Leonardo M L K

Music as a Passion.

Historians find it difficult to point to an exact time when music started but both creationism and evolution-ism agree that music has existed for thousands of years. Music is an art that can be found in every known culture, it is universal. Music communicates with the soul by connecting with the listener. When I listen to music that addresses something in my life, it touches me and that is why I agree with the opinion of a friend who has said times without number that music is alive. The power of music cannot be underestimated; it talks to you, breathes on you and sometimes it moves you. This may be the reason why some believe that music is life.

Passion for music varies from person to person just like choice of music as well. Passion is the channel through which connection with music happens. Passion is different from love for music. You can love music and play songs in loud volume but when you are passionate about that special song, it connects you to another world. I know true fans of music understand this. People use music for various things, this is wherethe healing power of music comes in. of course, and I do not mean music will heal your disease but depending on your beliefs it just might. The healing I am talking about here is connected to emotions and matters of the heart. When music clears your head, it’s like having the treasures of Polti Vaporetto Comfort. If you are yet to experience music on another level, it time to turn on your passion for it.

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Did You Know That…

The Kindle, as well as being a dedicated e-reader which allows you to download tons of books from Amazon, also has…free books? And not rubbish free books either (well, alright, it does have some rubbish free e-books but let’s not dwell on that here) but free books by amazing world-renowned authors! Seriously, the list is too long to go into, but I already have The Complete Notes Of Leonardo Davinci on there and a few others, such as Alice In Wonderland. It really is amazing just how many books are free, and if not free, then incredibly cheap.

That’s the other thing I love about e-books: all the next-to-nothing offers. With competition never more competitive, many best-selling authors are dropping their regular paperback prices in favour of £0.99 titles and the like. For the reader that means you can download plenty before you even start to notice you’ve spent anything…which is fantastic!

If you don’t like fiction and you’d prefer to learn stuff from non-fiction then you’re also in a lot of luck. Fiction only accounts for a small part of the Amazon stronghold. Check it out or even upload your own books and give them crazy titles like Looloo r4 Goes To Outer Space. With no publisher on your back all the time, what’s stopping you?

Obviously there are tons more things to talk about, but not enough space here. One other cool thing about the Kindle is the way you can read magazines on it, newspapers too. It’s really handy if you just want to get a taste for something, too, as usually you can download yourself a free sample!

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Black Swan: Not Just For Girls!

Ooh Natalie Portman. If you ask me, whenever Natalie Portman’s name is mentioned there should be an Ooh either before it or after it, or even both, depending on the context and the situation.

And if you were also a fan of swan’s as a child, especially black dangerous looking swan’s that look like they can rip your head-off, let alone break your arm, then Black Swan should be right up your street. Or river. Both, really. It’s just a plain good film.

For some reason there have been a lot of reviews kicking about saying that it was too theatrical and over-the-top. This review is not one of them, mainly because I am massively biased towards saying any Ooh Natalie Portman Ooh film is amazing, and also because I genuinely don’t think it is over-the-top. It might be a bit strange, and more than a bit freaky, but that’s the heart of the film right there. And did I mention it has Winona Ryder in as a frumpy annoyed ballerina who you’d never, ever want to be stuck in a small lift with? Well, it does, and thinking about it, being stuck in any lift, however spacious, would really get on my nerves.

Fortunately for you that’s all I’m going to say on the matter, so think yourself lucky.

Now then, if you don’t know the story of Swan Lake, which is what the film is largely about, here is a summary: a ballerina really likes ballet. A lot. And she badly wants to be the most perfect ballet dancer ever. But the thing is, it’s not her lucky day or month or life, really, because for some reasons there’s a spell on her which says she’ll turn into a swan if she doesn’t get the lover of her perfect prince. But as I said it really isn’t going very well for her, and you can imagine that this doesn’t happen, and she really does turn into a swan. There are worse animals to turn into. To be honest, I thought she was taking it a bit too much to heart.

So there it is, a not very comprehensive but hopefully semi-enlightening review of Darren Aro-what’s-his-face’s Black Swan. Go and see it or buy it on DVD when it comes out, even if your name’s Vita Coco and you’re the best ballerina in the world then I reckon you’ll be impressed with Ooh Natalie Portman’s Ooh dance moves.

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Impressive Job Candidate Qualities

When you are seeking a job then you will only have a limited amount of time in the interview room before you are either told, “We’ll call you” or “We’re looking forward to seeing you on our team”. More times than not you can always tell how well you have done on your interview before you leave the interview room and it will all come down to certain qualities.

