A reminder The Hormones by Marguerita A View from Inside

Of All We Need Is LoveandIt’s about going back to the roots of things, what we have in our bodies, the primitive Energy.

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d'apres Oncle Boonmee celui qui se souvient de ses vies du cinéaste thaïlandais Apichatpong Weerasethakul est une invitation

au voyage intérieur

et aux doux songes d’une nuit d’été.

Le spirituel est en nous et dans tout, semble nous dire Joe et il faut s’abandonner aux forces mystiques de la nuit

You must remember this
A kiss is still a kiss
A sigh is just a sigh
The fundamental things apply
As time goes by

And when two lovers woo
They still say, I love you
On this you can rely
No matter what the future brings
As time goes by

Moonlight and love songs
Never out of date
Hearts full of passion
Jealousy and hate
Woman needs man
And man must have his mate
On this you can deny

It's still the same old story
A fight for love and glory
A case of do or die
The world will always welcome lovers
As time goes by

Moonlight and love songs
Never out of date
Hearts full of passion
Jealousy and hate
Woman needs man
And man must have his mate
On this you can deny

You must remember this
A kiss is still a kiss
A sigh is just a sigh
The fundamental things apply
As time goes by

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/05/23/a-conversation-with-the-top-prize-winner-of-cannes/?ref=global-home

More lyrics: http://www.lyricsmode.com/lyrics/f/frank_sinatra/#share

El todo y la nada y su absoluta razón de Ser

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"Aquí trato de mostrar a alguien que quiere sobrevivir en su mundo y que no quiere perder lo último que le queda: el amor".

Película molesta, película áspera y sin atisbo de concesiones que revuelve las tripas por la vía de los naufragios familiares y sentimentales, Biutiful es, según su director, "lo mismo que Babel solo que en un único lugar, una historia sencilla de la que

he tratado de extraer toda la complejidad posible, una historia donde

la noción de perdón es la clave de todo... porque es eso lo que nos falta en el mundo de hoy, el perdón, no hay más que ver el terrorismo, el odio con que se mata.

Y frente a todo eso, este personaje es todo lo contrario, está lleno de esperanza... creo que es mi película más llena de esperanza". ¿Esperanza?

"In this world we are living of twitting and e-mailing ... this film is a truly intimate experience," he said.

"And intimacy it's now the new punk — it's provocative, it provokes people."

http://www.elpais.com/articulo/cultura/Bardem/principio/fin/Biutiful/elpepucul/20100517elpepucul_3/Tes

You Will Enjoy Razor Sharp Spiritual Vision Today

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El cerebro de Woody Allen permanece sin sombra de esclerosis, tan afilado y potente como siempre. También su comprensión de todos los anhelos, miedos, miserias, engaños y grandezas de la condición humana.

http://www.elpais.com/articulo/cultura/Woody/Allen/divierte/Mike/Leigh/conmueve/elpepicul/20100516elpepicul_2/Tes

Of Aspargus,Volcanos ,Emotions and C'est La Vie

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While the volcano rages in anger, maybe the Earth also has feelings, which Man tries to ignore ....I noticed some info about Aspargus .

Onto my mind , a number of ideas I could imagine with the name,the vegetable,which I like to draw as well.

Turn Aspargus into a children's book or a detective stories?

Viscount Aspargus Y Volcano de Clouds Y Clouds, or better Prince,as King sounds too pompous , and we Humans always dreaming of kingdoms somewhere on this planet, so Prince Aspargus, The Peacemaker, a task so far eluding every dreamer to put its parameters in place,since civilization is known.

Or get Aspargus to inspire me anddraw Aspargus all the way?

Maybe because Aspargus is very slim and quite aristocratic.Does not like to bend or be cooked for too long and hides an interesting character and a peculiar flavor.

