iGoogle:
"Life grows more intriguing as you explore a delightful variety of stimulating people, places and activities. You are thoroughly entertained by little things as romantic energies begin to stir. Even a casual conversation can suddenly take on an erotic lean. But don't get too attached to outcomes. Keeping hope alive increases your chances of discovering rewards just around the corner."
Sunday, September 30, 2007
Friday, September 28, 2007
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iGoogle:
"With a limited number of options, you may feel trapped by your own familiar patterns today. Part of the problem is that you may have sacrificed independence for security. Part of the solution comes from being able to talk about it. Even if nothing dramatic changes right away, you'll still feel better once your frustration is out in the open."
"With a limited number of options, you may feel trapped by your own familiar patterns today. Part of the problem is that you may have sacrificed independence for security. Part of the solution comes from being able to talk about it. Even if nothing dramatic changes right away, you'll still feel better once your frustration is out in the open."
Aquarius: Jan. 20 - Feb. 18 - Horoscope - MSNBC.com
Aquarius: Jan. 20 - Feb. 18 - Horoscope - MSNBC.com:
"If you spend too much time thinking about your past mistakes, how can you focus on moving forward? Today, you need to put the boxing gloves away -- because it's time for you to stop beating yourself up! No one remembers the things you did or didn't do, so why on earth should you? It's one thing to learn lessons from errors you've made, but it is quite another to continually punish yourself. This is a fresh day, full of possibility and promise. Don't waste it feeling regret."
"If you spend too much time thinking about your past mistakes, how can you focus on moving forward? Today, you need to put the boxing gloves away -- because it's time for you to stop beating yourself up! No one remembers the things you did or didn't do, so why on earth should you? It's one thing to learn lessons from errors you've made, but it is quite another to continually punish yourself. This is a fresh day, full of possibility and promise. Don't waste it feeling regret."
Wednesday, September 19, 2007
NASA - Saturn's Strange Hexagon
NASA - Saturn's Strange Hexagon
This nighttime view of Saturn's north pole by the visual and infrared mapping spectrometer onboard Cassini clearly shows a bizarre six-sided hexagon encircling the entire north pole, in one of the first clear images taken of the north polar region ever acquired from a unique polar perspective.
The hexagon feature was originally discovered by NASA's Voyager spacecraft in 1980, but those historic images and subsequent ground-based telescope images suffered from poor viewing perspectives. In the new infrared images, the strong brightness of the hexagon feature indicates that it is primarily a clearing in the clouds, which extends deep into the atmosphere, at least some 75 kilometers (47 miles) underneath the typical upper hazes and clouds seen in the daytime imagery by Voyager. Thick clouds border both sides of the narrow feature, as indicated by the adjacent dark lanes paralleling the bright hexagon.
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This nighttime view of Saturn's north pole by the visual and infrared mapping spectrometer onboard Cassini clearly shows a bizarre six-sided hexagon encircling the entire north pole, in one of the first clear images taken of the north polar region ever acquired from a unique polar perspective.
The hexagon feature was originally discovered by NASA's Voyager spacecraft in 1980, but those historic images and subsequent ground-based telescope images suffered from poor viewing perspectives. In the new infrared images, the strong brightness of the hexagon feature indicates that it is primarily a clearing in the clouds, which extends deep into the atmosphere, at least some 75 kilometers (47 miles) underneath the typical upper hazes and clouds seen in the daytime imagery by Voyager. Thick clouds border both sides of the narrow feature, as indicated by the adjacent dark lanes paralleling the bright hexagon.
Image Credit: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona
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"Your feelings can run into very real obstacles, sending you back for security within your own inner worlds. Unfortunately, it doesn't even feel safe in your imagination now because you are fighting with yourself. Be as practical as you can by transforming your worry into direct positive action.
By Rick Levine Wednesday, September 19, 2007"
By Rick Levine Wednesday, September 19, 2007"
Tuesday, September 18, 2007
Antimatter molecule could lead to ultra-powerful laser - tech - 18 September 2007 - New Scientist Tech
Antimatter molecule could lead to ultra-powerful laser
* 18 September 2007
* NewScientist.com news service
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An exotic molecule built from electrons and antimatter is being touted as a route to powerful gamma-ray lasers.
An electron can hook up with its antiparticle, the positron, to form a hydrogen-like atom called positronium (Ps). It survives for less than 150 nanoseconds before it is annihilated in a puff of gamma radiation. It was known that two positronium atoms should be able to bind together to form a molecule, called Ps2, and now David Cassidy and Allen Mills from the University of California, Riverside, have made that happen. First, they trapped positrons in a thin film of porous silica. Those positrons captured electrons to form positronium atoms, and the pattern of decay rates signalled that some of these atoms had teamed up to form Ps2 (Nature, DOI: 10.1038/nature06094).
