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« on: January 24, 2010, 06:44:55 PM »
After getting into the habit of wearing ties on a more regular basis, you will probably notice that they somehow seem to "wear off" a little bit. That may be due to improper care or things beyond your reach, for example, getting food or beverages spilled on your favorite tie.That is why I wanted to give you a few suggestions as to how to take care of your tie to make sure that you will be able to wear and preserve it for quite some time to come!How to Properly Untie Your TieA very common mistake a beginner makes when learning how to tie a tie is that once you get that first knot done right, you would never even think about untying your tie at the end of the day. Instead, you would probably prefer to make the loop just big enough to pull your head out and hang the tied tie on a clothes hanger or over the back of a chair (like I usually do :blink:).Unfortunately, that is the most damaging thing you could ever do to your tie. What you would rather want to do is to properly untie your tie.Paying a little attention is key here, though, as doing the opposite will definitely ruin your tie - rather sooner than later.
Instead of hastily tearing and yanking a tie from your neck, repeat all of the steps you followed to tie your tie but now do so in reverse order! Step #7 becomes #1, step #6 becomes #2 and so on...
While this process might not necessarily save you an extra minute each evening, it will definitely save you your precious tie and your hard-money that you would have to spend on new ties every couple of weeks.
Remember that as with all things precious, it is going the extra mile to make it last, to keep it coming, to keep happening!
"Instead of hastily tearing and yanking to remove your tie from your neck, take the time to repeat all of the steps you followed to tie your tie but now do so in reverse order!" How to Quickly Get Rid Of Tie WrinklesAfter untying your tie, especially when your tie is made of thick and heavy silk, you will probably notice that there are wrinkles that make it look very worn and used - even though you have only worn that tie for only a couple of hours.
However, there is something you can do to get rid of that problem overnight. Basically, all you do is to wrap the tie around your hand, then put it onto a table or into a drawer and let it rest for a while.
To help you understand, here is what you would do:
2) Wrap the wide end around your hand several times.
3) Take the wrapped-up tie and place it on a flat surface.
You will see that after only a few hours all of the wrinkles will be gone and your tie looks as fresh and new as if you had just purchased it at a store!
By the way, wrapping up your ties is also great while on travel to prevent the ties from being damaged in a tightly-packed suitcase.
How to Treat Tie StainsOne of the moments every tie-wearing guy worries about is to get food or beverages spilled on your favorite tie.
That is because chances are 9 out of 10 that that stain permanently ruins your tie as the majority of ties is made of silk, a very unforgiving type of cloth when it comes into contact with coffee, Coke or ketchup!
As silk is a very delicate material, applying stain-removers will only make matters worse. The only thing that I recommend you do is to take your stained tie to your local dry cleaner and ask them for help.
While dry-cleaning will remove the stain in most every case, there is one major downside to it: The shiny look and feel of your tie will be gone, too!
Therefore, really make every effort to protect your tie during meals, e.g., by covering it using a large napkin or removing it if appropriate.
Never treat tie stains with stain-remover! Instead, take the stained tie to your local dry cleaner and let them see to the problem. Keep in mind, though, that while dry-cleaning removes the stain it will also destroy your tie's shiny look and feel.
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« on: January 24, 2010, 05:49:46 PM »
The report cited a source familiar with the program as saying the mission had been kept secret from the German government.
“Among the team’s targets, according to a source familiar with the program, was Mamoun Darkazanli, an al Qaeda financier living in Hamburg who had been on the agency’s radar for years because of his ties to three of the 9/11 hijackers and to operatives convicted of the 1998 bombings of U.S. embassies in East Africa,” writes Vanity Fair’s Adam Ciralsky.
“The CIA team supposedly went in ‘dark,” meaning they did not notify their own station — much less the German government RAW Story: of their presence; they then followed Darkazanli for weeks and worked through the logistics of how and where they would take him down,” reports the magazine.
Washington authorities, however, “chose not to pull the trigger,” it said.
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« on: January 24, 2010, 05:39:29 PM »
Scientists seeking permission to exhume the remains of Leonardo da Vinci plan to reconstruct his face to discover whether his masterpiece, the Mona Lisa, is a disguised self-portrait.
