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Is it possible to have an entirely original thought?
The other day I tested this by trying to think of a colour that didn't already exist, I came up with combinations of colours but I could not come up with an entirely original colour. This made me think that we are restricted to what we know to some degree, no matter how open minded we may think ourselves to be.
Feb 23 2013: It is possible but then it is impossible to communicate this with anyone.
With every attempt to display that thought or rather that mental image you call up images with the listener that are known to them. They first have to listen with a blank mind without reflecting on it and construct that image solely from the description you give.
Feb 23 2013: I have an entirely original thought Frans....it's GREAT to see your smiling face!!!
Good point Frans.....if we have an original thought, we may not be able to express it because we need to use known expressions and communication skills. That changes the dynamic of anything being original?
I tend to believe that all information is recycled, sometimes in different forms, so your perception sounds logical to me:>)
Feb 24 2013: Thank you Colleen!
We both keep smiling and so the world smiles back at us.
Within the mental realm all thought is one construct assembled from countless impressions of the senses, designed in a way that we can survive and thrive. This construct is time based and shared by means of language that represent its parts. Parts that can be recycled, reorganized and replaced to have a more accurate view on our world. By acting on that view the world reflects the flaws and failures of any thought as experience from which we learn and reshape future behaviour.
The moment consciousness isn't fed any longer by sensory input and diverts from the world, it wanders to another realm that we could call spiritual. Here no thoughts exist but direct experience is made without any control of our thinking identity, almost like in a dream. From there we can capture visions, new to the world and integrate them into our thoughts afterward. This realm I call spiritual and is not time based nor is locally bound to any place. Visions from that spiritual realm can be as complex or much containing that the mind would be overloaded as it would try to express it in any language. The difference between those two realms can be figuratively seen as the different viewpoints an eagle has in the air from the ant that struggles through the grasses.
Within ancient and what we now call primitive cultures there always were technics to initiate all members by introducing them into that spiritual world by means of drugs or fastening , fear and/or pain, seclusion and so on to get a person diverted and out of his or her body and lose all controls. That's why it is said that to find one self you have to lose yourself first. Nowadays I think most of that knowledge is gone, cultures are distorted and what's left are practices of torture, abuse and superstition
Mar 3 2013: Frans,
Yes indeed...we both keep smiling and the world smiles back....I LOVE it!
Your mention of ancient cultures, and the topic..."an entirely original thought", reminds me of what I have observed while traveling in various parts of our world, learning about ancient cultures.
It always amazes me that people in different parts of the world, have similarities in music, dances, structures, cooking impliments, tools, etc. They were obviously very seperated physically, and apparently had many of the same ideas that were "original" to themselves and their particular culture. The "original thoughts" were manifesting in many different places, at the same time in ancient history, even though the people were not connected.....fascinating!
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Feb 22 2013: Yes. Consider what humankind knows and have accomplished up to today compared with 10,000 years ago. (Pick a different time period if you wish.) It is reasonable to assume somebody had a new, original thought that resulted in action or development.
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Are humans able to experience new and original thoughts that harm people? Yes, but those new original thoughts that help humankind for good are better and they are admired and valued for sharing with subsequent generations.
Rest assured! You will have new thoughts for you! Be creative and you will think of something someone never experienced before that you can write while sharing with others.
What new thoughts would be good for you?Feb 25 2013: @ Edward Long : Analogy is an attempt to draw parallels between two SEEMINGLY different things. The supplied link explains the concept of infinite regress as a valid logic with examples. It's our choice whether or not to accept it. I do. You don't.
Why everything has to have an origin? Just because we see new things coming out? We have no proof in support of our claim that EVERYTHING has an origin. We simply presume it as a notion.
We also have notions like : the same thing cannot occupy two different locations in space at same point in time or two different things cannot occupy same location in space in same point of time because we do not observe otherwise. Our observation capability is limited and incomplete and is no guarantee of being proving right.
So as long as I am not convinced that everything HAS to have an origin, I prefer to remain skeptical. I know that many prefer to believe that the universe has it's origin in divine creation but that appears to me an utterly uninteresting opening of an otherwise interesting story.
Feb 25 2013: Really nice point. There's a lot to be said for the infinite creativity of the universe, where it ends and begins seems impossible to find.
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Feb 24 2013: It is not possible to falsify the possibility of original thought. So, yes.Feb 23 2013: To be entirely original one needs to create an origin. No origin can be perceived without a frame of reference which contains the origin as one of it's co-ordinate such that the reference frame itself will be more original than the origin. The reference frame will then require another frame of reference to be cognizable. That's an endless regression. So logically there cannot be an entirely original thought.
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Improvisations are mistaken as original thoughts.
Feb 23 2013: Good to see your smiling face too Pabitra....love the new glasses:>)
You make a good point too Pabitra..."original" needs an origin....no origin can be perceived without a frame of reference. What we may think of as original thoughts have a foundation/origin and we are building on them?
Feb 23 2013: I was spending some quiet time in my study window when a queer thought struck me. I looked at my clothes and saw generations of people weaving threads, running looms, sewing pieces of cloth yet the brand calls it original. I looked at my table: the wood, the lumberjacks, the sawmills and the carpenters started moving before me like a procession. The paper, the tea, the house, the radio, the people all around me seemed to me as stills of a great movie.
So I asked, what is original? The music of my favorite artist? Is she not, unknowingly, made up of her own story I just realized?
To start with, the thought made me sad. My poems are not original too. I wrote them but my life wrote me, my society wrote my life.... who wrote the poetry then?
But when I think, I feel relieved. It so much tore apart my ego. I can still love to be a single note of this gigantic orchestra.
Thanks for the compliments. Sumana says my lips are rather sensuous. :DFeb 24 2013: Isn't infinite regression generally accepted, though not proven to be, impossible? Are you suggesting this is proof of it?
