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Green with envy of attractive and delightful fingernails of your respective friends! You can now alter the wave with the aid of nail cutting treatment.
Nail cutting is really a cosmetic attractiveness strategy for arms and fingernails. Manicure treatment method can treat only hands or fingernails or the two. It can be done your self both at home and a manicurist will do it in your case at his / her hair salon or spa. The word nail cutting comes from the Latin phrase manus, which means fingers and remedy, this means care.
Goal and Advantages of Manicure
The key function of the nail cutting treatment methods are to enhance the look and feel of one's arms and finger nails. An additional objective is to clear, reinforce, form, make appealing and occasionally gown your claws. Another benefits associated with manicure incorporate:
It improves the health insurance and structure of your hands and finger nails.
It can help in protecting against hold - nail formation.
It may help in treating tender or broken pores and skin if existing around the toenails.
It may help in stopping toe nail injuries like fragile suggestions, slashes or divides.
Massage therapy that usually comes with nail cutting helps with increasing the health of skin by raising blood circulation.
By increasing the health of skin, it discourages the wrinkly skin on the skin on palms.
Various kinds of Manicures
There are several types of manicures available. The measures carried out through any of the nail cutting sorts are same. That what separates a kind from amazing . different shaping of the nails and application of distinct natural skin oils and products.
French Manicure: This is the hottest sort of manicure. It involves the application of obvious or nail-coloured toe nail polish on the human body in the nail and pure white-colored toenail gloss in the guidelines of nails. The nails are designed spherical, oval or sq . depending on need.
Paraffin Nail cutting: In this kind of nail cutting, either both hands are dipped into polish or cozy wax is rubbed to your nails. This will make the hands smooth.
Hot Natural stone Nail cutting: In this sort of nail cutting, palm massage therapy emerged by making use of very hot rock treatments.
High end Manicure: This kind of nail cutting involves using paraffin become and heated up mittens for treatment and warming up the arms and hydrating claws.
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From this ball of bits and these unclear instructions, I was able to piece together tiny delights of the robot persuasion. I was trying to get the mopeds featured on the sign, but ended up with four yellow/red boys and three blue/white girls.
Tuesday morning came awfully early, and I was still on a bit of a natural high from having spent the past 2 days up in the mountains with its moody/cloudy/misty/foggy weather. I came downstairs early, around 7:00, and ate breakfast alone for the last time at the Dragon’s Backbone Hostel. (I recall donating a book to their library, too; I forget which. Just a generic David Baldacci one, I think.)
Around 7:30, I started to set my way down the hill, enjoying the walk – going down is always much more relaxing than slogging my way up hill – and got to the main parking lot just below Dazhai with about 45 minutes to spare.
That 40 minute jaunt gave me time to reflect on the past two days. For the most part, I just thought it was a peaceful, beautiful, serene place, which I’d gladly visit again…probably in a different season (autumn, to give variety)…and that I wished I’d had a nicer (that is to say, any) sunrise or sunset. On Monday, I even woke up at 4:45 in the morning, but staring through the pitch black, not seeing stars, I knew that there wouldn’t be much of a sunrise to validate going an hour farther uphill above Tiantouzhai to the Music from Paradise viewpoint just to see….varying shades of gray. (The viewpoints here all have very interesting and flowery names. Ironically, at that one, there was a Chinese guy playing saxophone. If anyone wants to know what they’ll hear when they get to paradise…evidently, Simon & Garfunkel’s “Parsley Sage Rosemary & Thyme” and Celine Dion’s “My Heart Will Go On.”)
With close to an hour in the parking lot, it’s entertaining to take a back seat to the dark corners of your mind. The bus to Yangshuo finally pulled up and I clambered aboard to settle in for the roughly 3-4 hour ride back through Guilin and south to the Li River valley and the lush, karst landscape of Yangshuo. I don’t recall how much the bus ticket cost, but I want to say it was cheap. Maybe 80 RMB or something along those lines, which is a little less than $15.
