Last season race on Portuguese Ralicross!

Nothing better than watching a Portuguese rally cross race on a Sunday afternoon.

JoãoTabaio from the 1º division was the winner in this last race of the Portuguese national Rallycross...

more to come next year...

Sunday morning and my cat is already up, I thought to myself, so early? what goes on with him? then I remembered that clock time had changed…
Wise cat, who told him? Not me, he can’t read, has no internet.

Then it decided to go out and I thinking on how pretty the day was, I have one hour more to enjoy. The day even went by well, but fast the night arrived, it is true now it grows dark more early. It’s winter time and we must be prepared to cold whether and rain.

What can we do? Just wait until the next March 30, 2008 for good weather better and bigger nights of fun.

RedBull AirRace 2007 - Perth

The two special charted airplanes jets carrying 125 tonnes of equipment, including the planes parts that Bonhomme and Mangold use specially, airlifted the bulk of the air race material on flights in late September and early October. Also another 19 fully packed containers containing more equipment that were shipped from the European of Istanbul, London, Budapest and Porto. in total it makes about 220 tonnes was air transported or sea shifted to Perth, and this does not include the 270 international Red Bull Air Race crew members.
After Perth, the equipment will be packed up again with in four days, airlifted or shipped back to different locations for maintenance over the winter and to get ready for next season’s first race in 2008.

But Meanwhile...

About 300.000 people are expected to assemble in Perth's beautiful Swan River to eyewitness the final event on the 2007 Red Bull Air Race World Series calendar. The race will take place on Saturday 3 and Sunday 4 November, with the Qualifying Round on Saturday and the Finals on Sunday.

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Summer / Winter time period

European nations have been taking advantage of the time change for decades, since 1996 the European Union (EU) standardized the EU-wide summer time period. The EU version of Daylight Saving Time goes from the last Sunday in March through the last Sunday in October. In the southern hemisphere where summer comes in December, Daylight Saving Time is observed from October to March. Equatorial and tropical countries on lower latitudes, don't observe Daylight Saving Time since the daylight hours are similar during every season, so there's no advantage to moving clocks forward during the summer. If you live in Europe, don’t forget to change your clock, turn time back to GMT+1 this weekend. In the night of Saturday to Sunday, at 2am turn your watch back one hour to 1am. The good news is that you have one more hour of sleep or partying on Saturday night and the bad news is that we will have many more hours of darkness in the next couple of months.
Be cool, because we’ll be back to summer time on March 30, 2008

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My First!

I had already heard about it through the Internet and from some friends in coffee breaks, they all were speaking about but none of them knew what it was. PayPerPost was brought to me by a couple of friendly close friends from work, at the beginning I never thought that it would be worthwhile to be writing just for the money and the money would not be worthwhile the writing. But after a few months seeing them having some profit made just by writing on what they like, opening their minds and imagination. Sharing information around the world, providing and receiving the knowledge that keep us alive on our small but at the same time huge planet. They made me think a little. Will I be able to do the same thing? Of course I will! Now I will be able to continue to spread this information, curiosities, summarizing, a little of everything what goes on the world and keeping making new friends, sharing new ideas and wills. And at the same time I will be able to enjoy some of the money and invest in technology to test, analyze, share feelings around the word, this will allow me to continue to write with more and better quality. Keep supporting these ideas, and continue the good job.

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Wild Cat Species of Africa

Africa is the second largest continent and covers up to 22% of the worlds land mass. It is a vast plateau continent with approximately 90% of the land being no more than 500 feet above sea level, while to the north the Sahara Desert makes up almost 25% of the total area of the continent. The majority of the continent has very low rainfall, with only eastern central lands, made up extensively of equatorial rain forest, receiving high average precipitation. The huge areas of Savanna to the east and south of the African continent are home to large herds of roaming herbivores and as such provide a substantial prey source for the native carnivores, including several of the cat family.

