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October 2014
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The most stunning thing about my Caucasus trip was ... the Caucasus. The mountainside is definitely the most impressive one after the Andes, I find. Shadows and light change rapidly so that after every bend you can see new picture-perfect hills and rocks and on (and saying this: I'm actually more of a Sea person ...). You just have to go - take a cab from Yerevan to Goris f.e. - it will well show you what I mean.
This upcoming October will have 31 days in which I, plan to reconstruct my newly built room by using only hand made pyrotechnics and bombs. Few said it’s dangerous, few ignored me what so ever, but how Doris day said in her song “Whatever will be, will be”. - The reconstructor.
The feeling you call confusion is a big to-do that’s created in your mind when you have all kinds of conflicting thoughts (for example, do it, don’t do it, take a chance, why fix what’s not broken?) and you seriously entertain each of those as if they are helpful or important. I am just so tired of trying to get thru every day. I seem to swing from being very self aware and appreciative for what I have. To then going to despair about everything. I either over simplify things or over complicate things.
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Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind. - William Shakespeare
If thou had a chance to visit the wedding? Yes No
Well, apparently the viral belief that a Mayan prophecy pinpointed today as the world's expiration date did end up stirring up a fair bit of unwarranted hysteria. The Mayan connection "was a misconception from the very beginning," says Dr. John Carlson, director of the Center for Archaeoastronomy. Misinterpretation of the Mesoamerican Long Count calendar was the basis for a popular belief that a cataclysm would take place on December 21, 2012. December 21, 2012 was simply the day that the calendar went to the next b'ak'tun, at Long Count 13.0.0.0.0. The date on which the calendar will go to the next piktun (a complete series of 20 b'ak'tuns), at Long Count 1.0.0.0.0.0, will be on October 13, 4772. Got any more questions y’all?
Thick mud and yuck, six inches of water, no problem.
As it appears, Zalgiris celebrates its seventieth anniversary this year. Mister tall man Sabonis will be dedicated to the hall of fame and his t-shirts hanged somewhere high above where nobody can touch it. Pretty fun occasion I would assume.
White noise is a type of noise that is produced by combining sounds of all different frequencies together. If you took all of the imaginable tones that a human can hear and combined them together, you would have white noise.
Stress is what you feel when you react to pressure from others or from yourself. Pressure can come from anywhere, including school, work, activities, friends, and family members. You can also feel stress from the pressure of wanting to get good grades or wanting to feel like you belong. Stress comes in many forms and everyone feels stress.
The adjective "white" is used to describe this type of noise because of the way white light works. White light is light that is made up of all of the different colors (frequencies) of light combined together (a prism or a rainbow separates white light back into its component colors). In the same way, white noise is a combination of all of the different frequencies of sound. You can think of white noise as 20,000 tones all playing at the same time.
Swamps of unconscious beliefs struggled amongst their notorious hygiene. Two women approached an airplane of love and fell on their fashionable knees. That was the sign of war ending in Kuwait, 1991. Frogs and several lambs were shocked of such disharmony and lack of confidence in today’s telephone marketing. I was told that if then lights are off in one building, it means that only 21 people are misbehaving. Police is useless in making fresh, cleanly baked glass. By the end of 1992 the tribal village of New Guinea were hunting parronts, white carbon monoxide and local shrimp.
Because white noise contains all frequencies, it is frequently used to mask other sounds. If you are in a hotel and voices from the room next-door are leaking into your room, you might turn on a fan to drown out the voices. The fan produces a good approximation of white noise. Why does that work? Why does white noise drown out voices?
P.S. Never believe in such stories. - traveler, George Melagelis, 1995
Iceland consumes more Coca Cola per capita than any other country
If I eat myself would I become twice as big or dissapear completely?
I consider myself opening a class in a University. Thinking 101: Syllabus: Think Think Think Think Think Midterm! Think Think Think Think Final exam!
Here is one way to think about it. Let's say two people are talking at the same time. Your brain can normally "pick out" one of the two voices and actually listen to it and understand it. If three people are talking simultaneously, your brain can probably still pick out one voice. However, if 1,000 people are talking simultaneously, there is no way that your brain can pick out one voice. It turns out that 1,000 people talking together sounds a lot like white noise. So when you turn on a fan to create white noise, you are essentially creating a source of 1,000 voices. The voice next-door makes it 1,001 voices, and your brain can't pick it out any more.
