@ 2013-03-17 – 05:15:47
People often ask what is peace? Here's a thought about it, my own view, anyone else?
Peace, may be many feelings,
maybe even a fresh breeze
on your face when it's too hot,
or a warm shift when it's nippy,
or hares following you in pairs,
as long you feel happy, it's fair!
Nelly
@ 2013-03-14 – 04:37:59
How much wool does one need to become “Pure Laine?” to become a loyal Quebecer?
Knitting my 'Pure Laine' sweater: Canada is outstanding however if you live in the province of Quebec there's the “Pure Laine” (pure wool) issue that comes up from time to time.
For some living in Quebec is complexed because more often than not we have a bunch of back-warded Politicians enticing some citizens to look down on newly-come immigrants that don't totally speak French. Although I'm totally fluently in French and English, something Canadians call bilingual, some “racist” Quebecois think if you don't vote for the 'Partie Quebecois' - the separatist movement you're an Ethnic intruder and you don't deserve to live here. What they forget is that everyone is an immigrant, everyone but the aboriginal North American Native Nation.
A FUNNY EPISODE ABOUT ''PURE LAINE'' (En Français)
Pure Laine - Épisode 01 - Suis-je Québecois 1 de 3
Uploaded on Mar 30, 2010
Racisme / Diaspora / Choc culturel
http://youtu.be/GQMelL-iub4
Pure Laine - Épisode 01 - Suis-je Québecois 2 de 3
Uploaded on Mar 30, 2010
Racisme / Diaspora / Choc culturel
http://youtu.be/f0hmoVvuvVI
Nelly
@ 2013-03-08 – 03:29:40
Spread the word, anyone concerned about preserving Anglo-rights in Quebec please sign this petition. Share with your friends and family! Arise for righteousness!!
Thousands sign petition against Bill 14: Petition :
assnat.qc.ca/exprimez-votre-opinion/Petition/
Highlights from Bill 14
Proposed amendments to Quebec's French language charter
CBC News www.cbc.ca/montreal/features/bill-14/
Thousands sign petition against Bill 14
Parents fear potential for linguistic crackdown on English schools
CBC News Posted: Mar 6, 2013 10:41 AM ET Last Updated: Mar 6, 2013 7:36 PM ET
A petition against the Parti Québécois' Bill 14 is gaining ground as thousands of people add their signatures each day to ask the National Assembly to reject the bill many worry will restrict the rights of Anglo-Quebecers.
A group of parents with the Lester B. Pearson School Board is speaking out against Bill 14, which would beef up the province's French language charter and, among many changes, restrict access to English schools.
AUDIO on BILL 14 in detailed notes
cbc.ca/montreal/2013/03/06/quebec-parents-petition-language-bill-national-assembly
@ 2013-02-15 – 06:41:36
As Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois' role has ended last summer, as Pauline Marois praised his “intelligence” and “audacity” accusing Jean Charest of demonizing the young man who had become a poster boy for the crusade against tuition hike, these days things have changed around - unmarked by the majority, articles here below explains it all.
It doesn't personally bother me that much as the constant racist Quebec language zealots’ anti-anglo messages which became overwhelming. Yet again for those that don't know me, I'm fully bilingual, as a matter of facts I can hardly remember in what language I may have read a book, as most of the Montrealer having the skill and knowledge of two languages; unless -you're racist chintzy such as this woman in the video below.
Quebec language debate in the metro
http://youtu.be/nYJLQ2DjEQM
Tuition freeze debate: Premier Pauline Marois, Education Minister Pierre Duchesne to meet with ASSE to ease tensions
Radical student group threatening class boycott during Summit on Higher Education
By Karen Seidman, GAZETTE universities reporter
February 11, 2013 2:00 PMMONTREAL - With more than 10,000 students already poised to boycott classes and protest for a day during the coming Summit on Higher Education, Premier Pauline Marois and higher education minister Pierre Duchesne scheduled a meeting on Monday with the province’s most radical student group to try to ease tensions in what seems to be an escalating dispute on the eve of the summit.
Read more:
montrealgazette.com/Tuition+freeze+debate
Well, the summit is still two weeks off but the advance press is not encouraging.
