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Título: Time – intangible tangible –
Autor: Kitajima, Chisa
Orientador: Wiley III, Robert
Vilarigues, Márcia
Data de Defesa: 2011
Editora: Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia
Resumo: Time--how do we understand this notion? According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, time is “the measured or measurable period during which an action, process, or condition exists or continues,” and also “a non spatial continuum that is measured in terms of events which succeed one another from past through present to future.” This explanation is very general. Everyone knows about “time,” and it has been interpreted and understood in various fields. As time passes, human memory fades little by little. Sometimes, we delete unneeded memories as we see fit, or perhaps under certain circumstances we will remember certain memories more vividly. The human life and its relationship to time are ephemeral and therefore nothing can take their place from a philosophical point of view. Consequently, each and every moment is a brightly shining and precious entity. From my point of view, the feeling of being in love is a perfect example of the idea of this ephemeral relationship to time. With the passage of time feelings might grow deeper and deeper, or on the other hand, the memory of love may fade for better or worse. For me, the color red is the most suitable color for expressing time. Red in many objects is a fugitive color under environmental influences. I suppose that I consider red as a symbol of time by subjective methods within my own sensations. As such, conducting science experiments on fading are essential for understanding objectively. Through a process of objective experiments on fading and subjective experiments in art making, I set out to make the intangible tangible, and thereby substantiate my feelings.
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The Sncewips Heritage Museum showcases all that the sqilxw people from this area have to offer. There are excellent opportunities for everyone to get involved through the Museum, and we encourage you to pay a visit and share your ideas and feedback.

Westbank First Nation has worked hard to ensure that there are laws, policies, and procedures in place to manage and maintain a heritage museum, ensuring that our heritage, and that of the greater Okanagan Nation, can be preserved for future generations.

Following best museum practice, we have a trained professional staff dedicated to collecting, preserving, restoring, and interpreting archival, art, and artefact collections. As a professional heritage organization, we are also committed to the repatriation of syilx artefacts held by other museums.

The Sncewips Heritage Museum is the foundation for our own Centre of Excellence. We are here to ensure that there is a protected place for our culture and heritage, with our main goal being to engage the public and represent sqilxw people from our perspective.

There is no individual drop-in fee, but we do charge to facilitate group tours. Please take the time to sign our guest book on your way out.

We believe in the power of our own voice to inspire, educate, and transform. We are dedicated to collecting, preserving, restoring, and interpreting art and artifact collections that reflect the heritage and natural history of the syilx/Okanagan people.

We will benefit our people and the broader public through research, exhibitions, and public programming and will strive to make our artefact collections accessible to our members and regional, national, and international audiences. We will collaborate with other education bodies and organizations with similar interests.


DUNKIRK: Nolan’s Most Ambitious Film To Date

DUNKIRK: Nolan's Most Ambitious Film To Date

The Dunkirk Evacuation has grown to become one of the most debated moments of the Second World War in Britain. Although viewed unanimously at the time as a failure, with Prime Minister Winston Churchill calling it a “colossal military disaster” that shouldn’t be attributed as a victory, many British politicians in the years that followed grew a pride in the country’s “Dunkirk Spirit”- the ability to stand strong when impossible odds are stacked in the country’s favour.

Any historian will tell you that Dunkirk was viewed as a disaster, yet its been oddly reappropriated as a victory in many quarters, and even something that helps shape the British national identity – it’s no surprise that right wing columnists and politicians in the UK are comparing the apparent “success” at evacuating Dunkirk without allied help as a comparison to the monumental task of leaving the European Union.

This line of thinking is thrown in the water by director Christopher Nolan’s terrific anti-war picture Dunkirk, which thankfully divorces itself from any political interpretations to bluntly show the horrors that unfolded, from three differing, yet equally stomach churning, perspectives. Nobody will proudly reminisce or wax lyrical about the evacuations after seeing this.

Forget everything you know about Christopher Nolan

Nolan’s reputation as a pragmatic humanist, a director who is often accused of being cold despite the blatant emotion inherent in his narratives, means that any jingoistic nationalism associated with the evacuations in some quarters is entirely absent. Instead, we have a bleak, intense film that frequently subverts the notion of what it truly means to be a patriot, mostly through visual, visceral storytelling that removes the expository, “mansplaining” dialogue he was parodied for consistently producing by many of his fiercest critics.

DUNKIRK: Nolan's Most Ambitious Film To Date
source: Warner Bros.

If Nolan has become an unfair source of parody following the divisive Dark Knight Rises and Interstellar (both of which this writer unashamedly loves, for the record), by stripping away the dialogue and focusing on the intensity of war through visual story telling alone, he’s served a reminder that he is one of this century’s leading directors of blockbuster spectacle – all with a formal inventiveness no other director would be given the free reign to create by a major studio.

Nolan’s reputation for mind-bending narratives is surprisingly well served by the structure of this triptych. Here, we spend a week in the lives of soldiers being evacuated from Dunkirk beach (led by quietly impressive newcomer Fionn Whitehead, whose silently mortified glare depicts the horror of being a soldier with a subtlety unaccustomed to the surrounding blockbuster spectacle) the day leading up to the evacuations on a private boat that has agreed to help the navy with rescuing soldiers (led by a typically brilliant Mark Rylance), and the hour before the mass evacuations in the air, where three spitfire pilots (led by Tom Hardy) encounter a Luftwaffe plane.

DUNKIRK: Nolan's Most Ambitious Film To Date
source: Warner Bros

Despite the differences in time as these separate narratives unfold, Nolan frequently cuts between the three – an ingenious move that actually helps to build tension, as elements from the disparate narrative strands start increasingly bleeding into one another, leading to a relentless sense of dread. We know the outcome of the Dunkirk evacuations, yet here, Nolan has devised a structure plotted so meticulously, it manages to leave you on the edge of the seat and breathe new life in to the stale WWII movie formula in a manner that feels effortless to this master director.

Despite the presence of many recognisable faces in the ensemble, with stellar performances from supporting performers including Cillian Murphy, Kenneth Brannagh and an effective debut performance from pop star Harry Styles, they are all overshadowed by Nolan’s directorial ambition, which prioritises realism over dialogue and character development.

He has cited Mad Max: Fury Road as a major influence, due to how the story was told through action, keeping dialogue to a strict, bare bones minimum. Although the narrative strand set at sea does include moving character moments and believable development, the scenes of battle on land and in air are driven forward by the foreboding sense of dread.

Blockbuster thrills that will give you PTSD

It’s so foreboding, in fact, that when the soldiers do start speaking with each other, it’s defined by a xenophobic paranoia that renders each and every one of them untrustworthy to the other, and although Nolan’s film is generally anti-war and divorced from any political implications, this fact could easily be interpreted as a criticism of the current wave of populist nationalism, even if the film has been 25 years in the making.

Nolan’s streamlined approach to storytelling shows the events viewed entirely through the eyes of soldiers, who only see Nazis (simply labelled “the enemy” in order to simplify what is already universally known) as existential forces of doom swooping through the air, the high pitched wailing of their advancing aircraft sounding every bit as fear mongering as the iconic scores for Psycho or Jaws.

If he’s been frequently criticised for favouring dialogue that over-explains the plot, here Nolan explains nothing; we’re thrown into a hellish situation, with only the most basic information, and it feels scarily unpredictable, despite the events being well known to every audience member.

It’s the fact these events are well known that has presumably led to the less restrictive PG-13/12A ratings on both sides of the Atlantic, as even without a fixation on gory detail, this is a visceral, disturbing film, and probably the closest a studio tentpole will ever get to replicating the anxiety-inducing despair of Elem Klimov’s Come and See, a film which succeeded in enveloping the audience in the nightmarish PTSD of its young lead character.

DUNKIRK: Nolan's Most Ambitious Film To Date
source: Warner Bros

This may sound relentlessly bleak, but as a work of cinematic spectacle, Nolan’s ambition is worth seeing on the big screen, and will definitely make you overjoyed that this kind of expensive, ambitious filmmaking can still be produced by a major studio. I was fortunate enough to see the film projected in 70mm (I haven’t yet made the pilgrimage to see it in the intended format, IMAX 70mm), and I was left completely spellbound, despite the format being commonly associated with sweeping epics like Lawrence of Arabia, here Nolan’s camera frequently moves in to claustrophobic spaces, using the widescreen nature of the format to envelop us in the perilous situation, leaving the audience as hopeless at survival as the characters onscreen.

Equal credit should also go to Hans Zimmer, whose score (in particular the recurring motif of the ticking clock) only adds to the overall feeling of dread. He apparently made the unusual move of writing the score before the film started shooting, and you definitely feel that Nolan timed many of the most powerful sequences to fit the most heart pounding moments of the score.

Dunkirk: Conclusion

Dunkirk isn’t a typical Hollywood blockbuster, let alone a typical mainstream war film. It is deeply ambiguous and divorced from politics, leaving the audience with the same desperation as the characters onscreen. You won’t want to sign up to the army after watching this tale of heroism in a state of existential crisis, but you will definitely want to head back to the cinema again, as Nolan has revitalised his approach to filmmaking, and the results are nothing less than awe inspiring.

