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About three years ago, Mafidl, her daughter, J, and I spent Xmas eve at Everglades City, Fl. There was a flatbed, driven around town, with a woman singing carols and gospels, and she sounded like Patsy Cline. She was that good.

 I am a jaded musician, since at times, I can be very clever playing music in the style of any chosen idiom. She made that much of a heavy impact on me. She made that Xmas very special. She was wonderful.

The following year, we headed to the same spot, only to experience a silence with no Xmas spirit.

I asked and was told that the woman singing, the previous year, was diagnosed with cancer. I did a bit of internet fact mining and found this.

Kimberly Lamp

 

Kimberly Lamp Everglades City, FL Kimberly Lamp, 49, a long-time resident and active member of the Everglades area community, passed away at 9:05 a.m. on Sunday, June 3, 2007 in Naples. Kim Lamp was a leader in this area for many years. She generously gave of her time and talent to various organizations in and around South Florida. Kim was born on September 24, 1957 in Gainesville, FL and dedicated her life to performing gospel and country songs. Whenever she was called upon to give a performance for charitable events, she accepted with a smile on her face. She was a petite lady with a great voice and a big heart. Kim's talent and music took her to Music City USA, Nashville, TN where she performed at famous country music clubs such as the Wildhorse Saloon, Tootsie's and in Printer's Alley. She was named Entertainer of the Year at the Country Music Association of America in Las Vegas and earned over a dozen county and statewide music awards. In Everglades City, Kim performed at the annual Seafood Festival, Art in the Glades, Museum celebrations, Fourth of July festivities and at the Copeland Baptist Mission's Christmas pageant as well as touring around town on Christmas Eve singing carols to all the residents. Kim was an outstanding individual with lots of energy, a big smile and love in her heart for everyone. Last year, Kim was diagnosed with a rare form of skin cancer and had been undergoing treatment since then. Her positive attitude and faith in her Lord were an inspiration to all who knew and loved her. She is survived by her loving husband, Jim Lamp; their six children, including Kim's devoted sons, David Brewer of North Naples and Darrell Brewer of Northport; and eleven grandchildren. Kim was predeceased by her mother on May 5, 2007. A memorial service is scheduled for this Saturday, June 9th, 11:00 a.m. at the First Baptist Church, 416 School Drive, Everglades City. In lieu of flowers, donations may be sent to the Copeland Baptist Mission, P.O. Box 457, Copeland, FL 34137.

 

From the Naples Daily News.

 

 

Fellow bloggers, I hardly ever make any personal posts. This bit of info has touched my heart, because someone, that I never even met, had given me so much joy, one Xmas so long ago, and that she continous to live in my mortal memory. She had given me a bit of happiness, that still manifests in many ways, too numerous to be told. She made an event in personal time special.

The joy associated with the event focuses on Mafidl and Blaue Reiter; their love and faith in me that knows no boundaries.

So, at times of profound joy, the moment that anchors us, think of the individuals that made the event happen. My love goes out to Mafidl, daughter J and Kim Lamp, for making a point in time, an infinestimal through universe expansion, important for me. The event makes me feel loved and never alone.

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Celestial Fireworks

 

Resembling the puffs of smoke and sparks from a summer fireworks display, this Hubble image depicts the delicate filaments debris from a stellar explosion in a neighboring galaxy.

Denoted N 49, or DEM L 190, this remnant is from a massive star that died in a supernova blast whose light would have reached Earth thousands of years ago. This filamentary material will eventually be recycled into building new generations of stars. Our own sun and planets are constructed from similar debris of supernovae that exploded in the Milky Way billions of years ago.

This seemingly gentle structure also harbors a very powerful spinning neutron star that may be the central remnant from the initial blast. It is quite common for the core of an exploded supernova star to become a spinning neutron star (also called a pulsar because of the regular pulses of energy from the rotational spin) after the immediate shedding of the star's outer layers. In the case of N 49, not only is the neutron star spinning at a rate of once every 8 seconds, it also has a super-strong magnetic field a thousand trillion times stronger than Earth's magnetic field. This places this star into the exclusive class of objects called magnetars.

