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Christmas Tips You'll Treasure Infographic

2011-12-26T19:23:00.001+02:00

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Top 20 Fun Christmas Facts Around the World

2011-12-26T19:15:00.001+02:00

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Ten Successful Years of Mapping the Middle Atmosphere

2011-12-23T01:36:00.001+02:00

On December 7, 2001, a Delta II rocket launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base carrying a spacecraft designed to observe a little known area of the atmosphere that experiences some of the most dramatic energy fluctuations in the near-Earth environment.

The area stretches from about 40 to 110 miles above the surface of the Earth, encompassing the lower thermosphere and the mesosphere. This is where incoming energy from the sun transforms into the lights of the aurora, where glowing night-time noctilucent clouds appear, and where a dynamic electromagnetic system experiences space weather effects that can interrupt man-made satellites and human communications. For 10 years, the mission called TIMED (Thermosphere Ionosphere Mesosphere Energetics and Dynamics) has gathered more data on this region than has ever been seen before and has created a whole new picture of Earth's environment, as well as how it responds to changes in the sun.

"One of the most exciting things, is that we have collected data over almost an entire solar cycle, which lasts about 11 years," says Richard Goldberg, a space scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. and NASA's project scientist for TIMED. "We've been able to watch how the atmosphere responds to the sun moving from solar max to solar minimum and back again."

The instruments on TIMED were designed to provide a comprehensive overview of the composition of this mesosphere and lower thermosphere/ionosphere (MLTI) region of Earth's atmosphere, and to watch how it changes over time. A wide variety of sources can add energy to the MLTI region, some from above such as the solar wind and solar flares, and others from below, including human-induced effects.

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December 22 is a Solstice Day in 2011

2011-12-21T02:26:00.001+02:00

The December solstice occurs when the sun reaches its most southerly declination of -23.5 degrees. In other words, it is when the North Pole is tilted 23.5 degrees away from the sun. Depending on the Gregorian calendar, the December solstice occurs annually on a day between December 20 and December 23. On this date, all places above a latitude of 66.5 degrees north (Arctic Polar Circle) are now in darkness, while locations below a latitude of 66.5 degrees south (Antarctic Polar Circle) receive 24 hours of daylight.

Use the Sunrise and Sunset calculator to calculate the number of daylight hours in many cities worldwide during the December solstice.

The sun is directly overhead on the Tropic of Capricorn in the southern hemisphere during the December solstice. It also marks the longest day of the year in terms of daylight hours for those living south of the equator. Those living or travelling south from the Antarctic Circle towards the South Pole will see the midnight sun during this time of the year.

On the contrary, for an observer in the northern hemisphere, the December solstice marks the day of the year with the least hours of daylight. Those living or traveling north of the Arctic Circle towards the North Pole will not be able to see the sun during this time of the year.

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The Habitable Exoplanets Catalog, a new online database of habitable worlds

2011-12-06T18:31:00.001+02:00

Scientists are now starting to identify potential habitable exoplanets after nearly twenty years of the detection of the first planets around other stars. Over 700 exoplanets have been detected and confirmed with thousands more still waiting further confirmation by missions such as NASA Kepler.

Most of these are gas giants, similar to Jupiter and Neptune, but orbiting very dangerously close to their stars. Only a few have the right size and orbit to be considered suitable for any life.

Now the Planetary Habitability Laboratory (PHL) of the University of Puerto Rico at Arecibo (UPR Arecibo) presents a new assessment of the habitability of these worlds as part of its Habitable Exoplanets Catalog (HEC).

The catalog not only identifies new potential habitable exoplanets, including exomoons like the Pandora world in the movie Avatar, but also ranks them according to various habitability indices.

"One important outcome of these rankings is the ability to compare exoplanets from best to worst candidates for life", says Abel Mendez, Director of the PHL and principal investigator of the project.

According to Mendez, "New observations with ground and orbital observatories will discover thousands of exoplanets in the coming years. We expect that the analyses contained in our catalog will help to identify, organize, and compare the life potential of these discoveries."

The catalog lists and categorizes exoplanets discoveries using various classification systems, including tables of planetary and stellar properties. One of the classifications divides them into eighteen mass and thermal categories, creating a table similar to a periodic table for exoplanets.

Additional resources of the catalog will include scientific visualizations and stellar maps of exoplanets. Various undergraduate students participated in the project.

Only two confirmed exoplanets so far match the criteria for habitability in the catalog, Gliese 581d and HD 85512b, both still marginally Earth-like. However, the catalog identifies over 15 exoplanets and 30 exomoons as potential habitable candidates.

Future observations with new instruments, such as the proposed NASA Terrestrial Planet Finder (TPF), will be necessary to confirm the suitability for life of any of these candidates.

"I hope this database will help increase interest in building a big space-based telescope to observe exoplanets directly and look for possible signatures of life," says Jim Kasting, an expert on planetary habitability science from Penn State.

The catalog is available now online at the PHL website phl.upr.edu. A poster will be presented at the First Kepler Science Conference from December 5th to 9th, 2011 in NASA Ames, Moffet Field, California.

The PHL is a research and educational virtual laboratory dedicated to studies of the habitability of Earth, the Solar System, and exoplanets. The PHL is managed by the UPR Arecibo with the international collaboration of scientists from various institutions including NASA and SETI.

The catalog uses new habitability assessments like the Earth Similarity Index (ESI), the Habitable Zones Distance (HZD), the Global Primary Habitability (GPH), classification systems, and comparisons with Earth past and present. It also uses data from other databases, such as the Extrasolar Planets Encyclopaedia, the Exoplanet Data Explorer (exoplanets.org), the NASA Kepler Mission, and other sources.

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πρώτα να πιάσω τον σφυγμό σου...

2011-12-01T13:51:00.001+02:00

Πρώτα να πιάσω τα χέρια σου
Να ψηλαφίσω το σφυγμό σου
Ύστερα να πάμε μαζί στο δάσος
Ν᾿ αγκαλιάσουμε τα μεγάλα δέντρα
Που στον κάθε κορμό έχουμε χαράξει
Εδώ και χρόνια τα ιερά ονόματα
Να τα συλλαβίσουμε μαζί
Να τα μετρήσουμε ένα-ένα
Με τα μάτια ψηλά στον ουρανό σαν προσευχή.
Το δικό μας το δάσος δεν το κρύβει ο ουρανός.
Δεν περνούν από δω ξυλοκόποι.

Μανόλης Αναγνωστάκης

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forum για την Ελλάδα: «ΑΝΤΙΔΡΑΣΗ στη Νεανική Ανεργία, ΔΡΑΣΗ στην Παιδεία»

2011-12-01T00:30:00.001+02:00

Σας προσκαλούμε το Σάββατο 3 Δεκεμβρίου και ώρα 11:00, στην εκδήλωση που διοργανώνει το "forum για την Ελλάδα" με θέμα «ΑΝΤΙΔΡΑΣΗ στη Νεανική Ανεργία, ΔΡΑΣΗ στην Παιδεία» .
Η εκδήλωση θα πραγματοποιηθεί στο Κέντρο Γαία του Μουσείου Φυσικής Ιστορίας Γουλανδρή, Όθωνος 100, Κηφισιά, τηλ. 210 801 5870, website : www.gnhm.gr.

Σκοπός και στόχος της εκδήλωσης είναι ο προβληματισμός των νέων που αφήνουν πίσω τους τα σχολικά και φοιτητικά έδρανα και βρίσκονται αντιμέτωποι με την ανεργία και τον αγώνα για επιβίωση. Μπορεί να συνεισφέρει στο επόμενο βήμα τους η Παιδεία και με ποιόν τρόπο;

Εισηγητές είναι οι:
1) Ανδρέας Ανδριανόπουλος, τέως υπουργός Ανάπτυξης, πρόεδρος του Forum για την Ελλάδα
2) Τάκης Μίχας, δημοσιογράφος, διεθνολόγος, πολιτικός αναλυτής
3) Βασίλειος Παπάζογλου, καθηγητής Ε.Μ.Π., ειδικός γραμματέας υπουργείου Παιδείας
4) Βάσω Κιντή, αναπληρώτρια καθηγήτρια, Τμήμα Μεθοδολογίας, Ιστορίας & Θεωρίας των Επιστημών (ΜΙΘΕ)
5) Νίκος Χριστοδούλου, διευθυντής ορχήστρας – συνθέτης
Την εκδήλωση θα συντονίσει ο Δημήτρης Κατσούδας, επιστημονικός διευθυντής του “forum για την Ελλάδα”.

