BEAUTIFUL!

Jessica White with Beautiful & Hottest Photos

2011-12-05T03:56:00.000-08:00

Jessica White is an American model and occasional actress and DJ.
See some hot and beautiful photos

Most Beautiful Women by Country

2011-12-03T04:46:00.000-08:00

Please see below lists of Most Beautiful girls of different countries. Some are on videos and some are just photos.
If you would like to add any specific country please write on comment box below.

Top 35 most beautiful British women

The 10 most beautiful Australian women

25 Most Beautiful Israeli Women 2011

25 most beautiful indian women

Top 10 Most Beautiful Women Of South Korea (2009)

Top 10 most beautiful women in philippines

The Most Beautiful Women in Africa

Top 14 Most Beautiful Women of Pakistan

Top 10 Beautiful Japanese Women

Most Beautiful Black Women on youtube video

2011-11-29T03:22:00.000-08:00

Here are some most beautiful black women videos from Youtube

The 10 Most Beautiful Black women

Rihanna: She is one of most beautiful black woman and singer as well

Keke Palmer: One of most beautiful black women

K.D Aubert: Most beautiful black woman

Zoe Saldana: Most beautiful black woman

Top Five Most Beautiful Laptops

2011-11-24T15:40:00.000-08:00

Everyone loves to have beautiful laptop as well as good performance.

And we all know apple is getting popularity day by day innovating beautiful products however all other companies also appearing competitively.
You shouldn't have to haul a dull laptop in a ho-hum, unnoticed way out of your briefcase, feeling the unspoken scorn of all those around. You can unveil your sexy laptop to an impressed hush, and draw the oohs of your envious peers.
They say beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but you're sure to find something here that will soothe the aesthete within. Be warned, though: just because it's beautiful, doesn't mean it'll give the best experience.

Asus Zenbook UX21

For so much promise, the Zenbook UX21 falls tragically short at one of the most important factors: human interaction. The touch pad, screen and keyboard make this one product you'll want to pass by — no matter how pretty it is.

The Good: Extremely pretty • likely to be a subject of envy amongst colleagues and friends alike • SandForce SSD drive screams • Sound is great for the form factor • All the way up to Core i7 performance.
The Bad: Poor keyboard drops letters frequently • Erratic touch pad • Screen has very shallow vertical viewing angles • Rear of the notebook gets very hot under load.

www.zenbook.asus.com

Sony Vaio Z

Sony's thrown everything it's got at the Vaio Z, with the notable exception of good speakers. The result is an excellent laptop for both mobile and desktop use, but it'll certainly cost you a pretty penny.
The Good: Stylish design • Thin and light • Power Dock adds genuine utility • Great performance.
The Bad: Alarming sticker on the base is truly alarming • Speakers are exceptionally poor • It's a touch on the costly side.

www.sony.com.au/productcategory/it-pc-series-z

Razer Blade

The Razer Blade is billed as the "world's first true gaming laptop", which includes a set of programmable LCD keys on the palm rest.
It is focused for gamers who would lile to play game on their laptop.

www.razerzone.com/blade

Samsung Series 9 (NP900X3A)

Samsung's Series 9 is a gorgeously thin piece of equipment, which would be great for any traveller looking for something light, thin and portable. If the MacBook Air is out of the question due to OS X, this may be your next port of call — just be prepared to pay a bit more.
The Good: Impressively light • Backlit keyboard • Large touch pad • Good battery life • SSD is reasonably fast • Bundled software is unobtrusive.
The Bad: Multi-touch touch pad still dismays • Terrible speakers • Doesn't support 5GHz 802.11n • Gigabit Ethernet limited to USB 2.0 speeds • Micro HDMI to HDMI converter not included • microSD port isn't as useful as SD • Pricey.

www.samsung.com/us/computer/laptops/NP900X3A-A03US

Apple MacBook Air 13 (2011)

Apple's upgraded MacBook Air is a seriously fast performer — even if you only use it as a Windows machine. The switch to Sandy Bridge puts Apple's travel laptop on the top of the portable pile.

store.apple.com

Most Beautiful Digital Video Game Female Characters

2011-11-12T17:53:00.000-08:00

An attractive and beautiful girl character is being part of video games. Mostly they are used in online 3D video games.

Those artists who created the characters look really awesome and amazing. I have listed below all the characters as possible. Most of the girl characters are imaginary and some of them are actress of Hollywood and other popular movies.

3D Video Game Girl

Lightning, Final Fantasy XIII

Lady, Devil May Cry 4 By ~VideoGameWaller

Nariko: Heavenly Sword, Ninja Theory

Diao Chan, Dynasty Warriors

Lara Croft, Tomb Raider 2012

Chun Li: Street Fighter, Capcom

Ling Xiaoyu: Tekken, Namco

Jill Valentine: Resident Evil, Capcom

Princess Farah, Prince of Persia: The Two Thrones

Momohime, Muramasa: The Demon Blade

Oerba Dia Vanille, Final Fantasy XIII

Sakura, Street Fighter

Tyris Flare, Golden Axe: Beast Rider

Yuffie Kisaragi, Final Fantasy VII

Melissa Tiss, Magna Carta

Kaileena, Prince of Persia, Ubisoft

Seong Mi-na, Soul Calibur III

Rinoa Heartily, Final Fantasy VIII

Rikku, Final Fantasy X

Seth Balmore, Lost Odyssey

Reimi, Star Ocean: The Last Hope

Ayumi: X-Blades, Fan Art By Konrad Beiskammer

Rzephillda Grena Berlinette (Zephie), MAgna Carta

Yuna, Final Fantasy X

Aya: OneeChanbara, Tamsoft

Sophitia: Soulcalibur, Namco

Momiji, Ninja Gaiden

Claire Setilan, Magna Carta 2

Yuzuruha, Muramasa: The Demon Blade

Amy: Soulcalibur, Namco

Sources: http://ninjacrunch.com/55-of-the-most-beautiful-video-game-girls/

Most Beautiful Facebook Pages

2011-07-16T19:38:00.000-07:00

Facebook Call-to-Actions

Escape to Shape fanpage meets all requirements of Facebook marketing. You can see “Click to become a fan” action. Twitter, video and Feed call-to-actions. In general, they are good if you do not take into account the small holes in the design.
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Fantastic Facebook landing page for fans and 1st visitors. You can see here attractive Become a Fan button, a BIG call-to-action sign forcing you to click and awesome designed page. Well-done Rodeo-Houston.
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You might know this Facebook insiders and one of the most popular website on FB news and releases. You can see here alot of tips where to click and what to do. You dont have to think on “Where am I?”. Click the Like button, become a fan, load the video and then subscribe to RSS or proceed to our website.

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Awesome “Like this page!” reminder. Everything is quite simple and usable. I’d just suggest to Sprout not to use Flash on their fanpage. It’s not a good practice for now.
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Magnificent landing page! “Join ME! You MUST join me Gendalf!” No comments.
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These New England Patriots made a good work with adding Live Radio app, poll, video podcast and some call-to-actions. Really good work to start your Facebook marketing campaign.
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Online Stores

The 2d way to convert your fans and visitors is to integrate your online store directly into Facebook. It is difficult but worth the costs.

Adidas is one of the 1st companies start using Facebook as their marketing tool. So they have a huge expirience in this niche. I think we should take some inspiration while making own personal fan page.
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Not so famous but still deserve to be listed. Integrated video, dynamic news, twitter feed (which is a big problem on Facebook), social media icons and iPhone app. All this with a good design makes popular Facebook FBML page.
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Dogpatch developed by Sprout drives you all information need to meet this company and their services. The one page that gives you maximum information to make your choice.
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You should probably know that Vitoria’s Sicret according to Hitwise considered one of the best presented internet brands. They are doing a great job here at Facebook aswell.
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Source: http://10steps.sg/articles/design-articles/20-most-beautiful-and-effective-facebook-pages/

Beautiful

2011-07-16T19:26:00.001-07:00

Beautiful is an adjective used to describe things as possessing beauty.

Beautiful may also refer to:

In music:

Album

Beautiful (Candido Camero album)
Beautiful (David Tao album)
Beautiful (Fish Leong album)
Beautiful (Meg album)
beautiful., a 2001 album by Fantastic Plastic Machine

Songs

"Beautiful" (10 Years song)
"Beautiful" (Akon song)
"Beautiful" (Athlete song)
"Beautiful" (Bombay Rockers song)
"Beautiful" (Christina Aguilera song)
"Beautiful" (Disco Montego song)
"Beautiful" (Eminem song)
"Beautiful" (Mai Kuraki song)
"Beautiful" (Mandalay song)
"Beautiful" (Moby song)
"Beautiful" (Snoop Dogg song)
"Beautiful" (Taylor Dayne song)
"Beautiful", a song by Audio Adrenaline from their 2001 album Lift
"Beautiful", a song by Bethany Dillon from her 2004 album Bethany Dillon
"Beautiful", a song by Creed from their 1999 album Human Clay
"Beautiful", a song by HIM from their 2001 album Deep Shadows And Brilliant Highlights
"Beautiful", a song by Gordon Lightfoot from his 1972 album Don Quixote
"Beautiful", a song by Marillion from their 1995 album Afraid of Sunlight
"Beautiful", a song from Don Omar from the 2006 compilation album Mas Flow: Los Benjamins
"Beautiful", a song by Paul Simon from his 2006 album Surprise
"Beautiful", a song by Sevendust from their 2001 album Animosity
"Beautiful", a song by the Smashing Pumpkins from their 1995 album Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
"Beautiful", a song by Social Code from their 2004 album A Year at the Movies
"Beautiful", a song by Verona from their 2004 album Summer Consequence
"Beautiful", an unreleased song by Westlife

In film:

Beautiful (2000 film), an American film starring Minnie Driver and Kathleen Turner
Beautiful (2008 film), a South Korean film
Beautiful (2009 film), a 2009 Australian film starring Deborra-Lee Furness and Aaron Jeffery

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beautiful

Collection of Beautiful Mosques

2011-05-24T19:14:00.000-07:00

Mosque is the place where Muslim people go for worship. The Arabic term for a place of Muslim worship is masjid, which literally means "place of prostration"

Muslims gather in the mosque to prey well as for information, education, and dispute settlement.

