Thursday, July 31, 2008

Alphonse Maria Mucha Summer painting

Alphonse Maria Mucha Summer paintingAlphonse Maria Mucha Spring painting
They walked a short way with nothing to see but the hedgerows, the wide blue sky overhead and the swishing, frock-coated figure ahead. Then the lane curved to the left and fell away, sloping steeply down a hillside, so that they had a sudden, unexpected view of a whole valley laid out in front of them. Harry could see a village, undoubtedly Little Hangleton, nestled between two steep hills, its church and graveyard clearly visible. Across the valley, set on the opposite hillside, was a handsome manor house surrounded by a wide expanse of velvety green lawn.
Ogden had broken into a reluctant trot due to the steep downward slope. Dumbledore lengthened his stride, and Harry hurried to keep up. He thought Little Hangleton must be their final destination and wondered, as he had done on the night they had found Slughorn, why they had to approach it from such a distance. He soon discovered that he was mistaken in thinking that they were going to the village

Wednesday, July 30, 2008

Guido Reni Angel of the Annunciation painting

Guido Reni Angel of the Annunciation painting
Francois Boucher Venus Consoling Love painting
Francois Boucher The Interrupted Sleep painting
No, I wanna come, I want to see Fred and George's shop!" said Ron hastily.
"Then you just buck up your ideas, young man, before I decide you're too immature to come with us!" said Mrs. Weasley angrily, snatching up her clock, all nine hands of which were still pointing at "mortal peril," and balancing it on top of a pile of just-laundered towels. "And that goes for returning to Hogwarts as well!"
Ron turned to stare incredulously at Harry as his mother hoisted the laundry basket and the teetering clock into her arms and stormed out of the room.
"Blimey... you can't even make a joke round here anymore..."
But Ron was careful not to be flippant about Voldemort over the next few days. Saturday dawned without any more outbursts from Mrs. Weasley, though she seemed very tense at breakfast. Bill, who would be staying at Home with Fleur (much to Hermione and Ginny's pleasure), passed a full money bag across the table to Harry.

Tuesday, July 29, 2008

Thomas Kinkade almost heaven painting

Thomas Kinkade almost heaven painting
Thomas Kinkade A Peaceful Retreat painting
To Malfoy's left, his wife made an odd, stiff nod, her eyes averted from Voldemort and the snake. To his right, his son, Draco, who had been gazing up at the inert body overhead, glanced quickly at Voldemort and away again, terrified to make eye contact.

   "My Lord," said a dark woman halfway down the table, her voice constricted with emotion, "it is an honor to have you here, in our family's house. There can be no higher pleasure."

   She sat beside her sister, as unlike her in looks, with her dark hair and heavily lidded eyes, as she was in bearing and demeanor; where Narcissa sat

Friday, July 25, 2008

Gustav Klimt The Kiss painting

Gustav Klimt The Kiss painting
Gustav Klimt Sea Serpents painting
Through this program of action, we address ourselves to putting our own national house in order, and making income balance outflow Our international trade relations, though vastly important, are in point of time and necessity secondary to the establishment of a sound national economy I favor as a practical policy the putting of first things first. I shall spare no effort to restore world trade by international economic readjustment, but the emergency at home cannot wait on that accomplishment.The basic thought that guides these specific means of national recovery is not narrowly nationalistic. It is the insistence, as a first consideration upon the inter-dependence of the various elements in all parts of the United States of America - a recognition of the old and the permanently important manifestation of the American spirit of the pioneer. It is the way to recovery it is the immediate way it is the strongest assurance that recovery will endure.