The African Golden Cat is a medium sized cat and can grow to 90cm in body length and weigh up to 18kg. Although its name implies a golden coloured coat the golden cat is polymorphic, its base coat coloration varies extensively depending on its location. Ranging from a golden/reddish brown to slate/silver grey. A report of a golden cat in captivity even suggest that the base colour of the fur can change from one colour phase to the other over a period of time depending on the age of the cat and various environmental stimuli. The under sides of the chin, chest and abdomen are usually lighter and in some cases almost pure white - in some individuals the head and body is spotted. Its long tail, which measures up to 40cm, is marked with dark line along the top and ends in a brown or black tip. The head caries distinctive light markings around the eyes and above the mouth - the small ears are dark coloured on the rear face.

The Black-footed Cat is one of the smallest species of cat. With a shoulder height of approximately 22cm and a body length of 50cm, the average male weighs in at about 2.2kg - however the female often weighs as little as 1.5kg and as such can be classified as the smallest of all wild cats. In appearance the cat has a large broad head in proportion to its small body, its coat colour varies from light sandy brown to reddish brown and is covered with dark spotted patches which sometime coalesce into broken stripes. The legs of the black-footed are bared with dark horizontal stripes and the tail is broken with dark rings and terminates in a black tip. The pads of its feet are black and are surrounded by long black hairs which give the small felid its name as well as protecting its feet from the heat of the semi-desert habitat.

The African wildcat is divided into many regional subspecies and their number and classification varies depending on which school of thought is followed. The range of the species as a whole extends across most of the old world. From parts of North West Europe, through the Middle East, parts of Asia and generally, excluding the true dessert areas, throughout The African continent. Species can be split into three main groups - F. silvestris.silvestris the European wildcat (Silvestris Group) found mainly in forested areas of Europe - F. silvestris.lybica the African wildcat (Lybica Group), distributed in various coloured forms in most of Africa apart from the Sahara and equatorial rainforest areas and F.silvestris.ornata the Indian Desert or Steppe wildcat (Ornata Group) found in various regions of western Asia through to parts of India and Southern Asia.

The Caracal in appearance resembles the Lynx in having characteristic dark tufts on its large, pointed ears and is indeed often referred to as the African Lynx or Desert Lynx, however the caracal is not closely related to the true lynx species. Extending the visual comparison, the body of the caracal is slimmer and less stocky, its legs are thinner and its tail longer than the Lynx. It can grow up to 3 feet in body length and sport a tail about a third of its body size. Its coloration is generally yellowish brown to a darker red/brown, with the undersides of the cat, areas around the eyes and under the chin being white. The backs of its ears are black – the name Caracal is derived from the Turkish word 'karakulak', meaning 'black ear'. Melanistic or all black caracal have also been reported

The Cheetah in many ways is peculiar amongst the many cat species. In both looks and physical mobility it resembles a large muscular greyhound - its long streamlined body is carried on long, thin but powerful legs, which endow it with great speed in the chase. A fully-grown cheetah can reach speeds in excess of 60 mph and can easily outrun any animal over short distances. Its paws too, are almost dog-like, narrow and hard padded they sport only slightly retractable claws, the only of its type amongst the species of cat, and offer the cat extra grip in its high-speed pursuits. The cheetah unlike other 'Big Cats' does not roar, however it does purr and other vocal sounds range from high pitched yelps and barks to longer chirruping sounds.

The leopard is most easily recognised by its rosette patterned coat and extremely long, darker tail. This large cat is sometimes confused in appearance with the South American Jaguar - the leopard though is less stocky and unlike the jaguar, its rosette markings are generally smaller and have no internal spots. The overall size of the leopard depends very much on the subspecies and location, with the largest animals growing to a length of nearly 5 feet with an additional tail length of some 3 feet - generally the male is between 20-40% larger than the female. The base coloration of the coat also varies greatly depending upon location, ranging from golden/yellow in open grasslands, through yellow/cream in desert areas to deep gold in mountain and forest regions.

