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Gaining Confidence With Your Smile
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Not being confident with your smile can be something that makes you unhappy in the long term. People who suffer from a lack of confidence when they smile will sometimes appear as downcast in photos – especially when other people around them are beaming for the camera. In addition, lacking confidence might mean that you tend to keep your mouth shut in social situations and appear to be shy as a result. If you want to feel better about your teeth and smile more, then there are steps you can take to improve your confidence. Read on to find out how to go about it.
One of the principal reasons why people report they suffer from under confidence with their smile is because they have improperly aligned teeth. Perhaps you have a gap between your incisors or your front teeth stick out a little? If your lower jaw extends outwards, then this can also cause problems with smiling confidently. However, such problems can be resolved by dental practitioners with the use of things like braces and – in some cases – removing teeth in a crowded mouth. Such services are not just for teenagers and can be put to good use well into adulthood, so don't hold back on seeking professional assistance.
Teeth that are stained or are naturally not that white can make people feel that their smile is unattractive. Brushing with a tooth whitening paste is a good first step, but a professional clean with a dental hygienist is better if you want to radically improve the discolouration of your smile. In order to prevent staining, it is a good idea to limit the number of sugary drinks, such as cola, that you consume and to give up regular mugs of coffee. Smoking is another habit to avoid if you want your teeth to remain looking whiter for longer. Talk to your dentist about teeth whitening procedures and flash those pearly whites.
Chipped Teeth
Small chips in your front facing teeth are not that noticeable, but larger ones can make your smile look uneven. If you hide your smile because of chipped teeth, then seek treatment. A dentist will be able to even up the look of a chipped tooth by reshaping it. However, for more serious damage, a dental crown might be the preferred option which will make your tooth look as good as new.


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A little bit of nail polish talk to kick off August blogging! I got this as a gift for Christmas and loved this shade to bits. It's also one of the best O.P.I shade that I have come across. It goes on beautifully and won't chip for a good 3-4 days without top coat and that means a lot to me
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Cigarette Killer
March 25, 2011
The coffee shop you are in charge of is full of visitors. Smoking is not allowed – but what is that you see and smell? Are these cigarettes?! Shoot them with your watergun!This game is a funny mix of hidden objects and shooting game – of course your main task is to shoot the ciggies but for that, you must first locate them!
Here is a little hint: spot where the smoke is coming from, and remember that the cigarettes might be in a person's hand, in his or her mouth, on the floor or in the rubbish bin.
The time for the shooting is limited, so make sure you kill as many cigarettes as possible. Goodluck and have fun! This game may be really enjoyable if you like the games of this sort.


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The map below shows all of the locations at which we stopped overnight. If you click on one of the place marks, more information (distance, engine hours, anchor chain) will pop up.
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The map below shows all of the locations at which we stopped overnight. If you click on one of the place marks, more information (distance, engine hours, anchor chain) will pop up.
After passing the last of the rapids, Yuculta, that separate the Broughtons from the Desolation Sound area, we were anxious to get across the Strait of Georgia. We went first to Cortes Bay, then traveled down Malaspina Strait on the east side of Texada Island to Pender Harbour. From there we headed across the Strait of Georgia but not before encountering a pod of a half dozen orca near Thormanby Island. We entered the Canadian Gulf Islands via Porlier Pass, anchoring for the night on the north side of Gray Peninsula by Montague Harbour.
Other than strong opposing currents in the Boundary Pass area, crossing the border was straightforward. Our first port of call was Deer Harbor Marina where our yacht club has dock space. The only other club boat there was Sea's the Moment owned by Chris and Sandy Benson who winter moor in Winslow directly ahead of us on the dock. We spent our first evening back gabbing for several hours with them catching up on travels.
Some winds were forecast on the Strait of Juan de Fuca the next day so we spent a second night at the dock. An early start on Tuesday, September 9, got us across the strait in time to catch the start of the flood current down Admiralty Inlet. We wanted to add some fuel in our tanks to get us through the winter so we headed to Poulsbo for the night with the intent to go to the fuel dock first thing the next morning. We took advantage of the reciprocal dock at the lovely Poulsbo Yacht Club marina for our nights moorage.