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Dunkirk is out now in the UK and US. All international release dates are here

Alistair is a 23 year old former journalism student from the sun-soaked city of Leeds, England, who has recently moved down to Cambridge. After spending two decades as “King of the North”, it was time for a change and a move down south to work at a local newspaper followed.

He has been writing about film since the start of 2014. If you like his writing, his work can also be found on Gay Essential, CutPrintFilm, Cinemole (his WordPress blog) and over on his Letterboxd and YouTube pages. Because of his work for Film Inquiry, he is also a recognised member of GALECA, the Gay & Lesbian Entertainment Critics’ Association.

  • chrischance

    Totally gripping. I watched it with a packed house of middle-aged and elderly couples. Not a sound from any of them and no visits to the toilets! When it ended everyone just sat there as the credits rolled. It felt like everyone was nursing memories of Dads and uncles as we all eventually got up and went to the toilets on the way out.
    A magnificent movie.
    Anyway, back to work now on my current project, which is a WW1 story: BENEATH THE POPPY FIELDS. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/f27b616bcf703e45fd02a15747d1cc1430a0e46f2838d5f692776d5726214eeb.jpg


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Our oldest known ancestor had a huge mouth and no anus

Our oldest known ancestor had a huge mouth and no anus

London: A microscopic, bag-like sea creature with a large mouth and no anus, which lived about 540 million years ago, could be our earliest known ancestor, say researchers.

Named Saccorhytus, after the sack-like features created by its elliptical body and large mouth, the species is new to science and was identified from microfossils found in China.

According to a study, published in the journal Nature, Saccorhytus was the common ancestor of a huge range of species, and the earliest step yet discovered on the evolutionary path that eventually led to humans, hundreds of millions of years later.

Saccorhytus was about a millimetre in size, and probably lived between grains of sand on the seabed.

It is thought to be the most primitive example of a so-called “deuterostome” — a broad biological category that encompasses a number of sub-groups, including the vertebrates.

“We think that as an early deuterostome, this may represent the primitive beginnings of a very diverse range of species, including ourselves,” said one of the researchers Simon Conway Morris, Professor of Evolutionary Palaeobiology at University of Cambridge.

“To the naked eye, the fossils we studied look like tiny black grains, but under the microscope the level of detail is jaw-dropping. All deuterostomes had a common ancestor, and we think that is what we are looking at here,” Conway Morris added.

Most other early deuterostome groups are from about 510 to 520 million years ago, when they had already begun to diversify into not just the vertebrates, but the sea squirts, echinoderms (animals such as starfish and sea urchins) and hemichordates (a group including things like acorn worms).

The Saccorhytus microfossils were found in Shaanxi Province, in central China, and pre-date all other known deuterostomes.

By isolating the fossils from the surrounding rock, and then studying them both under an electron microscope and using a CT scan, the team were able to build up a picture of how Saccorhytus might have looked and lived.

This revealed features and characteristics consistent with current assumptions about primitive deuterostomes.

The study suggests that its body was bilaterally symmetrical — a characteristic inherited by many of its descendants, including humans — and was covered with a thin, relatively flexible skin.

This in turn suggests that it had some sort of musculature, leading the researchers to conclude that it could have made contractile movements, and got around by wriggling.

Perhaps its most striking feature, however, was its rather primitive means of eating food and then dispensing with the resulting waste.

Saccorhytus had a large mouth, relative to the rest of its body, and probably ate by engulfing food particles, or even other creatures.

Its features were spectacularly preserved in the fossil record — and intriguingly, the researchers were unable to find any evidence that the animal had an anus.

“If that was the case, then any waste material would simply have been taken out back through the mouth, which from our perspective sounds rather unappealing,” Conway Morris said.


How Can Stress Management Benefit The Productivity Of A Company?

The word ‘stress’ is very common these days in the workplace. Due to cutthroat competition and various other factors employees tend to fall prey to stress and they get impaired both physically and mentally. This causes a deficiency of quality in the workflow and significant decrease in job satisfaction.

Stress related to occupation has its roots from piled up responsibilities and immense pressure during the working hours. The problem appears when there is a different alignment of job-related consequences from one’s skills, knowledge, and expectations. In fact, the employees carry the pressure mentally to their home and the situation gets even more aggravated.

Effects of stress in the workplace

Too much work pressure and overwhelming experiences might end up awarding substantial stress to the employees. The effects of stress in the workplace are:

• Psychological anomalies

Prolonged exposure to stress can make an employee suffer from several physiological disorders that have psychological causes. Due to extreme pressure or other unwanted circumstances, the employee is unable to give his or her best output and often commits mistakes.

• Medical conditions

Stress can give birth to various long term physiological problems like stroke, cardiovascular disease, backaches, stomach ulcers, etc.

• Behavioral anomalies

A well-behaved person might change under utter stress. Aggression, volatile creativity, attention deficiency, rudeness, ill decision making and even substance abuse can be the consequences which can destroy one’s career.

Necessity of stress management

Stress is considered to be an epidemic that slowly eats the productivity of the employees making the workforce ineffective. This is why a good workplace psychologist is necessary to handle the stress related problems with precision. The advantages of stress management are:

1. The employer can improve the motivational factors in the office by appointing an expert in this segment. The devastating effects of stress can be eliminated very easily from the workplace.

2. A workplace psychologist can bring down stress and keep up the productivity quality and quantity of the entire team single-handedly. The performance will increase with proper communication between colleagues.

3. High stress might build unethical issues in the working environment. Conflicts might appear due to the difference in thoughts and ideologies. Managing stress can decrease the possibilities of these problems to a large extent.

4. Stress management will ensure smooth ongoing of the process with efficient approaches. This will also build the spirit of teamwork among the employees. Hence, the employer can meet his or her deadlines without any hassle.

All pros and no cons

An eminent psychologist can save a lot of resources by conducting the stress management programs in the workplace. Eventually, the team will thrive and as they are they are the most valuable asset, the company will be benefitted too.

How To Clean Out Your Favourite Place; The Closet

The closet has historically been at the wrong end of jokes many times. ‘Skeletons in the closet’ is a phrase that has been in use for around a hundred of years. For many of us who regularly use the closet, cleaning it out is a sad phase of life. It usually becomes the haven to store our best and most comfortable outfits and also the place to hide items not to be found easily by siblings and parents. It is highly recommended, nonetheless, to clean out the closet, literally, at least every couple of months so that your gorgeous clothes will not be affected.

Figure Out Your Favorites and the Frequently Used Ones

If you plan on donating some of your clothes to the second-hand store or a needy society, then make sure to have a pile demarcated. The easiest way to sort through your clothes with efficiency is to make a list of clothes that you wear frequently. Work clothes, and your favourite clothes that you wear everywhere should be listed down here. If you want to change your style, then take this opportunity to figure out which style to adopt as well. If your cleaning job goes smoothly then you will even have the possibility of patting yourself on the back for a good job in self storage service.

Start the Purge

Make sure to steel yourself so that sentimentality does not get in the way of your cleaning job, check this quality mini storage box. Firstly, take out the clothes that will not fit you as there is no point in keeping them anyway. Then sort out the ones that are too worn out to be worn anywhere. Then take the ones that do not suit your tastes and styles anymore as you will not wear them again no matter what you tell yourself. Pick out the ones that you actually want to give away to charity. If you feel like there are still too many clothes in your closet then you can always go for the self storage service.

In the last phase of the closet cleaning, you have to double check that you only have what you can actually wear. Take this opportunity to start your own fashion show. Grabbing family members with good fashion sense would actually help you in this phase. Start trying on the clothes that you have decided to keep with you and check with the family member whether it actually suits you. If there are clothes that do not look good on your or does not fit you as it should, thrown them onto the charity pile immediately.

A List Of Effects That Environmental Pollution Has On Humans

The blame to the damage caused to the environment has to be solely on humans. If it wasn’t for the humans, there will be no environmental pollution at all. However, we are all to blame for this mess and the damage that we have created. We can all contributed towards environmental pollution even in a little. The damage we cause to the environment will reflect back on us. It is the time that we make a difference. There are many ways that humans destroy the nature. Killing animals and using animal parts to create products, deforestation, release of harmful chemicals in to the nature and the list goes on and on. Even though humans are very excited about destroying the planet, they rarely contribute towards saving the planet. It is up to us to make that ‘little’ in to a force which will make a difference to save our mother nature.

Harmful amounts of UV rays in sunlight

The ozone layer prevents the entry of UV rays in to the surface of the earth but with the release of harmful gases in to the atmosphere. The ozone layer has depleted. The depletion of the ozone layer is a result of the gases which contains chlorine and bromine. Sunlight can be healthy in little amount because it provides vitamin D in our bodies but with the increased amounts of UV rays in sunlight, it can be harmful. To provide safety from these harmful UV rays in to your house, you can use shade covers tweed heads which cuts out the UV rays.

Natural disasters

It is a little known fact that some of the natural disasters are caused due to the action of humans. Landslides are caused due to disforestation and the mangroves growing in the beaches can minimize the actions of tsunami waves but these mangroves are getting destroyed due to human activities. We should all get to know what we are responsible of and do our best to reverse things that we have done to the nature that is why you need to make sure your home is secure.

