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		<title>Viagra for women!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2012 22:48:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[They say that women do not have the cold, there is only inept men. Unfortunately, the reality is not so simple. Often a woman&#8217;s inability to reach orgasm is hiding not only the &#8220;awkward&#8221; partner or trauma, but the physiological reasons. Sexual arousal in women is characterized by increased blood flow to the vulva, followed [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>They say that women do not have the cold, there is only inept men. Unfortunately, the reality is not so simple. Often a woman&#8217;s inability to reach orgasm is hiding not only the &#8220;awkward&#8221; partner or trauma, but the physiological reasons.</p>
<p>Sexual arousal in women is characterized by increased blood flow to the vulva, followed by the erection of clitoris. The latter is necessary to achieve clitoral orgasm (the most common form of female ecstasy). Consequently, vascular problems the ability to naturally decreases sexual arousal, and orgasm is elusive.<br />
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Of course, you can begin to go through partners in search of unique, who can finally help you achieve complete satisfaction. Or at all to put up with what is happening, thinking that the fullness of sexual sensation and remains inaccessible.</p>
<p>And you can just buy Viagra for women.</p>
<p>The active substance of female Viagra &#8211; Sildenafil Citrate (Sildenafil citrate). In the body, sildenafil relaxes vascular smooth muscle cells of small pelvis. This increases the lumen of the clitoris, vulva, vagina and uterus and, consequently, increases blood circulation in these organs. Sildenafil under the influence of an erection of the clitoris, increased secretion Bartholin glands vestibule (the same &#8220;lubricant&#8221;, without which sexual intercourse is what is called a &#8220;dry&#8221;). Learn more about <a href="http://viagrasicherkaufen.com/">Viagra ohne Rezept</a>!</p>
<p> As a result, women are amplified thrills, orgasm is achievable. It is easily achievable!</p>
<p>Female Viagra is also effective, and shows women who have had a hysterectomy, and the ladies in the pre-and postmenopausal women.</p>
<p>Effects of sildenafil develops within half an hour after administration and lasts for 6-8 hours. It should be remembered that women with a combination of Viagra with fatty food and alcohol effects of the drug develops slowly.</p>
<p>Sildenafil citrate can not be used concurrently with nitrates, including those used in aerosol form or as a patch. The combination of these drugs can sharply reduce blood pressure. That&#8217;s why women suffering from unstable angina should take sildenafil with caution.<br />
 We do not recommend taking the drug and within six months after a heart attack or stroke, because sexual activity &#8211; a tangible burden on the cardiovascular system, not only for men but for women.<br />
 Those who spend a lot of time behind the wheel, it should be noted that one of the possible side effects of sildenafil may be a change of color perception. Among other side effects &#8211; the feeling of &#8220;tide&#8221; of the face, nasal congestion, dizziness.</p>
<p>You should not use Viagra female adolescents under the age of 18 years.</p>
<p>Female Viagra &#8211; a drug for active women. This tool is designed for those who are not accustomed to be given at the mercy of nature, and able to take care of that life was full, regardless of the circumstances.</p>
<p>Female Viagra &#8211; new pharmaceutical market, it is not already represented in the pharmacy network. It can only be purchased online pharmacy DoktorDik.ru. Try a female Viagra, allow yourself full of sensations!</p>
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		<title>Who is a radiologist?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2012 22:47:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In medicine, there is a huge number of non-clear &#8220;simple&#8221; man of procedures, methods, surveys and trends. For example, a doctor &#8211; a radiologist &#8211; a specialist who has the skills to work with X-ray machines in the process of diagnosing human diseases. The radiologist is undergoing X-ray investigations: radiography systems and organs, X-rays. These [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In medicine, there is a huge number of non-clear &#8220;simple&#8221; man of procedures, methods, surveys and trends. For example, a doctor &#8211; a radiologist &#8211; a specialist who has the skills to work with X-ray machines in the process of diagnosing human diseases.</p>
<p>The radiologist is undergoing X-ray investigations: radiography systems and organs, X-rays. These studies are conducted to detect disease, assess its developmental stages and diagnosis to treatment.<br />
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The radiologist is engaged in the diagnosis of diseases of the gastrointestinal tract. The most common examination of internal organs are held in medical clinics, and the center of allergy treatment produces rehabilitation of patients with disorders of the respiratory system. For more information about radiologist <a href="http://www.radiologistsalarynow.com/">clicking here</a>!</p>
<p>Seek the help of the radiologist is at: Complaints to the child&#8217;s pain, fever, local swelling, redness, or inflammation in the tumor. These symptoms are a signal for a variety of diagnostic procedures, including X-ray studies.</p>
<p>The radiologist uses various techniques of X-ray studies. First, the X-rays &#8211; a method of producing a static image on the screen of your computer monitor or an X-ray film.</p>
<p>Secondly, X-rays &#8211; a technique which is based on getting high-quality images on the fluorescent screen, which is then displayed on a computer monitor. Fluoroscopy allows the authorities to examine them in a natural motion.</p>
<p>Third, linear tomography &#8211; a method of layering X-ray study, which is accompanied by multi-directional movements of the X-ray tube and cassette tape. In</p>
