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Thought these pics were one flavor of Sufi. Some may instead be one flavor of Hindu, not sure. Maybe they're not sure either LOL.

"A chillum, or chilam, is a straight conical pipe with end-to-end channel,
traditionally made of clay and used since at least the 18th century by
wandering Hindu monks, known as sadhus. More recently, it has also seen use in
sacraments by Rastafarians in Jamaica."

Click through to the link for enlargements and more pix.

Patti Smith: "I'm not Sufi but i'll give it a whirl"




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AR's flavor of Sufi could probably be described as a bit more genteel, as in
this next vid featuring his music...







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If you're at all Sufi, you no doubt enjoyed how they
snuck the star-and-crescent into the Miracle Worker vid...





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Ha! I was not paying attention before to the board with list of services are provided by Dr. Trick.
"Make men's pennis strong!" - I think this is allusion to Richards. It would help him stop whining about Mickey who strongly offended him 40 or 20 years ago



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Ha! I was not paying attention before to the board with list of services are provided by Dr. Trick.
"Make men's pennis strong!" - I think this is allusion to Richards. It would help him stop whining about Mickey who strongly offended him 40 or 20 years ago

Are you talking about how Jagger started this whole feud? When he, at the exact
same time he was throwing Anita a bone, was writing "You're a faggy little leather
boy, with a smaller piece of stick".

Nobody doubts anymore, do they, that Jagger fukked Anita to start off this whole
mess? Who fuks their best friend's wife? What a scumbag!



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You may or may not know AR Rahman's next much-hyped production
in Bollywood is entitled "Rockstar". Some songs have leaked now
and the easter egg is that all guitars on these tracks are by
Dave Stewart's protege Orianthi. Have been wondering if Orianthi
is more than just a flash in the pan and these tracks suggest
"Yes!". It is one thing to trod the well-worn trails of Classic
Rockville, but quite another to find your way through the
unfamiliar chords and time signatures of Bollywood. So now we
know, if whats-his-face gets his walking papers from SuperHeavy,
who his replacement on guitar will be.







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Them men wearing bone beads, a reminder of one's mortality, like Keith's ring.

The Stoner family a few houses away had a yard sale today. For two dollars each,
bought mint NWA greatest hits, Pearl Jam riot act, and a special edition Pink CD + DVD.
But the piece d'resistance, for fifty cents, a toy tiger around whose neck one of the
Stoners had at some point wrapped a broken old bone bead necklace.



An omen that SuperHeavy is not quite as dead as it seems?

God willing! Enjoy your weekend!






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His name is Mick, Mick Jagger.

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Ha! I was not paying attention before to the board with list of services are provided by Dr. Trick.
"Make men's pennis strong!" - I think this is allusion to Richards. It would help him stop whining about Mickey who strongly offended him 40 or 20 years ago

His name is Mick, Mick Jagger. Rhymes with Dr Trick...

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Ha! I was not paying attention before to the board with list of services are provided by Dr. Trick.
"Make men's pennis strong!" - I think this is allusion to Richards. It would help him stop whining about Mickey who strongly offended him 40 or 20 years ago

Are you talking about how Jagger started this whole feud? When he, at the exact
same time he was throwing Anita a bone, was writing "You're a faggy little leather
boy, with a smaller piece of stick".

Nobody doubts anymore, do they, that Jagger fukked Anita to start off this whole
mess? Who fuks their best friend's wife? What a scumbag!

Totally true.

However, doesn't say much for Keith to be riding on MJ's coattails for 40 years and then come out to slam him in a book. Not that cool if the Anita episode was the motive.

Plus, didn't Keith carry-on with Marianne as well?

Miracle Worker is a big hit in Japan, it went 53-9 this week:

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It's Mick's biggest hit in Japan so far, Stones included.

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Miracle Worker is a big hit in Japan, it went 53-9 this week:

[www.billboard.com]

It's Mick's biggest hit in Japan so far, Stones included.

can that be true...stones have never had a song higher than number 9 in Japan?

has the album been released in India yet, and if so, how is it doing with AR Rahman's popularity there.

Don't know about India, but at least they exclusively released a CD-single there.
Maybe they also released SuperHeavy in Peru, as Jagger seems to be in Lima now.
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I've listened to the SH album 4 or 5 only but am now seriously starting to dig it.... nice one, Mick. Thank you for the music!

Saturday night, Dave and Joss did a nice re-working of Here Comes the Rain Again
on German TV. By special decree, Joss's leopard print dress will be inducted into
the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame later this week.

(Unfortunately, that is not AR on keyboards)







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So SuperHeavy has turned into a new Eurythmics now with Joss Stone replacing Annie Lennox? How convenient!

