blue raspberry

"Rainy Dayz"
(Raekwon the Chef featuring Ghostface Killer, Blue Raspberry)

Intro: Blue Raspberry

Summer's dream inside
Of how I'm gonna get mine
I'm thinkin bou-owowow-out so many ways
Of how to conquer, these raihahahahahny days...
[You sang beautifully just now]
[ I sang for him, and he isn't here]
*birds craw and cackle*

It's going down man, word man
Sup black?
Niggaz is f**kin around my gate man
Word?
f**k em... yo, I'ma murder somebody man
For real I ain't playin
Whatever whatever...

Chorus: Blue Raspberry

It's raining, he's changing
My man is going insane
Insane...

Verse One: Ghostface Killer

The war is on, yo
On rainy dayz I sit back and count ways on
how to get rich son, show and prove, ask my blitz
Stood up late nights, build with my a-lias
We can pull a heist, snatch ice, or rock mics
But this rap shit, got me wanna clack back the latch
How it goes Leon, pesos made from scratch
but in due time, soon to get mine like Bugsy
Heavy on the wrist, Polo mock socks and rugbies
Old flicks remind me of Gucci's, pack em in your square
and little macks milk, blast the year
That was Bill Bill, fast forward, ninety-four
Who got the bad base? Filthiest fiends scream for more
Bless me out of state, howdy Jake's, Starks is back
Niggaz want work, now I pull back off a G-Pack
Coke rocks, fled to co-ops livin gossip
Them big lip niggaz singin to cops need to box it
Stop it, the projects overflooded with slow leaks
the fiends get, new faces get wrapped in sheets
I gotta get mine, like my old Earth, bless the cheese blind
Sippin on fine wine, the power of the blacks refined
(Raining) devine
Waiting on these raw teats takes too long
It's like waiting on babies, it makes me want to slay thee
But that's ungodly, so yo God, pardon me
I need it real quick, the dope flow like penmanship
Many heads get pistol-whipped, I blow spots like horse shit
So now, talk, shit, nigga, what??

Chorus: Blue Raspberry

It's raining, he's changing
My man is going insane

Insane...
Past sunlight, more gunfight

Verse Two: Raekwon the Chef

...time to get the feeling, word up
What brings rain hail snow and earthquakes
The beat breaks, cause all my niggaz to break son
Styles is similar to criminals locked up
With gats, ghetto tabernacles is f**ked up
I live once though, the mind stays infinite
Travel in the church, nine planets, in my midst
While I carry, to earn a decent salary
Soon get married, raise a family, but the plan'll be
real great, to sit up in the loft, count stacks and max
And real cats cold watch my back
But listen to the Wu soon, and maintain
It's all real, starvin individuals kill
I puff what's only right, leave the poison alone
Projects, infested with rats cats and crack homes
Half of us'll try to make it, the other half'll try to take it
So many fake half real freedom-ville
Born to science my alliance analyzes
Wild surprises, keepin my eyes wide to this
The unfortunate, layin in mountains countin
With jewelry on, can it be the next team house the horn
Chill Dunn, just for real ones, light the lye up
I hate to have to tie the next guy up
Pay attention to Tims ten wins, Wu blends
Now I'm starin you, the true buckle up
Now who's a legend?

Chorus: Blue Raspberry, Raekwon the Chef

It's raining, he's changing Word up Dunn
It's raining, he's changing Peace to Philly, VA, these days
My man is going insane Word up y'all
My man is going insane Word up
Insane The sun moon and stars
Fly cars, word up y'all

No sunlight, more gun fights
I've lost him to the street life
Street life
No cash flow, no more dough
He's someone I don't even know
Someone I don't know
Rainy Dayz...
(children playing)
Gettin through those rainy dayz
Gettin through those rainy dayz
Gettin through those rainy dayz
Gettin through those rainy dayz
I lost him to the street life
The street life, whoahhhhh
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http://jp.youtube.com/watch?v=QmIcXcKYPwA&feature=related
http://jp.youtube.com/watch?v=MG_dHwNdDn8
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4 ounces vodka
2 ounces raspberry liqueur
1 ounce Blue Curacao
1 ounce lime juice
2 ounces simple syrup
2 ounces water
Fresh raspberries

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Raspberry_(singer)
http://hubpages.com/hub/Blue_Raspberry_Martini

hark, flip, flow

(from http://www.djanonymous.fi/)

http://jp.youtube.com/watch?v=YnmqaULUcb0
http://www.myspace.com/erule
http://www.djanonymous.fi/labels/Los%20Angeles.html

[E-Rule]
Listen up, check it, E-Rule's about to wreck it
?? ?? in more reverse I got the works when I freak it
Disarm unique wits ?? seek it
Diapharetic in the energetic
more than motion draws up kinetic, bein combined with the vibe
Not a man'll transcribe, though they tried
I jot down ?? indeed I rock the whole jam
Chumps know the program, identical to no man
When I get busy who is he - my formula rhymes
in parallel lines in perfect, mics to short circuit
Hark, it's worth it - I'm on the brink of blowin up, y'all
Examine hits however they fall with mics in flight
Graphic when I grabs it, gab with forms of this sort
Words I comports with no but's and's or if's
Laid on the reel, eventually the skill'll build
I bag a ?? of the ?? ism, ill and chill
when I feel I grow like shrubs over dubs indulgin buds
Maybe 4-20 Team hits on the elements of green
What's the word? Travel more than six-third
Brothers in mad words to build upon the scene for the time bein
Dips down to ? God, what's the catch
Knows I can't freak a sketch, got a panoramic view
Plus I'm true, pull no stunts on the crew or you're through
That's a fact, future knack flung by the tongue
Hark to what the God brung, listen up

[cuts and scratches]
"Listen!"
"Listen up, lend me your ear, stop and stare.."
"Listen!"
"Listen up, lend me your ear, stop and stare.."
"Listen!"
"Listen up, lend me your ear, stop and stare.."
"Listen!"