Feb 24 2013: No. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinite_regress
You easily have an infinite regress of receding images if you put two plane mirrors parallel facing each other. Of course resolution puts a practical end to it, but in pure abstraction the regress continues ad infinitum.
I was drawing analogy, not proof.
Feb 24 2013: An analogy is stated as reference to a similarity between things which are otherwise dissimilar. Your phrase reads: "That's an endless regression." which contains no stated comparison to anything. How is that an analogy? I see nothing in the link which supports the concept of infinite (endless) regression? Everything has a origin. That includes every thought. There must be an original thought because it cannot logically be said, " Thought #1 caused Thought #2, which caused Thought #3, etc. ad infinitum, without addressing the question, "What caused Thought #1?"Feb 23 2013: Human beings are spiritual beings. It is not possible for some to have a thought or idea that is exclusively theirs.
It is just that some people dream/think/concieve and stop there; some others work hard to bring the unseen to life.
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Feb 23 2013: I would think so, after all each one of us is an original being, not quite like anyone else who has existed or now exists.
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Feb 22 2013: It is usually said that our thoughts are combinatorial. That is to say we construct our ideas from other ideas and observations we have made.
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So it all depends on what you mean by entirely original.Mar 8 2013: Yes, you can when you attain "Enlightenment". The color palette has a range and we see within that range. You cannot name a color which you haven't seen/thought so let's stay with the world because there are millions of color combinations...Mar 6 2013: Abigail, that is a really good and important metaphysical question. Are colors a priori or a posteriori knowledge? What is it real, what we think or what we experience; in this case by our eyes?
Now, colors by humans are different than colors to others animals because human eyes are limited to just the visible spectrum of light. There are other colors we haven't experience or see. The question I guess would be, how identical is the color that you are thinking to the color that you experience or see. Are they exactly the same, how can you measure the difference and if there is a difference, then you have two colors in front of you, now, which one is real or which one is the entirely original one: the one that you think (a priori) or the one that you see (a posteriori)?Mar 6 2013: NOPE! everything you have ever learned is what makes your creative what makes other more creative than the rest is their ability to choose the correct bits of information and can arrange it well
here's an example let's say we have a child just born and we put him into a locked box with no color and we have a needle give him nutrients. could this kid step out of there stand next to a blank canvas in a blank room and draw a picture with a pencil? (even if he knew how to use a pencil) NO well maybe he could draw the easel or whatever is right in front of him but nothing creativeMar 5 2013: An original thought is a feeling that is explained with a combination of not so original words.
CheersFeb 27 2013: As Fritzie has pointed out, this depends on what you mean by "entirely original."
When Einstein developed the Theory of Relativity, was that thought entirely original? How about Darwin's Theory of Evolution? When Jesus taught that we should love our enemies, it is entirely possible that no one had ever thought this before.Feb 24 2013: What entirely original thoughts have you had? (not based on prior knowledge)Feb 24 2013: Yes it is possible to have an entirely original idea. You being unable to think up a completely brand new colour is probably due to the fact that colours don't actually exist, they are merely tricks of light. There is only certain colours visible to us as they are in our spectrum. People who are colour-blind have a limited colour spectrum available to them therefore they cannot see certain colours. Therefore coming up with a brand new colour is most likely impossible. You can however have an entirely original idea/thought for example certain inventions and innovations. Art movements and one-off pieces.
Gail .
Feb 23 2013: I perceive thoughts and ideas differently than most, so MY answer is partly yes and partly no.
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I perceive ideas (that are composed of thoughts) as being superimposed upon multi-dimensional geometric structures - that are themselves thoughts of larger geometric structures. Given this, the substrate of an idea is not original, but you can color the spaces in as you choose.
In this way, there is nothing new in the multiverse because the substrate is established. But as learning grows, new ways to color it is not only possible, but evident. Take Einstein, for instance. He reinvented physics and changed our common understanding of how reality works. The question remains, however: Did he "remember" it or did he "invent" it?
Evolution is evidence of new ways to color the substrates if, as I believe, if it exists, it is sentient and in control of its destiny.Feb 23 2013: perhaps if we knew all knowledge that had gone before us, we could come up with something truly original, however, i have doubts, an example would be :
Solar panels use sunlight ....., if we split the sunlight into its seperated colour spectrum, through a prism, tested each colour, which one would be the most productive for various power productions, PV solar, heat, lighting, and then could each of those be split again into their seperate ones, etc.....
thought about this years ago, but i bet its been done somewhere......right?
W. Ying
Feb 23 2013: Yes.
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You can "not come up with an entirely original color"
because our brain process the existing data first and then produces the thought.
We can not obtain any original thought from no data.
"We are restricted to what we know", including those in our DNA.
.Feb 22 2013: Well, I believe we are just complex computers. I mean, we get data, we analyze, and react. So, what can our reactions be independent of data that we get ?
I mean, a computer gets binary data, and gives a different version of binary data, too. So we are. I think even our dreams in the sleep are made of what we have observed during the day.
But it does not mean we are limited, you know, we do not live in a quantified world. We can chop it limitless times. I mean, we have limited range of colors, and they are combination of each other (if you do not count infrared and ultraviolett ones) but still we can limitless colours that are combination of each other.
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Great product worked as described. BUT... you MUST remove the mirror from the mounted piece off the wall and empty the water. The weight of the water pulled the adhesive off the wall when left overnight and came crashing down. Do not use it and leave it hanging there.
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In order for the fog to not occur, the reservoir had to be filled prior to each use and then emptied after using to keep mildew from growing. Way too time consuming in the mornings when you are already short on time.