The lion stands out from the other 'big cats', not only in its distinctive appearance but also in being the only felid that lives in organised social groups. In appearance the lion is a powerfully built, muscular cat. The fur is short and generally uniform in colour, ranging from grey/buff to reddish brown in coloration with the exception of the undersides which are often white, especially in females. The back of the ears and tip of the tail are dark brown or black. However the most distinctive feature of the male lion is its mane, a ruff of thick, long fur. The colour of the mane varies from a light brown to almost black and covers the sides of the face, neck and in some animals extends to the abdomen. The adolescent male begins to grow its mane at about 18 months and it continues to grow until the cat reaches about five years of age - throughout this period it is common for the mane to darken. A fully developed male lion can grow up to 10 feet in body length and is surpassed in size only by the larger species of tiger .

As its name implies the sand cat is commonly found in sandy desert areas in the arid countries of Northern Africa, Arabia and parts of Central Asia and Pakistan - sand cats indigenous to each of these areas are catorgorised as sub species, respectively, Felis margarita margarita (North Africa), Felis margarita harrisoni (Arabian Peninsula), Felis margarita thinobia (west of the Caspian Sea) and Felis margarita scheffeli (Pakistan). Due to its fragmented distribution across the Saharan part of its range some experts sub-catogarise the North African species of the sand cat into further distinct sub-species - Felis margarita airensis (Niger) and Felis margarita meinertzhageni (Sahara) - however due to the difficulty in obtaining accurate population figures and accurate scientific data of cats in open desert areas, exact classification is uncertain.



The serval is generally found in most parts of Africa excluding the arid desert regions to the north around the Sahara, parts of the western tip of Southern Africa and certain areas of the tropical rainforest belt of Central Africa. A northern sub-species, is rarely sighted and is listed as endangered.
Approximately similar in size to the Caracal, the serval has extraordinarily long legs for its body size which can be up to 3 feet in length, whilst standing up to 20 inches in shoulder height. The base fur colour is sandy to reddish brown and is covered in dark spots which have a tendency to merge into stripes along the top of the back. noticeable regional variation in markings are shown – in West Africa the spotted markings are smaller and much less distinct and it was once believed that these cats formed a separate species, the Servaline Cat (F. servalina).

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Battle-Rig Pro

Hello Gamers, your time is arrived. You will definitely enjoy the Battle-Rig Pro, Check out this relaxing and nice seat this will help you remain comfortable even under the most intense gaming challenge. You can even choose the colour combinations in order to match your home's interior decoration. Now you can have your own miniature castle of privacy, the Battle-Rig Pro. At the same time you can integrate your speaker system into it for surround sound quality without having any unsightly wires and cables running across the floor. Like it? What to buy it? Are you sure? OK, you can order the Battle-Rig Pro without the included seat, so you can customize it further to your own size for and your friends most like it. Currently, this fantastic piece of gaming furniture can be delivered to Germany, Austria and Switzerland, but you can get it on-site, and pickup at site is allowed as well.

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SLP2 Survival Tool

The SL2 Survival Tool is a super-tough, compact and lightweight tool that is indispensable for anyone who's into camping, fishing or hiking. What makes this tools so great? A Swedish designed blade, firestarter, whistle and flashlight. A razor sharp 'lock-out' serrated blade. A tough Zytel sleeve made on nylon with glass fibre.

The silver blade is made from hard to rust medium carbon stainless steel with 50/50 serrations for easy cutting and sawing. It folds away keeping the tool compact and safe. When dragging the back of the blade along the firesteel produces a huge spark. The spark will easily light stoves, barbeques, dry grass and bark. There are 3000 strikes in the tool. The flashlight is totally waterproof, and there's an emergency whistle built into the base of the tool. A stainless steel pocket/belt clip and lanyard hole. A black titanium finished handle and stainless steel blade.
Requires 4 x LR41 Button Cell Batteries. For size, this tool has 10 x 4.5 x 1.5cm when folded, and 8cm of blade.

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F700 by SAMSUNG

Looks like a regular and sounds like it. But no, Samsung has announced the new smartphone, the F700. This phone makes part of Samsung's Ultrasmart series of phones and carries that will make history. It has a fullscreen touch-screen interface that is becoming very popular among smartphones.
Samsung is also trying to innovate, check out the slide out full-QWERTY keyboard. Other features include is the 7.2 Mbps HSDPA, the 5-megapixel camera, Bluetooth, the 2.78” touchscreen display, and the media features like a video and music player.
Outstanding software that SAMSUNG usual gives us.

