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Zwischendurch muss dann mal das Eine oder Andere ins Notizbuch geschrieben - bzw. skizziert - werden. In diesem Fall die ersten Schriftzeichen von vor etwa 5000 Jahren.
Croquinote le dictionnaire mental tiré du livre Mémoriser sans peine, Xavier Delengaigne, Interéditions, 2012
From the top of Mount Helena City Park. Helena,Montana right below. The valley spread out to the distant Big Belt Mountains. Looking northeast. This photo has notes.
If I don't write down what I'm doing, I tend to get lost. And, it gives me an excuse to try out different pens.
A fine effigy of an unknown knight from Venice, Italy, ca. 1370-1375.
Note the loose-hanging nasal (brétache) which can be fastened to the decorative brow of the bascinet; the three chains attached by floral mamelieres to the coat-of-plates worn under the jupon (for the sword, dagger and great helm), and the hourglass gauntlets.
More detailed information on the website of The Victoria and Albert Museum: collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O14763/recumbent-effigy-of-a-k...
We are making some eco bags to sell on tour. This is our first model - raindrop = music note. We printed them all in our bedroom with our trusty print gocco.
If you don't know about print gocco you have to check this out.
This is a diagram of the music note tree (sometimes called the rhythm tree or note pyramid) and uses US terminology.
Feel free to use but credit hellomusictheory.com
These AZ-Two speakers replaced my Audio Note AX-One speakers several months ago. I love the AX-1s. In particular, the vocal coming out from these lowest end of Audio Note line up is unbeatable. I have never heard female vocal is so beautifully reproduced through these tiny AX-1 speakers. However, since I listen to many types of music, including rock and hard bop jazz, the Absolute Zero-Two speakers with 93 db have replaced the AX-1s. It's been several months now, and it’s been burned in about 200 hours more or less. So, it’s time to write some impression on these black ash speakers. These speakers are very ugly looking. If your wife has some opinion on furniture sets at home, then these boxy looking speakers may be a great challenge for you guys to persuade. It may need a cross of Albert Einstein and George Clooney to persuade your wife to love the look of AZ-Two. When laymen see these speakers, they would think that these are made in Glodok. Or, they might think that these speakers are some school projects from your neighbor’s son. I am not kidding. If there’s some robber breaking into your house and looking at these two black boxes, they would definitely skip these things. In particular, if you do not put the AN labels on, the robber would think that these are made by people in Cikapundung – an electronic market in Bandung.
OK, they are ugly, so how is the sound? Nah, I have not finished yet. Let me finish it. The speakers are boxed with one layer carton boxes. A regular sedan will be hard to carry a couple of these big boxes. After opening the boxes, I took out the AZ-Twos. They are quiet heavy. Even though Audio Note provides good quality spikes inside the boxes, I use Soundcare Super Spikes on these speakers. Now, this is another ugly thing. When I tried to wire them and tighten the binding posts, I realized that the binding posts are so hard to grip. They are really pains in the butt. The binding posts are very high quality indeed, but they are just so awful to tighten. You should use soft towel to help your fingers grip the slippery binding posts. Another point that you should know is that these speakers are not equipped with jumpers. I think bi-wire is in PQ’s mind when he designed these.
After wiring them, I put each of them about 40 cm from the back wall and 50 cm from the side wall. By the way, I power these speakers using 4.8 watt Almarro A205A mkII. I played Just the Two of Us, by Grover Washington, Jr. It was nice, but I felt the sound was boomy. I knew that Audio Note instructed to place the speakers on the corners or close to the back wall. The manual states that the speakers may sound boomy if they are place too far from the walls. Funny, eh? Conventional speakers are the opposite. They will sound boomy if they are placed too close to the walls. So, reluctantly I place them on the corners. Voila! The boomy sound is gone. They sound so wonderful. The bass goes lower and tighter. Now, after about 200 hours burned in, the speakers are flexed a bit, and they produce very musical atmosphere. Rock and fusion jazz are their bread and butter. I love listening Dark Side of the Moon, by Pink Floyd. Oh, boy! These AZ-Twos can create picturesque or panoramic 3D stage. The sound stage is very wide. I feel like the sound does not come from those speakers. The source of the different instruments seem coming from certain point locations on stage. The speakers are just gone or hidden. It is excellent. I have never had this experience before. If you bass freak, these black boxes can give you plenty of quality bass. The highs are transparent and smooth, not edgy. This is the type of versatile speakers. They are all-round speakers for all kinds of music. However, if you are vocal fanatics and have mostly vocal jazz or easy listening albums, such as audiophile CDs played in audio shows, I think AX-Ones would be better choices. They are unbeatable in vocal reproduction. AZ-Twos cannot compete with AX-Ones in this area. Moreover, the price of AX-1 is very reasonable. The AX-1’s price is more or less in the range price of popular bookshelf speakers in Indonesia. I believe AX-1s would be the best choice for most two-channel systems. On the other hand, if your CD collections range from hard rock to world music, from mainstream to hard bop jazz, then AZ-Twos should be on your must-listen list. The sonic of AZ-Twos are softer and more likable after 200 hour running. Now, when I listen to Marcus Miller Live album in late night and dark room, it’s like I was there in the same room with Marcus Miller. It is very alive. Another incredible thing I experience with these AZ-2s is when I play Kind of Blue CD (The Definitive Version), by Miles Davis. This must have album was made in heaven, Bill Evans said in the liner notes. They made this recording without actually practicing it first. They learned the notes right before the session. In this album, there are three horns. They are Miles’ trumpet, John Coltrane’s tenor sax, and Cannonball Adderley’s alto sax. Through AZ-Twos, one can pinpoint the exact location and height of each horn on the stage. Amazing! Scary!
