Stig Östlund
torsdag, januari 31, 2013
Diet myth-busters: Experts burst some bubbles about losing weight
Se blogginlägget om NEJM tidigare i dag
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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
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
NASA Launches Next-Generation Communications Satellite
"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.
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.
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
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
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tisdag, januari 29, 2013
The first woman put to death in the U.S. since 2010
Kimberly McCarthy, |
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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 |
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
13.Adán,1.Casillas,35.Jesús,18.Albiol,17.Arbeloa,12.Marcelo,27.Nacho,3.Pepe,11.Ricardo Carvalho,4.Sergio Ramos,2.Varane,30.Álex,15.Essien,5.Fábio Coentrão,8.Kaká,6.Khedira,19.Modric,10.Özil,14.Xabi Alonso,9.Benzema,21.Callejón,34.Cheryshev,7.Cristiano Ronaldo,22.Di María,20.Higuaín,29.Morata.
Barcelona
31.Oier,13.Pinto,1.Víctor Valdés,22.Abidal,21.Adriano,15.Bartra,2.Dani Alves,18.Jordi Alba,14.Mascherano,19.Montoya,3.Piqué,5.Puyol,25.Alex Song,16.Busquets,4.Fábregas,8.Iniesta,12.Jonathan dos Santos,28.Sergi Roberto,37.Tello,11.Thiago,6.Xavi,9.Alexis,23.Cuenca,27.Deulofeu,10.Messi,17.Pedro,7.Villa.
Senaste matcherna lagen emellan:
Senaste matcherna lagen emellan:
Barcelona | 2-2 | R. Madrid | |
R. Madrid | 1-2 | Barcelona | |
Barcelona | 0-1 | R. Madrid |
Ny angenäm bekantskap; Aols nyhetsbrev. Här det senaste:
Neil Heslin, the father of a 6-year-old boy who was slain in the Sandy Hook massacre in Newtown, Conn., on Dec. 14, stoically faced down pro-gun activists last night.
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La Liga - tabellen
1 | Barcelona | 58 | 21 | 19 | 1 | 1 | 71 | 24 |
2 | At.Madrid | 47 | 21 | 15 | 2 | 4 | 42 | 21 |
3 | R.Madrid | 43 | 21 | 13 | 4 | 4 | 54 | 20 |
4 | Málaga | 35 | 21 | 10 | 5 | 6 | 33 | 19 |
5 | Betis | 35 | 21 | 11 | 2 | 8 | 31 | 33 |
6 | R.Vallecano | 34 | 21 | 11 | 1 | 9 | 30 | 36 |
7 | Valencia | 33 | 21 | 10 | 3 | 8 | 30 | 34 |
8 | Levante | 33 | 21 | 10 | 3 | 8 | 26 | 30 |
9 | R.Sociedad | 30 | 21 | 8 | 6 | 7 | 32 | 28 |
10 | Valladolid | 28 | 21 | 8 | 4 | 9 | 30 | 27 |
11 | Sevilla | 26 | 21 | 7 | 5 | 9 | 27 | 29 |
12 | Getafe | 26 | 21 | 7 | 5 | 9 | 25 | 35 |
13 | Athletic | 25 | 21 | 7 | 4 | 10 | 27 | 40 |
14 | Zaragoza | 23 | 21 | 7 | 2 | 12 | 21 | 30 |
15 | Espanyol | 22 | 21 | 5 | 7 | 9 | 23 | 32 |
16 | Celta Vigo | 20 | 21 | 5 | 5 | 11 | 21 | 26 |
17 | Granada | 20 | 21 | 5 | 5 | 11 | 18 | 32 |
18 | Osasuna | 18 | 21 | 4 | 6 | 11 | 17 | 26 |
19 | Mallorca | 17 | 21 | 4 | 5 | 12 | 22 | 39 |
20 | Deportivo | 16 | 21 | 3 | 7 | 11 | 26 | 45 |
La Liga
Helgens och gårdagens matcher
Árbitro: Gil Manzano
Tarjetas amarillas 6 Tarjetas rojas 0
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Celta Vigo | 1 | 1 | R.Sociedad |
Árbitro: Paradas Romero
Tarjetas amarillas 9 Tarjetas rojas 1
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Levante | 2 | 1 | Valladolid |
Árbitro: Álvarez Izquierdo
Tarjetas amarillas 4 Tarjetas rojas 0
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Zaragoza | 0 | 0 | Espanyol |
Árbitro: Pérez Montero
Tarjetas amarillas 8 Tarjetas rojas 2 |
Deportivo | 2 | 3 | Valencia |
Árbitro: Clos Gómez
Tarjetas amarillas 6 Tarjetas rojas 2
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R.Madrid | 4 | 0 | Getafe |
Árbitro: González González, Jose Luis
Tarjetas amarillas 7 Tarjetas rojas 0
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R.Vallecano | 3 | 0 | Betis |
Árbitro: Hernández Hernández, Alejandro José
Tarjetas amarillas 9 Tarjetas rojas 0
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Barcelona | 5 | 1 | Osasuna |
Árbitro: Teixeira Vitienes, Fernando
Tarjetas amarillas 4 Tarjetas rojas 1
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Mallorca | 2 | 3 | Málaga |
Árbitro: Velasco Carballo
Tarjetas amarillas 6 Tarjetas rojas 1
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Athletic | 3 | 0 | At.Madrid |
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.
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."
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
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.
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 |
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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