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Luis Ernesto Miramontes Cárdenas (1925)Miramontes was a Mexican chemist whose extensive scientific contributions include numerous publications and nearly 40 national and international patents in different areas, including organic chemistry, pharmaceutical chemistry, petrochemistry, atmospheric chemistry, and polluting agents. However, Miramontes is best remembered for his synthesis, in 1951, of norethindrone, a progestational hormone. |
SOMA, Japan – Dangerous levels of radiation leaking from a crippled nuclear plant forced Japan to order 140,000 people to seal themselves indoors Tuesday after an explosion and a fire dramatically escalated the crisis spawned by a deadly tsunami.
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BiographyIn 1992, Robert Gottlieb became Fabio‘s literary agent, and Fabio became the first best-selling male romance writer who did not use a pseudonym. Fabio’s books were titled Pirate, Rogue, and Comanche. Fabio then starred in the syndicated TV series Acapulco H.E.A.T., was featured in calendars, led a fragrance campaign, and landed a role in commercials for “I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter” margarine.
Fabio appeared in the soap opera The Bold and the Beautiful a number of times, as a close friend of the character Sally Spectra (Fabio and Darlene Conley, who played Sally, were close friends in real life). He appeared in one episode of Step by Step called “Absolutely Fabio” (Season 6, Episode 11). He also starred in Jill Sobule‘s 1995 music video I Kissed a Girl (Jill Sobule song). Fabio appeared as well on Ned’s Declassified. Also he was in a Big Time Rush episode and reprised his role in the Nickelodeon television series once again in their third TV movie, Big Time Christmas. He recently appeared in an episode of The Suite Life on Deck called “Senior Ditch Day” as Captain Hawk. He has also cameoed in the films Dude, Where’s My Car? and Zoolander.
Palme d’Or for best short film in 1957. Director-Ion Popescu-GOPO
An extraordinary account of the terror of the earthquake: Even if I do not understand more than two or three words in Japanese, I have been deeply moved by courage of the eyewitness, filming this for the rest of us. My prayers go to him, his family and the people of Japan.
I didn’t want to be able to understand Japanese, more than I do in these moments: So feel free should you read this to pitch in with a translation, please. Thank You.
Lacrymosa dies illa,
qua resurget ex favilla
judicandus homo reus.
Huic ergo parce Deus,
pie Jesu Domine,
dona eis requiem! Amen!
The Requiem Mass in D minor (K. 626) by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was composed in Vienna in 1791 and left unfinished at the composer’s death. A completion by Franz Xaver Süssmayr was delivered to Count Franz von Walsegg, who had anonymously commissioned the piece for a requiem Mass to commemorate the February 14 anniversary of his wife’s death. Read more at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Requiem_(Mozart)
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TheSilence, by George
(inspired by “Le silence“-Auguste Preault)
This silence talks loudly of
more of the silent past
and of foretold deafening silences
to come.
It’s cold, silence is, and comforting
to the ears it left with a sigh
describing the sound
when it used to exist.
Blind follower of silence open the eyes
of the one next to you to the voided sound…
Now ask yourself: “Was it worth it?”
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When I get older losing my hair,
Many years from now,
Will you still be sending me a valentine
Birthday greetings bottle of wine?
If I’d been out till quarter to three
Would you lock the door,
Will you still need me, will you still feed me,
When I’m sixty-four?
oo oo oo oo oo oo oo oooo
You’ll be older too, (ah ah ah ah ah)
And if you say the word,
I could stay with you.
I could be handy mending a fuse
When your lights have gone.
You can knit a sweater by the fireside
Sunday mornings go for a ride.
Doing the garden, digging the weeds,
Who could ask for more?
Will you still need me, will you still feed me,
When I’m sixty-four?
Every summer we can rent a cottage
In the Isle of Wight, if it’s not too dear
We shall scrimp and save
Grandchildren on your knee
Vera, Chuck, and Dave
Send me a postcard, drop me a line,
Stating point of view.
Indicate precisely what you mean to say
Yours sincerely, Wasting Away.
Give me your answer, fill in a form
Mine for evermore
Will you still need me, will you still feed me,
When I’m sixty-four?
Whoo!
Some of you are familiar with this tune, listen to it over and over, for many years, but I’ll ask you: Who’s going to mend your fuse, when the light is gone, and who’s going to mend your sweater, seating by the fireplace? If you have doubts about the answer to one of this questions, better give it a fresh start and a renewed effort, into being nice, affectionate, loving…you know, so you too can good company, when you need it most.
| Sabato Rodia | |
|---|---|
| Born | April 15, 1875(1875-04-15) Serino, Avellino, Italy |
| Died | July 17, 1965(1965-07-17) (aged 90) Martinez, California, U.S. |
| Other names | Simon, Sam |
| Known for | Watts Towers |
Sabato “Simon” Rodia[1] (April 15, 1875 – July 16, 1965) was an Italian-American architect. Rodia created the Watts Towers, one of the most famous landmarks in Los Angeles.
