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Central Okanagan is an amazingly diverse land that visitors from all over flock to year after year. Here, the unparalleled climate and landscape combine to offer a relaxing and fulfilling lifestyle cherished by the residents and tourists alike. With parks, lakes, orchards, and wineries around every corner, this area of BC is open year-round for recreation and fun. It is no surprise that visitors return year after year to bask in the marvelous sunshine of the Central Okanagan.
Lake Country is situated between the communities of Kelowna and Vernon on Hwy 97 and within easy reach of the Kelowna International Airport. It is made up of four different communities: Winfield, Okanagan Centre, Carrs Landing and Oyama, the "Jewel of the Okanagan". This is a fertile landscape marked by farmland, vineyards and orchards. Oyama is located at one of the loveliest vantage points in the valley - the isthmus between Wood Lake and Kalamalka Lake. Seventy-five years ago, it was an important hub in the central Okanagan by both rail and water. It is here that local farmers grew award-winning fruit and produce. For a better understanding of Lake Country's history, visit the Lake Country Museum located in what was once a two-room schoolhouse. Often called the "fruit capital of Canada", the Okanagan is renowned for its bountiful orchards. Throughout Lake Country, one can see the industry is alive and well with miles of orchards growing apples, cherries, apricots, pears and peaches.
Kelowna - a city for all seasons. It's a place where the climate is mild and sunshine abounds. It's the largest city in the region, blessed with spectacular mountain scenery, large pristine lakes, sandy beaches and orchard and vineyard laden hillsides. This is a true haven for the serious vacationer offering golfing, skiing, boating, fishing, water sports, winery, orchard and garden tours, hiking, mountain biking, shopping, dining, arts and cultural activities and everything in between.
Situated on the shores of 131 km (82 mi) long Lake Okanagan, Kelowna is the BC interior's largest community. An average of only 33 cm (13 in) of precipitation per year solidifies its reputation as a vacationer's paradise. Here you can enjoy one of the longest golf seasons in Canada running from March to November. Home to several world-class courses, Kelowna is a premier golf destination for some of the best golfers. An additional, 12 first-class golf courses can also be found throughout the city.
Some of the best skiing in Canada can be found just a short drive from Kelowna at Big White Ski Resort. Boasting an impressive resume, Big White is the second largest ski resort in BC and Canada's largest totally ski in/ski out resort village with a bed base of 13,200 ft. and Champagne powder covering 112 trails accessed by 13 lifts.
The mountains surrounding Kelowna also beckon hiking or biking through Knox Mountain Park for a view of the city. Mission Creek Park is the perfect choice for a long, easy stroll or a more challenging experience as the trail actually hooks up with the Okanagan High Rim Trail that runs all the way through to Vernon.
If a stroll is more to your liking, wander through the serene garden in an orchard setting at Elysium Garden & Nursery. Kasugai Gardens is a wonderful Japanese Garden Setting symbolizing Kelowna's cultural connection with Kasugai, Japan. Watch kokanee Salmon swim up the spawning channel in the fall at Mission Creek Park or visit the Environmental Education Centre featuring demonstration gardens, nature trails and ponds.
With a history dating back to the mid-1800s when settlers first started planting fruit trees, Kelowna certainly has a few stories to tell about its growth and development over the years. Start off with a visit to the BC Orchard Museum to learn of Kelowna's transformation from open cattle range to one of North America's top fruit producing regions. A wide array of displays, historic artifacts and old pictures help tell the story. Close by is the Kelowna Museum focused on the region's natural history and human settlement.
Family fun can be found throughout the city within the miles of beautiful parklands - many located on sandy beaches with grassy picnic areas and playgrounds. City Park in downtown Kelowna, is a popular summertime hot spot with a great sandy beach and whimsical water park for the kids. A skateboard park, sports field and an amphitheatre for the many musical events held throughout the summer are also resident to City Park. Along the lake, vacationers can rent powerboats, seadoos, and even houseboats for more fun in the sun and on the water.
Kelowna's burgeoning wine industry has helped put the city on the world stage. Internationally acclaimed wines come from this lush and fertile land. Throughout the hillsides are miles of vineyards with vistas to be enjoyed by all. The wineries all welcome visitors to taste their award-winning wines and tour their facilities. The Spring, Summer and Fall Okanagan Wine Festivals - held throughout the region - consistently draw visitors from around the world.
With all the amenities of a major city, Kelowna boasts fine dining, and a vibrant cultural life. View paintings and sculptures at the many galleries including the Kelowna Art Gallery. One of Canada's finest collections for bronze sculptures can be viewed at Geert Maas Sculpture Gardens. Several talented theatre groups, a symphony orchestra, live entertainment and multicultural events add to the richness of the city's art scene.
Westbank, just south of Kelowna on Hwy 97, is like Kelowna's quieter and more relaxed sibling. With a population of 26,000 people, it is approximately one quarter the size of Kelowna; but this doesn't mean it has any less to offer. Westbank is surrounded by mountains and is situated on Okanagan Lake's busy shores offering a host of amenities for travelers including wineries, golfing and art galleries. For those who enjoy playing in the water, there's sailing, canoeing, houseboating and windsurfing, and in the winter there's downhill and cross-country skiing.
Less than 20 minutes south is the historic community of Peachland. With a population of just over 5,000 people, this town specializes in orchards and vineyards. Peachland is a tranquil and charming town, with its doorstep on the banks of the great Okanagan Lake. The best time of year to visit Peachland is in the spring and summer when the fruit trees are in full bloom and laden with fresh fruit.
The entire Okanagan Valley is home to nearly three dozen wineries, many of them being small but excellent farmgate wineries. Just follow the wine route signs.
Above Okanagan Lake's banks, is a wilderness park, which dominates the eastern side of the shore. With 11,000 hectares of rugged landscape, Okanagan Mountain Park abounds with mountain lakes, grasslands, and dense forest. The park is only accessible by foot, bicycle, or horseback, so come prepared with plenty of water to quench your thirst during long, hot and arid days. Hikers will thoroughly enjoy the wonderfully scenic trek to the top of Okanagan Mountain, where beautiful lakes and the Monashee Mountains appear their finest.
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Trains cancelled on South Devon Railway after landslip
Almost 30 services have been cancelled on a heritage railway line after a "significant" landslip.
Two large trees and tonnes of rock, silt and spoil have been brought down onto the track at the South Devon Railway (SDR) between Buckfastleigh and Totnes, said general manager Dick Wood.
The services over the festive period would normally transport between 3,000 and 4,000 people, he added.
SDR is one of Britain's oldest heritage steam railways, having opened in 1969.
Mr Wood said the repairs would involve "a lot of work" and the financial impact would be "significant".