Best Fiction sellers of the Month
EDGE OF ETERNITY, by Ken Follett. (Dutton.) Five interrelated families from five countries grapple with the events of the 1960s through the 1980s; Book 3 of the Century Trilogy. PERSONAL, by Lee Child. (Delacorte.) Jack Reacher, a former military cop, helps the State Department and the C.I.A. stop a sniper who has targeted a G8 summit. SOMEWHERE SAFE WITH SOMEBODY GOOD, by Jan Karon. (Putnam.) The Mitford character Father Tim finds friends and family wrestling with difficulties. BONES NEVER LIE, by Kathy Reichs. (Bantam.) A child murderer who eluded capture years ago has resurfaced, giving the forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan another chance to stop her.
ALL THE LIGHT WE CANNOT SEE, by Anthony Doerr. (Scribner.) The lives of a blind French girl and a gadget-obsessed German boy before and during World War II. THE BONE CLOCKS, by David Mitchell. (Random House.) Stories from the medieval Swiss Alps to the 19th-century Australian bush to a hotel in Shanghai to Manhattan in the near future are stitched together. THE PAYING GUESTS, by Sarah Waters. (Riverhead.) In London in 1922, a widow and her daughter take in tenants who upend their lives. THE CHILDREN ACT, by Ian McEwan. (Nan A. Talese/ Doubleday.) A judge wrestles with a challenging case and a crisis in her marriage. THE SECRET PLACE, by Tana French. (Viking.) Detectives Stephen Moran and Antoinette Conway investigate a murder on the grounds of a girls’ school in the Dublin suburbs. THE GOLDFINCH, by Donna Tartt. (Little, Brown.) A painting becomes a boy’s prize, guilt and burden. FESTIVE IN DEATH, by J. D. Robb. (Putnam.) At Christmas, Lt. Eve Dallas investigates the murder of a narcissistic personal trainer; by Nora Roberts, writing pseudonymously. TO DWELL IN DARKNESS, by Deborah Crombie. (Morrow/HarperCollins.) London Detective Superintendent Duncan Kincaid and his wife, Gemma James, investigate a deadly bombing at St. Pancras Station.
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BIG LITTLE LIES, by Liane Moriarty. (Amy Einhorn/Putnam.) Who will end up dead, and how, when three mothers with children in the same school become friends? COLORLESS TSUKURU TAZAKI AND HIS YEARS OF PILGRIMAGE, by Haruki Murakami. (Knopf.) A young man’s difficult coming-of-age. ADULTERY, by Paulo Coelho. (Knopf.) A married journalist risks everything when she embarks on an affair; by the Brazilian writer, the author of “The Alchemist.” .
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Franz Kline American Abstract Expressionist Franz Kline is best known for large black and white paintings bearing abstract motifs set down with strident confidence. He started out as a realist with a fluent style that he perfected during an academic training that encouraged him to admire Old Masters such as Rembrandt. But after settling in New York and meeting Willem de Kooning, he began to evolve his signature abstract approach. By the end of his life he had achieved immense international recognition, and his unusual approach to gestural abstraction was beginning to influence the ideas of many Minimalists. Franz Kline is most famous for his black and white abstractions, which have been likened variously to New York's cityscape, the landscape of his childhood home in rural Pennsylvania, and Japanese calligraphy. The poet and curator Frank O'Hara saw Kline as the quintessential 'action painter', and Kline's black and white paintings certainly helped establish gestural abstraction as an important tendency within Abstract Expressionism. Yet Kline saw his method less as a means to express himself than as a way to create a physical engagement with the viewer. The powerful forms of his motifs, and their impression of velocity, were intended to translate into an experience of structure and presence which the viewer could almost palpably feel. Kline's reluctance to attribute hidden meanings to his pictures was important in recommending his work to a later generation of Minimalist sculptors such as Donald Judd and Richard Serra.