Στην εκδήλωση θα συμμετάσχουν μαθητές σχολείων και φοιτητές, ενώ -μέσω Skype- νέοι από την υπόλοιπη Ελλάδα και τον κόσμο θα παρέμβουν στη συζήτηση. Πόλεις που συμμετέχουν: ΘΕΣΣΑΛΟΝΙΚΗ, ΚΟΜΟΤΗΝΗ, ΗΡΑΚΛΕΙΟ, ΛΑΡΙΣΑ, ΛΟΝΔΙΝΟ, ΜΑΣΣΑΧΟΥΣΕΤΗ.
Στο τέλος της εκδήλωσης θα παρουσιαστούν καλλιτεχνικά δρώμενα υπό τον τίτλο :
ART INTERVENTION ( Παρέμβαση της Τέχνης).

Η αστική μη κερδοσκοπική εταιρία “forum για την Ελλάδα” αποτελεί ένα think tank, σημείο συνάντησης δημιουργικών δυνάμεων, των σκεπτόμενων δημιουργικών και φιλελεύθερων ανθρώπων της σύγχρονης Ελλάδας, οι οποίοι με την ανταλλαγή ιδεών, την παραγωγή συγκεκριμένων προτάσεων, την προβολή λύσεων και την ανάληψη πρωτοβουλιών, αποσκοπούν στην εθνική κινητοποίηση για την αλλαγή και τον εκσυγχρονισμό, στη δημιουργία μιας νέας προσέγγισης για το μέλλον της χώρας.

Η εκδήλωση θα μεταδοθεί ζωντανά, μέσω internet, από την ιστοσελίδα:www.forumgreece.tv, όπου και θα βρείτε περισσότερες λεπτομέρειες.

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Star Trek Sequel Opens May 2013, Abrams Targets Benicio del Toro

2011-11-27T11:05:00.001+02:00

J.J. Abrams’ 2009 Star Trek surprised many by being both faithful to the original source material and also widely accessible to new viewers. Sequel talk started almost immediately, but Abrams wanted to make Super 8 before returning to Starfleet. Now that that’s out of the way, we’re finally getting some substantial news about the film.

The MTV Movies Blog caught up with Abrams on the red carpet for Super 8‘s DVD and Blu-ray release, where the director confirmed that Benicio del Toro is high on his wish list of new actors for the film. “It’s too early to talk about what the role is, but he’s such an amazing actor,” he said. “He’s so versatile. He could sort of do anything.” He went on to say that as soon as anyone was signed, news would be released to the public.

Meanwhile, Deadline scored a few practical details. First of all, the film is planned for a May 17, 2013, release to fill in the gap left by Roland Emmerich’s Singularity, which moved from that date to Nov. 1, 2013. Secondly, the site confirmed the Star Trek sequel will be shot in 3D. Writers Damon Lindelof, Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci are working on the script, and all stars will be returning.

Tags: Benicio Del Toro, J.J. Abrams, Paramount Pictures, star trek, Star Trek 2

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Eurozone Occupied Greece Flag

2011-11-22T05:25:00.001+02:00

Eurozone Occupied Greece Flag, originally uploaded by alphadesigner.

Living the Greek Crisis

2011-11-22T00:30:00.001+02:00

Living the Greek Crisis

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Infographic: The Hippie Continuum

2011-11-19T14:47:00.001+02:00

Home Solar Power Discounts - One Block Off the Grid

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wasted time in the workplace (infographic)

2011-10-19T11:36:00.001+03:00

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autumn by the lake

2011-10-17T16:32:00.001+03:00

"Ποταμοῖς τοῖς αὐτοῖς ἐμβαίνομέν τε καὶ οὐκ ἐμβαίνομεν, εἶμέν τε καὶ οὐκ εἶμεν.""We both step and do not step in the same rivers. We are and are not."Heraclitus the Riddler

How The Top 50 Nonprofits Do Facebook: Infographic

2011-10-13T20:24:00.001+03:00

The best liked nonprofit organization on Facebook also has the most engaged fans: Public Broadcasting Service.

That statistic appears in a nifty infographic that RAD Campaign created for CraigConnects, which looks like a Jumo competitor launched by Craigslist Founder Craig Newmark.

This infographic compares nonprofits’ revenues with the scope of the organizations’ social media efforts; we’ve excerpted the portions relevant to Facebook, but a more detailed version (including Twitter data) appears on where else but CraigConnects.

Let us know in the comments section beneath this post what you think about the infographic and how nonprofits are using Facebook.

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FORMULA 1: A NEW HIGH

2011-10-13T14:43:00.001+03:00

We’ve seen Red Bull Racing show car runs on the beach, on ice and even in the Wild West but this one tops all of those (quite literally) as Swiss racer Neel Jani heads to India to take the Red Bull Racing show car 5,600m up the world’s highest driveable road – the Khardung Pass in India.

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Battlestar Galactica - Infographic

2011-10-11T23:36:00.001+03:00

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what wiil you do

2011-10-11T23:28:00.000+03:00

Nobel Peace Prize Winners 2011: Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Leymah Gbowee, Tawakkul Karman

2011-10-07T18:04:00.001+03:00

Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, peace activist Leymah Gbowee, and human rights activist Tawakkul Karman have been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. The Nobel Prize Committee lauded their non-violent struggle for the safety of women and women's rights to fully participate in peace-building work. The three recipients were announced today in a ceremony in Oslo, Norway.
From the Nobel Peace Prize official website:
"It is the Norwegian Nobel Committee’s hope that the prize to Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Leymah Gbowee and Tawakkul Karman will help to bring an end to the suppression of women that still occurs in many countries, and to realise the great potential for democracy and peace that women can represent."
Karman, a 32-year-old mother who heads the human rights group Women Journalists without Chains, has been a leading figure in the protests against Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh. "She is known among Yemenis as 'the iron woman' and the 'mother of the revolution,'" the Associated Press writes. "A conservative woman fighting for change in a conservative Muslim and tribal society, Tawakkul Karman has been the face of the mass uprising against the authoritarian regime of President Ali Abdullah Saleh."
"I am very very happy about this prize," Karman told the news service from a protest tent in Sanaa. "This prize is not for Tawakkul, it is for the whole Yemeni people, for the martyrs, for the cause of standing up to (Saleh) and his gangs. Every tyrant and dictator is upset by this prize because it confronts injustice."
"With two civil wars, an al-Qaida presence and 40% unemployment, what else is President Saleh waiting for? He should leave office now," she told The Guardian.
Johnson Sirleaf, 72, is a Harvard-trained economist who became Africa's first democratically elected female president in 2005.
Sirleaf was seen as a reformer and peacemaker when she took office in Liberia, a country ravaged by civil wars that is still struggling to maintain a fragile peace.
Sirleaf is running for re-election this month and opponents i have accused her of buying votes and using government funds to campaign. Sirleaf denies the charges.
The committee cited Johnson Sirleaf's efforts to secure peace in her country, promote economic and social development and strengthen the position of women.
"We are dancing," Bushuben Keita, a spokesman for Mrs. Johnson Sirleaf's United Party told The New York Times. "This is the thing that we have been saying, progress has been made in Libera. We've come through 14 years of war and we have come to sustained peace. We’ve already started dancing."
Gbowee, head of the Women Peace And Security Network, was honored by the Committee for for mobilizing women "across ethnic and religious dividing lines to bring an end to the long war in Liberia, and to ensure women's participation in elections." Gbowee brought together Christian and Muslim women against the power of Liberia's warlords.
"I know Leymah to be a warrior daring to enter where others would not dare," Gbowee's assistant, Bertha Amanor, said to the AP. "So fair and straight, and a very nice person."
The prize is awarded by a five-person committee chosen by the Norwegian parliament, lead this year by Thorbjoern Jagland. Speculation had swirled over who would receive the prize, with Jagland telling the Associated Press that the prize would be given to something "obvious" that he considered "the most positive development" in the world right now.
According the official Nobel Prize website, today's presentation marks the 92nd time the Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded since 1901.
When Alfred Nobel died in 1895, part of his last will and testament requested the distribution of his fortune as prizes for "the person who shall have done the most or the best work for fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses." Last year's winner, Liu Xiaobo, received the award for his struggle for human rights in China. President Barack Obama received the Nobel Peace Prize the previous year for his efforts in international diplomacy.

