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June 10, 2010

Dating 101

Filed under: Uncategorized — Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , — Owen Jones @ 6:50 am

Dating advice is all over the internet, in magazines, books, newspapers and on TV. There’s even an eight year old who wrote a book filled with great dating advice. (That kid is pretty smart and must be really good with the girls, because while basic, all of his dating advice rings true. If you’ve read the book, however, you’d be forced to admit that the eight-year-old boy does know what he’s talking about and he keeps it simple. The important thing in dating is to do just that and not complicate things.

Leave your past behind you. It’ll only get you bogged down. The first thing any dating-counsellor would advise you is that a fresh start is important for a date to go well. Talking to your date about how your ex mistreated you is definitely not the way forward. Sometimes it isn’t even necessary to talk, and a person who has been hurt once may be over suspicious of any new relationship and this could show in their attitude toward their date.

‘Just be yourself’ is probably the best dating advice possible. Sure, people like to show themselves in the best possible light and impress their date, but if they are not behaving their usual selves, not only will they feel uneasy, but their date will pick up on the uneasiness too.

Not to expect too much (nor too little) is also good dating advice. If you expect too much from one date or from te person you are dating, it is highly likely that you will be discouraged by the results. After all, your date is only human too and first dates are generally at least slightly awkward.

One of the most frequently asked questions is: who foots the bill? The consensus in dating advice is that he/she who suggested the date pays. However, other people declare that it’s better to go Dutch every time and avoid hassles. There is yet another school of thought on dating advice that suggests that the man is not a “gentleman” if he doesn’t pick up the tab. In the case of a difference of policy between you and your date, come to a compromise that is mutually acceptable.

Texting your date before meeting is also a good idea as it puts him or her at ease and allows you to discuss interests and hobbies in an informal and less tense environment than a first date would be. This gives you something to work with if conversation lags.

Basically, just remember, no matter how much dating advice you have, it’s all up to you in the end. No date is the be-all and end-all, so if one doesn’t work out, never fear, there will be others. No matter how difficult the first date seems, it does get easier until it’s actually fun.

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April 16, 2010

Astronomy – Important Dates BC

Filed under: Uncategorized — Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , — Owen Jones @ 5:31 am

There is no uncertainty that astronomy is the oldest science and there is also no hesitation that astronomy was being studied by everyone, not only the wise men, thousands and thousands of years ago.

We do not know precisely why they did it, but we can surmise that early man noticed a correlation between the weather and the stars, which were themselves not fully understood, of course.

Early man, probably even as far back as Neanderthal man, noticed the relationship between the weather and herd movements and crop growth, or at least fruit and nuts on local trees, if they did not have planted crops.

This means that people could see a connection between the stars and food availability. This relationship was probably ritualized into some sort of religion like early Wicca. Therefore, the stars became a very important part of the lives of every single person and it is likely that astrology and astronomy were widely intermixed by the average person.

However, there were also people who did not only use the stars as some enormous celestial clock and who tried to make sense of the whole shebang. I am going to relate below, eight of the most significant dates or years in the history of astronomy before Christ walked on the Earth. Never forget that they had nothing but an abacus to do there calculations and no telescopes, which came about two thousand years later.

585 BC: Thales of Miletus (c. 625- c. 547), a Greek, predicted a solar eclipse in Asia Minor purely on the basis of his observations and calculations. It was not a lucky guess!

c. 400 BC: the astronomer Oenopedes (5th. century). also a Greek, announces that the Earth is tilted on its axis with respect to the Sun.

352 BC: the Chinese report what they called a ‘guest star’, a supernova, which was the earliest reported sighting.

340 BC: The astronomer, Kidinnu (b. Babylon c. 379 BC) discovers the precession of the Equinoxes, ie the apparent change in the position of the stars caused by the Earth’s wobbling on its axis.

c. 300 BC: a ‘committee’ of Chinese astronomers compile star maps of the visible universe.

c. 240 BC: Chinese astronomers observe and make notes about Halley’s Comet. Also Eratosthenes of Cyrene (c. 276 – c.194 BC), a Greek, correctly calculate the Earth’s dimensions.

165 BC: Chinese astronomers notice sunspots for the first time.

c. 130 BC: the astronomer Hipparchus of Nicea (b. 147 BC), a Greek, correctly calculates the distance to the Earth’s Moon and also rediscovers the precession of the Equinoxes.

You will see from the dates above that clearly not everyone let nature and the stars govern their lives, as the comon farmer or hunter did. Some men actually took pen to paper, but before pen and paper even existed, and tried to work out ‘why these manifestations took place?’.