Image Credit: Image Credit: NASA, The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA), Y.-H. Chu (UIUC), S. Kulkarni (Caltech) and R. Rothschild (UCSD)


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Moving at Nearly the Speed of Light

Giant jets of subatomic particles moving at nearly the speed of light have been found coming from thousands of galaxies across the universe, but always from elliptical galaxies or galaxies in the process of merging -- until now. Using the combined power of the Hubble Space Telescope and other telescopes, astronomers have discovered a huge jet coming from a spiral galaxy similar to our own Milky Way.

Astronomers believe such jets originate at the cores of galaxies, where supermassive black holes provide the tremendous gravitational energy to accelerate particles to nearly the speed of light. Both elliptical and spiral galaxies are believed to harbor supermassive black holes at their cores.

The discovery that the jet was coming from a spiral galaxy dubbed 0313-192 required using a combination of radio, optical and infrared observations to examine the galaxy and its surroundings. Nearly a billion light-years from Earth, 0313-192 proved an elusive target, however. Subsequent observations support the idea that the galaxy might be a spiral but still were inconclusive.

Image Credit: NASA, NRAO/AUI/NSF and W. Keel (University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa)

If you click the full resolution button, notice how the points of light in the photo are not stars, but other galaxies. These island universes, just like our own Milky Way, are so far away that the mind staggers.

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For Kind Mind's Children: The stuff we can see under a microscope.

 

 

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An Expanding Bubble in Space

A star 40 times more massive than our sun is blowing a giant bubble of material into space. In this colorful picture, the Hubble Telescope captured a glimpse of the expanding bubble, dubbed the Bubble Nebula (NGC 7635). The beefy star [lower center] is embedded in the bright blue bubble. The stellar powerhouse is so hot that it is quickly shedding material into space. The dense gas surrounding the star is shaping the castoff material into a bubble. The bubble's surface is not smooth like a soap bubble's. Its rippled appearance is due to encounters with gases of different thickness. The nebula is 6 light-years wide and is expanding at 4 million miles per hour (7 million kilometers per hour). The nebula is 7,100 light-years from Earth in the constellation Cassiopeia.

Image Credit: NASA, Donald Walter (South Carolina State University), Paul Scowen and Brian Moore (Arizona State University)


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The Four Suns of HD 98800

 

HD 98800 is a multiple star system about 150 light years from Earth -- right in our section of the Milky Way Galaxy. For years it has been known that HD 98800 consists of two pairs of double stars, with one pair surrounded by a disk of dust. Recent data from the Earth-trailing Spitzer Space Telescope in infrared light indicate that the dust disk has gaps that appear consistent with being cleared by planets orbiting in the disk. If so, one planet appears to be orbiting at a distance similar to Mars of our own Solar System.

Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/T. Pyle (SSC)


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Star's Mysterious Light

In January 2002, a dull star in an obscure constellation suddenly became 600,000 times more luminous than our sun, temporarily making it the brightest star in our Milky Way galaxy. The mysterious star has long since faded back to obscurity, but observations by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope of a phenomenon called a "light echo" have uncovered remarkable new features. These details promise to provide astronomers with a CAT-scan-like probe of the three-dimensional structure of shells of dust surrounding an aging star.

Image Credit: NASA, ESA and H.E. Bond (STScI)


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An Unwelcome Place for New Stars

 

NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer found evidence that black holes -- once they grow to a critical size -- stifle the formation of new stars in elliptical galaxies. Black holes are thought to do this by heating up and blasting away the gas that fuels star formation.

The blue color here represents radiation pouring out from material very close to the black hole. The grayish structure surrounding the black hole, called a torus, is made up of gas and dust. Beyond the torus, only the old red-colored stars that make up the galaxy can be seen. There are no new stars in the galaxy.

Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech


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Made in China - Tainted chocolate

 

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This old cartoon was a catalyst for my love of science, I must have been a toddler watching this cartoon early sunday mornings, they were reruns by then, but I loved the count - downs.

