Wassily Kandinsky Squares with Concentric painting

Wassily Kandinsky Squares with Concentric paintingGustav Klimt Portrait of Sonja Knips painting
To Harry's surprise, Hermione turned a very deep shade of pink at these words. Ron noticed nothing; he was too busy describing each of his other penalties in loving detail.
The great gray hippogriff, Buckbeak, was tethered in front of Hagrid's cabin. He clicked his razor-sharp beak at their approach and turned his huge head toward them.
"Oh dear," said Hermione nervously. "He's still a bit scary, isn't he?"
"Come off it, you've ridden him, haven't you?" said Ron. Harry stepped forward and bowed low to the hippogriff without breaking eye contact or blinking. After a few seconds, Buckbeak sank into a bow too.
"How are you?" Harry asked him in a low voice, moving forward to stroke the feathery head. "Missing him? But you're okay here with Hagrid, aren't you?"
"Oi!" said a loud voice.
Hagrid had come striding around the corner of his cabin wearing a large flowery apron and carrying a sack of potatoes. His enormous boarhound, Fang, was at his heels; Fang gave a booming bark and bounded forward.

Pino Early Morning painting

Pino Early Morning paintingPino Desire painting
What!" said Ron, goggling at Hermione. "But Hogwarts is safer than their Homes, bound to be! We've got Aurors, and all those extra protective spells, and we've got Dumbledore!"
"I don't think we've got him all the time," said Hermione very quietly, glancing toward the staff table over the top of the Prophet. "Haven't you noticed? His seat's been empty as often as Hagrid's this past week."
Harry and Ron looked up at the staff table. The headmaster's chair was indeed empty. Now Harry came to think of it, he had not seen Dumbledore since their private lesson a week ago.
"I think he's left the school to do something with the Order," said Hermione in a low voice. "I mean . . . it's all looking serious, isn't it?"
Harry and Ron did not answer, but Harry knew that they were all thinking the same thing. There had been a horrible incident the day before, when Hannah Abbott had been taken out of Herbology to be told her mother had been found dead. They had not seen Hannah since.

Pierre Auguste Renoir By the Seashore painting

Pierre Auguste Renoir By the Seashore paintingPierre Auguste Renoir At the Concert painting
Should've made your presence known, shouldn't you?" said Gaunt aggressively. "This is private property. Can't just walk in here and not expect my son to defend himself."
"Defend himself against what, man?" said Ogden, clambering back to his feet.
"Busybodies. Intruders. Muggles and filth." Ogden pointed his wand at his own nose, which was still issuing large amounts of what looked like yellow pus, and the flow stopped at once. Mr. Gaunt spoke out of the corner of his mouth to Morfin. "Get in the house. Don't argue."
This time, ready for it, Harry recognized Parseltongue; even while he could understand what was being said, he distinguished the weird hissing noise that was all Ogden could hear. Morfin seemed to be on the point of disagreeing, but when his father cast him a threatening look he changed his mind, lumbering away to the cottage with an odd rolling gait and slamming the front door behind

Fabian Perez white and red painting

Fabian Perez white and red paintingFabian Perez Venice paintingFabian Perez Tango painting
Well, we followed Draco Malfoy. We used my Invisibility Cloak." "No, I'm serious!" said Ron earnestly. "I can't remember enjoying commentary more! What is this, by the way?" he added, holding the onionlike object up to eye level.
"Did you have any particular reason for doing so, or was it a mere whim?" "Oh, it's a Gurdyroot," she said, stuffing the cat litter and the toadstool back into her bag. "You can keep it if you like, I've got a few of them. They're really excellent for warding off Gulping Plimpies." And she walked away, leaving Ron chortling, still clutching the Gurdyroot.
"Because I thought Malfoy was up to something," said Harry, disregarding Mr. Weasley's look of mingled exasperation and amusement. "He'd given his mother the slip and I wanted to know why." "You know, she's grown on me, Luna," he said, as they set off again for the Great Hall. "I know she's insane, but it's in a good —" He stopped talking very suddenly. Lavender Brown

Pierre Auguste Renoir La Moulin de la Galette painting

Pierre Auguste Renoir La Moulin de la Galette paintingPierre Auguste Renoir By the Seashore paintingPierre Auguste Renoir At the Concert painting
Everyone all right?" said Mrs. Weasley. "Got your robes? Right then, we can pop in at the Apothecary and Eeylops on the way to Fred and George's... stick close, now..."
Neither Harry nor Ron bought any ingredients at the Apothecary, seeing that they were no longer studying Potions, but both bought large boxes of owl nuts for Hedwig and Pigwidgeon at Eeylops Owl Emporium. Then, with Mrs. Weasley checking her watch every minute or so, they headed farther along the street in search of Weasleys' Wizard Wheezes, the joke shop run by Fred and George.
"We really haven't got too long," Mrs. Weasley said. "So we'll just have a quick look around and then back to the car. We must be close, that's number ninety-two... ninety-four..."
"Whoa,"said Ron, stopping in his tracks.
Set against the dull, poster-muffled shop Fronts around

Pierre Auguste Renoir Two Sisters (On the Terrace) painting

Pierre Auguste Renoir Two Sisters (On the Terrace) painting
Pierre Auguste Renoir The Umbrellas painting
What now?" barked Uncle Vernon, reappearing in the doorway.