A team from Italy’s National Committee for Cultural Heritage, a leading association of scientists and art historians, has asked to open the tomb in which the Renaissance painter and polymath is believed to lie at Amboise castle, in the Loire valley, where he died in 1519, aged 67.
Giorgio Gruppioni, an anthropologist, said the project could throw new light on Leonardo’s most famous work. “If we manage to find his skull, we could rebuild Leonardo’s face and compare it with the Mona Lisa,” he said.
The identity of the Mona Lisa has been debated for centuries, with speculation ranging from Leonardo’s mother to Lisa Gherardini, the wife of a Florentine merchant.
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« on: January 24, 2010, 05:31:33 PM »
Drifting away,
Day after day.
Miles closer,
Yet farther apart.
Bent so far as to break,
Deep in its ache,
Forever longing the start.
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« on: January 24, 2010, 10:38:28 AM »
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« on: January 24, 2010, 09:35:05 AM »
Earlier today, NASA Flight Engineer TJ Creamer sent the first live tweet from outer space, urging earth-bound Twitter users to correspond with the NASA team on the International Space Station. "Hello Twitterverse!" Creamer said in the message. "We r now LIVE tweeting from the International Space Station -- the 1st live tweet from Space! :) More soon, send your ?s." TJ Creamer Technically, Creamer isn't the first astronaut to tap into Twitter. Last year, a crew member on the Atlantis shuttle sent messages to NASA Mission Control, which uploaded the short blasts. And in 2008, NASA created a page for the Mars Phoenix Lander. But Creamer is the first to take advantage of a wireless connection on the International Space Station to send a tweet directly from space.
In coming weeks, Creamer will post additional tweets, as will two of his crewmates, ISS Commander Jeff Williams and Japanese astronaut Soichi Noguchi.
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« on: January 24, 2010, 07:10:39 AM »
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« on: January 23, 2010, 09:16:58 PM »
Every November in Finland (My Country :happy: ), the super cool Lainio Snow Village and SnowHotel (featured in the James Bond film Die Another Day) is created. Approx 1,000 truck loads of snow are used to create the Snow Village covering 20,000 square metres. The Snow Village is an arctic adventure offering a large ice hotel with an ice restaurant and ice bar, along with activities such as an ice maze and snow slides.
Opened in 2000, this ice hotel's accommodation consists of 20 igloo bedrooms and 7 fancy ice suites. Every year the Snow Village is designed different but always a magical experience combining ice artistry, handicraft and breathtaking constructions made of snow.
Snow Village Location
Found in the western part of Finnish Lapland, the location of the Snow Hotel is near the ski resorts Ylläs and Levi, about 150 kilometers north of Rovaniemi, Finland.
Most guests come to the town of Ylläsjärvi by flying to Rovaniemi airport or flying to Kittila airport (the latter being just 25 minutes away from the Snow Hotel).
Staying Overnight in the SnowHotel
Pack yourself tightly into your sleeping bag during a night at the Snow Hotel. There are approximately 30 rooms, all made of ice and snow. Individually decorated suites with different themes are also available.
The temperature in the Snow Hotel ranges from 0 to -5 degrees Celsius (23-32 degrees Fahrenheit) depending on the Scandinavian weather outside. However, there is a heated area where hotel guests can enjoy warm showers and a sauna, or warm up in the group room in front of the fireplace and TVs.
Ice Bar
The family-owned Snow Hotel also has Europe's largest Ice Bar where you can meet others in a unique bar are with an otherworldly atmosphere, and drink from glasses made of ice. I can assure you, just seeing this bar is worth a visit to the Snow Village.
 
Weddings in the Ice Chapel
For wedding couples, Snow Village offers remarkable settings for an unforgettable day of ceremony and celebration. To start with couples can choose between an ice chapel with furnishings made of ice and a traditional, cosy wooden chapel.
Price: 320,00 €/suite/nightSnow Village Opening Times
Snow Village will remain open until April 15th of 2010 and will reopen on 10th Dec., 2010
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« on: January 23, 2010, 08:17:29 PM »
Don’t you think that It is better to have loved and lost than never to have love at all?
So you lost out on something. But didn’t you enjoy it while it lasted?
Anything worthwhile in life involves risk – the risk of failure. Sometimes that risk is too great for people to contemplate. But their lives are surely less if they fail to do so.