Reduction of clean air to breath

With the increased release of harmful gases and carbons in to the atmosphere by factories and vehicles, the quality of the air that we breathe in has decreased significantly. The air that we breathe in are making us weaker day by day and the only people who can reverse these effects are humans. Planting more and more trees will help because the trees absorb carbon dioxide in the air and gives out fresh oxygen. Plants thereby, increases the quality of the air that we breathe in.

Training Your Employees

Your employees re one of your most valuable assets. Without them no company, organisation or business would be able to function or perform or be successful. As an employer it is your duty to ensure that they are well looked after and that they are given no reason to leave. Looking after them means providing them with fair pay, rewarding and at the very least celebrating their successes and allowing them the opportunity to grow and learn throughout their time with you.

Motivate them

One of the easiest ways to have employees reach or have job satisfaction involves allowing them to stay motivated and feel as though they were reaching targets and achieving something. Keep your employees motivated by setting those targets. These can be daily, weekly, monthly and even quarterly or yearly targets that they will be working towards fulfilling. It is always best to set a combination of short and long term targets and goals so that there are small victories and large milestones to reach – this will prolong their motivation and desire to work. Host weekly team meetings or department meetings where you touch base on what is happening, what has been accomplished and provide everyone with the opportunity to voice their thought – this too will help with the motivation. Other subtle ways in which to keep employees motivated is to maintain a positive attitude and encourage a work culture that is about praise and constructive criticism and above all supporting your fellow work mates. Click here if you want to hear more from a professional advisor that will motivate you.

Help them grow

While motivation is key to allowing employees to improve their skills and become better and learn more, they need to be provided with the opportunities to do so. If they feel that they are not receiving adequate training and that they have no scope to grow within your company they may look elsewhere for opportunities that will allow them to do so. For instance you could try running a small business bootcamp for your employees over a weekend.

A small business bootcamp will give them the chance to work on their team leader skills, their customer relation skills and you can organise activities that will address any area you want them to improve in be it problem solving, brainstorming or even resource allocation.

Send them out

You could also provide the opportunity for employees to take part in training programmes at schools and other corporations or even within your own and attend conferences where they can learn and network – they will definitely appreciate these opportunities and will be likely to give back.


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Experimental Design: From User Studies to Psychophysics

As computers proliferate and as the field of computer graphics matures, it has become increasingly important for computer scientists to understand how users perceive and interpret computer graphics. Experimental Design: From User Studies to Psychophysics is an accessible introduction to psychological experiments and experimental design, covering the major components in the design, execution, and analysis of perceptual studies.

The book begins with an introduction to the concepts central to designing and understanding experiments, including developing a research question, setting conditions and controls, and balancing specificity with generality. The book then explores in detail a number of types of experimental tasks: free description, rating scales, forced-choice, specialized multiple choice, and real-world tasks as well as physiological studies. It discusses the advantages and disadvantages of each type and provides examples of that type of experiment from the authors’ own work. The book also covers stimulus-related issues, including popular stimulus resources. It concludes with a thorough examination of statistical techniques for analyzing results, including methods specific to individual tasks.

  1. Presents a wide range of experimental tasks, describing what types of questions each task can answer

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  5. Contains an in-depth statistics section that focuses on relevant tests for various task categories

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Help for Couples Drifting Apart – How to Build a Stronger Marriage and Stay Connected

Marriage will undoubtedly change from year-to-year. At the point when a couple initially strolls down the walkway they can anticipate that things will be ruddy for a period. Henceforth, the special night stage we as a whole find out about. It’s the time when a couple praises their adoration and finds numerous new and energizing things about each other. That stage gradually transforms into genuine and the little weights that effect each wedded couple will start to fly up. For a few couples, drifting apart amid this time feels unavoidable. The passionate association that was once there begins to feel weaker and unless something is done, the marriage will in the end be so stressed it will be in danger of going into disrepair. In case you’re starting to feel some separation amongst you and your companion now, you need to take measures to transform it.

When you begin to feel that something is moving inside your relationship you need to decide why it’s happened. In the event that there is an issue that both of you are continually butting heads on, attempt and discover an answer that works for you both. Trade off is that the focal point of each effective marriage and it’s something that you will need to bring into your relationship as well.

Possibly the issue is more about you two just not making each other a need in life. This happens in some cases without the couple even completely acknowledging it. Watching out for every one of the things that are required to keep a home and family running easily can be tedious and something will by and large need to endure. At times, that something is the marriage and unless one or the two accomplices attempts to cure that, the relationship will keep on suffering rather than prosper.

In the event that you need to build a stronger marriage you need to invest the energy and effort to get that going. You should concentrate some consideration every last day on your accomplice. That must be continuous time when you two can discuss every one of the current issues. That might be a talk about what’s happening at work or who will be moving the kids to ball hone. Furthermore, you additionally need to endeavor to discuss your association with each other. Unless that is sustained with the best possible consideration it merits, it’s going to definitely come up short. Converse with your accomplice about setting aside a few minutes for both of you to burn through alone together. It will have a colossal effect and you’ll feel substantially less like you’re drifting apart.

Couples can love each other but then wind up drifting apart and set out toward a separation. There are steps you can take, with or without the guide of your companion to recover your marriage into the adoring spot it used to be.

You can spare your marriage and rebuild it into a more connected, fulfilling relationship.


Some New Insights Into Picking Out Core Elements For Local News

The app, including the school version, comes with an option to get meanings of words, and also connotations. A student while reading an English text in Devnagari or Gujarati or Bengali script can easily go to the 'meanings' button to get the meaning of big words. According to Nag, a major advantage of transliteration is that it helps in learning the language. He says many of the teachers in Madhya Pradesh schools where the app is being used have come out with favourable reports on the improvement in English among the children. "Students in Tier II or III towns know a smattering of English. This app will help them improve their knowledge of English and also encourage them to read the language seamlessly," he added. The app for students provides short stories, especially on the Panchatantra and Mahabharata, for Classes 4, 5, 6. "The students are able to relate to it. We also have questions and answers at the bottom to help the students." The app, while providing the transliterated version on the right, also keeps the original text on the left, so that the reader can go back to the original if needed. ข่าวด่วน This is aimed to make the student or reader more fluent in the language, he added. Nag says many students in Madhya Pradesh where the app for reading English is in use have confirmed that their knowledge of the language has improved.

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This guzzle write-up will explain the concept of using compatible numbers for quick and easy arithmetic calculations. It burdens the brain and increases levels of stress and anxiety. ✦ Children today watch television for long hours. Just try to focus on your breathing. Have a look, learn, and keep practising. The ideal time for practising it is early in the morning. Read on to know more. It is just like the stomach muscles are sucked in. If you need to know the formula and technique for calculating trapezoid area, then you have landed on the right page.

but if I don't work, I don't eat," said insurance agent Adolfo Diaz, 38, trying to reach work despite fewer buses in the western city of San Cristobal where sentiment is strong against President Nicolas Maduro. Venezuela's opposition Democratic Unity coalition called for a 12-hour shutdown as part of escalating protests after authorities scuttled its push for a referendum to recall ไทยรัฐ หวย เดลิ นิ ว ส์ 16 3 53 the OPEC nation's unpopular socialist leader. The government vowed to take over any companies heeding the strike, sending inspectors to ensure they were open. It posted intelligence agents outside Venezuela's main private company, beer and food conglomerate Polar, which was working normally. Facing arrest if they encouraged the strike, business leaders said it was up to individual workers to decide. "We are going to look for the big company owners, the leaders of (business group) Fedecamaras if they insist on a coup d'etat like in 2002," said Diosdado Cabello, the ruling Socialist Party's second in command, recalling a short-lived putsch against Maduro's predecessor Hugo Chavez. In the capital Caracas, where hundreds of thousands of demonstrators attended anti-Maduro rallies on Wednesday, traffic was lighter than normal for a weekday and some schools were virtually empty as parents kept children home. But businesses such as bakeries and pharmacies were open, with customary lines of shoppers seeking basics like bread and flour which have gone scarce in Venezuela's economic crisis. "I support the opposition, but I don't agree with this strike," said Eduardo Martinez, 51, unemployed, standing near a bakery line in eastern Caracas. EARN OR PROTEST? Cafe owner Alfonso Brito, 54, said he opposed Maduro but could not afford to close for the day, especially given losses on Wednesday during the rallies.

This article will help you understand these concepts better. When you're reading narratives, you feel like you are witnessing a play. Remember, writing and performing comedy is a serious business, so take it seriously. It is a part of the natural dimensions of most biological as well as non-biological entities on this planet. This guzzle article takes a closer look at the basic devices used to measure angles. It seems like people have forgotten the importance of reading; if that's the case, it calls for a revision of the same. Calculating error percentage is a requisite task in any kind of scientific analysis. My series of bath games for kids to play on-line, starts with the on-line addition worksheets with pictures. It can yet be used constructively to teach adults about the importance of insurance, financial education, and how to maintain a healthy lifestyle. Most of the subjects we are taught in school are based on a simple concept - Read, Synthesize, analyse and Process information.