Speaking to Le Devoir last week, McGill University principal Heather Munroe-Blum described the summit as a “farce.” She related that at a pre-summit meeting, a speaker from Senegal was invited to compare Quebec’s university system with that of Senegal 20 years ago.
nationalpost.com/2013/02/12/pauline-marois-student-friends-can-be-fickle/
Dan Delmar: Quebec language zealots’ anti-anglo message has a trickle-down effect
This screaming woman on the Métro is only repeating what PQ and Liberal governments have been promoting for years. Her tone is loud and aggressive, but having government tell the population, “here, we speak French,” isn't exactly delicate, diplomatic or the least bit welcoming either.
VIDEO:
nationalpost.com/2013/02/14/language-zealots-anti-anglo-message-trickle-down-effect/
@ 2013-02-03 – 21:19:29
This cartoon drawing represents my sisters and I, the age span from the oldest to the youngest is as close as five years.
From left to right: Me, Reina, Bianca and Stasia:
Rancid Sis' name came to life from a German phrase I've heard on daily basis when I was a kid: ''Trink deine Milch, bevor es ranzig wird!'' which means: "Drink your milk before it goes rancid." - so I thought it's so 'moi' – force of habit, since 'Ranzig' was my nickname as well!
You see; although I was allergic to Milk among many other nasty foods - I was forced to drink it, because my mom thought it was good for me, at the time people didn't know much about allergies or "Lactose intolerance" - primarily it refers to a syndrome having one or more symptoms upon the consumption of food substances containing lactose.
“Why the Peter Pan outfits?”
As new as it is, I was asked many questions about the cartoon's outfits, my idea about it, was something I kept in parallel from my childhood and the current Peter Pan syndrome.
In psychology, Peter Pan Syndrome refers to younger generations' temperament not wanting to grow up and their corresponding immature behaviours. This syndrome is most likely reefed during the 80s/90s generation where the process of a sense of responsibility does not occur nearly as early as it used to. Possibly contributing factors might include over-protectiveness of modern parents, rising costs of living, and increased difficulty in finding satisfactory partners.
The phenomenon was based on Peter Pan, a character created by Scottish novelist and playwright J. M. Barrie who never ages and acts with carelessness and fearlessly cocky behaviours. The syndrome is more commonly known for boys than girls, who learn responsibility earlier as they become aware of the concept of family, childbirth etc.
In reality the main thought about the cartoon production struck me as soon as I saw a funny cartoon by Aunt Acid a friend sent me for the Christmas Holidays!
I posted a poll on facebook for further direction for more production... please help me out and vote.
MY CARTOONS POLL:
@ 2013-01-18 – 19:36:06
This is yet another little thought that came up to be when I read inspiring PipperFancy (Christina) – over there.
` ` ` ` ` 
The Lost Bucket
That depressive day, when you fell into a well
Down there, haven't you seen something shine?
It's something I've lost, my old bucket's consign
Metaphorically or not, will you pull it up for me?
Fill it up with all the tasks you are bound to do,
so many more will be appearing in an endless line.
So many things you have to do to leave a legacy
this will keep you on, alert and toiling forever,
living until you're a hundred years old, infinitely.
Nelly
@ 2013-01-09 – 04:36:15
My new year gift to everyone is a series of cartoons and thoughts of my own, both; drawing and words are of my own imbecility as always claimed by family when I do something out of the ordinary instead of knitting booties or baking cookies for my grandson!!
Why watch TV?
Let the sun hit a wall and watch the shadows moving
you can't miss it, a story unveils and you're involved...
Imagination without drive is merely a lost dream.
Drive without imagination just passes the time.
Imagination with drive can alter our world!
Nelly
More here - Rancid Sis
www.facebook.com/RancidSis
Copyright © 2013
@ 2012-12-19 – 06:16:39
Argument, music and dance lives in the Greek's veins.
Long time ago when I was kid, sometimes during summer vacation my family and I travelled from region to region around the south of Europe nearby the sea shores of Mediterranean to explore other cultures, and learn from it. It was the best summer schooling one can get. This is how my sisters and I, learnt to appreciate history and other civilization.
I remember well at one time when we reached Greece, something I have seen there remains with me to this day. Although I was a kid in my early 'tens' my mind worked up to observe how every sunset - citizens paraded down the hill in groups to the village plaza to meet at a street Taverna to gather for some entertainment.
There were groups of old men that held together playing backgammon, there were groups of older women with knitting apparatus all sitting on a bench in a circle and endlessly chatting away. Loud and clear at a certain point they were harshly gesticulating at each other as southerners usually do, some where extremely brassy and some were talking in whispers.