Masjid al-Haram (The Holy Mosque) – Saudi Arabia

Masjid Nabawi – Saudi Arabia

Mosque in Brunei

Putrajaya Mosque on Water – Malaysia

The Umayyad Mosque – Damascus

Ubudiah Mosque in Kuala Kangsar

Faisal Mosque – Pakistan

Jame Asr Hassanil Bolkiah Mosque, Brunei

Jumeirah Grand Mosque, Dubai

The Putra Mosque in Putrajaya, Malaysia

UAE – Sheikh Zayed Bin Sultan Al Nahyan Mosque in Abu Dhabi

Turkey – Brand New Day over The Blue Mosque (Sultan Ahmet Camii) in Istanbul

Crystal Mosque, Malaysia

Schwetzinger Mosque from Germany

HOLY GOLDEN MOSQUE – Singapore

Sehzade Mosque (Istanbul) Turkey

Holy Makkah – Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia – Evening prayer at Floating Mosque in Jeddah

Lao Huasi sufi mosque in Linxia, China

Cordoba Cathedral – The Mezquita – Spain

Grand Mosque – a.k.a. Sheikh Zayed Mosque

Shahjahan Mosque – Pakistan

The Mosque and the Towers – United Arab States

Mosque on Mirror

The Omayad Mosque and full moon – Syria

Bahrain Grand Mosque

Cairo · Muhammad Ali mosque #1

Badshahi Mosque

Zahir Mosque, Malaysia

Ubudiah Mosque (in mono and square)

Masjid Sultan (Sultan Mosque) Singapore

The Blue Mosque from Hagia Sophia

THE MOSQUE

The largest Mosque in India

Masjid Al-Hassan II, Casablanca, Morocco

Largest Mosque in North America

Alnour Mosque Sharjah

Sultan Omar Ali Saifuddin Mosque, Brunei

Original Resource: http://www.noupe.com/photography/40-most-beautiful-mosques-in-the-world.html

Beautiful original, multi-million dollar music videos

2011-01-14T21:44:00.000-08:00

Here are some beautiful music videos of low budgets but they worth million dollar so they are million dollar video. These videos are not new, Some are just years old and others are more old.

1: TISM: Everyone Else Has Had More Sex Than Me

2: Mansun: Taxloss

3: Queens of the Stone Age: Go With the Flow

4: Aphex Twin: Windowlicker (NSFW)

5: Aphex Twin: Come to Daddy

6: Lenny Kravitz: Are You Gonna Go My Way

7: Prodigy: Smack My Bitch Up (NSFW)

Watch in high quality on YouTube

8: A-ha: Take On Me

9: Beck: Girl

Get Quicktimes here
10: Pharcycle: Drop

11: Blur: Coffee & TV

12: Junior Senior: Move Your Feet

13: Royksopp: Remind Me

14: Peter Gabriel: Sledgehammer

15: White Strips: Fell In Love With a Girl

Watch in high quality on YouTube
16: Daft Punk: Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger (fan made)

17: Daft Punk: Around the World

18: Daft Punk: Interstellar 555 Clips

19: Tenacious D: Fuck Her Gently (NSFW)

Watch original Flash animation here
More info here
20: Michael Jackson: Thriller

21: Lemon Jelly: The Shouty Track

22: Justice: D.A.N.C.E.

23: Justice: Stress

24: Justice vs. Simian: We Are Your Friends

25: Justice: DVNO

26: Beastie Boys: Sabotage

27: Radiohead: House of Cards

Get The Code and more info on Google Code
28: Coldcut: Timber

29: Eels: Novocain for the Soul

30: Gorillaz: Clint Eastwood, and Dirty Harry

31: Chemical Brothers: Star Guitar

32: Chemical Brothers, featuring K-OS: Get Yourself High

33: Weezer: Buddy Holly

Full version here.
34: Weezer: Pork and Beans
Pork and Beans – Weezer

35: Coldplay: The Hardest Part

36: Bjork: Wanderlust

Official website for the video here
37: Gotye: Hearts a Mess

38: Funstorung: Sleeping Beauty

39: OK Go: Here It Goes Again

40: Metallica: One

41: Verve: Bittersweet Symphony

42: Supergrass: Pumping on Your Stereo

43: Santogold, Julian Casablancas, N.E.R.D: My Drive Thru for Converse

44: Bjork: All is Full of Love

45: Alex Gopher: The Child

46: Paula Abdul: Opposites Attract

C’mon, this was a classic when it came out! Don’t judge me.
47: Unkle: Rabbit in your Headlights

48: DJ Format: We Know Something You Don’t Know

49: Telemetry Orchestra: Suburban Harmony

50: The Bumblebeez: Dr. Love

Directed by my favorite director, Tom Kuntz. A true genius.
51: Jamiroquai: Virtual Insanity

52: Tool: Stinkfist

53: Red Hot Chili Peppers: Give It Away

54: Weird Al Yankovic: Bedrock Anthem

55: The Avalanches: Frontier Psychiatrist

Also directed by Tom Kuntz
56: Basement Jaxx: Where’s Your Head At

57: Wu-Tang Clan: Triumph

Directed by Brett Ratner!
58: Battles: Tonto

59: Sia: Buttons

60: Fatboy Slim: Praise You, and Weapon of Choice

61: Architecture in Helsinki: Do the Whirlwind

62: Softlightes: Heart Made Of Sound

63: Fujiya & Miyagi: Ankle Injuries

64: Yuki: Sentimental Journey

Last Click

Here are three music videos that will get stuck in your head.

Evergreen by Yoann Lemoine - Beautiful music video

2011-01-14T21:40:00.000-08:00

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Ten most beautiful cars in the world

2011-01-08T06:19:00.000-08:00

MSN has made a list of the most beautiful models in recent years.
The main criterion was that the model is manufactured in series, and the fact that all are made and designed in Europe (with one exception) doesn’t surprised anyone. Most models belong to the VAG corporation, while the second pace goes to Fiat Group.
Alfa Romeo 8C Spider

Nearly every model from Alfa Romeo has made it in the list of the most beautiful cars of the time. The 8C Spider is fitted with a 4.7 liter V8 engine and 450 PS, and its look is brutal, but beautiful and elegant at the same time. All 500 available copies were sold before production started.
Aston Martin DBS

DBS was designed by Marek Reichmann, but is, in essence, an evolution of the DB7 model developed by Ian Callum. The model has remarkably voluptuous proportions, long hood, low ground clearance and an impressive length. The width of DBS is not overlooked, and all these surfaces are made by combining aluminum with carbon fiber. To ensure its success, Gaydon engineers have equipped the model with a V12 of 6.0 liters and 510 hp.
Audi R8 Spyder

Audi R8 Spyder is first and foremost a creative technique. Initially, the coupe version of the model could easily qualify for this contest, but the Spyder version was chosen for its appealing profile. At first, the model was offered only a 5.2-liter V10 engine and 525 horsepower, but Audi offers a 4.2-liter FSI V8 drive and 430 horsepower, for those in love with V8s.
Audi RS5

The fastest member of the A5 range is an impressive package both in style, as well as in performance. The model engine chosen for it is a 4.2-liter V8 FSI, 450 hp, screaming with all their power through the four exhaust pipes located under the rear bumper. The A5 has an elegant aspect, needing a few accessories to make it beautiful, but the RS version of it presents a set of aggressive traits that greatly fit the model from Ingolstadt.
Bentley Continental GT

Continental GT was the first creation of the brand in Crewe under the wing of Volkswagen. The model debuted at the Paris Motor Show with a new look, which is linked to the brand’s history but still looks modern. Lines shown on the Continental GT will be present 10 years from now, during which the model will receive a facelift and even a new generation. This time, the model is offered in the company of a 4.0-liter V8 engine, not only with a 6.75-liter W12.
Ferrari 599 GTB Fiorano

The famous Ferrari GT was designed, as usual, in the studio Pininfarina. The model features a 5999 cc V12 engine that provides 611 hp. The GTO version of the 599 is the fastest Ferrari for road, while the model’s shape is unmistakable. In addition, who may find an angle which is not beautiful?
Hyundai Elantra

The surprise of this list is the new Hyundai Elantra. The model debuted at the Los Angeles Auto Show in November 2010 and its appearance betrays not even one wrong placed line. Cynics might say that the designers forgot who they’re working for, if we compare this model to the previous generation, but we believe that credit belong to the Fluidic Sculpture design language.
Jaguar XK Coupe

XK is Jaguar’s XJ-S replacement and debuted on the market in 1996, while its grandfather is none other than the famous E-Type. At that time, the Jaguar XK-E, or E-Type, possessed one of the most beautiful bodies available on the market. In March 2008, Jaguar E-Type won first place among the most beautiful cars of all time in a top made by Daily Telegraph and XK resembles perfectly all the features of E-Type in a modern definition of what a Jaguar coupe means.
Maserati GranCabrio

The new Maserati convertible GranCabrio is a very attractive model, with an aggressive look, which offers four real seats. The model is equipped with a 4.7 liter V8 and 433 hp and has active anti-roll bars front and rear. Due to this factor, the model offers a higher level of handling without sacrificing passenger comfort.
Volkswagen Passat CC

The last model in this list is not the first in its segment, but comes at an affordable price compared to market opener for four-door coupes. It’s the Volkswagen Passat CC, a very attractive item designed by the constructor in Wolfsburg, which distinguishes itself from the first generation of Mercedes-Benz CLS by the lack of classical elements in its appearance, being a creation full of style and charisma, especially if accompanied by a set of alloy wheels and a 3.6-liter VR6 engine and 280
horsepower.

Source:http://www.inrumor.com/in/auto/msn%E2%80%99s-ten-most-beautiful-cars-in-the-world/

Samsung D7900 LED TV is the most beautiful TV of CES

2011-01-08T06:10:00.000-08:00

The new Samsung D7900 LED TV is, as super thin, enormous flatscreen boobtubes go, rather subtle – none of this asymmetrical design Sammy is pushing in some of its other lines. But look at it for a few moments though, and you’ll realise that you really are staring at just the picture and nothing else. So what’s different?

You see, the silver bezel of the Samsung D7900 LED TV, while not the thinnest we’ve ever seen, drops away on all four sides at such a sharp angle, it’s actually difficult to see. In fact, so dramatic is this slope, it’s actually hard to make out the Samsung logo beneath the screen from the average viewing distance.