After taking on 300 gallons of diesel at the Poulsbo fuel dock, we headed to our winter spot on the dock in Eagle Harbor. We arrived at 1130 on September 10, 20 weeks after departing on April 23.
During the 140 nights we were away, we anchored out 86 nights, moored at public docks (i.e., no services) 7 nights, and paid for moorage 47 nights. Using my navigation program's trip log as the arbiter, we covered 4052 nautical miles during that time. Our main engine operated 720.8 hours including 48.5 hours spent at idle fishing or taking photographs. Subtracting those idling hours, we averaged 6.03 nm/hour which is our normal speed. This average speed includes the time spent anchoring and docking at the begin and end of each day's travels. Fuel economy calculations will have to wait until next Spring when we fill up ahead of our trip north.
The fog lay thick the morning of August 12 as we departed Fury Cove and it remained thick for next nine hours. Electronic charting, radar and AIS were how we navigated and avoided other vessel traffic in the less that 1/4 mile visibility. We put the stabilizers in the water less than an hour after we left the anchorage. With the visibility as poor as it was, we didn't want to have to worry about sea conditions on top of our other concerns. The anchorage for the night was Carriden Bay, about 68 miles from our starting point.
While in Alaska, we arranged for my brother Mike and his wife Jo to join us in Port McNeill for a weeks worth of cruising later in the month so we had some major inside & outside boat cleaning to do before their arrival. In addition, we wanted to insure that some of the destinations we were going to take them still had the prawns we were promising them.
After visiting Sullivan Bay Marina, we headed to Port McNeill for fresh water, provisioning and the first round of cleaning. While there we crossed paths with Doug and Cathlyn MacQuarrie from our yacht club. In 2012, we sublet the slip at Shilshole Marina where they live on their Nordhavn 46. They offered some suggested destinations in the Broughtons that we had not visited before.
The cruising in the Broughton archipelago is far more intimate than what you encounter in Alaska. The channels between the many islands are numerous, intricate and well protected from the outside waters. In addition, there are a half dozen or so small family operated marinas catering to pleasure craft. They provide an opportunity to socialize with other boats at the organized evening happy hours or dinners. During the three weeks we were in the area, we stopped at Shawl Bay, Sullivan Bay, Echo Bay, Kwatsi Bay and Port Harvey. We also stopped at the docks of the closed Greenway Sound Marina. The docks are showing the wear of several years without maintenance and we chose to anchor in the cove behind Broughton Point on our subsequent visits to Greenway Sound.
We had regaled Mike & Jo with the bounty we had pulled from the waters on our cruise so we were determined to produce while they cruised with us. The prawn gods were smiling on us and we were able to feature prawns several nights.
After Mike & Jo left us, we made one more pass through the Broughtons then headed south. We elected to take eastmost route which necessitates timing five rapids, Whirlpool, Green, Dent, Gillard & Yuculta. We hadn't been this way since our 2007 trip in our first boat. We split the rapids in two by stopping for the night at Cordero Lodge which is a few miles after passing Green Rapids.
In contrast to the rainy Alaskan weather we experienced June and July, the three weeks we spent in the Broughtons were almost uniformly sunny. According to the marina operators, they had only a few days of rainy weather all summer. We made a conscious effort to try new places, anchoring in five new locations, and found several new spots for prawn fishing.


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Memorial for the Berkeley Victims
Last Tuesday, the lives of six young people were tragically cut short when a balcony collapsed in Berkeley, CA. Olivia Burke, 21, Eimear Walsh, 21, Eoghan Culligan, 21, Niccolai Schuster, 21 and Lorcan Miller, 21 were all Irish J1 students visiting for the summer months. Ashley Donohoe 22, was an native of California, born to Irish parents who emigrated to the United States. Seven other individuals were seriously injured in the incident, two of whom remain in critical condition.
We are calling on the Irish community of Chicago to stand together in the wake of this calamity by attending a memorial service that will honor the lives of the victims as well as offer support to their loved ones, the survivors, and local Irish J1 students.