How well do you know past Nobel Peace Prize winners? Take the quiz below and find out!
How well do you know past Nobel Peace Prize winners?

To get the highest score, get all the answers right in the fastest time!
The clock will start as soon as you submit your first answer.

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The problem with Greece

2011-09-27T19:47:00.001+03:00

The problem with Greece, a set by DimitraTzanos on Flickr.

CERN: ‘Speed of Light Exceeded’ (Maybe)

2011-09-25T21:01:00.001+03:00

Sunlight (composed of photons) takes about 8 minutes, 19 seconds to reach Earth - Could a neutrino reach Earth faster?

The news from CERN physicists that the speed of light “may have been exceeded” sent a lightning bolt of excitement and disbelief (not quite surpassing the speed of light) throughout the world’s physics community. Fully accepting that their results would be met with great skepticism, the same physicists are inviting other particle physicists and labs to verify — or disprove — their results, which, if validated, will overturn one of the principle tenets of modern physics: that nothing travels faster than the speed of light (notated as ‘c‘ in physical equations).

Based in Switzerland, CERN physicists were experimenting with neutrinos (a mysterious class of virtually massless particles) by shooting them to an underground detector located over 450 miles (730 km) away in Italy. According to the detector results, the quantum particle reached its destination 60 nanoseconds faster than would a particle of light — that’s 60 billionths of a second — with a margin of error of just 10 nanoseconds. That tiny amount of difference in timing is a huge deal.

According to Einstein’s Special Theory of Relativity (from 1906), the speed at which light travels (whether as a wave form, or as a particle, known as a photon) is constant; no signal or flow of energy can surpass this cosmically limiting speed, which is rounded off to 186, 282 miles per second (decimal places excluded from that figure).

Some theoretical physicists (Feinberg, Sundarshan, etc.) had previously postulated a faster-than-light-speed particle — termed a tachyon — to explain bizarre phenomena such as bosonic ‘string’ theory and quantum entanglement (in which two coupled particles, widely separated, appear to “communicate” instantaneously). But modern quantum theory views such “particles” as representing or indicating an instability in the system (i.e., the tachyon field) and not “real” particles, thus incapable of faster than light transmission.

In the diagram, the interval AB is 'time-like'; i.e., there is a frame of reference in which events A and B occur at the same location in space, separated only by occurring at different times. If A precedes B in that frame, then A precedes B in all frames. It is hypothetically possible for matter (or information) to travel from A to B, so there can be a causal relationship (with A the cause and B the effect). The interval AC in the diagram is 'space-like'; i.e., there is a frame of reference in which events A and C occur simultaneously, separated only in space. However there are also frames in which A precedes C (as shown) and frames in which C precedes A. If it were possible for a cause-and-effect relationship to exist between events A and C, then paradoxes of causality would result.

No, the limiting nature of the speed of light (and its mediating particle) seems necessary for any cosmic, causal sense-making.

For physicist, the finite/constant speed of light (in a vacuum) is necessary to preserve “causality” in the normal sense of the word, wherein a ’cause’ precedes an ‘effect’. But, there is a theoretical paradox in which an effect precedes its cause (see the light cone diagram, left), and in which “faster than light signals” can be sent back into one’s own past, creating a causal paradox (if, and only if, no previous signal was received).

There is also the odd phenomena in which the spot where the beam of a search light hits the bottom of a cloud can move faster than light when the search light is moved quickly (note: this effect/speed is not achieved in a vacuum).*

However, under controlled laboratory conditions, there has been only one serious, experimental challenge to this physical constant: in 2007, physicists working with Fermilab’s Tevatron collider (located in the U.S.), achieved a similar feat with neutrinos, but the margin of error was quite large, and consequently, the results were dismissed by the physics community (too much “noise” in the detectors’ data).

But CERN’s margin of error is much smaller. Currently, physicist the world over are either analyzing the results (for errors), or trying to duplicate the results in other particle accelerators (such as the J-PARC neutrino collider system in Japan, which is conducting its own neutrino and antimatter experiment called T2K).

CERN (the European Organization for Nuclear Research) is located outside Geneva, Switxerland, and is the world’s largest particle physics research laboratory and home to the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world’s most powerful particle accelerator (note: the LHC was not used in this experiment).

If verified, these experimental results would be “revolutionary” say scientists. Proving the existence of a faster-than-light-speed particle will not change how the Universe works, of course, but it will change our understanding of some of its fundamental features, the most fundamental of which (apart from the three Laws of Thermodynamics) is the speed of light, the square of which was introduced to the world’s consciousness through Einstein’s famous equation E = mc².

For more information and to see a video from CERN, check out the Huff Post article ‘CERN: Light Speed May Have Been Exceeded By Subatomic Particle’

* [source]: Salmon, Wesley, Four Decades of Scientific Explanation; referenced on wikipedia.org, ‘speed of light’]

top diagram: (sunlight time to Earth) Brews ohare ; CC – BY – SA 3.0

bottom diagram: (light cone) r Sakurambo

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Final Frontier Facts!

2011-09-25T16:10:00.001+03:00

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Fleur-de-lis

2011-09-18T14:34:00.001+03:00

The fleur-de-lis or fleur-de-lys (plural: fleurs-de-lis) is a stylized lily (in French, fleur means flower, and lis means lily) or iris that is used as a decorative design or symbol. It may be "at one and the same time, political, dynastic, artistic, emblematic, and symbolic", especially in heraldry. It is represented in Unicode at U+269C in the Miscellaneous Symbols block.

While the fleur-de-lis has appeared on countless European coats of arms and flags over the centuries, it is particularly associated with the French monarchy in a historical context, and continues to appear in the arms of the King of Spain and the Grand Duke of Luxembourg and members of the House of Bourbon. It remains an enduring symbol of France that appears on French postage stamps, although it has never been adopted officially by any of the French republics. According to French historian Georges Duby, the three leaves represent the medieval social classes: those who worked, those who fought and those who prayed.

In North America, the fleur-de-lis is often associated with areas first named or settled by the French. In the US, they tend to be along or near the Mississippi and Missouri rivers. Some of the places that have the fleur-de-lis in their flag or seal are the cities of St. Louis, Louisville, Detroit, New Orleans, and Baton Rouge and the states of Louisiana and Missouri. In Canada, the coat of arms for the provinces of (officially monolingual) Quebec and (officially bilingual) New Brunswick contain the fleur-de-lis. There are many French-speaking people in other Canadian provinces for whom the fleur-de-lis remains a symbol of their cultural identity.

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Team Transparency vs Team Anonymity

2011-09-14T14:33:00.001+03:00

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45 years Star Trek a tribute infographic

2011-09-08T18:54:00.001+03:00

Source: SPACE.com: All about our solar system, outer space and exploration

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the perfect Doodle ... Freddie Mercury 65 b-day anniversary

2011-09-05T13:08:00.000+03:00

Capitalism and Freedom by Milton Friedman

2011-09-04T16:35:00.000+03:00

Milton Friedman, a Nobel Prize–winning economist, may have been the first modern-day Tea Partyer. In Capitalism and Freedom, published in 1962, Friedman makes his most important contribution to his profession: the argument that the best medicine for curing a recession and stabilizing economies is for a nation's central bank (the Federal Reserve for the U.S.) to be slowly but constantly increasing the amount banks are allowed to lend and therefore increasing the supply of money — but only in brief. Instead of economic proofs, Friedman spends much of the book urging government restraint; he starts off by condemning John F. Kennedy's famous "Ask not what your country can do for you" inaugural address, saying it reduces the individual to a serf with the government as his master. Friedman always thought it should be the other way around.

Read more: http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2088856_2089137_2089236,00.html #ixzz1WzTQKLMz

It's Always Summer

2011-09-03T14:09:00.001+03:00

It's Always Summer, originally uploaded by brexians.