It’s a hard sensation to capture on film: 2D cameras don’t capture this particularly well, but what you’re left with is a screen, out of all the ones Samsung was showing on its vast CES stand today (including more expensive models), that left you with the impression that the screen is very nearly, genuinely edge to edge, still something yet to be achieved in TVs available on the mass market.

Unfortunately, the Samsung D7900 Series 7 LED TV (3D and internet connected, naturally) isn’t destined for the UK, we’ve confirmed. A true tragedy, as this is a model that needs to be seen on a shop floor to be believed.

Still, fingers crossed Samsung’s design ethos filters down into its other TVs eventually.

iPhone Apps with Beautiful Interfaces

2010-02-04T04:23:00.000-08:00

The iPhone is a wonderfully designed device, sporting sleek curves and oozing minimalism. Fortunately, the great design doesn’t need to stop there. Ever since the App Store went live, we’ve seen some incredibly attractive software released for the platform.
Whether you’re looking for a robotic unit converter, a realistic app for reading novels, or a intuitive Twitter client – this roundup has something for you. Each application puts design first, offering a fantastic user experience.

Weightbot ($1.99)

Whether you are trying to lose (or gain) a few pounds, tracking your weight has never been more fun. Set your goal weight, record your weight at any interval (one weight per day max), view your BMI, and see your progress on a beautiful graph.
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Weightbot

Convertbot ($0.99)

Convertbot is a unit conversion robot. Convert currency, length, mass, time and much more in an exciting new way.
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Convertbot

Ego ($1.99)

Ego gives you one central—and lovely—location to check web statistics that matter to you. With support for Feedburner, Google Analytics, Mint, Squarespace and Twitter.
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Ego

LittleSnapper ($2.99)

Take a photo, snap a webpage, or choose an existing image from your photo album and share it online via QuickSnapper. Add tags, titles, descriptions, and ratings to your snaps before sharing them.
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LittleSnapper

iStat ($1.99)

Remotely monitor CPU, memory, disks, temperatures, fans, uptime and load averages… from your iPhone. You can also see your iPhone’s stats for memory, disk space, WiFi and Cell IP addresses, uptime & load averages, plus view and email your iPhone’s Unique ID and MAC address.
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iStat

Beats ($1.99)

Working out the BPM (beats per minute) of a song couldn’t be simpler—just tap along with the song. Unlike some other counters, Beats uses intelligent averaging that hones in on the correct BPM the more you tap.
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Beats

Cities ($0.99)

If it’s 9 PM, Friday 20 June in Melbourne, Australia, what time and day is it in Trieste, Italy? Cities lets you travel the world to see what time it was, is or will be for any city on any date or time, from the perspective of any timezone (including the one you’re currently in).
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Cities

Phases ($0.99)

Phases is a beautifully crafted little app that shows you all kinds of useful information about the moon (and a little bit about the sun).
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Phases

Groups ($2.99)

Groups takes contacts group management to a totally different level. With a highly innovative user interface, you get to manage your contacts the iPhone way; drag them, drop them or trash them.
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Groups

Tea Round (Free)

Tea Round rapidly settles thirst-based argument by deciding who makes the tea. Whether in the office, or at home.
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Tea Round

Cha-Ching ($2.99)

Cha-Ching Touch for iPhone and iPod Touch delivers Cha-Ching’s renowned ease of use and simple, clear interface right to the palm of your hand. With easy to use features like location based transaction entry and beautiful, easy to read budgets, you will never be without your finances again.
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Cha-Ching

Twitteriffic (Free)

Twitterrific is a fun application that lets you both read and publish posts or “tweets” to the Twitter community website. The application’s user interface is clean, concise and looks fantastic on the iPhone.
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Twitteriffic

Tweetie ($2.99)

Tweetie is a fast, full-featured Twitter client. It offers everything you’d expect – from your timeline to trends – all with an incredibly well polished user interface and a great experience.
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Tweetie

Tags ($2.99)

Tags lets you browse delicious.com bookmarks in style. Explore your bookmarks with the animated tag cloud or discover new websites in your network, inbox or popular bookmarks.
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Where To? ($2.99)

One of the best features of the iPhone is that it’s able to determine your current location, but missing is something that’s become a staple of most GPS systems: a quick way to find points of interest around you. Where To provides that in a slick, intuitive user experience.
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Where To?

Classics ($0.99)

Escape into some of the greatest stories ever written. Classics features some of literature’s finest masterpieces, and looks and feels like a real book!
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Classics

Tipulator ($0.99)

Take the guesswork out of restaurant tipping. Enter the bill amount, select a percentage, and Tipulator will calculate the tip. And it’ll split the check among friends.
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Tipulator

Groceries ($0.99)

Say goodbye to boring grocery planning and chaotic shopping lists. Simply select items from hundreds of ready-made groceries, find specific brands from thousands of products or add new items in an instant. Optionally organize your items by aisle and let Groceries navigate you through the supermarket.
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Groceries

Satisfaction Remote ($1.99)

Get Satisfaction (getsatisfaction.com) is a People-Powered Customer Service community that helps people to get the most from the products they use, and where companies are encouraged to get real with their customers.
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Satisfaction

Measures ($0.99)

Yet another unit converter utility… But the one which is really easy to use. Besides different conversion types, it gives you daily updated currency exchange rates. Assign the most frequently used conversions to the favorite buttons.
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Measures

Guitar Toolkit ($9.99)

Essential guitar utilities, including an amazing flexible tuner and a library of over 1500 chord variations, all on your phone.
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Guitar Toolkit

Inquisitor (Free)

Inquisitor Mobile Search speeds up your search like no other mobile search application. It has an award winning design, and invaluable for research on-the-go.
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Inquisitor

Night Stand ($0.99)

Night Stand displays a beautiful, vintage LCD clock on your iPhone or iPod touch. You don’t have to buy a night stand clock for your bedroom anymore: you get a gorgeous alarm clock and right under your fingertips.
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Night Stand

Things ($9.99)

Things is a beautifully focused and amazingly intuitive task manager. Other task managers either oversimplify or are too difficult to use. Either way you are not getting stuff done. You can even sync wirelessly with the desktop version of Things using Wi-Fi.
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Things

Outpost ($12.99)

Outpost allows people to manage their projects with Basecamp®, an online project management app from 37signals. Basecamp is widely acclaimed for its simplicity and effectiveness in organizing teams.
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Outpost

Birdhouse ($3.99)

Ever think of something for your Twitter that you don’t want to post right away? Birdhouse is the perfect place to put it. Birdhouse won’t replace your favorite iPhone Twitter client, it’ll add to it. Put Birdhouse right next to your Twitter client and use them together.
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Birdhouse

Cocktails ($2.99)

Cocktails lovingly presents over 2,000 contemporary and classic mixed drink recipes drawn from modern and classic sources. Categorized in all manner of useful ways.
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Cocktails

Facebook (Free)

The app makes it easier to connect to people on-the-go, chat to your friends, and check out all the latest photos.
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Facebook

Wimbledon (Free)

A classic Wimbledon interface for checking up on tennis scores, viewing live video, and checking up on the progress of the competition.
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Bento ($5.99)

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The Most Beautiful Christmas Trees in America

2009-10-25T19:25:00.000-07:00

The decoration of the Christmas tree has been a holiday tradition for hundreds of years. It is, in fact, one of the most popular traditions each season, as families from around the world flock out to stores and tree stands to find just the right tree to decorate. Most Christmas trees are firs, but in more recent years artificial trees made from plastic or feathers have been d

The Christmas tree is often decorated with a host of lights and ornaments and traditionally has an angel or a star placed upon the top branches, most often to represent those found in the Nativity story. There is a little bit of controversy surrounding the Christmas tree, as some religious cultures oppose its use and others interpret its meaning differently.

What remains the same year after year, however, is the joy found on the faces of millions each year as trees are erected in homes and public squares and lit each evening with thousands of brilliant lights. No matter where you turn you’re going to see brilliantly decorated trees, some with painstaking detail. We’ve made a collection of some of the most beautiful trees in the country and, hopefully, you’ll get to see a few of them for yourself this year!

THE NATIONAL CHRISTMAS TREE – WASHINGTON, DC

Every year since 1923 the United States has erected a National Christmas Tree. The tree is usually a Colorado blue spruce, standing at least 40 feet tall, and is always erected on the Ellipse, on the South side of the White House. Every state sends ornaments for the tree, which is encased in a gigantic plastic globe to protect it from the elements! This year’s official tree lighting ceremony will be held on December 4^th at 5pm! There will be plenty of hotel specials this Christmas in the Washington, DC area, but you’ll need to book quickly if you want to find a hotel within reasonable distance to the attractions you wish to visit!

THE WHITE HOUSE – WASHINGTON, DC

The White House is the home of not one Christmas Tree, but many. The First Lady traditionally chooses the theme for the tree, which is then decorated by artisans from around the country.

In 2001, for example, Laura Bush chose a “Home for the Holidays” theme, and artisans created decorations that represented historic houses in each state. Trees in other rooms, such as the blue room, are decorated with colorful and meaningful mementos as well.

ROCKEFELLER CENTER – NEW YORK CITY

Millions of locals and tourists flock to Rockefeller Center throughout the holiday season to catch a glimpse of not only the ice skaters but of the enormous and beautifully decorated tree as well. The area surrounding the tree is usually guarded by angels, nutcrackers, and a number of other astounding decorations.

The tree at Rockefeller Center is one of the most popular and most visited trees in the area. This year’s official tree lighting is scheduled to be held on December 3^rd. The city of New York will be bustling with Christmas hotel specials to accommodate the holiday shows, shopping, and tourism associated with the season, so make sure you grab your space as early as possible if you plan to visit.

DISNEY WORLD – ORLANDO, FLORIDA

The folks at Disney work overtime each year to make sure visitors to their parks feel at home during the holiday seasons. Each park has a unique Christmas tree, decorated to correspond with the theme of not only the park but the section in which it’s located. The holiday spirit is certainly in the air every year, no matter where in Disney you go!

DALEY PLAZA – CHICAGO, ILLINOIS

Chicago has held an annual tree lighting ceremony for years and years, and this year will be no different. Celebrating 95 years of holiday spirit, the 2008 tree lighting ceremony will take place on December 2^nd at 12:30pm.