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gizmodo.com

Xmod Wireless - from Creative!

Wants to listen your music in the your bedroom? in your kitchen?, or even your garden? Creative's Xmod Wireless streams music in Xtreme Fidelity from your PC, notebook or MP3 player around the home. Simply connect it to the USB port of your computer or the headphone socket of your MP3 player, connect the X-Fi Wireless Receiver in any room, connect speakers or headphones and prepare to enjoy your music, free from wiress! It has aremote that can controls music playback on your computer as well as volume and the system's X-Fi Crystalizer and X-Fi CMSS-3D technologies, it can even enhance MP3 tracks and convert them to surround sound. Do you like it? want to put music in more rooms? Simply add extra receivers! The Xmod Wireless supports simultaneous streaming to unlimited Receivers around your home, and you can configure up to four of them as zones for individual control.


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uk.europe.creative.com

"Skycar" M200G available soon!

Not like UFO's witnesses at Roswell, Moller International can actually confirm its flying saucers. With this latest innovation, the M200G. It runs on an eight-rotary engine to maintain power. Like the company's M400 model, the M200G will run on a variety of fuels, including ethanol and gasoline. The vehicle is expected to carry up to a 250-pound payload and can allegedly reach top speeds of 100 miles per hour.For more information on purchasing a M200G.

Believe or not, this could be the future, remember the Jetson family, after all it could be a future reality for all of our families.

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Broadcom easy on Wi-Fi set-up!

Broadcom became one of the best wi-Fi chip maker and is in the way of creating a software that will make setting up a secure WLANs very easy to do. The software provides a simple way wizard that configures both the access point and the PC client using the Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA) TKIP security system. Users setting up a WLAN for the first time are asked to provide the answers to two easy questions. These answers will be used to create the authentication and data encryption keys, and the access point's unique SSID, details of which are provided to the user. When other clients are added to the WLAN, the software will asks for the information will validate him before configuring the client-side settings.

In order to ensure that the correct access point is configured, the software will only connect to access points that have been operational for less than an hour. The system requires both access point and client adaptor contain one of Broadcom's 54g-branded 802.11g chipsets. Broadcom also produce 802.11g chipsets to Linksys, Buffalo, Belkin, Motorola, Apple, Acer, Dell, HP, Gateway and others.

Since the beginning, the Wi-Fi Alliance, the standard's interoperability and marketing body, has insisted that all WPA-certified devices ship with full security settings in place. They used to turne security off by default because of the difficulty many users had in setting up secure networks. This, in turn, helped Wi-Fi develop a reputation for being easy to penetrate. WPA certainly improves WLAN security over the older Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP) specification, but even WPA is useless if it's not enabled.

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theregister.co.uk

Serenata - from Samsung and Bang & Olufsen

Serenata, a mix of music and phone, created by Samsung high performance communication and Bang & Olufsen design together just for you. Try the pleasure of this perfect device.
The aluminum wheel becomes navigation easy and comfortable, with a nice touch screen. When it’s time to joint family or colleagues for a fast hands free call, they will appreciate the clearness and the excellent sound. Athough half of the Serenata is dedicated to music and another one to phone, it's incorporated speaker provides an excellent sound to both. The advanced audio column and engineering of first quality and impressive performance. The ingenious acoustics of Bang & Olufsen that we already know, the two columns of high quality sound, controlled by an advanced digital signal,

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Miro - Free and Open-source!

Miro is an open-source application that will transform your PC or laptop in a management center. Download it and get ready for playing virtually any type of video file, access HD contents, subscrive to any video RSS feed, Podcast or video blog, explore over 1.500 free channels, download and save videos from YouTube, Google video and more, and even use it to download anyBitTorrent file.

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The First Scout!

MAJOR-GENERAL ROBERT S. S. BADEN-POWELL.

