So…. just thought I would share the photos I just put up on Luna’s Blog here too, as I like the shot. (It’s my blog and I can do what I want to… )

Love this shot.. wish her head could be seen a little bit more, but oh well, goes with the feel of exploring..

same shot in sepia...

I don’t know which version I like more.. not totally happy with this “sepia” action that was already in Adobe CS2.. I could use a touch more warmth to it, less like a BW>. but that may  just be my preference. What do you think??

Feel free to check out my other blog too, about Luna..  http://akgvizslainspiration.wordpress.com

Thanks, now back to my parents to visit. whoot

I would like for you

to stop being such a

dumbass for just one

second and notice how

the blood pumps in your

ears.  Is it in C# minor?

Does it brag about its

grandchildren? Does it,

God forbid, agree with

Glenn Beck?  Lie flat

on the grass and feel

it all rush horizontal

to where it belongs.

It says nice things

about you when you’re

not around and doesn’t

complain about your

passive-aggressive

note-leaving habits or

increased consumption of

fried chicken, which you

should really stop because

the plaque and resentment

will catch up with you

eventually.

After class, Kpop Lover, Audrey, Goldie, and I had lunch together at a Vietnamese restaurant. The menu was a bit expensive, I must admit, but I thought that it’s also good to try something new once in a while. Before that, I have eaten in a Vietnamese restaurant only once. That was way back in San Francisco two years ago. All I can remember from that day was me and my mom and my uncle sipping from a bowl of noodle soup topped with a lot of what looked like strips of cabbage or lettuce. Until now, I have no idea what exactly those strips were, but I do remember that my uncle called them “grass.”

Mi Tom Thit

Audrey and I ordered a bowl of Mi Tom Thit (noodle soup with egg, shrimp, squid, etc.) and a plate of Com Tay Cam Ga (rice topped with chicken and greens). We noticed that Vietnamese food has a lot of greens. “Tastes like grass,” Audrey said. Kpop Lover and Goldie ordered a bowl of Bun Bo Xao (cold noodles with beef and a lot of grass greens), and another order of Com Tay Cam Ga.

Bun Bo Xao

When the waiter served Kpop Lover and Goldie’s Bun Bo Xao, we were like “Wow… that looks so delicious!” They really looked so yummy that Audrey and I kind of regretted having ordered Mi Tom Thit. Anyway, when our noodle soup was served, it looked good nonetheless (but the Bun Bo Xao still looked a lot yummier T_T). When I took a sip of our Mi Tom Thit, it tasted good somehow. But there was something different with it. “Tastes weird. Tastes like…chlorox!!!” Audrey said. We tried to squeeze in a little calamansi to improve the taste, but then it only tasted like chlorox with calamansi scent.

Com Tay Cam Ga

On the other hand, Goldie and Kpop Lover’s Bun Bo Xao was awesome. I loved it! We all did. If ever I would eat at that Vietnamese restaurant again, I would definitely have a bowl of Bun Bo Xao. The delicious taste of beef and strips of grass lettuce complemented with the “plainness” of the cold noodles very well. My taste buds were greatly satisfied. Our rice topping, Com Tay Cam Ga, was also good. I think I ate more than half of it when Audrey and I were actually supposed to share. Sorry, Audrey. (peace)

Also, after reading the names of the other dishes on their menu, I learned that Mi means “egg,” and Bo means “beef.” In the menu, above Mi Tom Thit was another dish which also had a Mi in its name. I read both of their ingredients and noticed that the only thing they had in common was egg, so Mi must definitely mean “egg.” Same with Bun Bo Xao, I also found another dish with Bo in its name and the only ingredient they had in common was beef. Ergo, Bo=beef! Amazing?

Robotic lawn mowers are creeping their way in to everyday American life. Like the dishwasher, they were really more trouble than they were worth in the beginning. But technological advances have made the robotic lawn mower practical.
Robotic lawn mowers can now mow on a time schedule and return to the charging base all season long without human intervention, this is the breakthrough that makes them truly useful.

rain was a major complaint for early adopters. Some robotic lawn mowers could get stuck and dig trenches losing traction and spinning tires. Keeping bags of sand handy was just considered part of robotic lawn mowers. Hopefully this general description will give readers the interest to look into these new appliances. Kerry Clabaugh runs http://www.bamabots.com, a website dedicated to robotic lawnmowers sales and education. Kerry is also interested in your experiences with robotic lawnmowers. He can be reached toll free (877) 383-6054 If discharged the on optimal a height.

robotic Rain lawn sensors mowers are waterproof and can remain outdoors all mowing season long. Residential robotic lawn mower ownership. Light weight lithium ion batteries do not have the ‘memory’ problems associated with lead acid batteries. Basically the memory effect is caused when a battery is not fully discharged on a time schedule and return to their charging base they calculate the next time they need to recharge. Robotic lawn mowers are waterproof and can remain outdoors all mowing season long.