More North Korea sanctions? They haven't worked so far

North Korea may be preparing 6th nuclear test
North Korea may be preparing 6th nuclear test

Related: China is squeezing North Korea -- but not too hard

The sanctions forbid the import and export of all weapons big and small -- from small arms to warships.

Pyongyang has been bypassing the weapons restrictions for years through a variety of front companies and international facilitators, paying for them in either cash or gold, according to a U.N. report released last month.

Coal, minerals and fuel

Coal is North Korea's main export and a key source of foreign currency for its fragile economy.

The U.N. has banned member states from buying North Korean coal, along with other commodities such as iron ore, gold and rare earth minerals.

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Most of North Korea's coal was exported to China, its only big ally on the global stage. But in February, China announced plans to halt all coal imports from its neighbor for the rest of 2017.

U.N. members are also banned from supplying North Korea with aviation, jet and rocket fuel.

Related: How North Korea makes its money

Luxury goods

The sanctions have also taken aim at the lifestyle of North Korea's ruling elite, banning the sale of luxury goods such as yachts, high-end jewelry and expensive rugs.

"As a result, North Korea's ruling elite, who have been living large while impoverishing their people, will pay a price," said Susan Rice, who was U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations at the time, in 2013.

Related: Air China is selling flights to North Korea again

Financial services

The U.N. Security Council has tried for years to cut off funding for North Korea's nuclear and missiles programs.

Severing its ties to the global banking system has been a key priority. As a result, all members of the U.N., and companies based in their territory, are banned from providing financial services to North Korea.

The U.N. report released last month found evidence that North Korea is using networks of front companies to gain access to global banks.

Related: North Korean banks kicked out of global messaging network

Travel ban

Those involved in North Korea's nuclear program or working on behalf of them are denied entry to U.N. member states. Other officials identified as helping to dodge the sanctions regime are also banned.

North Korean diplomats and government officials must be expelled, and U.N. members are also required to reduce the number of staff they employ through diplomatic missions in North Korea.

Weak enforcement

But the sanctions are only as effective as the willingness and ability of governments to implement them.

The U.N. has no independent means to enforce the restrictions, and many countries often lack the resources or political motivation to do so.

"Implementation remains insufficient and highly inconsistent," the recent U.N. report on North Korea warned.

The governments of some countries -- including the U.S., Japan and European Union member states -- have imposed further measures against North Korea.

Last year, for example, the U.S. Treasury Department designated North Korea a "primary money laundering concern" in order to prohibit American banks from doing business with front companies working on behalf of North Korean financial institutions.

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6 Ways to Teach Your Child to be Active for Life

These days, kids are spending more hours sitting at a computer then being active outside. Inactivity can have a dramatic impact on your child's health. Teach your kids the importance of staying active and healthy with these six tips.

Encourage physically strenuous activity. Young children should accumulate at least one hour of daily physical activity--running, jumping, climbing, lifting, pedaling vigorously, etc. Motivate your kids by your own example and play games or do chores with them.

When your child plays with others, encourage games that will get all of the kids physically involved. Some group games involve a high level of activity, others are mostly waiting for turns and watching. Think of ways to adapt play to increase activity. For example, divide a large group into smaller groups so children can have more frequent turns.

You can be active indoors too. Try to turn learning activities into active opportunities. For example, when asking your child what he/she learned or read in school, ask them to act out the answer instead of just discussing it.

Explore new physical skills with your child. Children like to challenge themselves and try new things. As parents, we sometimes overprotect our children from this and hinder their exploration and development. Instead, encourage your children to practice challenging tasks.

It's easy to keep your child active, and it will help them become active and healthy adults. Chances are, it will be fun quality time spent together!

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Energy Blue Print
Scenarios for a future energy supply

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future investments in the power sector

It would require $ 9,800 billion in investment for the Energy [R]evolution scenario to become reality (through 2050, including investments for replacement after the economic lifetime of the plants) - approximately $ 5,872 billion or $ 147 billion per year more than in the Reference scenario ($ 3,928 billion). Under the Reference version, the levels of investment in conventional power plants adds up to almost 55% while approximately 45% would be invested in renewable energy and cogeneration until 2050.

Under the Energy [R]evolution scenario, however, North America would shift almost 95% of the entire investment towards renewables and cogeneration. Until 2030 the fossil fuel share of power sector investment would be focused mainly on combined heat and power plants. The average annual investment in the power sector under the Energy [R]evolution scenario between today and 2050 would be approximately $ 245 billion.

Because renewable energy has no fuel costs, however, the fuel cost savings in the Energy [R]evolution scenario reach a total of $ 5,775 billion, or $ 144.4 billion per year. The total fuel cost savings therefore would cover 98% of the total additional investments compared to the reference scenario. These renewable energy sources would then go on to produce electricity without any further fuel costs beyond 2050, while the costs for coal and gas will continue to be a burden on national economies.


A Short History of Kusadasi

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Even though not 100% for sure, it is believed that early settlements in Kusadasi were by the Lelegians and Carians who moved from the central Anatolia around the year 3000 BC. They established of a colony on the outskirts of Pilav Mountain in Kusadasi. Mild climate allowed the inhabitants to grow essential products such as olive, grape and figs for extracting oil or making wine and sweets on the fertile lands around the city.
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kusadasi history
In the 10th century BC 12 Ionian Cities -Samos, Khios, Miletos, Priene, Ephesus, Teos, Erythrai, Priena, Klazonemi, Lebedos, Phokaia, Colophon, Smyrna, were established and were known for the most developed cities of the age. The annual meeting place of the Ionian League, Panionian, was founded around Kusadasi; and the cities of Phygale, Marathesion and Neopolis were established within the borders of the city.
The city was invaded by Persians around the year 546 BC. In 200 BC Kusadasi and its environs were dominated by the Roman Empire. As the changes in climate caused serious earthquakes and changed the route of Caystros River, Ephesus was mostly destroyed and lost its prior importance. Byzantines now was forced to search for a new port and a new road that would be suitable for trading. Scala Nuova was the name of this new port which added a new trading centre to historical cities such as Ania, Melia, Phygale and Neopolis, that have created the early foundations of today's Kusadasi. By the 15th century, Scala Nuova was under the domination of the Venetian and Genoese sailors and traders who established consulates here.
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The advantageous position of Kusadasi at the end of the important trade roads such as the Silk Road -once held by Ephesus, influenced the development of the city as a centre of trade.
Kusadasi was ruled by the Ottoman Empire after 1413. During the reign of Ottomans, glorious new structures were built in Kusadasi Okuz Mehmet Pasa Caravanserai is the principal legacy of the Ottoman architecture in the city, and was built by the man of the same name, who was the vizier during the reigns of Sultan Ahmet I and Osman II. The fortress is gates and walls and many mosques in the centre of Kusadasi, as well as the citadel of the castle in Pigeon Island, were built in the Ottoman period, reflecting the architectural style of the era.

After the First World War, Kusadasi was invaded by the Greeks (1919). The city won a long struggle and in September 7th, 1922 and became a part of Turkish Republic.

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Historical Places in Kusadasi

Ephesuswas the capital of proconsular Asia, which was the western part of Asia Minor. It was colonized principally from Athens. In the time of the Romans it bore the title of "the first and greatest metropolis of Asia." Ephesus was famous for possessing the Temple of Diana, the chief shrine to this pagan god which was also considered one of the Seven Wonders of the World. The city was additionally known for building the largest outdoor theatre in the world, capable of containing 50,000 spectators. The theatre exhibited the fights of wild beasts and of men with beasts.
In Kusadasi you will find many daily tours to Ephesus or alternatively, Kusadasi-Selcuk minibuses will take you to the entrance of Ephesus, where you can buy a guide and explore the antique city on your own. Places to see are Temple of Artemis, Library of Celsus, Terrace Houses, Commercial Agora, the Theatre, The Arcadian Street, Baths of Scholastika, Baths of Varius, Balilika, Church of Saint John, Fountain of Trajan, Harbour Baths, Marble Way…

Below is a small selection of places to see in and around Ephesus.

Temple of Artemis

Considered one of the seven wonders of the ancient world, Ephesus' Temple of Artemis was dedicated to the goddess of the hunt. Only the foundation and one column remains of this temple which once measured 425 ft long, 220 ft wide and 60 ft high.
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Library of Celcus

Originally built in 115-25 A.D., this restored facade is a highlight of the ruins today. This style is believed to be the standard architectural form for Roman libraries. The interior measures 70 by 80 feet and held approximately 15,000 scrolls.
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Terrace Houses

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Commercial Agora

This market area is known as the "Square Agora" because of its dimensions 360 ft square. It arose in the Hellenistic period and was surrounded on all sides by arched shops about 40 ft deep. It is located next to the harbour and was the city's main commercial centre.
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Ephesus Theatre

Originally holding 25,000 people, this theatre was built in the Hellenistic period and was renovated by several Roman emperors. Designed for theatrical performances, later alterations allowed gladiatorial contests to be held here. Today, it welcomes artists from all over the world for unforgettable concerts (Elton John, Sting, The Scorpions, Joan Baez etc.) and operas and ballet.
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House of Virgin Mary

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The Seven Sleepers

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Sirince Village

While you are in Sirince, don’t forget to taste their home made wine sorts, which generates the main income of the little village.
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Beginner’s guide to kesterite (CZTS) solar cells

2012 (Part Three)

Spring is the time for the best research ideas; summer is the time for writing up the work; autumn is the time for peer-review and winter is time to reap the rewards. The bounty of the last few months:

The first publication written by my first PhD student (an iconic moment). Lee has spent a year making sense of both experiment and theory of tin sulfides towards applications in solar cells. One of his early findings was that the recently reported zinc-blende phase cannot exist (based on thermodynamic, crystallographic, computational and chemical grounds).