<p>Fourth, the X-ray computed tomography (CT) &#8211; a method of scanning an object, a narrow beam of X-ray emission, which has a high resolution, which allows to determine the density of different tissues. CT provides a detailed picture of the dispensation of tissues and organs.</p>
<p>In clinical practice, each agency has its own specific method of examination.</p>
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		<title>The rich of Forbes will be jumping from place to place!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Apr 2012 15:30:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A list of the richest people in the world will now be updated online at the American magazine Forbes, depending on changes in asset values. Thus the ratings will be more objective. The world famous magazine, most associated with the list of richest people in the world. This ranking is compiled annually since 1982. Now [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A list of the richest people in the world will now be updated online at the American magazine Forbes, depending on changes in asset values. Thus the ratings will be more objective.</p>
<p>The world famous magazine, most associated with the list of richest people in the world. This ranking is compiled annually since 1982.</p>
<p>Now the publication available on its website a list, updated according to the price spikes of the assets attributable to participants rating.<br />
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Rich themselves are mostly skeptical of his &#8220;honorary membership&#8221;. Partly just because the value of their assets are constantly changing, but also experts from giving out the place in such lists tend to consider only the debit, not taking into account the debts and obligations.</p>
<p>Now estimate the wealth of billionaires top of the Earth should be more objective. &#8220;Estimates are based on price dynamics of public companies and data on the shares of certain shareholders &#8211; nothing extraordinary. In this case, are not considered any other possible sources of the state&#8217;s largest businesses. Picture, of course, not complete, but with reservations the data is quite relevant, since in fact reflect the fluctuations of the market capitalization of individual issuers and no more &#8220;, &#8211; told the reporter Firstnews analyst IK&#8221; Finam &#8220;Anna Mishutin. </p>
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<p>Analysts believe that the very publication of the updated list does not require much effort. Rather, the task is performed automatically, without additional resources. This is a common infographics, &#8220;tied&#8221; to the market quotations. Experts believe that the business tools a new product is irrelevant and will be interesting, probably, for human readers.<br />
The rich man without the &#8220;Cash&#8221;</p>
<p>In Russia, around the ratings published in the national magazine that periodically arise scandals. Many participants require a &#8220;clean&#8221; from the list at all. How, in particular, said Assistant Firstnews billionaire Alexander Lebedev, Artem Artemov, his boss does not understand how to calculate the state of man, if he owns the business, from which it can not at any time &#8220;pull&#8221; money.</p>
<p>Opponents of the ratings in Russia indicate that they often fall into the characters, which, as it turns out, are bankrupt.</p>
<p>One of the regulars such lists businessman David Yakobashvili suggested that the new option will not increase the objectivity of the list of Forbes. &#8220;There&#8217;s so much in the top lines of people with huge debts and many of these rich people&#8221; slips &#8220;past the list &#8230; I believe that such lists divide society because of the poor-rich love to read. Well, if someone wants to annoy them &#8230; &#8220;- said Iakobashvili told Firstnews.</p>
<p>Three of the great</p>
<p>Until recently, the rich from the Forbes swapped only once a year. A first line sometimes for decades &#8220;remain faithful&#8221; to the same fat cats.</p>
<p>Thus, since 1992 the fight for first place with varying degrees of success was between two rich: the main investor in the world Warren Buffett and the head of Microsoft Bill Gates.</p>
<p>For the first time &#8220;vybivshis&#8221; in the list of leaders in 1992, Gates has handed over the next year the position of Buffett. However, in 1994 he took a long revenge &#8211; in 2008 alone, Buffett returned the first row of the &#8220;hit parade&#8221;, but only to a year to make room again.</p>
<p>Since 2010, both billionaires missed the front of the new leader &#8211; Mexican businessman Carlos Slim Helou.</p>
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		<title>No first-graders scored schools are not always weak!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Apr 2012 15:29:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As a result of an electronic record, the first classes in Moscow, stood out of schools &#8211; leaders and outsiders. In some schools parents are actively record of children, while others could not gain a single first-class. The city authorities are planning to join dozens of schools of outsiders with strong schools. On the pitfalls [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>As a result of an electronic record, the first classes in Moscow, stood out of schools &#8211; leaders and outsiders. </p>
<p>In some schools parents are actively record of children, while others could not gain a single first-class. The city authorities are planning to join dozens of schools of outsiders with strong schools. </p>
<p>On the pitfalls along the way mergers in an interview with RIA Novosti said the head of the laboratory monitoring in the formation of the Institute of Education Management RAO Igor Valdman.<br />
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- Igor, what conclusions can be made on the basis that the school does not reach children in first class? Does it mean that the school &#8211; poor?</p>
