tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-320909212024-03-07T12:20:39.219-08:00Stranger World | Luxury Hotel | Optical IllusionsA Collection Of Stranger World Visual Phenomena Optical Illusions Visual Illusion And Luxury Hotel The Most Romantic Hotels Resorts Help You Discover A Fascinating WorldStranger Worldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02471635339369963744noreply@blogger.comBlogger612125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32090921.post-83386184054143896542011-08-06T04:09:00.000-07:002011-08-06T04:46:16.696-07:005 Amazing restaurants and geek bars<b>1. Miracle of Science (Cambridge, Massachusetts)</b><br /><br /><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 156px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgi7j3nPjVRlR8TKZa0S7iHFktPY3wSAIDysQF2aQTBenw0NtC9CQpt64bDaLiyC5PMpzt1TzHprA_DMmkF74S07hoV6q43_bVPPP_8I3TMHrFC6lAiL5Jq4p37Y-rh3y1hJZhV/s400/Miracle+of+Science+%2528Cambridge%252C+Massachusetts%2529.jpg" alt="Miracle of Science" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5637701468648054114" border="0" />Opened in 1991, <b>Miracle of Science</b> stands strong as the leader in geek-chic. Its menu is hand written onto the wall and it was one of the first <b>restaurants</b> to employ the open floor concept. This place is always packed with artists, musicians, geo physicists and computer gurus who know they don't have to go anywhere else looking for a good time.<br /><br /><b>2. Hajime Restaurant (Thailand)</b><br /><br /><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 261px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaJcJqFRqKb-MTkCO-bUJy8EY6r-OaH_OwG1nwmUKtHxmwBeWteEfU3YSIW9zwjwWlMbcgssjJjUii0nIaFtzcOYdMbPhkETnzZTF70KRRiZLYmqgyffku3tUqxn8V12txH0Dw/s400/Hajime+%2528Thailand%2529.jpg" alt="Hajime Restaurant in Bangkok" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5637700896851952114" border="0" /><b>The Hajime Restaurant in Bangkok</b> is Thailand's first <b>Japanese robot restaurant</b>, where all the serving waiters are robots.<br /><br />Customers order their food on a touchscreen display and their robotic waiter will whizz into action. The friendly robots will also dance to entertain as they work and go out to collect empty dishes at the customers' table. The owner of the <b>Hajime Japanese restaurant</b>, Lapassarad Thanaphant, said she spent 30 million baht ($927,600) on the restaurant including the purchase of four robots from Japan.<br /><br /><b>3. Barcade Bar (Brooklyn, NY)</b><br /><br /><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 281px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhx4x4N0iZ7wkx2MoeYVC1himDHRY5elNXjTmvQZavOGQIPfGLt-1xVczCDe7ytWp1_WR-6kUxHMPvzZeWVTO0CQV25kwdrTDa6VcPVRi3d8tyRA4tSXGBMnFxN7aiGuJbY9FyP/s400/Barcade+%2528Brooklyn%252C+NY%2529.jpg" alt="Barcade bar in brooklyn" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5637700570280780050" border="0" />In 2004, five friends came together and opened their own bar in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Each had been working in either film/TV or graphic design in New York and four of them had attended Syracuse University together. They were enthusiastic about American craft beer and had grown up in the 1980's playing classic arcade games. Looking to start their own business, they decided to take a chance and combine the two passions. <b>Barcade bar</b> with a dual focus; an endless rotation of American craft beer and an equally eclectic lineup of classic arcade games.<br /><br /><b>4. World of Warcraft Restaurant (China)</b><br /><br /><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 347px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7-z58W3tctwPhk-kdI0v8FdD0ErlGQ7lYa-dgHNHZNRxnCKVsZ2mXToAW4LToRnR1Va86aKaFUA2YuzfE-IMF_hG5EtIz1KQ8LC-xaoxYje4TyWiZas-AEGM8UwEEY0Nmi9_z/s400/World+of+Warcraft+%2528China%2529.jpg" alt="World of Warcraft restaurant in Beijing" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5637700157090679730" border="0" /><b>A World of Warcraft themed restaurant in central Beijing</b>, serving WoW inspired food under Azeroth-themed murals. The food remains a mystery - if any readers want to translate the menu please do - but there do seem to be PCs there so we suspect a slight LAN party ambience. Maybe not the ideal venue for that anniversary dinner you promised your significant other.<br /><br /><b>5. Mundo Tapas Bar (Sydney)</b><br /><br /><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 278px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWbhqfuUgQ-dWqpzV4wvD14TDLXOE_-lwitVdROx8Xz1Gs3EssHZ7Kh7HlLgOSLEE5QrwRpBvqgReNoLiiQD1ic2gwsLe_xE_UbJSWJimHkz55K0v1sR0j7H2zojZlNoWCovsS/s400/Mundo+Tapas+Bar+%2528Sydney%2529.jpg" alt="Mundo Tapas in North Sydney" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5637699256858717970" border="0" /><b>Mundo Tapas in North Sydney</b> provides an iPad as the menu for customers to browse and order from. Diners can now see a picture of what each dish looks like and view tasting notes before making that all important decision of what to order. So come on in and spice up your senses and be part of the new way to dineStranger Worldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02471635339369963744noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32090921.post-18265898311560216152011-07-01T14:20:00.000-07:002011-07-01T15:11:08.376-07:00Creative necklaces art | Necklaces made from human hairKerry howley, a <b>creative necklaces art</b> student, from cambridge, england, is creating quite a buzz in the art world, with her collection of delicate <b>necklaces made from human hair</b>.<br /><br /><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 282px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSUjFBBUoUpEO-6Yq3dLLh4IkwooOgJ1rljXZxhHbPBGw3QCvPeDCdXWY3-5TR7iuyKAzi8ul0iEOVjhGJjB3pjm3z9HjCKQHN-SfJzsymQ713O04baVqi9QSNpWkZUBvVSQ9o/s400/Necklaces+made+from+human+hair++%25281%2529.jpg" alt="Creative necklaces art" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5624502325291368978" border="0" />The idea of creating jewelry from human hair was inspired by people’s aversion to cut hair. Hair is usually regarded as a very important part of the human body and is worn with pride, but once its connection to the body has been severed, it’s viewed as slightly disgusting. Through her art, the young middlesex student “hoped to create a delicate balance between the viewer/wearer’s feelings of aversion and attraction.” She wanted to see if she could make cut hair attractive again.<br /><br /><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 269px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhG0v93JeN_imDBht6Z8S3OzUixhfPNr8ZxVmZk36EMR4EVEGpzRLwu33cPufsyVIrsejjCwKXdf7Zyj0dye263vEy5co8Zg8OpoKmK5H4KWRe30_c-tdxoqXRNO3y72uuZcnaY/s400/Necklaces+made+from+human+hair++%25282%2529.jpg" alt="Hair raising necklaces" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5624502315764217378" border="0" />The main material for howley’s masterpieces was provided by one of her mother’s friends, a japanese woman with hair down to her waist. She only cuts it once every five years, and when she had 30 cm cut off the bottom, she gave it all to kerry. The 23-year-old art student used broken saw blades to cut and weave the strands of hair into abstract shapes inspired by wallpaper patterns, and spent over 60 hours working on each of the five hair necklaces she has created so far.<br /><br /><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 282px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCZ4BiqgUznjYnNupCaZUbm_cNiDMmvAhYvRcQz5Qlm5LxrfHkOqDEHxpfJS1h38xkO9RzX0PhPoFj5sufy-Wp7eb2H1zzmgH9E_bIHMSZuO_kZDVmiWynuvU52XgIU4Jl1Plz/s400/Necklaces+made+from+human+hair++%25283%2529.jpg" alt="human hair necklaces" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5624502312916330306" border="0" />kerry howley’s collection of <b>unique human hair necklaces</b> has already won an award, and will on display at the business design center, in london, from june 29 until july 2nd.<br /><br /><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 282px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdLM9iWteWRqwg-n1dVXz0PiFhNZRtoGz2Z8hFniXzm2Asql-WHOCXGA_JPCxM5bMXzz1ry-UPRbwUu97xfKipgBbqRhy_HEsmfHt0l5dFl3fyN7ZBU74z7dvueJkte1hiaU26/s400/Unique+human+hair+necklaces+%25281%2529.jpg" alt="Necklaces from human hair" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5624502310057391618" border="0" /><br /><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 282px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghwcawjM1Y8izyjUXwUt_Sx4Wu3JKmDwIDUkhh7k-81H8KrQ_wX6r6A2HSrpQoNMZtvNKi77BRl2w7RaqvGK_p6PPFn-igVDvf8PKpu474lbVMhY9SRjbRxXgCmhmsVCFFu5NX/s400/Unique+human+hair+necklaces+%25282%2529.jpg" alt="Necklaces art" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5624502308887603986" border="0" />Stranger Worldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02471635339369963744noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32090921.post-86104425145197666452011-05-31T05:19:00.000-07:002011-05-31T06:18:01.095-07:00Huge shopping malls | Mega malls | Shopping center in the world<b>10: Siam Paragon (3.22 million sq ft)</b><br /><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 323px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqK4AYCn5BLeEHKPEU2i-1ZZ5vs6700vFBEOa-vPQGMcHKyC61I3scMNwrB0viq1QP-i_r5Mtzr07QtA8ltacaRq3v_vh8L_xOSIB0ZjxtRr6wIs12UVEZzKSrjp04XakwPbbh/s400/Siam+Paragon.jpg" alt="Siam Paragon shopping mall" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5612854437446201250" border="0" /><b>Large shopping malls</b> provide a one-stop shopping for anything imaginable. Our list of <b>largest malls</b> in the world is based on the amount of “Gross Leasable Area”.<br /><br />This is the number of square feet the property has for revenue-generating activities like retail, dining and amusements. The building boom in Asia, where land is cheap and labor costs are low has produced the <b>largest shopping malls</b>. Only two shopping malls on this list are located outside Asia.<br /><br /><b>Siam Paragon in Bangkok</b> is one of the largest shopping malls in Thailand. Only the nearby Central World is larger. It includes a wide range of specialty stores and restaurants as well as a multiplex movie theater, the Siam Ocean World aquarium, the Thai Art Gallery and an opera concert hall. It also has a large bowling alley and karaoke center.<br /><br /><b>9: Berjaya Times Square (3.44 million sq ft)</b><br /><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 265px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_NY8tZFp8sb3ZIG26m8bEl_h_sKZHXCOQnrMszsYtggrzh8WZC4YbvkpryDW0QL-UYi4RxtlXfCWwW07mwzf1RgAK_tpLMX1Qtlcz1mXUjgpVN6o7KZSousSv4t9Z2sXSFJ5s/s400/Berjaya+Times+Square.jpg" alt="Berjaya Times Square shopping center" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5612854733691251346" border="0" />Located in Kuala Lumpur, <b>Berjaya Times Square</b> is a twin tower complex containing a shopping center and two five star hotels. With 7.5 million square feet (700,000 m²) of built up floor area it is currently the fifth largest building in the world.<br /><br />It includes more than 1,000 retail shops, 65 food outlets and several entertainment attractions such as Asia’s largest indoor theme park, Cosmo’s World and Malaysia’s first-ever IMAX 2D & 3D theatre which is located on the 10th Floor.<br /><br /><b>8: Istanbul Cevahir (3.47 million sq ft)</b><br /><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvmsXaPNBm_RvlkoJ_gqP1-rD_EpFiHTC01WDcUK16MRPq29neMIxv0DE5PhAKsk_zX8MSfBDAJhnUBU2AtHicaPAy1R6_nljyoTZZvbSCxGcbaLbqkETxbccSj0n5OfG3snxb/s400/Istanbul+Cevahir.jpg" alt="Istanbul shopping mall" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5612854721042774658" border="0" />Located on the European side of Istanbul, the Cevahir Shopping and Entertainment Center opened its doors in 2005. It is the <b>largest shopping mall in Europe</b>.<br /><br />There are 343 shops, 34 fast food restaurants and 14 exclusive restaurants in the shopping centre. Other facilities include a large stage for events, 12 cinemas, a bowling hall, a small roller coaster and several other entertainment facilities.<br /><br /><b>7: SM Mega mall (3.6 million sq ft)</b><br /><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKmPYTMCjcR1DMoaOAYWBdcN5i-xFhyPSYJLgG_KVh92HEEW2A6eRfGYzM9i0lzYsDgDi4-9-JT-Ecm55BR_vbLZ0gSww9IGb0tdhvN6CE2belAH_Uf9L-Ymc0BvYijZfo_xPd/s400/SM+Megamall.jpg" alt="SM Mega mall" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5612854435624426626" border="0" />Opened in 1991, <b>SM Mega mall in Metro Manila</b> is one of the <b>largest shopping malls in Philippines</b>. The mall attracts a daily foot traffic of 800,000 people with a maximum capacity of 4 million people.<br /><br />The mall has two main buildings. Building A features cinemas, a bowling alley, food courts and the Toy Kingdom. Building B features the retail shops. The bridge-way connecting the two main buildings of the mall contains several eateries.<br /><b>SM Mega mall</b> is currently under major renovation and expansion. When finished, it will be able to claim the ultimate title of largest shopping mall in the Philippines.<br /><br /><b>6: West Edmonton Mall (3.77 million sq ft)</b><br /><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1P0WVSI60gGYId_HUd-1eENrouSrEyqijskEFf_1vUSNqKPqVUaqDhLng13dASsQiSSJD7AzlogWavl8ytSYr_j27JSofcOsjjcwN5TURDkO7KRO2K8asxRsKmi5E-FDjMBG2/s400/West+Edmonton+Mall.jpg" alt="West Edmonton Mall in Alberta" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5612854431254898482" border="0" />The <b>West Edmonton Mall in Alberta</b> was the largest shopping mall from 1981 until 2004 and is currently the <b>largest mall in the America</b>.<br /><br />Beside 800 stores and services the mall includes the largest indoor amusement park in the world, the largest indoor water park in the world and Ice Palace (a scaled down version of a NHL regulation sized ice rink, so not the largest in the world). Other attractions include an 18-hole miniature golf course, a movie theater and a bowling alley.<br /><br /><b>5: Dubai Mall (3.77 million sq ft)</b><br /><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgB3FiSeSbY_CqMe0djHlYMDEFiOVPdQ8RX-Pt66prDjEvRhdDQaVIJEWLW0cAaokFhcYjeRUn0RU580TkNSik9r5atOxUJAOrASNBWHk91vrHh2XP6Ee2KKUTI4iCytVLiC6Rs/s400/Dubai+Mall.jpg" alt="Dubai Mall Burj Khalifa complex" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5612854728027895266" border="0" />The <b>Dubai Mall</b> is part of the <b>Burj Khalifa complex</b>, the tallest man-made structure ever built. At over 12 million square feet (equivalent in size to more than 50 soccer fields), the Dubai Mall is the largest shopping mall in the world based on total area but about the same size as the West Edmonton Mall if based on leasable space.<br /><br />The mall contains more than 1,200 shops including the world’s largest candy store, an ice rink, a SEGA game center (featuring a 3D bowling game), a 5 star luxury hotel, 22 cinema screens plus 120 restaurants and cafes. The mall also contains one of the <b>largest aquariums in the world</b>.<br /><br /><b>4: SM Mall of Asia (4.2 million sq ft)</b><br /><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoKCslXDXLLsFZ37f6KaS39BEJDeY4tRI_j4okQXkT49rmY07hwNlwCQ5Jq6Ye3xdmAzBTq_I30lvWw22Oc6GIDJ5BrD71olfFd03MJi420fsBYd7LKbU0d4xRaQlbLMGuVFkP/s400/SM+Mall+of+Asia.jpg" alt="SM Mall of Asia in Metro Manila" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5612854439817659442" border="0" />The <b>SM Mall of Asia in Metro Manila</b>, opened in 2006, consists of four buildings interconnected by walkways. It features a 20-seater tram which takes shoppers around the mall grounds.