<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1685300467968544872</id><updated>2011-11-27T15:52:21.774-08:00</updated><category term='what is a blog'/><category term='ten fact about lebanon'/><category term='send cakes to lebanon'/><category term='Lebanon'/><category term='send flowers to lebanon'/><category term='flowers'/><category term='about lebanon'/><category term='send gifts to lebanon'/><category term='the effect of flowers'/><category term='definition of a blog'/><category term='emotions and flowers'/><category term='send balloon to lebanon'/><title type='text'>All Best Ideas</title><subtitle type='html'>Flowers Lebanon gifts Lebanono How to send flowers to Lebanon and gifts to Lebanon. Free delivery to Beirut by Flowers To Lebanon gifts to Lebanon through Lebanon Florist Network Delivery service.</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://allbestideas.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1685300467968544872/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://allbestideas.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>allbestideas</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11460232354450807548</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='13' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IpVA-FU_LgE/TC2q8xF9gmI/AAAAAAAAAGw/VKSzT5co_co/S220/logo.jpg'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>25</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1685300467968544872.post-4171966891749939781</id><published>2011-07-28T05:03:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-07-28T05:03:25.723-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"&gt;Fareed Zakaria sat down with John King to discuss the global consequences of the debt crisis. Fareed explains how default would effectively impose a massive tax on the American people and balloon the deficit. But the real question haunting Fareed is realestate &lt;a href="http://www.century21fglobal.com/"&gt;apartment for sale in Lebanon&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"&gt; the damage is already done.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.century21fglobal.com/upload/projectsbig/100_1048.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="150" src="http://www.century21fglobal.com/upload/projectsbig/100_1048.JPG" width="200" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"&gt;John King: So, how does this confusing and sometimes ugly debate over raising the debt ceiling and a package of spending cuts compare to past big political divides and how is it impacting the U.S. standing and reputation around the world? Fareed, it does remind you of the old saying, 'Never let them know how you make the sausage.' What's happening in &lt;b&gt;Washington &lt;/b&gt;right now is not pretty.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Fareed Zakaria: It's not pretty at all. You know, it was Bismarck who said that you don't want to be watching the insides of sausage-making or legislation-making. But what is odd about this one is it is a really manufactured crisis. The Speaker of the House has said that we could end this crisis very easily, but the whole nature of the crisis is self-inflicted. Most countries don't even have this thing called raising a debt ceiling.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1685300467968544872-4171966891749939781?l=allbestideas.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://allbestideas.blogspot.com/feeds/4171966891749939781/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://allbestideas.blogspot.com/2011/07/fareed-zakaria-sat-down-with-john-king.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1685300467968544872/posts/default/4171966891749939781'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1685300467968544872/posts/default/4171966891749939781'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://allbestideas.blogspot.com/2011/07/fareed-zakaria-sat-down-with-john-king.html' title=''/><author><name>allbestideas</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11460232354450807548</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='13' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IpVA-FU_LgE/TC2q8xF9gmI/AAAAAAAAAGw/VKSzT5co_co/S220/logo.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1685300467968544872.post-7346097705729876767</id><published>2011-03-12T04:20:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2011-03-12T04:20:44.769-08:00</updated><title type='text'>هل أنت راضٍ عن أداء وزارة البيئة</title><content type='html'>sdfsdfsdfsdfsdfsdfsdf&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1685300467968544872-7346097705729876767?l=allbestideas.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://allbestideas.blogspot.com/feeds/7346097705729876767/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://allbestideas.blogspot.com/2011/03/blog-post.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1685300467968544872/posts/default/7346097705729876767'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1685300467968544872/posts/default/7346097705729876767'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://allbestideas.blogspot.com/2011/03/blog-post.html' title='هل أنت راضٍ عن أداء وزارة البيئة'/><author><name>allbestideas</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11460232354450807548</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='13' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IpVA-FU_LgE/TC2q8xF9gmI/AAAAAAAAAGw/VKSzT5co_co/S220/logo.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1685300467968544872.post-7014719130218171063</id><published>2010-08-13T02:17:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-08-13T02:22:29.673-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Ramadan</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;Ramadan&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;is the ninth month of the Islamic calendar. It is the&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;Islamic&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;month of&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;fasting, in which participating&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;Muslims&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;refrain from&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;eating,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;drinking&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;and&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;sexual activities&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;from&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;dawn&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;until&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;sunset.&amp;nbsp;Fasting is intended to teach Muslims about patience, humility, and spirituality. It is a time for Muslims to fast for the sake of&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;God and to offer more prayer than usual. During Ramadan, Muslims ask forgiveness for past sins, pray for guidance and help in refraining from everyday evils, and try to purify themselves through self-restraint and good deeds. As compared to the&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;solar calendar, the dates of Ramadan vary, moving backwards about ten days each year&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;depending on the moon. Muslims believe Ramadan to be the month in which the first verses of the&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;Qur'an&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;were revealed to the Prophet Muhammad.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_IpVA-FU_LgE/TGUNUXaJ6kI/AAAAAAAAAHw/V9fP1nG7yxs/s1600/ramadan441.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_IpVA-FU_LgE/TGUNUXaJ6kI/AAAAAAAAAHw/V9fP1nG7yxs/s320/ramadan441.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;Iftar&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;In many Muslim and non-Muslim countries with large Muslim populations, the faithful will abstain from food from sun up to sundown, but at dusk the family will gather for fast-breaking, known as Iftar. The sundown meal starts with the ritual eating of a date — just as Prophet&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;Muhammad&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;was believed to have done. Then it's time for a prayer to thank Allah followed by the meal. In many homes, this is a simple meal of fruits and vegetables along with traditional Middle Eastern fare.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;Over time, Iftar has grown into banquets and small festivals. This is a time of fellowship with families, friends and surrounding communities, but may also occupy larger spaces at mosques or banquet halls, where a hundred or more may gather at a time.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;Most markets close down during evening prayers and the&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;Iftar&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;meal, but then re-open and stay open for a good part of the night. Muslims can be seen shopping, eating, spending time with their friends and family during the evening hours. In many mid-east countries, this can last late into the evening, to early morning. However, if they try to attend to business as usual, it can become a time of personal trials, fasting without coffee or water.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;Eid ul-Fitr&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-themecolor: text1;"&gt;The holiday of Eid ul-Fitr (Arabic:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-themecolor: text1;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span xml:lang="ar"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span dir="RTL" lang="AR" style="color: black; font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-language: AR; mso-themecolor: text1;"&gt;عيد الفطر&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span dir="LTR"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span lang="AR-SA" style="color: black; font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-themecolor: text1;"&gt;&lt;span dir="LTR"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;‎&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-themecolor: text1;"&gt;) marks the end of the fasting period of Ramadan and the first day of the following month, after another&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-themecolor: text1;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-themecolor: text1;"&gt;new moon&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-themecolor: text1;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-themecolor: text1;"&gt;has been sighted. The Eid falls after 29 or 30 days of fasting, per the lunar sighting. Eid ul-Fitr means the Festival of Breaking the Fast; a special celebration is made. Food is donated to the poor (Zakat al-fitr); everyone puts on their best, usually new, clothes; and communal prayers are held in the early morning, followed by feasting and visiting relatives and friends. The prayer is two&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-themecolor: text1;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-themecolor: text1;"&gt;Raka'ahs&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-themecolor: text1;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-themecolor: text1;"&gt;only, and it is optional (mustahabb) prayer as opposed to the compulsory five daily prayers. Muslims are expected to do this as an act of worship, and to thank God.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1685300467968544872-7014719130218171063?l=allbestideas.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://allbestideas.blogspot.com/feeds/7014719130218171063/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://allbestideas.blogspot.com/2010/08/ramadan.html#comment-form' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1685300467968544872/posts/default/7014719130218171063'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1685300467968544872/posts/default/7014719130218171063'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://allbestideas.blogspot.com/2010/08/ramadan.html' title='Ramadan'/><author><name>allbestideas</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11460232354450807548</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='13' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IpVA-FU_LgE/TC2q8xF9gmI/AAAAAAAAAGw/VKSzT5co_co/S220/logo.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_IpVA-FU_LgE/TGUNUXaJ6kI/AAAAAAAAAHw/V9fP1nG7yxs/s72-c/ramadan441.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1685300467968544872.post-4056650393289667073</id><published>2010-08-02T00:16:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-08-02T00:16:09.270-07:00</updated><title type='text'>New Born Babies</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_IpVA-FU_LgE/TFZwHwtBdyI/AAAAAAAAAHo/9PgwoS40bJ8/s1600/BabiesAllBestIdeas.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_IpVA-FU_LgE/TFZwHwtBdyI/AAAAAAAAAHo/9PgwoS40bJ8/s320/BabiesAllBestIdeas.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;"&gt;Babies fuss sometimes. It’s part of being a baby, and there’s not a whole lot you can do to stop it. Fussiness and crying can be brought on by anything from hunger or discomfort to loneliness or a sense of frustration. Babies have a difficult time communicating what they want, and in many cases really don’t even know what they want. Their ability to process why they don’t feel happy at the moment is almost as primitive at first as their ability to express their frustration is.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;"&gt;Of course, some babies are more strong willed and prone to being fussy than others. That’s perfectly normal. How many parents have told you that one of their babies was a “good baby” and the other one was a “terror?”&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;"&gt;Regardless of how often, how hard, or how long your baby cries or fusses, though, you can do yourself and your baby a favor by remaining calm. Emotions are powerful things, and you can bet that your baby picks up on yours. When you are frustrated or angry, she picks up on that. Likewise, when you are happy and peaceful, she senses that as well.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;"&gt;It can be difficult to stay calm when your baby is crying. Your natural instinct as a parent is to try to meet her needs, and when nothing you try seems to be working it can be very frustrating, especially if you don’t have a naturally calm temperament. Here are some things you can do to help yourself remain calm when your baby is anything but:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;ul style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-left: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-indent: -10px;"&gt;&lt;li style="margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 7px;"&gt;- Sing. Soft, sweet songs not only help baby calm down, but mom and dad as well.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 7px;"&gt;- Pray. If it’s not your thing, that’s fine, but many people do find a lot of comfort in praying.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 7px;"&gt;- Meditate. We don’t suggest doing this while the baby is actually fussy and needy, but many parents find that meditating for a little while every day helps them to relax and stay calmer throughout the day.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 7px;"&gt;- Play soothing music. Turn the radio or mp3 player on to something nice and relaxing. Soft jazz or Classical music is perfect for this.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 7px;"&gt;-Talk calmly to baby. Using a soothing tone, even in speaking, calms you as much, and maybe more, than it does baby.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 7px;"&gt;- Step out of the room if you need to. Make sure baby is someplace safe, of course. Understand that being with baby and being overly frustrated isn’t helping meet baby’s needs. Take a step away. Your baby will be OK until you get back, and you will be better prepared to take care of her.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 7px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.allbestideas.com/"&gt;Send a new born baby gift to lebanon, log on to All Best Ideas.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1685300467968544872-4056650393289667073?l=allbestideas.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://allbestideas.blogspot.com/feeds/4056650393289667073/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://allbestideas.blogspot.com/2010/08/new-born-babies.html#comment-form' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1685300467968544872/posts/default/4056650393289667073'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1685300467968544872/posts/default/4056650393289667073'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://allbestideas.blogspot.com/2010/08/new-born-babies.html' title='New Born Babies'/><author><name>allbestideas</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11460232354450807548</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='13' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IpVA-FU_LgE/TC2q8xF9gmI/AAAAAAAAAGw/VKSzT5co_co/S220/logo.