<p>- No clear conclusions about the failure of schools to do, of course, can not be based only on information about the shortfall in the first class. In this case, people usually say that their parents vote with their feet: it is likely the school in which parents do not assign children show low academic results. But that does not mean that it is weak institutions: it for someone, and 45 points on the exam &#8211; to achieve. School can be challenging to work with a contingent of students &#8211; children from poor families, family workers, for whom the Russian language &#8211; second language, and it is not easy to demonstrate high academic results. And at the same school can be effective. Learn more about <a href="http://www.dissertationwritings.com">dissertations online</a>!</p>
<p>The reason for a shortfall in the first class may be the fact that the institution is situated in the old neighborhood, where there are few young people. In general, before we talk about the failure of, it is necessary to understand in each case. And it is good to use for this are clear criteria.</p>
<p>Thus, in the UK to identify unsuccessful schools (failedschool) take into account a set of indicators, key among which are the lowest scores on national tests of children and the lack of positive dynamics of the results for several years. &#8220;Portrait&#8221; weak British schools is as follows: a school demonstrates consistently poor performance of students, is located in the poor and not very affluent areas, there high turnover, many students from families with low socioeconomic status, and most importantly &#8211; measure of assistance that it turned out to previously, were not successful. That is the work of tracking a few years, helped, and if it has not brought results, the school acknowledged unsuccessful.</p>
<p>- Moscow is planning to merge the school with the weak strong. Is it possible in such a way to improve the quality of education?</p>
<p>- The task set the right: to get away from segregation in education, schools in the elite division and outsiders. Another question is how the solution being implemented. Whether deployed in Moscow program to help poor schools &#8211; or the decision to merge them with other adopted only as a result of information about the shortfall in the first class?</p>
<p>I agree with the fact that managers have to move fast, but it&#8217;s better to do it in stages. First must come the recognition of a public school-specific problems &#8211; it must be discussed with teachers, parents. Then you need a clear program of support. Maybe the school just do not have to attach to the strong &#8211; the school should be, relatively speaking, the right to make mistakes.</p>
<p>Strong school also must be prepared to unite and explain its advantages. There is always a risk of deformation of the traditions and ways of life and strong school with a merger with another can take their positions. Another question is whether the school, which has added another really strong, or the union is on the territorial principle, because the schools are located nearby?</p>
<p>In Moscow, there are examples of the successful merger of schools &#8211; at the Center for Education number 548, at the Lyceum № 1535, their experience, too, must be considered.</p>
<p>- The division of schools in many &#8220;heated&#8221; parents who do not want to let their children go to school with children from migrant families. How to deal with this situation?</p>
<p>- A difficult question. We are somehow going to deal with such a &#8220;cultural allergic&#8221; to say: I do not want to give the child to school, where children smoke, swear, not of the nationality &#8230; This situation must be recognized, it being understood that it is impossible to divide the schools into two types: in one &#8211; the realm of the fence, in others &#8211; the ghetto.</p>
<p>And we need to support weaker schools. Since Soviet times it is known that if the class learn the strengths and weaknesses of the children, the &#8220;gains&#8221; from the weak more children &#8211; they reach for their classmates. Part of the situation with the school division &#8211; the result of the policy, which was carried out in recent years, when the rate was made by the leaders in the field of education &#8211; they calculated the various competitions and programs. It was assumed that leaders such as locomotive, will pull for a rest. But it is not. Weak schools can not operate in line with the strategies that have a strong successful schools. Although this does not mean that we should not support leaders. Successful schools should be: they should be turned into a platform for sharing of experience, to reduce the bureaucratic burden for them. But the only support strong schools &#8211; is akin to a feast during the plague.</p>
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		<title>Teachers need to pay more for educational success of children!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Apr 2012 15:26:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Moscow has become one of the last regions where we introduce a new pay system (NSOT) teachers. In 2011 with the arrival of the post of Mayor Sergei Sobyanin launched a project to develop the general education of the capital. One of the objectives of the project &#8211; go to NSOT, which is based &#8211; [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Moscow has become one of the last regions where we introduce a new pay system (NSOT) teachers. In 2011 with the arrival of the post of Mayor Sergei Sobyanin launched a project to develop the general education of the capital. </p>
<p>One of the objectives of the project &#8211; go to NSOT, which is based &#8211; students-hour: a model tested in the mid-2000s in Tyumen. </p>
<p>As the new principles of remuneration of teachers can affect the quality of school education, in an interview with RIA Novosti says the director of the Moscow school № 1995 Helen Norenko.<br />
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- Elena, of what constitutes a teacher&#8217;s salary in your school?</p>
