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"Solar eclipses are spectacular to watch because of the drama of the sky going dark in the daytime, the blue sky going away, the rapid changes in the sun". Eclipse Science "We are studying how the solar corona got to be 2 million degrees [Celsius], what its polarization is, and how features that form on the solar surface propagate into the corona and even out to the Earth," he said. Observations of the corona are possible from Earth only during the brief moments of a total solar eclipse. The corona is usually hidden by the blue sky as it is about a million times fainter than the photosphere, the layer of the sun seen shining every day. Solar eclipses are possible only because the sun and the moon appear to be about the same size in the sky. In reality, the sun is about 400 times bigger than the moon , but it is also about 400 times further from the Earth than the moon , according to astronomers. When the moon's elliptical orbit around the Earth takes it direct...

Reuters Photo Why some ones have no food, no wears, no house?... while Some ones want to eat everything... to have everything. Isn't enough for us one jeans, one t-shirt, one shoe? Isn't enough for us one house? One car? Why we always do everything without thinking that the money we are throwing, may help someone to live. Is it acceptable?

Where on Earth can our energy-hungry society turn to replace oil, coal, and natural gas? Freedom! I stand in a cluttered room surrounded by the debris of electrical enthusiasm: wire peelings, snippets of copper, yellow connectors, insulated pliers. For me these are the tools of freedom. I have just installed a dozen solar panels on my roof, and they work. A meter shows that 1,285 watts of power are blasting straight from the sun into my system, charging my batteries, cooling my refrigerator, humming through my computer, liberating my life. The euphoria of energy freedom is addictive. Don't get me wrong; I love fossil fuels. I live on an island that happens to have no utilities, but otherwise my wife and I have a normal American life. We don't want propane refrigerators, kerosene lamps, or composting toilets. We want a lot of electrical outlets and a cappuccino maker. But when I turn on those panels, wow! Maybe that's because for me, as for most Americans, one energy crisis ...

That's true... sometimes the clouds hide the sun rays, but there is no storm that lasts forever... Sassine El Nabbout MD.

If you want to hide yourself inside your cave while the enemy is coming, you are already dead... Sassine El Nabbout

Webshots Photo When I disappear in the soil, don't say that i died; I'm always here, in every tree that lived in my neighborhood; In everyone of you... Sassine El Nabbout MD.

It seems that the fever of evolution has attacked everyone… being as you are, is a mental retardation… you must be like the others… following the mode… doing strictly like them… with no more creation… Now you can walk outside and see many girls and boys… they are all similar… same noses, lips, breasts, hair color… It’s a prototype… created by someone and diffused by the media… the style of beauty… and if you are not like this dumb style, you are not beautiful… you are not sexy or attracting all the boys and girls in the street… Be like that and even the elders will run behind you… you are the beauty… everyone wants you… that’s how you can feel confidence… Being you is disgusting… as you are created by god is really disgusting… “Really god doesn’t understand how you can be beautiful!”… It seems that you and your lover, your family, your friends understand more than god in beauty… “He made us like that to be sad from how we look like”… “He is really unfair”… “Why her-his lips are more be...

Photo By Reuters While someone’s are paying billions of dollars to give "democracy" to the countries under evolution, I suggest that they give them something to eat before...

Kobayat National Reserve, Akkar, North Lebanon Sassine El Nabbout Photo The snow was here, covering everything... But who said "no way"... Life is just full of ways... And the most beautiful way is the one of love... I believe that every born from the pure is beautiful... There is no other way to be beautiful more than what you are seeing now... No one had wears like that... even the greatest kings... I wish that my heart is just like one of these flowers... Like that i know i will make someone happy, even if my life is just some days... Sassine El Nabbout MD.

There is a story of two friends who were walking through a desert.At a certain point of the journey they had an argument, and onefriend slapped the other one right across the face. The one who gotslapped was very hurt, but without saying anything, wrote in the sand: "Today my closest friend slapped me?." The two friends kept on walking until they found an oasis, wherethey decided to go into the water. The one, who had been slapped,got stuck in the mire and started drowning, but his friend savedhim.After the friend recovered from near drowning, he carved outon a stone: " Today my closest friend Saved My Life." The friend who had slapped and saved his best friend asked him,"After I hurt you, you wrote in the sand and now, you write on astone, why?" The other friend replied: "When someone hurts us, we should write it down in sand where winds of forgiveness can erase it away. But,when someone does something good for us, we must engrave it instone where no...

