I’m very extremely worried myself. I’ve compiled a list of warning signs that will help you determine if you have the swine flu or if you may be coming down with the swine flu.

1. Itchy Bottom: if your bottom (hiney) itches it may not be hemorrhoids. It may be your skin reacting negatively to the growth of a new, curly tail.

2. New Curly Tail: enough said.

3. Pink: if your skin is suddenly turning pink and it has never been pink, think flu.

4. Pug Nosedness: be careful to examine your nose daily. The transformation of your common human nose to a pig-like nose may be a first warning sign.

5. Affinity for Slop: if you are beginning to have an urge to roll around in mud and eat nasty leftovers from McDonald’s that you find in the floorboard of your vehicle, seek medical help.

6. Insults: if you are a policeman and someone yells, “Hey, pig!” don’t be too alarmed. Otherwise…911.

7. Snorting: many people find that snorting accompanies the pig flu syndrome. Snoring does not count, but if your snoring does sound something like a pig’s rutting seek help anyway.

8. Overeating: don’t make a pig of yourself. The swine flu will do that for you.

9. Dietary Repulsion: if the only type of food that repulses you is pork, you are either Muslim / Jewish or you have the swine flu or both.

I just tried phoned the NHS emergency ‘Swine Flu’ helpline but all i get is crackling

On your way to work on the bus/train/tube? Pretend you’re on the phone and talk about your 4 week tour of mexico. Hang up. Then sneeze

Holiday packages to Mexico can now be had for under 20! – Prices not to be sneezed at

A mate of mine has just found out that he has swine fever but its ok…….. his doctor gave him some oinkment for it

think I have that swine, pig flu thingy….. I’m coming out in rashers

I wonder if Swine flue gives you the trots??

‘Do you enjoy it?’ The doctor asked.’
Actually, yes, I do.
”Does it hurt you?’ he asked.
‘No. I rather like it.
”Well, then,’ the doctor continued, ‘there’s no reason that you shouldn’t practice
anal sex, if that’s what you like, so long as you take care not to get pregnant.’
The woman was mystified. ‘What? You can get pregnant from anal sex?’
‘Of course, ‘ the doctor replied. ‘Where do you think politicians and lawyers come from.’

I used it for hours to play prince of persia 1 where you play the role of a prince to rescue a princess from the evil vizier. There were limited number of packages which could run on that machine. Turbo C 2.0 from borland and Dbase 3 plus were some softwares I had used.

What are your experiences with antique machines such as the 8086, 8088 or 80286, if you had used any?

Apparently,it is a top entry in some search engines.

Du bist Deutschland is a message to every german that every one of them has a responsibility for the well-being and future of Germany.

Several people from Germany have indicated that the “Du bist Deutschland” campaign is not government created, but sponsored privately. Moreover, an outcry about the campaign in the German blogosphere is generating scornful responses from the German mainstream media, which are said to have a stake in the advertising campaign itself.

After looking at the official website of the campaign “Du bist deutschland” and the tv advertisemet ( which can be found on the web) , The advertisement sends a message to all people to move ahead and do something which is everything one can do for their own country. This campaign has hit the german blogosphere and everyone seems to discuss about it since last november.

According to this movie, the wealthy can get anything and some neurotics are interested in buying the priveleged or the wealthy for a high price and use them for something which you wouldn’t expect: for torture and killing.

The plot of the movie seems to based on real events and the dialogues can be real.

Hostel follows young Americans Paxton (Jay Hernandez), Josh (Derek Richardson), and Icelander Oli (Eythor Gudjonsson) as they embark upon a backpacking trip through various European countries.

The girls are really part of an elaborate (or plausibly elaborate) business called Elite Hunting” designed to seduce young tourists into partaking in certain activities which lead to them getting drugged up, unconscious, and relocated to a desolate, abandoned warehouse where they are chained to a chair and tortured to death by clientele. These people are really sick.

There is a significant amount of violence, nudity and visuals which are disgusting .You can also see the extent of corruption which has penetrated into our society. The writer probably wanted to create tension or fear with the visuals but it had the opposite effect. I was bored with the violence rather than thrilled. There is no thrill in this movie..and the plot is bland even though it seems realistic. Some scenes dont have any meaning such as a bunch of children beating up adults who come in their way and not comply with demands of cigarettes or chocoloates etc. Also, there is no explanation why the slovakian policemen are stopping cars and beating up drivers on the freeway.