If positronium atoms could be forced to merge into a kind of "super-atom" condensate, it would decay in bursts of identical gamma rays, which could lead to gamma-ray lasers a million times more powerful than standard lasers. "It's like comparing a chemical explosion with a nuclear explosion," Cassidy says.
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From issue 2621 of New Scientist magazine, 18 September 2007, page 23
Antimatter molecule could lead to ultra-powerful laser
* 18 September 2007
* NewScientist.com news service
Advertisement
An exotic molecule built from electrons and antimatter is being touted as a route to powerful gamma-ray lasers.
An electron can hook up with its antiparticle, the positron, to form a hydrogen-like atom called positronium (Ps). It survives for less than 150 nanoseconds before it is annihilated in a puff of gamma radiation. It was known that two positronium atoms should be able to bind together to form a molecule, called Ps2, and now David Cassidy and Allen Mills from the University of California, Riverside, have made that happen. First, they trapped positrons in a thin film of porous silica. Those positrons captured electrons to form positronium atoms, and the pattern of decay rates signalled that some of these atoms had teamed up to form Ps2 (Nature, DOI: 10.1038/nature06094).
If positronium atoms could be forced to merge into a kind of "super-atom" condensate, it would decay in bursts of identical gamma rays, which could lead to gamma-ray lasers a million times more powerful than standard lasers. "It's like comparing a chemical explosion with a nuclear explosion," Cassidy says.
Related Articles
* Gamma ray 'clock' found creating antimatter
* http://technology.newscientist.com/article/dn10677
* 29 November 2006
* Bright star hints at presence of antimatter
* http://technology.newscientist.com/article/mg19426033.100
* 12 May 2007
* Gamma force
* http://technology.newscientist.com/article/mg16321934.900
* 3 July 1999
Weblinks
* Physics and Astronomy, UC Riverside
* http://www.physics.ucr.edu/index.html
From issue 2621 of New Scientist magazine, 18 September 2007, page 23
at seven am this morning i was bitched at because i had not thrown enuff of my clothes away, being told "you have a sickness, compulsive disorder, you cant throw anything way", i had worked all weekend cleaning out said closet but with my chonic pain in both knees, my back,and my neck, i dealt with the door of the closet falling on my forehead bursing and scratching it, very noticable, but he (the antagonisit in this sotry) ignored my injury, i got up early this morning to put two yellow flowers in his new suv, that was just before he yelled and screamed his usual rant that im a sicko and unless i stopped washing clothes rahter then throwing them away, he would not give me any more t shirts the lady at work had givin the antagonist to give to me, so once again he uses something, manipulates, and is just a bitch of a man, and i hate him, even though, my wish (spell) for him and his female bitch was that they should "reap what they sow" with all they do towards me and especically the monies they would get from me in three to six months, one lump sum and then a monthly amount of 50$ for the rest of my life, which wont me too long, as i have heart and blood pressure and high cholesteraorl n etc and so forth, so as soon as these monies arrive, i move out without telling anyone where im going, and that ends this chapter of hell on earth brought to us by one james curtis griffin
Milky Way keeps a light grip on speedy neighbours
- 12:51 17 September 2007
- NewScientist.com news service
- David Shiga
The Large Magellanic Cloud is a new arrival in the Milky Way's neighbourhood, according to the new study (Image: Robert Gendler and Josch Hambsch)
The Milky Way's two best-known companion galaxies are recent immigrants rather than the long-time neighbours they were thought to be, a new study suggests.
The Large and Small Magellanic Clouds are a pair of nearby dwarf galaxies once thought to have been in orbit around our galaxy for billions of years.
But that picture was shaken up in January 2007 when a team of astronomers announced new measurements of the pair's motion across the sky made by the Hubble Space Telescope.
Those observations suggested that the two galaxies are moving too fast to be long-time satellites of the Milky Way and instead are falling into our galactic neighbourhood for the first time (see Speeding dwarfs upset galactic family picture).
The scenario made some astronomers sceptical, however, because it seems to leave too little time to produce a long stream of hydrogen gas seen to trail the two galaxies as a result of interactions with our galaxy.
Updated model
Now, new calculations using an updated model of the Milky Way's gravity reinforce the conclusion that the Magellanic Clouds are recent visitors. The study was led by Gurtina Besla of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Massachusetts, US.
The researchers used an updated model of the distribution of the Milky Way's dark matter – the mysterious substance that accounts for most of the mass in the universe.
Older studies had assumed the cloud of dark matter around the Milky Way remained relatively dense at large distances from the galactic centre. The large amount of dark matter made it easier for the Milky Way to gravitationally hold onto objects in its vicinity.