Sunday 21st June
Irish American Heritage Center
4626 N Knox Ave
Chicago, IL 60630
3 pm
(doors open at 2 pm)
Memorial service will take place in the auditorium with a reception following in the Fifth Provence.
All are welcome to attend.
If you would like to make a financial donation to assist the victims and their families during this difficult and expensive time, you can do so at the memorial event, or by clicking here to make an online donation.
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It dawned on me the other day, as my kids were laughing hysterically at the new pencil stroke marking their ever diminishing mother, that my reducing height is a massive metaphorical joke on my career.
Once, I had 5′ 4″ with in my grasp. If I stretched my spine and backcombed my hair, I could pass for 5′ 5″. My ambition wasn't huge, I didn't want fame and fortune, I just wanted to be a jobbing actress. I wanted to be 5′ 4″ and to pay the bills by working in the profession I loved.
20 + years on, a little tweak of career plans (writing for acting) and where am I?
5′ 2 1/2″ and shrinking.
So, why am I still reaching for 5′ 4″ ? Why, despite all the evidence to the contrary, do I still think I can be taller?
Do you see where I'm coming from here? One day I fully expect to be a puddle of skin with hair, still believing I don't need the Petite range and that I might, one day, sell a book.
Maybe I should buy some platform shoes. What would that metaphor mean?!


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Yea's design were celebrated on the red carpets of Cannes, Tribecca, Cairo, Dubai and Abu Dhabi film festivals..
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Definition of Legislative branch
1. Noun. The branch of the United States government that has the power of legislating.
Group relationships: U.s., U.s. Government, United States, United States Government, Us Government
Terms within: Government Printing Office, Gpo, United States Government Printing Office, Us Government Printing Office
Generic synonyms: Arm, Branch, Subdivision
Definition of Legislative branch
1. Noun. The branch of government which is concerned with the making of laws ¹
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Literary usage of Legislative branch
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1. The Plum Book: U. S. Government Policy and Supporting Positions for 9,000 by DIANE Publishing Company (1996)
"... legislative branch ARCHITECT OF THE CAPITOL GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS ..."
2. Government by All the People; Or: The Initiative, the Referendum, and the by Delos Franklin Wilcox (1912)
"... IT WOULD AFFORD THE legislative branch AN EXCUSE FOR SHIRKING RESPONSIBILITY LEGISLATIVE bodies are admittedly subject to powerful temptations. ..."
3. Report of the Congressional Committees Investigating the Iran/Contra Affair by Lee H. Hamilton, Daniel K. Inouye (1995)
"Executive branch leaks are every bit as serious as legislative branch ones. But as long as there is a consensus on this point, we do not feel a need ..."
4. By the People... U.S. Government Structure: An English As a Second Language Text (1994)
"legislative branch: CONGRESS 60 Objectives: Identify the 2 parts of Congress ... legislative branch: A BILL BECOMES LAW 77 Objective: Explain how a bill ..."


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"Traditional news media are for people…. like … our grandparents, I get my news through twitter…" (Sophomore, Course J201 UW-M, 2015)
The role of a Teaching Assistant for 'Introduction to Mass Communication', course J201 at UW-M, has made me aware about the changing attitudes of youth towards news media. While conducting a discussion session on Entman's "The Nature and Sources of News", the overwhelming majority of the students seemed to follow news solely through their social media accounts. Such "mobile and tablet applications such as Flipboard, Zite, and Facebook Paper are driven by automated forms of personalized content packaging" (Lewis & Westland). Algorithms used in social media platforms help users get tailor-made content, according to their viewing patterns. But many researchers have expressed their unease about the overall impact of such platforms on journalism. I share a similar concern, not just for journalism or traditional media, but for the readers too. In the small sample on 36 students in my discussion session, I have observed that the range of topics of awareness of the students, who say that their sole source of news content is Social Media, seems to be limited (as demonstrated by the answers to quizzes held in the session ever alternate week). The cause of the same can be speculated to be the fact that social media algorithms display news that match the user's preference. Thus, the variety of news displayed may be highly skewed. Today majority of the population obtain their news from digital sources (PEW Research Center, 2015). But "as the news industry and journalism profession begins to settle on new business and editorial models for the Internet Age, (we) should not forget … What kind of work constitutes legitimate journalism?" (Anderson, 2013).