The map puzzle, a staple of childhood play, exemplifies the initial educational mission of jigsaw puzzles. Virtually every American child has tried at one time or another to assemble the puzzle map of the United States. It is relatively easy to put Florida and Texas and California into place on the edges, but making sense out of the jumble of states in the middle involves some real concentration and knowledge of the country’s geography. The idea of combining learning with play achieved general acceptance after the publication of John Locke’s Some Thoughts Concerning Education in 1693. The development of the jigsaw puzzle “to facilitate the teaching of geography” was a natural outgrowth of those ideas in the eighteenth century.

John Spilsbury, a London mapmaker and the best documented of the early puzzle makers, is recognized by most scholars as having invented the jigsaw puzzle around 1762. Competing claims for possible earlier inventors (Coven & Mortier of Amsterdam around 1740 and Dumas of France around 1760) are still being debated, but there is no doubt the first jigsaw puzzles were made from engraved maps pasted onto wood and cut into pieces along political boundaries.

Spilsbury’s trade card advertised many dissected maps, including the world, five different continents, England, Scotland, Ireland, and more than a dozen other individual countries. His puzzles were so successful that competition sprang up quickly. William Darton, a prominent London publisher of children’s books, adapted the jigsaw to teaching history by issuing the “Engravings for Teaching the Elements of English History and Chronology” in 1787. Each piece depicted a king or queen with a brief description of his or her reign. The solution required putting the monarchs in their proper order.

Religious and moral teachings in puzzle form soon followed. The books of the Bible, lives of the saints, and stories like Pilgrim’s Progress all made their way onto jigsaw puzzles by the end of the eighteenth century. These were especially suitable for use on Sundays, when many children were not allowed to engage in active or secular play. Other puzzle lessons included the alphabet, arithmetic, and science.

Only the educated upper classes purchased the early puzzles, which cost more than a laborer’s weekly wage. The carefully engraved and hand-colored prints were mounted on thin mahogany or cedar boards, then cut into pieces with a fret saw. The dovetailed boxes with sliding lids were also made of relatively expensive hardwoods.

Affluent citizens of the newly established United States undoubtedly bought some of the early puzzles. The Smithsonian Institution’s collection includes “Riley’s Biographical & Chronological Dissected Tablets of English History Composed for the Amusement of her Royal Highness, the Princess Amelia,” which was imported to Anne Arondel County, Maryland, around 1800.

Puzzles for amusement, with no explicit didactic purpose, appeared as early as 1785 in England. Publisher John Wallis was the first of many who adapted William Cowper’s popular poem “John Gilpin” to the jigsaw puzzle. The lighter subjects, though relatively rare in the eighteenth century, grew steadily in importance and today represent the majority of children’s puzzles. Nursery rhymes and fairy tales as well as stories like Robinson Crusoe intrigued children more than the overtly educational subjects. The nineteenth century also brought puzzles that celebrated memorable events, such as the coronation of Queen Victoria in 1838, the great fire at the Tower of London in 1841, and the Crystal Palace Exhibition of 1851.

The shift to more appealing topics coincided with reduced production costs, making puzzles more accessible to a broader market. Advances in printing during the nineteenth century made puzzles less expensive: Engravings and woodcuts gave way to lithographs that were printed in black and white, then hand-painted with watercolors. Publishers began to employ young children to color the prints with stencils; their wages were very low, and the work was often crude. Woodworking also progressed, with power scroll saws replacing the more laborious cutting with handheld fret saws. The substitution of cheap softwoods for mahogany during the nineteenth century helped reduce the cost of manufacturing puzzles and their boxes still further.

Developments in European puzzle production paralleled those in Britain with a few exceptions. One major difference was in the packaging. British puzzles came jumbled in the box, which was too small to hold the puzzle assembled. An uncut picture was included in the box to serve as a guide to assembly. In contrast, European puzzles were usually sold assembled, often in sets of three or more. They lay flat in a wide box, with one guide picture pasted to the lid of the box. Another difference was the cutting style. British puzzles had interlocking pieces only on the edges of the picture, in contrast with European puzzles that had interlocking pieces throughout the picture.