<br /><br />One of the mall’s main attractions is an IMAX theater with one of the world’s biggest 3D screens. The mall also features an Olympic-sized ice skating rink. It can accommodate both recreational and competitive figure skating, as well as ice hockey.<br /><br /><b>3: Central World (4.62 million sq ft)</b><br /><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTtMs5igUE5IwnnHPQxRjcEFvo5E-O4gusK_B3rwSaZFSHpdUWm6c3QDXVndi0eI495ANAsdRDVd_NODOSCFK4Um7DiJXg5-yPyfkSHs9NFvV85JWtibGzcNMp7rXyMULBKEqP/s400/Central+World.jpg" alt="Central World shopping mall in Thailand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5612854730459656594" border="0" />Opened in 1990, the eight-story <b>Central World</b> is the <b>largest shopping mall in Thailand</b>. It marketed itself as a middle class shopping center, opposed to the upper class-marketed Siam Paragon.<br /><br />On 19th May of this year, Central World was one of the many properties set on fire by anti-government protesters. The fire raged for two days and the Zen department store collapsed in the fire.<br />After months of repair works, the shopping complex reopened on 28th September with 80% of its retail space open for business.<br /><br /><b>2: Golden Resources Mall (6.0 million sq ft)</b><br /><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGAhwz2zwgFAlMJ9fmprhU8siUBd9nWIVYkEu7ASb9M963oeS3TpTfSYIOhJaL8NjAkhTGmBQiG6bvWBsdkSkwm2XWwHaAo_sAxcq0xL1TC9XUK1yuwfrEGm04w8U6-uJTvmqn/s400/Golden+Resources+Mall.jpg" alt="Golden Resources shopping mall" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5612854724984116498" border="0" />At 1.5 times the size of the Mall of America, <b>Golden Resources Mall</b> was the world’s largest shopping mall from 2004 to 2005. Although the developer of the mall initially estimated that the mall would have 50,000 shoppers a day, as of 2004 the actual number was far smaller, as few as 20 in an hour.<br /><br />One problem was that prices of most items sold were far beyond the purchasing ability of most ordinary Chinese. Another barrier was the inaccessibility of Golden Resources Shopping Mall to foreign consumers due to its location outside the heart of Beijing.<br /><br /><b>1: New South China Mall (6.46 million sq ft)</b><br /><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUY-5a7vUW3BXZxwnUtdk29UnJuVQ9eLb-NFAPGF8aqvjC74silllSuZUHIxAus-eX6rW7nOPzqFjCpJiuRjlc-BlyCToYKqZ71xwKPhNh_6MDhb_0KtVGtNdfGi8vVrXryqqj/s400/New+South+China+Mall.jpg" alt="New South China Mall in Dongguan" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5612854446871135314" border="0" /><b>New South China Mall in Dongguan</b> is the <b>largest mall in the world</b> based on gross leasable area. The mall features seven zones modeled on international cities including a replica of the Arc de Triomphe and a canal with gondolas.<br /><br />It also has an indoor-outdoor roller coaster. What is doesn’t have is customers. Since its opening in 2005, the mall has suffered from a severe lack of occupants.<br />Much of the retail space has remained empty,Stranger Worldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02471635339369963744noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32090921.post-37636071935338001592011-05-11T14:45:00.000-07:002011-05-13T13:30:49.866-07:00Beautiful santorini | Island of santorini greece | Luxury hotelsThis is the <b>beautiful santorini island luxury hotel</b>, which is located in greece on the <b>island of santorini</b>. the hotel has more than twenty rooms. it is a little slice of heaven right here on earth and would make a wonderful place to stay while on vacation.<br /><br /><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 271px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjliS-dsKNKd-tPc9x3TETU0Qgb1p0vJ31YI8wicDYtkrYVpxdEyUBZkjkIfIFOfGfoMTTuhqca-puhxGpt6lGyCw-PsVHmZNGXuLapSovhigcpOcImufVrmZRMz93133N2__Ku/s400/greece+luxury+hotels.jpg" alt="Beautiful santorini" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5605593052203780242" border="0" /><br /><img style="display: block; 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margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 271px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9KLC_lBdJYHUj_0Vl_7ovVsSkeRjIWOK27KIJ_Y9eBUPwz9bysYgXORmkX7rV36fM23thjl5J662rr0mSJxJN5-nogUTPod8BWsFZYMx-GSc9kRKBP61kg37SZkAC41LRj3D7/s400/greece+luxury+hotels+%252810%2529.jpg" alt="greece luxury hotels" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5605592436999499202" border="0" /><br /><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 271px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiu57OvEsFslFJuGOhebg8CzCIQ9nq2rm9xevqC8-ra01n9N4kKpaINM__3n66yyus_oVgPCJhj9D-QCoxpQClHDAs9lgL85Nm36oO5e0IDEaV6j4Q9HeQAGzsR97HGXR3uY4FQ/s400/greece+luxury+hotels+%252811%2529.jpg" alt="greece luxury hotels" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5605592435084748290" border="0" />Stranger Worldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02471635339369963744noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32090921.post-54352755180710344182011-02-26T05:30:00.000-08:002011-02-26T06:09:59.145-08:00Ark hotel designed by Russian | World’s new most unique hotelThe <b>Ark hotel project was designed by Russian</b> firm Remi-studio with the assistance of the International Union of Architects’ program Architecture for Disasters Relief. The dome-shaped hotel is constructed with wooden arches, steel cables and a “self-cleaning” plastic layer instead of glass. The slinky-like Ark hotel can be adapted to suit both land and water. It is built to stay afloat in the event of floods or rising seas. The 14,000 square meter shell-like construction of arches and cables distributes the weight evenly, meaning it can withstand earthquakes. Daylight is filtered through to internal rooms due to the hotel’s see-through structure, reducing the need for lighting. 09 More images after the break...<br /><br /><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilbGBgRL9DWLCGW0R4RZcScF7kwMNsAH_iKkbvKypb0KAxLN9KUXJligbiTgrti1yyxSdFMKOADnQs4fpcbCEGq-BQ-usoX5eh-QtkoBDNMpdppBYSk6fzBNRaT7GkOteCvz89/s400/Ark+hotel+%25285%2529.jpg" alt="Ark hotel" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5577991856765478210" border="0" /><br />Designed as: “an integrated energy system with an uninterpretable power supply using alternative energy sources”, the hotel uses solar panels and a rainwater collection system to provide inhabitants with power and water. It would be built around a central pillar connecting to roof-top wind generators and heat pumps, as well as to energy storage and thermal conversion units below.There will also be a “tornado” energy generating spiral at the top of the pillar.<br /><br /><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhi33joiJgQ3Z-INLbObyHRBbmglB1z_6uMsv6G26Oynjpj4A3XaVD3Gc28-ZM7PlYl7av8AYx8EHiRuefn9k094HyiSS4_ChrGfP3h-mOyGBmA5x6vtC9RfMygh_ClcoLU2wQs/s400/Ark+hotel+%25284%2529.jpg" alt="Ark hotel reviews" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5577991854049149794" border="0" /><br /><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiroKSxecIF-6IZAXjiM-5xNcg6sslXxcYTgbMKgzZIBUislfsfMPTKVsFqsIW-cfL68b_RV_xALQeXFkViX9nv1bX_75Pgk7Rt2pt1pRIJUfowYStJoMjSRgzlflkvcGAI-5i_/s400/Ark+hotel+%25283%2529.jpg" alt="Ark hotel reviews" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5577991849459664834" border="0" /><br /><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXuopanjMtAprR7L2I2cuFFEDZur1KyB7JiMRPWH4aBqm7SeabCxALKGcFNf_fsfLTszvzAKNUNcjQr6BH8S3UckrAgKqTTqfOwlqsiGvCrykHAxKIq_9dZ8-T5PFt-brssz7R/s400/Ark+hotel+%25282%2529.jpg" alt="Ark hotel reviews" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5577991849339248322" border="0" /><br /><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiso7k64YbCZjwD2DjbS13P6BCTb2pFKZOYN37sfkid_LqTZsZCiM9II92B40gtIu8UVVyMrgrpiZWbHQeu5Y1nDScaGBqY2dEyg3q59NHcbDIvLYETQeaT5q_7y-rIEZBwlud9/s400/Ark+hotel+%25281%2529.jpg" alt="Ark hotel rates" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5577991846314792258" border="0" /><br /><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtGCAN4VVM-ZuIw1vz_CnjZTNkIuHeyENtXGBCxGQWtnSKE6-MRCduPQ_IXiutlKHVLwC4Noz3X9jnDGaoBiLwdENZkLe7YcgZS53Jo9k8ef00BefJrUZJ3VMAhKdHWz-sLLLO/s400/Ark+hotel+%252810%2529.jpg" alt="Ark hotel rates" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5577991606497515122" border="0" /><br /><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGphqyQnn3XfOxYxKeBFdwkrjioh6jp45gyw-FUCdNEEQTqbQCIuN-rdXN-zANcrc92EofgzO6m0ivOoETPSXFgz_zK_KRL9MOYljqemDlqqmpEqfZ_o-GLibY0dCnXoEF28vM/s400/Ark+hotel+%25289%2529.jpg" alt="Ark hotel rates" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5577991602614930402" border="0" /><br /><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYPLK9gF2_jPzqFzsxTuAn3w4zhOHJ7iRsQ9_d8CLBcMhNxU3Ziwdsr-82ucfbvPkKp2KU7RUH8g1_8P00aVkKvtsl7YcY8U39Yp6Km3xkmXBfJArKPgGtFQzamop1B_sgXvfZ/s400/Ark+hotel+%25288%2529.jpg" alt="Ark hotel deals" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5577991598065697922" border="0" /><br /><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6sOJ-pSwzpqUfOUpfN8RXfCZnGHRI-ukNS2cnAISUtGR9s-zAJ45iH67rzSeUHK2q2G6XW6ISpImRQtRzI0jIVnnZmxRztwEL2KNcMOi2JVJL_1S8JTUX60Muz_HyRiqgdWZ1/s400/Ark+hotel+%25287%2529.jpg" alt="Ark hotel deals" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5577991594872534498" border="0" /><br /><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVSq03fxS_NfCq-V3X59qLgMN9PGUru98aENJbp55zCngMPFBGpLwBFmsH68JalE_YVnrblLr_sehvbwGvba18PbwpWkTMi0xOY-tiMHL1uG3SFYK0paCwZvAu-YDW4wZk0r9p/s400/Ark+hotel+%25286%2529.jpg" alt="Ark hotel deals" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5577991594875320290" border="0" />Stranger Worldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02471635339369963744noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32090921.post-73227646222120706002011-01-04T01:05:00.000-08:002011-01-04T01:44:23.973-08:00Take iron and folic acid foods for smarter kids in pregnancyA study by Parul Christian, Associate Professor at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, shows that mothers who are given <b>iron and folic acid supplements during pregnancy</b> have kids who are smarter, more organized and had better fine motor skills than children whose mothers did not get them. The study was conducted in rural Nepal which involved studying 676 school-age children whose mothers had been in a clinical trial in which some got <b>iron and folic acid supplements</b> and other <b>nutrients</b> while they were <b>pregnant</b>. About 80 % of those children were enrolled in school.<br /><br /><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 363px; height: 311px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWOMZt_pBrP8ppXz4QhfXqN06iY06r7dG722FSm0O5U8eaT9YOFqe9hXDdlYgCu7Ii3w3N7bmyKUh7-mlwA2IJGLZL-o17tJCIeRdIdenGX1IbHm8jG-m4xPXwqw24aoQqZK6O/s400/smart+kids.jpg" alt="smarter kids" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5558259152761373522" border="0" /><b>"Iron is essential for the development of the central nervous system,"</b> said Parul Christian, an expert in international health at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, whose study appears in the Journal of the American Medical Association.<br /><br />"We had the opportunity to follow the offspring of women who had participated in a randomized trial of iron and folic acid and other micronutrients to assess neurocognitive function and outcomes," Christian said in a telephone interview.<br /><br />"What we showed is prenatal <b>iron and folic acid</b> supplementation had a significant impact on the offspring's intellectual level and motor ability and ability during school age, which was a very exciting finding," she said.<br /><br />"It had an impact across a range of function, including intellectual function, executive function and fine motor function," factors that could affect a child's later academic success, Christian said.Stranger Worldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02471635339369963744noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32090921.post-32139666494854021672010-12-30T00:42:00.000-08:002010-12-30T01:07:07.053-08:00Photo from archives | Greatest photographs of world war IICensored for days, this picture was finally published in the Mail. Now, 70 years on, by <b>Max Hastings</b> reveals the dramatic story behind THE iconic image of the Blitz.<br /><br />Today is the anniversary of one of the <b>greatest photographs of World War II</b> being taken — and of a defining moment in British history. On the night of December 29, 1940, Daily Mail chief <b>photographer Herbert Mason</b> was firewatching on the roof of the newspaper’s offices between Fleet Street and the Thames.<br /><br />The Luftwaffe’s blitz on London was at its height: after a brief pause decreed by Hitler on Christmas Day, Goering’s bombers had resumed their almost nightly pounding of the capital. A brief attack on December 27 inflicted 600 casualties, more than 50 of them in a single public shelter in Southwark which received a direct hit.<br /><br /><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 314px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvzc2i8Ni_OEKHN-TPlZjkba7HfkiySnvV9HE8FjtFOMwz2gcNs6HZzVY_x1-lslOdxDHBmlw03J6Eef4nYwYcOone3R8k2miht6NYaqJWsQnTnflt2fSGaTas-sJee2HhOKwE/s400/Photo+from+the+Archives.jpg" alt="Greatest photographs" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5556395333475106306" border="0" />Symbol in the smoke: Herbert Mason's <b>iconic photograph</b> of St Paul's dome emerging from the smoke of raging fires in surrounding streets was taken 70 years ago this week<br /><br />When darkness fell on December 29, the Heinkel and Dornier planes came again to launch their 125th attack since the campaign began — which inflicted unparalleled devastation on the old City of London. Barely 30 minutes into the raid, Luftwaffe aircrew counted 54 major fires beneath them; in three hours of early evening bombing, 120 tons of explosive and 22,000 incendiaries fell, inflicting appalling damage.<br /><br /><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 282px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgL2YGt7a5Ek8mxiv3ekKhDDljtCQt_4gcIS2aB0TEh8qwF53oxfeh1yiyA0mWqshGsHc6BWaPPIPRwSk9rYl_bfTvUDk3LrOJyFLGy0BdW3DfXU5JiGb1eO2XNBpOKxmvabN01/s400/Daily+Mail+photographer.jpg" alt="Greatest photographs" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5556395330914251778" border="0" />Capturing history: <b>Daily Mail chief photographer Herbert Mason</b> took the photograph from the roof of the newspaper's office in Carmelite Street<br /><br />Hundreds of buildings in the heart of the financial district were set ablaze; eight Christopher Wren churches were destroyed and the 15th-century Guildhall was set on fire. One bomb landed near the Monument, erected by Wren to commemorate the 1666 Great Fire of London.<br /><br />A middle-aged spinster named Vere Hodgson, who worked in a charity shop in Notting Hill, kept a wonderful diary of the war years, especially of the Blitz. ‘Terrible fires in London,’ she wrote of that night. ‘We went up on the roof to look. At Shepherd’s Bush, flames were leaping, and towards the City they were gigantic. As I walked up the road I could see the smoke.<br /><br />‘A great red glow filled the sky — I had no need of a torch — I could see every step I took and could have read a book if I had wished.<br /><br />‘The police said it was Waterloo station, but a taxi man told my friend Miss Mowes that the City was on fire, and they were trying to save St Paul’s. These were her first words to me, and I shall never forget the horror of them.’