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_IpVA-FU_LgE/TFZwHwtBdyI/AAAAAAAAAHo/9PgwoS40bJ8/s72-c/BabiesAllBestIdeas.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1685300467968544872.post-3418227945675780168</id><published>2010-07-05T03:21:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-07-05T03:21:20.868-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Summer Activities</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"&gt;Summer&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"&gt; is the warmest of the four temperate seasons, between spring and autumn. It is marked by the longest days and shortest nights. The seasons start on different dates in different cultures based on astronomy and regional meteorology. However, when it is summer in the southern hemisphere it is winter in the northern hemisphere, and vice versa. In areas of the tropics and subtropics, the wet season occurs during the summer. Tropical cyclones develop and roam the tropical and subtropical oceans during the summer. In the interior of continents, thunderstorms are most likely to produce hail during the afternoon and evening. Schools and universities have a summer break to take advantage of the warmer weather and longer days.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;In most countries children are out of school during this time of year for summer holidays, although dates vary. In the Northern hemisphere, some begin as early as mid-May, although in England and Wales, school ends in mid- to late July. In the Southern hemisphere, school holiday dates include the major holidays of Christmas and New Year's Day. Summer school holidays in Australia begin a few weeks before Christmas and end in late January to mid-February, with the dates varying in different states.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;In higher latitude locations, summer is the time for road resurfacing, as winter ice and snow leaves potholes behind in the pavement due to the expansion and contraction of ice and snow during the winter months. Construction jobs tend to have minimum temperature requirements in order for work to be accomplished, such as the laying of concrete. This is because materials like concrete take increasingly longer to dry within cold temperature regimes. Also, working within warmer weather regimes is done to prevent expansion of ice within the new material, which decreases its potential strength and integrity.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;People take advantage of the warmer temperatures by spending more time outdoors during the summer. Activities such as traveling to the beach and picnics occur during summer months. Sports such as cricket, volleyball, skateboarding, baseball, softball, soccer, tennis, water polo, and football are played. Water skiing is a uniquely summer sport, which is done when waters approach their warmest of the year.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IpVA-FU_LgE/TDGx3Ft8s-I/AAAAAAAAAHg/8y5Gco0knuM/s1600/Swimming-20Pool-20Picture_1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" rw="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IpVA-FU_LgE/TDGx3Ft8s-I/AAAAAAAAAHg/8y5Gco0knuM/s320/Swimming-20Pool-20Picture_1.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;One of the most famous summer activities is swimming. Swimming aims for exercise and for cooling down from the hot summer temperatures. People usually wear a swimming suit when swimming, log on to &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.allbestideas.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="color: purple; font-family: Calibri;"&gt;www.allbestideas.com&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt; and shop for a trendy swimming suit. Be fashionable in swimming. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1685300467968544872-3418227945675780168?l=allbestideas.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://allbestideas.blogspot.com/feeds/3418227945675780168/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://allbestideas.blogspot.com/2010/07/summer-activities.html#comment-form' title='9 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1685300467968544872/posts/default/3418227945675780168'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1685300467968544872/posts/default/3418227945675780168'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://allbestideas.blogspot.com/2010/07/summer-activities.html' title='Summer Activities'/><author><name>allbestideas</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11460232354450807548</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='13' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IpVA-FU_LgE/TC2q8xF9gmI/AAAAAAAAAGw/VKSzT5co_co/S220/logo.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IpVA-FU_LgE/TDGx3Ft8s-I/AAAAAAAAAHg/8y5Gco0knuM/s72-c/Swimming-20Pool-20Picture_1.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>9</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1685300467968544872.post-6748388558524074868</id><published>2010-04-12T00:10:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-04-12T00:10:24.510-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Spring Time</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_IpVA-FU_LgE/S8LGyKCpDxI/AAAAAAAAAGc/uIHk8Hl655w/s1600/sp1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_IpVA-FU_LgE/S8LGyKCpDxI/AAAAAAAAAGc/uIHk8Hl655w/s320/sp1.jpg" wt="true" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: 13.5pt;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;"&gt;The spring of the year is a favorite season for many people, and it is certainly easy to understand why this is so. The spring is when the earth comes back to life after a long cold winter, and it is in the spring when the first flowers begin to bloom and the green world begins to return after its winter slumber. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: 13.5pt;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;"&gt;The power of spring and its regenerative effects are evidenced by the fact that every major religion includes a major holiday in the spring season. From Passover to Easter, it seems that every culture marks spring with a celebration of renewal and new life. It is easy to understand how in times past ancient cultures were overjoyed by the power of spring and the beauty of new life.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_IpVA-FU_LgE/S8LHCcmo8bI/AAAAAAAAAGk/eKHpWNqMtxo/s1600/spring.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_IpVA-FU_LgE/S8LHCcmo8bI/AAAAAAAAAGk/eKHpWNqMtxo/s320/spring.jpg" wt="true" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: 13.5pt;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;"&gt;The spring is an important season for many hobbies, including of course gardening. For the gardener, the spring is one of the most pleasant times in the garden. The spring is the time when the bulbs that were carefully planted in the fall begin to grow and blossom, and the spring is when the first seedlings are carefully nestled in the garden. There is no doubt that the spring is one of the most beautiful, and most colorful, of all seasons for the gardener.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: 13.5pt;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;"&gt;The spring is also a favorite time for home improvement projects that could not go forward while the weather was too cold. Whether it is a small project like installing new downspouts or a large project like building a new garage or storage shed, the spring is one of the best times to work at improving the value and livability of the home. In the spring, the weather is neither too hot nor too cold, and the homeowner has plenty of daylight in which to work. It is no wonder that the spring season is one of the busiest for home improvement stores and warehouses.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: 13.5pt;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;"&gt;For the outdoor sports enthusiast, there is nothing like the coming of the spring season. For the fisherman, the coming of spring means the first day of trout season. For the avid hiker, spring means that those favorite trails are no longer impassable due to snow, and for the horseback rider spring means being able to take a ride without first bundling up. And of course spring means the opening of baseball season, a joy for spectators and players alike.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.allbestideas.com/"&gt;Send Gifts, Flowers, Cakes, Balloons, Pets, Perfumes, and many more. Send Gifts to Lebanon via www.allbestideas.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1685300467968544872-6748388558524074868?l=allbestideas.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://allbestideas.blogspot.com/feeds/6748388558524074868/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://allbestideas.blogspot.com/2010/04/spring-time.html#comment-form' title='14 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1685300467968544872/posts/default/6748388558524074868'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1685300467968544872/posts/default/6748388558524074868'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://allbestideas.blogspot.com/2010/04/spring-time.html' title='Spring Time'/><author><name>allbestideas</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11460232354450807548</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='13' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IpVA-FU_LgE/TC2q8xF9gmI/AAAAAAAAAGw/VKSzT5co_co/S220/logo.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_IpVA-FU_LgE/S8LGyKCpDxI/AAAAAAAAAGc/uIHk8Hl655w/s72-c/sp1.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>14</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1685300467968544872.post-8888223464199452285</id><published>2010-03-28T22:51:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-03-28T22:52:50.057-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Easter</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-line-height-alt: 11.25pt;"&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;; mso-themecolor: text1;"&gt;Easter is a time of springtime festivals. In Christian countries Easter is celebrated as the religious holiday commemorating the resurrection of Jesus Christ, the son of God. But the celebrations of Easter have many customs and legends that are pagan in origin and have nothing to do with Christianity.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-line-height-alt: 11.25pt;"&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_IpVA-FU_LgE/S7A-hkoM5KI/AAAAAAAAAGE/Uyer4rvBMws/s1600/The_resurrection_day.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" nt="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_IpVA-FU_LgE/S7A-hkoM5KI/AAAAAAAAAGE/Uyer4rvBMws/s320/The_resurrection_day.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;; mso-themecolor: text1;"&gt;Scholars, accepting the derivation proposed by the 8th-century English scholar St. Bede, believe the name Easter is thought to come from the Scandinavian &lt;i&gt;"Ostra"&lt;/i&gt; and the Teutonic &lt;i&gt;"Ostern"&lt;/i&gt; or &lt;i&gt;"Eastre,"&lt;/i&gt; both Goddesses of mythology signifying spring and fertility whose festival was celebrated on the day of the vernal equinox.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-line-height-alt: 11.25pt;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-line-height-alt: 11.25pt;"&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; mso-themecolor: text1;"&gt;Traditions associated with the festival survive in the Easter rabbit, a symbol of fertility, and in colored easter eggs, originally painted with bright colors to represent the sunlight of spring, and used in Easter-egg rolling contests or given as gifts.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-line-height-alt: 11.25pt;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-line-height-alt: 11.25pt;"&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;; mso-themecolor: text1;"&gt;The Christian celebration of Easter embodies a number of converging traditions with emphasis on the relation of Easter to the Jewish festival of &lt;a href="http://www.holidays.net/passover/"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"&gt;Passover&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, or Pesach, from which is derived Pasch, another name used by Europeans for Easter. &lt;a href="http://www.holidays.net/passover/"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"&gt;Passover &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;is an important feast in the Jewish calendar which is celebrated for 8 days and commemorates the flight and freedom of the Israelites from slavery in Egypt.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-line-height-alt: 11.25pt;"&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;; mso-themecolor: text1;"&gt;The early Christians, many of whom were of Jewish origin, were brought up in the Hebrew tradition and regarded Easter as a new feature of the Passover festival, a commemoration of the advent of the Messiah as foretold by the prophets.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-line-height-alt: 11.25pt;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-line-height-alt: 11.25pt;"&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;; mso-themecolor: text1;"&gt;Easter is observed by the churches of the West on the first Sunday following the full moon that occurs on or following the spring equinox (March 21). So Easter became a "movable" feast which can occur as early as March 22 or as late as April 25. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-line-height-alt: 11.25pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;; mso-themecolor: text1;"&gt;Christian churches in the East which were closer to the birthplace of the new religion and in which old traditions were strong, observe Easter according to the date of the Passover festival.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-line-height-alt: 11.25pt;"&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_IpVA-FU_LgE/S7A_YTjXE7I/AAAAAAAAAGM/0WJ1hau8DpA/s1600/easter%2520bunny.gif" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="200" nt="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_IpVA-FU_LgE/S7A_YTjXE7I/AAAAAAAAAGM/0WJ1hau8DpA/s200/easter%2520bunny.gif" width="200" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;; mso-themecolor: text1;"&gt;Easter is at the end of the Lenten season, which covers a forty-six-day period that begins on Ash Wednesday and ends with Easter. The Lenten season itself comprises forty days, as the six Sundays in Lent are not actually a part of Lent. Sundays are considered a commemoration of Easter Sunday and have always been excluded from the Lenten fast. The Lenten season is a period of penitence in preparation for the highest festival of the church year, Easter.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-line-height-alt: 11.25pt;"&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;; mso-themecolor: text1;"&gt;Holy Week, the last week of Lent, begins with the observance of Palm Sunday. Palm Sunday takes its name from Jesus' triumphal entry into Jerusalem where the crowds laid palms at his feet. Holy Thursday commemorates the Last Supper, which was held the evening before the Crucifixion. Friday in Holy Week is the anniversary of the Crufixion, the day that Christ was crucified and died on the cross.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-line-height-alt: 11.25pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;; mso-themecolor: text1;"&gt;Holy week and the Lenten season end with Easter Sunday, the day of resurrection of Jesus Christ.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.allbestideas.com/"&gt;Lebanon is one the countries that celebrates Easter. Send an Easter gift to your close ones in Lebanon, Send Chocolate eggs to Lebanon. Click Here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1685300467968544872-8888223464199452285?l=allbestideas.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://allbestideas.blogspot.com/feeds/8888223464199452285/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://allbestideas.blogspot.com/2010/03/easter-is-time-of-springtime-festivals.html#comment-form' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1685300467968544872/posts/default/8888223464199452285'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1685300467968544872/posts/default/8888223464199452285'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://allbestideas.blogspot.com/2010/03/easter-is-time-of-springtime-festivals.html' title='Easter'/><author><name>allbestideas</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11460232354450807548</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='13' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IpVA-FU_LgE/TC2q8xF9gmI/AAAAAAAAAGw/VKSzT5co_co/S220/logo.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_IpVA-FU_LgE/S7A-hkoM5KI/AAAAAAAAAGE/Uyer4rvBMws/s72-c/The_resurrection_day.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1685300467968544872.post-5079650951985729874</id><published>2010-03-03T00:39:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-03-03T00:39:01.379-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Mother's Day History</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_IpVA-FU_LgE/S44ffp636uI/AAAAAAAAAF8/tcFyy2sgPtg/s1600-h/mothers-day.