<p>- The basis of the basic salary &#8211; student-hour. Since each student must not only develop an individual educational trajectory, but also to implement it daily in every class, then the payment is now also takes into account the intensity of work, and the number of students from the teacher. The more students and hours &#8211; the higher the salary. A number of students will increase only if the school provides good education. Learn more about how to <a href="http://www.writemypapers.org/essay-writing/buying-college-essays.html">buy college essays</a>!</p>
<p>At the teacher&#8217;s salary and the coefficients of influence &#8211; the coefficient of responsibility in the 9 th and 11 th grade, the coefficient of the specialization. Unlike many other schools, we have the risk factors &#8211; for physical education teachers and teachers of technology: these lessons for a moment not to be distracted &#8211; improper handling of a child with exercise equipment, or with a sewing machine is fraught with trauma.</p>
<p>There is also a special section where the teacher is paid after-school job &#8211; consulting, projects, courses (to improve students&#8217; skills related to socialization). Always pay for the check books, and now jobs are performed in all subjects and in notebooks, and electronic media, and online. The work has become more complicated &#8211; the payment increased. One of our priorities &#8211; working class leader, for it introduces extra charge.</p>
<p>And 25 percent of the wage bill &#8211; is consistent with the governing board of the incentive that is paid for results and quality. By the next school year, plans to increase its volume by 30 percent.</p>
<p>- In many regions accounted for more experience and teacher education. Do you?</p>
<p>- I do not understand the meaning of such allowances. You can be young or middle-aged professional, do not have enough experience, but work fine. Why a surcharge for the record, if a person over 20 years and has not reached professional heights? Experience and qualification category does not always correlate with the quality and outcome.</p>
<p>- What is related?</p>
<p>- This is a difficult question. We believe that one of the indicators &#8211; the speaker. Here the teacher took the class in which 10 students have &#8220;two&#8221; in mathematics. After a certain time &#8211; already six deuces. This positive trend, the teacher is worthy of promotion. If the speakers are not, but the class the whole year working &#8220;at height&#8221;, then the stability &#8211; a decent argument for additional payments.</p>
<p>Important and winning the Olympics, the results of CSE and GIA: We have developed a scale score to evaluate at every level, to pay extra for good results &#8211; it is objective measures. Do not leave without a victory in the promotion and creative contests, sports competitions.</p>
<p>- However, the teacher may inflate estimates &#8230;</p>
<p>- We have a &#8220;quality team&#8221;, whose composition changes each trimester, that is, a year or two in her time to work all the teachers. Sections of the knowledge, organized by a group of quality held constant. 4 times a year this happens with the assistance of external experts &#8211; parents, representatives of the Moscow Center of the quality of education. So it is possible to ensure objectivity. In addition, the output of one teacher feels in his work another teacher, for example, knowledge about the world, received in the 5th grade, children will demonstrate the different objects in the 9th grade.</p>
<p>- Teachers who do not receive additional payments for high quality, do not take offense?</p>
<p>- Can only take offense over. The average salary of teachers in the school of about 70,000 rubles. The calculations are transparent: there is a list of indicators for special and incentive payments. Mistakes do happen. Thus, the teacher is not paid for the concert at the weekend, but quickly recouped.</p>
<p>Perhaps something in the system of payment we will adjust.</p>
<p>- The budget of the school maintains this load? After all, if all the teachers will work well &#8211; will all pay a lot.</p>
<p>- How much is &#8220;worth&#8221; one point in the calculation of incentive payments, the governing body decides on the basis of how much money in the fund payment. The school operates under the regulatory capitation: for each student &#8211; the norm. School of demand &#8211; we have more children than the design capacity suggests.</p>
<p>The school can manage money on their own. Before, when school is funded according to the estimate, the costs itemized were severely &#8211; as if you were given five rubles for shoes and 10 &#8211; for gasoline, even if you do not have a car. Now, if we save on utility bills, the year-end bonuses are waiting for the teachers. It&#8217;s all about &#8211; quality of the work of teachers.</p>
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		<title>Hatchback 2013 Honda Crosstour markedly changed!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Apr 2012 16:03:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[At Auto Show in New York in 2012, Honda introduced an updated version of the hatchback Crosstour 2013 model year, which has positioned as a concept, but the novelty will be available in the U.S. this autumn. The main complaint against Krossturu from buyers caused its appearance. It was over it in the first place, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>At Auto Show in New York in 2012, Honda introduced an updated version of the hatchback Crosstour 2013 model year, which has positioned as a concept, but the novelty will be available in the U.S. this autumn.</p>
<p>The main complaint against Krossturu from buyers caused its appearance. It was over it in the first place, and specialists have worked, trying to give the car a more aggressive look.<br />
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The updated 2013 Honda Crosstour was oversized chrome grille, podretushirovannuyu optics and a new front bumper with the other sections protivotumanok.</p>
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<p>At the rear of the hatchback lid slightly changed and the bumper, the side appeared black sill of unpainted plastic, and new wheels. Photo Salon updated Honda Krosstur yet, but the company say that the interior finishing materials has improved, and 8.0-inch screen infotainment system.</p>