[E-Rule]
Flip I'm baggin your click, mark my words - see you never knew
You wouldn't boast at all if you had heard my skills
Secluded in my unit rip rhymes to flow fluent
Manifest my Flatlands style
Be direct from the West I flare form and dare chumps to test
Try and press, I ?? the stress, more or less
Marvelous my drifts, I stride boroughs through the fifth
When I shift my zone, got melodic tone
Flows I freak course the mic my resource so let me go on and check
Live and direct, to wreck a technique, I freak mad mad mystique
When I speak, I peak, E-Rule's unique
Fly as well, spark like a ?? blastin
Punks are plastic, I'm drastic, ill like Romana
Diggin Afrodonna's in order, no game retain my name
Here it is E-Rule supreme I get biz, you know the scene
that you quote, check what I wrote, recaps responses
No nonsense, here it is in true confound mannerism
Swarms gettin warm due to lingo that I give em
like that, while you hark to my wis'
Checkin for the sound God and there it is

[cuts and scratches]
"Listen up, lend me your ear, stop and stare.."
"Listen!"
"Listen up, lend me your ear, stop and stare.."
"Listen!"
"Listen up, lend me your ear, stop and stare.."
"Listen!"
"Listen up, lend me your ear, stop and stare.."
"Listen!"

[E-Rule]
Fresh in the mind to freak thought in writin rhyme
Born and inclined, I'm jukin no chimes, Sign of the no-Times
I make a killin, talkin willin got the feelin
all my skill and functions are modulations as I break trends
Meetin ends with my ?? my God sends
Got the format, many swore that, I wouldn't drop
Now I got props, you heard my chumpie, I never slump
see punks are left back, I'm ill like Lefrak, when I kick
my tone slick drifts to fit, manifestin this
Darts thoughts emerge on a hit
You know this foul words you never utter
cause you know the God's butter
Got my game down pat so my sound's fat
Flow from the end of the pound tracks, rip it then max
I beez aloof to the punks, flowin the gimmicks and acts
I got the formula I'm warnin ya the vibe be mad ill
Expade'in through the feel you're feelin, it's that appealin
Greenbacks I'm reelin, aloof to kids who be stealin
I ?? ?? not a punk or servile
I'm magnanimous, I grow like canibus, never animous/animus
When I unfold, hope the next man don't plan to bust gold
My form is, after swarm is, enormous the wordin
of born is, showin em all what gettin warm is - indeed
Harken as I proceed
E-Rule the wise appraise em all
Got a next level song and then I'm gone

[cuts and scratches]
"Lend me your ear, stop and stare.."
"Listen!"
"Listen up, lend me your ear, stop and stare.."
"Listen!"
"Listen up, lend me your ear, stop and stare.."
"Listen!"
"Listen up, lend me your ear, stop and stare.."
"Listen!"
---

eclectic dynamism

DJ Magic Mike "The Dynamic Uno"

::dynamic::
1817, as a term in philosophy; 1827 in the sense "force producing motion," from Fr. dynamique (1762), from Ger. dynamisch, introduced by Leibnitz 1691 from Gk. dynamikos "powerful," from dynamis "power," from dynasthai "be able to have power," of unknown origin. The fig. sense of "active, potent, energetic" is from 1856. Dynamics as a branch of physics was in use from 1788.

The Dynamic "Duo":
http://www.djmagicmike.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DJ_Magic_Mike
http://www.redbullmusicacademy.com/video-archive/lectures/uidcall/138/
http://www.redbullmusicacademy.com/video-archive/lectures/uidcall/139/
http://www.redbullmusicacademy.com/home/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Process_philosophy

color

The principal Dharmaśāstra texts include
1) the four Dharmasūtras of
-Āpastamba
-Gautama
-Baudhāyana
-Vāsiṣṭha
dating from around the third to first centuries BC,

2) the major smṛtis of
-Manu
-Yājñvalkya
-Nārada
-Viṣṇu
-Bṛhaspati
-Kātyāyana
tentatively dating from between the first and sixth centuries AD,

3) the many commentaries and digests, beginning in roughly the eighth century AD.

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


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manusmriti
http://www.sacred-texts.com/hin/manu.htm
http://www.sacred-texts.com/hin/sbe02/index.htm
http://www.sacred-texts.com/hin/sbe14/index.htm
http://www.sacred-texts.com/hin/sbe07/index.htm
http://www.sacred-texts.com/hin/sbe33/index.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brahmin
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kshatriya
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaishya
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shudra

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rig_veda
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varna_(Hinduism)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vedas
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puranic
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upanishad

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhagavad_Gita
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramayana

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shivaism
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaishnavism

http://www.pondichery.com/french/index.htm

outlandish - "guantanamo"

The grass is greener on my side - eh eh eh

Mo hot sauce, mo sipping, mo palmas, mo baile
Mo sunshine

El son de mi cuba
Me da los buenos dias
Desayuno y al salir
Todo el mundo ya esta arriba
Oye chico subele el volumen
Me encanta ese bolero

http://jp.youtube.com/watch?v=DngCw53zD9o

gang starr

dj premier: classic
http://jp.youtube.com/watch?v=YCU-qgR_4bM&feature=related

bizarre ride : pharcyde

Now in my younger days I used to sport a shag
When I went to school I carried lunch in a bag
With an apple for my teacher cause I knew Id get a kiss
Always got mad when the class was dismissed
But when it was in session, I always had a question
I would raise my hand to make her stagger to my desk and
Help me with my problem, it was never much
Just a trick, to smell her scent and try to sneak a touch
Oh, how I wish I could hold her hand and give her a hug
She was married to the man, he was a thug,
His name was lee, he drove a z,
Hed pick her up from school promptly at three oclock
I was on her jock, yes indeedy I wrote graffiti on the bus
First Id write her name then carve a plus,
With my name last, on the looking glass,
I seen her yesterday but still I had to let her pass

She keeps on passin me by...

