Chicago Skyline
“Odysseus, … I know you won’t be driven off your course, nothing can hold you back ... you’ll sail home.”
Alcinous spoke this in "The Odyssey" by Homer
“Odysseus, … I know you won’t be driven off your course, nothing can hold you back ... you’ll sail home.”
Alcinous spoke this in "The Odyssey" by Homer
“When brunch is a celebration, bring out the sterling and fine china, the thin-stemmed sherbets, and the lace-edged napkins. The foods – fancy, of course!”
Lunches and Brunches by the editors of Better Homes and Gardens. Photo is of “Arthur Manjourides … serving what are widely regarded as the fluffiest omelets and the tastiest turkey hash around. … Charlie's Sandwich Shoppe was given the James Beard award as an ‘American Classic.’” Article by Brian McGrory, Globe Columnist, Boston, May 6, 2005
"Living with a busy family, I often feel just like one of the Tibetan monks I once saw making an intricately designed sand mandala. For months, they bent over the ground, arranging the sand grain by grain, and once their beautiful creation was complete, they cheerfully destroyed it in the ultimate celebration of impermanence. … I fold and put away a basketful of laundry, and in no time, the basket is full again. … As the Buddha said, impermanence is the nature of the human condition."
"After the Laundry, the Laundry" by Judith Hanson Lasater published in Yoga Journal online September 2005.
"For Goethe [the German writer and scientist], the whole was something dynamic and living that continually comes into being 'in concrete manifestations.' A part, in turn, was a manifestation of the whole, rather than just a component of it. Neither exists without the other. The whole exits through continually manifesting in the parts, and the parts exist as embodiments of the whole."
From Presence by Peter Senge, C. Otto Scharmer, Joseph Jaworski and Betty Sue Flowers from SoL (The Society for Organizational Learning, Inc.) Their “purpose is to create and implement knowledge for fundamental innovation and change."
"Pattern of voting precincts or districts can influence election results. Problems arise if redistricting remains in hands of legislators instead of impartial experts. Majority political groups can arrange voting districts geographically to maximize their power. Practice called gerrymandering."
Dr Raymond L Sanders, Jr, Copyright 2002 © University of Texas at Austin
“Sizing Up Wireless Investments … According to cell-phone industry insiders, handsets are only going to get more complex. Get ready for phones that surf the web at broadband-quality speeds, video conference on the fly and download films with TV-like frame rates.”
By Joanna Glasner, Aug. 02, 2005. Link from Wired.com
“Even if you are on the right track you will still get run over if you just sit there.”
Will Rogers
"I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don’t notice it."
"The Color Purple" by Alice Walker in Letter 73
“… at Jazz at Lincoln Center's ‘Higher Ground: Hurricane Relief Benefit Concert’ Saturday night, the five-hour concert was stirring not only for its music, but for the emotionally charged performances and speeches that mourned the tragedy that struck New Orleans, but also assigned blame."
Article on msnbc.msn.com, September 19, 2005, called: “Katrina jazz concert strikes political tone”
"The military response to the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States was named Operation Enduring Freedom."
As of September 15, 2005
In Afghanistan: 234 Fatalities
In Iraq: 1907 Fatalities
Statistics on washingtonpost.com
“Forty percent of all described insect species are beetles (about 350,000 species), and new species are regularly discovered. Estimates put the total number of species — described and undescribed — at between 5 and 8 million. When J. B. S. Haldane, a British geneticist, was asked what his studies of nature revealed about God, he replied, ‘An inordinate fondness for beetles’.”
From the online free encyclopedia wikipedia.org
“Robert Cohn was once middleweight boxing champion of Princeton. … There was a certain inner comfort in knowing he could knock down anybody who was snooty to him.”
"The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway
“The purpose of the [focus] group is to produce qualitative data. …Not every group can be a focus group. … The group work associated with conducting focus group interviews should not be confused with other kinds of group activities such as decision making or program planning. Other kinds of groups …are discussion groups, delphi groups, community forums, town meetings, or brainstorming groups.”
Charles D. Clark, Program Planning and Assessment Unit College of Agricultural,
Consumer and Environmental Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
“The poems that Whitman wrote in the last two decades of his life, such as ‘Passage to India’ and ‘Prayer of Columbus,’ are characterized by a leap away from the physical landscape of America toward a more traditionally religious vision of God’s providence and spiritual grace. … Figuring himself in the image of a new-world Columbus, he continued to imagine the possibility of a democratic golden world which, like the dream of a passage to India and a world in round, might bloom in some future transformation of vision into history.”
