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Egyptian Internet Revolution through Pictures

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The Timex Nail Watch : Get the Time on Your nails

We have seen many different types of futuristic watches with strange shapes and design but none so unique as this. Now lets welcome the Nail watch, that can be worn on the thumb. You may have never seen a watch that can be worn on the thumb but times are going to change thanks to Timex. Timex, in collaboration with Core77, held a global design competition called 2154: the future of time design. So what we are seeing here is the TX54 concept which was a runner up there.

Thanks to a translucent body, the design blends seamlessly with the nail while a selection of text color options and a glow feature activating on command make it supremely functional as well. Press the end of your thumbnail, and the watch will light up for you. A perfect blend of appearance, user interface, and technology, the nail watch passes most standards of modern design with flying colors thanks to its functional and minimalist appeal. The watch looks stylish and chic and has a touch of Geeky style as well.

Hey you yes you……………

Hhhmmmmmm no time to even mail me aah???????

Ah u are thinking to mail me now????????

chooooo cho chweet of you.

Ah cmon send it across…. Im waitin for ur hi dear..

Hmmmmmm how long I have to wait??????

What?????????no need to wait ah?????????wow..

Hmmmmm..i am waiting…

Hey i am watching you,so do send a hi soon..

Hey don’t try to fool meeeeeeeee…

Hmmmmmm tired of typing..:-(..

You say or not but I say “Hi friend whats happening “..

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Keys to success:

Attitude:

Bloom where you are planted. You have a choice to get back up after temporary set backs. Attitude is a small thing that makes a big difference.

Direction:

If you don’t know where you are going, any road will get you there. Write your short term goals down on paper. I have discovered and continue to discover that putting your dreams and goals down on paper lock in or focus your belief that they can be achieved-even if you have to take a course correction in achieving your goals. Success comes in cans, failure comes in can’t.

Values:

Explore what is important to you. Maybe it is family, friends, your spirituality or working hard at any given task. I can assure you that your priorities will change as you grow older. Very important that you value yourself and treat yourself like the valuable gift from God that you are.

Interests:

Birds of a feather flock together. This is to say that if you are hanging around winners or others with a “can do” mind-set, you’ll likely adapt to this same kind of thinking.

Remember–”SUCCESS LEAVES CLUES”.

Commitment:

Feelings may change, commitments do not. “Success is getting up one more time than you fall.” I have often wanted to give up, and then I must think to myself about what the consequences of giving up will be. Generally, this is more than enough of a motivation to make us stick to the task at hand even if we don’t feel like it. When the task is achieved, Wow!–”IT FEELS GREAT”.

Encouragement:

Be an encourager and comforter to friends that are feeling discouraged. I promise that you will not regret this as you will be encouraged by one, if not many, when you are feeling down. Encouragement and love are contagious qualities that can change the minds of the most stubborn and “hard-to-get- along-with” people you know. I have seen it happen over and over again.

Some Tips For Glowing Skin:

• Mix oats with honey, yogurt and ground almonds. Apply this in your face, leave it for five minutes and wash  with lukewarm water.
• A facemask of egg white and honey gently removes the tan from your face.
• Cucumber is a natural cleanser. Mix cucumber juice with milk and use it instead of a cleanser.
• For oily skin, apply a mixture of grapes, lemon and egg white. Leave it for 20 minutes and rinse with warm water. While lemon acts as a natural cleanser, grapes will soften your skin and egg whites will tighten it. Don’t be alarmed if your skin tingles.
• Cut the lemon and rub the wedge all over your face. Leave it for about 20 minutes, then rinse off with cold water. This will refresh your face. Avoid doing this if you have dry skin.
• Mix honey, lemon and vegetable oil .This mixture is a good moisturiser for dry skin. Apply this mask for 10 minutes.
• Apply the mixture of honey and milk on the face . This will make your skin glow.
• Prepare a mask by mixing a slice of pumpkin with egg yolk and milk. Let this mask set on your face for 30 minutes for a glowing skin.
• Mix half-a-cup honey to your bath water for soft and smooth skin.
• For a soothing body pack, prepare a paste of mint leaves and almonds. Mix it with warm water and apply all over your body. Leave it till it dries and rinse with warm water.
• Buttermilk dabbed on skin for 15 minutes will soak up oil from your skin without drying it.
• Carrot juice applied daily fades blemishes.
• For dark underarms and neck apply lemon juice mixed with cucumber juice and a pinch of turmeric daily. Leave this on for 20 minutes.