Thursday, July 24, 2008

Vincent van Gogh Starry Night over the Rhone painting

Vincent van Gogh Starry Night over the Rhone painting
Vincent van Gogh Irises painting

Edward Felten, who teaches computer science at Princeton University, is part of a group of techies who say they were able to break through security measures placed on digital music files.
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 24 — A group of researchers claims to have defeated four different technologies being developed to prevent computer users from listening to copyright music for free.Researchers at Princeton University, Xerox PARC and Rice University said they were able to remove invisible security measures placed on four music files by the Secure Digital Media Initiative — a group of 200 music, telecommunications and consumer electronic companies.Any reasonably sophisticated computer pirate intent on illegally distributing

Wednesday, July 23, 2008

Frank Dicksee La Belle Dame Sans Merci painting

Frank Dicksee La Belle Dame Sans Merci painting
Edward Hopper Nighthawks painting
He is also expected to appoint several key White House aides this week. Lawrence Lindsey, his chief economic adviser, and political adviser Karl Rove are in line to receive some top posts in the Bush inner circle.Also this week, Bush will attend an economic forum. The meeting, set for Wednesday and Thursday, will include executives, economists, high-tech leaders and Bush advisers. On the Friday before the holiday weekend, the president-elect announced four Cabinet nominations. He named Wisconsin Gov. Tommy Thompson, considered an architect of welfare reform, to lead the Department of Health and Human Services. Houston school superintendent Rod Paige was nominated as education secretary. Former Colorado Attorney General Gale Norton was nominated as secretary of the interior, and former Navy officer and Lockheed Martin executive Tony Principi is on deck to become secretary of veterans affairs.

Tuesday, July 22, 2008

John Singer Sargent Sargent Poppies painting

John Singer Sargent Sargent Poppies painting
William Bouguereau Biblis painting
Nasdaq's weakest yearly performance ever -- down nearly 40 percent in 2000. "The timing of the Fed announcement was totally unexpected. It caused a lot of excitement in the trading community to have this kind of action to snap us out of the doldrums," said Peter Coolidge, senior equity trader with Brean Murray & Co. "This brought the market back to life on pretty heavy volume."Trade volume hit a record 3.09 billion shares on Nasdaq, where more than three shares rose for every one that fell. The previous highest volume was 2.88 billion set on April 4. Investors who 'shorted', or sold borrowed stocks with the aim of buying them back later at a lower price, rushed to cover positions on the Fed move. A pile of economic data painting a bleak economic picture had convinced investors that the Fed will ratchet down interest rates at its next meeting on Jan. 30-31.

Dante Gabriel Rossetti paintings

Dante Gabriel Rossetti paintings
Daniel Ridgway Knight paintings
The Daily News said the random telephone poll of 503 registered voters in New York City -- where Democrats outnumber Republicans five to one -- was taken Wednesday and Thursday. It has a margin of error of plus or minus 4.5 percentage points. A Clinton candidacy for mayor however, was not being taken seriously by other politicians and observers. Clinton's spokeswoman said last week that he was not running for mayor and Congressman Charles Rangel, a Democrat from Manhattan, said the idea "was nothing but a big joke." Clinton, who owns a house in the suburbs north of the city with his wife, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, decided last month to open offices in Harlem.

Sunday, July 20, 2008

Christ painting

Christ painting
church painting
Let me not forget to pay homage to the well-dressed men. Handsome standouts included Ed Harris and Samuel L. Jackson, coincidentally wearing matching tuxedos with mandarin pleated shirts, Ed's blue and Samuel's white. Of course they didn't plan this. It was coincidental. David Carradine was the only gentleman to wear an all-creme tuxedo and Ben Affleck shouted "dapper" in a tux with white shirt and white long tie. And Benicio Del Torro, winner of the Best Supporting Actor Oscar for Traffic, finally fixed his unruly hair and looked divine in a standard tuxedo with bow tie. Bj?rk Lays an EggOf course, in addition to the many beautifully dressed folks, there were those who should have been seated together in a scary section. Topping that list was Icelandic singing sensation (if you're from Iceland) Bj?rk, who sported a

Friday, July 18, 2008

Fabian Perez paintings

Fabian Perez paintings
Francois Boucher paintings
Hooking Into the GridEven if science and funding provide new energy technologies, the trick lies in figuring out how to use them. Most American power infrastructures have been tailored to funnel energy from large oil or gas production plants. Part of the challenge will be finding ways to install new resources, such as wind and solar power, into existing power grids, or in some cases, accommodating smaller, more localized energy sources. Once that step is taken, many think current high prices could encourage a widespread switch to new, even strange, power possibilities. "We've been getting calls from all around the country," says James Teaney, supervisor of the hog waste power project in Missouri. "I think more and more people are looking for other, cheaper ideas."

