In an experiment, a team of scientists has created a transparent material, which could provide some insight into the cores of Jupiter and the other giant planets.
According to a report in New Scientist, to create this exotic state of matter, researchers at the FLASH facility in Hamburg, Germany, took a thin piece of aluminum foil [...]
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Transparent material may shed light on planets†cores
July 27th, 2009 |
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Jeff Jarvis: How (and why) to replace the AP
July 24th, 2009 |
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The Associated Press is becoming the enemy of the internet because it is fighting the link and the link is the basis of the internet….
Spotted online
July 21st, 2009 |
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From city walks in Hamburg to a Roman literary cafe, we bring you the latest instalment of insider tips from blog network Spotted by Locals
Amsterdam: Gartine – breakfast from the owner’s garden
By Maarten-Jan Meyer zu Schlochtern
Gartine is one of my favourites for a unique breakfast, excellent lunch and English high tea – all served on antique chinaware, which has been collected by the owners with loving care over the years. The atmosphere is easy and pleasant.
All ingredients come from the owner’s vegetable garden, so the dishes are always super fresh and of good quality. On top of that, Gartine adopted 58 chickens at the foundation ‘Adopt a Chicken’ and these provide farm-fresh eggs. They also use products of the ‘Ark van Smaak’ from Slow Food Netherlands. So when you eat there, you eat ‘eco and green’.
Gartine is in a small alley called ‘Taksteeg’ in the old centre of Amsterdam, between Rokin and Spui.
• Details about this spot: Gartine, Taksteeg 7, +31 3204132. Big breakfast €10.95. Open Tue-Sun 8am-6pm.
Rome: Bar-a-book – drinking while reading
Fabiola is the woman who runs it. She prepares excellent aperitifs served on a large wooden table in the middle of the room, so it feels like being at a friend’s party.
There is a list of wines by the glass – not a great variety, I must admit, but they are good at least. The food is homemade: cous cous, vegetable quiches and pies, tarts and little pizzas, sandwiches (mostly vegetarian) and many other snacks, including cakes at times. I like it here because it is located in one of my neighbourhoods, so it really makes me feel at home.
The furniture is totally random – you are surrounded by shelves of books that you can buy – vintage like the neighbourhood. Post second world war kind of design, just like most of the buildings that have been either rebuilt or restored after the area was completely shelled by US aircraft during the war. Now, it is considered one of the trendy-bohemian areas in town.
If you want to do as the Romans do, this is one of the real Roman places to pick.
• Details about this spot: Bar-à -book: drink including buffet food €10,
via dei Piceni 23, S.Lorenzo & Pigneto; +39 (0)645 443358. Tue-Sun 4pm-1:30am. Brunch on Sun 12-4pm.
Lisbon: Miradouro da Gra̤a Рthe perfect viewpoint
A picture is worth … oh it’s such a cliché I am not even going to finish the sentence, but this is one picture opportunity that shouldn’t be missed. (The photo is looking up towards the tree-canopied viewpoint, not from it.)
From the top of a hillside, hugging the historic and picturesque castle neighbourhood, you can see a maze of red tiled rooftops below, the Baixa district, a river to the south and the red 25th of April bridge beyond that – there is not much that this view doesn’t take in. Just take the 28 tram to one of its end destinations – Graça – and walk left towards the cliff.
A pleasant terrace lined with trees and a small kiosk café serving hot and cold drinks makes it an ideal spot to recharge your batteries. All of Lisbon’s beauty lays below you in her haphazard and slightly dishevelled, but charming, manner. It’s these views that bring the romance to the city.
• Details about this spot: Miradouro da Graca, Alfama & Graça.
Brussels: Recyclart – the sound of the underground
If you’re not interested in spots where you have to be hip and trendy but want something more ‘underground’, then Recyclart is the place for you.
Literally because of its location beneath the railway track, and even more so because this former railway station is an alternative artistic hotspot. Meet your cultural soulmates in the bar, or have a look at the art exhibitions, photography expositions or architecture projects.
