http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cartesian_coordinate_system

For example, a circle of radius 2 may be described as the set of all points whose coordinates x and y satisfy the equation x² + y² = 4

Complex signals trouble my consciousness.
I wish they were not such a streaming mess.
Some messages feel important to get right
Though they demand more than my might.

Some ring so beautifully that they sound true

But most I cannot decipher and I have no clue.
My attention scans signals in an erratic way
And this attention itself has so much to say.

All input that I gather seem relayed from inside
Although stemming from the other being guide.
More or less loosely gathered entities like me
Are placed in as various perspectives as can be.

A message formerly received loud and clear
Can then turn out wrong and nowhere near.
Abundant signals are pressing to take charge
In infinite layers, miniscule and large.

Inputs and outputs cross without interludes
A transformer of different magnitudes.

I have found a story about a small basque hat. Ill publish a photograph of it and its wonderful emblem on its lining. When I have the inclination. Its from this school somehow. (The photograph above is probably not related to these facts)
http://www.ustaritz.fr/fr/jeunesse-sports-loisirs/enfance-jeunesse/enseignement/afmr-etcharry.html
http://www.lesocial.fr/forums/read.php?f=2&i=43097&t=42372
http://www.richardspens.com/?page=ref/glossary/A.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/For_Esm%C3%A9%E2%80%94with_Love_and_Squalor

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esm%C3%A9

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/squalor

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zouave

Krishna carried across the river.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light_pillar
A light pillar is a visual phenomenon created by the reflection of light from ice crystals with near horizontal parallel planar surfaces. The light can come from the Sun (usually at or low to the horizon) in which case the phenomenon is called a sun pillar or solar pillar. It can also come from the Moon

Curly Locks
Author: James Whitcomb Riley

Curly Locks! Curly Locks! wilt thou be mine?
Thou shalt not wash the dishes, nor yet feed the swine,
But sit on a cushion and sew a fine seam,
And feast upon strawberries, sugar and cream.

Curly Locks! Curly Locks! wilt thou be mine?
The throb of my heart is in every line,
And the pulse of a passion as airy and glad
In its musical beat as the little Prince had!

Thou shalt not wash the dishes, nor yet feed the swine!
O I'll dapple thy hands with these kisses of mine
Till the pink of the nail of each finger shall be
As a little pet blush in full blossom for me.

But sit on a cushion and sew a fine seam,
And thou shalt have fabric as fair as a dream,
The red of my veins, and the white of my love,
And the gold of my joy for the braiding thereof.

And feast upon strawberries, sugar and cream
From a service of silver, with jewels agleam,
At thy feet will I bide, at thy beck will I rise,
And twinkle my soul in the night of thine eyes!

Curly Locks! Curly Locks! wilt thou be mine?
Thou shalt not wash the dishes, nor yet feed the swine.
But sit on a cushion and sew a fine seam,
And feast upon strawberries, sugar and cream.

Trace

Siphonophores are especially scientifically interesting because they are composed of medusoid and polypoid zooids that are morphologically and functionally specialized. Each zooid is an individual, but their integration with each other is so strong that the colony attains the character of one large organism. Indeed, most of the zooids are so specialized that they lack the ability to survive on their own. 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portuguese_man_o%27_war 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forth_Bridge

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quebec_Bridge

 

A cantilever bridge is a bridge built using cantilevers, structures that project horizontally into space, supported on only one end.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cantilever_bridge 

Black Metallic Stone

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Stone

HYPOMONE

(uttalas hypomoni)

ὑπομονή 

remain behind, survive, be patient, to stand ones ground, to stand firm, to endure

Bibliografisk källa

via Vasilis


http://gbgm-umc.org/umw/james/Background/WordStudies.html

O I –

If ions that are gyrating around the magnetic field in this trapped region encounter neutral LISM atoms, they can steal electrons from the neutral atoms. Because the solar wind particles are now neutral, again, and are not affected by magnetic fields, they travel in a straight line in the direction they were going when they became neutral. Many of these particles happen to travel inward to our region of the Solar System and can be detected by the IBEX spacecraft as it orbits Earth.

