Svea rike

Tack Sverige( Lyrics- Agnetha Fältskog)

Tack Sverige, för allt vackert som finns att se = Thanks Sweden, for everything that is beautiful to see
Tack Sverige, du har fått oss att kunna le = Thank you Sweden, you have led us to smile
Gröna skogar, himmel blå = Green forests, blue skies
Det finns så mycket man kan få = There is so much you can enjoy
Tack Sverige, vi kan nog aldrig resa från vårat land. = Thank you Sweden, we surely do not travel away from our country.

Lyssna på fåglarna = Listen to the birds
Hör sen på trädens sus = Hear then the trees rustling
Titta, där växer rosorna, = Look where the roses grow,
Där går ett kärlekspar = There is a loving couple
Vad det är underbart = What it is wonderful
Att kunna vara fri. = Being able to be free.

Tack Sverige, för allt vackert som finns att se = Thanks Sweden, for everything that is beautiful to see
Tack Sverige, du har fått oss att kunna le = Thank you Sweden, you have led us to smile
Gröna skogar, himmel blå = Green forests, blue skies
Det finns så mycket man kan få = There is so much you can enjoy
Tack Sverige, vi kan nog aldrig resa från vårat land. = Thank you Sweden, we surely do not travel away from our country.

Jag ser en flicka le = I see a girl smile
Åt någonting hon ser = About anything she sees
Jag hör en kyrkas klockor slå, = I hear a church bell ring,
Stunden är inne nu = Time has come now
De ska bli man och fru = They will become husband and wife
Redan hörs orgelns toner. = Already you hear the organ tones.

Gröna skogar, himmel blå = Green forests, blue skies
Det finns så mycket man kan få = There is so much you can enjoy
Tack Sverige, vi kan nog aldrig resa från vårat land. = Thank you Sweden, we surely do not travel away from our country.



Warning: Theses are my translations and I do not know Swedish. Just trying to learn.
Lyrics to Mother Swea:
Här skall jag alltid leva - Moder Swea = Here I will always live - Mother Sweden
Släkten ska gå och komma - Moder Swea = The family will come and go - Mother Sweden
Folket och alla kungar - I ditt rike = The people and all the kings - In your kingdom
Kämpa för stora segrar - Moder Swea = Fight for big victories - Mother Sweden

Människor som har bott i djupan skog = People who have lived deep in the forest
Över ängarna = Over the meadows
Neri dalarna = Down the valleys
I mer än tiotusen år har vi brukat ädel jord = In more than ten thousand years we have used the noble earth
Vittjat sjöarna = Caught (fish in the} Lakes
Alla vindar på ditt hav = All of your sea winds
Och med tacksamhet = And with gratitude
Ska vi skörda allt du ger = Will we reap what you give

Här skall jag alltid leva - Moder Swea Here = I will always live - Mother Sweden
Släkten ska gå och komma - Moder Swea = The family will come and go - Mother Sweden
Folket och alla kungar - I ditt rike = The people and all the kings - In your kingdom
Kämpa för stora segrar - Moder Swea = Fight for big victories - Mother Sweden

Gul som sol, lika blå som himmels höjd = Yellow as the sun, just as blue as the sky height
Är ditt hjärtas färg = Is your heart color
Över fjällhöga nord = Over mountainous North
Alla gamla gudarna ger en viking kraft och mod = All the old gods give a Viking force and courage
ut på äventyr = Out for adventure
för att vinna rikedom = to gain wealth
På min ödesdag = On my day of destiny
För du åter det du gav = In order to recover what you did

Här skall jag alltid leva - Moder Swea = Here I will always live - Mother Sweden
Släkten ska gå och komma - Moder Swea = The family will come and go - Mother Sweden
Folket och alla kungar - I ditt rike = The people and all the kings - In your kingdom
Kämpa för stora segrar - Moder Swea = Fight for big victories - Mother Sweden

Och vi dansar i midsommar = And we dance in midsummer
Du är mitt land = You are my country
Varje vinter och vår = Each winter and spring
Höstarna som går = Autumn going

Här skall jag alltid leva - Moder Swea Here = I will always live - Mother Sweden
Släkten ska gå och komma - Moder Swea ] The family will come and go - Mother Sweden
Folket och alla kungar - I ditt rike = The people and all the kings - In your kingdom
Kämpa för stora segrar - Moder Swea = Fight for big victories - Mother Sweden

calculating the time required for the pinching

This article reminds me of the one on how a synapse works.