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One of the 4 people charged in connection with the death of Amanda Taylor in Colbert County had a court appearance cancelled at the last minute today.
21 year-old Matthew Fox is charged with Abuse of a Corpse and Hindering Prosecution.
Fox was supposed to have a hearing for youthful offender status today.
Just minutes before being scheduled to appear before Colbert County Circuit Judge Jackie Hatcher, the hearing for Matthew Fox was cancelled.
The hearing was scheduled to address a youthful offender motion filed by the defendant's attorneys.
In May when the motion was filed, Judge Hatcher asked that a probation officer complete a background report on Fox to help in the ruling.
According to court officials, that report was not completed in time for Thursday's hearing.
So now, Matthew Fox will not have a youthful offender status hearing until late August or early September.
Law enforcement officers say that Fox has been transferred to the Tuscumbia City Jail for holding.
Also still in custody and awaiting trial are the three others charged in relation to Amanda Taylor's murder.
Ronald Weems is charged with Murder.
Laurel Pruett and Ashley Greenhill are both charged with Abuse of a Corpse and Hindering Prosecution.
A tentative trial date of August 20th has been set for Ronald Weems.
Attorneys believe that date will be postponed due to a delay in forensic testing by the state.


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German spacecraft controllers have today woken up the Philae lander carried by the European comet-chaser Rosetta to start preparations for the attempted first of its kind landing on a comet in November.
The operation conducted from the control room of the German Aerospace Centre (DLR) in Cologne saw the controllers beaming up new software to Rosetta, hurtling through the space more than 650 million km away from the Earth.
Rosetta's on-board computers then used the software to wake up the Philae lander and forward its eagerly awaited response to the Earth.
First telemetric data was successfully received at about 2:45pm GMT. Though the temperature of the lander was said to be colder than expected, the engineers said the vehicle was in good shape.
"We will analyse this data thoroughly, so we can find out whether Philae has survived the long flight and hibernation intact," said Stephan Ulamec, DLR's project manager for the Rosetta mission.
The engineers will now start checking the ten instruments aboard the lander before Rosetta approaches its final destination - the Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko in May this year. At this moment, the satellite still has about four million kilometres to travel.
Once in the comet's orbit, Rosetta will first scan the comet's surface to create a map that would enable the researchers to identify the most suitable locations for the ground-breaking landing attempt.
So far, the most detailed information astronomers have about comets came from brief fly-bys. Both – having a spacecraft orbiting a comet and landing a probe on its surface - are not yet accomplished achievements.
Scientists hope the Rosetta mission will enable them to gain unprecedented insight into the history of the Solar System as conserved inside the comet. Researchers believe these extremely cold bodies, lacking geological processes and traveling far away from the Sun have managed to preserve the primordial material from which the Solar System was created.
The Rosetta spacecraft was woken up after two and half years in deep space hibernation in January this year, commencing the sequence preparing it for its big moments.
The Philae lander is designed to drill into the comet's surface, analysing samples of soil and collecting data that could be send back to the teams on Earth.


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Closing Deadline for Home Buyer Tax Credit Extended to September 30, 2010July 2010 – Newsletters In the Zone
On July 2, 2010, President Obama signed into law legislation to extend the deadline to close for the popular home buyer tax credit program. Under the tax credit's prior deadline, qualifying purchases that were under contract by April 30 were required to close by June 30. As reported by the Miami Herald, an estimated 180,000 consumers eligible for the government's tax credit were at risk for losing the benefit due to a huge backlog by lenders hindering their ability to complete the transaction. Under the latest extension, consumers have three more months to seal their deals. The closing deadline has been pushed to September 30, 2010, in an effort to ensure that qualifying sales can close. According to the realtors, 4.4 million people have taken advantage of the various home buyer tax credits offered to consumers since February 2009. The tax credit helped fuel a major sales spike immediately before the qualification deadline in April. The Commerce Department reported that sales of new single family homes were up 14.7 percent that month.
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The official partnership between Germany's Max Planck Society and UBC formalized a long-running exchange of ideas between the world's foremost quantum physicists and helped propel UBC's quantum materials research group to the top of the field, culminating in a $66.5-million investment by the Government of Canada in 2015.
The prestige and significant increase in collaborations and exchanges of ideas and personnel enabled by a partnership between the University of British Columbia and the Max Planck Society helped to propel UBC's quantum materials research group to the top of the field.
The Max Planck–UBC Centre for Quantum Materials provides a forum for interdisciplinary cooperation between physicists, chemists, and materials scientists working in the field of quantum phenomena in complex materials.
Officially established in 2010, the partnership formalized a longstanding collaborative approach between UBC quantum materials researchers led by Prof. George Sawatsky and Max Planck researchers led by Bernhard Keimer based in Dresden and Stuttgart, Germany. The pre-existing collaborations were driven by commonality of scientific interest and complementarity of expertise and infrastructure.
The informal approach had already yielded important research results, major exchanges of highly qualified personnel, and effective sharing of state-of-the-art infrastructure. But relying on individual researchers to fund the exchanges limited the opportunities for collaboration. With the creation of the centre, collaborations were funded by joint resources and expanded beyond existing transatlantic researcher relationships and to researchers without the financial means to engage in such international collaborations.
A central mission of the centre is to establish research opportunities at different stages of the scientific career, with flexible appointments between a few months as a visiting scientist and a few years as a postdoctoral fellow or a PhD student.
The centre also creates new educational opportunities for students, including joint summer and winter schools and undergraduate jobs where students get to know a different scientific culture and environment at an early stage of their careers.
The partnership with Max Planck helped secure a $66.5-million investment from the Canada First Research Excellence Fund in 2015, the largest single investment in a UBC research program. The research group also recently received an $11-million private donation from Stewart Blusson and has been named the Stewart Blusson Quantum Matter Institute in his honour.Collaboration


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Welcome to the next room in Home Sweet Home: James' area!
Read each of the rooms below (links updated as I post):
- The original Home Sweet Home post
- Welcome to our Home Sweet Home
- The Living Room
- The Kitchen
- The Hallway
- The Bathroom
- The Laundry
- James' Area
- Violet's Vanity Area
- The Bedroom
- What have we learned?
Before and after:
This will always be a boys area so it's never going to be pink and pretty but it's well organised and not another light hole now!
Before the work James had a massive set of black selves for his photography stuff. It wasn't ideal as we couldn't find anything because it was so fat, plus his black shelves held black gear. His desk was also very unorganised. Photo spam:
James tends to keep his things in small piles so I think I might get him a little box or something to keep them in.
At least as time goes by he's replacing his old broken things with nice things!
The two main things he keeps are photography things and music things.
The photography stuff now has a better set of shelves which don't take up as much space. You may recognise them from the original food area!