The United States depended on England and Europe as sources for puzzles for several decades, since the young republic lagged behind the continent in manufacturing. The earliest American producer appears to be Thomas T. Ash of Philadelphia, who issued a “Dissected Map of Palestine” in the mid-1830s. (F.&R. Lockwood of New York was selling puzzles a decade earlier, but it has not yet been established whether Lockwood manufactured the puzzles or just imported them.)

By mid-century a number of American companies were making puzzles, with dissected maps predominating. Samuel McCleary and John Pierce of New York patented a novel method for die-cutting map puzzles in 1849. (Their cumbersome technique, requiting a separate die for each piece, was not very successful, however, and soon disappeared.) They marketed their “Geographical Analysis of the State of New York” as an educational game. The box was covered with testimonials from Governor Hamilton Fish and prominent educators of the day, such as the president of Union College and Emma Willard, founder of the Troy (New York) Female Academy. Other puzzle manufacturers included the important mapmaking firms of S. Augustus Mitchell in Philadelphia and J.H. Colton in New York.

Diversification from map to picture puzzles started in the United States at this time. W.&S.B. Ives, the well-known Salem, Massachusetts, game publisher, began to produce picture puzzles in the early 1850s. In Philadelphia several firms were engaged in the puzzle business in the 1850s and 1860s, including Thomas S. Wagner, Jacob Shaffer, M.H. Traubel, and Davis, Porter, & Co. These four may well have had some business connections since the same pictures show up on more than one company’s puzzles. Charles Magnus of New York and Mark Salom of Boston were two other puzzle makers active in the 1860s. Among their wares were puzzles depicting scenes from the Civil War. Like the map puzzles, these early picture puzzles were hand-colored.

Burgeoning transportation networks after the Civil War enabled puzzle makers to distribute their wares far more widely than in earlier decades. The puzzle business was soon transformed by the rise of two giants of children’s publishing, McLoughlin Brothers of New York and Milton Bradley of Springfield, Massachusetts. By 1870 both companies were competing very successfully with imports from Europe, turning out puzzles and games by the thousands. Together with Parker Brothers, founded in Salem, Massachusetts, in 1883, Bradley and McLoughlin came to dominate the domestic production of children’s puzzles and games over the ensuing decades.

Smaller companies also emerged as puzzle producers during the last quarter of the nineteenth century. Selchow & Righter of New York and Peter G. Thomson of Cincinnati were particularly prolific producers of simple strip puzzles for young children, such as “Sliced Birds” and “Sliced Nations.” Other game companies like E.I. Horsman and J.H. Singer, both of New York, and Rufus Bliss of Pawtucket, Rhode Island, added puzzles to their lines.

All these companies used new technology that contributed to large-scale manufacturing, notably the chromolithography that had supplanted hand-coloring for children’s puzzles by about 1875. McLoughlin Brothers in particular made the most of the new techniques. The allure of the rich, brilliant lithography of their puzzles is as strong for today’s collectors as it was for yesterday’s children. The subject matter also appealed, glorifying the industrial spirit of the United States as it entered its second century. Puzzles showing locomotives, steamships, the Brooklyn Bridge, and airships took their place alongside maps and more traditional scenes of animals and children’s stories.

McLoughlin opened a modem color printing factory in Brooklyn in 1870, and by the 1890s employed seventy-five artists to illustrate books, puzzles, games, and other paper toys. Many illustrations did double or triple duty, thus saving on the cost of artwork. The color plates for many a McLoughlin children’s book also appeared both on jigsaw puzzles and on six-sided cube puzzles (blocks with pictures on each side that could form six different scenes from one book).

Although the earliest McLoughlin puzzles were made of wood, by the 1880s McLoughlin and other firms had shifted to less expensive cardboard. They also saved costs by cutting several puzzles at once; a stack was nailed together at the comers and cut on a band saw. McLoughlin was one of the last companies to switch from wood to cardboard boxes, although for several decades it continued to use wood to strengthen the sides of the boxes.

The advertising puzzle also made its first appearance at this time. The “Silent Teacher” puzzles, produced from the late 1870s to the early part of the twentieth century, were standard map puzzles on one side. But the Rev. E.J. Clemens, the entrepreneur who ran the McLoughlin company in the 1880s, added a new dimension by pasting advertising posters on the reverse. The puzzles thus educated while promoting products like Sherwin Williams paints and White sewing machines.