This week's readings show us the face of changing media ecology in the digital age. The content can be broadly classified as changing inter-medium and intra-medium ecology. While the equation between the different mediums, digital and traditional, seem to be evolving with time, equations of the various elements of the digital and traditional mediums too seem to be changing with time. Digital media has "confounded the boundaries between production and consumption, professional and nonprofessional, and intra and extra-organizational domains." (Lewis and Wesland)
"The Internet is the most important single development in the history of human communication…" (Barry, 2012). The notion of people as a passive audience has been replaced by "active meaning makers in the process of media consumption" (Bolin 2012). But research shows that audiences are allowed to participate in mainly one stage of news making, interpretation – by commenting on public forums on digital media. "The audience are still, overall, receivers of information created and controlled by the journalist" writes Singer et al. However slowly algorithms are taking control of the information dissemination process. Advocates of algorithms as editors of social media, 'robot-journalism', often justify it by stating that it is just the actualization of audience preferences. But critiques argue that "the precise nature of the algorithm involved, and the implications for journalism and public knowledge that they entail is yet to be examined." (Lewis and West Lund, 2014)
Another source of concern is perhaps the changing nature and purpose of journalism. With the convergence of technology and journalism, the focus is slowly shifting "to figuring out how you can use software to tell a story, and do it in a more comprehensive way than maybe had been done previously" (Peter Edstrom, Minneapolis–St. Paul, June 5, 2012). While the fusion of knowledge of technologists and news journalists is sure to change the rules of storytelling and may help journalism to evolve further, concerns still loom about 'what stories are being told'. With algorithms doing the work of editors on major social media and websites, do people still get objective, all encompassing "stories that they need?"
While the benefits of digital media are undeniable, many are anxious about the changing inter-media ecology. Bob Brown in a news interview on ABC said, "I'm worried about the traditional media, but I think the new media is a plus for democracy" (Brown, 2011). However, in his Monograph on Ecology of news production, Lowrey notes that "Any new media entity scours the environment for news of change, responds strategically and seeks a sustainable niche, but it also begins to seek stability, familiarity, legitimation, and validation from similar media." Both his studies show that new media over time tend towards the familiar and popular rather than uncertain. Lowrey concludes, "Media adhere to their own kind and to past paths already taken, but they also respond to changing economic and social conditions." Thus, the role of traditional media may still be that of a guide to new media. Which perhaps brings us back to the situation in Philadelphia demonstrated by Anderson "the news ecosystem has a center, that center remained the traditional media organisations that historically have produces news objects…" The same situation is reflected today in social media where majority of the news content is sourced from digital form of traditional news media.
To conclude, Westlund writes, "The roles, boundaries and processes of news work has become increasingly hard to detect ... Future research might more thoroughly review, synthesize, and develop models for journalism, of which there are relatively few emphasizing the distinct interplay of and tension between human and technology, or manual and computational modes of orientation and output" (Westlund, 2013). While we still await the optimal model for online journalism, I was introduced to a possible bridge, a probable step towards evolution of "digi- journalism", by a student of my discussion session in Journalism 201. The latest trend among youth seems to be digital newsletters like the Skimm, Need 2 Know and Next Draft, that preserve the traditional model of human editing yet exploit the immense possibilities and audience of digital media. They cater to the audience preference by making the content easy to read, humorous and succinct. The stand of Skimm.com and Next draft on this issue of journalism in the digital era is echoed by the editor's message on their homepage:
"I am the algorithm. Each morning I visit about 75 news sites, and from that swirling nightmare of information quicksand, I pluck the top ten most fascinating items of the day, which I deliver with a fast, pithy wit that will make your computer device vibrate with delight. No bots. No computer algorithms." (Pell, Next Draft, 2015).


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I'm all for body acceptance. I believe that no one should ever be discriminated against, picked on or made fun of because of their weight. I think it's great that people love their bodies at any size. I hate that larger society almost always equates being overweight with being unhealthy, and I am glad that there is research out there that debunks the whole BMI bullshit.