The annual ceremony features performances by the Chicago Children’s Choir and other theatrical groups before the 90 foot tall tree is illuminated!

SAN FRANCISCO TREE LIGHTINGS – CALIFORNIA

Several incredible tree lighting ceremonies take place throughout San Francisco each and every holiday season.On dates ranging from November 16^th through November 29^th you’ll find a myriad of events, from the Holiday Lighting Ceremony in the Hyatt Regency San Francisco lobby (an indoor 45 foot tree!), to Holiday Harmony at Pier 39, to the Lighting of the Civic Center Plaza Tree – and much more! It’s safe to say that no matter where you are in San Francisco you’re likely to find a beautiful tree to visit!

No matter where you go in the United States this holiday season you’re bound to find Christmas tree and light displays more colorful and brilliant than ever before. Enjoy the sights and sounds of the holiday season – it’ll be over before you know it!

Sources

http://www.hereisbeautiful.com

http://blog.ratestogo.com/the-most-beautiful-christmas-trees-in-the-country

The 40 Most Beautiful Hollywood Women

2009-10-11T21:19:00.000-07:00

1. Mila Kunis

Present Hotness: Extract
Past Hotness: Forgetting Sarah Marshall, That 70s Show
Future Hotness: Date Night, The Book of Eli
2. Freida Pinto

Past Hotness: Slumdog Millionaire
Future Hotness: American Empire
3. Moon Bloodgood

Present Hotness: Terminator Salvation
Past Hotness: Pathfinder, What Just Happened?
Future Hotness: Bedrooms
4. Zoe Saldana

Present Hotness: Star Trek
Past Hotness: After Sex
Future Hotness: Avatar
5. Kristen Stewart

Present Hotness: The Twilight Saga: New Moon
Past Hotness: Twilight
Future Hotness: The Runaways
6. Malin Ackerman

Present Hotness: Watchmen
Past Hotness: Harold & Kumar go to Whitecastle
Future Hotness: Elektra Luxx
7. Maggie Grace

Present Hotness: Taken
Past Hotness: The Fog, Lost
Future Hotness: Malice in Wonderland
8. Megan Fox

Present Hotness: Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
Past Hotness: Transformers
Future Hotness: Jennifer's Body
9. Sienna Miller

Present Hotness: G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra
Past Hotness: Factory Girl
Future Hotness: Hippie Hippie Shake
10. Eva Mendes

Present Hotness: The Spirit
Past Hotness: Once Upon a Time in Mexico
Future Hotness: Last Night
11. Jessica Biel

Present Hotness: Powder Blue
Past Hotness: I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry
Future Hotness: Nailed
12. Scout Taylor-Compton

Present Hotness: H2 (Halloween II)
Past Hotness: Halloween
Future Hotness: The Runaways
13. Sasha Grey

Present Hotness: The Girlfriend Experience
Future Hotness: Smash Cut
14. Diora Baird

Present Hotness: Pornstar
Past Hotness: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning, Wedding Crashers
Future Hotness: Stan Helsing
15. Elizabeth Banks

Present Hotness: The Uninvited
Past Hotness: Zack and Miri Make a Porno, The 40-Year-Old Virgin
Future Hotness: The Details
16. Rosario Dawson

Present Hotness: Seven Pounds
Past Hotness: Alexander, Clerks II, Sin City
Future Hotness: Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief
17. Vanessa Ferlito

Present Hotness: Julie + Julia
Past Hotness: Death Proof
18. Kristen Bell

Present Hotness: Serious Moonlight
Past Hotness: Forgetting Sarah Marshall
Future Hotness: When in Rome
19. Beyonce Knowles

Present Hotness: Obsessed
Past Hotness: Dreamgilrs, Austin Powers in Goldmember
Future Hotness: Tipping the Velvet
20. Vanessa Hudgens

Present Hotness: Bandslam
Past Hotness: High School Musical
Future Hotness: Sucker Punch
21. Keira Knightley

Past Hotness: The Dutchess, Pirates of the Caribbean (franchise), Atonement
Future Hotness: Last Night
22. Lizzy Caplan

Present Hotness: The Last Rites of Ransom Pride
Past Hotness: Cloverfield, My Best Friends Girl, True Blood
Future Hotness: The Hot Tub Machine
23. Angelina Jolie

Past Hotness: Wanted, Mr. & Mrs. Smith, Taking Lives, Hackers, etc...
Future Hotness: Salt
24. Anna Faris

Present Hotness: Observe and Report
Past Hotness: The House Bunny, The Hot Chick
Future Hotness: Young Americans
25. Mary Elizabeth Winstead

Past Hotness: Live Free or Die Hard, Death Proof, Final Destination 3
Future Hotness: Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World
26. Katrina Bowden

Present Hotness: The Shortcut
Past Hotness: Sex Drive, 30 Rock
Future Hotness: The Last Film Festival
27. Kerry Washington

Past Hotness: Lakeview Terrace, Fantastic Four, I Think I Love My Wife
Future Hotness: A Thousand Words
28. Isla Fisher

Present Hotness: Confessions of a Shopoholic
Past Hotness: Hot Rod, The Lookout, Wedding Crashers
Future Hotness: Groupies
29. Olivia Wilde

Present Hotness: Year One
Past Hotness: Turistas
Future Hotness: In NorthWood, Tron 2.0
30. Jordana Brewster

Present Hotness: Fast & Furious
Past Hotness: Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning, D.E.B.S.
31. Scarlett Johansson

Present Hotness: He's Just Not That Into You
Past Hotness: Vicky Cristina Barcelona, The Island, Lost in Translation
Future Hotness: Iron Man 2
32. Jessica Alba

Past Hotness: Sin City, Into The Blue, Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer, etc..
Future Hotness: An Invisible Sign of My Own
33. Abbie Cornish

Present Hotness: Bright Star
Past Hotness: Elizabeth: The Golden Age, Stop-Loss
Future Hotness: Sucker Punch
34. Maggie Q

Past Hotness: Live Free or Die Hard, Balls of Fury, Mission: Impossible III
Future Hotness: New York, I Love You; Rogue's Gallery
35. Marisa Tomei

Present Hotness: The Wrestler
Past Hotness: Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
36. Natalie Portman

Past Hotness: The Other Boleyn Girl, V for Vendetta, Closer
Future Hotness: Brothers, Hesher
37. Charlize Theron

Present Hotness: The Road
Past Hotness: Hancock, Aeon Flux, The Italian Job
Future Hotness: The Brazilian Job
38. Alison Lohman

Present Hotness: Drag Me To Hell
Past Hotness: Where the Truth Lies, Beowulf, White Oleander
Future Hotness: Gamer
39. Diane Kruger

Present Hotness: Inglorious Basterds
Past Hotness: National Treasure, Troy
Future Hotness: Mr. Nobody
40. Gwyneth Paltrow

Present Hotness: Two Lovers
Past Hotness: Iron Man
Future Hotness: Iron Man 2

The most beautiful soccer goals ever

2009-10-02T17:35:00.000-07:00

See a collection with the most beautiful soccer goals of all time around the world. To begin, one of the most important goals in soccer history: goal number thousand of Pelé.

I could not lack one most beautiful goals of Maradona, to incite still more the dispute of the eternal rivals: Pelé X Maradona. Who is the best soccer of all time?

This video is a fake about the goal that pelé didn't do, but entered for the history of the soccer as one of the cleverest plays of all of time.

This maybe not have been the brightest save of the world done by a goalkeeper, but, surely, was the most daring.

The goalkeeper René Higuita of the selection of Colombia did the save that be known as the “Scorpion kick”.

See this goal done of the center of field, one of the most distant goals of all of time and also one of the fastest goals of the world.

Do you think the goal done of the center of field was easy? Then see the goal easiest of the world, that shows the whole smartness of a player lol.

And for talking about smartness...

Now, a collection with 5 very interesting goals.

It’s no use, when have to be a goal, the ball can beat in the bar, in the players, go and return, but she ends up entering.

fantastic goal.

In my opinion this is the most beautiful goal of all time in Futsal.

See this video and discover why Pelé is considered the "King of the Soccer."

After seeing this video you can underst the reason of the movie’s title about Pelé's life is "Pelé - Forever."

Are you fanatic for soccer? Are you not contented?! Then see the 50 more beautiful goals of all time.

Now, is just wait players make more wonderful goals. By the way, the factory continues full speed ahead.

Most Beautiful Goat Competition

2009-10-02T17:14:00.000-07:00

Have you ever heard about the goat competition? , goats were on the catwalk for the Most Beautiful Goat at the Mazayen al-Maaz competition in Riyadh, capitol of Saudi Arabia. A Damascene goat — or Maaz Al Shami — named Qahr was the beauty queen who won title for first prize.

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Qahr takes 1st place for “Most Beautiful Goat.” Photo Xinhua / Reuters

Winners are selected on the basis of a combination of factors and overall appearance, not simply by their color — but the head, nose, mouth, ears, breast and eyes — with the most important factor being the size of the head and the whiteness of their eyes.

The Damascene goats were also judged on their rarity and auctioned off.

Also known as Aleppo, Halep, Baladi, Damascene, Shami, Chami, the Damascus is a breed raised in the region of Syria and Lebanon, primarily for milk production. They’re of the Nubian type and typically red or brown but can also be found in pied or grey. The goats can be either horned or polled.

The Al-Shami breed of goat was introduced to Kuwait from Saudi Arabia.

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Qahr with owner Muhammad Hawas of Saudi Arabia. Photo Xinhua / Reuters

Pet Goats
Typically considered a farm animal, some say that goats are friendly by nature and make good pets — particularly the dwarf of pygmy variety — although they’re not recommended as a house pet, not to mention the fact that bylaws usually classify them as an agricultural species which prevent city dwellers from owning them.

First and foremost, think about whether you can meet the needs of a goat and whether goats will meet your expectations as a pet before owning any, as they require considerable attention and commitment.

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Damascene goat Qahr. Photo Xinhua / Reuters

Some say that goats can be a close runner-up to dogs as pets and easily trained to be led by a leash for walks if you dedicate plenty of time to them on a daily basis, making them a great hiking companion.