A sparagus sApears are the edible shoots of a perennial plant, asparagus officinalis, cultivated across Europe, around the Mediterranean littoral and all the way across into central Asia. The Romans fell in love with it in a big way, even drying it out for consumption out of season, and a full flavoured, white, purple-tipped variety is grown in northern Italy to this day. In other parts of Europe the spears are earthed up to produce an entirely white, milder tasting spear, but the most flavoursome and attractive type by far is the vibrant green we know and love in the UK.

velocius quam asparagi coquuntur "faster than asparagus is cooked"--was a proverb with Romans,

to which our "done in a jiffy" closely corresponds.

The shoots, whether wild or cultivated, are succulent, and contain wax, albumen, acetate of potash, phosphate of potash, mannite, a green resin, and a fixed principle named "asparagin" ." This asparagin stimulates the kidneys, and imparts a peculiar, strong smell to the urine after taking the shoots; at the same time,

the green resin with which the asparagin is combined, exercises gently sedative effects on the heart, calming palpitation, or nervous excitement of that organ.

Though not producing actual sugar in the urine, asparagus forms and excretes a substance therein which answers to the reactions used by physicians for detecting sugar, except the fermentation test.

It may fairly be given in diabetes with a promise of useful results.

In Russia it is a domestic medicine for the arrest of flooding.

Varieties

Gijnlim is an all-male hybrid producing plenty of mid-sized spears (the female plant's shoots tend to be smaller), and it and the older Connover's Colossal variety have both been awarded the RHS Award of Garden Merit. Mary Washington is another well-regarded old variety which can be male or female, giving the lucky grower a range of differently sized spears. Click here for more information on growing your own asparagus.

How to buy / what to look for

Good, firm, springy spears of an even colour and tightly furled buds. A bunch of similarly sized examples will be easier to cook consistently.

Nutrition

Famously diuretic, asparagus is often ascribed the overused status of 'superfood'. It does contain useful quantities of a list of beneficial substances as long as your arm, including vitamins B6, A and C, calcium, magnesium, folic acid, iron, zinc and dietary fibre.

Harvested

Late April to the end of June. Or thereabouts.

Storage

Don't - eat what you've got and buy more while you still can. If needs must, wrap the cut ends in a damp cloth or seal the whole bunch in a plastic bag and store in the fridge. The spears should stay fresh for three days, and if you can wait that long to eat them you'll be doing well.

Basic cooking

Rinse thoroughly to remove any sandy growing medium lurking in the folds of the tips. To find the point at which the tender part of the spear meets the woodier section, grasp the cut end in one hand and hold the spear about halfway up with the other, and bend it until it snaps. To minimise waste, if you have a food processor you can sauté the ends in butter, whizz them into a paste and add it to asparagus risotto, and Sonya Kidney recommends peeling ends and cooking the whole spear. Steam the spears or plunge them into boiling salted water for 4 minutes or more until the thickest part of the stem is tender. Bear in mind that the fresher it is, the less cooking it needs.http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2010/apr/20/seasonal-food-asparagus

http://www.lemonde.fr/europe/article/2010/04/20/pour-pierre-lelouche-l-europe-est-menacee-de-declassement-rapide_1340428_3214.html

Hello, Hello NYTimes ;RE:Since When the Idea on the Last Paragraph???

With luck, the volcano will simmer down soon and the ash plume will disperse.

Flights will resume,

business will begin ....... yeah: TIME IS MONEY.....

I AM BUSY.....

Who You?......

to make up its losses,

$$$$$$$$$$

and weary travelers will

safely find their way home.

It will be a long time

before we forget FORGET????

the threat that

lies smoldering under

an Icelandic glacier.

Or its lesson that even in the 21st centry, our lives are still at the sufferance of nature.

Since WHEN, the NYTimes OPINION does not realize REAL WORLD is what we are all walking on?

Oh,Mon Dieu!

Abre Alas Pra Minha Folia!

Amen

Pace in Terris

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/19/opinion/19mon3.html?hp

Of Foreign Relations,Good Man Is Hard to Find,OOps Relationships,Power or Struggle for

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Males and females are different.