What I simply cannot stand, though, is the reverse discrimination that WLS patients get from other overweight/obese people. What the hell is up with that? I've read so many posts and articles about people preaching "fat-acceptance" and saying that their friends who've had gastric bypass were perfectly healthy before and it's only post-op that they have their health issues. Really? Your friend went through the extensive screening process to get the gastric bypass surgery, the doctors saw that she was "perfectly healthy" and approved her for the surgery anyway? I'm sorry but that sounds like a load of crap. This surgery isn't something that you can just "choose" to have done just because you "want to be thin." No. This is something you actually need to qualify for. I know that I had to go through A LOT before I was ever approved to have this done. And, yes, there are people who have a lot of health issues after gastric bypass and there are a lot of risks involved but a lot of these problems afterward are easily prevented by practicing healthy habits. That's something I've had to learn the hard way, so to speak. I am sick of overweight acquaintances making insensitive comments about what I can and cannot eat. "That's why I'll never have that surgery. I wanna enjoy my food." Guess what? I enjoy my food, too. In fact, I enjoy food a lot more now than I did before I had the surgery. Since I can't eat a lot of the crap I used to, I was forced to go out and try new food I would've never eaten before. And I love it! I've discovered there are so many things that taste good and are good for you! I just don't understand why someone would try to put me down because I decided to try and change my life.
If you're happy at your size, then that's amazing! I salute you! Whether you're thin, fat, in between, I encourage you to love your body! That's exactly what I wanted to be able to do, only I did not feel good at over 300 lbs. Physically, emotionally, it felt all wrong for me. I had high blood pressure, my feet and legs would swell up at night so badly that if I pressed down on my shin, the indentation would stay there for minutes. I had borderline diabetes and PCOS. And if all the physical issues weren't bad enough; I didn't want to leave the house, be in any social situations, and I felt completely invisible to the world because of my size. I hated myself. After having my WLS, my whole life has changed. I was actually commenting on this to a friend the other day; this is the first time in my entire life where I'm confident with my body. I feel pretty. I feel sexy. And most important of all, I feel like me. This is the first time in a very long time that a glimpse of my naked body in the mirror doesn't depress me to the point of tears. And my health is doing much better! I no longer have PCOS, my blood pressure is within the healthy range and I'm no longer a borderline diabetic. Why am I still trying to lose weight? Because as great as I feel right now, I'm still not at my "happy weight." And, I'm trying to be healthier. It's the same reason why I quit smoking, I want to be able to not only live longer, but really enjoy my life.
So, that's what I have to say about acceptance today. It's a bit ranty but this has been in my mind for quite a while. I'm just sick and tired of not only having to deal with people's ignorant comments about the dangers of WLS and how it's an easy way out; but now I have to get shit from other people who think I'm just "conforming to America's version of beauty" because I lost 100+ lbs. I've never set out to be a size 0. That's not what would be healthy for me. In fact, I'm trying to make peace with the scale lately, not make it all about numbers on a scale but about what feels right for me.
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When Ray made two consecutive contributions of short stories in English to the Amrita Bazar Patrika, little did he know what the future held for him. "I had no literary bent at all, and never thought I might one day write stories," he said. "A poet friend of mine and I hit upon the idea of reviving Sandesh", the Ray family magazine for children.
As an editor, Ray felt that the onus for the contribution was on him. The first edition of Sandesh contained a translated version of Edward Lear's The Jumblies, while the second issue had his first short storyBanku Babur Bandhu accompanied by his own illustrations. From 1961 to 1992, spanning almost three decades of his iconic presence, Ray wrote over 75 stories, in addition to 35 pieces of detective fiction featuring Feluda and another 40 tales of the eccentric scientist Professor Shonku. Ray's stories have been widely translated into all the major Indian languages and several international languages, and this inevitably bears testimony to the widespread popularity of Ray fiction.
