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Nature poems that lack detail, precision and objectivity run the risk of being dismissed as cliche and forgettable.

So how can you tone up your perception muscle?

Besides learning the names of plants and animals, consult encyclopedias,
field guides and books to discover and understand nature’s processes.

Read what other writers and naturalists have written.

Take courses and join organizations like naturalist and bird-watching clubs.

Then include some of this detail in your poems.

1. It is expected that every company employee will receive a year-end bonus this year.

2. The keynote address will be held in the auditorium on the ground floor of the convention center.

3. Negative economic indicator led the central bank to predict that the economy would deteriorate in the fourth quarter.

4.The devices produced by Grisham Industories are so superior in quality that none has failed within the warranty period.

5.Heavy industories, such as those which manufacture steel, typically require a very large initial investment in plant and equipment.

6.The week-long course will offer participants intensive training, certifying them in a new area of software programming.

7.Productivity is one of the key criteria by which a worker’s job performance can be measured.

(November 21,2012)<Thank You! I Love You!>---
My friend sent me a message link the day before yesterday.
So, I clicked the link, and it was a part of a popular speaker's lecture.
I'd like to talk about her lecture, but it's not easy for me to explain due to my poor English, so I'll talk very briefly.
In her lecture, she said that the words that a husband would like to hear the most from his wife is "thank you", and the words that the wife would like to hear the most from her husband is "I love you."
What do you think?Do you agree with her? It's true for Korean couples.Western couples might feel differently.What would like to hear from your spouse?
If you are single, what would you like to hear from you future spouse.
The lecture is in Korean and very fast, but it has Korean subtitles; so, you can try to practice listening, if you are learning Korean.
♥ Thank you 谢谢… 사랑해I love you♥♥♥ Click here to see the video ~~☞ http://blog.naver.com/jkover78/50153399237

The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World

The Great Pyramid of Giza (also called the Pyramid of Khufu and the Pyramid of Cheops) is the oldest and largest of the three pyramids in the Giza Necropolis. It is the oldest of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World and the only one that has survived up until the present day.

The Hanging Gardens of Babylon, known as the Hanging Gardens of Semiramis, near present-day Al Hillah, Babil in Iraq, are one of the original Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. They were built by King Nebuchadnezzar II around 600 BC. He supposedly constructed the gardens to please his homesick wife, Amytis of Media, who longed for the trees and plants of her homeland Persia. The gardens were destroyed by several earthquakes in the 2nd century BC.

Temple of Artemis, also known as the Temple of Diana, was a Greek temple dedicated to Artemis and completed around 550 BC in Ephesus (present-day Turkey). The construction of the temple was a 120-year project financed by Croesus of Lydia.

The Statue of Zeus at Olympia was made by the Greek sculptor Phidias in 432 BC on a site near the Temple of Zeus in Olympia, Greece, where it was finally erected. According to a legend, when Phidias was asked whether he climbed Mount Olympus to see Zeus, or whether Zeus came down from Olympus so that Phidias could see him, the artist answered that he portrayed Zeus according to Book One, verses 528 — 530 of Homer's Iliad.

The Mausoleum at Halicarnassus or Tomb of Mausolus was built between 353 and 350 BC at Halicarnassus (present Bodrum, Turkey) for Mausolus, a satrap in the Persian Empire. The word mausoleum has since been used generically for any grand tomb.

The Colossus of Rhodes was a statue of the Greek god Helios, erected in the city of Rhodes on the Greek island of Rhodes.

