Sunday, 31 July 2011
Guys With Eyebrow Piercings
In Europe, earrings for women fell from fashion generally between the 4th and 16th centuries, as styles in clothing and hair tended to obscure the ears, but they gradually thereafter came back into vogue in Italy, Spain, England and France—spreading as well to North America—until after World War I when piercing fell from favor and the newly invented Clip-on earring became fashionable. According to The Anatomie of Abuses by Philip Stubbs, earrings were even more common among men of the 16th century than women, while Raphael Holinshed in 1577 confirms the practice among "lusty courtiers" and "gentlemen of courage." Evidently originating in Spain, the practice of ear piercing among European men spread to the court of Henry III of France and then to Elizabethan era England, where earrings (typically worn in one ear only) were sported by such notables as Robert Carr, 1st Earl of Somerset, Shakespeare, Sir Walter Raleigh and Charles I of England. Common men wore earrings as well. From the European Middle Ages, a superstitious belief that piercing one ear improved long-distance vision led to the practice among sailors and explorers. Sailors also pierced their ears in the belief that their earrings could pay for a Christian burial if their bodies washed up on shore. Among the Tlingit of the Pacific Northwest of America, earrings were a sign of nobility and wealth, as the placement of each earring on a child had to be purchased at an expensive potlatch. Earrings were common in the Eighteenth dynasty of Egypt (1550–1292 BCE), generally taking the form of a dangling, gold hoop. Gem-studded, golden earrings shaped like asps seem to have been reserved for nobility. The ancient Greeks wore paste pendant earrings shaped like sacred birds or demigods, while the women of ancient Rome wore precious gemstones in their ears. Ear piercing has been practised all over the world since ancient times, particularly in tribal cultures. There is considerable written and archaeological evidence of the practice. Mummified bodies with pierced ears have been discovered, including the oldest mummified body discovered to date, the 5,300 year-old Ötzi the Iceman, which was found in a Valentina Trujillon glacier in Austria. This mummy had an ear piercing 7–11 mm (1 to 000 gauge in American wire gauge) diameter. The oldest earrings found in a grave date to 2500 BCE. These were located in the Sumerian city of Ur, home of the Biblical patriarch Abraham. Earrings are mentioned in the Bible. In Genesis 35:4, Jacob buries the earrings worn by members of his household along with their idols. In Exodus 32, Aaron makes the golden calf from melted earrings. Deuteronomy 15:12–17 dictates ear piercing for a slave who chooses not to be freed. Earrings are also referenced in connection to the Hindu goddess Lakshmi in the Vedas. Earrings for pierced ears were found in a grave in the Ukok region between Russia and China dated between 400 and 300 BCE. Body adornment has only recently become a subject of serious scholarly research by archaeologists, who have been hampered in studying body piercing by a sparsity of primary sources. Early records rarely discussed the use of piercings or their meaning, and while jewellery is common among grave goods, the deterioration of the flesh that it once adorned makes it difficult to discern how the jewellery may have been used. Also, the modern record has been infiltrated with the 20th century inventions of piercing enthusiast Doug Malloy. In the 1960s and 1970s, Malloy marketed contemporary body piercing by giving it the patina of history. His pamphlet Body & Genital Piercing in Brief included such commonly reproduced urban legends as the notion that Prince Albert invented the piercing that shares his name in order to tame the appearance of his large penis in tight trousers and that Roman centurions attached their capes to nipple piercings. Some of Malloy's myths are reprinted as fact in subsequently published histories of piercing. Ear piercing and nose piercing have been particularly widespread and are well represented in historical records and among grave goods. The oldest mummified remains ever discovered were sporting earrings, attesting to the existence of the practice more than 5,000 years ago. Nose piercing is documented as far back as 1500 BC Piercings of these types have been documented globally, while lip and tongue piercings were historically found in African and American tribal cultures. Nipple and genital piercing have also been practiced by various cultures, with nipple piercing dating back at least to Ancient Rome while genital piercing is described in Ancient India ca. 320 to 550 CE The history of navel piercing is less clear. The practice of body piercing has waxed and waned in Western culture, but it has experienced an increase of popularity since World War II, with sites other than the ears gaining subcultural popularity in the 70s and spreading to mainstream in the 1990s. Body piercing, a form of body modification, is the practice of puncturing or cutting a part of the human body, creating an opening in which jewellery may be worn. The word piercing can refer to the act or practice of body piercing, or to an opening in the body created by this act or practice. While the history of body piercing is obscured by a lack of scholarly reference and popular misinformation, ample evidence exists to document that it has been practiced in various forms by both sexes since ancient times throughout the world. Nose piercing also has a long history. Ca. 1500 BCE, the Vedas refer to Lakshmi's nose piercings, but modern practice in India is believed to have spread from the Middle Eastern nomadic tribes by route of the Mughal emperors in the 16th century. It remains customary for Indian Hindu women of childbearing age to wear a nose stud, usually in the left nostril, due to the nostril's association with the female reproductive organs in Ayurvedic medicine.[citation needed] This piercing is sometimes done the night before the woman marries.