I recently named my Ping Pong paddle 'Super Heavy' in honor of MPJ.
My serve did not get better but there you have it

Picture to come


Come What May

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So SuperHeavy has turned into a new Eurythmics now with Joss Stone replacing Annie Lennox? How convenient!

SuperHeavy is #2 in the German charts, Mick did a lot of promotion here. There is no need for Dave and Joss to promote SuperHeavy again and again.

There was no SuperHeavy live act at "WettenDass...?", it was a performance by Joss and Dave, some relatively unknown artists in Germany. But nearly everyone knows The Eurythmics.

So Joss and Dave did make use of this event to promote Joss Stones "LP1" and the "The Blackbird Diaries" done by Dave Stewart.

Everybody plays their own stage role in their own marketing campaign, all together they play for Universal ...

Let's Walk The [www.highwire-therollingstones.de]



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Dave Stewart's Ghost the Musical (coming to Broadway April 2012) has been
nominated for an amazing 13 categories in the 2011 UK Theatre Awards.

Voting is now open for a limited period in all categories. To cast your votes
just go to [westend.broadwayworld.com] and make your choices.

I have never understood this urge among popstars to write musicals (ABBA, The Who and others). Maybe the next step will be "Rolling Stones" the musical, written by Mick Jagger and Benny Andersson?

Excerpted from The Hindu, yesterday...

[www.thehindu.com]



The latter days of September were an important time for AR Rahman. No, scratch
that. They would have been an important time for AR Rahman had he not been
ushered into cinema, nearly twenty years go, with a gilt-edged invitation from
one of our most celebrated filmmakers; had he not won a National Award for that
stratospherically successful score; had he not, like no film composer before or
since, straddled the chasm that cleaved the musical ethos of the northern and
southern halves of the country; had he not gone on to sell millions upon
millions of albums; had he not ventured outside Indian cinema and scored for
international theatrical productions and Hollywood films and come away clutching
Grammies and Oscars; had he not become the musician sought out to add a splash
of showmanship to sombre occasions like White House state dinners and Nobel
Peace Prize concerts.

The real Rahman, I suspect, is emphatically unconcerned — about the initial
reactions to “SuperHeavy”, about the furiously multiplied expectations from
“Rockstar” that no earthly album can possibly fulfil (though early raves from
fans suggest that the portals to heaven have been breached), and about what the
month of September means to his career. This lack of concern is partly a
function of the Sufi-Zen calm that the composer wears like a second skin.
But it is also a fact that his career has been — and continues to be, like no
one else's — strikingly impervious to hits and flops and how we complain about
the music when it comes out and how we sigh, time and again, that he's lost his
magic. It appears that in his case — and only his case — we have united in a
countrywide pact to look forward, to the ways he can delight us; and not
backward, on the ways he's disappointed us. This has never happened before with
an Indian composer.

Excerpted:

Music Review: Joss Stone - The Best of Joss Stone: 2003-2009
By Jordan Richardson, BLOGCRITICS.ORG
Published Friday, October 7, 2011

Stone grew into the public consciousness at the age of 16 with her 2003 debut,
The Soul Sessions. The album is gold-certified and features such hits as her
"Fell In Love With a Boy," her sassy rendering of the White Stripes' "Fell In
Love With a Girl." The Soul Sessions was made with the support of such soul
legends as Betty Wright and Timmy Thomas.

In 2004, Stone's second studio album dropped. Mind, Body & Soul represented a
progression into the song-writing arena. Her velvety smooth touch on tracks like
"Right To Be Wrong" and "Spoiled" paid off in spades as the record went platinum.

Also game to go platinum was the 2007 record Introducing.Joss Stone. This
reached second on the Billboard Top 200 and included tracks like "Bruised But
Not Broken" and "Tell Me 'Bout It."

Colour Me Free, her fourth, hit 10th on the Top 200 and featured "Stalemate" and
"Free Me" as singles. Her newest record, 2011's LP1, was released on her own
Stone'd Records.

Also along for this soulful ride is Stone's cover of Nat King Cole's "L-O-V-E."
She cuts a sly rendition, gliding with a sexy coo over a groove that's both a
throwback and a wink forward.

Stone's extraordinary vocal range, one that effortlessly glides from a
smouldering contralto to a crystalline mezza-soprano, is the vital spark of
these hits. As expressive and hip as the numbers are, they'd be nothing without
her dexterity. She plays things smartly, too, and resists the urge to overdo
it. Instead, Stone frequently settles into a groove and rides it out through the
song's duration.

Fans of Joss Stone will probably have no use for this compilation, but those
looking to get on board will do well to pick it up. At just 24, there's an awful
lot to come from this incredible talent and The Best of Joss Stone: 2003-2009
is just the beginning.