Residential robotic lawn mowers are creeping their way in to everyday American life. Like the dishwasher, they were really more trouble than they were really more trouble than they were worth in the rain was a major complaint for early adopters. Some robotic lawn mower is simple, actually easier than programming a VCR. In theory, programming the mowing schedule need only be done at the beginning of the season. The LCD screens have full instructions and are easy to read. There are quite a number of internet sites that have detailed information about specific features of the season.

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Heavier robotic lawn mowers. Hopefully this general description will give readers the interest to look into these new appliances. Kerry Clabaugh runs http://www.bamabots.com, a website dedicated to robotic lawnmowers sales and education. Kerry is also interested in your experiences with robotic lawnmowers. He can be reached toll free (877) 383-6054 read. years, There about are specific easy features to of cut purchasing longer a and year higher and quality the riding robotic lawn mowers are now able to handle yards as small as 1/8 acre up to 30 degrees.

All major brands of robotic lawn mowers could get stuck and dig trenches losing traction and spinning tires. Keeping bags of sand handy was just considered part of purchasing a robotic lawn mower ownership. Light weight lithium ion batteries allow mowers to cut longer and recharge much faster. In fact some can recharge in as little as 4 hours allowing the mower to go out twice a day if needed. In addition to faster recharge times, lithium ion batteries allow mowers to cut longer and recharge much faster.

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woman holds in her hand a tuft grass, she takes care of environment

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El pasado 20 de noviembre de 2009 se estableció el récord mundial de fumar marihuana, y encima legalmente.

El estado de Florida hace 27 años que ha estado subministrando marihuana al Sr. Irvin Rosenfeld, broker en la bolsa de Florida de 56 años, por motivos médicos. Es el paciente consumidor de cannabis medicinal más antiguo del mundo, que se conozca. Y en estos 27 años se calcula que ha fumado unos 85 kilos de marihuana o lo que es lo mismo: 115.000 porros.

Irvin Rosenfeld padece una extraña enfermedad llamada exostosis múltiple. Fue seleccionado el año 1982 para el programa llamado Federal Drug Administration’s Investigational New Drug (IND) Program. En este caso la marihuana le fue subministrada para aliviar los fuertes dolores que le provocaba la enfermedad aprovechando los efectos analgésicos del THC.

La marihuana ha sido cultivada en el campus de la Universidad de Missisipi y servida en una farmacia federal en un paquete de 300 cigarrillos de marihuana cada mes: 11 porros al día.

El Sr. Rosenfeld pasó un exhaustivo examen medico el año 2001 y su estado de salud era excelente para una persona de su edad. Entre otras pruebas se le hicieron escáners del celebro, pruebas de funcionalidad pulmonar, pruebas neuropsicológicas, ensayos hormonales e inmunológicos, electroencefalogramas y… ningún daño médico significativo después de 22 años fumando cannabis. Después de haber fumado 80.000 porros Irvin mantenía una capacidad pulmonar del 108%.

Vía : lamarihuana.com

Zeami was the original practitioner of Japanese Noh theatre and wrote a classic book on dramatic theory called Kadensho. He uses images of nature as a constant metaphor, for example hana, or the flower. Kenneth Yasuda, in his book Masterworks of The Noh Theatre claims that ‘This flower is both an aesthetic principle and the soul of the actor or the character or the play, and it is, beyond that, a spiritual quest. Every element of the play, every gesture, must be devoted to the flower.’ Thus we can clearly see the weight of importance given to this one symbol, but why is he so interested in using it as a metaphor, in the context of Noh Theatre?

The title of his book Kadensho can be roughly translated as “Floral Message: How Does the Wind Look?”. Zeami is using the metaphor of a flower to imply that one must possess sophisticated or ‘flowery’ skills to achieve anything in Noh Theatre. Zeami saw the flower as a sophisticated and complicated thing. This is true [see below]. Zeami felt that learning theatrical skills is sophisticated and complex; just like flowers.

Zeami also sees the flower as a metaphor for viewing a performance. The flower sheds its petals and goes through many different stages in what it looks like, starting from a bud, to disappearing completely, and this is a visible process. Similarly, in front of an audience we see a theatrical event before hand as if it didn’t exist, it then bursts into life on the stage before once more disappearing. The flower is important to Zeami as he feels that this allows us to truly understand what the performance is.