In 1907 Robert S. S. Baden-Powell planned a special nine-day outing to test his ideas for training boys. This ideas showed to be useful, and the Scouting movement was created.
ROBERT born in Feb. 22, 1857, in London, England and died in Jan. 8, 1941. Was officially recognized as the founder of Boy Scout movement.

He was born in London, as a boy, he loved outdoor play and reading. He was also a good actor and gifted artist, he draw well with either hand.
Powell was only 19 when joined the British Army as a sub-lieutenant and sailed for India.
He had a special admiration for Zulu Warriors. For 34 years Baden-Powell was a professional soldier. He campaigned in Afghanistan and fought against the Zulu, Ashanti, and Matabele tribes in Africa, where England had colonies.
Baden-Powell admired the Zulu warriors and traditions. Later, he adopted their left-hand handshake for his Boy Scouts. Becoming an expert in his work he wrote Army manuals on the subject. But he wasn't yet famous. He was almost unknown outside his regiment when war broke out in South Africa in 1899. Then a Colonel, was assigned to raise two regiments of English settlers in South Africa to fight the Boers. These were Dutch settlers who were resisting British rule. Known as the Battle of Mafeking. Baden Powell and about 1.000 new soldiers were in a sleepy little town called Mafeking when 9,000 Boers attacked. He used tricks to make the Boers think he had a much bigger force. He held Mafeking for 217 days. Another British force arrived to help, and England heard the news of Baden Powell's resistance. For recognitions of his actions his nation considered him as an instant hero.

When he returned to England in 1903, he was surprised to see that young boys were using training exercises from his manual “Aids to Scouting”, a manual that he wrote for professional soldiers. Some people thought he should rewrite the book for boys. And then Powell began to study how boys grow and develop and to think about how boys could be trained.
In the summer of 1907 he tried out his ideas at a two-week camp for 22 teen-age boys. The camp was held on Brownsea Island off England's southern coast.
The campers, who were the first Boy Scouts, learned camping skills, first aid, lifesaving, and nature lore. Much of their instruction was through games and contests.
In 1908, Baden-Powell published the first Scout handbook, called "Scouting for Boys." He illustrated it himself in a 182 page book packed with campfire yarns and ideas for skills that Scouts have used ever since. The book was a best seller. Troops sprang up all over England. Before long there were troops in Canada and the United States too.

On Feb. 8, 1910, when the BSA was officially born, there were probably 50 or more troops in this country. The man who signed the papers setting up the BSA was William D. Boyce, a Chicago newspaper publisher.
Boyce had first heard of Scouting in August 1909 when he was in London, England. He was lost in a fog, and a boy guided him to where he wanted to go. This boy refused a tip because, saying that Scouts do not accept tips for courtesies or Good Turns. Boyce was impressed and started learning as much as he could about Scouting. After he got home, he incorporated the BSA as an organization. Baden-Powell ideas was already considered founder of Scouting,

At a dinner banquet in New York in 1910, Ernest Thompson Seton introduced Baden Powell as the father of Scouting. Baden-Powell replied with the famous phrase: "You are mistaken, Mr. Seton .... I may say that you, or Dan Beard, is the father, there are many fathers. I am only one of the uncles, I might say."
Baden-Powell was being modest, but there was truth in what he said. Several of the training games he described in "Scouting for Boys" were taken from Seton's book, "The Birch-bark Roll of the Woodcraft Indians." So was the idea of having boys earn badges by meeting standards, not by competing against other boys.

Still, Baden-Powell is rightly considered the founder of Scouting.

