Breaking news.

Here is the latest news of events in Olimpic Village.
-Yesterday,the 23th of January the match between Canadian and Russian hockey teems was held. The result is 3:4.Russia won.
-The 24th of January.  The Canadian teem want to prove that the game was unfair. The sport court will reconsider this question.

-The 25th  of January.Fans of Canadian and Russian teems had fighted. Only  police decided the situation.
-The 26th of January. The great holiday is held. Today is the Day of Australia.
- The 29th of January. The police discovered a black tote. The main organizer is searching.
-The 30th of Junuary.All papers speak about the illness of the famous Australian box-player.
-The 1st of Fabruary. Chinese gimnastic teem is held a big holiday in honour of their victory.
-The 2d of Fabruary.Today is the most important day for the great Russian figure skater.He should prove his
status of the winner of the Olimpic Games as he is called in Russia.The result we will know in the evening.
 For more news look on our site  www.olimpicsport.com 

Picasso's Private Collection Draws US Crowds

Arts & Culture

Susan Logue | Richmond, Virginia  March 02, 2011

Photo: VOA - A. Greenbaum

The works, now on exhibit at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, represent every media and style artist Pablo Picasso ever worked in.

"This is Picasso’s personal collection," says Alex Nyerges, director of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. "During his lifetime he kept all of the things he loved the best."

Works by Pablo Picasso, one of the most important artists of the modern era, have been touring the globe while their home in Paris is renovated. They recently arrived at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, which is located in the state capital of Richmond.

There are nearly 200 works in the exhibition, spanning 71 years of Picasso's lengthy career from 1901 to 1972, the year before his death.

"We have 5,000 works and we present here about 200," says Anne Baldassari, curator of the exhibition and director of the Musee National Picasso in Paris, the permanent home of the Picasso collection. "So it is just a small part that is set in a very didactic way to give the best understanding of the Picasso creative process."

The exhibit also offers an understanding of how Picasso wanted to be seen.

"This is Picasso’s personal collection," says Alex Nyerges, director of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. "During his lifetime he kept all of the things he loved the best, thousands upon thousands of works of art. When his estate was being settled, the Musee Picasso was created."

The works represent every media and every style Picasso worked in.

"He was in a perpetual revolution," says Baldassari. "Painting was the main medium for him.  Sculpture was a kind of matrix. He was a very important photographer and fantastic print maker. He was a real creator."

VOA - A. Greenbaum

An African influence can be seen in Picasso's works, particularly his sculptures.

Nyerges agrees. "He essentially created what we think of as modern and contemporary art. Everything that happened in the 20th century and now the 21st century relates back to Picasso in some way, shape or form."

Picasso took his inspiration not only from European art, but also non-Western art, which becomes clear in a visit to the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts’ African art galleries.

"The juxtaposition of those exhibitions and the Picasso show is marvelous," says Nyerges, "because you see how Picasso is drawing back into Africa for form and composition and particularly with sculpture."

The exhibit is a coup for the museum. It is part of a limited national and international tour of the greatest collection of Picasso in the world. The show gives Picasso’s admirers a chance to see some of the works the artist himself valued most.

Jack London

Maybe, it seems a bit trivial,but I like liturature like J.London's or F. Cooper's. I like liturature full of advanture. I remeber,  when I read London's book for the first time. It was 'Love of life', I realased how much power is in every his word and then I started reading all his works. My favourite is 'The little lady of the big house', there is something in it that I can;t understand and feel even now.
Here is some information about him.
Considered by many to be America’s finest author, Jack London, whose name at birth was John Griffith Chaney, was born “south of the slot”—an area south of Market Street and its cable lines in San Francisco, California, on January 12, 1876. The California Historical Society has placed a plaque, attached to a former Wells Fargo Building at Third and Brannan Streets, at what was formerly 615 Third Street, a home destroyed by the famous April 18, 1906 fire that accompanied the great quake. This plaque states that it “marks the birthplace of the noted author Jack London . . .” The plaque marks the location of the home of the Slocums, friends of Flora, Jack’s mother, where it has been said she was living after her reported suicide attempt and release from Dr. Ruttley’s (which was on Mission Street). Jack’s birth certificate does not indicate where he was born, so although we cannot verify this as the actual birthplace of Jack London, at the time, most children were born at home, so this is feasible.

