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Superbowl SUNday…

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On Super SUNday Feb. 6, 2011, NASA will release humankinds first ever view of the entire Sun and NASA’s Robonaut 2 will make a first ever guest appearance on the NFL’s Super Bowl Pre game show
for Super Bowl XLV. Left: The Sun from STEREO taken by the SECCHI Extreme Ultraviolet Imager (EUVI) at the 304 Angstrom bandpass which is sensitive to the He II singly ionized state of helium, at a characteristic temperature of about 80 thousand degrees Kelvin. Credit: NASA.
Right: Robonaut 2 practicing for the NFL Super Bowl XLV at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in front of the world famous Countdown Clock. Credit & Mosaic: Ken Kremer

What do NASA, Robots, the Sun and the NFL have in common ?

to read more of this article, go to

http://www.universetoday.com/83133/nasa-robot-and-first-whole-sun-picture-coming-on-super-bowl-sunday/

February 6-12

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Overall Color for the Week:    Light Green Blue

Things this week will be happening in the middles, and it will be some time before the ends are able to catch up.  The good news is that this will give some time for the ends to take a second look at things and prepare for what is to come  Because there is a lot that will be coming. Continue reading →

Volcanic Activity-Japan & Washington

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Hundreds evacuate as Japan volcano erupts

(AFP) – 5 hours ago

TOKYO — Hundreds of people living near a Japanese volcano that has been spewing columns of smoke and ash thousands of metres into the air were forced to evacuate their homes Monday, a local official said.

More than 600 residents of the town of Takaharu in Miyazaki prefecture, on the eastern outskirts of the erupting Mount Shinmoedake, were sheltering in school gyms and community halls, an official said.

Municipal authorities had issued an evacuation advisory for 1,158 residents in high-risk districts near the 1,421-metre (4,689-foot) volcano earlier Monday.

The mountain in the Kirishima range in southwestern Japan has been belching smoke and ash into the air since late Wednesday, according to the Japan Meteorological Agency.

The agency has widened the area that it fears could be hit by a torrent of high-temperature gas and ash from two kilometres (1.24 miles) to three kilometres from the peak.

It added that the dome of lava inside the volcano’s crater, which grows as pressure increases from below, was now five times larger than it had been on Friday.

For the complete article, go to:

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5gX3bk3avuId__3e6Af9y39X2DXGg?docId=CNG.c844ee3821075f96953de8636c1c359a.211

And in Washington:

Swarm of Quakes detected on Mt. St. Helens

by KGW Staff

Posted on January 31, 2011 at 9:10 AM

Updated today at 9:10 AM

Dangers of the ‘Pretty Princess” Paradigm

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fr/livescience.com

The Destructive Culture of Pretty Pink Princesses

By Clara Moskowitz, LiveScience Senior Writer

Girls the world over often go through a “princess phase,” enthralled with anything pink and pretty — most especially the Disney princesses.

When it happened to Peggy Orenstein’s daughter Daisy, the contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine stepped back to examine the phenomenon. She found that the girlie-girl culture being marketed to little girls was less innocent than it might seem, and can have negative consequences for girls’ psychological, social and physical development.

Orenstein’s exploration took her to Walt Disney World, the American Girl flagship store in New York City and a child beauty pageant. She details her quest in the new book “Cinderella Ate My Daughter: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the New Girlie-Girl Culture” (Harper Collins, Jan. 25).

Check out this link for the complete article.  The Q &A is particularly telling:

http://www.livescience.com/culture/pink-princess-toys-girls-peggy-orenstein-110124.html

January 30-February 5

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Overall Color for the Week:    Pale Apricot

Synchronicity will be very much a part of the events of this week.  Pay close attention to things happening around you as there will be issues and events popping up that can make you anxious.  This is a week in which many will be called upon to stand up for what they truly believe in their innermost cores. For those who have been disguising and/or hiding their truths because of worries about fitting in, pleasing people, job concerns, etc,  this week can be extremely uncomfortable.  There will be a subtle speeding up of things, so look for quick ends to things.  As the Chinese New Year arrives on Thursday, there will be a shift in expectation, which can result in a pleasant finale.. Continue reading →

Rare Light Pillars

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V-TOPPED LIGHT PILLARS: Light pillars are a common sight around cities in winter. Urban lights bounce off ice crystals in the air, producing tall luminous columns sometimes mistaken for auroras. But the light pillars Mike Hollingshead saw last night near a corn mill in Blair, Nebraska, were decidely uncommon. “They had V-shaped tops,” he explains, “and some of the Vs were nested.” Here is what he saw:

“These light pillars are not just rare, they are exceptional!” declares atmospheric optics expert Les Cowley. “Ordinary pillars are produced by plate-shaped ice crystals roughly half way between you and the light source. These are different. Their rarely seen flared tops show that they were made bycolumn-shaped crystals drifting slowly downwards and aligned horizontal by air resistance.” …