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söndag, mars 31, 2013

Om någon undrar varför jag praktiskt taget aldrig skriver om ishockey: Jag har helt tappat intresset. Slutspel och kvalspel som nu pågår intresserar mig inte det minsta.
Men nog kan jag tycka synd om mitt distrikt då Timrå ramlar ur elitserien; det har ju trots allt varit bra PR med laget i den högsta serien.

Alla La Liga-matcherna i går

Rayo - Málaga1-3
Celta - Barcelona2-2
Zaragoza - R. Madrid1-1
Levante - Sevilla1-0

Haydn




 


Franz Joseph Haydn
March 31, 1732 - May 31,1809


Shirley Jones



Shirley Jones turns 79 today



lördag, mars 30, 2013

La tour Eiffel évacuée après une alerte à la bombe



                             La tour Eiffel évacuée <br/>après une alerte à la bombe

Le célèbre monument a été évacué aux alentours de 19h30 après un appel anonyme provenant d'une cabine téléphonique en banlieue parisienne à Police Secours. Des touristes ont pu à nouveau y accéder à partir de 22h30.

Eiffeltornet i Paris evakuerades i kväll efter ett bombhot. 
Anm.: Det var den 31 mars (1889) Eifeltornet officiellt öppnades    

Ligue 1





http://www.svenskafans.com/europa/ligue-1/serietabell.aspx

Serie A




http://www.soccerway.com/national/italy/serie-a/20122013/regular-season/

Barclays Premier League Table




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Stor show av Bayern München


Bayern München fortsätter att imponera i Bundesliga. I lördagens möte Hamburg bjöd serieledaren på en riktig fotbollsshow. Klubben briljerade redan från matchens inledning och i paus ledde de med hela 5-0. Målkavalkaden fortsatte sedan i andra halvlek och Bayern München vann till slut med utklassningssiffrorna 9-2. /SvD


 
>> http://www.soccerway.com/national/germany/bundesliga/20122013/regular-season/

La Liga i dag



Omgång 29
 
Rayo - Málaga   1-3
Celta - Barcelona2-2
Zaragoza - R. Madrid    1-1 CR9 kvitterat i min 29
Levante - Sevilla  börjar 22.00

 






Celta-Barcelona
1-0 Insa min 38, 1-1 Tello min 43,  1-2 Messi Min 73 och  2-2 Oubiña Min 88:



Oavsett om du är på jakt efter en stuga i Jämtland för ett par hundra tusen eller ett hus i Stockholms skärgård för flera miljoner är det köparens marknad just nu. Sedan 2010 har priserna på fritidshus fallit drastiskt i stora delar av landet. /SvD

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Two Ship Folland Gnat display at Eastbourne Seafront Airshow 2010.

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The Royal Air Force's display team The Red Arrows display at the September airshow at Duxford.

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Weekly Address: President Obama Offers Easter and Passover Greetings





Hi, everybody. For millions of Americans, this is a special and sacred time of year.

This week, Jewish families gathered around the Seder table, commemorating the Exodus from Egypt and the triumph of faith over oppression. And this weekend, Michelle, Malia, Sasha and I will join Christians around the world to celebrate the Resurrection of Jesus Christ and the hopeful promise of Easter.

In the midst of all of our busy and noisy lives, these holy days afford us the precious opportunity to slow down and spend some quiet moments in prayer and reflection.

As Christians, my family and I remember the incredible sacrifice Jesus made for each and every one of us – how He took on the sins of the world and extended the gift of salvation. And we recommit ourselves to following His example here on Earth. To loving our Lord and Savior. To loving our neighbors. And to seeing in everyone, especially “the least of these,” as a child of God.

Of course, those values are at the heart not just of the Christian faith; but of all faiths. From Judaism to Islam; Hinduism to Sikhism; there echoes a powerful call to serve our brothers and sisters. To keep in our hearts a deep and abiding compassion for all. And to treat others as we wish to be treated ourselves.

That’s the common humanity that binds us together. And as Americans, we’re united by something else, too: faith in the ideals that lie at the heart of our founding; and the belief that, as part of something bigger than ourselves, we have a shared responsibility to look out for our fellow citizens.

So this weekend, I hope we’re all able to take a moment to pause and reflect. To embrace our loved ones. To give thanks for our blessings. To rededicate ourselves to interests larger than our own.

And to all the Christian families who are celebrating the Resurrection, Michelle and I wish you a blessed and joyful Easter.

God bless you. And may God continue to bless the United States of America.

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Norah Jones

 
   





  Norah Jones turns 34 today 





ScienceCasts: Don't Let This Happen to Your Planet

fredag, mars 29, 2013



Jag har i kväll på SVT/2 sett en direktsänd katolsk gudstjänst som leddes av den nye påven.
Imponerande på sitt sätt! Respekt!
Kaj Engelhart utmärkt "presentatör".