DS gets to romp in bed with Greek legend Anna Vissi, in support
of still more new music from The Mighty Dave...







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it's all about fusion, but of course you knew that already...

The Superheavy Elements

Dr M. Gupta
Manipal University
 
The Superheavy Elements
 
The superheavy elements (SHE) are traditionally considered to be those that lie above element 103 (Lawrencium, Lr), the last of the actinides. Starting with Rutherfordium (Rf), element 104, these elements are sometimes referred to as the super-transactinides. Collectively, they represent the very top end of the Periodic Table of Elements and a study of their properties is intrinsically linked to an understanding of the physics and chemistry at the limit of stability in mass and charge. The limitation on the number of chemical elements possible remains a long standing question.

Due to the rapid increase of the repulsive Coulomb forces between the protons, the number of chemical elements is limited by fission. This macroscopic behaviour is governed by shell effects, without which the nuclear chart may end near Element 106 (Seaborgium, Sg). There is evidence to suggest that nuclei can survive beyond the macroscopic limit, far into the trans-uranium region, where the necessary balance between the nuclear force and the Coulomb force is achieved only through shell stabilisation. SHE are hypothesised to exist near the next (predicted) double shell closure above Lead where they have may have surprisingly long half-lives, maybe even on the order of millions of years. This postulate has fuelled vigorous research in the field, thereby earning it the reputation of being a search for the next “magic” shell, a Holy Grail of contemporary physics. On the way to this region of extra stability, deformed regions exhibiting stronger binding to varying degree are also suggested.

Over the past decades, different theories have been put forward in an attempt to uncover the physics of this elusive mass region. Microscopic-Macroscopic (MM) theories traditionally involve a number of parameters and assume prior knowledge of densities and single particle potentials around the mass region of interest. They predict the next “magic” shell at Z=114 and N=184. Both non-relativistic (e.g. Skyrme-Hartree Fock-Bogliubov) theory and relativistic microscopic mean field models (RMF) predict probable closures at Z=114 and 120. The important spin-orbit (s-o) term is incorporated manually in the non-relativistic theories whereas it emerges naturally within the relativistic formalism. RMF theory utilises a smaller number of parameters which are obtained through a chi-square fit to the ground state properties of doubly magic and a few open shell spherical nuclei. Taking into account pairing effects, relativistic theory predicts additional shell closures around Z~108-110; N~162 and possibly N~172 apart from the ones at N=184 and Z=114. Interestingly, it is seen that predictions of new “magic” numbers depend on the combination of both N and Z.

With the high density of states expected around the Fermi surface of these extremely heavy nuclei, theories provide a sensitive probe of the physics of the region. Equally importantly, experimentally derived nuclear structure is a requirement for comparison with theory. Since the known shell-stabilised trans-Rutherfordium nuclides exhibit alpha emission as the preferred mode of decay, the experimental quantities available for comparison are alpha decay Q-values and their associated half-lives. A cursory examination of the systematics of the region reveals evidence of greater stability around N~162 ( e.g. through the decay of the nuclide 277112 measured at Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung (GSI), Darmstadt, Germany and in the region around N~172 ( e.g. through the decay of the 287,288115 nuclides measured at the Flerov Laboratory of Nuclear Reactions (FLNR) at the Joint Institute of Nuclear Research (JINR), Dubna, Russia). Whereas N=184 is yet to be reached, the emerging experimental support is encouraging. Currently, elements up to Z=118 have been artificially synthesised and efforts are on to create Z=120 in the laboratory. Most recently, alpha decay chains assigned to the parents 293,294117 have been reported from Dubna. The most neutron rich element synthesised is still about 7 neutrons away from the “magic” N=184 .

All of the heaviest elements beyond plutonium are artificially produced in heavy–ion reactions, mostly by complete fusion involving the amalgamation of two heavy species. The resulting neutron deficient isotopes are created through neutron evaporation followed by successive alpha decays from the compound system, until the chains end with a fissioning nucleus. For each step in neutron evaporation, there is a strong fission competition which increases greatly for the heaviest systems making them highly fissile. The survival probability of the compound nucleus (CN) is on the order of 10 -2 to 10 -3 per evaporation step. The hindrance to fusion progressively limits the cross section and quasi-fission (QF) becomes very important. It has been suggested that QF could account for over 90% of the hindrance to fusion. The role of such mechanisms needs to be better understood.

Assuming the CN is formed, daughter products are identified by genetic correlations and simultaneous lifetime measurements. With decreasing alpha decay half-lives of less than a second and down to microseconds and steeply diminishing cross-sections for every additional proton, heavy- and superheavy element research represents physics with ‘single atoms’, a fact that imposes exacting constraints on the experimental method.

