Jack Vettriano Sweet Bird of Youth

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You’re busy! Work, class, family, friends, appointments, meetings—even if you enjoy being busy, everyone needs some time off. Don’t be afraid to say “no” to extra opportunities (covering a shift for a co-worker, bringing food to your son’s class party). Try to spend a few minutes each day doing nothing! Read a book or magazine, sleep in of always avoiding the cold and the snow—look for the best that it has to offer! Take up a winter sport like ice-skating, snowboarding, hockey, or even sledding! Enjoy these opportunities while they last—after all, they’re only here a few months per year. Staying active will boost your energy. Seeing winter in a positive light, with all the fun activities that it has to offer, will keep your spirits high.
9. Get Social SupportDon’t underestimate the power of friends, family, mentors,on the weekend, go to bed early, try some meditations, or take a yoga class. Relaxation, especially in the form of yoga, can alleviate stress and leave you with a calm energy. Mental exercises like meditation and positive thinking can help keep Depression at bay. 8. Embrace the SeasonInstead

Winslow Homer Gloucester Harbor

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spells that were intricately interwoven with the very fabric of time and space itself.
Since then it had been showing a worrying tendency, when Rincewind was feeling rundown or especially threatened, to try to get itself said. He clenched his teeth together but the first syllable forced itself around the corner of his mouth. His left hand raised involuntarily and, as the magical force whirled him round, began to give off octarine sparks...
The Luggage hurtled around the corner, its several hundred knees moving like pistons. Rincewind gaped. The spell died, a master. In the absence of Twoflower, had it adopted him?
The tide was turning and he could see debris drifting downstream in the yellow afternoon light towards the river gate, a mere hundred yards downstream. It was the work of a moment to let the dead thief join them. Even if it was found later it would hardly cause comment. And the sharks in the Ankh were used to solid, regular meals.unsaid. The box didn't appear to be hampered in any way by the ornamental rug draped roguishly over it, nor by the thief hanging by one arm from the lid. It was in a very real sense, a dead weight. Further along the lid were the remains of two fingers, owner unknown.The Luggage halted a few feet from the wizard and, after a moment, retracted its legs. It had no eyes that Rincewind could see, but he was never the less sure that it was staring at him. Expectantly."Shoo," he said weakly. It didn't budge, but the lid creaked open, releasing the dead thief.Rincewind remembered about the gold. Presumably the box had to have

Jean Beraud La Rue de la Paix

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special for a hundred and forty bucks.”F: “Wow, that’s good value for nice jeans like those.”CH: “Now, do you want the bad news?”F: “What?”CH: “The shirt cost me twenty five bucks at Target.”F: “Did not.”CH: “Yep, it did and my out the obvious fact that she had been sucked into the mindset of ‘dearer always equals better’, she didn’t want to hear about it. I was informed that I “just don’t get it”. All of a sudden my “gorgeous shirt” wasn’t nearly as appealing. And of course we all know you can’t buy “gorgeous” for twenty five bucksexpensive jeans actually cost me forty five bucks at the same store and my boots were a freebie from the good folk at ‘Caterpillar’; I did a gig for them recently. So my entire outfit, including socks and jocks, cost me less than eighty bucks.”F: (look of disbelief on face)Needless to say, the revelation of the cost and origin of my ensemble changed the dynamics and the tone of the conversation instantly. When I pointed

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Shown clockwise from upper left, the Bluehead wrasse (Thalassoma bifasciatum), Northern shrimp (Pandalus borealis), Common slipper shell (Crepidula fornicate) and Whip coral goby (Bryaninops yongei) are examples of some animals that change their sex.
Most animals,, some animals live as one sex in part of their and then switch to the other sex, a phenomenon called sequential hermaphroditism. What remains a puzzle, according to Yale scientists, is why the phenomenon is so rare, since their analysis shows the biological "costs" of changing sexes rarely outweigh the advantages.
A report by Yale scientists in the March issue of The American Naturalist says that while this process is evolutionarily favored, like humans, have separate sexes — they are born, live out their lives and reproduce as one sex or the other. However

William Beard Majestic Stag

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Oh, sure. They've been doing that for thousands of years. In the Tunguska campaign we captured five Tartars alive, and three of them had holes in their skulls. One of them had two."
"They do it to each other?"
"That's right. way. Matter of fact, I think he had that hole in the skull done. It was part of an initiation ceremony, but the man who told me didn't know much about it."
"So...If he was like an honorary Tartar, they wouldn't have killed him?"
"Killed him? Is he dead then?"First they cut partway around a circle of skin on the scalp, so they can lift up a flap and expose the bone. Then they cut a little circle of bone out of the skull, very carefully so they don't penetrate the brain, and then they sew the scalp back over.""I thought they did it to their enemies!""Hell, no. It's a great privilege. They do it so the gods can talk to them.""Did you ever hear of an explorer called Stanislaus Grumman?""Grumman? Sure. I met one of his team when I flew over the Yenisei River two years back. He was going to live among the Tartar tribes up that