When in school, and later as an young adult, Ray voraciously read the works of Jules Verne, H.G. Wells and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle which showed that he had a particular liking for science and crime fiction, the fantastic and the supernatural. Later, as an author, Ray wrote mostly on these themes, which indicated the influence that these writers had had on him. "I enjoy writing stories for its own sake and derive a pleasure from it which is quite distinct from the pleasure of the vastly more intricate business of making a film," wrote Ray. "I have written stories both during the making of a film and in the free period, usually lasting about six months, between films."
Professor Shonku
Shonku's mild eccentricity endears, his ingenuity never ceases to astonish the readers. The absent-minded scientist who was Ray's creation made his first appearance in the Bengali children's magazine Sandesh with the story Byomjatrir Diary (An Astronaut's Diary), a long story Ray wrote for Sandesh magazine in 1965. He wrote a total of 38 Shonku stories of which the last one, Intelectron, was left unfinished, where the Bengali inventor lands in dangerous situations in places nearly all over the world, and comes out of them mostly by virtue of his extraordinary intelligence and sometimes with the help of the faultless weapon Annihilin which he had himself made for use in self defence.
Satyajit Ray agreed that he had based Professor Shonku on Professor Challenger, an immortal character created by Arthur Conan Doyle. Shonku is conceived as an eccentric genius who is also a polyglot, capable of speaking 69 languages. Shonku's scientific fervour is larger than life. His discoveries speak volumes about the sheer genius of this scientist as well as Ray's own brilliance.
Shonku is an acronym for Trilokeshwar Shonku. He lives in Giridih beside the river Usri. He has a male servant named Prohllad and a cat named Newton. According to Ray, Professor Shonku passed the matriculation examination of the University of Calcutta at the age of 15, received a BSc degree with honours in two subjects, Physics and Chemistry, at the age of 16, indeed an astonishing feat to accomplish. At the age of 20, he joined the Scottish Church College in Calcutta as a professor of Physics.
Shonku's scientific discoveries are almost miraculous, be it Annihillin, a pistol capable of causing immediate disappearance of the target, or Miracurall, a drug capsule that cures any ailment except common cold, or be it the Ornithon, a device to educate birds, or Evolutin, a drug that causes humans to evolve ten thousand years in five minutes, or Remembrane, a device that makes people recall forgotten things, or the effective Somnolin, a sleeping pill which works in any condition.
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Professor Shonku o Har
Professor Shonku o Macaw
Professor Shonku o Egyptio Aatonko
Professor Shonku o Ashcharya Putul
Professor Shonku o Golok
Professor Shonku o Chi Ching
Professor Shonku o Khoka
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Sayang Professor Shonku (None other than Professor Shonku) Contains:
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Rosemary Verey: The Life and Lessons of a Legendary Gardener by Barbara Paul Robinson
There was a moment in our [American] recent history when new homeowners and gardeners yearned for just such a profusion of structure, color, and character, and lionized anyone who could help them achieve it. Rosemary Verey was just such a one: a woman of strong opinions, she could teach those interested how to create memorable plant pictures suitable to specific conditions. But we learned as all artists soon do that success is ten percent inspiration and ninety percent perspiration. The labor-intensiveness of her most successful schemes makes one reassess the time commitment after enjoying the fruits of one's labors for a few years.
Fortunately most of Verey's books were available to me when I began my flirtation with gardening. She enriched my imagination and most of all encouraged boldness and a degree of daring (but no orange). Barbara Paul Robinson, the author of this Verey biography, reminds us of Verey's oft-repeated remonstrance: "It is a sin to be dull." Dull Verey was not, and she could evoke strong feelings in most people who touched her life or her work.
Verey's gardens remind me a little of jazz musicians. A great and successful jazz musician (Branford Marsalis?) once said that great art is not completely improvised: it is creating something new within the constraints of an accepted form. I like the idea of constraints, because we all have them, and some do better than others when operating inside of them. And this is so for Verey. The gardens she created will always be lovely, but they won't have her individual spark of genius without her.
Born in 1918, she lived a traditional middle class life until her children left home, and was in her forties when she began creating gardens around the house at Barnsley in the Cotswolds that her husband had inherited as the only son of a long line of clergymen. She began with garden designs unearthed in her historical researches, and began to riff on that, adding a profusion of sometimes new and complementary plants within the formal outline.