It's Always Summer

Heave the anchor short!
Raise main-sail and jib--steer forth,
O little white-hull'd sloop, now speed on really deep waters,
(I will not call it our concluding voyage,
But outset and sure entrance to the truest, best, maturest;)
Depart, depart from solid earth--no more returning to these shores,
Now on for aye our infinite free venture wending,
Spurning all yet tried ports, seas, hawsers, densities, gravitation,
Sail out for good, eidolon yacht of me!

by Walt Whitman
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@ your service

2011-09-02T18:19:00.001+03:00

@ your service, originally uploaded by brexians.

@ your service

ser·vice noun
Definition of SERVICE

1
a : the occupation or function of serving
b : employment as a servant
2
a : the work performed by one that serves
b : help, use, benefit
c : contribution to the welfare of others
d : disposal for use
3
a : a form followed in worship or in a religious ceremony
b : a meeting for worship —often used in plural
4
: the act of serving: as
a : a helpful act
b : useful labor that does not produce a tangible commodity —usually used in plural
c : serve
5
: a set of articles for a particular use
6
a : an administrative division (as of a government or business)
b : one of a nation's military forces (as the army or navy)
7
a : a facility supplying some public demand
b : a facility providing maintenance and repair
8
: the materials (as spun yarn, small lines, or canvas) used for serving a rope
9
: the act of bringing a legal writ, process, or summons to notice as prescribed by law
10
: the act of a male animal copulating with a female animal
11
: a branch of a hospital medical staff devoted to a particular specialty

Rhino Crisis Round Up: Syndicate ‘Kingpin’ Denied Bail, Rhino Murdered in India, The Rhino Chair & More Source: Planetsave (http://s.tt/13a6d)

2011-09-02T14:10:00.001+03:00

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Tempest Milky Way

2011-08-24T01:00:00.000+03:00

Tempest Milky Way from Randy Halverson on Vimeo.

One of the challenges in making this video, was trying to get good storm and star shots. The opportunity doesn't come along very often, the storm has to be moving the right speed and the lightning can overexpose the long exposures. I had several opportunities this summer to get storm and star shots. In one instance, within a minute of picking up the camera and dolly, 70mph winds hit. One storm was perfect, it came straight towards the setup, then died right before it reached it.

At the 1:57 mark a Whitetail buck came in to check out the setup. It was caught on 20 frames, and was there for about 10 minutes. It was only 50 yards from the camera, dolly and light.

At the 3:24 mark, a meteor reflects on the water of the small lake, see still below in Photos. There are also quite a few other meteors in the timelapse.

This was all shot in central South Dakota from June-August.

Canon 5D Mark II for a few shots, Canon 60D and T2i
Canon 16-35, Tokina 11-16

Exposure on most shots was 20-30 seconds, ISO 1600 or 3200 F2.8.

Simon Wilkinson at http://www.thebluemask.com created the music "Tempest" and sound for it.

I used the Dynamic Perception Stage Zero Dolly on most of the shots as well, it is awesome. http://www.dynamicperception.com

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"Ποταμοῖς τοῖς αὐτοῖς ἐμβαίνομέν τε καὶ οὐκ ἐμβαίνομεν, εἶμέν τε καὶ οὐκ εἶμεν.""We both step and do not step in the same rivers. We are and are not."Heraclitus the Riddler

Infographic: If Web Browsers Were Celebrities

2011-08-23T21:34:00.001+03:00

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Theory Street

2011-08-23T18:15:00.001+03:00

Theory Street, originally uploaded by maksid (on vacations).

Greece lives in a theory street, passing by bankrupt phrases. Perhaps we will not crash after all.

Theory and reality, people of Greece owes, people of Portugal, of Ireland, of Italy owes… And, people of Germany owes, yes, millions of people of Europe, of the US, owes billions to… somewhere… billions of people of Africa, Asia, people of the world owes trillions (?) to a few… to whom ?

We will live, but soon maybe Greece will belong to non Greeks, to banks owners perhaps. It's a new kind of business, to sell and buy countries.

Fake money, monopoly games, ghosts against people… theory and reality

And then peope against ghosts.
We don't know these days against whom we must fight, sometimes we turn against our selves, do we deserve it ?

Kill the King !

graffiti... is an art ? (100) pics

2011-08-21T18:05:00.001+03:00

Graffiti: A History of an Art Form

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Bicycling Facts Infographic

2011-08-20T11:59:00.001+03:00

Just ran across this great infographic on bicycling facts and the future of bicycling on our sister site sustainablog and,

of course, wanted to share it on here. It’s the feature green living “story” of the day.

The infographic is from our friends over at Well Home Energy Audit. Check it out and enjoy!

Source: Planetsave (http://s.tt/134yH)

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september 2011 calendar

2011-08-17T18:41:00.001+03:00

september 2011 calendar, originally uploaded by brexians.

Picasso: The Women Behind the Artist | de Young Museum

2011-08-16T19:52:00.000+03:00

Discover the women, the passion and the heartbreak behind Pablo Picasso’s work presented in Picasso: Masterpieces from the Musée National Picasso, Paris currently on view at the de Young. Behind every great artist, there is a muse. For Picasso, his romantic relationships provided inspiration for countless paintings, drawings and sculptures. The exhibition highlights many powerful depictions of Picasso’s lovers Marie-Thérèse Walter and Dora Maar, among others, while touching on every major phase of his expansive career. To learn about the women in Picasso’s life and work, here are their stories from the exhibition’s curator Timothy Anglin Burgard.

more via: Picasso: The Women Behind the Artist | de Young Museum

How NASA's Juno Mission to Jupiter Works (Infographic) by Karl Tate

2011-08-12T23:02:00.002+03:00

Source: SPACE.com: All about our solar system, outer space and exploration

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A Deep, Intense Blue

2011-08-12T22:34:00.001+03:00

08/11/2011

'A Deep, Intense Blue'

Free Diver Pursues World Records at Deadly Depths

Corbis

In an interview with SPIEGEL, French free diver Guillaume Néry discusses the dangerous pursuit of world records, the art of holding his breath for up to eight minutes and how diving can help humans rethink their relationship to water.

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Rhino Crisis Round Up: Death Toll Hits 250, Rhino Horn Smugglers Enjoy ‘Drunken Orgies’ in South Africa and More | Planetsave

2011-08-12T15:23:00.004+03:00

There are now at least 250 fewer rhinos in South Africa than there were at the beginning of the year, thanks to the continuing menace of international rhino horn smuggling syndicates.

And if one counts the rhinos killed “legally” for “trophies”, that number could be much higher.
Death toll rises
While WWF praised the South African judiciary for handing out maximum prison sentences to two rhino horn traffickers from Vietnam, the NGO also reported that at least 250 rhinos have been massacred in the country this year.
Most of the killings have occurred in the country’s flagship tourist destination: Kruger National Park.
Another museum heist
Two rhino horns were stolen from a museum in Belgium this week, and authorities suspect this is yet another incident tied to an Irish rhino horn trafficking gang.
At least 20 rhino horn robberies have been reported in Europe during the last six months.

‘Drunken orgies’
Investigative journalist Julian Rademeyer uncovered disturbing new details about the Steyl syndicate, during an interview with whistleblower Johnny Olivier.
Matters finally came to a head between Olivier and Chumchom over the drunken orgies the syndicate members frequently held at the house they rented when the kingpin was out of town. Olivier, a teetotaler, describes them as a “bunch of drunkards”
South African Marnus Steyl and his Thai accomplice, Chumlong Lemtongthai, allegedly laundered rhino horn for the illegal market under the cover of Steyl’s safari hunting business.
The pair is said to have trafficked female “sex workers” from Thailand to pose as “rhino hunters” on Steyl’s property.
World Rhino Day

The Second Annual World Rhino Day is charging ahead!
On September 22^nd, people all over the world will be holding events to celebrate rhinos and debunk the medicinal myths about rhino horn.
So far, celebrations are planned in Zimbabwe, Nepal, the US, South Africa, and Malaysia.
Participants include schools, NGOs, zoos, businesses and the public.
Find out more at Mark Your Calendar: World Rhino Day is September 22 {Videos}.
You can also download the World Rhino Day poster (above) from World Rhino Day 2011 Posters.
Image #1 &amp; #2 © iStockphoto.com; #3 © Saving Rhinos LLC

Related posts:
Rhino Crisis Round Up: Antique Rhino Horn Cups Fuel the Fire, Thai ‘Hookers’ Weep &amp; More
Rhino Crisis Round Up: ‘Eco-Clubs’ in Nepal, New Arrivals in India &amp; Groenewald Makes a Deal in South Africa
Rhino Crisis Round Up: 200 Rhinos Slaughtered in South Africa, Irish Gangs (&amp; More)

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Stanley Kubrick - a filmography HD

2011-08-11T04:43:00.001+03:00

Stanley Kubrick - a filmography HD from Martin Woutisseth on Vimeo.
Version 1.2 HD

Design, Martin Woutisseth http://finestblackdesign.blogspot.com/

Music, Romain Trouillet : romain-trouillet.com
myspace.com/romaintrouillet

Animation made with mixing each Kubrick's movies. Typography, colors, patterns and symbols are re interprating. The old man is watching behind his life, nostalgic and the young one is thinking about his future to write.