On some other table a the Taverna there were younger couples between their 20s and 30s... in what seems to be a heated argument of some kind. Since I didn't speak Greek or understood it, my focus was more on the tone of the voice that flexed from an impediment and argumentative pitch to normal accordance, on and off.
As a kid, I thought nothing to it – for me it was amusing, as we also sat at one table to have dinner, this was an extravagant show for us all, of course in the background there was always Bouzouki music.
From time to time some of the people of all ages danced in a row as if they had learning lessons for a complicated choreographed motion for a public show, but apparently it was always just spontaneous.
Many years later when I became an adult, I went back there in a village near Cassiopeia on the Island of Corfu with some friends I knew well, and wouldn't you know, the exact thing was displayed. As if time stood still for years and figuratively waiting for me. Lucky as I was at the time most of my friends were Greek and I was pleased to know that I was getting an interlingual rendition of the scenery to know why they were all so exited in their arguments, as some were so loud that we could hardly hear the music.
My friends explained and told me: Every time there was a family problem in the village, or a political issue or a need to solve a situation for whoever it was for among their friends and neighbours, the citizenry met at the Taverna with the presence of everyone, such as some captains of the boats, the fishermen, the mayor, the priest or the appointed village leader. No one is better than anyone else, when the community had a common concern to everything. I do indeed know where we live now in the extreme civilized robotic world - things as such do not exists.
However in some villages in the south of Europe issues gets shouted out among everyone till it's solved as if it was a parliamentarian session, or the psychologist's office or something of the sort.
My friends added to the explanation, that we may notice when the problem might actually be resolved that night, people calm down and gather in the centre of the scene and happily dance away the night. It's like a huge family and everyone's personal business is everyone concern just like these day we might do on Facebook or blogs with friends we might know and want to share it all with as on that Island in Corfu.
Nelly
@ 2012-12-15 – 06:23:32
A bantam poem to assert what wasting a lot of time on facebook on gambling means to me, when acquaintances call me-in to obtuse games I don't care about!
Reservedly - many stupidities among others exists,
some are: excessive gambling, inebriation and drugs
those that favouring it - often bury their precious time
and tawdrily waste their lives faster than ever thought.
Hence these are my main grounds I've debarred such thugs
I've mentioned it so many times, still I hear her whine
Nelly
Bambrette also wrote a poem for a similar issue:
Poem Theme: Alcohol and stupidity
by Bambrette @ 2012-12-13 – 06:23:51
Based on - "Alcohol gives you infinite patience for stupidity."Sammy Davis, Jr.
@ 2012-11-16 – 08:00:56
Can art and science combined cure? Read below to know more
Chicago-based artist Patrick Lichty has created a 3D model of Salvatore Iaconesi's brain tumour using the MRI data he posted on his website.
How one man tapped into the Web to crowd-source a cure for his cancer
So Iaconesi "hacked" the data. He downloaded a series of software programs and converted the information into formats that were accessible. His medical record could now be published on social networks, attached to emails and accessed by anyone with a computer or smartphone.
Since creating La Cura, more than 500,000 people have clicked on his website,
How one man tapped into the Web to crowd-source a cure for his cancer
Published on Thursday November 15, 2012
thestar.com/web-to-crowd-source-a-cure-for-his-cancer
It has been posted on Thingiverse, a website where people can share their 3D models, where anyone can download and print it with a 3D printer.
@ 2012-11-06 – 03:37:16
If you want to kill a song, let Bjork and P.J. Harvey try to sing it! Björk musical career began when she was eleven with her study of classical piano in elementary school, she has done a number of variate style since, but when she comes down to sing a Rolling Stones song she ought to think twice!
Mind you, I'm more of BJORK fan than a ROLLING STONES fan but this is actually very bad!! I love BJORK but she should stay away from Rolling Stones songs!!
HORRIBLE, horrible... I almost cried!!
P.J. Harvey and Bjork - I Can't Get No Satisfaction
http://youtu.be/TEESbvBWnyU
One of her instructors sent a recording of Björk singing Tina Charles' song "I Love to Love" to RÚV, then the only radio station in Iceland. The recording was broadcast on radio nationally; after hearing it, a representative of the record label Fálkinn contacted Björk to offer a record contract. An album, Björk, was recorded and released in 1977. In her teens, Björk was influenced by punk; at 14 she formed the all-girl punk band Spit and Snot, shortly followed by the jazz fusion group Exodus in 1979. In 1980 she graduated from music school. In 1981 she and bassist Jakob Magnússon formed another band called Jam-80, which later became Tappi Tíkarrass (which means "Cork the Bitch’s Ass" in Icelandic), and released an extended single, "Bítið Fast í Vítið" in the same year. Their album, Miranda, was released in 1983.