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Nature Physics
Published online: 1 August 2010 | doi:10.1038/nphys1737



Universality and self-similarity in pinch-off of rods by bulk diffusion
Larry K. Aagesen1, Anthony E. Johnson1, Julie L. Fife1,2, Peter W. Voorhees1,3, Michael J. Miksis3, Stefan O. Poulsen4, Erik M. Lauridsen4, Federica Marone2 & Marco Stampanoni2,5



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Abstract: As rodlike domains pinch off owing to Rayleigh instabilities, a finite-time singularity occurs as the interfacial curvature at the point of pinch-off becomes infinite. The dynamics controlling the interface become independent of initial conditions and, in some cases, the interface attains a universal shape1. Such behaviour occurs in the pinching of liquid jets and bridges2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and when pinching occurs by surface diffusion10, 11, 12. Here we examine an unexplored class of topological singularities where interface motion is controlled by the diffusion of mass through a bulk phase. We show theoretically that the dynamics are determined by a universal solution to the interface shape (which depends only on whether the high-diffusivity phase is the rod or the matrix) and materials parameters. We find good agreement between theory and experimental observations of pinching liquid rods in an Al–Cu alloy. The universal solution applies to any physical system in which interfacial motion is controlled by bulk diffusion, from the break-up of rodlike reinforcing phases in eutectic composites13, 14, 15, 16 to topological singularities that occur during coarsening of interconnected bicontinuous structures17, 18, 19, 20, thus enabling the rate of topological change to be determined in a broad variety of multiphase systems.

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E8 Symmetry

Science 8 January 2010:
Vol. 327. no. 5962, pp. 177 - 180
DOI: 10.1126/science.1180085
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Reports
Quantum Criticality in an Ising Chain: Experimental Evidence for Emergent E8 SymmetryR. Coldea,1,* D. A. Tennant,2 E. M. Wheeler,1, E. Wawrzynska,3 D. Prabhakaran,1 M. Telling,4 K. Habicht,2 P. Smeibidl,2 K. Kiefer2

Quantum phase transitions take place between distinct phases of matter at zero temperature. Near the transition point, exotic quantum symmetries can emerge that govern the excitation spectrum of the system. A symmetry described by the E8 Lie group with a spectrum of eight particles was long predicted to appear near the critical point of an Ising chain. We realize this system experimentally by using strong transverse magnetic fields to tune the quasi–one-dimensional Ising ferromagnet CoNb2O6 (cobalt niobate) through its critical point. Spin excitations are observed to change character from pairs of kinks in the ordered phase to spin-flips in the paramagnetic phase. Just below the critical field, the spin dynamics shows a fine structure with two sharp modes at low energies, in a ratio that approaches the golden mean predicted for the first two meson particles of the E8 spectrum. Our results demonstrate the power of symmetry to describe complex quantum behaviors.

1 Clarendon Laboratory, Department of Physics, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3PU, UK.
2 Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie, Lise Meitner Campus, Glienicker Str. 100, D-14109 Berlin, Germany.
3 H. H. Wills Physics Laboratory, University of Bristol, Bristol BS8 1TL, UK.
4 ISIS, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Chilton, Didcot OX11 0QX, UK.
Present address: Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie, Lise Meitner Campus, Glienicker Str. 100, D-14109 Berlin, Germany.


* To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: r.coldea@physics.ox.ac.uk

Björn Skifs- Michelangelo

Har försökt att fånga bilden jag vill ha av dig
fast bliderna är många har ingen av dom lyckats mej
bilderna saknar ju skärpa och stil
och gör inte rätt visa åt din profil
en tanke når mig långt ifrån
jag slår mig ner vid min telefon

Michelangelo kan du svara på
hur du gjorde dom alla tavlor som blev historia sen
Michelangelo men så svara då
kan du komma hit och ta med stafilt och måla av min vän
ohh

Om han kunde visa hela världen hur du ler
så skulle mona-lisa be om att få plockas ner
ohh

Du skulle ta henne plats som legend
med fräknar på näsan blev du lika känd
som mästaren nån stans ifrån
var snäll och svara i telefon

Michelangelo kan du svara på
hur du gjorde dom alla tavlor som blev historia sen
Michelangelo men så svara då
kan du komma hit och ta med staflit och måla av min vän
ohhh

Yhea yhea ohh
du skulle ta hennes plats som legend
med fräknar på näsan blev du lika känd
som mästaren nån stans ifrån
var snäll och svara i telefon

Michelangelo men så svara då
Michelangelo men men men så svara då

Mi-i-i-i-ichelangelo men men så svara då
x3

All sang på grensen2

This one is not Swedish.

