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Saturday, March 11, 2017
The birth of new cubism 2 - 28-04-14
The birth of new cubism 2 - 28-04-14. Artist: Corné Akkers. Graphite pencil drawing (Pentel 0.5 mm, 3B) on Winsor & Newton paper (14.8 x 21 x 0.01 cm - A5 format). One of the series 'the birfh of new cubism' in which it still is Obvious that I was still searching for new cubistic ways.
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Get Ready For 'Real' Wireless Charging
Imagine a world where everything is truly wireless. No wires dangling around on the desks or behind the tables, no tripping over wires or accidentally damaging them! Complete freedom from the eyesore that is the landscape of today's consumer electronics.
It would be so liberating and futuristic and a more natural way of living. All this may sound too good to be true or too far into the future but in fact, this technology is already here and it is going to change the way we do things all over again!
Today, everyone owns one or more smart devices. It could be a smartphone or a tablet or a smartwatch or a whole slew of other smart gadgets. All these devices have one thing in common; that they all require charging. And as frustrating as it is, today's battery technology isn't as advanced as it needs to be and we end up charging our devices every single day.
This could be how your desk looks soon, one without wires.
Well, not for long! Because a company called Energous, has come up with the solution we've all been looking for and they are calling it Wattup technology.
Our gadgets will now be able to be charged from a distance. Just imagine walking into your home from a long day of work and your phone immediately starts charging up without you even thinking about it, just like how wifi connects automatically.
You would not need to go to your room, take out your charger, connect the phone and leave it there. That will all be in the past. And since your devices won't have to be placed in a particular place to get charged up, you can move around using them as they charge!
The system consists of a transmitter and a receiver. The transmitters deliver contained power at up to a 15-feet radius from where they are installed, creating up to a 30-feet envelope of wire free charging space.
Each of these transmitters are able to charge 12 devices at the same time. The receiver is at the receiving end of this power that uses multiple antennas to collect the micro energy beams created by the transmitter. The receiver will be embedded inside your devices in the circuitry. The whole process will be just as seamless as how wifi works.
Now that's what I call 'wireless charging'. The current solutions available in the market termed as 'wireless charging' are nothing but induction charging where you still have to place your device on a pad and the charging station is still connected to a power source through a wire. The whole system is bulky in my opinion with no real convenience over the wired charging set up that we have today.
We should start seeing this technology being adopted in electronics beginning from the end of 2017. Of course we would have to buy new smartphones and new tablets that support this technology but who wouldn't? Also, the company is hoping to release charging cases, so that our existing smart devices can take advantage of this god-sent technology as well.
So, are you hyped enough for this? I sure am! The future can't happen soon enough...
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The Pardoner's Tale, by Geoffrey Chaucer
The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer (c.1340-1400) is a collection of stories supposedly told by a set of pilgrims as they make their way to Canterbury. As well as the tales themselves, the pen-portraits of the storytellers are of great interest. Here is an account of Chaucer’s “Pardoner”.
(The Pardoner from the Ellesmere MS)
The Pardoner
Chaucer finds it difficult to approve of most of the pilgrims who earn their living from religion, and the Pardoner is no exception. This is a man who takes advantage of gullible people by promising to free them from the pains of Hell by selling them pardons for their sins, supposedly signed by the Pope. He will also sell “holy relics”, charging absurd prices for such things as old bits of wood that came, according to him, from Christ’s cross. He is therefore a 14th century con-artist.
When the Pardoner is invited by “mine Host”, Harry Bailey, to follow the tale told by the Physician, it soon becomes clear that his main purpose for undertaking this pilgrimage is to make a quick buck or two, either from his fellow pilgrims or from anyone else he might meet along the way. However, we also get to see that this is an “honest rogue”, who is completely open about what he does, and he turns out to be almost likeable.
He demands a drink before he will tell his tale, and we can imagine him getting more and more loquacious as the alcohol takes effect.
The prologue to his tale is in the form of a confession of his business methods, of which he is clearly inordinately proud. Indeed, this is nothing short of a lengthy boast at what a brilliant conman he is.
“… I have won, year by year,
A hundred marks since I was a pardoner.
I stand like a clerk (priest) in my pulpit,
And when the common people are sitting down
I preach just as you have heard before
And tell a hundred false stories more”. [my own translation from the original]
The nature of his tale
The sermon that he refers to is on the familiar text from the Letter to Timothy that he quotes in Latin, “Radix malorum est Cupiditas”, or “the love of money is the root of all evil”. He then pleads with his “congregation” to refrain from avarice, which they can best do by parting with their cash. The Pardoner makes no secret of the fact that he is the most avaricious person there, but, so what, it’s a living isn’t it?
He will have performed this trick in every village he has passed through on his travels, his pulpit being a simple folding stand and box that he erects in an open space, possibly even directly outside the parish church to encourage the pretence that he is acting as the Pope’s representative.
He now proceeds to preach his sermon on the text quoted above, and it constitutes one of the most satisfying tales in the whole canon, being well told and with a wonderful twist in the story. It is a moral tale, and one that we can well imagine a person such as the Pardoner giving out as part of his “patter”. We can easily envisage his village audiences being gripped by its ingenuity and listening intently as it is told.
