tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-62415331116793360982024-03-12T21:25:45.611-04:00MFS-The Resource Center BlogKath(MFS)http://www.blogger.com/profile/14944518773731940712noreply@blogger.comBlogger436125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6241533111679336098.post-50875743485193879972015-05-06T08:51:00.000-04:002015-05-06T08:51:35.184-04:00✍ FYI: How Old Do I Look?<span style="background-color: white; color: #303030; font-family: Arimo, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px;">It’s something we’ve all pondered to ourselves at one time or another in our lives – how old do we look. Or at the very least, how old do OTHERS think we look. Well ponder no more because there’s an app that can answer that. Well kind of.</span><br />
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There’s an app by Microsoft, that is trying to reveal exactly how old a person is based on their image.</div>
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<span class="" style="box-sizing: inherit;">The website, called </span><a class="" href="http://how-old.net/" rel="nofollow" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #2dad1a; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><b> <span class="mol-style-bold" id="ext-gen117" style="box-sizing: inherit;">How old do I look</span></b></a><span class="" style="box-sizing: inherit;">, not only tells if you’re male or female, but but how old you look. It also allows you to do the same with any image found on Bing, Microsoft’s search engine such as celebrities, who have all the tools at their disposal for looking young.</span></div>
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For some it could be a good thing:</div>
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<em style="box-sizing: inherit;">Radcliffe is actually 25 years old.</em></div>
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<em style="box-sizing: inherit;">Taylor Swift is shown here older than Madonna! Swift’s real age is 25!</em></div>
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<em style="box-sizing: inherit;">The Duchess of Cambridge, Kate Middleton, is actually 33.</em></div>
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But it all depends on the photo.</div>
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The app, created to show off the capabilities of its cloud server software, Azure, took only a couple of developers just a day to put the whole thing together, according to their <a href="http://blog.how-old.net/" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #2dad1a; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">blog.</a></div>
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‘We wanted to create an experience that was intelligent and fun could capture the attention of people globally, so we looked at the APIs available in the Azure Machine Learning Gallery,’ it said.</div>
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They further claimed, “Within hours, over 210,000 images had been submitted and we had 35000 users from all over the world (about 29k of them from Turkey, as it turned out – apparently there were a bunch of tweets from Turkey mentioning this page).”</div>
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The system works by analysing 27 points on the face.</div>
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Called face landmarks, they are a series of specifically detailed points on a face; typically points of face components like the pupils, canthus or nose.</div>
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‘These attributes are predicted by using statistical algorithms and may not always be 100% precise.</div>
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The app can also detect family/group photos:</div>
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Or detect nothing at all:</div>
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And as they describe, while the API is reasonably good at locating the faces and identifying gender it isn’t particularly accurate with age, (as we’ve shown above. Check out Obama again in another image. Now he’s younger than his actual age.)</div>
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And since everyone’s been asking their site about what happens to their photos – no, they don’t store them. They don’t share photos and only use them to guess your age and gender. The photos are discarded from memory once they guess. While they use the terms of service very common in their industry, and similar to most other online services, they have chosen not to store or use the photos in any way other than to temporarily process them to guess your age.</div>
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So what are you waiting for? We know you want to!</div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Don't water down your premium whiskey! Get that chill without the 'thaw'. These nifty stainless steel ice cubes should do the trick!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">These 1-inch reuseable ice cubes will not only keep your drinks cool without the melt but won't give off any awful flavours that ice cubes tend to absorb.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Apparently, to reuse them again, all you have to do is rinse, dry and replace them in the freezer... until your next drink! And of course, they come with their own tray.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">These cubes have been around for awhile but I've only heard of them now. </span></div>
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Well, if anything, they'd make for a great gift!</div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Welcome to the <a href="http://jetovator.com/index.html" target="_blank">JETOVATOR</a>! The revolutionary watersports accessory that makes use of your existing personal watercraft (PWC) in the most elevated way! As they put it, "It's the thrill of flying with the ease of riding a bike".</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You can reach heights up to 30 ft. (9.14 m) and dive to depths of 10 ft. (3.05 m)! From there you can go like a bat-out-of-hell on the surface with speeds of up to 25-30 mph (40-48 km/h).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Jetovator does not come with its own power source and customers must acquire their own high output PWC in order to power the Jetovator. The Jetovator redirects the water thrust from the jet unit of the PWC along a forty foot hose to the Jetovator body. This water thrust is then used to propel and elevate the Jetovator into the air. The rider can also redirect the water thrust of the two front nozzles in order to maneuver the Jetovator in all directions.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The PWC, which provides the power, follows behind the Jetovator using the hose as a tether. It is similar to other water sports accessories like wake boarding or water skiing except the accessory is actually towing the boat rather than the other way around. The 40 foot connecting hose is attached to the PWC via a supplied thrust adaptor that re-directs the jet thrust 180 degrees to the front of the PWC. This thrust adapter can be easily installed and removed, allowing the PWC to still be used as normal.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Of course, all this means the standard Jetovator kit requires two people to operate it; a rider on the Jetovator controlling the height, and direction of the Jetovator, and a rider on the PWC controlling the throttle of the engine. Although this might sound complicated, generally the rider of the PWC just takes the throttle up to approximately 80% of full power and holds it there until the Jetovator rider is ready to come down (again, very similar to waterskiing or wakeboarding).</span></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Powder coated aluminum tubular frame with 1 fixed and 2 vectored nozzles</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">40 foot long 4 inch diameter hose</span></li>