The Highlights are mostly English and Norwegian


Swedish lesson; not Grensen.


Here's an English translation of the lyrics:

Deep below the surface
Clear as crystal
The crew was tense
The sea was cold

He had his world
Like I had mine
So he has to go
Home for a while
Everything he had lived for was there
In his underwater world

Refrain.
Captain Nemo said "Okay"
"It's time to leave"
Then he smiled at me
Captain Nemo turned
Towards an unknown sea
I will stay here but
Nemo's going home

Then we suddenly saw the policemen's boat
An alien force that never gave up
"Wish I could stay here my friend"
"But I have to go"
"See you soon again"
He dived into a wave
It was the last thing I saw

Refrain.

Refrain.
Captain Nemo said "Okay"
"It's time to leave"
And he bid farewell to me
Captain Nemo turned
Towards an unknown sea
I will stay here but
Nemo's going home
Oh Nemo

Min Egen Stad

Jag står en stund på kvällen i mitt fönster
Och ser ut på alla glada ljus
Jag vaknar upp på morgnarna och hör trafiken
Brusa utanför mitt hus
På eftermiddag'n går jag runt en stund i parken
Och hör barnens skratt och stoj
Och hemma på vår bakgård ligger grannens katt
Och sover, mjuk och sommarloj

Det här är min egen stad
Det är hit jag hör
Och jag hör på alla ljud
I en härlig kör
Det här är min egen stad
Glädje eller sorg
Jag älskar varenda sten
Varje prång och torg

Jag äter på en liten bar som ligger
Några meter bort i mitt kvarter
Jag ser en gammal sliten film på sjuan
På en bio två, tre gator ner
Jag vandrar gatan långsamt fram
Från diskoteket hörs det svagt en melodi
Jag ser på allt jag drömmer om
I fönstren till affären när jag går förbi

Det här är min egen stad
Det är hit jag hör
Och jag hör på alla ljud
I en härlig kör
Det här är min egen stad
Glädje eller sorg
Jag älskar varenda sten
Varje prång och torg

Det här är min egen stad
Det är hit jag hör
Och jag hör på alla ljud
I en härlig kör
Det här är min egen stad
Glädje eller sorg
Jag älskar varenda sten
Varje prång och torg

(Benny Andersson/Peter Himmelstrand)

Lycka


Varje kväll när allt är tyst
och barnen sent omsider sover
kommer du till mig.
Och det drar sig emot midnatt
och nu så har vi tid
att få rå om varann en stund.
Att bara trycka
din hand, den mycket kära,
det kaller jag för lycka,
att känna att jag har dig nära

De' e' va' lycka e' för mig!

Ligga så och lyssna
till de ljud som bara hörs om natten
med din hand i min -
Ja, detta menar jag är lycka,
man har nån som man får tycka
riktigt mycket om, som vi.
Att riktigt känna
en vän, det är en gåva,
att känna pulsar bränna,
att först få älska sen få sova

De' e' va' lycka e' för mig!

Att riktigt känna
en vän, det är en gåva,
att känna pulsar bränna,
att först få älska sen få sova

De' e' va' lycka e' för mig!

" Happiness " (Anni-Frid Lyngstad 1971)

Every night when everything is quiet
and the children at long last sleep
you will get to me.
And it attracts the moon
and now we have time
to love each other for a while.
Simply press
your hand, my very dear,
I call for the happiness,
to feel that I have you near.

This is what happiness is to me!

Lying so and listening
to the sounds only heard in the night
with your hand in mine
Yes, I mean this is happiness,
you have someone that you have to think
a great deal about who we are.
To really feel
a friend, it is a gift,
feel pulsar burn,
first to get love then sleep.

This is what happiness is to me!

To really feel
a friend, it is a gift,
feel pulsar burn,
first to get love then sleep.

This is what happiness is to me!

Säg att det är regn

Tack gode Gud att vi delar det härliga regnet den 17 juli och den andra formen av regn...