"Ποταμοῖς τοῖς αὐτοῖς ἐμβαίνομέν τε καὶ οὐκ ἐμβαίνομεν, εἶμέν τε καὶ οὐκ εἶμεν.""We both step and do not step in the same rivers. We are and are not."Heraclitus the Riddler

Mark Your Calendar: World Rhino Day is September 22

2011-08-10T12:01:00.002+03:00

The Planet’s remaining rhinos will soon have their day, thanks to an international campaign launched to celebrate these magnificent pachyderms.

As you know from reading my “Rhino Crisis Round Up” series here on Planetsave, these ancient mammals are under siege – all because of misguided beliefs about rhino horn’s alleged usefulness.
The Second Annual World Rhino Day is working towards eliminating the demand for rhino horn by highlighting efforts to debunk these medicinal myths.
Global scourge
The demand for rhino horn is indeed a global scourge:
In 2010, the illegal trade in rhino horn claimed the lives of 333 rhinos in South Africa. More than 200 rhinos have already been killed this year.
During the last six months, at least 20 European museums have been robbed by organized criminal gangs who specialize in the trafficking of antique rhino horns.
Loopholes in South Africa’s trophy hunting laws are being exploited to “source” rhino horn legally. Rhino horn syndicates are working with professional hunters to run rhino horn from South Africa to the illegal rhino horn market in Southeast Asia.
Instead of adhering to its obligation as a CITES signatory, it was confirmed that China is pumping millions of dollars into a “rhino horn scheme” and encouraging the consumption of rhino horn. Besides undermining decades of rhino conservation efforts, this scheme endangers the lives of people who are in need of actual medical attention.

Four of the five living rhino species, clockwise from upper left: Greater one-horned rhino, Sumatran rhino, black rhino, white rhino.
The fifth rhino species, the Javan rhino, is seen in the video below:
The total population of all five rhino species is now estimated to be just over 28,000. Javan rhinos are the least numerous, with only 48 individuals surviving.
International campaign
The World Rhino Day tradition was established last year by WWF as an opportunity for people all over the world to take a stand against rhino poaching and the illegal trade in rhino horn.
Continuing the tradition, World Rhino Day 2011 is an international team effort, led by Zimbabwe-based Chishakwe Ranch and US-based Saving Rhinos LLC (that’s me).
Co-organizer Lisa-Jane Campbell of Chishakwe Ranch noted on the Saving Species blog that one of the main aims of this year’s World Rhino Day is to debunk the myths that fuel the demand for horn and the poaching of rhino.
Rhino horn has no medicinal value, despite the long held belief to the contrary. Rhino are dying for nobody’s benefit – except that of the criminals involved in the poaching rings.
The World Rhino Day 2011 page is already set up on Facebook® (thank you, Chishakwe!) as an online “venue” for everyone to join forces, stay informed, and share plans for the Big Day.
NGOs, zoos, educational institutions, and the public are encouraged to participate in celebrating World Rhino Day 2011.
While I know of various plans hatching in South Africa and the US, here are just a few of the activities in progress:
Nepal: PARC/Nepal is putting up World Rhino Day posters and engaging in public awareness activities with local communities in the Chitwan National Park Buffer Zone.
Zimbabwe: Chishakwe Ranch is working directly with village schools, getting the children involved with projects, such as creating rhino posters.
Southeast Asia: TRAFFIC Southeast Asia is featuring rhinos in September, as part of their “Twelve in Trouble” online awareness campaign.
World-renowned Save the Rhino International is announcing World Rhino Day to subscribers in the September edition of their ezine, RhiNews.
There is a comprehensive list of ideas at “Are you looking for a way to make a difference?” on the International Rhino Foundation website.
In addition, I put together some suggestions on my blog at “Cookies, Crafts and Cocktails: Fresh Ideas for World Rhino Day 2011.”
‘All in for Rhinos’
Putting it all together: A crowdsourced project called ““All in for Rhinos” is being created to commemorate World Rhino Day 2011!

“All in for Rhinos” will feature photo and poster submissions, and short video clips contributed by the public, NGOs, zoos, and other businesses promoting World Rhino Day.
For more information about World Rhino Day 2011, you can email Chishakwe Ranch at management (at) chishakwe (dot) com, or contact us via the World Rhino Day page.
You can contact me via Twitter (@savingrhinos) or email (info [at] savingrhinos [dot] org) regarding World Rhino Day and/or the “All in for Rhinos” project.
I’ll be posting more information about “All in for Rhinos” and World Rhino Day 2011 on my blog.
In the meantime, here’s to the rhinos!
Photo #1 (clockwise from upper left): Suman Bhattarai (PARC/Nepal); Bruce1ee [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons; black and white rhino © iStockphoto.com. Photo #2: © iStockphoto.com
Photo #3 courtesy and © Pam Krzyza

Related posts:
Rhino Crisis Round Up: ‘Eco-Clubs’ in Nepal, New Arrivals in India & Groenewald Makes a Deal in South Africa
Rhino Crisis Round Up: Namibia Hit (Maybe) & Rhino Horn ‘Treatment’ Sends Woman to Hospital in Vietnam
Rhino Crisis Round Up: Antique Rhino Horn Cups Fuel the Fire, Thai ‘Hookers’ Weep & More

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Juno Mission Overview... Space travel

2011-08-06T20:03:00.001+03:00

The Juno spacecraft will look deep beneath Jupiter's swirling curtains of clouds to decipher the planet's structure and history during a mission that will begin with a 5-year flight through deep space. The journey will begin aboard an Atlas V rocket equipped with five booster rockets and a large Centaur upper stage. In this webcast, members of NASA's Launch Services Program and Juno's principal investigator detail what it takes to prepare an interplanetary mission and what potential discoveries lie ahead.

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Infographic: A History of Browser Usage

2011-08-06T00:27:00.001+03:00

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a trip through twitter's lazyweb (infographic)

2011-08-05T00:31:00.003+03:00

InboxQ - Twitter's Lazyweb

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zoudov

2011-08-04T13:21:00.002+03:00

Zoudov from Clement Bolla on Vimeo.

"Ποταμοῖς τοῖς αὐτοῖς ἐμβαίνομέν τε καὶ οὐκ ἐμβαίνομεν, εἶμέν τε καὶ οὐκ εἶμεν." "We both step and do not step in the same rivers. We are and are not." Heraclitus the Riddler

Infographics » Facts about the Internet

2011-08-03T00:17:00.001+03:00

With the push for electronic medical records in the medical billing and coding industry, and the increasingly computerized nature of the field, more and more billers and coders are finding that they do not have the computer and Internet skills to keep up in the industry.

The ever-changing and rapidly growing entity known as the Internet is already a major part of society, and it is likely going to dictate the future of not just medical billing and coding, but almost every industry in the world.

The first step to understanding the Internet and how it can impact medical billing and coding is to explore some facts about this vast information monolith.

Via: MedicalBillingAndCoding.org

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οι καλύτερες "πράσινες" ιστορίες της καθημερινότητας μας

2011-08-02T11:35:00.001+03:00

Bikes!