This is so obvious that, at first, it hardly seems worth

pointing out. But in fact, it is remarkable. It is also

the cause of a profound sexual tension.

The problem is, often, the pressures on males and

females are not the same. In the fruit fly Drosophila

melanogaster, for example, males must perform an

elaborate song-and-dance routine to seduce each

female;

females, in contrast, must give off a certain smell to be attractive to a male.

Females need to eat

a high protein diet so as to be able to produce eggs;

males can skimp on the proteins. (The behavior of male and female sage grouse is well known; click here to see a male display.) Needless to say, in this species females do all the childcare: they choose a nest site, sit on the eggs, then feed and protect the chicks.

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/03/30/evolving-sexual-tensions/?ref=global-home

Note: and as Alberta Hunter sings:My heart is sad and I'm all alone

My man treats me mean

I regret the day that I was born

And that man I ever seen

My happiness is less today

My heart is broke that's why I say

Lord, a good man is hard to find

You always get another kind

Just when you think that he's your pal

You look and find him foolin' 'round some old gal

Then you rave, you all crave

You wanna see him in his grave

So if your man is nice, take my advice

Hug him in the morning, kiss him ev'ry night

Give him plenty lovin', treat your good man right

'Cause a good man nowadays sure is hard to find

Oh, a good man is so hard to find

We always get that roughed old kind

Just when you think that he's your pal

You look and find him hangin' 'round some old gal

Then you rave, shall you crave

You wanna see him dead layin' in his grave

Of Truffles,Sex,Love and Misdemeanors,Anatomy of Pain,Love in Vain,Tears(Real Ones) while listening to Paquito de Rivera

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Well ,some like to look for syphillis and others ,

truffle-lovers be advised — some of the new discoveries may reveal more than you really wanted to know.

Truffles are the fruit of fungi that infect the roots of certain trees.

They are of keen interest to pigs,

particularly sows, because some secrete androstenol, a hormone produced by boars before mating. People who use sows to hunt for truffles often find it hard to prevent a sex-crazed animal from eating the truffle she has found and may lose fingers in the attempt.

The truffle then benefits from the purpose of sex, which is of course to generate new combinations of genes and fresh diversity.

It turns out the truffles, too, have sex lives, said Dr. Francis Martin, a plant biologist at the University of Nancy inFrance and leader of the research team. The precious fungi had long been thought to lead an asexual existence, but Dr. Martin and his colleagues have found that they have two sexes, or mating types.

So it produces the redolent odors that will compel surface dwellers of all kinds to search for it, eat it and distribute its spores after they have dined.

The fungus earns its keep, providing more food for the oak than the tree’s roots can obtain alone.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/29/science/29truffle.html?ref=global-home

Of The Real World ,Volupia Tropical and Blind Heart of Palm

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all characters copyrights by marguerita bornstein

Meanwhile, Oberon, king of the fairies, and his queen, Titania,

were in the forest outside Athens.

Titania tells Oberon that she plans to stay there until after she has attended Theseus and Hippolyta's wedding.

Oberon and Titania are estranged

because Titania refuses to give her

Indian changeling to Oberon for use as his

"knight" or "henchman,"

since the child's mother was one of Titania's worshippers.

Oberon seeks to punish Titania's disobedience,

so he calls for the mischievous Puck

(also called Hobgoblin and Robin Goodfellow)

to help him apply a magical juice from a flower called

"love-in-idleness", which when applied to

a person's eyelids while sleeping makes the victim

fall in love with the first living thing seen upon awakening.

He instructs Puck to retrieve the flower so

that he can make Titania fall in love with

the first thing she sees when waking from sleep,

which he is sure will be an animal of the forest.

Oberon's main intent is to distract her long enough

to take the page-boy by force.

True, the object of her affection may be –

not to put too fine a point on it — an ass.

what really counts isn’t whom one loves

but how one loves.

