NASA has begun the replenishment of our aging space network," said Jeffrey Gramling, TDRS project manager. "This addition to our current fleet of seven will provide even greater capabilities to a network that has become key to enabling many of NASA's scientific discoveries."

TDRS-K was lifted into orbit aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket from Space Launch Complex-41. After a three-month test phase, NASA will accept the spacecraft for additional evaluation before putting the satellite into service.

The TDRS-K spacecraft includes several modifications from older satellites in the TDRS system, including redesigned telecommunications payload electronics and a high-performance solar panel designed for more spacecraft power to meet growing S-band requirements. Another significant design change, the return to ground-based processing of data, will allow the system to service more customers with evolving communication requirements.

The next TDRS spacecraft, TDRS-L, is scheduled for launch in 2014. TDRS-M's manufacturing process will be completed in 2015.

NASA's Space Communications and Navigation Program, part of the Human Exploration and Operations Mission Directorate at the agency's Headquarters in Washington, is responsible for the space network. The TDRS Project Office at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., manages the TDRS development program. Launch services were provided by United Launch Alliance. NASA's Launch Services Program at the Kennedy Space Center was responsible for acquisition of launch services.

For more information about TDRS, visit:



Radioteater



Tips som tål att upprepas, radioteaterbiblioteket:
http://sverigesradio.se/sida/default.aspx?programid=4453


Ett av de mest spännande ljud jag vet av är ljudet av gonggongen som alltid inleder radioteaterföreställningar.
Bland favoriterna bland skådespelarna sätter jag kanske Anita Björk (bilden) och Ulf Palme högst.

Härunder ett exempel på nedladdningsbara radioteaterföreställningar.
Ett drömspel
av August Strindberg.
Med: Kolbjörn Knudsen - Guden Indra, Annika Tretow - Indras dotter, Jarl Kulle - Officern, Anders Ek - Advokaten, Ulf Palme - Diktaren, Olle Hilding - Glasmästaren, Linnéa Hillberg - Modern, Ivar Wahlgren, Fadren, Margaretha Krook - Lina, Tora Teje - Portvakterskan, Jan-Erik Lindqvist - Affischören, Margareta Hallin - Victoria, Inga Sarri - Balettflickan, Segol Mann - Sufflören, Märta Dorff - Kristin.
Musik: Sven-Erik Bäck.
Bearbetning: Claes Hoogland.
Regi: Bengt Ekerot.


Lyssna: Ett drömspel av August Strindberg


Skottdrama i USA i går

Katastrofal utveckling - vart är USA vi på väg?

NEJM

Det är torsdag och NEJM är aktuellt igen (onsdag Massachusetts-tid ). Har man inte nyhetsbrevet går man till: http://www.nejm.org/.
Det är inte omöjligt att man även som icke fackman och icke-prenumerant  hittar något som man får utbyte av .  Den rubrik som tilldrog sig mitt största intresse denna gång är "Myths, Presumptions, and Facts about Obesity", men artikeln visade sig kräva prenumeration. Med denna NEJMs artikel som källa brukar det dock så småningom i "vanlig" press komma ut något i ämnet; kanske redan senare idag.
För att få nyhetsbrevet går man hit: https://www.nejm.org/nejm-alerts?MSG_CODE=REG_SignedIn

PS Grabbarna kallar mig "nyhetsbrevfantasten" men det gör mig inget.

onsdag, januari 30, 2013

Real Madrid-Barcelona 1-1

Varane, fransman
med föräldrar från
Karibien (Martinique).
Kommande"Världsspelare"
om han inte redan kan kallas så.
 



Matchhjälte: Raphaël Varane i Real Madrid, franskt superlöfte född 1993. Vi lägger namnet på minnet om vi inte redan har gjort det

Being Review om smog

Vi får den jord vi förtjänar


Se Being Review rapportera om den smogen i huvudstaden:
http://www.bjreview.com/special/2013-01/30/content_515539.htm

Senate Confirms John Kerry as Secretary of State





Tuesday, January 29, 2013 4:49 PM EST




 
WASHINGTON — The Senate on Tuesday confirmed Senator John Kerry as secretary of state, filling a key job in President Obama’s second-term national security team.
The nomination was approved by a vote of 94 to 3.
Mr. Kerry, a Massachusetts Democrat who has served in the Senate since 1985, had strong support on both sides of the aisle. Earlier in the day, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, the panel he has led for the past four years, gave his nomination unanimous approval.
Mr. Kerry, 69, will succeed Hillary Rodham Clinton, whose last day at the State Department is Friday.