By falling in love you risk rejection.
By trying to get a better job you risk rejection.
By trying to get a book published you risk rejection.
By trying to get to the national team for your sport you risk rejection.
But you still try.
And what if you do make that sports team and get to play one game only to be dropped immediately because there is someone better to take your place? Would you rather that you never had the chance to play for the team? Would you still be glad you had the opportunity? Was it worth it just for that short moment?
What about falling in love and then getting dropped very soon after? That hurts, but isn’t it worth it? Aren’t you wiser for the experience? Wasn’t it wonderful while it lasted?
All things pass eventually – good and bad. So in a way you have to let go of everything sooner or later. It’s just that some things change sooner than others. And some things a lot sooner than you would prefer and that can be difficult. But then that’s life so you might as well get use to it.
It’s still worth the risk to try new things – sure, it might not work out – but what if it does, how great would that be!
To do anything in this world worth doing, we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in, and scramble through as well as we can.
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« on: January 23, 2010, 07:35:09 PM »
“Palestinian authorities uncovered Israeli efforts to spread a special kind of gum that contains sexual hormone between Palestinians. The authorities requested laboratory tests on the gum which were conducted in Cairo. Those tests showed that the gum contains progesterone which is responsible for sexual arousal and also prevents pregnancies. Palestinian authorities confiscated 200 tonnes of gum in the city of al-Khalil alone. The Washington Post claimed in report that if it asked a chemistry professor in the Hebrew university to examine the gum. His tests were negative, however the paper also reported that the majority of Palestinians believe the conspiracy. It quoted one Palestinian saying that it was possible to send a space ship to Mars then it is possible to manufacture a ’sexual gum’ it is after all a war.”
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« on: January 23, 2010, 07:10:09 PM »
I want to kiss her after kissing her,
And before, and while kissing her,
I am touched with the urge
To kiss her again:
I fear all this kissing will crack my lips open
And I will spill words onto her tongue:
Beautiful words
like "You are the water and jug
And I thirst and I thirst"
But first I shall kiss her and spill
Herds of sweet words
Over the hills of our mouths,
Beautiful words
like "You are the smoke and the salt,
Preserve me, preserve me,"
So she will kiss me and kiss me,
And this -- see? -- this isn't free,
It's bartered from me
With the moist of her lips,
The clip of her tongue as it slips
Into me,
An offer of moisture
For the roots of my tree,
For the tangling roots entangling me
And I want to kiss after kissing her,
And before, and while kissing her,
I am touched with the urge to kiss her again.
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« on: January 23, 2010, 07:03:07 PM »
-------------------------- Jhanda:
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« on: January 23, 2010, 06:49:27 PM »
Source of My post : CNN iReport, A 13 year old boy, named Gentill Abdulla, has said that he has a time machine plan that is going to work. I have personally met him and he is an extremely bright boy. Gentill says that his ingenious plans can allow time travel to be possible. He told me: "I have done a lot of research on the areas of black holes, time travel, wormholes, magnetism, light, and most importantly gravity. I have devised an experiment that if done correctly could allow time travel". Here is the theory:
If you had magnets in front of each other and had one beam of blue light that had been traveling for thousands of years and put that in the middle of these two magnets then turned on lasers on each magnet, and the side they are pointing makes the magnets face each other, and when the magnets are heated have eight smaller magnets on each magnet and make those magnets so that they would repel the big magnet.
Then move all these magnets toward the plastic magnet so it will compress it on all sides so it will become smaller than it's Schwarzschild radius.
After this is done the magnets both should become black holes. Since they are facing each other their gravities will act and join these black holes together. There will still be a singularity but it will be magnetic.
Now you make a device, that I have also made, that will split the singularity into a ring. This device will make a hole in the singularity. Since the string is no longer there, the magnets will expand enough to make the singularity into the ring.
You will know if it works because you will be able to see the other side of the hole from the entrance. Since the beam of light is old and the light beam is what is creating the effect, you will be able to go back to when that beam of light was first made.
So through this it will make a traversable wormhole. The negative energy really won't be negative energy because since the smaller magnets are repelling the singularity, it will push it outward in the opposite way or just rotate the 2 magnets from the beginning so you don't have that problem.