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" kt="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_IpVA-FU_LgE/S44ffp636uI/AAAAAAAAAF8/tcFyy2sgPtg/s320/mothers-day.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: #660000; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;The history of Mother's Day is centuries old and goes back to the times of ancient Greeks, who held festivities to honor Rhea, the mother of the gods. The early Christians celebrated the Mother's festival on the fourth Sunday of Lent to honor Mary, the mother of Christ. Interestingly, later on a religious order stretched the holiday to include all mothers, and named it as the Mothering Sunday. The English colonists settled in America discontinued the tradition of Mothering Sunday because of lack of time. In 1872 Julia Ward Howe organized a day for mothers dedicated to peace. It is a landmark in the history of Mother's Day.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In 1907, Anna M. Jarvis (1864-1948), a Philadelphia schoolteacher, began a movement to set up a national Mother's Day in honor of her mother, Ann Maria Reeves Jarvis. She solicited the help of hundreds of legislators and prominent businessmen to create a special day to honor mothers. The first Mother's Day observance was a church service honoring Anna's mother. Anna handed out her mother's favorite flowers, the white incarnations, on the occasion as they represent sweetness, purity, and patience. Anna's hard work finally paid off in the year 1914, when President Woodrow Wilson proclaimed the second Sunday in May as a national holiday in honor of mothers. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Slowly and gradually the Mother's day became very popular and gift giving activity increased. All this commercialization of the Mother's day infuriated Anna as she believed that the day's sentiment was being sacrificed at the expense of greed and profit.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #660000; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.allbestideas.com/"&gt;Make your Mom happy on her special day of the year. log on to www.allbestideas.com and choose for her the gift she will never forget.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1685300467968544872-5079650951985729874?l=allbestideas.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://allbestideas.blogspot.com/feeds/5079650951985729874/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://allbestideas.blogspot.com/2010/03/mothers-day-history.html#comment-form' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1685300467968544872/posts/default/5079650951985729874'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1685300467968544872/posts/default/5079650951985729874'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://allbestideas.blogspot.com/2010/03/mothers-day-history.html' title='Mother&apos;s Day History'/><author><name>allbestideas</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11460232354450807548</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='13' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IpVA-FU_LgE/TC2q8xF9gmI/AAAAAAAAAGw/VKSzT5co_co/S220/logo.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_IpVA-FU_LgE/S44ffp636uI/AAAAAAAAAF8/tcFyy2sgPtg/s72-c/mothers-day.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1685300467968544872.post-6928952847137515557</id><published>2010-02-19T07:04:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-02-22T01:31:09.011-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Connecting Flower's Color to Aspects of Life</title><content type='html'>Roses come in a wide range of colors. Each different color has a different meaning. It sends a silent, yet extremely important message from the sender to receiver. &lt;br /&gt;Make sure you are sending the right message when you select roses for someone, else he or she will get the wrong message! &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;table border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="MsoTableGrid" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-collapse: collapse; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; mso-border-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-themecolor: text1; mso-padding-alt: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-yfti-tbllook: 1184; width: 699px;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr style="height: 13.5pt; mso-yfti-firstrow: yes; mso-yfti-irow: 0;"&gt;&lt;td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: black 1pt solid; border-left: black 1pt solid; border-right: black 1pt solid; border-top: black 1pt solid; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-themecolor: text1; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0in; width: 262.3pt;" valign="top" width="350"&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;Red&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: black 1pt solid; border-left: #ece9d8; border-right: black 1pt solid; border-top: black 1pt solid; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-left-themecolor: text1; mso-border-themecolor: text1; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0in; width: 262.3pt;" valign="top" width="350"&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;Love, beauty, courage and respect&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr style="height: 27pt; mso-yfti-irow: 1;"&gt;&lt;td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: black 1pt solid; border-left: black 1pt solid; border-right: black 1pt solid; border-top: #ece9d8; height: 27pt; mso-border-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-themecolor: text1; mso-border-top-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-top-themecolor: text1; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0in; width: 262.3pt;" valign="top" width="350"&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;White&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: black 1pt solid; border-left: #ece9d8; border-right: black 1pt solid; border-top: #ece9d8; height: 27pt; mso-border-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-bottom-themecolor: text1; mso-border-left-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-left-themecolor: text1; mso-border-right-themecolor: text1; mso-border-themecolor: text1; mso-border-top-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-top-themecolor: text1; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0in; width: 262.3pt;" width="350"&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;Purity and innocence, silence or secrecy, also reverence and humility&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr style="height: 27.75pt; mso-yfti-irow: 2;"&gt;&lt;td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: black 1pt solid; border-left: black 1pt solid; border-right: black 1pt solid; border-top: #ece9d8; height: 27.75pt; mso-border-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-themecolor: text1; mso-border-top-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-top-themecolor: text1; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0in; width: 262.3pt;" valign="top" width="350"&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;Pink&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: black 1pt solid; border-left: #ece9d8; border-right: black 1pt solid; border-top: #ece9d8; height: 27.75pt; mso-border-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-bottom-themecolor: text1; mso-border-left-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-left-themecolor: text1; mso-border-right-themecolor: text1; mso-border-themecolor: text1; mso-border-top-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-top-themecolor: text1; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0in; width: 262.3pt;" width="350"&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;Appreciation, “Thank you", grace, perfect happiness, and admiration&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr style="height: 13.5pt; mso-yfti-irow: 3;"&gt;&lt;td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: black 1pt solid; border-left: black 1pt solid; border-right: black 1pt solid; border-top: #ece9d8; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-themecolor: text1; mso-border-top-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-top-themecolor: text1; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0in; width: 262.3pt;" valign="top" width="350"&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;Dark Pink&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: black 1pt solid; border-left: #ece9d8; border-right: black 1pt solid; border-top: #ece9d8; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-bottom-themecolor: text1; mso-border-left-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-left-themecolor: text1; mso-border-right-themecolor: text1; mso-border-themecolor: text1; mso-border-top-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-top-themecolor: text1; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0in; width: 262.3pt;" valign="top" width="350"&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;Appreciation, gratitude&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr style="height: 13.5pt; mso-yfti-irow: 4;"&gt;&lt;td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: black 1pt solid; border-left: black 1pt solid; border-right: black 1pt solid; border-top: #ece9d8; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-themecolor: text1; mso-border-top-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-top-themecolor: text1; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0in; width: 262.3pt;" valign="top" width="350"&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;Light Pink&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: black 1pt solid; border-left: #ece9d8; border-right: black 1pt solid; border-top: #ece9d8; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-bottom-themecolor: text1; mso-border-left-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-left-themecolor: text1; mso-border-right-themecolor: text1; mso-border-themecolor: text1; mso-border-top-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-top-themecolor: text1; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0in; width: 262.3pt;" valign="top" width="350"&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;admiration, sympathy&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr style="height: 27.75pt; mso-yfti-irow: 5;"&gt;&lt;td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: black 1pt solid; border-left: black 1pt solid; border-right: black 1pt solid; border-top: #ece9d8; height: 27.75pt; mso-border-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-themecolor: text1; mso-border-top-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-top-themecolor: text1; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0in; width: 262.3pt;" valign="top" width="350"&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;Yellow&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: black 1pt solid; border-left: #ece9d8; border-right: black 1pt solid; border-top: #ece9d8; height: 27.75pt; mso-border-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-bottom-themecolor: text1; mso-border-left-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-left-themecolor: text1; mso-border-right-themecolor: text1; mso-border-themecolor: text1; mso-border-top-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-top-themecolor: text1; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0in; width: 262.3pt;" width="350"&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;Joy, gladness, friendship, delight, the promise of a new beginning&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr style="height: 13.5pt; mso-yfti-irow: 6;"&gt;&lt;td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: black 1pt solid; border-left: black 1pt solid; border-right: black 1pt solid; border-top: #ece9d8; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-themecolor: text1; mso-border-top-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-top-themecolor: text1; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0in; width: 262.3pt;" valign="top" width="350"&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;Orange&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: black 1pt solid; border-left: #ece9d8; border-right: black 1pt solid; border-top: #ece9d8; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-bottom-themecolor: text1; mso-border-left-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-left-themecolor: text1; mso-border-right-themecolor: text1; mso-border-themecolor: text1; mso-border-top-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-top-themecolor: text1; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0in; width: 262.3pt;" width="350"&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;Desire, and enthusiasm&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr style="height: 13.5pt; mso-yfti-irow: 7;"&gt;&lt;td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: black 1pt solid; border-left: black 1pt solid; border-right: black 1pt solid; border-top: #ece9d8; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-themecolor: text1; mso-border-top-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-top-themecolor: text1; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0in; width: 262.3pt;" valign="top" width="350"&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;Red and White&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: black 1pt solid; border-left: #ece9d8; border-right: black 1pt solid; border-top: #ece9d8; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-bottom-themecolor: text1; mso-border-left-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-left-themecolor: text1; mso-border-right-themecolor: text1; mso-border-themecolor: text1; mso-border-top-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-top-themecolor: text1; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0in; width: 262.3pt;" valign="top" width="350"&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;Given together, these signify unity.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr style="height: 13.5pt; mso-yfti-irow: 8;"&gt;&lt;td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: black 1pt solid; border-left: black 1pt solid; border-right: black 1pt solid; border-top: #ece9d8; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-themecolor: text1; mso-border-top-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-top-themecolor: text1; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0in; width: 262.3pt;" valign="top" width="350"&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;Red Rosebud&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: black 1pt solid; border-left: #ece9d8; border-right: black 1pt solid; border-top: #ece9d8; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-bottom-themecolor: text1; mso-border-left-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-left-themecolor: text1; mso-border-right-themecolor: text1; mso-border-themecolor: text1; mso-border-top-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-top-themecolor: text1; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0in; width: 262.3pt;" valign="top" width="350"&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;A symbol of purity and loveliness&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr style="height: 13.5pt; mso-yfti-irow: 9;"&gt;&lt;td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: black 1pt solid; border-left: black 1pt solid; border-right: black 1pt solid; border-top: #ece9d8; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-themecolor: text1; mso-border-top-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-top-themecolor: text1; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0in; width: 262.3pt;" valign="top" width="350"&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;White Rosebud&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: black 1pt solid; border-left: #ece9d8; border-right: black 1pt solid; border-top: #ece9d8; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-bottom-themecolor: text1; mso-border-left-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-left-themecolor: text1; mso-border-right-themecolor: text1; mso-border-themecolor: text1; mso-border-top-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-top-themecolor: text1; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0in; width: 262.3pt;" valign="top" width="350"&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;Symbolic of girlhood&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr style="height: 14.25pt; mso-yfti-irow: 10; mso-yfti-lastrow: yes;"&gt;&lt;td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: black 1pt solid; border-left: black 1pt solid; border-right: black 1pt solid; border-top: #ece9d8; height: 14.25pt; mso-border-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-themecolor: text1; mso-border-top-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-top-themecolor: text1; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0in; width: 262.3pt;" valign="top" width="350"&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;Thorn less Rose&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: black 1pt solid; border-left: #ece9d8; border-right: black 1pt solid; border-top: #ece9d8; height: 14.25pt; mso-border-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-bottom-themecolor: text1; mso-border-left-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-left-themecolor: text1; mso-border-right-themecolor: text1; mso-border-themecolor: text1; mso-border-top-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-top-themecolor: text1; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0in; width: 262.3pt;" valign="top" width="350"&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;Signifies "Love at first sight".