<p>The base engine remains the same 2.4-liter four-cylinder i-VTEC unit capacity of 192 hp (260 Nm), working together with five-speed automatic and 3.5-liter &#8220;six&#8221; has undergone a minor upgrade, after which produces 271 hp</p>
<p>The more powerful the engine is mounted in a pair of six-speed automatic gearbox is also available with all-wheel drive Krosstura modification. Prices for the car has not been announced.</p>
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		<title>Syrian dialogue, or a free ride on a camel!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Apr 2012 16:01:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[All travelers who have visited Syria, consider it their duty to note the architectural merits of the citadel of Aleppo, and breathe a sigh of ruined Palmyra. I&#8217;m looking at the majestic ruins, too, came to mind high-flown words. But, I confess, I was no less occupied by people living in the midst of these [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>All travelers who have visited Syria, consider it their duty to note the architectural merits of the citadel of Aleppo, and breathe a sigh of ruined Palmyra. I&#8217;m looking at the majestic ruins, too, came to mind high-flown words. But, I confess, I was no less occupied by people living in the midst of these ancient &#8220;sets.&#8221;</p>
<p>By the will of Allah<br />
We land in the fresh milk early Syrian twilight. Arrival hall is filled with pilgrim in black and white headscarves. They sat in a circle on the floor, spread out their belongings &#8211; purses, bags, teapots &#8230; secretly, &#8220;from the hip&#8221; take pictures of Oriental women, while their men stand in line to the window border guard officer. Although we know that it is impossible. We are admonished: see-standing Arab woman &#8211; with her to talk in general did not dare to think of Mogi did not take pictures. The lady, accompanied by a man &#8211; should seek the permission of the satellite imagery. However, Syria is a secular state is sufficient, there is not so formally, what we had to make sure.<br />
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 The first night on the Syrian land &#8230; I fall asleep, trying to mentally dorisovat Damascus&#8217;ve seen in the darkness of the bus window. Just fell asleep, someone started aggressively beating the door of my room. Ignore this Morse code did not work. Creating the kind of veil hijab, trudge along to the door, wondering what happened &#8211; a fire or flood? Neither one nor the other, just messengers decided that it was at this moment we are desperately in need of water and fruit. Thank you and goodnight &#8230;</p>
<p> Arabs have a complex relationship with time. For the Syrians, &#8220;punctuality&#8221; &#8211; a concept as abstract as, say, &#8220;heating season&#8221;. If the Arabs set up a meeting in five minutes, this should not be taken literally and boring counted 300 seconds. In the words of the famous fairy-tale hero, &#8220;I said about the way it happened: I came around&#8221; &#8230; senseless bustle and flat rationalism good enough to leave the departure lounge &#8220;Sheremetyevo&#8221; with the subject are not carried in hand luggage liquids. It has its own laws, its own mentality, enclosed in a capacious and relish &#8220;Inshallla&#8221;, pronounced with a breathy voice and humility in the face. That is to say, &#8220;If such be the will of Allah.&#8221; Also betray the will of Allah &#8230; Learn more about <a href="http://www.excursiopedia.com/en/countries/syria">tours in Syria</a>!</p>
<p> By the principle of &#8220;inshallah&#8221;, and organized traffic in Damascus. Public transport is represented by single specimens are not chained schedule beaten &#8220;Lasik&#8221; forever open, with doors. On the highway, is dominated by yellow color &#8211; all riding in a taxi. Because traffic jams. The drivers are in them for long periods and honking, but somehow it mildly, not seriously. When possible, go to overtake, warning three short beeps. At first, this politesse more annoying &#8211; we have so honking Likhachev, who almost imprinted in your car, or pedestrian-Porn.</p>
<p>About the dress code and etiquette bazaar<br />
At the first stop, we dive into the seething, diverse and colorful element called Damascus. Bedouins in white and gray galabeyah, Bedouin from the bales on their heads, with orange trucks, trucks with people (and go stand in the back) &#8230; Women wearing head scarves &#8211; from private individuals and public officials (the majority), the girls in headscarves and short coat &#8211; dzhilbabah. As we have explained, the severity of the dress code depends on education. It happens that a girl from a fairly liberal family, and married her husband, a kind of conservative, requires to cover her face. Who is to hunt the beauty curtain and steam under that dress? And they went to the scandals &#8230;</p>
<p> Where is my team? By the way, I was lost in Syria all the time. That zasmotryus to something, then talk to someone &#8211; and you, once again fallen behind its own. And really get lost in the market al-Hamid told Allah himself. And not because of the hustle and bustle &#8211; there, on the contrary, all the noble cause-and very thorough. No one is missing a hand, do not shake the nose seylovannymi pants, as some &#8230; I really do not Cherkizon bazaar, a boutique in Stoleshnikov.</p>
<p> Buying is not an end in itself. The contemplation of this marvelous still lifes with oriental fabrics, jugs out of the jinn, with embroidered galabeyami &#8211; in itself pleasure. And rasstaravshiysya seller will not look Tambov wolf and abruptly thrust goods rejected on the shelf.</p>
<p> Everywhere you hear the traditional greeting:</p>
<p> &#8211; Madame, where are you from?<br />
 &#8211; From Russia.<br />
 &#8211; You are welcome!</p>
<p> Look in the shop.</p>
<p> &#8211; You are the first time in my shop, so I&#8217;ll give you.</p>