Rodia was born and raised in Serino, Italy.[2][3] He emigrated to the United States with his brother at the age of 15; the two first lived in Pennsylvania until the former died from a mining incident. Rodia then moved to Seattle, Washington, where he married Lucia Ucci in 1902. The couple moved to California and resided in Oakland, where Rodia’s three children were born. Following his divorce from Ucci in 1912, he relocated to Long Beach and worked odd jobs before settling in Watts in 1920.[4]
He began construction of the Watts Towers in 1921, but did not finish them until 1954. Find out more about this man’s life achievement at: http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Simon+Rodia. In 1954 Rodia moved to Martinez, California where he remained until his death on July 16, 1965. Generally, it is believed that Rodia never returned to Watts after moving away from the city.
The Watts Towers official website has photos of the details work that went into the Towers: Some monuments were reconstructed after entire castles were shipped building block after building block from Europe (Hearst Castle), and other were rebuilt, from memory, such as the Watts Towers (Rodia Towers). I think Rodia wanted to rebuild a corner of Italia, here on California soil.
Simon Rodia is member of Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club, and he is featured on the LP’ Cover on the top row, the next to the last picture and next to Bob Dylan : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_images_on_the_cover_of_Sgt._Pepper’s_Lonely_Hearts_Club_Band
The Beatles‘ 1967 album Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band has a widely-recognized album cover which depicts several dozen celebrities and other images.
This album cover was created by Jann Haworth and Peter Blake. They won the Grammy Award for Best Album Cover, Graphic Arts in 1968 for their work on this cover.
The celebrities and items featured on the front cover are (by row, left to right), can be accessed at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_images_on_the_cover_of_Sgt._Pepper’s_Lonely_Hearts_Club_Band
Bobby Fischer (1943)Fischer was a chess legend who, at the age of 15, became the youngest grandmaster in history at that time. In 1970 and 1971, he won an unprecedented 20 straight games to qualify to challenge Boris Spassky for the world championship. He then beat Spassky, becoming the only American world titlist and winning the lion’s share of the $250,000 prize fund that was then the largest purse offered in any sport outside boxing. Afterward, Fischer did not publicly play another game of chess until what year?… |
Giunse alfin il momento,
Che godro senz’affanno,
In braccio all’idol mio!
Timide cure! uscite dal mio petto!
A turbar non venite il mio diletto!
O come par, che all’amoroso foco
L’amenita del loco,
La terra e il ciel risponda!
Come la notte i furti miei seconda!
Deh vieni, non tardar, o gioja bella!
Vieni ove amore per goder t’appella!
Finche non splende in ciel notturna face,
Finche l’aria e ancor bruna e il mondo tace.
Qui mormora il ruscel, qui scherza l’aura,
Che col dolce susurro il cor ristaura,
Qui ridono i fioretti e l’erba e fresca,
Ai piaceri d’amor qui tutto adesca.
Vieni, ben mio, tra queste piante ascose!
Vieni, vieni!
Ti vo’ la fronte incoronar di rose.
Ti vo’ la fronte incoronar, incoronar di rose!
Decanter
Like silt of the great river
time decants into the fluid clepsydra
Like dust in miles tall air
time decants into the pit of the abyssal valley’s dead depth
the inverted crater spills future dust
like a shower of stars bellow horizons…
There are, mind you worlds
with stars bellow the waters above…
all fluid irresistibly immiscible,
incarcerated inside fluid shells, incongruent inside-outs…
Time, the last spec of dust,
poisonous molecule of sludge decanted in the chalice
Panis angelicus is the penultimate strophe of the hymn Sacris solemniis written by Saint Thomas Aquinas for the Feast of Corpus Christi as part of a complete liturgy of the Feast including prayers for the Mass and the Liturgy of the Hours.
The strophe of Sacris solemniis that begins with the words “Panis angelicus” (bread of angels) has often been set to music separately from the rest of the hymn. Most famously, in 1872 César Franck set this strophe for voice (tenor), harp, cello, and organ, and incorporated it into his Messe à trois voix Opus 12. (Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panis_Angelicus)
I hope you too will enjoy Danee Robinson’s interpretation of the sublime hymn ” Panis Angelicus.”
Find out more about Danee’s, recordings, musical career and coming recitals at her website: http://daneerobinson.com/
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Tagged César Franck, Christianity, Liturgy of the Hours, Mass, Panis Angelicus, Religion and Spirituality, Thomas Aquinas
Yes friends, let’s say your power goes off while at the same time your urge for popcorn goes through the roof: well all you need is to gather few cell phones from friends and neighbors, and follow what you just watched in the video. Now I ask you: How can that be good for your brain? isn’t this a no-brainer?