These people must have been extraordinary men to have worked these measurements out by calculation, observation by the naked eye and rationalization alone.

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April 1, 2010

Growing Online Dating Relationships

Filed under: Uncategorized — Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , — Susan Pierce @ 6:35 am

Just like with normal off-line friendships, online relationships have to be tended and to be allowed to grow over time. Here is some fast growing advice:

1. Take Time and Make Time: Does your online date get in touch with you often? Do you do the same? Neglecting to get in touch can be considered not nice, so treat each other’s time respectfully. If that respect is lacking, it could mean that it is time to move on.

2. Communication Needs to “Feel” Right For Both of You: If one of you is being too pushy about having a meeting, for example, that can create ill feelings. So, please, don’t rush; take your time to learn more about each other and develop trust.

3. Respect Each Other’s Privacy: Don’t show the other person’s email addresses or digital photos to your friends, for example; especially if your online friend emailed you the information in private.

4. Share Special Online and Offline Fun Items: when online: send online greeting cards; links to favourite websites where you can upload digital photos of your favourite pet or car; download music and video clips; post on favourite forums of mutual interest. When offline: if you’ve swapped addresses or post office boxes, send printed greeting cards and postcards and/or small items from your area (like a key chain with your state tree).

5. Share Recipes: People get tired of just talking about the weather, so a very popular subject to take refuge in is food. Sharing information about favourite foods and recipes will get things going and help create a point of reference; talk about your favourite cuisine and tastes. Do a search online for free recipes to share and take photos of your culinary masterpieces and share them with your online date as well.

6. Bidding at Auctions: Ebay auctions sell anything and everything! So, look around and enter searches like the dates you were in high school. Share nostalgic photos of old games and toys from when you were a child or when your parents or grandparents were small.

Online dating can be an educational and fun experience. So, go on, learn more about each other and have fun while youre doing it! Take a cyber-stroll down ol’ memory lane together and see what’s cookin’. Tend your online friendship, water it with care and over time it may sprout and grow.

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March 9, 2010

How Do Dogs Communicate?

Filed under: Uncategorized — Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , — Owen Jones @ 10:38 am

Dogs are just about the most intelligent of household pets. If you take the time to look, you will see that they have the ability to communicate with humans, other dogs and even other animals. They do this with body signs and voice. Their signs are made with the their eyes, ears, eyebrows, head, mouth and tail.

Their voice is clearly not the same as ours, but they use pitch in their barks, whines, whimpers, pants, growls and howls and their gestures are made with their entire body and every element of it.

You can always tell a self-assured and therefore higher ranking dog, because they hold their tails aloft. Dogs, like all other animals, including we humans, have an inborn sense or their place in society. This is because dogs evolved in packs in the wild, just as we evolved in communities. which is why they fit well into our human society.

There is a pecking order within their group, as within human society. The subservient dogs submit themselves to the stronger dogs, which is why dogs lower their tail when they feel unsure of themselves. When dogs fight for dominance, the fur on their tails stands up and they have this trait in common with other animals. They do it to show that they are being serious in front of their adversary.

A dog that is uncertain what to do will wag its tail slowly. A bit like you or I might give a weak smile, unsure whether to smile openly or glower. They are in a process of working out whether they should accept the status quo or fight. Excited dogs wag their tails very fast and if the dog’s hip wiggles along with its tail, it means that the dog is in submissive mode to a higher ranker. A pet should do that to its owner, as you have become the leader of its substitute pack.

When dogs get aggressive they show their fangs, the same as humans. If all of the teeth are visible, it indicates that the dog is ready to bite or attack. We do the same unconsciously. People often bare their teeth and snarl insults, before a fight. However, they also show teeth when they smile but this is an indication of submissiveness, again as we do – submissiveness here meaning a recognition that a fight is unnecessary.

With a dog, the number of teeth on display differentiates between a smile and a snarl. In a smile, a dog only shows the front teeth, but in a snarl the dog reveals all his teeth and gums and makes an aggressive noise.

Ears are a good indication of the dog’s level of attention. When the ears are erect and forward facing, it means that the dog is concentrating. But if the dog is stress-free, its ears will lie flat. However, some breeds do not have as much control over their ears.

Dogs bark to protect their territory, which comes to mean their boss’ territory, which should signify your property. However, barking is their usual language so you will have to learn the difference between friendly play barking and aggression in your dog. It is pretty apparent though.

