Friday, December 26, 2008

Tree - Welcome New Year

ေဘာ္ဒါၾကီး ဦးကမာၻမေၾက က ပိုက္ပုိက္ သစ္ပင္ေပးလို႕ ေက်းဇူးပုံလွသည္။ ထို႕ေၾကာင့္ အားလံုးအတြက္ သစ္ပင္ လက္ေဆာင္ေပးမည္။

ေျခာက္ေသြ႕ေနတဲ့ သစ္ပင္ေတြကို အနုပညာ နဲ႕ လွေအာင္ ေျပာင္းလဲ ထားတဲ့ သစ္ပင္မ်ား နဲ႕အတူ နစ္သစ္မွာ မဂၤလာအေပါင္းခေညာင္းတဲ့ ေငြေပါ ေမေခ်ာ ေမာင္ေခ်ာ မ်ားျဖစ္ေစသတည္း။

(အေသးစိတ္ကို ဖတ္လိုသူမ်ား အတြက္ သတင္းကို ကူးထဲ့ေပးထားပါသည္)

စာမီွး ေဒးလီးေမးလ္













Weaving into the scenery these amazing sculptures look like a mythical setting from a fairy tale.

Sculptor Patrick Dougherty combines his carpentry skills with his love for nature to weave tree saplings into massive installations.

Taking anywhere from a few weeks to a month to complete in the last two decades he has built over 150 works throughout the United States, Europe and Asia.

Patrick's work begins after identifying a provocative site where his work can be seen a large pool of potential viewers.

Willow saplings and creosote at the Desert Botanic Gardens in Phoenix Arizona

Just Around the Corner is made from mixed hardwood. New Harmony Gallery, New Harmony, Indiana

'The site visit is the key to a successful sculpture,' explains the 63-year-old from Chapel Hill in North Carolina.

'I make word associations with the chosen location, then make small thumbnail sketches and I also try to remember how I feel when I first approach a space.

'One of the advantages of working on site, line by line and stick by stick, is the ability to adjust the scale of the work to fit the site.

'Ultimately I develop a plan of attack and lay out a footprint for the sculpture.

'As the work proceeds, I navigate by my impromptu reactions. As a working method, I start with a structural layer of sticks and then use that as a canvas on which to build a drawn surface.

Toad Hall is made of willow saplings. Santa Barbara Botanic Garden, Santa Barbara, California

Willow and maple saplings as part of Copenhagen European Cultural Capital 1996, Tickon Sculpture Park

'I imagine sticks as not only a familiar backyard material, but piles of lines with which to draw.

'I use full body motion as others use a pencil and employ all the drawing conventions which one learns in school such as X-ing, hatch marks, provocative diagonal lines, the whole works.'

Patrick's primary medium is willow, but he likes to work with a variety of materials.

'The choice is often dictated by the location and what is available,' he explains.

'The main requirement is that the saplings must be supple and have good colour.

'I have used maple, dogwood, elm, and gum to name a few. I have also used a few exotic things like strawberry guava while working on a sculpture at The Contemporary Art Museum in Honolulu, Hawaii.'

Just for Looks. Willow saplings Max Azria Melrose Avenue Boutique, Los Angeles

Close Ties. Willow saplings at the Scottish Basketmakers Circle, Dingwall, Scotland

Patrick will dedicate three weeks to each installation, producing one a month on average.

He intertwines the saplings until they hold themselves in place without using glue or wire or connectors.

'Each project has its unique challenges,' he says.

'Sometimes it is finding the right material, which can be particularly challenging in tropical settings.

'Sometimes, it is weather, though we have not often been stopped, even by snow. 'Sometimes, it is the site and problems with city zoning and other requirements that enmesh us in paperwork before the real work can begin.

'However, despite these and sometimes sticks that refuse to bend, an occasional lack of assistants, I have always finished the work on time.

Sortie de Cave. Free At Last at the Jardin des Arts, Chateaubourg, France

Na Hale Eo Waiawi strawberry guava and rose apple saplings. The Contemporary Art Museum, Honolulu, Hawaii

'I imagine myself to be a problem solver and face all kinds of snags everyday with that mindset.