Because so many ions are confined in the trapped region, so many more neutral atoms come from this region, and it looks like a brighter swath in the IBEX maps. This region corresponds to the IBEX Ribbon and runs perpendicular to the interstellar magnetic field. Imagine the Ribbon source, then, as a thick band of trapped ions, like a life preserver around a person in a pool.

http://www.ibex.swri.edu/

HABEMUS COLOREM
colorem. accusative singular of color

(HABEMUS COLORUM (colōrum. genitive plural of color))

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/color

http://books.google.no/books?id=plYc5I8D3YoC&pg=PA114&lpg=PA114&dq=%22ontological+attention+is+a+form+of+love%22&source=bl&ots=ti7e02MDkn&sig=zNJQuVBJe-177SPM2UrwSfTdn18&hl=en&sa=X&ei=DbSQUazPGqmF4gSEl4GADA&ved=0CCsQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=%22ontological%20attention%20is%20a%20form%20of%20love%22&f=false

Painting by Antonio Vitale

Some Incomplete Story.
SWs darling coactor MC had persuaded the wicked dragon that its best shot at survival was at the zoo.
They had also agreed that the dragon baby was to be brought up properly by MC and SW.

They were about to live happily.
One day the angelic Messenger of Love appeared before SW and reminded her that she and MC were appointed earthly messengers
but that they didnt seem to be giving it much thought.
In fact the MoL had just spoken to MC in his Developed Duck vehicle and he had expressed both surprise and hesitation
on the fact of being SWs counterpart as earthly MoL.

SW, much embarrased, promised to do all she could muster in order to coheir MC into his suitable position.
The MoL gave her the beauty of a flower to seal her commitment.
“Give this flower water. You have until it withers and dies to show that you are up to it”
the MoL announced and departed.

“Please tell MC to come here now. He doesnt answer his phone”
SW called after it.

She hugged the baby dragon and schemed in vain.

Poetry

I, too, dislike it: there are things that are important beyond all
this fiddle.
Reading it, however, with a perfect contempt for it, one
discovers in
it after all, a place for the genuine.
Hands that can grasp, eyes
that can dilate, hair that can rise
if it must, these things are important not because a

high-sounding interpretation can be put upon them but because
they are
useful. When they become so derivative as to become
unintelligible,
the same thing may be said for all of us, that we
do not admire what
we cannot understand: the bat
holding on upside down or in quest of something to

eat, elephants pushing, a wild horse taking a roll, a tireless wolf
under
a tree, the immovable critic twitching his skin like a horse that
feels a
flea, the base-
ball fan, the statistician--
nor is it valid
to discriminate against 'business documents and

school-books'; all these phenomena are important. One must
make a distinction
however: when dragged into prominence by half poets, the
result is not poetry,
nor till the poets among us can be
'literalists of
the imagination'--above
insolence and triviality and can present

for inspection, 'imaginary gardens with real toads in them', shall
we have
it. In the meantime, if you demand on the one hand,
the raw material of poetry in
all its rawness and
that which is on the other hand
genuine, you are interested in poetry.

Marianne Moore

Sören Kirkegaard föddes för 200 år sedan

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eudora_Welty

http://archive.org/stream/robberbridegroom030635mbp/robberbridegroom030635mbp_djvu.txt

"Would you not rather have a peach?" asked 
Goat. "For that won't take as long." 

"Yes," said the Little Harp, "I believe I would 
rather have a peach." 

So he ate the peach on the spot, seed, fuzz, 
and all, and Goat asked him with the last swal- 
low, "What next?" 

"Next I would like a girl, kidnaped and 
brought to my door here," said Little Harp. "But 
I dare say you will not know where to find one/ 1 

"I have no kidnaped girl with me," said Goat, 
"but I have one in my mind. How soon do you 
want her?" 

film stills: The Secret Garden (Agnieszka Holland, 1993)

Robert Lowell Waking in the blue

http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15284 

 

The Medea and Some Poems (1935)

Countee Cullen

Any Human to Another

The ills I sorrow at
Not me alone
Like an arrow,
Pierce to the marrow,
Through the fat
And past the bone.