Attending the recent European Kesterite Workshop was inspiring: many groups across the continent working towards the common goal of low cost and sustainable solar energy.  The defect chemistry of the quaternary semiconductor Cu2ZnSnS4 (CZTS) is epic; in the latest chapter we have identified a number of defect complexes that are likely to impact the performance in CZTS solar cells.

When my long-time collaborator Russ Egdell visited Bath for a seminar last summer, we sat down to discuss our on-going projects. One issue he had was understanding why the material CuCrO2 adopted a peculiar orientation (015) when grown on Al2O3 substrates. With the aid of  crystal structure visualisation and a few back-of-the-envelope calculations we were able to explain it in a few hours. This nice paper is the result!

The first publication written by my second PhD student (another iconic moment). A first step towards systematically tuning the electronic properties of metal organic frameworks. From screening 24 compounds, five potential hybrid semiconductors were identified.


The Ethics of Leadership Search

With the growth we've experienced in the international schools sector, it should be no surprise that there is a concomitant increase in the number of leadership searches happening at any time. I find position descriptions fascinating (I admit to having a habit of reading loads of them...) on account of the questions generated from the challenges and opportunities named in the document. For instance, are there common patterns across a large number of schools, of which we should be aware? Or are there 'weak signals' to which we ought to pay attention, to see whether those signals grow stronger over the months to come?

I am concerned deeply about the ethics of leadership search, the more I read through all this documentation from around the world. The era of 'fake news' upon us is perhaps not coincidental. There are too many occasions when I know a handful of things about a particular school, but, whilst reading the position description for their next leader, I find myself faced with a different school. Call it "spin," call it what you will, it is concerning. To be sure, a school needs to persuade its next leader to consider the school by means of the position description, but do we (those reading the descriptions, with an eye to entering a search) spend adequate time in reflection and consideration of how the document is worded, relative to the intelligence available on the school?

Following are some questions we (at large, but especially aspiring heads) might pose whilst considering a position description as part of a leadership search:

(1) What psychological mechanisms do the authors employ, in terms of persuasion and influence? In other words, to what degree does the document make use of cognitive response theory, or the Elaboration Likelihood Model of persuasion? These are biases in the nature of the position description itself. They can be salubrious, or they can be deleterious.

(2) What are the epistemic credentials of each mechanism? For instance, when element X (financial status of the school, learning ecosystem, challenges, opportunities, etc.) is mentioned, does that element convey knowledge? Does it (reliably) impart true beliefs about the school and its community? What are the merits of the cognitive states it promotes or suppresses in the reader? In other words, how does it make you feel, and why is that? Time for careful reflection is paramount, ideally with a trusted 'other' (mentor, etc.).

(3) Via these mechanisms of influence and persuasion, what kind of state do the authors look to produce in the person reading it? For example, does the school envision leadership as a matter of getting a person into a state whereby s/he can be relied upon to behave in a certain way? Or is the school more interested in doing the right things for the right reasons, aware of counterfactual patterns that may be present in the community? To what extent should this kind of consideration regarding the desired end-state (that kind of leader the school seeks) guide the reader's response to query the search consultant, and with careful consideration, enter the early stages of a search?

Discourse and communication are powerful aesthetic features, to be sure, when it comes to influence and persuasion. The responsibility for evaluating the epistemic and ethical legitimacy of these features, including the epistemic and ethical legitimacy of engaging the emotions of potential candidates, rests with three groups: the board (the progenitor of the position description), the search consultant (the framer of culture and opportunity, involved to varying degrees in the presentation of the position description), and the candidate her/himself (the interpreter of the position description, with an eye to securing the position and leading the school).

Quite frankly, the responsibility is significant. In a world in which everything is hyper-this, and hyper-that, my concern is that proper reflection and questioning isn't given the energy it deserves. Note that I didn't say the 'time' it deserves. We can allocate our time all we want, but it is far trickier to allocate our energy; it is proper allocation of our energy that will enable closer scrutiny of position descriptions, allowing greater ethical considerations among all three groups mentioned earlier. A hurried search ("We are on a fast track to meet the school's desired deadline") is an important signal to which to pay careful attention, for instance. Can one truly allocate one's energy best in such a situation? And what might such a statement suggest about the mechanisms of influence and persuasion we might consider in that school's position description?

One often hears talk of the variances in quality among international and independent schools. For me, I wonder how we might improve that quality by paying closer attention to our own role in ascertaining quality, when it comes to considering the highest position of influence within the school community?

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Behringer and Hoetzl 1994 : The vision system for autonomous road vehicle guidance, which has been developed during the last years at the UniBwM, is currently being ported from 5 ton vans to a family sedan (Mercedes 500 SEL). The cruising speed of 120 km/h, which the system is designed for, requires a further maximal look-ahead distance for road and obstacle recognition. For achieving high robustness, it is necessary to estimate the camera pitch angle as an additional state parameter. In the video image, the mapped lane width is a useful cue for pitch angle estimation, when the real lane width is well known. Therefore, it is necessary to estimate the real lane width in the general case of an unknown and changing lane width.
In this paper an approach for simultaneous estimation of pitch angle and lane width from the road image is presented, both based on Kalman filtering. The pitch angle is modeled by a damped harmonic oscillator with a given frequency ω0, a time constant, and a pitch offset. For a change in the lane width, a linear dynamical model is assumed. The estimators are validated by numerical simulations. Evaluation of video scenes, shot from the sedan vehicle, show good results for pitch and lane width estimation.


The transudate

The transudate is the liquid accumulated in the serous cavities of the body due to impaired blood and lymph circulation (with increasing permeability of the blood vessels). For example, when venous stagnation, caused by heart failure, transudate appears in the cavities of the pleura, pericardium, abdominal cavity; violations circulation in the system of portal vein (liver cirrhosis) accompanied by the appearance of ascites (see). The transudate transparent, usually colorless (if there is no mixture of blood or bile pigments), contains up to 2-3% protein, salt, in centrifugate almost no cellular elements.
Unlike the exudate (see), transudate not accompanied by inflammation of the serous membranes, pain, temperature reaction, but it can become infected and then complicated by the development of pleurisy, peritonitis.


Book Review: “Descartes’ Bones”Reviews

Descartes' Bones

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Subtitled: A Skeletal History of the Conflict Between Faith and Reason

A New York Times Notable BookSixteen years after René Descartes’
death in Stockholm in 1650, a pious French ambassador exhumed the
remains of the controversial philosopher to transport them back to
Paris. Thus began a 350-year saga that saw Descartes’ bones traverse
a continent, passing between kings, philosophers, poets, and
Descartes’ bones also played a role in some of the most momentous
episodes in history, which are also part of the philosopher’s
and the earliest debates between reason and faith. Descartes’ Bones
rationalism that rages to this day.

Book Details:

Physical Description: 5.2″x7.9″x0.8″; 0.1 lb; 336 pages
Edition Info: Paperback; 2009-08-25

[dropcap style=”font-size: 60px; color: #9b9b9b;”] “D [/dropcap]escartes’ Bones,” written by Russell Shorto would not even get a second look from me if I saw it in a library on a bookshelf. Just the name screams “love novel.” If it weren’t for my aunt who had recommended the book to me, I would not have had the opportunity to read this intellectually written adventure story.
“Descartes’ Bones” is a suspenseful story about the conflict between faith and reason.
The title derives from the 17th century French philosopher Rene Descartes. He coined the phrase, “I think, therefore I am.”
If the highly regarded book and film “The DaVinci Code” was considered to be good, then this book is just as good. It contains similar aspects to the story and involves a thrilling adventure into some of the world’s greatest interests, the fight between reason and faith.
The historical book tells the story of Descartes and his rebellious beliefs and how he made sure to question everything, including his faith.
This ability to question everything that has been established as facts hundreds of years before him became contagious and eventually became known as an “atheist” in many countries until he ended up in the Netherlands, only because it is said that it was the friendliest place to live in all of Europe.
Descartes was a philosopher of modernity. This is because he recreated a whole new outlook of life for himself and many others who would be considered his followers. This angered many well-respected Catholic officials and it was not until after this death that the story takes a wild spin.
With Descartes creating trouble amongst the people in Europe, it is evident that their faith was questioned and this angered the Catholic officials. After Descartes’ lonely death far way from home in 1650, 16 years later, the French ambassador Hugues de Terlon secretly unearthed Descartes’ bones and transported them to France. This raised many questions as to why he would do such a thing, thus creating the storyline to “Descartes’ Bones.”
It would not be wise to spoil the story for anyone wishing to read such a great narrative detective-style book, trying to get to the bottom line of the location of Descartes’ bones, meanwhile discovering many secrets one would have never imagined.

