Thursday, July 31, 2014
Wednesday, July 30, 2014
Well Said !!
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014
Are you there yet?
This is about Age-Activated Attention Deficit Disorder. Are you showing signs of it?
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Monday, July 28, 2014
The difference between "complete" and "finished."
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No dictionary has ever been able to satisfactorily define the difference between "complete" and "finished."
However, during a recent linguistic conference, held in London, England, and attended by some of the best
linguists in the world, Samsundar Balgobin, a Guyanese linguist, was the presenter when he was asked to
make that very distinction.
The question put to him by a colleague in the erudite audience was this: "Some say there is no difference
between 'complete' and'finished.' Please explain the difference in a way that is easy to understand."
Mr. Balgobin's response: "When you marry the right woman, you are 'complete.' If you marry the wrong
woman, you are 'finished.' And, if the right one catches you with the wrong one, you are 'completely finished.'"
His answer received a five minute standing ovation.
However, during a recent linguistic conference, held in London, England, and attended by some of the best
linguists in the world, Samsundar Balgobin, a Guyanese linguist, was the presenter when he was asked to
make that very distinction.
The question put to him by a colleague in the erudite audience was this: "Some say there is no difference
between 'complete' and'finished.' Please explain the difference in a way that is easy to understand."
Mr. Balgobin's response: "When you marry the right woman, you are 'complete.' If you marry the wrong
woman, you are 'finished.' And, if the right one catches you with the wrong one, you are 'completely finished.'"
His answer received a five minute standing ovation.
Sunday, July 27, 2014
Saturday, July 26, 2014
Marbled Veils to Marvel About
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How Superb are These ...?
How Superb are These ...?
To have the skill level to carve it in marble.This sculpture below, " The veiled virgin" is one of the most impressive I have ever seen in my life, notice the effect of transparency, from the Italian artist Giovanni Strazza of the nineteenth century.Think of the epic difficulty of modeling a veil on a face of a material that is among the toughest on the planet, marble (mineral hardness 3 - Friedrich Mohs scale ). Another problem is that marble has nothing added. It is a sculpture made by subtracting 100 %.It's already humiliated? Wait until you discover that it is not only this. There are large sculptures that have beautiful marble veils:Think of the level of difficulty to carve without breaking it:This is a monument to the father of Prince Raimondo Sangro Antonio (1685-1757)The Italian name of the monument Disinganno is often translated as " disappointment ", but not in the conventional sense of it, and Church Slavonic - "Freedom of the spell.""Freedom of the spell " (after 1757 ) of Franschesko Kvirolo and is the most famous of his works, the ability to make this netting.All made of a single piece of marble and pumice, Kvirolo was the only Neapolitan master who accepted the challenge. Other great sculptors wouldnt, believing that the network would break into pieces.Amazing master sculptors for centuries the art of precise cutting of the stone.How about that texture of skin, Lorenzo Berdini, which depicts the abduction of Persephone? Look finger pressure on the skin.
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