Want to move your feet? Go the the frequently organised parties or concerts and shake your body to the rhythms of dubstep, electro, worldbeat or guitar noise. Disko disko partizani!
• Details about this spot: Recyclart, Rue des Ursulines 25; +3225025734
Tue-Fri 11am-5pm (bar), 12pm-3pm (food).
Hamburg: Alsterwanderweg – away from civilisation and back
The “Alsterwanderweg” is a hiking trail that runs along the Alster River for about 56km. The southern section of the trail (22km) leads through the ‘Alstertal’ (Alster valley) with wonderful parks and villas, along the outer and the inner Alster, and terminates directly in the heart of Hamburg: at the harbour where the Alster runs into the Elbe River. The trail is very popular with locals year-round as every season brings its own charm to this scenic route.
Take public transport up north to Poppenbüttel to begin your five-hour adventure, either on foot or by bicycle. As you head south, you’ll sometimes follow the meandering river on its right then on its left again.
There are some sections where you’ll need to cross or walk along a street. Some of the many rowing clubs and locks on your way down to Winterhude have restaurants with gorgeous views of the river.
After passing through Eppendorf, you’ll reach the spacious Alsterpark on the outer Alster, a very wide section of the river with a beautiful view of the inner city’s skyline. Finally, you’ll know you’re on the last stretch of the path when you pass under Kennedy – and Lombardsbrücke to arrive at the inner Alster and the city centre.
Leave the Alsterarkaden behind you and terminate this exciting hike at the “Baumwall” or “Landungsbrücken” metro stop. Although the direction of trail is marked by signs, be sure to bring a map with you.
• Details about this spot: Alsterwanderweg, Hamburger Wanderverein e.V, Spaldingstrasse 160; +49 40230086.
• These are edited extracts from spottedbylocals.com.
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Robert Redford marries German girlfriend
July 15th, 2009 |
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HAMBURG (AP) — A German church says its pastor presided over the wedding between Robert Redford and his German partner.
Renate Massfeller, of the St. Catherine Church in Hamburg, said Wednesday that Pastor Frank Engelbrecht presided over the ceremony Saturday between the 71-year-old U.S. actor and artist Sibylle Szaggars at the luxury Louis C. Jacob Hotel.
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Kompany may miss start of season
July 13th, 2009 |
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Manchester City midfielder Vincent Kompany is set to miss the start of the Premier League season because he is scheduled to undergo foot surgery.
Belgian international Kompany, 23, has been forced to return from City’s pre-season training camp in Bavaria.
He needed injections and wore specially adapated boots last season in an attempt to cure the problem.
Boss Mark Hughes told City’s website: "If he has to have an operation Vincent will miss the start of the season."
Kompany joined City from Hamburg in August 2008 for an undisclosed fee.
Hughes added: "We sent him to a consultant surgeon at the end of last season and he recommended injecting the toe and giving him six weeks’ complete rest but he was suffering the same amount of pain again in training in Germany.
"He’s been back to see the surgeon now. We hoped the rest would cure it but it’s a bit more complex than that. It’s important that we address it now and make sure Vince is fit for the rest of the season.
"We nursed him through to the point where he had to concede that he just couldn’t carry on. He had numerous needles into the joint but he stuck with it bravely. He did really well for the team."
This article is from the BBC News website. © British Broadcasting Corporation, The BBC is not responsible for the content of external internet sites.
Sun Spin:Creedence Clearwater Revival
April 20th, 2009 |
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A CRY FROM THE STREETS AS THE SIXTIES TURNED TO THE SEVENTIES
Throughout the remainder of 2009, Sunday Spin will regularly celebrate and explore some of the seminal albums released in 1969 as they reach their 40th anniversaries. We couldn’t think of a better slab to start withÂ…
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Some folks are born wise, and John Fogerty is surely one of them. Two years on from the Summer of Love, Fogerty could see which way the wind was blowing, his young ears able to “hear the voice of rage and ruin.” The Vietnam War shuddered a half a world away, entering U.S. living rooms every night on the news, while corporate culture had already absorbed the trappings of the ’60s youth revolution, diluting a legitimate social movement into a series of largely empty, marketable symbols (“”Is that a real poncho? I mean is that a Mexican poncho or is that a Sears poncho?”). Fogerty picked up on this sharp dip in general hope, addressing the nostalgia already settling into America’s mindset – not just for some fictitious bygone time but for what had transpired only recently – a dynamic that persists in even more pronounced form today. The first words of Creedence Clearwater Revival‘s third album, Green River are, “Well, take me back down where cool water flows/ Let me remember things I love.” From there he swiftly introduces us to the hangman’s rope and announces, “You’re gonna find the world is smould’rin’.”