　　　It seemed that Dudley was struggling with concepts too difficult to put into words. After several moments of apparently painful internal struggle he said, "But where's he going to go?"

　　　Aunt Petunia and Uncle Vernon looked at each other. It was clear that Dudley was frightening them. Hestia Jones broke the silence.

　　　"But… surely you know where your nephew is going?" she asked looking bewildered.

　　　"Certainly we know," said Vernon Dursley. "He's off with some of your lot, isn't he? Right, Dudley, let's get in the car, you heard the man, we're in a hurry.

　　　Again, Vernon Dursley marched as far as the front door, but Dudley did not follow.

"Off with some of our lot?"

　　　Hestia looked outraged. Harry had met this attitude before

Horace Vernet The Lion Hunt painting

Horace Vernet The Lion Hunt painting
Ingres The Grande Odalisque painting
pace up and down, Aunt Petunia and Dudley, following his movement with anxious expressions. Finally, his large purple face crumpled with concentration. Uncle Vernon stopped in front of Harry and spoke.

"I've changed my mind," he said.

"What a surprise," said Harry.

　　　"Don't you take that tone—" began Aunt Petunia in a shrill voice, but Vernon Dursley waved her down

　　　"It's all a lot of claptrap," said Uncle Vernon, glaring at Harry with piggy little eyes. "I've decided I don't believe a word of it. We're staying put, we're not going anywhere."
pace up and down, Aunt Petunia and Dudley, following his movement with anxious expressions. Finally, his large purple face crumpled with concentration. Uncle Vernon stopped in front of Harry and spoke.

"I've changed my mind," he said.

"What a surprise," said Harry.

　　　"Don't you take that tone—" began Aunt Petunia in a shrill voice, but Vernon Dursley waved her down

　　　"It's all a lot of claptrap," said Uncle Vernon, glaring at Harry with piggy little eyes. "I've decided I don't believe a word of it. We're staying put, we're not going anywhere."
pace up and down, Aunt Petunia and Dudley, following his movement with anxious expressions. Finally, his large purple face crumpled with concentration. Uncle Vernon stopped in front of Harry and spoke.

"I've changed my mind," he said.

"What a surprise," said Harry.

　　　"Don't you take that tone—" began Aunt Petunia in a shrill voice, but Vernon Dursley waved her down

　　　"It's all a lot of claptrap," said Uncle Vernon, glaring at Harry with piggy little eyes. "I've decided I don't believe a word of it. We're staying put, we're not going anywhere."
pace up and down, Aunt Petunia and Dudley, following his movement with anxious expressions. Finally, his large purple face crumpled with concentration. Uncle Vernon stopped in front of Harry and spoke.

"I've changed my mind," he said.

"What a surprise," said Harry.

　　　"Don't you take that tone—" began Aunt Petunia in a shrill voice, but Vernon Dursley waved her down

　　　"It's all a lot of claptrap," said Uncle Vernon, glaring at Harry with piggy little eyes. "I've decided I don't believe a word of it. We're staying put, we're not going anywhere."

Fabian Perez Sophia painting

Fabian Perez Sophia painting
Fabian Perez Man in Black Suit painting
He not only won every prize of note that the school offered, he was soon in regular correspondence with the most notable magical names of the day, including Nicolas Flamel, the celebrated alchemist; Bathilda Bagshot, the noted historian; and Adalbert Waffling, the magical theoretician. Several of his papers found their way into learned publications such as Transfiguration Today, Challenges in Charming, and The Practical Potioneer. Dumbledore's future seemed likely to be meteoric, and the only question that remained was when he would become Minister of Magic. Though it was often predicted in later years that he was on the point of taking the job, however, he never had Ministerial ambitions.

Rembrandt Samson And Delilah painting

Rembrandt Samson And Delilah painting
Guido Reni The Archangel Michael painting
the moment and consider yourself only as a member of a biological species which has had a remarkable history and whose disappearance none of us can desire. I shall try to say no single word, which should appeal to one group rather than to another. All, equally, are in peril, and, if the peril is understood, there is hope that they may collectively avert it. We have to learn to think in a new way. We have to learn to ask ourselves not what steps can be taken to give military victory to whatever group we prefer, for there no longer are such steps. The question we have to ask ourselves is: What steps can be taken to prevent a military contest of which the issue must be disastrous to all sides?The general public, and even many men in positions of authority, have not realized what would be involved in a war with hydrogen bombs. The

Titian The Fall of Man painting

Titian The Fall of Man painting
John William Godward Nu Sur La Plage painting
THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE(1)In Congress, July 4, 1776 THE UNANIMOUS DECLARATION OF THE THIRTEEN UNITED STATES OF AMERICA When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the Powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.