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A little boy goes to his dad and asks, 'What is Politics?'<br />
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The little boy replies, 'The Prime Minister is screwing the Working Class while the Government is sound asleep. The People are being ignored and the Future is in deep shit.'<br />
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Thanks <a href="http://www.mfs-theothernews.com/" target="_blank"><b>Will</b></a>!<br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Shovelling snow can be quite strenuous. The average person burns about 200 calories with 30 minutes of activity. So do you want to get your new year's resolution off to a great start? Start shovelling snow!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Jogging in winter used to be unheard of but with the latest in apparel that keeps us warm and dry in subzero temps and the need to keep fit, there's no reason to stop as long as you keep these tips in mind:</span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial;">Not only is this time saving, but it will make shaving easier! T</span><span style="font-family: Arial;">he humidity of your shower will keep your skin moist and your pores open and even make the hair softer and easier to remove. Of course, there are few things you should know before doing this:</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial;">Lather body with soap - take your time, this gives the shave cream time to soften your beard.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial;">Shave cheeks first, neck next, and finally the upper lip and chin. This order is important as it leaves the toughest whiskers til last, giving them more time to soften.</span></li>
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<li><b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Location is key.</b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Choose a warm, dry place such as a heated garage and keep the bike away from windows and direct sunlight. Cover your motorcycle with a breathable cover, not a waterproof one that will trap moisture.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Check tire pressure.</b> "Store your bike on the centerstand or on a motorcycle lift jack - this removes the majority of the weight from the tires," says John Pineo, honarary president of the Canadian Motorcycle Association. Ift it isn't possible, Pineo recommends fully inflating the tires before putting the bike in storage and checking the pressure monthly.</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Charge your battery.</b> Use a battery tender to maintain the charge throughout the winter. "These chargers monitor the state of the battery and charge it when needed," says Pineo. "You only need to check the connections once a week."</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Fill your fuel tank.</b> "Store your bike with a full tank of gasoline," says Pineo. "An empty tank leaves the interior vulnerable to rusting and also dries out any rubber seals or hoses inside the tank." Pineo also recommends using a fuel stabilizer to prevent the fuel from breaking down and clogging the injectors and jets.</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Did you know, idling a car is not the best way to warm its engine? The engine warms faster if you simply start the car and drive off. Make sure all windows are cleaned off before doing so.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">With today's modern engines, you need no more than 30 seconds of idling on winter days before driving away. For every two minutes a car is idling, it uses about the same amount of fuel it takes to go about one mile.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As a matter of fact, If you are going to be idling or parked for more than 30 seconds, turn off the engine. Ten seconds of idling can use more fuel than turning off the engine and restarting it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>I've always known this fact about not idling your car for too long in winter or otherwise, but I never knew why it wasn't good to do so... until now. As <a href="http://www.consumerenergycenter.org/myths/idling.html" target="_blank">Consumer Energy Center</a> explains:</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Excessive idling can actually damage your engine components, including cylinders, spark plugs, and exhaust systems. Fuel is only partially combusted when idling because an engine does not operate at its peak temperature. This leads to the build up of fuel residues on cylinder walls that can damage engine components and increase fuel consumption.</span><br />
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<b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Keep it shut.</b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Traditional fireplaces are an energy loser - it's best not to use them because they pull heated air out of the house and up the chimney. When not in use, make absolutely sure the damper is closed. Before closing the damper, make sure that you don't have any smoldering embers. If you decide not to use a fireplace, then block off the chimney with a piece of rigid insulation from the hardware store that fits snugly into the space (dampers don't shut fully without some leaking).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Women, winter time is not the greatest time for us in terms of feeling sexy and in the mood. However, men find you even more sexy! As for you men - don't pack away those sleeping bags just yet!</strong></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">As stated on the <a href="http://www.womenshealthmag.com/sex-and-relationships/relationship-tips?cat=17678" target="_blank">Women'sHealth</a> website - guys actually find you sexier in the wintertime, according to a study published in the journal <i>Perception</i>. In the summer, they see so much skin that they become more critical of women's bodies. But in the winter, women aren't showcasing their toned butts and abs, so men are more accepting of different body types and are more likely to overlook flaws. Don't feel comfortable lounging around naked? Throw on something that highlights your best assets, like a cute pair of boy shorts or a sexy tank top.... <i>(Or wearing one of their over-sized sweaters with nothing underneath!)