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I have wasted substantial money on shower shave mirrors that claim to be "anti-fog" but fail soon after purchase. Those mirrors often relied on glass coatings that supposedly prevented fog from forming. Coatings can't overcome condensation, and without a heat source for the glass then mirrors will always fog when used in steamy showers. This mirror utilizes the same heat source that would cause the mirror to fog as the method for fog prevention. It is a simple and elegant solution to a common problem.When I read the mounting instructions for this mirror and its bracket I laughed at its ridiculousness, threw out the silicone glue, scraped off the cheap foam adhesive pads, and promptly mounted this bracket using 3M Command Adhesive Large Bathroom Strips. For a few bucks and a trip to the store I improved the manufacturer's design and improved my quality of life.The light of the mirror is ample, and the included squeegee is a keen improvement on the design. Be sure to tell your housemates to not use glass or bathroom cleaners on the mirror glass.
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I have tried 5+ fogless mirrors over the last 20 years and this is the 1st one that actually worked. I didn't think there would ever be a fogless mirror that was actually fogless... until now. Great product. Great gift. Thank you!
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I use it in the shower to shave,the mirror stays fog free,it`s great.
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I purchased this for my husband and he loves it! We've had many inexpensive shower mirrors that have never lived up to our expectations and turn out to be a waste of money. This one, however, is fantastic. It truly is fogless and the lights are just an added bonus. It seems very secure on the tile shower wall too, and I don't anticipate needing to purchase a replacement any time soon!
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Replaces the "Rube" makeshift mirror I had in the shower. Looks great and works as I hoped.
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Thursday, March 3, 2011
Bonjour Spring
56 comments:
- Sheila R said...
What beautiful pictures. So love how captured the buds!
- March 3, 2011 at 9:26 AM
- Jem said...
The stirrings of spring has to be one of my favourite times of year, still a refreshing nip in the air but things are budding and the sun gains a little strength :-) I ove your old map!
Jem xXx
- March 3, 2011 at 9:26 AM
- Leah C said...
Even when I can't find spring outside my window...I know I'll find it here!! Love every single photo, Tracey; each one is bursting with beauty:)
P.S. Hope to see you at the Na-DA Farm in May:)
- March 3, 2011 at 9:31 AM
- Sweet Old Vintage said...
Snow is just about out of sight again except for a few patches... Heavy rain for this weekend concerns me some for those who are already in dismay with flooding... Your lovely touches of spring look very inviting... You are right we may get snow but it goes away in a couple days... Stay warm and safe... Glad you are better.....
- March 3, 2011 at 9:51 AM
- Shabbylishious said...
Hi Tracey.
What beutiful post about spring you bring. I suspect we have the same climate. March is a bit of cold moth here as well. But we call it the first spring month. Snow is diseapering and buds fattens up on the trees. Bulbs start to carefully peep up from the soil. Wonderful time.
I used to have a Forsythia, but since we moved I have not planted a new one. A bit silly. They brings such joy and message of spring.
Have a wonderful day. :)
- March 3, 2011 at 10:25 AM
- It's me said...
Great spring pictures here today by you Tracey !! lovely...have a nice day ...love Ria...xxx...
- March 3, 2011 at 10:37 AM
- Kristin @ My Uncommon Slice of Suburbia said...
Love seeing pictures of spring the buds are gorgeous!
I just decorated my spring mantel in hopes that it will come very soon!
- March 3, 2011 at 10:46 AM
- Sandi said...
Such lovely photos that scream Spring Tracey. I am definitely ready!
- March 3, 2011 at 11:05 AM
- Debra@Common Ground said...
The bottles are just beautiful, and I love seeing those little buds peeking out!
Happy Spring!
- March 3, 2011 at 11:08 AM
- Robynne's Nest said...
Lovely photos Tracey, we are all impatiently waiting for spring here in England...no sign yet...lots of grey dreary weather! Robx
- March 3, 2011 at 11:11 AM
- Rachel Noelle said...
Such beautiful images Tracey~ Love your lavender bottles! Hugs,Rachel
French Farmhouse 425
- March 3, 2011 at 11:36 AM
- Yvonne - Frl.Klein said...
Dear Tracey,
I bought yesterday some cherryblossoms too! I love to decorate with them!
Your decoration and style is so beautiful and your photos are stunning!
Have a wonderful day,
Big Hugs,
- March 3, 2011 at 12:06 PM
- Lolo @ The Adventures of Stig and Lolo said...
I think I love the buds as much as the blooms....so simple and pretty. I can only imagine all the growth going on in your garden - you must share pics :)
- March 3, 2011 at 12:15 PM
- Anne Marie... said...
thanks Tracey.....you too!!
- March 3, 2011 at 12:38 PM
- Pattie said...
AH yes spring... We deserve spring love the buds on the branches, Come over and see my egg tree if you have a min. have a great rest of the week
- March 3, 2011 at 12:57 PM
- Rosie said...
Such beautiful photos - I love them all!
- March 3, 2011 at 1:25 PM
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- March 3, 2011 at 1:36 PM
- Rhonda said...
Being a Chicago transplant, I know what you are saying, March is the month you "really" are hoping for Spring weather.
I also snipped some fresh garden lavender and rosemary and made a small bouquet for my kitchen island.
- March 3, 2011 at 1:53 PM
- Meg said...
I planted my first ever hydrangeas this fall and we have buds this week! They made it through the winter. Yay!!!
- March 3, 2011 at 1:56 PM
- Leah - The Inside Story said...
Beautiful pictures Tracey, I always love them and your photography is superb. Have a lovely weekend!! Leahxx
- March 3, 2011 at 2:12 PM
- Marina Mott said...
Stunning pictures!
- March 3, 2011 at 2:15 PM
- BonjourRomance said...
I love seeing new bud waiting to burst forth. Thes images are lovely Tracey. The sun was out and the yellow jonquills are blooming here in Paris...Spring is on its way, and I cannot wait!