Renewable Energy

Electric Cars

Food & Gardening

Other

Source: Planetsave (http://s.tt/12X5b)

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tapping the sun's energy

2011-08-01T19:40:00.001+03:00

So few people know just how solar energy works even though it has the potential in time to power the entire planets energy needs. With that in mind a solar panel manufacturer came to us with the goal of creating a simple graphic that everyone could easily grasp and increase their understanding of this powerful green technology.

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Ancient World

2011-07-31T12:29:00.001+03:00

Ancient World, originally uploaded by Midnight - digital.

The Cliffs

They sing of the grandeur of cliffs inland,
But the cliffs of the ocean are truly grand;
And I long to wander and dream and doubt
Where the cliffs by the ocean run out and out.

To the northward far as the eye can reach
Are sandhill, boulder, and sandy beach;
But southward rises the track for me,
Where the cliffs by the ocean run out to sea.

Friends may be gone in the morning fair,
But the cliffs by the ocean are always there;
Lovers may leave when the wind is chill,
But the cliffs by the ocean are steadfast still.

They watch the sea and they ward the land,
And they warn the ships from the treacherous sand;
And I sadly think in the twilight hour
What I might have been had I known my power.

Where the smoke-cloud blurs and the white sails fill,
They point the ships to keep seaward still;
And I think—Ah, me!—and I think—Ah, me!
Of the wreck I’d saved had I kept to sea.

Oh! the cliffs are old and the cliffs are sad,
And they know me sane, while men deem me mad.
Oh! the cliffs are firm and the cliffs are strong,
And they know me right, while men deem me wrong.

And I sometimes think in the dawning gray,
I am old as they, I am old as they;
And I think, I think that in field and town
My spirit shall live till the cliffs come down.

Henry Lawson

50 Renowned Academics Speaking About God

2011-07-28T22:13:00.002+03:00

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Plastic ..the infographic

2011-07-28T14:12:00.003+03:00

Plastic — it is everywhere.

While it has helped humanity in some important ways, it is also wreaking havoc on ecosystems and organisms around the world (including humans). Here’s an interesting infographic with some stunning and disturbing information on: how much plastic we use, what problems it’s linked to, plastic in the ocean, BPA, plastic’s ridiculously long lifespan, and how we can cut plastic out of our lives (OK, maybe not how we can do so completely, but how we can do so to a large degree).

The most interesting line of the infographic, in my opinion, is this one: “every piece of plastic made still exists today.” But, really, there’s a ton of interesting info here.

The infographic also does a good job of pointing out the key steps we can take to body-slam our plastic problem:

Use reusable bags
Cut the bottled water out of your life
Say no to single-serve plastic packaging
Use sandwich boxes instead of sandwich bags (cooler anyway!)
Use silverware (.. which actually results in a little more pleasant of an eating experience)
Go digital (forget the old-school plastic CDs & cases)
Use a refillable dispenser
Bring your “to-go” mug with you
Avoid plastic you can’t easily (and probably won’t) recycle
Try to find products not made of plastic (when you have to buy something, that is)

Source: Planetsave (http://s.tt/12Vcl)

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Source:Reusable Bags

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coffee vs tea (infographic)

2011-07-26T01:14:00.001+03:00

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15 things you should know about caffeine (infographic)

2011-07-26T01:00:00.001+03:00

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Infographic: The Social Travel Revolution

2011-07-25T16:36:00.001+03:00

Social media can shape the way that we make our decisions on a day-to-day basis and this is seen very much in the travel industry. This great infographic from Swedish social travel startup Tripl demonstrates how interactions through social media are effecting this industry.

A few key points of interest for me are:

72% of all social network users access their social network sites daily while they are travelling
200 million passengers will board GOGO-WIFI flights this year
69% of all travel companies saw traffic growth from Facebook
46% of all travel companies saw traffic growth from Twitter
The top 5 airlines have 2,566,000 fans on Facebook
50 million trip reviews have been created for TripAdvisor

This infographic gathers data from major players in the social media field, as well as large travel and data sites like Quantcast.com and TripAdvisor.com.

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Μιχάλης Κακογιάννης... έφυγε ο δημιουργός του Ζορμπά...

2011-07-25T12:14:00.001+03:00

«Ο Μιχάλης Κακογιάννης είναι ο πρώτος, ανάμεσα στους μετρημένους στα δάχτυλα του ενός χεριού συναδέλφους σκηνοθέτες, που μπόρεσε να βγάλει την Ελλάδα έξω από τα σύνορά της. Και το έκανε μεταφέροντας στον κινηματογράφο τον Ευριπίδη και τον Καζαντζάκη, κάνοντάς τους αγαθό του διεθνούς κοινού, προβάλλοντας την ιδέα του ελληνισμού, όταν στην κοιτίδα του επί της ουσίας δεν υπήρχε καν σοβαρή κινηματογραφία».

Με αυτά τα λόγια ο δημοσιογράφος, Χρήστος Σιάφκος, που υπογράφει τη βιογραφία του Μιχάλη Κακογιάννη «Σε πρώτο πλάνο» (εκδ. Ψυχογιός) καλωσορίζει το 2009 τον αναγνώστη στην «υπέροχη» περιπέτεια ζωής του διεθνούς σκηνοθέτη.

Επαγγελματικά ο Μιχάλης Κακογιάννης εμφανίστηκε πρώτη φορά στο θέατρο, ως Ηρώδης στη Σαλώμη του Όσκαρ Ουαΐλντ, το 1947. Ο ίδιος περιγράφει μοναδικά την σκηνή:

«Όλα διαδραματίστηκαν, όπως μπορείτε να τα φανταστείτε, ακόμα και ο Χορός των επτά πέπλων. Μου γδύθηκε σχεδόν τελείως η Σαλώμη, ή τουλάχιστον όσο επιτρεπόταν τότε. Έμεινε με ένα κιλοτάκι και δε θυμάμαι αν φορούσε καν σουτιέν. Λεγόταν Μπερνίς Ρούμπενς και έγινε στη συνέχεια διάσημη συγγραφεύς».

«Στη ζωή δεν είμαι καταπιεστικός, στη δουλειά όμως γίνομαι. Στον κινηματογράφο πρέπει να είσαι δικτάτορας. Διοικείς πλήθος ανθρώπων, γίνεσαι Θεός κατά κάποιο τρόπο, αφού πλάθεις ζωή. Κι αυτή η ζωή αποκτά την οντότητα της πραγματικής. Επίσης, γίνεσαι απόλυτα ειλικρινής. Δεν έχεις καιρό για κολακείες ή ψέμματα. Το πλάνο εργασίας πρέπει να ολοκληρώνεται στον τακτό χρόνο. Αν κατακρίνω για κάτι σήμερα τους νέους σκηνοθέτες, είναι γιατί δεν υπακούουν στους νόμους του κινηματογράφου και ξαφνικά μένουν χωρίς λεφτά. Εγώ γύριζα τις ταινίες σε επτά με οκτώ εβδομάδες. Δεν έβγαινα ποτέ από τον προϋπολογισμό. Αλλά βέβαια πρέπει να ξέρεις τι θέλεις, όταν αρχίζεις να δουλεύεις. Κι όσο για τις αποφάσεις, πρέπει να ξέρεις να τις παίρνεις στο δευτερόλεπτο».

«Στον αγνώμονα άνθρωπο δεν απαντώ καθόλου. 'Οσο για την κακεντρέχεια δε με νευριάζει, σίγουρα όμως με πληγώνει. Και αν το να είσαι καλός σημαίνει ότι είσαι δίκαιος και λειτουργείς σωστά, ναί, νομίζω πως είμαι καλός άνθρωπος».

«Ο ''Αττίλας 74'' δεν είναι μία ταινία που σκηνοθέτησα εγώ. Τη σκηνοθέτησε η Ιστορία κι εγώ απλώς κατέγραψα τα γεγονότα. 'Οσο καλύτερα μπορούσα και λειτουργώντας ως καθρέφτης τους. Μόλις έμαθα για την εισβολή, ότι οι Τούρκοι μάς είχαν μαχαιρώσει στην πλάτη, σκέφτηκα πως κανονικά θα έπρεπε να πάω και να καταταγώ στην Κυπριακή Εθνοφρουρά. Δεν ήμουν, όμως, ικανός να χρησιμοποιήσω άλλο όπλο εκτός της κινηματογραφικής μηχανής. Και μ΄αυτή πολέμησα τελικά».

