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Caesar:
Antonio!

Marcus Antonius:
Caesar?

Caesar:
Let me have men about me that are fat,
Sleek-headed men and such as sleep a-nights.
Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look,
He thinks too much; such men are dangerous.

Julius Caesar Act 1, scene 2, 190–195

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I took the first flight a few days back. I put on my headphones, and this was the song that was playing. Coincidence!.

Silver wings 
Shining in the sunlight 
Roaring engines
Headed somewhere in flight
They're taking you away 
And leaving me lonely
Silver wings
Slowly fading out of sight 

Don't leave me I cry 
Don't take that airplane ride
But you've locked me out of your mind 
And left me standing here behind 

Silver wings 
Shining in the sunlight
Roaring engines 
Headed somewhere in flight
They're taking you away 
And leaving me lonely
Silver wings 
Slowly fading out of sight 

(Instrumental) 

Silver wings 
Shining in the sunlight
Roaring engines 
Headed somewhere in flight
They're taking you away 
And leaving me lonely
Silver wings 
Slowly fading out of sight 

Slowly fading out of sight...(fades) 

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Kinda unfinished. Left it at some point, didn't wanted to finish it. Anyway, our office got a new Scanner, so here it is!

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Volkswagen originally marketed Samba for touring the Alps!

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Maisto 1:20 Scale Model.

Camera : Nikon D40
F-Stop : f/5
Exposure : 1/60
FL : 38mm

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- “Maybe try a side salad instead." 

- “Cute!! You ‘re growing a moustache too!!" 

- “She looks like a younger you!!" 

- “I will finance a boob job." 

- “Sorry I threw your shoes out." 

- “Your sister let me do that!!" 

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Many things stimulate our brains' reward centers, among them, coordinated movements. Consider the thrill some get from watching choreographed fight or car chase scenes in action movies. What about the enjoyment spectators get when watching sports or actually riding on a roller coaster or in a fast car?

Scientists aren't sure why we like movement so much, but there's certainly a lot of anecdotal evidence to suggest we get a pretty big kick out of it. Maybe synchronizing music, which many studies have shown is pleasing to both the ear and brain, and movement—in essence, dance—may constitute a pleasure double play.

Music is known to stimulate pleasure and reward areas like the orbitofrontal cortex, located directly behind one's eyes, as well as a midbrain region called the ventral striatum. In particular, the amount of activation in these areas matches up with how much we enjoy the tunes. In addition, music activates the cerebellum, at the base of the brain, which is involved in the coordination and timing of movement.

So, why is dance pleasurable?

First, people speculate that music was created through rhythmic movement—think: tapping your foot. Second, some reward-related areas in the brain are connected with motor areas. Third, mounting evidence suggests that we are sensitive and attuned to the movements of others' bodies, because similar brain regions are activated when certain movements are both made and observed. For example, the motor regions of professional dancers' brains show more activation when they watch other dancers compared with people who don't dance.

This kind of finding has led to a great deal of speculation with respect to mirror neurons—cells found in the cortex, the brain's central processing unit, that activate when a person is performing an action as well as watching someone else do it. Increasing evidence suggests that sensory experiences are also motor experiences. Music and dance may just be particularly pleasurable activators of these sensory and motor circuits. So, if you're watching someone dance, your brain's movement areas activate; unconsciously, you are planning and predicting how a dancer would move based on what you would do.

That may lead to the pleasure we get from seeing someone execute a movement with expert skill—that is seeing an action that your own motor system cannot predict via an internal simulation. This prediction error may be rewarding in some way.

So, if that evidence indicates that humans like watching others in motion (and being in motion themselves), adding music to the mix may be a pinnacle of reward.

Music, in fact, can actually refine your movement skills by improving your timing, coordination and rhythm. Take the Brazilian folk art, Capoeira—which could be a dance masquerading as a martial art or vice versa. Many of the moves in that fighting style are choreographed, taught and practiced, along with music, making the participants more adept—and giving them the pleasure from the music as well as from performing the movement.

Adding music in this context may cross the thin line between a killing machine and a dancing machine.

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Cadburys

Loved the 1923 version!

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Green

1st one of the color series

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Bones

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This greeting was once commonplace, especially amongst the English upper classes, but is now heard less often and is largely restricted to quite formal occasions. The phrase became one of the touchstones in the separation of the U from the non-U, i.e. the separation of the upper classes from the rest. The U contingent had napkins, lavatories and greeted people with 'how do you do'; the non-U had serviettes, toilets and greeted with 'hello'. The proper response to 'How do you do?' was a reciprocal 'How do you do?', as in this exchange from Oscar Wilde's Lady Windermere's Fan, 1892:

Lord Darlington: How do you do, Lady Windermere?
Lady Windermere: How do you do, Lord Darlington?

'How do you do' has its essence in the early meaning of the verb 'do', which has been used since the 14th century to mean 'prosper; thrive'. Even now, gardeners sometimes refer to a plant that grows well as 'a good doer'. The association with 'do' as specifically relating to one's health is first found in print in The Paston Letters, 1463:

I wold ye shuld send me word howghe ye doo.

The Paston Letters are, incidentally, an invaluable source when tracing the origin of English phrases and include the first reference to several commonplace idioms; for example, make no bones about, fool's paradise and hugger-mugger.

John Foxe, in his account of the persecutions of Protestants, The Book of Martyrs, 1563-87, recorded the first-known citation of a version of 'how do you do?' as an inquiry after someone's health:

God be thanked for you, How do you?

'How do you' is clearly the exact 16th century equivalent of our present day 'how are you?'. It was specifically asking after someone's health and a reply in kind would have been expected.

There are numerous records of variants of 'how do you', dating from the 16th century to the 18th century. These spell the term as how-do-ye, howedye, howdie, how de, etc. The change in usage from a query about health to a greeting was gradual. It was some time later, not until the 18th century in fact, that 'how do you do' began to be widely used as a general greeting. Samuel Richardson's novel Pamela Or Virtue Rewarded, 1740 is an early example of that:

O my good old Acquaintances, said I, I joy to see you ? How do you do Rachel? How do you all do?

The addition of the second 'do' to 'how do you' was probably the consequence of the change in accepted form of expression, rather than any alteration in meaning. As a mediaeval phrase like 'wither goest thou?' became 'where are you going?' by the 18th century, then 'how do you', by the time that it became a greeting, already had an antiquated sound and was updated to 'how do you do'.

In a parallel with 'hello, hello, hello, what's going on here then?', the stock police drama phrase that was much used in the md-20th century when a perplexing or comic scene was discovered, Victorian dramas often used 'here's a pretty how do you do'. That one appears to have been coined by the relentless inventor of language, Thomas Haliburton, in The Clockmaker, 1835:

Thinks I, here's a pretty how do you do; I'm in for it now, that's a fact.

Definitive evidence for this is lacking, but it is quite possible that the American 'howdy' derived from the the early 'how d'ye' form, rather than, as is usually assumed, a shortening of 'how do you do'. As with 'wotcher' and its variants, the Americans, with their fondness for playfulness in the language of greetings, have extended the plain 'howdy' to 'howdie doodie', 'how's tricks', 'howdy pardner' (that one primarily in cowboy films) and, more recently, 'how's it hangin'. The British, ever more traditional in these matters, have gone back almost to the original mediaeval 'how do you?' with the Northern 'how do'.

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Mooch

Mooch our cat, Drawn on paper, Digitized using Nikon, and some Photoshop magic.

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