Jag känner dig så väl
Jag ser direkt om nåt är fel
Jag frågar inte vad det e
Som tynger dig
Mellan oss finns inga spel

Jag hoppas du förstår
Jag finns kvar när tiden går
Och har du sorg så är den vår
Jag stöttar dig
När dom frågar hur du mår

Säg att det är regn
Som faller på din kind
Bara lite regn
Som torkar i en vind
För vad som än händer
Och hur det än går
Säg att det är regn
Säg att det är regn
Jag förstår

Om du måste le
För alla andra vara stark
Trots att du förlorat allt
Och när känslorna vill fram

Säg att det är regn
Som faller på din kind
Bara lite regn
Som torkar i en vind
För vad som än händer
Och hur det än går
Säg att det är regn
Säg att det är regn
Jag förstår

En evighet kan gå förbi
Men här och nu finns bara vi

Säg att det är regn
Bara lite regn
Som faller på din kind
För vad som än händer
Och hur det än går
Säg att det är regn
(Ooh)
Du vet att jag förstår
(Ooh)
Säg att det är regn
Och jag, förstår
Säg att det är regn
Säg att det är regn
För vad som än händer
Och hur det än går
Säg att det är regn
Säg att det är regn
Jag förstår

Science for the masses?

The New Biology video. Part 2 of the video.
As Above So Below video.

The Ghost in your Genes

Tenth International Conference on Epigenetic Robotics

Modeling Cognitive Development in Robotic Systems

Örenäs Slott, Sweden, November 5-7, 2010
TENTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON EPIGENETIC ROBOTICS:
Modeling Cognitive Development in Robotic Systems

To celebrate the tenth international conference on Epigenetic Robotics, the conference will be held at Örenäs castle. As a participant you will have opportunity to feel the historic atmosphere of nature where the sea meets land, where the grandeur is joined with simplicity and where yesterday meets tomorrow. A delicious traditional goose dinner will be served at the conference dinner which is something that no one should miss!

Registration

Link to Mapping in Motion article.

Falun igen

17 Juli 2010 igen - kvällen i Falun HD

bifångst

Bifångst means bycatch. Please, don't ask why I need to know this word.

The picture is from the Science article referenced below.

I think it is crazy to let China's greed for natural resources be used as an excuse to destroy the ancient Mes Aynak Temple. Mes Aynak is a hill topped by a 4500-square-meter monastery. People die and the newspapers only publish propoganda, but it will remain in the scientific journals for ages. It is like selling Falun. Thank God the copper has run out there.

"There is a temple, stupas, beautiful rooms, big and small statues, two with the length of seven and nine meters, colourful frescos ornamented with gold and some coins," said Mohammad Nader Rasouli, head of the Afghan Archaeological Department.

"Some of the relics date back to the fifth century (AD). We have come across signs that there are items maybe going back to the era before Christ or prehistory," he said.

"We need foreign assistance to preserve these and their expertise to help us with further excavations."

Posted on Sunday, March 8, 2009: JALREZ VALLEY, Afghanistan — In this Taliban stronghold in the mountains south of Kabul, the U.S. Army is providing the security that will enable China to exploit one of the world's largest unexploited deposits of copper, earn tens of billions of dollars and feed its voracious appetite for raw materials.

U.S. troops set up bases last month along a dirt track that a Chinese firm is paving as part of a $3 billion project to gain access to the Aynak copper reserves. Some troops made camp outside a compound built for the Chinese road crews, who are about to return from winter break. American forces also have expanded their presence in neighboring Logar province, where the Aynak deposit is.


There may be some cause for concern.

A January 2008 report by Integrity Watch Afghanistan, a European research group, said that MCC extracted more copper than expected from a mine in Sandaik, Pakistan, but that the project has "had virtually no spillover effect on the local economy to date."

The report also warned of the potential for an "environmental and social disaster" if Aynak isn't properly managed, noting that the area is home to some 90,000 people and a source of Kabul's water supply.