The Pardoner’s Tale
Three young men have been drinking and enjoying themselves, obviously to excess. The Pardoner really goes to town on the evils of drink, whilst doubtless downing his third or fourth pint of ale contributed by his fellow pilgrims. We can imagine this demagogue catching the moment when he knows that his oratory has captured his audience before he gets going on the story proper.
As the men sit outside the tavern, they see a funeral procession passing by. They ask a boy to tell them who has died, and it turns out to be a friend of theirs. He had, in the boy’s words, been visited by a thief whom men call Death, who has “a thousand slain” with the pestilence.
The three men decide, there and then, that they must seek out “this false traitor Death, he shall be slain, he that so many slayeth”.
They come across an old man, who tells them that he has seen Death, and that they will find him in a grove, under a tree. What they actually find is a pile of gold coins, which causes them to forget all about their search for Death.
Now fully sober, the three work out a plan as to how they are going to guard this treasure and get it home safely. They draw lots, and the youngest is sent to the town to fetch food and wine so that they can wait until nightfall before taking the treasure home without being noticed.
When he has gone, the other two work out that splitting the gold between two of them will profit them better than a three-way split, so they decide to murder their friend when he comes back.
The third young man has had similar thoughts, although he would prefer not to share the treasure at all. He therefore visits an apothecary when he reaches town and buys some rat poison, which he pours into two of the wine bottles that he has bought to take back to the clearing in the woods.
As the Pardoner says, you can work out the rest of the story for yourselves. The two conspirators carry out their plan then decide that, before burying the body, they need a drink. And so all three find Death, just as the old man said they would.
The Pardoner pushes his luck
The Pardoner, his story complete, now forgets himself completely and carries on with the sales pitch. He assails his fellow pilgrims with another diatribe about the consequences of avarice and urges them to buy his pardons and relics, pointing out how lucky they are to have him as one of their number, given that any fatal accident along the way will not result in the victim going to Hell, as long as they have bought their pardon from him first.
He then makes the mistake of turning to the Host as his first customer, who sees through all this claptrap in two seconds flat, threatening the wretched man with instant castration. This shuts the Pardoner up, and it is left to the Knight to calm everyone down and urge the Host and the Pardoner to “kiss and make up” which, perhaps surprisingly, they do.
So ends the Pardoner’s Tale, which has been described as the most perfect short story in English literature. If this is true, it is the linking of the teller and the tale that makes it so. It is certainly arguable that this section of the Canterbury Tales is the best thing that Chaucer ever wrote.
Places Not to Miss While Discovering India with Real Charm
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Stella Maxwell and Josephine Skriver, very special fashion icons
The world of fashion has changed as everything is doing too. Without going any further, we have two fashion icons nowadays never seen before. Do you want to know the reason? Keep reading!!!
STELLA MAXWELL AND JOSEPHINE SKRIVER
Not only Stella Maxwell and Josephine Skriver work for the best fashion brands or they are two of the current Victoria´s Secret angels.
They are also fashion icons for both the industry and also LGTB community. This is their story.
STELLA MAXWELL
Stella Maxwell is the first bisexual supermodel in the history of fashion. Perhaps there were in the past, but no one dared to declare it publicly.
What is more, she has been in the spotlight for different reasons as she was dating pop sensation Miley Cyrus. They were known as Styley made with the names of Stella and Miley.
This romance between Stella Maxwell and Miley Cyrus brought Maxwell to stardom. She is now for instance, the hottest girl in the world according to Maxim magazine on its last 2016 edition.
Furthermore, Stella Maxwell is in the mouth of everyone as she is dating a Hollywood star; Kristen Stewart, the main protagonist of Twilight saga.
Stella Maxwell and Kristen Stewart are forming one of the most popular couples in the world of show business.
Stella Maxwell was born in Belgium. Because his dad is a diplomat from Belfast, Northern Ireland, she has been able to live and study in several countries such as New Zealand or Australia.
Stella Maxwell
JOSEPHINE SKRIVER
I published on Niume some interesting anecdotes about some supermodels. One of them was Josephine Skriver.
Now, we are to extend and fully explain the incredible life story of this Danish supermodel. Another LGTB icon as her parents are gay.
As a matter of fact, Josephine Skriver has 4 parents, as incredible as it sounds. Her mum had a girlfriend but she posted an advertisement on a gay magazine in order to have a child.
A gay man answered hence Josephine Skriver was born and raised having 4 parents. Two couples formed by two women and two men. Denmark is one of the most LGBT friendly countries in the world.
Now, she is a Victoria´s Secret angel, a fashion icon and a role model for LGBT community. Never before this community had fashion icons as important and special as Josephine Skriver and Stella Maxwell.
Josephine Skriver dates a rockstar from band The Cab. She usually meets LGBT family members all around the world so that make them believe they can reach their dreams and aspirations as she has done, because she is one of the sensations of the world.
Indeed, she says that having grown up with this special situation has made her be tougher. In fact, she wakes up really early in the morning to work out. Her body and look are one of the most coveted by fashion brands.
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Share the story of these two supermodels and LGBT Icons. LGBT stands for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transsexual, a collective that has not been represented in the world of fashion until now.
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