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Samsung i550

Samsung i550 is an impressive device with a built in GPS, 3.2 megapixel auto-focus camera, HSDPA connectivity, and a 3.5mm audio jack. It runs S60 3rd Edition Feature Pack 1 from Symbian OS 9.2 which includes the second version of the S60 browser, Flash Lite 2.0 support and a variety of UI improvements. Wonder of wonders is the built in GPS. It still not clear if there will be any accompanying software although the i550 should run any of the numerous GPS / Navigation software available for S60 including Nokia Maps.
The i550 is a WCDMA with 2100Mhz and tri-band GSM phone with the 900/1800/1900 MHz as usually with GPRS, EDGE and HSDPA for data connectivity. USB 2.0 via mini USB and Bluetooth 2.0 including A2DP and AVRCP provide local connectivity options.
For multimedia the phone has a 3.5mm audio jack, a 2.6 inch QVGA screen with 262,000 colours, an FM Radio, a 3.2 megapixel camera with LED flash and autofocus, 150 MB built in and a microSD card slot for memory expansion with support for SDHC cards that can go up to 4GB. About size, the i550 measures in at 115 ×53 x 13.8 mm in its dimensions making in taller than the similar specified N95, but not as thick. The battery has a capacity off 1200 mAh which should provide enough power for heavy use over a 24 hour period.
The i550 hardware has a few remarkable points:
The presence of a trackball (as used on the Blackberry Pearl) in place of the more usual direction pad.
Hardware buttons for key hardware features including the S60 keys, a Web key and a GPS key.
Front facing camera for video calls Camera capture button on the side of the device below the memory card slot

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allaboutsymbian.com

Cologne Cathedral (Kölner Dom)

Admire this colossus, the Cologne’s Dom cathedral, also called High Cathedral of St. Peter and Maria, is the one of the attraction of Cologne and Germany’s tallest cathedral. Built in 1248 by Archbishop Konrad von Hochstaden orders, and on the exact place were in 870, a complete Carolinian cathedral stood. The reason for the new construction was that, in 1164, under Arch-bishop Rainald von Dassel from Milan the mortal remains of the three Wiseman were carried to Cologne to rest in peace. At the beginning of construction went quickly, but due to a lack of funds was forced to stop until 1842. and under the roules of the Prussian King who resume the construction. In 1880 Kaiser Wilhelm I dedicated the this building, it was at that time, the largest building in the world with 8,000 m² of floor space and 157 m tall. Since 1996, the Dom has belonged to UNESCO’s World Cultural Heri- tage listing. The Dom accommodates treasures of art, which anyone can see, for instance, the Gold Shrine with the remains of the Three Wiseman (c. 1200) and the Gero Cross (c. 970), a monumental cross and the oldest German Renaissance work in the west. There is also the colourful stained-glass, the beautiful choir chairs, the Milan Madonna or the Dom painting from Stefan Lochner (The Alter of the City Patrons from 1450) can not be passed up. recommends the treasure vault and climbing the 95m tall tower, where one can delight a magnificent view of Cologne.
You can visit daily from 6 am to 7.30 pm except on devine services. For more information about it please cheack the "Domforum" opposite the main portal.

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WORLD’S LONGEST ZIP SLIDE!

Are you on vacation? Are you in South Africa? Are you at Sun City Resort? Great now you can test how far your adrenalin goes. With this exciting adventure activity: A ride on the PRONUTRO ZIP 2000, the longest zip slide in the world. The zip slide is 280 meters high, two kilometres long, and can reaches the speed of 140 kilometres per hour and guarantees a four minutes of pure adrenalin you have never imagined. The zip slide respect all necessary safety measures. Secured in a harness and suspended below a free running trolley that is attached to a steel cable experiences the feeling of flying and acceleration as you slide down the wire. At some parts of the track you can have 100m high and at others you will fly only at 4.5m above the ground. The cable runs from the top of the 280m high covering 2 km until the other side.
On the end of the ride, your speed will slow down as you go up the hill, and then roll back to the lowest point of the wire where you get off the ride. There are single or couple slides available so you can go alone or with someone to give you some courage… or not! This adventure activitie can be done by young people since the age of 12, making it more fun for the whole family. The start of the zip slide is about 5 minutes from Sun City Resort.
Try it.....

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The 100th birthday of the bra!

The "bra" is 100 years old, in 1907 the word “brassiere” born in US Vogue. In Paris, a French couturier named Paul Poiret has opened his fashion house. His revolutionary dress styles will persuade a generation of women to ditch the corset. 6 years later, the American socialite Mary Phelps Jacob bought a sheer evening dress and, not wishing to wear a corset, fashions her own underwear from two silk handkerchiefs and some ribbon. She is granted the first US patent for the brassiere the following year.