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was so deep it seemed to shake the earth. The rank smell that came from his body was almost overpowering.
"I'm Farder Coram, from the gyptian people of Eastern Anglia. And this little girl is Lyra Belacqua."
"What do you want?"
"We want to offer you employment, lorek Byrnison."
"I am bar opened a little way and a man put down a large earthenware jar before looking up to peer at them.
"Who's that?" he said.
"Strangers," said the bear.employed."The bear dropped on all fours again. It was very hard to detect any expressive tones in his voice, whether of irony or anger, because it was so deep and so flat."What do you do at the sledge depot?" Farder Coram asked."I mend broken machinery and articles of iron. I lift heavy objects.""What kind of work is that for a panserbjorn?""Paid work."Behind the bear, the door of the

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fulfilled and in keeping with their miserable state, they have failed to attract their dream partner. After all, who wants to be with someone who’s miserable? They achieved their practical goal but still failed to have their needsprocess of constructing our best life is not necessarily what goals we set (what we think we want) but what motivates us towards those goals (what we really want). The sooner we begin to explore, identify and understand what motivates us towards certain achievements, acquisitions or outcomes (that is, we begin moving towards greater consciousness and self awareness), the sooner we will make better decisions for our life, set more intelligent (and dare I say, enlightened) goals and experience more fulfilment and less frustration. We all know people who have achieved what they set out met. So they set a goal to lose another ten pounds. And then another. And maybe just ten more. With the destructive and erroneous belief that if they can get thin enough, they’ll find their own personal nirvana. And we all know how that story ends.Our MotivesThe important thing in the

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about it. I hope you feel you can always do that." "Yes," she said.
"Do you say your prayers?"
"Yes."and the clamor of bargaining. Lyra always enjoyed the horse fair; as well as the chance of stealing a ride on a less-than-well-attended horse, there were endless opportunities for provoking warfare.
And this year she had a grand plan. Inspired by the capture of the narrowboat the year "Good girl. Well, run along."With a barely concealed sigh of relief, she turned and left. Having failed to find Gobblers below ground, Lyra took to the streets again. She was at .Then, almost when she'd lost interest in them, the Gobblers appeared in Oxford. The first Lyra heard of it was when a young boy went missing from a gyptian family she knew.It was about the time of the horse fair, and the canal basin was crowded with narrowboats and butty boats, with traders and travelers, and the wharves along the waterfront in Jericho were bright with gleaming harness and loud with the clop of hooves

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a witch she wouldn't have been afraid of a boy, normally. But she was afraid of Will. This young wounded figure held more force and danger than she'd ever met in a human before, and she quailed. She fell backward, and he followed and gripped her hair with his left hand, feeling no pain, feeling only an immense and shattering despair.
"You don't know who he wasall others. Like it or not, boy, you have a job to do. Ignore everything else, no matter how important it seems, and go and do this. Someone will appear to guide you; the night is full of angels. Your wound will heal now— Wait. Before you go, I want to look at you properly."
He felt for the pack he'd been carrying and took something out, unfolding layers of oilskin and then striking a match to light a little tin lantern. In its light, through the rain-dashed windy air, the two looked at each other."Then you're a warrior. That's what you are. Argue with anything else, but don't argue with your own nature."
Will knew that the man was speaking the truth. But it wasn't a welcome truth. It was heavy and painful. The man seemed to

Paul Gauguin Manao tupapau

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this old lady who used to teach me the piano. She was the only person I could think of. I asked her if my mother could stay with her, and I took her there. I think she'll look after her all right. Anyway, I went back to the house to look for these letters, because I knew where she kept them, and I got them, and the men came to look and broke into the house again. It was nighttime, or early morning. And who came and robbed us, but there was something else as well as them. So maybe we do have the Specters in my world, only we can't see them and we haven't got a name for them, but they're there, and they keep trying to attack my mother. So that's why I was glad yesterday when the alethiometer being able to help it he found himself walking up and down and looking away from Lyra because his voice was unsteady and his eyes were watering. He went on: "They were tormenting her just like those kids at the tower with the cat… They thought she was mad and they wanted to hurt her, maybe "Yeah, probably. They might want to use the knife, though. They might come after us for that."
"Let them. They're not having it, not now. I didn't want it at first. But if it can kill the Specters…"
"I never trusted Angelica, not from the beginning," Lyra said virtuously.
"Yes, you did," he said.

