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Colorful debates on Buddhist doctrines are held here and these employ a style distinctive from those at Lhasa's other famous monasteries. Lhasa, Tibet
This is the debate courtyard of the byes college. Up to several years ago, the two philosophical colleges of se ra -- byes and smad -- used their own textbooks (yig cha), and debated separately. Fearing that there were not sufficient numbers of monks to sustain separate debate periods, the two colleges decided to consolidate their curricula sometime in the last decade. They adopted the textbooks of the byes college monastery, and since that time the monks of both colleges debate together for a two-hour period every afternoon when the doctrinal session, or "quatrimester" (chos thog) is convened. Like all of se ra's major debate courtyards, the byes debate ground is surrounded by an outer perimeter wall, and contains many trees that provide shade in the summer.
Today at work, we had a great debate involving the comparative lame-ness of knitting and various other handicrafts. The spark was that one of the guys in my office, who is also the lead singer for a band, realized that his girlfriend was no longer the independent, driven woman he initially fell in love with when, at the age of 26, she took up knitting. Now, I happen to agree with him that knitting is largely the province of old ladies with nothing to do, and middle-aged housewives in the midwest... also with nothing to do. I know I'm wrong. There's a "crafty" store just down the street from me called, I kid you not, "Knit Happens." Yes, yes it does... and it should stop. In any case, there was much heated debate regarding the difference between knitting and crocheting and other artistic crafts, and the biases people seem to have.
Yeah, at work. What can I say? ::chuckle::
I got this little gargoyle while I was visiting a friend in London back in 1999, and he's traveled with me ever since, through every change of apartments, zip codes and states. Now that I have old, rough beams in my room, he finally has an appropriate home.
Taken on the back of a horse-box at Ballinasloe horse fair, where matters of great importance can be debated.
I debated whether or not to even post these pictures. They are way too noisey. I didn't realize my iso was off until I got home and started looking at them. But what the heck...I think they turned out kinda cool. Let me know what you think.
My attempt to portray the famous Shell (oil company) logo, using a small scallop shell and red/yellow lighting.
Thanks for looking.
Entire scallop shell is 55 mm wide at the widest point.
Album - Macro Mondays – Theme [Brands and Logos]
Sony ILCE-7R
300mm F2.8
The tufted duck (Aythya fuligula) is a small diving duck with a population of close to one million birds. The scientific name is derived from Ancient Greek aithuia an unidentified seabird mentioned by authors including Hesychius and Aristotle, and Latin, fuligo "soot" and gula "throat"
The adult male is all black except for white flanks and a blue-grey bill with gold-yellow eyes. It has an obvious head tuft that gives the species its name. The adult female is brown with paler flanks, and is more easily confused with other diving ducks. In particular, some have white around the bill base which resembles the scaup species, although the white is never as extensive as in those ducks. The females' call is a harsh, growling "karr", mostly given in flight. The males are mostly silent but they make whistles during courtship based on a simple "wit-oo".
The only duck which is at all similar is the drake greater scaup which, however, has no tuft and a different call.
The tufted duck is one of the species to which the Agreement on the Conservation of African-Eurasian Migratory Waterbirds (AEWA) applies.
Montreal. Biodome. These two lovely parrots (hyacinth macaw) won't be the first animals you see, but surely they will be the first you hear. They are the loudest animal in there. When they squawk, it looks like a noisy competition for scaring the others or for shaking the building. You might even think there's a velociraptor around.
And finally you find the loud-mouthed couple and it's a surprise they're actually so small. They look like smiling. They are even cute.
Sometimes, the debates seem to work only to prove who shouts deafening. Unfortunately, it's not anymore about the words, but the volume they could reach. He who can shake the building the more wins all.
19 BBY
Jedi Master and General Blaiver Kergill and Clone Marshal Commander CC-0918 "Zang" argue on their way to their established fort on Trero's war room for strategy meeting hosted by General Obi-Wan Kenobi.