Abstract Expresionists (1940 - 1950): Willem de Kooning Arshile Gorky Hans Hofmann Franz Kline Lee Krasner Robert Motherwell Barnett Newman Jackson Pollock Mark Rothko Clyfford Still *more on Abstract expresionism in the next news paper
Franz Kline, Mahoning, 1956. Oil and paper collage on canvas, 80 × 100 in. (203.2 × 254 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Franz Kline, his quotes on painting art in American Abstract Expressionism ***** - I paint not the things I see but the feelings they arouse in me. - People sometimes think I take a white canvas and paint a black sign on it, but this is - If I feel a painting I’m working on doesn’t have imagery or emotion, I paint it out and work over it, until it does. - If you’re a painter, you are not alone. There’s no way to be alone. You think and you care and you’re with all the people who care, including the young people who don’t know they do yet. Tomlin in his late paintings knew this, Jackson Pollock always knew it… - You don’t paint the way someone, by observing his life, thinks you have to paint, you paint the way you have to, in order to give. That’s life itself, and someone will look and say it is the product of knowing, but it has nothing to do with knowing, it has to do with giving. The question about knowing will naturally be wrong. When you’ve finished giving, the look surprises you (yourself, fh) as anyone else. Some painters talking about painting are like a lot of kids dancing at a prom. An hour later you are too shy to get out on the floor. I think that if you use long lines, they become – what could they be? The only thing they could be is either highways or architecture or bridges. Some of the pictures I work on a long time and they look as if I’ve knocked them out, you know, and there are other pictures that come off right away. The immediacy can be accomplished in a picture that’s been worked on for a long time just as well as if it’s been done rapidly, you see. But I don’t find that any of these things prove anything really.
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comics: The public library is a phenomena that to this day I still can’t get over. Free knowledge, for anyone. Literally, anyone. I can’t think of an equivalent other than going to a clothing store, “checking out” an outfit, wearing the outfit and returning it in four weeks, free of charge. Except books are so much better than clothes. Recently I’ve been on a huge reading kick, checking out anything I can get my hands on in the library. (I’m writing a guest post on ZenHabits to detail some of the best stuff I’ve found, so more on that later.) I’ve found that no matter what I read, the act of reading every day has helped me in nearly every aspect of my life. Here are a few of my favorite ways that reading has improved my quality of life, and will definitely improve yours. If you think that you don’t have enough time to start reading, you’re wrong. How do I know? Because we make time for the things that are important to us. How much TV do you watch? How much time do you spend trawling the web? You could easily replace reading with those activities.
The rise of Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS), the Islamist militant group that has seized a chunk of land stretching from northern Syria to central Iraq, has struck fear into the hearts of leaders around the world. The group began in 2004 as al Qaeda in Iraq, before rebranding as ISIS two years later. It was an ally of – and had similarities with -- Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda: both were radical anti-Western militant groups devoted to establishing an independent Islamic state in the region. But ISIS – unlike al Qaeda, which disowned the group in early 2014 – has proven to be more brutal and more effective at controlling territory it has seized. The group seized control of Mosul, Iraq’s second-largest city, this summer. But its power base is in Raqqa, eastern Syria, where ISIS is now in control of more than half of Syria’s oil assets -along with a number of oil fields in Iraq -- according to energy expert Luay al-Khateeb. Al-Khateeb says the oil is finding its way to the black market and could be making ISIS up to $3 million each day. More than 11,000 people have traveled from abroad to fight in Syria and Iraq, officials suggest, although some have gone back home again. They align themselves with different factions, and sometimes change loyalties as groups merge, disband or change allegiances. Naturally, countries with bigger Muslim populations tend to send the largest number of fighters. But some nations with relatively small Muslim populations have sent a disproportionately large number of jihadis. Finland, Ireland and Australia have the highest number of foreign fighters per capita, although Finnish security officials say a minority of Finns in their count went for humanitarian reasons. oday, ISIS and al-Qaeda compete for influence over Islamist extremist groups around the world. Some experts believe ISIS may overtake al-Qaeda as the most influential group in this area globally.
Yiddish is the historical language of the Ashkenazi Jews. It originated during the 9th century in Central Europe, providing the pre-existing language of the nascent Ashkenazi community with an extensive Germanic based vocabulary. Yiddish is written with a fully vocalized alphabet based on the Hebrew script.
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