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While I very actively avoid adding photos of people (especially myself) to my photostream, I thought I would give my loyal contacts a brief chance to meet my first Grandchild, Ellie Iris; born 12/10/10. She's healthy, happy and hungry, entering the world at 4lbs 9oz (2.07 kg) and 18 1/2 inches (47cm). Oh, that's me holding her for the first time.
Long time no doll!! But I'm back! I present you my newest baby, Luschka. She's an iMda 3.0 Babette - Like a Butterfly. She's my first odd-size doll! I hope I can find more clothes for her in the near future @_@;;
Anyway, she is super adorable. Went out with a few friends today. We had fun and lots of sweets ^^
*Too lazy to edit the photos except the first one~*
Eu fico super perdido quando tento fazer blends coloridas. Ficou super fail. Agradecimentos a M@y* pelo pacote de texturas. haha Da próxima prometo fazer algo melhor rs/
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Dinner at The Willows Inn with Chef Blaine Wetzel on August 15, 2013.
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Students in Visiting Assistant Professor Donna Hunt's class take advantage of the summer weather and take their work outside.
Photo by Yvonne Gay
After a delicious breakfast of congee, pickled vegetables, marinated garlic and other assorted treats, we arrived at the hospital. We were warmly greeted by the hospital director and representatives of the China People's Welfare Foundation and the BeiBei Family Planning Association.
One thing I have learned very quickly here is that ceremony, bureacracy and status all go hand in hand. While this can be a time drag, it usually involves smiling and eating/drinking, so I don't mind.
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Biking the Mojave Fall 2007 - Introduction
I biked through Death Valley in October 1996. It was 109°F at Furnace Creek. The area is beautiful, but it was way too hot at that time of year. I knew I wanted to come back on my bicycle when it was cooler. This year it worked out to take about 3 weeks after Thanksgiving. I ended up spending 18 days to cycle from Palm Springs to Las Vegas. I spent about half of that time in Death Valley NP. In Baker I met a group of cyclists on racing bikes with a support vehicle. They were cycling from Palm Springs to Las Vegas in 2 days. I saw a lot more desert than they did.
Coachella Valley and Joshua Tree National Park
I crossed the Coachella Valley on Ramon Rd. It was over 70°F, probably the warmest day of the trip. It wasn't 'til I turned onto Thousand Palms Rd. that I felt like I was heading out into the desert on my own. The San Andreas Fault system runs along the northern end of the Coachella Valley. The faults allow groundwater to rise to the surface resulting in a number of California fan palm oases. It's wonderful to see oases in the desert.
It was a 1300m climb on Berdoo Canyon Rd. to the Coachella Valley-Pleasant Valley saddle in Joshua Tree NP. I didn't see a single person or vehicle in Berdoo Canyon. Climbing out of Pleasant Valley I saw the first person, a fellow adventurer. Patrick was walking solo across Joshua Tree NP from west to east. That's a heck of a trek. That park is huge and has only one known spring. Patrick had set up two water caches before his trip.
Amboy Road and Mojave National Preserve
I bought enough food in 29 Palms to last 4 days to Baker. Heading east on the Amboy Rd. I met the only other touring cyclist of the trip. He had come down from Bishop through Death Valley NP, Baker, Kelso, Amboy - much the same route I was planning to take. When I met him, he had run out of food. I shared some almonds with him but didn't have much sympathy with his plight. The reason he didn't buy food in Baker was because there wasn't a health food store! Well, I told him there was a grocery store in 29 Palms, but it might not be up to his standard.
One of the things I was looking forward to on this trip was experiencing the transition zone between the Sonoran Desert (lower, farther south) and the Mojave Desert (higher, farther north). Creosote bushes grow in both, but most other flora is limited to one ecosystem or the other. In the transition zones you can see a mix of vegetation. What I saw ended up being less dramatic than Washington County, Utah where the Colorado Plateau, the Basin and Range country, and the Mojave Desert all come together. Joshua Trees were the main ecosystem indicator for me. I knew I was climbing high when I started to see them.
I was surprised how much traffic there was on the Amboy Rd. It wasn't much, but a lot of the paved roads that I was on during the trip would have one car every 10-30 minutes and perhaps none all night. The only truly busy roads were the road north out of Baker (on a Saturday morning) and the Pahrump-Las Vegas superhighway which has a wonderful bicycle lane.