The April Blue Jay debate on will cold and snow be done by May. The Jay in the middle is looking at the snowflakes coming down and is seemingly not optimistic.
The other two jays know the robins have returned however they returned later this year. The Jays continue to debate holding out hope that snow will not appear in May and
with some luck be all gone by the end of April.
It's a new morning, but the same old question: is strawberry jam the best thing on toast, or blueberry preserves?
Precocious Candy's Mushroom and Prima Dolly Violet will probably never agree--and that's okay. To each her own!
The toast, plate, knife and blueberry preserves are from an Our Generation dolls play set. The strawberry jam is a Shopkins. This picture is for the theme "Strawberry" in the Blythe a Day group.
In the 1980s much weird folk roamed the streets of the USA, but some stood out even in that candy-colored time. Those were the heroes and villains known as the Mighty Misfits!
Beakon
Did you ever hear a pecking noise on your roof at night? It might be a giant yellow bird-ish man, known as Beakon! Aspiring to be a signal of hope for men and birds alike, Beakon hops from roof to roof to catch burglars, cats and other scum before they can hurt one more feathery friend!
Which part of him is man and which is bird could not yet be determined, however.
Cabbage Man
One day, Cabbage Man was sick of the food culture he saw around him. Everyone was turning vegetarian! No one, except Cabbage Man, seemed to understand that vegetables are so much more suited for fighting crime than eating them! So he geared up, packed his greens, and went out on the streets, always equipped with the freshest, healthiest food - to throw it at the bad guys!
Sometimes, it was debated whether he should rather be called Lettuce Man, and due to his philosophy of never giving interviews, the matter could never be settled, leaving the newspapers in despair.
Wicked Wingspan
Not your usual crazy scientist with the awesome tech, Wicked Wingspan is not actually able to fly. His suit is just that fancy - and includes invisible stilts (he found at a dumpster one day). Also, his master plan to spray everyone around with bronzer never quite works out, because he can’t seem to figure out how to get it under people’s clothes. But he really believes in it, and one day he will find the actual scientist with the knowledge to help him get it done!
The Moist Menace
Breaking onto the crime fighting scene as a three-eyed fish with dangerous … water guns, I guess? …, The Moist Menace fights crime not out of moral conviction, but because he wants to be the only villain in town! That’s right, the guy is part of the team of heroes only as long as the crazy dude with the flappy wings is history. Everybody knows that for he never tires to claim superiority of his evil creativity over Wicked Wingspan’s. However, no one quite beliefs it or simply doesn’t care. Once, it was rumored that Menace’s secret identity was an actual person, but it seems pretty obvious that he is just a fish with the usual two eyes.
Princess Candypop
Nobody ever looked that sweet when fighting crime! Princess Candypop may strike some as just a usual young woman, but with a piece of her special cherry gummy candy, she develops super human strength and shining purple eyes in an instant! And what better to do with this power than make the world a happier place! Ironically, the crime rate apparently has risen since Princess Candypop appeared on the streets, because many young men yearn for a chance to meet this lovely young lady, even if that means breaking the law.
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Here are my 80s-inspired Heroes and Villains for the third round of the figbarfcentral tournament! These figures were a lot of fun to make! Also big thanks to my friend Mr. Grievous for writing part of the story!
I am not talking about these old houses. I am actually debating whether to sell my Sigma DP1 Merrill. Ever since I acquired the Sony A7Rii, I have not been touching the Sigma. Afterall, it 's just a one-trick pony. As you can see from this image, under low ISO, it can capture incredible details with its Foveon sensor and fixed prime lens. The pixel level sharpness is hard to beat. But its dynamic range and high ISO performance really suck. So it winds up being a day time camera that I typically carry with me for hiking. And it turns out, my Pixel 2XL smartphone is gradually replacing the Sigma as my pocket camera. With the Sigma, I still needs to wear it on my neck. It 's compact enough but not really that pocketable.
So I am torn here. It 's Spring time and I would like to purge the unused stuff in my closet.
At Sera Monastery, Lhasa.
