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Maritza 2007-11-29 19:25:00 La Maritza / 1968La Maritza c'est ma rivièreComme la Seine est la tienneMais il n'y a que mon pèreMaintenant qui s'en souvienne - quelquefoisDe mes dix premières annéesIl ne me reste plus rienPas la plus pauvre poupéePlus rien qu'un petit refrain - d'autrefoisLa la la...Tous les oiseaux de ma rivièreNous chantaient la libertéMoi je ne comprenais guèreMais mon père lui savait - écouterQuand l'horizon s'est fait trop noirTous les oiseaux sont partisSur le chemin de l'espoirEt nous, on les a suivis - à Paris(parlé:)De mes dix premières annéesIl ne me reste plus rien - rien(chanté:)Et pourtant les yeux fermésMoi j'entends mon père chanter - ce refrain:La la la...(pierre delanoë - j. renard)by Sylvia Vartan
Red String Kabbalah Bracelet 2007-11-25 07:34:00 Protection against the Evil Eye A person possessed of an evil eye carries with him the eye of the destroying negative force; hence it is called "destroyer of the world," and people should be on their guard against them and not come near them so that they should not be injured by them! [Zohar I, p.68b]The Evil EyeThe Red String
protects us from the influences of the Evil Eye. Evil eye is a very powerful negative force. It refers to the unfriendly stare and unkind glances we sometimes get from people around us. Envious eyes and looks of ill will affect us, stopping us from realizing our full potential in every area of our life.Long ago, the ancient Kabbalah
scholars revealed a powerful technology of protection. Its purpose is twofold: to protect us from the envious looks of others, and to help us eliminate feelings of jealousy and resentment in ourselves. The technology is the Red String: a strand of Red wool worn around the left wrist.The teachings of Kabbalah do not include prohibition Read more:Bracelet
The Right Breath 2007-11-20 07:29:00 BREATHING TECHNIQUES AND BENEFITS:From the day we are born, the moment our umbilical cord is severed we are left independently to take the first breath of life. It is when our lungs being there normal function. We are not aware of this daily exercise, which keep as alive. Yet, it is a fact that we are not really breathing the way we should to keep us healthy & well. In our normal breathing pattern. We are not using the entire lung. It is therefore necessary to learn the right techniques of breathing which would exercise the entire lung & thus make us feel healthier & full of energy.Pranayam is that technique in yoga, which teaches us the proper way to breath. It also work as the basis of spiritual awakening, it increase the energy levels, perception, concentration, & the development of various brain faculties.WHAT IS PRANAYAM?It is not just the control & regularization of breath; Pranayam is energy on life force, present as a universal force & also in the human Read more:Breath
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Most Serious Type of Skin Cancer "Melanoma" 2007-11-17 05:45:00 Melanoma is the most serious type of skin cancer. Often the first sign of melanoma is a change in the size, shape, color or feel of a mole. Most melanomas have a black or black-blue area. Melanoma may also appear as a new mole. It may be black, abnormal or "ugly looking."Thinking of "ABCDE" can help you remember what to watch for:A for Asymmetry - the shape of one half does not match the otherB for Border - the edges are ragged, blurred or irregularC for Color - the color in uneven and may include shades of black, brown and tanD for Diameter - there is a change in size, usually an increaseE for elevation - a mole that is raised above the skin and has a rough surfaceMelanoma can be cured if it is diagnosed and treated early. If melanoma is not removed in its early stages, cancer cells may grow downward from the skin surface and invade healthy tissue. If it spreads to other parts of the body it can be difficult to control.Who gets melanoma?Anyone can get melanoma, but some people are mor Read more:Cancer
What is FOREX ? 2007-11-14 19:09:00 Everybody talk about this. I really wanted to know what is FOREX ?!FOREX (FOReign EXchange market) is an international foreign exchange market, where money is sold and bought freely. In its present condition FOREX was launched in the 1970s, when free exchange rates were introduced, and only the participants of the market determine the price of one currency against the other proceeding from supply and demand.As far as the freedom from any external control and free competition are concerned, FOREX is a perfect market. It is also the biggest liquid financial market. According to various assessments, money masses in the market constitute from 1 to 1.5 trillion US dollars a day. (It is impossible to determine an absolutely exact number because trading is not centralized on an exchange.) Transactions are conducted all over the world via telecommunications 24 hours a day from 00:00 GMT on Monday to 10:00 pm GMT on Friday. Practically in every time zone (that is, in Frankfurt-on-Main, London,