West Wing Week: 03/29/13 or "Where Peace Begins"

Wow

About 3 km from airport to east. Patroulle Suisse. Norhtrop F-5E Tiger II weight 4,4 ton max. speed 1700 km/h climb 174 m/s 2 General Electric J85-6E 21 A. from Emmen

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Scientists Discover New Atomic Technique to Charge Memory Chips

 




                     


San Jose, Calif. - 21 Mar 2013: IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced a materials science breakthrough at the atomic level that could pave the way for a new class of non-volatile memory and logic chips that would use less power than today’s silicon based devices. Rather than using conventional electrical means that operate today’s semiconducting devices, IBM’s scientists discovered a new way to operate chips using tiny ionic currents, which are streams of charged atoms that could mimic the event-driven way in which the human brain operates.

Scientists Discover New Atomic Technique to Charge Memory Chips

Optical image of a typical ionic liquid (IL) gated device with a droplet of IL on top of the gate electrode and the oxide channel. The gold squares are pads used to make contact to the device via wire-bonding. On right is the magnified image of the device showing the channel (brownish yellow) and the gold electrical contacts (bright yellow). The contacts on the right and left of the channel are the source and drain contacts. The four other contact are used for 4-wire resistance & Hall measurements. (Credit: IBM)

Today’s computers typically use semiconductors made with CMOS process technologies and it was long thought that these chips would double in performance and decrease in size and cost every two years. But the materials and techniques to develop and build CMOS chips are rapidly approaching physical and performance limitations and new solutions may soon be needed to develop high performance and low-power devices.

IBM research scientists showed that it is possible to reversibly transform metal oxides between insulating and conductive states by the insertion and removal of oxygen ions driven by electric fields at oxide-liquid interfaces. Once the oxide materials, which are innately insulating, are transformed into a conducting state, the IBM experiments showed that the materials maintain a stable metallic state even when power to the device is removed. This non-volatile property means that chips using devices that operate using this novel phenomenon could be used to store and transport data in a more efficient, event-driven manner instead of requiring the state of the devices to be maintained by constant electrical currents.

“Our ability to understand and control matter at atomic scale dimensions allows us to engineer new materials and devices that operate on entirely different principles than the silicon based information technologies of today,” said Dr. Stuart Parkin, an IBM Fellow at IBM Research. “Going beyond today’s charge-based devices to those that use miniscule ionic currents to reversibly control the state of matter has the potential for new types of mobile devices. Using these devices and concepts in novel three-dimensional architectures could prevent the information technology industry from hitting a technology brick wall.”

To achieve this breakthrough, IBM researchers applied a positively charged ionic liquid electrolyte to an insulating oxide material - vanadium dioxide - and successfully converted the material to a metallic state. The material held its metallic state until a negatively charged ionic liquid electrolyte was applied, to convert it back to its original, insulating state.

Such metal to insulator transition materials have been extensively researched for a number of years. However, contrary to earlier conclusions, IBM discovered that it is the removal and injection of oxygen into the metal oxides that is responsible for the changes in state of the oxide material when subjected to intense electric fields.
The transition from a conducting state to an insulating state has also previously been obtained by changing the temperature or applying an external stress, both of which do not lend themselves to device applications.
This research was published yesterday in the peer-reviewed journal Science.

Contact(s) information

Ari Entin
IBM Media Relations, Research
1 (408) 927-2272
aentin@us.ibm.com
Derrick Meyer
IBM Media Relations, Research
1 (408) 623-8336
ddmeyer@us.ibm.com



 
 





NEW YORK TIMES
 
 
March 29, 2013 Compiled: 12:18 AM
 
 
(NYT)
President Obama delivered remarks on gun violence at the White house on Thursday.

By JEREMY W. PETERS and PETER BAKER (NYT)
With relatives of shooting victims standing behind him, President Obama on Thursday implored lawmakers to act on new gun measures even as resistance continues to stiffen.

By PETER BAKER (NYT)
Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. accused President Obama of not having “the courage of his convictions” for enforcing the law even after he concluded it was unconstitutional.

Gustav IV Adolf

Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden (1 November 1778 – 7 February 1837) was the son of Gustav III of Sweden and his queen consort Sophia Magdalena, eldest daughter of Frederick V of Denmark and his first wife Louise of Great Britain. He was the last Swedish ruler of Finland. Gustavia in Swedish Pomerania was named after him, but was lost in the Napoleonic Wars.


March 29, 1809 – King Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden abdicates after a coup d'état. At the Diet of Porvoo, Finland's four Estates pledge allegiance to Alexander I of Russia, commencing the secession of the Grand Duchy of Finland from Sweden.