Of course there are still some cute touches. This is from the first time we ever took purikura together 😀
The top of the mini fridge holds Lottie's things. Since taking these photos I've moved her things to inside the cupboard and I'm working on another flower arrangement to keep here.
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James's desk takes up a lot of room in our living area but it's a very important part of the house. Without it I couldn't bug him to take photos of me XD His requirements for our houses are always that he needs a decent desk and a place to store his photography stuff. In an apartment it's a bit harder to put that into action without a separate room for it, especially because he likes to watch tv from his desk! The layout we have at the moment works reasonably well for this as he can see around his computer and there's a space for shelves. It would be nice if we could switch his desk out to a much smaller one so we might be able to turn it sideways and reclaim the space he's not using. I didn't want to do too much here because it's James' space but the changes we did carry out actually did make a difference to brighten the whole room.
Changes made:
- Shelves swapped
- Desk covered with a table cloth
- Desk reorganised
Still to be done:
- Better more comfortable (and less ugly) chair
- Smaller desk
- Paint shelving
Final thoughts:
I don't think this area was ever going to be cute and girly, it's James' area after all and he's not exactly in love with the idea of daisies covering his computer monitor XD That said having the table cloth really brightens the room up. Hiding the black photography gear in the shelves works well and the only improvement I could think there would be to either paint them or have a door so they are hidden entirely. All in all as long and James is happy with it so am I!
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This is from when I changed the shelves out, notice the lovely model who kind of looks like he's trying to flirt with the camera XD
The desk was given to us by SuperKawaiiMama and it's served very well these last few years but I think it's time to get something smaller which we can turn around. Make sure you come back tomorrow for the next instalment: Violet's Area!


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Wind turbines emit brain-disrupting 'ultrasound pollution' that affects people for miles around
Advocates of so-called "green" energy sources would like for you to believe that alternative methods of producing power have few, if any, drawbacks. This assertion has proven to be untrue in most cases, and wind turbines are no exception.
Since wind farms were first introduced, it has become increasingly apparent that there are many problems associated with their use, and that they are nowhere near as green as we were led to believe.
Aside from not being as efficient in terms of cost to build vs. what they actually produce in the long run, they have been responsible for millions of bird deaths, and the chemicals used in their manufacture are far from green.
For years, people who live near wind turbines have experienced a number of negative physical and psychological effects, but until recently it was unclear what was causing them. Among the reported effects are sleep disturbances and "decline in performance."
But now, it seems at least part of the mystery regarding wind turbines and their effects on humans has been solved.
It has been theorized that "infrasound" waves created by wind turbine rotors might be the cause of the negative effects on humans, but advocates of wind energy have claimed that these low-frequency sounds are below the range of what the human ear can detect, and so the infrasound theories were dismissed by those involved in the industry.
Recently, however, researchers have proven that humans are capable of detecting sound at frequencies as low as 8 Hz, and that low-frequency sounds of the type emitted by wind turbines indeed do have a measurable and observable effect on the human brain.
Dr. Christian Koch of the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin headed up the research, which indicated that sounds considered too low for human ears to detect are still registered by the primary auditory cortex of the brain. This part of the brain is responsible for translating "sounds into meaning," to quote The Telegraph.
The researchers also found that another part of the brain — an area associated with emotions — became active when volunteers in the experiments were exposed to sounds in low-frequency ranges which, until now, have been considered "inaudible" to humans.
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What Is A Kilowatt-Hour Anyway?
We talk about energy a lot, but sometimes it is hard to know just how much power we're really talking about. A good way for our brains to handle the scope is to parse megawatts and kilowatts into something more easily digested, like everyday human activities. For example, here is what 1 kilowatt-hour can allow you to do: 1200 electric shaves (> 3 years), slice 100 breads, dry your hair 15 times, 4 TV evenings, listen to 15 CDs, Use a small refrigerator for 24 hours, 20 microwave meals, drill 250 holes, 4 evenings of light with 60 W incandescent lamps or 20 evening of light with 11 W compact fluorescent light (note the higher efficiency of CFLs). Also, keep in mind that for each kWh produced with fossil fuel,


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EU Antitrust Inquiry Into IBM Will Go On
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TRUE STORY OF UNFRIENDING. This happened earlier this year and I just never thought to share but what the hell, not like they're gonna see it. I took the names off and corrected the typos for your reading pleasure.
EX FB FRIEND: Hey, did you unfriend me? I just noticed.
ME: Yes, I did.
EX FB FRIEND: Can I ask why?
ME: Well, of course you can because you just did. I delete friends from time to time who never comment on my page or write anything I feel is funny or interesting.
EX FB FRIEND: I post all the time. Everyday. So, you don't like my posts, okay fine. I think that's kinda silly. I enjoy your page sometimes.
ME: Mostly you post selfies in tight dresses. And before you say it, I don't have any kind of problem with that. However, there was one post that I confess just got on my nerves and made me consider that I didn't need it on my little news scroll each day.
EX FB FRIEND: And what was that? Not that I care.
ME: Well, you posted that your 12 year old daughter asked you not to wear those tight dresses when her friends came over, that it took away attention from her at that awkward age (my words not hers) but you wore the dress anyway and acted shocked that the little boys who came to the party flocked around you. The butt grazing dress was not what bothered me, it was the look on your daughter's face that broke my heart. The look on the little boys faces made me wish you lived on my street when I was a kid.
EX FB FRIEND: You know, all that is really none of your business.
ME: It is when you publicize it. I worry about the state of our world, the deterioration of society and the death of music and I am frustrated that I can't do anything about it. But what I can do is not bear witness to some innocent kid getting twerked into a psychological complex by her mother. So, I changed the thing I have power over.
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Silicone Shine's exact composition isn't clear but it seems to be a blend of silicone polymers that deep clean, leaving behind a protective film of dry lubricant and a fruity cherry odour. In practice the solvent gobbles light grime and spray up without hesitation but grubby mountain, cross and winter bikes will need the time honoured 'full works' wash and dry first. Shake the Silicone Shine for thirty seconds or so before spraying liberally in short bursts, working methodically around the bike(s). Buff to a high gloss using a lint free cloth and you're done.
Even after a quick once-over, the Univega positively gleamed as if someone had given the livery additional coats of rich, glossy lacquer. The transformation of my ageing but worthy resin bodied track pump from dour to delectable was no less remarkable and it breathes new, protective life into leather saddles, bar wrap, carbon, chrome while attracting remarkably little dirt. Successive wet road outings have left their calling card along the forks, chainstays and bottom bracket but these vanish with the first caress of a clean cloth or kitchen paper.
Such qualities are useful when it comes to storing season specific mounts (e.g. crossers, summer road bike, winter trainer etc) seeing them emerge more or less ready to go. Playing devil's advocate, WD40 and similar water displacers go on in a flash and do a pretty good job of masking chrome and other vulnerable surfaces so long as you accept they attract more grime and steer clear of suspension/seals.