- March 3, 2011 at 2:18 PM
- Chrissy...The Apothecary Shop said...
Oh yes...can hardly wait! Your photos are perfect for a spring post...o.k so Shannon called to say her mag. came and of course mine did not(lucky bum)she went on and on and on about how lovely an issue it is!!!! Anyway, have a great weekend..oh posted some of John's furniture today,I know you like to see it!! xoxo
- March 3, 2011 at 2:28 PM
- Martha said...
I love spring images...so pretty!
- March 3, 2011 at 2:46 PM
- Florence said...
I am so ready for spring, with ten inches of snow on Monday this week, now we have a soggy mess. Let spring come on quickly. Florence
- March 3, 2011 at 2:56 PM
- Between You and Me said...
spring is surely coming!
- March 3, 2011 at 3:59 PM
- umelecky said...
Thanks for sharing some of your Spring. It may be a while before we see anything green here.
- March 3, 2011 at 4:53 PM
- Michele Khokhlan said...
I am SO ready for Spring! Love the photos.
- Michele
- March 3, 2011 at 5:05 PM
- The enchanted home said...
Beautiful pictures that are fragile and tender reminders of the beautiful season of spring that is beckoning...can't wait!!
Please visit me..doing a great giveaway, a pair of gorgesou Murano handblown glass lamps..you must see them!
- March 3, 2011 at 5:15 PM
- kerrie of sea cottage said...
Beautiful. Glad you are finally well. I came down with this flu thats going around this week...but I am recovering faster than my busy family members did because I am able to stay home and rest.
I have missed ordering the Jeanne D Arc living mags from you, but my hubby has been laid off his job for over 6 mos. now so until we get back on our feet these lil luxuries have to wait. ox
- March 3, 2011 at 7:19 PM
- Robin said...
Flowers and maps - what an unexpected yet lovely combo. Your photos are as always beautiful! Thanks for sharing your lovely petals with us.
- March 3, 2011 at 8:25 PM
- Emma Burgess said...
Thanks Tracey,
We are heading towards colder months over here...it's lovely to enjoy your pictures! Have a wonderful weekend. Emma.
- March 3, 2011 at 8:40 PM
- Heaven's Walk - said...
You're so lucky to experience spring down there before we do up here, Tracey. :) BUT there's a light at the end of the tunnel! The bluebirds and robins have returned here! Yay! Love your photos, as usual, sweetie. Sooooo pretty!
xoxo laurie
- March 3, 2011 at 10:12 PM
- Jennifer Rizzo said...
So so pretty!I love the picture angles. I gotta get me some of them purdy things.... I need some serious spring here...
- March 3, 2011 at 10:57 PM
- AIR KISS said...
I always feel such inspiration after viewing your wonderful posts! Those lavender bottles - LOVE THEM & the map background, too! You have such a amazing photography style with bokeh! Your hyacinths are so pretty. I just picked up the purple ones.. Jewel has them buy 1, get 1 free this week! :)
- March 3, 2011 at 11:13 PM
- Ever - The red house by the lake said...
So beautiful. Although I guess I will always feel that hyacinths are more christmas than summer, but I guess that's just because of tradition.
I love those branches, and I hope that I will soon be able to snap some from my own garden that is covered in snow.
- March 4, 2011 at 3:05 AM
- Thilda said...
This is beautiful blog, I think I will stay :)
- March 4, 2011 at 7:02 AM
- About Vintage French Hen said...
Gorgeous as always Tracey! You have a wonderful weekend too!
- March 4, 2011 at 8:53 AM
- Wilma said...
Here in the Netherlands,the sun was shining this afternoon. I can't wait till it's getting warmer and and we can live outdoor. Sadly here March is also still cold. Last night it has frozen about 5 degrees c. So 'for now we're enjoying the sun in our lovely warm home. Have a nice weekend!
- March 4, 2011 at 10:55 AM
- paperbird said...
Tracey I am loving the Jeanne D' Arc this month- so much to be inspired by and how
beautiful it is here, I love your spring pics.
Have a beautiful weekend
- March 4, 2011 at 1:12 PM
- Zita - Mlle Magpie said...
Bonjour Tracey! Loving your images of spring. So waiting for it to come. I keep buying pots of white tulips...
- March 4, 2011 at 1:51 PM
- kris said...
I too have spring fever! Thanks for the great pictures of the buds being so close to opening, would love to see them in bloom when it happens!
- March 4, 2011 at 3:04 PM
- CapeBretonLiving said...
Beautiful photos and so inspirational! We're also anxiously awaiting spring here in Nova Scotia
~ have a great weekend.
- March 4, 2011 at 4:00 PM
- All That Jazz said...
Beautiful images!! Spring is the air here today....I can finally feel it! ;-)
Have a happy weekend!
- March 5, 2011 at 2:55 PM
- AngiLovesBlue said...
I like your wonderful blog. I follow it since a few weeks and I will do it again.
So many nice pictures.
Have a nice week.
Angi from germany
- March 6, 2011 at 10:32 AM
- Secret Garden Cottage said...
What beautiful pictures, Tracey!!! You've really captured the spirit of Spring! Some things are starting to bloom here in central California, and it's getting me so excited about the garden again.
I hope you're having a wonderful weekend! :)
- March 6, 2011 at 2:08 PM
- Barbara Jacksier said...
Lovely, lovely photos. I can almost inhale the hyacinths sweet scent.
- March 6, 2011 at 8:10 PM
- traci said...
little late on my blog hoppin'. these images have just boosted my spirits 100%. wow. spring is just around the corner isn't it.
- March 7, 2011 at 3:40 PM
- The Little Red Shop said...
Oh, how lovely, Tracey, the hyacinths at the market today smelled just divine!
: )
Julie M.
- March 8, 2011 at 1:38 AM
- Barbara said...
The only things I miss....forsythia....lilacs and lilies of the valley.