Verey had an outspoken and outgoing personality that was much prized and admired in America, though perhaps less so in Britain. She had opinions on everything, but her real focus was gardening in a particular style. And that is perhaps why her star has waned. What she brought to us was an obsession and said "you can do it, too." We liked to think so, but alas, we could not. We hadn't the time, the army of gardeners, the wealth, the vision, the dogged pertinacity.
Robinson the author shows us Verey the woman: whatever her flaws, they are presented within the context of very basic human needs for companionship, closeness, intimacy. This is a fascinating portrait of a woman working within the constraints of her own nature, excelling in some things while doing less well on others. The trajectory of her life gives us material for meditation in our own gardens.
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As can be expected, graduate students and lecturers exchange, scientific collaboration, joint Master's degree programs were the most importand types of cooperation underlined in the MOU.
Consequently, SPG employees Nina Deryagina and Alexander Tretyakov were the first who did the internship in the IFP Training. During the visit special attention was paid to the components of master's degree programs there. The internship was supported by 5-100 Russian Academic Exellence Project.
In fact, IFP Group is the largest personnel, technologies and equipment supplier for extractive, processing and research enterprises around the world. There are a lot of well-known customers such as IFP, TOTAL (France), IMP (Mexico), Syncrude (Canada), KISR (Kuwait), PETROBRAS Cenpes, NUT (Singapore), Haldor-Topsoe (Denmark), DOW (Holland), Mitec (Germany), MOL (Hungary), EniChem, Enitecnologie (Italy), Repsol (Spain and Argentina), Venoco (Venezuela), Aramco (Saudi Arabia), PRC (Libya), PTT (Thailand), Hyundaï, Ssangyong (Korea), IOCL, BPCL (India) and etc.


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Wanderport Corp (OTCMKTS:WDRP) shares jumped 35% to $0.00540 and were flat in after-hours trading on Tuesday. Share prices have been trading in a 52-week range of $0.00 to $0.02. The company has a market cap of $3.71 million at 686.50 million shares outstanding.
In a press release, Wanderport Corp announced that the company has appointed Ty Cha as Chief Executive Officer to oversee operations and provide experienced leadership. He is expected to be a dynamic contribution to the team, bringing to the Company a wealth of knowledge and experience derived from a successful career encompassing a range of pertinent skills, including business consulting, corporate development and product distribution.
"I am excited to join Wanderport and looking forward to work with the team to boost the Companys growth potential. We have many great ideas in the work and I am eager to implement them to bring significant value to the Company and its shareholders," stated Ty Cha, new CEO of Wanderport Corp.
Former interim CEO Anna Seidman has consequently resigned. "It was a great opportunity for me to realign the Company and position it for dynamic growth. Mr. Cha will be a valuable addition to the management team who I am confident will successfully lead Wanderport to the next level," she remarked.
Wanderport Corp is a development-stage company that is a distributor of food, beverages and consumer products made with hemp. The company's products include Sapa Coffee, Cannabissimo Coffee, CBD Nectars, DuBe Energy Shot, and Cannabios and Trompetol Body Care. Sapa Coffee are coffee beans sourced from Central and South America, grounded and blended with roasted hemp hearts.
Cannabissimo Coffee is a flavored blend of hemp seeds and roasted ground coffee beans. The CBD Nectars offering includes vape liquids, oil and tinctures. DuBe Energy Shot is a hemp infused energy shot. Cannabios includes cannabinoid-based body care products on the market. The Cannabios line consists of balm, shampoo, shower gel, massage oil, sun screen and baby lotions enriched with hemp-derived cannabidiol (CBD). Trompetol lotions and skin care creams offer a serum without any artificial coloring, dyes or toxic perfumes. Trompetol EXTRA is designed to address muscle and joint issues.


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Dinner @ Landry's on the Riverwalk.
Gigi & I endorse the SMART car
The cute gazebo in the courtyard by our room
The cute gazebo in the courtyard by our room
Gigi & Lalo (Both in Yellow!)