Your grief and mine
Must intertwine
Like sea and river,
Be fused and mingle,
Diverse yet single,
Forever and forever.

Let no man be so proud
And confident,
To think he is allowed
A little tent
Pitched in a meadow
Of sun and shadow
All his little own.

Joy may be shy, unique,
Friendly to a few,
Sorrow may be scorned to speak
To any who
Were false or ture.
Your every grief
Like a blade
Shining and unsheathed

Must strike me down.
Of bitter aloes wreathed,
My sorrow must be laid
On your head like a crown.

Building+the+inner+wall+of+demonstration+coolroom

http://dlab-ucdavis.blogspot.no/

detail of a traditional small village in the Lake Victoria in Uganda (Africa)

 

Heart of oak beams of the frame of Saint-Girons church in Monein, France

Above: Afghan women and child

Above: Moses and the women by Tintoretto

7: 30 this evening as the plane goes on to Cambodia.
A whopping 1 year and 3 months.
Very quickly, resulting in a long thing and my body odor and the marks still quite a bit left, so I'd love for my tongue and ears.

Its 10-year bonds are back to shake at the sound of a hand has been calling me.

Treat yourself to a week or so in an hour, but the depth of the heart the old material seemed to be one-to-one time to turn around.

I've lived another very often had come popping that Doc did not dither.
Today I was a little excited and flirted.
[6] at this place, and have things you'd like to be back soon, but this buildup
Over the past two years, but did not take my body close to the break, Eragon briefly trying to pace the rest of the illusory.

In the old days, they used to come back when it was a stuffy beats and mind.
This time was going to come back as a rewarding way to be happy.

Living trends.
I'll be some filling.

Contacts are with me during your stay there and lives ...
In this space we'll squeeze off the flesh.

In all, serenity ~ ~ 

 

(Translated by Bing)

임종진

오늘 저녁 7시 반 비행기로 캄보디아에 갑니다.
무려 1년 3개월 만에 가네요.
워낙 오랜 인연이 쌓여있고 내 체취와 흔적들이 아직도 적잖이 남아있는 곳, 그래서 조금은 삭혀내고 싶기도 한 곳.

그 10여 년의 인연들이 다시 나를 부르는 소리에 흔들려 잠시 손을 거두고 들어갑니다.

기껏 일주일 남짓한 시간이지만 마음 깊이 예전의 머묾시간들을 돌아보게 될 듯 합니다.

살기도 했었고 또 워낙 자주 들락거렸기에 그닥 떨림이 없었는데....
오늘은 좀 흥분도 되고 설레기도 합니다.
벌여놓은, 그리고 하려는 일들이 쌓여있으니 곧 돌아와야하지만,
지난 2년여 가까이 휴식이라곤 취하지 않았던 내 몸에 짧게나마 휴식을 주려는 걸음으로 들어갑니다.

예전에 돌아오곤 할 때는 답답한 마음도 없잖아 있었는데요.
이번에 다녀오는 길은 기쁜 마음으로 돌아오려고 합니다.

살아가는 기운.
조금더 채워서 오겠습니다.

그곳에 머무는 동안 저와의 인연들 그리고 삶들..
이 공간에 살짜기 얹혀보겠습니다.

모두 평온하십시오~~

"

Let me be...

Let me share with u my story
U do all u can to listen intently
Let me whisper the name
U do the freedom shout
Let me speak words of condemnation
U ensure it's passed word of mouth
Let me take the hit
U say my epilogue

Let me strap this on
U pick up the pieces
Let there be peace
U battle on regardless
Let me be taken away
U do all u can to get me out
Let me be the first to stand on the frontlines
U watch my back

Let me survey the scene
U hold on to my every word closely
Let me seperate the real from the phoney
U see them for what they are - hypocrisy
Let me look the oppressor in the eye
U do what u can to make the resistance multiply
Let me give up my life in sacrifice
U make sure questions are asked when I die

Let me paint it black
U see a man of many acts
Let me draw the curtain
U respect me for that
Let me inject a willingness
U do all u can not to detract
Let me envisage heaven & hell
U count the human cost

