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Bizarre fashion

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Ankisha Malik
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We get to see several fashion trends at fashion weeks that look awesome on runways but very hard to incorporate in real life. But, some trends look absolutely weird even on runways. Fashion is all about conveying one’s sense of style. Fashion is what we feel comfortable in. Some people support outrageous outfits and accessories that are not even comfortable to look at. There are countless bizarre fashion trends, we can not list them all at once. Let’s have a look at some of them.fashion

Lady, take a breath:

one word for this- Suffocating. Who will carry this odd dress in their routine life. It’s literally covering the lady from head to toe, leaving no room for respiration.

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Torture dress:

I can not figure out if this is a dress or the designer of this piece was aimed to torture its model. The belts embracing her body in an awkward way.

It must be presenting hurdle in walking and the belts on the upper precious part of body is clenched a way too tight.

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Pain giving boots:

Just looking at these ballet boots is giving me a shiver. I can never manage to walk even one step after wearing them.boots

 

The hills, the ninety degree angle at the toe in fact the overall design is enough to make it painful to wear.

Piercing of weird body parts:

Piercings is fun as far as it is done in a right manner and on right body parts. But, some people go really crazy when it comes to piercing.ins

what inspires people to pierce such parts like in the above image. It is called frenulum piercing. I don’t get the point of piercing the frenulum, I mean who keep their mouths open to flaunt this kind of fashion. It’s downright bizarre.

Last thing that one should keep in mind while choosing a style is that it should be at least bearable to the beholders.

Facts about statue of liberty

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Abhay Sharma
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Just say America and think what comes in your mind first. Yes you are right. It’s The Great Statue of Liberty. The statue which is visited by 2 million people all throughout the year. But the statue is not just huge monument. It says a lot.

Here is a list of awesome facts you may or may not know, but it is sure that you will get amazed:

  • You think Americans were so stylish that they made her crown or hat of statue of liberty with seven spikes. The seven spiky of crown represents seven oceans and continents and spread the common message of Universal Liberty. And these heavy meanings are perfectly carried by 150 pound heavy hat.statue
  • The statue is not actually green. It is only due to corrosion of metal. Thus it is not paint. What, were thinking that it is paint? LOL’s
  • The statue holds a torch and a tablet in which is inscribed the American declaration of independence (July 4, 1776)statue
  • The Statue of liberty is not a result of a wealthy King’s show off. It is a gift from France to America as both countries got free from slavery. It was decided that the statue will be built in America and funded by France. The statue was given on the occasion of 100th American in dependency anniversary and anniversary of France – American relationships.
  • Originally the statue was intended to be installed in Egypt at Suez Canal entrance and the name suggested was Egypt carrying light to Asia. The then Egypt king Khedive Ismail Pasha was once ready for the project but then he dropped it off due to its high cost of construction. Poor Guy!!
  • The statue of liberty‘s face is actually rumoured to be inspired from its maker Bartholdi’s mother face. Awwwe so cute.
  • For those who have visited the monument it’s not news. But for those who have just saw it in movies, I want to tell you that yes my folks you can enter that statue. The head of statue has 25 windows. But after 26/11 attacks very few people are allowed to make it till head.
  • The torch was got damaged by Germans during world war due to shock waves from bombings. The torch then got restored in 1986 and it was then covered by 24k No body is allowed to go to the torch.
  • The feet of the liberty has broken shackles that denoted that the country is moving forwards from oppression and slavery. She is also moving her right feet towards a new era
  • The cost of the statue and pedestal is amounted to over $500, 000, over $10m in today’s money.
  • From the ground to the top of the torch the statue measures 93 meters, and weighs 204 metric tonnes.
  • The big beauty is really big. It wears shoe of 879 size, has 35 foot waist line and if you want to catch it’s head then you have to climb 354 stairs to reach there. And you thought it’s just a statue.

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  • The statue also is a mark of immigration. When people immigrated from various parts of world to America, the first thing they saw from their boat was this statue.

Although there is lot of things we can still talk about this beauty but be happy with these only! But yes the statue of liberty is not just a statue, it’s more than that.

Virus a mysterious story

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Shweta
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VIRUS