&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; 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border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN;"&gt;Valentine's Day, the season of love, romance, and more love. For many, Valentine's Day is a mad rush act of booking the perfect restaurant, ordering the perfect arrangement of jaunty roses, and wrapping that perfect, extravagant Valentine gift. While for some, the season of hearts passes by quietly, unceremoniously, just like any other day. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Valentine's Day has often been criticized as just an excuse for consumerism, an opportunity for businesses. Consequently, cynics everywhere have also unfairly stained the well-meaning tradition of sending Valentine cards. As if it is Hallmark's fault that people are only sending cards perfunctorily, without thought at all, but just to get over the holiday. Indeed, Valentine's Day is the second largest card-exchanging holiday next to Christmas, making Hallmark the unmistakable industry leader.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_IpVA-FU_LgE/S2L7mN6QWhI/AAAAAAAAAFs/Mnn1BJR7wXE/s1600-h/lens8666701_1261586225heart-o-hearts.gif" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" kt="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_IpVA-FU_LgE/S2L7mN6QWhI/AAAAAAAAAFs/Mnn1BJR7wXE/s320/lens8666701_1261586225heart-o-hearts.gif" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN;"&gt;Other Valentine's Day statistics are: &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-85% of all Valentine cards are bought by women. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-73% of flowers are bought by men, and only 27% are by women.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-Chocolate and candy sales reach profits of $1,011 billion during Valentines.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN;"&gt;-Approximately one in four Americans do not celebrate the holiday at all. In addition, 15% of American women (and even men) send flowers to themselves on Valentine's Day.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; tab-stops: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;-There is no shortage of places where you can buy flowers for your&amp;nbsp;valentine: there were 26,400 florists nationwide, employing 123,600 persons, in 1995.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; tab-stops: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;-2005 Valentine's Day Consumer Intentions and Actions Survey,&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;found the average consumer will spend $97.27 on Valentine's Day, down slightly from $99.24 last year. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-BUT 61.8 percent of consumers plan on celebrating the holiday, which is up from 59.8 percent one year ago. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-In all, 2005 Valentine's Day spending was forecasted to reach $13.19 billion.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1685300467968544872-8013183596833603944?l=allbestideas.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://allbestideas.blogspot.com/feeds/8013183596833603944/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://allbestideas.blogspot.com/2010/01/valentines-day-statistics.html#comment-form' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1685300467968544872/posts/default/8013183596833603944'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1685300467968544872/posts/default/8013183596833603944'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://allbestideas.blogspot.com/2010/01/valentines-day-statistics.html' title='Valentine&apos;s Day Statistics'/><author><name>allbestideas</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11460232354450807548</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='13' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IpVA-FU_LgE/TC2q8xF9gmI/AAAAAAAAAGw/VKSzT5co_co/S220/logo.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_IpVA-FU_LgE/S2L7mN6QWhI/AAAAAAAAAFs/Mnn1BJR7wXE/s72-c/lens8666701_1261586225heart-o-hearts.gif' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1685300467968544872.post-7057662876351657976</id><published>2010-01-15T04:10:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-01-15T04:16:19.307-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Pets at All best Ideas</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;At All Best Ideas, we provide a variety of the best animal pets. These pets vary into lovebirds, dogs, cats, hamsters, fish, and even snakes. These pets do not harm people, especially when trained. Each pet has a unique character and affects on a human in a special way.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;-The &lt;b&gt;dog&lt;/b&gt; is a domesticated form of the wolf. The domestic dog has been one of the most widely kept working and companion animals in human history. Amongst canine enthusiasts, the word "dog" may also mean the male of a canine species, as opposed to the word "bitch" for the female of the species. The dog quickly became ubiquitous across culture across the world, and was extremely valuable to early human settlements. For instance, it is believed that the successful emigration across the Bering Strait might not have been possible without sled dogs. Dogs perform many roles for people, such as hunting, herding, protection, assisting police and military, companionship, and, more recently, aiding handicapped individuals. This versatility, more than almost any other known animal, has given them the nickname "Man's best friend" in the western world. Currently, there are estimated to be 400 million dogs in the world. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IpVA-FU_LgE/S1BcMvT_9uI/AAAAAAAAAFk/B1zORAHYSzg/s1600-h/Send-a-Dog-to-Lebanon_Send-Cat-to-Lebanon.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" ps="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IpVA-FU_LgE/S1BcMvT_9uI/AAAAAAAAAFk/B1zORAHYSzg/s320/Send-a-Dog-to-Lebanon_Send-Cat-to-Lebanon.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;-&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"&gt; The &lt;b&gt;cat&lt;/b&gt; also known as the &lt;b&gt;domestic cat&lt;/b&gt; or &lt;b&gt;housecat&lt;/b&gt; is a small carnivorous mammal that is valued by humans for its companionship and its ability to hunt vermin and household pests. Cats have been associated with humans for at least 9,500 years, and are currently the most popular pet in the world. Due to their close association with humans, cats are now found almost everywhere on Earth. This extreme adaptability and their worrying impacts on native animals have led to them being classed as an invasive species.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN;"&gt;-&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt; Lovebirds are 13 to 17 centimeters in length and from 40 to 60 grams in weight. They are among the smallest parrots, characterized by a stocky build, a short blunt tail, and a relatively large, sharp beak. Wild type lovebirds are mostly green with a variety of colors on their upper body, depending on the species. The Fischer's Lovebird, Black-cheeked Lovebird, and the Masked Lovebird have a prominent white ring around their eyes. The Abyssinian Lovebird, the Madagascar Lovebird, and the Red-faced Lovebird are sexually dimorphic. Selective breeding of the species that are popular in aviculture has produced many color mutant varieties.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;- Hamsters are crepuscular. In the wild, they burrow underground in the daylight to avoid being caught by predators. Their diet contains a variety of foods, including dried food, berries, nuts, fresh fruits and vegetables. In the wild they will eat any wheat, nuts and small bits of fruit and vegetables that they might find lying around on the ground, and will occasionally eat small insects such as small fruit flies, crickets, and meal worms. They have elongated fur-lined pouches on both sides of their heads that extend to their shoulders, which they stuff full of food to be stored, brought back to the colony or to be eaten later.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN;"&gt;-&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;The &lt;b&gt;goldfish&lt;/b&gt; was one of the earliest fish to be domesticated, and is still one of the most commonly kept aquarium fish. A relatively small member of the carp family, the goldfish is a domesticated version of a dark-gray/olive/brown carp native to East Asia that was introduced to Europe in the late 17th century. The mutation that gave rise to the goldfish is also known from other cyprinid species, such as common carp and tench.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IpVA-FU_LgE/S1BcE-_iWxI/AAAAAAAAAFc/ZBfy7IGtrgg/s1600-h/Send-Pets-To-Lebanon.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" ps="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IpVA-FU_LgE/S1BcE-_iWxI/AAAAAAAAAFc/ZBfy7IGtrgg/s320/Send-Pets-To-Lebanon.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;-&lt;b&gt;Snakes&lt;/b&gt; are elongate legless carnivorous reptiles of the suborder &lt;b&gt;Serpentes&lt;/b&gt; that can be distinguished from legless lizards by their lack of eyelids and external ears. Like all squamates, snakes are ectothermic amniote vertebrates covered in overlapping scales. Many species of snakes have skulls with many more joints than their lizard ancestors, enabling them to swallow prey much larger than their heads with their highly mobile jaws. In order to accommodate their narrow bodies, snakes' paired organs (such as kidneys) appear one in front of the other instead of side by side, and most have only one functional lung. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;Many people have a wide interest in raising pet. Send a Pet to Lebanon, Log on to &lt;a href="http://www.allbestideas.com/"&gt;http://www.allbestideas.com/&lt;/a&gt; and send one of the pets mentioned in the text to lebanon.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1685300467968544872-7057662876351657976?l=allbestideas.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://allbestideas.blogspot.com/feeds/7057662876351657976/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://allbestideas.blogspot.com/2010/01/at-all-best-ideas-we-provide-variety-of.html#comment-form' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1685300467968544872/posts/default/7057662876351657976'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1685300467968544872/posts/default/7057662876351657976'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://allbestideas.blogspot.com/2010/01/at-all-best-ideas-we-provide-variety-of.html' title='Pets at All best Ideas'/><author><name>allbestideas</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11460232354450807548</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='13' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IpVA-FU_LgE/TC2q8xF9gmI/AAAAAAAAAGw/VKSzT5co_co/S220/logo.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IpVA-FU_LgE/S1BcMvT_9uI/AAAAAAAAAFk/B1zORAHYSzg/s72-c/Send-a-Dog-to-Lebanon_Send-Cat-to-Lebanon.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1685300467968544872.post-2786597039582247564</id><published>2010-01-04T02:49:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-01-11T02:37:46.244-08:00</updated><title type='text'>The History Of Valentine's Day</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_IpVA-FU_LgE/S0HFQTB0u0I/AAAAAAAAAEk/ELPa8wPJt9s/s1600-h/st+valentines.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" ps="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_IpVA-FU_LgE/S0HFQTB0u0I/AAAAAAAAAEk/ELPa8wPJt9s/s320/st+valentines.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"&gt;On 14 February, all the nations celebrate Saint Valentine’s Day, usually by the way of exchanging cards, sweets, lingerie, flowers, &lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;jewelry, or any type of gift that might express the feeling of love. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What exactly are we celebrating, is it just a holiday the retail stores invented for the increase of profit? This idea is possible; however, it is not true. Valentines is the Christian celebration of Saint Valentines. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We are following a Christian and ancient Roman tradition. By now, the Catholic Church recognizes three Saints by the name of Valentine, or Valentinus. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The first myth concerning the celebration of Valentine’s Day is the following: &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;During the 3&lt;sup&gt;rd&lt;/sup&gt; century a priest by the name of Valentine, under Claudius II in Rome, secretly disobeyed the law. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Claudius had come to believe that a single soldier was a better soldier than a married young man was and so decided to outlaw marriage in order to have very young strong men with no wives at his disposal. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Valentine, the priest, did not obey this law and continued to celebrate the holy bond of marriage for young couples in secrecy. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Of course, the way it always works with secret clauses, Claudius caught the priest and decided to execute him.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The second legend states that Valentine was a prisoner who fell in love with a young woman, who came to see him often, and that she was his jailors daughter. Before his execution, he wrote her a love letter, signed with ‘Your Valentine’.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;No one is even sure if 14 February was the day of his birth or his death or if it had indeed anything to do with Saint Valentine at all. The only thing that is sure is that the Romans had a tradition in the middle of February, which would mark the 14&lt;sup&gt;th&lt;/sup&gt;, called the Love Lottery. It was believed that spring and with it, the renewal of life came along in the middle of February, therefore the love lottery was held, coupling young men and women for one year, often leading to marriage.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;The USA, Canada, Mexico, France, Australia and the United Kingdom celebrate Valentine’s Day. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"&gt;In the British museum, you can view the oldest known Valentine’s card.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_IpVA-FU_LgE/S0HHJ032wTI/AAAAAAAAAE0/Ll3EqzTXc3g/s1600-h/red+heart.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="cssfloat: left; height: 247px; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; width: 231px;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" ps="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_IpVA-FU_LgE/S0HHJ032wTI/AAAAAAAAAE0/Ll3EqzTXc3g/s320/red+heart.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"&gt;Valentine’s Day became an official Catholic Holiday in the year 496 or 498 AD Pope Gelasius declared the 14 February to be Saint Valentine’s Day. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;Since then the symbol of valentines became the color Red, specifically the valentine red heart.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.allbestideas.com/"&gt;Send a valentines gift to Lebanon, send a gift for the person you love, express your love in the ebst way. Log on to www.allbestideas.com.&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1685300467968544872-2786597039582247564?l=allbestideas.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://allbestideas.blogspot.com/feeds/2786597039582247564/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://allbestideas.blogspot.com/2010/01/on-14-february-all-nations-celebrate.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1685300467968544872/posts/default/2786597039582247564'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1685300467968544872/posts/default/2786597039582247564'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://allbestideas.blogspot.com/2010/01/on-14-february-all-nations-celebrate.html' title='The History Of Valentine&apos;s Day'/><author><name>allbestideas</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11460232354450807548</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='13' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IpVA-FU_LgE/TC2q8xF9gmI/AAAAAAAAAGw/VKSzT5co_co/S220/logo.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_IpVA-FU_LgE/S0HFQTB0u0I/AAAAAAAAAEk/ELPa8wPJt9s/s72-c/st+valentines.