<br /><br />On the roof of the Mail’s office at Northcliffe House, Carmelite Street, Herbert Mason gazed on the inferno around the cathedral, less than half a mile from where he stood — and raised his camera.<br /><br />‘I focused at intervals as the great dome loomed up through the smoke,’ he later said. ‘The glare of many fires and sweeping clouds of smoke kept hiding the shape. Then a wind sprang up. Suddenly, the shining cross, dome and towers stood out like a symbol in the inferno. The scene was unbelievable. In that moment or two, I released my shutter.’<br /><br />Mason knew nothing of the extraordinary drama taking place in St Paul’s, even as he took the picture that became the transcendent image of the Blitz.<br /><br /><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 324px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlup8BIGCloMBC8b9JIEQ5y9HnNdVYvfc4tvraOocj32wWkPW52UySy_kN9Te8eaVSwj9E_4VAKBDkZhAzsye0XXFYpOTCrL7y-0nbDfdNGPQSNw8XuiRnQvaaq1aWuOIAjmQG/s400/Photo+from+the+Archives+%25282%2529.jpg" alt="Photo from archives" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5556395329373096930" border="0" />Devastation: This was the view from St Paul's on January 3, 1941, showing the destruction to the streets surrounding the Cathedral<br /><br />Falling rubble had blocked emergency services from getting through the streets and an abnormally low tide in the Thames caused hydrants on which firemen’s pumps depended to run dry. When a fire broke out in the cathedral’s library aisle, there was no mains water to fight it — the blaze was eventually suppressed with stirrup pumps, buckets and sand.<br /><br /><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 279px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAiRztEtZ2yDUfpjoDoe52FHMlxsWKITzVclabVrw6nPpdc7LOJDYYWz4U7_g-aDGyCk-6z2wnxdJY7n7-8LLN-JjoQGCCFY4IqIOdpsEm5pVG2vA6qOqaFaFihXCCn-RFIlki/s400/Daily+Mail.jpg" alt="Daily mail picture" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5556395336335044930" border="0" /><b>The War's greatest picture</b>: The Daily Mail of 31 December 1940 sums up Herbert Mason's picture in perfect style.<br /><br />Then, soon after 6.30pm, an incendiary bomb — one of 29 to fall on and around St Paul’s that night — pierced the lead roof of the dome and lodged in its timbers. Molten lead began to drip into the nave below. The aged wood of the choir stalls and organ screen, carved by the great sculptor Grinling Gibbons, was at mortal risk, while smoke from the blazing buildings surrounding the cathedral enveloped it.<br /><br />American reporter Ed Murrow pronounced the great building’s obituary in a live broadcast to the U.S.: ‘The church that means most to London is gone. St Paul’s Cathedral is burning to the ground as I talk to you now.’<br /><br />His valediction was premature: as he spoke, two teams of specialist fire watchers recruited from the Royal Institute of British Architects — and hand-picked because they had heads for heights — were crawling along the wooden beams with hand pumps to reach the blazing section.<br /><br />But suddenly the incendiary bomb, having burnt through the wood, fell far, far to the nave below, where it was easily put out. Though almost every building around St Paul’s perished, the cathedral survived.<br /><br />More than 160 people died in that night’s raid, including 16 firemen, and 500 were injured.<br /><br />Eight of the firemen perished in a single incident when a wall collapsed on them as they fought a blaze near Fleet Street and 250 of their comrades suffered injuries during the night.<br /><br />The next morning, it was bitterly cold. There was a light scattering of snow as office worker Dorothy Barton emerged from London Bridge station on her commute.<br /><br />She gazed in horror at the acres of smoking and still burning ruins —then her heart lifted as she looked up at St Paul’s, towering over the scene. ‘I felt a lump in my throat because, like so many people, I felt that while St Paul’s survived, so would we,’ she said.<br /><br /><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 304px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCuPufiGCtVhrD-3n3GfZzAfnXGExvMIFpmQq6rB3cSBX1mSDy38h9u-3YA4poUNjM5I0NrqJJbcMaWad1tUnjIjXBc54KldRhZHmHQ4uRT1FI8988b0yM72T7TMiRlhzkj0te/s400/Photo+from+the+Archives+%25284%2529.jpg" alt="Photo from archives" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5556395324760824754" border="0" /><b>London's burning</b>: Ruins of a building in the shadow of St Paul's still smoulder a week after the Blitz on the city in December 1940<br /><br />But mild, gentle Miss Vere Hodgson looked on the devastation and wrote bitterly: ‘I shall never bother with Germans or foreigners again. It makes you want to give other people a taste of what we have had.’<br /><br />Herbert Mason’s photograph went unpublished for two days while censors considered whether it would serve Britain’s cause; others — for example, one of Bank underground.Stranger Worldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02471635339369963744noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32090921.post-84638780025862078542010-12-27T23:23:00.001-08:002010-12-27T23:49:13.126-08:00Beautiful winter drawings arts (10 pics)<b>Romantic scene of some beautiful winter drawing arts</b><br /><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 281px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg70T73kZMtPa7Oqlt62h55aw__NuEQ3lWNPgodxNsAP2w7t5ikf9Ogo3BjpGicVih3OVSFxMF6O-pYo9wdh3Jz73FYVpTb4rxrYAsJKbOVob_VMfA15nEM_4QJfaMpd8T2DPRu/s400/Beautiful+winter+drawings+arts.jpg" alt="winter drawings arts" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5555630656191722786" border="0" /><br /><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 319px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicekgZobYrKH4RNaebp7KcRkxEo0fllmYgG02y4SavMlr9Mway4bGLVOUKUvOcyu4EoVix-bJ65WIg6O5f0JGMOlWAWPiLunLfD0g7ArBhSWE4x57RckdYAF1typO2FOkb2ddz/s400/Beautiful+winter+drawings+arts+%25281%2529.jpg" alt="winter drawings arts" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5555630652910682114" border="0" /><br /><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 270px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixhO5bH4hobwbpKDpNlX0gzylDT-rqxbYeQLGNBH7Jk3OY71ILTsvWqLWQu92JKWPBNJDXlUB-doL4fSKtbLfkwNfPQ-ud6WthAt3CS5A-uDAYV0s5xRvClqET6UmgwlU4QThY/s400/Beautiful+winter+drawings+arts+%25282%2529.jpg" alt="winter drawings arts" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5555630646028484706" border="0" /><br /><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 271px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiu9n7iYItZObyC5nzQdXjFW34_89T_VgcH4otgaNIxXLLL1TOG5wQ-VzvQnBZeeplexNBXbnRS3Mu4auUwZH2vTyjbIydev85WGJrPCEbCiCpbf5s-qsPS6nVHrczRBD93jigB/s400/Beautiful+winter+drawings+arts+%25283%2529.jpg" alt="winter drawings arts" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5555630642560774674" border="0" /><br /><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 288px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyuZ02QjvQrNd7L_3YiJJTaKBu6N693TosUpWlMJxLCVMIvOwwpPmKdZhSmUAGU6sUFLN-1WN-vlMTN7VwSvyUw-8ZGmMfSbL_xShK1O6lV5FST_P2RxwLb6QXeyDVr67vnQMR/s400/Beautiful+winter+drawings+arts+%25284%2529.jpg" alt="winter drawings arts" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5555630643009190114" border="0" /><br /><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 393px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqq7ixVHK9VY0iiSSrIfG5Y-yqV9vItk8zELzlIczJ5VmVwTK9GxOhiUXTG5uofdAIJfLQlQ2SXevZHIJV-1Uq9rJy6HnOsWixwvD7WlwaY-hWaaDMIzjAiSGYZ-vpXcyR-dpY/s400/Beautiful+winter+drawings+arts+%25285%2529.jpg" alt="Beautiful winter drawings" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5555630486297510802" border="0" /><br /><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 273px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZlZMyToLkLxHNAY6kZq91bPetQGL-HLqNxuZ4E_czs0QqTWYKxh6_4ZtC04Hkq-we0bCfXfPS7QNv50lJq3RYpxl9fl0zlGzbdhHofzjj1gOfIuz4bNQ7E2dwpESPR3exojNN/s400/Beautiful+winter+drawings+arts+%25286%2529.jpg" alt="Beautiful winter drawings" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5555630484631186978" border="0" /><br /><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 281px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiORQYE1JXrAh-7hFzZwcDo0SdSeJgRWLMDlOQVVzcaQd1pTwW-a-qcNXgZWtLqzZB02Iv9046PezkiUbnGkNyDeEU66DHaXByZG0F8ChURaUKsYm-vRPWrZ-JRkRbJ62wDQZd7/s400/Beautiful+winter+drawings+arts+%25287%2529.jpg" alt="Beautiful winter drawings" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5555630485968068178" border="0" /><br /><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGhXRVZtkz3jHYcpeH15rzuq9EdobPT4nfh-cJw0mejbDTBnAsGf8amkCm9RIyy1-_Lbwrf9gG-eshOUcVNh9dNlf4-Agu2BXqnePGVdwNyEZl1Im2mxCxw2uQWs6gmBiWFjd6/s400/Beautiful+winter+drawings+arts+%25288%2529.jpg" alt="Beautiful winter drawings" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5555630478018184322" border="0" /><br /><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 270px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6oSZlqvpuvZht6Gfsy57YKa6oFDC42ofd7Hg6QRe73tSbgoFV0UTLOHtvt1_KmZaGrdpjIOaSt6cjACi7dpDV7ngWt2t_-G55MDG64bJCvQxeZ36e3wuOPHKi04X0g4lSfyH3/s400/Beautiful+winter+drawings+arts+%25289%2529.jpg" alt="Beautiful winter drawings" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5555630475763202626" border="0" />Stranger Worldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02471635339369963744noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32090921.post-80598390613505248522010-12-23T23:54:00.000-08:002010-12-24T00:43:38.178-08:00Beautiful wedding gowns | Pink wedding dress | Beautiful dress offers<b>Astonishing New Beautiful Wedding Gowns</b><br /><br /><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 302px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9XDSxNkPrO0nTNAtJpSrJkkrb1aerFdHLbHi-mFlvMpziuAkARl9dZ1J5RWUuR3bA-mJF-wZCrnPoY0qC-e5PGaawCDNaEEQWiCxupl4-ZkhIpwaySTQqjWpXqjCRKuV36eGm/s400/Beautiful+Wedding+Gowns.jpg" alt="Elegant Wedding Gowns" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5554157903524602866" border="0" />Elegant appearance on this wedding dress, you will seem beauty when you wearing this dress, if you look the great design from wedding dress, you will interested to choose this dress as the best for your . on the front view you can see a beautiful bread that replaced on the breast and belt, yellow color cross in the middle of dress make life this dress when it wearing and the back also. This <b>beautiful dress offers</b> in US$ 305.00 with color option ivory. Go to the boutique now and bring this dress at home.<br /><br /><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 282px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuyOPQYi0jhPD0SSRAbmhLmpjUXm1vzLJe1XxltiJplePsB_gcqNvsXkHXMNMk29qzpsKCivsSTbBK4m-th4aclqt4bJ5AdjFrQ9IMHU9l4WSuBwy1AnsjGwd8SmsdrTrqcD0Q/s400/Pink+wedding+dress+%25281%2529.jpg" alt="Strapless pink wedding dress" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5554156052696564706" border="0" />Beautiful <b>Strapless pink wedding dress</b> embellished by sequins at top of corset bodice. this <b>beautiful pink wedding dress</b> expanse at lower part floor length skirt. this Mori Lee <b>Bridal wedding gown</b> suitable for wedding standing party. <b>Pink color</b> for <b>wedding dress</b> become popular among young girl today they will choose a wedding dress in pink than white color,why because white as common color for wedding dress.<br /><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 282px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZ5rOJpgaaZgAaWwczIq-s8rtOo8QQuWCNad5cF7p5iCuJ1pZGcFR-u2US8Ne6aaVqJb2AZ8Q6xWu8Ar3KPkqQWH4IUdCbUeupmXvpBwfj3P2zak8fCZEfHQJYzwid2WrtulAR/s400/Pink+wedding+dress.jpg" alt="beautiful pink wedding dress" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5554155583506375218" border="0" /><br /><br />Pink color for wedding dress may look like strange sound but today pink for wedding dress become popular cause every one think if white has scare color but that faith blur by age. pink color become popular among young girl who want to get married. two wedding dress in pink color below designed really really very unique and stylish. you able to colorize you hair in pink too for your wedding event. Pink Wedding Dress embellished by corset bodice closure, medium skirt size not as in white wedding dress as common in <b>pink wedding dress</b> for once designed so sophisticated and beautiful<br /><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 294px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzWzydcUvRIvQ7OOr33O3jSYlcFhrTN-TWdyKqZVB6nskRCkC6Z2OJ9qo6Q8uB-Rs_RV3BoDcXmw_Lmvvgx9UFrRlnJX62-920WH7xZHdMFqoEwTqNP1qSieowUIqKASps0D2U/s400/Pink+color+wedding+dress.jpg" alt="Pink wedding dress designed" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5554154522134738066" border="0" /><br /><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 279px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhqMsVZVgfydiXxRB0wER1nsqzF-bdisuMPBfq2KB54lEFmnLzwG6kOXxzEf0MFb4ys65lScZMrqUEKvo1xwQj8metrPici_cUkDIfieYMNJG-2HO8RC3efD-mXjTciNvrJsX5/s400/Pink+color+wedding+dress.jpg" alt="Pink wedding dress design" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5554164217735850578" border="0" />Stranger Worldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02471635339369963744noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32090921.post-23181933097437560662010-12-22T23:43:00.000-08:002010-12-23T00:15:49.660-08:00Christmas gift cards for loved ones | Christmas gift cards 2011Christmas is approaching fast and you still have not decided anything about the Christmas gifts. Christmas Gifts are one of the major attractions for everyone, as all of us loves to receive gifts. Moreover, these Christmas Gifts symbolize love and unity. In case, you are unable to buy <b>Christmas Gifts for your loved ones</b>, there is no need to bother.<br /><br />There is another option for make them smile and realize that you are concerned about them. Simply give Christmas gift cards to your loved ones.<br /><br /><b>Christmas gift cards</b> are getting immensely popular among people. They are trendy as well as easy to use. Christmas gift cards are usually gift certificates and they serve the purpose of cash card. Christmas gift cards are usually made up of plastic and incorporate one magnetic strip. The cashier with the help of machine swipes this magnetic strip. There is one logo on the Christmas Gift Cards. On the front of Christmas Gift Cards, there is an illustration of sponsoring business.<br /><br />Value of Christmas Gift Cards keep on changing and is quite flexible. These cards are getting immensely popular and are preferred more as compare to the paper gift certificates.