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genetically and maternally inherited fetal anomalies."
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During Pregnancy, the umbilical cord supplies a baby with nutrients and oxygen from the mother. After birth, it's clampedstudies of the umbilicus and essentially connected some dots. He notes that the umbilical cord is critical during Pregnancy, and suggests that many problems can be reflected in scar tissue, which is essentially what's left behind as a belly button.
"I suggest that umbilicus is a fitness signal," Sinkkonen told Livescience in an email. "I may be wrong. However, many mammals do not have a visible umbilicus. We have, but it does not have an obvious function, except signaling." and snipped, leaving a short stump that eventually falls off.It's not known exactly why belly buttons end up in so many different configurations. What is clear: People have preferences.In reviewing other studies, Sinkkonen found we prefer belly buttons that are t-shaped or oval and vertical, with a little hooding, and which don't protrude. In short, we dislike outies and don't favor the cavernous variety either.Sinkkonen reviewed other

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certain genetically and maternally inherited fetal anomalies."
Innie vs. outie
During the umbilical cord supplies a baby with nutrients and oxygen from the mother. After birth, it's clamped and , and which don't protrude. In short, we dislike outies and don't favor the cavernous variety either.
Sinkkonen reviewed other studies of the umbilicus and essentially connected some dots. He notes that the umbilical cord is critical during suggests that many problems can be reflected in scar tissue, which is essentially what's left behind as a belly button.
"I suggest that umbilicus is a fitness signal," Sinkkonen told snipped, leaving a short stump that eventually falls off.It's not known exactly why belly buttons end up in so many different configurations. What is clear: People have preferences.In reviewing other studies, Sinkkonen found we prefer belly buttons that are t-shaped or oval and vertical, with a little hooding

Leroy Neiman Into the Turn

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peaks—jagged spears of black rock, mighty broken slabs, and sawtooth ridges piled in confusion like the wreckage of a universal catastrophe. But on the highest point, which as she looked was touched by the first rays of the morning sun and outlined in brilliance, stood a regular structure: a huge fortress whose battlements were formed of single slabs of basalt half a hill in height, and whose extent was to be measured in flying time.
Beneath this "Then let's fly there to meet him. And you must be my guard of honor."
Obediently they spread their wings and set their course toward the gold-rimmed fortress, with the eager witch flying before them.colossal fortress, fires glared and furnaces smoked in the darkness of early dawn, and from many miles away Ruta Skadi heard the clang of hammers and the pounding of great mills. And from every direction, she could see more flights of angels winging toward it, and not only angels, but machines too: steel-winged craft gliding like albatrosses, glass cabins under flickering dragonfly wings, droning zeppelins like huge bumblebees—all making for the fortress that Lord Asriel was building on the mountains at the edge of the world."And is Lord Asriel there?" she said."Yes, he is there," the angels replied.

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hard to find somewhere to go if we went in the middle of the night. At least once we're through we can blend in easy. You go first. Just duck through quickly and move out of the way."
She had a little blue rucksack that she'd been carrying since they left the café, and she unslung it and held it in her arms before crouching to look through.
And there she was, standing on the grass in his Oxford with Pan still as a wasp on her shoulder, and no one, as far as he could tell, had seen her appear. Cars and trucks raced past a few feet beyond, and no driver, at this busy junction, would have time to gaze sideways at an odd-looking bit of air, even if they could see it, and the traffic screened the window from anyone looking across from the far side.Ah!" She gasped. "And that's your world? That don't look like any part of Oxford. You sure you was in Oxford?""'Course I'm sure. When you go through, you'll see a road right in front of you. Go to the left, and then a little farther along you take the road that goes down to the right. That leads to the city center. Make sure you can see where this window is, and remember, all right? It's the only way back.""Right," she said. "I won't forget."Taking her rucksack in her arms, she ducked through the window in the air and vanished. Will crouched down to see where she went.

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behavior of other astronomical bodies to figure out where they might be lurking.
Were a black hole to approach our solar system, we'd begin to notice changes in the light of other stars as it was bent by the black would go into spiral orbits around the hole and gradually be sucked into it, one by one, like water going down a drain.
Thanks to the massive tidal disruptions on Earth, not to mention the lack of reliable sunlight, we'd already be dead.
Some think it's also possible that we could create our own black hole right here on Earth.
Last year, a flurry of lawsuits accompanied the firing up of the Large Hadron hole's massive gravity.Then the orbits of the larger planets would begin to change as they were pulled toward it. The sun would become elongated, and the Earth's own orbit would shift.Finally the sun, planets and asteroids

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I'll be looking for you, Will, every moment, every single moment. And when we do find each other again, we'll cling together so tight that nothing and no one'll ever tear us apart. Every atom of me and every atom of you.. .We'll live in birds and flowers and dragonflies and pine trees and in clouds and in those little specks of light you see floating in sunbeams... And when they use our atoms to make new lives, they won't just be able to take one, they'll have "Well," she said, "yes. But you attacked me."
"I did not! You came charging out and attacked me."
"Yes, but I soon stopped."
"Yes, but," he mocked softly.to take two, one of you and one of me, we'll be joined so tight..."They lay side by side, hand in hand, looking at the sky."Do you remember," she whispered, "when you first came into that cafe in Cittagazze, and you'd never seen a daemon?""I couldn't understand what he was. But when I saw you, I liked you straightaway because you were brave.""No, I liked you first.""You didn't! You fought me!"