Gustav Klimt Death and Life painting

Gustav Klimt Death and Life painting
Gustav Klimt Danae painting
no one had counted o n. The unquiet dead have many ways of haunting — particularly in the Middle East, which has been accumulating the grievances of the dead for thousands of years.In any case, there is not, or there should not be, such a thing as killing without guilt — especially not mass killings without guilt. When people kill without remorse, we call the insane. We call them maniacs, serial murderers.Americans almost unconsciously regard the victory as a kind of moral cleansing: the right thing. But reality and horror have not been rescinded. All killing is unclean. It has upon it a stain that technology cannot annul or override. Americans are not omnipotent, not all virtuous, they should remind themselves, they do not bestride the world. Vainglory is one of the sillier postures: it invariably precedes the rude awakening. It is the sort of whooping glee that, in Daffy Duck cartoons, goeth before the fall.Did the dead Iraqis need to be killed?

Vincent van Gogh The Sower painting

Vincent van Gogh The Sower painting
Vincent van Gogh The Night Cafe painting
Wembley National Stadium Limited, which is running the project for the Football Association, is looking to borrow ￡410m - far more than had been thought.The other ￡250m has already been paid out by the National Lottery or pledged from the FA.When the project was first suggested more than four years ago, the cost was estimated at ￡240m. For the past year, WNSL has been quoting a total bill of ￡475m.The ￡326.5m costs of construction compare with about ￡260m paid to build the Olympic Stadium in Sydney.The Stade de France in Paris, which hosted the last World Cup final, was also around the ￡260m mark.

Tamara de Lempicka Portrait of Madame painting

Tamara de Lempicka Portrait of Madame painting
Eric Wallis Girls at the Beach painting
This is an act of terror against Christians on Christmas Eve," said police Senior Inspector Supono, who, like many Indonesians, uses only one name.There were no immediate claims of responsibility, but religious violence and tensions have been rising throughout this predominantly Muslim country. Although most of the violence has taken place in the Moluccan islands, Muslim vigilante groups have recently attacked restaurants and nightclubs in Jakarta, the capital. President Abdurrahman Wahid, himself a Muslim scholar, has advocated religious tolerance, but today's attacks add to a long list of crises and acts of violence that have worsened during his 14-month rule.Five Catholic and Protestant churches were targeted in Jakarta, where three people were killed. The Jakarta bombs exploded within an hour and a radius of about a mile.

Edward Hopper Sunday painting

Edward Hopper Sunday painting
Edward Hopper Morning Sun painting
Senator-elect told the children that "your access to these computers ... if you take advantage of it, can literally transform your lives and the lives of other people."Biden, who authored legislation that provides $120 million over six years for computer centers at Boys & Girls Clubs throughout the nation, prodded the children into giving Gates a standing ovation for his company's gift."Microsoft's generosity will help make dreams come true for thousands of children whose families have not had the chance to share fully in the nation's growth and prosperity," Biden said.Last year, Microsoft gave more than $34.3 million in cash and $200 million in software to nearly 5,000 nonprofit organizations. In addition, Gates and his wife, Melinda, have made millions of dollars in donat

Pablo Picasso The Old Guitarist painting

Pablo Picasso The Old Guitarist painting
Pablo Picasso Girl Before a Mirror painting
theory, patients who harbor the Staphylococcus aureus bacteria — and up to 80 percent have it, at least periodically — could have their noses treated with antibiotics, reducing the likelihood that the bug will spread out of control.The standard drug for treating S.aureus in the nose is mupirocin, sold under the brand name Bactroban by GlaxoSmithKline, a company formed by the merger of Glaxo and SmithKline Beecham.But overuse of the drug could also make the bacteria resistant to the antibiotic.In an accompanying editorial, Drs. Gordon L. Archer and Michael W. Climo of the Medical College of Virginia in Richmond said that to eliminate the bacteria, “we will need better tools...”“Ideally, all patients admitted to the hospital ... should be screened” for the bacteria in the nose, which would require a rapid test, they said.

Douglas Hofmann tapestry painting

Douglas Hofmann tapestry painting
Steve Hanks Interior View painting

The wildest election in our history revealed a nation split so evenly that it took a controversial intervention by the Supreme Court to settle the issue. But now there is one immutable fact, one that recounts and lawsuits won't alter: George W. Bush will be our one and only President. What follows is an intimate look at the man and an unflinching assessment of his challenge.
For a proud son of a one-term President, could there be a more humbling path to power than this? The candidate with the perfect bloodlines comes to office amid charges that his is a bastard presidency, sired not by the voters but by the courts. You could almost see the weight of it, the regret and relief and resolve, when Bush rose last Wednesday night with tears in his eyes and promised, "I will work to earn your respect," all but admitting it does not just come with the job when you win this way. But could anyone possibly use this to greater advantage than George W. Bush?

Rembrandt Christ In The Storm painting

Rembrandt Christ In The Storm painting
Claude Monet The Red Boats painting
The Association of Travel Agents opposes any major mergers among airlines until Congress passes an air travelers bill of rights that would hold airlines accountable to a federal standard of consumer protection. The airlines have repeatedly said consolidation will allow them to offer more routes and more flights through an expanded national and international network, making one-stop travel more convenient for passengers on major and minor routes.Executives in the airline industry told ABCNEWS that American would pay about $2 billion for Trans World Airlines, Inc. To ease government concerns that United, which is attempting to merge with US Airways, would dominate East Coast travel, American would buy $1 billion worth of assets from United and US Airways and 50 percent of the lucrative Boston-New York-Washington shuttle.Aviation Daily editor Michael Miller says the merger is "a direct response" to the proposed merger between United and US Airways, which is still being reviewed