Thursday, July 17, 2008

Douglas Hofmann Reclining Nude I painting

Douglas Hofmann Reclining Nude I painting
Claude Monet Irises in Monets Garden painting
The members have cast their solemn votes for Beijing, capital of the world's largest developing country. Their wisdom has allowed them to see into the future and proved to them that in seven years, Beijing and the whole of China will be home to a stable society, a prosperous economy and a well-off population, that the country's transportation and environmental situation will be greatly improved, and that the cause of democracy and rule of law will continually advance.   Beijing's winning of the bid to host the 2008 Olympic Games is another milestone in China's rising international status and a historical event in the great renaissance of the Chinese nation.   The spirit of the Olympic Games goes beyond political systems, ideological differences, cultural traditions and races, and is universally accepted and respected by the whole world. The competition to host the Games is one

Wednesday, July 16, 2008

Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres paintings

Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres paintings
John William Godward paintings
Power Paper batteries can be used in so-called smart cards — plastic cards that contain microprocessor chips. Current smart cards require a separate bulky card reader to display the information stored on the cards' chips. But with a flexible battery, smart-card makers could soon include a tiny display screen on the card itself that would allow users easy access to that account data.Power Paper even envisions that its flexible battery designs can be used to help secure airports and passengers. Luggage tags and airline tickets could be printed with tiny radio antennas and circuitry — powered by the company's battery — to contain passenger data. Checkpoints equipped with radio receivers would then be able to track passengers and baggage as they move through the airport.Sweet Music Soon?But for that to happen, Power Paper is working with printing partners to further develop the technology and iron out costs.

Tuesday, July 15, 2008

Lighthouse paintings

Lighthouse paintings
Music painting
But scientists have figured out how to make tiny wearable screens--with diagonals of less than half an inch. These devices permit the wearer to see everything around them. "People have been talking about this kind of thing for ten years," says John Fan, chief executive of Kopin, which makes these tiny displays. "But now the technology is here and it has the right price point." Westwood, one of Kopin customers, which sells small screens that surgeons can clip onto their glasses so they can glance at a patient's vital signs without having to lift their heads. These screens, often referred to as "heads up" displays, are used extensively by the military, which is loading soldiers up with displays that help them do everything from seeing around corners to referencing global positioning maps. "In the future, electronic eyewear will have to be like sunglasses, which perform a function but also look cool," says MicroOptical Marketing Vice President Mark Basler.

Monday, July 14, 2008

John Singer Sargent Sargent Poppies painting

John Singer Sargent Sargent Poppies painting
William Bouguereau Biblis painting

The temperature in Harbin reaches forty below zero, and stays below freezing nearly half the year. So what does one do here every winter? Hold an outdoor festival, of course ...
The temperature in Harbin reaches forty below zero, both Fahrenheit and centigrade, and stays below freezing nearly half the year. So what does one do here every winter? Hold an outdoor festival, of course!More than 7,000 passengers flew into Harbin each day since the end of December in the run-up to the festival. Covering an area of 400,000 square metres and built with 120,000 cubic metres of ice and snow, a Grand Ice and Snow World has been set up on the Sun Island on the Songhua River, which traverses the northern part of the city from west to the east. Compared with previous ice festivals, this year's gala has made many breakthroughs and innovation in both scale and style, according to Du Chuandong, director of the Heilongjiang Provincial Tourism Bureau.