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2016: labor of love [#StarsAndSymbols]

it takes 9 months to carry a human child. before the pregnancy reaches full term, there is a process that mother and baby must mutually undergo during which each passing interval is as conducive as it is crucial to a healthy delivery. from conception to labor, everyone has an idea of what it’s going to be, but one never truly knows until the infant comes forth in its big debut. funny how a debut can double as a grand finale. there’s a thin, thin line between the two, and it blurs. i don’t mean to trigger a contraction, but if you look down, you might be surprised to find how close you have come to that line.

as with the developmental stage of any creation, names can change from moment to moment, shifting the vibration of the still-gestating entity. even after it has been christened, the consciousness of the creator must ascend to a certain height in order to finally behold the essence of the precious life that is being fostered in the totality of its glory.

in numerology, the study of numbers as metaphysical symbols, the goal is reduce every amount to a single digit through the mathematic process of addition. for example, the number 39 would be broken down to 3+9. Since 3+9= 12, the next task is to add 1+2, which leaves us with a single digit sum of 3. Now that we’ve arrived at a single digit number, we can start to explore the characteristics inherent in this number, as each of the single digits have their own individual traits and connotations.

now, let’s practically apply this little numerology lesson, shall we? take this new year, 2016. 2+0+1+6 = … 9! That makes 2016 a year that vibrates in alignment with the number 9, the highest and final single digit number. what does it all mean you ask? it might be in our best interest go explore the symbolism of 9 in numerology.

number-9-on-ocean-floorsince 9 is the highest number [excluding, of course, double digits and beyond] there is a lofty quality associated with this symbol. imagine reaching the mountaintop and taking in the elevated view. even the air breathes differently up here. it’s not quite heaven, but it’s feels close enough to rub off on you and change your perspective from one of rugged individuality [in the vain of the number 1] to one of universal awareness. 9 is a heightened state of mind and the insights that one brings down to earth when aligned with this number are sure to be enlightening.

as 9 oversees everything from above, it relates to global affairs and matters that concern the masses. this number endows a respectable degree of leadership unto anyone who invokes it. because of this, popularity is an attribute of people [9 life paths], places [buildings with addresses that equal 9], and things [the year 2016] that resonate with this 9 energy.

as with the high stakes, “ready-to-pop” ninth month of pregnancy, the frequency of the number 9 is one of inspiring excitement. ruled by the action-packed planet mars, 9 is a zealous energy. when this number is in effect, the people of the world are motivated by the promise of big projects, especially if the endeavor is attached in some way to a humanitarian cause. speaking of attachment, the shadow side of 9 is its propensity to be aloof, ungrounded in the present reality, and disconnected from one on one relationships. just like the mother who could go into labor at any minute, there are simply bigger, more urgent concerns with which the number 9 concerns itself. usually those concerns are driven by visionary idealism and utopian desires. remember, too, that mars is known in the occult world as the warrior god, so it wouldn’t be farfetched this year to witness intensified strife on an international level. sometimes, it has to get worse before it gets better.

in the traditional tarot deck, the hermit [card 9]  follows strength [card 8]. after conquering our fears, weaknesses, and insecurities with strength [2015 = 8], this archetype comes to a place of inner confidence, assured spiritually by the all the tests it has passed. like the hermit card, 2016 might be the year during which you reflect on the past through a lens that has never been as wise and all-seeing as it is now. no matter how dark it was and no matter how dark it could be in the future, there is an inextinguishable fire inside of everyone that burns as a guide to illuminate the path to deliverance, stoked by the love of ancestors and dearly beloved family members who have passed in the past 9 years or so. in this immortal light, everything that was a mystery starts to make a whole lot more sense.

an assignment of sorts:

make a mental note everything of significance that you remember from 2008. better, write down a physical list. now take that list and notice how many of the major themes of your life in the present moment made themselves apparent way back then in 2008. finally, if any of those ‘themes’ are still unsettled, make a wish for and visualize your ideal resolution in 2016. think of these resolutions as mantras. how can you can claim them if you don’t name them?

if nothing from 2008 rings a bell, make a list instead of 9 unresolved issues from any period of time that you would like to finalize. wish, visualize, mantra, same as above.

2016 is the year to wrap up all loose ends to reach enlightenment. 2016 is the year to come to a conclusion, because every beginning requires an ending [which is just another beginning in disguise]. 2016 is the year to reveal the labor of love that has been growing in the faceless, yet fertile darkness, finally!

taking the first step: mars in aries [astroloco]

Being back home, I tend to forget how much walking I did when I lived in New York. I would walk at least 20 blocks on most days, to and from school, if not more. I don’t like to spend money if I don’t have to (food is a different story), especially with the ever-increasing MTA fare. I don’t typically exercise or “work out”, so walking is a form of physical activity that doesn’t feel like a task. I don’t mind it at all. Except on those days when I would be running late to class, walking fast and splinting my shins.

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I must consciously, consistently remind myself that I can still live actively when outside of the big city, even in Suburbia. I must not let myself be swallowed by my circumstances and setbacks. I must continue to push myself and focus on realizing the vision that is my life.

Mars in Aries gives us the strength, courage, and will power to conquer every challenge we encounter. We assert our personalities and defend our desires, with steadfast urgency. The goal is being true to who we are, as sovereign, original individuals. When other signs deliberate, Aries initiates, especially when traveling with the great warrior Mars.

No matter how long the road may look, there is great power in taking the first step. Speaking of steps, I have begun taking midday walks. It is a good way to maintain the pace I grew accustomed to in the city, not to mention a healthy habit. It seems easier to get out on bed in the morning when there is some sort of routine to anticipate daily.

For right now, I walk around the same development I grew up in. Walking these cul-de-sacs takes me right back to being 8 years old and all the moments I have shared with my family and my neighbors. One day, I will walk farther. I am starting small. One step at time. Like a newborn baby.

Home is where you are from, but not always where you belong. All I know is we will not be there forever. We are international. Universal, even.


20 terms

Modern Chemistry Chapter 2 Measurements and Calculations Vocabulary

scientific method
a set of particles or interacting components considered to be a distinct physical entity for the purpose of study
an explanation for some phenomenon that is based on observation, experimentation, and reasoning
something that has magnitude, size, or amount
Le Systéme International d'Unités, or the International System of Units, which is the measurement system that is accepted worldwide
derived unit
unit of measure that is a combination of other measurements
conversion factor
a ratio that is derived from the equality of two different units and that can be used to convert from one unit to the other
dimensional analysis
a mathematical technique for studying dimensions of physical quantities
the exactness of a measurement
percentage error
a figure that is calculated by subtracting the accepted value from the experimental value, dividing the difference by the accepted value, and then multiply it by 100
significant figures
scientific notation
a method of expressing a quantity as a number multiplied by 10 to the appropriate power
directly proportional
the relationship between two variables whose ration is a constant value
inversely proportional
the relationship between two variables whose product is constant


demons of yesterday and today (I)

For thousands of years people believed in the existence of evil, personified soon in different ways in a variety of types of demons and a full repertoire of chimeras greedy of human flesh and blood.

The Neo Romanticist literature achieved to exorcise, besides the cinema shortly after, the fear of the people to the ghosts and the supernatural matter, we are vaccinated against it to the point that vampires and werewolves today are no longer the monstrous terrifying creatures original but the handsome and naughty that warm adolescents up. For some time we have been exposed to controlled alien terror and interstellar phenomena doses, so we also must consider ourselves cured of this, but I do not want even to think, why we must to lose respect to violence.

The Sumerian voice AB.ZU (Akkadian Apsu) may well be the origin of the Greek “Abyssos”, the abyss beneath which was the ARALI, the world of the dead, the first hell of which we are aware, similar to primitive Greek Hades or the Jewish Sheol, a place where everything is languishing between the dust and shadows. In the Sumerian tradition, the dead enjoyed a different diet depending on the volume of offerings made by the family and living relatives, so those dead who had rich relatives alive, ate splendidly and regularly, while if the living relatives were poor maybe they ate only from time to time, but ultimately, as always, when there are no living relatives neither rich nor poor, the vast majority of the inhabitants of the underworld fed themselves just of ground, not as today in which, as we all know, the dead are herbivores.

Later, during the Babylonian period and thereafter the world without return was filled with forgotten gods and especially with demons, who paradoxically were escaping constantly for human martyrdom . Pazuzu the demon who made her film debut in the movie “The Omen” was actually a seemingly benign demon since he was in charge of driving the terrible female demon Lamashtu back to the underworld every time she leaked in order to, her specialty, to dine babies of mothers that tried to protect them invoking the Lama or Lamassu, a female creature of the God ENKI, sort of guardian angel who was the divine counterpart of this demoness.

Pazuzu holds the plaque where the Lamashtu is represented over the donkey (her symbol) into a boat crossing the abzu in the direction to the IRIGAL (the big city) ie the ARALI, the underworld.