The ride between Dragon’s Backbone & Yangshuo was completely uneventful. It was just one of those times I wish I had a time machine (or a personal helicopter) to make it go that much more quickly…and avoid the horrendous Chinese driving, including the unnecessary traffic jam in the south part of Guilin and thicker traffic between Guilin and Yangshuo.
So far, vacation was humming along pretty close to on schedule, and I was happy as a lark. The bus pulled into the heart of Yangshuo around 12:15. Yangshuo was the other big part of the first half of the trip. As I mentioned, the plan was to spend 5 nights in this corner of the province, so I had two nights here in Yangshuo.
Yangshuo is also getting a lot of attention as a travel destination these days, and is supposedly getting pretty crowded (though it didn’t feel crowded to me…not after living in some of the world’s major cities for the past 5-6 years). Yangshuo is one of those types of towns that people in the Pacific Northwest of the US or Colorado would love. (Yes, I’m being intentionally stereotypical.) What I mean to say is…this is an active person’s paradise. Yangshuo is rapidly becoming one of the top destinations in the world for rock climbing. People come here to be active. Most are younger, outdoorsy, athletic types…and Yangshuo probably has as many foreigners as locals most of the time.
In general, people will come here and set up base camp at any of the number of hostels, guesthouses, or hotels in the area. (I chose the Yangshuo Outside Inn, about 6 km west of Yangshuo, on the banks of the Yulong River. It’s run by a Dutchman – Ronald, I believe – and his Chinese wife. An old farmhouse that they converted into an inn, and it’s absolutely charming with the most wonderful service. I’ll gladly stay there if I get back to Yangshuo someday.)
At whichever hostel you choose – and since, like any small tourist spot with an overflow of guesthouses fighting for business, the rates tend to be low, and they try to offer services (travel packages, bike rentals, advice, arranging taxis, doing laundry, whatever you want ) to attract customers – you will probably be pleased with how little money you spend. I can only tell you that the Outside Inn had a terrific restaurant, bike rental, laundry service, rooms with AC, without AC (ceiling fans and mosquito nets instead), and suggestions for local and regional travel.
The village of Yangshuo is very small (and congested). There’s quite a bit of nightlife on Xi Dajie, since most who visit here are young and energetic. You’ll find all kinds of restaurants, bars, clubs. And surrounding this very small downtown are huge karst hills that look like gumdrops popping out of the ground.
During the day, rent a bike and ride to and from the nearby towns like Fuli (9 km to the east) or Xingping (about 20 km northeast). You can do things like take bamboo boat trips up and down the Li River (bigger and congested) or ride a bike along the Yulong River among the small villages and farms. Climb Moon Hill, go find caves, just…get outside.
And at night, come back, unwind, and relax downtown on Xi Dajie or enjoy the award-winning light show on the Li River that they have every night (weather permitting) that world-famous movie director Zhang Yimou (who also did the light show for the 2008 Beijing Olympics) put together for about 200 RMB. (I am sad to say, though, that I did not go see the light show. There may be another trip to Yangshuo for me yet…)
So what about my Yangshuo experience? Well…I checked in to the Outside Inn around 1:00 on Tuesday afternoon. Not wanting to waste a minute, the first thing I did was rented one of their bicycles, and hopped out on the road heading along the Yulong River. I joined up with two Chinese ladies, and off we went. We got separated later (because they were stopping every two seconds), though they were nice, friendly, and helpful. The bike was fine, though the seat felt like I was sitting on a brick. After arriving at the Dragon bridge (our original destination), I stayed there for about ten minutes. Right before getting there, though, I stopped at a roadside cafe, trying to wait for these two ladies for about 30 minutes. They never materialized, but I had an interesting time talking with the guy who owned the shop. Just sitting, drinking water, and passing the afternoon in the middle of nowhere.
The bridge was one of the most underwhelming bridges I’d seen. I don’t even think I photographed it. The surrounding scenery from atop the bridge, though, was quite nice (and is represented in this set). Climbing back on my bike, I worked my way the 90 minutes back to the hotel, feeling like my backside had been violated, and was black and blue. Since the temperatures were nearing 35 degrees, and it was a clear, sunny day, I figured it was time for a nap.