I climbed Sheep Hole Pass to get into the Amboy Valley. It was in the Amboy Valley where I became accustomed two aspects important to cyclists in the Mojave:
Distances are deceiving. You can see really far. It takes much longer to cross these valleys that it appears that it would.
The slight inclines up alluvial fans or other fill climb a lot more than they appear to. In Colorado I'm not accustomed to seeing the whole climb since there are usually canyon climbs here. Leaving Amboy, for example, I climbed over 3000 ft. on a slowly rising alluvial plane. It took hours.
I enjoyed time off the bike to walk out to and up Amboy Crater. The following day I climbed to the top of the Kelso Dunes. And one day later I climbed one of the cinder cones east of Baker. I enjoyed having a diversion each day. Each of those areas is beautiful in its own way. The creosote bushes in the Amboy Valley are particularly green because of the shallow water table. Kelso Dunes are simply fantastic, and the cinder cone area with over 30 cinder cones and not another person felt like another planet.
In Baker I bought enough food to last 10 days and ate at the Mad Greek at my brother's recommendation. I had taken a rest day the previous day because of rain, and Baker was a bit flooded. Folks were out pushing water around with brooms. At the store the locals were telling each other how much their roofs leaked.
Death Valley National Park
Heading north of Baker the saddle that separates the Silurian Valley from Death Valley is only about a 50' climb. From there I left the pavement and stopped at Saratoga Springs to see the incredible wetlands in the desert. I had planned on climbing the Ibex Dunes, but wind was blowing sand off the top of the dunes and everything was still a bit wet from the rain. The following day I reached the pavement, took it for 5 miles and then headed west up Warm Springs Canyon.
The 1400m climb up Warm Springs Canyon was not the longest of the trip, but it was the toughest. The climb started out hard from below sea level in Death Valley and continued to be hard all the way to the saddle leading into Butte Valley. I struggled in my easiest gear (which is really low) the whole way. Surprisingly I walked very little. It always seemed to be just slightly easier to pedal than to walk.
Butte Valley felt remote. The views to the east were phenomenal giving Greater View Spring its name. I could see range after range. I stopped at Stella Anderson's place and cut some chicken wire to repair my glasses. The rattling had loosened a screw which I couldn't find. It was important to get a good fix since I wore those glasses a lot riding in the early morning and late afternoon. I found I had about 10 hours of light to ride in with perhaps 45 minutes of twilight on either end to mess around in camp. The sun was theoretically up for 8 or 9 hours, but it was often a lot less than that in the canyons. My repair job worked well, and I didn't even strip the threads so the glasses are good as new again :)
Mengel Pass is rough and keeps too many people from taking this route between Death Valley and Panamint Valley. Down in Goler Wash I met Rock(y), one of two residents of Ballarat. His father is the other. Rocky was poking around Goler Wash with his girlfriend who was visiting from LA. He had worked with various mining operations in the area, and I enjoyed his stories. It was also fun to talk with his Isreali girlfriend. We compared this desert with the eastern Mediterranean desert where I have also cycled.
In Ballarat the following day I talked with Rocky some more, but the girlfriend had already returned to LA. There are a surprising number of springs on the west side of the Panamints (due to faults, I'm sure) and a surprising number of fighter jets playing overhead. I scared a coyote into some bushes near a spring and then was scared myself by the jet passing just overhead. Once the quiet returned I could hear the coyotes, packs of them, howling and yipping in the bushes. The yipping made it sound like there were a lot of youngsters. Fun to hear the bushes make such unusual noises.
Hunter Mountain to Racetrack Playa
I was pretty tired this day and finally made it to Panamint Springs where I had planned to get water. There's a store as well, but they really only have candy bars. The restaurant, however, was able to sell me some bread and cheese. I bought a veggie burger for lunch as well. That rejuvenated me enough to climb about half of the 1100m paved climb that afternoon.
I was lucky that the following day was stunningly warm since I climbed to over 7000 ft. The 1100m paved climb was followed by 600m of climbing on a dirt road. I'm sure it ended up being more than that since there were a number of descents thrown in as well. To give an idea of the terrain the only two flat places I went through that day were named: Lee Flat and Ulida Flat! Lee Flat was filled with the most Joshua trees I've ever seen in one place. I camped in Ulida Flat next to one of the only Joshua trees out there.