'It is fun to work with gardens and arboretums because their staffs are specialists in solving the kind of problems which sculptors often have; that is, how to harvest materials, haul something, or correctly set up the scaffolding for work.'

After an initial career in hospital administration, Patrick decided the pull of making was too strong and found myself at the University of North Carolina Art Department in the early 1980's, enrolling in sculpture courses and art history.

The day I walked through that door had to be the best day of my life,' he says.

'After all the experimentation with clay, metal and wood that is characteristic of student work, I began seriously exploring saplings and sticks as a way of making sculpture.

Just Around the Corner is in mixed hardwood. New Harmony Gallery, New Harmony

Dougherty uses tree saplings as his construction material. He began with small pieces on pedestals and his work eventually grew massive installations

'After working with this material for a while I begin to see I had a deeper resonance with it. I begin to see it as mankind's first building material and explore that deep association.'

In February, Patrick will construct a piece in a row of sycamore trees which line the plaza directly across from San Francisco City Hall.

However the sculptor one day hopes to take his work to the Guggenheim Museum.

'That would be a real challenge,' he says.

'Seriously though, the life of an itinerant sculptor is one of growth and change.

'Every month brings another unfamiliar bed to sleep in. It brings a new work site and a provocative challenge. I enjoy the surge of people and new places.

'There is always a fresh drama, a struggle that makes for a very interesting story line. 'I feel that I live and work within the world of ideas, and I thoroughly enjoy it.'

ဖတ္ၾကည့္ခ်င္ေသးလား....

Friday, December 19, 2008

Health - Boast! အမ်ိဳး

ၾကံဳတုန္းၾကြားရမယ္ဗ်ာ အမ်ိဳးေတြ ထုတ္ၾကြားတာ အပုိမေျပာပါဘူး အေမရိကန္ အလစကာ က အမ်ိဳးသမီး တစ္ဦးဟာျဖင့္ ၁၈ေယာက္ေျမာက္ ကေလး ေမြးပါသတဲ့။ ထံုးစံအတုိင္းေပ့ါဗ်ာ။ သားသားမီးမီးအားလံုးက ေဂ်နဲ႕ အမ်ိဳးေတာ္လုိ႕ ေဂ် စာလံုးနဲ႕စေပါင္းတဲ့ နံမည္ ေတြခ်ည့္ဘဲ။ ဒါနဲ႕ ဒီအမိ်ဳးသမီးနံမည္က မီးရွဲယ္ ဒါ့ကာMichelle Duggar သူ႕အမ်ိဳးသားက ဂ်င္းေဘာ့Jim Bob ပါတဲ့


And one more: Michelle Duggar, left, is surrounded by her children and husband Jim Bob, second from left, after the birth of her 17th child last year. Last night she gave birth to her 18th, named Jordyn

Michelle Duggar ၄၂နစ္, Jim Bob, ၄၃နစ္

from left, after the birth of her 17th child last year. Last night she gave birth to her 18th, named Jordyn-Grace Makiya Duggar, weighed 7 pounds, 3 ounces (3.26 kilograms) and was 20 inches (51 centimetres) long.

Their oldest child, Joshua, 20.

Jana Duggar children, in between Joshua and Jordyn-Grace, 18;

John-David, 18;

Jill, 17;

Jessa, 16;

Jinger, 14;

Joseph, 13;

Josiah, 12;

Joy-Anna, 11;

Jeremiah, 9;

Jedidiah, 9;

Jason, 8;

James, 7;

Justin, 6;

Jackson, 4;

Johannah, 3; and

Jennifer, 1.

ပံု
ေဂ်
ေဂ်ကမာၻအဖဲြ႕ခ်ဳပ္

ဖတ္ၾကည့္ခ်င္ေသးလား....

Thursday, December 18, 2008

Technology - Flying Car - 2

ပထမဦးဆံုး ကားပ်ံ ကို လမ္းမေပၚ စတင္ေမာင္းနုိင္ေတာ့မည္ ျဖစ္ေၾကာင္း ရဟတ္ယာဥ္ကို ေမာ္ေတာ္ကားကဲ့သို႕ ေမာင္းနွင္နုိင္ရန္ တည္ေဆာက္ထားျခင္းျဖစ္ပါသည္။

Flying car

Flying car
Flying car
Flying plane

အေသးစိတ္သိလုိသူမ်ားအတြက္ သတင္းကို ကူးယူေဖာ္ျပေပးထားပါသည္။

Reference : Dailymail.