 

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Orders of magnitude (temperature)

List of orders of magnitude for temperature

Factor	Multiple	Item
10−∞	0 K	absolute zero: free-bodies are still, no interaction within or without a thermodynamic system
10−30		particular speeds bound paths to exceed size and lifetime of the universe (see least-energy in orders of magnitude (energy))
10−18	1 aK	macroscopic teleportation of matter
10−15	1 fK	atomic waves coherent over inches atomic particles decoherent over inches
10−12	1 pK	100 pK, lowest temperature ever produced, during the nuclear magnetic ordering at Helsinki University of Technology's Low Temperature Lab 450 pK, lowest temperature sodium Bose-Einstein condensate gas ever achieved in the laboratory, at MIT[1]
10−9	1 nK	50 nK, Fermi melting point of potassium-40 Bose melting point of bosonic atomic gasses Doppler-locked refrigerants in laser cooling and magneto-optical traps
10−6	1 μK	nuclear demagnetization
10−3	1 mK	radio excitations 1.7 mK, temperature record for helium-3/helium-4 dilution refrigeration 2.5 mK, Fermi melting point of helium-3 adiabatic demagnetization of paramagnetic molecules 300 mK in evaporative cooling of helium-3 700 mK, helium-3/helium-4 mixtures begin phase separation 950 mK, melting point of helium microwave excitations
100	1 K	1 K at the Boomerang nebula, the coldest natural environment known 1.5 K, melting point of overbound helium 2.19 K, lambda point of overbound superfluid helium 2.725 K, cosmic microwave background 4.1 K, superconductivity point of mercury 4.22 K, boiling point of bound helium 5.19 K, critical temperature of helium 7.2 K, superconductivity point of lead 9.3 K, superconductivity point of niobium
101	10 K	Fermi melting point of valence electrons for superconductivity 14.01 K, melting point of bound hydrogen 20.28 K, boiling point of bound hydrogen 33 K, critical temperature of hydrogen 44 K mean on Pluto 53 K mean of Neptune 63 K, melting point of bound nitrogen 68 K mean of Uranus 77.35 K, boiling point of bound nitrogen 90.19 K, boiling point of bound oxygen 92 K, superconductivity point of Y-Ba-Cu-oxide (YBCO) everyday substances near liquid air's temperature with incipient Fermi-condensate populations result in spontaneous luminescence, loss or lack of hysteresis, inductive and capacitive electronic moments that readily adsorb or expel or float upon unlike substances: [2]
102	100 K	infrared excitations 165 K, glass point of supercooled water 183.75 K (–89.4 °C), coldest air recorded on Earth 273.15 K (0 °C), melting point of bound water about 293 K, room temperature 373.15 K (100 °C), boiling point of bound water 647 K, critical point of superheated water See detailed list below
103	1 kK	visible light excitations 1170 K at large log fire flames 1670 K at blue candle flame 1811 K, melting point of iron (lower for steel) 1870 K in Bunsen burner flame 1900 K at the Space Shuttle Orbiter hull in 8km/s dive 2022 K, boiling point of lead 2320 K at open hydrogen flame 3683 K, melting point of tungsten 3925 K, sublimation point of carbon 4160 K, melting point of hafnium carbide 4700 K, triple point of overbound carbon 5100 K in cyanogen-dioxygen flame 5516 K at dicyanoacetylene (carbon subnitride)-ozone flame 5650 K at Earth's Inner Core Boundary 5780 K on the Sun 5933 K, boiling point of tungsten 6000 K, mean of the Universe 300,000 years after the Big Bang 7020.5 K, critical point of carbon 7736 K, a monatomic ideal gas has one electron volt of kinetic energy ultraviolet excitations anionic sparks
104	10 kK	10 kK on Sirius A 10-15 kK in mononitrogen recombination 15.5 kK, critical point of tungsten 25 kK, mean of the Universe 10,000 years after the Big Bang 28 kK in record cationic lightning over Earth 32 kK on Sirius B 37 kK in proton-electron reactions about 300 kK at 17 meters from Little Boy's detonation Fermi boiling point of valence electrons X-ray excitations
106	1 MK	γ-ray excitations 1–10 MK in the Sun's corona 13.6 MK at Sun's core 100 MK, needed for controlled nuclear fusion
109	1 GK	1 GK, everything 100 seconds after the Big Bang 3 GK in electron-positron reactions 10 GK in supernova explosions 10 GK, everything 1 second after the Big Bang
1012	1 TK	.5–1.2 TK, Fermi melting point of quarks into quark-gluon plasma 3-5 TK in proton-antiproton reactions Z0 electronuclear excitations 10 TK, 100 microseconds after the Big Bang 300–900 TK at proton-nickel conversions in the Tevatron's Main Injector
1015	1 PK	.3–2.2 PK at proton-antiproton collisions in same
1018	1 EK	2–13 EK at heavy nuclear conversions in the Large Hadron Collider
1021	1 ZK	heart of galactic clusters-mergers
1024	1 YK	.5–7 YK at Oh-My-God particular collisions
1027		grand symmetry-breaking grand unified theory excitations temperature 10−35 seconds after the Big Bang
1030		1.4×1032 K, Planck temperature of micro black holes temperature 5×10−44 seconds after the Big Bang
1033		theory of everything excitations Landau poles extradimensional gauge freedom