<br /><br /><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 302px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_UKjEKEH-XHe9CprnR7e0GHp334-Bn2u5Z80sn6W65EXcHhvj9XMqRr6US6LphBOxxFR3Ve8JAqkspsM8wGRJZuwENNlz-VZcK8K8DFLs0-qcF5LPPQZlYbQ4z10Fym_h1ZcG/s400/19.jpg" alt="Christmas gift cards 2011" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5552350471644901586" border="0" /><br /><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiT6UnD77TgEs21W7zHq3dJkfBCK_F-3TZUFJmSC-cuvsmLMDSlYDQZxuZ-hlGUazsKuN21WAfZm2AUBXMIbCddNQM_LkmqV4SJqLs0zssNTmoUGTFqRfUa95TiZnu74J5gQu-t/s400/3.jpg" alt="Christmas gift cards 2011" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5552351544642011874" border="0" /><br /><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; 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margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 270px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivlKTvS5z8cnV1LdQMSL7L43nYoWXbStG_9EynBHesSou6m3W7tZbhEUYE6dctZidjXepJh629fRjJ8p4GoGDABqxEezR2gPNSwoxPC3WRYd7K2bDHJy2kLOdQS9MeiKcvwK50/s400/14.jpg" alt="Christmas Gifts cards symbolize love" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5552350479349470466" border="0" /><br /><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 259px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFIKiT0bU-AWUHdPQbl7X5f9sGULpuMC3NHb8KIPj37eT1sCcz_KD4UJYxL8zrTpO6qzzsGwO5z2FFG6qjVstDamCGbJKBRkElHvW8UwdwEzq_ZesoUNpBPEaszsJBcp0S9vDw/s400/7.jpg" alt="Christmas Gifts cards symbolize love" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5552351921498464450" border="0" />Stranger Worldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02471635339369963744noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32090921.post-8260099188773225622010-12-22T02:47:00.001-08:002010-12-22T03:55:48.760-08:00Bizarre looking animal hair hats<b>Incredible animal hair styles | Bizarre animal hair hats</b><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="background-color: transparent; border: medium none; color: black; overflow: hidden; text-decoration: none;"><i>These <b>bizarre looking hair</b> set is the creation of <b>Japanese designer</b>, Nagi Noda, which created them in her typical eccentric style. During her short life, she created ads for Nike and Coca-Cola, however, she is probably most famous for her <b>hair hats</b>. Everyone seemed to know who she was after she created a hair hat for Lady Gaga. I put a selection of her other hair hats below for your enjoyment.</i><span><br /></span></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEis338_MdgZUBp7BfMUvYeFROM3s93uPgHcodsWDaG2VVXRJro5R9wz3egUL0F7Sg4FHzt86d6ZVO9qugQcPQpiaf9Clvberma14etdSNZgmp1oYsisNc5_ITYVUFOSOn1s8X7XFg/s400/1.jpg" alt="Bizarre animal hair hats" border="0" height="300" width="400" /></span></div><div><div style="background-color: transparent; border: medium none; color: black; overflow: hidden; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"><div style="text-align: center;"><i>She used animals as her inspiration, and as you see, these hats sport a rabbit, poodle, owls and even an elephant which is my favorite.</i></div><span><a name="more"></a></span></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEircHz8FuD6jGOZDR-ezYRGeWpjrtduRtVhyphenhyphenfe9mVJxSDPclV_RtvJDIWaID1DjDUekKwcSGX48o-YZRp4XuD0kChRDT5jxY5jMl4c0EoHMu_8hFFPd2ubf5Pt11AFB8FOlTUPf2Q/s400/2.jpg" alt="Bizarre animal hair hats" border="0" height="300" width="400" /></span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><span style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1u0i1-qOLT3xLin0TcjnJl4L2dcBj1TlqKPQ9YBbiqg5i8_O4c56pjLQR2PTQvTnN4KnJmRwP0HDFRZ8GYSiqs7Im_WrEE6W4Z0pVitDdG9S4cnvCn6MDJIf0SEJ_j3d1ZWR7XA/s400/9.jpg" alt="Incredible Animal Hair Styles" border="0" height="300" width="400" /></span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkn0wxd5F2FD_typHkmjGE21BLmiyzv73VqVXyuS0NilSJs6IFxRvDCuPwfVA4uWp3QYgYrIG052IkSjy761RBCP5dJUDTRQDh3uPddvh4Tdeu-tjOj169S8DQOnWaR64kyaeIWA/s400/10.jpg" alt="Incredible Animal Hair Styles" border="0" height="300" width="400" /></span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmJdRQAQrAujF3Ogjk8wfWOYSkaLvT2hEeIGizk3mp0sAwqnD0aSYXRPPZ3n03H9Ue_vEfHrnbk-5Qaq_CjjfKXB2ygHlqUIwjJVIXoBzEUrG-34Q-vB9zF2dN7Lmp2QizmpG0AA/s400/11.jpg" alt="Incredible Animal Hair Styles" border="0" height="300" width="400" /></span></div>Stranger Worldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02471635339369963744noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32090921.post-64593815901164190832010-12-22T02:14:00.000-08:002010-12-22T02:45:05.629-08:00Christmas tree made with 80,000 plastic spoonsA team of <b>young taiwanese students</b> as created an impressive <b>christmas tree out of 80,000 plastic spoons</b>, in taichung city.<br /><br /><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 327px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxCmLGQWgnG9Oax7BbKPsXQN9Ss8GJVVRhtpQ2UECX9by6SaRi06danj1xUI7a7iErWWGiLOxewy77wz92RaQ9c3oT1Fohw5-bCcJkLwnoxOrhpHlIBBl5SKyL0BN0W5q9rpsf/s400/Christmas+tree+made+with+plastic+spoons.jpg" alt="christmas tree made with plastic spoons in taiwan" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5553451834138735266" border="0" />In their quest to deliver a message about the environment, this christmas, a team of six students from taiwan’s trans world university have created a unique <b>christmas tree</b> out of 80,000 plastic spoons. The young environmentalists entered a competition for the best christmas tree made of recyclable materials, and their original idea came up on top.<br /><br /><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 293px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwm5vq5ABJfr17-hl52Vn9lD2uA1mdaC0IR43CgMd1-y8kKkZ51NQPuQ6qG1kncp10s58YQ7gUazwGctB_GDJRHcCkRCceS0xY75SMmCXH537HdUWw1sDqbWCHYYVckxMvTrOD/s400/Christmas+tree+made+with+plastic+spoons+%25281%2529.jpg" alt="Christmas tree made out of plastics spoons" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5553451834908801954" border="0" />The 80,000 plastic spoons used in the making of the tree were provided by the taiwanese branch of kfc, who was probably looking for a way of improving its overall image. After the holiday season, the spoons will be taken to a recycling facility and used to create something useful. Impressed by the feat of these young students, mayor jason hu felt the need to send an environmental message of his own: “christmas must be celebrated in an Eco-friendly way, and it is the same when we choose clothing or when we take a shower.”<br /><br /><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhH2ksXFiT3XLtX97juE2QfW-LJJr9sb3p_OaLzps6ycxBFxIO7H3XIpGptINVvyZutvAZFBhV5TvheVyWxIzPQwljfZiAroiT06RHxH3zKGcAD8C39iLdB1EFFXpmAHPWl-Avs/s400/Christmas+tree+made+with+plastic+spoons+%25282%2529.jpg" alt="Christmas tree made from recycled plastic spoons" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5553451831108242770" border="0" />Stranger Worldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02471635339369963744noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32090921.post-74763405693059515162010-12-21T01:43:00.000-08:002010-12-21T02:12:55.347-08:00Sweden woman awoke to find stranger's tongue on her armA <b>woman in eastern sweden awoke</b> with a start recently to <b>find stranger's tongue on her arm</b>, man lying next to her in bed.<br /><br />The <b>young woman</b> was asleep beside her boyfriend at the time of the <b>stranger's unexpected visit</b>. Upon discovering the strange man’s tongue pressed against the inside of her elbow, the woman first woke up her boyfriend to ask if he knew who the stranger was.<br /><br /><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 196px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVho6vh2RMNWJipSf3kPhCr0-ZoaBMh4Vg23sfv3OglDt2HhR15BBppenG4gvsCiPuxmdM0P-5xGdQIHhExgQvKEVHTv2tGE2EwByB1NpS3ev739qESMJ8bQ7V82_lmCa5Jlj4/s400/stranger%2527s+tongue.jpg" alt="stranger's tongue on her arm" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5552821317706284002" border="0" /><br />The couple’s initial attempts to force the unknown intruder out of the house were met with angry rebuttals from the man, who demanded to know who the couple was and what they were doing there.<br /><br />The arm-tasting bandit has now been charged with sexual molestation, breaking and entering, as well as drug crimes, the newspaper reports.<br /><br />In defending his actions, the 22-year-old man told police he was drunk at the time and has no recollection of entering the couple’s home or licking the woman’s arm.<br /><br />The incident, which took place two months ago, is reminiscent of a similar incident from October involving a drunken student from skane in southern Sweden.<br /><br />Following a party with his university classmates, the student broke into a home he thought was his own, but in fact belonged to a family who were startled by the strangers’ abrupt entrance.<br /><br />The mother at first thought the drunken student was her son, but upon realising she instead had an intruder in her home, she called police and waited outside with her family in the pouring rain until five squad cars arrived in response to the call.<br /><br />The student was given a suspended sentence, fined, and ordered to pay to replace the window he broke to enter the house.Stranger Worldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02471635339369963744noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32090921.post-32522652019673974322010-12-20T02:12:00.000-08:002010-12-20T02:31:47.270-08:00Abu dhabi luxury hotel | Million dollar christmas treeAn <b>Abu Dhabi luxury hotel</b> that boasted an <b>$11 million Christmas tree</b> decorated with gold and gems admitted Sunday it may have taken the holiday spirit a bit too far.<br /><br />A statement from the <b>Emirates Palace hotel</b> said it regretted "attempts to overload" the <b>Christmas tree</b> tradition by adorning it with premium bling including gold, rubies, diamonds and other precious stones from a hotel jeweler.<br /><br /><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 397px; height: 224px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5evGNVqvIaBa0ddCLjUvp3dhV9zjrPph8uGorIbqNlVxBmDWGVUNSJtH8dUwrEZVcbPoS0Nu-pp_fsyFYHj-i4-nkofK891SY6W2CbWtDeTQuyBW7nTtEZYP1Yh2T2Eo_sNT6/s400/million+dollar+Christmas+tree.jpg" alt="Abu dhabi, million dollar christmas tree" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5552707755484167042" border="0" />The statement was a rare bit of reflection on the Gulf's ethos of excess. The tree was unveiled last week with full fanfare in a hotel that features its own gold bar vending machine and a one-week $1 million package that includes private jet jaunts around the Middle East.<br /><br />But the hotel management apparently had second thoughts after questions arose about whether the opulent tree was innocent good cheer or unfortunate bad taste.<br /><br />The <b>hotel regrets</b> "attempts to overload the tradition followed by most hotels in the country with meanings and connotations that do not fall in line with the (hotel's) professional standards," said a statement carried on the state-run news agency WAM.<br /><br />The hotel even tried to distance itself from the 43-foot (13-meter) faux fir in one of its rotundas, saying a hotel-based jeweler was solely responsible for creating and decorating the tree.<br /><br />"The hotel is just a venue for exhibiting the tree," the statement said.<br /><br />The hotel also claimed the tree was not a stunt, but rather an effort to boost the holiday mood for its guests based on the United Arab Emirates' "values of openness and tolerance."<br /><br />Although officially Muslim, the UAE features many signs of Christmas for its huge foreign population. Lights, carolers and Santas are fixtures in nearly every mall.Stranger Worldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02471635339369963744noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32090921.post-38162748367679879012010-12-14T04:41:00.000-08:002010-12-15T01:35:03.752-08:00Christmas lights house | Outdoor christmas | Decorating house<b>Family christmas lights | Magic christmas | Xmas lights house</b><br /><br /><b>Decorating house</b> with <b>Christmas lights</b> is always wake up great memories of childhood. So many people continue to do that through the years. Here are some of the biggest outdoor house decorations with christmas lights. They are mentioned in not particular order and of them are awesome and show how to <b>celebrate Christmas</b> with style.<br /><br /><b>The Faucher family House</b><br /><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzvjUNZ58FTCe2HO7y8Fcsdiu-KNtiBig41L91sfvrqk3zn3BKR4iDpaOiLjyCUza1-fsudXrINOBKc8B6kj5EXzAzf2GyGlHGKwkCqu0lka8jAgAlaOnXEhVe-c0BIlyOYglq/s400/Outdoor+Christmas+Lights.jpg" alt="Christmas lights house" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5550833840972606562" border="0" /><br /><br /><b>Faucher Family Christmas Lights Extravaganza</b><br /><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 174px; height: 130px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJLarAECxZUBNJ-DKMBLVBPwrjib0-nY_8ktOSN-cnPJZJT-4ib_x9BnLWTJhav6EXoQ8iI_qhluW-pVuflg3dmEguDQWS_ev7aTrFOE9aZ_Clqb6IyN6nbeFxwIUxf0gdaVtB/s400/Outdoor+Christmas+Lights+%25281%2529.jpg" alt="Christmas lights house" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5550833840866233426" border="0" />The Faucher family has been putting up their Christmas light extravaganza outside their Delaware home for 23 years. And if you think 1,000 lights are a lot, imagine what 1,000,000 would look like. The family’s enormous endeavor lights up the neighborhood and slows traffic for miles around as folks stop by for a look at this holiday marvel.<br /><br /><b>Alex Goodwind 30000 GBP Christmas Lights</b><br /><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 258px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3Wl9H4wR754DgEYvHzBn6RoTWbUAQ-hTdwuI-uIxpx2FUIWzkfCTqcifcCHF6FFC588O187rsKaODX08zDGWLXvHu0QQx6Qvc3L49pVgpPrG-wJmf9lQkJbj2cyAxpZ17fr8m/s400/Outdoor+Christmas+Lights+%25282%2529.jpg" alt="Christmas lights house" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5550833816933819714" border="0" /><br /><br /><b>Alex Goodwind Christmas Lights for 30000 GBP</b><br /><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 174px; height: 114px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhehRjIr7FBzB9-yocjxb5PrZAVUOnDrGE_MCf86mk1EzoAyXuUMYCOGTcMpJoCAGF-O5gMY22JkSeMIGgB6T6qHG102jye-F5yux9Lxddn0_aSFg4p3CqRI1foMkltaGRlQ5tI/s400/Outdoor+Christmas+Lights+%25283%2529.jpg" alt="Outdoor christmas" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5550833705628856962" border="0" />Alex Goodwind’s house is situated in Melksham, England. He starts planning lights in July and has spent 3,000 GBP this 2008 year alone on the lights that are now estimated to be worth 30,000 GBP. Last year the bill for electricity was 700 GBP.<br /><br /><b>Dominic Luberto’s House</b><br /><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 319px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHSI7k6j9-aR5k-YBSNkmfOIEyAX1a5vjOvV5s8MiSJ_1B_31c3e0sl5TLRmmKGh11ZHTV48ceINnJQBNzRpD4jq9IxDQwY_X1lIJMARq7-euHsYMrF-KrrrQt_MAW5vpQut0d/s400/Outdoor+Christmas+Lights+%25284%2529.jpg" alt="Outdoor christmas" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5550833694050895922" border="0" />Boston's House of Dominic Luberto<br /><br />250,000 christmas lights on Dominic Luberto 8,500-square-foot house exterior. Dominic’s idea is to show about 47,000 people who drive by his home each day that Christmas should be celebrated in style. The house is one of the biggest single-family homes in Boston with 11 fireplaces.<br /><br /><b>Dick Norton’s Winter Wonderland</b><br /><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZP3vaNW2nTcSzwIExU9kLgYLhl9R8PMYQlh0fPO8G85uQUn57j9-Avp50bf32tFSEOtfwPVXTSS4205IlsE_M9GyunwRiodtwP2rQBHaN7UOofo66jrnJaRi1CbqLPo0iBm8-/s400/Christmas+lights+house.jpg" alt="Outdoor christmas" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5550833679790943170" border="0" />Dick Norton christmas outdoor decorations<br /><br />Norton started creating his own family displays nearly 30 years ago. His house situated in Burbank, California. Nowadays Winter Wonderland display draws around 5,000 visitors each year. There are 10,000 lights involved in the display, but the animated elements are really what make it special.