Convenient aerosol polish with long-lasting sheen but furniture waxes are just as fast and considerably cheaper
road.cc test report
Make and model: Muc-off Silicon Shine
Size tested: 500ml
Tell us what the product is for, and who it's aimed at. What do the manufacturers say about it? How does that compare to your own feelings about it?
"Fresh from the Muc-Off Research and Development Lab comes the
ultimate bicycle detailer! Silicon Shine not only leaves your bike looking
and smelling divine but it's also an amazing friction reducer for suspension
parts. Spray it on to your fork stantions and shock to reduce resistance
Silicon Shine not only repels water but dries completely, leaving a
protective, non sticky and ULTRA SHINY layer that will extend the lifetime
of your bikes finishes by preventing the build up of dirt and grime.
means that treated parts and surfaces will be easier to maintain and will
even stay cleaner in-between washes."
Refreshingly faithful to the claims.
Tell us some more about the technical aspects of the product?
Ideal for use on off-road fenders to reduce dirt build up
Effortless application - leaves a dry, long lasting shine
Restores colour and shine to all parts
Colourless, Non Staining Formula
Available in a 500ml aerosol
Instant friction reducer
Cherry Pop fragrance
Seems notably better than most products of this type
Better than I was expecting.
Nice to use.
Tell us how the product performed overall when used for its designed purpose
To my surprise, Silicon shine is very effective, breathing new life into plastics, genuinely accentuating the beauty of carbon and metallic frame finishes-effortlessly. It doesn't overly attract dirt and seems perfect for dressing seasonal bikes for hibernation.
Tell us what you particularly liked about the product
Quick, easy and effective.
Tell us what you particularly disliked about the product
Not completely sold on the "Cherry Pop" fragrance and good quality furniture polishes will achieve similar effects.
Did you enjoy using the product? Yes
Would you consider buying the product? Quite probably
Would you recommend the product to a friend? Yes, in the main
About the tester
Age: 37 Height: 1m 81 Weight: 70 kilos
I usually ride: Rough Stuff Tourer Based around 4130 Univega mtb Frameset My best bike is: 1955 Holdsworth Road Path and several others including cross & traditional road
I've been riding for: Over 20 years I ride: Most days I would class myself as: Experienced
I regularly do the following types of riding: cyclo cross, commuting, touring, fixed/singlespeed, mtb,
Shaun Audane is a freelance writer/product tester with over twenty-eight years riding experience, the last twelve (120,000 miles) spent putting bikes and kit through their paces for a variety of publications. Previous generations of his family worked at manufacturing's sharp end, thus Shaun can weld, has a sound understanding of frame building practice and a preference for steel or titanium framesets.
Citing Richard Ballantine and an Au pair as his earliest cycling influences, he is presently writing a cycling book with particular focus upon women, families and disabled audiences (Having been a registered care manager and coached children at Herne Hill Velodrome in earlier careers)


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Priključite se i giveaway-u za romwe tajice kasnije,odabrat ću 3 pobjednika :)
Yesterday was my birthday,I am 18 now. I feel so old hahahaha. I spent a great day with my friends and family. This post should been published yesterday but my internet was broken.
Also,join my romwe leggings giveaway later today,there will be 3 winners.
Good luck :)
Pop Couture dress
Zara heels
Vj style bracelets
Romwe necklace
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There must have been a time when the plot of Verdi`s Ernani seemed perfectly rational, but today only the music makes sense -- at least when it is sung with conviction and a passionate tone.
The Greater Miami Opera`s production of the work, a production it shares with the Dallas and Chicago opera companies and which was borrowed recently by the San Francisco Opera, makes no attempt to update either the action or the mood.
This is old-fashioned ``number opera`` at its most obvious, with characters assuming stock, center-stage poses to deliver formula arias or stock group formations for duets, trios and quartets. In choral scenes you can almost hear the stage director yelling, ``Stand by for another troop movement.``
But Monday evening at Dade County Auditorium the reason for Ernani`s staying power were readily apparent.
Beneath the silliness of the libretto -- which boils down to a lot of vengeful machinations by three men in love with the same woman -- Verdi`s score, even at its most conventional in form, overflows with the direct, elegantly shaped melodies that distinguished his early operatic efforts and quickly flowered inoo such masterpieces as Rigoletto, Il Trovatore and La Traviata a few years after Ernani`s premiere in 1844.
With one exception, the principals in this production, the Miami Opera`s final venture of the season, had the energy and forcefulness required to illuminate that score, while conductor Emerson Buckley, doing what he does best, neatly propelled the music along, even allowing for some rhythmic nuance here and there.
Although it might be said that no one can fill Luciano Pavarotti`s costume, Nunzio Todisco adequately filled his shoes in the title role, stepping in for the indisposed tenor as he did last September in San Francisco for the same production.
Todisco does not have a naturally beautiful voice; it is dry and vibrato- prone. But he has plenty of power in all registers, considerable musicality and a certain interpretive flair that, combined, make his singing both engaging and dramatically convincing.


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Shares of Dendreon Corp. sank Wednesday after a Jefferies & Co. analyst said the company's prostate cancer therapy Provenge will be eclipsed by two newer competitors.
THE SPARK: Analyst Biren Amin started covering Dendreon shares with an "Underperform" rating and a price target of $5 per share. Amin said Dendreon is struggling to improve sales of Provenge and he believes it will be surpassed by Johnson & Johnson's drug Zytiga and by Medivation Inc. and Astellas Pharma's drug candidate MDV3100.
"Provenge (will) be relegated to a niche position by competition in a lucrative market with anemic sales," he said. Amin wrote that peak sales of Provenge will be less than $600 million per year.
THE BIG PICTURE: The Food and Drug Administration approved Provenge in April 2010. It uses the body's own immune system to fight cancer, and it is used to treat prostate cancer that has not responded to other treatments. Analysts once expected sales would reach $1 billion per year, but sales have been disappointing. Dendreon reported about $82 million in revenue in the first quarter, almost all of it from sales of Provenge.
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The company said it was preparing a comment.
SHARE ACTION: With the markets moving lower in afternoon trading, Dendreon shares fell 47 cents, or 6.1 percent, to $7.23. The stock is down about 48 percent since Feb. 27, when Dendreon issued a disappointing first-quarter forecast for Provenge sales. The stock has lost about 78 percent of its value since the company withdrew an earlier sales outlook for Provenge in early August.


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Jackie Chan to receive his first ever Oscar award for lifetime achievement
Jackie Chan is receiving an Oscar award for lifetime achievement. The world famous martial artist and actor is the first Chinese to receive the honorary award. Find out what Jackie said upon learning the exciting news.
The Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science is awarding the prestigious honorary award to Jackie Chan, film editor Anne V. Coates, casting director Lynn Stalmaster, and documentary filmmaker Frederick Wiseman.
Jackie Chan and fellow honorees are praised by the Board as "true pioneers and legends in their crafts." They will receive the awards on November 12, at the Academy's 8th Annual Governors Awards, at the Ray Dolby Ballroom at Hollywood & Highland Center.
Jackie Chan issued his official response, in both English and Chinese, as follows:
"It's been 56 years since I filmed my first movie when I was six, and I've worked on over 200 films to date. I'd like to say a heartfelt thank you to the Oscars for giving me this award of encouragement and recognizing my achievements while I'm still "young". I'm absolutely honored to be the first Chinese in history to receive this award.
The JC Stunt Team has always had a motto: We don't ask why, we just do or die. This was one of our fundamental principles, and also a kind of passionate attitude that we, as action movie stars, kept at heart. To be honest, making an action movie isn't easy. It's normal for us to get hurt and bleed. Many of us have sustained a body full of injuries and I'm no exception to the case. That's why I'd like to share this honor with my brothers of the JC Stunt Team who have been with me through good times and bad times over the many years, and I'd like to share this award with every action movie star from all over the world!
I'd like to say thank you to my family; thank you to every outstanding, talented and professional person I've worked with on the movie set; and thank you to all the business partners who have continuously supported me. I've actually set myself a "little goal" and hope that this honorary golden statue won't be my last one. I don't think the Oscars have a rule where you can't win another golden statue after receiving an honorary award, right?
I'd also like to take this opportunity to say a big heartfelt thank you to all my fans who have endlessly given me so much support. You're the reason why I'm motivated to keep moving forward. Thank you!"
很多年前成家班就經常說一句話,We don't ask why, we just do or die.這是我們的信條,也是所有動作電影人的態度。拍動作電影很辛苦,受傷流血是常事,很多人都落了一身傷病,我自己也不例外。所以,奧斯卡這份榮譽,我要把它要与几十年來与我共同出生入死的成家班兄弟,与全世界的動作電影人一起分享!
Jackie Chan was born in Hong Kong in 1954. He started training in martial arts and Peking Opera at the age of six and made his film debut at the age of eight. The charismatic actor well known for performing his own dazzling stunts has acted in over 100 films, and he has also expanded into directing and producing. He has supported and contributed to many philanthropic causes. In 2016, he is ranked the 4th in the Top 10 Most Admired Men in the world, behind Microsoft founder Bill Gates, US President Barack Obama, and Chinese President Xi Jinping.
True to his pledge to "keep moving forward," 62-year-old Jackie Chan has continued to stay busy with his prolific career. His newest film in 2016 is action comedy Skiptrace, and he is the voice for Monkey in Kung Fu Panda 3. He is currently filming the movie Bleeding Steel as a special forces agent. In 2015, he published a tell-all autobiography titled Jackie Chan: Never Grow Up, Only Get Older.
Congratulations to Jackie Chan and his fellow honorees!
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In this second collection by Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner Mary Oliver, containing 42 new poems, the contents run in reverse chronological order, the most recent ones first, just the way a curriculum vitae starts with the latest accomplishments. Publishers must fear a flagging of interest if the older stuff comes first, but with Mary Oliver they have no cause to worry. Her poetry has remained totally consistent in its patterning, in the elegance of its diction and in its field of interest.
Mary Oliver admits to her own consistency in the poem, "Am I Not Among the Early Risers" (1997), in which the rhetorical questioning of Walt Whitman mixes with the woodsy absorption of Thoreau: "Here is an amazement—once I was twenty years old and in every motion of my body there was a delicious ease, / and in every motion of the green earth there was a hint of paradise, / and now I am sixty years old, and it is the same."
Oliver's stated preference is to focus intently upon "all things brash and rustic." She keeps the ambiguous and conflict-ridden world of the city out of her frame. She lives in and for her natural surroundings, a person "hot with the joy of this world, and filled with praise" ("Circles"). In "Have You Ever Tried to Enter the Long Black Branches," she challenges her readers to imagine themselves into this realm at their doorstep. The world outside has a daily and nightly drama. She watches the owl come in the dark "to sit/ in the black boughs of the apple tree/ and stare down/ the hook of his beak" for some soft furry life venturing onto the snow, and her heart does not know which side to take, which party to root for ("The Owl Who Comes").
In Volume One of her New and Selected Poems, 1992, Mary Oliver showed her penchant for parable-making. The little adventures and surprises we run into outdoors yield their lessons. Aesop and Pliny recognized and traded on this millennia ago. Oliver puts it this way: "Every day I walk out into the world/ to be dazzled, then to be reflective" ("Long Afternoon at the Edge of Little Sister Pond"). This world of sky, woods and seashore is not without eros or death, as she shows abundantly. It contains the mountain lion she ran into "whose flames leaped in her eyes" ("Mountain Lion on East Hill Road, Austerlitz, N.Y."). The drama is mostly smaller, as when she releases a baby raccoon from a trap and runs away from the trapper's approaching footsteps.
As to poetic style, Mary Oliver favors symmetrical construction, like the parallel phrasing that we associate with rhetoric (and with Walt Whitman) or the breaking down of extended sentences into small quatrains. Her writing is not strong on musicality or experiments with form. In this volume she presents many of her poems as prose paragraphs. Others too could have received this treatment, except that we attend better to units of phrasing, we listen to them more attentively, when we find them broken up line by line.
Oliver's powers of observation are keen, with occasional flashes of metaphor, like "the honeycomb of the corn's beautiful body" ("Little Summer Poem Touching the Subject of Faith") and "the prayers that are made/ out of grass" ("Mindful").
Mary Oliver's poems bear out her own claim: "I think there isn't anything in the world I don't admire" ("Hum"). And she can add: "Once in a while, I have chanced, among the quick things, upon the immutable" ("Have You Ever Tried to Enter the Long Black Branches"). It happens with her more than once in a while. In this judicious collection, the reader will find each of the poems carries a hidden urging: "Read on."


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This is a list of all the different materials used in the body jewellery I manufacture, I will do my best to keep this page up to date and add pictures of rough and raw materials. Some pictures of stones below are a mixture of dry and wet, I have wetted some slabs to show what the colour of the stone is likely to be when polished. It is worth keeping in mind that some material varies greatly and the exact pieces pictured could have been used up all ready. If you have some specific colouring or patterns in mind please contact me with what you want made and these requirements as I am happy to search through my available pieces to meet your requests. Listed in no particular order.