I used to love bringing in those branches to bloom....made me feel spring was there!
- March 8, 2011 at 6:55 AM
- Jeanneoli said...
Gorgeous images. I thought it was getting warmer here and then it snowed again:-) Heard you braved a freezing flea market.
- March 9, 2011 at 12:50 AM
- Chrissy...The Apothecary Shop said...
Hey...just checkin in....hope your feeling better..I miss your posts!! Still no magazine...going to kiss the mailman when he delivers it!!! Talk soon,xoxo
- March 9, 2011 at 12:27 PM
- RSA Certificate said...
Oh your little hyacinths are so gorgeous! I love spring time ;)
- March 10, 2011 at 6:38 PM
- jewelsinthegarden +: ) said...
I am jealous of your chalkboard.
I love it!
- March 14, 2011 at 1:41 AM
- Luiza do Valle said...
A LOVELY Blog!
- March 17, 2011 at 2:48 PM
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10 slices
1 head
fresh broccoli, cut into bite size pieces
1/4 cup
red onion, chopped
1/2 cup
3 tablespoons
white wine vinegar
2 tablespoons
white sugar
1 cup
1 cup
sunflower seeds
Fabulous -- and this from a long-standing broccoli hater! :) Instead of raisins, please use halved seedless red grapes. Have tried both and the grapes are so much better (to us, at least)...in fact, I always add extra. I recommend making this the night before in order for the flavors to meld. You may want to add half the bacon when you make the salad and the rest just before serving so that the salad picks up the bacon flavor but you still get a bit of crunch from the other half of bacon. I use Splenda for the dressing and you can't tell the difference. We did not care for the sunflower seeds. Thanks for the delicious recipe! *UPDATE* Feb 2008 -- Wanted to pass along that I tried using FROZEN baby broccoli florets. Worked great! Bring a pot of water to boil and drop the florets in. Remove as soon as water returns to a boil so the broccoli doesn't lose its crispy texture, then immediately submerge in ice water. Simply just thawing or microwaving for a short time might work even better if you want to retain more crunch. I prefer a little less crunch while hubby likes it very crunchy...I try to find a happy medium. :) If you catch the frozen pkgs when they're buy one get one, could save a little money as well...fresh broccoli can be very expensive. Just be sure to use a quality brand if you try frozen. I used two 1 lb pkgs and made 2x times the dressing (also used extra grapes, onion and bacon). We LOVE this recipe! :-)
I had trouble with this recipe. It was way too juicy. I used one head of broccoli first and then added another and it was still too juicy. I have had broccoli salad before and it was fantastic. I didn't like this at all.
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What defines taste for this recipe? What can you substitute for what?
1. Keep red onion. Do not substitute it.
2. Keep bacon. You can use more bacon then requested, still be fine.
3. Raisins. I like Jumbo White raisins. Please do not use those little brown once. You need sweet-sour taste. So as previous reviewers said: you can use red grapes, halved; you can use craizins. Sweet-n-Sour!
4. Sunflower seeds or roasted almonds - doesn't matter. They both taste good in this salad. Add them before serving, so they retain cranchinnes.
5. And dressing.
For dressing you can substitute Real Mayo for Light or for extra Light or for Sour Cream+Mustard+LemonJuice+Salt. Really does not make any difference. You can substitute sugar for Splenda. You can use Red Wine Vinegar.
The taste should be sweet-salty and a little sour.
What important is the amount. If you use too little - it'll be too dry. If you use to much - it'll be soup. Add the dressing gradually. Remember that after a night in refrigirator it is going to absorb some fluid.
Now - if you do substitutions for Mayo, make sure this thing has salt in it, because if not and you use raisins... they will become grapes again :-), and sometime quite huge grapes.
I have been making this for years, using slightly different amounts of the ingredients. (4 cups broccoli, 1 cup raisins, 1 cup sunflower seeds, 1/2 cup sweet red onion & 8 slices bacon for the salad. For the dressing: 1 cup mayo, 1/2 cup sugar, 1 T. vinegar) My suggestion to those who say the broccoli is too "crunchy": I always mix up all of the salad ingredients the night before I serve this. The bacon "softens" the broccoli. I mix up the dressing ingredients separately, in another bowl, and add a couple of hours before serving to let the flavors blend. And I suggest using "real bacon", but I know we're all busy people. Always delicious...have had so many requests for this salad people pay me to make it for graduations, weddings, etc.
This is a good recipe, but I don't think everyone made it right. A few reviewers mentioned the bacon and the sunflower seeds getting soft. The recipe states to put them in right before serving. This leaves them nice and crunchy and gives the salad a nice balance.
You have to use red grapes instead of raisins. Cut the grapes in half and add to the salad. My mom has been serving this recipe in her tea house for years and always get tons of requests for it. Everywhere I bring it to I have to hand out the recipe. Please use fresh grapes though it makes all the difference in the world.
This is a great recipe. I have had this salad from a deli before, but it always lacked something. I made this for visiting relatives and they asked me to make it again the next day. I used red wine vinegar, instead of white wine vinegar. And, since we are watching our sugar intake, I used Splenda instead of the sugar. No one knew the difference. Even my brother- who can smell an artificial sweetener from a mile away- had no idea. It definitely needs to sit overnight for all the flavors to meld. Great recipe- I am glad to have it! (Edited 5/22/2010)
This stuff is awesome. I didn't like raw broccoli before now, but now this is my favorite vegetable dish. I made it with red seedless grapes, cut in half, instead of raisins (in the amount of 2X the raisins that the recipe calls for). I also used prepared bacon crumbles, the kind that come in a plastic pouch, intended as a salad topping; and low-fat mayonnaise. Be sure to use white wine vinegar--I think it makes a big difference. I think you could add just about any fruit, or maybe some white chicken chunks for a complete meal. I'm going to try it with chicken and diced apple next time.