Ο Μιχάλης Κακογιάννης (1922-25 Ιουλίου του 2011) του Παναγιώτου ήταν σύγχρονος Έλληνο-Κύπριος ηθοποιός και σκηνοθέτης.
Γεvvήθηκε στην Λεμεσό της Κύπρου στις 11 Ιουνίου του 1922. Σπούδασε νομικά και θέατρο στο Λονδίνο. Εργάστηκε ως ηθοποιός και σκηνοθέτης στην αγγλική σκηνή το 1941 - 1951 και ως διευθυντής της "Κυπριακής Ώρας" στο BBC (1941-1951) και ως ηθοποιός στο αγγλικό θέατρο (1945-1951). Το 1951 που επέστρεψε στην Αθήνα αφιερώθηκε ως σκηνοθέτης του θεάτρου και από το 1952 του κινηματογράφου.
Τιμήθηκε με πολλά βραβεία σκηνοθεσίας. Μιλούσε αγγλικά, γαλλικά και ιταλικά και ήταν μόνιμος κάτοικος Αθηνών (Πλάκα). Απεβίωσε μετά από δέκα μέρες νοσηλείας, πλήρης ημερών.

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Tribute to the Space Shuttle from the European astronauts

2011-07-24T18:46:00.001+03:00

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INFOGRAPHIC: Marine turtles in the Coral Triangle

2011-07-24T14:44:00.001+03:00

Marine turtles are to the Coral Triangle what jewels are to a crown: both indispensable and marvelous. In the case of turtles, they are also highly vulnerable.

Check out this infographic to discover the simple aspects of turtles' life cycle, and the threats they face in the ocean.

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Climate Change Threatens “World Peace and Security,” says United Nations

2011-07-24T14:08:00.001+03:00

Climate change poses a major threat to future peace and security, a senior UN official has warned. Achim Steiner from the UN Environment Program said climate change would also “exponentially” increase the scale of natural disasters.

But the 15-member council apparently failed to agree on whether climate change itself was a direct threat to international peace and security, even after a rebuke by the United States which described the lack of consensus as “pathetic.”

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toomanytribbles: what's the largest radio telescope in space?

2011-07-23T23:01:00.000+03:00

toomanytribbles: what's the largest radio telescope in space?: "pop quiz! answer below... RadioAstron (or Spektr R) is a russian orbital radio telescope, and currently the largest space telescope in..."

"Ποταμοῖς τοῖς αὐτοῖς ἐμβαίνομέν τε καὶ οὐκ ἐμβαίνομεν, εἶμέν τε καὶ οὐκ εἶμεν.""We both step and do not step in the same rivers. We are and are not."Heraclitus the Riddler

Recycling: The Good, The Better, The Best {Infographic}

2011-07-21T21:28:00.001+03:00

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STS-135 Landing ..end of an era...

2011-07-21T20:38:00.001+03:00

STS-135 Landing (201107210002HQ), originally uploaded by nasa hq photo.

Space shuttle Atlantis (STS-135) touches down at NASA's Kennedy Space Center Shuttle Landing Facility (SLF), completing its 13-day mission to the International Space Station (ISS) and the final flight of the Space Shuttle Program, early Thursday morning, July 21, 2011, in Cape Canaveral, Fla. Overall, Atlantis spent 307 days in space and traveled nearly 126 million miles during its 33 flights. Atlantis, the fourth orbiter built, launched on its first mission on Oct. 3, 1985. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

Most Beautiful Greek Beach 2011 | Ομορφότερη Ελληνική Παραλία 2011

2011-07-20T12:21:00.000+03:00

Crazy Environmental & Global Warming Politics News

2011-07-20T08:35:00.001+03:00

και οι συνδεσμοι...

Students Get Lobby Group Material From Chris de Freitas in Climate 101 Lectures

President Of Nauru Calls On Security Council To Respond To Climate Change

Dirty Money For Dirty Water: Groups Supporting Bill to Gut Clean Water Act Outspend Opposition 23 To 1

Climate-Denying Oklahoma Governor Tells Residents To Pray For Rain

L.A. smog: Public health groups file suit against EPA [Updated]

News Corp and the Hacked Climategate Emails: Time for an Independent Investigation

Facing the Security Challenge of Climate Change

The Party of Crazy

Government Official’s Associates Reportedly Got Big Contracts After BP Oil Spill

Most Anti-Environment House of Representatives in History Tries to Do More Damage

Clean-Energy Law Boosts Jobs In Ontario

Senate releases transportation bill outline

Polluting Democracy

Michele Bachmann, Eric Cantor Part Of ‘Dirty Money Team’

GOP Rep Seeks to Stop Kids from Learning about Energy Efficiency

House Votes To Restore $90 Million Of $2.3 Billion Cut From Green Energy Research

What if the CO2 Ceiling Debate Were Like the Debt Ceiling Debate

Denier David Legates Asked To Step Down As Delaware State Climatologist

Map: Countries’ actions and commitments on climate change

House Passes Tea Party Light Bulb Joke By Voice Vote

An Assault on the Clean Water Act

Time for Congress to End Big Oil Subsidies

Saving Clean Energy in New Jersey: Thank You, State Legislators!

Firms urge EU to allow unapproved GMOs in food imports

Rail-Wary FL Gov. Scott Threw Caution to the Wind in Supporting SunRail

GOP Relights Effort to Extinguish Billions in Consumer Savings — as NBC Blows the Light Bulb Standards Story Entirely

Will North America Be the New Middle East?

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Lego Antikythera Mechanism

2011-07-13T03:20:00.000+03:00

"Ποταμοῖς τοῖς αὐτοῖς ἐμβαίνομέν τε καὶ οὐκ ἐμβαίνομεν, εἶμέν τε καὶ οὐκ εἶμεν." "We both step and do not step in the same rivers. We are and are not." Heraclitus the Riddler

Pale blue dot...one more marvelous adaptation

2011-07-13T02:55:00.001+03:00

Pale Blue Dot - Animation from Ehdubya on Vimeo.

I've been enrolled in illustration at Sheridan College for the the last 4 years and this is my final thesis project. I have always thought of Carl Sagan's writings as "scientific poetry" since they lack the cold touch that science is often cursed for having. I think Sagan's words resonate more than ever, and will continue with each generation until the human species "wakes up". The first time I heard this excerpt from his book "Pale Blue Dot" it literally changed my life, and I hope it does for you too. Enjoy.

Written and Narrated: Carl Sagan
Music: Hans Zimmer "You're So Cool"
Art and Animation: Adam Winnik

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Canon vs Nikon

2011-07-09T18:26:00.001+03:00

There’s nothing like a ‘Canon’ vs ‘Nikon’ discussion to get photographers going. Those with cameras from either brand love to defend their purchase…. and those with other brands always have an opinion too. So when we were offered this infographic we thought it might be a fun comparison!

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Ocean Sky...

2011-07-09T18:02:00.001+03:00

Ocean Sky from Alex Cherney on Vimeo.

At a star party in August 2009 I took my first long exposure photograph of the night sky. I was so thrilled with the results that I dedicated most moonless weekends since then to photographing two things I love the most in nature - the night sky and the Ocean.

Taking a series of images and combining them into a time lapse video sequence made it even more interesting. I have since experimented with all-night time lapses, panning motion, etc. But most importantly I've enjoyed the journey immensely.

This time lapse video is the result of almost 1.5 years of work, 31 hours of taking images during six nights on Southern Ocean Coast in Australia.

Ocean Sky was awarded the overall winner prize at STARMUS astrophotography competition:
http://www.starmus.com/pages/en/winners-starmus-astro-photography-competition...