• For removing facial hair.Apply a sticky paste of egg white blended with sugar and corn flour. When it dries, gently peel it off. Repeat this three to four times a week.
• Thin apple slices rubbed onto oily skin will help in controlling oily shine.
• For supple skin, apply a ripe smashed banana on your face for 20 minutes daily.
• Cauliflower juice applied on warts regularly will make them fall.
• For a fair skin, try this natural bleach. Mix orange peels (sun dried and powdered) with milk. Apply this paste for 25 minutes and wash off.
• Mix half teaspoon dried curry leaf powder with multani mitti  (fullers earth) and apply on the face. Wash it after it gets dry.
• Apply the mixture of tomato juice and honey on the face and neck , wash it after 15 minutes.
• Apply the mixture of carrot juice and basin. Leave it till it dries and wash the face.
• Add two teaspoon of tomato juice with 4 teaspoon of curd and apply on the face.
• Add a pinch of yeast with 2 teaspoon of cabbage juice and apply.
• Mix 1 table spoon of barley powder with half teaspoon of lime juice and 1 teaspoon of honey. Apply it on the face and wash after 20 minutes.
• Mix pineapple juice and carrot juice together and apply it on the face and wash it after 15 minutes.
• Mix vinegar and rose water in equal quantities and apply.
• Mix curd and cucumber juice and apply it on the face.
• Apply the mixture of coconut water and thick pineapple juice.
• Make a paste with 1/2 teaspoon of milk  powder, 1/4 teaspoon of egg white and 1/2 teaspoon of lemon juice and apply on the face.
• For dry skin, Make a paste with egg yolk, olive oil and lemon juice. Apply it on the neck and face, wash it out after 10 minutes.
• For oily skin, take a mixture of oatmeal and egg white and apply it on the neck and face
• For glowing skin, use basin or green gram powder mixed with milk instead of soap.
• Apply the mixture of raw turmeric and cream of milk on the face and wash it after 20 minutes. It will make your skin fair.
• Apply the mixture of honey, basin, cream of milk and olive oil as a face pack.
• Apply the paste of fenugreek with milk on the face and let it dry. Wash off with luke warm water.
• Make a paste of red sandal wood and apply it on the face every day for glowing skin.
• Make a paste with red sandal powder and coconut milk and apply on the face for soft skin.

Top 18 Ways to Inspire Others to be Their Best

We all know people who are inspiring. But just how does one inspire others? Here are simple ways you can inspire people to be their best:

• Be a good example. People watch what you do more than they listen to what you say. Be someone worth emulating.
• Care about others.
• People don’t care about how much you know until they know how much you care. Ask questions. Take a genuine interest in people.
• Encouragement.
• Everyone goes through tough times. When you support people and encourage them through these times, you’ll be inspiring them to see the best in themselves and in the situation.
• Be inspired yourself.
• Look for people, ideas, environments and knowledge that you find inspiring and motivating.
• Share from your own experience.
• You have more to share than you realize. Mine the rich experiences of your life and share your wisdom from your unique point of view. You may be the only one who can touch someone with your inspiring message.
• Be vulnerable.
• Be willing to share your failures as well as your successes. Others will relate to you. They’ll understand that they’re not the only ones with challenges.
• Tell stories.
• Facts tell and stories sell. They inspire, too. We learn best from parables and we all need to develop our own inspiring stories.
• Be a good communicator.
• Increasing your ability to communicate effectively is a critical element for you to inspire others. Watch how you speak and what you say. Invest in your communication skills.
• Challenge people.
• Many of us have had teachers who at times seemed more like tormentors than mentors. They challenged us to do our best, and we were better for it.Practice “care-frontation”— the careful and caring confrontation of others.
• It may not follow that all readers are leaders, but certainly all leaders are readers.. Stay informed. Share what you read with others. Tell people about books that have inspired you. Share the knowledge.

CIGARETTE:
A pinch of tobacco rolled in paper with fire at one end and a fool at the other!

MARRIAGE:
It’s an agreement wherein a man loses his bachelor degree and a woman gains her master.

DIVORCE:
Future Tense of Marriage.

LECTURE:

An art of transmitting Information from the notes of the lecturer to the notes of students
without passing through the minds of either.

CONFERENCE:
The confusion of one man multiplied by the number present.

COMPROMISE:
The art of dividing a cake in such a way that everybody believes
he got the biggest piece.

TEARS:
The hydraulic force by which masculine will power is
defeated by feminine water-power!

DICTIONARY:
A place where divorce comes before marriage.

CONFERENCE ROOM:
A place where everybody talks, nobody listens
and everybody disagrees later on.

ECSTASY:
A feeling when you feel you are going to feel a feeling
you have never felt before.

CLASSIC:
A book which people praise, but never read.

SMILE:
A curve that can set a lot of things straight!

OFFICE:
A place where you can relax after your strenuous home life.

YAWN:
The only time when some married men ever get to open their mouth.

ETC:
A sign to make others believe that you know more than you actually do.

COMMITTEE:

Individuals who can do nothing individually and sit to decide that nothing can be done
together.

EXPERIENCE:
The name men give to their Mistakes.

ATOM BOMB:
An invention to bring an end to all inventions.

PHILOSOPHER:
A fool who torments himself during life, to be spoken of when dead.

DIPLOMAT:
A person who tells you to go to hell in such a way that you actually look forward
to the trip.

OPPORTUNIST:
A person who starts taking bath if he accidentally falls into a river.

OPTIMIST:
A person who while falling from EIFFEL TOWER says in midway
“SEE I AM NOT INJURED YET!”