When I dream of fairytales I think of me and shelly
See shes my type of hype and I cant stand when brothers tell me
That I should quit chasin and look for something better
But the smile that she shows makes me a go-getter
I havent gone as far as asking if I could get with her
I just play it by ear and hope she gets the picture
Im shootin for her heart, got my finger on the trigger
She could be my broad, and I could be her (nigga)
But, all I can do is stare...
Back as kids we used to kiss when we played truth or dare
Now shes more sophisticated, highly edu-ma-cated
Not at all over-rated, I think I need a prayer
To get in her boots and it looks rather dry
I guess a twinkle in her eye is just a twinkle in her eye
Although shes crazy steppin, Ill try to stop her stride
Cause I wont have no more of this passin me by

And I must voice my opinion of not even pretending she didnt have me
Strung like a chicken, chase my tail like a doggie
She was kind of like a star, thinking I was like a fan
Dude, she looked good, down side: she had a man
He was a rooty-toot, a nincompoop
She told me soon your little birdies gonna fly the coop
She was a flake like corn, and I was born not to understand
By lettin her pass I had proved to be a better man

She keeps on passin me by...

Now there she goes again, the dopest ethiopian
And now the world around me be gets movin in slow motion
When-ever she happens to walk by - why does the apple of my eye
Overlook and disregard my feelings no matter how much I try?
Wait, no, I did not really pursue my little princess with persistance;
And I was so low-key that she was unaware of my existance
From a distance I desired, secretly admired her;
Wired her a letter to get her, and it went:
My dear, my dear, my dear, you do not know me but I know you very well
Now let me tell you about the feelings I have for you
When I try, or make some sort of attempt, I symp
Damn I wish I wasnt such a wimp!
cause then I would let you know that I love you so
And if I was your man then I would be true
The only lying I would do is in the bed with you
Then I signed sincerely the one who loves you dearly, ps love me tender
The letter came back three days later: return to sender
Damn!

She keeps on passin me by...

http://jp.youtube.com/watch?v=r0M7QuwPY8E
http://jp.youtube.com/watch?v=0gwTZzITv8w&feature=related
http://jp.youtube.com/watch?v=nVhGwIK4gFU
"otha fish 12' single"

http://jp.youtube.com/watch?v=8-Fh9bELnhs
w/charlie brown
http://jp.youtube.com/watch?v=vx8sPzacvG0
w/lyric

http://jp.youtube.com/watch?v=Wa6ok0kWK8k
myspace.com/nefariousprod
http://jp.youtube.com/watch?v=vhJiWwRmRYk
myspace.com/legendarypictures
http://jp.youtube.com/watch?v=Q592SpvJ0NM
http://higashizakura.client.jp/
http://jp.youtube.com/watch?v=W-z7HvP4kXg
alexadiels
http://jp.youtube.com/watch?v=0-JF8zVPx4c&feature=related
DJ Zaius or posajnejkwahb

soul searching

"Former UFC champ Tanner dead at 37"
By Jeff Cain, Ken Pishna, and Tom Hamlin/MMAWeekly.com

Former Ultimate Fighting Championship middleweight champion Evan Tanner was found dead near Palo Verde, Calif. on Monday. He was 37.

Tanner had trekked into the desert on a journey to “cleanse” himself, according to Douglas Vincitorio of Tanner’s management team. “He went out to the desert to do a ‘cleansing’ as he called it. Kind of like ‘Survivorman.’” These short trips were not new to Tanner, said Vincitorio. It is something that he has done numerous times over the years.

“What we were told is that (Sheriff’s officials who found Tanner) believe his motorcycle had run out of gas, so he went to walk out in like 115- to 118-degree heat,” Vincitorio said. “He was miles away from his camp. That’s where the helicopter found him. Right now, they just think that he succumbed to the heat.”

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Tanner had apparently told friends before he left that if they hadn’t heard from him in a couple of days, they should contact officials, which is what happened. When he stopped responding to text messages, friends waited a couple of days and then notified officials at the Imperial County Sherrif’s Department on Friday.

A search ensued and Tanner’s body was found Monday.

On Aug. 10, Tanner wrote a blog on Spike TV’s website, proclaiming his desire to start an adventure in the desert east of his new home in Oceanside, Calif. An avid outdoorsman and wandering spirit, he wanted to escape civilization for a while.

“I’m not just going out into the desert, I’m going out into the desert to hunt for lost treasure,” he wrote. “I’m going on a pilgrimage of sorts, a journey to solitude, to do some thinking, and to pay my respects to the great mysteries.”

[...]

“He will obviously be sorely missed,” said Vincitorio. Adding, “I think that Evan would want to be remembered as a very complex man with many layers, not just a fighter.”
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pete rock

Pete's Jazz
http://jp.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6LFaeJaHu8
For the People
http://jp.youtube.com/watch?v=eau8YZUQRh0
No More Words
http://jp.youtube.com/watch?v=OFD3MHZwR9k

korede iinoda

Sunday, Aug. 3, 2008

Cartoonist Akatsuka dies of pneumonia at 72

Cartoonist Fujio Akatsuka, the creator of such popular and humorous cartoon series as "Osomatsu-kun" and "Tensai Bakabon," died of pneumonia Saturday at a hospital in Tokyo, his family said. He was 72.

http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20080803f3.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fujio_Akatsuka
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tensai_Bakabon
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Long before the "Family Guy copied The Simpsons" controversy, and long before "The Simpsons", there was "Tensai Bakabon".

estelle getty

Estelle Getty, the diminutive actress who spent 40 years struggling for success before landing a role of a lifetime in 1985 as the sarcastic octogenarian Sophia on TV's "The Golden Girls," has died. She was 84.
Getty, who suffered from advanced dementia, died at about 5:30 a.m. Tuesday at her Hollywood Boulevard home, said her son, Carl Gettleman of Santa Monica.
"Estelle always wanted to be an actress, and she achieved that goal beyond her dreams," former "Golden Girls" co-star Rue McClanahan told The Associated Press. "Don't feel sad about her passing. She will always be with us in her crowning achievement, Sophia."
"The Golden Girls," featuring four female retirees sharing a house in Miami, grew out of NBC programming chief Brandon Tartikoff's belief that television was ignoring its older viewers.

http://tv.yahoo.com/show/30728/news/urn:newsml:tv.ap.org:20080722:obit_getty

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estelle_Getty
http://www.estellegetty.com/main.html
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001268/

age one

Cancer forces Tasmanian devils to breed earlier
By RANDOLPH E. SCHMID, AP Science Writer

WASHINGTON - The little devils just can't wait. Faced with an epidemic of cancer that cuts their lives short, Tasmanian devils have begun breeding at younger ages, according to researchers at the University of Tasmania in Australia.