It is believed that he is the illegitimate son of William Chaney, an itinerant astrologer and journalist, who deserted Jack’s mother, Flora, a spiritualist, before he was born. Flora married John London, a Civil War veteran who had recently moved to San Francisco, eight months after Jack was born. Jack did not learn the true circumstances of his birth until he was in his early twenties. Much of his youth was spent in Oakland, California, on the waterfront.
Jack had little formal schooling. Initially, he attended school only through the 8th grade, although he was an avid reader, educating himself at public libraries, especially the Oakland Public Library under the tutelage of Ina Coolbrith, who later became the first poet laureate of California. In later years (mid-1890s), Jack returned to high school in Oakland and graduated. He eventually gained admittance to U.C. Berkeley, but stayed only for six months, finding it to be “not alive enough” and a “passionless pursuit of passionless intelligence”.
Jack’s extensive life experiences included: being a laborer, factory worker, oyster pirate on the San Francisco Bay, member of the California Fish Patrol, sailor, railroad hobo, and gold prospector (in the Klondike from 1897-1898). In his teens, he joined Coxey’s Army in its famous march on Washington, D.C., and was later arrested for vagrancy in Erie County, New York. As a journalist, Jack covered the Russo-Japanese War for the Hearst newspapers in 1904, and in 1914, he covered the Mexican Revolution for Collier’s.
It was during his cross-country travels that he became acquainted with socialism, which for many years, became his “holy grail”. He became known as the “Boy Socialist of Oakland” because of his passionate street corner oratory. In fact, he unsuccessfully ran for mayor of Oakland several times as the socialist party candidate.
In 1900, Jack married his math tutor and friend, Bess Maddern. It was a Victorian marriage typical of the time, based on “good breeding”, not love. With Bess, he had two daughters — Joan and Bess (“Becky”). Following his separation from Bess in 1903, he married his secretary, Charmian Kittredge, whom he considered his “Mate Woman” and with whom he found true love. Together, they played, traveled, wrote and enjoyed life. Their one child, Joy, only lived for thirty-eight hours.
In 1907, with his second wife, Charmian, Jack sailed the Pacific to the South Seas in the Snark, which became the basis for his book, The Cruise of the Snark. With Charmian at his side, he also developed his “Beauty Ranch” on 1,400 acres of land in Glen Ellen, California.
By his death at age forty on November 22, 1916, Jack had been plagued for years by a vast number of health problems, including stomach disturbances, ravaging uremia, and failing kidneys. His death certificate states that he died of uremic poisoning.
Jack was among the most publicized figures of his day. In his lectures, he endorsed socialism and women’s suffrage. He was also one of the first celebrities used to endorse commercial products, such as grape juice and men’s suits.
He became the personification for his readers of many of the virtues and ideals of a turn-of-the-century Western American man and was the country’s first successful working class writer.
Jack London......the Sailor
Jack London...the Writer

You know, I wanted to tell you about my favorite artis Claude Monet, but I think I'll do it a bit later. Now I have such feeling...Why do people always lie? Doesn't matter how good person is.They always do it.
I think, I have the answer...they are afraid of telling you the truth or maybe they are afraid of your reaction.
Anyway, in the both situation: you lied/ somebody lied to you, you'll feel terrible, like you were betrayed. So, lets be open-hearted to each other. There are a lot of things we can be disappointed in, why we should disappoint our dear people.