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My buddy and I built a full-sized manned version of the vehicle (see the video of the "Blackbird" above) and established a world record for direct downwind speed of a wind powered vehicle. We've spoken at NASA, AIAA, Stanford, SJSU, and a number of other venues on this controversial topic, and won the Editor's Choice award at the 2011 Maker Faire.
The question: Is it possible to make a wind powered vehicle that goes directly downwind, faster than the wind, steady-state?
Despite the relatively straight-forward analyses and explanations, we were assured even by professors of physics and aero that it simply can't be done. But after setting a world record with our full-sized cart, most of the naysayers have come around.
Now for about $40 in parts you can make your own working model and demonstrate this novelty for yourself.
Learning objective:
Critical thinking! I originally conceived of the downwind cart when a friend asked me whether a sailboat could tack downwind and beat a free-floating balloon to a point directly downwind. I wasn't sure, so I did a quick vector analysis. Somewhat surprisingly the answer was "yes". Being a huge fan of brain-teasers, I asked myself how to make this little tidbit even more twisted. By making a wind powered vehicle that could beat the wind DIRECTLY downwind, I suspected it would go against most folks' intuition - and that proved truer than I would have ever guessed.
The reality is that one can analyze this with high school level physics and math. As engineers, we rely heavily on our intuition for problem solving, but we have to remember to use that intuition to guide us - NEVER to replace rigorous analysis (or worse yet - observed results). Much to my surprise there have been a fair number of professors of physics, NASA aerospace engineers, and aerodynamicists that assured me this could not work - even after it was demonstrated. These folks relied on their intuition when it was time to carefully consider the simple analysis.
The secondary learning objective is to remind us that we don't stop learning when we start teaching.
Note: I later learned that I was not the first to have conceived of such a cart. An engineer by the name of Andrew Bauer built one in the 1960's. He had learned of the concept from a student paper written some 20 years earlier. We've never found that student's name.
The reason we built the cart was to settle the long running debate across a number of internet forums. I was clearly not going to convince many people with my analyses. The matter is settled now to about the same extent the moon landing is settled. The difference being - you can build your own cart in an evening or two and prove it to yourself :)
Initially, the difficult understanding for me was the cart transitioning through 0 relative wind. Relative to the cart that is. Then I realized if I were racing my fast catamaran down wind, the event of the boat exceeding the downwind speed of a free floating balloon (time made good) is trivial to comprehend. Cool.
Any progress with the upwind attempt? And, is there a blog or other site to follow it?
Yup. We set the downwind record at 2.8X wind speed in 2010. We set the direct upwind record at 2.1X wind speed in 2012. The downwind blog is www.fasterthanthewind.org and the upwind blog (much more brief) is here: http://fasterthanthewind.wordpress.com/
We're done with the vehicle now and ready to give it away. You want it?
You mean that the cart is running downwind and that it does so not by being pushed by the wind but by taking energy from the wind through its mill that gives enough power to have the cart running faster than the wind ?…
Then of course, ""scientists" (I give quotes because a true scientist must always be unsure about his science) told you that you cannot spend more energy that what you create therefore the amount of energy to run the cart must at best equal the amount received. Then one must allow for friction, losses of energy for running the syste, etc … all which to less energy available for running the cart. Therefore the latter cannot go faster than the wind. Do I guess right ? I
'm only guessing.
But you should answer to your scientists a very simple fact : all those high performance and competition catamarans and trimarans can run faster than the true wind because they create their own wind. That is why you'll never see one of those sea monsters running downwind !!!… They simply cannot !!!… Their speed wind forces them to broad reach !… This is where they get their fastest speed, although it has been thought that the fastest speed on the water was reached by running downwind (which is true for classical boats).
But I'm somewhat getting off the subject.
Back to my question : did I understand right and, if not, could you tell me what is the meaning of all this ? …
Congratulations for your performance anyway !!!…
The reason we can do this is that our cart is designed to exploit the energy of the wind relative to the ground - not the wind relative to the vehicle itself. It is very important to understand that the wind does not turn the propeller - ever. The propeller is geared to the wheels, and is turned by the wheels as the cart is initially pushed forward by the wind. As the cart begins to gain a bit of speed, the thrust from the spinning propeller begins to become significant.
You correctly point out that high performance sailboats don't run directly downwind, but instead tack downwind. What a lot of people don't understand is that these boats can actually reach a point directly downwind (by tacking) much more quickly than a balloon floating freely in the wind. That is to say that their downwind VMG (velocity made good) can be significantly higher than wind speed.
Our cart is designed to to the same thing - in a slightly different way. If you think of each of our propeller blades as a sail, you will notice that they never go directly downwind. Because the propeller is spinning, each blade is going both cross-wind and downwind at the same time. In other words, each prop blade is on a continuous spiraling downwind tack - just like the sail of the high performance sailboats.
We can also look at it from an energy conservation point of view and make a pretty simple argument that shows we do in fact have plenty of excess energy - even after frictional losses and imperfect efficiencies. Let me know if you'd like to see that explanation.
I read the arguments for and against at length before Christmas 2010. I convinced myself of the facts, spinning blades spiraling downwind tack, propeller pushing etc. then questioned all the dad's around at christmas. Some even had PhD's. It was very interesting that the engineers could open there minds to the concept but the Physics PhD father wouldn't even debate it.
It is a bizarre concept and a great exercise in thinking the problem through.
...although a few bright sparks do sometimes get through :O)
Sadly I think that's too often true - but I don't think it's the fault of education per-se. I think it's a human tendency. I'd love to see engineering programs include problems liken this now and then to remind people that you can't drop all problems into the neat template you expect it to fit into. This "feels" like a perpetual motion issue - and therefore can be immediately dismissed. The problem of course is that it simply isn't what it looks like.