Let me appreciate the sun rise
U should also see the signs of God
Let me string words of poetic justice
U adhere to the questions & answers
Let me stand firm on this ground
U dig yourself out of the quick sand
Let me reach for the sky
U break the chained shackles of lies

Let me fight for my life
U protect my right
Let me be the voice of the voiceless
U do all u can to stay focussed
Let me be the artist who paints the picture
U add the missing colour
Let me tangle with danger
U make sure that I will be remembered

Let me be churned out on this journey
U be weary of the fall-out that follows me
Let me be a rebel who dispells all doubt
U be someone who finds a way out
Let me profess my truth
U shield me from these fools
Let me love who I choose
U stop the out cry that's sure to ensue

Let me put my demons to rest
U carry on no matter the cost
Let me march to my land
U count my every step
Let me recall the forgotten child
U ensure the orphan finds a helping hand
Let me be the clinched fist
U be the collective anguish

Let me be the battering ram
U be the force behind its impact
Let me dream a lil' dream
U help realise it's more even if u have to scream
Let me be your mouth piece
U be my protest march
Let me be your instrument of contempt
U be my true friend

Let me be...

" 

Let me be... 

Judy is staring at the Sun
Catherine Wheel

...she once remarked in a poem, "Some Like Poetry",

 that no more than two out of a thousand people care for the art.

Wislawa Szymborska frequently employed literary devices such as ironic precision, paradox, contradiction and understatement, to illuminate philosophical themes and obsessions... She wrote from unusual points of view, such as a cat in the newly empty apartment of its dead owner... When asked why she had published so few poems, she said: "I have a trash can in my home"
http://info-poland.buffalo.edu/web/arts_culture/literature/poetry/szymborska/poems/link.shtml 

A Cat in an Empty Apartment
Wislawa Szymborska translated by Walter Whipple
http://www.mission.net/poland/warsaw/literature/poems/cat.htm 

Die? One does not do that to a cat.
Because what's a cat to do
in an empty apartment?
Climb the walls.
Caress against the furniture.
It seems that nothing has changed here,
but yet things are different.
Nothing appears to have been relocated,
yet everything has been shuffled about.
The lamp no longer burns in the evenings.

Footsteps can be heard on the stairway,
but they're not the ones.
The hand which puts the fish on the platter
is not the same one which used to do it.

Something here does not begin
at its usual time.
Something does not happen quite
as it should
Here someone was and was,
then suddenly disappeared
and now is stubbornly absent.
All the closets were peered into.
The shelves were walked through.
The rug was lifted and examined.
Even the rule about not scattering
papers was violated.

What more is to be done?
Sleep and wait.

Let him return,
at least make a token appearance.
Then he'll learn
that one shouldn't treat a cat like this.
He will be approached
as though unwillingly,
slowly,
on very offended paws.
With no spontaneous leaps or squeals at first.


True Love http://wonderingminstrels.blogspot.no/2001/02/true-love-wislawa-szymborska.html

Diskreta Kretsar.
http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digitalteknik

En signal i ett digitalt system ligger i något av två spänningsintervall. De i övre intervallet representerar logiskt 1 och signaler i det undre logiskt 0. Intervallen är väl åtskilda med ett mellanliggande förbjudet område där signalen är odefinierad.

  Ett Venn-diagram som visar två mängder. Snittet mellan dem motsvarar den logiska funktionen A OCH B.

(I have no idea why I keep this, except for the beautiful little urn)

Benämning:

Urna (Sakord)

Spinnkruka, miniatyrurna, relikkrus (Preciserat sakord)

Historik:

Användning:

1399 - 1529

Accession (Gåva):

Beskrivning:

Föremålet visas i basutställningen Uddevalla genom tiderna, Bohusläns museum, Uddevalla.

Spinnkruka eller relikvarium.

Rhenländskt stengods tillverkat i Raerenområdet. 

I Raeren fanns ovanligt fina leror.

Krukorna användes av spinnerskor till att fukta fingrarna i, därför är öppningen stor nog för ett finger.