You can click the pictures to see large versions some of them are quite big pictures so may take a while to load.
|PTFE - or Polytetrafluoroethylene or as it is better known Teflon. This is a great material for use in body piercings especially for those people with allergies to nickel or other metals. The surface of PTFE is smooth so any substances, such as the discharges from the piercing are easily cleaned off, making it very suitable for initial piercings and for use during the healing period, including fresh stretches. This material can be autoclaved. It only comes in white.
|Delrin - is similar to PTFE is slightly harder and takes a much shiner polish, comes in a range of colours from natural white to dyed black. This material can also be autoclaved but I only recommend PTFE for initial piercings as black delrin I use has been dyed with a carbon based dyed, and although rare could case irritation to fresh piercings or stretches.
|Metals - I tend to use a range of different metals as accents to pieces, detailing, hardware settings and sometimes as the base of the jewellery itself, the metals that I use are copper, brass, silver and gold.
|Buffalo Horn - All the buffalo horn I use has come from working stock animals. No animals were harmed just for their horn and are a by product of animals used for food or ploughing fields. Buffalo horn varies from black to light brown to grey in colour but is predominantly black. Other natural variances to the buffalo horn include streaks or stripes, or patches of colour variance and sometimes the appearance of a grain.
|Black Ebony Wood - This pure black gabon ebony takes a serious shine, it is a popular choice for a range of plugs, tunnels and weights. Makes excellent pieces, can be made into plain plugs or have inlays set into it.
|Lignum Vitae Wood - This wood smells lush and is one of the woods that changes from a light sandy colour to antiqued green with age. The green colour only gets more intense with age. Suitable for all types of jewellery and inlays. Picture shows a well aged piece that I have here, estimated at least 4-5 years since it was cut.
|Pink Ivory Wood - I have a range of pink ivory on hand from premium bright pink to nearly red in colour and also light pink shades with the occasional streak of orange or yellow. It is a lovely hardwood and take a glassy finish. Suitable for all types of jewellery and inlays. Picture shows the dark pink ivory wood at the top and the lighter at the bottom.
|Bloodwood - This wood is a deep dark red colour with a tight grain, take a nice shiny polish. Suitable for all types of jewellery and inlays.
|Olive Wood - The olive wood that I carry has some of the finest grain and patterning, it is a lighter sandy colour with a darker brown to black veins. Suitable for all types of jewellery and inlays.
|Zebrano (Zebra) Wood - This wood is similar in colour to olive but with different patterns. Suitable for plugs, tunnels and inlays but can be on the fragile side for some carved hanging designs or thin pieces.
|Castello Box Wood - A lovely light blonde coloured wood with little grain/pattern to it. Suitable for all types of jewellery and inlays.
|Amboyna Burl & Straight Grain - Amboyna burl is a popular wood for both plugs and inlays as it polishes up wonderfully and has a wicked tight grained pattern to it. I also have some part figured pieces that are mostly straight grained amboyna wood which is lovely in itself, and does sometimes have some small amounts of the tight grained burl.
|Black & White Ebony - Sometimes also called tiger ebony this wood takes an excellent shine and is suitable for most pieces of jewellery (plugs, inlays and tunnels.) and is very dense, pieces made from this have a nice bit of weight (size dependant of course) for wood.
|Osage Orange - is a very bright and vibrant wood as you can see from the picture. Ranges from deep rich orange colours through to lighter yellow/orange colours. Suitable for all types of jewellery and inlays.
|I also carry a small selection of hardwoods that are ONLY suitable for inlays into other materials, these include purple heart, paduak, and bog oak.
|Chrysoprase - This stone comes direct from a small time miner out in Australia and is of AAA+ gem grade quality, the pieces carved from this material seem to almost glow. A absolutely stunning material, it is semi-translucent and the exact shade of green can vary slightly. Suitable for a wide range of pieces and would great in any piercing!
|K-Scope Jasper - This stuff is pretty damn amazing, it comes in a wide range of colours including a (rare) purple. This stones full name is kaleidoscope jasper because of the intense and changing pattern in each piece. Most piece I have, have a defining colour with a range of other colours mixed in in lines or blotches. More K-Scope Pics and Other K-Scope Pics.
|Banded Obsidian - Obsidian is a naturally formed volcanic glass, depending on how the molten glass cools and the incluesions that get trapped inside the glass as it cools down will create different types such as the rainbow obsidian below. The banding in this obsidian is believed to be caused by variations inthe chemical composition of the molten glass as it comes up through cracks in the earth. The type of banded obsidian I have available is sometimes called Midnight Lace Obsidian, which is a black obsidian with silvery bands, and if cut at just the right angle the bands will take on a shimmery appearance, otherwise they appear more grey than silver. Another picture of the banded obsidian.
|Rainbow Obsidian & Silver Sheen Obsidian - These colour sheen types of obsidian are formed by tiny bubbles being trapped inside the glass, the colour is created by the different minerals present as it cools. Rainbow obsidian as to be cut to very precise angles to acheive the best colour gradient, if slightly off it creates a more plain colour sheen, such as green, purple or blue. Silver & gold sheen is similar to the rainbow obsidian but is only 1 colour. I have a small amount of each of these available for pieces, as well as some plain black obsidian.
Red & Blue Ambers - Red amber is as the name suggests red in colour and really has a nice red glow when backlit and will work great as thick inlays into open back plugs or solid plugs. Suitable for all types of jewellery or inlays.
Blue amber is another stone that requires some light play to get the blue sheen to show which tends to work best outside in natural sunlight, inside or under artificial lighting it can appear orange/red much like a darker version of normal amber. Suitable for all types of jewellery or inlays.
|Labradorite - This stone is a firm favourite and it is easy to see why, in certain angles/light the stone can appear grey or transparent but when cut and light hits the surface at the right angle it has this amazing colour flash. Colour of the flash can vary from dark to light blue, yellow to green, and orange. I am happy to search for a specific colour for you just let me know before ordering so I can check. Suitable for all types of jewellery or inlays.
|Multi-Colour Picasso Jasper - This stone comes in just about every colour combination that there is take a look at the picture for just a small sample, here are just some of the colours; white, grey, black, red, blue, yellow, green, orange, and brown.
|Lapis Lazuli - Top premium A grade lapis with a rich royal blue colour with pyrite specks are common, occasional white calcite inclusions specially in large pieces of jewellery. Suitable for all types of jewellery or inlays.
|Opalite - This is a man made glass, it is a milk white/blue colour (orange/yellow when back light). Take a great polish and is suitable for all types of jewellery or inlays.
|Ocean Jasper - Ocean jasper comes in a variety of colours (as seen in the pictures) formed with quartz crystals is common along with the many holes pieces are often riddled with can limit the size of pieces that can be made, suitable for a range of different items from plugs, labrets and inlays. The most common colours are shades of green with yellow orbs, but other colour combinations to exist.