Lalo taking in the sunshine @ the Riverwalk. It was a beautiful day to enjoy the great outdoors!
Cedric enjoyed being in San Antonio too! His next trip is New Mexico.
I was able to score my HRC Pilsner & Shot glasses. I now collect them thanks in part to my sis getting me started on it. I am running out of room to put these things.


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travel to new poems; explore elements of poetry that can enhance your poems; meet featured poets; and try out writing prompts and exercises
Wednesday, December 19, 2012
You don't need the Sugar Plum Fairy or even visions of sugar plums in your head to delight in listening to the splendid sounds of poetry. There are many websites that offer audio recordings, podcasts and videos of a variety of poets and poetry readings.
This holiday season (and all through the year) sit back, relax by the glow of the computer screen and treat yourself to the voice, rhythms and words of a poet you admire (or one who's new to you).
Here are a few sites to visit:
The Poetry Foundation has a wide variety of both audio and video offerings.
www.poetry foundation.org
The Library of Congress has both their Poet Vision series
and "The Poet and the Poem" radio program webcasts
Moving Poetry is "a compendium of video poetry from around the web with a new video every weekday."
Lunch Poems is a very fine poetry series at the University of California – Berkeley under the direction of UC Berkeley professor and former Poet Laureate Robert Hass. The series is broadcast on UCTV.
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There exists already something called the "HabCat", which is a catalog of stars believed to be likely candidates for having habitable planets. It was created by Margaret Turnbull and Jill Tarter, and prior to Felisa Wolfe-Simon's discovery last year that some prokaryotes were playing merry hell with the periodic able and substituting arsenic for phosphorus to build their DNA HabCat listed some 17,000 stars which potentially hosted life as we know it. I have no idea what Iron Lisa's work has done to this number, but I have to guess that it has increased exponentially.
I'm going to limit my list to those stars which are about 12 light years from earth, but as we'll see later in this series, that limit may prove purely arbitrary. In upcoming posts we'll cover each of these candidates in detail, but right now I just want to present the list. The candidates which are bolded are among Margaret Turnbull's top five candidates for habitable stars out of that 17,000. "Travel time" is how long it would take a vessel, in solar years, to reach that star from earth orbit at 5% of the speed of light, which is the maximum attainable by standard pulsed atomic fission, such as Orion would use. "Distance" is in light years.
Proxima Centauri, M5, 4.2, 84
Alpha Centauri A, G2, 4.4, 88
Alpha Centauri B, K1, 4.4, 88
Barnard's Star, M4, 5.9, 118
Wolf 359, M6, 7.8, 156
LaLande 21185, M2, 8.3, 166
Sirius A, A1, 8.6, 172
Sirius B, DA2, 8.6, 172
Luyten 726-8A, M5, 8.7, 174
Luyten 726-8B, M6, 8.7, 174
Ross 154, M3, 9.7, 194
Ross 248, M5, 10.3, 206
Epsilon Eridani, K2, 10.5, 210
LaCaille 9352, M1, 10.7, 214
Ross 128, M4, 10.9, 218
Gliese 866 (A,B&C), M5, 11.3, 226
Procyon A, F5, 11.4, 228
Procyon B, DA, 11.4, 228
61 Cygni A, K5, 11.4, 228
61 Cygni B, K7, 11.4, 228
Struve 2398 (A&B,) M3, 11.5, 230
Groombridge 24A, M1, 11.6, 232
Groombridge 24B, M3, 11.6, 232
Epsilon Indi A, K5, 11.8, 236
DX Cancri, M6, 11.8 , 236
Tau Ceti, G8, 11.9, 238
238 years seems like an awfully long time. Ten generations, even, as we currently count that. But as we will see in a later post, it may be possible for one generation of colonists to depart earth and arrive at Tau Ceti still young enough to start building a permanent colony.
A small blog for marine navigation, astronomy, space exploration, Project Orion (DARPA's "100-year starship"), meteorology, boating and matters pertaining to maritime education and the maritime industry. I am a USCG licensed captain, and an instructor at a number of maritime schools in the Seattle area.
Saturday, March 5, 2011
Second star to the right
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