<br /><br /><b>Smith’s Xmas Lights House</b><br /><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7Wp4NZpNHqDBnZW4tIVFCPVcLyYF-Pi0M7XrLZGzSzkcIjcuVmjdeFymWnFAleo254sM_8pzcBTvlKG7Y_NVxX4veVRUCKm38a1VVDPCtBbTXiGcHbFK5rdulApmZsGAo3nwD/s400/Christmas+lights+house+%25281%2529.jpg" alt="Decorating house" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5550833672620107106" border="0" /><br /><br /><b>Smith's House with Xmas Lights</b><br /><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 174px; height: 130px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEimg__MirfZAe9KnOhfzvH5UYhQs470-KHbAk6taR7UCPOji2SfpeIKbG9D8_7TyfzSn7Yo6YhoYYaqNoHmnOLbVUEdnJHHi49gPyiZUmVNWw0OIoQIqQeLmxt9ZaidqQ3wYg/s400/Christmas+lights+house+%25282%2529.jpg" alt="Decorating house" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5550833662530387442" border="0" /><br /><br /><b>Fiedler House</b><br /><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 226px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEht-bJlrzxaz8qmkFszzhvZ8cIo0-SB16_zTibnNXtiFRfITjlVLmCTYJYsltGhu5N_gHfr-T7pWFFp1CgP7W9bUSutAZFwNR83oCXNBeDA4WSzXl34H_mJ8sRHSwuWULJL60v3/s400/Christmas+lights+house+%25283%2529.jpg" alt="Decorating house" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5550833417418391490" border="0" /><br /><br /><b>Christmas lights on Fiedler House</b><br /><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 174px; height: 115px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSFhBIc_umpogW4Igr1Xs8ceQoFYiWFxAe18Pd_I2FOpwlF9viq3SokdrHQRLpB3ilCj_P8kxWMiV9eEqm_PtdLG922oN_GErJy8F0finFm4TV9GPlNWG8SxoKBIl13DkQ990O/s400/Christmas+lights+house+%25284%2529.jpg" alt="Family Christmas Lights" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5550833417878147970" border="0" />The house is situated in Ellicott City, Maryland. It’s owned by Fiedler family and photos are taken by jon.<br /><br /><b>Christmas lights on Miami House</b><br /><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiI270WcMq4L23bS03-wKXdNl8th2Y9SddTOp1Ye1lRFAmUjtH5BaW9KUpKCCjjujs6Ucf-BtRRdiMiU4pBUtZm35EPKo1FuQb-lCgW7nVMkFgofqWR4MK3I94d5k2oNBVE3Gb0/s400/Xmas+Lights+House.jpg" alt="Family Christmas Lights" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5550833409039277186" border="0" /><br /><br /><b>Clot family Xmas Holiday Lights</b><br /><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 174px; height: 232px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5GWrXmQXgs4pC1zrWbURNiCYBhup1mGEcM-KQcR6jKITLpgRDXJyrO22IpqFecLRnPNTyIVe1wqJIZGvXd98YPDKEmCYTC0emEuoAMEXwDf8FGKpij5900WsoNa3z7Elpzzuf/s400/Xmas+Lights+House+%25281%2529.jpg" alt="Family Christmas Lights" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5550833404167794802" border="0" />For more than 30 years, the Clot family has brought a little piece of the North Pole to tropical southern Florida. This year there are more than 600,000 lights and 100 animated displays. Their monthly electricity bill is about $4,000.<br /><br /><b>Christmas lights on house in Philippines</b><br /><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 258px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrLEijyynqlTfew2sp63bQnLh6sGUzVmaAnCUBeGBdzk-nsEFojcGQ_1j3g8NBqQxgNqks7xS9dFP1LsLc6apTXxgNeg8vMB66QuMlLG0O-V0mOegYfqulvqots8byOS_xNBA-/s400/Xmas+Lights+House+%25282%2529.jpg" alt="Magic Christmas" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5550833401796019122" border="0" /><br /><br /><b>Christmas lights on house in Philippines</b><br /><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 174px; height: 112px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6kdWsNVqNmg4Q4A4mQns63H_7zgIO2upn6nq2T3mHV_KMysa0j4lcC67VO93l-p77ODjg_QC7lxpsaMOKcGo5FsIEl_Lrq9_noh-Gvf6Hsc_CGbJtg1gqLqGVAYndEYQn3xb1/s400/Xmas+Lights+House+%25283%2529.jpg" alt="Magic Christmas" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5550833076908446018" border="0" />House covered in Christmas lights in Mandaluyong City, eastern Manila. The Philippines has earned the distinction of celebrating the world’s longest Christmas season. Christmas carols are heard as early as September and the season lasts right up until Epiphany. Photos by EPA.<br /><br /><b>Brooklyn Dyker Heights enclave</b><br /><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 360px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixvdy7qWaFWeOhLRoCHB9RzgIJsUh8A15KzwjsMI81dyMv0cTJaCvvfHl7DF4NZM5Gd5I7z5WXerwwfqEHvgha1Grn8oYZPNrK1zniM0oDwYPQMwb75g4zbRj971o1vCiyWzc6/s400/Xmas+Lights+House+%25284%2529.jpg" alt="Magic Christmas" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5550833074066600770" border="0" /><br /><br /><b>Dyker Heights House in Brooklyn</b><br /><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 174px; height: 130px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhs52bDIz8VvWXQsD9SE1t2kri9jecciFOeIaEv0BJa2o2diJceziE-MKkNDHHJEMn9GXb6SBOKyaUf7_yazK9O2i9yMK99OhunQTzyGE86SihyphenhyphenmopXl86UxiNl2HiaVdg3lyhN/s400/Family+Christmas+Lights.jpg" alt="Xmas Lights House" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5550833063615140642" border="0" />The comfortable, old-fashioned Italian-American enclave of Dyker Heights. It’s famouse for the whole Brooklyn for its Christmas lights decorations.<br /><br /><b>Monkhouse Magic Christmas</b><br /><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWyY2gktXCJIYV_dmPL8UXKqdBn_3JVy1XBPNr6V1carkYTIGaDvl1Y6TW_zrekzXN7EWNL-HkhferhTzyKmTNAfLK6vEh_86HtNJ9fXjkNA8389A1eipFT1-UFoGQ9z7d38sN/s400/Family+Christmas+Lights+%25281%2529.jpg" alt="Xmas Lights House" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5550833061488279426" border="0" /><br /><br /><b>Magic Christmas Display</b><br /><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 174px; height: 130px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5xdRkHkmRywTWjXnjRALD8HQHQ9mGAmfjq5y5KWTelI_ZFt66fxzZdFGCJRIruoGxMh3-6UDiZ9zHkR3XhXxNz3KeBhKQaMYIAOvDM_UcxJbS8NxnTeHzgv9EcS9kr0t7858y/s400/Family+Christmas+Lights+%25282%2529.jpg" alt="Xmas Lights House" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5550833062041765090" border="0" />Walter and Jackie Monkhouse are serious when it comes to holiday lights. They decorate their house for 12 years and last year it has over 100,000 lights.Stranger Worldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02471635339369963744noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32090921.post-52799675760778737572010-12-14T01:53:00.000-08:002010-12-14T02:11:07.513-08:00Birds of America | Most expensive book in the world<span style="font-weight: bold;">Birds of America most expensive book in the world</span><br /><br /><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 250px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilzTb6hoCjvn8inbunNoO9Sg1DrnjB80k_KCSExF6YcGP99oPBWt3zlBbFC2fLsH7rf-b94juP7r25XLSDwV_wlAmj7_-yhzmfilp0HxK7se5-9cLNnbqNnXn1WMSqHA2vFtCf/s400/Birds+of+America.jpg" alt="expensive book" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5550474626388079506" border="0" />A rare copy of "the most <span style="font-weight: bold;">expensive book</span> in the world" Fah Franco-American ornithologist John James Audubon and goes back to the nineteenth century recorded on Tuesday evening in London, a new record price, Which sold more than eight million euros, on the auction house said, "Sotheby's". More images after the break...<br /><br /><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 250px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnWtB9SzTPqFrWd16hrPXXCidvP3xeaPg9bsA9bOq9XncmTJSbvELCqdJICW9JSQ2_8rLNwh730nD0hHw7HCVLl9oMBur_xRo61-3EJuFDkt32MpQ9w3K5w_jBfOZMzSoOTBXJ/s400/Birds+of+America+%25281%2529.jpg" alt="expensive book" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5550474150892117026" border="0" />The sale of the book "<span style="font-weight: bold;">Birds of America</span>" (Birds of America) in exchange for 7.3 million pounds (8,6 million euros), a new world record price for the printed work is sold at auction, it said, "Sotheby's".<br />The estimated book value of between four and six million pounds.<br />The new owner is a dealer old books.<br /><br /><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 250px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgE079Bcc7b_85mhMZgIqTBklpMK9ql8CzLiRx6ZYFP2eKTxF3iSgB6T3seIG-V0LHt6R_O7utYt5sYyUF-F_UkoQ_-CqmYGW80DwQ4w6Ug2FY4wQcBTjkRo0_7IEMSRoanqaWG/s400/Birds+of+America+%25282%2529.jpg" alt="Birds of America" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5550474146167832914" border="0" /><br /><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 248px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnwgweeEA7sMQt9K4-kIHpGzGsGOZPlofxjx-ovZellGOWlvz0RmkB6Dw9M-iPwhyphenhyphenUpprSKgoYf-JdU-HcAu94J47ZjltlcP3yJv9YCyM3kFqi4VKce6lQ8rNpiXl-bFnvPB38/s400/Birds+of+America+%25283%2529.jpg" alt="Birds of America" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5550474142923410834" border="0" />And return to the previous record price another version of "Birds of America" were sold in New York in 2000 to meet with seven million euros. There is no longer only about a hundred copies of the book "Birds of America." Large book size (length of 90 cm and of 60 cm) collected fees birds such as flamingos and Swan.<br /><br /><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 316px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbWPnckb-VeLjVQ4NPmTG-mdj9jE97sBnIbS_MpbSCD9A6nxj5sXKl5zIZwQKJaEJDf6taHnyJptUi6_MwqUFQdXwy7E43B2X_ljPhJ5tEGpPIoBFNV_OHOVfVAY-l5JDRD2Yy/s400/Birds+of+America+%25284%2529.jpg" alt="expensive book" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5550474135386824386" border="0" />Jean-Jacques Audubon, known by his English John James Audubon, is the world of birds and the world of physics was born in Haiti the year 1785, the French colonial days of French and religion. And then received U.S. citizenship.<br /><br /><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHfV23QXCxRu_hYMqSrjsObjGaEUclOD6Zr1ryjVcmpfFDAcOeCEhZExWWNF_5Q6ZqsDqFS1oiGd6JoSkXAhaBw96o6bVZt_FE03dk5ekt2C5U2rsVNzGQ8hnoCZaiTp_mgHNX/s400/Birds+of+America+%25285%2529.jpg" alt="Birds of America" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5550474128937811826" border="0" />Stranger Worldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02471635339369963744noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32090921.post-58169290258011727642010-12-10T01:39:00.000-08:002010-12-10T02:10:29.291-08:00Most luxurious airlines in 2010 | World's top 10 airlines<span style="font-weight: bold;">Emirates | British Airways | Eos Airlines | Cathay Pacific Airways | Japan Airlines | Lufthansa Airlines | Singapore Airlines | Swiss International Air Lines | Virgin Atlantic | Thai Airways International...</span><br /><br />Do you have any idea which international airlines offer the plushest service and the most perks in first class? I’ve done the dirty work and present to you some of the best air accouterments short of a private plane. So the next time you plan for an air travel you might want to consider to have some luxurious time in one of these fabulous cabins.<br />So here are some of the most luxurious airlines in the world. I hope you will like them. I may have missed out some so do add your recommendations in comment section. Thanks<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">EMIRATES</span><br /><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjGmk5s90Ng113A0XytidFmgMKV4s-OX2ZkhFV-YU3nKiqChr7hyyLfnzouwgZ6VFDRXBIE4VyEaockl4Rg2U4cSs1IosMAXQXeKLGzDClObCG6wenJ4S4BCVoceJBCrLpPcBJ/s400/EMIRATES.jpg" alt="EMIRATES" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5548986221412203682" border="0" /><br />As a passenger, you’ll feel like a million dollars too. And while we’re throwing numbers at you, 500-channel entertainment systems have been introduced. The best is yet to come, and you’d better believe it’ll be fine: A full shower with dressing area in your private cabin.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">British Airways</span><br /><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 301px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjp3WtdFCAmaFhJA2CjmOk2UrL1MvbT6mit_rdmFa8yAMlUgl80sQ0TFtkM0YLewvjsd4NkQlLYpmv02O8o2txDS9DS6zQ2oaKtsYde74UOzpe6Blv6_umBC_QbYhFbA7mfcxp1/s400/British+Airways.jpg" alt="British Airways" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5548986478822847362" border="0" />Rolls-Royce aircraft engines are legendary, and you’d swear the company had an influence on British Airways’ cabins. BA’s luxurious first-class “demi cabins” multitask to serve as workspaces, dens, and even places to stretch and sleep.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Eos Airlines</span><br /><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 301px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOhB4Su7DZVMeItjqivdq2HDdd-hgUoNJy1tu0EMK-Wwm59c-RfpEBaJh-qOH34oQwJU7-MB_JKHEsG4p8ab601J3Re5v0ddx8I4Y2y5ICy2Iz2sB0s_Lf_vbj_cmb7-3ykTLJ/s400/Eos+Airlines.jpg" alt="Eos Airlines" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5548986748878944674" border="0" />21 square feet of space per passenger is unheard of, but it’s a reality on Eos. Score one for the personal space lover. Eos Airlines has room for 220 on its 757s, but it only allows 48 lucky souls aboard. Each passenger’s multifunctional seat is a joy to occupy across the Atlantic.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Cathay Pacific Airways</span><br /><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTYufmr7PnASC6kCL25eSY97wjZM1nO59E42vSng2JEhpmSx1Lz-Q4eJk1vjfVQ_qmbMke818j3bhY5Ouf7MlP4aXLHbB4IBZ8xPXI7ngb_G932xQyGXDI7S6St4XZqrJbL2iN/s400/Cathay+Pacific+Airways.jpg" alt="Cathay Pacific Airways" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5548986981462537346" border="0" />If you’re flying first-class on Cathay Pacific you’ll surely wish the flight was longer. In 2006 Air Transport World magazine’s Airline of the Year honors went to Cathay.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Japan Airlines</span><br /><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiD_e587-ySSy00InHSzKWc6hBZi3YLWqzRzWyLBlMzQsCgk-MlryidesU25l5Wcl3qt52U7O_jT3gjlMiF3g330yed0Td323_F3pPFuJ1xGvD5ZfFMuRsIaWpR3VpSrsZL2FmM/s400/Japan+Airlines.jpg" alt="Cathay Pacific Airways" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5548987149040643058" border="0" />JAL has been a leader in first-class comfort, and apparently for a long time now. They equip you with adjustable headrests and side cushions, down pillows and comforters and you can also enjoy the built-in massage feature in the seats.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Lufthansa Airlines</span><br /><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-iEBmzhcGuQMkfI8E0DMvUmsJv2NbvQgA-_PkZBRLV5FGeba8xV-SiAGcQII3lKNwVxaV5tbmBXYrmWjeSevOudpPSv3lKaN09kLfAuPa0G5Ky86xio-xFl4V0xjE-EY3T44U/s400/Lufthansa+Airlines.jpg" alt="Lufthansa Airlines" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5548987325937401010" border="0" />Adjustable privacy screens between seats, generous room to stretch. Chefs and sommeliers continuously update their onboard cuisine and wine selection. Luxury is all they got.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Singapore Airlines</span><br /><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjS7exS15Umzgw-sTlPD-cvdB-0Ht4lH2Kz2139LcuCNmF_nXe3rlg552eZMbmLaMuCQEmdF3koB9O0ojtOphIjR0I_xr8NNTOBTjebxn9xAcaKFeG_72yDVAc7vVRuqITP5-wa/s400/Singapore+Airlines.jpg" alt="Singapore Airlines" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5548987502985451250" border="0" />It has Bvlgari toiletry kits and Givenchy-designed sleeper suits. There is also a “Book the Cook” service which allows a meal selection in advance. One gets the feeling of being in a big Bentley with wings rather than a plane.