Read more: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2009/03/08/63452/chinas-thirst-for-copper-could.html#ixzz0xa5NIDj9


Read more: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2009/03/08/63452/chinas-thirst-for-copper-could.html#ixzz0xa4Q3c00




Abstract:
Science 30 July 2010:
Vol. 329. no. 5991, pp. 496 - 497
DOI: 10.1126/science.329.5991.496

Copper Mine Threatens Ancient Monastery in Afghanistan
Andrew Lawler
A decade after the Taliban destroyed the famous Bamiyan Buddhas—two massive statues that have stood sentry in an Afghan valley for 1500 years—archaeologists are warning that Afghan antiquities are again at risk. This time the threat comes from a venture blessed by the Western-backed Afghan government. A Chinese company intends to blow up an ancient Buddhist monastery south of Kabul to make way for a massive copper mine. The plan has sparked outrage among Afghan and French archaeologists, who have recently uncovered more than 100 statues within a large religious complex that includes seven stupas, or tombs built to house the relics of saints.

The Special Ones Nobody Knows

Happy Birthday


California Here I Come


Honolulu

Allsang på Grensen

I added my traqnslation to a video.



I few real Swedes are hidden in the video.






Live from "Allsang på Grensen" 23.juli - 2009

17 Juli 2010 Semesterparadis

Gänget peppar


If Linda had been there... (Alternate Reality)

Another BEC is being researched.

I found another article on BECs in Nature (doi:10.1038/nature09378):

Single-atom-resolved fluorescence imaging of an atomic Mott insulator
Jacob F. Sherson1,3,4, Christof Weitenberg1,3, Manuel Endres1, Marc Cheneau1, Immanuel Bloch1,2 & Stefan Kuhr1

1.Max-Planck-Institut für Quantenoptik, Hans-Kopfermann-Straße 1, D-85748 Garching, Germany
2.Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Schellingstraße 4/II, D-80799 München, Germany
3.These authors contributed equally to this work.
4.Present address: Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Aarhus, DK-8000 Aarhus C, Denmark.


Correspondence to: Stefan Kuhr1 Email: stefan.kuhr@mpq.mpg.de


Top of pageAbstractThe reliable detection of single quantum particles has revolutionized the field of quantum optics and quantum information processing. For several years, researchers have aspired to extend such detection possibilities to larger-scale, strongly correlated quantum systems1, 2 in order to record in situ images of a quantum fluid in which each underlying quantum particle is detected. Here we report fluorescence imaging of strongly interacting bosonic Mott insulators in an optical lattice with single-atom and single-site resolution. From our images, we fully reconstruct the atom distribution on the lattice and identify individual excitations with high fidelity. A comparison of the radial density and variance distributions with theory provides a precise in situ temperature and entropy measurement from single images. We observe Mott-insulating plateaus with near-zero entropy and clearly resolve the high-entropy rings separating them, even though their width is of the order of just a single lattice site. Furthermore, we show how a Mott insulator melts with increasing temperature, owing to a proliferation of local defects. The ability to resolve individual lattice sites directly opens up new avenues for the manipulation, analysis and applications of strongly interacting quantum gases on a lattice. For example, one could introduce local perturbations or access regions of high entropy, a crucial requirement for the implementation of novel cooling schemes3.

Esmeraldas bön

The Swedish version is the one that touches me. Why? Who knows! I hoped for a version by Sissel but did not find any. I feel the compassion in the Swedish version. I studied French, but it always feels like a foreign and strange language to me.

Vocals: Sharon Dyall och Örebro kammarkör
Movie/Album: Ringaren i Notre-Dame




The Pop Version


Esmeraldas bön
Jag vet inte om du hör mej..
Men ber dej om ett svar.
Jag vet inte om du lyssnar på den bön jag har..
Ja, jag vet jag är för simpel..
Jag ska va utanför.
Men när jag ser din blick så tror jag
ändå att du kanske hör.

Gud, hjälp dom människor som är i nöd.
Visa din kärlek och ge dom ditt stöd.
Finns här i världen, den stund dom finns till.
hjälp du dom glömda.. Jag tror att du vill..

Jag ber för andra som finns utanför.
Jag ber från mitt hjärta och tror att du hör..
Hjälp alla människor som lider just nu.
Alla är barn här och vår fader det är du.

Jag förstår nog inte varför en gräns
en dörr blir stängd..Jag vet din kärlek gäller alla,
Som lider, som gråter, som tror och förlåter..

Hjälp alla människor som lever i flyckt..
Och ge dom en plats och ge dom en plats
där dom kan leva tryggt.

Oooh, rör våra hjärtan, så att vi kan se.
Gud visa vägen och lär oss att ge.

Din kärlek är evig, trofast och sann.
Lär oss att dela den med varann.