It's been a pipe dream for 30 years but now the world's first fully available flying car is set to hit the roads next year.

Ever since the Back to the Future movies lit up our screens in the 80s, designers have dreamt of an automobile that could take to the skies at the push of a button.

And now qualified pilots can order their very own Terrafugia Transition 'roadable' plane for just £127,000, with delivery planned for late next year.

The Terrafugia Transition 'roadable' plane can be kept at home, with wings folded up, in your garage

The 'light-sport airplane' promises to bring more 'flexibility and convenience to your flying'.

The plane, which has fold-out wings that span 27.5ft when extended, has an airborne range of 460 miles and can cruise at 115mph.

Back on terra firma, it is capable of travelling at 'highway speeds' in car mode.

Fuelling the 19ft long plane couldn't be simpler - you just drive it into a petrol station and fill it up with unleaded.

It is powered by a 100 hp, Rotax 912S, four-stroke engine.

Action! The 19-foot-long plane has an airborne range of 460 miles and can cruise at 115mph

A spokeswoman for designers Terrafugia, based in Woburn, Massachusetts, USA, said: ‘You can keep your Transition in your garage.

‘Then you simply drive to your local airport, fly up to 460 miles, land, convert and drive directly to your destination.

‘You'll always be ready to drive or fly.’

A series of simple commands made from the cockpit convert the white craft from plane to car and vice versa.

But the wings only fold out if the correct key code is entered by someone with a pilot's licence.

Simple: The 'roadable' plane can be filled up at the local petrol station with unleaded

Unlike many 'flying car' concepts which use thrusters to take off vertically, the Transition needs a short runway to take to the air.

The spokeswoman added: ‘Never let questionable weather cancel or endanger your trip again.

‘You can simply divert and continue on the ground until the weather clears.’

You can secure your very own Transition aeroplane by simply paying a deposit of £6,500.


Ease: Pilots will be able to drive to the local airport, take off and then fly for up to 460 miles (740 km)

The firm's website, 'Terrafugia.com', says of prospective owners: ‘Your deposit doesn't just reserve your very own roadable airplane, it gives us proof that today's pilot community is ready for this dream to finally become reality.

‘There's no risk to you - only the chance to be the first at your home field to unfold your wings and fly into the future.

‘Production schedules are filling up quickly.’

ဖတ္ၾကည့္ခ်င္ေသးလား....

Tuesday, December 16, 2008

Technology - Car - Happy Birthday Ma Khin Oo May



Happy Birthday Ma Khin Oo May..

၁၅ ဒီဇင္ဘာ ၂၀၀၈
khin oo may said...

Today is my birthday
ခင္တဲဲ႕ J ဆီ က birthday wish လုိခ်င္လို႕ခ်ိီးၿမင္ွပါ။

မိန္းခေလးေတြ ဘာၾကိဳက္တယ္ ဆုိတာ မသိဘူးဗ်ာ။ ေပးခ်င္တာက ဘာညာကိြကြ.. ၊ ေပးခ်င္တဲ့ ပို႕စ္ကဒ္လက္ေဆာင္ ကို ဆီဗံုးထဲ မပို႕တတ္။ အရင္ အတူတဲြေရးတဲ့ သူငယ္ခ်င္းမ ကလည္း မကူညီ... သူမ မခ်က္ေပးလုိ႕ ခ်က္ျပဳတ္ေရး မွာ အဆင္မေျပျပန္။.. ခက္ျပီ၊ က်ေနာ္ကလည္း လက္ေဆာင္ေပးဖို႕ အေသခ်ာ စဥ္းစားထားေၾကာင္း မခင္ဦးေမကုိ ေျပာမိတယ္။ က်ေနာ္ကေတာ့ က်ေနာ္ စိတ္၀င္စားတဲ့ အရာနဲ႕ လုပ္နုိင္တာဘဲ ေပးလုိက္ပါမယ္။ မခင္ဦးေမ ၾကိဳက္လိမ့္မယ္ ထင္ပါတယ္။