My ambition to get out early turned out to be the only real mistake I made this entire trip. On top of very slight heat exhaustion, I missed the most amazing sunset I’ve seen in China. The entire sky had turned every shade between deep purple and royal blue imaginable (which would have looked GREAT from next to the river), but I woke up about 1/3 of the way through that evening’s sundown and had to watch it tearfully between trees with only glimpses of the sky. At least it’s in my memory. I hoped the following night would be a repeat of this one, but, unfortunately, it was pretty much clouded over and didn’t photograph terribly well. Oh, well…lesson learned.
After a good night’s sleep, I woke up early on Wednesday to start exploring Yangshuo proper and the Li River, after staying exclusively on the Yulong River the previous day. I walked the 6 km to town. Well…about 3 km, then took a san lun che (“tuk tuk,” for those who’ve been to India) the rest of the way and just told the guy to stop…wherever. I got out, started wandering the main drag, and booked an afternoon tour of the Li River on a bamboo raft that would go from Xingping partway north on the river, then back to Xingping. (We would go to Xingping by bus and get stuck on the two-lane road coming back in terrible traffic). I still had quite a few hours to kill in the morning, so I wandered around Xi Dajie, and made it down to the riverside, where I booked yet another boat to go around the Li River. The first one cost, I think, 160 RMB from what I remember. This one was 100 RMB, but it was a bit of a lie. I had to hop on back a motorbike and we rode the 9 km to Fuli (a surprisingly nice little shopping area for souvenirs), and that boat was not an open-air bamboo raft, but more like…a very small cruise ship where you sit inside a cabin.
The ride wasn’t unpleasant at all – and the scenery was stunning – so I can’t complain too much. Besides, I did need to find a way to pass the morning, and this did just fine. After the boat and motorcycle ride back to Yangshuo, I had lunch, then went to the first place where I booked a boatride.
That really was a bamboo raft…the kind that’s canopied, and seats 4 people to a boat. So after the coach took us up to Xingping and dropped us off, we hopped on and had a ride for about 20-25 minutes up this stretch of the river (slightly more scenic than the section near Fuli), and then made our way back down to the starting point.
After the bus ride back to town, we got back around 6:00. I took a taxi to the hotel and, as I just mentioned, hoped to have a nice sunset (though my optimism has sunk after watching the afternoon sky start to cloud over). At any rate, I went out and found a place near the farmhouse…just in case.
With no good results from that sunset shot, I packed up my gear and spent the evening relaxing at the farmhouse with dinner, then back in my room reading. All in all, I had been very pleased up until this point with both Dragon’s Backbone and Yangshuo. Thursday morning didn’t need me to start too early. I also knew it would be a travel day, and I wouldn’t be shooting much (if at all). But, at least I’d see the Guangxi countryside, not quite knowing what the rest of the province looked like. It would be a pleasant and interesting day, I soon learned…
Faerie Bits ~ Faerie Spun Dreads are gorgeous, felted handspun yarn additions to my line of dreadlocks for a fantastical fae embellishment! These are made from amazing, bulky handspun art yarns spun by me :) These look amazing worked into a braid!
Taken at 1.5:1 and focus stacked from 5 pics, stigma and anthers in a rhodadendron bloom
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for 3-D version
IMO number : 9284647
Name of ship : BIT OKTANIA (since 01/04/2004)
Call Sign : PCAN
MMSI : 246694000
Gross tonnage : 9503 (since 01/06/2012)
DWT : 13602
Type of ship : Chemical Tanker (during 2002)
Year of build : 2004
Flag : Netherlands (since 01/03/2010)
Toyworld Unearth (who is in no way related the transformers character Scavenger)
and Generation Toys Scraper (who is certainly not in any way, shape or form the Decepticon Scrapper).
We got a bit of Sad news in the in box this morning. An old Friend of ours passed on last night. The old friend was a dog named Nixon. many an adventure he had, and never spoke a word of. Some on the other hand more than one or 2 of us know.