Vocals: Lara Fabian.
Que Dieu Aide Les Exclus


Les Coeurs San Logis (Pop Version)


Je ne sais même pas si tu écoutes
ou si tu es seulement là
au ciel ou sur le bord de la route
je ne prie pas pour moi
on dit que je ne suis qu'une "pas grand chose"
mais si je me souviens
pour toi c'était pas tout rose
et la misère en chemin

comme ces pauvres cloches que le vent charrie
les poings dans les poches, les punis de la vie
il y a quelque chose qui cloche pour ceux qui mendient
et leurs mains s'accrochent à l'espoir enfuit

Rien que des pauvres cloches, des enfants meurtris
et la vie s'effiloche au fond des taudis
je te fais pas de reproches, mais regarde par ici
ces tristes fantoches au cœur sans logis

Tu as donné un petit coup de pouce
à ceux qui ont la belle vie
et voilà qu'ils nous repoussent
ça leur fait peur, les guenilles et la rage au cœur
de ces pauvres cloches qu'on fuit qu'on maudit
les "rien dans les poches", les punis de la vie
il y a quelque chose qui cloche pour ceux qui mendient

et leurs mains s'accrochent à l'espoir enfuit
je te fais pas de reproches, mais regarde par ici
et sonne les cloches pour tous les bannis

Les bannis ont droit d'amour (Movie Version)


Esméralda :
Je ne sais, Seigneur, si ces mots,
Monteront jusqu'au Ciel.
Si tu entendras, tout là-haut,
Ce très humble appel.
Moi : l'impure, l'exclue, la gitane,
En toi j'espère toujours.
Car dans le coeur de Notre-Dame,
Les bannis, ont droit d'amour !

Protège mon Dieu,
Les malheureux.
Éclaire la misère,
Des coeurs solitaires.
Nulle âme à part moi,
Ne les entendras,
Si tu restes sourd,
Aux mendiants d'amour.

Choeur :
Je veux de l'Or.
Je veux la gloire.
je veux qu'on honore
Un jour ma mémoire.

Fais que l'on m'aime,
Dieu l'Immortel.

Nous implorons Ta Grâce,
O Grand Éternel.

Esméralda :
Je ne désire rien,
Ni gloire ni bien.
Mais le coeur qui a faim,
Doit mendier son pain.

Entend pour mes frères,
Cette humble prière.
Car les miséreux,
Sont enfants de Dieu.

Tous les miséreux,
Sont enfants de Dieu.

Something other than graphene

I thought I should mention something other than graphene, although, of course, I am not really interested. This Cornell experiment was conducted at an extremely cold temperature - about 4 degrees Kelvin (-452 Fahrenheit). Too cold for me to think of as practical. The is supposedly the best known example of a simultaneously ferroelectric, ferromagnetic by a factor of 1,000. The research is described in Nature, Aug. 19, 2010.

Excitrons and Photovoltaics.

Hot excitons are created by the absorption of energetic blue or near-ultraviolet photons. Hot excitons quickly lose their excess kinetic energy through electron-phonon interactions and convert it into heat, which accounts for significant loss of conversion efficiency in photovoltaics. To increase efficiency, one needs to make use of this excess heat preferably by direct conversion to electricity (simlar to what is done in spaceceaft) and/or by going to a lower energy regime, i.e., using the visible portion of the spectrum and lower to generate cooler, multiple excitrons via quantum dots. These excitrons decay within 20-100 picoseconds making harvesting difficult. Ettori says photons are doves. Electrons are motorcycles (since they are 2-dimensional). Protons are trucks and therefore neutrons must be too although they had not yet been discovered. So we want to convert doves to motocycles without the trucks stealing the energy. Right, Ettori? Maybe not, doves also convert to Majorana fermions, don't they, Ettori? Should I have said happy 104th on August 5 or are you really gone?

An Uplifting Swedish Lesson

(This just my translation to help me learn Swedish.)
--------------- Stad I Ljus - City of Light ---------------
Min resa var mot solen, långt bortom alla slutna rum,
My journey was towards the sun, far beyond any enclosed place,

Där allting är oändligt, och alla gränser har förevigt suddats ut.
Where everything is infinite, and all borders are forever wiped out.

Jag ville se miraklet, och höra ord som föder liv,
I wanted to see the miracle, and hear word give rise to life,

Bli buren av en styrka, som bara växer när jag anat mitt motiv.
To be borne of a strength, which only grows when I realize my motive.