အခုတေလာ ကိုကုိေမာင္ေမာင္ခ်စ္ခ်စ္ KMSL ရန္ကုန္ဒုိးေနတဲ့ အခ်ိန္ မခင္ဦးေမ တကုိယ္တည္း ေလွ်ာက္လည္လုိ႕ရေအာင္ ကားေလး လက္ေဆာင္ ပို႕လုိက္တယ္ဗ်ာ။ (သိပ္မေမးနဲ႕ က်ေနာ္လဲ ဒီကားကို လုိခ်င္သဗ်။)


The Scarab fold up car

အဲဒီကားက ေတာ့ ခ်ဲ႕နုိင္ခ်ံဳ႕နုိင္တဲ့ကားပါ။ The Scarab Car လုိ႕ ေခၚပါတယ္။ အသက္၃၀အရြယ္ David Goncalvesသူက တီထြင္ခဲ့တာပါ။ ကားရပ္ရတဲ့ေနရာ အခက္အခဲေတြ အတြက္ ေျဖရွင္းနုိင္မဲ့ လကၡဏာ ပါဘဲ။

ေမာင္းသူတဦးတည္းသာ စီးနုိင္ပါတယ္။ ေမာ္ေတာ္ ဆုိင္ကယ္ လုိ႕ ေျပာနုိင္ပါတယ္။ လွ်ပ္စစ္နဲ႕ ၄င္း ၊ ဓါတ္ဆီ (biofuel or a fuel cell) ျဖင့္၄င္း ေမာင္းနုိင္တဲ့a hybrid vehicle ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။

ဘီးတဘီးစီကို ေမာ္တာျဖင့္ ထိန္းခ်ဳပ္ နုိင္ျပီး ဆုိင္ကယ္ဘီးဆုိဒ္အရြယ္ တည္ေဆာက္ထားပါတယ္။



The Scarab fold up car

Compact: The single-person car has an adaptable fuel system and could be solving inner city parking problems within ten years

ကားကို GPSနည္းပညာျဖင့္ လမ္းခရီးကို ညႊန္ျပနုိင္ေသာ စက္ တပ္ဆင္ထားပါတယ္။ ကားမွာ 500cc motorbike ေမာ္ေတာ္ဆုိင္ကယ္နွင့္ အေလးခ်ိန္တူပါတယ္။ အျမန္နဳန္းကို မေဖၚျပထားပါ။

စာမီွး ။ ။ ေဒးလီးေမးလ္

က်ေနာ္ အခုတေလာ စာပိ စာေၾက စာပံု ေနလုိ႕ ဘေလာ့ဘက္ သိပ္မလွည့္ျဖစ္ပါ။ မခင္ဦးေမရဲ့ကြန္ပစ္ခ်က္ (ေကာ္န္မင္းန္႕)ေၾကာင့္သာ ပို႕စ္ေရးျခင္းျဖစ္ပါတယ္။

မွတ္ခ်က္။ ။
စာပိ - စာအုပ္ေပၚအိပ္ျခင္း
စာေၾက။ ။ ေမွာက္အိပ္ထားသျဖင့္ စာအုပ္ေၾကျခင္း
စာပံု ။ ။ စာအုပ္မ်ားကို စိတ္ရႈပ္စြာျဖင့္ ေဘးပံုထားျခင္း

ပံု
ေဂ်

ဖတ္ၾကည့္ခ်င္ေသးလား....