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Wikipedia:
Gustav IV Adolf's reign was ill-fated and was to end abruptly. In 1805, he joined the Third Coalition against Napoleon. His campaign went poorly and the French occupied Swedish Pomerania. When his ally, Russia, made peace and concluded an alliance with France at Tilsit in 1807, Sweden and Portugal were left as Great Britain's European allies. On 21 February 1808, Russia invaded Finland, which consisted of provinces of Sweden, on the pretext of compelling Sweden to join Napoleon's Continental System. Denmark likewise declared war on Sweden. In just few months after, almost all of Finland was lost to Russia.

http://www.histdoc.net/history/fr/frhamn.html



As a result of the war, on 17 September 1809, in the Treaty of Hamina, Sweden surrendered the eastern third of Sweden to Russia. The autonomous Grand Principality of Finland within Imperial Russia was established.

One of the World's Most Powerful Computers, Is Open for Research

      








Press Release 13-056

NSF-Supported Blue Waters, One of the World's Most Powerful Computers, Is Open for Research


Blue Waters has been configured to solve the most challenging compute-, memory-, and data-intensive problems in science and engineering

Panoramic image of the Blue Waters super computer system
Blue Waters will enable researchers to investigate challenging and heretofore impossible problems.
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March 28, 2013

National Science Foundation- (NSF) funded Blue Waters, one of the most powerful supercomputers in the world, was formally declared available for use today at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). The ceremony was attended by corporate, government and university leaders.
Blue Waters, a partnership among NSF, the State of Illinois, the University of Illinois and the Great Lakes Consortium for Petascale Computation, is capable at peak performance of nearly 12 quadrillion floating point operations per second and, more importantly, has demonstrated sustained system performance of more than one petaflop on a range of commonly-used science and engineering applications.

This capability puts Blue Waters in a class by itself. By balancing processor performance characteristics with memory and storage attributes, it offers usable and efficient petaflop performance for large-scale scientific applications at the frontiers of computational science.
Early research on Blue Waters already is addressing problems that are much larger and more complex than those modeled to date, and is already providing unprecedented insights.
"Blue Waters is an example of a high-risk, high-reward research infrastructure project that will enable NSF to achieve its mission of funding basic research at the frontiers of science," said NSF Acting Director Cora Marrett. "Its impact on science and engineering discoveries and innovation, as well as on national priorities, such as health, safety and well-being, will be extraordinary."

In addition to Marrett, the dedication ceremony also included remarks from Cray President and CEO Peter Ungaro, several University of Illinois officials, including President Robert Easter and Chancellor Phyllis Wise, as well as U.S. House Science, Space and Technology Committee Member Dan Lipinski, Illinois Governor Pat Quinn, who today issued a Blue Waters proclamation.
"Whereas American innovations in science and technology, fueled by public and private research investments, have created economic prosperity, improved our quality of life, and aided those who serve our state and nation..." the proclamation begins. "... I, Pat Quinn, Governor of the State of Illinois, do hereby proclaim, March 28, 2013 as Blue Waters Supercomputer Day in Illinois..." 
 
Blue Waters has been available to research teams in a friendly-user mode since March 2012. To date, more than 30 science and engineering teams have been allocated time on Blue Waters. By enabling advancements in research related to elementary particle physics, molecules and materials, tornadoes and climate change and cosmology, their studies will provide insights into the fundamental nature of matter, the basic constituents of the everyday world, critical processes on the earth, as well as the evolution of the universe.
"Today's dedication celebrates Blue Waters, which promises to accelerate the pace of scientific progress across multiple disciplines," said Farnam Jahanian, head of NSF's Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering.

"Blue Waters is a national resource that will allow researchers access to the most powerful computational resources available today, furthering research across all scientific disciplines and enabling the investigation of problems not possible before."
"With Blue Waters, scientists are beginning already to predict the behavior of complex biological systems, understand how the cosmos evolved after the Big Bang, design new materials at the atomic level, predict the behavior of earthquakes, hurricanes and tornadoes, and simulate complex engineered systems like the power distribution system of airplanes and automobiles," said Alan Blatecky, NSF division director for Advanced Cyberinfrastructure. 
 
Blue Waters is one of two NSF-supported, supercomputing systems formally declared available for use this week. The other, Stampede, was dedicated yesterday at the Texas Advanced Computing Center at the University of Texas at Austin.
These two significant projects, now entering full deployment, are part of NSF's comprehensive strategy for advanced computing infrastructure to facilitate transformative foundational research in computational and data-intensive science and engineering across all disciplines.