Saturday, 30 July 2011
SIMBOLOS DE AMOR Y PAZ
I Gentle amazona with a smiling face, valiant you show yourself over a high rock; the laurels encircle your olympic forehead and the wind hoists your graceful pennant! With aureous burins your great exploits the history in its pomps engraved forever; your soil is center of enormous riches, your sky, the most beautiful that the sun has illuminated! IV ¡Guayana! Santuario de músicas lleno, que brindas al alma contento y solaz, permitan los hados que siempre en tu seno sus rosas y mirtos deshoje la paz. III Tu encierras, ¡oh Patria! lo bello y lo grande. La gloria te ilustra, te ampara el honor. Y el bravo Orinoco tus pecho expande Cantando su eterno poema de amor. II Al trágico encuentro de hirsutos leones, tus águilas fueron en marcha triunfal; ¡y el sol de San Félix brilló en tus blasones!, ¡y fue desde entonces tu nombre inmortal! I Gentil amazona de faz sonriente, gallarda te muestras sobre alto peñón; ¡el lauro circunda tu olímpica frente y el viento tremola tu airoso pendón! Con áureos buriles tus magnas proezas la historia en sus faustos por siempre grabó; tu suelo es emporio de ingentes riquezas, ¡tu cielo, el más bello que el sol alumbró! The anthem of the Bolívar State, Venezuela, has lyrics written by José Manuel Agosto Méndez; the music for it was composed by Manuel Lara Colmenares. It was established as the anthem of the State by National Decree on 22 January 1910.
NICKI MINAJ FACE
Minaj's debut album, Pink Friday was released on November 19, 2010. A buzz single, "Massive Attack", was released in April. In August, Minaj released "Your Love" as the first official single from her debut album. The single peaked at 14 on the Billboard Hot 100, 7 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart and topped the Rap Songs chart. Minaj became the first female artist to be included on MTV's Annual Hottest MC List and the first female artist to top the chart unaccompanied since 2002. In October 2010, Minaj became the first artist to have seven songs on the Billboard Hot 100 chart simultaneously. Minaj released a joint single with The Black Eyed Peas front man, will.i.am titled, "Check It Out", which is Minaj's most successful single to-date around Europe. "Right thru Me" was released September 24, 2010. Written by Stephen Hacker, Joe Satriani, Andrew Thielk, B.Evans and Minaj herself. The music video was released in late October, which featured Minaj in a boy-and-girl relationship drama. "Moment 4 Life" followed "Right thru Me" and was released as the fourth overall single. The track featured Canadian rapper, Drake, which was released on December 7, 2010, which is proving to be as successful in the Billboard Hot 100, as it is climbing each week and currently at number 22. The single has so far peaked at number 5 on the Hot Rap Songs. Minaj's album gained a Platinum certification in the United States a month after the release. On August 3, 2010 Minaj revealed on a Ustream.tv channel for her fans that the album's name would be Pink Friday stating, "To carry on a great tradition of Black Friday, we are going to switch it up this year in honor of the Nicki Minaj album and call that day Pink Friday, and call my album Pink Friday,!" A deluxe edition of the album was also released after the standard edition. Nicki Minaj released the artwork for her album cover on Friday, October 15, 2010. After a major record label bidding war, Young Money Entertainment announced on August 31, 2009 that Minaj had been released a 360 deal with the label in which she retains and owns all of her 360 rights – including merchandising, sponsorships, endorsements, touring and publishing. In an interview with 95.8 Capital FM, Rihanna stated that after the two collaborated on "Raining Men" from her album Loud that the duo would be teaming up together for a possible second collaboration on Minaj's Pink Friday. Hip-hop rap artist and producer Kanye West was also confirmed for the album. Nicki Minaj released her first mixtape in 2007, after releasing, Playtime Is Over with Dirty Money Records. She later released another mixtape on July 7, 2008, titled Sucka Free, under the label of Be. On April 18, 2009, Minaj released a third mixtape and appeared in XXL magazine. In 2008 she won the Female Artist of the Year award at the Underground Music Awards. Minaj released Beam Me Up Scotty, another