I made it over Hunter Mountain, through Hidden Valley, down Lost Burro Gap, and arrived at Teakettle Junction with enough water to be able to make the ~16 mile detour to Racetrack Playa. Of course I'd seen photos of the moving rocks at Racetrack Playa, but I was absolutely blown away being at the site in person. It's not simply the amazement of seeing the evidence of the moving rocks and all the different directions and shapes of the tracks, but also how well preserved the area is. It wouldn't take too many people moving rocks from the tracks, driving on the playa, or walking out there when the surface is wet to really ruin the magic of the place. Additionally Racetrack Playa is so big and so flat. The flat playa blends in in the distance with the hills miles away. I loved this place. I was lucky enough to be there when I was. The rain from 5 days earlier had completely dried out, and it rained some more just 10 hours after I was there.
I recovered my stashed gear and water at Teakettle Junction and headed uphill into a cold, stiff wind climbing out of Racetrack Valley. By this point in the trip I had started to associate Joshua trees with cold weather. At the saddle in the twilight I made it my goal to descend far enough down to get away from the Joshua trees and perhaps into warmer weather. It was practically dark by the time I got off my bike, but I succeeded! It sprinkled off and on all night, but I was dry and fairly warm.
Through the bottom of Death Valley
The downhill continued all the way to the pavement at Ubehebe Crater, but I had to push the bike a bit once I got to the lava/cinder area. The black sand of the roadbed was much finer and deeper than the surface of most of the descent. Getting to Ubehebe concluded what I had planned for this trip. The only thing left was to get to Las Vegas. Berdoo Canyon, Mengel Pass, and Hunter Mountain had all been hard excursions, but each took about a day less than I had (conservatively) expected. I had time to make it a pleasant, easy ride to Vegas. I hiked around Ubehebe Crater and relaxed in the wind at the parking lot. Only two cars plus a ranger came by during the ~3 hours I was there. Each car stopped, the occupants got out, took a couple photos, and were driving away less than 2 minutes later. Incredible! This place is the middle of nowhere. I couldn't understand why anyone would drive so far and spend so little time. It turns out though that Ubehebe is only a 10 mile detour from the Scotty's Castle road.
I didn't make much distance this day even though it was flat and I had a tailwind after Ubehebe. I camped illegally near the paved road but was careful to avoid washes since I could tell it was going to storm. Storm it did. The wind bent my tent sideways, and rain poured down for hours. Death Valley received about a third of their annual average rainfall in this ~6 hour period. It was December 7, and it rained almost as much as it had from January 1 to December 6. The nice flat sandy spot I had chosen for my tent was just a bit lower than the surrounding area. The whole area was really quite flat, but the soil there can't absorb water very quickly. In the middle of the night I found my tent sitting in an inch or so of water. Only my thermarest was above it. I moved the tent in the pouring rain, but it was too late. Most of my stuff was pretty wet. Both pairs of socks and the bottom of my down bag were soaked. I wrapped my feet in a wool scarf like a Ace bandage and tried to get some sleep.
I was up early in the morning. I had managed to keep my down coat fairly dry so I put that over my damp clothes to ride away in the morning. Tons of rocks up to the size of softballs had poured across the 2-lane paved highway out of washes that were only a foot or two wide. It had snowed down to 4000'. In every direction were snow-covered peaks. I was so lucky to be down low, near pavement. The dirt roads that I had spent much of the last week on were probably impassable that morning. Ulida Flat where I had camped two nights earlier was probably covered in snow. I was able to keep warm biking in my down coat, but I was down at sea level, the warmest place around!
The sun came out. Everything warmed up. The views were phenomenal. In spite of the damp clothes it was a fantastic day to be cycling. At Furnace Creek I was directed to the sunny employee picnic area where I pulled everything out of my bags and dried everything out while enjoying lunch and wine from the grocery store. I hung out there for 2-3 hours before anyone else showed up. It was Herb, the night maintenance man. Enthralled with the bike he asked lots of questions about touring and the LHT specifically. He kept getting calls on his radio but continued to talk with me. Herb plans to live on his bike for a while and had been researching bicycles. I enthusiastically encouraged him since I know from experience that a lot of folks discourage that kind of crazy plan. Before he left to finally answer one of his calls, he asked me, "did you find the free showers?" I hadn't. Hohoho, that shower felt wonderful.
