Crooked Teeth Enhancements is a Hot Trend in Japan

When it comes to teeth alignment, Japanese women and the majority of U.S. women have very different concepts about what constitutes a pretty smile. People in the United States often spend a small fortune to have straight teeth. Parents in the U.S. almost religiously take their children to the orthodontist to ensure that their kids grow up with straight teeth. According to socio-economic studies in the United States people with crooked teeth are often seen as less attractive and not as well-educated nor as intelligent as those with picket-fence dentures.

In Japan however there is... (more)

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The 1949 U.S. Goodwill Baseball Tour of Japan

“The 1949 U.S. Goodwill Baseball Tour of Japan” is currently a display at the Society of California Pioneers museum at 300 4th Street (at Folsom) in San Francisco. It runs through Spring. Call (415) 957-1849 for more information. If you’re a fan of baseball history, this is a must-see, featuring more than 250 items from this historical tour.

I am fascinated by the long history of baseball in San Francisco. Next month, the City By the Bay will celebrate 150 years of baseball in the Bay Area.

Lefty O’Doul was a fascinating guy. He’s the second-greatest player from the area,... (more)

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One Day In Mikayo Town, Japan

A baby was crying in a corner of the room,

her mother put it to her breast

rocked back and forth,

cooing,

yet, listening intently,

they all were listening,

to the voices on the radio,

the children, the families

looking horribly sad, staring at the sky

darkened to the same gray as the water,

they could not tell where the sea ended

and the sky began,

shook their heads searching for answers,

the crisis spiraling out of control,

what could be salvaged?

Today the weather was calm, the air heavy,

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Interview with Political Book Author Michael Charney

...Glenn Beck?

Michael: I’ve always been interested in politics and I’ve always been interested in writing, but I never thought the two would come together. Then Glenn Beck did something that crossed a line I didn’t even know I had drawn—he blamed the earthquake and tsunamis in Japan on you and me, saying that, somehow, God was punishing us because we weren’t taking the Ten Commandments seriously enough. Imagine: God angry because we sometimes go to the mall on Sundays or covet our neighbor’s Lexus!

People were repeating his words like they were gospel, even... (more)

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Kenneth Hoss is the Author of Storm Rising

... the U.S. Army and U.S. Navy. His tour in the Army took him to Frankfurt, Germany where he had the opportunity to travel around Europe. While in the Navy, Kenneth spent most of his time stationed in San Diego and Long Beach. His Navy travels took him to Hawaii, Guam, The Philippines, South Korea, Japan, Hong Kong, Okinawa, and Pakistan. He has lived in several States, including South Carolina, Florida, Georgia, Washingtonand California. Kenneth began writing while in High School, mostly Sci/Fi and Fantasy. It wasn’t until May 2011 that he realized his dream and published his first novel,... (more)

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Interview with Tiffany Craig Brown, author of

About Tiffany Craig Brown

As the daughter of a career Air Force officer, Tiffany Craig Brown has traveled the world, living in such exotic places as Ethiopia and Japan. Some of her first memories include bathing beneath waterfalls in the African bush. She also saw first-hand the effects of extreme poverty and disease which taught her to appreciate how lucky she was to have been born an American.

After a tour in the Army and a brief marriage, Tiffany moved to San Diego, California with her two young children and enrolled in college. Three years later, she transferred to California... (more)

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‘GLOBAL WARNING’, NOT ‘GLOBAL WARMING’

...through our ARMS RACE, production of ICBMs, and other lethal weaponary not to hit some unknown assumed Alein enemies but to hit our own heads. U.S. warnings to Iran, North Korea and China; and North Korea, Iran and Chinese warnings to U.S. and South Korea or China warning the Phillipines and Japan or any other two inimical nations warning each other to suppress each other with the boldness of their dangerous Nuclear and other formidable weapons, not only results in each wiping out the other to make the “Mayan Calender” Dooms Day or some other predictions of Prophet-seers, true. They... (more)

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Gay, Straight - Worry About Crooked!

...But whether one believes that marriage is a right or a mere tradition is really of little concern. Whether we keep adding new jobs? Big concern. Whether we manage to get through the next year without new hostilities breaking out between, oh, Israel and Iran/China and the Phillipines/China and Japan/Syria and, uh, Syrian people, etc., big concern. Whether fracking is going to produce a whopper new earthquake somewhere in Pennsylvania, big concern. Whether we are even going to have anything resembling real healthcare/immigration/etc., reform in our lifetimes? Big concerns. Whether you will... (more)

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Coping with Stress by author Elaine Seiler

...an energetic shift…….

How can you leave stress and angst behind and walk joyously into the future.

~ Elaine Seiler

Elaine has spent her life committed to making the planet a more harmonious place – whether as an exchange student to France or a teacher of English in Japan, on school boards, community political organizations, or non-profit humanitarian organizations, as a Research Assistant to the Anthropologist, Dr. Margaret Mead, a student and teacher of Holistic Health, as the Director of a Peace Foundation, or as a consultant, she has sought the betterment of ... (more)

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Gun Ownership: Not Just a Right, An American Obsession

...defensive posture of the gun lobby and right wing politicians in the wake of the Tucson bloodbath points out how sensitive and militant these hardy frontier people are in their pick-ups and RVs. Just give one a gun rack and a “proud to be an American” sticker for the rear bumper of his Japanese car and its almost like being in heaven.Now, I have nothing against people owning guns for sport or self-defense. I even own one. What I find about as hard to swallow as a slug from a Colt .45 is their almost sensuous love for these weapons and the need to buy more and more of them, from... (more)

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