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  Observer | Life on the ocean wave starts to drift a little
One of the reasons people are drawn to the ocean, as to mountains and deserts, is that it is a simplifying environment.
Somewhere near the Orkneys, Nicolson's growing guilt at his absence from family life, the continuous demands of the TV company, and George's sense of slightedness, all combine and combust.
It is almost a study of the toxic influence of the ocean upon human relationships.
observer.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4925070-102280,00.html   (596 words)

  
 Trafford Publishing: A Life on the Ocean Wave and on Shore
A Life on the Ocean Wave and on Shore
While he enjoyed the glamour of nautical life he found the prolonged separations from his pregnant wife, Pat, extremely difficult to cope with and he eventually decided to pursue a different career.
Life at the school was new to me and I was regarded by everyone as the new boy.
www.trafford.com /4dcgi/robots/03-1870.html   (2325 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Waves influence climate by mixing ocean and atmosphere.
Plant growth in the ocean depends on dissolved carbon dioxide, so bubble size ultimately affects the ocean's ability to soak up this most important greenhouse gas from the atmosphere.
Waves come in two types: 'plunging' breakers turn over at their tip, whereas the crest of a 'spilling' wave runs down its face like an avalanche.
www.nature.com /news/2002/020819/pf/020819-4_pf.html   (526 words)

  
 Stewart Lamont - Religion Inc.
What is more subtle is that once a person has made his whole life centre round the Church of Scientology, then being 'declared' (which is the verb for becoming a SP), poses a terrible threat of losing friends, job, home and perhaps family all at once.
A life on the ocean-wave was a life free from restraint.
Life on board the *Apollo* was a bizarre mixture of an educational cruise, being on the *Bounty* with Captain Bligh, and a version of the movie farce 'Carry on Cruising'.
members.chello.nl /mgormez/books/lamont/wave.htm   (5302 words)

  
 Oceans of Possibility   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Ocean currents move more than just water and ocean life – they transport heat.
Despite the ability to thrive under extreme conditions, ocean life is also extremely sensitive to changing conditions.
Given the sensitivity of marine ecosystems, one of your objectives is to minimize the habitat's impact on the surrounding environment.
www.microsoft.com /education/OceansOfPossibility.mspx   (2443 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
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 Regatta Online - Ocean Rowing
Peter Lowe's baptism in the Atlantic Rowing Race was sudden.
On Wednesday Lowe accepted the offer, on Thursday and Friday the former Pangborne Oxford Brookes oarsman went to work at his chartered surveyor's office before flying to Tenerife overnight.
Lowe had tried to get sponsorship for the race himself before pulling out six months before it started.
www.regatta.rowing.org.uk /106-atlantic.html   (732 words)

  
 Lonely Planet | Thorn Tree Travel Forum   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Branches > A Life on the Ocean Wave
I'm currently a 9-5 office monkey with a hankering for a life on the ocean wave and more chance to see the world but am wondering if ocean life is as gruelling as it's cracked up to be.
Life on board is relaxed, even laid-back but it’s also full of challenges and possibilities.
thorntree.lonelyplanet.com /categories.cfm?catid=54   (1890 words)

  
 Writers and Photographers Unlimited
In this ocean, where most islands are guarded by reefs, it will be five days before you reach an anchorage you can safely enter; five days before you can fully inspect the damage, assure yourself that the hull is still sound, and then sleep round the clock before attempting even the simplest repairs.
Big ocean passages are the essence of ocean racing, but for the cruising sailor they are basically an ordeal to be endured when necessary and avoided whenever possible.
Perhaps in defence against the impersonal vastness of the ocean, cruising yachties often sail in loose flotillas, and certainly arrange to meet at the next anchorage.
www.wpu.org.uk /members-samples/jon-sparks.html   (3880 words)

  
 Sunderland City Council
Next Monday's ceremony is the culmination of a nine year relationship forged between HMS Ocean - the Royal Navy's largest warship - and the City of Sunderland and its people.
The relationship with HMS Ocean began in July 1995 when it was announced that Ocean was to be the City's new adopted ship replacing Sunderland's previously affiliated ship, HMS Arrow, which had been decommissioned in 1993.
They are also being urged to come along and cheer on the Freedom Parade which lines up on the parade ground outside the Civic Centre at 3.15 pm on Monday July 26 before setting off on its march through the streets of Sunderland at 3.50pm.
www.sunderland.gov.uk /Pages/press/pritem.asp?Id=887   (425 words)

  
 The Advocate Newspaper - Online Edition
HEYDAY: The Princess of Tasmania is greeted by onlookers during its run from 1959-72.
Life on the ocean wave over for Princess
she'd drop off (a wave) and go bonk, but she was good and well built."
www.theadvocate.com.au /news.cgi?type=1&id=198540   (297 words)