What You Need to Know About Hoodia Diet Pills 2007-11-12 17:43:00 What is Hoodia
Gordonii? Latin Name: Hoodia gordoniiOther Names: hoodia, xhooba, !khoba, Ghaap, hoodia cactus, South African desert cactus.Hoodia (pronounced HOO-dee-ah) is a cactus-like plant that grows primarily in the semi-deserts of South Africa, Botswana, Namibia, and Angola. In the last few years, hoodia has been heavily marketed for weight loss and has become immensely popular.Although there has always been a demand for diet pills, after the ban on the herb ephedra, the market was particularly ripe for the next new diet pill.Much of hoodia's popularity stems from claims that the San Bushmen of the Kalahari desert relied on hoodia for thousands of years to ward off hunger and thirst during long hunting trips. They were said to have cut off the stem and eat the bitter-tasting plant.Hoodia gordonii grows in clumps of green upright stems.Although it is often called a cactus because it resembles one, hoodia is actually a succulent plant.It takes about five years before hoodia gordo
One Laptop Per Child: the dream starts to deliver 2007-11-10 19:16:00 Low-cost computers meant to usher poor children worldwide into the digital age are being mass produced in China as US nonprofit One Laptop
Per Child strives to deliver on its promise.The first of the XO laptops being built at a Quanta Computer facility in Changshu are destined for Uruguay, marking a milestone for the charity group founded by Nicholas Negroponte in Massachusetts two years ago."Against all the naysayers ... we have developed and now manufactured the world's most advanced and greenest laptop and one designed specifically to instill a passion for learning in children," Negroponte said.A challenge for the organization has been that governments have not backed effusive words of support with willing flows of cash to buy laptops for children inside their borders.It is hoped that a "Give One Get One" (G1G1) campaign starting Monday will boost orders by providing an incentive to people in more prosperous countriesFor every laptop donated for a child, the donor gets a laptop. Th
if you dream, it will come ! 2007-11-10 16:03:00 We’ve all heard about the power of positive thinking, but what does that really mean?There are people who overcome great odds because they literally believed that they could. Athletes who envisioned themselves breaking a world record. Entrepreneurs or visionaries with grand ideas and the ability to see them through. People with terminal illnesses who magically recovered.What is it that enables these people to do such great things?1) It starts with a little seed. The seed is the dream. Maybe the seed is a new home, x number of dollars in the bank, a beautiful relationship, a healthy whole body. You choose. Be specific.2) The seed doesn’t go poof and become reality. You need to water it and give it sunlight. Draw pictures of it. Create a vision board with your future on it. Paste it up where you’ll look at it every day. See it clearly in your mind. Taste it, smell it. Literally feel it…Allow yourself to get excited about this dream. Focus on the positive even if you have to fake
The 17th century perfect woman figure - More fat, less bone for women 2007-11-10 05:05:00 Very few women seem to feel completely happy with their silhouettes. “Perfect body types” are nothing else but a perception, it’s nothing but an idea or concept build up by society and by the media.So basically now shapeless sacks of bones are cool.A couple centuries ago for example, skinny women were not “hot”, actually they were the “ugly ducklings”.Nowadays the whole media monster has made clear that if you’re not having a Zero-sized waistline, you’re fat and if you’re fat, you’re meant to be ugly, but THIS IS NOT TRUE.Three hundreds years ago, a person with a medium-size body composition was the point of absolution perfection, neither obese nor skinny.Don’t always believe what the media advertise, “perfect bodies” are not real, this is just a social perception that varies with time, and is still changing. Maybe in two hundred years, women will be considered again “perfect” by having a little “meat” here and there. Like the “Venus” above, curv Read more:figure
