Showing posts with label education. Show all posts
Showing posts with label education. Show all posts
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Thursday, February 18, 2010
College Scholarship Quiz
From newfreearticle.com
(cheers to freeing my fallangies) and I don't know how real helpful this is. Most in the know citizens are just that.
(cheers to freeing my fallangies) and I don't know how real helpful this is. Most in the know citizens are just that.
Thursday, January 21, 2010
Xenophanes by Ralph Waldo Emerson and Other of his Works refferences
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Xenophanes(p.174)
By fate, not option, frugal Nature gave
One scent to hyson and to wall-flower,
One sound to pine-groves and to waterfalls,
One aspect to the desert and the lake.
It was her stern necessity: all things
Are of one pattern made; bird, beast and flower,
Song, picture, form, space, thought and character
Deceive us, seeming to be many things,
And are but one. Beheld far off, they part
As God and devil; bring them to the mind,
They dull its edge with their monotony.
To know one element, explore another,
And in the second reappears the first.
The specious panorama of a year
But multiplies the image of a day,—
A belt of mirrors round a taper's flame;
And universal Nature, through her vast
And crowded whole, an infinite paroquet,
Repeats one note.
from my old Emerson's Poems book (I don't know the date because the title page is missing,
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An Introduction to Nature
Excerpt from Lewis Leary's Ralph Waldo Emerson: An Interpretive Essay.
"The best way to get at Emerson is to come at him all at once, in the ninety-five pages of his little book called Nature, issued anonymously in 1836, which contains the compressed totality of all that he would subsequently patiently reveal. Revelation rather than logic was the instrument used by Emerson to delve toward truth. It was not his intention to create a philosophy or to codify thought. He distrusted logical arguments as man-made, and therefore inadequate because they are imperfect as man is imperfect. Neither philosopher nor conventional moralist, Emerson, it cannot be said too often, was first and last an artist who attempted to create a vision of the world and man's place in it. What is the world? What is nature which lies all about us? What is the refulgent beauty of nature that draws man out of himself, to quietness and calm, or to resolution? What are the mysteries of nature that inspired men resolve by conquering time or space through the discovery of such things as the telegraph, or the harnessing of waterpower and steam, or rocketing to the moon?
For the rest the Great site just below here on Emerson's Nature
tick here;
http://www.vcu.edu/engweb/transcendentalism/authors/emerson/nature.html
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Additionally there is a great reprint; tick the link below. I didn't see the above poem 'Xenophanes' when I briefly checked the contents.
It is a book of Emerson's Poems, but not exactly like mine. It may just be a bit rearranged (this is basically for my reference)excuse moi. I will have to research to be sure.
The link below is an entire Google ebook on Emerson Poems!
http://books.google.com/books?id=sM7iAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=emerson's+poems&source=bl&ots=OScyEFC-jr&sig=0RcsXP8wOM1PyDCuI_hr88bQr1o&hl=en&ei=AQlZS-7QCpDgsQO2jdTFBw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=6&ved=0CCAQ6AEwBQ#v=onepage&q=emerson's%20poems&f=false
Tuesday, January 19, 2010
A rare glimpse of the cave of crystals From BBC News
Mexico's Cave of Crystals stunned geologists when it was first discovered in 2000. The underground chamber contains some of the largest natural crystals ever found - some of the selenite structures have grown to more than 10m long. Professor Iain Stewart got a rare glimpse of the subterranean spectacle while filming for the new BBC series How the Earth Made Us.
Professor Stewart describes the cave as a geological wonder of the world
We kept on being told how difficult it was going to be to film in the Naica Cave, but nothing really prepares you for the extremes of that cavern.
It's about 50C in there, but it's the virtually 100% humidity added on top that makes it a potential killer.
That combination means that when you breathe air into your body, the surface of your lungs is actually the coolest surface the air encounters. That means the fluid starts to condense inside your lungs - and that's really not good news.
When the cave was first discovered it was just an accident.
Miners working in the Naica silver mine broke through the walls of the cavern and were astounded to discover these enormous crystals - the biggest anywhere on Earth.
But when the first people went in to explore, they were almost overcome by the conditions - and there's some pretty hairy video footage of them coming out of the cave on the verge of losing consciousness. So we knew the dangers were real.
When you first look at the kit your first thought is: "Is that it?"
There's a special cooling suit - which is basically like a suit of chain mail but filled with ice cubes.
Then there's a breathing system which feeds cool, dry air into your mask.
It's OK to take the mask off for a short while, but do without it for more than about 10 minutes, and it's likely that you're going to start keeling over.