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1685300467968544872.post-1536482132595972519</id><published>2009-12-28T03:21:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-12-28T03:26:29.225-08:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span lang="EN" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;"&gt;New Year's Eve&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span lang="EN" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;"&gt; or &lt;b&gt;Old Year's Night&lt;/b&gt; is on the evening of December 31, the final day of the Gregorian year, and the night before New Year's Day.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;"&gt;New Year's Eve is a separate observance from the observance of New Year's Day. In modern Western practice, New Year's Eve is celebrated with parties and social gatherings spanning the transition of the year at midnight.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;"&gt;Many cultures use fireworks and other forms of noise making in part of the celebration.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;"&gt;In Lebanon, people celebrate the New Year's Eve by the use of fireworks, and by organizing cheese and wine for family and friend gatherings. These celebrations could also take place at some fancy diners and clubs, which are usually fully booked due to the presence of foreign and domestic popular singers. Game shows also organized where people can try their luck to win some money. The synchronized final countdown is broadcasted through the leading TV channel and the celebrations usually continue until sunrise.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;"&gt;Make your 2010 New Year’s Eve planning by taking into consideration the right gift for your near and dear ones. Gifts nowadays take various sizes, prices, shapes, quality, and type. Hence, a good gift must be chosen wisely. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IpVA-FU_LgE/SziUw3RmDLI/AAAAAAAAAEc/-qU1Fg-FTis/s1600-h/fireworks.bmp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" ps="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IpVA-FU_LgE/SziUw3RmDLI/AAAAAAAAAEc/-qU1Fg-FTis/s320/fireworks.bmp" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;"&gt;New Year Gift&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;"&gt;A Gift comes from the heart, no matter what the features of the object are. You could send one of the previous gift examples; you could also send all of them. However, the value of the gift will always remain the same.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Examples for gifts on New Year’s can be:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;New Year Cakes&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Celebrate the new day of the year with sweetness and love. One of the best ways to wish your near and dear ones during New Year is to gift a sweet cake with various shapes, sizes and tastes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;New Year Flowers&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Flowers are one of the most attractive New Year gifts. Matching the true spirits of the occasion, flowers add vibrant colors to mood and accentuate the feeling of celebration a bit more.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;"&gt;New Year Balloons&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;"&gt;Balloons are one of the simple however, a good gift idea on New Year’s Eve. A balloon could itself express New Year’s Celebration with its perfect design.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.allbestideas.com/"&gt;Send a New Year's Gift to Lebanon, Visit www.allbestideas.com and check our wide variety of New Year's Gifts&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1685300467968544872-1536482132595972519?l=allbestideas.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://allbestideas.blogspot.com/feeds/1536482132595972519/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://allbestideas.blogspot.com/2009/12/new-years-eve-or-old-years-night-is-on_7301.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1685300467968544872/posts/default/1536482132595972519'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1685300467968544872/posts/default/1536482132595972519'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://allbestideas.blogspot.com/2009/12/new-years-eve-or-old-years-night-is-on_7301.html' title=''/><author><name>allbestideas</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11460232354450807548</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='13' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IpVA-FU_LgE/TC2q8xF9gmI/AAAAAAAAAGw/VKSzT5co_co/S220/logo.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IpVA-FU_LgE/SziUw3RmDLI/AAAAAAAAAEc/-qU1Fg-FTis/s72-c/fireworks.bmp' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1685300467968544872.post-5150924283556528902</id><published>2009-12-18T05:15:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-12-18T07:07:48.513-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Christmas in Lebanon</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="background: #f8fcff; border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IpVA-FU_LgE/SyuAEb7d2yI/AAAAAAAAAD0/u1g-o5hrboo/s1600-h/Xmas_in_Downtown_Beirut.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" ps="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IpVA-FU_LgE/SyuAEb7d2yI/AAAAAAAAAD0/u1g-o5hrboo/s320/Xmas_in_Downtown_Beirut.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span lang="EN" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;Christmas is one of the important state holidays in Lebanon. Most Lebanese Muslims celebrate Christmas with Christian friends. A poll showed that around two thirds of the population celebrates Christmas, while only 45% of the population is Christian. Commercialization and open markets are bringing a more secular celebration of Christmas to the public. Churches are open all night for praying and people go to visit friends and families, often to villages in the mountains. Christmas concerts are popular, not to forget to mention the wide popularity of both local and western Christmas Carols. Around mid-December, the people start singing carols and saying payers and continue until the New Year's Eve. Internationally famous fashion designer, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elie_Saab" title="Elie Saab"&gt;&lt;span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"&gt;Elie Saab&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, donates a giant Christmas tree of 25 m high for public display every year in Downtown Beirut.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="background: #f8fcff; border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_IpVA-FU_LgE/SyuAaYC_ZEI/AAAAAAAAAD8/x7IMZ91D5c8/s1600-h/untitled2.bmp" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" ps="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_IpVA-FU_LgE/SyuAaYC_ZEI/AAAAAAAAAD8/x7IMZ91D5c8/s320/untitled2.bmp" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span lang="EN" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;Lebanese Christmas food is a mixture of European and &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_Eastern_cuisine" title="Middle Eastern cuisine"&gt;&lt;span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"&gt;Middle Eastern fare&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, for example, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tabbouleh" title="Tabbouleh"&gt;&lt;span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"&gt;Tabbouleh&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kibbeh" title="Kibbeh"&gt;&lt;span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"&gt;Kibbeh&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domestic_turkey" title="Domestic turkey"&gt;&lt;span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"&gt;Turkey&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wine" title="Wine"&gt;&lt;span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"&gt;wine&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, and for dessert a "&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buche_de_Noel" title="Buche de Noel"&gt;&lt;span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"&gt;Buche de Noël&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;". Most of Christmas Greetings are spoken in French like “&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joyeux_Noel" title="Joyeux Noel"&gt;&lt;span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"&gt;Joyeux Noël&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;” or in English like “Merry Christmas”. &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas_lights" title="Christmas lights"&gt;&lt;span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"&gt;Christmas decorative lights&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; fill the countries roads, people decorate their houses as well. Beneath the Christmas tree, families place a &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nativity_scene" title="Nativity scene"&gt;&lt;span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"&gt;nativity scene&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; or crèche with a unique style, representing Jesus, St. Mary, and St Joseph, the Three Kings, shepherds men and miniature people, and of course Jesus Christ which is placed on Christmas eve, this is known as the Mghara in the Lebanese language. Moreover, Christmas gifts are placed all around the tree, and are opened on Christmas Eve according to the Lebanese traditions, and on Christmas morning in the American tradition.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1685300467968544872-5150924283556528902?l=allbestideas.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://allbestideas.blogspot.com/feeds/5150924283556528902/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://allbestideas.blogspot.com/2009/12/christmas-in-lebanon.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1685300467968544872/posts/default/5150924283556528902'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1685300467968544872/posts/default/5150924283556528902'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://allbestideas.blogspot.com/2009/12/christmas-in-lebanon.html' title='Christmas in Lebanon'/><author><name>allbestideas</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11460232354450807548</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='13' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IpVA-FU_LgE/TC2q8xF9gmI/AAAAAAAAAGw/VKSzT5co_co/S220/logo.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IpVA-FU_LgE/SyuAEb7d2yI/AAAAAAAAAD0/u1g-o5hrboo/s72-c/Xmas_in_Downtown_Beirut.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1685300467968544872.post-8526009545425675131</id><published>2009-12-01T23:31:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-12-01T23:39:55.661-08:00</updated><title type='text'>All Best Ideas</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-indent: 0.25in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"&gt;All Best Ideas&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-indent: 0.25in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"&gt;Send Gifts to Lebanon, Send Flowers to Lebanon, Send Cakes to Lebanon, Send Balloons to Lebanon, Send Toys to Lebanon, Send Books to Lebanon. These preceding activities are mainly what constitute All Best Ideas’ business outline and aim.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-indent: 0.25in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"&gt;All Best Ideas is the name of the corporation that takes care in offering various gift able products. Such as gadgets, flowers, cakes, balloons, toys, and books. These are the main categories of the gifts that we offer. Moreover, we offer products that are suitable for gifting in any given occasion and for any recipient. Occasions like birthdays, valentines, Christmas, Mothers and Fathers day. In other terms, the seasonal major holidays.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;As for the recipient, All Best Ideas thought about everyone: mother, father, son, daughter, husband, wife, niece, nephew, cousins, etc.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IpVA-FU_LgE/SxYTW-yArJI/AAAAAAAAADk/u2l_rFf0KVQ/s1600-h/LogoABI.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" er="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IpVA-FU_LgE/SxYTW-yArJI/AAAAAAAAADk/u2l_rFf0KVQ/s320/LogoABI.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-indent: 0.25in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"&gt;A gift is the perfect reflection of one’s true feeling and intentions, regardless of the value of the gift. A gift is also a very good stimulus for a person’s joy and happiness on a specific occasion. Since he is shown love and care from his close ones.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;wrapblock&gt;&lt;shapetype coordsize="21600,21600" filled="f" id="_x0000_t75" o:preferrelative="t" o:spt="75" path="m@4@5l@4@11@9@11@9@5xe" stroked="f"&gt;&lt;stroke joinstyle="miter"&gt;&lt;/stroke&gt;&lt;formulas&gt;&lt;f eqn="if lineDrawn pixelLineWidth 0"&gt;&lt;/f&gt;&lt;f eqn="sum @0 1 0"&gt;&lt;/f&gt;&lt;f eqn="sum 0 0 @1"&gt;&lt;/f&gt;&lt;f eqn="prod @2 1 2"&gt;&lt;/f&gt;&lt;f eqn="prod @3 21600 pixelWidth"&gt;&lt;/f&gt;&lt;f eqn="prod @3 21600 pixelHeight"&gt;&lt;/f&gt;&lt;f eqn="sum @0 0 1"&gt;&lt;/f&gt;&lt;f eqn="prod @6 1 2"&gt;&lt;/f&gt;&lt;f eqn="prod @7 21600 pixelWidth"&gt;&lt;/f&gt;&lt;f eqn="sum @8 21600 0"&gt;&lt;/f&gt;&lt;f eqn="prod @7 21600 pixelHeight"&gt;&lt;/f&gt;&lt;f eqn="sum @10 21600 0"&gt;&lt;/f&gt;&lt;/formulas&gt;&lt;path gradientshapeok="t" o:connecttype="rect" o:extrusionok="f"&gt;&lt;/path&gt;&lt;lock aspectratio="t" v:ext="edit"&gt;&lt;/lock&gt;&lt;/shapetype&gt;&lt;/wrapblock&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-indent: 0.25in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"&gt;At All Best Ideas, we believe that creativity and the expression of individuality represent two great human treasures. We recognize that people are looking for ways to express their individuality and creativity when shopping for themselves and others, a major challenge in today's chain store-dominated retail environment. We have set out to create a business that makes best goods accessible to everyone. We are committed to provide first-rate customer service, and guarantee complete customer satisfaction with every purchase.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_IpVA-FU_LgE/SxYVuAP4MWI/AAAAAAAAADs/y0Kh7_BoxT4/s1600-h/allbestideas4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" er="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_IpVA-FU_LgE/SxYVuAP4MWI/AAAAAAAAADs/y0Kh7_BoxT4/s640/allbestideas4.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-indent: 0.25in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-indent: 0.25in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.allbestideas.com/"&gt;Relieve yourself the stress of shopping for a gift; we are your shopping solution. Send a Gift to Lebanon, log on to our website www.allbestideas.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #45818e; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"&gt;All Best Ideas'&amp;nbsp;show room is in Jal El Dib, Bank Byblos Building, on the Sixth Floor. For more information, contact us at 961-70-371671.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1685300467968544872-8526009545425675131?l=allbestideas.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://allbestideas.blogspot.com/feeds/8526009545425675131/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://allbestideas.blogspot.com/2009/12/all-best-ideas.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1685300467968544872/posts/default/8526009545425675131'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1685300467968544872/posts/default/8526009545425675131'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://allbestideas.blogspot.com/2009/12/all-best-ideas.html' title='All Best Ideas'/><author><name>allbestideas</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11460232354450807548</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='13' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IpVA-FU_LgE/TC2q8xF9gmI/AAAAAAAAAGw/VKSzT5co_co/S220/logo.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IpVA-FU_LgE/SxYTW-yArJI/AAAAAAAAADk/u2l_rFf0KVQ/s72-c/LogoABI.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1685300467968544872.post-6493099003616015511</id><published>2009-11-30T02:29:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-12-01T23:44:32.398-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Facts of the World!!</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="margin-top: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin: 0in 0in 5pt 0.5in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;&lt;span style="mso-list: Ignore;"&gt;-&lt;span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span dir="ltr"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;A pack-a-day smoker will lose approximately 2 teeth every 10 yrs.