Observation of your pet is the key, because, although all dogs are the same as in all humans are the same, there are minor differences. They are not difficult to learn, just spend some time with you dog and keep your mind open and it will become very apparent to you.

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March 3, 2010

Chinese Lunar Calendar

Filed under: Uncategorized — Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , — Owen Jones @ 5:52 am

Prior to their implementation of the Western solar calendar system, the Chinese almost exclusively followed their own lunar calendar for determining the times of planting and harvesting and festival days. Although people in China today use the Western calendar for almost all business, governmental and practical matters of daily life, the old system still serves as the basis for working out many seasonal holidays. This coexistence of two calendar systems has long been accepted by the people of China.

However, this does not only apply to China, it also occurs in most other Eastern countries, like Thailand, and most Arabic countries.

A lunar month is determined by measuring the period of time needed for the moon to complete its full cycle of 29 and a half days, a standard that makes the lunar year a full eleven days shorter than its solar counterpart. This difference is corrected every 19 years by the addition of seven lunar months.

The 12 lunar months are further divided into 24 solar divisions characterized by the four seasons and times of heat and cold, all of which bear a close relationship to the yearly cycle of agricultural work.

The Chinese calendar – very much like the Hebrew calendar- is a combination of the solar and lunar calendars in that it strives to have its years concur with the tropical year and its months coincide with the synodic months. It is not surprising that a few similarities exist between the Chinese and the Hebrew calendar.

For example, an average year has 12 months, a leap year has 13 months. An ordinary year has 353, 354, or 355 days, a leap year has 383, 384, or 385 days. When working out what a Chinese year will be like, one must make a number of astronomical calculations.

First of all, you have to work out the dates for the new moons. In these instances, a new Moon is the completely black Moon (that is to say, when the Moon is in conjunction with the Sun), not the first visible crescent, as is used by the Islamic and Hebrew calendars. The date of a new moon is then the first day of a new month.

The reason why the majority of countries which had their own calendars had to dump them in favour of the Western, Julian calendar that we use today, is business. First the British and then the Americans ran international business and they used the Julian calendar.Anyone who sought to work with them had to follow suit. This is why national policy often varies from local custom in Third World countries.

The government desires to trade on the International markets, but the normal family in the country can not. So, the government adopted the Julian calendar but the people only pay lip service to it. I live in Thailand and people here do not even use the 24 hour day divided into two halves. Their day has four sections of six hours each and the first part starts at 6AM, not midnight. Therefore, they have four 4 o’clocks a day, for example and no 7 o’clocks. They are also 543 years ahead of us, although this is more common, for instance in Muslim countries.

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February 28, 2010

Fun Facts about Astronomy

Filed under: Uncategorized — Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , — Owen Jones @ 10:11 am

For most people astronomy is an interesting science stuffed with loads of astronomy fun facts. Everything from the size and temperature of our own star, the Sun, to the makeup of distant planets has been established. All of this information can be retold to entertain and enlighten people.

The Sun is a great source of astronomy fun facts. Our own star that provides us with all our heat and light is between 91 and 94.5 million miles from Earth. It’s not that nobody knows the distance for certain. It’s that the Earth orbits the Sun in an elliptical, uneven, orbit, so the distance varies depending on where the Earth is situated in that orbit.

The Sun is only an average size star, yet it’s size is another terrific source of astronomy fun facts. As average as it is, it accounts for about 98% of all the matter in our solar system. Even with the huge planet of Jupiter on our side, we’re still a measly 2% of non Sun material.

It would take the diameter of about 100 Earths to measure across this average Sun. The solar winds produced by the Sun extends to about 50 times the distance from the Earth to the Sun. In other words, those solar winds reach out about 50 AU’s, with an AU being the distance from the Earth to the sun. That’s quite fantastic, isn’t it?.

How about astronomy fun facts that don’t have anything at all to do with the Sun then? What about the Moon? It’s the only object that man has walked on except the Earth so far. And one man actually travelled to the Moon but has never left it. Dr. Eugene Shoemaker loved the Moon but was not found acceptable as an astronaut. After his death, he was cremated and his ashes were scattered over the Moon by the Lunar Prospector spacecraft in 1999.

There are many more astronomy fun facts about the Moon. It’s the site of what may become the oldest footprint known to man. Neil Armstrong’s giant leap for mankind left a print in the Moon dust that will probably still be there in 10 million years time.