But studies of other galaxies suggest that dark matter clouds are actually not so dense at large distances. Besla's team made new calculations for the Magellanic Clouds assuming that the same was true for the Milky Way.
Elongated orbits
Combined with Hubble's recent velocity measurements, the new model provides the most accurate picture yet of the relationship between the two galaxies and the Milky Way. This provides fresh evidence that the galaxies are not tightly bound to our galaxy and instead must be first-time visitors to the neighbourhood.
Even before the new study and the one in January 2007, previous measurements clocked their speed at close to that needed to escape the Milky Way's gravity, suggesting they were travelling on very elongated orbits rather than the more circular and stable ones previously assumed.
"A lot of people don't want to believe our [Hubble] data," Besla told New Scienstist. "My point is there are some results here that have nothing to do with the new data."
But Martin Weinberg of the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, US, says it is too soon to say for sure how long the Magellanic Clouds have been in the neighbourhood. "The evidence one way or the other, in my mind, is not secure," he told New Scientist.
If the new study is correct, it is difficult to reconcile with the length of the hydrogen gas stream trailing the galaxies, he says. The Magellanic Clouds are losing this stream as a result of gravitational tugs from the Milky Way and collisions with its gas clouds.
Hubble confirmation
But these effects should only happen close to the Milky Way and, if the galaxies are first-time visitors, they would not have had much time to produce the stream. "It is not clear that the stream would cover such a large angular extent," Weinberg says.
Besla concedes that the stream presents difficulties, but says it may be produced at larger distances from the Milky Way if violent events like supernovae push gas out of the Magellanic Clouds.
Future Hubble observations should help confirm that the higher velocities are correct, she says.
So where will the galaxies go in the future? The Small Magellanic Cloud's velocity and trajectory are too uncertain to tell, says Besla. But she says friction will probably slow the Large Magellanic Cloud down so much that it will be captured into orbit around the Milky Way.
"It will probably come back around again, but it will be on a really eccentric orbit, so it's probably not going to come back for a very, very long time," she says.
Journal reference: The Astrophysical Journal (in press)
NASA - The Voyager Mountains
NASA - The Voyager Mountains
Cassini zooms in, for the first time, on the patchy, bright and dark mountains originally identified in images from NASA's Voyager spacecraft taken more than 25 years earlier. The image was acquired during Cassini's only close flyby of Iapetus, a two-toned moon of Saturn. The terrain seen here is located on the equator of Iapetus, in the transition region between the moon's bright and dark hemispheres. The image was taken on Sept. 10, 2007, with the Cassini's narrow-angle camera at a distance of approximately 9,240 kilometers (5,740 miles) from Iapetus.
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Cassini zooms in, for the first time, on the patchy, bright and dark mountains originally identified in images from NASA's Voyager spacecraft taken more than 25 years earlier. The image was acquired during Cassini's only close flyby of Iapetus, a two-toned moon of Saturn. The terrain seen here is located on the equator of Iapetus, in the transition region between the moon's bright and dark hemispheres. The image was taken on Sept. 10, 2007, with the Cassini's narrow-angle camera at a distance of approximately 9,240 kilometers (5,740 miles) from Iapetus.
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"Your fantasies are drifting off in the distant future or a galaxy far, far away. Nevertheless, dreaming about foreign lands and learning about different cultures can have a practical side now. If you can restrain your normal flow of ideas just a little, you might be able to make them real. If, however, you don't slow down, others may think that you are too far outside the box for them to follow you.
By Rick Levine Tuesday, September 18, 2007"
By Rick Levine Tuesday, September 18, 2007"
Sunday, September 16, 2007
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iGoogle: "You may get involved in a conflict today that is magnified out of proportion. There may be a very real issue behind the dispute, yet it is also likely that you are battling with fragments of your own imagination. Anger may arise from something entirely unrelated, such as your inability to reach your stated goals. Taking full responsibility for your own success or failure can prevent you from taking it out on someone else. By Rick Levine Sunday, September 16, 2007"
iGoogle:
By Rick Levine Sunday, September 16, 2007"
"You may get involved in a conflict today that is magnified out of proportion. There may be a very real issue behind the dispute, yet it is also likely that you are battling with fragments of your own imagination. Anger may arise from something entirely unrelated, such as your inability to reach your stated goals. Taking full responsibility for your own success or failure can prevent you from taking it out on someone else.