Krukan hängde kring spinnerskans hals eller på spinnrocken.

Troligen handlar det om spinning av lin.

I Norge användes spinnkrukor även som relikvarium. I krukorna förvarades heliga ting och förseglades med vax.Flera av de norska fynden har en tydlig anknytning till kyrkliga miljöer. Några fynd pekar på att man haft krukorna i samband med votiv- eller offerhandlingar. I västskandinaviskt område kan de haft särskild anknytning till Nidaros ärkestift. Man har bla funnit ett litet krus på bottnen av Nidarosdomens kyrkobrunn (helgad åt st Olav). Man tror att en pilgrim tappat sitt krus när han skulle fylla det med heligt vatten. 

Dessa små kärl har alltså förutom det vardagliga bruket i hushållet även medförts av pilgrimmer till St Olavs källa i Nidaros eller möjligen inköpts på plats för att förvara heligt vatten i.

Relik - kvarleva av helig person eller föremål förknippad med denna.

Relikvarium - behållare för reliker.

Ur handskrivna katalogen 1957-1958: Liten urna

H: 5,8. Bottendiam: 3,4. Gulbrun glasyr. Skadad. Uddevalla

http://www.digitaltmuseum.se/things/urna/S-BM/UM004308?query=Arkeologi&search_context=1&timeline_filter=1390&count=1&pos=0

Auspicious Light Pagoda

RuiGuang Ta

in Suzhou in China

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pagoda

Minarets also function as air conditioning mechanisms: as the sun heats the dome,

air is drawn in through open windows then up and out of the minaret, thereby providing natural ventilation.

Minarets have been described as the "gate from heaven and earth"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minaret

"Signs are not the point, they point to the point. A reflection on our fascination with signs and wonders."

http://blog.adw.org/2013/02/signs-are-not-the-point-they-point-to-the-point-a-reflection-on-our-fascination-with-signs-and-wonders/

http://bible.org/seriespage/sign-jonah-matthew-1238-45

In my first psychosis, one of my first complaints was directed to this still undefined area and amounted to that the world was so filled with all kinds of signs that were so confusing that I felt I was seeing nowhere significant.

PINNACLE

The pinnacle had two purposes:

Ornamental – adding to the loftiness and verticity of the structure. They sometimes ended with statues, such as in Milan Cathedral.

Structural – the pinnacles were very heavy and often rectified with lead, in order to enable the flying buttresses to contain the stress of the structure vaults and roof. This was done by adding compressive stress (a result of the pinnacle weight) to the thrust vector and thus shifting it downwards rather than sideway.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinnacle

A crocket is a hook-shaped decorative element common in Gothic architecture. It is in the form of a stylised carving of curled leaves, buds or flowers which is used at regular intervals to decorate the sloping edges of spires, finials, pinnacles, and wimpergs.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crocket

Oliver Webb carving ball-flowers for Hereford Cathedral tower.

http://www.finestoneminiatures.com/who_are_we.htm

BALLFLOWER

In architecture a ball-flower is an ornament resembling a ball placed in a circular flower, the three petals of which form a cup round it. They are usually inserted in a hollow moulding. Ball-flower ornaments occur chiefly in the Decorated style of 14th century Gothic architecture, but it sometimes occurs, though rarely, in buildings of the 13th century, or Early English style, as in the west front of Salisbury cathedral, where it is mixed with the tooth ornament: it is however rarely found in that style, and is an indication that the work is late. A flower resembling this, except that it has four petals, is occasionally found in very late Norman work, but it is used with other flowers and ornaments, and not represented in long suits, as in the Decorated style.

Title: Ancient Pagan and Modern Christian Symbolism
Last Updated: November 17, 2012

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/38485/38485-h/38485-h.htm

With two exceptions, Figs. 4 and 9,—exhibits Christian emblems of the trinity or linga, and the unity or yoni, alone or combined; the whole being copied from Pugin's Glossary of Ecclesiastical Ornament (London, 1869). 

Fig. 1 is copied from Pugin, plate xvii., and indicates a doable anion of the trinity with the unity, here represented as a ring, Vanneau.