Many people, in fact about 13% of those polled in 1988, still believed the Moon is made of cheese. And finally the suits worn by the Moon-walking astronauts weighed 180 pounds on Earth but only 30 pounds on the Moon, because of the reduced gravity on the Moon. Talk about an instant diet, eh?

Astronomy fun facts aren’t limited to our close astronomical neighbours. Looking at stars is like looking into the past. Some of the stars we see today in the night sky are so far away that their light takes a million years to get to us. Some of the stars you see may literally be images of stars a million years old that aren’t even there any more. There are over 1 x 10 ^22 stars in the universe. That’s a 1 followed by 22 zeros. The number is really quite staggering.

There are thousands of astronomy fun facts that we could go on about. But, unfortunately, this article can not be that long. So, please, just get out there at night, look upwards and learn more about astronomy for yourself.

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February 24, 2010

Strategies for Curing Acne

Filed under: Uncategorized — Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , — Owen Jones @ 5:40 am

Most sufferers of acne try to treat their itchy skin with astringent creams, fruit washes, special soaps, lotions and treatments. However, the best way to treat acne is by changing your diet and shunning acne-producing things like fried food. A healthy regimen, comprising organic unprocessed foods like vegetables, fruits, grains and beans is the first bit of advice for curing acne.

Foodstuffs containing trans-fatty acids, milk, milk products, margarine, shortening and man-made hydrogenated vegetable oils, as well as fatty foods, should consumed. It appears that the prevalence of acne in the United States is exacerbated by the average American diet. Americans typically eat fried food in great quantities, often cooked in the most damaging of fats and oils.

However, not all fats are bad, but the fats that average Americans eat make them more prone to get acne and other skin problems. Products that can irritate are ice cream, cheese, bacon, and milk. Furthermore, acne cannot really be treated using creams and soaps because the root cause of the condition lies underneath the skin.

Pimples, spots and blemishes are produced by bacteria and other irritants lying below the skin’s oil glands and hair follicles, which are generally caused by insufficient hygiene, scratching and poor diet.

This poor diet could be caused by too high an amount of such items as processed, fatty, fried and sugary foods in your diet. A diet that is healthy for your skin emphasizes raw and lightly cooked vegetables, especially green leafy vegetables that contain valuable trace minerals and are rich in fibre. Fresh green vegetables are essential. You should also include in your diet lean protein sources and complex carbohydrates, like rice, whole-grain bread and potatoes.

These fibre-rich foods should help ensure a clean gastrointestinal tract, which is so important in the management of acne. Eat three healthy meals every day in order to provide you with sufficient vital nutrients and to decrease your craving for sugary or greasy fried foods.

You should eat more foods that are rich in vitamin A, like apricots, watermelons, and broccoli, along with lean beef, lentils, nuts, beans and whole grains, because they are rich in zinc, which can also be useful in treating acne breakouts. It’s also imperative to drink plenty of water to help clean the poisons out that contribute to acne.

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February 23, 2010

Acne Scars

Filed under: Uncategorized — Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , — Owen Jones @ 12:27 pm

Acne scarring are a sad reminder of the having suffered pimples or even acne before. They are unbearable because of their seeming permanence and their non-complimentary appearance. Generally speaking, acne scars are rather hard to eradicate, but tissue regrowth is not impossible nowadays with all the amazing technological developments.

In general terms, when referring to acne scarring, we are referring to the healed lesions caused by an acne infection. While most scars are temporary and disappear naturally in time, those from the more severe forms of acne can become permanent.

Acne scarring may be prevented if the patient visits doctor when the acne scarring is in an incipient stage, especially if nodules or cysts accompany the red pustules on the skin’s surface. If the breakouts of acne have scarred your skin, you will have to approach the problem from a different perspective, which usually means surgery.

Laser resurfacing is one way of removing the damaged skin areas and stimulating the natural regrowth of the tissue underneath. This operation only requires local anaesthesia and can take between several minutes and an hour depending on the amount of the problem.

Fractional laser therapy is one of the most recent forms of removing acne scars. It involves surgical intervention at deep skin layers. The therapy is better than both dermabrasion and laser resurfacing in terms of quality and involves a much reduced healing period. Nevertheless, fractional laser therapy lies within the reach of only those few lucky sufferers, who can pay for it, since it is the most expensive acne treatment currently available.

It can happen that other sessions are required to improve the condition of the superficial layers of skin, before they can start the deep level treatment of the acne scarring. The doctor may inject collagen into the scarring in order to elevate the normal skin level or she/he may recommend micro-dermabrasion for the same purpose. Trying to carry out chemical peels at home is a bad idea given the chance of aggravating the condition by irritating the scars even more.