Sunday, December 14, 2008

Fashion - Taste

စီးပြားေရးကပ္ဆုိက္ၾကတဲ့အတြက္ လူအေတာ္မ်ားမ်ား အလုပ္ျပဳတ္၊ ကုမၼဏီေတြလည္း ဖ်က္သိမ္းၾက ေသာ္လည္း

. . Taste ေခၚတဲ့ ေစ်းၾကီးပစၥည္းမ်ား... ေစ်းမက်ပါ။

Ref: Dailymail

The bear essentials: A favourite teddy is always precious, of course, but this little chap is worth more than just sentimental value. To celebrate their 125th birthday, Steiff - the world's most prestigious teddy bear company - created a bear with a mohair coat, stitched with gold lurex yarn. His eyes are two Sapphire cabochons surrounded by 20 diamonds, and his nose and mouth are solid 24-carat gold. Available at Selfridges




Money mouse: Surf the web in style with a diamond encrusted mouse from Quintessentially English. Some feature a flower design studded in diamonds, others are scattered with 59 brilliant cut diamonds










The laptop of luxury: At Bling My Thing German crystal-obsessed designer Ayano Kimura has created 20 Macbook Air Golden Age laptop computers, decked in 12,000 crystals with 24-carat gold beneath them





Diamonds are for earphones: Part of the Casa Gi jewellery range at Clive Ranger, this pair of 18-carat gold earphones is encrusted with 59 diamonds on each bud






Crystal clear: This water bottle - available at Selfridges - is adorned with 6,500 Swarovski crystals, with water from Wenlock Spring in Shropshire










Fantasy football: You've got your dartboard, your beer fridge and your giant flatscreen TV, but what bachelor pad is complete without a bespangled table-football table? Made in Austria, the ultimate boys' toy is covered in an incredible 150,000 crystals and is available from Harrods











Heaven scent: This signature edition of Clive Christian's No.1 Pure Perfume For Women is bottled in Baccarat crystal, circled with 24-carat gold-plated sterling silver and encrusted with a diamond solitaire. Available at Fortnum & Mason

Lovely bubbly: If you've already splashed out on the champagne and a yacht on which to drink it, then what's a little extra spent on The Bottler - a pure gold, champagne bottle holder, designed to keep your bubbly upright. A gold-plated version is available from £5,330








Take the plunge: Outshine the rest with this diamond black Fantasy Miracle Bra from Victoria's Secret - designed by jeweller Martin Katz. Set with 3,575 black diamonds, 117 one carat white diamonds and 34 rubies, it also features two black diamond droplets weighing more than 100 carats









Bust the budget: Wrightson & Platt's You Look Like A Million Dollars portraits create dazzling lifecast statues rendered in precious metals and gems. This bust of Ben, 11, is cast in bronze with 24-carat gold plate (plus diamond encrusted rhodium plated detail)










The trees of gold: If the usual Scots pine won't cut it this year, Japanese jeweller Ginza Tanaka has created this 24-carat, 21 kg tree with 240 jewels including diamond baubles and strings of pearls, on sale at Tanaka's Osaka shop












Feeling flush: Fixtures designer Jemal Wright is on a mission to transform your bathroom. This toilet is encrusted with the highest-quality crystals and there's a matching sink and bath-tub available

ဖတ္ၾကည့္ခ်င္ေသးလား....

Friday, December 12, 2008

Technology - Moon

Full moon and bride

ဒီည လမင္းဟာ ကမာၻနဲ႕ အနီးဆံုး ေနရာ ပတ္လမ္းေၾကာင္း တြင္ ရိွမည္ ျဖစ္၍ သာမာန္ထက္ ၁၄ရာခုိင္နဳန္း (အနီးကပ္) ပိုျကီးစြာ ျမင္ရျပီး ၃၀ဆ ပိုလင္းေနမည္။

လမင္းသည္ ကမာၻနွင့္ ၃၅၆၆၁၃ ကီလုိမီတာ အကြာ တြင္ ျဖတ္သန္းမည္ ျဖစ္သည္။ သာမန္အကြာအေ၀းထက္ ၂၈၀၀၀ ကီလုိ မီတာ ပိုနီးသည္ ဟု သိရသည္။

အေသးစိတ္ဖတ္လုိသူမ်ားအတြက္ ေဒးလီးေမးလ္မွ ကူးယူေဖၚျပထားပါသည္။
Ref: Dailymail

If the shortening days are getting you down, be sure to catch a glimpse of tonight's striking full moon.

It will appear 14 per cent bigger than usual and a stunning 30 per cent brighter thanks to a rare, natural coincidence.

