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"Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent."
-- Calvin Coolidge
Life is like a Rubik's cube. Difficult at first, but with constant practice and determination it gets better.
Also a part of the Persistence of Vision series:
A scan across an unnamed gas giant's upper layers--made me think of watching the Shoemaker/Levy impact on Jupiter, and wonder how many times that must happen across the rest of the galactic arm.
Fimo and 15o Czech beads. This photo needs to be updated; the beading is finished now.
Album cover of The Persistence of Memory by Mistral Trio.
Contemporary European piano trio jazz with Duncan Haynes, piano; Jules Jackson, bass; Simon Pearson, drums.
Recorded London 2010.
Released November 2010.
I noticed this fishing vessel passing just offshore, heading south out of Narragansett Bay presumably to go catch my dinner. This is the F/V Persistence, a fishing trawler based in Kingstown, just up the bay. Sometimes I can find a lot about a boat on the internet, but I can't find much about the Persistence. It looks like it'd be a boat on the Deadliest Catch, if they did trawlers instead of crab boats.
Audience members mingle following the Persistence of Dreams program (Sunday Best Reading Series, May 1, 2011).
Had a meeting today where the word persistence kept coming up. This little plant has toughed it out through the hottest and dryest summer I've ever experienced. And on the other side of that suffering, it can still put out beautiful, delicate flowers. And we might even get a few chilis from it yet!
He never gives up, with this or anything. And sometimes he gets an unexpected helping hand.
I thought this might make an interesting cutout.
Viva has been weaning the kittens; Yoda is the most persistent in wanting to nurse. Often, Viva will walk over to the food dishes, probably to encourage Yoda to eat the kitten food in the bowls, but Yoda keeps trying to nurse under any circumstances. Yoda does love canned cat food, if not the dry chow.
Watch Viva's kittens continue to grow and develop in Looking for Love: Part 4
Copyright 2009
Why are these people planning to move the Mendel Art Gallery? Certainly it is because some influential developer covets the lovely riverfront land on which it so appropriately and passively sits. Let us not do violence to our city by removing the Mendel name, and moving the gallery to a concrete sea on River landing. Turn a firm hand to greed, and say "Stop"!
Cologne Cathedral (Kölner Dom, officially Hohe Domkirche Sankt Petrus, English: Cathedral Church of Saint Peter) is a Catholic cathedral in Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia. It is the seat of the Archbishop of Cologne and of the administration of the Archdiocese of Cologne. It is a renowned monument of German Catholicism and Gothic architecture and was declared a World Heritage Site in 1996. It is Germany's most visited landmark, attracting an average of 20,000 people a day. At 157 m (515 ft), the cathedral is currently the tallest twin-spired church in the world, the second tallest church in Europe after the German, Ulm Minster, and the third tallest church in the world. It is the largest Gothic church in Northern Europe and has the second-tallest spires. The towers for its two huge spires give the cathedral the largest façade of any church in the world. The choir has the largest height to width ratio, 3.6:1, of any medieval church. Construction of Cologne Cathedral began in 1248 but was halted in the years around 1560, unfinished. Work did not restart until the 1840s, and the edifice was completed to its original Medieval plan in 1880. Cologne's medieval builders had planned a grand structure to house the reliquary of the Three Kings and fit its role as a place of worship for the Holy Roman Emperor. Despite having been left incomplete during the medieval period, Cologne Cathedral eventually became unified as "a masterpiece of exceptional intrinsic value" and "a powerful testimony to the strength and persistence of Christian belief in medieval and modern Europe". Only the telecommunications tower is higher than the Cathedral. In 1996, the cathedral was added to the UNESCO World Heritage List of culturally important sites. In 2004, it was placed on the "World Heritage in Danger" list, as the only Western site in danger, due to plans to construct several high-rise buildings nearby, which would have visually impacted the site. The cathedral was removed from the list in 2006, following the authorities' decision to limit the heights of buildings constructed near and around the cathedral. As a World Heritage Site and host to the Shrine of the Three Kings, Cologne Cathedral is a major attraction for tourists and pilgrims, and is one of the oldest and most important pilgrimage sites of Northern Europe. Visitors can climb 533 stone steps of the spiral staircase to a viewing platform about 100 m (330 ft) above the ground. The platform gives a scenic view over the Rhine. There is ongoing conservation at the cathedral to address the problem of the black discoloration caused by the sandstone reacting with sulfuric acid during rainfall. St. Joseph's Catholic Church in Washington, D.C. was modeled after the cathedral.