Filippino Lippi paintings

Filippino Lippi paintings
Francisco de Zurbaran paintings
Napster promised the song screening technology after a hearing Friday.Intellectual property attorney Anthony Lupo said the time is right for the record labels to make a deal, on their terms, with Napster."By beating up on Napster too hard, they may force the people underground and never get the opportunity again,'' Lupo said.
The U.S. government's case against Microsoft suffered a major blow in two days of oral arguments before a federal appeals court ending today, analysts said.
The seven judges of the U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Columbia will now consider whether to uphold a lower court judge's order to break the software company in two, to send it back for reconsideration, or to vacate it — eliminate it entirely.

street painting

street painting
sunset painting
For a fee of $29.99, IBM will accept all manner of PC parts through its IBM PC Recycling Service. The fee includes shipping costs, so consumers need only to box the equipment and send it via United Parcel Service to Envirocycle, a Hallstead, Pa., recycling firm. Consumers can sign up for IBM’s program at the time of purchase or by contacting IBM
In addition to glitz, glamour, and a taste of glory, the Academy Awards can provide something more: a huge financial windfall for films, movie studios and stars like Julia Roberts and Russell Crowe.
Roberts, the favorite to win the Oscar for Best Actress for her performance in Erin Brockovich, already earns a cool $20 million per picture. The 33-year-old star first joined the club of actress earning a million dollars per picture after being nominated for an Academy Award in 1990's Pretty Woman. .

Howard Behrens paintings

Howard Behrens paintings
Henri Fantin-Latour paintings
Our role was to simply pass on information," he said. "Our government is involved with helping our friends in South America identify airplanes that might be carrying illegal drugs. A variety of agencies are involved."An official statement on Saturday from a U.S. embassy official in Lima, Peru elaborated on the American-Peruvian operations."There was a US government tracking aircraft in the area in support of the Peruvian intercept mission," the statement read. "As part of an agreement between the US and Peru, U.S. radar and aircraft provide tracking information to the Peruvian Air Force on planes suspected of smuggling illegal drugs in the region. U.S. government tracking aircraft used for this program are unarmed and do not participate in any way in shooting down suspect planes."The Embassy official's statement came after one of the three survivors reported that an American aircraft was flying nearby when the Peruvian jet shot down the missionaries' plane Friday morning.

Diego Rivera Portrait of Natasha Zakolkowa Gelman painting

Diego Rivera Portrait of Natasha Zakolkowa Gelman painting
Vincent van Gogh The Starry Night painting
elder president Bush had a real problem on his hands with his son Neil, who became embroiled in a federal investigation into the 1988 collapse of a savings and loan that ended up costing taxpayers an estimated $1 billion.Yet, it's wrong to simply blame the children. Presidents are always having family problems, just like the rest of us. Who doesn't have a relative that he would just as soon forget? There's a Roger Clinton or a Billy Carter swinging from every family tree.Jimmy Carter had to resign himself to the fact that his brother was a self-described beer-guzzling "redneck." The president once publicly thanked him for doing his share for the nation's economy by "putting the beer industry back on its feet."

Michelangelo Buonarroti Creation of Adam hand painting

Michelangelo Buonarroti Creation of Adam hand painting
Dante Gabriel Rossetti A Vision of Fiammetta painting
Though Bush had proposed a larger $1.6 trillion tax cut, the bill he signed into law today contains many of the key elements of his original plan. The top income tax rate will be reduced from 39.6 percent to 35 percent and a new bottom 10 percent bracket created. And the inheritance tax and the so-called marriage penalty will be gradually eliminated over the next decade. The $500 child tax credit will also be doubled and the limits on contributions to IRAs and 401(k) plans raised. A key part of the legislation that was not in Bush's earlier proposal is a onetime tax rebate aimed at stimulating the economy: This July, the Treasury Department will begin putting millions of refund checks in the mail — $300 for individuals and $600 for married couples.

Johannes Vermeer girl with the pearl earring painting

Johannes Vermeer girl with the pearl earring painting
Claude Monet Girls In A Boat painting
The idea for the Deep Space Network was established in 1959 to avoid the need for separate communication networks for each space mission. The network, made of three clusters of giant antennas is now the largest and most sensitive telecommunications system in the world. Each complex is in a remote location surrounded by mountains to cut down on signal interference. A 230-foot antenna is the centerpiece of each. One is outside Madrid, Spain, another in California's Mojave Desert and the third near Canberra, Australia.The antennas are part of a two-way communication system that tracks spacecraft and also sends navigational commands to the probes, such as the Pioneer 10, Galileo and NEAR, the probe that successfully landed on an asteroid earlier this year.

Gustave Clarence Rodolphe Boulanger paintings

Gustave Clarence Rodolphe Boulanger paintings
Guillaume Seignac paintings
lives lost'' in the attacks on his city.Another plane crashed near Pittsburgh. It was not clear if this was another attempted hijacking.Hospitals in New York were overwhelmed with patients as a massive cloud billowed into the blue skies over Manhattan where the city skyline had been dramatically and permanently altered.``Hundreds of people are burned from head to toe,'' said Dr. Steven Stern at St. Vincent's Hospital in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of lower Manhattan.``The whole of lower Manhattan is coated in half an inch of dust,'' Reuters reporter Daniel Sternoff said.BUSH CUTS SHORT VISITPresident Bush cut short a visit to Florida and rushed back to Washington to face the greatest crisis of his young presidency.

