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Body, Mind and Decision Making

2017/11/29
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  Going Nowhere, Aiming for Nothing Instead of going to the forest, to my favorite bog, I stayed home to write.  That is in accordance with principle “Going nowhere, aiming for nothing”.  Instead of fighting traffic, biking through the bumpy path and covering myself with a bug spray from head to toe, I just took a pen in my hand and begun drawing these characters on paper. ~ Improving Our Bodies and Improving Our Minds Who does that?  Something is working on your body and your mind to make them faster, leaner, smarter.  What is that something? Body is like a Switzerland.  Mind is like a capital of Switzerland – Bern.  And…

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Aug 27 MON – Napoli – Day 2 [… in progress …]

2017/11/26
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Modified: 2017/09/16

[…in progress…] We left our hotel after 11AM.  We walk down using narrow stairway, and later – a narrow street.  People’s living rooms and windows are opening directly into the street. While walking you are a witness to people’s lives, and they do not mind it. We ate our breakfast at a place that let us use their restroom yesterday on Via Foria (Caffetteria Vittoria – Via Foria, 64 – 11:35 – €11.50). Naples main attraction is its Museo Archeologico Nazionale, where all the spoils from Pompeii are stored.  We bought tickets (2×8=€16 cash) to the Museo at 12 noon.  At information desk we got some bleak copies of the museum…

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History of Panama Canal (1513 – 1915) Connecting Dots on the Map

2017/11/25
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Modified: 2017/11/05
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What is an isthmus? It is a relatively narrow strip of land (with water on both sides) connecting two larger land areas. Why Panama? Because it is irresistible. It was irresistible for everyone, who looked at the map of Americas for 400 years. At first, they search for a open waterway. There was none. Then they searched a passage to the North and to the South of the continent. On September 6, 1522 a news reached Spain that there is a water passage to the South. Only one ship with 18 men returned. They started 3 year earlier with 5 ships and a crew of 237. Ice and cold securely blocked…

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Adventures in the Dominican

2017/11/24
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Modified: 2017/11/24

2017-11-24 FR 18:35 (17:35 EST) Hello hello from warm Dominican Republic. – counting number of sudoku tables  – how many different valid 9-on-9 sudoku tables are possible? – questions to Mergebot – does their service ($26/month) support upgrading from one server to another while maintaining new configuration  options – planning DWC.com migration to Amazon: compare double entry vs. a new migration round – a week in a warm climate – any difference in health and state of mind? See you Sunday on a soccer field!

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Aug 26 SUN – Road to Napoli [… in progress …]

2017/11/22
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Modified: 2017/09/16

[…in progress…] Today we spent almost entire day driving from Pitigliano to Napoli.  We paid €65 cash and left the place around 10:30.  We set GPS to one of the hotels in Napoli from my list, and it showed that we need to drive over 350 km, and if driving nonstop we should arrive at 14:30.  We stopped for watermelon break, for gas (€86 for 45 liters).  We also stopped for a lunch (€17.30). Road was perfect.  After 3 or 4 hours of driving we only paid €15 in tolls.  We arrived in Napoli around 16:00. We overshoot by one exit, and entered Napoli back streets littered with garbage evenly distributed…

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Notes after Woodstock Fruit Festival 2016

2017/11/20
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Modified: 2017/11/05
Notes after Woodstock Fruit Festival 2016

  Woodstock Fruit Festival was held from August 21 to August 28, 2016. This page will eventually grow with more and more pictures from various days of this week-long event. Most of this will be interesting for the actual participants of the Woodstock Fruit Festival that has nothing to do with Woodstock. 2016-08-25 THU Camp Walden – Diamond Point, NY USA Activity Tent #2 – 21-year old guru. Nikita with a straw. 2016-08-26 FRI Camp Walden – Diamond Point, NY USA Rainy Breakfast – Business Lunch – Corny Dinner People! – Can we get enough people for the next year? 2016-08-27 SAT Camp Walden – Diamond Point, NY USA Supper time – Last Supper…

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Aug 25 SAT – Agriturismo in Pitigliano [… in progress …]

2017/11/18
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Modified: 2017/09/16

[…in progress…] Today is Saturday.  After breakfast, we checked out, but spent another 45 minutes in the pool.  Guests from yesterday have already left the night before or earlier this morning.  We had the entire property to ourselves. We departed from Agriturismo “La Quiete”  near Cecina at 12:00 noon.  We drove 99 km on a highway to Grosseto, and then jumped into a winding road toward Pitigliano and some address I entered into GPS. The road was so saturated with turns that we had to stop and catch our spinning heads. Around 2 PM we had lunch in Enoteca Dei Mille Di Detti Michele in Seasano (14:54 – 2 Piazza Garibaldi,…

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“Бруклинский мост” by B. Маяковский     (translated into English by Alexei Alayev)

2017/11/16
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Modified: 2017/11/05

Here is a final version of a complete translation of Vladimir Mayakovsky poem BROOKLYN BRIDGE . . . Если вы свободно владеете и Английским и Русским, вы должны получить удовольствие от этого виртуозного перевода . . .

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2017-11 – From the Editor – Who is My President?

2017/11/16
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Modified: 2017/12/02
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Area Not my President My President Overall Government is a bunch of strong, confident people, and we will take care of you. People are strong and confident and Government is here to keep it this way. People People are week, lazy and stupid.  They need all the help they can get. People are strong and confident.  They know best how to spend their money and solve their problems. Money Government knows best how to spent peoples money and how to help these poor people with their problems. People know best how to spend their money and Government is here to maintain currency strong and competitive. Taxes Poor need all the help they…

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Woodstock Fruit Festival (WFF) – August 16-23, 2015

2017/11/15
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Modified: 2017/11/05
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Camp Walden, Diamond Point, NY August 16-23, 2015 Don Bennett – http://health101.org/ Raw Food Our ancestors were slowly gathering fruits and plants to eat.  We need to emulate this pattern with eating mostly tropical fruits for calories and nutrition.  For minerals we need to eat greens and  other vegetable.  Emprasis on RAW is made for two main reason: (01) coking is destroying nutritional values of the food, and (02) cooked food is modified food.  That makes it a stranger in our digestive system. 80-10-10 Eating mostly fruits will dictate a certain ratio of where we getting out calories from.  That way we can  get 80% of our calories from carbohydrates (raw fruits);  10% from  protein and 10%…

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Aug 24 FRI – Torre del Lago Puccini – Pisa and Agriturismo

2017/11/14
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Modified: 2017/09/16
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Today is Friday. We woke up at 7:22, and had a luxury to gather our things slowly. No rush. No hurry. Our next stop is Villa Puccini that is 67 km away. We are now turning back South. Yesterday we reached our North-most point in the trip – Levanto. Today is a beginning of a new billing cycle on my Verizon account. At 08:37 (2:37AM in America) I am resetting my data counter on iPhone. Each 100 MB cost $25, and for the first 12 days of vacation I used up 90.6MB. Perfect. Now for the next 10 days in Italy I could use another 100MB. Why they make such a…

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