Here's a concert from her early days with Sugarcubes - Live in Alabama (October 1988) (1/2)
Sugarcubes - Live at the Olympic Stadium, Auburn University, Alabama, in October 1988. If you like this, support the Sugarcubes by buying their official recordings. This is for nonprofit, educational purposes only.
Published on Mar 11, 2012 by Mollylurcher
http://youtu.be/jCSc0V2SEjs
Sugarcubes - Live in Alabama (October 1988) (2/2)
Published on Mar 11, 2012 by Mollylurcher
http://youtu.be/TBnej13JRjE
What do you think?
@ 2012-10-19 – 22:38:26
The 2012 Honens semi-finalists perform during the recital round, which continues through Sunday when five finalists will be announced.
Christian Royer's painting of a piano.
The finalists perform with the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra in the two-day concerto round on Oct. 25-26. The winner will be announced on Oct. 26.
HONENS LAUREATES: Georgy Tchaidze | Banff Recording
www.youtube.com/user/HonensOFFICIAL
A CD recording is an essential career-building tool. Laureates of the Honens International Piano Competition make a professional recording at The Banff Centre, made possible through Honens' Artistic & Career Development Program. The residency at The Banff Centre provides focused time to develop artistically and make a CD recording with the esteemed Banff Centre faculty and resident recording engineers.
Go behind the scenes with 2009 Honens First Laureate, Georgy Tchaidze as he records at The Banff Centre.
Uploaded by HonensOFFICIAL on Jan 20, 2012
http://youtu.be/ngE1O9kXFHw
Honens Piano Competition expands with live webcasts, $100K prize
Prestigious classical contest widens online presence, boosts grand prize
By Jessica Wong, CBC News
Posted: Oct 19, 2012 5:44 PM ET
Last Updated: Oct 19, 2012 5:43 PM ET
cbc.ca/news/arts/2012/10/19/f-honens-piano-web-streaming-competition
@ 2012-10-16 – 21:21:02
YOUTUBE GESTAPO blocked my videos in over 50 countries with no reason given.... sorry guys the Internet is not what it used to be in the 90s.. .. and . . . . .
WHO THE FREAKING HELL CARES ABOUT THESE DICTATORSHIP COUNTRY ANYWAYS? NOT ME!!
Your video is blocked in these countries
Afghanistan Albania Algeria Andorra Angola Argentina Azerbaijan Bahamas Bahrain Bangladesh Barbados Belarus Belize Benin Bolivia Bosnia and Herzegovina Botswana Brazil Bulgaria Burundi Cambodia Cameroon Cape Verde Central African Republic Chad Chile China Colombia Comoros Congo Congo - Democratic Republic of Costa Rica Cote d'Ivoire Croatia Cuba Cyprus Czech Republic Djibouti Dominican Republic Ecuador Egypt (FUCK YOU EGYPT
WHO THE FREAKING HELL CARES ANYWAYS?
FUCK YOU ALL!!!
@ 2012-10-12 – 05:30:43
While I was running through the pink field (as seen in the video below) I thought of these poetic lines, you may continue the poem it you like...
AUTUMN
Even if I were to be walking through blind,
I’d feel the scrip warm touch in the air
While I run through the vast pink fields
It bares no secret of blame or shame
Autumn leaves millions of falling leafs
Nelly
Sunset - "It's all too much" by The Beatles
Jogging with The Beatles's song "it's all too much" - at a wonderful end of summer in the fields near my home.
-- "It's All Too Much" is a song by The Beatles which first appeared on the 1969 Yellow Submarine film soundtrack album. It was written and sung by George Harrison. It was originally recorded in 1967, shortly before the release of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, and had been slated to appear on the next release, Magical Mystery Tour, but it was pushed back.
VIDEO:
http://vimeo.com/49739955
@ 2012-08-27 – 18:32:06
For the past few days, I have been getting private and embarrassing notes on facebook asking me "why" I've been blocking posters on this blog here...
Well... I'm astounded of the notion that someone might think that I have blocked anyone because I haven't, you may notice that even those that have been posting harsh and insulting comments haven't been blocked, not once or ever blocked anyone, I value everyone's opinion, stupid and clever!!
Nelly
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