     * There is an able essay on this subject in No. 267 of the
     Edinburgh Review—which almost exhausts the subject—but is
     too long for quotation here.

...

It has been said by some critics that the figures above referred to are mere architectural fancies, which never had pretensions to embody a mystery; and that any designer would pitch upon such a style of ornamentation although profoundly ignorant of the doctrine of the trinity and unity. But this assumption is not borne out by fact; the ornaments on Buddhist topes have nothing in common with those of Christian churches; whilst in the ruined temple of the sun at Marttand, India, the trefoil emblem of the trinity is common. Grecian temples were profusely ornamented therewith, and so are innumerable Etruscan sculptures, but they do not represent the trinity and unity. It has been reserved for Christian art to crowd our churches with the emblems of Bel and Astarte, Baalim and Ashtoreth, linga and yoni, and to elevate the phallus to the position of the supreme deity, and assign to him a virgin as a companion, who can cajole him by her blandishment, weary him by wailing, or induce him to change his mind by her intercessions. Christianity certainly requires to be purged of its heathenisms.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doric_order

 In their original Greek version, Doric columns stood directly on the flat pavement (the stylobate) of a temple without a base; their vertical shafts were fluted with 20 parallel concave grooves...
The triglyphs are decoratively grooved with three vertical grooves ("tri-glyph") and represent the original wooden end-beams...

http://www.ask-aladdin.com/Temples-of-Egypt/luxortemple.html 

The 1st open court has double rows of 32 papyrus bud columns. 

 ... the Colonnade... consists of two pairs of large open papyrus columns, which are arranged to make a long processional avenue.

 http://www.touregypt.net/featurestories/columns.htm

Most of the time, the column shafts were copied in stone of supports made from plants, resembling either a trunk or a bundle of stems of smaller diameter.

The Doric corner conflict:

Spiral fluted columns in the Great Colonnade at Apamea in Syria

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluting_%28architecture%29

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v137/n3457/abs/137180b0.html

http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/greeks/architecture/fluted.htm

The Greeks probably started this idea because their earliest columns were made out of wooden tree trunks, and when the builders shaved the bark off the trunks it left these vertical gouges. When they began to build stone temples, they copied the gouges from the wood...

Doric columns usually had 20 flutes, while Ionic columns usually had 24 flutes. 

Structures of the human telomeric repeat.

(a,b) Parallel structure from crystal structure, PDB 1KF1. (c,d) NMR structure, PDB 143D. (a,c) Top views. (b,d) Side views.
Guanines are shown in blue, the phosphate backbone as a gold ribbon.

http://rsta.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/365/1861/2969/F4.expansion.html

"We need to be open about what its structure is, because it's dynamic."

Shankar Balasubramanian

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21729014.400-quadruple-helix-dna-discovered-in-human-cells.html

... the four-stranded DNA arose most frequently during the so-called "s-phase" when a cell copies its DNA just prior to dividing.

http://www.oratert.com/english/word-news/39438.html

Russian DNA Discoveries Proof of 12-Strand DNA Activation Theory?

http://doowansnewsandevents.wordpress.com/2013/01/21/dna-strand-found-in-humans/

Different opinions on that:

http://www.thescienceforum.com/biology/1144-dna-phantom-effect.html

The genome looks like it is far more of a network of RNA transcripts that are all collaborating together. Some go off and make proteins; [and] quite a few, although we know they are there, we really do not have a good understanding of what they do.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6749213.stm

The Encode Project

http://www.genome.gov/10005107

Stained glass mural on Alaskan theme: dog sled.
Photo manipulated with GIMP: there is no angle from which to shoot a rectangular image the way this is displayed in the museum.

Photo by Joe Mabel of 1910 stained glass piece originally part of a downtown Seattle storefront, The Alaskan Cigar Store in the original Arctic Club (now Morrison Hotel). This piece is now in Museum of History and Industry (MOHAI), Seattle, Washington, although two other comparable pieces remain as part of the building.

Unknown stained glass artist.

Separate photo of same glass. That one is sharper, and is probably the one that should be used (I got a better camera).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:MOHAI_Alaska_glass.jpg