I was lucky of course. All I had to do was stand there and talk, but the cameraman and all the others helping set out the lights were having to work in these conditions, wearing these cumbersome suits, and they really struggled.
We had a doctor outside the cave to monitor our vital signs, and we were coming out of the cavern with our heart rates up at 180.
The biggest danger was falling over; rescuing someone inside would have been very tricky.
Despite all the dangers, my overwhelming memory is the sheer beauty of the place.
Whenever people around me were faffing around with equipment, I'd just stop and look around at the crystals.
It's such a glorious place, it's like being in a modern art exhibit.
I kept reminding myself: "You're in the Naica Cave", because there's only a handful of geologists that have ever been in there, and so I was aware of how incredibly privileged I was.
Yet remarkably, for the people who own and run the Naica mine, the crystal cave is a side-show, a distraction.
They don't make any money out of it and sooner or later, when the economics of the mine change, it will close.
The pumps will be taken out, the mine and the cave will flood, and the crystals will once more be out of our reach.
But perhaps we should console ourselves with the thought that there are certainly lots more crystal caves waiting to be discovered.
For starters, the geology of the area around the cave suggests that there could be more crystal caves in the area around Naica.
But more broadly, the Earth's crust must be riddled with wonders like this.
We know more about the outer edges of the Solar System than we do about the first kilometre of the Earth's crust.
As we learn more about the crust, we can be sure that there will be discoveries even more spectacular than Naica. I just hope I'm around to see them.
How the Earth Made Us: The epic story of how geology, geography and climate have influenced mankind is on Tuesday 19th January on BBC Two at 2100 GMT
From the BBC News.
Tinking on the title will redirect you to the original article with a really interesting video of the cave. Surreal.
Tuesday, January 12, 2010
Lady Barbara's Garden Link & You Tube Class Link
We found this herbal school and wanted to share the information.
Namesta!
You Tube Introduction Video link below
RE: Plantain
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0OAp73JSSg
Namesta!
You Tube Introduction Video link below
RE: Plantain
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0OAp73JSSg
Thursday, January 7, 2010
Animation Mentor dot com
All of you who would like to learn more about animation, this is an interesting educational idea. I don't know the cost, but there is a telephone number and free webinars. Some with the notable cartoonist Eric Goldberg. Here are some of his credits~ Loonie Tunes animator; voice of Marvin the Martian, Speedie Gonzalaz, Tweetie; at Disney some of his notarary art was(Aladin's Genie animator, lead animator of Phil in Hucules); he was the founder of Pazzaz Studios; Richard Williams Studio; and the newly released
Princess and The Frog.
I will be checking that 'Geek Out' with him. 'Cause their givin' back!
So, in Eric's second video he brings up legendary Walt Kelly and Kelly's old Pogo series.
Ode the POGO!
I am going to have to go to the archives and look some of these treasures up!!!
TTFN
Allisonina
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SOURDOUGH STARTER with WILD YEAST
Wild yeasts exist in the air around you and to some extent on the wheat berries. There are wild yeasts on grapes (unsulphured) and apples and other fruits. It is those wild yeasts which are 'captured' to make a sourdough starter. The process takes from 3 to 5 days. I wish I had specific amounts for you, but you could start with 1/4 to 1/2 cup of flour and mix in enough warm (not hot) water to make a thin paste. DO NOT make it too soupy. That, in fact, is the trick to a good starter, according to the French bread makers, and I think they should know. And after you've fooled around with the flour and water thing, you might wish to branch out into adding those unsulphured grapes, apples, sour milk, etc as a catalyst in order to capture other strains of yeast. Each of these strains has a slightly different taste. In fact if you move to another area, you might end up with a starter that produces an entirely different flavor. For instance, San Francisco sourdough bread is well known and has a distinct taste due to the wild strains in the air there. On day one you mix the flour and water (and add any catalysts to encourage fermentation) and place in a warm spot. After 3 days, the dough should be moist, inflated, and slightly sour. More flour and water is added (mixed in) and left to sit in a warm spot. After 2 days the process is repeated. Then the next day it is done again. Note the order: 3 days, 2 days, 1 day. At this point you should be able to make a loaf of bread using part of the starter and adding back what you took out in the form of more flour and water. Rule of thumb: Use about 10% starter to size of loaf. In the case of a 2 lb loaf this is a bit over 3 oz of starter (3.2 to be exact). For a 1 lb loaf 1.5 oz would be used. A book that describes this process in great detail is The Village Baker by Joe Ortiz, copyright 1993, published by Ten Speed Press, Berkley CA. If it's not still in print, try the used books stores, that's where I got mine. Or try your local library. If they don't have it, they might be able to get it for you. ©2008 by Ernestina Parziale
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