blue sky after rain - Song Dynasty Ju Ware Blue
Ju Ware from the Northern Song Dynasty
The unique style of Ju porcelain glaze color is a slightly greenish blue hue with the slightest sparkle of rose pink luster, appearing quite different from the Yao-chou, Southern Sung Kuan (Official), and Lung-ch’üan celadons of the Sung dynasty. Starting in the period of the Ming and Ch'ing dynasty, Ju porcelains received particular attention among connoisseurs. Regardless of the terms they used to describe Ju wares, such as "sky-blue color", "blue sky after rain", or "light blue hue", they all were insufficient to capture the consummate skill and perfection of the color and luster of actual pieces. In addition, the grading of Ju porcelains, whether the surfaces of the glaze had crackle or were completely without any form of pattern, were considered in the view of connoisseurs to be in a class of their own and regarded as the paragon of celadons.
※ Some research for Shui Tang - 水美堂
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Neo-Währschaft : Lötschberg in Bern
Eine feine Käseschnitte mit Salat, Turbinenbräu oder Walliser Wein - Neo-Währschaft eben. QR-Code scannen, bookmarken und hingehen. Macht Freude.
#loetschberg auf DokoDareNoch keine Unterkunft an der CeBit? Scanne den QR Code und es wird Dir geholfen
La Suizandina, near the Volcano Tolhuaca
My sister and her family will be at
La Suizandina for some time.
And on 14 Febrary, just in the middle of a stressful time, arrived Nadia and George with their two children Tokio and Dimitri (see first picture four persons on the right). They will take over the function of the managers at the Suizandina. At the moment, though, they are learning how everything works here at the Suizandina in order to make sure that you will be well served also in the future. They look forward to welcoming you soon!
Naturally I wanted also to know where they are on the Google Map, so that I can open up the place on
DokoDare. I guess that's it below, especially if I compare it to
this picture.
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And here is the QR Code for La Suizandina, if you happen to want to chill out in Chile:
See also:
Koordinatenumrechnung, as I first took the coordinates from
here, but it didn't match well with
the provided map.
Two Daily Tlinks and a DokoDare QR Code for KGB Bar, NYC
Today's Miscellaneous Links and a QR Code
And last but not least:
Our
QR-Code Blog in the eastern part of Europe
And a DokoDare QR Code from Geneva:
Refuge l'Espace : 46.309915, 7.223961
Gao Xiqing about stock market derivatives (interview by James Fallows)
“Be Nice to the Countries That Lend You Money”
James Fallows speaks with Gao Xiqing, president of the China Investment Corporation about stock market derivatives and their role as source of evil :
If you look at every one of these [derivative] products, they make sense. But in aggregate, they are bullshit. They are crap. They serve to cheat people.
I was predicting this many years ago. In 1999 or 2000, I gave a talk to the State Council [China’s main ruling body], with Premier Zhu Rongji. They wanted me to explain about capital markets and how they worked. These were all ministers and mostly not from a financial background. So I wondered, How do I explain derivatives?, and I used the model of mirrors.
First of all, you have this book to sell. [He picks up a leather-bound book.] This is worth something, because of all the labor and so on you put in it. But then someone says, “I don’t have to sell the book itself! I have a mirror, and I can sell the mirror image of the book!” Okay. That’s a stock certificate. And then someone else says, “I have another mirror—I can sell a mirror image of that mirror.” Derivatives. That’s fine too, for a while. Then you have 10,000 mirrors, and the image is almost perfect. People start to believe that these mirrors are almost the real thing. But at some point, the image is interrupted. And all the rest will go.
When I told the State Council about the mirrors, they all started laughing. “How can you sell a mirror image! Won’t there be distortion?” But this is what happened with the American economy, and it will be a long and painful process to come down.
I think we should do an overhaul and say, “Let’s get rid of 90 percent of the derivatives.” Of course, that’s going to be very unpopular, because many people will lose jobs.