Windows Vista




January 30, 2007Microsoft's Windows Vista operating system went on sale.

tisdag, januari 29, 2013

The first woman put to death in the U.S. since 2010

Kimberly McCarthy,




***USATODAY.com Breaking News*** January 29, 2013
Dallas County prosecutors say they aren't appealing a state judge's decision to halt the scheduled Tuesday evening execution of Kimberly McCarthy, 51. She would have been the first woman put to death in the U.S. since 2010.





Kimberly McCarthy
Classification: Murderer
Characteristics: Robbery - Crack addict
Number of victims: 1 - 3

Date of murder: December 1988 / July 21, 1997
Date of arrest: Next day
Date of birth: May 11, 1961
Victims profile: Maggie Harding, 81, and Jettie Lucas, 85 / Dorothy Booth, 71 (her next-door neighbor)
Method of murder: Stabbing with knife
Location: Lancaster, Dallas County, Texas, USA
Status: Sentenced to death on November 24, 1998. Sentence reversed in 2001. Resentenced to death on November 1, 2002


Vågat

I morgon semifinal Spanska Cupen: Real Madrid-Barcelona. Första matchen av två.

Adán, Real Madrid

Pinto, Barcelona



 

Här de båda lagens trupper med troliga startelvor rödmärkta:

 

 

Real Madrid

Ny angenäm bekantskap; Aols nyhetsbrev. Här det senaste:

Worst Websites of 2012

http://www.webpagesthatsuck.com/worst-websites-of-2012.html

La Liga - tabellen

1Barcelona582119117124
2At.Madrid472115244221
3R.Madrid432113445420
4Málaga352110563319
5Betis352111283133
6R.Vallecano342111193036
7Valencia332110383034
8Levante332110382630
9R.Sociedad30218673228
10Valladolid28218493027
11Sevilla26217592729
12Getafe26217592535
13Athletic252174102740
14Zaragoza232172122130
15Espanyol22215792332
16Celta Vigo202155112126
17Granada202155111832
18Osasuna182146111726
19Mallorca172145122239
20Deportivo162137112645
Onsdag
Semifinal (1/2) Spanska Cupen
Real Madrid - Barcelona

La Liga - nästa omgång (nr 22)

Valladolid--Athletic
Valencia--Barcelona
At.Madrid--Betis
Osasuna--Celta Vigo
Getafe--Deportivo
Espanyol--Levante
R.Sociedad--Mallorca
Sevilla--R.Vallecano
Granada--R.Madrid
Málaga--Zaragoza

La Liga

Helgens och gårdagens matcher

                              Celta Vigo11 R.Sociedad                                                                      
                              Levante21 Valladolid                                                            
                              Zaragoza00 Espanyol                                   
                              Deportivo23 Valencia                                  
                              R.Madrid40 Getafe                                                
                              R.Vallecano30 Betis                                    
                              Barcelona51 Osasuna                                   
                              Mallorca23 Málaga                                   
                              Athletic30 At.Madrid                                  

FBI News

http://www.fbi.gov/news/pressrel/press-releases/fbis-top-ten-news-stories-for-the-week-ending-january-25-2013?utm_campaign=email-Weekly&utm_medium=email&utm_source=national-press-releases&utm_content=172308

Record Setting Asteroid Flyby




Jan. 28, 2013: Talk about a close shave. On Feb. 15th an asteroid about half the size of a football field will fly past Earth only 17,200 miles above our planet's surface. There's no danger of a collision, but the space rock, designated 2012 DA14, has NASA's attention.
"This is a record-setting close approach," says Don Yeomans of NASA's Near Earth Object Program at JPL. "Since regular sky surveys began in the 1990s, we've never seen an object this big get so close to Earth




Earth's neighborhood is littered with asteroids of all shapes and sizes, ranging from fragments smaller than beach balls to mountainous rocks many kilometers wide. Many of these objects hail from the asteroid belt, while others may be corpses of long-dead, burnt out comets. NASA's Near-Earth Object Program helps find and keep track of them, especially the ones that come close to our planet.

Auroras Underfoot (signup)

2012 DA14 is a fairly typical near-Earth asteroid. It measures some 50 meters wide, neither very large nor very small, and is probably made of stone, as opposed to metal or ice. Yeomans estimates that an asteroid like 2012 DA14 flies past Earth, on average, every 40 years, yet actually strikes our planet only every 1200 years or so.