New Year

I think, everybody has New Year mood now and everybody gets ready for the holiday. That is way I want to tell you something about New Year, but as always  about something Muslim.
In Muslim countries it's called Navrez and it's celebrated in spring.
Nowruz or Navrez (in Crimean Tatar) is celebrated on the day of the vernal equinox, March 20 or 21 depending on the year. It has been widely celebrated for more than 3,000 years in Central Asia and the Middle East. Today the people in the Balkans, Crimea, the Caucasus, Iran, Turkey and the Central Asian republics participate in Nowruz festivities. Throughout the Turkic world, the arrival of spring has been celebrated under different names: Nowruz, Nevruz, Navruz, Navrez, Nawrez, Nooruz, Noruz, Yıl Başı (New Year), Yeni Gün (New Day), Ulusun Ulu Günü (Great Day of the Nation) and Ergenekon Bayramı (Ergenekon Holiday). In this article, I am using the word Nowruz because it is the frequently used version in English.

Nowruz Celebrations in Crimea

Before the Soviet rule and the deportation from their homeland, Crimean Tatars actively celebrated the arrival of spring. During the long years of exile, if they observed Nowruz, it was likely in the privacy of their homes. With the return of the Tatar population to their homeland, the Nowruz festivities are being revived in Crimea. The Cultural Center in Kerch (Crimea) announced an ambitious program of drama, music and various competions to celebrate the traditional Navrez holiday. In Simferopol, the Republican Committee for Interethnic Relations and Formerly Deported Citizens, the State TV Company 'Krym' and the Crimean Tatar Art and Ethnography Foundation organized an all-day Nowruz celebration on March 20, 2010. Activities included traditional dancing and music, kuresh (wrestling), a fashion show exhibiting national dresses and display of handcrafts. Various embroidery guilds also participated in the Nowruz festivities. The Azeri people living in Simferopol joined the Crimean Tatars and brought many sweets traditionally prepared for Nowruz. 

Tatar food

The Crimean Tatars have a very rich cuisine. This wealth is the product both of their own inventiveness as well as the fact that they have lived in among several other cultures.
Meat is cooked in its fat until all the water is gone, fish are salted or dried, fruits are made into preserves or compotes, and vegetables are pickled or in the case of tomatoes and peppers, reduced to paste for storage.

Special days such as circumcisions, birthdays, engagements, weddings, births, deaths etc. are very important to the Crimean Tatars. On such days various meat dishes are prepared communally, along with various sweet and savory baked foods such as börek, cookies and pastries.

Green tea and coffee are heavily consumed. Green tea is made by pouring boiling water to a porcelain pot and adding a certain amount of green tea. The tea is poured three times into a small porcelain tea bowl, then returned to the teapot, then drunk with no further steeping. It is believed that making green tea in this way will bring abundance and plenty.

Tea and especially coffee is served accompanied by chocolate, various preserves and cookies.

So lets continue your acquaintance with culture of East.
Now I want to tell you about India. Oh, my India. I love you so much. It has been being my dream to visit it for 5 years. And I'm sure, I'll do it. You should know, it's the most beautiful country. Not just bc of wonderful nature.It really is

, but people in India are completely different. Theu have another mentality. They lived by the rulre: "You should defeat fury with  the help of love, you should replay with good on somebody's evil and you should defeat stinginess with the help of generosity." That is what I mean. They have something that our people don't.
 So lets talk about their culture, as it was mentioned earlier, they are very religious. On of their main holidays is the holiday called Diwali. Here is the most beautiful Indian dance I've ever seen.

 

I love this country, I do love it. It's  tremendous. I want to learn Hindi. I've even added one indian girl on Facebook. She started teaching me it.

In the end I want to tell you about one of the most interesting custom that Indians have. It's wedding.

Indian weddings are very bright events, filled with ritual and celebration, that continue for several days. They are generally not small affairs, with anywhere between 100 to 10,000 people attending. Oftentimes it is possible that many of the attendees are unknown to the bride and groom themselves. Though most Indian marriages are arranged, some couples in urban areas have what are known as "love marriages", where the partners decide to marry each other without family involvement or assistance. The traditional Indian wedding is more about two families being brought together socially, with much less emphasis on the individuals involved.

Many of the wedding customs are common among Hindus, Jains, Sikhs and even Muslims. They are a combination of local, religious and family traditions.


Indian wedding.

Indian bride.

There is  an interesting  custom.The hands of bride are are covered with drawings made of henna.

  I hope you'll understand me and my passion, maybe you can't imagine what do I feel, but still just try to, please.