Since 1996 a contagious form of cancer called devil facial tumor disease has been infecting these animals and is invariably fatal, causing death between the ages of 2 and 3.

In the past devils would live five to six years, breeding at ages two, three and four, but with the new disease, even females who breed at two may not live long enough to rear their first litter.

Jones, who has been studying the animals' life cycles since before the disease outbreak, noted that there has been a 16-fold increase in breeding at age one.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080714/ap_on_sc/sci_evolving_devils

Tasmanian Devil (Sarcophilus harrisii)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tasmanian_Devil
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Tasmanian_Devil_Facial_Tumour_Disease.png

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tasmanian_Devil_%28Looney_Tunes%29

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thylacine
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quoll

http://www.tassiedevil.com.au/

looney bit

"He says, 'we won't be able to let you through because your T-shirt has got a gun on it'," Mr Jayakody said.

"I was like, 'What are you talking about?'.

"[The official's] supervisor comes over and goes 'sorry we can't let you through and you've a gun on your T-shirt'," he said.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/london/7431640.stm
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1023560/Man-threatened-arrest-Heathrow-wearing-Transformers-T-shirt.html

empty doll

"I'm so lost. Will I ever find myself?"
"My dream is to fly. Oh, my rainbow it is too high,"

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/2008/06/28/2008-06-28_models_web_rants_pined_for_love.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruslana_Korshunova

my, my, my

"I wish" Skee-Lo

Hey, this is radio station W-S-K-E-E
We're takin' calls off the wish line
Making all your wacky wishes come true

Hello

1/
I wish I was little bit taller,
I wish I was a baller
I wish I had a girl who looked good
I would call her
I wish I had a rabbit in a hat with a bat
and a '64 Impala/

I wish I was like six-foot-nine
So I could get with Leoshi
Cause she don't know me but yo she's really fine
You know I see her all the time
Everywhere I go, and even in my dreams
I can scheme of ways to make her mine
Cause I know she's livin phat
Her boyfriend's tall and he plays ball
So how am I gonna compete with that
'Cause when it comes to playing basketball
I'm always last to be picked
And in some cases never picked at all
So I just lean upon the wall
Or sit up in the bleachers with the rest of the girls
Who came to watch their men ball
Dag y'all! I never understood
Why the jocks get the fly girls
And me I get the hood rats
I tell 'em scat, skittle, skibobble
Got hit with a bottle
And put in the hospital, for talkin' that mess
I confess it's a shame when you livin' in a city
That's the size of a box and nobody knows yo' name
Glad I came to my senses
Like quick-quick got sick-sick to my stomach
Overcome with my thoughts of me and her together
Right?
So when I asked her out she said I wasn't her type
(rpt 1, 1)

I wish I had a brand-new car
So far, I got this hatchback
And everywhere I go, yo I gets laughed at
And when I'm in my car I'm laid back
I got an 8-track and a spare tire in the backseat
But that's flat
And do you really wanna know what's really wack, What
See I can't even get a date
So, what do you think of that?
I heard that prom night is the bomb night
With a hood rat you can hold tight
But really tho' on figuero
When I'm in my car I can't even get a hello
Well so many people wanna cruise Crenshaw on Sunday
Well then I'm gonna have to get in my car and go
You know I take the 110 to the 105
Get off on Crenshaw tell my homies look alive
Cause it's hard to survive
Livin' in a concrete jungle and
These girls just keep passin' me by
She looks fly, she looks fly
Makes me say my, my, my
(rpt 1, 1)

I wish I was a little bit taller...
I wish I was a baller...
I wish I was a little bit taller y'all
I wish I was a baller (3)

Hey, I wish I had my way
'Cause everyday would be a Friday
You could even speed on the highway
I would play ghetto games
Name my kids ghetto names
Little Mookie, big Al, Lorraine
Yo you know that's on the real
So if you're down on your luck
Then you should know just how I feel
Cause if you don't want me around
See I go simple, I go easy, I go greyhound
Hey, you, what's that sound?
Everybody look what's going down
Ahhhh, yes, ain't that fresh?
Everybody wants to get down like that
(rpt 1, 1)

I wish, I wish, I wish...

http://jp.youtube.com/watch?v=icr0eW1fRSs

When you've seen one, you've seen all.

"I was a so-called star because of my limitations and that was always the case. I couldn't do any accents. So I had to pretend. Luckily I was tall, had curly hair and a good voice. I only had to stamp my foot and I'd play the lead -- because I couldn't play character parts."

http://themave.com/Cotten/bio2.htm

heigh ceiling
http://www.imdb.com/media/rm2672400384/nm0001072

see (v.)
O.E. seon (contracted class V strong verb; past tense seah, pp. sewen), from P.Gmc. *sekhwanan (cf. O.S., O.H.G. sehan, M.H.G., Ger. sehen, O.Fris. sia, M.Du. sien, O.N. sja, Goth. saihwan), from PIE base *sekw- "to see," which is "probably" the same base that produced words for "say" in Greek and Latin, and also words for "follow" (cf. L. sequor), but "opinions differ in regard to the semantic starting-point and sequences" [Buck]. Thus see could originally mean "follow with the eyes." Used in M.E. to mean "behold in the imagination or in a dream" (c.1200), "to recognize the force of (a demonstration)," also c.1200, "often with ref. to metaphorical light or eyes" [OED], and "to learn by reading" (1426). Past tense saw developed from O.E. pl. sawon.
"When you have seen one of their Pictures, you have seen all." [Blake, c.1811]
Sense of "escort" (e.g. to see someone home) first recorded 1607 in Shakespeare. Meaning "to receive as a visitor" is attested from c.1500. Gambling sense of "equal a bet" is from 1599. See you as a casual farewell first attested 1891. Seeing Eye dog first attested 1929, Amer.Eng., trademarked by Seeing Eye Inc. of New Jersey.

http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=see

each will

do

humanism doomed

Mars team ponders whether lander sees crack or cocaine

LOS ANGELES - Is the white stuff in the Martian soil crack or cocaine?