|Dark Green Aventurine - This material is absolutely one of my favourites and I have a full set (labret, plugs and nostril plugs) made from it. It is such a lovely colour and it is easy to see why it is often used as a jade substitute. I love carving this material as it holds up very well to lots of different ways of working it and is suitable for just about anything from plugs, labrets to solid weights and inlays.
|Rutilated Quartz - I only have a limited amount of this wonderful material on hand, but the piece I do have is suitable for some pretty big plugs (I estimate 75mm-80mm plugs could be made) as well as a handful of smaller plugs and labrets. Please note that this material is on the pricey side due to it limited availability, if you are interested in having something made from this material please contact me to discuss your requirements.
|Bloodstone - A dark green with a slightly blue tint to it, with red specks and patches this material polishes up to a wonderful shiny mirror finish. Suitable for a wide range of pieces; plugs, labrets, septum spikes etc..
|Carnelian - Carnelian's wonderful orange/red colour comes from heat being applied for a long period to the stone, traditionally this was a natural process that happened inside the earth, but records that date back a few thousand years show that humans have been artificially heating this material to achieve the same colour or enhance the colour. The two processes are difficult if not impossible to tell apart. Carnelian is an agate so does sometimes contain banding or other agate features, the colour can vary from light orange/yellow to a bright fiery/red. Suitable mostly for plugs or other solid pieces as it tends to fracture easily while carving.
|Amethyst - This stone is a quartz, I have a massive range of colours from clear to grey to light purple to dark purple to black. It is common to have lighter or white chevron pattern. Suitable for all types of jewellery or inlays.
|Amazonite - An interesting green stone that varies in shade of green from pale to a mid tone green. Has light green/white patterning to it. This material can be fragile so is only really suitable for plugs and labrets in sizes 8mm+.
|Rose Quartz - I have a good amount of high quality bright pink rose quartz, excellent material takes the best polish and is suitable for all types of jewellery or inlays.
|Noreena Jasper - This lush red stone comes from Australia and has some of the nicest patterns I have seen in a red jasper, often contains streaks/veins of yellow and patches of grey. Suitable for all types of jewellery or inlays.
|Banded Agate - I have a huge selection of banded agate on hand, so far I have only cut a small selection of these and there is a huge range of earthy tones, colours and patterns. Suitable for all types of jewellery or inlays.
|Yellow Tigers Eye - I have some excellent high quality tigers eye available for all types of jewellery or inlays. This stone is a bright yellow colour and has a wicked flash.
|Blue Lace Agate - A love sky/baby blue colour material with white banding, Suitable for all types of jewellery or inlays. I currently only have a small amount of this on hand so please contact me if you are interested in jewellery made from this material.
|Unakite - This stone is a type of jasper, mostly army green in colour with red or pink coloured patches or spots. Does occasionally have clear or black/grey colour streaks. Suitable for all types of jewellery or inlays.
Brown Goldstone - This redy/brown coloured stone is actually a man made glass with tiny specks of copper inside that give it is colouring. Very constant material occasionally has streaks of semi transparent glass (would only really affect large pieces 30mm+) and takes a good polish. Suitable for all types of jewellery or inlays.
Blue Goldstone - This is basically the same as the red goldstone but is a very dark blue colour.
Green Goldstone - This is similar to the blue and red goldstone but with slightly bigger specks inside, and looks very much like glitter, this glass is ever so slightly more transparent than the other two goldstones but will still make some really nice pieces.
|Green Moss Agate - this stone is an all time popular choice by many people and it is easy to see why. This stone always has such intriguing depth, colour and pattern that vary with every piece carved. The range of colours with the greens vary, sometimes within the same piece of rough, occasionally has some milk-white to blue banding and rarely a druzy cave. This material is suitable for pretty much anything that I can carve from it and always makes excellent pieces.
|Zoisite - this gemstone has a mostly green base colour with patches of black and orange veins, with the odd silver (aluminum) coloured spec. This stone is opaque A lovely material that is suitable for plugs, labrets and other designs.
|Cheetah Agate, suitable for all types of carving, I only have a few smaller pieces so sizes are limited. Takes a high glass like polish and has strong contrasting colours.
|Lizard stone from cornwall UK! Has a nice mixture of lighter and darker greens, limited availability.
|This slag glass comes in a range of colours (click the picture to see all the colours available) takes a nice polish and is suitable for all types of carving. Some pieces are transparent others opaque. Please enquire for current availability of colours.
|Red Tigers Eye - I have some excellent high quality tigers eye available for all types of jewellery or inlays. This stone is a a nice bright red colour and has a wicked flash. Red tigers eye is created by carefully heating yellow tigers eye.


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When I was graduating from high school in 1978, the song Time Passages by Al Stewart was on the charts. I love that song so much. When you consider that album and the popularity of Stewart's 1976 "The Year Of The Cat" my entire high school life was scored by two albums. Disco was just beginning to come along and suddenly, Saturday Night Fever was everywhere. I had the only boyfriend in the entire school who could swing-dance well, although he dumped me before prom and I had to scramble to find another date.
Iâm thinking about all this today, because my son had his senior choir concert last night. I charged my phone, because while I have a video camera, I donât really know how to use it. I actually own three different cameras. Unlike my dad, I never could get the hang of being behind the camera, distanced from the life Iâm living by metal and plastic and glass. I never had a knack for filming what my family was doing because I preferred to participate.
My dad used to set up the cameras and make us wait upstairs on Christmas morning while he fiddled with lights and reflectors and when we opened our presents — because his camera recorded no sound, he directed us, âGive me some more surprise, honey.
I don't really think I have a value judgement to add here, I don't think he was less involved, or less invested in us as kids than I am with mine. He preferred to capture things, he wanted the reassurance that they wouldn't disappear, while I have a pretty terrific memory and I believe, even with the best intentions, you can't really hold on to anything.
So anyway, of course, my phone ran out of space just before my son marched onto the stage in a military coat, singing the Enjolras part of the One Day More song from Les Miserables. Which made me cry anyway, as it always does. I only say this to illustrate how life works. I had charged my camera, uploaded my pictures, but alas. Sometimes good intentions just aren't enough.
I guess what struck me most about the evening, besides the great music our small suburban high school puts out, is that time passes, whether you like it or not. When my son was eighteen months old, he went to Montessori preschool. I mostly put him there because I could work in the office, get a break on two kids' tuition, and we'd all get something out of it. He went in the early mornings, and came back to me at naptime. My daughter Zoe, who was four at the time, had been going since she was two and was turning into a first rate reader.