In 1923, a Russian immigrant Ida Rosenthal and her husband William found Maidenform. In years to come she will be a pioneer in the idea of different cup sizes for different women, as well as patent a bra strap fastener. And in 1935 Warner’s creates the cup sizing system. Later on 1957 Howard Hughes invented what in the future was called push-up, this bra was created for Jane Russell to wear under a tight silk blouse in The Outlaw. It is, however, denied a place in fashion history when Jane Russell later claims that she never wore it.

In 1959 a synthetic fibber named lycra is invented by scientists at DuPont. Adding this stretchy manmade fibre to the mix makes it possible for a bra to fit comfortably and close to the body without sagging, bagging or losing its shape.

Five years later, a Canadian company called Canadelle invents the Wonderbra, designed to lift and separate the bust. It was used by Eva Herzigova stars in the "Hello Boys" advertising campaign.

Triumph’s Doreen bra, a supportive, and non-underwired style, goes on sale for the first time in 1967. It is the best selling bra in the world today. In 1977 Hinda Miller, Lisa Lindahl and Polly Smith sew two jockstraps together and call it the Jogbra, becoming the first sports bra.

An underwear as an outerwear was created by Jean Paul Gaultier: the conical bra for Madonna’s Blonde tour.

An Italian manufacturer, named Santoni develops a circular knitting machine that allows a bra to be knitted all in one go, instead of separate pieces needing to be cut and sewn together. This leads to today’s increasingly popular seamless, tagless bras. And This year by the hands of Hanro, Chantelle and Ballet and more, are among brands that offer bras in eco-friendly bamboo blend fabrics.

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nydailynews.com

world-fashion.info

2007 IFSA strongman Oulu GP

Lithuania team wined the 2007 IFSA Strongman World 2-Man Team Championships with a score of 31.0 points, followed by Russia team with 25.5 points and USA team with 24.0 points.
This year IFSA Strongman it counts on the participation several countries and competitors:

Russia - Kokliajev, Pedan

Finland - Illikainen, Kolehmainen

Ukraine - TBAUSA - Poundstone, MacLure

Poland - Schepanski, Patyk

Holland - Hams, Zijlstra

Latvia - Kazelniks, Skujenieks

Estonia - Murumets, Pungits

Lithuania - Busokas, Petrauskas, Savickas, Blekaitis

Iceland - Ogmundsoon, Bruno

UK - Slater

In this year events:

1. Squat + Deadlift

2. 2 man Log Lift 250kg

3. Farmers Walk 150kg

4. Tire Flip 350kg

5. Atlas Stones

6. Power Stairs

7. 2 Man Wheelbarrow

8. Medley (Super Yoke 400kg, IFSA shield 180kg, Duck Walk 210kg, 3 keg100kg on platform)

There has always been a mistic fascination in all cultures throughout history in who is the strongest. The strongman sport is the modern culmination of this fascination, and is the ultimate test of human strength. The Strongman events have been internationally spread for the whole since 1970s, and IFSA emerged as the governing body for the sport in 1995. In 2004 some important sports groups made significant capital investments into this sport that lead into the creation of IFSA Strongman, a vehicle that acquired most international assets and properties relating to the strongman sport from various companies and individuals worldwide. IFSA Strongman is: The world governing body of the Strongman sport. Exclusive manager of all top Strongman athletes worldwide.· The only Strongman-focussed TV-production and sports marketing house. Private equity financed, IFSA Strongman has recently acquired most international assets and properties relating to the strongman sport from various companies and individuals worldwide, and is in the process of taking the whole sport to an entirely new level.

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VSO Image Resizer - manage your digital photos

Have pictures and want to send it over e-mail to your friens? want to do a school job with pictures taken on the last visit to the museum but you can't find a way of to fit pictures into several sizes. How can you do that? VSO Image Resizer can help you, this resizer software organizes your pictures by changing their resolution or moving them within your hard drive. VSO Image resizer is the perfect tool for those who store their digital pictures and images on their PC and who want to resize, compress, convert, create copies, create thumbnails, import or organize pictures. With this FREE image resizer you can resize at your will, you can create your friendly e-mail versions from your images, load them faster, move them easily from folder to folder, change their format, edit large numbers of image files/batch image resize and thus save space on your hard drive. Using high resolution 1600x1200 for creating wallpaper or file-sharing you can save your memory. VSO Image Resizer can also change file names using a template and you can add your own watermark with transparency support. VSO Image resizer is integrated into the Windows explorer shell, right click on your pictures and start working on your pictures !