By Rick Levine Sunday, September 16, 2007"
Saturday, September 15, 2007
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iGoogle: "[TWO MEN ONE PLANNINGON GETTINGSICK N GETTING IS NOBGGNRMHNOOOOOONOW FOR SURE IM GONNA BUY A MO PED TO ESCC=AE TUE ====PVF]H0ONE UOOOOOPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP[FPPLKKH [ D V[G['HR;R R=R----------TTTTT
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Tarot.com ] You could be at odds today with someone who is wielding authority, whether they deserve to have it or not. They may attempt to manipulate you, but you could provoke other issues if you fight back. Unfortunately, it may be tough to stop open conflict once a debate is started. Go ahead and make your stand, but stay focused on the main issue.
By Rick Levine Saturday, September 15, 2007"
I WILL ESCAPE THE FIRST BALACK MAN AND HIS MINIIIIIIIIIPUTATIONSQE
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Tarot.com ] You could be at odds today with someone who is wielding authority, whether they deserve to have it or not. They may attempt to manipulate you, but you could provoke other issues if you fight back. Unfortunately, it may be tough to stop open conflict once a debate is started. Go ahead and make your stand, but stay focused on the main issue.
By Rick Levine Saturday, September 15, 2007"
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iGoogle:
"You could be at odds today with someone who is wielding authority, whether they deserve to have it or not. They may attempt to manipulate you, but you could provoke other issues if you fight back. Unfortunately, it may be tough to stop open conflict once a debate is started. Go ahead and make your stand, but stay focused on the main issue.
By Rick Levine Saturday, September 15, 2007"
"You could be at odds today with someone who is wielding authority, whether they deserve to have it or not. They may attempt to manipulate you, but you could provoke other issues if you fight back. Unfortunately, it may be tough to stop open conflict once a debate is started. Go ahead and make your stand, but stay focused on the main issue.
By Rick Levine Saturday, September 15, 2007"
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: "[Tarot.com ] You could be at odds today with someone who is wielding authority, whether they deserve to have it or not. They may attempt to manipulate you, but you could provoke other issues if you fight back. Unfortunately, it may be tough to stop open conflict once a debate is started. Go ahead and make your stand, but stay focused on the main issue.
Friday, September 14, 2007
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iGoogle: "[Tarot.com ] It's challenging to keep your mind on the here-and-now when your thoughts are already somewhere else. This futuristic thinking can enhance your ability to make plans, but may not have anything to do with work. If you have been dreaming about taking a vacation, get out your calendar and start to make it happen. By Rick Levine Friday, September 14, 2007"
Wednesday, September 12, 2007
i am quite sane and rational, james is back on his crusade to move me out of here, he is taling behind my back to douglas, as i told you a few weeks ago, jamesgriffin said he wanted me out of here and that he can not stand iiving with me for two more years, the landlord signed paperwork that prevents the landlord from kicking me out of here, so will live here regardless......i have found myself more stable , with the new anti depressant and medication from dr shah, butd james is doint all he can do to upset me and bait me tnto fights, mind you, k love james grifin a great deal, and i want to work tis out, las night something happened amd o had to walk to the hospital, i never made it, i woke up disorinted and james was upset wth me, james landlord can not kick me out of this ap[artment since he singed paperwprl tp tjat effect. amd i have food and transportaion, in no way are ou to talk to james about this ongoing saga,
on one hand james is the nicest person in the world, and then in a split second, he screams ad wants me to move all my belongings out, i can not carry jmy belojging and i have given him all my rent vouchers, food from my food stamps, ad even i can now get to amdfrom pb;ox. tje dpctpr. amd sts
douglas stayed herefor a week tis past month, and ate with us, i have made peace wotj dpoig;as and have been kind towardshim,
Tuesday, September 11, 2007
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Your life at this New Moon Eclipse feels like a pressure cooker, as it forces you to consider a new type of intimacy. You could try to resist and even though your emotions may be cool, you are still warm enough to make your fire contagious. Remember that being flashy is not as important as being true to yourself."
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iGoogle: "Your life at this New Moon Eclipse feels like a pressure cooker, as it forces you to consider a new type of intimacy. You could try to resist and even though your emotions may be cool, you are still warm enough to make your fire contagious. Remember that being flashy is not as important as being true to yourself."
Sunday, September 09, 2007
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"Your key planet, Uranus, is on overload today, charging the air with metaphysical lightning. You day is unsettled; something happens that brings drastic change and along with it, the potential for freedom. Normally, integrating this level of change would be difficult, but now you can quickly make a shift that will have long-lasting impact on your life.
By Rick Levine Sunday, September 9, 2007"
By Rick Levine Sunday, September 9, 2007"
Friday, September 07, 2007
Thursday, September 06, 2007
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iGoogle: "[Tarot.com ] Your artistic nature is being amplified now as beautiful Venus continues to activate your key planet Uranus. Though the effects of this weird aspect can make it harder to be creative because your ideas just don't fit in. Don't bother intellectualizing what's happening. Just jump in and experience it. By Rick Levine Thursday, September 6, 200"