Each month the moon orbits the Earth and tonight it will skim by at its closest distance for the last 15 years.

Full moon

Moonshine: Tonight's sky will be lit up by a moon 14 per cent bigger and 30 per cent brighter than the norm

The moon will pass a mere 356,613 km away from us - 28,000 km closer than normal.

The 15-year spectacular will occur as the moon's perigee - the closest point that it passes Earth - coincides with the full moon.

Star gazers will not be disappointed, as long as clouds do not block the view.


Phenomenon: The moon rises behind bride Kailey Wilson and her mum late afternoon on the night before Britain awaits the biggest and brightest full moon for 15 years

If bad weather does get in the way, they will have to wait for another eight years - until November 14, 2016 - for the next close encounter.

And there are other reasons that sets tonight apart on the lunar calendar.

The country will also be treated to a strange phenomenon known as the moon illusion which makes the moon look larger.

As it rises this afternoon, the moon will appear to be bigger as it is closer to the horizon.

Moon graphic

Tonight’s event will also see a slightly higher tide as the moon comes closer to the Earth with the water level rising by 0.5m (1.6ft).

This may lead to flooding, particularly along the South-West’s coast.

With the approach of the winter solstice on December 21, combined with the current tilt of the Earth, the moon will also climb to its highest point in the night's sky for the entire year.

And the phenomenon coincides with the annual Geminid meteor shower which begins tonight and continues for two days.

The 'shooting stars' will appear from the constellation Gemini but be seen all over the sky.

But with the brightness of the moon, stargazers are recommended to look away.

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Tuesday, December 2, 2008

Funny - အမွတ္တရ လက္ေဆာင္

ေက်ာင္းမ်ားပိတ္ျပီဆုိရင္ ေနာက္ဆံုးအပတ္ရဲ့ ဗုဒဓဟူးေန႕ညဟာ ေက်ာင္းသားေတြရဲ့ ပဲြေတာ္ပါ။ ၾကိဳက္နစ္သက္ရာ ရယ္စရာ ၀တ္စံုမ်ား၀တ္ျပီး ေက်ာင္း၀န္းထဲက PUB မွာ နုတ္ဆက္ပဲြက်င္းပပါတယ္။ စာသင္နစ္ ေနာက္ဆံုးျဖစ္လို႕ ေက်ာင္းၾကီးကို နုတ္ဆက္တဲ့ အေနနဲ႕

Cambridge University, မွ ေက်ာင္းေဆာင္အေပၚမွာ ခရစ္စမတ္ဦးထုပ္ေလး ကို တင္ထားတာကို မီးသတ္သမားေတြ ခက္ခက္ခဲခဲနဲ႕ ဖယ္ထုတ္ရသည္ ဟုသိရပါတယ္။

A Santa hat has also been spotted on The Octagon of nearby Clare Chapel

အဲဒီ ေနရာ တက္ဖို႕လြယ္မယ္ထင္ပါသလား

ကဲ .....

ၾကည့္ၾကရေအာင္...




Santa on a spire: Students fastened the red hat to the spire of the famous Gate of Humility at Gonville and Caius College as an end of term joke


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Monday, December 1, 2008

Technology - Bionic Hand

Robo cops, Bionic Woman... then.. Bionic hand

Wanna get one?

By Matthew Moore
Daily Telegraph ; Last Updated: 7:00AM GMT 01 Dec 2008

Long Blondes guitarist Dorian Cox with his SaeboFlex hand

ဂီတာသမား
Dorian Cox (Long Blondes guitarist) နွင့္ သူ၏ SaeboFlex hand (Photo: ROSS PARR)

ေလျဖတ္သြားသျဖင့္ လက္အေၾကာေသသြားေပမဲ့လည္း ေခတ္သစ္နည္းပညာ အကူညီျဖင့္ ဘ၀ မေသခဲ့သူပါ။ ကြ်န္ေတာ္တုိ႕ နုိင္ငံမွာ ဒီလုိမ်ားရိွခဲ့ရင္ျဖင့္....

စာမီွး ေဒးလီတယ္လီဂရပ္

ဖတ္ၾကည့္ခ်င္ေသးလား....

 
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