Disciplining these creatures may not be an easy task, but they respond well to positive behavior modification versus negative — using a gentle and loving approach, soft tones of voice, and coercion with food. Don’t make sudden and unexpected motions, no force of your will, and never strike them with your hand or an object.

While they may not run to greet you like a dog when calling them by name, they will learn to recognize their name and acknowledge by looking at you, and even have the capacity to learn a few words.

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Oahr at the Mazayen al-Maaz competition in Riyadh. Photo Xinhua / Reuters

Since goats are herding animals, you should always get more than one, as they require the companionship of their own kind and will be very unhappy creatures otherwise.

A decent amount of space for a yard or pasture is necessary, depending on the breed and number of goats, so they’re best suited for farms or acreages.

Goats are susceptible to a number of infectious and chronic diseases — vaccinations and routine preventative treatment is necessary, so you should consult a veterinarian in your area for their requirements. For a list of vets in the U.S. provided by other goat owners happy with their services, check Caprine Veterinary Resources.

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Damascene goats at the Mazayen al-Maaz, Photo Xinhua / Reuters

Only purchase goats from a high-quality breeder that practices good preventative medicine, and try to visit the breeder so you can see what sort of conditions their goats are kept in. Do not consider wild goats thinking you will tame them, as it’s near impossible to do so.

You will want to ensure that the goats are approachable, friendly, and touchable before you purchase them.

Winning the trust of a goat requires a lot of patience, caring, love and food treats like corn chips or raisins, as they respond to food. Taken slowly and patiently you will be to convince them that you’re their friend. The younger the goat is, the easier it is — the older they are, the more patience you will need, but there are no guarantees that they’ll be ‘tamable.’

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Goats require shelter from the elements — a draft free 8′ x 10′ shed furnished with elevated sleeping and feeding places will accommodate 4 adult pygmy goats. An attached outside enclosure with at least a 4-foot (120 centimeter) high fence will provide the fresh air and exercise these active, fun-loving goats need.

A basic diet of roughage in the form of legume and grass hay, bark, brush, and dry leaves may need to be supplemented.

Fias Co Farms provides a comprehensive overview for their basic care and needs, diet requirements, issues of selecting and owning goats, and further information is available on housing requirements for goats.

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Goat Factoids
Goats are among the cleanest of animals, and more selective feeders than cows, pigs, and even dogs.

They eat many different varieties of plants, but don’t like food that’s been contaminated or been on the floor or the ground.

Coffee was first discovered when goat herders noticed them acting very energetic after nibbling on the coffee beans.

Goats were the first animals to be domesticated according to many historians.

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Before coins were used for money, goats were regarded so valuable that they were traded for silver.

12,000-year-old paintings of goats gave been found on cave walls in Europe.

Christopher Columbus brought goats to America in 1493.

Pharaoh Cephrenes regarded his goats so highly that he had 2,234 buried with him.

Carl Sandburg’s wife was a world-famous goat breeder, and loved his goats so much that when Life magazine wanted him to pose for a picture with his favorite dog on a 1938 issue, he insisted the picture be taken with his goats.

The Most Beautiful 100 Words in English

2009-09-26T03:48:00.000-07:00

Ailurophile: A cat-lover.

Assemblage: A gathering.

Becoming: Attractive.

Beleaguer: To exhaust with attacks.

Brood: To think alone.

Bucolic: In a lovely rural setting.

Bungalow: A small, cozy cottage.

Chatoyant: Like a cat's eye.

Comely: Attractive.

Conflate: To blend together.

Cynosure: A focal point of admiration.

Dalliance: A brief love affair.

Demesne: Dominion, territory.

Demure: Shy and reserved.

Denouement: The resolution of a mystery.

Desuetude: Disuse.

Desultory: Slow, sluggish.

Diaphanous: Filmy.

Dissemble: Deceive.

Dulcet: Sweet, sugary.

Ebullience: Bubbling enthusiasm.

Effervescent: Bubbly.

Efflorescence: Flowering, blooming.

Elision: Dropping a sound or syllable in a word.

Elixir: A good potion.

Eloquence: Beauty and persuasion in speech.

Embrocation: Rubbing on a lotion.

Emollient: A softener.

Ephemeral: Short-lived.

Epiphany: A sudden revelation.

Erstwhile: At one time, for a time.

Ethereal: Gaseous, invisible but detectable.

Evanescent: Vanishing quickly, lasting a very short time.

Evocative: Suggestive.

Fetching: Pretty.

Felicity: Pleasantness.

Forbearance: Withholding response to provocation.

Fugacious: Fleeting.

Furtive: Shifty, sneaky.

Gambol: To skip or leap about joyfully.

Glamour: Beauty.

Gossamer: The finest piece of thread, a spider's silk

Halcyon: Happy, sunny, care-free.

Harbinger: Messenger with news of the future.

Imbrication: Overlapping and forming a regular pattern.

Imbroglio: An altercation or complicated situation.

Imbue: To infuse, instill.

Incipient: Beginning, in an early stage.

Ineffable: Unutterable, inexpressible.

Ingénue: A naïve young woman.

Inglenook: A cozy nook by the hearth.

Insouciance: Blithe nonchalance.

Inure: To become jaded.

Labyrinthine: Twisting and turning.

Lagniappe: A special kind of gift.

Lagoon: A small gulf or inlet.

Languor: Listlessness, inactivity.

Lassitude: Weariness, listlessness.

Leisure: Free time.

Lilt: To move musically or lively.

Lissome: Slender and graceful.

Lithe: Slender and flexible.

Love: Deep affection.

Mellifluous: Sweet sounding.

Moiety: One of two equal parts.

Mondegreen: A slip of the ear.

Murmurous: Murmuring.

Nemesis: An unconquerable archenemy.

Offing: The sea between the horizon and the offshore.

Onomatopoeia: A word that sounds like its meaning.

Opulent: Lush, luxuriant.

Palimpsest: A manuscript written over earlier ones.

Panacea: A solution for all problems

Panoply: A complete set.

Pastiche: An art work combining materials from various sources.

Penumbra: A half-shadow.

Petrichor: The smell of earth after rain.

Plethora: A large quantity.

Propinquity: An inclination.

Pyrrhic: Successful with heavy losses.

Quintessential: Most essential.

Ratatouille: A spicy French stew.

Ravel: To knit or unknit.

Redolent: Fragrant.

Riparian: By the bank of a stream.

Ripple: A very small wave.

Scintilla: A spark or very small thing.

Sempiternal: Eternal.

Seraglio: Rich, luxurious oriental palace or harem.

Serendipity: Finding something nice while looking for something else.

Summery: Light, delicate or warm and sunny.

Sumptuous: Lush, luxurious.

Surreptitious: Secretive, sneaky.

Susquehanna: A river in Pennsylvania.

Susurrous: Whispering, hissing.

Talisman: A good luck charm.

Tintinnabulation: Tinkling.

Umbrella: Protection from sun or rain.

Untoward: Unseemly, inappropriate.

Vestigial: In trace amounts.

Wafture: Waving.

Wherewithal: The means.

Woebegone: Sorrowful, downcast.

Beautiful Fashion Websites

2009-09-23T08:06:00.000-07:00

Net-a-Porter
Net-a-porter focuses on fashion-related photos, a magazine-style look and a simple navigation without unnecessary Flash-effects. The result is usable and still beautiful (submitted by Andrew E in comments).

Prada
Prada’s homepage includes only a large background image and navigation.

Paul Smith
Paul Smith’s homepage includes navigation and a large background image that slides/scrolls from one to the next.

Pepe Jeans
The website of Pepe Jeans uses a white, black and gray color scheme. The homepage includes a large photo that the user can change.

Aquascutum
Aquascutum uses a simple layout, minimal style and a large image. The homepage is clutter-free and includes little content.

Free People
Free People’s website has received a lot of attention from design galleries. The clothing boutiques site uses hand-drawn and grunge styles.

The Sak
The Sak also uses hand-drawn elements in its design. The site uses a light color scheme.

Ralph Lauren
Ralph Lauren’s US site uses a white background with a lot of bright colors.

Ralph Lauren Rugby
Ralph Lauren’s Rugby website has a vintage background, a lot of color, and a video playing on the homepage.

Armani Exchange
Armani Exchange’s homepage features a large photo, with black, white, gray, and small amounts of blue in the color scheme.

Giorgio Armani
Giorgio Armani’s website is very dark and contains a large video of runway models.

ASOS
ASOS’s website has a black background with a white content area. The homepage features a large photo and showcases certain product lines to the right of the layout.

Liz Claiborne New York
Liz Clairborne New York uses a very simple and clean layout. The homepage consists mostly of a large photo, and secondary pages are also clean.

Mulberry
Mulberry’s homepage includes only a logo, navigation, and a large photo area that fades from one to the next.

Hugo Boss
Hugo Boss with minimalism at its best: the site has a very simple and calm design with a large photo area. Flash-based.

Issey Miyake Pleats Please
Very simple, yet compelling design that strongly focuses users’ attention on the products. Flash-based. The Japanese version of the site tries to achieve the same aim with a more interactive approach (via @litherland on Twitter).

Lacoste
A very dynamic and interactive site that not only showcases available products, but also tries to entertain users. And it works! Flash-based, music-autoplay included.

BCBGMAXAZRIA
BCBGMAXAZRIA’s website showcases and sells their products. The site uses a gray background and the homepage currently features new styles for the spring.

Calvin Klein
Calvin Klein’s website uses light colors and an un-cluttered layout.

Gucci
Gucci’s website has a brown background. The homepage includes navigation and a large photo area.

Agnes B.
Agnes B. uses an interesting layout with a large background and a lot of black, white, and gray.

J. Crew
J. Crew’s homepage includes some promotions of current seasonal styles. The site uses a white and gray color scheme, but the homepage includes some blue and orange.

Sean John
Sean John uses a dark color scheme with a gray background, and a sliding content area that the user can control.

Tommy Hilfiger
Tommy Hilfiger’s site has a white background. The homepage includes some photos that allow for user interactivity on hover and by sliding.

Louis Vuitton
Louis Vuitton’s homepage has a large background image with links to sites for specific countries.

Lucky Brand
Lucky Brand has a colorful homepage with a large photo and prominent navigation to shop men’s or women’s styles.