I spent a rest day at Furnace Creek and talked to Herb to 2 or 3 more times. I also met Mary and Paul from Rogue River, Oregon, who invited me to dinner at their campsite. I didn't carry a stove on this trip. The hot meal that Mary put together was the best meal of the trip. She had dried tomatoes and zucchini from their garden, a hot sauce with peppers that they grew, a jalepeno artichoke dip as an appetizer, and plenty of red wine. Was I ever a happy camper!
And on to Las Vegas
Back on the bike I rode south with a tailwind past Badwater all the way to the 5 miles of paved road that I had ridden between Saratoga Springs and Warm Springs Canyon over a week earlier. Instead of heading south to Baker I climbed Jubilee Pass. The following day I climbed Salsberry Pass on the coldest day of the trip. I simply couldn't warm up since I couldn't get away from the wind. And then I came to Tecopa Hot Springs! That cut the chill even though the wind was so fierce that I was dry within minutes of getting out of the pool. Around the corner I stopped at a RV park to get some water and ended up spending an hour talking with the 75-year-old man who runs the place with his wife. He ran an ultra-marathon when he was 55, had biked from Las Vegas to Sedona, had run a bunch of marathons. In the summer they leave Tecopa Hot Springs and explore the country in their 35' motorhome.
Later that afternoon I came upon Victor. Stopped at the side of the road, he handed me a Guinness and two granola bars. We chatted for a while using his car as a windbreak. He's taking a break from his 'round the world bicycle trip on a crazy rig that he built himself.
The following morning the only indication that I entered Nevada was a sign reading "Inyo County Line". Lower down on the same post was a smaller sign at an angle because it was falling off. That sign said "leaving". About 3 cars passed me in an hour, and then a car stopped. It was the couple from RV park in Tecopa Hot Springs. She had baked muffins that morning, put together a package of them for me, and handed them to me! They were still warm! Oh, I was cycling with a big smile yet again! I was on a gradual climb that continued all the way to Mountain Springs Pass. To get an idea of how long the climb was, consider that the couple drove all the way to Las Vegas, went to the dentist, drove back, and passed me just one minute before I crested the pass. They honked, smiled, and waved as did I. The first 2000' of descent was fast and cold, but I was warm and happy in my down coat.
My last excursion before Las Vegas was to ride through the scenic Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area. The cliffs and cemented sand dunes in that area reminded me much more of the Colorado Plateau than anything I'd seen on my journey through the Mojave Desert. In the morning I rolled into Vegas, found a bike shop, boxed my stuff, and took a taxi to the downtown Greyhound station. In Denver a day later I rebuilt my bike at the Greyhound station for the short ride to Market St. Station. I took the bus to Boulder and rode through the snow to get home.
She is a very old girl I found in one of my bratz bens. Tonight I'm hoping she will be ready for auditions after she gets her eyes painted brown and bright red lips.
Bio:
She has an old soul. She loves listening to Lana Del Ray. She is always coming up with new hairstyles. Currently she is a dog groomer. She lives in Seattle, Washington in an apartment along the west side. She owns 4 Afghan Hound dogs, all girls. They all are very pampered. She has been in a relationship with her boyfriend for 2 years. She loves watching ANTM and The Face. She wants to become a super model and be know world wide. From L.A. to Tokyo.
" I love life and can't wait to become a model!"
Omg. That was long thank you for reading all of this. IF you did.
1 - Star
July -2004
The Mud
Images and Commentary
By Michael E. Patnode
Introduction
The “MUD” project began several months after my son Albert J. Patnode was born. A.J. came in to my life to change every thing I understand about life. born Dec. 17, 1998 at 36 weeks gestation. He weighed 3.7lbs. He is a kid of special needs. He was born with broken femurs although he was born by cecearian. He has scoliosis of the back. His legs do not move and his right arm is flaccid, the left arm has limited range of motion. He eats by a gastronomy tube in his tummy and cant swallow. He has a tracheostimy in his neck to breath threw CPAP, a ventilation device although AJ breathes on his own, this gives him a fuller breath so he can maintain his oxygen saturation. He’s extremely nearsighted and what he truly sees we just don’t really know. We have 16 hours of nursing care a day to help us with his many cares. AJ is a wonderful inspiration to my wife and I and we are very honored and thankful to be his parents.
