Klee made over 10,000 paintings, drawings, and etchings in his lifetime. His works are held in museums all over the world. In 2005, the Zentrum Paul Klee (Paul Klee Center) was opened in Bern. The building was designed by the Italian architect Renzo Piano. It holds 4000 works by Klee and shows 150 at time. The exhibition changes every six months.
These pictures are from Klee's mature career. He painted them while he was teaching at the Bauhaus. During this time he was also a member of a group of artists called Die Blaue Vier (The Blue Four). The other three members were Wassily Kandinsky, Lyonel Feininger, and Alexej von Jawlensky. Like Klee, both Kandinsky and Feininger taught at the Bauhaus. The four artists lectured and exhibited together in Germany and the USA.
Indohyus
Indohyus (meaning "India's pig") is a small deer-like creature, which lived about 49 or 48 million years ago in Kashmir, India. It belongs to the artiodactyls family "Raoellidae", and is believed to be the closest sister group of Cetacea. It lived during the same time as the related "Pakicetus". The two may have coexisted.
About the size of a raccoon or domestic cat, this herbivorous creature shared some of the traits of whales. It also showed signs of adaptations to aquatic life, including a thick and heavy outer bone coating. This is similar to the bones of modern creatures such as the hippopotamus, and reduces buoyancy so that they can stay underwater. This suggests a similar survival strategy to the African mousedeer or water chevrotain which, when threatened by a bird of prey, dives into water and hides beneath the surface for up to four minutes.
There are two known species of Indohyus:
Himalayacetus
Himalayacetus is an extinct aquatic cetacean known from fossils found in the Himachal Pradesh, India. It lived in the remnants of the ancient Tethys Ocean during the early Eocene. This extends the fossil record of whales by some 3.5 million years.
"Himalayacetus" lived in the coastline of the ancient Tethys Ocean before the Indian plate collided with Eurasia. It is only known from a single jaw fossil, which makes exact comparisons with other cetaceans almost impossible.
Wander Over Yonder
Wander Over Yonder was an American animated television program produced by Disney. It aired on TV starting on August 16, 2013. The show ended on June 27, 2016.
The series follows Wander, a nomadic and optimistic traveller and his best friend, Sylvia, as they go from planet to planet helping people to have fun and live free. This angers Lord Hater, one of the most powerful villains in the galaxy, who tries to defeat Wander with his army of Watchdogs.
The creator of the show is Craig McCracken, who has also created "The Powerpuff Girls" and "Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends".
Wander Over Yonder is McCracken's first show on a Disney-owned network. Wander first appeared on sketchbooks and clothes that McCracken sold at conventions, as well as in a never-finished graphic novel. McCracken has described Wander as a "nomadic, hippie, muppet man".
Flag of Nebraska
The flag of the U.S. state of Nebraska is a blue rectangular cloth charged with the Nebraskan state seal.
Andriy Sadovyi
Andriy Ivanovych Sadovyi (; born 19 August 1968) is a Ukrainian politician. He is the mayor of Lviv, the administrative center of the Lviv Oblast of western Ukraine, and the leader of the Self Reliance political party.
Inferno (Dante)
Inferno by the Italian author Dante is a work of fiction published in the 1500s, as part of The Divine Comedy. It tells of the fictional journey that two men, Dante himself as well as Greek poet Virgil, takes through Christian Hell. Hell is made up of several levels, or circles, in which sinners are divided and punished according to their sins. Their punishments are measured according to how many good deeds vs bad deeds were done.
Qubit
A Qubit (or QBit) is a unit of measure used in quantum computing.
Like a bit in normal (non-quantum) computing, a Qubit has two distinct states, 0 state and the 1 state. However, unlike the normal bit, a qubit can have a state that is somewhere in-between, called a "superposition."
If you try measure a qubit that is in a superposition, the qubit will change, and become one of two states. The state the qubit changes to depends on how it is measured. For simplicity, let's assume we are measuring in a way that will make the qubit change to either a 0 state or a 1 state.
A qubit can be represented as a 2-element column vector.
A qubit in the 0 state looks like formula_1.
A qubit in the 1 state looks like formula_2.
In general, a qubit state will look like formula_3 , where formula_4.
α and β are called amplitudes. They can be complex numbers. Each state has an amplitude.
By squaring a state's amplitude, you can get the probability of measuring that state.
Each state can also have a phase. The phase is part of the amplitude and is what can make the amplitude a complex number.
A state's phase is like how much that state has rotated. The angle of phase is usually represented as either Φ or φ. Let's use φ.
φ can go from 0 to formula_5 radians. The angle sort of goes into an Euler identity, where instead of formula_6, the formula_7 gets substituted with the angle φ. The state's phase becomes formula_8.
This expression formula_8is a phase factor that becomes part of a state's amplitude. It gets multiplied with the amplitude.
A phase angle of 0 makes the amplitudes positive real numbers, since formula_10.
A phase angle of formula_11 makes the amplitudes negative real numbers, since formula_12. (This is Euler's identity)
A phase angle of formula_13 makes the amplitudes positive imaginary numbers, since formula_14.
A phase angle of formula_15 makes the amplitudes negative imaginary numbers, since formula_16.
Beyond 0 and formula_5, the phase angle just wraps back around again, since it is just a rotation.
An example qubit may look like formula_18. There is a 50% chance of measuring a 0 or a 1. There is a phase of 1 on the 0 state's amplitude. There is a phase of -1 on the 1 state's amplitude.
Qubits are generally written as kets, which look like formula_19. Kets are part of Bra-Ket notation, also known as Dirac notation. Kets are a way of saying column vector.
The 0 and 1 state are written as formula_20 and formula_21 respectively.
A general qubit in ket notation will be written as formula_22.
This equation is exactly the same as formula_23, since formula_24
Gramais
Gramais is a municipality of the district Reutte in the Austrian state of Tyrol.
Gramais is the smallest independent municipality of Austria. It lies in a side valley off the Lech valley.
Larry Kwong
Lawrence Kwong (born Eng Kai Geong (); June 17, 1923 – March 15, 2018) was a Canadian professional ice hockey forward and businessman. He is known as the first person of Asian ancestry to play in the National Hockey League (NHL), and the first player to break hockey's color barrier.
Kwong was also the first NHL player from Vernon, British Columbia, and the Okanagan region. Kwong's nicknames included the "China Clipper" (a name later used for CFL player Normie Kwong) and "King Kwong".
From 1941 to 1959, Kwong played for the New York Rangers.
Kwong died March 15, 2018 in Calgary, Alberta of complications from pneumonia at the age of 94.
Arnie Lerma
Arnaldo Pagliarini Lerma (November 18, 1950 – March 16, 2018) was an American writer and activist. He was a former Scientologist, and critic of Scientology. He appeared in television, media and radio interviews. Lerma was the first person to post the court document known as the Fishman Affidavit, including the Xenu story, to the internet via the Usenet newsgroup alt.religion.scientology. He was a strong critic of L. Ron Hubbard. He was born in Washington, D.C..
Lerma committed suicide by shooting himself on March 16, 2018 in Alexandria, Virginia after shooting his wife in the face with a 9 mm handgun. He was 67 years old.
Nicholas Edwards, Baron Crickhowell