Oilily
Oilily’s homepage has a video area surrounded by purple covered with colorful floral decorations.

United Colors of Benetton
United Colors of Benetton has a very bright and colorful website that sits on a white and gray background.

A.P.C.
A.P.C.’s homepage uses a black and white color scheme with a large photo and hand-drawn fonts. The homepage includes links to the online stores for various countries.

Net-A-Porter
Net-A-Porter’s homepage includes a very large photo with promotional links to some specific products.

Victoria’s Secret
Victoria’s Secret’s homepage currently uses a very dark red background, but the rest of the site has a white background.

DailyCandy
DailyCandy includes fashion-related content among other topics. The site uses a white background and a lot of hand-drawn elements.

Dolce & Gabbana
The top of Dolce & Gabbana’s website uses three photos as part of the navigation. The lower section of the page includes navigation to specific collections and products with horizontal scrolling.

The Cut
The Cut is a fashion blog on New York Magazine. The color scheme is black and white with some splashes of pink and blue. The layout presents the blog in an attractive magazine/news style.

Style.com
Style.com is a large fashion news website from Cande Nast, and the home of Vogue. With huge amounts of content on the site, it’s still easy on the eyes.

Kineda
Kineda’s dark design is simple, yet beautiful.

Elle
Fashion magazine Elle’s website has a news-style layout, with the homepage featuring a lot of content. The color scheme is black, white, gray and red with photos adding plenty of color.

WWD
WWD is a news-style website that includes fashion-related content. The site has a dark color scheme with a lot of colorful photos included.

Bazaar
Harper’s Bazaar is a leading fashion magazine. The website uses a black, white and red color scheme. The layout is fairly typical of a magazine or news site.

Glamour
Glamour Magazine’s website has a white background with a lot of color from photos and images.

Fashion Served
Fashion Served is fashion inspiration site from the Behance Network. The layout is gallery style.

About the Author

Steven Snell is a Web designer and blogger. He actively maintains his own blog at Vandelay Design, where he frequently publishes articles about design, collections of resources and inspirational galleries. You can also follow him on Twitter.

The Most Beautiful Butterflies

2009-09-19T07:27:00.000-07:00

Blue Morpho Butterfly

The Blue Morpho Butterly is found in Central and South America. They are one of the bigger butterflies with a wingspan of 5-8 inches. They mainly live in shrubs and other low lying areas. These butterflies don't care for flower nectar, they prefer rotting fruit or tree sap. Their coloring is a mix of blue and green iridescence and they are truly beautiful. The entire lifespan of a Morpho from egg to death is about 137 days although only about one month of that is as an adult.

Monarch Butterfly

The Monarch is often called the Milkweed Butterfly because that is what they eat. This is also their defense mechanism. The milkweed is poisonous to many predators so they avoid the Monarch. A Monarch's wingspan is up to 4 inches and they are a tawny orange color with black veins and white spots. Monarchs are mainly found in North America but can also be seen in Bermuda and New Zealand.

The Most Beautiful Female Movie Stars

2009-08-24T04:37:00.000-07:00

1 Elizabeth Taylor

Elizabeth Taylor is known mainly for her way-to-good-hearted supporting of Michael Jackson (in his many struggles). Although still good looking, her many surgical encroachments has viped out one of her main assets of her younger face - the natural appearance of her beauty. Watching her in A Place in the Sun, The Giant or Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, distances her from any other actress when it comes to beauty.

BORN: 1932.
NATIONALITY: British.
AT HER MOST BEAUTIFUL: The 50s and early 60s.
MOST DELICATE FEATURES: Eyes and mouth.
THE MOVIE TO CHOOSE: The Giant (1956).

2 Grace Kelly

This elegant and sensual actress was one of the most talented leading ladies of her generation in addition to being one of the most strikingly beautiful. Her combination of cool elegance and tender appearance complemented her natural beauty.

BORN: 1928.
NATIONALITY: American.
AT HER MOST BEAUTIFUL: The early and mid 50s.
MOST DELICATE FEATURES: Her vulnerable, but determined eyes.
THE MOVIE TO CHOOSE: Rear Window (1954).

3 Emmanuelle Beart

This ageless beauty is lesser known by American audiences, with only a few American features. She has, however, been a first-choice leading lady in France since the mid-eighties, with her uniquely beautiful face adding to her undoubted talent. Her eyes can easily compete with anyone in history.

BORN: 1965.
NATIONALITY: French
AT HER MOST BEAUTIFUL:
From the mid 80s.
MOST DELICATE FEATURES:
Her magnificent eyes.
THE MOVIE TO CHOOSE:
Manon des sources (1986).

4 Winona Ryder

Miss Ryder grew from the little sweetheart of Lucas (1986) to one of the most expressiv faces in movies. Her natural beauty is of a vulnerable though extroverted kind. With slight and delicate features, if she was a candy, she'd be melting on your tongue.

BORN: 1971.
NATIONALITY: American.
AT HER MOST BEAUTIFUL: From the 90s.
MOST DELICATE FEATURES: Her silk skin and her beautiful nose and mouth.
THE MOVIE TO CHOOSE: The House of the Spirits (1993).

5 Gene Tierney

Gene Tierney sprung to stardom with Hudson's Bay in 1940, and enjoyed a great spell in American films in the forties. She was equally publized because of her many off-screen conflicts and problems (including a law-sue by her father, and a nervous breakdown which halted her film carreer). Her talent was under-estimated, but her beauty was eternal. Tierney is one of few actresses of her generation who is "contemporary good looking" today.

BORN: 1920.
NATIONALITY: American.
AT HER MOST BEAUTIFUL: The 40s.
MOST DELICATE FEATURES: Her exotic appearance and shining eyes.
THE MOVIE TO CHOOSE: Leave Her to Heaven (1945).

6 Isabelle Adjani

One of the very greatest French actresses of her generation, Adjani became a European superstar in the 70s starring in films by great directors such as Truffaut's L'Historie d'Adele H, Polanski's Le Locataire/The Tenant, and Herzog's Nosferatu, Phantom der Nacht. Her face is approaching what one could call perfect, with luscious features.
BORN: 1955.
NATIONALITY: French.
AT HER MOST BEAUTIFUL: The late 70s and early 80s.
MOST DELICATE FEATURE: Her extremely sensual mouth.
THE MOVIE TO CHOOSE: L'Historie d'Adele H (1975).

7 Frances Farmer

The story of Frances Farmer is one of Hollywood's many tragedies. Her talent and beauty was second to few, but her addictment to alcohol and drugs shortened both her carreer and life. Starring in about a dozen films in the late 30s and early 40s, her problems forced her retirement at the early age of 29. Her intellegence as both a writer and an actress, somewhat undermined her beauty.

BORN: 1913.
NATIONALITY: American.
AT HER MOST BEAUTIFUL: The late 30s and early 40s.
MOST DELICATE FEATURES: Her perfectly placed cheekbones, and her beautiful nose.
THE MOVIE TO CHOOSE: Unknown at this point.

8 Natalie Portman

Natalie Portman is regarded as the greatest female talent of her generation. She came to prominence as the precocious Mathilda in Luc Besson's masterpiece Léon (1994), and since then she has revealed that this performance was no one-timer. Portman's incredible natural and charachteristic beauty has helped her gain hails as the new Audrey Hepburn. Although, at age eighteen, she is already better looking.

BORN: 1981.
NATIONALITY: American.
AT HER MOST BEAUTIFUL: From the late 90s.
MOST DELICATE FEATURES: Her smile, her eyes, her hair.
THE MOVIE TO CHOOSE: The Phantom Menace (1999).

9 Katharine Ross

Katharine Ross enjoyed an explosive start to her carreer in films such as The Graduate and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. With beautiful eyes, gorgeous hair and incredible charm, her face was a rare attraction. She has since enjoyed little proffesional success, and is unfortunately not been able to convert into more mature roles.

BORN: 1942.
NATIONALITY: American.
AT HER MOST BEAUTIFUL: The late 60s.
MOST DELICATE FEATURES: Her lovely, deep eyes.
THE MOVIE TO CHOOSE: Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969).

10 Audrey Hepburn

One of the great beauties, adored by everyone, Hepburn rarely experienced professional adversity. With a future in ballett, Hepburn was extremely graceful, and her face was enchanting as well as classically beautiful.

BORN: 1929.
NATIONALITY: Belgian.
AT HER MOST BEAUTIFUL: The 50s through early 60s.
MOST DELICATE FEATURES: Her shining eyes.
THE MOVIE TO CHOOSE: Roman Holiday (1953).

11 Catherine McCormack

As Murron in Braveheart, Catherine McCormack enchanted everybody with her extraordinary lively face. Her beauty is not of the conventional type, but her smile can enlighten any scene and any place.

BORN: 1972.
NATIONALITY: British.
AT HER MOST BEAUTIFUL: The 90s.
MOST DELICATE FEATURES: An extraordinary charming smile, lightin her entire face up.
THE MOVIE TO CHOOSE: Braveheart (1995).

12 Tuesday Weld

Weld began as a child model and TV performer, and had a rough start to life with a nervous breakdown at 9, an alcohol problem at 10, and an attempted suicide at 12. But Weld overcame her problems to become a fine performer and a luscious beauty.

BORN: 1943.
NATIONALITY: American.
AT HER MOST BEAUTIFUL: The late 50s and the 60s.
MOST DELICATE FEATURES:
Her extremely sensual mouth.
THE MOVIE TO CHOOSE: Pretty Poison (1968).

13 Jaqueline Bisset

Not the greatest of actresses, this former model had few facial flaws, topped with her magnificently shining eyes. Jaqueline Bisset has kept her status as a sexual interest beyond her forties.

BORN: 1944.
NATIONALITY: French/British.
AT HER MOST BEAUTIFUL: The late 60s and the 70s.
MOST DELICATE FEATURES:
Need I say it? Look at those eyes!
THE MOVIE TO CHOOSE: Unknown.

14 Ingrid Bergman

Often hailed as the most beautiful woman ever to pride the silver screen, Ingrid Bergman's undoubtedly classical beautiful face is somewhat bleak-looking today. She was, however, beautiful way into her older days.