He was born some time in 1996 and came to be a Friend to us while we were living in the land of California. He was a bundle of fluff and teeth sharp as tacks, with a penchant for tearing the trash can apart and everything in it. many a day he would be sitting there when I got home from the night shift with the mess he had just made stretching from one end of the house to the other with the innocent look puppies can achieve when they have just eaten Christmas dinner.
On leaving California and moving to Montana, he came with us, and stayed for a while here. he seemed to do well here losing fleas, and slowly losing hot spots which he did not really enjoy, but endured with better grace than I do aching joints on stormy days.
He left here and took some time to see Chicago, and then went back to Cali for a short while before finally coming back here to Kalispell.
It was here he spent the years where he had a good family to watch over him, and to watch over and guard while he waited to move on to another place.
While I know he has moved on and is now able to snack on cheese and bacon as he wishes, with no one to tell him no, he is still going to be missed here in this world, at least until we travel on and find him elsewhere waiting for us.
A bit of playing in post with an old prop at the club.
Added a bit of texture and analogue processing...
()Handheld on the 50mm with ambient room light)
My collection of cut paper images and other assorted bits for use in collage - decos - mail art. Years of hoarding all kept in a medium sized box.
best viewed large!
Having finished L attention turns to Bristol FS convertible, parts of which arrived from Iain on Saturday seen with Roy Finney wheels. Iain has fabricated very carefully so that I'll be able to remove convertible top like the real Bristol Omnibus ones.
A trip by train to Huddersfield to meet up with relatives and have lunch a couple of pints in The Head Of Steam..... ( superb beer and food and thoroughly recommended ).
Thank Goodness for Realtime Trains...... So even though it was heaving down, dark and cold and down right miserable I managed to get a few shots of the two Freightliner operated empty GMC binliners on their way from Roxby ( Scunthorpe ) to Manchester. 66602 came first and 25 minutes later ex DRS ( still in DRS livery ) 66419 followed.
The beer and the food were superb
Puka shells, seed beads on burlap treated with acrylic medium. 4.5" x 6.5" sampler, framed in light wood (' x 12" shadow box. 2020.
see full Art Work: www.flickr.com/photos/dembicer/49985802957
Despite there being a bit of a lowdown slowdown in recent weeks on the rail lines, I've been trying to keep alert in order to catch any new 7500 locomotives trying to sneak past me. Working in the Orangeville area today, I figured that I could catch the usual meet and greet between 112 and 113 at Baxter later in the day if anything of interest was coming through.
As it turned out, one of the night trains, I think a 114, was tied down at MacTier all evening and the 112, which was the 7501, would be two to three hours behind schedule. This paved the way for a 113 Baxter blow by which caused me some issues due to an emergency road closure in the area. I had to abandon any hopes of an easy catch and head north on the highway in hopes that I could get further ahead of the train.
Luckily, all was well for a change and after setting up here for a while the train had run into signal problems which would have saved the day even if I did run into traffic troubles. RTC had to give them a pass here and there were restricting signals all the way up to Medonte. We might have to get the MacTier signal guy down here to sort things out! It sounds like the 112, which I took a pass on due to the late conditions, is going by Medonte as I write, and the 100 is closing in on Parry Sound with a CPKC unit.
CP MacTier ML74 - CP 7504 (ET44AC), CP 7464 (ET74AC), KCSM 4502 (AC4400CW)
I recently got this interesting product. It's a computer that comes with a basic interface so you can code and run basic language programs.
The main feature it's that you can play famicom games as well. It comes with two turbo controllers.
Back in the eighties the MSX computer was very successful in Japan, Europe and South America, Sony release a model called MSX Hit Bit, maybe this is a Chinese attempt to copy an MSX computer.
It's very cool and it has output for a printer and a tape recorder.
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Walpurgis Night (Walpurgisnacht) is a traditional spring festival on 30 April or 1 May in large parts of Central and Northern Europe. It is often celebrated with dancing and bonfires. It is exactly six months from All Hallows' Eve.