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Swiss International Air Lines</span><br /><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 301px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQ13DbjKIEDq72GEcpbhTzBqwpQd8tMjv7FHnrro0ANUs_i5FLl2sDBadwm7gvBzk2IthX3sqTqGoIfB9InYe_MW4QMfmx8b-yTdvNW6kmtjs2j_4muzjUNNJhk7EA8YgByqG0/s400/Swiss+International+Air+Lines.jpg" alt="Swiss International Air Lines" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5548987656805629602" border="0" />Swiss has a longstanding reputation for courtesy and efficiency, and so far their reputation remains solid. All the expected luxury appointments and services are present. Btw two onboard cameras let you watch the world in front of the aircraft as well as below it.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Virgin Atlantic</span><br /><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 365px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuUiQmZAHcUFDP25AL6ZnOa1NExyjCyEiUppDAfMf7kn0ZYRMAxi1cBJgZNpExPIb5fec3RGkGXDh5xHBZBBVctqEG34x2ljR9zjUSkJgILKIAiiZNmbys_r7_CDuQY-EH9Ou-/s400/Virgin+Atlantic.jpg" alt="Virgin Atlantic" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5548987802066433474" border="0" />Considering Sir Richard Branson is at the company’s helm, you’re going to get your money’s worth and then some. You’ll love the pampering, including the surprisingly roomy beds, which convert from your seat.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Thai Airways International</span><br /><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 365px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkEXpU3196PhqUAhKBcuEiHtg0Fev0tezhFNVoZTMpeYxd8uoNjZXDNj5SDTLH_Dz9RHG7QwzGvnlJksRC-EY7wQEuCqE-AjzYxRiDwlReme5EAcvIY-UgECYEKFxjYMo-j-jx/s400/Thai+Airways+International.jpg" alt="Thai Airways International" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5548987995359198546" border="0" />40 consecutive years of profit that’s no small feat in the corporate world, and it’s even more noteworthy in the sky biz. You’ll become quite familiar with “best” during your flight.Stranger Worldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02471635339369963744noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32090921.post-91593881358969711882010-12-10T00:33:00.000-08:002010-12-10T01:15:43.801-08:00Moscow new google office | New York google officeHQ of <span style="font-weight: bold;">google office moscow</span>. looks like a great place to work in.<br /><center><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtVUmuGKErs8zhmK4_6FtemGgbZQ77OYYOCRMkO99N2ryWUhSRoOrS0b7QZtewiWKQBq9cJ4V5ke82dfyTW1OY9iLYWEE3MeTiS17_x56xPy7iZq6WX90obabv9in5E87p3GBRAg/s400/Google_Office_in_Moscow_01.jpg" alt="google office in moscow" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5548643414385741154" border="0" /><br /><br /><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_ylIs7TUDVhpTnKLi8CI7vDha4CNMg_YHjNRONY8NdyJVMOWj11bY3OF-5s7af1L9fuUqIj9y7XVxS0BgGNaISs7T8o_Tfeb8XNF_IVaCLQ2Tt5xah5RBnDXojyX3EdunZatGLg/s400/Google_Office_in_Moscow_03.jpg" alt="google office in moscow" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5548643405553732290" border="0" /><br /><br /><img style="cursor: pointer; 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margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBZrDrqjp1LQoVlWmiRP7hQeY2El_0j484a3J4aLko54ZBvMmWuCh1Adx9DOTnflommWaEVeMNROZelRyi37uCQypR8FGVmoQT2ShgIvonPLF6YPjG8y9jikV5RfVXxqvqFwDVbA/s400/google_ny_018.jpg" alt="Google office new york" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5034497204627191458" border="0" />Stranger Worldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02471635339369963744noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32090921.post-21800795357494589042010-12-06T01:21:00.000-08:002010-12-06T01:41:16.197-08:00Christmas decoration | Lighting candles | Christmas candlesIn christmas traditions of many countries is a significant prevalence of <span style="font-weight: bold;">christmas candles</span>. The <span style="font-weight: bold;">lighting of candles</span> which signifies the birth of jesus and the revival and renewed life force that inspire millions of people to start a fresh holy life. Christmas candle tradition stands for purity, right path that should be followed in life. Candles is like an emblem of christmas. They are everywhere during the season.<br /><br />Christmas candles could come in variety of forms. They could be used in fireplace, table, tree, windows and other things decoration. They could become a beautiful light addition to your holidays decor. They can become glowing greetings message if you hung up it on the house door when guests should arrive. Anyway there are plenty variants of using candles in <span style="font-weight: bold;">christmas decoration</span>.<br /><br /><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 301px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhY2tb0bmitY-AmmRUFz9LC__TG8QGH8eDzaVd1KTwBG1tWRZTE7qlD0YXiDpSOsuPCNjjbn9CbESkctvXPaLX99RPMuG72fEGm2EZOBW3BS9G2bI6lDY9vT0LhTa3Xtq-5t6dg/s400/christmas+candles+decoration.jpg" alt="Christmas decoration candles" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5547498121288759170" border="0" /><br /><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwTPOaddmIoz_akhMZW70SP_LXy9XBpwZBPq7mr2fTpYUNLAHkkBdgRERuii7P8w0bKdwcsqaVhgUT7TVLlGQeAD49j-hMtOQ99E59oHN5E88dg_QVL9slQy2i372pfipEXW9l/s400/christmas+candles+decoration+%25281%2529.jpg" alt="Christmas decoration candles" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5547498113999293442" border="0" /><br /><img style="display: block; 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margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_SzmVPpr836hlduAUrU07RJemae5mtvSCbVgQQ9Qc0L3ABKBDknNjAZW06cK-EUM9xSx2Q3gm7SOgwxLqRaH93cQGOg5LgxKXejqbggznGnML_I6RArC-VSMOOVqVVcxudt8Y/s400/christmas+candles+decoration+%25285%2529.jpg" alt="Christmas candles" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5547497937320185970" border="0" /><br /><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 301px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKIIPahyM3p-M_-20-bbQbi8lYvZJf9FqIvI-ZkBMM-AmC1jtdEhwQZHaOHfnhplOgrnkLu8MIb_t9acBhIqJmMuPpugBLzfMBK-QYjlEM-rRoIBgOS0rzcWjARlnCrjs-2cDK/s400/christmas+candles+decoration+%25286%2529.jpg" alt="Lighting candles" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5547497928915010994" border="0" /><br /><center><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 250px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWB_Kr4vHT-0eQDU7d4j8fRfaqsha3MCeBnSM_WB7GAYp51mZX8b6veLD6IH4nCqjFAScKuGF_DT_0EwKWYe8W4nHr0yC2_NoUg75iDdTS3liDXL388kbCY_jrE4LgE4lekItVCw/s400/God-Bless-you-Christmas-candles-Desktop.jpg" alt="Christmas Lighting candles" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5538814406266541458" border="0" /></center><span style="font-weight: bold;">Christmas candles desktop background</span><br /><br /><center><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWqt665LWK_iXcOje1vozUeZ94BVX7Z0gZU9eN4biaFyYwvSjwwHuuG8pHihuu2yamAAXyoaytyGXG1epqHLxogFemFdKAc-TdcDKD9VRGLbTcXuGCxutotUUsGevJXIDz2LJxUg/s400/Christmas-decoration-Candles.jpg" alt="Christmas Lighting candles" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5538814045424540914" border="0" /></center><span style="font-weight: bold;">Christmas decoration candles wallpaper</span>Stranger Worldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02471635339369963744noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32090921.post-82157188978527123742010-12-04T02:28:00.000-08:002010-12-04T02:56:44.171-08:00Eye of the storm | Images of enormous clouds<span style="font-weight: bold;">Eye of the storm: The jaw-dropping Images of enormous clouds 'supercell'</span><br />It looks like something from the film Independence Day.<br /><br />But although it may seem like an alien mothership, this incredible picture is actually an impressive <span style="font-weight: bold;">thunderstorm cloud</span> known as a <span style="font-weight: bold;">supercell</span>.<br /><br />Windswept dust and rain dominate the storm's centre while rings of <span style="font-weight: bold;">jagged clouds</span> surround the edge.<br /><br />A flimsy tree in the foreground looks like a toy next to the magnificent natural phenomenon.<br /><br /><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 233px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_rMUw29MYXQg/TPiLnn7J3-I/AAAAAAAAAU4/aDIsglx-QKY/s400/Eye%2Bof%2Bthe%2Bstorm%2BThe%2Bjaw-dropping%2Bimage%2Bof%2Ban%2Benormous%2B%2527supercell%2527%2Bcloud%2B1.jpg" alt="Eye of the storm" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5546336453955018722" border="0" />Awe: This massive supercell shows a column of rain in the centre of <span style="font-weight: bold;">thick clouds</span><br /><br />The photograph is just one image from the portfolio of electrician Sean Heavey. The <span style="font-weight: bold;">supercell cloud</span> was photographed in July west of Glasgow, Montana, USA.<br /><br />Mr Heavey, 34, an <span style="font-weight: bold;">amateur photographer</span>, created the <span style="font-weight: bold;">jaw-dropping panoramic image</span> by stitching together three photos from the 400 frames he took of the violent scene he witnessed in July<br /><br />It caused minor damage, and lasted several hours before moving on. <span style="font-weight: bold;">Massive storm</span> systems like this centre on mesocyclones -- rotating updrafts that deliver torrential rain and high winds.<br /><br />The dangerous outbreak of weather raged for several hours and caused minor damage to local communities - while watchful Mr Heavey captured all its devastating beauty from a distance.<br /><br />Taking <span style="font-weight: bold;">photographs of storms</span> for the past seven years, this year Mr Heavey and his masterpiece are up for a prestigious award from National Geographic.<br /><br />Called the 'Mothership', because of the striking image's similarity to an alien space ship, the photograph was actually four years in the making.<br /><br />'I have two storm chasing friends I met through my wife Toni and they've been badgering me to go out with them for that long,' explained Sean.<br /><br />'I' normally rely on simply being in the right place at the right time for my photography, while I'm out working. But in July I finally decided to do it and thankfully this picture was the result. We don't usually get weather like this out in Montana, it felt like the <span style="font-weight: bold;">perfect storm</span>.<br />'The power was awe inspiring.'<br /><br /><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 311px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_rMUw29MYXQg/TPiLnUyjDdI/AAAAAAAAAUw/kqQK63QH-bo/s400/Eye%2Bof%2Bthe%2Bstorm%2BThe%2Bjaw-dropping%2Bimage%2Bof%2Ban%2Benormous%2B%2527supercell%2527%2Bcloud%2B2.jpg" alt="enormous clouds" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5546336448818646482" border="0" /> A super cell <span style="font-weight: bold;">thunder storm</span> crosses a path and continues unabated across the plains on July 28th<br /><br /><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 166px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_rMUw29MYXQg/TPiLm6NVWMI/AAAAAAAAAUo/nKTAMOrS5tI/s400/Eye%2Bof%2Bthe%2Bstorm%2BThe%2Bjaw-dropping%2Bimage%2Bof%2Ban%2Benormous%2B%2527supercell%2527%2Bcloud%2B3.jpg" alt="enormous clouds" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5546336441683237058" border="0" />A storm descends in July 2007 over the sleepy town of Glasgow, Montana<br /><br />'I felt that if you could walk inside the rain and the wind right into the centre of the storm and stare up, then it would have been like looking into God's eye.'<br />Known as the 'mother of tornadoes', a mesocyclone can be up to six miles wide and can produce as many as 60 tornadoes.<br /><br />These severe thunderstorms form where cold dry air meets warm moist tropical air.<br />The wind coming into the storm starts to swirl and forms a funnel. The air in the funnel spins faster and faster and creates a very low pressure area which sucks more air - and objects - into it.<br /><br />If the cyclone runs out of wet, warm surface air, it dies out. If it does not run out of this fuel, however, the rotating cloud stretches toward the ground and may become a giant tornado.<br /><br />Mr Heavey, 34, is an electrician, working in the west of the American state in a town named Glasgow.<br /><br />Taking photographs of storms for the past seven years, this year Sean and his masterpiece are up for a prestigious award from National Geographic.<br /><br /><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 206px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_rMUw29MYXQg/TPiLmk5JM5I/AAAAAAAAAUg/hcDTTi5SULw/s400/Eye%2Bof%2Bthe%2Bstorm%2BThe%2Bjaw-dropping%2Bimage%2Bof%2Ban%2Benormous%2B%2527supercell%2527%2Bcloud%2B4.jpg" alt="thick Cloud" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5546336435961410450" border="0" />The super-cell storm begins to build - before unleashing a powerful torrent of rain down onto a Montana field<br /><br /><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 224px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_rMUw29MYXQg/TPiLdl5J8nI/AAAAAAAAAUY/0Hbo5zTnNxk/s400/Eye%2Bof%2Bthe%2Bstorm%2BThe%2Bjaw-dropping%2Bimage%2Bof%2Ban%2Benormous%2B%2527supercell%2527%2Bcloud%2B5.jpg" alt="thick Cloud" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5546336281611072114" border="0" />The belly of the thunderstorm as it begins to wreak havoc<br /><br /><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 241px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_rMUw29MYXQg/TPiLdT9roEI/AAAAAAAAAUQ/lsjgHXfp3_o/s400/Eye%2Bof%2Bthe%2Bstorm%2BThe%2Bjaw-dropping%2Bimage%2Bof%2Ban%2Benormous%2B%2527supercell%2527%2Bcloud%2B6.JPG" alt="Massive storm" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5546336276798218306" border="0" /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Photographer </span>Sean Heavey, who has spent the last four years taking beautiful and striking <span style="font-weight: bold;">storm pictures</span>, and an image of a lightning bolt in the middle of the storm<br /><br />'The 'Mothership' picture is a super-cell storm that was around five to ten miles in diameter with hurling winds of around 85 mph,' said Mr Heavey, who moved from bustling Seattle to sleepy Montana for a quiet life four years ago.<br /><br />'I photographed it for over two hours as it traveled between Glasgow and the town of Hinsdale.<br /><br />'I can honestly say that the photograph does not do it justice. I caught the shot just as the sun was setting which brought out the colours so vividly.<br /><br />'I felt that if you could walk inside the rain and the wind right into the centre of the storm and stare up, then you would be able to see God's eye.'<br /><br />As an <span style="font-weight: bold;">amateur photographer</span>, storms have been Mr Heavey's obsession since he was caught under a huge <span style="font-weight: bold;">thunder cloud</span> on a visit to relatives in Ohio, which is part of America's famous 'tornado alley'.<br /><br />'I felt the sheer power of that storm as a young boy and I am not ashamed to admit that it scared the living daylights out of me,' he said.<br /><br />'Since I moved to Glasgow I travel a lot in my job as a electrician. The clients that I visit are well aware that I carry my camera with me over the state and they are more than happy to help point out gathering storms on the horizon which they think will be great subjects for me.'