The heaviest elements are synthesised in accelerator based experiments with extremely high “in-flight” separation efficiencies ensuring that a single event of interest is separated from ~10 10-10 11 in-beam products. With the heavy–ion accelerators available at present, beam intensities of around 5x10 12 ions/s can be delivered on a target of about 10 18/cm 2. Under these conditions typical production rates are about one atom per week and a single experimental run could take months to complete.

Depending on the beam-target combination employed, two broadly defined categories of reaction mechanisms are in use. “Cold” fusion reactions, following the emission of one or two neutrons from a “cold” system, use Lead or bismuth targets with appropriate projectiles. The reaction products are typically created via successive alpha-decays ending by spontaneous fission (SF) in the region of the known elements. Their identification is facilitated through “alpha-alpha”, or parent-daughter correlations. Cold fusion reactions have been used at GSI to produce Elements 107 to 112. A reasonable estimate of the limit of cold fusion experiments comes from the measurement of a single isotope of Element 113 which was synthesised at RIKEN, Japan with the extremely small production cross-section on the order of Femto-barns.

“Hot” fusion, following the evaporation of 3 to 5 neutrons, has been used successfully to produce the more neutron rich species ranging from Rutherfordium to Element 118. Unlike “cold” fusion, these decay chains end in unknown regions presenting additional challenges to the conclusive identification of the nuclides especially in the absence of elemental or isotopic signatures. The Elements 113 to 118 have been produced with “hot” fusion at FLNR using actinide targets from uranium to californium with beams of the extremely rare isotope - 48Ca. To connect the emerging “Dubna island” to the known region remains a challenging task for the future.

The limit of “hot” fusion may be reached short of arriving at the proposed “magic” region around N=184. Extremely neutron rich rare ion beams at very high intensities may be required to reach the heaviest species. “Hot” fusion experiments have demonstrated that there is an increase in stability with increasing neutron number. Next generation accelerators could greatly assist in uncovering the mysteries of new and more neutron rich regions of stability.
The use of “doubly magic” projectiles such as Lead and 48Ca in the complete fusion of heavy ions deserves special mention. Theoretical investigations have shown that doubly magic nuclei keep their spherical shape until rather late into the process of amalgamation between projectile and compound nucleus. As a consequence, there is no dynamic heating and the cold formation of the mononuclear system is facilitated.

The 48Ca projectile is uniquely suited. Apart from being a doubly magic nucleus with the associated advantages, it provides one of the most n-rich beams available. Among other remarkable features, the 48Ca data show higher production cross sections than expected and follow a completely different systematic which is not completely understood. Surprisingly large cross-sections (~ 0.5 to 5 pb) for the synthesis of spherical SHE around Z=114 have been observed. Recently, the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), USA, has undertaken a comprehensive and systematic study of fusion evaporation reactions in an attempt to understand the mechanisms at play.

Apart from the many formidable challenges present in the artificial synthesis of the heaviest elements, once created, their chemistry and subsequent placement in the Periodic Table cannot be taken for granted. With an increasing number of nucleons, relativistic effects may influence the ordering of atomic orbitals and may play a progressively important role in defining the chemical properties of a given element. Verifying through independent chemical studies if Element 112 belongs in Group 12 remains a hot topic. However, in order to submit themselves to chemical studies, the nuclides must have half-lives of at least a few seconds. All the observed isotopes of elements between Meitnerium (Mt, Z=109) and Röentgenium (Rg, Z=111) are too short lived. Chemical studies have been carried out for some Dubnium (Db, Z=105), Sg and Hassium (Hs, Z=108) isotopes and for the longer lived 283112.

The future of heavy element research will include the development of accelerators providing intense projectile beams together with the evolution of new and more precise measuring techniques including the study of atomic properties. For instance, chemical investigations with single atoms are envisaged using “SHIPTRAP”, an ion trap behind SHIP (Separator for Heavy Ion reaction Products) at GSI. The on-line availability of MASHA (Mass Analyser of Superheavy Atoms) at JINR will also greatly assist in making crucial mass measurements which are currently unavailable.

The heaviest element deemed discovered to date is Element 112 by the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC). As is the custom, GSI being the laboratory credited with its discovery, proposed the name "Copernicium" with chemical symbol "Cn". The name and symbol have been accepted by IUPAC, the latter having been announced in February 2010.

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Are we up for 44 more pages of SuperHeavy?

No.

It's not really 44 page of SuperHeavy though. There's a sizable amount of promoting Damian, Joss, Dave, and sometimes A.R. and odd moments of anger directed at Mick for sleeping with Anita.