The most important thing that you should have in an interview room is preparedness. Don’t turn up for a job and show that you only applied for the job because you saw that you were qualified to do it. Instead do a lot of research on the company such as what their goals are, what they have achieved in the past and most importantly what they are working on currently. The last bit is especially important because it will then be easier for you to demonstrate where you will fit in the company. You should also be able to say exactly how you would fit in the company because this shows that you would be able to get to work and get results sooner than other candidates.

While you should also pay attention to the usual interview room requirements such as confidence, professionalism and body language. You should also demonstrate that you are a perfect fit for a job. Being qualified means that you can do the job but being fit for a job means that this is what you were born to do and have qualification and also passion for the job. You should show that you are not just going to do the job but to revolutionize it to achieve even more than is asked for.

So if you will be selling horse insurance you will need to posses the right qualities and that’s just it.

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Road Signs: What’s Going On?

I don’t think I’m the only person in the world who has ever wondered what’s going on with road signs, traffic signs, law and order signs, that kind of things…everywhere you look there’s a new and incomprehensible sign that nobody seems to understand and everyone seems to be blissfully ignoring. Worse still, half the time it completely contradicts another sign that has just come before it!

It’s almost like a joke, this stupid signage thing, isn’t it? As though the people who make the rules are deliberately throwing different shaped spanners in the works in the hope that we will mess up and have to pay them a sizeable fine, which we inevitably do pretty much constantly. I’ll be honest: I can drive, and have been driving for years, but if I was forced to re-sit my theory test and tell the powers that be what each and every one of these signs mean, I would struggle. My license would be gone in the time it takes to say “EMERGENCY STOP!”

The most annoying situation has to be signs about speeding: you pass one motorway sign saying you can now go as fast as 50 MPH, and then soon after, just as you’re accelerating, there’s another saying END OF 50MPH ZONE. Then, for a few seconds, you panic and swear. Until you realise that everyone else on the motorway is doing about 100MPH and you’d better put your foot down or there will be trouble.

What’s the answer, a course every month to keep you updated about road signs? Who knows. All I know is, if I ever have to re-sit my test I am going to get someone else to dress-up as me because that’s the only way I’ll ever get another license.

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Our Dangerous Human Nature

For ages we’ve pondered why Man risks life and limb to do outrageously stupid things. From incredible Polar expeditions to crossing the Atlantic for the very first time, to chucking ourselves out of planes naked and living to tell the tale, it would seem there isn’t anything we wouldn’t dare to do.

I suppose you could say it’s human nature. Nothing much you can do about that, apart from hand out labotomies left, right and central.

The trouble is, sometimes that nature gets us into trouble…

Recently I was reading in the newspaper about an underground lake that scientists are finally going to drill into. Why would they do this? To discover loads of amazing secrets, of course, secrets that have been locked away from the world for millions of years.

Those are the key words right there: MILLIONS of years.

While you won’t find anyone who loves National Geographic more than me – even though I don’t always bother to read them and sometimes just stare at the pictures – I have a problem with this. To my mind, if it’s been left to its own devices for that long, it’s better off being left that way for good.

The main problem I have with this idea, which is soon set to become reality, is that it could contaminate the ancient waters and mess up the bacterial life that’s been growing there for so long. Granted, it’s not an enormous problem to the man or woman on the street, but in science terms it is really quite a big deal. Only time will tell if they manage to pull this off or not, but I am glad of one thing: I’m glad I am not one of those ancient Amoeba.

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What Makes A Visionary?

When I was just a small visionary, dreaming of one day making something of myself and just beginning to learn about the Grand Master Leonardo, me and my grandmother sat down for an existential debate about who could and could not be a visionary and creative genius. This was a weekly affair that I looked forward to a great deal, namely because she was one of the few people who treated me as though I was much older than I was. It was an involved and illuminating conversation, beginning with the kind of confusion I now experience daily while dealing with it support companies , and ending in a kind of revelation: my grandmother, you see, did not believe that creative geniuses or intellectual geniuses were actually that different from everyone else. “It’s their perception,” she said, “and the way they see things. That’s the only barrier between them and you.”

And I would later discover she was right, even though at the time I thought she was losing her mind to dementia (which I later learned she was, but hey that’s life).

In the reality of everyday life, I have learned that the people who actually follow through their ideas are generally the ones who are perceived as visionaries. It’s a risk of course. If you don’t follow through an idea and just talk about it then you’re always safe, but the visionary is different: even though he / she has no idea if it will work out, he / she believes in the idea fervently enough that he / she will see it through.