It was on a spring night 1999 that I was pawing over some old zip disks to see if I could find unusual looking images to entertain and stimulate my young sons mind. I rediscovered this image file of the old dried mud bed. During college I scanned the original 3x5 photograph at 100 DPI. At that time was all I needed but consequently; I never did use it in a project. Its data stayed on the zip disk until that spring night. I thought it might make a nice visual picture for A.J. to investigate. I began to play with it by adjusting the color and contrast and after some time, I flipped the image over in a mirror reflection of it’s self, I saw for the first time more than textures. I started to flip-flop the image over and over on itself like a kaleidoscope. I began to see more interesting looking shapes, patterns and faces, jump out at me. I didn’t really think too much of it. I’ve seen lots of kaleidoscope images before. Other than something fun to hang on my little sons mobile it was not something I thought I would continue working with.
Strangely a few days later a college friend of mine Susan Spong a photographer wanted me to show some recent work of mine at S.P.E.- the society for photographic education North West conference in Bellingham Washington. I told her I hadn’t been making any serious photographs or art since my son’s birth. She told me to get busy and make some because she was signing me up to be a guest speaker. I would be part of a panel of alumni students from Central Washington University. She was determined not to let me back out. I only had a few weeks to be ready for the conference. I decided to continue to explore with this mud image. As I did I found I could make a few more pieces before the conference. I only showed four mud images and my thesis project from 1998. To my pleasant surprise many of the people I talked to really enjoyed what they could see in the images. One of my professors, John Agars who was there enjoyed it so much he suggested that, I should make an entire show of this work. Although I knew deep inside myself that at the low DPI resolution the work wouldn’t be able to become large prints as I would have like to have. The worst part was that somehow over the years I had lost the original negatives. I knew I could not restart this project. I decided to work with what I had and consider the work to be about small images and then see where it would take me. I also remembered that the photographer Jerry Uelsmann once said at a conference I had attended. “That many artists never study one image long enough”.
I started having all sorts of interesting dreams and fantasies about what this new mud imagery could be. The work kept pulling me in further to a different kind of world. I began to wonder how many things could come from this one image? I continually kept getting the feeling of carved stone from an ancient time or futuristic alien world. Some of what I’ve developed seems familiar although, most of the imagery is oddly unique and the possibilities are entirely open-ended in each image. Every time that I look at one of the mud images I find new faces, shapes and elements. I have never seen before and this has given me the drive to make more. Sometimes I have felt like someone combing a beach to find interesting sticks rocks and shells.
Some shapes became the framework to hold other more complex images into place. Those images would be made from many layers piled upon each other that eventually became. (Depending on how close or faraway I would get to the image). Objects or faces. Most of the images have images inside images inside images and so on. Some days I have thought maybe I was building the world’s biggest Rorschach inkblot tests. Often I would forget where I was working at in the image itself, if I would put something away and not get back to it for a length of time. I decided to make more images after my initial first four. I gave myself a few small but flexible rules to follow. I thought working in a cautious and conservative way by planning to only use what I could find confined within the original mud image. I would build a new image from only this one palate and no other. I have pasted pieces and parts I liked into a given place. I then would erase parts to revel hidden things that would then be come the new part or image. At one point or another I decided that letting a little bit of foreign color sneak into some of the images might be okay if I only used it minimally. This can be seen in a stranger’s relic, commitment to vision, white moth, and the Wall.
I hope that my son A.J. has enjoyed viewing my mud manipulation images. I also hope that others can find great curiosity, fantasy, enjoyment and a small escaped from reality from my collection of mud.
In this collection of artwork I have been making new altered images from one parent photograph of a dried mud bed. It has become the pallet in which I have explored and manipulated over 40 images into a new vision of my own unique tapestry. To manipulate the images I have used Adobe Photoshop 4.0 On a Macintosh Performa Power PC 6400/200. my old Macintosh. 2.5 GIG and 100 MG of Ram. so small unlike my new Mac.
I originally photographed the mud in 1988 on the border of Arizona and New Mexico from an Indian Cliff dwelling site.
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or used in any form or by any means-electronic or photocopying without written permission from Michael Patnode
For information and questions write to me at Flickrmail. thanks so much.
