Posted in Sailing on 13 July, 2006 | 3 Comments »
I need to learn some of the most common terms used on a sailing boat:
Swedish
English
French
Spanish
akter
stern, aft
le arrière, la poupe
la popa
ankare
anchor
la ancre
la anchla
babord
port
bâbord
el babord
boj
buoy
un buoy
boya
bom
boom
bôme
bumo (?)
dirk
durk
fall
la drisse
att falla
au portant
fock
le fock
för
bow
la proue
försegel
gajar (skot till spinnaker)
spinnaker sheet
l’écoute de spinnaker
genua
génois
att gippa
gybing
empanner
knop
knots
noeud
att kryssa
louvoyer (zigzaguer)
köl
keel
quille
latta
lath
lova (att styra upp båten mot vinden)
heading up
border
lovart (båtens vindsida)
au mûr
lä
lee
abriter du vent
läns
running downwind
vent arrière
mast
mast
le mât
mástil
ombord
aboard
att reva
reef, [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized on 13 July, 2006 | 1 Comment »
When a good friend moved away from Geneva, I was given her poster of Le Chat Noir. I have framed it and it now hangs in my apartment. What is the story behind the famous poster?
Well, the original Le Chat Noir (“The Black Cat”) was a famous 19th century cabaret in the (notoriously bohemian) Montmartre [...]
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Posted in Art on 13 July, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
In the Alexandria Quartet, the author Pursewarden asked the children of the literary group at the Jewish school to write down three things in the notebooks might help them some day if they didn’t forget them. Here they are:
Each of our five senses contains an art.
In question of art great secrecy must be observered.
The artist [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized on 11 July, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
I have been asked to help to get the development of a possible marker for breast cancer underway. So I am reading up on breast cancer these days.
The gene that might be used is called BARD1 and here is its technical description:
BARD1 interacts with the N-terminal region of BRCA1. In addition to its ability to bind [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized on 11 July, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
A good friend of mine at the UN gave me a 2006 calendar which has been hanging on the wall since a couple of months back. I thought it’s about time to check up on the background of this calendar.
The calendar is produced by UNISDR, and its cover photo is one of flooded houses south of [...]
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Yesterday we were a gang of four people that went sailing with a Fantasia 27 (a boat from Jeanneau, see this page for more info). We started at the marina La Belotte and with Frida as helmsmen (see left, and click also on the photo for more photos from the trip) we did pretty well. :-D
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Posted in Art on 6 July, 2006 | 1 Comment »
My brother and his wife gave me this nice poster last year. Now it hangs above my computer, and I have checked up a little on its story:
The shot was taken by the photographer Philip Plisson from a helicopter on 24 November 1996, and the island we see is Belle-Isle-en-Mer, off south Brittany’s coast, and the name of the lighthouse is Les Poulains. [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized on 5 July, 2006 | 3 Comments »
Another way to tap into the messages of the bodymind is to pay attention to one’s dreams. I would like to be able to recall and transcribe my nighttime dreams.
What happens when one dreams? Different parts of the one’s bodmind are exchanging information, the content of which reachers one’s awareness as a story.
I should keep [...]
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I am getting interested in self-hypnosis, to be able to communicate in a direct fashion with my bodymind’s intelligent network. Here is a step-by-step approach I’ve found and want to personalize:
Take a seat in a comfortable chair in a quiet place. Be sure that your clothes are loose and comfortable and the temperature is not too warm or cool.
Turn [...]
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As one answer to the question how mind and body relate to each other, an issue that has eluded philosophers and physicians alike over the past centuries, Candace Pert talks about the “bodymind”:
Most psychologists treat the mind as disembodied, a phenomenon with little or no connection to the physical body. Conversely physicians treat the body with [...]
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I have recently put up a poster of Chief Joseph that I’ve had rolled up for the past five years. I got it at the National Museum of the American Indian in NYC in 2001. Unfortunately the text below his photo is covered by the passe-partout so to remember it I put it here.
Let me be a [...]
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Just nu klingar Tomas Tranströmers ord väldigt sanna för mig:
Det finns mitt i skogen en oväntad glänta,
som bara kan hittas av den som kommit vilse
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Posted in Sailing on 3 July, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Saturday afternoon I went sailing on the Geneva lake, with some friends (Irmgard, Karen and Jean-Pierre).
All the crew members were biochemists except me, but I am still right in the middle of reading Molecules of Emotion where Candace Pert is in the process of explaining the feedback loops of the peptides, in an interesting simile:
The psychosomatic [...]
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