</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><b>Get busy on the clothes dryer.</b> Yeah, the laundry room is for getting things clean, but you can also use it to get down and dirty. Hop onto the humming dryer while he stands between your legs, and let him give you oral attention. "You can hoist one leg over his shoulder to give him easier access," says Fulbright. The heat from the machine plus the vibrations will amp up the experience.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><b>The Yunak Evleri Hotel aka the Cave Hotel</b><strong>, <span style="color: #cc0000;">TURKEY</span></strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In Cappadocia’s magical landscape of fairy chimneys, in the ancient village of Urgup, is a unique hotel carved into a mountain cliff, the Yunak Evler. The hotel is</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> a combination of six cave houses with a total of 30 private cave rooms dating back to the 5th and 6th centuries and crowned with a 19th century Greek Mansion. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The hotel is so unique with its labyrinth of narrow passageways and curved stone stairways which leads to unique, modern as well as tastefully decorated rooms, that one has to see it to believe and appreciate it. All rooms by-the-way, include private patios overlooking the Turkish Mesa. Can you just imagine the amount of work as well as the type of work involved in order to bring this amazing hotel up-to-date for the modern world?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The name “Cappadocia” dates back to Persian times, when the region was called as “Katpatukya” meaning “The Land of Beautiful Horses”. Since then Cappadocia has seen the rise and fall of many different civilizations. It is a land of vast plains, rolling hills, rugged mountains and extinct volcanoes. It is a veritable treasury of historical relics from the Chalcolithic era to the Seljuk Turks period. The visitor may seldom travel more then a few miles without encountering some derelict reminders of Cappadocia‘s colorful past.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And we just love how the rustic feel is combined with modern throughout each room.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Apparently, Cappadocia is famous for many other 'cave hotels' like this next one such as the Hezen Cave hotel listed below:</span></div>
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<b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-large;">The Hezen Cave Hotel</b><strong style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-large;">, <span style="color: #cc0000;">TURKEY</span></strong></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This unique Cappadocia Hotel has been built into an exceptional old house of cave bedrooms and was fully renovated and refurbished to the highest standards. The Hotel’s interior has been designed by Halide Didem, with a unique eclectic style.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Goodyear is initially aiming its AMT system at commercial vehicle fleet operators, citing 2008 figures from the American Trucking Association that more than half of all truck and trailer breakdowns for such operators involve a tire in some way, making tire-related costs the single largest maintenance item for fleet owners. The simple act of keeping tires properly inflated can cut costs by improving fuel economy and prolonging tread life.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Goodyear estimates that every 10 psi loss of tire inflation equates to a one percent loss in miles per gallon. Additionally, tires underinflated by 10 percent is estimated to decrease tread life by nine to 16 percent.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Estimated price: $200/tire</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Source(s): <a href="http://www.gizmag.com/goodyear-air-maintenance-technology-tires/24229/" target="_blank">gizmag.com/</a>, <a href="http://www.goodyear.com/cfmx/web/corporate/media/news/story.cfm?a_id=861" target="_blank">goodyear.com/</a>, <a href="http://techland.time.com/2012/11/01/best-inventions-of-the-year-2012/slide/self-inflating-tires/" target="_blank">techlandtime.com/</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As requested by alot of my viewers... here is last year's post I did for Halloween....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">I thought I'd celebrate this year's Halloween by talking a bit about the famous Haunted House - <strong>Nightmares Fear Factory</strong> - located close to me in Niagara Falls, Ontario, CANADA.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">I've never been there myself, (yes, I'm too afraid), but I've heard and seen so much about it on the radio and internet. It's a 15 minute walk-through attraction that preys on each visitor's fears and phobias. It is the longest running haunted house in North America - and possibly the scariest!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>As the story goes...</strong></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The haunted house is built on the site of the once industrious Cataract Coffin Factory where eccentric proprietor Abraham Mortimer </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">dedicated every waking hour to surveying the progress of his domain.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">At night, the old man was tormented and taunted by young hooligans. Abraham would chase the riff-raff from their pranks and dares. They always laughed at his threats… until one fateful night Abraham confronted a rowdy group of thrill-seekers. In the ensuing struggle, a stack of solid oak coffins overturned, and Abraham was crushed to death! </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The guilty ran off and were never apprehended for their part in the gruesome murder.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Soon after the funeral, Abraham Mortimer's coffin was found unearthed and empty!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> To this day it is said, he walks the halls for revenge on those who dare trespass on his beloved, and now abandoned factory.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">visitors can yell a safety word - <strong><em>Nightmares</em></strong> - if they can't handle the nightmare no longer. They are escorted out but not before given a "Chicken Card" which gives them a free ticket if they muster the courage to return in the future.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">For over 30 years, the attraction has been scaring, thrilling and challenging guests to survive, with over 112,500 chickening out and counting todate - all heading for the exits faster than you can say.. <em>holy sh**t let me outta here!</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But don't take my word for it. Just check out the photos below taken at the moment of fright from <u>real</u> shots caught on a hidden camera! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Visitors wander around in complete darkness, go across a shaky bridge, a tunnel and a room where walls close in. The picture is taken right when people see a car full of ghosts.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As you will see, most are genuinely scared while others.... well, you'll see</span>.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><strong>Just one more thing, I couldn't help but wonder while viewing the photos...</strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Is it me or some of these men seem to be hiding behind the women in alot of these pics???</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Resource(s): </span><a href="http://www.cliftonhill.com/"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> cliftonhill.com</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, </span><a href="http://nightmaresfearfactory.com/"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">nightmaresfearfactory.com</span></a>, <a href="http://ca.news.yahoo.com/"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">ca.news.yahoo.com</span></a>, <a href="http://fyasko.com/"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">fyasko.com</span></a><br />