CCR’s second album in a year that would ultimately see them release three classics is a sharp shock to the system. For all of its ’50s inspired bounce, the waters in their river are cloudy and tangled with weeds and bodies. Like the bluesmen and folk heroes that fueled Fogerty’s pen, his songs here invite mindless sing-alongs, seeming jubilant yet ever-touched by something far darker. The quintessential example in the Creedence catalog is “Bad Moon Rising, ” which has been reduced to a backdrop for film and television, just another piece of the general cultural landscape, but is nothing less than a scathing gospel warning, barking, “Hope you got your things together/ Hope you are quite prepared to die/ Looks like we’re in for nasty weather/ One eye is taken for an eye.” Creedence isn’t screwing around on this album, and as baldly enjoyable as the music is (and it is a freakin’ ball that’ll have you smacking the ceiling of your hoopdie like El Duderino) this is largely serious business, as heavy and truthful as Robert Johnson, Leadbelly or Bob Dylan.
It does not hurt that the band is ablaze on every cut. The myth goes that this is John’s show and the rest are merely players, but no matter the brilliance of the playwright you’re going to have an empty house if there’s no one there to execute the script. Stu Cook (bass), Doug Clifford (drums) and John’s brother Tom Fogerty (rhythm guitar) are jook joint mean and Hamburg underground tight, a party band extraordinaire with steam rising from their pores. John Fogerty’s lead guitar and ruthless lead vocals are indeed the sharp point of their phalanx but the muscle behind it comes from Tom, Stu and Doug. The sad evidence of this is how none of them ever again achieved a fraction of the mojo harnessed during CCR’s five-year existence. Green River presents the combo at their most cohesive, where each aspect feeds the others to create one of the most appealing, robust sounds in the history of rock. The conversation between instruments generates a density and immediacy that defies age – a model for anyone seeking a “timeless” quality to their music.
And oh what tunes! The proto-punk of “Commotion,” the bent knee cry for connectivity in “Wrote A Song For Everyone,” the gleeful foreboding of “Tombstone Shadow,” the ennui and impotence of “Lodi,” the urge for going inside “Cross-Tie Walker” and the shiver-inducing prognostication of “Bad Moon Rising” and “Sinister Purpose” – each number a lustily attacked marvel that culminates in a “Fuck it, let’s party” vibe with a cover of jump blues standard “The Night Time Is The Right Time.” Throwing jagged stones at “pharaohs” and the self-deluded, this song cycle is simultaneously delightful and harrowing. In sequencing, execution and insight, Green River is a tough one to beat in any era, even one as rich as the late 1960s.
Track Listing
Side One
1. Green River
2. Commotion
3. Tombstone Shadow
4. Wrote a Song for Everyone
Side Two
1. Bad Moon Rising
2. Lodi
3. Cross-Tie Walker
4. Sinister Purpose
5. The Night Time Is the Right Time
Do yourself a favor and check out Letters to Fogerty by the wonderful John Moe. You can thank us later when you stop laughing.
This nasty lil’ tune nicely captures the hurly-burly of modern life in under three minutes.
Death songs have a long, grand tradition and this is up there with the best of them.
During their 1999 tour this was a Pavement staple, just one example of this album’s far reaching influence.
Here’s John Fogerty getting “stuck” all by his lonesome.
A clearly stoned Mama Cass introduces “Clarence Clamwater.” JamBase would like to dedicate this one to our pal Nathan Moore (he knows why…). Play it loud and long as we all try to find our way back to the river.
And lastly, the title tune.