<p> I was treated to tea with the scent of sage, questioned about this and that. The sly salesmen in four hands unfold colorful blankets, woven on hand looms.</p>
<p> &#8211; This style is called &#8220;Paradise&#8221;, which &#8211; over the counter zmeitsya striped bedspread colors &#8220;every hunter wants to know&#8221; &#8211; Bedouin style &#8230; having bought an orange &#8220;paradise,&#8221; the veil, I am going to leave, but no such luck. Merchant with a mysterious air extracts from under the counter silver rings and bracelets. So as not to measure. Well &#8230; do not buy precious metals are sold by weight, which is defined in the device with huge bowls &#8211; for such we have to weigh the potatoes Biruliovsky market &#8230; But I&#8217;ve learned to haggle down the price, and some sort of five times. While in Syria already feel an oligarch &#8211; all at times cheaper than in Moscow. Where we can find leather sandals for $ 100? A CD-ROM for the top ten?</p>
<p> Delivery of the local dealers do not like to give, so it&#8217;s best to pay for consideration. On the local coins had to suffer. Figures in Syria Arabic, but not the same. Easier to memorize: a large coin &#8211; 25 pounds, smaller &#8211; 10 pounds.</p>
<p>Faith and Tolerance<br />
In Syria, comprehend the true meaning of the word &#8220;tolerance.&#8221; While in some countries artificially build a fragile neighborliness of different faiths and teach people to tolerate other religions, as suffer unpleasant but unavoidable fellow travelers on the subway at rush hour, the Syrians do without the loud declarations and every deliberate. It seems self-evident, that the Orthodox prayer echoed with the singing of the muezzin, that Christians go to worship the head of John the Baptist in the Umayyad Mosque, reconstructed from a Christian basilica, which was erected on the site of the temple of Jupiter, that the Church of Saints Sergius and Bacchus is on the site of an ancient pagan sanctuary and the altar is the altar &#8230;</p>
<p> In an Orthodox monastery near Saydnaysky Maaloula, which is considered the Middle East, the second most important shrine after Jerusalem, flock to the pilgrimage, not only Christians but also Muslims. They come to worship the miraculous icon of the Mother of God, written by St. Luke from nature. Mother Abbess Christina regales guests coffee. And there is something in her face, and this wonderful place that even non-believers there is a gust of people fall on their knees, kiss his hand, ask for blessings.</p>
<p>On a visit to a Bedouin<br />
Good morning, Palmyra! Barefoot go out to the patio &#8211; white sun to greet the Syrian desert, eared cacti and pomegranates. Garnets from the right on the maturity of a branch falling apart &#8211; and this at a time when the green light from beriberi Muscovites sweep the shelves frozen pear &#8230; Well, not a mess!</p>
<p> Early in the morning in the desert was brutally cold, but it does not stop me &#8211; you want to catch by surprise Palmyra until it ran sellers of beads made of camel bone and not on a tour of the crowd gathered gomonlivyh tourists, all the polls in arafatkah. So I pulled on a two sweaters and go out in the crisp desert morning. In the Valley of Tombs, where lie the ancient palmirtsy, piercing wind blows. Bedouins wander near their tents. Look to how they live there, but awkward without an invitation &#8230;</p>
<p> Last night we were lucky enough to visit the Bedouin feast. We sat on low couches in the tent &#8211; a makeshift Palace of Culture, tasted sweet. According to rumors, they are baked in mutton fat &#8211; really something so giving. And nothing at all, delicious. The desert nomads in white galabeyah circle dances under the drum and flute. Outside a Bedouin and Bedouin bread baked in the fire, using a large metal plate bowl turned upside down. Bedouin cooking, reading a magazine while husband. Family idyll.</p>
<p> Palmyra is situated in an oasis of palm gardens, for which he received its Latin name. The gardens are maturing dates &#8211; black, yellow, red. Hanging from the trees huge bunches, and when ripening, these &#8220;brooms&#8221; are cut and sold just like that, as a whole. Dates are a delicious, sweet, not those that we buy in our stores.</p>
<p> On the hill comes through the ruins of the Old Testament pastel mirage Tadmor (Tadmor), built by King Solomon. There we are heading. We come as victors through the Arc de Triomphe, and marching straight to the street, which is limited on both sides of 750 columns (each had been earlier in the sculptures of famous rulers, merchants, and poets). Enjoying the ruins of baths, the temple of the supreme god Bel (Baal) &#8211; the patron saint of Palmyra, we investigate a clay water pipe with caps on top, allowing, if anything, to remove the obstruction.</p>
<p> Nearby Bedouin turns on a motorcycle. The motorcycle is very stylish &#8211; the seat sheepskin bed, his eyes were drawn to the spotlight, not otherwise than from the evil eye. The desert nomads tend to animate their &#8220;camels of steel&#8221; and &#8220;iron donkeys.&#8221; Tractor eyes of the CDs to attach on the cilia of the wagon lights portray, paint the iron box with all the colors &#8230;</p>
<p> Bedouin caught my curious glance:</p>
<p> &#8211; Freeride camel!<br />
 &#8211; Free Ride on a camel? It sounds scary! Downhill from unprepared dunes? A-ah, free ride! Ride for free that is!<br />
 &#8211; Ah, to sit down on a camel for free, and will remove the $ 100 &#8211; we know these jokes! &#8211; Suggest experienced comrades.<br />
 &#8211; Freeride camel! Only for you! &#8211; No stopping Bedouin. &#8211; Get out my zahrada! My garden! One minute on the bike for five minutes on foot!<br />
 &#8211; Then somehow, thank you &#8230;</p>
<p> Sunset we meet in the castle, looking at Palmyra, an oasis in a strip of desert infinity. And on a side road, repeating the line of the Great Silk Road, on which caravans, bought in Palmyra and silk carpets, drank water from a warm source Efka and watered the ships of the desert.</p>
<p> At the exit of the fortress waiting for my friend &#8230; a Bedouin.</p>
<p> &#8211; I&#8217;m waiting you for the camel, &#8211; he says reproachfully.</p>