BORN: 1915.
NATIONALITY: Swedish.
AT HER MOST BEAUTIFUL:
The 30s and the early 40s.
MOST DELICATE FEATURES:
Her shining eyes and charming smile.
THE MOVIE TO CHOOSE: Casablanca (1942)

15 Catherine Zeta-Jones

First came to prominence on British TV-series, and shot to world wide stardom in movies in the mid 90s. Sensual, with beautiful eyes, Zeta-Jones might just have been at her most beautiful before the age of 20, but she still is - as an established movie star - worth watching.

BORN: 1969.
NATIONALITY: British.
AT HER MOST BEAUTIFUL: The 90s.
MOST DELICATE FEATURES:
Her eyes and mouth.
THE MOVIE TO CHOOSE:
The Mask of Zorro (1998).

16 Sarah Michelle Gellar

Depending on the range of her talent, Sarah Michelle Gellar has the potential of gaining super stardom as one of the very finest beauties of all time. She has, however, still not reached her peak - neither professionally nor exteriorly.

BORN: 1977.
NATIONALITY: American.
AT HER MOST BEAUTIFUL: From the late 90s.
MOST DELICATE FEATURES:
Her glittering eyes, and her sexy voice (for what that counts in this poll).
THE MOVIE TO CHOOSE:
Cruel Intentions (1999).

17 Lauren Bacall

Lauren Bacall could be as ugly as you'd want, but basically, she had one of the most flawless faces you'll ever see. With utterly sexy eyes, and sensual lips, Bacall was the love interest for her husband Humphrey Bogart in numerous films.

BORN: 1924.
NATIONALITY: American.
AT HER MOST BEAUTIFUL:
Late 40s and early 50s.
MOST DELICATE FEATURES:
Her flawless facial features.
THE MOVIE TO CHOOSE:
To Have and Have Not (1944).

18 Sally Field

Mainly charming, but Sally Field deserves a place on the list based on her extremely delicate features. Field was the sweetest girl you'll ever see way into her 30s.

BORN: 1946.
NATIONALITY: American.
AT HER MOST BEAUTIFUL: The late 70s.
MOST DELICATE FEATURES: Her lovely smile.
THE MOVIE TO CHOOSE:
Smokey and the Bandit (1977).

19 Claudia Cardinale

Cardinale never was much of an actor, but she was beautiful ornament in a handful of movies after winning a beauty contest in her native Italy.

BORN: 1938.
NATIONALITY: Italian.
AT HER MOST BEAUTIFUL: The 60s.
MOST DELICATE FEATURES:
Her well-proportioned face, and her striking eyes.
THE MOVIE TO CHOOSE:
Once Upon a Time in the West (1968).

20 Angelina Jolie

Still just introducing her self, this talented beauty is the daughter of no. 1 hunk of the 70s, Jon Voight. Strikingly beautiful, time will show if she'll reach as far up to the stars as her father. She's more beautiful than him, anyway.

BORN: 1975.
NATIONALITY: American.
AT HER MOST BEAUTIFUL: From the late 90s.
MOST DELICATE FEATURES: Her sexy eyes and mouth.
THE MOVIE TO CHOOSE: The Bone Collector (1999).

21 Sharon Stone

The number one female sex symbol of the early 90s, Sharon Stone's face actually resembles more aged beauty queens as Ingrid Bergman. Although mainly a sex symbol, Stone's face is disgusting to noone, and that fact remained into her forties.

BORN: 1958.
NATIONALITY: American.
AT HER MOST BEAUTIFUL: The early 80s.
MOST DELICATE FEATURES:
Her sensual mouth.
THE MOVIE TO CHOOSE:
Basic Instinct (1992).

22 Charlize Theron

Raised in South Africa, Charlize Theron broke into American movies with The Devil's Advocate. With shining green eyes, and beautiful skin, Theron still is only at the start of what could become a great carreer.

BORN: 1975.
NATIONALITY: French/German.
AT HER MOST BEAUTIFUL: From the mid 90s.
MOST DELICATE FEATURES: Her eyes.
THE MOVIE TO CHOOSE:
The Devil's Advocate (1997).

23 Hope Lange

Classically beautiful, Hope Lange was only occasionally a leading lady of movies. She was, however, Oscar-nominated for her role in Peyton Place (1957).

BORN: 1931.
NATIONALITY: American.
AT HER MOST BEAUTIFUL:
The late 50s and early 60s.
MOST DELICATE FEATURES: Her mouth.
THE MOVIE TO CHOOSE: Unknown.

24 Ali MacGraw

This incredibly beautiful brunette was a former model who shot to stardom with Goodbye, Colombus (1969) and Love Story (1970). MacGraw has, however, subsequently only done occasional films, but she was one of few 30-plus-actresses to endure sex symbol-status in the seventies.

BORN: 1938.
NATIONALITY: American.
AT HER MOST BEAUTIFUL: Until the 70s.
MOST DELICATE FEATURES: Her skin.
THE MOVIE TO CHOOSE: Love Story (1970).

25 Madeleine Carroll

Often described as the most beautiful import ever from Britain to Hollywood, Madeleine Carroll was classically beautiful with exceptional skin. She withdrew from the business after the war.

BORN: 1906.
NATIONALITY: British.
AT HER MOST BEAUTIFUL: The 30s.
MOST DELICATE FEATURES: Her mouth.
THE MOVIE TO CHOOSE: The 39 Steps (1935).

26 Claire Danes

With lovely expressive eyes, and talent beyond her years, Claire Danes came to prominence in movies like Little Women (1994) and I Love You, I Love You Not (1996), before starring as Juliet in Baz Luhrman's remake of the Shakespeare classic.

BORN: 1979.
NATIONALITY: American.
AT HER MOST BEAUTIFUL: From the mid 90s.
MOST DELICATE FEATURES: Her eyes.
THE MOVIE TO CHOOSE: Romeo + Juliet (1996).

27 Reese Witherspoon

As a juvenile beauty, Reese Witherspoon made a brilliant performance in The Man in the Moon (1991). She was only fourteen then, but she has re-emerge in the late 90s as a true beauty, with distinctive features and exceptionally beautiful skin.

BORN: 1976.
NATIONALITY: American.
AT HER MOST BEAUTIFUL: From the 90s.
MOST DELICATE FEATURES: Her eyes, her skin, her hair.
THE MOVIE TO CHOOSE:
The Man in the Moon (1991).

28 Sadie Frost

Sensual and elegant, Sadie Frost is best remembered in the role of Lucy Westenra in Francis Ford Coppolla's Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992). She has since done less hyped project, often in British productions.

BORN: 1970.
NATIONALITY: British.
AT HER MOST BEAUTIFUL:
From the 90s.
MOST DELICATE FEATURES:
Her luscious smile.
THE MOVIE TO CHOOSE:
Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992).

29 Julia Ormond

Not classically beautiful, Julia Ormond projects rare elegance and style to convey a vulnerable kind of beauty. Not the actress for the big productions, Ormond is rather known for seeking artistical challenge in a series of alternative features (with the exception of Legends of the Fall).

BORN: 1965.
NATIONALITY: British.
AT HER MOST BEAUTIFUL: The 90s.
MOST DELICATE FEATURES: Her eyes.
THE MOVIE TO CHOOSE:
Legends of the Fall (1995).

30 Teresa Wright

Teresa Wright was the quiet sweetheart of movies in the 40s. With shining eyes and a beautiful smile, she was uniquely compelling.

BORN: 1918.
NATIONALITY: American.
AT HER MOST BEAUTIFUL: The 40s.
MOST DELICATE FEATURES: Her beautiful smile.
THE MOVIE TO CHOOSE:
Shadow of a Doubt (1943).

Source:http://www.arnadal.no/film/actors/30female.htm

The Most Beautiful Heart

2009-08-18T08:33:00.000-07:00

One day a young man was standing in the middle of the town proclaiming that he had the most beautiful heart in the whole valley.

A large crowd gathered and they all admired his heart for it was perfect. There was not a mark or a flaw in it. Yes, they all agreed it truly was the most beautiful heart they had ever seen. The young man was very proud and boasted more loudly about his beautiful heart.
Suddenly, an old man appeared at the front of the crowd and said, "Why your heart is not nearly as beautiful as mine." The crowd and the young man looked at the old man's heart. It was beating strongly, but full of scars, it had places where pieces had been removed and other pieces put in, but they didn't fit quite right and there were several jagged edges. In fact, in some places there were deep gouges where whole pieces were missing.
The people stared "How can he say his heart is more beautiful?" they thought.
The young man looked at the old man's heart and saw its state and laughed. "You must be joking," he said. "Compare your heart with mine, mine is perfect and yours is a mess of scars and tears."
"Yes," said the old man, "Yours is perfect looking but I would never trade with you. You see, every scar represents a person to whom have given my love - I tear out a piece of my heart and give it to them, and often they give me a piece of their heart which fits into the empty place in my heart, but because the pieces aren't exact, I have some rough edges, which I cherish, because they remind me of the love we shared."
"Sometimes I have given pieces of my heart away, and the other person hasn't returned a piece of his heart to me. These are the empty gouges - giving love is taking a chance. Although these gouges are painful, they stay open, reminding me of the love I have for these people too, and I hope someday they may return and fill the space I have waiting. So now do you see what true beauty is?"
The young man stood silently with tears running down his cheeks.
He walked up to the old man, reached into his perfect young and beautiful heart, and ripped a piece out. He offered it to the old man with trembling hands. The old man took his offering, placed it in his heart and then took a piece from his old scarred heart and placed it in the wound in the young man's heart. It fit, but not perfectly, as there were some jagged edges.
The young man looked at his heart, not perfect anymore but more beautiful than ever, since love from the old man's heart flowed into his.
They embraced and walked away side by side.
Author Unknown

The Most Beautiful Queen of the World

2009-06-24T06:45:00.000-07:00

Queen rania : She is probably the most beautiful queen in the world.

Born:
Rania Al-Yassin was born on august 31st,1970..she was born in Kuwait to Palestine parents from Tulkarm.

Education:
she attended primary and secondary school at new English school in Kuwait,and also earned a business administration degree from American university in Cairo.

she worked for citibank and apple computers after her graduation.

she also earned a DEA degree in management from the HEC school of management in Paris..