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« on: January 23, 2010, 06:37:30 PM »
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« on: January 22, 2010, 09:38:51 PM »
Ken Morrish of Colaton Raleigh, Devon was astounded when he grew an apple that was half-red and half-green. This genetic mutation is called an "extreme mutation" because the odds of it occurring are literally a million to one. The resulting fruit is known as a chimera in which two different kinds of cells turn into one organism.
It is unlikely that this will be a recurring mutation, but Ken Morrish is going to be on the lookout for another one next year.
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« on: January 22, 2010, 09:19:51 PM »
During Victorian times, when the camera was still seen as a novel oddity, the practice of taking pictures of the recently deceased as a memorial became commonplace. As time progressed and more people wanted to remember family members who had prematurely departed, it became commonplace to position dead bodies in life-like poses to simulate how these individuals were before they shuffled off their mortal coils.
Pay close attention to these photos. The bodies are positioned with heavy wire and stands and, in some cases, pupils have been painted on closed eyelids.
The girl in the middle is not alive. Look at the position of her hands.
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« on: January 22, 2010, 09:01:44 PM »
Sakhan Dosova's passport says she was born on March 27, 1879: the same year that Thomas Edison invented the light bulb. If this is true, it would make her 16 years older than the person wildly believed to be the oldest person alive and it would make her six years older than the oldest person ever.
While the folks at the Guinness Book of World Records are trying to confirm her age, Mrs. Dosova has been speaking about her incredible longevity including the fact that she's never taken pills and doesn't like sweets.
Mrs. Dosova has been married twice and had ten children; only three of them - now in their ninties - are still living. It is believed that she was widowed during World War II.
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« on: January 22, 2010, 07:59:35 PM »
If you knew for certain that was all you had left, how would you spend it?
You would probably appreciate the people around you more. You’d try to get some quality time in with friends, family. You’d play with your kids more. You’d go to the beach, try bungy jumping, eat raw squid. You’d be hungry for experiences and would try to pack as much into that year as you possibly could.
You probably wouldn’t spend more time at the office, complain about traffic so much, waste time sleeping in, watch so much TV, get into fights, argue about pointless things. You probably wouldn’t worry so much about keeping a spotlessly clean house, or about what the neighbours think. You would eat more chocolate.
In short you would focus on the things that matter and that you enjoy. Your life would actually be a lot better than normal during those 12 months because you would be putting more into it and getting more out of it.
It would probably be the best year of your life
In some ways it would actually be a blessing if you knew you had a finite amount of time to live. It would give you the motivation you need to do the things you should be doing anyway
Don’t wait for someone to tell you that you only have a year left to live before you begin.
Start now.
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« on: January 22, 2010, 07:52:05 PM »
The Freemasons  The Illuminati 
Opus Dei 
Skull and Bones 
The Trilateral Commission While not, on its face, as juicily sinister as some of the other societies on this list, the Trilateral Commission has been accused of all sorts of underhanded shenanigans by its critics. Formed in 1973 by David Rockefeller, the Commission includes over 300 prominent citizens from Europe, Asia, and North America in a forum for discussing the regions’ common interests. But conspiracy theorists hold that the Trilateral Commission, along with the Council on Foreign Relations and others, is really just a front for a larger, more sinister order called the Round Table Groups, founded in London over 100 years ago and bent on the creation of a new world order, a global capitalist police state. Yikes! (For the record, some say
the Round Table Groups are themselves just fronts for another society, the Illuminati, so who knows?) American members of the Trilateral Commission have included Bill Clinton, Henry Kissinger, Jimmy Carter, Dick Cheney, and Dianne Feinstein.
The Bohemian Club 
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« on: January 22, 2010, 06:59:40 PM »
In the beginning it sounded so perfect,
The first night we were together
It seemed so worth it.
Each day, the harder I tried,
Each day, it seemed you had more to hide.
There is nothing more I can offer you,
It seems you can’t be satisfied.
I only asked for your truth
Yet, each day I was only denied.
The smallest of happiness I needed to get by,
Just to survive…
“Why,” must you take for granted all of my emotions?
“Why,” didn’t I leave you, on the smallest of a notion?
Now I must realize, it’s time to walk away,
I’m sorry… there’s nothing left to say.
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