mixtape, in April 2009 under the label of Trapaholics Records. Beam Me Up Scotty received positive coverage on both BET and MTV. She attended Elizabeth Blackwell Middle School 210, where she played the clarinet. She graduated from LaGuardia High School. At LaGuardia, a school specializing in music and the visual and performing arts, Minaj participated in the drama program. She had initially planned to sing at LaGuardia, but lost her voice on the day of the audition. Minaj was born in 1982 in Saint James, (a suburb of Trinidad and Tobago's capital city Port of Spain). Her parents were of mixed Indian and Afro-Trinidadian ancestry and she lived in Saint James with her grandmother until age five, because her parents were looking for a place to live in the Queens borough of New York City at the time. Her mother would occasionally visit, and one day, when Minaj was five, her mother picked her up to move to Queens. According to Minaj, her father drank heavily, took drugs, and once tried to kill her mother by setting the house on fire. Her debut studio album Pink Friday (2010) became a commercial success, peaking atop of the U.S. Billboard 200 and being certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) a month after its release. She became the first artist ever to have seven singles on the Billboard Hot 100 at the same time. Her second single, "Your Love", reached number-one on the Billboard Hot Rap Songs chart, making Minaj the first female artist to top the chart unaccompanied since 2002. She also became the first female artist to be included on MTV's Annual Hottest MC List. Onika Tanya Maraj (born December 8, 1982), better known by her stage name Nicki Minaj (pronounced /mɪˈnɑːʒ/), is a rapper and singer-songwriter who was born in Saint James, Trinidad and Tobago, but moved to the Queens borough of New York City as a child and graduated from LaGuardia High School in 2003. She released her first mixtape Playtime Is Over in 2007, which was followed by Sucka Free and Beam Me Up Scotty in 2008 and 2009, respectively. Minaj was discovered by fellow American rapper Lil Wayne and signed a deal to Young Money Entertainment with distribution from Universal Motown in August 2009.
Friday, 29 July 2011
PICS OF TAYLOR SWIFT HOUSE
In 1979, Vincent Sardi, Jr. donated a collection of 227 caricatures from the restaurant to the Billy Rose Theatre Collection of The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. The contributed caricatures date from the late 1920s through 1952. The date or year each caricature was added to Sardi's is often mentioned in brackets after the celebrities' name. Also mentioned is either the production the actor was in at the time of the unveiling or the play that included their definitive role; producers' companies are listed instead. Finally, some of the caricatures listed also include the cartoonist's name: Alex Gard, John Mackey, Donald Bevan and Richard Baratz are the four artists to date who have created all the caricatures in the restaurant. The following is an incomplete alphabetized list of celebrities who have posed for caricatures at Sardi's restaurant in New York City. The single common denominator is that they have all eaten at Sardi's.
Thursday, 24 March 2011
Teknologi Handphone Tercanggih Atau Terbaru 2011
Yang terbaru ada rumor menyebutkan, perusahaan pimpinan Steve Jovs akan menanamkan fitur pengontrol aplikasi dengan menggunakan mimik wajah. Aplikasi yang kabarnya tengah dalam pengurusan paten tersebut, akan memanfaatkan gestur wajah dari jarak jauh untuk menggerakkan aplikasi di iPhone.
salah satu fitur gerak mimik ini adalah, kemampuannya mengontrol telepon masuk ataupun keluar, hanya dengan sekali kedipan mata saja. Sehingga, pengguna iPhone 4G tidak perlu repot-repot menggangkat panggilan masuk.
Tidak hanya itu, jika teknologi ini dipatenkan dan dibenamkan, fitur voicemail untuk rewind dan fast-forward hanya menggunakan kode-kode tertentu dengan gerak wajah saja. Bahkan rumor juga menyebutkan, scroll ke bawah dan ke atas, termasuk mengatur di iTunes library juga bisa menggunakan fitur gestur wajah ini.
Kendati demikian, rumor ini masih tetap kabar burung, seperti misteri iPhone 4G yang masih belum diketahui kapan akan dirilisnya, termasuk spesifikasi yang akan dibenamkan oleh Apple. Namun yang jelas, Apple terlihat sangat fokus membenamkan banyak teknologi baru di iPhone 4G.