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FRED OLSEN EXPRESS - The CANARIAS maritime revolution

Since the creation of "Ferry Gomera" company in 1974, Fred Olsen has keep his conviction by the development of the sea communicationses in the Canary Islands located on the Atlantic Ocean, Grand Canaria, Lanzarote, Fuerteventura, Tenerife, El Hierro, La Gomera and La Palma

A dream of united them between his nearer points, at the greater possible speed, and offering the maximum comfort came through. In particular, on the 8 of July of 1974 with the inauguration of the line San Sebastián of the Gomera. And the Fred Olsen marine commitment with the canary community began. Over the years, and consolidating the service between Tenerife and the Gomera a stage of expansion by all Canary Islands began. For about 25 years needed, Fred Olsen, has managed with his marine activity the objective to be present in all the Canary Islands, offering what has been promised with his 5 vessels: Bonanza Express, Bencomo Express , Benchijigua Express, Bocayna Express and Bentago Express: comfort, speed and quality on watch. Nowadays, Fred Olsen Express works with five marine lines leading the interinsular market of passengers and load, transporting more than 2.700.000 people, 550,000 cars, and more than 200,000 vehicles of load to the year. A marine service composed solely by fast boats of last generation. A spectacular concept of transport that maintains unites the seven Canary Islands, turning to Fred Olsen Express in your Better Company.

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Samsung SDI double ultra thin flat screen output

Samsung, in one of the most important companies in south Korean. Samsung started mass producing the ultra thin flat screens, the OLED screen, and it would double capacity by next year, sending its shares surging 14 percent. The world's nº.3 maker of plasma display panels is increasingly looking at the super thin screens called AM-OLED as a growth driver, as they produce brighter images and use less power. Samsung SDI is prepared to double monthly output capacity of active-matrix organic light-emitting diode (AM-OLED) displays to 3 million units by 2008 from 1.5 million now. The company has been plagued by falling prices and weak margins in both plasma display panels (PDP) and traditional cathode-ray tubes for televisions. Forcing them to invest in a new business. Flat screen makers are betting that OLED screens will replace the currently dominant LCD panels on multimedia mobile phones and portable media very soon.

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reuters.com

A Nobel Prize to: Doris Lessing

Doris Lessing received the 2007 Nobel Prize in literature, she was born in Persia actual Iran, she descended from british parents in 1919. Her family moved to Southern Africa, where she spent her childhood on her father's farm in what was then Southern Rhodesia now called Zimbabwe. When her second marriage ended in 1949, she moved to London, where her first novel, The Grass is Singing, was published in 1950. The book explores the complacency and shallowness of white colonial society in Southern Africa and established Lessing as a talented young novelist. She is now widely regarded as one of the most important post-war writers in English. Her novels, short stories and essays have focused on a wide range of twentieth-century issues and concerns, from the politics of race that she confronted in her early novels set in Africa, to the politics of gender which lead to her adoption by the feminist movement, to the role of the family and the individual in society, explored in her space fiction of the late 1970s and early 1980s. Lessing will receive her prize, worth about $1.5-million, at a ceremony in December.

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contemporarywriters.com

What is ooVoo?

ooVoo is a software that will fascinate you, this free application provides video conferencing for up to five users, as well as a video messaging tool, files and text messages can be sent while holding a video conference. Video messages can be sent via email to friends that have not signed up for the service. It looks like ooVoo is going after the Skype users, especially since ooVoo also have a store where you can buy peripheral items for video chat. While you can’t conduct a VoIP call with ooVoo, they’re probably banking on the future of video chat. They’re good to offer a link for ooVoo registration directly from their widget as well, making it easy enough to get started.

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