  
 Fact Sheet - Regimental Marches
The bulk of the march is taken from Henry Russell's 'A Life on the Ocean Wave' published in the 1840's and the short central section (trio) is based on eight bars of 'The Sea' by Sigismund Neukomm, first published in 1832.
George Miller, Bandmaster RMLI, Portsmouth Division (later Major/Director of Music) and said 'A Life on the Ocean Wave' was composed by me some 60 years ago, whilst in America.
The arrangement of the song 'A Life on The Ocean Wave' for the Regimental March was made by Mr Kappey, who was Bandmaster of the Chatham Division Band, RMLI, from 1892, using an old naval song 'The Sea' as the trio.
www.royalmarinesbands.co.uk /reference/FS_reg_march.htm   (569 words)

  
 Yachting and Boating World: Sort of Boatish......
The song "Life on the ocean wave" was by a chap called..........
A search on Google suggests that "A Life on the ocean wave" was writen by Epes Sargent (1813 - 1880) and was included in the "Yale Book of American Verse" published in 1912.
"The words of 'A Life on the Ocean Wave!' were presented to the composer, Henry Russell, by the poet after they had been rejected by a publisher.
www.ybw.com /forums/showflat.php?Number=560016&page=vc   (386 words)

  
 A life on the ocean wave
Donald is my age and has lived on Sanday most of his life: he's a great bloke, with a wicked sense of humour, over 6ft tall, with arms like tree roots and hands the size of dinner plates (well, almost).
Most are very funny, but some are quite scary - and, to top it all, one night he told us he can't even swim.
Tam is the owner of the boat, called the Valhalla, and has fished all his life.
manchesteronline.co.uk /news/s/55/55163_a_life_on_the_ocean_wave_.html   (635 words)

  
 icNewcastle - Life on the ocean wave   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Sam Lamiroy is living life on the crest of a wave.
Sam's life on the ocean wave began in Tynemouth, North Tyneside, shortly after his family moved there from Belgium.
At the age of 23, after finishing a four-year degree in ocean science at Plymouth University in Devon, he turned professional, landing sponsorship contracts from Red Bull, Adidas, PlayStation 2 and O'Neill.
icnewcastle.icnetwork.co.uk /0100news/sundaysun/tm_objectid=13148383&method=full&siteid=50081&headline=life-on-the-ocean-wave-name_page.html   (1079 words)

  
 Eric Townsend - The Sad Tale of Scientology
This obviously made life a little difficult for the new Emperor trying to establish himself.
A similar situation could be said to have come about within the Church, assuming that Hubbard had genuinely passed running of the Church to others at all.
The Saint Hill booklet shows a genuine popular movement with people from all walks of life giving their time and enthusiastic support, but still combining this with living and working in the outside world.
www.cs.cmu.edu /~dst/Library/Shelf/townsend/7.htm?FACTNet   (1226 words)

  
 Tsui Design & Research Inc. | In The Media
It is my hope, that in the not too distant future people will look back at these times and say, there lived a people that were not afraid to turn their backs on the edicts of society, who were not afraid to turn away from the violent consequences of symbolism, nationalism and profiteering.
That we are here and life exists; and refuse to be another endless number of the faithless or to join the multitudes of the foolish, to find our own singular and unique originality and shout it to the world -- that we might contribute a verse to the powerful, eternal poem of life.
An individual whose emotional life has been tortured and torn asunder is going to have a recognizably injured and debilitating psychological, spiritual and social life.
www.tdrinc.com /media.html   (7924 words)

  
 www.scrum.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Life on the ocean wave for England stars
With the countdown to the new season gathering pace, England’s elite men and women have found a new way to unwind.
Wasps trio Paul Volley, Alex King, Simon Shaw and new Gloucester signing Andy Gomarsall have spent their pre-season enjoying life on the ocean wave at Skandia Life Cowes Week on the Isle of Wight.
www.scrum.com /features/sailing.asp   (489 words)

  
 The Liverpool Echo is to embark on a life on the ocean wave, sponsoring a yacht in a round the world race: Regional ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
The Liverpool Echo is to embark on a life on the ocean wave, sponsoring a yacht in a round the world race: Regional Journalism in the UK on the Internet.
The Liverpool Echo is to embark on a life on the ocean wave, sponsoring a yacht in a round-the-world race.
The Liverpool Clipper yacht is one of eight 60ft racing yachts taking part in Clipper 2002, the world's longest circumnavigation race, which is being hosted by Liverpool.
www.holdthefrontpage.co.uk /news/2002/03mar/020306clip.shtml   (242 words)

  
 H.M.S. Hood Association-Battle Cruiser Hood: Remembering Hood: The Memories of Crewman Howard Spense   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
My home town was Portsmouth in Hampshire and my father, Howard Ernest Spence served on HMS Hampshire in world war one and luckily left her just before her final voyage when she was sunk with Lord Kitchener on board.
CPO Sheppard listened to my excuses and I explained that my promotion board was coming up and that it would be a disaster if I went on Commanders Report.
He relented and told me not to be so stupid in future and that kidness saved my life.
www.hmshood.com /crew/remember/HowardSpense.html   (698 words)