<br />Kath(MFS)http://www.blogger.com/profile/14944518773731940712noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6241533111679336098.post-25943189250729301782012-09-18T11:50:00.000-04:002015-05-06T08:35:38.289-04:00✍ FYI: SWEARING - Telling Them OFF in Other Languages!<div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ever wanted to tell someone off in their own language? Let's face it, it doesn't make as great an impact if you can't give it to them the way they know how. I mean, if you want to REALLY learn a language, I always feel you need to know the bad words also. I personally like to say <em>Gówno</em>! (pron. GOOVnoh), alot at work 'cause we're not allowed to swear. So even though my Polish friends know what I'm saying... the rest of them don't.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Well, I've done some diggin' and I didn't have to dig too far since it seems there are only 2 main sites that can help you on the subject, lmao. Let's check 'em out shall we?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Insults.net is pretty cool and shows you how to swear in any language from Afrikaans to Yiddish, as well as what's considered insulting in various parts of the world!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is the most popular one. YouSwear.com teaches you swear words in different languages and you can search by language type or search by 'Common Swear Words'. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And if you don't have time to check out the sites, then check out this infograph:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">So the next time you go to Italy and the taxi driver cuts you off.. you know what to do...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">Hey! <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>Testa di cazzo!</em></span> Watch where you're going!</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: x-large;">☻</span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Recource(s): <a href="http://mfslink.blogspot.ca/" target="_blank">MFS-Useful Links</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The iPad is a line of tablet computers (mobile computers), designed and marketed by Apple Inc., primarily as a platform for audio-visual media including books, periodicals, movies, music, games, apps and web content. Its size and weight fall between those of contemporary smartphones and laptop computers.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Like iPhone and iPod Touch, the iPad is controlled by a multitouch display—a departure from most previous tablet computers, which generally used a pressure-triggered stylus—as well as a virtual onscreen keyboard in lieu of a physical keyboard.</span> <br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The successor to the iPad 2 was unveiled on March 7, 2012 by Apple CEO </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Cook" title="Tim Cook"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Tim Cook</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">. The new iPad sports the new dual core A5X processor with quad-core graphics, and a Retina Display with a resolution of 2,048 by 1,536 pixels this is over 50 percent more pixels than a standard 1,920 by 1,080 high definition TV screen.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Due to the exclusion of pornography from the App Store, <em>YouPorn</em> and others changed their video format from </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Flash</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> to </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">H.264 </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(a standard </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">video compression</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, and currently one of the most commonly used formats for the recording, compression, and distribution of high definition video.),</span> and </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">HTML5</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> specifically for the iPad.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Since March 2011, the US <u>Federal Aviation Administration</u> has approved the iPad for in-cockpit use to cut down on the paper consumption in several airlines. In 2011, <em>Alaska Airlines</em> became the first airline to replace pilots' paper manuals with iPads, weighing 0.68 kg compared to 11 kg for the printed flight manuals. It hopes to have fewer back and muscle injuries. More than a dozen airlines have followed suit, including United, which has distributed 11,000 iPads to cockpits. Also, many airlines now offer their inflight magazine as a downloadable application for the iPad.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">During the 2010 </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Major League Baseball</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> free agent season, the agent for the player </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Carl Crawford</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> was sending iPads to prospective teams interested in Mr. Crawford. These iPads were pre-loaded with video clips highlighting his player, and how it would benefit their team to have him.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The iPad is able to support many music creation applications in addition to the iTunes music playback software. These include sound samplers, guitar and voice effects processors, sequencers for synthesized sounds and sampled loops, virtual synthesizers and drum machines, theremin-style and other touch responsive instruments, drum pads and many more. </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorillaz" title="Gorillaz"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Gorillaz</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">'s 2010 album, <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fall_(Gorillaz_album)" title="The Fall (Gorillaz album)">The Fall</a></i>, was created almost exclusively using the iPad by </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damon_Albarn" title="Damon Albarn"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Damon Albarn</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> while on tour with the band.</span></div>