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Dr. Joseph Wong introduces Olivia at the Chinese banquet fundraising dinner in Scarborough. (Photo by Louis Au)
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"Being an accounting of the Great Houses and Their Seats. All maesters know well the lay of Westeros and beyond, the better to advise their lords and masters, to further their stratagems and liaisons. * From the Inn at the Crossroads at the heart of the Seven Kingdoms, one may travel to all corners of Westeros. * Northward is Winterfell, seat of the House of Stark. A direwolf from beyond the Wall is their sigil. Cold and serious, their ancient keep remembers Winter even in summer. * Warmer, to the South, is King's Landing, brimming with summer fruits and flowers. Here in the lofty halls of the Red Keep, Robert Baratheon sits the Iron Throne, won from the Mad King Aerys Targaryen some years since. Alongside him, his Queen - Cersei, a lioness of the powerful House Lannister from Casterly Rock. * And East across the sea is the Free City of Pentos, at the edge of the grasslands they call the Dothraki Sea. The last Targaryens are exiled here, near as extinct as the dragons of their sigil. For once they played the Game of Thrones - and lost."
For Rachel's first shoot, we did 10 outfits ranging from dresses to artistic implied nudes. This was her first shoot and she did wonderful! Look forward to seeing more of her in the future.
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Director Sarah Bruckschwaiger discusses the process of creating Sean and Steven Run for Mayor. (Photo by Ian Campbell)
For Rachel's first shoot, we did 10 outfits ranging from dresses to artistic implied nudes. This was her first shoot and she did wonderful! Look forward to seeing more of her in the future.
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Dr. Joseph Wong introduces Olivia at the Chinese banquet fundraising dinner in Scarborough. (Photo by Louis Au)
解說員的嘴形還真有趣。
事實上當時的解說員是在介紹樂山的地質，為“紅砂岩”，是一種容易雕塑但也容易被侵蝕的一種岩石。
由於樂山大佛也是使用這種紅砂岩進行雕塑，但從建成後至今以來，一直遭受到自然侵蝕與人為破壞，因此實際上在許多的朝代以來都有進行整修。
樂山, 四川
famous zhao si wen arts
Introduction to Zhao Siwen --Traditional Chinese Painting Artist
Born in 1940 in the Minle County, Gansu Province, Mr. Zhao, male, who graduated from the Arts Department of Central Institute for Nationalities in 1960, studied under famous traditional Chinese painting artists Li Kuchan and Wang Xuetao. He has contributed his time and energy to Flower-Bird Painting with freehand brushwork in traditional Chinese painting and the craft of his painting has greatly improved.
In 1960s, the Chinese painting Harvest Scene of Yao Mountain, painted by Zhao Siwen, was hung in the “New Bud” art show hosted by Beijing Artists Association. From 1970s, his work was increasingly published in the arts publications of his native land. For instance, his work Three-Friend Picture and Beautiful Like the Spring Scenery were published in Hebei Worker-Peasant-Soldier Pictorial and HeBei Arts, the pictures Plum Blossom, Orchid, Chrysanthemum and Bamboo and Pine-Crane Picture published in Hebei New Year Pictures. In 1980s, Hebei Press of Fine Arts published the New Year pictures Pine-Crane Picture and Orchid-Bamboo Picture, the Chinese paintings Looking Down Upon Snow and Congratulating on the Victory. The paintings Four-Joy Picture, Autumn Charm and Floating Plum Blossom were published in Hongkong Collection World. Between 1980s and 1990s, Zhang Siwen was invited to hang his Flower-Bird Pictures respectively in the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 5th and 10th exhibition of National Fhower-Bird Pictures Exhibition. The works on show were Exemplary Conduct and Nobility of Character, Two-Hawk Picture, Bird-Singing Picture, National Beauty and Heavenly Fragrance, etc.
Zhao Siwen had held personal paintings exhibition for many times, successively in Shijiazhuang city of Hebei Province, Beidaihe (a famous scenery place), Lanzhou city, Beijing City and so on. His work Strike Violently, painted in 1984, was awarded the 2-class prize in Hebei Painting& Calligraphy Exhibition, and Loquat Picture, painted in the fiftieth anniversary of PLA (People’s Liberation Army), was award the 2-class prize in Hebei province, Lotus in the Clear Water was exhibited in the China Gallery of Fine Arts at the National Painting & Calligraphy Exhibition of Industrial and Commercial Union and published in the magazine Progress. His Flower-Bird Pictures had ever been exhibited at abroad for many times. He was invited to hang his works successively in America, Brazil, Singapore, Japan, Thailand, Malaysia, and awarded the prizes.
In 1987, his Flower-Bird Pictures entered Sino-America Culture Exchange Itinerant Exhibition and was exhibited in a state of America. And the experts on arts at home and abroad had a high opinion of Zhao Siwen’s works. At the same year, he was invited by Taiwan Provincialism Magazine to hang his work at Cross-Strait Painting & Calligraphy Exchange Exhibition, in where his two paintings were exhibited and published in the magazine Taiwan Provincialism.