Daniel Ridgway Knight paintings

Daniel Ridgway Knight paintings
Eric Wallis paintings
issued through his management agency. Sports World in SuspenseJordan's return had been anticipated for months, but he kept the sports world in suspense while he tried to answer questions about his conditioning and resolve business conflicts that could arise from his playing again.His announcement was sure to hearten a city that saw the Pentagon struck by a hijacked airliner and whose economy has suffered since the Sept. 11 attacks as hotels have been booked far below capacity.Requests for seasons' tickets had surged in recent weeks as speculation increased that Jordan would abandoOnce he gets there, Jordan not only will have to cope with the time he has been away from the game — since the end of 1999 — but he'll also be playing with teammates that in some cases he drafted or had a say in selecting. His coach will be Doug Collins, whom Jordan chose and hired last year.n the executive suite of Wizards' president to return to the hardwood.

China oil paintings

China oil paintings

Europeans spent their way into a new era Tuesday after the midnight launch of notes and coins of the euro currency that will be shared by 300 million people and is hoped will cement peace and prosperity on the continent.
A project with its roots in the rubble of World War Two, the 12 euro zone countries began swapping currencies like the Italian lire, the French franc and the German mark for what will be the most widely used common money since the Roman Empire.Europeans queued at cash machines to get their hands on their first crisp new euro notes as fireworks across the currency area, stretching from the Arctic Circle to the Greek islands, heralded what leaders called an historic day. In a huge logistical exercise, enough new bank notes to stretch to the moon and back two and a half times, if put end to end, will be distributed across the euro zone. Tons of old national bank notes will be shredded and coinage melted down.

Hunting paintings

Hunting paintings
impressionist painting

Web surfers may be able to talk to their computers one day using nothing but a browser. The new browser enables the computer to ask what the user wants and "listen" to the request...
Web surfers may be able to talk to their computers one day using nothing but a browser .The new browser enables the computer to ask what the user wants and "listen" to the request. "Hi. I am your browser. What can I do for you?" asked a laptop with the demonstration versions of the browser. The message can be personalized, such as greeting users by name. The computer learns to recognize users' voices, accents and inflections. The computer displayed an ability to pick out key words in one demonstration. Tell the computer "get pizza" and a window appeared a pizza order form, as the machine asked to take the order. It corresponds to simple commands. For example, say "Get Yahoo" and the browser brings up the Web page for yahoo.com. The voice technology could open up the Internet to users who had been physically unable to use a keyboard.

Garden painting

Garden painting
Hunting paintings

Regular paying customers don't want crying babies in their theaters, and parents don't want to be the ones who have that crying baby. Now thousands of moms and dads in America are...
Up on the big screen, Jim Carrey sat behind his steering wheel, sobbing. In the theatre, some of the audience cried, some were waving cloth diapers in their hands, even others were crawling around on blankets.These baby audience, accompanied by their mothers, were at the Madstone Theater for their weekly morning movie.It used to be that new parents hated to watch "The Lion King" endlessly on video while waiting for current, more adult fare to be released.Now thousands of moms and dads in America are taking advantage of new

Paul McCormack Cavalier painting

Paul McCormack Cavalier painting
Albert Bierstadt Valley in Kings Canyon painting
percent were 65 and over, according to NielsenNetRatings Inc., an Internet research firm. "Seniors are the fastest-growing online demographic overall," said Kaizad Gotla, an analyst at Nielsen/NetRatings. "It has been a challenge in the past, but they are becoming
BMW's H2R, the world's fastest hydrogen-powered car, was unveiled at the Paris auto show. The car is capable of exceeding 300 kilometers (185 miles) per hour. Unlike most hydrogen-powered vehicles...
German luxury carmaker BMW unveiled the world's fastest hydrogen-powered car at the Paris auto show, dubbed the H2R, capable of exceeding 300 kilometers (185 miles) per hour. 德国宝马汽车公司在巴黎的车展上展出了世界上最快的氢燃料内燃动力汽车。创下记录的 H2R 轿车最高时速为每小时185英里。

Steve Hanks Ocean Breeze painting

Steve Hanks Ocean Breeze painting
Pino Angelica painting
The proposed guidelines would require passports or a select number of other secure documents from anyone — including Americans — entering the United States from Canada, Mexico, Bermuda, the Caribbean and Panama. The rules were scheduled to become final this fall after a public comment period and to be phased in by 2008. Currently, Americans generally need to show a driver's license or other government-issued photo identification to cross the border from Canada. Customs officials usually require more proof from Americans returning from the other countries; a driver's license plus a birth certificate to prove citizenship, for example. Bush has proposed immigration-liberalization legislation that would establish a guest-worker program. But it has run into difficulty in Congress, particularly among border-state Republicans.