<p> Dumb &#8230;</p>
<p>Lost in Translation<br />
Aleppo. The northern capital of Syria &#8211; a city with a history length of 12 000 years, remembering the days when he lived on the hill forefather Abraham milked his red (presumably) the cow&#8217;s milk and treated the poor. And then on the same hill, surrounded by a moat built a fort to protect the city from the attacks of all sorts of bad people, and then &#8230; In 1828 an earthquake shook Aleppo, which is the citadel suffered, apparently, not very good. Suffered and the mosque and baths, and the throne room. They will restore (the process is already underway), dried-up moat filled with water again, and will be for him to ride smart people in the boats. Lepota &#8230;</p>
<p> From the fortress, which is piled in the middle of the city, like a giant box on the round table, we survey the Aleppo. Roofs caked with satellite dishes, for instance &#8211; one per person. You may think this is a subject for personal use as a soup bowl. Between the houses, &#8220;sprout&#8221; minarets. The higher the minaret, the older mosque. Here they are all different, in contrast to other Muslim countries, the same neighbor, Turkey, where all the minarets of the pencil-like as twins.</p>
<p> We raid on schoolgirls in blue pants and jackets &#8211; quite like our pioneers.</p>
<p> &#8211; Who are you? But how? What&#8217;s your name?</p>
<p> It is believed that the Syrians are mostly not speak English. I would not say. Another thing is that their English is somewhat different from ours, and in a soft Arabic accent can be difficult to distinguish familiar words. During a walk through Aleppo, I touched the girl&#8217;s arm in a pale blue veil:</p>
<p> &#8211; Hey! My name is Khan!<br />
 &#8211; And I am Anna! Namesake, then!</p>
<p> Alas, the future of its friendly, I learned about the monologue only one sentence: &#8220;I speak English very good&#8221; &#8230;</p>
<p> There are also polyglots &#8211; one of them volunteered to accompany us during the evening walk through Aleppo. At this late hour in the city were opened two categories of facilities &#8211; snack bars and barbershops. Apparently, the Arabs have a hobby &#8211; to get a haircut at night. Our guide is very cheerfully would read in Russian, and we asked where he learned the language so well.</p>
<p> &#8211; I worked in the market. I even know English, German and French &#8230;</p>
<p> Yes, there was no such order could not find a common language &#8211; in the worst case, it was sign language. For example, a holster for a pneumatic gun (Makarov copy) as a gift to her husband, I picked through pantomime, supplemented by three words, &#8220;Akbar&#8221; (great), &#8220;Asbar&#8221; (small) and Makaroff. And in a music shop on the fingers, we explained that we need a CD recording of the adhan &#8211; the call to prayer. Seller slyly looked at us and gave in addition to the discs of paper handkerchiefs. Why &#8211; I realized, when listened to a disc. At the Imam recites the prayer, his voice breaks down at the sobbing, the parishioners also vote. I very nearly burst into tears &#8211; the words are not clear, but in tones so much passion and longing that goosebumps.</p>
<p> On the 17th floor of the hotel admiring the panoramic view of the eternal under the moon of Aleppo, which floats above the shrill calls of muezzins four nearby mosques. On the whole room smells of jasmine flower tiny, torn down the road. I&#8217;ll bring home jasmine oil, and its fragrance will remind me that day and all the other days that I happened to live in a fairy Syria. And I think about the kind whiskered perfumer who poured in his shop for a small floral puzyrechkov, and all his countrymen, that we so sincerely happy and so relaxed smile.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Typically, printing photos is the final stage of any photo shoot, whether you intend to place the printed image in the frame (and then hang it on the wall), or simply show your colleagues and friends. In case of failure, &#8220;coloring&#8221; the captured image to edit it, you can use built-in program Photoshop, which are [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Typically, printing photos is the final stage of any photo shoot, whether you intend to place the printed image in the frame (and then hang it on the wall), or simply show your colleagues and friends. </p>
<p>In case of failure, &#8220;coloring&#8221; the captured image to edit it, you can use built-in program Photoshop, which are specifically designed for color correction or color management system installed in your computer.</p>
<p>Slightly more complicated is the case with professional color correction in the pre-press images, which are designed to be printed on printing equipment.<br />
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To this end, professional photographers use special software tools Photoshop, then do a test print (a proof, to use professional language) in order to see how it will look after printing an image on a specific printing equipment. Unfortunately, a detailed description of the prepress process is beyond the scope of this book, so I offer only a brief overview of the process &#8211; its characteristics and purpose. Learn more about <a href="http://printluna.com/en">coffee table photo books</a>!</p>
<p>In the printing industry for color proof image is divided into four equivalent components, each of which contains information about a specific color (cyan, magenta, yellow and black for color images). At present, such as the standard print used is quite expensive analog system Cromalin DuPont. Machines, which laid the basis of the above system to obtain all the necessary images are mixed shades of powder blue, magenta, yellow and black color (in addition to powders, you can use the same ink color). Equipment of this type is intended for proofing without platemaking and printing the image on the printing equipment.</p>