In the bronze stands out among other things, the way a pig and a dog suck the breasts of the devil, actually a chimera, whose presence may perhaps be justified by the possible attacks on children on farms by these animals, accidents that, by negligence or some else, may have been frequent and could have been interpreted as a work of Lamashtu. In many cases, the unexplainable was blame of “the hand of an etemmu” or “the hand of the such  devil ” or even “the hand of the such god (or goddess)”.

Burying the dead was of utmost importance in ancient Mesopotamian more for fear than respect, however they saw the incineration as something repugnant which was deemed as a punishment and a curse. It is possible that exposure to vultures or other scavengers continued been practiced given the paucity of burials found, but die in the wilderness, alone, had a strongly negative connotation and was believed that a particular type of punisher devil, errant and disembodied, was that in which the unfortunates who were dying strayed, became .

To the Sumerians, apparently, the dead were little less than demons, as is evidenced by the similarity of the words for the phantasm and devil, GiDIN or GEDIM and UDUG (etemmu and utukku in Akkadian):

Enki Nudimmud

(AN).EN.KI.TI  “Enki gives the life”

I’ve always been more of Kramer than Oppenheim, until I discovered to Bottéro . I Like Bottéro because use to fill their publications with references, anecdotes and details to the point of turning , in my view, a mere translation commented in a nuanced description of a lost world and mentality at the borderline of history, is what Kramer did, both with their feet on the floor too maybe, if you like myths and fiction is much better Sitchin or the Bible, for example.

I always wondered where it comes from the name of the biblical god , ie I already knew that the word “Elohim” was somehow related to the Canaanite “El” or Akkadian “ilu “, I mean the unpronounceable name ” Yahweh ” the tetragrammaton ” IHVH ” and what a coincidence, Bottéro gives a clue, letting it falling, as who does not want the thing.

Yahweh is as we know, the god Jehová of most English speakers , also the Jah of weed smokers and the yahu of the terminations of Jewish’s names today, as Netanyahu, before readed Netanias, at least in Castilian . Truly the tetragrammaton is unpronounceable, because we do not know certainty where to insert the vowels between the consonants, which were the only letters the ancient Hebrews wrote as many other peoples did since the Phoenicians invented the alphabet . It is true that the particle “Yah” or ” Yahu ” actually is readed in Hebrew just as it sounds when it is at the end of a name but the fact is that when it is located at the top, it reads ” Yeh ” and ” Yehoshuah ” or as in Castilian, Jesús, Jeremías, etc. . While in Syriac it reads ” Yoh “.

Well, According to Bottéro there are mentions of a god in Akkadian transcribed as ” Yahu ” and is apparently only a dialect, a local pronunciation of the name of the god EA , ie ENKI , is not great ? . So the god who said to Abraham to get lost from Ur , could be neither more nor less than the Sumerian god of Eridu . The artful ENKI , creator of mankind , the son of Nammu , the snake -headed goddess and AN, the father of the gods. ENKI The ruler of ABZU , the aquatic world above which the earth floats, the engineer of the gods, master of, teachers of humanity at their turn, Chief of the Lamassu , female guards Demones , ENKI the drunkard who cheerfully gave his powerful ME to the ambitious and impertinent Inanna, the father of Marduk, which would lead the pantheon of the Babylonian Empire for two thousand years , ENKI the promiscuous, the immoral who had daughters with the daughters of their daughters, the scientist, the artifice, the atheist who laughed of the severe plans of the gods, the slugabed who had to be awaked up by his mother in order to save the world, the cunning and devious rival of Enlil , the chief of the gods who never was tired of trying to exterminate humans, plotting calamities until in one way or another were undone by ENKI, the god of Noah, or Ziusudra as it really was then called .

Amazing, but everyone Jewish -Christian- Muslim could have been worshiping, unknowingly, to the most charismatic and irreverent ,at the same time, of the Sumerian gods.

(God)        A        –       NUN           –   NA               –    KE4                –    NE

A lot of of clay documents refer to these ancient gods, but two are especially extense, the Enuma Elish and Atrahasis, compositions reworked for political and religious reasons throughout the centuries while they passed from hands of the Sumerians to the Akkadians , Babylonians, Assyrians and Persians, texts which it has to say they had no  the doctrinal character of other holy books like the Bible or the Koran, it was just a kind of mystical epic where the knights were celestial gods and the dragons and ladies were chimeras and simple human women, or vice versa because everything fits up in a millennial civilization as the Sumerian or rather Mesopotamian.
Admittedly, Zechariah Sitchin, despite the confusion and diatribes that have been generated from his books, has discovered a forgotten world to more people than the real specialists, not wanting to detract from what have done the great eminences as S. N. Kramer work or J. Bottero, popularizers and at the same time true academic experts, to whom I owe many hours of fascinating, and in my opinion,  very nice reading.

There are a lot of envy out there, it is true that Sitchin has enriched with his books, wielding much documentation and speculating at will, sometimes abusing the trust of the people, but the same do daily the banks, governments and religions and however their prestige mysteriously prevails.

The Sumerian language is partially known quite well and it is easier to translate on the clay tablets after two thousand years before the current era, since it is then when appears the use of grammatical particles as a logical evolution and necessary, Sumerian writing was more or less like the language of the Indians of the western movies that speak with infinitives, succinct and with much room for speculation. Seen like this way, Sitchin’s interpretations sometimes seem no more absurd than those of professional linguists, while other times it seems evident that perhaps he let him carried away by imagination, as in the case of  the Sumerian word MU which it translates to Akkadian SHUMU and it is in the Hebrew, which is a relative of Akkadian, as SHEM, a term which also designates the son of Noah, the word “name” and  “monument” as well. Although sometimes the cuneiform sign is really a picture of what it wants to express, Sitchin lays aside the usual phonetic value and reinterprets its meaning of the cuneiform glyph from its shape, on the other hand extremely similar to what in the popular imagery of nowdays is a rocket or spacecraft, profoundly altering the meaning of some passages Sumerians and even the Bible, so according to Sitchin we have Gilgamesh , in its famous epic, saying something like that (do not be evil-minded, I do not I think this guy had erection problems):
“May I raise my rocket,
In the place where the rockets are raised …..! ”
, When specialists read:
“May I raise my name,
In the place where the names are raised ….! ”
whose interpreting is more evident if we give to the word “name” the meaning “reputation.” Sitchin is defended on the grounds that SHEM often refers to a bethilo or obelisk, a memorial, which is ultimately a representation in stone of a rocket. Specialists are not willing to accept this under any concept, but they do not know for a fact, what meaning could have these bethilos or obelisks for the people of those times,  some of these specialists speculate (yes, also specialists speculate, especially when the other version seems too bizarre or extravagant) that an obelisk is a stylized shape of pyramid, explanation which in my opinion is not particularly enlightening. Moreover, the idea of ”celestial chariots” is not a strange thing at all, in ancient writings as the Mahabharata, the Bible or the Koran, as can be seen through the vision of Ezekiel (Ezekiel 1) or  that of Enoch (Genesis  5:24), who is said explicitly that he did not die but was taken up into heaven like Eliáh (Kings 2:11).

I have not really found in the sad handful of clay tablets available on the Internet, the term “an-nun-na-ki”, whose meaning according to Sitchin is the suggestive “those who came from heaven to earth”, but there are tens of thousands of tablets which of course I have not seen and finally, as I mentioned, given the schematic character of the Sumerian writing pre-grammar , where speculation is paramount, everything is possible. Actually the word that usually designates the gods varies, sometimes are the A-NUN-NA, sometimes the A-NUN-NAK, in other  occasions A-NUN-NA-KE4-NE, some even A-NUN-KE4-NE, and the translation in all cases is difficult and highly speculative, usually experts point to the NUN term meaning “prince, noble” which along with other grammatical particles broadly come to mean “the the lineage of princes “, translation is extremely unsatisfactory and could be misleading, confusing human kings with the gods, if not because fortunately the Sumerians used to distinguish the names of the gods by prepending an asterisk (AN = “sky”, “star”, others translate directly as DINGIR  “god”) which is not verbalized.
In my post of April, I speculated (I speculate, you speculate …. all of us speculate) with the meaning of the name of the city of Eridu, whose sign is the same as “prince”, ie NUN, then * A-NUN-NA-KE4-NE could also mean “of the lineage of Eridu”, the first city founded by the Sumerians.
Since deceased Zechariah Sitchin did put into fashion the Anunakis, lots of Conspiranoids  have developed  a few theories around these arcane gods relatively poorly known and to which have been attributed  for free, given the paucity of evidence, more by intuition than logic, a reptilian origin, we can not forget that if the dinosaurs had not been exterminated, it is likely that the dominant species on this planet was not that of mammals, on the other hand, there are snake-gods in most mythologies known and specifically in that of the Sumerians, that is of what we are talking about, there are seals and representations of gods with reptilian body, not to mention the enigmatic statuettes of mothers with children and snake head, very popular five thousand years ago given the number of them that have been found. Even so, we can speak of clues, suspicions, there is no evidence in the strict sense of the term, so that I do prefer overfly this whole story which goes from the Anunakis to the Rothschild, passing by the Templars and in which I believe Sitchin himself, not dared enter.