What follows are a few examples of the exciting and promising research on Blue Waters:

Modeling HIV
Blue Waters is enabling Klaus Schulten and his team at UIUC to describe the HIV genome and its behavior in minute detail, through computations that require the simulations of more than 60 million atoms. They recently published a paper in PLOS Pathogens touting an early discovery that may eventually lead to uncovering the structure of HIV. The researchers described a smaller virus associated with HIV, which could only be achieved through a 10 million atom, molecular dynamics simulation, inconceivable before Blue Waters. The team is using Blue Waters to investigate complex and fundamental molecular dynamics problems requiring atomic level simulations that are 10 to 100 times larger than those modeled to date, providing unprecedented insights.

Global climate change
Also featured at the dedication event, Cristiana Stan and James Kinter of George Mason University use Blue Waters to engage in topical research on the role of clouds in modeling the global climate system during present conditions and in future climate change scenarios.

Earthquake prediction
A team at the Southern California Earthquake Center, led by Thomas Jordan, carries out large-scale, high-resolution earthquake simulations that incorporate the entire Los Angeles basin, including all natural and human-built infrastructure, requiring orders of magnitude more computing power than studies done to date. Their work will provide better seismic hazard assessments and inform safer building codes: Preparing for the Big One.

Flood assessment, drought monitoring, and resource management
Engineering Professor Patrick Reed and his team from Penn State, Princeton and the Aerospace Corporation, use Blue Waters to transform understanding and optimization of space-based Earth science satellite constellation designs. "Blue Waters has fundamentally changed the scale and scope of the questions we can explore," he said. "Our hope is that the answers we discover will enhance flood assessment, drought monitoring, and the management of water resources in large river basins world-wide."

Fundamental properties of nature
Robert Sugar, professor of physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara, uses Blue Waters to more fully understand the fundamental laws of nature and to glean knowledge of the early development of the universe. "Blue Waters packs a one-two punch," said Sugar, "Blue Waters enables us to perform the most detailed and realistic simulations of sub-atomic particles and their interactions to date. Studies such as these are a global endeavor, and the large data sets produced on Blue Waters will be shared with researchers worldwide for further discoveries."
-NSF-
 
Media Contacts Lisa-Joy Zgorski, NSF (703) 292-8311 lisajoy@nsf.gov
Trish Barker, NCSA (217) 265-8013 tlbarker@illinois.edu
Program Contacts Irene Qualters, NSF (703) 292-2339 iqualter@nsf.gov
Principal Investigators Cristiana Stan, GMU cstan@gmu.edu
James Kinter, GMU (301) 595-7000 kinter@cola.iges.org
Klaus Schulten, UIUC (217) 244-1604 kschulte@ks.uiuc.edu
Robert Sugar, UCSB (805) 893-3469 sugar@physics.ucsb.edu
Patrick Reed, Penn State (814) 863-2940 preed@engr.psu.edu
Related WebsitesAdvances in Computational Research Transform Scientific Process and Discovery: http://www.nsf.gov/discoveries/disc_summ.jsp?cntn_id=127385&org=NSF
Radio Interview with NCSA's Thom Dunning on Blue Waters: http://www.science360.gov/files/
U.S./China team determines structure of virus with Blue Waters: http://www.ncsa.illinois.edu/News/Stories/RHDV/
NSF-Supported Stampede Opens the Gates of Advanced Computation to Thousands of Research Teams: http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=127194
Infographic: What is a petaflop?: http://www.ncsa.illinois.edu/News/Stories/WhatisPF/
Video: What is mathematical modeling?: http://www.ncsa.illinois.edu/News/Video/2013/modeling.html
Visualization: Volume Rendering of a Supernova: http://www.ncsa.illinois.edu/News/Stories/DuoImage/
4 applications sustain 1 petaflop on Blue Waters: http://www.ncsa.illinois.edu/News/Stories/PFapps/


The National Science Foundation (NSF) is an independent federal agency that supports fundamental research and education across all fields of science and engineering. In fiscal year (FY) 2012, its budget is $7.0 billion. NSF funds reach all 50 states through grants to nearly 2,000 colleges, universities and other institutions. Each year, NSF receives over 50,000 competitive requests for funding, and makes about 11,000 new funding awards. NSF also awards nearly $420 million in professional and service contracts yearly.

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  Thom Dunning
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Blue Waters: An Introduction
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Provides Sustained Power and Storage for Today's Big Research
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Blue Waters Enables an Early Breakthrough
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Blue Waters Adds to America's Computational Strength
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Future Advances Using Blue Waters
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Farnam Jahanian, Cora Marrett and Dan Lipinski with Blue Wtaer super computer system
Dr. Farnam Jahanian, Dr. Cora Marrett and Rep. Dan Lipinski at the dedication of Blue Waters.
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