Sera Monastery, "Wild Roses Monastery" is one of the "great three" Gelug university monasteries of Tibet, located 2.01 km north of Lhasa and about 5 km3 north of the Jokhang. The other two are Ganden Monastery and Drepung Monastery. The origin of its name is attributed to a fact that the site where the monastery was built was surrounded by wild roses in bloom.
The original Sera Monastery is responsible for some 19 hermitages, including four nunneries, which are all located in the foot hills north of Lhasa.
The Sera Monastery was founded in 1419 by Jamchen Chojey of Sakya Yeshe of Zel Gungtang (1355–1435), a disciple of Je Tsongkhapa.
During the 1959 revolt in Lhasa, Sera monastery suffered severe damage, with its colleges destroyed and hundreds of monks killed. After the Dalai Lama took asylum in India, many of the monks of Sera who survived the attack moved to Bylakuppe in Mysore, India.
Sera Monastery in Tibet and its counterpart in Mysore, India are noted for their debate sessions.
And welcome to the Town Hall Debate. It is now time to begin letting ordinary citizens ask questions of the candidates; let us begin with Mr. Luthor.
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“Are the rumors of you’re terrorist activity involvement true?”
Those rumors are absolutely false. I’ve not, have ever been, or will, be working with terrorists or any other “super” threat to the United States.
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Jeff McEweel, President, founder, and sole member of the Aquaman Fan Club Asks:
“What kind of celebrations do you plan on throwing for Aquaman and the League of Super Friends for their victory and liberation of Gotham from Mr. Freeze? And what kind of cake will there be?”
While it is known that Aquaman, along with other super powered peoples, liberated Gotham from some of its escaped inmates, the more important issue of re-building is still present. Now is not the time to be praising vigilantes while a city is in ruins. And we’ll have Devil’s Food Cake when I’m sworn into office! [Crowd laughs]
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“Are the rumors true that you yourself, utilizing your companies military division, supplied the forces of escaped inmates, specifically Mr. Freeze, during the Gotham crisis?”
These rumors are not true. Although, there is truth to some of it. Freeze did gain access to stolen LexCorp experimental weapons during the Gotham crisis. Our LexCorp facility was attacked and stolen from multiple times when Gotham was cut off from the rest of the country. I will work however to track down all of these weapons now, aided by their tracking devices, now that Gotham is being re-built and the majority of its inmates incarcerated again.
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What do you plan on doing with all those so called super villains and psychotics roaming free on the streets of Gotham?”
The “super villains” of Gotham have been a large problem for a long time. This previous incident was the fourth massive breakout within two years, and it ended with the destruction of the city. Obviously, there’s something wrong with they way they were handled and incarcerated. As President, I would motion to shut down Arkham Asylum, and order that the newly re-captured, and soon to be captured, criminals be separated and moved to various prisons across the country, so they will never break out to team up again.
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“Will you outlaw all forms of vigilantism?”
Absolutely. These “superheroes” have been causing as much damage, destruction, and death as their so called enemies. They work outside the law, and have no consideration for our judicial system. The days of flying supermen are over. We as citizens and people of the United States need to take our country and problems into our own hands; we must help ourselves instead of being helped. As President, I will make sure this Golden Age of Heroes ends…immediately…Thank you.
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Questions supplied by various GCW members—Thank you! I tried to answer most of the questions, but if some were left out it would be most likely due to being previously answered in past debates, or the information was not as necessary for direct answers. And don’t forget to vote! Vote Luthor that is!
Cade and I are bored, so we've decided to start a debate. The question for today is "Should the United States completely ban firearms, preventing citizens from owning guns?" Please feel free to post your opinion here, but know that both Cade and I shall propose the other side's argument in reply to most of your comments. Play nice.
Monks “debating” philosophy at Sera Monastery, Lhasa, Tibet. The debating style is quite physical, though (at least as far as I saw) without actual physical contact. I’m told they essentially work through a script of statement and responses.
I saw a couple sea gulls today having a lively politcal debate!