Betsy Erkkila, Northwestern University
“It is true we are weak and sick and quarrelsome, but if that is all we ever were, we would, millenniums ago, have disappeared from the face of the earth. …But the choice … the choice of winning!”
Samuel spoke in “East of Eden” by John Steinbeck
“… it seems that a play consists, except for some stage directions, of conversations… and that when this goes on long enough, we have a play.”
“Understanding Drama” by Cleanth Brooks and Robert B. Heilman
“If you want the independence of working for yourself or the joy of doing a job you love and earning an income from it, street performing is for you. …You'll get the satisfaction of knowing that you …are good enough to get paid for it by total strangers.”
By Shawn Leban, author of "Street Performer - How to be a street performer and earn a hat full of cash in 30 minutes", quoted on “ultimate-street-performer.com”
“Whether in the United States or in other democracies around the globe, diversity tests the moral commitments of a democracy. …It is not simply a matter of securing individual rights, but one of agreeing to live together as a diverse democratic community.”
“The Civic Work of Diversity” by Caryn McTighe Musil, senior vice president, Office of Diversity, Equity, and Global Initiatives, AAC&U and quoted on diversityweb.org
"Look! Seeing your dance,
Angels in the sky
Raise their arms to dance
ten skies away."
Part of a poem by Vagif Bayatly Oner in
"Let's Dance from Birth to Death!"
“The image of humanity liberated by science from age-old conformities and prejudices is one that can threaten establishments of any political or religious persuasion, and is especially potent at the present time.”
Quoted from the back cover of the Oxford World’s Classics edition of “Father and Sons” by Ivan Turgenev
"... the Windy City can celebrate the White Sox, the team from the South Side who hadn't won a Series since 1917 and hadn't played in one since 1959. No longer will they be remembered for Shoeless Joe Jackson's Black Sox... but rather as champions ..."
© 2005 The Associated Press.
“Once there, you will contemplate hundreds of painted hands and other positive and negative images in red, ochre, yellow, white and black as well as varied drawings of humans or guanacos in hunting scenes. In 1972, a group of archaeologists explored the place, studied these images and determined through Carbon 14 Analysis that they go back to 7.350 B.C.”
Painted Hands Caves/ Tours and Activities on welcomeagentina.com
"A Lion asleep was waked up by a Mouse running over his face. He seized it and was about to eat it. The Mouse, terrified, asked him to spare its life. "Please let me go, and one day I will repay you for your kindness." The idea of so insignificant a creature doing anything for him made the Lion laugh and he let it go. One day the Lion got entangled in a net which had been set by hunters. The Mouse heard and recognized the lion’s roars. The mouse gnawed the ropes with its teeth, and freed the Lion. "There!" said the Mouse, "you laughed at me, but now you see, even a Mouse can help a Lion."
“The Lion and the Mouse” by Aesop
“…[part of] a NASA-sponsored space elevator design competition. … [one design] will be 62,000-mile-long ribbon of carbon nanotube fibers, … three feet wide and thinner than a sheet of paper, strong enough to carry payloads of up to 150 tons. Electric “climbers” that carry the payloads will ascend the ribbon at about 120 miles; at its end, they will release the loads into orbit or shoot them towards a target. The concept eliminates rockets, space capsules, astronauts, and the costs that go with them.”
Written on sciencefriday.com
“[In the movie Goldfinger] Goldfinger is explaining to Bond that he isn't actually going to steal the gold in Fort Knox, but explode a dirty atom bomb…the blast would thoroughly intermix all sorts of radioactive stuff with the molten gold …. And then there would be that loss of gold through vaporization, gold-plating a good portion of the landscape.”
“Blunders and Mistakes of Science and Engineering”, compiled by Donald Simanek
"NASTC offers all-mountain free-skiing clinics at resorts all over the world from Whistler to Squaw to Jackson, and from Portillo to Chamonix. We also offer backcountry skiing skills courses and guided ski mountaineering. We are dedicated to providing upper level skiers with the best instruction at the world’s premier mountains."
Found on skinastc.com
“The International Art Partnership (IAP) is an international non-governmental, voluntary based, non-commercial organisation as well as the creator and owner of the International Art Movement ‘Peace Tree’. The International Art Partnership ‘Peace Tree’ main goal is to promote World Peace by means of Art and engage people of all countries to be on friendly terms with each other as well as to promote all national traditional arts and crafts.”
Found on www.iap-peacetree.org/iap/main.html
“We, Angels and Mortals, Believers and
Nonbelievers,
Look heavenward and speak the word aloud.
Peace. …
And we say without shyness or apology or
hesitation:
Peace, My Brother.
Peace, My Sister.
Peace, My Soul.”
“Amazing Peace” by Maya Angelou