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In the Jail House Now
I told him once or twice to quit playin’ cards and a shootin’ dice
He’s in the jailhouse now
He’s in the jailhouse now he’s in the jailhouse now
Well I had a friend named Rambling Bob who used to steal gamble and rob
He thought he was the smartest guy in town
But I found out last Monday that Bob got locked up Sunday
They got him in the jailhouse way downtown
He’s in the jailhouse now…
Now I went out last Tuesday I met a girl named Susie
I told her I was the swellest man around
We started to spend my money and she started to callin’ me honey
We took in every honky tonk in town
We’re in the jailhouse now…
Find more information on the movie at : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O_Brother,_Where_Art_Thou%3F
The Smudge Poem
There is the smudged print of
a tip of
a finger on that mirror
It approves not of
love
hatred
presence or absence of
either one or of
both.
There is that smudge of a print of a tip of a finger:
it is there to stay
till cleaning day…
It is there to stay.
Amprenta ramasa
Amprenta de pe oglinda aproape stearsa
tace despre
iubire
ura
absenta sentimentelo
necunosterea circumstantelor
Amprenta de pe oglinda necuratata
va fi acolo
pana in ziua curateniei
va fi acolo
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No one here can love or understand me,
Oh, what hard luck stories they all hand me,
Make my bed and light the light,
I’ll be home late tonight,
Blackbird bye bye.
Pack up all my care and woe,
Here I go,
Singing low,
Bye (bye) bye (bye) blackbird.
(tchoo tchoo tchoo tchoo tchoo tchoo)
Where somebody waits for me,
Sugar’s sweet, so is she,
Bye (bye) bye (bye) blackbird.
(tchoo tchoo tchoo tchoo tchoo tchoo)
No one here can love or understand me,
Oh, what hard luck stories they all hand me,
(Oh oh oh oh)
Make my bed, light that light,
I’ll be home late tonight,
Blackbird…
Make my bed and light the light,
I’ll be home late tonight,
Leave you bird jet in the sky
Toodle oo!
Farewell!
Bye bye!
Blackbird
(Blackbird,Blackbird)
We’ll take the flying little blackbird bye!
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bye_Bye_Blackbird)
I cannot read between your lines
You cannot make me read your tiny mind
Oh who’s got the time
Oh you’d go blind
Jesus and Mary
Are takin’ me down to the other side of town
Where they don’t count the days
With steel blades on the walls of time
They just dance naked in the sun all the time
She’s the jewel in your crown
But I’m the goal that’s gonna weigh you down
I’ll keep you around this dirty old town
Every time I put the stove on
Dinner’s cold by the time you come over
Oh you turn over on that cold shoulder
Jesus and Mary
Are takin’ me down to the other side of town
Where they don’t count the days
With steel blades on the walls of time
They just dance naked in the sun all the time
And you call and you call my name
Baby, hazy, lazy
Oh I am not an animal
When I lie back, I lie on my back
Baby, hazy, lazy
Oh I’ll sign on the dotted line
Don’t bring me down
Don’t bring me down
Don’t bring me down, no
Don’t bring me down
Don’t bring me down
Don’t bring me down
Don’t bring me down
Martha Wainwright (born May 8, 1976) is a Canadian-American folk–rock singer–songwriter. She is the daughter of American folk singer and actor Loudon Wainwright III and Canadian folk singer-songwriter Kate McGarrigle. With her older brother, Rufus Wainwright, she was raised in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, in a musical family.
(Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martha_Wainwright)
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Averie was shy, then started to tell her story, in the matter-of-fact manner of a girl who turns 5 next month: “I wanted to, need to help. My mama was cold and my brother was crying and nobody knows.”Jamie, Averie and Abel Carrion had to keep moving. Their plane was leaving in a few hours, and they hadn’t even thought about packing.Jean Zenk waved goodbye, then sat down in the same seat where she’d swaddled Averie Carrion a few nights before.”We always hear about the bad things in the world, so it’s nice to hear something with a happy ending,” Zenk said. “She had a guardian angel over her that night.
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Ellis Island was the gateway for millions of immigrants to the United States as the site of the nation’s busiest immigrant inspection station from 1892 to 1954. The island was greatly expanded with landfill between 1892 and 1934. Before that, the much smaller original island was the site of Fort Gibson and later a naval magazine. It became part of the Statue of Liberty National Monument in 1965, and since 1990, hosts a museum of immigration run by the National Park Service. A 1998 United States Supreme Court decision found most of the island to be part of New Jersey. (source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellis_Island)
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