<p>In digital printing solutions for similar problems are widely used devices such as Scitex Irish. This is a very expensive ink-jet printers that can help you take clear and detailed proofs of any image, each print will cost about $ 50. More affordable desktop device (companies Epson and Hewlett-Packard), designed for printing proofs, are in the range of $ 1000. However, these devices allow you to do proofs smaller format (11 * 14 * 17 and 11 inches).</p>
<p>In Photoshop has all the tools necessary for professional printing of images. With its help, for example, you can do color separations CMYK-images displaying bands of color calibration, offset labels, and other data needed for professional image printing, the printing equipment. All the necessary settings in the dialog box choose Print with Preview (command File &#8212;> Print with Preview), which shows a little higher.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tonic properties have a foot bath with essential oils of peppermint, eucalyptus or pine needles. In the tub with warm water and add a few drops of essential oil. Duration of treatment ranges from 15 to 20 minutes. The remarkable invention of our days &#8211; whirlpool foot bath, contributing not only cleansing, but also the [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Tonic properties have a foot bath with essential oils of peppermint, eucalyptus or pine needles. In the tub with warm water and add a few drops of essential oil. Duration of treatment ranges from 15 to 20 minutes.</p>
<p> The remarkable invention of our days &#8211; whirlpool foot bath, contributing not only cleansing, but also the removal of fatigue, edema, as well as being great generall therapeutic procedure. </p>
<p>At the expense of what is happening at the time of the bath foot massage is stimulating blood circulation, relaxes muscles and ligaments, which is very effectively helps with pain in the muscles and ligaments. </p>
<p>Massage is carried out using a specially built-in rollers, vibration and air bubbles and placed at the bottom of the bath massage spines.<br />
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 Despite all the benefits of such procedures as foot bath, there are certain contraindications, without observing that, you run the risk rather than the positive effect of a very nasty problem. Learn more about <a href="http://www.lazboyspas.com/lazboy-spas-hot-tubs/">above ground hot tubs</a>!</p>
<p>With varicose veins, kidney and cardiovascular diseases, including with hypertension, high body temperature, as well as a tendency to bleeding is strictly contraindicated in any hot baths. If varicose veins are also contraindicated in spas, because this disease is an unwanted massage procedure.</p>
<p> Careful foot care can help you maintain a good mood, as well as avoid some diseases.</p>
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		<title>From the history of cigarette</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Word of the cigarette &#8211; French origin, it means &#8220;little cigar&#8221;. The first similarity of cigarettes appeared in the Indian tribes of America. In Europe, the practice of smoking began to spread in Spain and the Mediterranean countries at the beginning of the XIX century. During the Crimean War of 1854-1856 years of cigarette smoking [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Word of the cigarette &#8211; French origin, it means &#8220;little cigar&#8221;. The first similarity of cigarettes appeared in the Indian tribes of America. In Europe, the practice of smoking began to spread in Spain and the Mediterranean countries at the beginning of the XIX century. During the Crimean War of 1854-1856 years of cigarette smoking (they were called &#8220;papiletti&#8221;) has become customary in the army Russian, Turkish, britanskih.Soldaty wrapped tobacco into paper tubes of gunpowder, which enabled them to quickly &#8220;a smoke&#8221; between the fighting, on the march .<br />
 In the U.S., the spread of cigarette helped the emergence of some new varieties of light tobacco (eg, grade Burley) and, of course, the invention of the first machine for the manufacture of cigarettes in the late 1880s.<br />
 Eighteen year old engineer, James Albert Bonsak of Virginia was engaged in researches in the field of cigarette production solely for the purpose of personal enrichment. In 1877 the company on sale of tobacco Allen &#038; Ginter in search of new technologies has announced the contest, promising to anyone who invents a machine that could automatically roll a cigarette, a reward of 75,000 dollars.<br />
 Three years later Bonsak first patented his &#8220;cigarette miracle&#8221; and immediately sent his unit to the office of the firm Allen &#038; Ginter. However, the car on the way there burned down. A year later he built Bonsak another device, and he took him to his destination. But during the trial revealed that it &#8220;spits&#8221; cigarettes through time, and besides, they do not always have the presentation. James Bonsaka simply put out the door.<br />
 All the same, and would have ended if Bonsak not attracted the attention of Buck Duke, owner of American Tobacco Company. It is this enterprising businessman with a machine Bonsaka did in fact revolutionized the tobacco business &#8211; he made sure that cigarettes have become much more popular than cigars and pipes. </p>
<p>In 1883, the Duke ordered the inventor of two cigarette machines. Bonsak quickly built another example of a very flawed design, which the tobacco tycoon bought the engineer, and then refined to match the industry requirements.<br />
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<p> In order to promote their products, which then competed with cigars and pipes, Duke, citing the opinions of doctors, said that pipe and cigar smoke is very harmful. In addition, its product, Mr. Duke has declared a &#8220;symbol of the new speed of modern life&#8221;: the process of smoking a cigarette he held a little less time, and looked more democratic.</p>
<p> Duke&#8217;s persistence allowed him to beat the competition. Already in 1884 on their machines the company American Tobacco Company issued 744 million cigarettes &#8211; more than all U.S. factories over the previous year.</p>
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