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The paper also quoted the Irish Nobel Prize-winning poet Seamus Heaney welcoming the agreement with a quotation from the epic Anglo-Saxon poem "Beowulf": "A light appeared and the whole place became brightened the way the sky does when heaven's candle is shining brightly."
The main practical advantage to our technique is that in leveling the macular background, the same correction is smoothly and simultaneously applied to the drusen embedded within the image, with the dimmer central ones being brightened or enhanced.
Kintamani, adjoining Batur, is brightened up only by its market, on Monday and Thursday mornings.
This week, things brightened slightly, for no obvious reason aside from excellent earnings from bellwethers Cisco (a holding of mine) and Wal-Mart (which I don't own but probably should) and a general sense that the market was "oversold."
His eyes brightened.