The impact of a 50-meter asteroid is not cataclysmic--unless you happen to be underneath it. Yeomans points out that a similar-sized object formed the mile wide Meteor Crater in Arizona when it struck about 50,000 years ago. "That asteroid was made of iron," he says, "which made it an especially potent impactor." Also, in 1908, something about the size of 2012 DA14 exploded in the atmosphere above Siberia, leveling hundreds of square miles of forest. Researchers are still studying the "Tunguska Event" for clues to the impacting object.

"2012 DA14 will definitely not hit Earth," emphasizes Yeomans. "The orbit of the asteroid is known well enough to rule out an impact."

2012 DA (flyby, 200px)
A schematic diagram of the Feb 15th flyby. More

Even so, it will come interestingly close. NASA radars will be monitoring the space rock as it approaches Earth closer than many man-made satellites. Yeomans says the asteroid will thread the gap between low-Earth orbit, where the ISS and many Earth observation satellites are located, and the higher belt of geosynchronous satellites, which provide weather data and telecommunications.

"The odds of an impact with a satellite are extremely remote," he says. Almost nothing orbits where DA14 will pass the Earth.

NASA's Goldstone radar in the Mojave Desert is scheduled to ping 2012 DA14 almost every day from Feb. 16th through 20th. The echoes will not only pinpoint the orbit of the asteroid, allowing researchers to better predict future encounters, but also reveal physical characteristics such as size, spin, and reflectivity. A key outcome of the observing campaign will be a 3D radar map showing the space rock from all sides.

During the hours around closest approach, the asteroid will brighten until it resembles a star of 8th magnitude. Theoretically, that’s an easy target for backyard telescopes. The problem, points out Yeomans, is speed. “The asteroid will be racing across the sky, moving almost a full degree (or twice the width of a full Moon) every minute. That’s going to be hard to track.” Only the most experienced amateur astronomers are likely to succeed.

Those who do might experience a tiny chill when they look at their images. That really was a close shave.

For more information about 2012 DA and other asteroids of interest, visit NASA’s Near-Earth Object Program web site: http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov


Author: Dr. Tony Phillips |Production editor: Dr. Tony Phillips | Credit: Science@NASA

Världens bästa leksak

Fotbollsspelande barn i Tyskland leker mer, medan svenska diton
under träning har alltför många regler som styr träningen.
Detta kan vara förklaringen till att kvalitén på ungdomsfotbollen
är högre i Tyskland (och Latinamerika) än i Sverige. Så har också en
i Tyskland verksam svensk fotbollsstjärna sagt i en intervju i Sveriges Radio.

Föräldrars inblandning i sina barns träning tror jag också har
sin betydelse, och om föräldrar håller sig borta från
fotbollslekplatsen betyder detta framgång för barnens fotbollsutveckling.
Det finns f.ö. också ett inte ringa antal skrikbenägna föräldrar som
bör hålla sig borta från barnens alla matcher.

När föräldrarna har skjutsat ungarna till träningen, eller de skrikbenägna
föräldrarna har skjutsat ungarna till någon match, borde de söka sig
bort från barnens fotbollslekplats. Kanske tillsammans med
andra Messidrömmande föräldrar hitta en plats för brännboll, och därmed
också få uppleva den där riktigt varma gemenskapen som, tillsammans med
snacket i spelbutiken bara brännboll tycks kunna stå för
i dagens Svedala.

Anton Chekhov




Birth house of Anton Chekhov
Anton Chekhov was born on 29 January 1860, the third of six surviving children, in Taganrog, a port on the Sea of Azov in southern Russia. His father, Pavel Yegorovich Chekhov, the son of a former serf, ran a grocery store. A director of the parish choir, devout Orthodox Christian, and physically abusive father, Pavel Chekhov has been seen by some historians as the model for his son's many portraits of hypocrisy. Chekhov's mother, Yevgeniya, was an excellent storyteller who entertained the children with tales of her travels with her cloth-merchant father all over Russia. "Our talents we got from our father," Chekhov remembered, "but our soul from our mother." In adulthood, Chekhov criticized his brother Alexander's treatment of his wife and children by reminding him of Pavel's tyranny. /Wikipedia
More: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anton_Chekhov

Chekhov died on July 15, 1904, in Badenweiler, Germany. He is buried in the cemetery of the Novodeviche Monastery in Moscow.
 

201 Stories by Anton Chekhov:              http://www.eldritchpress.org/ac/jr/index.htm


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