Marriage of Queen rania
She met Jordanian King Abdullah bin Al-Hussein, then Prince, at a dinner party in January 1993. Two months later, they announced their engagement and on June 10, 1993, they were married. They have four children:

* Prince Hussein (born June 28, 1994)
* Princess Iman (born September 27, 1996)
* Princess Salma (born September 26, 2000)
* Prince Hashem (born January 30, 2005)

Queen of jordan:
as a queen of jordan she has been a outspoken advocate of human rights.

She was awarded the honorary rank of colonel in the Jordanian Armed Forces by her husband, King Abdullah, on June 9, 2004.

Queen Rania is also among the 100 most powerful women of the world (Number 81 on Forbes 100 most powerful women of the world list)

Queen rania-the most beautiful Queen in the world

She was named the third most beautiful woman in the world in the 2005 top 100 of Harpers & Queen magazine. In addition, she was the youngest queen in the world at the time King Abdullah succeeded to the throne. She makes many public appearances, including a half-hour television interview on The Oprah Winfrey Show on May 17, 2006, where she spoke about misconceptions about Islam and women's role in Islam. [1] In May of 2000, she was named an honorary member of Deerfield Academy's class of 2000 (her husband's alma mater).

Philanthropy:
Queen rania-the most beautiful Queen in the world

Queen Rania is renowned for her philanthropic work. She has pushed for education reform, fighting for better school facilities and mandatory English language training. She is also an enthusiastic supporter of the micro-fund movement which provides financial assistance to would-be entrepreneurs. In 2003, she was elected to the Board of Directors of the International Criminal Court's Trust Fund for Victims.She has travelled to a great number of countries in representation of Jordan and to contribute to worldwide causes. Some of these are the United States, India, Kuwait, France, South Africa, Greece, The Netherlands, Great Britain, Morocco, Italy, The Vatican.

* Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization
* Jordan River Foundation
* Arab Women's Summit
* Arab Academy for Banking and Financial Sciences (AABFS) a pioneering institute in the ME region offering technical and academic training in banking and financial services
* Jordan Cancer Society
* National Team for Family Safety
* National Team for Early Development
* Dar Al Aman Child Safety Center (center for abused and neglected children, the first of its kind in the Middle East)
* World Economic Forum (Foundation Board member) In 2004, Queen Rania chaired the nomination committee for the newly-founded Forum of Young Global Leaders, associated with the World Economic Forum.
* United Nations Foundation
* UN Children's Fund (particularly the Global Leadership Initiative)
* The Vaccine Fund (board member since 2002)
* International Youth Foundation
* FINCA International (Foundation for International Community Assistance; board member since 2003)
* International Osteoporosis Foundation
* Queen Rania Center for Entrepreneurship

Source:http://www.yousaytoo.com/Anwar/queen-rania-the-most-beautiful-queen-in-th-eworld/8815

Most Beautiful college and campuses in the United States

2009-05-06T06:01:00.000-07:00

There are a lot of different things in the world which have been categorised to some most beautiful due to that I have found some most beautiful colleges and campus in the world however I have posted here only the beautiful colleges and campus of United States. You might be looking for them if you found interesting don't forget to comment me.

1. Pepperdine University (pepperdine.edu)

(c) Pepperdine University

* Pepperdine Virtual Campus Tour
* Watch a Video about the Pepperdine University Campus

Ample sunshine, great beaches and classic Californian architecture make Pepperdine University’s Malibu campus the most aesthetically pleasing campus in the United States. Dorms have ocean views and the celebrity sightings aren’t bad either.

2. Flagler College (flagler.edu)

Flagler

(c) Flagler College

* Flagler Virtual Campus Tour
* Flagler Slide Show

Flagler College’s campus in St. Augustine, Florida consists of 15 buildings and beautiful beaches that are just a stone’s throw away. Eight of the buildings are historical structures that have been restored by the college. These buildings, along with the campus’ magnificent centerpiece, the Ponce de Leon, make this school one of the most stunning in existence.

3. Princeton University (princeton.edu)

Princeton

(c) Mahlon Lovett

* Princeton University Virtual Campus Tour
* 3D Views of the Princeton Campus

Princeton University is known for its beautiful architecture. Some of the most famous college buildings are located on Princeton’s sprawling, old-world campus. Other special features include a man-made lake and the McCarter Theatre Center.

4. Sweet Briar College (sbc.edu)

Sweet

(c) Sweet Briar College

* Sweet Briar College Virtual Campus Tour

Students love the Sweet Briar College campus because it provides something for everyone. The 3,250 acre campus, which is located on a former plantation in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains, has gorgeous dorms for the all-female student body and 21 historical buildings.

5. Rhodes College (rhodes.edu)

Rhodes

(c) Robert Benson

* Rhodes College Campus Map
* Rhodes College Slideshow
* Watch a Video about the Rhodes Campus

Rhodes College boasts acres of woods and gothic stone architecture that is reminiscent of the UK’s Oxford campus. Thirteen of the college’s historic buildings are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

6. Stanford University (standford.edu)

Stanford

(c) SXC

* Stanford University Virtual Campus Tour
* See More Photos of the Stanford Campus

Stanford not only has one of the largest campuses in the world, it also has one of the most aesthetically pleasing. The 8,180 acre campus is located between the scenic cities of San Francisco and San Jose. Distinctive features include Spanish-colonial style buildings and sprawling foothills.

7. Kenyon College (kenyon.edu)

Kenyon

(c) Kenyon College

* Kenyon College Virtual Campus Tour
* Kenyon College Campus Map

‘Timeless beauty’ are two words that come to mind when you see Kenyon College. The campus is located in a wonderfully rustic setting. Gothic architecture and the oldest gothic revival building in the United States add to the school’s charm.

8. Loyola Marymount University (lmu.edu)

LMU

(c) Loyola Marymount University

* LMU Virtual Campus Tour
* LMU Campus Maps

Loyola Marymount’s campus has a long-standing reputation as one of the most beautiful college campuses in the United States and frequently appears on lists like this one. The contemporary campus is perched atop a 150 acre bluff and offers spectacular views of West Los Angeles.

9. Sewanee (sewanee.edu)

Sewanee

(c) Sewanee

* Sewanee Virtual Campus Tour

The University of the South, more commonly known as Sewanee, has a 10,000 acre campus that was made for students who love nature. The campus and the surrounding area offer unlimited opportunities for outdoor recreation. Gothic style buildings and a newly completed centerpiece chapel add to Sewanee’s appeal.

10. Scripps College (scripps.edu)

Scripps

(c) Scripps College

* Scripps College Campus Map
* Guide to the Scripps College Campus

The Scripps College campus is relatively small–only 30 acres–but it is absolutely gorgeous. Highlights include lush gardens, Mediterranean Revival Style architecture and beautiful walkways.

11. New College of Florida (ncf.edu)

New

(c) New College of Florida

* New College of Florida Campus Photo Tour

The New College campus is located on 110 acres of land on Florida’s Sarasota Bay. The campus underwent a major renovation approximately ten years ago and now offers an interesting blend of grand scale historical and contemporary buildings.

12. Mount Holyoke College (mtholyoke.edu)

Mount

(c) Jim Gipe

* Mount Holyoke Virtual Campus Tour

The Mount Holyoke College campus is known for its ample natural beauty. The campus is green in the summertime and bursting with color in the fall. Ivy-colored buildings provide an incredible backdrop for students who enjoy spending time in the great outdoors.

13. Agnes Scott College (agnesscott.edu)

Agnes

(c) Agnes Scott College

* Agnes Scott Virtual Campus Tour
* Agnes Scott College Campus Map

Historical buildings and beautifully designed grounds make the Agnes Scott College campus stand out among other U.S. campuses. Students typically spend their time in the school’s gorgeous quad or in their visually pleasing dorm rooms.

14. Yale University (yale.edu)

Yale

(c) Michael Marsland / Yale University

* Yale Virtual Campus Tour
* Yale University Campus Map
* Yale University Campus Video

‘Fancy’ is the word that instantly comes to mind the first time you see the Yale University Campus. Most of the buildings are gothic in style, though there are several modern iconic buildings on campus as well.

15. Swarthmore College (swarthmore.edu)

Swarthmore

(c) Swarthmore College

* Swarthmore College Campus Tour Info

The 357 acre Swarthmore College campus is another USA campus known for its beauty. Highlights include sprawling grounds, oak-lined walkways and a very well-kept arboretum.

16. Vanderbilt University (vanderbilt.edu)

Vanderbilt

(c) Vanderbilt University

* Vanderbilt’s Campus Tour Online
* Vanderbilt University Campus Map

Vanderbilt University in Tennessee is a longtime favorite of outdoor enthusiasts. The fan-shaped campus has over 300 species of trees and a lot of green space. In 1998, the Association of Botanical Gardens and Arboreta gave the campus a National Arboretum designation.

17. University of Virginia (virginia.edu)

University

(c) Jane Haley/University of Virginia Public Affairs

* University of Virginia Virtual Campus Tour - Dorms
* University of Virginia Video

The University of Virginia, also known as Mr. Jefferson’s University, is a national landmark that attracts both students and tourists. The campus features unique Jeffersonian architecture and a lawn/rotunda combination that has been copied by other universities around the country.

18. College of the Atlantic (coa.edu)

COA

(c) College of the Atlantic

* Interactive Campus Map
* Printable Campus Map

Known in many circles as the ‘Greenest College in the World,’ the College of the Atlantic is a small school with a large draw. The campus is located on the beautiful and rocky coast of Mount Desert Island, Maine and offers all sorts of recreation opportunities for nature lovers.

19. Cornell University (cornell.edu)

Cornell

(c) Lindsay France, University Photography

* Cornell Virtual Campus Tour

Cornell University’s main campus on East Hill is famous for its grandiosity and irregular layout. The grounds are peppered with eclectic architecture that is situated to provide fantastic views of the nearby town and Cayuga Lake.

20. Harvard University (harvard.edu)

Harvard

(c) Harvard University

* Harvard Virtual Campus Tour
* Harvard University Campus Map

Harvard University’s ever-expanding campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts is notorious for its classic beauty. The well maintained grounds hold a number of historic buildings and landmarks.

The above collection have been taken from http://www.tutztutz.com/2008/08/20-gorgeous-college-campuses

Most Beautiful Beaches in the World

2009-04-10T08:10:00.000-07:00

Most Beautiful Beaches in the World - The most amazing bloopers are here