Thanks for your comment.
Just a little vocabulary nit to pick -
Tacking is turning the bow of the sailboat through the eye of the wind, done when working your way to windward (or upwind)
Jibing is turning the stern of the sailboat through the eye of wind, when working your way downwind.
But tacking is used in several ways, while jibing really only has one meaning. One can be "on a tack" (such as a broad reach). For example, when kitesurfing we have the right of way when we're on a starboard tack.
Tacking can also mean the process of changing directions (as you've described) or the process of getting to a destination through a series of sailing segments that are not individually directly in that ultimate desired direction.
The cart isn't tacking the propeller blades are, that's what causes the resistance that simulates a sail but not directly against the force of the wind.
What I'm offering is perhaps the angle off perpendicular (as applied to the blades) while spinning allows more force to accumulate.
Kind of like slipping off while resisting a force.
Example: your knuckles when the wrench slips, they have a tendency to speed up right before the yelling starts.
Correct. That's the point of this thing. The cart goes directly downwind. The blades of the prop are on a continuous broad reach.
What I'm offering is perhaps the angle off perpendicular (as applied to the blades) while spinning allows more force to accumulate.
The prop blade is simply doing exactly what a sail does when a high performance sailboat is on a broad-reach with downwind VMG faster than wind speed.
Believe an old salt like me who's been wearing off his oilies since 1962 (good God ! … Time goes fast !…).
To be on a tack means having the direction of the wind come on one side of the boat or the other (starboard tack : the windward side of the boat is starboard / opposite for port tack).
Tacking has two meanings and only these :
1) Turning the bow of the sailboat through the eye of the wind AND changing tack (going from the starboard to the port tack, for example).
It is NOT - as ttraband thinks- going upwind and staying on the same tack. Eg. going from a broad reach to a close reach is by no means tacking : the boat simply gets "closer to the wind" as she stays on the same tack.
2) It follows that "tacking" means following an upwind course so as to sail the boat to the ultimate upwind direction by doing a series of tacks .
Hence, it follows that although she is not tacking, a sailboat running downwind is always on a tack : starboard or port tack. It has been agreed since way back then (12th, 16th, 18th century ???…) that a boat in such a position is said to be on a starboard tack when her boom is on her port side (conversely she's on a port tack when the boom is on her starboard side).
Now, for jibing, this is an altogether different matter, although this is related to tack.
Jibing means that while following a dead downwind course the boom's position goes from one side of the boat to the other (from starboard to port or vice-versa). This means that when you jibe, you change tacks. However by no mean you can say that the boat is tacking as she is still running dead downwind. In other words she has changed tacks but whe was not tacking.
As for kitesurfing / sailboarding / etc … I understand that regulations has been taken from Rules for Safety at Sea in which the main point is that a sailboat on a starboard tack has the right of way over others.
If these petty sailing vocabulary niceties are still a little bit cloudy to you (and if you're not already fed up by them !!!…) I suggest that you hop over her. I live in Le Havre, French side of the Channel, my 33ft sailboat is getting ready for the coming season. If all goes well she should be launched in a few weeks. I still have no plans for this summer cruise… but I'll find one and you are welcome to share the niceties of tacking on our way to England, be it the Isle of Wight or the Scillies ( then again the magics of Brittany …) and experience the joy of the first seasickness of the season (this not being mandatory !!…).
A nice week end to all !!…
Don't think so. I've been sailing for 40 years. I'm pretty familiar with the terminology.
Nah - I've had my say, and it's hard to get too excited about definitions. Maybe we can have it out over whether Pluto is a planet : )
Your video is great ant (almost) says it all.
I understand now. And let me tell you I'm not good at these things, so you mage a pretty good job at telling how and why as well as your initial engineering.
Thank you very much.
I'm very impressed by all that.
If you want to add an explanation on how you get plenty excess energy, YES ! ∞ I would be very pleased.
Thank you again.
Thus over a fixed period, the wheels will go over twice as much ground as the prop disk goes through air. This means that a retarding force of F on the wheels will produce twice as much energy as is required by the thrust force at the propeller. After accounting for internal losses and innefficiencies it's still possible to achieve more thrust than is caused by the drag of the wheels that are used to turn the prop.
In fact, there's a very interesting result that comes out of this. A propeller or turbine on a moving platform such as this can actually harvest FAR more energy from the wind than a stationary windmill of the same diameter. In simplest terms, this is due to the fact that the moving platform is able to move through much more air, harvesting that energy.
He lost.
Do you think it would have worked?
That's a very tough question. It can definitely be done, and has been done full scale - but never going directly downwind faster than the wind on water - yet. The only way I've seen it done was to use the rotor as a turbine turning the underwater prop. That can be effective, but cannot get you above wind speed (when running directly downwind.
Using a configuration like the Blackbird, in which the underwater prop (actually turbine) turns the propeller in the air, it's theoretically possible to go directly downwind faster than the wind on water - but it would be challenging.
I hope I answered your question. I'm not trying to be cagey.
I would guess driving the prop under water would be to expesive for drag and like the ground its going faster rel to the boat where the wind relative to thecart boat is slower.chicoHope...
Of course, it's like the joke where two guys are being chased by a bear, and one says, "Why are we running, we can't outrun the bear?" and the other says "I don't have to outrun the bear, I only have to outrun you!". ;-)
He wouldn't actually have to go faster than the wind, only faster than the square sailed catamarans. He would be producing more energy, but then suffer more losses due to the turbine, and it would be presumably heavier which would give more drag.
From his point of view it would have been a high risk strategy though.
Now only one question remains : is wearing diving goggles and tuba while operating the turbine mandatory, or are you just looking forward to the next step which would be running this turbine on water ???…
it seems hes set it up to continue to use the energy of the wind.
as I see it the rotating prop surface relative to the wind is still moving slower then the cart allowing it to continue to use the energy of the wind .