Sunday, July 13, 2008

Albert Bierstadt paintings

Albert Bierstadt paintings
Andreas Achenbach paintings
SCARLETT: Rhett, I really can't go on accepting these gifts. Though you are awfully kind.RHETT: I'm not kind, I'm just tempting you. I never give anything without expecting something in return. I always get paid.SCARLETT: If you think I'll marry you just to pay for the bonnet, I won't.RHETT: Don't flatter yourself, I'm not a marrying man.SCARLETT: Well, I won't kiss you for it, either.RHETT: Open your eyes and look at me. No, I don't think I will kiss you. Although you need kissing badly. That's what's wrong with you. You should be kissed, and often, and by someone who knows how.SCARLETT: And I suppose that you think that you are the proper person.RHETT: I might be, if the right moment ever came.SCARLETT: You're a conceited, black- hearted varmint, Rhett Butler, and I don't know why I let you come and see me.RHETT: I'll tell you why, Scarlett. Because I'm the only man over sixteen and under sixty who's around to show you a good time. But cheer up, the war can't last much longer.

Wednesday, July 9, 2008

Il'ya Repin paintings

Il'ya Repin paintings
Igor V.Babailov paintings
account. Anne, would you have married Billy if he had asked you himself, instead of getting Jane to do it for him?"
"I might have." Anne went off into a shriek of laughter over the recollection of her first proposal. "The shock of the whole thing might have hypnotized me into some such rash and foolish act. Let us be thankful he did it by proxy."
"I had a letter from George Moore yesterday," said Leslie, from the corner where she was reading.
"Oh, how is he?" asked Anne interestedly, yet with an unreal feeling that she was inquiring about some one whom she did not know.
"He is well, but he finds it very hard to adapt himself to all the changes in his old home and friends. He is going to sea again in the spring. It's in his blood, he says,

Tuesday, July 8, 2008

Steve Hanks Casting Her Shadows painting

Steve Hanks Casting Her Shadows painting
Andrew Atroshenko The Passion of Music painting
was thankful when I heard that a young couple was coming to this house, for I hoped it would mean some friends for Leslie; especially if you belonged to the race that knows Joseph. You will be her friend, won't you, Anne, dearie?"
"Indeed I will, if she'll let me," said Anne, with all her own sweet, impulsive earnestness.
"No, you must be her friend, whether she'll let you or not," said Miss Cornelia resolutely. "Don't you mind if she's stiff by times-- don't notice it. Remember what her life has been--and is--and must always be, I suppose, for creatures like Dick Moore live forever, I understand. You should see how fat he's got since he came home. He used to be lean enough. Just make her be friends--you can do it--you're one of those who have the knack. Only you mustn't be sensitive. And don't mind if she doesn't seem to want you to go over there much. She knows that some women don't like to be where Dick is--they complain he gives them the creeps. Just get her to come over here as often as she can. She can't get away so very much--she can't leave Dick long, for the Lord knows what he'd

Monday, July 7, 2008

Fra Angelico paintings

Fra Angelico paintings
Frederic Edwin Church paintings
But I mistrust you haven't any too much sense yet. It's not to be expected, of course. Experience teaches sense. You can't learn it in a college course. You've been to college four years and I never was, but I know heaps more than you do, young ladies."
"`There are lots of things that never go by rule,
There's a powerful pile o' knowledge
That you never get at college,
There are heaps of things you never learn at school,'"
quoted Stella.
"Have you learned anything at Redmond except dead languages and geometry and such trash?" queried Aunt Jamesina.
"Oh, yes. I think we have, Aunty," protested Anne.
"We've learned the truth of what Professor Woodleigh told us last Philomathic," said

Claude Monet paintings

Claude Monet paintings
Charles Chaplin paintings
large diamonds of the first water.' But what booted beauty or rich attire? `The paths of glory lead but to the grave.' They must either be murdered or die of a broken heart. There was no escape for them."
"Let me read some of your stories."
"Well, here's my masterpiece. Note its cheerful title -- `My Graves.' I shed quarts of tears while writing it, and the other girls shed gallons while I read it. Jane Andrews' mother scolded her frightfully because she had so many handkerchiefs in the wash that week. It's a harrowing tale of the wanderings of a Methodist minister's wife. I made her a Methodist because it was necessary that she should wander. She buried a child every place she lived in. There were nine of them and their graves were severed far apart, ranging from Newfoundland to Vancouver. I described the children, pictured their several death beds, and detailed their tombstones and epitaphs. I had intended to bury the whole nine but when I had disposed of eight my invention of