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Want Healthy Skin? So Drink Coffee! 2007-11-09 09:58:00 Researchers have revealed that drinking coffee, particularly the caffeinated kind, offers considerable protection against some skin cancers.Researchers at the Wayne State University in Detroit have found that drinking six cups of caffeinated coffee a day can reduce the chances of developing the most common form of skin cancer by 35 % .They also discovered that those who drank two or three cups were 12 per cent less likely to have the disease.According to researchers, caffeine could stop skin cancers spreading by stopping cell division, or by acting as an antioxidant.Around 75,000 cases of non-melanoma skin cancer (NMSC), the milder form of the disease, are diagnosed each year."The decreased prevalence in non-melanoma skin cancer associated with daily consumption of caffeinated coffee was dose-related and consistent with other studies," the Telegraph quoted Dr Ernest Abel, lead author of the study, as saying."Among the possible explanations for caffeine's protective effect on NMSC are Read more:Coffee
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Long-term pill use risks atherosclerosis 2007-11-07 21:12:00 Women who use the contraceptive pill for years risk a build-up of plaque in their arteries, according to a study released this week.While the European study suggests long-term pill users may therefore be at increased risk of heart attack or stroke, the researchers say their findings are no need for alarm."Bottom line - don't discontinue your pill suddenly. Don't panic. Don't call your gynaecologist tomorrow morning," says lead researcher Dr Ernst Rietzschel of Ghent University in Belgium, whose team presented the results at an American Heart Association meeting this week.Rietzschel's team studied 1301 women aged 35-55. Of these, 81% had used the pill for an average 13 years.The researchers measured plaque levels using a technique called vascular echography.They saw a rise of 20-30% in arterial plaque in two big arteries - the carotid in the neck and the femoral in the leg - for each decade of use.A slow build-up of plaque, made up of fat, cholesterol, calcium and other material, o
Amsterdam Madame Tussauds Wax Museum 2007-11-06 12:11:00 Madame Tussauds
is a world-renowned institution with a lot to celebrate! Home to hundreds of exciting full-size wax figures, Madame Tussauds has a fascinating and colorful history dedicated to providing visitors with a fascinating close-up look at the world celebrities...Amsterdam
is home for the most famous Madame Tussaud exposition of wax statues museum. The network of Madame Tussaud museums includes: London, New York, Las Vegas, Hong Kong and the one in Amsterdam. Open from 10 am to 6:30 pm Admission price: 23 EUR isn't particulary cheap. Beyond that price, the wax museum is wonderful, with the copies of the real life actors, singers, royalties and other celebrities (see full list here) that you can't distinguish from the real life. Great work from the people making the copies. The name comes from the lady Marie Grosholz, later known as Madame Tussaud, and she born in Strasbourg in 1961. In 1770, Marie's mother's employer, a doctor named Philippe Curtius, opens an exhibition of Read more:Madame
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"Mona Lisa" Once Had Eyebrows & Other Intriguing New Discoveries 2007-10-24 03:06:00 For centuries, the "Mona Lisa
", the world’s most famous painting, has been shrouded in mystery. There has been much debate as to its origin and meaning. Many have also speculated as to what kind of hidden references Da Vinci may have worked into the portrait. Now a French inventor has found some intriguing new secrets about the beloved painting.Parisian engineer Pascal Cotte used an ultra-detailed digital scanning device he invented to delve into the layers of paint, allowing him to "look" into the past of Leonardo Da Vinci's 16th-century portrait.One puzzle for art buffs is why the Mona Lisa has no eyebrows or lashes. But Cotte found that the world's most famous painting actually did originally included both brows and lashes. He used his 240-megapixel scans of the painting to reveal lost features of the painting that were obliterated by long-ago restoration efforts."With just one photo you go deeper into the construction of the painting and understand that Leonardo was a genius," Read more:Eyebrows