You must be thinking, why I have taken viruses as “mysterious story”?. Medical science has many stories of success, but when it comes to viruses why it gets failed? Answer is hidden in their extraordinary behavior and life-cycle they exhibit. Viruses are so complex that it is even difficult to say, whether they are living or non-living. Many of the viral diseases are not permanently curable and the reason is again behind the mysterious story of their behavior.
Pasteur gave the name viruses that means venom or poisonous fluid. I am sure, we all have suffered from the ‘common cold‘. Even by this ‘common cold’ we can associate how much ill effects any viruses can cause. Viruses are not even assigned to any classification group as they are not true ‘living’. Viruses, basically do not have a cellular structure. Viruses are inert and have crystalline structure, consisting largely of proteins. This is all they show when they are outside the host cell. But when they enter a living cell there comes a mysterious story of viruses. Non-living behavior gets transformed. They take over the machinery of the host cell to replicate themselves leading to the killing of the host cell.
If you are comparing the size of human cell with any virus, virus have too much small structure. They even pass through the bacteria-proof filters.  A virus is basically a nucleoprotein, in which genetic material is deadly for the host. Genetic material could be either DNA or RNA, both are never present in same virus. Virus that infect plants are mostly single stranded RNA and which infects animals could be single or double stranded RNA or double stranded DNA. Their crystalline structure largely consists of proteins. The protein coat protects the genetic material. Capsomeres are the small subunits of protein coat. Those viruses which do not contain this protein coat are called viroids, they just have free genetic material.
Virus functioning is based on the host genome. They incorporate their genetic material into the host genome. The infected host cell is now directed to produce new viral copies. New viruses produced in turn infect other healthy cells of the host. This is basic mechanism, how any virus causes infection in the host cell.
Virus cause number of diseases such as smallpox, common cold, chickenpox, influenza, polio, rabies, AIDS, Ebola. Even some types of cancer are linked to viruses. Antibiotics are useless against many of the diseases and antiviral drugs are effective against for few viral diseases only. It is very difficult to kill any virus. This is the reason “story of viruses is mysterious” and there is no proper treatment for many of the viral diseases to the medical science.

Crazy Rides

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Srinivas Konda
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Crazy Rides

Are you bored with life? Isn’t your life interesting? Do you want to Are you tired of your daily routine work and are you crazy enough to try something different in life, then here are few things can boost up your enthusiasm and kicks away your boredom.

Bungee Jump

No matter how many things you do to boost up your enthusiasm. Bungee jump is one of them to be added to your must try bucket list. Bungee jump involves jumping from a tall structure or from a mountain with the help of an elastic cord. The thrill is from jumping from such a high level that to free falling and then rebound.

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Jet Pack Flight

Have seen the iron man? The way he lifts himself with his Suit. Want to roam around like a bird that too with a Jet Speed then you need to try the Jet Pack Flight. Crazy isn’t it? Jet pack flight gives the same ride as Iron Man does in movies.

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Waterfall Kayaking

When you see a waterfall then first thing comes into mind is to just get under it and enjoy the waterfall. Thinking on other side of the coin how about going on top and falling with the water. Yes, waterfall Kayaking gives you the thrill of falling from mountain heights with the water. Just get a Kayak and there nothing much to explain just fall with the waterfall.

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Skiing

Skiing can be done in water and ice. Water skiing is a surface water sport in which a person is being polled by a Speed boat on Ski. Skiing can be done in snow areas. Heli Skiing is done downhill skiing on a snowboard which is pulled by helicopter.

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Zorbing

Zorbing is a recreation sport which involves rolling down the hill. Rolling down the hill inside an Ord, made of transparent plastic.

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Life at North Pole

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Srinivas Konda
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Life at North Pole

North Pole and south poles are the most extreme cold places on earth. Earth spins on an imaginary axis which is joined by North Pole and South Pole. The Arctic is located at the top of the axis and the Antarctica is located at the bottom of the axis.

Arctic Ocean is main part of North Pole. The water under the arctic heats the entire are and makes it warmer. The air and temperature is generally warmer at North Pole when compared to South Pole. Arctic is more habitable for living beings. The low temperatures at South Pole makes life impossible for plants and animals. Arctic has more animals that Antarctica. Polar bears are mostly found in Arctic of North Pole.

Most part of Arctic is covered up with Snow ice and ocean but a very little part of land is also available which makes the life possible for Flora and Fauna. It includes the most northern parts of Canada, Alaska, Russia, Scandinavia and Greenland. North Pole has sunrise for every 6 months. Sun goes down around September 21 and will raise again around March 21.

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Due to such low temperatures there will be very less habitat. These places are dense snow, ice bergs. There will be snow storms and blizzards. These places are mostly used for scientific research. People have myth that no live exists at such cold temperatures, but life do exists at these places. These days people live in both Arctic and in Antarctica they live in research stations. The people living in Arctic are called Inuit, best called as “Eskimos”. Eskimos hunt walruses and depend on their meat for their living. Reindeer is used for transportation.

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Not only human beings but few animals are also present in these areas. Beluga whales, which are often referred as White Whales survive by finding holes in the ice, come to surface and breathe. This is being am amazing life survival by Beluga whales because almost 96% is covered by Ice. Narwhals are considered Unicorns of the ocean are mostly found in Russian areas of Arctic Ocean. Sea otter which lives its entire life in water is also found in Arctic Ocean. Snowy Owl, Arctic Fox, Snow shoe usually called as Rabbit, Muskox and Puffins are some Fauna found in Arctic Ocean.