Sunday, July 6, 2008

Gustav Klimt The Kiss painting

Gustav Klimt The Kiss painting
Steve Hanks Casting Her Shadows painting
tells everything to Fred -- I know she does. Well, I've had my first proposal. I supposed it would come some day -- but I certainly never thought it would be by proxy. It's awfully funny -- and yet there's a sting in it, too, somehow."
Anne knew quite well wherein the sting consisted, though she did not put it into words. She had had her secret dreams of the first time some one should ask her the great question. And it had, in those dreams, always been very romantic and beautiful: and the "some one" was to be very handsome and dark-eyed and distinguished-looking and eloquent, whether he were Prince Charming to be enraptured with "yes," or one to whom a regretful, beautifully worded, but hopeless refusal must be given. If the latter, the refusal was to be expressed so delicately that it would be next best thing to acceptance, and he would go away, after kissing her hand, assuring her of his unalterable, life-long devotion. And it would always be a beautiful memory, to be proud of and a little sad about, also.
And now, this thrilling experience had turned out to be merely grotesque. Billy

Thursday, July 3, 2008

Alphonse Maria Mucha Winter painting

Alphonse Maria Mucha Winter painting
Alphonse Maria Mucha Monaco Monte Carlo painting
little and dream a little, or just be beautifully silent together. And then the moon would rise and I would look around me . . .and there would be no Hester Gray and no little vine-hung house, and no roses. . .only an old waste garden starred with June lilies amid the grasses, and the wind sighing, oh, so sorrowfully in the cherry trees. And I would not know whether it had been real or if I had just imagined it all." Diana crawled up and got her back against the headboard of the bed. When your companion of twilight hour said such spooky things it was just as well not to be able to fancy there was anything behind you.
"I'm afraid the Improvement Society will go down when you and Gilbert are both gone," she remarked dolefully.
"Not a bit of fear of it," said Anne briskly, coming back from dreamland to the affairs of practical life. "It is too firmly established for that, especially since the older people are becoming so enthusiastic about it. Look what they are doing this summer for their lawns and lanes. Besides, I'll be watching for hints at Redmond and I'll write a paper for it next winter and

Wednesday, July 2, 2008

Frederick Carl Frieseke paintings

Frederick Carl Frieseke paintings
Flamenco Dancer paintings
could see rock people of your own. You're one of the kind that can. We're both that kind. You know, teacher," he added, squeezing her hand chummily. "Isn't it splendid to be that kind, teacher?"
"Splendid," Anne agreed, gray shining eyes looking down into blue shining ones. Anne and Paul both knew "How fair the realm
Imagination opens to the view,"
and both knew the way to that happy land. There the rose of joy bloomed immortal by dale and stream; clouds never darkened the sunny sky; sweet bells never jangled out of tune; and kindred spirits abounded. The knowledge of that land's geography. . . "east o' the sun, west o' the moon". . .is priceless lore, not to be bought in any market place. It must be the gift of the good fairies at birth and the years can never deface it or take it away. It is better to possess it, living in a garret, than to be the inhabitant of palaces without it.

Tuesday, July 1, 2008

John Singer Sargent Sargent Poppies painting

John Singer Sargent Sargent Poppies painting
William Bouguereau Biblis painting
When Anne reached the school that morning. . .for the first time in her life she had traversed the Birch Path deaf and blind to its beauties. . .all was quiet and still. The preceding teacher had trained the children to be in their places at her arrival, and when Anne entered the schoolroom she was confronted by prim rows of "shining morning faces" and bright, inquisitive eyes. She hung up her hat and faced her pupils, hoping that she did not look as frightened and foolish as she felt and that they would not perceive how she was trembling.
She had sat up until nearly twelve the preceding night composing a speech she meant to make to her pupils upon opening the school. She had revised and improved it painstakingly, and then she had learned it off by heart. It was a very good speech and had some very fine ideas in it, especially about mutual help and earnest striving after knowledge. The only trouble was that she could not now remember a word of it.