Wednesday, March 18, 2015
Goldilocks and the Three Bears An English Folk Tale
THE GUNNERS DREAM THE FINAL CUT LYRICS PERSPECTIVES AND REVIEW
"The Gunners Dream" is a song from Pink Floyds 1983 album The Final Cut. This song was one of several to be considered for the bands "best of" album, Echoes: The Best of Pink Floyd.The song tells the story and thoughts of a gunner as he falls to his death dreaming of a world without war. It is one of the four songs on the video version of the album The Final Cut Video EP. - (Credit - Wikipedia )
The Lyrics of The Gunners Dream -
Floating down through the clouds
Memories come rushing up to meet me now.
In the space between the heavens
and in the corner of some foreign field
I had a dream.
I had a dream.
Good-bye Max.
Good-bye Ma.
After the service when youre walking slowly to the car
And the silver in her hair shines in the cold November air
You hear the tolling bell
And touch the silk in your lapel
And as the tear drops rise to meet the comfort of the band
You take her frail hand
And hold on to the dream.
"Oi!"
A place to stay
"A real one ..."
Enough to eat
Somewhere old heroes shuffle safely down the street
Where you can speak out loud
About your doubts and fears
And whats more no-one ever disappears
You never hear their standard issue kicking in your door.
You can relax on both sides of the tracks
And maniacs dont blow holes in bandsmen by remote control
And everyone has recourse to the law
And no-one kills the children anymore.
And no one kills the children anymore.
Night after night
Going round and round my brain
His dream is driving me insane.
In the corner of some foreign field
The gunner sleeps tonight.
Whats done is done.
We cannot just write off his final scene.
Take heed of a dream.
Take heed.
Perspectives On The Song
If I had to crown to albums from Pink Floyd - I would crown Wish You Were Here and The Final Cut.I just wonder how Waters was able to put an entire incident inside a song. (I cant actually call it storyline).The song is just out of the world.I am still in awe.When I review a song,I ensure I myself feel the entire song properly.I put the curtains in my room off and listened to the song for quite a number of times.I just got goosebumps all over when I was listening to the last lines of the first part of the song.And in this Indian summer of June,when there is scorching heat everywhere,I felt cold for a good 2-3 minutes.I seriously cant express how real everything seemed.If I had to put relative images in this post,days would pass......Can you count the number of wars that raged and rages now - at this very moment?And who knows how many million gunners had this same,common dream?The song is a must-have for hard rock fans (For the qualitative value of the song) and for those who have opposed meaningless,idiotic genocides.
Review
The song begins with a similar sound of rushing winds,somewhat similar to what was used in Us and Them (The Wall), initially bringing with it a serious air into the song.This is quite typical of Pink Floyd,with the main guitar very softly ringing in within a crowd,within winds rushing in etc.As you listen to the song,it will seem evident that the initial lines are psychedelic.After the first part,you would begin to realise that the first part was actually a description of a dream,the falling gunners dream.The lyrics are very emotional and the song has a compelling initiative to make you fall in love with it.The line "You take her frail hand" is sung very softly,almost like a whisper just after which is a pause and then rises "And hold on to the dream" on a relatively high note with drum beats from the second-third word from which occurs the entrance of the hard rock,following which the song gets quieter again followed by high notes in the beginning on the second part,thus contrasting the song well and making it an attraction to the ears.In this line in the second part of the song,"His dream is driving me insane"; the word insane has a decelerating symphony (Similar to what was used in Careful With That Axe,Eugene.) - nice touch.The last lines"Take heed of a dream" and "Take heed" are also very softly told - giving the final emotional touch.The song gets the scores -
INSTRUMENTALS - 5/5
MELODY - 5/5
LYRICS - 5/5
THE VOICE BEHIND - 5/5
As a song - {(20/20) * 100 %} = 100%
Watch the video on dailymotion over here.
Data Credit : Mentioned at the particular places where it has been derived from.
Images : The Images used in this post are not owned by me.
Lyrics : Read the Music section of What is a Perspective? page of this blog.
Review and Perspectives : Originally done by The Perspectives Blog
Tuesday, March 17, 2015
Penny and Her Marble
Guilt soon plants itself in Pennys heart, and she hides the marble in her dresser drawer. At dinner she loses her appetite when she notices how the oranges look like big orange marbles and the peas like little green ones. In bed that night she tosses and turns, and when she finally falls asleep, she dreams the marble grows so big it demolishes her dresser.
The next morning Penny makes a decision about the marble. Beginning readers, many of whom have probably struggled similarly with their conscience, will be relieved to see Penny do the right thing.
In Penny and Her Marble, Henkes has delivered yet another winner. In the Horn Books March/April issue, he confesses the seeds of the story. When he was five, he swiped a plastic medallion from his neighbor and was stricken with guilt. See, crime does pay!
Penny and Her Marble
by Kevin Henkes
Greenwillow, 48 pages
Published: March 2013
Luca Pacioli and Leonardo DaVinci Domestic Partnership of Genius
HUMAN BODY SYSTEM DIAGRAM :
Luca Pacioli and Leonardo DaVinci--Renaissance men--were both mathematical geniuses. Leonardo was more inclined towards military engineering, while Luca towards abstract and pure math. When Pacioli included "Double Entry Bookkeeping" in his textbook, Summa de Aritmetica, which he published in 1494 (two years after Christopher Columbus landed in Santo Domingo), little did he know he would change the world.
Luca Pacioli and Leonardo DaVinci - Domestic Partnership of Genius
Leonardo Da Vinci and a monk named Luca Pacioli--the inventor of Accounting (debits and credits), lived together for many years. Lucas math textbook contained the basic notions that accountants follow today: Assets equal liabilities plus owners equity (A=L + OE).