The Lighthouse of Alexandria (or the Pharos of Alexandria) was a tower built in the 3rd century BC on the island of Pharos in Alexandria, Egypt, to serve as the port's landmark and later, its lighthouse.

show or represent by a drawing, painting, or other art form
to picture = to depict = to portray

used as a title or form of address to members of the clergy
reverend

for life
perpetual

appealing to people with such knowledge of experience
sophisticated

Synonyms for 'hard'
complex = difficult = complicated

a conception of or belief about something
a notion

mental anguish or suffering
purgatory

free from disagreement or dissent
harmonious

success, well-being
prosperity

a piece of grassland
a meadow ex: The land of green meadows and blue skies.

very brave
heroic

infinite or unending time
eternity

having or showing impressive beauty or dignity
majestic

a brave or experienced soldier or fighter (esp. in former times)
warrior

to help
to aid = to assist

laugh quietly or inwardly
to chuckle

send (someone) away from a country or place as an official punishment
to banish = to exile = expel (about school) ≠ to enlist

(of the sea or a tidal river) move toward the land
to flow

a release
a liberation

the revitalization or revival of something
a resurrection

a result or effect of an action or condition
a consequence ex: All religions say that a person will face the consequences of his actions, thoughts and intentions.

a body
a flash

some synonyms for ‘a garbage’
junk = trash = rubbish = litter = waste

To anticipate with great apprehension or fear
to dread

the ability to do something
skills = talent

Not enough
Lack; ex: For lack of fuel, their plans were grounded.

deserving censure or condemnation
reprehensible

animals which don't exist now
extinct animals

90-60-90
breast - waist – hips

in a hurry
rush; ex: There is no rush.

2 synonyms for ‘crazy’
insane = mad

a hospital for the insane
asylum

to close doors for the night
to lock up

accurate
exact = precise

syn. for 'sidewalk'
pavement

continuously active and busy
on the run

to de responsible for
in charge of

a thing of little value or importance
a trifle

a foot passenger
pedestrian

regain life, consciousness, or strength
to revive

a man who has magical powers
wizard = magician = sorcerer

a worker
a laborer

skin as a material
leather

move back or withdraw
to retreat

a passage between rows of seats in a building such as a church or theater, an airplane, or a train
an aisle

feature
trait

to have to possess = to own

a mountain has...
slopes

Stephan and Spiritual Quest Chant

If there was a shopping mall
With many gods designed for all
Then I would choose a god for me
Because a soul can’t empty be.
Imagine such a picture, please...
A shop-assistant on his knees,
He smiles and warmly says to me
“Test-prayers in the shop are free”
And he explains that he believes
He’ll find a god to meet my needs.
He takes me down the aisle and says
“Well, different traits our gods possess.
This is Buddha, he’s old.
Reincarnation he taught
Jesus Christ, God’s only son.
He has died for you, Stephan.
This is Allah and, my friend,
Drinking you will have to end.

The Mayas, Celts and Ancient Greeks
Also had their gods, I think
But I don’t know them very well
They are really hard to sell.
Mormons, Baptists, or, I know!
Become a witness of Jehovah!”

I’d look at him and sadly smile,
And say to him “For now I’m fine.”
And after thinking for a while
I’d add “I think I’ll shop on-line”.

Why do straight men devote so much headspace to those big, bulbous bags of fat drooping from women's chests? Scientists have never satisfactorily explained men's curious breast fixation, but now, a neuroscientist has struck upon an explanation that he says "just makes a lot of sense."

Larry Young, a professor of psychiatry at Emory University who studies the neurological basis of complex social behaviors, thinks human evolution has harnessed an ancient neural circuit that originally evolved to strengthen the mother-infant bond during breast-feeding, and now uses this brain circuitry to strengthen the bond between couples as well. The result? Men, like babies, love breasts.

When a woman's nipples are stimulated during breast-feeding, the neurochemical oxytocin, otherwise known as the "love drug," floods her brain, helping to focus her attention and affection on her baby. But research over the past few years has shown that in humans, this circuitry isn't reserved for exclusive use by infants.

Recent studies have found that nipple stimulation enhances sexual arousal in the great majority of women, and it activates the same brain areas as vaginal and clitoral stimulation. When a sexual partner touches, massages or nibbles a woman's breasts, Young said, this triggers the release of oxytocin in the woman's brain, just like what happens when a baby nurses. But in this context, the oxytocin focuses the woman's attention on her sexual partner, strengthening her desire to bond with this person.