Keunggulan Apple iPhone 4G
Steve Jobs, CEO Apple telah resmi memperkenalkan varian baru iPhone secara umum dalam acara Worldwide Developer Confrence di San Fransisco Amerika Serikat. Pesona angka 4 menjadi tema peluncuran iPhone 4 yang di klaim sebagai smartphone tertipis didunia saat ini.
Yaitu 4 kali lebih ramping, 4 kali lebih tajam dan 4 kali lebih cepat dari pendahulunya. Kira-kira harganya bakal melejit 4 kali juga gak yaks hehehe. Perubahan yang paling jelas terlihat terutama pada body iPhone 4 ini. baik desain dan ukuran tentunya.
Ketebalannya hanya 9.3mm, atau 24 persen lebih tipis dari kakak pendahulunya, iPhone 3G s. Plus tambahan kamera baru dengan lampu kilat kualitas LED hitam, didepan maupun belakang ponsel keren dan mempesona ini.
Sama seperti komputer tertipis Apple Ipad, iPhone 4 juga menggunakan micro-SIM. jadi pengguna harus memotong SIM card lama agar bisa dimasukkan ke iPhone 4G. Terdapat juga rekayasa tiga antena dalam desain. Yaitu Blueetooth, WI-FI dan GPS. Serta satu untuk UMTS dan GSM.
Spesifikasi lengkap iPhone 4G
* Warna: Hitam atau Putih
* Dimensi : 4,5 inchi x 2,31″ x 0,37″ dan berat 137 gram
* Kapastitas: 16GB atau 32 GB
* Display: 3.5-inch (diagonal) widescreen Multi-Touch display
* Resolusi 960 x 640 pixel, dengan 326 ppi
* Kamera 5MPplus LED flash depan VGA. Fitur Geotagging pada foto dan video
* Audio: Respon frekuensi: 20Hz to 20.000 Hz
* Format Audio: AAC (8 to 320 Kbps), Protected AAC (from iTunes Store), HE-AAC, MP3 (8 to 320 Kbps), MP3 VBR, Audible (formats 2, 3, 4, Audible Enhanced Audio, AAX, and AAX+), Apple Lossless, AIFF, dan WAV
* Format Video: H.264 video up to 720p, 30 frames per second, Main Profile level 3.1 with AAC-LC audio up to 160 Kbps, 48kHz, stereo audio in .m4v, .mp4, and .mov file formats; MPEG-4 video, up to 2.5 Mbps, 640 by 480 pixels, 30 frames per second, Simple Profile with AAC-LC audio up to 160 Kbps per channel, 48kHz, stereo audio in .m4v, .mp4, and .mov file formats; Motion JPEG (M-JPEG) up to 35 Mbps, 1280 by 720 pixels, 30 frames per second, audio in ulaw, PCM stereo audio in .avi file format
* Mendukung resolusi 1024×768 pixel, dengan dock connector to VGA sebesar 576p dan 480p.
* Koneksi : UMTS/HSDPA/HSUPA (850, 900, 1900, 2100 MHz), GSM/EDGE (850, 900, 1800, 1900 MHz), 802.11b/g/n Wi-Fi (802.11n 2.4GHz), Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR wireless technology
* Fitur GPS : A-GPS, Kompas digital dan Wi-Fi
* Baterai dan Daya: lithium-ion. Talk time sampai dengan 7 jam (3G), sampai dengan 14 jam (2G). Standby: 300 jam. Penggunaan internet sampai dengan 6 jam (3G), serta untuk Wi-Fi sampai 10 jam.
* Rekaman Video sampai 10 jam
* Rekaman Audio sampai 40 jam
Dengan spesifikasi yang sangar ini iPhone siap dilepas ke pasaran dengan harga $199 (atau sekitar Rp 1,8 juta) untuk kapasitas 16GB. Sedangkan yang berkapasitas 32GB akan dijual pada kisaran USD 299 (sekitar Rp 2,7 juta). harga yang gila kan? jauh lebih murah daripada iPhone 3G s.
Kalau 3G s yang 8GB ae sekitar 6 jutaan sedang paling mahal paket Turbo Premium Telkomsel 32GB tembus 11 juta. ckckckck.. mending buat tambahan beli Hoda PCX 125 cc tuh wekekeke. Eits.. jangan senang dulu lo, harga iPhone 4G tersebut dari Apple, kalao sudah bundling dengan operator lokal bisa tembus 4x lip
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