<br /><br /><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 224px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_rMUw29MYXQg/TPiLdPvwO7I/AAAAAAAAAUI/v2SSibuNuJY/s400/Eye%2Bof%2Bthe%2Bstorm%2BThe%2Bjaw-dropping%2Bimage%2Bof%2Ban%2Benormous%2B%2527supercell%2527%2Bcloud%2B7.jpg" alt="Massive storm" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5546336275666058162" border="0" />A shelf cloud passes overhead as the super cell storm looms ominously in the sky<br /><br /><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 214px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_rMUw29MYXQg/TPiLczgYxJI/AAAAAAAAAUA/eXeXRND94sg/s400/Eye%2Bof%2Bthe%2Bstorm%2BThe%2Bjaw-dropping%2Bimage%2Bof%2Ban%2Benormous%2B%2527supercell%2527%2Bcloud%2B8.jpg" alt="perfect storm" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5546336268085413010" border="0" />Rain feathers dancing across the western prairie in August 2010, in Glasgow, Montana<br /><br /><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 221px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_rMUw29MYXQg/TPiLcp6AVBI/AAAAAAAAAT4/YlNMdO3UgDk/s400/Eye%2Bof%2Bthe%2Bstorm%2BThe%2Bjaw-dropping%2Bimage%2Bof%2Ban%2Benormous%2B%2527supercell%2527%2Bcloud%2B9.jpg" alt="perfect storm" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5546336265508508690" border="0" />Like scenes of the apocalypse these <span style="font-weight: bold;">incredible images</span> are the stunning results of one man's mission to capture stormy skies on cameraStranger Worldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02471635339369963744noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32090921.post-80712060619315174992010-12-02T00:34:00.000-08:002010-12-02T00:46:14.499-08:00Luxurious weekend in warm weather<div style=";font-family:";"><span style="font-size:small;">Drop a pin on a map and track a 90 minute flight - where can one escape? I'm on a quest for short flights yielding long <span style="font-weight: bold;">luxurious weekend in warm weather</span>. </span></div><div style=";font-family:";"><span style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Z5-Ovj9GsMI/TO9H1by9GxI/AAAAAAAAAe8/ikZNPhNrpjg/s320/P1010833.jpg" alt="warm weather" border="0" height="204" width="320" /></span><span style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></div><div style=";font-family:";"><span style="font-size:small;">Phoenix weather is significantly warmer than the cold bay area. Premier golf courses are dotted all about Scottsdale and Phoenix </span><br /><span style="font-size:small;">(I have access to ALL the courses, including private members only courses). </span></div><div style=";font-family:";"><br /></div><div style=";font-family:";"><span style="font-size:small;">Local restaurants with celebrity chefs are becoming nationally recognized, luxury hotels abound, and a quick flight from the bay area makes Phoenix a very inviting escape. Imagine 70 degree temperatures in November!</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:small;">Arriving to toasty sunny temperatures, on my drive to the hotel, I was amazed by the date palms dripping with golden succulent fruit. A delightful mini paradise. An escape from the cold, <span style="font-weight: bold;">luxury hotels</span>, sophisticated spas, divine dining, art museums and great art galleries.</span></div><div style=";font-family:";"><span style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></div><div style=";font-family:";"><span style="font-size:small;">Another serendipitous encounter at a recent fund raising event - my dinner partner shared that her sister, a writer and restaurant reviewer, lives in Phoenix. Voila, a few emails, and Pam Swartz and I became quick friends. Pam is the author of Arizona Getaways for the Incurably <span style="font-weight: bold;">Romantic</span> and Dine Out Phoenix: Where to Eat From Chic to Unique. Pam is widely recognized as an expert on Arizona's dining scene and getaways. I LOVE experts!</span></div><div style="font-family: ";";"><span style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></div><div style=";font-family:";"><span style="font-size:small;">Pam, besides writing, organizes many food inspired events: Artist in Residence brunch with well known artists; Dine Out With the Chefs, a benefit for the Scottsdale Performing Arts; Artist in Residence Dinner Series with acclaimed musicians, the list of opportunities designed around culture and dining is very impressive.</span></div><div face=""" style=""><span style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-size:small;">Dine at Four Diamond Lon's at The Hermosa Inn, a historic adobe building in the middle of a beautiful desert garden. Private wine cellar available for intimate dining, cozy library for small groups, wonderful patio for lunch or dinner. Chef Jeremy Pacheco stars in this recently remodeled space. Originally the home of </span>cowboy artist Alonzo “Lon” Megargee, the sprawling ranch property has been restored to its original charm. Furnished to reflect a 1930's Southwestern ambiance, much like it was during Megargee's days. Prints and originals of Megargee's artwork and photographs of him hang on the walls.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Z5-Ovj9GsMI/TO9HmdXGB-I/AAAAAAAAAe0/WhXcpbEVtZk/s320/P1010646.JPG" alt="Luxurious weekend" border="0" height="240" width="320" /></span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Z5-Ovj9GsMI/TO9HytyDDsI/AAAAAAAAAe4/a1DTzS-eq90/s320/P1010647.JPG" alt="Luxurious weekend" border="0" height="240" width="320" /></span></div><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Z5-Ovj9GsMI/TO9H-tOqqlI/AAAAAAAAAfA/aheFGEMJWYY/s320/P1010860.JPG" alt="Luxurious weekend" border="0" height="240" width="320" /></span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Z5-Ovj9GsMI/TO9IHIsuUZI/AAAAAAAAAfE/CbhVT_p1wBM/s320/P1010863.JPG" alt="warm weather" border="0" height="240" width="320" /></span></div>Dining with Pam is like dining with the Queen - amuse bouche, additional delicacies delivered from the chef, several desserts... Chef Jeremy drops by to visit. I did return for Thanksgiving dinner, an attentive staff, I was remembered and treated to champagne!<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">A few yummy suggestions</span>:<br />Hermosa Salad<br /><i>Arizona baby greens, pecan brittle, smoky blue cheese, mixed berries, berry vinaigrette</i><br /><br />Roasted Maple Leaf Duck Breast<br /><i>Duck confit cannelloni, blackberry mole</i><br /><br />Loup de Mer <i>Loup de Mer roasted acorn squash, local tepary beans, smoked fennel sausage, tuscan kale, Santa Barbara mussels</i><i> </i><br /><br />More to come...sunshine is as abundant as is great dining!Stranger Worldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02471635339369963744noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32090921.post-16288665942960646562010-11-26T01:03:00.000-08:002010-11-26T01:28:59.902-08:00Worlds amazing young photographer<span style="font-weight: bold;">Julia</span> is rapidly developing a reputation as one of the leading <span style="font-weight: bold;">young photographers</span> in the country. She has won a large number of awards, and her images have been hung in the National Portrait Gallery, London, at Paris-Photo, at Photo-London, and shown at Arles. She has also had solo exhibitions in London, and contributed to a group show in New York. She has also been profiled in many professional and popular <span style="font-weight: bold;">photographic magazines</span>.<br /><br /><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 316px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvbISHGqzpJX01aDwlb1BFYz2JgBqmx4xrU1fbAaLjNc5Kk-RzFUtoeBDXBkoEf9V0pmBasQdvOKhzC6geSfJ4hS5xgdaQ-RltbRAI-PcLpC46vGuRvsLWfqxBW3S7kEI-tSXQNA/s400/1.jpg" alt="Young Photographer" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5272538572842937666" border="0" /><br /><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 313px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIJKgIfSfjg0QAImlbZl1eIKRWMw4TCcQdBeA5RKtjYjbtZPA9nNkna1qHv22FnxsRIH3ezVyWjgTjzhY9oWjXHL5i2p66zf5xxgRWUAjCbz15EtX1MFnzyS83qmaKXXk_Uuuvwg/s400/2.jpg" alt="Young Photographer" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5272538568751332178" border="0" />Julia was born in Bremen, Germany to a German mother and an English father. The family then moved to the United States, and back to Germany, before moving to England in 1986. Julia now lives in London.<br /><br /><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 315px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3vRkLfBeUmkdk9vQ2Uci117io1Gdp5xA7s7TGrXVa1ooF5IV763_f7C_MKXSt1jB9Frkoz_Po57GffApRST0nYl7I94B1rw5o2VLnnatiul12lB1QuHdCNjCPdiFg4ilFFQqIaA/s400/6.jpg" alt="Worlds Amazing Photos" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5272537836893748226" border="0" /><br /><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 319px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbbrwy-JE_mh3uJIGpLOmJklcxt0VnILaWVenuoflJAuZwdsbKDvEUvZYjp1lB-PskfXsfYhgDoRnjaDKlGdFNDePa8a1CCK6y8ifiuoL1BLvgjnmKYeuw_I-as_t2K5YTdLfTrQ/s400/3.jpg" alt="Worlds Amazing Photos" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5272538566227960114" border="0" />After graduating with a <span style="font-weight: bold;">Diploma in photography</span> from Berkshire <span style="font-weight: bold;">College of Art</span> and <span style="font-weight: bold;">Design</span>, Julia spent five years as a freelance assistant. During this time, the shoots covered a wide variety of different fields - <span style="font-weight: bold;">car advertisement, still-life, fashion, food, location shots</span>, etc. She was able to hone her knowledge and skills, and at the same time begin to develop her own unique style.<br /><br /><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 316px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkqfERP0xoyZgoaF3kgGaSs4fugr28DPQ1lK33iNEjTeMzegC6jnNC7JOVOIYS1ul7cd2Kdx60hQBMvICzVxWwCfayTpnLbmT5205SAPicenl8UQoZg1R9H1fqvDODmfyXne6psQ/s400/7.jpg" alt="Amazing Photography" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5272537838345861218" border="0" /><br /><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 313px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1X9tpwnE_StGdFx2_3rY36vdajjizw5c94PhyphenhyphenMDQWN6X5m4vNnOV-3tZoofhWAxgL6IxODpiZJGDx4-RAwE6UphmtkiQ3HKPkwak-_cn6S3yrgQUZWhhcIr7CEa8rmHE-H9EqRQ/s400/5.jpg" alt="Amazing Photography" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5272537841674656466" border="0" />Uniquely, for these shoots, Julia deliberately select girls who are not <span style="font-weight: bold;"> proffesional models</span>. Once she has the idea for the shoot, she street casts the models. This produces a slight awkwardness in the posture of the models that enhances the unusual surroundings. Another difference is Julia's use of <span style="font-weight: bold;">studio lighting</span> to supplement daylight/ She may use as many as seven or eight lash heads to achieve the impression that she wants. This combination of eye for the content of an image, the naturalness of the models, the unusual surroundings, the effect of the lighting all combine to yield a style that identifies her pictures.<br /><br /><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 319px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUesZyaXkfrUejhZOnPnYAo7upRCcNjcr1is7l7v33dCky8rN7lRE93uBZwcd7Cs5KwyBlyIM9osOZXN0MGYOcfnztIJxB7cUlF60sAQZF2dCwiGbVdwMUOhiTXD3OVdfcWUf0Jw/s400/8.jpg" alt="Amazing Beautiful Photos" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5272537829947498738" border="0" />Stranger Worldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02471635339369963744noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32090921.post-43762321523740736342010-11-24T00:57:00.000-08:002010-11-24T01:51:39.665-08:00Strange facts about your eyes | 10 strange & wonderful eyesFew people could argue that without our 5 senses life would be pretty dull. All our senses are extremely important but I think if you asked most people which sense would they least like to lose they would probably say their vision. As with most of our abilities, our vision is something that many of us take for granted. If you stop and think for a moment, you will realize that just about everything we do in our day to day life involves our vision. During this article I am going to try and see if I can get you to start thinking a little bit more about your eyes. Listed below is my top 10 list of <span style="font-weight: bold;">strange</span> and <span style="font-weight: bold;">wonderful things</span> you didn’t know about your eyes<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">10. Everyone needs reading glasses as they get older</span><br /><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 233px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1myHuwx1_KyLE4_YBBJex1CSSvKeWaxpn0peQgC6hJ3fO1kLgXTdLYct3e5IkSKnlY0Iy9LpF6qZwtc4eXyFmkl15ddJT2eeXSYMH0mIfEVRXaR9XCDTewoGTvPei8trBtNMa/s400/reading+glasses.jpg" alt="reading glasses" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5543038020308205154" border="0" />This is assuming that you already have perfect distance vision. If you are currently reading this article and are under 40 years of age with perfect distance vision, I can say with absolute certainty that you will need reading glasses at some point in the future. For about 99% of the population the age that you will first start needing <span style="font-weight: bold;">reading glasses</span> is between 43 and 50 years old. This is because the lens in your eye slowly loses its focusing ability with age. In order to focus things near to you, your lens has to change from a flat to a more spherical shape and it loses the ability to do this as you get older. As you get to around 45 years old you will start to hold things further away from you to keep them focus.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">9. The lens in your eye is quicker than any camera lens</span><br /><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 140px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqkg0E352ddKwogjRAxX6SAF4rGiAi6kgMlcZ_4cU-xdjz7tG7qZJjf6vYh3C3Axp-0veEHchRjSpwnbPcjIeOiGq5JB24y7MIgetR1FWTN8heqit0QjZU4bRxvN3AQua5lqfs/s400/camera+lens.jpg" alt="camera lens" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5543038431883748258" border="0" />Just behind the pupil sits the eyes natural lens, whose function is to focus on the object you are looking at. Just take a minute to glance around the room and think about how many different distances you are focusing at. Every time you do this, the lens in your eye is instantly changing focus without you even being aware of it! Compare that with a <span style="font-weight: bold;">camera lens</span> which takes a few seconds to focus between one distance and another. Just be thankful that the lens in your eye is as quick as it is, otherwise things would be continually going in and out of focus.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">8. Your eyes are fully developed by the age of 7 years old</span><br /><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8mwYsh17DMxVj-wRuvg6ize0MG3wWeTQ_dYARfj6qj0IzWun05rlyKS1NeU7y8r-U11OXIyll-QCgZ1Rrp7z8Fmg1BE8vL71BEGruqdikUVhRLWMLpYWGfl8p6Wp2yHxr_43v/s400/child+eye.jpg" alt="adult’s eyes" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5543039148895031138" border="0" />By the age of 7 years old our eyes are fully developed and are physiologically the same as <span style="font-weight: bold;">adult’s eyes</span>. It is for this reason that it is vitally important to pick up a lazy eye before we reach this age. The earlier a lazy eye is diagnosed, the greater the chance it will respond to treatment, as the eyes are still developing and capable of an improvement in vision. Beyond 7 years old no amount of treatment will result in any improvement in vision.