[I don't want to know who you're voting for...I just posted this for fun and to reflect the intense atmosphere this week].
… and thirteen other things that you may or may not have known about me ☺
1. I debated whether or not to post this and whether it was risqué or not, but then I realized that my pants and belts are so loose that anyone who sees me walking around campus or anywhere would see all this anyway.
2. I could not live without my camera, laptop, and coffee. I could live without a cell phone, or probably anything else.
3. Ever since I’ve moved into my apartment, I’ve had macaroni and cheese at least 2-3 times per week. Macaroni and cheese is best complimented with blueberry coffee.
4. My mom thought I was too skinny when I was in elementary school so she had the doctor put me on a milkshake diet… In other words, I had a milkshake with every meal to fatten me up. Well, I actually got kinda pudgy up until halfway through high school.
5. I have horrible skin caused by a genetic disorder that has never happened in my family before. Also, I’m a lefty, the only one in my family. In other words, I am a fluke. Or maybe I was adopted, except that everyone seems to think I look exactly like my brothers.
6. My top four job aspirations are: to become a filmmaker and make a living doing it, to become a professional photographer, to be a musician, to be a writer. I will never be a musician. My backup plan is to open up a nice coffee shop somewhere on the shores of the Mediterranean and live a quiet happy life. I will never have a desk job!
7. 7 was my favorite number until I realized that it is the most cliché lucky number in existence. Now my favorite number is 49538. Actually, that was a lie, I don’t have one.
8. I want to travel to every country in the world. Then I’ll decide where I want to settle down. Right now I go to school 5 minutes from the house I grew up in. I’ve never moved, and have only been to less than 10 states and only one country. I have a long way to go.
9. I am good at math and science, but swore a solemn oath while graduating high school that I’d never get a job in either. I never thought it would happen, but after a year of no math classes, I actually missed it and so I am taking calculus right now. It is fun. I like logic.
10. I’ve only ever had one girlfriend and we dated for a year and a half. I don’t mind being single though. It has it’s perks. Also, I’ve been facebook married to the same person for over a year now.
11. I can’t draw. Anything. If I pick up a pen or pencil my hand quivers. Everyone else in my family can draw amazingly well. I like writing though. Actually, in 9th grade I completely changed my handwriting. I just picked how I wanted to do each letter and then wrote “a quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog” over and over until it stuck.
12. I don’t like watching TV. There are maybe 3 shows that I’ll actually want to watch. Anything else I will only watch because I’m in a room where it’s on. Generally I’ll leave and listen to music or go on flickr or watch a movie. Or read a book, but I don’t read nearly as much as I’d like to, mostly because I don’t have time during school. In the summer I read a book a week on average.
13. I generally stay up 1-2 hours later than I’d like to every night because of flickr. Whether it’s responding to comments, checking out pictures, or gong through my pictures on my hard drive, or photoshopping… like right now. Ugh. Ok well this is 13 so that’s it!
Toy Sunday-theme: debate
Sometimes props show up at just the right time. I got these two masks two weeks ago. So thrilled to find a vintage Halloween mask. She was free if I bought a Pumpkin candy caddy for a dollar!!
I am so delighted with how this photo turned out. There was a lot of dark and light contrast between the two masks. I blocked window light from under the chin of top mask and that seemed to be the magic trick.
مَــوطِــنِــي مَــوطِــنِــي ,هـــــلْ أراكْ سـالِماً مُـنَـعَّـماً وَ غانِـمَاً مُـكَرَّمَاً ,هـــــلْ أراكْ فـي عُـــلاكْ تبـلُـغُ السِّـمَـاكْ ,مَــوطِــنِــي مَــوطِــنِــي
Palestine`s Unoffical National Anthem
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I usually don't share stuff like this...but whenever I watch tv I usually draw the subject (I have hundreds of drawings of Nicolas Cage for example). This was what I was drawing during the debates last night.
P.S. everyone should read David Byrne's new book, "How Music Works". Great representation of the creative process.