That year they did a Christmas program, and the under twos all got Jingle Bell Bracelets they could rock out with while singing Jingle Bells to a prerecorded track. My son didn't want to leave me, and he put up a fuss until I told him while he was up there I was watching, and at the end, I'd give him a special sign to tell him I love him: I'd snap my fingers on both hands and then give him the thumbs up.
I gave him that same sign, automatically, after his number from where I was seated in the front row last night.
I know what you're thinking. How poignant! She still does that, she still remembers it and probably someday he'll really appreciate it. Cause that's what I was thinking. I was thinking, yeah. Wow. I have surely come full circle.
Last night, after the finale, The Impossible Dream my son Max who was sitting next to me nudged me and said, "Hey mom, did you see, he gave you the sign."
No, I had not seen. But now I know he did it.
Time passages
Buy me a ticket on the last train home tonight
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Margaret and Kenneth Jahn were not flashy people. But for those who knew them in their pastoral Ellicott City neighborhood, flashiness meant very little.
"Families in this little neighborhood are very close. We used to spend a lot of time on their porch watching the sun go down," said Craig Wasserman, a neighbor to the Jahns. "They didn't flaunt anything. It wasn't their style."
The Jahns, who were killed Thursday when their private plane crashed in Skaneateles, N.Y., had a comfortable lifestyle in their well-to-do neighborhood on Church Road. Margaret Jahn, 34, a former local tennis champion, had her own tennis court and often invited neighbors over to play.


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'What does blogging mean to me.' I spoke about fearing the judgement from people around me and that one of the things I felt most scared about being judged on was my decision on where to go after secondary school.
If you are unaware then I'll fill you in, I have chosen to do a course on Beauty Therapy at College which I'll be starting very soon in September. It took me a really long time to accept and admit that
no I didn't want to go on and spend another two years doing A-levels and that in fact I wanted to spend my next two years doing a beauty course.
I have never been an overly academic person, don't get me wrong I'm not failing all my classes, I'm just not an A* student, more of a C occasional B if I'm lucky and the odd D girl. I don't mind this though, not everyone can be a brainbox! I don't want to call myself the dumbest but I'm the least clever out of my friendship group at school which honestly doesn't other me, we all have different goals and whilst they might be disappointed with an A instead of an A* and I'd be ecstatic with a C, that's okay.
There isn't one subject at school that I would say I fully enjoy. If I had to pick I would say English but even then I don't like it that much. The thing where my interest and passion lies is beauty and so of course going to school (college) and learning about the thing I have a passion for instead of subjects that I don't enjoy is the perfect situation.
When it came to looking at places to go and subjects or courses to take I think I always knew in the back of my mind, something around beauty was what I wanted to do. However I felt embarrassed admitting this. I got the impression that people thought doing a college course and a beauty one in particular instead of A-levels was taking 'the easy way out.' Through some things I had heard people say and just from what I believed myself I thought everyone believed that the type of people that choose to do that course are the airhead type, the type that can't be bothered to put any effort in to actual school work, the dumb ones.
I felt embarrassed to tell people and this includes my family that I was doing a beauty course in case they thought any of those things about me. I've heard people make passing comments like "Well if I do rubbish my GCSE'S at least I can still go to College and just do a course there." To me this is basically saying College is the easy option, and maybe the people that say that don't mean it to sound that way- but to me it does.
Luckily now I'm at a point where I don't really care what other people think about it because I know I'm going to enjoy it so much. I know I've 100% made the right decision choosing to do this over A-levels because it's still the holidays as I'm writing this, but I'd quite happily start College tomorrow if I could. I know for a fact though if I was doing A-levels this would not be the case and I would be dreading the day school starts again.
I'm getting to do something I love everyday as school work, it doesn't get much better than that!
I hope you enjoyed this post and I know it was really long and I basically just rambled but I just had to get all that off my chest. Thanks for reading.
*Update: Since writing this I have got my GCSE results back and I'm really pleased with myself. I got 1 A and that was in English Lang and I genuinely think that blogging helped me become a better writer and thus helped me get that A! So an extra big thanks for reading my posts because every read encourages me to write more, and that writing has definitely helped me a lot!*


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Catch up since Easter
Before Easter:
Maureen and Chuck arrived about 3:30pm on Friday. We went to Baytown Seafood to eat. Then, we watched TV and sat around.
Saturday, I went to Robertson's to buy Butterfly Weed. I bought 16 plants in 3"pots before they got there. Maureen and I went to the Dollar Store to buy little Easter basket gifts for Gabriel. Melanie and Jorge came over with Gabriel about 1:30pm. Gabriel loves to play outside and we walked up and down the street and pushed him on his tricycle. Then we brought out the sidewalk chalk and he thought that was the cat's meow. He really enjoyed scribbling on the sidewalk. We went to Golden Choral to eat about 5:30pm. Gabriel behaved himself in the restaurant for once and really liked the tilapia and french fries. Pat and Mark, Sare and Joseph came over after we ate. Melanie made a pineapple upside down cake for Chuck's birthday on Wednesday and we had cake and ice cream. Since we would not see him on Easter, I gave Gabriel his little gifts. Melanie and Jorge were supposed to celebrate Easter at Bay Area Park with Jorge's extended family.
Sunday, was spent in church. Since I am in the orchestra, Pat and I had to be at the church at 6:45 am for early practice and played in the 7:30, 9, and 10:30 services. We left after the music in the early service and had breakfast in the orchestra room before the 9am service. We went home to eat after church--sandwiches, then we all took naps. I had to be back at church at 5pm for the evening service.
Monday, I was off. We went to breakfast about 10am--late start and Chuck and Maureen packed up and left about 11:30am. I could have gone fishing or something but I stupidly made a doctor's appointment in the middle of the afternoon 1pm with doctor Muayad. It was a follow up for the h. pylori. He said that he will check me in about a year by blowing into a tube to check to see if I am cured. I reminded him that he said he would do an MRI of my chest and abdomen if the numbness and night sweats didn't stop after treatment but now he says he will order a CAT scan of my abdomen and not chest because it would be questioned why a GI Guy would be ordering an MRI of a chest. I am not confident that I am ever going to find out what is causing the night sweats and numbness in my left arm--or maybe find out when it is too late.
After the appointment I called Carol and we went driving to Galveston. I was looking for a kayak launch on East beach somewhere. Then we came back here and had sandwiches.
Tuesday, I had to go back to work. Mostly, easy day. Wednesday, I had a kid come in from lunch with his mouth bleeding. He was eating Pizza and the two bottom teeth were loose. I pulled one of the teeth but the other kept bleeding. Finally, I pulled it, too. Both were very loose. That was a first--pulling two teeth from the same kid in the same day. I pulled one other tooth on Wednesday too. Had orchestra practice that night--now practicing for Pops and Praise. Today (Thursday) was uneventful at work. I am finishing up my acanthosis nigricans screenings.


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