Stad i ljus, i ett land utan namn,
The city of light, in a country without a name,

Ge mig liv, där allting föds på nytt.
Give me life, where everything is born anew.

Och så när allt förändrats, när tiden inte längre finns,
And so when everything is changed, when time no longer exits,

Så ser jag oss tillsammans, och då är resan slut,
Then, I see us together through the journey's end,

Det enda som vi minns.
The only thing we remember.

Stad i ljus, i ett land utan namn,
The city of light, in a country without a name,

Ge mig liv, där allting föds på nytt.
Give me life, where everything is born anew.

Stad i ljus, i ett land utan namn,
The city of light, in a country without a name,

Ge, ge mig liv, där allting föds på nytt.
Give, give me life, where everything is born anew.





Frida - Man vill ju leva lite dessemellan

Nåden den faller

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Muscle Repair

I found a paper I really like:


A CREB-C/EBPβ cascade induces M2 macrophage-specific gene expression and promotes muscle injury repairDaniela Ruffell1, Foteini Mourkioti1, Adriana Gambardella1, Peggy Kirstetter, Rodolphe G. Lopez, Nadia Rosenthal and Claus Nerlov2
+ Author Affiliations

Mouse Biology Unit, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Via Ramarini 32, 00015 Monterotondo, Italy
Edited by Eric N. Olson, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, and approved August 24, 2009

↵1D.R., F.M., and A.G. contributed equally to this work. (received for review July 31, 2009)

Abstract
Macrophages play an essential role in the resolution of tissue damage through removal of necrotic cells, thus paving the way for tissue regeneration. Macrophages also directly support the formation of new tissue to replace the injury, through their acquisition of an anti-inflammatory, or M2, phenotype, characterized by a gene expression program that includes IL-10, the IL-13 receptor, and arginase 1. We report that deletion of two CREB-binding sites from the Cebpb promoter abrogates Cebpb induction upon macrophage activation. This blocks the downstream induction of M2-specific Msr1, Il10, II13ra, and Arg-1 genes, whereas the inflammatory (M1) genes Il1, Il6, Tnfa, and Il12 are not affected. Mice carrying the mutated Cebpb promoter (βΔCre) remove necrotic tissue from injured muscle, but exhibit severe defects in muscle fiber regeneration. Conditional deletion of the Cebpb gene in muscle cells does not affect regeneration, showing that the C/EBPβ cascade leading to muscle repair is muscle-extrinsic. While βΔCre macrophages efficiently infiltrate injured muscle they fail to upregulate Cebpb, leading to decreased Arg-1 expression. CREB-mediated induction of Cebpb expression is therefore required in infiltrating macrophages for upregulation of M2-specific genes and muscle regeneration, providing a direct genetic link between these two processes.

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Footnotes
2To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: nerlov@embl.itAuthor contributions: D.R., F.M., A.G., N.R., and C.N. designed research; D.R., F.M., A.G., and P.K. performed research; R.G.L. generated conditional Cebpb KO mice; D.R., F.M., A.G., P.K., and C.N. analyzed data; and N.R. and C.N. wrote the paper.

Cure for Dairy Allergies

Milk Allergy Treatments.

The following is an article on the American Institute of Physics website at the above URL.

Milk Drops Cure Milk Allergies
You've heard it as lactose intolerant. But did you know milk allergy is the most common food allergy in the United States, affecting 6,000,000 infants and children? Now, a new way to treat dairy allergies is giving kids hope.

He could be the next Lebron James, but Jake's mom worries that the foods that his body rejects are the same ones that will make him grow up big and strong.

“At six months old he was skin tested. He was very allergic to dairy," Jake's mother Jessica Meyrowitz told Ivanhoe.

At first, Jake reacted to just 10 milligrams of milk -- about the amount of a grain of sand. Now, two new studies by pediatric allergists show that giving children small amounts of milk protein over time can help some kids overcome their milk allergy.

“When we got the phone call asking us to be a part of the study, it was such an incredible moment to be given the gift of hope,” Jessica recalled.

"We think this would be one of the really life changing treatments we've seen in the field of allergy," Robert Wood, M.D., a pediatric allergist, at Johns Hopkins Children's Center, in Baltimore, said.

