Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune (L. 86), known in English as Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun, is a symphonic poem for orchestra by Claude Debussy, approximately 10 minutes in duration. It was composed in 1894 and first performed in Paris on 22 December 1894, conducted by Gustave Doret. The flute solo was played by Georges Barrère.
The composition was inspired by the poem L'après-midi d'un faune by Stéphane Mallarmé. It is one of Debussy's most famous works and is considered a turning point in the history of music. Pierre Boulez considered the score to be the beginning of modern music, observing...
Related to my last question, I'm trying to gain experience and a portfolio and offered to make someone a website for free. Things have not gone as smoothly as hoped for a number of reasons
The website she wants is more complex than I had anticipated. She wants to sell things through the website....
> 65-year-old Halyna Dovhopola has been held in Russian detention since November 2019, with no indication even of whether she has an independent lawyer. Six years after invading and annexing Ukrainian Crimea, Russia is claiming that the elderly woman is guilty of ‘treason against Russia’ which she purportedly demonstrated by ‘spying for Ukraine’.
@Xanne I hope they hold a reelection and punish some officials, and things will settle down
In Belarus, it's the election day. Military vehicles in the streets, bicyclists are brutally apprehended by the police, as well as people who gather for protests.
The president's support rating is about 23% and it must be even lower in the capital, hence the military presence. The official results will show a clear win with some 65-75% of the turnout.
An instructional session leaked onto YouTube where election officials prepare to "count" the correct number of "votes".
@M.A.R. I remember reading about some poll that seemed more or less true to me. The Belarussian Government prohibited polling, so it's hard to say, because the opposition wants to skew the numbers in its favor and insists that Lukashenko has only 3% of support.
But I think that 3% is too low and is used for propaganda purposes. There must be a significant portion of population who still support him.
@CowperKettle Things won't settle down. AFAIK people were already struggling for food in a really bad economic crisis, and now 15000 tons of grain (wheat?) are blown up, and three huge mills.
I only know about Lebanon that it has beautiful nature and a mixed-religion population with curious laws on the obligatory presence of christians and muslims in each authority.
I think that there will be no revolution in Belarus this time. But there will be increased tension from now on, and it will be like a hot boiler ready to blow up at any moment.
The land of the potato and computer game companies.
There have been some good computer games and other programs created there.
And all people say that it's very neat and clean in Belarus, very untypical for Russia. That the streets are swept clean like in Europe, and villages are neat like in Europe.
It used to be worse. I even noticed twice over the last two years that a guy was picking up the shit after his dog on a walk.
They say that in Belarus the people are more like Europeans in this regard, that they keep their streets clean.
I once was in a hospital and a neighbor was a Russian German. And he was constantly in anger at how dirty the hospital was. He said that tourists come to the Russian German village where he lives, in the Urals, to marvel at the neatness and cleanness.
There was a large area settled by Russian Germans on the Volga river.
In 1941, when Germany invaded, the Russian Germans were forcibly resettled in Kazakhstan. Many died in the process.
Some managed later to filter out to different parts of Russia.
I watched an episode of "the Patriot Act" called "Is College Still Worth It?"
In there the point was made, with ample evidence, that universities are increasingly resembling businesses with dire consequences for the professors. The amount of tenure-track professors is steadily declining while the...
@Færd I've found that you either hear success stories, or perfectionist lifestyles. Not both, often
Bill Gates reads 50 books a year after he has become one of the richest men in the world
IOW, I never saw child prodigies in a good light. If they did become successful people later, and more importantly useful, and I wish them all success, nobody says then, "My son could calculate 456 times 456 when he was seven"
Funny Ukrainian song about criminals who used to divide all their loot exactly in half. Once they robbed a baker, taking a string of bagels off him, but alas, the number of bagels was not divisible in two, so they quarreled and killed each other.
The author and singer is a Ukrainian translator who translated the Harry Potter book series into Ukraininan.
Minsk, the capital of Belarus, right now, at the close of "voting". The tyrant is very afraid.
They say that in exit polls he only got about 20% of the vote, but I'm not sure where this number comes from. I don't believe the police would allow exit polls. Might be just another fake news report.
Several soldiers sent to control the crows jury-rigged the opposition flag, and posted it somewhere. Understandably, the contact with the soldiers has just been lost. I think they'll get their jail terms.
Ha, the first photo is really from 2017. Basically the whole Twitter is soaked with fakes. It's better just to skip a couple of days and not track this all.
> He’s called The General from the brazen craft And dash with which he sneaks a bit of road And all its fares; challenged, or chafed, or chaffed, Back-answers of the newest he’ll explode;
(Bus Driver by William Henley)
Independend exit-polls held abroad, accoridng to Novaya Gazeta newspaper, indicate that the incumbent president got only from 10% to 20% of the vote. This is nice.
At least Lukashenko can't control voting station exits in foreign countries. You can't control everything.
My sister worked as an observer at a voting station in India in 2018 for the Russian presidential election, and sadly, Putin indeed dominated the vote. Not so with Lukashenko.
I was an observer in Yekaterinburg. I returned home past 1 a.m. and saw my sister on Skype, and was amazed to learn that she also was an observer ))
In my voting station Putin also dominated the vote.
I just don't want to have "friends" like that. A friend is someone who will help you move. A real friend is someone who will help you move a body. A Facebook friend is someone who will find out where you moved the body and report you.