Frederic Remington paintings

Frederic Remington paintings
Francisco de Goya paintings
As with all things, some kids will make friends easily and others will require more work. The kids who do it easily "just have the knack of being friendly, smiling, saying hi, asking questions, and paying compliments," Weston says. Weston's point here is important: Kids who make friends easily take an interest in other people. They're not focused on being liked as much as they actively like others. Kenneth Bartley Jr. is shown being taken by police from St. Mary's Medical Center in LaFollette, Tenn., where he was treated for a hand injury. He allegedly shot three people earlier Tuesday at Campbell County High School.Authorities and classmates were left wondering what drove a 15-year-old to open fire at his high school, killing an assistant principal and seriously wounding the principal and another administrator

Edgar Degas paintings

Edgar Degas paintings
Emile Munier paintings
blood pressure, diabetes or smoking. Half the participants got a daily dose of a statin, while the others got a placebo.Patients who entered the study with low blood levels of HDL -- below 45 milligrams per deciliter -- and then took the statin were one-third less likely to have a heart attack or die of heart disease in the following 3.2 years, compared to those who did not receive the statin. In contrast, patients who entered the study with high blood levels of HDL did not seem to receive any benefit from the statin.The researchers also found no relation between initial patient blood levels of "bad" LDL cholesterol and statin-related declines in heart risk over the course of the study.More studies are needed to determine whether statins' effect on inflammation is responsible for their close relationship with HDL, the researchers said. According to Packard, learning the exact reason for the reduction in risk could help patients.

Il'ya Repin paintings

Il'ya Repin paintings
Igor V.Babailov paintings
Chapter 3 Scarlett Marrying Charles(Outside, there's chaos. Gentlemen, including Ashley, are leaving for the call of war.)CHARLES: Miss 0' Hara! Miss 0' Hara, isn't it thrilling?Mr. Lincoln has called the soldiers, volunteers to fight against us.SCARLETT: Oh, fiddle-dee-dee. Don't you men ever think about anything important?CHARLES: But it's war, Miss O'Hara! And everybody's going off to enlist, they're going right away. I'm going,too!SCARLETT: Everybody?CHARLES: Oh, Miss O'Hara, will you be sorry? To see us go,I mean.SCARLETT: I'll cry to my pillow every night. CHARLES: Oh, Miss O'Hara, I've told you I loved you. I think you're the most beautiful girl in the world. And the sweetest, the dearest. I know that I couldn't hope that you could love me, so "clumsy and stupid, not nearly good enough for you. But if you could, if you could think of marrying me, I'd do anything in the world for you, just anything, I promise!

John Singer Sargent Sargent Poppies painting

John Singer Sargent Sargent Poppies painting
William Bouguereau Biblis painting
like writing so much , and hope one day I can write as a native speaker does .
I want to write and enjoy writing , and more than that , I want to bring out all kinds We can’t endure the light of Love” is a novel written by Czechic writer Kundera. People always get confused when whey heard this name. But when they calm down and think about it, they comprehend some profound meaning of life.
People may ask what actually is light and what exactly is heavy? It’s always thought that only those heavy things make people hard to endure. But as a matter of fact, those slight things are most difficult to resist. Just as that some injury is like a huge rock pressing your heart. Although it is extremely grieved and painful, you can avoid it if you are brave enough. But some hurt is like haze around your heart. It’s slight, but it will always be in the bottom of your heart, making it impossible for hurt is like haze around your heart. It’s slight, but it will always be in the bottom of your heart, making it impossible for you to get rid of it all through your life.
It’s just like John Nash in “A Beautiful Mind”, Schizophrenia was not that worse at all than the serious disease. But you can imagine how terrible it is to live in a world full of mental illusion. Nobody will be disdained to consider if everybody he live an unreal

Guillaume Seignac The Awakening of Psyche painting

Guillaume Seignac The Awakening of Psyche painting
Eric Wallis Roman Girl painting
cruelly killed. Do you know how?"
"Yes."
"Anne, I saw his little face as the wheel went over him. He fell on his back. Anne--Anne--I can see it now. I shall always see it. Anne, all I ask of heaven is that that recollection shall be blotted out of my memory. O my God!"
"Leslie, don't speak of it. I know the story--don't go into details that only harrow your soul up unavailingly. It will be blotted out."
After a moment's struggle, Leslie regained a measure of self- control.
"Then father's health got worse and he grew despondent--his mind became unbalanced--you've heard all that, too?"
"Yes."
"After that I had just mother to live for. But I was very ambitious. I meant to teach and earn my way through college. I meant to climb to the very top--oh, I won't talk of that either. It's no use. You know what happened. I couldn't see my dear little heart-broken

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the little house of dreams. Telephone messages were sent up to the Glen, Doctor Dave and a white-capped nurse came hastily down, Marilla paced the garden walks between the quahog shells, murmuring prayers between her set lips, and Susan sat in the kitchen with cotton wool in her ears and her apron over her head.
Leslie, looking out from the house up the brook, saw that every window of the little house was alight, and did not sleep that night.
The June night was short; but it seemed an eternity to those who waited and watched.
"Oh, will it never end?" said Marilla; then she saw how grave the nurse and Doctor Dave looked, and she dared ask no more questions. Suppose Anne--but Marilla could not suppose it.
"Do not tell me," said Susan fiercely, answering the anguish in Marilla's