In one study, called SLIT, or sublingual immune therapy, a few drops of a liquid extract of milk protein are held under the tongue for two minutes, then swallowed. In another study, called Oral Immunotherapy, children eat a milk powder protein combined with another food. Both studies increase doses of milk protein until the immune system learns to tolerate the milk without triggering an allergic reaction.

"The possible advantage of the SLIT is that you use much lower doses with the SLIT than with the oral immunotherapy," Dr. Wood explained. "This is the first study to ever compare the two in a head to head kind of fashion.”

Children who ate a milk protein powder could drink seven times more milk without an allergic reaction. Ninety percent of kids treated with liquid milk drops under the tongue drank milk with little or no reaction. Jake has made a huge improvement.

"Now he can take two ounces which is unbelievable, quite a gift," Jessica said.

It's a gift that's sure to do the body good.

Researchers caution that both therapies can lead to violent allergic reactions in some patients, and are still in the early phases of research.

Stem Cell Characteristics

I found this article using Google Scholar.
Nature 462, 315-322 (19 November 2009) | doi:10.1038/nature08514; Received 19 June 2009; Accepted 21 September 2009; Published online 14 October 2009


Human DNA methylomes at base resolution show widespread epigenomic differences
Ryan Lister1,9, Mattia Pelizzola1,9, Robert H. Dowen1, R. David Hawkins2, Gary Hon2, Julian Tonti-Filippini4, Joseph R. Nery1, Leonard Lee2, Zhen Ye2, Que-Minh Ngo2, Lee Edsall2, Jessica Antosiewicz-Bourget5,6, Ron Stewart5,6, Victor Ruotti5,6, A. Harvey Millar4, James A. Thomson5,6,7,8, Bing Ren2,3 & Joseph R. Ecker1

Correspondence to: Joseph R. Ecker1 Correspondence and requests for materials should be addressed to J.R.E. (Email: ecker@salk.edu).


Abstract DNA cytosine methylation is a central epigenetic modification that has essential roles in cellular processes including genome regulation, development and disease. Here we present the first genome-wide, single-base-resolution maps of methylated cytosines in a mammalian genome, from both human embryonic stem cells and fetal fibroblasts, along with comparative analysis of messenger RNA and small RNA components of the transcriptome, several histone modifications, and sites of DNA–protein interaction for several key regulatory factors. Widespread differences were identified in the composition and patterning of cytosine methylation between the two genomes. Nearly one-quarter of all methylation identified in embryonic stem cells was in a non-CG context, suggesting that embryonic stem cells may use different methylation mechanisms to affect gene regulation. Methylation in non-CG contexts showed enrichment in gene bodies and depletion in protein binding sites and enhancers. Non-CG methylation disappeared upon induced differentiation of the embryonic stem cells, and was restored in induced pluripotent stem cells. We identified hundreds of differentially methylated regions proximal to genes involved in pluripotency and differentiation, and widespread reduced methylation levels in fibroblasts associated with lower transcriptional activity. These reference epigenomes provide a foundation for future studies exploring this key epigenetic modification in human disease and development.

1.Genomic Analysis Laboratory, The Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, California 92037, USA
2.Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research,
3.Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093, USA
4.ARC Centre of Excellence in Plant Energy Biology, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, Western Australia 6009, Australia
5.Morgridge Institute for Research, Madison, Wisconsin 53707, USA
6.Genome Center of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA
7.Wisconsin National Primate Research Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53715, USA
8.Department of Anatomy, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA
9.These authors contributed equally to this work.

My Old Laptop

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I just upgraded the components in my old laptop. It has no MXM slot, so there is nothing I can do about the poor graphics without the proper tools to replace the graphics processor. I replaced the heat pad on the graphics processor with a copper bridge to transfer heat through both heat sinks connected to the cooling fan. I used Masscool G751 thermal grease. I watched all videos on YouTube showing how to take the computer apart and put it back together. I thought the French technicians approach of simply putting each screw back were it came from, seemed less stressful to me. So, that is what I did.

Windows Experience Index on a scale from 1.0 to 7.9
Processor: 5.2
Memory (RAM) 5.9
Graphics: 4.7
Gaming graphics: 4.6
Primary hard drive: 7.4

No MXM slot
Processor: TMDTL68HAX5DM
RAM: CR8GBK5300SO / CT2KIT5126
Total available graphics memory: 2287 MB
Total amount of system memory: 8 GB
L2 cache: 1MB
Bios F.42
Motherboard: Quanta 30B9