Both being college professors travelled together and stayed together at different universities.
Sigmund Freud-in his study on Leonardos homosexuality- ignored this fact. It is a pity because Freud would have brought out factual evidence rather than wild speculations based on his physchoanalytic techniques. Leonardo, being much younger than Luca, has always been described as Lucas protege.
Today with time perspective we can understand they probably had a domestic partnership of sorts. In 1495 they lived together in Milan and Venice. Art Historians have well documented that Leonardo was summoned to court to address charges of homosexuality against him. But since the accuser did not show up, the charges were later dropped.
The diagrams and figures one sees in Lucaa Summa were DaVincia drawings. They worked together as equal partners rather than the master-apprentice relations of the times.
Billions of human beings have populated the earth, mostly living in the shadow of survival and mediocrity, the odd, the strange, and the eccentric are the ones who make the most invaluable contributions to the improvement of the human condition. These two eccentrics did make tangible contributions to mankind.
While Leonardos accomplishments have been well chronicled and documented in our times--even Bill Gates couldnt resist owning Leonardos original manuscripts--Lucas contributions are less known. Like our American composer Aaron Copland, I will play a fanfare for the common man: Luca by his ingenious explanation of Double Entry Bookkeeping system made possible international commerce, opening the flood-gates to what today we call "The Global Economy."
No longer were businesses confined within frontiers, as banks, financial institutions, entrepreneus, and corporations, bartered, exchanged, and extracted profits across frontiers. The standardization of Financial Statements followed, so that Balance Sheets, Income Statements, and Cash Flows are read and interpreted without major impediments all over Europe.
With capital formation in full thrust, the needed capital for factories became available, fostering thereby the advent of the European Industrial Revolution. By 1750 Europe was already industrialized, and by 1860 (after the Civil War) America became an industrial power.
Yes it was a leap of imagination to design Debits (left side) and credits (right side) as an information system. You write the assets on the left side of the equation, and the claims on those assets on right side.
In more than ten thousand years of recorded history, no one in the human race had attempted to keep business records by double entry. The Babylonians, Phoenicians, Persians, Egyptians, Greeks, Romans, and other ancient civilizations recorded their transactions on a cash basis and by a single entry; that is, business people made lists of items purchased and sold.
As a result, businesses remained small enterprises, doomed to remain small since the lack of an orderly system prevented growth. Whether in papyrus, sheep-skins parchments, or bricks, all business records were endless enumerations and catalogues, which offered little discernment into measurements of profit or loss.
Pacioli changed all that.
To think that a humble discovery such as double entry bookkeeping can change the destiny of the human race challenges credibility. But given that double entry allows not only for an orderly classification of accounts, journals, and ledgers, but also for measurements of liquidity and profitability, it isnt surprising to see that Capitalism bloomed.
In economic systems where Capitalism prevails, businesses--being the major employers-- offer medical coverage and retirement plans, man and woman can now enjoy the latest technologies and thereby live longer and in good health.
One can well imagine Luca and Leonardo discussing symmetries, constrasts, dichotomies, dualities, binary oppositions, polarities, antithesis, and other opposites:
"Physical nature exhibits all these dualities: day and night, narrow and wide, fast and slow," Luca would say, "and so does human nature."
"We carry good and evil, love and hatred, in our spirits and bodies--or as Heraclytus loved to say:the way up is the way down, the narrow and the wide," Leonardo would reply.
"What about Ecclesiastes, Leonardo, --didnt he say...?
a time to be born and a time to die; a time to plant and a time to uproot; a time to kill and a time to heal; a time to pull down and a time to build up; a time to weep and a time to laugh; a time for mourning and a time for dancing;...
The observation of these doubles as a system of knowledge permitted Luca to expand it into the Accounting equation where what is on the left must equal what is on the right side (Assets = Liabilities + Owners Equity). Later, accountants realized that another duality was needed: Revenues, which are increases in owners equity, and Expenses decreases; the difference being no other than profits or losses.
With debits and credits pretty much established as a system of order, writers such as Descartes, Cervantes, Shakespeare, and Dickens imposed it in literature and philosophy by means of antithesis.
Descartes cogito ergo sum, is the synthesis of a duality: mind and body.
In A Tale of Two Citites Dickens opens his novel with a detailed set of antheses:
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way--
Although philosophers such as Hegel and Karl Marx attempted to discard the duality system by replacing it with a triad: thesis, antithesis, synthesis. They failed; and we can understand why: Hegel professed the States power, while Marx communism. By now we know the chaotic results of Nazism and Communism.
The natural tendency is duality as proved by the Second Law of thermodynamics: order and chaos (enthropy). Though Nature tends to chaos, human nature imposes order; the mind invents patterns of understanding.
The Double entry Bookkeeping system is a triumph of the mind over the chaotic activities of humans engaged in trade. Not only did Double Entry brought forth a new economic system, but also the dawn of a new way of thinking: modernity. And modernity dispelled the mists of superstition, monsters, magic, witches, ogres, dwarfs, giants, miracles, chimeras, unicorns, centaurs, sirens, and other impossible figures of the supernatural.
The middle ages and feudalism yielded to modern times.
Luca Paciolis legacy--accounting system--to the business world is order. It contains: Balance, wholeness, and radiance, because his system dovetails with Democracy, with Freedom to the entrepreneur; a system that coincides with Adam Smiths pillars of capitalism: Laissez-faire (free market economy), competition (Invisible Hand), and the Division of labor (the innate human propensity that creates wealth for all).
This is my fanfare to the common man, the humble monk--Luca Pacioli
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Sunday, March 15, 2015
Orthopaedic Emergency and Office Procedures PDF 2014
Wednesday, March 11, 2015
Bouguereau misc studies and paintings
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