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There is a book of Revelation in every one's life, as there is in the Bible. Anne read hers that bitter night, as she kept her agonized vigil through the hours of storm and darkness. She loved Gilbert -- had always loved him! She knew that now. She knew that she could no more cast him out of her life without agony than she could have cut off her right hand and cast it from her. And the knowledge had come too late -- too late even for the bitter solace of being with him at the last. If she had not been so blind -- so foolish -- she would have had the right to go to him now. But he would never know that she loved him -- he would go away from this life thinking that she did not care. Oh, the black years of emptiness stretching before her! She could not live through them -- she could not! She cowered down by her window and wished, for the first time in her gay young life, that she could die, too. If Gilbert went away from her, without one word or sign or message, she could not live. Nothing was of any value without him. She belonged to him and he to her. In

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Anne Shirley to Philippa Gordon, greeting.
"Well-beloved, it's high time I was writing you. Here am I, installed once more as a country `schoolma'am' at Valley Road, boarding at `Wayside,' the home of Miss Janet Sweet. Janet is a dear soul and very nicelooking; tall, but not over-tall; stoutish, yet with a certain restraint of outline suggestive of a thrifty soul who is not going to be overlavish even in the matter of avoirdupois. She has a knot of soft, crimpy, brown hair with a thread of gray in it, a sunny face with rosy cheeks, and big, kind eyes as blue as forget-me-nots. Moreover, she is one of those delightful, old-fashioned cooks who don't care a bit if they ruin your digestion as long as they can give you feasts of fat things.
"I like her; and she likes me -- principally, it seems, because she had a sister named Anne who died young.
"`I'm real glad to see you,' she said briskly, when I landed

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Ruby sank back on her pillows and sobbed convulsively. Anne pressed her hand in an agony of sympathy -- silent sympathy, which perhaps helped Ruby more than broken, imperfect words could have done; for presently she grew calmer and her sobs ceased.
"I'm glad I've told you this, Anne," she whispered. "It has helped me just to say it all out. I've wanted to all summer -- every time you came. I wanted to talk it over with you -- but I COULDN'T. It seemed as if it would make death so SURE if I SAID I was going to die, or if any one else said it or hinted it. I wouldn't say it, or even think it. In the daytime, when people were around me and everything was cheerful, it wasn't so hard to keep from thinking of it. But in the night, when I couldn't sleep -- it was so dreadful, Anne. I couldn't get away from it then. Death just came and stared me in the face, until I got so frightened I could have screamed.
"But you won't be frightened any more, Ruby, will you? You'll be brave, and believe that all is going to be well with you."
"I'll try. I'll think over what you have said, and try to believe

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The very idea of your being scared of those cows," scoffed Davy. "Why, they're both younger than you."
"They're bigger," said Dora.
"They won't hurt you. Come along, now. This is great. When I grow up I ain't going to bother going to church at all. I believe I can get to heaven by myself."
"You'll go to the other place if you break the Sabbath day," said unhappy Dora, following him sorely against her will.
But Davy was not scared -- yet. Hell was very far off, and the delights of a fishing expedition with the Cottons were very near. He wished Dora had more spunk. She kept looking back as if she were going to cry every minute, and that spoiled a fellow's fun. Hang girls, anyway. Davy did not say "darn" this time, even in thought. He was not sorry -- yet -- that he had

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Late as it was Aunt Atossa was cutting potato sets in the Wright kitchen. She wore a faded old wrapper, and her gray hair was decidedly untidy. Aunt Atossa did not like being "caught in a kilter," so she went out of her way to be disagreeable.
"Oh, so you're Anne Shirley?" she said, when Diana introduced Anne. "I've heard of you." Her tone implied that she had heard nothing good. "Mrs. Andrews was telling me you were home. She said you had improved a good deal."
There was no doubt Aunt Atossa thought there was plenty of room for further improvement. She ceased not from cutting sets with much energy.
"Is it any use to ask you to sit down?" she inquired sarcastically. "Of course, there's nothing very entertaining here for you. The rest are all away."
"Mother sent you this little pot of rhubarb jelly," said Diana pleasantly. "She made it today and thought you might like some."

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disturbed by this. She slept the sleep of the just and weary, and was roused at an unearthly hour by Charlotta the Fourth.
"Oh, Miss Shirley, ma'am, it's awful to call you so early," came wailing through the keyhole, "but there's so much to do yet. . .and oh, Miss Shirley, ma'am, I'm skeered it's going to rain and I wish you'd get up and tell me you think it ain't." Anne flew to the window, hoping against hope that Charlotta the Fourth was saying this merely by way of rousing her effectually. But alas, the morning did look unpropitious. Below the window Miss Lavendar's garden, which should have been a glory of pale virgin sunshine, lay dim and windless; and the sky over the firs was dark with moody clouds.
"Isn't it too mean!" said Diana.
"We must hope for the best," said Anne determinedly. "If it only doesn't actually rain, a cool, pearly gray day like this would really be nicer than hot sunshine."