 Detailed list of temperatures from 100 K to 1000 K

Kelvins	Degrees Celsius	Degrees Fahrenheit	Condition
100 K	-173.15 °C	-279.67 °F
125 K	-148 °C	-234.4 °F	superconductivity point of Tl-Ba-Cu-oxide
138 K	-135 °C	-211 °F	superconductivity point of Hg-Tl-Ba-Ca-Cu-oxide
143 K	-130 °C	-202 °F	mean "surface" of Saturn
152 K	-121 °C	-185.8 °F	mean "surface" of Jupiter
184 K	-89 °C	-128.6 °F	coldest climate recorded on Earth
194.6 K	-78.5 °C	-109.3 °F	sublimation point of carbon dioxide (dry ice)
210 K	-63 °C	-81.4 °F	mean surface of Mars
234.32 K	-38.83 °C	-37.9 °F	melting point of mercury
255.37 K	-17.78 °C	0 °F	coldest brine-ice solution found by Fahrenheit
273.15 K	0 °C	32 °F	melting point of water (at STP)
287 K	14 °C	57 °F	mean surface temperature of the Earth
293.15 K	20 °C	68 °F	room temperature
310 K	37 °C	98.6 °F	human body temperature
331 K	58 °C	136.4 °F	hottest climate recorded on Earth
373.15 K	100 °C	212 °F	boiling point of water
400 K	127 °C	260.6 °F	hottest of Concorde nose tip
452 K	179 °C	354.2 °F	mean surface of Mercury
600.65 K	327.50 °C	621.5 °F	melting point of lead
737 K	464 °C	867.2 °F	mean surface of Venus
755 K	482 °C	900 °F	a typical electric oven on the self-cleaning cycle
933.47 K	660.32 °C	1220.6 °F	melting point of aluminium
1000 K	727.15 °C	1340.87 °F

Circumstances where water naturally occurs in liquid form are shown in light grey.

 

 References

1. ^ http://www.cbc.ca/stories/2003/09/11/cold_sodium030911
2. ^ http://1911encyclopedia.org/Liquid_Gases "Liquid Gases". Encyclopædia Britannica, 11th edition: Classic Encyclopedia. (1911, 2006)

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Water's Early Journey

 

NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope observed a fledgling solar system and discovered deep within it enough water vapor to fill the oceans on Earth five times. This water vapor starts out in the form of ice in a cloudy cocoon  that surrounds the embryonic star, called NGC 1333-IRAS 4B (buried in center of image). Material from the cocoon, including ice, falls toward the center of the cloud. The ice then smacks down onto a dusty pre-planetary disk circling the stellar embryo (doughnut-shaped cloud) and vaporizes. Eventually, this water might make its way into developing planets.

Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech


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