Conclusion: The only good thing about AZ-2s is their musical sound.
Note: A composite showing the following day using additional filters can be found at the link attached here: www.flickr.com/photos/homcavobservatory/50657578913/?fbcl...
Object Details; Massive sunspot AR2781 has just rotated onto the visible disk this week. The biggest spot of new Solar Cycle 25, as can be seen in this composite it's trailing central core alone is 3 times larger than the Earth. It will traverse the solar disk over the next week or so. Although there have yet to be any major flares, should a large one occur, given AR2781's Earth facing position, hopefully any associated coronal mass ejections will result in a display of the northern lights in our area.
Image Details: The attached was taken by Jay Edwards at the HomCav Observatory at my home here in upstate, NY. Shot on the mornings of November 4th and 5th, the left hand image utilized a Canon 700D & a full aperture Kendricks light light filter on an ED80T CF (i.e. an Orion 80mm, f/6 carbon-fiber triplet apochromatic refractor), and a 0.8X field flattener / focal reducer; meant merely as a reference for location, it is a single frame shot at 1/4000 and ISO 100.
The center and right hand images were taken using an ASI290MC 'planetary camera / auto-guider' on a vintage 1970, 8-inch, f/7 Criterion newtonian reflector with a homemade, off-axis Baader material white-light solar filter. Since the seeing both days was somewhere between horrible & terrible ;) , I also included an infrared filter in the optical train in an effort to decrease it's detrimental effects (i.e. longer wavelengths are effected less than shorter ones). Taken approximately 24 hours apart, they are stacks of best 20 percent of several thousand frames.
Both of these scopes are mounted on and tracked by a Losmandy G-11 running a Gemini 2 control system and the images were processed using a combination of AS3, Registax & PSP. As presented here, all images have been converted to greyscale and the entire composite is presented in HD resolution and format.
this is a photo of my mother & her sisters when they were little girls...living in georgia.
and of course...thats my reflection in the glass! i need to retake this next time i go to my parents...or better yet...scan it!
Earlier today I found these two bank notes from the old country snuggled in the back of a dusty book. These were in general circulation between 1978 and 1990, and so would have seen me through the end of high school, my two years national service, my three degrees and my initial move to the UK. Fascinating times.
The note is supposed to depict Johan Anthoniszoon "Jan" van Riebeeck, but some National Party bureaucrat screwed up and the portrait on the old bank notes is of Bartholomeus Vermuyden, as painted by Dirck Craey (1650) and currently hanging in the Rijksmuseum. The actual van Riebeeck was far less glamorous as this portrait of him in the Rijksmuseum reveals. Researcher Jonkheer F.G.L.O van Kretschmar has also determined that the popular portrait of van Riebeeck's wife, Maria, was more likely that of Catharina Kettingh, wife of Bartholomeus Vermuyden. The real Maria van Riebeeck (nee de la Queillerie) was as frumpish as her husband - this is the portrait of her in the Rijksmuseum. Worse still, by all accounts the statue in Adderley Street, Cape Town, is not a likeness of Maria either, but of the "wife of the chairman of the Dutch committee that helped to organise the 1952 Van Riebeeck festival in Cape Town." (Giliomee and Mbenga, 2007, "New History of South Africa"). Incredible - you couldn't believe a goddamn thing under the old apartheid regime.
Interesting read here.
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