What Do Our Brains Do While Sleeping? 2007-10-13 00:56:00 “To do science you have to have an idea, and for years no one had one; they saw sleep as nothing but an annihilation of consciousness. Now we know different, and we’ve got some very good ideas about what’s going on.”~ Dr. J. Allan Hobson, a professor of psychiatry at Harvard.~Throughout the ages, scientists and thinkers have been trying to determine why people have to sleep. But so far all they know is what any parent of a newborn quickly discovers: sleep loss makes it harder to cope with stress, our thoughts more mentally foggy and our bodies more prone to get sick.Neuroscientists have long wondered if sleep is somehow tied to learning and memory, or other cognitive processes. Now new findings suggest that sleep does indeed appear to play a crucial role in sorting and storing our memories. Harvard and McGill Universities have reported that participants who napped after playing a memory game score significantly higher on a retest than those who did not sleep. “We think what Read more:Brains
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The Tower of Pisa 2007-10-05 07:37:00 The Leaning Tower
of Pisa; (Italian: Torre pendente di Pisa) or simply The Tower of Pisa (La Torre di Pisa) is the campanile, or freestanding bell tower, of the cathedral of the Italian city of Pisa. It is situated behind the Cathedral and it is the third structure in Pisa's Campo dei Miracoli (field of Miracles).Although intended to stand vertically, the tower began leaning to the southeast soon after the onset of construction in 1173 due to a poorly laid foundation and loose substrate that has allowed the foundation to shift.The height of the tower is 55.86 m (183.27 ft) from the ground on the lowest side and 56.70 m (186.02 ft) on the highest side. The width of the walls at the base is 4.09 m (13.42 ft) and at the top 2.48 m (8.14 ft). Its weight is estimated at 14,500 tonnes. The tower has 294 steps.ConstructionThe construction of the Tower of Pisa was performed in three stages over a period of about 200 years. Construction of the first floor of the white marble campanile began on
NEWLY DISCOVERED DINOSAUR : Gryposaurus Monumentensis 2007-10-04 02:24:00 NEW DINOSAUR:An undated artist's rendering of the duck-billed dinosaur Gryposaurus monumentensis, which roamed southern Utah 75 million years ago, shows the robust jaws that allowed this creature to eat just about any vegetation it came across."It was one of the most robust duck-billed dinosaurs ever," said museum paleontologist Terry Gates, who is also with the U.'s Department of Geology and Geophysics. "It was a monster."Researchers from the Utah museum, the national monument and California's Raymond M. Alf Museum of Paleontology unearthed fossils of this ancient plant-eater from the rocks of the Kaiparowits Formation. Researchers announced the name of the creature -- Gryposaurus monumentensis. (Gryposaurus means "hook-beaked lizard" and monumentensis honors the monument where the fossils were found.)This duck-billed dinosaur dates to the Late Cretaceous Period 75 million years ago. "Gryposaurus monumentensis is probably the largest dinosaur in the 75-million-year-old Kaiparowits
by Einstein 2007-09-28 01:35:00 Computers are incredibly fast, accurate, and stupid; humans are incredibly slow, inaccurate and brilliant; together they are powerful beyond imagination. Albert Einstein
Sick? Lonely? 2007-09-13 22:00:00 Genes tell the taleLonely
people are more likely to get sick and die young, and researchers said on Thursday they may have found out why -- their immune systems are haywire. They used a "gene chip" to look at the DNA of isolated people and found that people who described themselves as chronically lonely have distinct patterns of genetic activity, almost all of it involving the immune system. The study does not show which came first -- the loneliness or the physical traits. But it does suggest there may be a way to help prevent the deadly effects of loneliness, said Steve Cole, a molecular biologist at the University of California Los Angeles who worked on the study. "What this study shows is that the biological impact of social isolation reaches down into some of our most basic internal processes -- the activity of our genes," Cole said. "We have known for years
Eruption of the Etna September 2007 2007-09-06 10:47:00 Mount Etna eruption updates for 4-5 September
: For all the night, in the depression on the east flank of the crater of S-E, is in course an intense and spectacular strombolian activity with lava fountains that catch up a height of several hundreds of meters. A small tap of lava heads towards the Bove Valley. Moreover present is an ash column of approximately two kilometers that go towards east on Fornazzo and Milo.It's for the ash that it has been decided, beginning from 1:00 Am of this night, the closing of the airport of Catania.The 29 August on the east flank of the south-east crater has been recorded an elevated frequency of strombolian outbreaks. Such outbreaks are not compatible with an increasing of magma flow but with collapses produced by an emptying of a superficial magmatic tank.The investigators of the national institute of Geophysicist and volcanology (http://www.ct.ingv.it) have directly observed the collapse that in its inside shows a slag cone. The explosive activity i Read more:Eruption