In 1988, his Flower-Bird pictures Secluded Orchid was award the “Copper Prize” at the “Qu Yuan Cup” Domestic-Overseas Painting and Calligraphy Competition; his work Flowers and Birds was chosen as the good painting and exhibited at the first “Chinese Talents Cup” Painting- Calligraphy- Photography Competition.
In 1995, his work was examined and approved for show and exchange by Painting and Calligraphy Arts Committee, National Symposium on Body Science. His work was shown and awarded the “Silver Prize”.
In 1996, Hebei Press of Fine Arts issued Flower-Bird Pictures Collection, which includes ten paintings of Zhao Siwen’s work.
In 1998, Zhao Siwen, who was invited by Thailand Chinese Chamber of Commerce, Thailand Eastern Culture Fund and Thailand Painting- Calligraphy-Bonsai Association, attended Chinese Artists’ Works Show at Thailand, and his work Brilliant Prospects was awarded the “Gold Prize”.
In March 2001, about ten pieces of his Flower-Bird pictures were exhibited at the Langfang Famous Artists’ Painting & Calligraphy Works Show. Then he was invited by Taiwan Swift-Horse Painting & Calligraphy Research Association to hang his work at Xianli Culture Center, Taizhong county, and exchanged with them.
In 2002, Hebei Press of Fine Arts issued Brushwork Study on Flower-Bird Pictures, which included Mr. Zhao’s four paintings.
Between 1990 and 2000, Zhao Siwen’s personal paintings show successively went the rounds at the following cities, Shandong province, Heze, Taian, Yantai, Zibo, Qingzhou, etc. and his paintings were collected by many collectors. Meanwhile, a number of medias reported on his personal paintings show. In December 2002, overseas edition of People’s Daily issued Chinese Famous Artists, which published some of Mr. Zhao’s paintings in the column.
In recent years, Mr. Zhao has painted for “Chairman Mao Memorial Hall”, “Zhongnanhai”, etc. and been invited to hold exhibition and go in for exchanges on arts at abroad. His directory has been listed into about ten issues, which includes China Dictionary on Famous Painting Calligraphy Artists, China Current Series Dictionary on High-tech Talents, World Current Painting Calligraphy Works Collection, etc. His publication includes Zhao Siwen Flower-Bird Pictures Collection, which has been issued at home and abroad.
Now, Mr. Zhao is over sixty years old. He has been elected as the director of Hebei Branch of Chinese Artists Association, deputy president of Flower-Bird Pictures Research Association of Hebei Province, standing deputy president of Langfang Academy of Arts, Hebei province, standing director of National Culture Fund of Ministry of Culture and deputy chairman o f Langfang Association of Arts, Hebei province. His title is National 1-Calss Teacher of Arts.
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"An Evening with John Batchelor" at the Times Square Hard Rock Cafe on Tuesday Oct 26 from 9p-midnight.
For nearly a decade now I have been a listener and fan of John Batchelor, the only talk radio host I'll listen to, or is worth listening to, precisely because he is so unlike talk radio and his peers. He is literate and intelligent and respectful – and the way he reports and analyzes everything from foreign policy and economics to modern science and american history, is akin to Homer spinning his ancient tales of old. Compelling, to say the least. Or as I like to call it: "Story Time for Grown Ups" (only the stories are real). So you can imagine how much of a thrill it was to see him live and in person doing what he does best.
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Day 42 of 365 : Oct. 11, 2009
Introduction to Algebra Mathematics is a kind of subject without which any of the class syllabus is not furnished. It's the important topic and also the includes complex part of studies every time. Today we are going to take you on the ride of your journey throughout the schooling with mathematics but mainly we will discuss one of the mathematical branch rather than whole math content. Today's highlighted branch is Algebra, so let us start first with what Algebra is all about then go through the content which students need to learn till class 12th from their starting line. Algebra is preferred to be used as a tool to solve complex optimized techniques of solving mathematical queries. The problem is that Algebra is very vast itself, so until students not get aware from whole algebra concept till then he is not able to use its fundamentals as tool. Initial classes of students include introduction part of algebra and as they move towards their upper classes Algebra problems evaluation is the target for students and finally when they reach to 10 +2 class, that time their total past learning of algebra is needed to br compiled in a single form to implement the principles and formulas together in other applications solving.