“The world now has a record 793 billionaires, up 15 percent from a year ago, with a rising number in India, Russia, Brazil and the Middle East as well as more women, Forbes magazine said on Thursday”. Reuters So what do I have to say? Alleluia?!... One hundred more billionaires & more than five billions poor? What is that comedy? One billion, two, fifty! Then what? They are not our gods… neither their money is… What will that change? Will that protect them against death? They will die as we will… a wonderful ceremony on the cemetery will change nothing… the presence or absence of all the presidents of the globe will not make a value for afterlife… Maybe their money can buy for them an eternal respirator, but not a soul… Maybe their money will buy other’s respect, but not love… So what? Will their money allow them to eat tomatoes, that grew on the mountain dew in the lost island of the pacific?… Will their money give them all the jewels on earth?... no one needs jewels to live as th...

Cedars Majesty Kobayat National Reserve Akkar, North Lebanon Sassine El Nabbout Photo

One day they run away, fast… fearful… without a goodbye… even without one word… They left thinking that being far will delete the past, and construct a new future… Yes they left, but they didn’t forget… Every moment was still written in their heart… Simply they couldn’t… they separate as a body, but not as a soul… Yes, they were still feeling near… even that they were alone… They thought they are far, but they were still following each other by prayers and love… Their thoughts were hiding the real feelings… How do I know that?!... I saw them… When they heard each other, they didn’t stop crying…

In Southeast Asia a virus that kills chickens is now also killing people. The race is on to keep the bird flu from ravaging the world. Little Ngoan was buried behind her parents' hut three weeks ago. Her grave, a bulky concrete tomb like others dotting the Vietnamese countryside, rests on high ground between a fishpond and yellow-green rice fields. At one end her family laid out her cherished possessions: a doll's chair, a collection of shells, plastic sandals. They painted her tomb powder blue. While Ngoan's parents are off helping with the rice harvest, other relatives share their memories. "She was so small, just ten years old," says her grandmother, sitting on a hammock. "She was very gentle and a good student. If you look at her older sister"—the 17-year-old hangs back shyly—"you can imagine what she was like." Ngoan's grandfather, silent with grief, lights a stick of incense at her grave. The loss of a beloved child has hit this famil...

Avian influenza and food safety27 February 2006 -- WHO Director-General Dr LEE Jong-wook reconfirmed today that when poultry products are safely handled and properly cooked, humans are not at risk of becoming infected with the H5N1 virus through food. Although the virus is known to have infected 173 people, not one of these cases has been linked to the consumption of properly cooked poultry or poultry products. www.who.int

National Geographic The H5N1 strain of avian influenza, first identified in China, has reached nearby France where in the past week two dead ducks were diagnosed as carrying the virus. The British government now says that bird flu is likely to arrive in the country. English legend says that a terrible evil will befall the kingdom if the Tower of London loses its ravens, which have lived at the landmark for more than 300 years. "The legend goes back to the early part of Charles II's reign," said the Tower's raven master, Derrick Coyle, who looks after the birds. King Charles II, who reigned from 1660 to 1685, decreed that at least six ravens should always be kept at the 11th-century fortress that sits on the River Thames. The Tower, one of Europe's top tourist attractions, also houses the Crown Jewels. Coyle, 61, says the ravens have been confined for both their own safety and that of the nation. The Tower's current resident ravens—Baldrick, Branwen, Gwyllum, H...

Many climate scientists already predict that less rain will fall annually in parts of Africa within 50 years due to global warming. Now new research suggests that even a small decrease in rainfall on the continent could cause a drastic reduction in river water, the lifeblood for rural populations in Africa. A decrease in water availability could occur across about 25 percent of the continent, according to the new study. Hardest hit would be areas in northwestern and southern Africa, with some of the most serious effects striking large areas of Botswana and South Africa. Geologists Maarten de Wit and Jacek Stankiewicz of the University of Cape Town in South Africa conducted the research. Their findings appear in the current edition of the online journal Science Express. To predict future rainfall, the scientists compared 21 of what they consider to be the best climate change models developed by research teams around the world. On average, the models forecast a 10 to 20 percent drop in r...

Kobayat National Reserve, Akkar Sassine El Nabbout Photo

Dr Hicham Mansour, son of the “Miyyeh w Miyyeh”; grew with the famous olive trees of the south of Lebanon; in a wild peacefull nature that is the main source of his beautiful art.I invite you to visit his webpages and see mainly his paints and e-arts; without missing his extreme love to the national legend “Fairuz” and the writer of the Fifth Wind Land. http://www.artist.fictioncity.com http://www.lebanon.thechurchzone.com Enjoy