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080616/ap_on_sc/phoenix_mars

i see beyond

"Like Humans, Other Apes Plan Ahead"

Chimps and orangutans plan for the future just like us.

They are capable of exercising self-control to postpone gratification and to imagine future events via "mental time travel," according to new research from Lunds University Cognitive Science in Sweden.

The skill of future planning was commonly thought to be exclusive to humans, although some studies of apes and crows have challenged this idea, say researchers Mathias and Helena Osvath. Now, for the first time, there is "conclusive evidence of advanced planning capacities in non-human species," they say.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/likehumansotherapesplanahead


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laïcité
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secular

[Origin: 1250–1300; < ML séculāris, LL saeculāris worldly, temporal (opposed to eternal), L: of an age, equiv. to L saecul(um) long period of time + -āris -ar1; r. ME seculer < OF < L, as above]

secular
c.1290, "living in the world, not belonging to a religious order," also "belonging to the state," from O.Fr. seculer, from L.L. sæcularis "worldly, secular," from L. sæcularis "of an age, occurring once in an age," from sæculum "age, span of time, generation," probably originally cognate with words for "seed," from PIE base *se(i)- "to sow" (cf. Goth. mana-seþs "mankind, world," lit. "seed of men"). Used in ecclesiastical writing like Gk. aion "of this world" (see cosmos). It is source of Fr. siècle. Ancient Roman ludi sæculares was a three-day, day-and-night celebration coming once in an "age" (120 years). Secularism "doctrine that morality should be based on the well-being of man in the present life, without regard to religious belief or a hereafter" first recorded 1846.
http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?l=s&p=11

misty

"Misty" as sang by Ella Fitzgerald

Look at me,
I'm (as) helpless as a kitten up a tree
And I feel like I'm clinging to a cloud,
I can't understand,
I get misty just holding your hand.

Walk my way
And a thousand violins begin to play,
Or it may be the sound of your hello,
That music I hear, I get misty whenever you're near.

You can say that you're leading me on,
And it's just what I want you to do,
Don't you notice how hopelessly I'm lost
That's why I'm following you.

On my own, would I wander through this wonderland alone,
Never knowing my right foot from my left
My hat from my glove,
I'm too misty and too much in love.
(I'm too misty and too much in love.)

(Look at me.)
Look at love.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misty_(jazz)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ella_Fitzgerald

http://jp.youtube.com/watch?v=oNDuH9IJhGA

Burning old life for new life

Biogenic theory
Most geologists view crude oil and natural gas as the product of compression and heating of ancient organic materials over geological time. Oil is formed from the preserved remains of prehistoric zooplankton and algae which have been settled to the sea (or lake) bottom in large quantities under anoxic conditions. Terrestrial plants, on the other hand, tend to form coal. Over geological time this organic matter, mixed with mud, is buried under heavy layers of sediment. The resulting high levels of heat and pressure cause the organic matter to chemically change during diagenesis, first into a waxy material known as kerogen which is found in various oil shales around the world, and then with more heat into liquid and gaseous hydrocarbons in a process known as catagenesis.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petroleum
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abiogenic_petroleum_origin
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lipids
http://www.csu.org/extrx/education/adventure/origins/biobkg.htm
http://www.gasresources.net/Introduction.htm

Abiogenic Origin of Hydrocarbons: An Historical Overview"; Geoffrey P.GLASBY
http://static.scribd.com/docs/j79lhbgbjbqrb.pdf

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georg_Agricola
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Lomonosov
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Louis_Gay-Lussac
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_von_Humboldt
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcellin_Berthelot
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dmitri_Mendeleev
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolai_Kudryavtsev
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_B._Porfir'ev
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Gold

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masudi
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marco_Polo
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Razi
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Pierre_Ancillon_de_la_Sablonnière
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_XV
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Pineo_Gesner
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignacy_Łukasiewicz
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Silliman

Grand Paris

1. Richard Rogers (Royaume-Uni)
2. Finn Geipel (Allemagne)
3. le groupement MVRDV (Pays-Bas)
4. Bernardo Secchi (Italie)

côté français:
5. Djamel Klouche
6. Yves Lion
7. Jean Nouvel
8. Christian de Portzamparc
9. Antoine Grumbach
10. Roland Castro

Les cabinets de
1. Roland Castro
2. Antoine Grumbach
3. Djamel Klouche
4. Yves Lion
5. Jacob Van Rijs et Nathalie de Vries
6. Jean Nouvel
7. Fin Geipel
8. Winy Maas
9. Richard Rogers
10. Bernardo Secchi et de Paola Vigano.

Parmi les heureux sélectionnés,
de grandes stars internationales (les Pritzker Priées 1. Richard Rogers ou 2. Christian de Portzamparc),
et des architectes très parisiens (3. Antoine Grumbach).
Des vieux briscards (4. Roland Castro),
des valeurs montantes (5. Finn Geipel, 6. MVRDV)
et de jeunes Apaches (7. Djamel Klouch).
De grands urbanistes peu architectes (8. Bernardo Secchi, 9. Yves Lion)
et de grands architectes peu urbanistes (10. Jean Nouvel).