The current festival is, in most countries that celebrate it, named after the English missionary Saint Walpurga (ca. 710–777/9). As Walpurga was canonized on 1 May (ca. 870),[1] she became associated with May Day, especially in the Finnish and Swedish calendars.[2] The eve of May Day, traditionally celebrated with dancing, came to be known as Walpurgisnacht ("Walpurga's night"). The name of the holiday is Walpurgisnacht in German and Dutch, Valborgsmässoafton in Swedish, Vappu in Finnish, Volbriöö, (Walpurgi öö) in Estonian, Valpurgijos naktis in Lithuanian, Valpurģu nakts or Valpurģi in Latvian, čarodějnice or Valpuržina noc in Czech, chódotypalenje Lower Sorbian and chodojtypalenje in Upper Sorbian.
The German term is recorded in 1668 by Johannes Praetorius (writer) (de)[3] as S. Walpurgis Nacht or S. Walpurgis Abend. An earlier mention of Walpurgis and S. Walpurgis Abend is in the 1603 edition of the Calendarium perpetuum of Johann Coler,[4] who also refers to the following day, 1 May, as Jacobi Philippi, feast day of the apostles James the Less and Philip in the Catholic calendar.
The 17th century German tradition of a meeting of sorcerers and witches on May Day is influenced by the descriptions of Witches' Sabbaths in 15th and 16th century literature
A mixed media project using Perler beads and acrylic paint. The concept was "what if Super Smash Brothers was made in an 8-bit style?" Made as a christmas present.
4.5 stars – “This understated style of enhancement is a seamless fit with the gorgeous sketches and tongue-in-cheek humor… the storytelling is exceptional.” - Digital Storytime
“Young listeners will come away having learned more than they expected…" - Bulletin of Children's Book Reviews
How do African animals spread rumors?
What games do animals play?
Why do crocodiles have tears?
In this delightful, kid-friendly, super-fun app experience, African animals tell their stories in highly interactive and animated storybooks, as well as have their portraits available in original art watercolor style Painting Pages, Games, and Puzzles. Unique and playful animated illustrations and natural sounds make the animals come alive.
Follow the adventures of many of your favorite animals in the African savanna – Lion, Monkey, Elephant, Hippo, Turtle, Rhino, and many more.
Author and illustrator Alex Beard brings his love of exploration and painting to life with his signature animals in these charming stories. His watercolor drawings and stylized illustrations are unique.
Based on the award-winning trilogy of children’s books and narrated by the author and illustrator Alex Beard, Tales from the Watering Hole includes three storybooks.
Launching with “The Jungle Grapevine,” that tells the story of eight African animals who learn about the dangers of rumors through an outrageous game of telephone.
“The Jungle Grapevine” is followed by “Monkey See, Monkey Draw,” which tells the story of a troop of monkeys and an elephant who learn to paint and draw with their hands and feet in a tale about confronting fears and the discovery of creative expression, and “Crocodile's Tears,” which tells the story of a rhino and a tickbird as well as the endangered animals they encounter on a journey to discover why Crocodile is crying.
Notable Features include:
◆ Fun, interactive animations
◆ Unique, imaginative illustrations by the author, Alex Beard
◆ Storybooks featuring African animals
◆ Animals, birds, and insects that move, speak, and make natural sounds
◆ Wonderful animations and sound surprises to discover
◆ Funny voices for all the main animal characters
◆ Painting Pages use a watercolor style for coloring and drawing
◆ Puzzles have 9 difficulty levels
◆ Learn the names of African animals throughout the whole experience
◆ Match the animal game
◆ Discoverable animal scramble game (iPad only)
◆ Percentage of revenues will be donated to The Watering Hole Foundation, to preserve natural environments and species - wateringholefoundation.org
*****
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Our Daily Challenge ... cup.
This cup has a chip on the top edge so I turned it into a pen container beside the phone and diary.
Bit noisy as i had to crank up the ISO to take the picture handheld from a bumpy plane. Quite a bit of clear air turbulence on the way over to Copenhagen (via Munich) today. The lights started somewhere over Hudson Bay and continued beyond Greenland. First time i've ever got to see them, the picture just does't do them justice.
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