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin: 0in 0in 5pt 0.5in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;&lt;span style="mso-list: Ignore;"&gt;-&lt;span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span dir="ltr"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;People do not get sick from cold weather; it's from being indoors a lot more. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin: 0in 0in 5pt 0.5in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;&lt;span style="mso-list: Ignore;"&gt;-&lt;span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span dir="ltr"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;When you sneeze, all bodily functions stop ... even your heart! &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin: 0in 0in 5pt 0.5in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;&lt;span style="mso-list: Ignore;"&gt;-&lt;span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span dir="ltr"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin: 0in 0in 5pt 0.5in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;&lt;span style="mso-list: Ignore;"&gt;-&lt;span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span dir="ltr"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;40 people are sent to the hospital for dog bites every minute. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin: 0in 0in 5pt 0.5in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;&lt;span style="mso-list: Ignore;"&gt;-&lt;span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span dir="ltr"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;Babies are born without knee caps. They don't appear until they are 2-6 years old. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin: 0in 0in 5pt 0.5in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;&lt;span style="mso-list: Ignore;"&gt;-&lt;span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span dir="ltr"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;The average person over fifty will have spent 5 years waiting in lines. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin: 0in 0in 5pt 0.5in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;&lt;span style="mso-list: Ignore;"&gt;-&lt;span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span dir="ltr"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;The toothbrush was invented in 1498. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin: 0in 0in 5pt 0.5in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;&lt;span style="mso-list: Ignore;"&gt;-&lt;span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span dir="ltr"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;The average housefly lives for one month &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin: 0in 0in 5pt 0.5in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;&lt;span style="mso-list: Ignore;"&gt;-&lt;span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span dir="ltr"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;The average computer user blinks 7 times a minute. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin: 0in 0in 5pt 0.5in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;&lt;span style="mso-list: Ignore;"&gt;-&lt;span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span dir="ltr"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;Your feet are bigger in the afternoon than the rest of the day. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin: 0in 0in 5pt 0.5in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;&lt;span style="mso-list: Ignore;"&gt;-&lt;span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span dir="ltr"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;The REAL reason ostriches stick their head in the sand is to search for water. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin: 0in 0in 5pt 0.5in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;&lt;span style="mso-list: Ignore;"&gt;-&lt;span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span dir="ltr"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;The only 2 animals that can see behind itself without turning it's head are the rabbit and the parrot. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin: 0in 0in 5pt 0.5in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;&lt;span style="mso-list: Ignore;"&gt;-&lt;span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span dir="ltr"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;The first &lt;span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.munising.com/harley_fun.html"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"&gt;Harley Davidson motorcycle&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; built in 1903 used a tomato can for a carburetor. &amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin: 0in 0in 5pt 0.5in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;&lt;span style="mso-list: Ignore;"&gt;-&lt;span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span dir="ltr"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin: 0in 0in 5pt 0.5in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;&lt;span style="mso-list: Ignore;"&gt;-&lt;span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span dir="ltr"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin: 0in 0in 5pt 0.5in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;&lt;span style="mso-list: Ignore;"&gt;-&lt;span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span dir="ltr"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin: 0in 0in 5pt 0.5in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;&lt;span style="mso-list: Ignore;"&gt;-&lt;span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span dir="ltr"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;There are more chickens than people in the world. &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin: 0in 0in 5pt 0.5in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;&lt;span style="mso-list: Ignore;"&gt;-&lt;span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span dir="ltr"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin: 0in 0in 5pt 0.5in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;&lt;span style="mso-list: Ignore;"&gt;-&lt;span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span dir="ltr"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;A cat has 32 muscles in each ear. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin: 0in 0in 5pt 0.5in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;&lt;span style="mso-list: Ignore;"&gt;-&lt;span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span dir="ltr"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin: 0in 0in 5pt 0.5in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;&lt;span style="mso-list: Ignore;"&gt;-&lt;span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span dir="ltr"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin: 0in 0in 5pt 0.5in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;&lt;span style="mso-list: Ignore;"&gt;-&lt;span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span dir="ltr"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;In most advertisements, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin: 0in 0in 5pt 0.5in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;&lt;span style="mso-list: Ignore;"&gt;-&lt;span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span dir="ltr"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin: 0in 0in 5pt 0.5in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;&lt;span style="mso-list: Ignore;"&gt;-&lt;span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span dir="ltr"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin: 0in 0in 5pt 0.5in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;&lt;span style="mso-list: Ignore;"&gt;-&lt;span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span dir="ltr"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin: 0in 0in 5pt 0.5in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;&lt;span style="mso-list: Ignore;"&gt;-&lt;span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span dir="ltr"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;The average person falls asleep in seven minutes. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin: 0in 0in 5pt 0.5in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;&lt;span style="mso-list: Ignore;"&gt;-&lt;span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span dir="ltr"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;"Stewardesses" is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin: 0in 0in 5pt 0.5in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: .5in 40.5pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;&lt;span style="mso-list: Ignore;"&gt;-&lt;span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span dir="ltr"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;What is called a "French kiss" in the English speaking world is known as an "English kiss" in France.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: .5in; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&lt;span style="mso-list: Ignore;"&gt;-&lt;span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span dir="ltr"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;In 1386, a pig in France was executed by public hanging for the murder of a child.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: .5in; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&lt;span style="mso-list: Ignore;"&gt;-&lt;span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span dir="ltr"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;A cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: .5in; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&lt;span style="mso-list: Ignore;"&gt;-&lt;span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span dir="ltr"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: .5in; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&lt;span style="mso-list: Ignore;"&gt;-&lt;span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span dir="ltr"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: .5in; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&lt;span style="mso-list: Ignore;"&gt;-&lt;span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span dir="ltr"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;It's against the law to have a pet dog in Iceland!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: .5in; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&lt;span style="mso-list: Ignore;"&gt;-&lt;span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span dir="ltr"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;Your heart beats over 100,000 times a day.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: .5in; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&lt;span style="mso-list: Ignore;"&gt;-&lt;span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span dir="ltr"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: .5in; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&lt;span style="mso-list: Ignore;"&gt;-&lt;span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span dir="ltr"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;Your ribs move about 5 million times a year, every time you breathe.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: .5in; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&lt;span style="mso-list: Ignore;"&gt;-&lt;span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span dir="ltr"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;The elephant is the only mammal&amp;nbsp;that cannot jump.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: .5in; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&lt;span style="mso-list: Ignore;"&gt;-&lt;span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span dir="ltr"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;One quarter of the bones in your body, are in your feet.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: .5in; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&lt;span style="mso-list: Ignore;"&gt;-&lt;span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span dir="ltr"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: .5in; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&lt;span style="mso-list: Ignore;"&gt;-&lt;span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span dir="ltr"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;Honey is the only food that does not spoil. Honey found in the tombs of Egyptian pharaohs has been tasted by archaeologists and found edible.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: .5in; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&lt;span style="mso-list: Ignore;"&gt;-&lt;span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span dir="ltr"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;The longest recorded flight&amp;nbsp; of a chicken is 13 seconds.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: .5in; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&lt;span style="mso-list: Ignore;"&gt;-&lt;span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span dir="ltr"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;A man named Charles Osborne had the hiccups for 69 years.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: .5in; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&lt;span style="mso-list: Ignore;"&gt;-&lt;span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span dir="ltr"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt 0.5in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: .5in; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&lt;span style="mso-list: Ignore;"&gt;-&lt;span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span dir="ltr"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;Owls are the only birds who can see the colour blue.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.allbestideas.com/"&gt;Final fact is that All Best Ideas has an extraordinary collection online, Send the Best Gifts from www.allbestideas.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1685300467968544872-6493099003616015511?l=allbestideas.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://allbestideas.blogspot.com/feeds/6493099003616015511/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://allbestideas.blogspot.com/2009/11/facts-of-world.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1685300467968544872/posts/default/6493099003616015511'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1685300467968544872/posts/default/6493099003616015511'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://allbestideas.blogspot.com/2009/11/facts-of-world.html' title='Facts of the World!!'/><author><name>allbestideas</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11460232354450807548</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='13' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IpVA-FU_LgE/TC2q8xF9gmI/AAAAAAAAAGw/VKSzT5co_co/S220/logo.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1685300467968544872.post-5129375680813292757</id><published>2009-11-25T00:22:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-11-25T00:28:56.923-08:00</updated><title type='text'>How is Artificial Rain made?</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_IpVA-FU_LgE/SwzoRAsM7NI/AAAAAAAAADU/ZRobR-KTY6w/s1600/rain.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_IpVA-FU_LgE/SwzoRAsM7NI/AAAAAAAAADU/ZRobR-KTY6w/s320/rain.JPG" yr="true" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;The need to develop and improve rainmaking techniques in terms of design, operation, monitoring and evaluation by giving them a more scientific character is today's need. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;This includes using computers to study cloud formations and help the rainmaking operations achieve the goals of the project. The role of weather modification, or rainmaking, is an important component in water resource management. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;The process involved in artificial rainmaking involves three easy-to-understand stages. The first stage is agitation. That is using chemicals to stimulate the air mass upwind of the target area to rise and form rain clouds. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;The chemicals used during this stage are calcium chloride calcium carbide, calcium oxide, a compound of salt and urea, or a compound of urea and ammonium nitrate. These compounds are capable of absorbing water vapor from the air mass, thus stimulating the condensation process. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;The second stage is building-up stage. Here the cloud mass is built up using chemicals such as kitchen salt, the T 1 formula, urea, ammonium nitrate, dry ice, and occasionally also calcium chloride to increase nuclei which also increase the density of the clouds. In the third stage of bombardment chemicals such as super-cool agents: silver iodide and dry ice are used to reach the most unbalanced status which builds up large beads of water (Nuclei) and makes them fall down as raindrops. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_IpVA-FU_LgE/SwzpA4rX_4I/AAAAAAAAADc/XUYoXRpExGw/s1600/rainn.