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<li>Angry Birds Space HD (Rovio Entertainment Ltd.) <span style="color: red;">($2.99)</span></li>
<li>Minecraft-Pocket Edition (Mojang) <span style="color: red;">($6.99)</span></li>
<li>Wipeout (Activation Publishing, Inc.) <span style="color: red;">($1.99)</span></li>
<li>NFL Kicker 13 (Full Fat) <span style="color: red;">($0.99)</span></li>
<li>Feildrunners 2HD (Subatomic Studios, LLC)<span style="color: red;"> ($7.99)</span></li>
<li>Pages (Apple) <span style="color: red;">($9.99)</span></li>
<li>Notability - Take Notes & Annotate PDFs with Dropbox Sync (Appsverse Inc.) <span style="color: red;">($0.99)</span></li>
<li>Where's My Perry? (Disney) <span style="color: red;">($0.99)</span></li>
<li>Photo Flash Video Player & Private Web Browser for iPad (Appsverse Inc.) <span style="color: red;">($4.99)</span></li>
<li>Where's My Water? (Disney) <span style="color: red;">($0.99)</span></li>
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<li>Run Roo Run (5th Cell)</li>
<li>Gravity Guy HD (Miniclip.com)</li>
<li>Captain America: Sentinel of Liberty (Marvel Entertainment)</li>
<li>NFL '12 (NFL Engerprises LLC)</li>
<li>DEAD TRIGGER (MADFINGER GAMES)</li>
<li>Pinterest (Pinterest, Inc.)</li>
<li>Skype for iPad (Skype Communications S.a.r.l)</li>
<li>ESPN Fantasy Football 2012 for iPad (ESPN)</li>
<li>Tap Campus Life (Pocket Gems, Inc.)</li>
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<li>Kingdoms of Camelot: Battle for the North (Kabam) (Free)</li>
<li>Clash of Clans (Supercell) (Free)</li>
<li>Bingo Bash HD (BitRhymes Inc.) (Free)</li>
<li>DragonVale (Backkflip Studios) (Free)</li>
<li>Myster Manor: Hidden Adventure (Game Insight, LLC) (Free)</li>
<li>NYTimes for iPad (The New York Times Company) (Free)</li>
<li>The Simpsons™: Tapped Out (Electronic Arts) (Free)</li>
<li>Minecraft-Pocket Edition (Mojang) ($6.99)</li>
<li>Slotmania HD (Playtika LTD) (Free)</li>
<li>Comics (comiXology) (Free)</li>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Unique hotels which offer one-of-a-kind rooms seems to be getting more and more popular as there are many popping up all over. We will try to feature as many as we can, starting with the Propeller Island City Lodge.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Proppeller Island City Lodge in Berlin, Germany is a very unique hotel and a Art Designers dream.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">All rooms and objects were created by the German artist Lars Stroschen. It is like "living in a work of art". There are 30+ rooms and each one unique and individual as the next.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">All furnishings and objects are custom-made or hand-built which means none can be found anywhere else in the world. It's almost like living in a museum with guest accomodations. The rooms are designed and constructed without compromise, varying from the tame to the extreme, and provides the opportunity to more or less alter your perspective of reality - according to your taste and sense of adventure.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There is some price to be paid for all this creativity and uniqueness. Some of the materials are alot more 'delicate' because of this art of a hotel. The plexiglass is easily scratched, as are the dark and intense wall colours when you slide your bags along them - just to name a few. Hence, great care in the movement throughout the hotel to protect and preserve it's creativeness is always greatly appreciated. It also has its own ambience and music that can be listened to throughout the rooms.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Let your imagination wild... and there just might be a room for that!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large;"><strong>The "<span style="color: red;">Flying Bed</span>" Room</strong></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">A room with a slanted floor and a double bed which seems to levitate off the ground. The wardrobe comes out of the wall, but table and chair have got to stay straight! In the rustic bathroom of natural stone you will find eggplant-coloured slate.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">This entirely white room can be darkened and illuminated at your desire with a variety of artifical lamps. A mirror located above the bed allows you to see yourself 'in another light' - spectrally therapeutic and very spectacular! Windows and wasbasin are hidden behind soft white plush.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">The Chicken Curry Room possesses an India-inspired appeal. An exceptionally bright and empty room which could also be utilised as a photographer's studio or shooting location with its gigantic lighting boxes and roll-out backdrops. Gentle pink walls compensates the chromatic tints of the brilliantly luminous neon tubes (...with soft-light as well!). The bed is located in the floor, beneath a 'garage gate'.</span> <br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Lol. Feeling down? How about cheering yourself up by doing the ugly dance. A viewer sent in the link and it sure cheered me up! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">That's me there doing the ugly dance but you can add your own face... then send it to someone special, lol.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Check it out <a href="http://theuglydance.com/" target="_blank"><strong>HERE!</strong></a> - then go create your own ugly dance. </span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: x-large;">☻</span><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Personally, I don't hate babies. I love babies. But I do get tired of
looking at babies," she said. "I think we just addressed the fact that people
use social networks for different reasons, and I guess because of the age we
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babies."</span> -<strong><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span></strong><a href="http://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-tn-unbaby-me-facebook-20120803,0,3872362.story" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><em><strong>latimes.com/</strong></em></span></a></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It's pre-set up to replace them with cats, but if you hate cats, it's easy to change it to pugs, or girls, or whatever you're into. And if you're worried about privacy, the extension checks to see if you're on facebook, and if you're on your newsfeed. If so, it starts searching for the set keywords. They're not taking any information about you or any friends or anything like that. They just want to remove babies. Nothing more. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">By the way, it not only work for babies. You can change the keywords to filter anything you want - or rather, don't want - to be seeing all the time - like weddings, for example. lol. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">About<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">17,000</span> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">athletes and officials</span> </span>from around the world, (<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">with debut appearances from Saudi Arabian female athletes and boxers),</span> </span>will be residing in their temporary 'home-away-from-home' at East London's “Olympic Village." </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">With just over 200 nations competing in the 2012 Summer Games, countries had to be welcomed in batches.</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The ceremony starts with the ringing of the largest harmonically-tuned bell in the world, produced by the Whitechapel Bell Foundry.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">8,000 inspiring Olympic Torchbearers, travelling 8,000 miles to over 1,000 communities, villages, towns and cities.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Each day, 110 Torchbearers (on average) took part and the Flame travelled 110 miles (on average) each day.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">300 metres – the average distance each Torchbearer carried the Olympic Flame.</span><br />
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<li>66 evening celebration towns and cities.</li>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: large;">Over 8 million</span></strong> Games tickets are going to Britons for the Games – 75% of a total 11 million tickets. (Beijing 2008 made 50% of just over 7 million tickets publicly available. There are twice as many tickets available to the domestic public than at Athens 2004).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong><span style="color: #cc0000;">5 million</span></strong> people in the UK have signed up to receive Games-related emails.</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong><span style="color: #cc0000;">10,000</span></strong> serving troops will go to the Games for free through Ticketshare.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong><span style="color: #cc0000;">500,000</span></strong> people will celebrate at Live Sites every day during the Games, at 22 permanent live sites and 47 big screens across every UK nation and region.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong><span style="color: #cc0000;">30 miles</span></strong> of Games Lanes will be in place - less than any other Summer Games<br />(Beijing 2008 had over 186 miles; Athens 2004 had over 99 miles).</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There is a total workforce of around <strong><span style="color: #cc0000;">200,000</span></strong> people,including more than 6,000 staff, 70,000 volunteers and 100,000 contractors.</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong><span style="color: #cc0000;">21,000.</span></strong> The number of international media expected to descend upon London for the Olympic Games.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong><span style="color: #cc0000;">27,000</span>.</strong> The security force deployed to monitor the Olympics. That figure </span><a href="http://www.usnews.com/news/blogs/dotmil/2012/07/12/london-2012-an-olympic-sized-target-for-terrorists" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">includes 17,000 members of the military</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, the largest deployment of British troops on British soil since World War II.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong><span style="color: #cc0000;">302.</span></strong> The number of medal events.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial;">1 billion. The number of viewers watching the opening cerom</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1 million pieces of sport equipment are being sourced by </span><a href="http://www.london2012.com/about-us/the-people-delivering-the-games/locog/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">LOCOG</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">:</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">600 basketballs.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">541 life jackets (Canoeing, Marathon </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Swimming, Rowing, Sailing and Triathlon).</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2,200 dozen Tennis balls.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2,700 Footballs.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">53 sets of lane ropes for Swimming.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">6,000 Archery target faces.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">22 tape measures for Boccia.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">356 pairs of Boxing gloves.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">12 pairs of goalposts for Handball.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">120 head protectors for Taekwondo.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">99 training dolls for Wrestling and Judo.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">375 doctors, 150 nurses, 200,000 pairs of gloves and 150,000 condoms.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">766 miles of fabric needed for Games Maker uniforms.</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Is about 2.5sq km (246 hectares) in size – equivalent to Hyde Park or 357 football pitches. At Games time the Park will include:<br />- 9 major competition venues.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">- 11 sponsor showcase areas.<br />- 1,000 picnic benches, 362 toilet blocks and almost 4,000 bins including recycling<br />and composting bins.<br />- 273 temporary buildings for back-of-house facilities – cleaning and waste compounds,<br />equipment rooms and workforce areas including 7 canteens.<br />- 8.35km of waterways in and around Park, with 30 new bridges built crossing roads, rail lines and rivers to link the site together.<br />- Over 4,000 trees, 74,000 plants, 60,000 bulbs and 350,000 wetlands plants planted –<br />the largest planting project ever undertaken in the UK.</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">46,000 people have worked on the Olympic Park and Village. Of these, 8,500 were from the Host Boroughs and more than 4,000 were previously unemployed. 457 apprenticeships were created.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial;">Rooms are said to be </span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">described as a cross between a college dorm and a freshly-painted motel!</span> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">That’s because only some of the rooms have their own bathrooms, and the only furniture includes single-size beds, beanbags and chairs, and a few tables and dressers designed to be, quote: “functional, not indulgent."</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Each room for the athletes will have a TV, but they will have only 28 channels to choose from, including live feeds of all the Olympic events, of course. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There are more than 350,000 fixtures and fittings in the Olympic and Paralympic Village; 250,000sq m of apartment space and more than 250km of copper cable.