Parmi une quarantaine de candidats, un jury a choisi, le 21 mai dernier, de confier la tâche de rêver ce fameux Grand Paris
aux Français 1. Jean Nouvel, associé à Michel Cantal-Dupart et Jean-Marie Duthilleul,
2. Christian de Portzamparc,
3. Roland Castro,
4. Antoine Grumbach,
5. Yves Lion,
6. Djamel Klouche,
7. au Britannique Richard Rogers,
8. aux Italiens Bernardo Secchi et Paola Vigano du Studio 08,
9. aux Néerlandais de l'agence MVRDV
10. et, enfin, à l'Allemand Finn Geipel.

http://grandparis.over-blog.com/
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/2080999/Nicolas-Sarkozy-plans-for-'Grand-Paris'.html
http://www.lemoniteur-expert.com/actualite/architecture_maitrise_oeuvre/grand_paris_architectes_recus_elysee/DE491AA9C.htm
http://parisobs.nouvelobs.com/article/politique/les-dix-archis-du-grand-paris,3511,page1.html
http://www.lefigaro.fr/culture/2008/06/05/03004-20080605ARTFIG00426-dix-architectes-vont-plancher-sur-le-projet-du-grand-paris-.php

http://www.wikio.fr/news/Richard+Rogers
http://www.wikio.fr/news/Antoine+GRUMBACH

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haussmann's_renovation_of_Paris
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transformations_de_Paris_sous_le_Second_Empire

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges_Eugène_Haussmann
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges_Eugène_Haussmann

http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rond-point
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrefour_giratoire
http://www.archicool.com/cgi-bin/presse/pg-newspro.cgi?id_news=527

L’histoire du rond point ; une histoire de bon sens. “ Du rond-point au giratoire”
un livre de Eric Alonzo aux éditions “Parenthèses.”

le rond point est cependant loin d’être une invention récente, l’histoire commence au coeur des forêts de chasse près des relais du même nom du XVIIe siècle, puis dans les jardins classiques, lieu de rencontre et de spectacularisation. Le rond point sera perçu comme solutoire aux “conflits des voitures” en 1906 sur l’idée de Eugène Hénard qui inventa le “carrefour à giration.”

Life formulation: spruce

World’s oldest living tree discovered in Sweden

The world’s oldest recorded tree is a 9,550 year old spruce in the Dalarna province of Sweden. The spruce tree has shown to be a tenacious survivor that has endured by growing between erect trees and smaller bushes in pace with the dramatic climate changes over time.

http://www.info.umu.se/NYHETER/PressmeddelandeEng.aspx?id=3061
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norway_spruce

Plant Genome Offers Clues to Longevity
Arabidopsis can survive the loss of an enzyme that prevents aging

Researchers studying the tips of chromosomes in Arabidopsis thaliana-a weed in the mustard family-are learning about gene functions that determine how rapidly plants age, which could lead eventually to advances in human medicine.

"Much of the plant genome is very similar to the human genome," said Dorothy Shippen, Texas A&M associate professor of biochemistry and biophysics. "Also, because we can do these wonderful genetic tricks in plants, we think that much of what we learn in the plant system will be ultimately translatable, and perhaps have significant impact, in human medicine."
http://www.nsf.gov/od/lpa/news/press/01/pr0115.htm

ross andrew mcginnis

McGinnis sacrificed himself in an act of supreme bravery on December 4, belying his status as the youngest soldier in Company C, 1st Battalion, 26th Infantry Regiment, attached to the 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division.

The 19-year-old amateur mechanic from Knox, Pa., who enjoyed poker and loud music, likely saved the lives of four soldiers riding with him on a mission in Baghdad.

McGinnis was manning the gunner’s hatch when an insurgent tossed a grenade from above. It flew past McGinnis and down through the hatch before lodging near the radio. His platoon sergeant, Sgt. 1st Class Cedric Thomas of Longview, Texas, recalled what happened next.

“Pfc. McGinnis yelled ‘Grenade! … It’s in the truck,’” Thomas said. “I looked out of the corner of my eye as I was crouching down and I saw him pin it down.” McGinnis did so even though he could have escaped. “He had time to jump out of the truck,” Thomas said. “He chose not to.”

Thomas remembered McGinnis talking about how he would respond in such a situation. McGinnis said then he didn’t know how he would act, but when the time came, he delivered. “He gave his life to save his crew and his platoon sergeant,” Thomas said. “He’s a hero. He’s a professional. He was just an awesome guy.”

http://www.arlingtoncemetery.net/ramcginnis.htm

"Eight Elders"

"Zhonggong Bada Yuanlao"
"Zhonggong Balao"
"Zhiguo Balao"

- Deng Xiaoping (1904-1997)
- Chen Yun (1905-1995)
- Peng Zhen (1902-1997)
- Yang Shangkun (1907-1998)
- Bo Yibo (1908-2007)
- Li Xiannian (1909-1992)
- Wang Zhen (1908-1993)
- Song Renqiong (1909-2005)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Party_elders
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crown_Prince_Party
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xi_Jinping

- 鄧小平（1904年8月22日-1997年2月19日）四川省出身。
- 陳雲（1905年6月13日 - 1995年4月10日）青浦／上海市出身。
- 彭真（1902年10月12日 - 1997年4月26日）
- 楊尚昆（1907年5月25日 - 1998年9月14日）重慶市出身。
- 薄一波（1908年2月17日 - 2007年1月15日）山西省出身。

- 李先念（1909年 - 1992年6月21日）湖北省出身。
- 王震（1908年4月 - 1993年3月12日）湖南省出身。
- 鄧穎超（1904年2月4日 - 1992年7月11日）
/
--> 宋平（1917年4月 -）
--> 宋任窮（1909 - 2005）
--> 万里（1916年12月1日 -）山東省出身。
--> 習仲勲（1913 - 2002）

http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/八大元老
http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/習近平
http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/李克強

"Nine Old Men"

/Disney's "Nine Old Men"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disney's_Nine_Old_Men

/Eric Larson (September 3, 1905 - October 25, 1988)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Larson
/Les Clark (November 17, 1907 - September 12, 1979)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Clark
/Milt Kahl (March 22, 1909 - April 19, 1987)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milt_Kahl
/Wolfgang "Woolie" Reitherman (June 26, 1909 - May 22, 1985)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfgang_Reitherman
/John Lounsbery (March 9, 1911 - February 13, 1976)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lounsbery
/Frank Thomas (September 5, 1912 - September 8, 2004)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Thomas_%28animator%29
/Ollie Johnston (October 31, 1912 - April 14, 2008)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ollie_Johnston
/Marc Davis (March 30, 1913 - January 12, 2000)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Davis
/Ward Kimball (March 4, 1914 - July 8, 2002)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ward_Kimball