So, the next time someone comes up with a wild idea, encourage them to make it a reality. It’s the only way the visionary will ever really show themselves.

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Health & Safety: Drawing The Line

In a world where anything can happen – including a TV show specifically designed to humiliate people with already embarrassinglyy low IQ’s and the sibling dna test, which just seems perverse – we often forget that while we are laughing, somewhere, right now, tragedy has stuck with a vengeance. The news is constantly full of tragic stories, and none hit more close to home than the following one concerning a boy who died after playing rugby at school: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-12335547

As a boy, I played rugby at school. I say I played rugby…That’s stretching the truth. Every time the ball – which I didn’t consider a ball, because this one was not in any way round and was so unpredictable you couldn’t even kick it straight – came my way I jumped as far as I could in the opposite direction. Due to the nature of the many-sided ball this sometimes worked against me, and I’d land too close to it not to be able to pretend I couldn’t. Looking back, I was battered and I was bruised, but it never occurred to me that playing the game could result in some terrible injury. I suppose I overlooked this, and wasn’t really aware of the danger we were all putting ourselves in.

You can look at it two ways: that we should ban children from playing sports such as rugby, or that tragedies will, every so often, happen – purely based on statistics. It’s a sad truth it has to be this way, but I believe the game shouldn’t be subjected to a thorough examination of health and safety rules now. My personal opinion is that children should be allowed to play, and letting them do so as safely as possible is the only thing we can do.

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Afghan talk

We know why the US forces are in Afghanistan, or atleast I assume you know. The troops there are to dismember the Taliban fighters and remove the organization head Osama Bin Laden responsible for a series of attacks in the West world. One of the main objectives is not only to defeat them but to also persuade the locals to give up supporting them, willingly or by threat so that the country can stand on its own feet. However things are not falling into place. Yes there has been certain progress. Helmand province is being taken bit by bit.
The problem lies in the ANA and US cooperation strategy which they say is the key to the war. As sighted in the book The Junior Officers'Reading Club by Patrick Hennessey, things are getting horribly out of control. Its been 7 years since the US army had established itself in Afghanistan. US money spent on training the Afghan troops is turning out to be a waste. The trainers are fed up with the ANA and they have little or no room for sympathy. The Afghan National Army is controlled by Hasish smoking no goods who have no reason & no inspiration to free their country.
Not the biggest achievement the US has made since they landed there. Taking over Kandahar was like painting the Da Vinci painting although Helmand is slow and not as impressive, maybe like Alexander Millar, yes it is functional but its slowing down. The Afghan troops are disorganised and the military commanders are partially to blame. Their too scared to face the Taliban, they lack equipment, they have no tanks or aircraft’s, without US intervention Afghanistan will remain the Afghanistan it is even after 50 years, starving, dying and vanishing. The progress in the Northern provinces will be hindered by this problem which will leave the US government to look at private contractors to compensate for the loss.

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IQ, You?

Growing up as a boy with learning difficulties – for example, it was a very good day indeed if I could tell the time correctly more than once – I was led to believe that I was “a bit thick”. Actually, I wasn’t led to believe it. That implies that it was insinuated, I think. No, as it happens, I was one of the more fortunate children who knew all too well where he stood on the spectrum; my teacher would simply remind me every day that I was a bit thick. It might sound bad, and it was in the early days of being called a bit thick, but after a while I got used to it. Like I said, I was one of the more fortunate a bit thick children, because by being told I was like this I was able to try and understand myself sooner than the other a bit thickers. While they struggled to deal with things and didn’t know why – the whole point of being perceived to be a bit thick after all – I was able to attack my a bit thickness head-on, and within a couple of years I had worked out ways to solve problems that suited the way my brain was wired.

They said I had a low IQ, but what I would later discover was that my IQ was anything but low and a bit thick. It was merely the way my brain worked, distorting things and making me look bad. Stupid brains, they are complex, and it’s not surprising that they sometimes play up (mine especially plays up when faced with the challenge of payroll software , but then, I’d rather not be one of those sofware geeks if I can help it).
Since those early days I have discovered a few interesting things about IQ. One such thing is that there are many different forms of IQ. For example, Leonardo Da Vinci was by no means academically gifted. In fact, he wrote his scripts backwards in a special text that nobody else could really understand, thus leading people to, begin with, think he was special in a bad way.

My point is that everyone is different, and intelligence is by far too complex to judge with one standard. After all, the mind is a complex tool, and to believe we have unravelled all its secrets is nothing less than simple arrogance.

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