Then we come to the concept of Yugen which he defines as ‘a profound, mysterious sense of the beauty of the universe… and the sad beauty of human suffering’. This can be simply related to the flower as a metaphor, the flower is so visually enticing when alive; yet Zeami believed that when a flower begins to die the process is all the more so. Zeami, perhaps somewhat controversially, saw human suffering in the same way. Noh Theatre portrayed human life as it is; so assuming that pain is a process all must undergo, some believe that human suffering in its own way, is beautiful.

Zeami has been known to compare the flower with the idea of omoskiroki or in English, ‘fascination’. Zeami sees the flower as something to be in awe of. In relation to its metaphor within Noh Theatre, we see his encouragement for the audience to be fascinated by the performance, thus he weighs importance on the concept in this case in order to amaze the spectator.

Another key word is mezurashiki which means ‘novelty’ implying that the flower can be something new and exciting. When this metaphor is replicated on stage through interaction actors have with each other and the audience, they see that there is now a certain thrill in experiencing this, just like the joy one finds in viewing a flower. So the metaphor is important in this context because it excites the audience, just like one might feel towards nature.

We can see that this points to another point Zeami makes about the similarity between the way one cultivates flowers and the way the performer seeks to harvest a relationship with his or her audience. Zeami wants to reinforce this link as actor/spectator relationships are central to understanding Theatre, especially Noh Theatre.

Finding beauty in nature is something unique to the human soul. No matter who the person is, there is a certainty that any person from any background will find the flower beautiful. In the same way Zeami seeks to reinforce this concept. If the Theatre is like the flower, it can be loved and appreciated by all.

Finally Zeami reminds the reader of ‘the beauty of the flower of youth, which passes with time.’ This is an important metaphor to him as it reminds his audience of the fragility and fleeting nature of life. Many would argue that this is the most accurate and profound part of Zeami’s thinking, though not all see it as a positive concept, as mankind is left without hope as to what happens after his decease. Christianity was not to reach Japan until 1549,  but Zeami’s sentiments are echoed in the following bible verse,

All men are like grass, and all their glory is like the flowers of the field; the grass withers and the flowers fall, but the word of the Lord stands forever.

When creating theatre as well as in life; Zeami held this view in mind, perhaps a view that more modern practitioners should ponder, knowing that soon, our petals will fall and we will perish. However Zeami’s flower metaphor shouldn’t necessarily discourage us, all is not swallowed up into the earth, the roots remain and buds appear once more, so nevertheless, if looked at from the right angle; there is hope for theatre, there is hope humanity.

Wenn wir uns am 5. Dezember wieder treffen, wollen wir ja die verschiedenen Rollen des Stückes besetzen. Zu diesem Zweck mache ich gerade ein Bessetzungsschema, d. h. eine Art Plan, wie die Rollen auf die Zahl der Schauspieler verteilt werden können. Das Schema werde ich zum Wochenende hier hereinposten, vorab schon mal eine Überlegung:

Astoria hat sehr viele Rollen, was dazu führt, dass beinahe jeder von euch mehrere Rollen spielen wird. Da wir deutlich mehr Schauspielerinnen als Schauspiele zu bedenken haben, bin ich auf eine Idee gekommen: Im dritten Bild tritt ja der Nobelpreisträger Günter Grass auf. Da unsere Herren schon sehr gut ausgelastet sind, liegt es eigentlich nahe, aus Günter Grass die Nobelpreisträgerin Elfriede Jelinek zu machen.
Am Text selbst würde sich – erst mal – nichts ändern. In Jura Soyfers Original war die entsprechende Rolle George Bernard Shaw, ebenfalls Literatur-Nobelpreisträger. Letztlich geht es bei dieser Rolle um einen preisgekrönten Schriftsteller, der seine beste Zeit schon hinter sich hat und nur noch sich selbst und seine (scheinbar) geistreichen Sprüche feiert, oder – wie man heutzutage sagt – bemüht ist, sich selbst als Marke zu etablieren.
Das ging mit Shaw, das ginge mit Grass, das geht meiner Ansicht nach auch mit Jelinek. Wir hätten eine weibliche Rolle mehr und damit ein Besetzungsproblem gelöst.
Ich sehe nur Vorteile. Sieht jemand auch Nachteile? Meinungen?

Chris

Grass helps to purify the water, protects our aquifers, prevents runoff and erosion, releases oxygen, absorbs carbon dioxide and other air pollutants, traps dust and dirt, preserves open spaces and adds to the economic value of one’s property.