The Spectre of the New Glasgow Marina

The Lamentations of Finnegan Daley

My dearest Creepers, Autumn has always been my favorite season. There are those who wax rhapsodic about the glories of long Summer days, and thousands of young poets in the Spring of their lives who dash out line after line inspired by the season of growth and renewal. There are a hardy few who, mostly of the Teutonic or Nordic persuasion, who adore the severe and majestic beauty of Winter, with all its attendant merriness and the bustle of close quarters with their fellow man. But for me, there is nothing like the warm days and crisp nights of Fall, with leaves turning as the harvest is brought in. Days are glorious, the nights magical. The bite of winter is far away, and it’s easy to fool yourself into thinking it won’t be that bad, this year. And so I play the grasshopper, while the rest of the world plays…

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Climate Disruption: Thought of the Week

Three Worlds One Vision

I am Ice by Liam Neeson
Other Videos available at Conservation International

Nature is Speaking

Nature is essential to every aspect of human life and well-being — we want to make sure it’s included in the conversation. People are taking more from nature than it has to give, and as a result, we’re putting our own lives on the line… Nature doesn’t need people. People need nature.

~ Nature is Speaking video series, Conservation International

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The Importance of Data in Journalism

The Hopeful Wanderer

The release of crime statistics from all police stations across South Africa is an example of Data (driven) journalism.

Journalists use computers to analyse large amounts of data like the crime statistics, making it easier to decipher for readers (to use as or in a news story).

To use the data effectively, you will have to get to grips with numbers (journalists are not exactly known for their good maths skills) and what they represent. Large chunks of data means nothing unless you compare it to previous or present data or use it to substantiate your news story.

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Paradox

The Lonely Author

On the two year anniversary of Lisa’s disappearance, Detective Jake Cross vows to quit the force to find his missing wife. Hours later, a devastating alien invasion reduces Earth to ashes. Jake awakens in a strange hospital where a secret message on a paper cup advises him, “They are watching.” Thus begins his journey through an alien controlled Earth.

Seven billion dead, yet his heart only mourns for one. Jake joins forces with the last human colony, a somber community reeking of death. Battle weary survivors wander the underground city, their eyes devoid of hope. The humans have food, medicine, and ammunition to survive another week. Anointed the Great Liberator, our last hope, Jake is advised, “Our destiny is decided by the sacrifices that we make and the ones that we don’t.” The reluctant detective rejects his fate until he learns of his wife’s capture and impending execution.

In a deadly race against time, he…

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I Want You

Smile

When i go  walking down the street,

I may smile with everyone i meet. I may skip

and hop be careful Not to drop. I find The nearest tree

And sit myself down, and have a little rest.

The butterflies dances around the flowers, as they bend

their heads to greet me.as i go walking by. Birds Chirping

Sweetly As they fly by Among the trees.My hair

Blowing in the breeze I am happy as can be! Because

I can smile, sitting under a tree.

By Bella declou

A blue rose

yvonnedeclou

Kiss me

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Waiting For my Love

yvonnedeclou

Take a line from a song that you love or connect with. Now forget the song, and turn that line into the title or inspiration for your post.

Waiting for my love

I was 22 years when I met my future husband William De Clou, he was visiting his family after leaving Guyana in 1957 for England lived there for seven years joined the British Military as a Medical Core, He was married and have four kids. He migrated to Canada, was quite handsome and we fell in love at first sight but it was a forbidden love. I waited for fourteen years for each other he got divorced and we got married on the 16/9/1989 in Canada after he sponser me .We lived a happy life helped me to full my dreams,,I am blessed to know such a jeantle man. He loved me thought me love and full fill…

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Queen of Jacklow

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I AM WHO I AM

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Obituary

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William Cleave De Clou, son of Lillian and Robert De Clou was born in Christiansburg, British Guiana December 11, 1933.

Although he was the youngest of five siblings, he was the first to leave the shores of British Guiana in 1957 to serve in the British Army, Medical Core Unit in London, England. He then migrated to Toronto, Canada in 1964 and gained employment as Refrigeration Mechanic at Canadian National Railways (CN) and also held a part-time job at a security company for four years, then at Via Railways for 35-years until his retirement on December 31, 1998. He also served as Shop Steward and Vice President of Machinist AM Union of Lodge 2764, and was the Board Director of the Condominium where he lived.

William also known as Cleave or Bill, by nature was a quiet and very meticulous man, but he enjoyed to watch wrestling (quite the opposite of his…

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