/The Supreme Court of the USA
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAsupreme.htm

/The Illusion of Life: Disney Animation (Hardcover)
by Ollie Johnston (Author), Frank Thomas (Author)
/Walt Disney's Nine Old Men and the Art of Animation
by John Canemaker (Author)

/Last of Walt Disney's "Nine Old Men" dies
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080416/people_nm/disney_johnston_dc
/John Lasseter
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lasseter

life, the quest

Do you know Nasir Gebelli?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nasir_Gebelli
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My favorite classic RPGs:
FFI to VI
DQI to VI (maybe VII)
Romancing SaGa Trilogy
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Final_Fantasy_%28video_game%29
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Final_Fantasy_II
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Final_Fantasy_III
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Final_Fantasy_IV

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hironobu_Sakaguchi
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takashi_Tokita
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoshitaka_Amano
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobuo_Uematsu
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Final_Fantasy_V

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoshinori_Kitase
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetsuya_Nomura
---
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Final_Fantasy_VI

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiroyuki_Itō
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon_Quest
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuuji_Horii

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon_Warrior
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon_Warrior_II
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon_Warrior_III
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon_Warrior_IV

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon_Quest_V_Tenkū_no_Hanayome
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon_Quest_VI_Maboroshi_no_Daichi

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon_Warrior_VII
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SaGa
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romancing_SaGa

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akitoshi_Kawazu
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enix
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Square_Co.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Square_Enix
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modern architecture

modern architecture (blog):
http://blog.livedoor.jp/modernarchitecture/

Allmann Sattler Wappner
Alvar Aalto
Architekten Cie
Bolles + Wilson
Daniel Libeskind
Dominique Perrault
Erick van Egeraat
Frank Gehry
Frank Lloyd Wright
Fumihiko Maki
Future Systems
Gerrit Thomas Rietveld
Hans Scharoun
Herzog & de Meuron
I. M. Pei
Jean Nouvel
Jun Aoki
Jurgen Mayer H.
Kazuhiro Kojima
Kazuyo Sejima
Kengo Kuma
Kenzo Tange
Klein Dytham
Kumiko Inui
Kunio Maekawa
Le Corbusier
Louis Kahn
Mecanoo
Mies van der Rohe
MVRDV
Neutelings Riedijk
Norman Foster
Peter Cook
Peter Zumthor
Rafael Vinoly
Rem Koolhaas
Renzo Piano
Richard Meier
Rudolf Reitermann & Peter Sassenroth
SANAA
Sauerbruch Hutton
Steven Holl
Tadao Ando
Takashi Taniguchi
Toyo Ito
UN Studio
Walter Gropius
William Alsop
Yoshio Taniguchi
Zaha Hadid
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PS:
middle eastern contemplation (blog)?
http://immatwir.blogspot.com/

alternative style: funisia dorothea

Early life on Earth - no predators, plenty of sex

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Sexual reproduction may be nearly as old as animal life itself, according to researchers who discovered a new species of organism that lived 540 million years ago.

The tube-like creatures called Funisia dorothea anchored themselves in abundant flocks onto the shallow, sandy seabed of what is now the Australian outback.

Nothing appears to have evolved yet to eat them, so they lived peaceful lives, reproducing sexually at times and by asexual methods such as budding at other times, Mary Droser of the University of California Riverside and colleagues reported in the journal Science.

They behaved very much like modern corals, sponges and other multicellular animals, Droser said in a telephone interview.

"They would have been hitting you mid-calf as you walked in these very dense clusters," she said. "Almost always, organisms that do this do it as a result of sexual reproduction."

Dense clusters allow eggs and sperm floated in the water to meet up safely.

The fossilized remains also show the creatures formed buds that grew into full-sized animals, something that coral and sponges do today.

"They were complicated enough to have different modes of reproduction and a fairly complex ecosystem in general," Droser said.

They lived in dense groups of similar size and aged animals, like mussels and oysters do. "It is common modern ecological strategy, and these guys were doing it in the earliest animal ecosystems on this planet," she said.

"We think of these strategies as having been in response to competition and in response to predation."

But there is no evidence of predators. Nothing had yet evolved with teeth or even bones.

Multicellular animal life is believed to have arisen around 600 million years ago.

Funisia dorothea's name comes from the word for rope in Latin and dorothea after Dorothy, Droser's mother.

"She's come with me on digs and done all the cooking and taken care of the kids," Droser said. "It seemed the right thing to do."

(Reporting by Maggie Fox; Editing by Will Dunham and Eric Beech)
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/rtrs/20080321/tsc-uk-sex-1df2b7e.html
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Research shows Earth's earliest animal ecosystem was complex and included sexual reproduction

UC-Riverside paleontologist makes discovery using fossils excavated in South Australian outback

RIVERSIDE, Calif. - Two paleontologists studying ancient fossils they excavated in the South Australian outback argue that Earth's ecosystem has been complex for hundreds of millions of years - at least since around 565 million years ago, which is included in a period in Earth's history called the Neoproterozoic era.

Until now, the dominant paradigm in the field of paleobiology has been that the earliest multicellular animals were simple, and that strategies organisms use today to survive, reproduce and grow in numbers have arisen over time due to several factors. These factors include evolutionary and ecological pressures that both predators and competition for food and other resources have imposed on the ecosystem.

But in describing the ecology and reproductive strategies of Funisia dorothea, a tubular organism preserved as a fossil, the researchers found that the organism had multiple means of growing and propagating - similar to strategies used by most invertebrate organisms for propagation today.