Hmm I still don't think I explained that very well LOL.
I need to make an animation or something for this.
That's correct. We're simply harnessing wind energy (which is sort of free I suppose).
it seems hes set it up to continue to use the energy of the wind.
as I see it the rotating prop surface relative to the wind is still moving slower then the cart allowing it to continue to use the energy of the wind .
That is true in a sense. Of course the propeller itself is moving forward faster than the wind - along with the cart. The the mathematical surface it defines can be seen as moving slower than the wind in the same sense that the stripes on a barber pole can be seen to be going down continuously - even when they never get any lower.
I need to make an animation or something for this.
I'd love to see it. Here's a really great animation one of our friends made:
Great post, BTW!
If this can help.
I noticed that as well. If you double click on it, it will come up full-screen and not cut-off. But here's the link:
You can also get this link by right clicking on the video and selecting "copy video url".
And I might add that first one talks about your cart.
I was left wondering about the correlation to the transfer of energy from wind to the cart in your explanation.
in reading the above I think my suggestion was close but not quite right.
the sailboat moves in the wind by the two principals described both the lower pressure on the back of he sail and the higher pressure on the front.
and as the boat moves forward at an angle the moving air across wind side of the sail builds pressure, while the air lowers pressure in forward side drawing it forward.
and when it moves faster then the wind I think that the forward moving wind meets the air moving across the wind side of the sail increasing the pressure therefore putting the energy into the system and the only reason the wind can meet that wind is due to the barber pole effect as coined from our previous conversation. basically the air is displaced by the sail back towards the wind enough to meet the wind even though the sail is moving faster then the wind
and from there we just look at your video to transition to the propeller and we have your cart moving dead downwind faster then the wind.
time for me to read down and see if any new posts were added since we last spoke :)
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I've just started at Pro Linguis..people seem nice enough, chef is a pretty good too, the food is school canteen food( average to good). We have access to the school car if we want to go anywhere - but we do get charged for the petrol (something per Km, can't remember how much), but a bunch of the teachers have cars - so no transport problems yet (there is a bus, but I haven't tried getting it yet and still figuring out the timetable) students - had a 37hr week when we had students here over the Easter holidays, the hours have gone down, but I've been give some regular adult and kids classes so I can count on 10hrs a week plus whatever my come my way...suppose it will give me a chance to work on my French in the language lab...boring but effective... accommodation - got a small room - but it has an ensuite bathroom (toilet and bath) - it's free and I'm saving on rent and the need to commute. I'm sure there is more - but I'm still getting used to the place...so more later... Back to top roywebcafeJoined: 13 Jan 2006Posts: 225 Posted: Sun Apr 26, 2009 1:03 pm Post subject: Ceran was very good. The staff were very friendly. And was a good place to save money. Problem was isolation. I had to walk 2km downhill.Ok. but 2km back or taxi. not good if you have an inflamed achilles tendon. I had to see a physio in Spa. Spa is a small tourist place so getting a taxi is a real hassle. the train link from spa anywhere else besides vervier is a hassle to. But living at Ceran is very comfortable. food is fit for a king. and you can chill out in a chateua. The students are all corporate clients so they get the best and teachers are expected to eat with them and share in great food and drink. So not bad. The teaching methodology at Ceran is very particular so it doesn't help you to develop as a teacher if you intend teaching anywhere else except maybe Berlitz or another Ceran holding. Having done a CELTA doesn't help you at Ceran much either. All in all glad i did it. I must add we had a refugee from Pro linguis called Gareth. He had bad things to say about Pro linguis including one staff member bursting in on his lessons and shouting at him for not using their methodology. Well like to hear how you get on. I would also like to use my CELTA in my next job and in Belgium if poss. Trouble is schools don't help finding accommodation and its all freelance! Back to top NatworldJoined: 04 Sep 2010Posts: 6 Posted: Tue Sep 07, 2010 5:02 pm Post subject: Hey, hope you don't mind me bringing this feed back to Pro Linguis, but I'm thinking of accepting an offer from there today, and I can't PM people yet. If you are contented with just sitting in the middle of the countryside, doing your work and getting the odd day trip out, should it be ok out there? I find the Autumn/Winter months pretty dreary anywhere, and as I've lived in Belgium for 5 years growing up, and I speak French I'm definitely considering it. But I would appreciate finding out from those who have worked there how things were, and how everything was after handing in notice. Thanks very much! Back to top PSSilvaJoined: 06 Sep 2010Posts: 3 Posted: Fri Feb 11, 2011 9:59 pm Post subject: pro linguis belgium any news on this school? i have a friend thinking about moving there, reviews arent that great Back to top ioamosalernoJoined: 09 Aug 2011Posts: 40Location: Belgium Posted: Mon Aug 22, 2011 7:38 pm Post subject: Hey, anyone here have any idea if CERAN sponsors work visas for non-EUers, or like most everywhere else, no deal? thanks Back to top spiral78Joined: 05 Apr 2004Posts: 10358Location: On a Short Leash Posted: Tue Aug 23, 2011 1:13 am Post subject: The problem with sponsoring a non-EU citizen is that the school has to argue to its national government that 'you' have some skill/qualification that no EU candidate for the job has. With a basic TEFL cert and little/no experience, that's obviously not likely to happen. 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Even though the taxes in Belgium are high, it is still possible to save quite a good amount of money as you don't really have any expenses. 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HOME NFL St. Louis Rams Gear St. Louis Rams Ladies St. Louis Rams Ladies Auto Accessories (10 items) Product ID: 1079019
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- Die-cut magnet can be used indoors or outdoors
- Keychain
- Made in USA
- Officially licensed
- Team logo and a pink ribbon graphic adorn both items
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