Friday, March 30, 2012
FIFA World Cup 2010 (part 5: France & Germany)
Thursday, March 29, 2012
Brazilian Swimsuits and See Through Bikinis - What Should Big-Busted Women Know Before Buying One?
When large-busted women shop for swimsuits or bikinis, they oftentimes don't look forward to the task because they feel that due to their body shape and size, they won't be able to find a flattering style.
Large-busted women need to find suits that provide enough upper body support, while still being able to wear the latest fashion trends like see through bikinis and Brazilian swimsuits.
Swimwear that has a built-in bra normally consists of a bra cup that is firm rather than flimsy. However, if you're fond of the see through bikini style, you would have to make sure that the suit had a built-in underwire that would support your large breasts.
A very stylish Brazilian swimsuit consists of a halter top with wide straps. That's definitely an advantage if you have a large bust because those types of suits normally already have built-in support.
What you're mainly looking for is swimwear that holds and properly supports your bust inside the thin fabric that bikinis are made of. Halter tops cover a large portion of your bust area, which makes it an attractive selection.
Another factor to consider is what the bikini's fabric is made of, since the best fabric choice for your body type is Lycra. It is strong enough to support your large bust, yet it's stretchy enough to flatter your curves.
As with all fashion trends, colors can accentuate or minimize various parts of a woman's body. Thus, if you buy a bikini that's made of a dark-colored fabric, your bust line will appear smaller since black, brown, and deep colors of blue tend to minimize body features. Also, if your swimwear of choice happens to have armholes that are cut high, you will find more support for your larger busts.
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Wednesday, March 28, 2012
Gloucestershire Cheese Rolling 2009
Monday, March 26, 2012
The Many Types of Palm Trees
There are thousands of species of Palm Trees. They are considered to be tropical in nature, but most people are not aware that cold hardy palms may be planted outside without any visible damage from temperatures as cold as -20°F. You can see this as far north as Canada and Switzerland
Palm trees, like banana trees, give your home and garden that tropical look, usually found around pools and family recreational areas. Once established, Palm Trees are relatively maintenance free and are not significantly bothered by insects and disease.
There are two basic types of Palm trees and we will tell you about the Northern and Southern Palms.
Cold Palms (Northern Palms)
Afghanistan palm - Pakistan Palm and Mazari Palm - This palm may be the coldest hardy in the world, according to authoritative doctors on the subject of Palms. Their fruit is also edible and very popular to eat in that impoverished nation. The tree grows very slowly and thrives in desert conditions.
Dwarf Palmetto or Sabal minor - Blue Palmetto is widely distributed throughout the Southeastern United States and grows about 6ft. tall in shaded locations. This Palm is very difficult to transplant from the wild.
Needle Palm - Rhapidophyllum hystrix is a needle palm, which are the most frost hardy palms on earth surviving -20°F weather with little damage.
Saw Palmetto or Serenoa Repens - Sassafras Palm has been found growing wild as far north as Virginia, Washington D.C., and New Jersey, and is cold hardy to -10° F.
Windmill Palm or Trachycarpus fortunel has been known to be cold hardy for many years and have been growing in Switzerland for 100 years along Lake Lucerne.
Adapted palms (Southern palms)
Cabbage Palm or Sabal Palmetto - Sabal Palm and Palmetto Palm is the state tree of South Carolina and Florida. It is popular as a landscape tree in southern states with excellent cold-hardiness and transplanting success. Sabal palms are salt water tolerant.
Canary Island Date Palm - Phoenix canariensis or Majestic Palm. Is the most desirable palm to give a tropical look to the landscape. The trees grow about 50ft tall with leaves up to 20ft long.
Chinese Fan Palm is a slow growing palm; forms very large leaves, which will give a full-grown, tree a look of weeping. This palm can withstand below freezing weather, and can grow inside patios. You can find this palm tree along highways. This type of palm tree can grow up to 25ft tall.
Date Palm is the true date palm of North Africa. It has been planted widely in Arizona and California for production of dates. Date palms work well in mall landscaping.
Gum Palm is cold hardy to light freezes, but will freeze in weather below 20°F. The long leaves look like fern fronds, but the leaflets are bright shiny green in colour and stiff and sharply toothed.
European Fan Palm or European Palm. Has a large crown of blue-green fanlike leaves. This palm is considered to be one of the coldest hardy and grows outside. The plant can be relocated and will survive easy with little transplant shock when moved, even in during the summer months.
Pygmy Date Palm is a good container plant when potted indoors. Fine-leafed, small scale, single-trunked palm; grows slowly up to about 5ft.
Washingtonian Palm or Mexican Fan Palm has a tall slender trunk, has a crown of large fan-shaped evergreen fronds, and can provide a very tropical appearance to the landscape.
Sago Palm is a feather leaf palm that is found along the Atlantic coast beach and is 300 years old and 12 feet tall with dignified umbrella crowns.
Phoenix Sylvester Palm or Toddy Palm is very similar to the Canary Island Palm and the edible date palm.