As for the forms of acne scars, they can be classified by the way they look. Scarring can result because of an increase of tissue or due to a loss of tissue They both have an adverse impact on the way the face looks. Specialists’ evaluation of the nature of the scars is an extremely important factor in deciding on the selection of one form of therapy or another.

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February 22, 2010

Using Illumination to Fantastic Effect.

Filed under: Uncategorized — Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , — Mike James @ 10:39 am

When you are considering the interior design of a house or area, lighting is most likely the most significant factor of the alterations to the interior decoration. After all, it is the aspect that generates the atmosphere of the room. You can create moods from intimacy to harsh clinicism just by the strength of your light bulb or turning a dimmer switch.

Still, if you want to be in no doubt that the result of the lighting is the one you are looking for, it is imperative that you be acquainted with the four main forms of illumination.

Ambient illumination: This is the general illumination for the whole room. In most rooms it is the average light in the centre of the ceiling be it a fluorescent tube or an incandescent bulb. It is suggested that you make use of one or more dimmers in order to have more flexibility in creating effects for each occasion.

Local lights: These lights are used to supplement or even temporarily take the place of the ambient lighting. Local lights are most frequently standard lamps, table and wall lights and are ordinarily used in order to assist such activities as reading, cooking, and shaving. The concentration of the light is local and it has to be correctly worked out so it won?t put a strain on the eyes.

Accent lights Accent lights are sources of light for showing off decorative items, ordinarily placed so as to draw attention to an objet d?art . Quite literally to show it in its best light.

Natural light: This is the one we get free though skylights, windows and doors. This light is controllable for part of the day by shades, curtains, drapes, blinds or awnings, but clearly varies with the time of the day, the season and the weather. Some locations see huge variations in natural light according to the season, eg monsoon, snow, etc.

It is in all probability easiest, if you consider a house room by room. Commence by thinking about what the room is used for. Retirees will in all probability want to take advantage of the daytime natural light for hobbies and reading, but a working couple with school-age kids, will be more active in the evening, when additional illumination might be more important. Write down what you do and where you do it. Do you have a favourite fireside chair for reading the paper, do you read the paper during daylight hours or after work? Be daring in your choice of illumination, but also bear in mind that illumination can have a great influence on our perception of dimensions, making a room look larger or smaller than it is in reality.

There are lots of ways to light a room but they all come from one of two perspectives: the lighting is either practical or aesthetic. Yes, they are both used to allow you to see more effortlessly, but highlighting the pages of a book or a shaving mirror is not quite the same as using a low light to highlight a statue of the Madonna in an alcove.

In a short synopsis, you could use the few lines below to give you preliminary thoughts when you are considering changing a room?s illumination:

i] Put a standard lamp behind armchairs: they ought to be between three and five feet tall. ii] Use an accent light to high or even low light a painting. iii] Use an accent light to underline the contours of bookcases. iv] The ambient light ought to be adjustable. v] Use local illumination to cover the walls with a low light or glow (can be sunk into the floor)

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February 16, 2010

Find Name By Phone Number-How To Perform A Reverse Phone Lookup

Filed under: Uncategorized — Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , — David Faust @ 4:35 am

There are countless reasons you may need to find a person’s name by their phone number, but the most common are trying to catch prank callers and trying to catch a cheating spouse. Whatever the case may be you can easily find the name of a person by using their phone number.

1-Start off by looking in the phone book

Have you even opened up the local phone book yet? If not you need to go do that. Most people think that phone books are way to old and out dated. Believe it or not, phone book companies do an incredible job at keeping the phone books up to date and they might just have all the information you are looking for.

2-Search the internet for a free service

Once you have checked the phone book it is time to move on to the wonderful internet. Just go online and do a search for free reverse directories and hopefully you will find one. Using one of these services is actually extremely easy. All you have to do is get the number (including the area code) and enter it into the search box and click the search button. The system will then run through all the data and hopefully find a match to your number. However, there is a major problem when using a free reverse look up site. They only show you listings of public numbers, which means if you didn’t find it in the phone book your probably will not find it here.

3-Use a paid Reverse Phone Lookup Service

If you are in a situation where you really need to know who is calling you can always use a paid reverse look up directory. The good thing is you will get your results or your money back, so you have nothing to lose. The way this system works is the exact same as above except they show more than just public listings, they show private ones such as cell phone numbers, that is why it has to cost some money. However, once you pay your onetime fee you will get an unlimited amount of searches for the rest of your life!

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