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_IpVA-FU_LgE/SwzpA4rX_4I/AAAAAAAAADc/XUYoXRpExGw/s320/rainn.jpg" yr="true" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;In planning every stage a high degree of expertise and experience is required, in selecting the types and amounts of chemicals to use, while taking into consideration weather conditions, topographical conditions, wind direction and velocity as well as the location or delimitation of the area for chemical seeding. Several other ideas are also involved in rainmaking. Rockets containing rainmaking chemicals are fired into the clouds either from the ground or from aircraft. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;From a highly pressurized canister, a jet of rainmaking chemicals is shot directly into the cloud base, to coerce clouds that normally hang above mountaintops to cluster up and rain on the mountain or their slopes. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;Rainmaking chemicals are added to super-cooled clouds, i.e., those at altitudes above 18,000 meters, to stimulate the formation of ice crystals in the cloud or cloud cluster.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.allbestideas.com/"&gt;Send your loved ones back in Lebanon a symbol of your love, on log to our website www.allbestideas.com Visit us, and experience the best way to send gifts to Lebanon.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1685300467968544872-5129375680813292757?l=allbestideas.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://allbestideas.blogspot.com/feeds/5129375680813292757/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://allbestideas.blogspot.com/2009/11/how-is-artificial-rain-made.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1685300467968544872/posts/default/5129375680813292757'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1685300467968544872/posts/default/5129375680813292757'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://allbestideas.blogspot.com/2009/11/how-is-artificial-rain-made.html' title='How is Artificial Rain made?'/><author><name>allbestideas</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11460232354450807548</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='13' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IpVA-FU_LgE/TC2q8xF9gmI/AAAAAAAAAGw/VKSzT5co_co/S220/logo.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_IpVA-FU_LgE/SwzoRAsM7NI/AAAAAAAAADU/ZRobR-KTY6w/s72-c/rain.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1685300467968544872.post-4167250393616417575</id><published>2009-11-04T01:35:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-11-04T01:35:26.335-08:00</updated><title type='text'>All Best Ideas Poem</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;If you send a Gift&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;Your relationship would certainly shift&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;If you send a Flower&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;Your relationship would increase in power&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;If you send a Cake&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;A cheerful person you could make&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; 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margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;You could send them all&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;Without visiting the mall&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;Just sit at home, be calm&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;And visit &lt;a href="http://www.blogger.com/”%3C/FONT"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.allbestideas.com/"&gt;http://www.allbestideas.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1685300467968544872-4167250393616417575?l=allbestideas.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://allbestideas.blogspot.com/feeds/4167250393616417575/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://allbestideas.blogspot.com/2009/11/all-best-ideas-poem.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1685300467968544872/posts/default/4167250393616417575'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1685300467968544872/posts/default/4167250393616417575'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://allbestideas.blogspot.com/2009/11/all-best-ideas-poem.html' title='All Best Ideas Poem'/><author><name>allbestideas</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11460232354450807548</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='13' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IpVA-FU_LgE/TC2q8xF9gmI/AAAAAAAAAGw/VKSzT5co_co/S220/logo.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1685300467968544872.post-406570437458602673</id><published>2009-10-26T01:49:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-10-26T03:10:36.517-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='send gifts to lebanon'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='send balloon to lebanon'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='send cakes to lebanon'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='send flowers to lebanon'/><title type='text'>All Best Ideas</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-indent: 0.25in;"&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;align=center&gt;All Best Ideas&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/align&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-indent: 0.25in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"&gt;All Best Ideas is the official name of the corporation. As you can signify from its name, All Best Ideas, we have some of the best ideas and products to send your dear people in Lebanon. Our products are categorized as follows: &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-indent: 0.25in;"&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"&gt;1.&lt;span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;Gifts: On All Best Ideas, you can find gifts that suit every person and occasion.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-indent: 0.25in;"&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_IpVA-FU_LgE/SuV0uVMQJ3I/AAAAAAAAAC8/T74MCdbSLRU/s1600-h/logo.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_IpVA-FU_LgE/SuV0uVMQJ3I/AAAAAAAAAC8/T74MCdbSLRU/s320/logo.jpg" vr="true" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"&gt;2.&lt;span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;Flowers: You can also find some magnificent flowers that perfectly reflect your feeling towards the receiver. Since the beauty and classification of these flowers are irresistible.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-indent: 0.25in;"&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"&gt;3.&lt;span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;Plants&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-indent: 0.25in;"&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"&gt;4.&lt;span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;Cakes&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-indent: 0.25in;"&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"&gt;5.&lt;span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;Balloons&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-indent: 0.25in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"&gt;6.&lt;span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;Hampers&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-indent: 0.25in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"&gt;7.&lt;span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;Home Décor&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-indent: 0.25in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"&gt;8.&lt;span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;Games and Toys&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-indent: 0.25in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-indent: 0.25in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"&gt;At All Best Ideas, we believe that creativity and the expression of individuality represent two great human treasures. We recognize that people are looking for ways to express their individuality and creativity when shopping for themselves and others, a major challenge in today's chain store-dominated retail environment. We have set out to create a business that makes best goods accessible to everyone. We are committed to provide first-rate customer service, and guarantee complete customer satisfaction with every purchase.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-indent: 0.25in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-indent: 0.25in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"&gt;Our service is simple. First, you visit our website, check out our products, follow up the purchasing procedure, and order the products. Of course, this procedure is online.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-indent: 0.25in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"&gt;When we receive your order, the products are treated well for sending to the required location, with a specific fee concerning the delivery.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-indent: 0.25in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-indent: 0.25in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"&gt;Shopping with you does not compare with any type of shopping. Since here at all best ideas, you will find the best products of any person and suitable for every occasion.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-indent: 0.25in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-indent: 0.25in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.allbestideas.com/"&gt;Send your loved ones back in Lebanon a symbol of your love and on log to our website www.allbestideas.com Visit us and experience the best way to send gifts to Lebanon.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1685300467968544872-406570437458602673?l=allbestideas.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://allbestideas.blogspot.com/feeds/406570437458602673/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://allbestideas.blogspot.com/2009/10/all-best-ideas.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1685300467968544872/posts/default/406570437458602673'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1685300467968544872/posts/default/406570437458602673'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://allbestideas.blogspot.com/2009/10/all-best-ideas.html' title='All Best Ideas'/><author><name>allbestideas</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11460232354450807548</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='13' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IpVA-FU_LgE/TC2q8xF9gmI/AAAAAAAAAGw/VKSzT5co_co/S220/logo.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_IpVA-FU_LgE/SuV0uVMQJ3I/AAAAAAAAAC8/T74MCdbSLRU/s72-c/logo.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1685300467968544872.post-1219904173807094101</id><published>2009-10-09T05:24:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-10-09T05:26:55.267-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='definition of a blog'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='what is a blog'/><title type='text'>What is a Blog?</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-indent: 0.5in;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-themecolor: text1;"&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-indent: 0.5in;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-themecolor: text1;"&gt;A blog (short for &lt;a href="http://searchsoa.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid26_gci213547,00.html"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"&gt;weblog&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;) is a personal online journal updated often, as well proposed for general public consumption. The definition of blogs comes by their format: a series of entries posted to a single page in reverse-chronological order. Blogs generally represent the personality of the author or reflect the purpose of the &lt;a href="http://searchsoa.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid26_gci213352,00.html"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"&gt;Web site&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; that hosts the blog. Topics sometimes include brief philosophical musings, commentary on Internet and other social issues, and links to other sites the author favors, especially those that support a point done on a post.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_IpVA-FU_LgE/Ss8qjogu2rI/AAAAAAAAACU/VSnTbOYL1yc/s1600-h/blogIcon.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img $r="true" border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_IpVA-FU_LgE/Ss8qjogu2rI/AAAAAAAAACU/VSnTbOYL1yc/s200/blogIcon.gif" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-indent: 0.5in;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN" style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-themecolor: text1;"&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-indent: 0.5in;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN" style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-themecolor: text1;"&gt;Many blogs provide commentary or news on a particular &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN" style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-themecolor: text1;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;subject; others function as&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN" style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-themecolor: text1;"&gt; personal &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_diary" title="Online diary"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"&gt;online diaries&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. A typical blog combines text, images, and links to other blogs, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_page" title="Web page"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"&gt;Web pages&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, and other media related to its topic. The ability for readers to leave comments in an interactive format is an important part of many blogs. Most blogs are primarily textual, although some focus on art (&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN" style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-themecolor: text1;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;artlog&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN" style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-themecolor: text1;"&gt;), photographs (&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN" style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-themecolor: text1;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;photoblog&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN" style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-themecolor: text1;"&gt;), sketches (&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN" style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-themecolor: text1;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri;"&gt;sketchblog&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN" style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-themecolor: text1;"&gt;), videos (&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vlog" title="Vlog"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"&gt;vlog&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;), music (&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MP3_blog" title="MP3 blog"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"&gt;MP3 blog&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;), and audio (&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Podcast" title="Podcast"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"&gt;podcasting&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;). &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micro-blogging" title="Micro-blogging"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"&gt;Micro-blogging&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; is another type of blogging, featuring very short posts.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-themecolor: text1;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-indent: 0.5in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.allbestideas.com/"&gt;visit our website and check out some of the coolest gifts flowers cakes to send to your beloved ones.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.allbestideas.com/"&gt;http://www.allbestideas.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1685300467968544872-1219904173807094101?l=allbestideas.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://allbestideas.blogspot.com/feeds/1219904173807094101/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://allbestideas.blogspot.com/2009/10/what-is-blog.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1685300467968544872/posts/default/1219904173807094101'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1685300467968544872/posts/default/1219904173807094101'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://allbestideas.blogspot.com/2009/10/what-is-blog.html' title='What is a Blog?'