Zamia pumila or Coontie Palm is known as the prehistoric plant, which dominated the earth 200 million years ago and grows 3ft tall on separate male and female plants.
For more information, visit one of these sites: [http://www.PalmsInof.com] or http://www.PalmTreesInfo.com
Saturday, March 24, 2012
Coffee House Business Plan - 7 Essential Elements
Having had a lifetime interest in all-things-coffee may be your inspiration for wanting to open a coffee house of your own. But, having an interest in coffee alone is not enough: you also need to build your new venture upon a foundation of solid business principles.
When undertaking any type of business venture, it is smart to start with a solid business plan. Opening a coffee house is no different. A business plan accomplishes two things:
a. it provides you, the business owner, with an opportunity to lay everything out on the table in order to get a clear view into how the business will be set up, what is required to get things going, and what may still be missing from your current plans.
b. it can give potential investors, partners, and vendors a view into the heart of how your new business will be structured.
If you are interested in created a coffee house business plan, here are the 7 essential elements to include:
1. Executive summary:
This introductory section of your business plan should take up no more than two pages. It should highlight the most essential elements of your plan. Put a bit of salesmanship into the executive summary: remember, some of those who read it may be potential investors. Your goal in this section is to inform the reader - while at the same time encouraging them to finish reading the rest of the plan.
2. Company summary:
In the company summary section of your coffee house business plan, feature a nuts-and-bolts description of your company. Include all of the facts, such as proposed name of the coffee house, the owner's or owners' names, and any information that describes events that led up to the idea for the business.
3. Management team overview:
The credibility of a new business always hinges upon the credibility of its management team. The goal of this section of your plan should be to impress upon the reader the trustworthiness and credibility of your team. Include information on the background and experience of each member, and highlight their main accomplishments in this (or related) businesses up to this point in their careers.
4. Product and customer targeting strategy:
Every coffee house serves a slightly different group of people. Are you going after the commuter crowd? Book-loving, lounging types? Stay-at-home moms? Write out the details of how your choice of a target market will influence your choice of products. Be sure to list out how your products will differ from those of other competing coffee houses in the area.
5. Store design ideas, equipment choices and overall ambiance:
In this section, write in detail about the theme you are going for in your new venture. For example, will it be ultra-modern, contemporary, old-fashioned, European, bohemian, etc.? Describe the type of customer you will be targeting (see #4 above) and weave that into your ideas about the design and overall ambiance of your coffee house. One of the biggest factors to consider is your choice of equipment; the wrong equipment can really look out of place if it does not fit in with your intended ambiance.
6. Proposed location and market analysis:
Successful coffee house owners know that location is especially important in this business. Your coffee house will need to be located near a major thoroughfare, business park, residential area or shopping center. Propose a handful of specific proposed locations for your new business. Also, do some research into factors such as market size of the area and the area's projected growth over the next 5 to 10 years.
7. Financial plan:
A successful business is one that is able to ramp up sales fairly quickly, with the goal of bringing in more revenue than it requires to keep the business running. In other words: it needs to be able to turn a profit. Sit down with a good spreadsheet software program and make educated guesses about items such as number of customers per day, average profit per sale, and the amount of each overhead (or fixed) expense. Then, write up your results in this section.
Hint: if you are numbers-challenged, that's okay: just write out your assumptions and then ask a friend, family member or paid consultant to help you do the math. While you are at it, be sure to make sales and profit projections for 6 months, 1 year, 3 years and 5 years.
Take these 7 essential elements into account as you put together your coffee house business plan.
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Thursday, March 22, 2012
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Tuesday, March 20, 2012
TYT Hour - July 19th, 2010
Sunday, March 18, 2012
See Thru Panties - Lingerie Tips For Petite Girls
Lingerie refers to underwear and nightwear for ladies. There are a number of brands offering beautiful lingerie for women in various styles and designs. If you choose to wear the right lingerie, you will be able to look beautiful, accentuate your best features in a perfect way and even feel highly comfortable. Women with short physiques or petite figures, usually have problems getting their perfect size and fit in lingerie. They usually end up with sagging bra cups and bra straps. Therefore, it is very important to learn a few essential tips to help you pick the right pieces.
Petite lingerie includes an extended variety such as the see through panties, printed bras, net bras, and so on. This means that women with petite figures can buy their favorite lingerie style after carefully picking the one which is exactly made for them. In order to find your lingerie, follow the tips below:
Search for your lingerie such as panties and bras at special lingerie stores. They have a great variety available in every size and style. They even have sister sizes available in each panty and bra style so you are most likely to find one which is just perfect for you.
Tell a professional to help you measure yourself. Once measured accurately, go through the size chart issued by the brands. They are usually named as A, B, C, D, small, medium or large. Try to figure out which size belongs to you. Be careful in matching your size with the size defined in the chart. This will help you in your search for perfect lingerie.
Buy bottoms that have slits since they make you look taller.
Do not haste in buying what you like. Try out as many sizes as you can, to get one size which is just for you.
See through underwear can be a great choice for petite women, as it creates the illusion of longer and wider body portions.
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