The Sound track is by Redmann
http://www.toucanmusic.co.uk/artists/artist.php?q=Redmann

Alex Cherney
http://www.terrastro.com

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Doctors on Drugs

2011-07-09T05:56:00.002+03:00

Increasing in costs each year, prescription pills are one of the most profitable and dominating industries in the nation, with annual sales in the hundreds of billions. Prescribed medications constitute a significant bulk of work that medical coders must transcribe. Shockingly, the prescription pill industry uses questionable practices to increase their bottom line, and in turn, increase coding workload through unnecessary prescriptions. Though pharmaceutical companies have long-earned a reputation for wooing doctors with gifts, bribes, and incentives, it was only revealed in recent years that they’ve also been paying doctors huge sums of money to promote certain products and doctors are taking up on these offers. These pre-selected medications are not only violating a conflict of interest, but they can also be largely responsible for increases in patient and insurance costs: a doctor may feel obligated to prescribe an expensive “sponsored” medication over a cheaper alternative. This in turn, is reflected on the overall rising cost of healthcare, which unfortunately, is exactly what the doctor ordered.

Via: MedicalBillingandCoding.org

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Come Fly With Us

2011-07-09T05:47:00.000+03:00

Come Fly With Us from David Hendrix on Vimeo.

A tribute to one of the most significant & stylish aircraft in history, the Boeing B307 Stratoliner. Also an exercise in seeing just how much I could abuse one HDR image by getting as many angles as possible ;)

B307 model from aeronautica 3D: http://www.aeronautica3d.com/boeing-307-stratoliner/

Audio: American Patrol by Glenn Miller Orchestra

"Ποταμοῖς τοῖς αὐτοῖς ἐμβαίνομέν τε καὶ οὐκ ἐμβαίνομεν, εἶμέν τε καὶ οὐκ εἶμεν." "We both step and do not step in the same rivers. We are and are not." Heraclitus the Riddler

1ο Ασφάλτινο Ράλλυ Σπριντ Καρπενησίου

2011-06-20T22:37:00.001+03:00

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Η Αγωνιστική Λέσχη Αυτοκινήτου Καρπενησίου και ο Δήμος Καρπενησίου διοργανώνουν στις 25 & 26 Ιουνίου 2011 τον Αγώνα 1^ουΑΣΦΑΛΤΙΝΟΥ ΡΑΛΛΥ ΣΠΡΙΝΤ ΚΑΡΠΕΝΗΣΙΟΥ που προσμετρά στο Κύπελλο Ασφάλτινου Σπριντ Ελλάδος, σε ασφάλτινη διαδρομή μήκους 8.250 km, σε δύο σκέλη.

Ο Αγώνας θα διεξαχθεί στην περιοχή της Παλιάς Ράχης Καρπενησίου.

Αναλυτικά το πρόγραμμα:

Τεχνικός Έλεγχος: ΣΑΒΒΑΤΟ 25-06-2011, 15:30 – 18:00, στις εγκαταστάσεις του Αθλητικού Κέντρου Καρπενησίου.

Πανηγυρική Εκκίνηση: ΣΑΒΒΑΤΟ 25-06-2011, 19:30, στην Κεντρική Πλατεία Καρπενησίου.

Εκκίνηση: ΚΥΡΙΑΚΗ 26-06-2011, 10:00, στο Αθλητικό Κέντρο Καρπενησίου.

Απονομή Επάθλων: ΚΥΡΙΑΚΗ 26-06-2011, 14:30, στην κεντρική πλατεία Καρπενησίου.

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Cosmetic Surgery (infographics)

2011-06-20T22:06:00.001+03:00

Many medical billers and coders will encounter cosmetic surgery at some point in their career. According to the American Society for Aesthetic Surgery, the most common cosmetic surgery for men is liposuction while women most commonly receive breast augmentation procedures. Not all plastic surgery is purely cosmetic, however. Sometimes, procedures that can be done for purely cosmetic reasons are performed for medical reasons, such as breast reductions and rhinoplasties. But despite the positive impact that cosmetic surgery can have on some people, there is a dark side. The truth is that cosmetic surgery isn’t always pretty.

Via: MedicalBillingAndCoding.org

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What is the Real Cost to Social Media? Answer: NOT Free (Infographic)

2011-05-21T23:01:00.001+03:00

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Kuriositas: The Titty Fruit – A Crop like No Udder

2011-05-19T10:16:00.001+03:00

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Although the fruit (or indeed any part of the plant) is toxic to humans it does have some medicinal purposes. As well as being used to treat general tetchiness it is said to be very good in the fight against athlete’s foot. Its variety of vernacular names, however, surely says as much about human nature as it does the fruit.

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Αντώνης Βγόντζας: «Δε μιλάμε. Μεταξύ μας.»

2011-05-14T10:24:00.001+03:00

Δε μιλάμε. Μεταξύ μας. Δε μιλάμε με τους συνοδοιπόρους και συναγωνιστές. Με αυτούς που ανταμώνουμε. Είτε από τύχη. Είτε προγραμματισμένα. Δε μιλάμε με τους αντίθετους. Τους αντιπάλους μας. Τους αντιδίκους μας. Δε λέμε ποτέ τι πραγματικά σκεφτόμαστε. Δεν εκφράζουμε άνετα και με καθαρά λόγια και όρους τι σκοπεύουμε.

Δε μιλάμε μεταξύ μας. Και τα δίνουμε όλα για την αντιδικία. Την αντιπαλότητα. Τη ρήξη. Σα να είναι αυτή ολόκληρη και βαθύτερη κουλτούρα μας. Πρέπει να το συνομολογήσουμε. Δε συζητάμε τα προβλήματά μας. Δεν το μάθανε καλά. Κρίμας! Γιατί η διαλεκτική σκέψη σε αυτό τον τόπο γεννήθηκε. Από τους πατεράδες μας. Από ανθώρπους αληθινά μεγάλους.

Τι σχέση έχουν όλα αυτά με την έξαρση της βίας; Με τα κρούσματα να διαδέχονται το ένα το άλλο; Με τα θύματα να αυξάνονται δραματικά; Με το αίσθημα της ασφάλειας και της αμοιβαίας εμπιστοσύνης μεταξύ των πολιτών να καταρρακώνεται ή και να συντρίβεται;

Έχει! Και παραέχει σχέση! Όταν οι πολιτικές δυνάμεις δε συνεννοούνται μεταξύ τους. Όταν ανταλλάσουν αδαπάνως πυρά και ¨πάρθεια βέλη¨. Όταν το εθνικό κοινοβούλιο είναι μονίμως αρένα. Όταν στις κεντρικές πλατείες διεξάγονται μάχες με αληθινά πυρά. Όταν η διαβούλευση, που τόσα υποσχέθηκε, κατάντησε γράμμα κενό. Όταν οι διάφορες κοινωνικές ομάδες κατεβάζουν τον ορίζοντα των στόχων τους στο χαμηλό ύψος των συντεχνιακών συμφερόντων τους.

Ε,τότε, η βία στους δρόμους θα κορυφωθεί. Η βία ενάντια στους αδύνατους θα οξυνθεί. Οι συμπλοκές θα φτάσουν στις γειτονιές μας. Και ο απέναντι θα είναι μονίμως εχθρός μας.

Ε,τότε η δημοκρατία θα απολέσει όλο το ηθικό και ιδεολογικό περιεχόμενό της.

Νέα Κρήτη, τα Καθημερινά, Σάββατο 14.5.2011

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Disappearing world: 100 places under threat from climate change | Environment | The Guardian

2011-05-14T09:54:00.001+03:00

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Life Summed Up

2011-05-11T13:52:00.001+03:00

Life Summed Up Life is the summation of activities a person engages in throughout a given course of time. Here are some interesting facts about how much time and stuff you might end up doing.

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13 Strange Ways To Get High

2011-05-10T12:34:00.001+03:00

Getting high, or experiencing euphoria, can involve some unconventional methods.

Here are a few of those strange ways.

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Sitting is Killing You

2011-05-10T12:22:00.001+03:00

As we enter the second decade of the 21st century, there is one thing nearly all modern Americans have in common: we sit all the time. Though our great shift towards computer-based work has done great things for productivity, it has, unfortunately, done terrible things for our health. From increased risk of heart disease and obesity in the long term, to sharply hampered cholesterol maintenance in the short term, the negative health effects of sitting are starting to weigh heavily against the benefits. Even the medical field – the greatest advocates and reducing sitting time – is plagued by this new health issue. Though doctors and nurses get plenty of walking time, it usually falls to the secretaries, billers, and coders to do all the sitting. And, as we can see, something has to change.

Via: Medical Billing And Coding

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