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There are 2,818 apartments requiring 16,000 beds, 9,000 wardrobes, 11,000 sofas, 22,000 pillows, 1,200 blankets and 28,000 branded duvets.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There are a total of 76 elevators throughout the village to ensure full accessibility.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">All cooking will be done in a 24-hour cafeteria, which is big enough to seat 5,000 people! Officials say they expect to serve 60-thousand meals a day during the Olympics.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Speaking of (olympic-size) meals - A typical breakfast for Gold-medal swimmer Michael Phelps includes three fried egg sandwiches, a five-egg omelet, three slices of French toast, the chocolate chip pancakes, and two cups of coffee!</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Athletes will have access to a private gym, dry cleaner, medical center, and bar. But while the bar has pool tables, a gaming area, and a movie theater, it serves no alcohol! That’s because not all the Olympic competitors are of legal drinking age.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2,000 newts relocated from Olympic Park to the Waterworks nature reserve.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">200km of electrical cables – enough to stretch from London to Nottingham – laid in two six kilometre tunnels built to allow 52 overhead pylons to be removed.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Over 90% of demolition materials from Olympic Park site are recycled or reused.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There were 4 skeletons removed from a prehistoric settlement discovered while excavating the site for the Olympic Aquatics Center. The center will host events for a variety of swimming and diving events.</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Created by Pierre de Coubertin in 1914, the Olympic flag contains five interconnected rings on a white background. The five rings symbolize the five significant continents and are interconnected to symbolize the friendship to be gained from these international competitions. The rings, from left to right, are blue, yellow, black, green, and red. The colors were chosen because at least one of them appeared on the flag of every country in the world. The Olympic flag was first flown during the 1920 Olympic Games.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Olympic medals are designed especially for each individual Olympic Games by the host city's organizing committee. Each medal must be at least three millimeters thick and 60 millimeters in diameter. Also, the gold and silver Olympic medals must be made out of 92.5 percent silver, with the gold medal covered in six grams of gold.</span><br />
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<b>A City, Not a Country</b><br />When choosing locations for the Olympic Games, the IOC specifically gives the honor of holding the Games to a city rather than a country.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">James B. Connolly (United States), winner of the hop, step, and jump (the first final event in the 1896 Olympics), was the first Olympic champion of the modern Olympic Games.<br />
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<b>The First Marathon</b><br />In 490 BCE, Pheidippides, a Greek soldier, ran from Marathon to Athens (about 25 miles) to inform the Athenians the outcome of the battle with invading Persians. The distance was filled with hills and other obstacles; thus Pheidippides arrived in Athens exhausted and with bleeding feet. After telling the townspeople of the Greeks' success in the battle, Pheidippides fell to the ground dead. In 1896, at the first modern Olympic Games, held a race of approximately the same length in commemoration of Pheidippides.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Women were first allowed to participate in 1900 at the second modern Olympic Games.</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Winter Games Begun</span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The winter Olympic Games were first held in 1924, beginning a tradition of holding them a few months earlier and in a different city than the summer Olympic Games. Beginning in 1994, the winter Olympic Games were held in completely different years (two years apart) than the summer Games.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Because of World War I and World War II, there were no Olympic Games in 1916, 1940, or 1944.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Tennis was played at the Olympics until 1924, then reinstituted in 1988.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Though Russia had sent a few athletes to compete in the 1908 and 1912 Olympic Games, they did not compete again until the 1952 Games.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">They are made of recycled cardboard, can withstand water and humidity, cost nearly nothing – and might the concept of green vehicle. Izhar Gafni is a Kibbutz resident, who decided to prove to his fellow engineers that he could make a bicycle at nearly no cost.</span><strong><br /></strong><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Izhar Gafni, originally from Kibbutz Bror Hayil in the Negev, took the most popular and widely sold vehicle in the community and decided to turn it into an entirely green private venture.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Gafni’s bicycle redefines the idea of green transportation in every way, being environmentally friendly from early stages of production all the way through creation of the final product. The bicycles are made out of recycled and used cardboard.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The primary use, like any bicycle, is to prevent pollution while encouraging physical activity and exercise. In an interview with Newsgeek, Gafni said that the production cost for his recycled bicycles is around $9-12 each, and he estimates it could be sold to a consumer for $60 to 90, depending on what parts they choose to add.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“I really love bicycles, and when I worked in the United States I inquired in California to see if anyone has already thought of the concept of a cardboard bicycle. To my delight, I only discovered similar concepts based on bamboo. But when I started asking engineers about the possibility of producing a cardboard bicycle, I was sent away and told that the realization of my idea is impossible. One day I was watching a documentary about the production of the first jumbo jet – and an engineer on the team had said that when everyone tells him that what he is doing is impossible – it makes it even clearer to him that he is progressing in the right direction. That saying motivated me to experiment with different materials on cardboard, to find what produces the desired strength and durability.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Gafni, who decided to take this on as a personal project, conducted several experiments to see how he could make the recycled cardboard strong enough to carry a person weighing up to 140 kilograms. Finally, he created several prototypes that were fairly durable but too bulky.