A few years later businesses began issuing their own premium puzzles. The C.I. Hood Company of Lowell, Massachusetts, was one of the most prolific of these firms. Its “Rainy Day Puzzle,” first published in 1891, went through several editions over many years and successfully promoted Hood’s Sarsaparilla as a panacea for all health problems.

The puzzle industry changed dramatically during the twentieth century. World War I ended the United States’ dependence on imports from Germany, which even then dominated the American toy industry. Diecutting replaced cutting with saws as the standard method for producing puzzles. And, of course, licensed characters by Disney and others took over the toy industry, including puzzles. It is interesting to note that the licensing trend originated in the late 1890s. R.E Outcault’s Yellow Kid appeared on a McLoughlin puzzle in 1896, shortly after his debut as the first comic strip.

This action-packed comedy is an absolute scream. The story is based on the lives of superheroes trying to lead normal lives after being banished and forced into hiding. These supers have been living among us and they have been trying to fit in but it is not all that easy for the former Mr. Incredible, who insists on trying to relive the glory days. But when his chance to bounce back into his old habits appears, Mr. Incredible can’t turn away. Set out on a mission to help a scientist, Mr. Incredible ends up with a new enemy and a new villain. But what about the family? Well as every great family is, they are right behind him, fighting alongside him every step of the way Ч even if they are battling sibling rivalry and adolescent social issues.

The Incredibles is a great, fun-loving movie; and it is a treat to share with family, friends or even to keep all to yourself. Pixar’s previous animated features were rated G, but guess what? This one carries a PG because the violence is much more vivid.

Mesothelioma is one of the deadliest diseases known to man; the average life span of an inflicted person from the time of diagnosis until death is less. Thousands of peoploe die each year from asbestos related disease including mesothelioma cancer. Asbestos exposure is the most important factor. Lung cancer Mesothelioma is one of the deadliest types of cancer which can take a life apart without us knowing it.Mesothelioma is directly associated with environmental and occupational exposure to asbestos mostly in areas of product plants and shipbuilding factories.

Mesothelial cells normally line the body cavities, including the pleura, peritoneum, pericardium, and testis. Malignancies involving mesothelial cells in these body cavities are known as malignant mesothelioma, which may be localized or diffuse. Diagnosis is difficult because the results from fluid analysis of the effusion from the tumor are not usually diagnostic. Most, but not all, pleural malignant mesothelioma is associated with asbestos exposure. An exposure of as little as one or two months can result in mesothelioma 30 or 40 years later. Most people who develop mesothelioma have worked on jobs where they inhaled asbestos particles, or have been exposed to asbestos dust and fibre in other ways, such as by washing the clothes of a family member who worked with asbestos, or by home renovation using asbestos cement products.

Lung cancer is one of the most deadliest of all health problems and prevention is better than enduring a life with cancer. Avoid working in factories where there is high exposure to harmful dust. Check your health insurance company if they support treatment for disseases such as this. Health insurance companies might avoid payout in such cases. A person migth have mesothelioma diagnosis very late in their life.. after the appearance of symptoms after many years.

Many people who develop mesothelioma due to asbestos exposure may be eligible for compensation. There are special attorneys for mesothelioma and a search for “mesothelioma lawyers” or “mesothelioma attorneys” in google might help you find a lawyer who might be able to help you.

Three years after stealing $150 million from casino owner Terry Benedict (Andy Garcia), the “Ocean’s Eleven” crew are doing their own thing with their stolen money. Benedict tracks them down and tells them that they have to pay him back with interest or he will kill them.

The gang joins forces again and heads to Europe since they are too hot to work in America. They first plan to steal a historical document but are stopped by police detective Isabel Lahiri (Catherine Zeta-Jones) and also by a master thief Francois Toulour (Vincent Cassel).

Strange that a movie about stealing did not have a lot of stealing in it. Instead, “Ocean’s Twelve” relies on plot twists to make the movie interesting. The acting in the movie is top-notch and they do have some big names (George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Julia Roberts and Matt Damon). But even big names and the acting cannot save the movie. There are too many characters to keep track of and you don’t feel like you know enough about them. We can’t shake the feeling that the sequel was just an excuse for these stars to hang out in Europe.

The movie has a lot of pointless freeze frames, wipes and some weird camera angles. It is shot in a lot of beautiful European locations but you will not be able to recognize them because of the camera angles.

Do not rent Ocean’s Twelve. At the end of the movie you will think that the whole movie was pointless, and you will feel just robbed.