In other words, men can make themselves more desirable by stimulating a woman's breasts during foreplay and sex. Evolution has, in a sense, made men want to do this.

Attraction to breasts "is a brain organization effect that occurs in straight males when they go through puberty," Young told Life's Little Mysteries. "Evolution has selected for this brain organization in men that makes them attracted to the breasts in a sexual context, because the outcome is that it activates the female bonding circuit, making women feel more bonded with him. It's a behavior that males have evolved in order to stimulate the female's maternal bonding circuitry." [Why Do Men Have Nipples?]

So, why did this evolutionary change happen in humans, and not in other breast-feeding mammals? Young thinks it's because we form monogamous relationships, whereas 97 percent of mammals do not. "Secondly, it might have to do with the fact that we are upright and have face-to-face sex, which provides more opportunity for nipple stimulation during sex. In monogamous voles, for example, the nipples are hanging toward the ground and the voles mate from behind, so this didn't evolve," he said. "So, maybe the nature of our sexuality has allowed greater access to the breasts."

Young said competing theories of men's breast fixation don't stand up to scrutiny. For example, the argument that men tend to select full-breasted women because they think these women's breast fat will make them better at nourishing babies falls short when one considers that "sperm is cheap" compared with eggs, and men don't need to be choosy.

But Young's new theory will face scrutiny of its own. Commenting on the theory, Rutgers University anthropologist Fran Mascia-Lees, who has written extensively about the evolutionary role of breasts, said one concern is that not all men are attracted to them. "Always important whenever evolutionary biologists suggest a universal reason for a behavior and emotion: how about the cultural differences?" Mascia-Lees wrote in an email. In some African cultures, for example, women don't cover their breasts, and men don't seem to find them so, shall we say, titillating.

Young says that just because breasts aren't covered in these cultures "doesn't mean that massaging them and stimulating them is not part of the foreplay in these cultures. As of yet, there are not very many studies that look at [breast stimulation during foreplay] in an anthropological context," he said.

Young elaborates on his theory of breast love, and other neurological aspects of human sexuality, in a new book, "The Chemistry Between Us" (Current Hardcover, 2012), co-authored by Brian Alexander.

(From http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/2r4hR2/:1Ixh80YaU:T1XtPF$r/www.livescience.com/24945-exercise-human-brain-evolution.html/)

The Hai Tua is a trick

that involves the pen spinning around the hand.

The breakdown of the Hai Tua is a twisted sonic to Thumbaround

or fingerless Thumbaround to a HandAround to a Fingerless Thumbaround Catch.

The trick begins with the twisted sonic to Thumbaround or fingerless Thumbaround,

but instead of catching the pen, the spinner turns their palm down

so that the pen continues to spin,

gliding over the back side of the hand.

The pen moves to the end of the hand

and is released into the air for a very short amount of time.

The spinner then turns their palm back up

to catch the pen as they would with a Fingerless Thumbaround.

The Hai Tua makes 2.5 revolutions.

The Hai Tua is not a beginner trick

and should be avoided by newer spinners.

357 People who are type O want to be leaders and like to give orders.
358 When you see something you want, you work hard to get it.
359 Your loyalty is deep, but you often change best friends.
360 You like to look good to others and are easily embarrassed.
361 You tend to be jealous of other people and act overly confident.
362 You like to be the first to do things and are very competitive.
363 You're outgoing and have a lot of friends.
364 You might have a hard time focusing on one thing for a long time.
365 You probably enjoy talking with people and like to give advice.
366 You have a lot of self-confidence and like to try new things.
367 Your best partners are people who are type O and AB.
368 In Japan, 30% of the population is type O, but 46% of the US population is type O.
356 If the yen is weaker than that, then let's wait.