PESSIMIST:
A person who says that O is the last letter in ZERO, Instead of the first letter
in OPPORTUNITY.

MISER:
A person who lives poor so that he can die RICH!

FATHER:
A banker provided by nature.

CRIMINAL:
A guy no different from the other, unless he gets caught.

BOSS:
Someone who is early when you are late and late when you are early.

POLITICIAN:
One who shakes your hand before elections and your Confidence Later.

DOCTOR:
A person who kills your ills by pills, and kills you.

Japan saw most of its infrastructure bombed back to the stone age in the final years of World War II, which makes the country’s post-war rejuvenation all the more astounding. Huge, complex public works projects saw a concrete & steel web of highways, bridges and interchanges blossom from the wreckage of war.
Today, shaped by the demands of restrictive space and economic boom & bust, Japan’s hardened transportation arteries display artistic forms that go far beyond their functions.

Above left is the Hakozaki Junction, part of the Metropolitan Expressway in Tokyo, and at right is the Hokko Junction in Osaka.These images illustrate the solution engineers used when building multi-lane highway interchanges in some of the world’s most crowded cities in Japan: go vertical!

Ken Ohyama has made it his mission to chronicle some of the more striking Japanese roadworks in a Flickr series called Interchange and a book of his photos available from Amazon. One of the more outstanding examples is The Hokko Junction shown above – a part of the Hanshin Expressway near Japan’s second city, Osaka.

Also in Osaka is the Higashiosaka (East Osaka) Loop of the Hanshin Expressway. The photographer’s technique gives the sweeping curve of the roadway an almost tubular appearance.

When engineers have space to work with, they take full advantage. This wide field view of the Higashiosaka interchange shows the almost organic complexity of a busy cloverleaf, resembling a living creature’s circulatory system with the vehicles acting as blood cells.

Highways upon highways without any end in sight.

One interesting feature of Japanese elevated highways: they often run above rivers or sea channels, using the available space above the water. Here are some of these “highways on the sea” .

The incredible Japanese road infrastructure really took off in the 1960 check out the vintage photo on the right.

Such “Blade runner” sights are commonplace now, brimming with urban energy.

By the way, for the tricky “urban density” photography, head over to this page.and see if you can spot something wrong with the image there.

Slipping Sideways

Some sections of the Hanshin Expressway suffered severe damage during the 7.2 magnitude Great Hanshin Earthquake which hit the Kobe, Japan area in January of 1995, killing over 5,500 people and costing over $200 billion.

On the bright side, the affected sections of the highway did not “pancake”, as happened in the 1989 Loma Prieta quake, but instead slipped sideways and tumbled over. Either way, one doesn’t want to be driving through a highway interchange or junction when a big quake hits.

Recession, what recession?

Public works spending has long been the Japanese government’s preferred way to spend budget surpluses, boost employment, keep the ruling party’s supporters in the construction industry loyal, or all of the above. The highway depicted below is one of those projects, steadily overtaking a quiet city street like Godzilla in slow motion.

Which came first, the highway or the building? The question is moot as both have learned to accommodate one another. The Hanshin Expressway takes a shortcut through the 5th to 7th floors of Fukushima’s Gate Tower building, also known as the Bee Hive.

The story goes that the original building’s owner wanted to knock it down and rebuild, but was told by city planners that the space was being allocated to a newly planned exit of the expressway. Both sides refused to budge, and the compromise was completed in 1992.

Tokyo residents can easily avoid using the highways and expressways which crisscross the city, thanks to one of the world’s largest and most efficient subway systems, but when traffic is light they can be a pleasure to drive. The view can be pretty intense, as in the time-lapse photo below:

Urban density in Tokyo is simply astounding:

The Rainbow Bridge and the longest suspension bridge

Dark Roasted Blend has been covering some rather fascinating bridges before. Here are a few more – a spectacular sample from Japan. The 570 meter (1,870 ft) long Rainbow Bridge spans the northern part of Tokyo Bay and has been a city landmark since it opened in 1993. Two roadways, a transit line and pedestrian walkways all use the bridge, resulting in a seemingly chaotic tangle from certain angles.

It’s at night, however, that the Rainbow Bridge comes alive with signature color! Spotlights mounted at strategic locations bathe the bridge’s superstructure in prismatic glory. Best of all, the lighting is solar powered with energy stored during the day powering the light show at night:

Announced in 1969, the massive Kobe-Naruto highway route project stretches 81 kilometers to connect Japan’s main island of Honshu with the much smaller island of Shikoku to the south. The jewel in the crown is the 4-kilometer long Akashi Kaikyo Bridge, which cost $3.6 billion to build over the ten year period between 1988 and 1998:

Of course, any discussion of Japanese highways wouldn’t be complete without mention of Mount Fuji. The mountain’s iconic snowy peak is visible from Tokyo – on clear days, at least – but though it’s certainly possible to reach the dormant volcano’s doorstep via highway, taking the Shinkansen bullet train is a better bet.

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