  
 Books | Life and death on the ocean wave
When archaeologist Verity Auger takes two students with her to excavate artefacts from the frozen waste which is all that remains of a future Paris, she imagines it's a field trip like any other: technically illegal, likely to be frowned upon by her boss but still worth the risk.
Then one of the students is injured and Verity finds herself about to face a tribunal that can take not just her job but her life.
Only the Paris she's been investigating is not the city we know, if the strange maps sent to Verity are to be believed...
books.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,5087415-100569,00.html   (656 words)

  
 Archive Awareness Campaign 2005 › What's On? › A Life on the Ocean Wave: Life in Nelson's Navy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
› A Life on the Ocean Wave: Life in Nelson's Navy
A Life on the Ocean Wave: Life in Nelson's Navy
Talk on life in Nelson's navy by Peter Ransome Time: 12.30-1.30 Location: The Green Room Free of charge, no booking required What was life like in the navy 200 years ago?
www.archiveawareness.com /events/directory/175.html   (106 words)

  
 Ocean
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 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
"A Life on the Ocean Wave" (1838) A Favorite SONG Sung by Mr.
We shoot through the sparkling foam Like an ocean bird set free Like the ocean bird our home We'll find far out on the sea.
The land is no longer in view, The clouds have begun to frown, But with a stout vessel and crew, We'll say, let the storm come down!
www.pdmusic.org /russell/hr38alotow.txt   (231 words)

  
 Observer | A life by the ocean wave
Last month saw the launch of what is claimed to be 'the UK's most outstanding waterfront development' on former dockland in Southampton.
Admiral's Quay at Ocean Village is planned as a series of eight apartment blocks, each named after a trade wind, that will provide, in marketing speak, 'the epitome of marina living' to more than 400 apartment owners.
City-based marinas such as Ocean Village in Southampton, or Brighton Marina, which was one of the first to be developed in the 1970s, are aimed much more firmly at the lifestyle market.
observer.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4686314-102272,00.html   (874 words)

  
 University of Glasgow :: Avenue :: Issue 36 :: Life on the ocean wave   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
University of Glasgow :: Avenue :: Issue 36 :: Life on the ocean wave
In recent years, another challenge — ocean rowing — has taken up much of their time, beginning in 1997 when Stein took part in the first ever ocean regatta from Tenerife to Barbados; and in 1999-2000 Diana rowed alone from Tenerife to Barbados in 113 days.
Diana and Stein have semi-retired from their practices in Norway and have set out on another circumnavigation by stages where the journey will lead them through the Panama Canal across the Pacific, north of Australia, round South Africa, back to the West Indies and home via Azores and Britain.
www.gla.ac.uk:443 /avenue/story.cfm?id=61   (168 words)

  
 BBC News | AMERICAS | A life on the ocean wave
A luxury cruise liner has become the permanent home of an elderly American woman after she worked out it would be cheaper - and a lot more enjoyable - than going into an old people's home.
Beatrice Muller, 82, had so many loyalty points from cruises aboard the QE2 liner that turning her life into a floating holiday was the most economical option, she said.
She spends her time playing bridge, for which she has a fearsome reputation, and indulging in her favourite pastime - ballroom dancing with gentlemen hosts.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/americas/1417523.stm   (328 words)

  
 Cape Times - Children given chance to taste life on ocean wave
A group of disadvantaged children have gathered in Simon's Town harbour for a week of sailing training at the Izivungu Vungu Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) Foundation for Youth.
This project was founded three years ago and is an initiative of the SA Navy and the MSC.
The project's aim is to teach the children life skills and to give them the perspective of a brighter future.
www.capetimes.co.za /index.php?fSectionId=271&fArticleId=2464243   (379 words)

  
 Royal Navy - Review - oohhh,,,life on the ocean wave
Life on the Ocean Wave, is it what you dream it is??
This was the start of 6 weeks of intense, hard work, but the most fun I have ever had in my life.
It is certainly not an easy life, but it can be rewarding and set you up in good stead for the rest of your life.
www.dooyoo.co.uk /employment/royal-navy/270601   (725 words)

  
 Page 696 - life on the ocean wave. Father DeSmet bicentennial, page 908   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Page 696 - life on the ocean wave.
London, Lille and Belgium - Visited Aix la Chapelle, Prussia - Made a tour of Holland and returned to Belgium.
The wind continued moderate and the weather fair till we arrived on the Newfoundland banks, on the 2d of May.
users.skynet.be /pater.de.smet/pj-b-e/pagina908.htm   (354 words)

  
 Life on the ocean wave
Dr Thomas Bligh is one of those fortunate people who manages to combine work with the things they are most passionate about in life.
With a name like Bligh, it is perhaps no wonder that his passions are involved with the sea and sailing (he is in fact a direct descendant of that famous Captain Bligh of the mutiny on the Bounty).
This not only allows the process to be speeded up, but also allows the designer to run many more options, and thus give the customer more choice."
www-g.eng.cam.ac.uk /125/noflash/now/yacht.html   (168 words)

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