/><author><name>allbestideas</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11460232354450807548</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='13' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IpVA-FU_LgE/TC2q8xF9gmI/AAAAAAAAAGw/VKSzT5co_co/S220/logo.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_IpVA-FU_LgE/Ss8qjogu2rI/AAAAAAAAACU/VSnTbOYL1yc/s72-c/blogIcon.gif' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1685300467968544872.post-7405711976930220862</id><published>2009-10-07T05:56:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-10-07T05:56:45.536-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Shopping Online</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="background: #f8fcff; border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IpVA-FU_LgE/SsyPgc1MOpI/AAAAAAAAACM/qGBTrTZf7Gc/s1600-h/online-shopping.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img $r="true" border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IpVA-FU_LgE/SsyPgc1MOpI/AAAAAAAAACM/qGBTrTZf7Gc/s320/online-shopping.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span lang="EN" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;-Online shopping&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span lang="EN" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt; is the process consumers go through to purchase products or services over the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet" title="Internet"&gt;&lt;span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"&gt;Internet&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. An online shop, eshop, e-store, internet shop, webshop, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webstore" title="Webstore"&gt;&lt;span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"&gt;webstore&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, online store, or virtual store evokes the physical analogy of buying &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Product_(business)" title="Product (business)"&gt;&lt;span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"&gt;products&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Service_(economics)" title="Service (economics)"&gt;&lt;span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"&gt;services&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; at a &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brick_and_mortar_business" title="Brick and mortar business"&gt;&lt;span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"&gt;bricks-and-mortar&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retailing" title="Retailing"&gt;&lt;span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"&gt;retailer&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; or in a &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shopping_mall" title="Shopping mall"&gt;&lt;span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"&gt;shopping mall&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="background: #f8fcff; border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="background: #f8fcff; border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;-The term &lt;b&gt;"Webshop"&lt;/b&gt; also refers to a place of business where web development, web hosting and other types of web related activities take place. Buying online introduced new ways of reducing costs by reducing the number of staff needed. It is a more effective way of getting products to people and spreading into different demographics.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="background: #f8fcff; border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="background: #f8fcff; border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_IpVA-FU_LgE/SsyPcdj-SDI/AAAAAAAAACE/JX6pHxcs6og/s1600-h/guide%2520shop%2520online.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img $r="true" border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_IpVA-FU_LgE/SsyPcdj-SDI/AAAAAAAAACE/JX6pHxcs6og/s320/guide%2520shop%2520online.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="background: #f8fcff; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&amp;nbsp; -In recent years, online shopping has become popular; however, it still caters to the middle and upper class. In order to shop online, one must be able to have access to a computer, a bank account and a &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debit_card" title="Debit card"&gt;&lt;span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"&gt;debit card&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. Shopping has evolved with the growth of technology. According to research found in the Journal of Electronic Commerce, if we&lt;sup&gt; &lt;/sup&gt;focus on the demographic characteristics of the in-home shopper, in general, the higher the level of education, income., and occupation of the head of the household, the more favorable the perception of non-store shopping. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.allbestideas.com/"&gt;Experience this modern evolved phenomenon and visit our websites to shop for a gift online or flowers online, visit http://www.allbestideas.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1685300467968544872-7405711976930220862?l=allbestideas.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://allbestideas.blogspot.com/feeds/7405711976930220862/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://allbestideas.blogspot.com/2009/10/shopping-online.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1685300467968544872/posts/default/7405711976930220862'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1685300467968544872/posts/default/7405711976930220862'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://allbestideas.blogspot.com/2009/10/shopping-online.html' title='Shopping Online'/><author><name>allbestideas</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11460232354450807548</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='13' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IpVA-FU_LgE/TC2q8xF9gmI/AAAAAAAAAGw/VKSzT5co_co/S220/logo.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IpVA-FU_LgE/SsyPgc1MOpI/AAAAAAAAACM/qGBTrTZf7Gc/s72-c/online-shopping.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1685300467968544872.post-8229022483255995571</id><published>2009-10-07T00:19:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-10-07T00:24:42.877-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Autumn/ Fall</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IpVA-FU_LgE/SsxCBJDdggI/AAAAAAAAABs/Du7_v8PPb7c/s1600-h/autumn.bmp" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img $r="true" border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IpVA-FU_LgE/SsxCBJDdggI/AAAAAAAAABs/Du7_v8PPb7c/s320/autumn.bmp" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;In the autumn, we see the leaves on the trees start to turn many different colors. You may have heard someone say it is Jack Frost who causes the trees to change color. They say that when he brings the frost, it creates the beautiful patterns and colors of the leaves. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;There is a Native American myth that says hunters in the Heavens killed the Great Bear in autumn and blood dripped over the leaves, coloring some red. As the hunters cooked the meat, fat dripped from the Heavens and colored some of the leaves yellow. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Trees make their own food during the summer. They take water from the ground, carbon dioxide from the air, and sunlight and turn it into something called chlorophyll. It gives leaves their green color. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;As the days get shorter, there is less sunlight and less water. The plants gradually quit making food and there is no more chlorophyll. The yellow and orange colors were always in the leaves, but the green was stronger. The bright red and purple colors come from glucose (sugar) that is trapped in the leaves. Brown colors come from tannin, a bitter waste product. Different combinations of these give us many colors each fall. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.allbestideas.com/"&gt;If you have a relative or a friend in Lebanon and you want to send him a gift or flowers, you may visit http://www.allbestideas.com. Flowers Lebanon and gifts Lebanon&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1685300467968544872-8229022483255995571?l=allbestideas.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://allbestideas.blogspot.com/feeds/8229022483255995571/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://allbestideas.blogspot.com/2009/10/autumn-fall.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1685300467968544872/posts/default/8229022483255995571'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1685300467968544872/posts/default/8229022483255995571'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://allbestideas.blogspot.com/2009/10/autumn-fall.html' title='Autumn/ Fall'/><author><name>allbestideas</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11460232354450807548</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='13' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IpVA-FU_LgE/TC2q8xF9gmI/AAAAAAAAAGw/VKSzT5co_co/S220/logo.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IpVA-FU_LgE/SsxCBJDdggI/AAAAAAAAABs/Du7_v8PPb7c/s72-c/autumn.bmp' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1685300467968544872.post-8489801592184723262</id><published>2009-09-28T23:15:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-09-29T03:53:25.041-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='emotions and flowers'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='the effect of flowers'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='flowers'/><title type='text'>The Effect of Flowers on Our Emotions</title><content type='html'>If you have a relative or a friend in Lebanon and you want to send him a gift or flowers, you may visit. Flowers Lebanon and gifts LebanonAccording to recent behavioral research conducted at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, nature provides us with a simple way to improve emotional health - flowers.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A team of researchers explored the link between flowers and life satisfaction in a 10-month study of participants' behavioral and emotional responses to receiving flowers. The results show that flowers are a natural and healthful moderator of moods.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_IpVA-FU_LgE/SsHm9R-eQiI/AAAAAAAAABc/smwwaNiaOBM/s1600-h/flowers-lebanon.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_IpVA-FU_LgE/SsHm9R-eQiI/AAAAAAAAABc/smwwaNiaOBM/s320/flowers-lebanon.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5386840569783665186" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;1-&lt;/span&gt;Flowers have an immediate impact on happiness. All study participants expressed "true" or "excited" smiles upon receiving flowers. This reaction was universal, occurring in all age groups.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;2-&lt;/span&gt;Flowers have a long-term positive effect on moods. Specifically, study participants reported feeling less depressed, anxious and agitated after receiving flowers, and demonstrated a higher sense of enjoyment and life satisfaction.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;3-&lt;/span&gt;Flowers make intimate connections. The presence of flowers led to increased contact with family and friends. "Common sense tells us that flowers make us happy." Now, science shows that not only do flowers make us happier than we know, they have strong positive effects on our emotional well being."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.allbestideas.com/"&gt;If you have a relative or a friend in Lebanon and you want to send him a gift or flowers, you may visit http://www.allbestideas.com. Flowers Lebanon and gifts Lebanon&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1685300467968544872-8489801592184723262?l=allbestideas.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://allbestideas.blogspot.com/feeds/8489801592184723262/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://allbestideas.blogspot.com/2009/09/effect-of-flowers-on-our-emotions.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1685300467968544872/posts/default/8489801592184723262'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1685300467968544872/posts/default/8489801592184723262'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://allbestideas.blogspot.com/2009/09/effect-of-flowers-on-our-emotions.html' title='The Effect of Flowers on Our Emotions'/><author><name>allbestideas</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11460232354450807548</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='13' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IpVA-FU_LgE/TC2q8xF9gmI/AAAAAAAAAGw/VKSzT5co_co/S220/logo.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_IpVA-FU_LgE/SsHm9R-eQiI/AAAAAAAAABc/smwwaNiaOBM/s72-c/flowers-lebanon.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1685300467968544872.post-4517546868829973190</id><published>2009-08-26T06:04:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-09-29T04:09:56.870-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='about lebanon'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Lebanon'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ten fact about lebanon'/><title type='text'>Ten Facts about Lebanon</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IpVA-FU_LgE/SsHq71vdbhI/AAAAAAAAABk/_SUNuU6LTnU/s1600-h/lebanon.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 257px; height: 320px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IpVA-FU_LgE/SsHq71vdbhI/AAAAAAAAABk/_SUNuU6LTnU/s320/lebanon.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5386844943071145490" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1-Lebanon has 18 religious communities.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2-It has 40 daily newspapers.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3-It has over 100 banks.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;4-It has 42 universities&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;5-Beirut was destroyed and rebuilt  times (this is why it's compared to the Phoenix.)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;6-Byblos (city in Lebanon) is the oldest, continuously living city in the world.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;7-There are 15 rivers in Lebanon (all of them coming from its own mountains)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;8-There is 3.5 million Lebanese in Lebanon. There is around 10 million Lebanese outside&lt;br /&gt;Lebanon.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;9-The first law school in the world was built in Lebanon. In downtown Beirut.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;10-People say that:  God's own hands planted the cedars (This is why they are called "The Cedars of God", and this is why Lebanon is called "God's Country on Earth.”)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.allbestideas.com/"&gt;If you have a relative or a friend in Lebanon and you want to send him a gift or flowers, you may visit http://www.allbestideas.com. Flowers Lebanon and gifts Lebanon&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1685300467968544872-4517546868829973190?l=allbestideas.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://allbestideas.blogspot.com/feeds/4517546868829973190/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://allbestideas.blogspot.com/2009/08/ten-facts-about-lebanon.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1685300467968544872/posts/default/4517546868829973190'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1685300467968544872/posts/default/4517546868829973190'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://allbestideas.blogspot.com/2009/08/ten-facts-about-lebanon.html' title='Ten Facts about Lebanon'/><author><name>allbestideas</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11460232354450807548</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='13' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IpVA-FU_LgE/TC2q8xF9gmI/AAAAAAAAAGw/VKSzT5co_co/S220/logo.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IpVA-FU_LgE/SsHq71vdbhI/AAAAAAAAABk/_SUNuU6LTnU/s72-c/lebanon.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1685300467968544872.post-7984933193738390632</id><published>2009-08-26T04:29:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-09-21T13:10:22.609-07:00</updated><title type='text'>IS THE VALUE IN THE GIFT, OR IN THE THOUGHT</title><content type='html'>If you receive a gift low in value, is it the thought that counts or is it the gift itself? If he buys you diamonds, does it really express true love or is it just an exhibition of his wealth? A prosperous man can buy you possessions and his love could fall short, but a man who’s indigent can give you the shirt off his back and his love and affection could last you a lifetime.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.allbestideas.com/"&gt;If you have a relative or a friend in Lebanon and you want to send him a gift or flowers, you may visit http://www.allbestideas.com. 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