Funisia dorothea grew in abundance, covering the seafloor, during the Neoproterozoic, a 100 million-year period ending around 540 million years ago in Earth's history, during which no predators were around. Mary Droser, one of the paleontologists involved in the study and a professor of Earth sciences at UC Riverside, first discovered the rope-resembling organism in 2005 near Ediacara, South Australia (the site of the excavations), and gave it its name (Funisia after "rope" in Latin; dorothea after Dorothy, Droser's mother).

"How Funisia appears in the fossils clearly shows that ecosystems were complex very early in the history of animals on Earth - that is, before organisms developed skeletons and before the advent of widespread predation," said Droser, who was joined in the research by James G. Gehling of the South Australia Museum.

Study results appear in the March 21 issue of Science.

Droser and Gehling observed that Funisia appears as 30 cm-long tubes in the fossils. They also observed that the tubes commonly occur in closely-packed groups of five to fifteen individuals, displaying a pattern of propagation that often accompanies animal sexual reproduction.

"In general, individuals of an organism grow close to each other, in part, to ensure reproductive success," said Droser, the first author of the research paper and the chair of the Department of Earth Sciences. In Funisia, we are very likely seeing sexual reproduction in Earth's early ecosystem - possibly the very first instance of sexual reproduction in animals on our planet."

According to Droser and Gehling, the clusters of similarly sized individuals of Funisia are strongly suggestive of "spats," huge numbers of offspring an organism gives birth to at once. Besides producing spats, the individual tubular organisms reproduced by budding, and grew by adding bits to their tips.

"Among living organisms, spat production results almost always from sexual reproduction and only very rarely from asexual reproduction," Droser said.

Rachel Wood, a paleontologist at the University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom, who was not involved in the research, said the finding shows that fundamental ecological strategies were already established in the earliest known animal communities, some 570 million years ago.

The fact that Funisia shows close-packed growth on the sea floor allows us to infer that this organism also reproduced sexually, producing a limited number of larval spatfalls," she said. "This is how many primitive animals, such as sponges and corals, reproduce and grow today. So although we do not know the affinities of many of these oldest animals, we do know that their communities were structured in very similar ways to those that exist today."

Scientists believe that a clear picture of the early ecosystem on our planet can inform us how early life evolved, what it looked like, and how organisms respond to environmental and other changes.

The nature of the early ecosystem also clues us on what to look for on other planets in our search for extraterrestrial life," Droser said.

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http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2008-03/uoc--rse031908.php

stenberg brothers

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgii_and_Vladimir_Stenberg
http://www.moma.org/exhibitions/1997/sternbergbrothers/index.html
http://www.moma.org/exhibitions/1997/sternbergbrothers/stenbergbrosworks.html
http://eng.plakaty.ru/remarks?rem_id=9
http://eng.plakaty.ru/authors
http://eng.plakaty.ru/authors?id=78&sort=lname
http://eng.plakaty.ru/authors?id=79&sort=lname
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/fa20010310a1.html

http://sovietposter.blogspot.com/

ura tadashi

http://www.gleamix.jp/
http://www.gleamix.jp/cl/

japan art: bunch

http://www.hidekiowa.com/
http://www.nullartless.com/
http://www.nullartless.com/sk/
...

sugihara enka

http://enkarock.com/
http://starcollector.jp/manga/gari/gari.htm

China: Area & Population: Hypothetical calculation

*China
Population (2007): 1,321,851,888 (estimate) = around 1,321,850,000
Population (2004): 1,298,847,624 = around 1,298,850,000
Area: 9,598,086 km2 or 9,640,821 km2 or 9,602,716 km2 = around 9,600,000 km2

Hypothetically minus below controversial or potentially controversial regions:

-Xinjiang Uyghur A. R.
Area: 1,660,000 km2
Population (2004): 19,630,000

-Tibet A. R.
Area: 1,228,400 km2
Population (2004): 2,740,000

-Inner Mongolia A. R.
Area: 1,183,000 km2
Population (2004): 23,840,000

-Guangxi A. R.
Area: 236,700 km2
Population (2004): 48,890,000

-Ningxia A. R.
Area: 66,000 km2
Population (2004): 5,880,000

@@@
Net area - A.R. area = 5,225,900
Net population '04 - A.R. population = 1,197,870,000
@@@

-Heilongjiang
Area: 460,000 km2
Population (2004): 38,170,000

-Jilin
Area: 187,400 km2
Population (2004): 27,090,000

-Liaoning
Area: 145,900 km2
Population (2004): 42,170,000

@@@

-Sichuan
Area: 485,000
Population (2004): 87,250,000

-Qinghai
Area: 721,000
Population (2004): 5,390,000

-Gansu
Area: 454,000
Population (2004): 26,190,000

-Yunnan
Area: 394,100
Population (2004): 44,150,000

@@@
Net area - A.R. area - Other area = 2,378,500
Net population '04 - A.R. population - Other population = 927,460,000
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Net Population (2004):
1,298,850,000 ("full") (world ranking: 1st)
1,197,870,000 ("mid") (2nd)
927,460,000 ("core") (2nd)

Net Area:
9,600,000 km2 ("full") (world ranking: 4th)
5,225,900 km2 ("mid") (7th)
2,378,500 km2 ("core) (12th)

tragedy, once again

Une petite fille de la famille d'Alaa Hisham Abu Dheim, l'auteur de la fusillade, tient son portrait devant la maison familiale de Jérusalem-Est.
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http://www.lemonde.fr/proche-orient/article/2008/03/06/une-fusillade-dans-une-ecole-religieuse-juive-fait-au-moins-huit-morts-a-jerusalem_1019774_3218.html#ens_id=891944

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=527968&in_page_id=1770&ct=5

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3516199,00.html

Children's book

Czech children's book on-line store (jp):
http://kulicka.ocnk.net/

blog: Czech children's book store:
http://kulicka.jugem.jp/

blog: kyukyoku-eizo-kenkyujo:
http://bp.cocolog-nifty.com/bp/

International Library of Children's Literature:
http://www.kodomo.go.jp/index.jsp
http://www.kodomo.go.jp/event/exb/index.html

French ad poster

http://www.guyantique.com/
http://www.guyantique.com/savignac.html