Titania, as you may know, is the queen

of the fairies in Shakespeare’s comedy of love

run riot in the woods of Athens,

the lady who is bewitched into

falling hard for Bottom,

the guy with the donkey’s head.

It’s usually a part played with distinctly

un-regal, uncomfortable, undulating lust..

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/03/14/lessons-in-love-from-the-london-stage/

Of Love, Devotion and Broken Records and HERE IS: TO LIFE!

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The vinyl format has always been popular between hi-fi enthusiasts and music passionates.

For these people the vinyl record was always considered to be the true release and the general opinion was that the format has a richer and more interesting sound.

Despite of this the vinyl was loved by the few.

However, over the last couple of years the vinyl record has increased its popularity enormously, which has manifested itself in a tremendous sales growth. This has partly given the struggling independent record stores a new chance and even huge retailers have started to sell vinyl records.

The question is how could a format that was virtually dead suddenly become so enormously popular again, especially with young crowd, who was not even born at the prime of the format. This article will take a brief look at the history of the vinyl record in order to understand what factors made this possible.

Vinyl was the first commercial physical music format and for a long time it therefore dominated the market for physical music. Several different types of vinyl records were developed, but in general, when people wanted to buy music to play at home there was no other choice than to buy it on vinyl. However, at some point the compact disc (CD) came around and that quickly put an end to the vinyl format for most people. The CD was smaller, cheaper to produce and some would argue that it had better sound quality. Also, people could easily bring the CD with them to play it in the car, while working out or on their Discman. At some point it also became possible to copy the content of a CD to another CD and a little bit later the content could also be copied to a computer and converted to mp3 files. The last part was the beginning of the end for the CD format.

As CDs could easily be ripped to mp3, people had better Internet connections and new file sharing services were developed buying music gradually became less of a necessity for the more technically savvy music lovers. It didn't take long before whatever music you would want could be downloaded for free. So when the content suddenly was available for free, why should people then buy CDs? Well, of course there's the moral question, but except from that the CD format did not provide any extra value that would convince a lot of people to pay for it. As digital music online has become even more convenient to consume and we're living in a world where streaming music is the most convenient option this has become even truer. So the case is that the CD format has become a format stuck in the middle. It lacks the flexibility of streaming and the great physical characteristics of the vinyl format. The vinyl format and streaming are perfectly negatively correlated, and as a consequence of that perfectly compatible. While streaming offers superior convenience on one hand, vinyl offers the ultimate physical experience on the other hand by being a piece of art in itself.

So what exactly are these neat characteristics of the vinyl format? Well, one thing to start with is the cover art. The vinyl has much more space for cover art than a CD and is different from what can be thought of as cover art online. This makes it easier to enjoy the work that is put into create something unique. Another characteristic related to this is that people by nature are collectors. Everyone likes to collect something. Since digital music has no scarcity it just doesn't make much sense to collect it. Vinyl on the other hand is perfect for collecting. Music lovers like to show their dedication and support to a band by buying the record and it fits nicely on the shelf just as books do.

Another, and often debated characteristic, is the sound quality. Many vinyl lovers claim that it is the cracks, pops and hisses that create the special vinyl sound and make vinyl unique. It is for sure true that this is an important part of the vinyl experience, however, whether or not this is important depends on two factors. First, a person naturally needs to have a preference for this type of sound and second; the record must be mastered specifically for vinyl, which means analog mastering.

A final factor which contributes to the attractiveness of the vinyl format is the listening experience. Listening to music on vinyl is a ritual in its own. Picking the right vinyl, putting the needle on the record, getting up to flip the record before picking up a new one. This physical listening experience stands in stark contrast to the digital one and too a higher extent require that people take time to actually listen to a record and listening to it in its entirety. In that regard listening to music on vinyl therefore often can be experienced as a break from the daily stress and routines.

The future indeed looks bright.http://ezinearticles.com/?Why-Has-Vinyl-Records-Become-So-Popular-Again?&id=1960898