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I knew I could trust father to pick me out a nice little second mother," he said proudly. "It's a fine thing to have a father you can depend on, teacher. I just love Miss Lavendar. Grandma is pleased, too. She says she's real glad father didn't pick out an American for his second wife, because, although it turned out all right the first time, such a thing wouldn't be likely to happen twice. Mrs. Lynde says she thoroughly approves of the match and thinks its likely Miss Lavendar will give up her queer notions and be like other people, now that she's going to be married. But I hope she won't give her queer notions up, teacher, because I like them. And I don't want her to be like other people. There are too many other people around as it is. You know, teacher."
Charlotta the Fourth was another radiant person.
"Oh, Miss Shirley, ma'am, it has all turned out so beautiful. When Mr. Irving and Miss Lavendar come back from their tower I'm to go up to Boston and live with them. . .and me only fifteen, and the other girls never went till they were sixteen. Ain't Mr. Irving splendid? He just worships the

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"I have a little dream boy, Paul."
"Oh, have you really? How old is he?"
"About your age I think. He ought to be older because I dreamed him long before you were born. But I'll never let him get any older than eleven or twelve; because if I did some day he might grow up altogether and then I'd lose him."
"I know," nodded Paul. "That's the beauty of dream-people. . .they stay any age you want them. You and my beautiful teacher and me myself are the only folks in the world that I know of that have dream-people. Isn't it funny and nice we should all know each other? But I guess that kind of people always find each other out. Grandma never has dream-people and Mary Joe thinks I'm wrong in the upper story because I have them. But I think it's splendid to have them. you know, Miss Lavendar. Tell me all about your little dream-boy."
"He has blue eyes and curly hair. He steals in and wakens me with a kiss every morning

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And if the ache gets too bad you can come up to Green Gables and tell me your thoughts," suggested Anne, with all the gravity that endeared her to children, who so dearly love to be taken seriously.
"Yes, I will. But I hope Davy won't be there when I go because he makes faces at me. I don't mind very much because he is such a little boy and I am quite a big one, but still it is not pleasant to have faces made at you. And Davy makes such terrible ones. Sometimes I am frightened he will never get his face straightened out again. He makes them at me in church when I ought to be thinking of sacred things. Dora likes me though, and I like her, but not so well as I did before she told Minnie May Barry that she meant to marry me when I grew up. I may marry somebody when I grow up but I'm far too young to be thinking of it yet, don't you think, teacher?"
"Rather young," agreed teacher.

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been a bitter disappointment."
"You'll probably have a good many more and worse disappointments than that before you get through life," said Marilla, who honestly thought she was making a comforting speech. "It seems to me, Anne, that you are never going to outgrow your fashion of setting your heart so on things and then crashing down into despair because you don't get them."
"I know I'm too much inclined that, way" agreed Anne ruefully. "When I think something nice is going to happen I seem to fly right up on the wings of anticipation; and then the first thing I realize I drop down to earth with a thud. But really, Marilla, the flying part is glorious as long as it lasts. . .it's like soaring through a sunset. I think it almost pays for the thud."
"Well, maybe it does," admitted Marilla. "I'd rather walk calmly along and do without both flying and thud. But everybody has her own way of living. . .I used to think there was only one right

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way . . .but since I've had you and the twins to bring up I don't feel so sure of it. What are you going to do about Miss Barry's platter?"
"Pay her back the twenty dollars she paid for it, I suppose. I'm so thankful it wasn't a cherished heirloom because then no money could replace it."
"Maybe you could find one like it somewhere and buy it for her."
"I'm afraid not. Platters as old as that are very scarce. Mrs. Lynde couldn't find one anywhere for the supper. I only wish I could, for of course Miss Barry would just as soon have one platter as another, if both were equally old and genuine. Marilla, look at that big star over Mr. Harrison's maple grove, with all that holy hush of silvery sky about it. It gives me a feeling that is like a prayer. After all, when one can see stars and skies like that, little

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. . .twins, at that."
Marilla had an idea that twins were just twice as bad as single children.
"Twins are very interesting. . .at least one pair of them," said Anne. "It's only when there are two or three pairs that it gets monotonous. And I think it would be real nice for you to have something to amuse you when I'm away in school."
"I don't reckon there'd be much amusement in it. . .more worry and bother than anything else, I should say. It wouldn't be so risky if they were even as old as you were when I took you. I wouldn't mind Dora so much. . .she seems good and quiet. But that Davy is a limb."
Anne was fond of children and her heart yearned over the Keith twins

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Will you please wipe your feet carefully on the grass and then walk on these papers?" she said anxiously. "I've just swept the house all over and I can't have any more dust tracked in. The path's been real muddy since the rain yesterday."
"Don't you dare laugh," warned Anne in a whisper, as they marched along the newspapers. "And I implore you, Diana, not to look at me, no matter what she says, or I shall not be able to keep a sober face."
The papers extended across the hall and into a prim, fleckless parlor. Anne and Diana sat down gingerly on the nearest chairs and explained their errand. Mrs. White heard them politely, interrupting only twice, once to chase out an adventurous fly, and once to pick up a tiny wisp of grass that had fallen on the carpet from Anne's dress. Anne felt wretchedly guilty; but Mrs. White subscribed two dollars and paid the money down. . ."to prevent us from having to go back for it," Diana said when they got away. Mrs. White had the newspapers gathered up before they had their horse untied and as they drove out of the yard they saw her busily wielding a broom in the hall.
"I've always heard that Mrs. Theodore White was the neatest woman alive and I'll believe it after this," said Diana