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">7. You blink approximately 15,000 times each day</span><br /><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibuigrj-y_i0LAIGRq4in8obwlSXJv5cnQJMwVPixc-iJ_rS6sUA-7VeEWCmQ0RwdEaYbY7xWC3TtjR4XWJPSKYJjXo5tYS01XvCWfmHa0SY3505P7RzeaXILBq8nVmcdZZ7yK/s400/wind+sheild+wipers.jpg" alt="eyes blinking function" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5543040055106020754" border="0" /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Blinking</span> is a semi- involuntary function meaning we do it automatically, but can also choose to blink if we so require. Blinking is an extremely important function of your eyes as it helps remove any debris on the surface of your eye, by spreading fresh tears over them. These tears help to nourish your eyes with oxygen and also have important anti bacterial properties. You can think of the function of blinking as being similar to the action of the windscreen wipers on your car, cleaning and removing everything to keep you seeing clearly.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">6. Everyone gets cataracts as they get older</span><br /><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 342px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7MaFsQd0nCM8nn8KBCY_hRHECibibHBtePx-eQhRzSyK3SE-imENr370yH71EpcZjyrYQn4RXzY7FQGQxR3XpQwJ_mPT0gu9LF-bYLxA2L6t9K7rftIx90z_5GrfLRwxxMMZ1/s400/cataracts.jpg" alt="eyes cataracts" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5543040377358363330" border="0" />People don’t realize that <span style="font-weight: bold;">cataracts</span> are just a normal consequence of getting older and everyone gets them at some point in their life. You can think of cataracts as being similar to getting grey hair, in that it is just a normal natural age change. The average age people first get cataracts is about aged 70 years old and by 80 years old you are guaranteed to have cataracts. In the same way that you could not find any aged 80 years old without grey hair, it would be equally impossible to find anyone over 80 years old without cataracts. Cataracts refer to a gradual clouding of the lens in your eye and typically take about ten years from onset to them needing treatment.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">5. Diabetes is often first detected during an eye test</span><br /><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 369px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnAdVoKzDpZ1IEOucMLe-sBHCWvgbb7x2nG-8yhyphenhyphen2YubCGtOYr6KPwmaZik4vx8ZnyYqh4ths8Sn3dqab6-o8QWMcszBUVGx9bLsV8RIYzWwiWonV86gi7VH26M4zRCLJi_vlg/s400/Diabetes.jpg" alt="eyes suffer from diabetes" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5543040836594033250" border="0" />People who suffer from type 2 <span style="font-weight: bold;">diabetes</span> (the type you develop later in life) are often symptom free, meaning they often don’t even know that they have it. This type of diabetes is commonly picked up during an eye test as it can be seen as tiny hemorrhages from leaking blood vessels at the back of <span style="font-weight: bold;">your eye</span>. This certainly is good reason to get your eyes tested regularly.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">4. You see with your brain and not your eyes</span><br /><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 376px; height: 272px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcwZWrRJCn0KaDCE0qXNzj2WMhiqYpl5uEnpmVi5clLXA8ddJ2SZCrbKubc3o9KWVUPPRE27JI4VX6QWfq6rXJXTsuBPi5lfbkc1gx00YzuVxorOgSK0y6xIKtHlPeXLOCGqPO/s400/brain+function.jpg" alt="eyes & brain function" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5543041230844621506" border="0" />The function of your eyes is to collect all the required information about the object you are looking at. This information is then passed from your eye to <span style="font-weight: bold;">the brain</span> via <span style="font-weight: bold;">the optic nerve</span>. It is the brain (visual cortex) where all this information is analyzed to enable you to ‘see’ the object in its finished form. This is not to say that your eyes don’t play an important role as they certainly do.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">3. Your eyes can adapt to blind spots in your vision</span><br /><img src="http://img593.imageshack.us/img593/3048/eyesadaptable.png" alt="eyes adaptation" border="0" /><br />Certain eye conditions such as Glaucoma and certain general health conditions such as having a stroke, can lead to you developing <span style="font-weight: bold;">blind spots</span> in your vision. This would be extremely debilitating if it wasn’t for your brain and your <span style="font-weight: bold;">eyes ability</span> to adapt to make these blind spots disappear. It does this by suppressing the blind spot in your <span style="font-weight: bold;">affected eye</span> and letting your other <span style="font-weight: bold;">good eye</span> ‘fill in the gaps’. It is adaptation like this that makes your eyes so resilient.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">2. 20:20 vision is not the best vision you can have</span><br /><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfJJJSpT2lo5e8F1pshieHtMv36o88FImWKQNOe5Cepa4Txk3coH6jDqkjyMIZOyXJ4GcYb_ZnpXjp0buryl554EMKIA9ru-gDhAWzZ7SSgT3u_hjSl7FjdSYSwHTgOjcWdBM6/s400/eagle+eye+vision.jpg" alt="best eye vision" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5543042576800350082" border="0" />When people hear the phrase <span style="font-weight: bold;">20:20 vision</span> they assume that this is the <span style="font-weight: bold;">best vision</span> possible. However this is not true as 20:20 vision refers to what the average adult should be able to see. If you imagine a typical eye test chart the 20:20 vision is probably only the line second from the bottom. The line below it is even smaller than 20:20 vision and would mean you have 20:16 vision. So don’t be so impressed next time someone tells you they have 20:20 vision!<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">1. Your eyes water when they are dry</span><br /><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 272px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVNj8ARNGU6zQIroTQ8xWNzSD5a9COdvgROuHbCrM9c0HYoAMsr5R2oA8GJIs1MlOfNXzTkiv1eucgZkvIcEsf0KlSh2OFDMn9Ov3xNlXXas3_n0KVPIMmrmah_iQTGWA0FkPX/s400/eye+water+dry.jpg" alt="eyes water" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5543043103184128306" border="0" />I know this might sound crazy but this is one of <span style="font-weight: bold;">strange facts about your eyes</span>. Your tears are made up of 3 different components and they are water, mucus and fat. If these 3 components are not in exactly the right quantities, your eyes can become dry as a consequence. Your brain responds to this dryness by producing extra water and hence your <span style="font-weight: bold;">eyes water</span>.Stranger Worldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02471635339369963744noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32090921.post-65224127594125504142010-11-22T04:18:00.000-08:002010-11-22T04:30:40.757-08:00A man won beauty contestThis guy from Russian province <span style="font-weight: bold;">Yakutia</span> decided to take part in the <span style="font-weight: bold;">beauty contest</span> "Miss Yakutia".<br />He went to stylists, rented some nice dresses and after that made a portfolio at a professional photographer.<br />Afterwards he posted the pictures on the "<span style="font-weight: bold;">Miss Yakutia</span>" website and made it to the finals.<br />Unfortunately, a couple of days later he was disqualified because somebody told the <span style="font-weight: bold;">contest</span> authorities that he was not a woman.<br />Take a look at the photos.<br /><br /><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhbLX7x28eOXprxysud_qJ_U1HMDOaHLFylVLZiHDzm5zo6mxG6dwQPVX7oa8hdVpUpQ9uXEJPXGG3bPzmnV97UkGdCN3HUCZsbtBiCMaAg2hbfK3ezgn0RJPfJAc-pBZXmN5S/s400/beauty+contest.jpg" alt="miss yakutia" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5542348144993337698" border="0" /><br /><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQ2STSbbQjGuqZO5jWTCaExZ-Pd3sE_-7tVolyxXzIm29-gTG6ckVMkIFiAPs-WAO_mkwA9ecwCalOsENBC6rPAJydr6nyCXlm7VgbFH5RRzH2RmwUvqc580f5SceapIdWYKsb/s400/beauty+contest+%25281%2529.jpg" alt="miss yakutia" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5542348135452784162" border="0" /><br /><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxMn0-QyeYhoJQfojMiyVI52Sd_Ydb501-5K4m81UC7_MfFR_y6WSk7dapRtYIy3iTgA9bDtENc8mxT74j3YT7IH_5aqi9W3Aj4XvYPgN-YUUEQr97HL2URQjcgHHlNH6vIZpc/s400/beauty+contest+%25282%2529.jpg" alt="miss yakutia" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5542348127070172578" border="0" /><br /><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhH5mM9IhvO4ryQbiS1e1CWfJe2H5fR6th_dNg1qhXu_zEak0RuNyMh9FqBY8JvabwzRpnXu5yb1G29YlirU56bM3pZ3gJh1W8-qVsaAPvD679VZM_nPOAiY7exJD89F5b_ZpJ1/s400/beauty+contest+%25283%2529.jpg" alt="beauty contest" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5542347871629942914" border="0" /><br /><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDklLyQzFq_CUrNV5tcK3llJPnxq_W9ZWFgX9AH5giA6IIB5melCeanQwquh1SW-hxBG9wPndrGn5rLMN-DY4GohmUTfFoywvmkx16ZFgfpzGN7Usqx4pgMZqNvV_Ny04XycXw/s400/beauty+contest+%25284%2529.jpg" alt="beauty contest" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5542347857707876018" border="0" /><br /><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjf4tRvdjiO0OIloOgPtaZN7PuqgrdX0KdL1qS56iIwDOQ3j1addsm2j155ANraPLD5Zuzz3mMAsEFM56MdX5iHrseGUsL5xO6R6TBnvLjZrhEvuXJEajNmnkrRXVuC91Z0E7as/s400/beauty+contest+%25285%2529.jpg" alt="beauty contest" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5542347850732952546" border="0" /><br /><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiexQh1e57Pwiy4tqxVsW6KEXxMohH2i7K0kaJO7n2bv34KaovM5SU0Bhyphenhyphenk45-YYYHtgA-EbOKeTB3gPodEBJkI_N1HotpnGx9YLk3_NIf1Mg_BHjJxwDmBD6k0biwyzO0Zs_vV/s400/beauty+contest+%25286%2529.jpg" alt="beauty pageant" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5542347823812385394" border="0" /><br /><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNjWgAZvU7b8BHL2Pt-S74UwYDDkzIXu9GLvoboiPNjVgOJSgyB7r8863hv5bQI_S8rDjAoQ9zCEUbqEoFM_UJxb_cu1lf3FIi2ryk-ZVT1bEjvWJt7KBhmWBU34tocD0ABUgA/s400/beauty+contest+%25287%2529.jpg" alt="beauty pageant" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5542347815946251410" border="0" /><br /><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBYTEhrfZo6RG8qPjeBaPaEeVFd1NaJsfsd-fqrVg0zyEscX2rd4ySgnYpEkimwiGk3P3Wel36ckjPh5kZZTW4AEdLX2M12H7-_ujLExs2s7h_eWvfmG24gm3vP2pgDVbqxldI/s400/beauty+contest+%25288%2529.jpg" alt="beauty pageant" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5542347665624468610" border="0" /><br /><img style="display: block; 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margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 267px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOX4plVE_7U4qxsSKFbvuB_jmbKq0qsGyhJorrIF4yZN9C-vT-xmJ11Jk_befntrpIWWxH5Pjv4a3WY3gq_JhAN_wLd5G9ps2ZKxbc5-64txxuvqdvI4Fj09jgvzgcA-nmlWDi/s400/beauty+contest+%252812%2529.jpg" alt="man won beauty contest" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5542347586777754530" border="0" />Stranger Worldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02471635339369963744noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32090921.post-69126361626146121042010-11-16T03:18:00.000-08:002010-11-16T03:37:22.827-08:00Horse boxing | Stallion horse | Wild horses<span style="font-weight: bold;">Horse boxing</span> is the dramatic moment two proud stallions faced off in a bloody fight for dominance and mating rights in a herd of <span style="font-weight: bold;">wild horses</span>.<br /><br />The Koniks, or Polish primitive horses, reared up on their hind legs with their teeth bared during the ferocious attack.<br /><br />Photographer Henri Ton, 41, captured the fight over females at a nature reserve in Loevenstein, The Netherlands.<br /><br /><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 220px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9nc-AkMmIwCnOEnqyK8rJsuuP0cF-oJNbrUPI6trYngsCi8O11JNSuEdCbd2Koxi-VfQAirV2GAUF6rwJLfhHuE6oK6HCtDzqkzUnBg-Xm1UNZ7rDmvd9FQGuNgf_58ddri_L/s400/Horse+Boxing.jpg" alt="Horse boxing" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5540105673601868162" border="0" />Stallions rear up on their hind legs as they fight for dominance in a herd of Koniks in The Netherlands<br /><br /><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 254px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4StVRo4tjMPzb47R2v9x-qyK5tqH4lNurcunSYEVSgt5qAa6cCwGWd-l1oWHHNBK0rFrFChGiWR8ure8tFg_LfFeeo0cPePQRfOh-PdCf8U5tx_bDbmKndEDUBfEXKPnyeBPy/s400/Horse+Boxing+%25281%2529.jpg" alt="Stallion horse" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5540105653924555442" border="0" /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Fierce</span>: One of the male horses lands a thudding blow with its hoof as the fight turns bloody<br /><br />One stallion could be seen chasing a mare while others fought among themselves.<br /><br />Mr Ton, who works as an electronic engineer, spends several hours a week observing the herd of <span style="font-weight: bold;">36 horses</span> to better understand their behaviour.<br /><br />He said: 'The Koniks were put in a nature reserve and left to fend for themselves.<br /><br />'The public are told to keep their distance and not to feed them so they can remain wild.<br /><br />'I go looking for them about once a week and have done for over a year now.<br /><br />'I try to avoid attracting their attention so their behaviour in my pictures is as natural as possible.'<br /><br /><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 257px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmcnAb7CP1MB1o5JgYIKeJv1JIornE2cCbLaWJ_QXfnBYMEfPxEgvaema4kNOSiDpMK95j09m4AsHMVi3j9pFqZGU9PEeSGkmO1fnC2cZsoyFW92_ThAWl9p1fhhCY6F2gJeb1/s400/Horse+Boxing+%25282%2529.jpg" alt="Wild horses" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5540105643646214626" border="0" /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Dominance</span>: Teeth bared, the two horses continue to fight as other members of the herd watch in the background<br /><br /><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 259px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhof5NtGAu03xqVxb0bVlj52vvq6go6puK5V_F6-Fm0ilf83i6CF7JrtjT5M7yGQxLbAdnlQL50tfM2etaOWb1ABZrySgI0HocSG5K4T8Dxlj0KgxoB-2LMtm6DsJROrI8q4M9A/s400/Horse+Boxing+%25283%2529.jpg" alt="Wild horses" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5540105633430624274" border="0" />The battle among the Koniks, or Polish primitive horses, took place at a nature reserve in Loevenstein, The Netherlands<br /><br /><br />He said the herd is formed from a mix of bachelor groups - young stallions who have been abandoned or rejected and need to play to build up their strength before returning - and harem groups which feature one stallion, around six mares and foals.<br /><br />There is one lead <span style="font-weight: bold;">stallion horse</span> in the herd, which is the only male allowed to breed.<br /><br />'Fights with the lead stallion can be very rough and if he is injured the other stallions try to take over.<br /><br />'Sometimes it is playful, almost like an act or dance, but it can also be very aggressive with bloody injuries.<br /><br />'The Konik <span style="font-weight: bold;">horse </span>is one of the few types of horses able to survive in the wild. They are wild but they have never been aggressive towards me.'Stranger Worldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02471635339369963744noreply@blogger.com0