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Zesty Carrot-Blackbean Burgers

I've been trying to incorporate more vegetarian meals into my diet recently. Not only is it a great way to cut your grocery bill in half (which my bank account totally needs after the holidays), its a great way to get more fiber in your diet. These blackbean burgers are amazing! They hold together like the real thing, and the carrots add a little sweetness to the smokey parpika and cumin. I also added jalapeño for a little kick. I've been crumbling the patties over salads and adding them to wraps too.
Why more fiber-filled meals, though? Well it’s pretty import for your digestive system. The microvilli in your small intestine can only absorb nutrients when they are not clogged and the roughage in a plant-based meal helps “clean you out” your system. Lovely, I know, but this allows you to better absorb nutrients. Fiber-filled meals also slow digestion, giving your body more time to absorb the nutrients in your food and keeping you full longer (which can help control weight).
The fact is that most American’s are only getting around 10 grams to 15 grams of fiber a day when a healthy adult should actually be eating up around 35 grams (read more here). My theory as to why is that most people really only think about fiber when it comes to carbs. “This bread has 5 grams more fiber per serving than this one.” This mentality is largely a product of advertising. Boasting about added fiber in breads and pasta is one of the only healthy things those companies can say about their products. But in reality a much, MUCH better way to get those extra 20 grams of fiber (along with tons of other vitamins and minerals) is by turning to vegetables.
Why add plant-based, fiber-packed meals to your diet?
-          Improve nutrition absorption
-          Prevent colon cancer
-          Reduce incident of heart disease
-          Lower cholesterol
-          Lower blood pressure
-          Decrease inflammation
-          Weight control
Vegetarian meals also are a great way to give your body a break from digesting animal products. It simply takes more energy for your body to process meat, which is actually one of the principles behind many high-protein diets. And I don't know about you, but for me December was filled with rich foods and most meals were centered around a chunk of meat. I think my body could use some recovery time. The less energy your body spends digesting food, the more energy it can spend on housekeeping. I'd much rather my body repair some cells than keep trying to digest a hunk of meat.

Roasted Eggplant Sammies with Caramelized Balsamic Onion

This combination is killer! Smooth roasted eggplant and creamy goat cheese with tangy balsamic onions, a touch of spicy arugula and toasted pine nuts. O yeah... did I mention this is all on top of this delicious garlic bread. It can be served warm out of the oven or cold.

This recipe was inspired by a sandwich I repeatedly get at Kleine Anne (Little Anna :), one of my favorite lunch spots in Frankfurt that specializes in sandwiches. The two ladies who brought this place to life could not have done a better job. Every single sandwich there is life-changingly delicious. They do one that consists of a creamy eggplant-nut spread, more cheese and arugula. This take on their creation not only turned out even better than I expected, it is a fair bit healthier than the original since there is only a touch of cheese, more veggies and since it is open-faced, less bread!

The recipe is so simple and delicious! And you can skip a few of the steps if it is just too much for you. Letting the eggplant sweat before you roast it and adding toasted nuts adds a little something extra, but the dish won't fall apart if you can't be bothered. I can also see this dish coming alive with a bit mint in the summer! Hope you enjoy.


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Work Force Readiness project

Lynette Black and Dani Annala

When it comes to getting kids exposed to 4-H science and technology, Dani Annala and Lynette Black are pioneers. Their efforts have made 4-H science and technology resources accessible to youth year-round through in-school, afterschool and summer programming.

Schools in the mid-Columbia region wanted to improve youth’s problem-solving and critical thinking skills, yet they faced serious funding challenges that limited the amount of STEM programming they could provide. Many students and their families also face similar financial challenges. Lynette and Dani saw the opportunity for 4-H to step up to meet these challenges in their community, and provide extracurricular opportunities in science and technology.

Early results of their outreach and engagement demonstrate the strategic impact of their programming: evaluations show an increase in knowledge, skills and attitudes in the area of the sciences and technology for local youth, and a 200% growth in afterschool science programs.

4-H is all about sharing. After seeing a 400% enrollment growth in Hood River County 4-H programs in just four years, Lynette and Dani decided to make their resources available to other communities. They developed train-the-trainer courses for educators of all levels and resource libraries with educational STEM kits. Now, many elementary classroom teachers are using their STEM education kits, including the OSU Open Campus Juntos program.

Please join me in congratulating Dani Annala and Lynette Black for putting some real 4-H steam into STEM!

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Affirmation – I reach out to others when I need help

Going through life’s changes brings many challenges. And sometimes, my path to success might seem blocked. If I find myself feeling frustrated or misunderstood, I go to others for guidance and support.

When I seek assistance, I have faith that my needs can be met. Because I have trust in my friends and loved ones, I anticipate their wise counsel.

I have struggled through tough times alone and on my own, so I know what it feels like to avoid asking for help. Sometimes I think it is those very experiences that drive me in my quest for help and guidance now.

Receiving help from others enhances my ability to function optimally. It is possible to preserve my dignity and receive guidance, too. I have no hesitation in asking others for assistance.

Asking others for help is the wise thing to do. After all, being able to identify when I actually could use some extra information is smart. I have come to the conclusion that reaching out to help and be helped by others simply makes sense.

Today, I renew my efforts to recognize when I can benefit from guidance and support provided by others and feel confident in seeking the help I need.

Self-Reflection Questions

1. Do I reach out to others when I need help? If not, why not?
2. How can I feel confident about asking others for guidance and support?
3. What are the benefits to me of asking for help?


Intuition, Imagination, and Philosophical Methodology

Oxford University Press
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Concerns about philosophical methodology have emerged as a central issue in contemporary philosophical discussions. In this volume, Tamar Gendler draws together fourteen essays that together illuminate this topic. Three intertwined themes connect the essays. First, each of the chapters focuses, in one way or another, on how we engage with subject matter that we take to be imaginary. This theme is explored in a wide range of cases, including scientific thought experiments, early childhood pretense, thought experiments concerning personal identity, fictional emotions, self-deception, Gettier and fake barn cases, the relation of belief to other attitudes, and the connection between conceivability and possibility. Second, each of the chapters explores, in one way or another, the implications of this for how thought experiments and appeals to intuition can serve as mechanisms for supporting or refuting scientific or philosophical claims. Third, each of the chapters self-consciously exhibits a particular philosophical methodology: that of drawing both on empirical findings from contemporary psychology, and on classic texts in the philosophical tradition (particularly the work of Aristotle and Hume.) By exploring and exhibiting the fruitfulness of these interactions, Gendler promotes the value of engaging in such cross-disciplinary conversations to illuminate philosophical questions.


Part 2: The beauty of bitwise AND (∧ or &)
Cédric Bellet

Every element in the upper right block is greater or equal than the dividing axis; and strictly greater than the elements of all other blocks and lower tiers.

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Altar Piece
Natee Utarit

It is a inspiration paintings that have traditionally beautify the Christian altars. representing a religious subject made for placing behind the altar of a Christian church. including what is often an elaborate frame for the central image. narrative scenes from the Life of Christ are the most common subjects, and scenes from the Old Testament play a part in the art of most denominations.

They were the first man and woman and the ancestors of all humans.The story of Adam and Eve is central to the belief that God created human beings to live in a paradise on earth, although they fell away from that state and formed the present world full of suffering and injustice. It provides the basis for the belief that humanity is in essence a single family, with everyone descended from a single pair of original ancestors.

It has a message to us that we can enter God’s kingdom only through the narrow gate. The highway to hell is broad. And its gate is wide for the many who choose that way.

The diorama experience

Carlos Quirino

Bonifacio asked his men whether they were prepared to fight to the bitter end. The men obediently tore up their cedulas, shouting “Mabuhay Pilipinas!” At Barrio Pugadlawin near Balintawak, Caloocan.

Gen. Antonio Luna, who was assassinated in Cabanatuan in 1899 by soldiers he had disarmed and discharged. These soldiers were loyal to Emilio Aguinaldo, who took most of the blame for Luna’s assassination when the list of conspirators should include others in his cabinet who wished Luna dead.

The time when I visited Ayala museum there is not much people because it’s weekdays. Ayala museum is one of the most nicest museum I have seen, it showcased different artworks of different artists all over the world. There you can see the cultures, tradition and people of every ethnic group here in the Philippines. I noticed during my visit in Ayala museum most of the visitors are foreigners and some college students, there is also tour guide that discusses each art. However, during the time I visited National Museum there are a lot of grade school students and some foreigners inside, which I was not surprised because it is one of the most popular museums here in Manila. The National Museum was a great experience for me because it contains many artworks that was very interesting to see, it also made me realized that art is really part of every human life. On the other hand, the difference of the two museums are the ambiance of the place, the artworks and artists. In Ayala museum it is more on paintings, cultures, traditions, collections etc. however in the National Museums there are variety of artworks such as painting, sculptures, written pieces of artists etc. but I must say these two museums are one of the best. Through out my visit in this two museums it made me realized once thing which to value art and learn how to appreciate every artwork of an artists because it takes a lot of time, dedication and hard work to made those extravagant art pieces.