500 days at Venus, and the surprises keep coming 2007-09-05 23:40:00 These images were taken in eight orbits within 10 consecutive Earth days (between orbits 299 and 309) with VIRTIS, in February 2007. The chosen wavelength was approximately 2.3 micrometres. The images were all taken on the night side, in the evening sector. The quarter that is observed is that which is experiencing late evening, or pre-midnight hours. It should be taken into account that Venus
rotates very slowly as compared to Earth (one venusian day is 243 Earth days). The distances from the spacecraft to the region observed span 50 000 to 65 000 km. The contrast seen results from deeper cloud layers, at an altitude of about 50 km. The south pole is just outside the image, in the upper right hand side. It seems that the mid latitudes form a sort of transition region with mostly laminar flow. Moving equatorward, there is more convective flow in the atmosphere, whereas the polar region or the ‘black hole’ in the upper right hand side is where the vortex dominates. The meteorology o
Anti-obesity Gene Keeps Mice And Worms Lean 2007-09-05 08:50:00 Researchers have revealed an antiobesity
gene that has apparently been keeping critters lean during times of plenty since ancient times. The gene, first discovered by another team in flies, also keeps worms and mice trim, according to the new report in the September issue of Cell Metabolism. If the gene works similarly in humans, the findings could lead to a new weapon against our burgeoning waistlines, according to the researchers.Animals without a working copy of the gene, known as Adipose (Adp), become obese and resistant to insulin, while those with increased Adp activity in fat tissue become slimmer, the researchers found. Moreover, the gene's "dose" seems to determine how slender an animal turns out to be."Maybe if you could affect this gene, even just a little bit, you might have a beneficial effect on fat," said Jonathan Graff of the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, noting that people often become overweight very gradually--adding just one or two pounds a year. Read more:Worms
Elephants sniff urine to tell who's who 2007-12-06 04:24:00 An African elephant can recognise dozens of kin by the signature smell of urine, and uses its powerful nose to keep track of their whereabouts, according to a new study.Researchers led by Professor Richard Byrne of the University of St Andrews in Scotland, publish their research in the journal Biology Letters.A keen trunk coupled with a good memory is essential for the foraging pachyderms, which travel in ever-shifting groups ranging from a handful to several hundred individuals, the study says.Drawing from developmental research on pre-verbal children, scientists from the UK and Kenya tested the ability of elephants in Kenya's Amboseli National Park to distinguish kin from stranger.They also devised experiments, called 'expectancy-violation' paradigms, to see whether the animals knew where family members were at any given moment.They placed individual samples of urine mixed with earth from females along the paths of 36 elephant family groups, and then measured the reactions.Only fe
Chocolate beer 3000 years old 2007-11-13 01:09:00 People in Central America were drinking beverages made from cacao before 1000 BC, hundreds of years earlier than once thought, a new study shows.These early cacao beverages were probably alcoholic brews, or beers, made from the fermented pulp of the cacao fruit.These beverages were around 500 years earlier than the frothy chocolate-flavored drink made from the seed of the cacao tree that was such an important feature of later Mesoamerican culture.But in brewing this primitive beer, or chicha, the ancient Mesoamericans may have stumbled on the secret to making chocolate-flavoured drinks, the paper says."In the course of beer brewing, you discover that if you ferment the seeds of the plant you get this chocolate taste," says John Henderson, a professor of anthropology at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, and lead author of the paper."It may be that the roots of the modern chocolate industry can be traced back to this primitive fermented drink."The cacao bean played an important rol Read more:Chocolate
Which Country Celebrate New Year First ? 2007-12-09 18:11:00 New Zealand & RussiaThe International Date Line runs through the Pacific, so those countries on the east side of Asia are the first to greet the New Year.When year 2008 starts around the world ? Read more:Celebrate
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