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">“My first prototypes looked like delivery boxes on wheels. They were hefty and it didn’t take much imagination to see that they were made of cardboard. When I met with investors it was difficult to explain my ultimate vision with the bikes, which led me to understand that I need to devote more time towards developing a more comfortable design, lighter and more impressive.” <br />
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Judging based on the prototypes leaning on the wall during the interview with Gafni, it seems that his hard work paid off. The prototype in the room was impressive. It was hard to believe there was any relationship between that bicycle and cardboard. The bicycle is coated with a strong solid layer of brown and white material, making the finished product look like it is made of hard lightweight plastic.<br />
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In Tel Aviv, for example, where all but a few cyclists have had their bikes stolen at some point, low-cost bikes are all the more attractive and also weaken the sting of a steal. If the bicycle costs less than the lock required to keep it safe, the appeal and potential profit from stealing a bicycle are significantly reduced.<br />
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Additionally, those who decide to add a removable engine to make the bicycle electric can take the engine with them after parking it. The engine is the most expensive component and the bicycle itself is no longer worth the thief’s trouble. Thus, Gafni’s low-cost bicycle can be an especially attractive city vehicle.<br />
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Source: <a href="http://www.shalomlife.com/business/17616/made-in-israel-recycled-cardboard-bicycles-for-9/" target="_blank">shalomlife.com/</a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Pop a B-complex vitamin every day, and within a month, you should feel 20% less work-related tension, anxiety and strain, suggests a study out of Australia's Swinburne University of Technology. B vitamins are critical for helping the brain produce certain neurotransmitters needed to feel calm, explains lead study author con Stough, Ph.D.</span></div>
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While you're working on it, you can greatly reduce your risk of disease by opting for electronic cigarettes or new spit-free smokeless tobacco, reveals recent researcy by Brad Rodu, D.D.S., an expert on tobacco harm reduction at the University of Louisville James Graham Brown Cancer Center. Both, he says, are 98% safer than cigarettes because they deliver nicotine without the smoke; it's the chemicals in smoke - not nicotine - that are most harmful.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="color: #0b5394;"><strong>MEN - SOCKS TIPS 101</strong></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Match Your Socks with Your Pants and not Your Shoes!</strong></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Wearing a dark blue pants? Try to wear dark blue socks. The reason it’s important to match socks with your pants is that when you have to take your shoes off or sit down and your socks are exposed, socks that coordinate with your pants make your outfit appear more fluid. On the other hand, socks that don’t match your pants will break up an otherwise awesome ensemble.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Everyone who's anyone knows that socks should be worn with shoes, and only barefeet should be slipped into sandals. Yet, in our jet-powered Digital Age of Information and Free Junk lying <i>everywhere</i>, there are still those few, backwards wackjobs who insist on going through the extra trouble of rummaging through their sock drawer to find their most unsightly plaid socks or thick, white ones, put on those socks, and then put on their sandals!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You’ve bought your dream car and now you want to make it last at long as possible in top condition. Here are some things to remember as you pull it out of the dealer’s lot:</span><br />
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<li>Do not allow your new car to idle for long periods — this is good advice for the life of your car, but especially during breakin. The oil pressure generated by doing so may not be sending oil to every part of your engine.</li>
<li>Use only light to medium acceleration, keeping the engine rpms below 3,000 for the first few hours of driving.</li>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial;">Not only is it a turn-off to most women, but it is an ugly site to behold. Women love the skin-to-skin contact and don't want to feel some sweaty, fuzzy thing between their toes! </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Looking for Mr. Right? Try signing up for a job-related networking event or taking an adult education class. In studies that looked at how 11,000 people met their spouses, work or school nabbed the top spot with 36%, followed by through a friend or family member (26%); dating websites (17%); bars, clugs and social events (11%) and places of worship (4%).</span><br />
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<span class="size12 MicrosoftSansSerif12" style="color: black; font-family: "Microsoft Sans Serif", sans-serif;"><strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">F.B.I.
warning :"You may not be able to connect to the internet after July 9".</span> </strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Not sure if some of you heard about this, so I'm posting this here in case you didn't.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On July 9, 2012, there is a chance that many computers will cease to be able to
surf the web because of malware that proliferated among millions of computers
starting in 2007. You can find out if your computer is among them.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />Starting
in 2007, an Internet fraud ring running out of Estonia infected millions of
computers worldwide with a virus to manipulate internet advertising. The way
they did this was by redirecting users to rogue DNS servers which gave the cyber
thieves the ability to manipulate users’ web activity by redirecting them from
legitimate websites to fraudulent ones.<br />
<br />US authorities seized the rogue
servers and replaced them with legitimate ones in order not to disrupt victims’
access to the web. However, those servers have been funded by US taxpayer
dollars since November 2011, and of course this cannot go on indefinitely. The
planned date for turning off the servers is July 9, which means that computers
that have been accessing the web via these rogue-turned-legit servers, will lose
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your computer is clean, or is using the rogue DNS servers, take the following
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<li>Find out what your computer’s IP address is. You can do this by visiting
this site: <a href="http://www.whatismyip.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #39a0ff;"><strong>WhatIsMyIP</strong></span></a>.
Your IP address is the 10 digit number that looks like this: 12.123.12.123. Copy
it down somewhere.
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<li>Visit the following page on the FBI site: <a href="https://forms.fbi.gov/check-to-see-if-your-computer-is-using-rogue-DNS"><span style="color: #39a0ff;"><strong>https://forms.fbi.gov/check-to-see-if-your-computer-is-using-rogue-DNS</strong></span></a>.
Paste your IP address in the tiny field that appears towards the top of the
page.
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<li>Click on Check Your DNS. If your computer is clean, you’ll see the message:
“Your IP is not configured to use the rogue DNS servers,” and you can breathe a
sigh of relief. If your computer is not clean, then you’ve got quite a job ahead
of you. <a href="http://www.dcwg.org/fix/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #39a0ff;">Visit this page</span></a> on
the DNS Changer Working Group site to see the steps you should take to clean
your computer.<br /><br /><b><i>The FBI is encouraging users to visit a website run
by its security partner,</i></b> <a href="http://www.dcwg.org/"><span style="color: #39a0ff;">http://www.dcwg.org</span></a>, <b><i>that will inform them
whether they're infected and explain how to fix the
problem.</i></b></li>
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