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Ahmadabad tour and travel

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priti sukla
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Source: Wikipedia.org
Source: Wikipedia.org

City Profile

Ahmadabad is a renowned city of Gujarat and best known for its historical importance as a direct association with M.K. Gandhi. It is the largest city in Gujarat state and sixth largest in India. It has ranked third place in the 2010 Forbes list of fastest growing cities in the decade. The city has become a major industrial and economic hub of many manufacturing units. After the creation of Gujarat state, the city has became a major focus of educational institutions of national accreditations. With its rich historical past and vibrant future, it was ranked as the best place to live in India by the Times of India in 2012.

Architectural Glory

The city was rules by many rulers from time to time, but prominent from them was Ahmad Shah, who founded this city on 26 Feb. 1412. Soon, a fort was build with 10 km fort wall running along the fort. There were 12 impressive city gates to the fort. This fort area now consists of the old city and has vibrant bazaars and traditional living. M.K. Gandhi built his ashrams here, from where he carried out his many mission for the freedom of India, prominent were Sabarmati Ashram at the bank of Sabarmati. In the modern outlook of the city, many world renewed architects like Louis Kahn best known for designing the Indian Institute of Management- Ahmadabad, Le Corbusier designed many residential and industrial architecture examples across the city while he worked for the planning of Chandigarh. Prominent among them were Shodhan and Sarabhai Villas, the Sanskar Kendra and the Mill Owner’s Association Building. F.L. Wright too worked here. Hence, this is the only city in India where the famous trinity of architecture world has their projects.

Fairs and festivals

The city has a vibrant population of 5.6 million. Hence, there are series of fairs and festivals that are celebrated with pomp and joy. The festivities of Ahmadabad are famous for its rich cuisine and kite-flying. The Kite flying festival called as Uttarayan is a two day affair observed on 14 and 15 January is world famous. People from across the state, country as well as world gather here and fly kites in open grounds and roof tops. Another important festival is the celebration of nine day long Navratri celeberations was most famous in India. People celebrate with special Garba dance celebrations from evening till mid night. Each house was decorated during these nine days by special floor graffiti called Rangoli in local dialect. Other than these, Dewali, Eid are other major festival celebrated with great enthusiasm and happiness.

Halloween Costume ideas 2015 for kids

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priti sukla
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Halloween Costume ideas 2015 for kids

Halloween is one of the most popular and most loved festivals of the world and especially in the countries like Ireland, United States Of America, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and many more countries all over the world and is celebrated with great excitement among the people of all age groups.  This is a yearly festival and is celebrated every year on 31st October. Ireland is considered as the birth place of Halloween. It was originally a festival which celebrated harvest but as the years past, it gained more and more popularity and it is now celebrated with a lot of fun among all the people.

On this day, children get dressed in the scary yet attractive costumes of ghosts, witches, cartoon characters or any other dress which might be popular among the children in those days and as the night arrives, children go to their neighborhood asking for candies and if they don’t receive any candies from an adult person they start shouting “Trick or Treat” which means that the person not giving the candies will be subject to the pranks or tricks by the children.

Pumpkins can also be seen outside the doors of the houses of people. Faces are carved in the pumpkins by the children to make the pumpkin look even better. After carving the faces they put candle in it and then lit the candle, so that the outline of the carved face can be seen in the dark. These carved pumpkins are also called Jack-o-lanterns.

Children love to look unique and attractive on this day and they try to do different things, try different costumes and styles to look better than everyone else. They can get exclusive and some really amazing Halloween costume ideas online easily or they can take help from their parents, elder brothers or sisters, other family members, friends or any other person who can help them out in making their attractive costumes. Children can get ideas from any movie, or any other their personal favorite character they like in cartoons or movies or anything which is unique and good to wear which easily catches the sight of every person. Children celebrating Halloween can also buy these dresses from the markets or shops present nearby or if not getting the attractive costumes that you require a child can also check some websites for buying Halloween costumes. And if you don’t want to purchase it from somewhere either online or from the shops and want to make some dress for you on your own by putting in your own hard work instead of just putting your money into it, then in that case you can just take small ideas from these websites and shops dresses and then try to give it a different touch by putting in your own creativity. This will help you to enjoy your Halloween in an even better way.

So all in all Halloween is that time of the year when you just want to enjoy and that also to the fullest, so try different ideas of enjoying, try to make some amazing and attractive costumes for yourself, try to scare people by your costumes and get up and try to spread as much love and happiness as you can and make this festival of Halloween a memorable for yourself and for others too.

Life Saving Antibiotic

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Shweta
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“Antibiotics” as the word indicates its meaning, ‘anti’ means against and ‘biotic’ means micro-organisms. These are a type of antimicrobial medicines used in case of any bacterial, fungal or protozoic infection. The idea revolutionised the field of medication and made it remarkably broad for the eradication of many diseases which were deadly for humans.
You must have heard from your doctor about ‘Narrow-spectrum’ or ‘broad-spectrum’ antibiotics. Let us know about this. ‘Narrow-spectrum’ antibiotics targets only specific type of bacteria where as ‘Broad- spectrum’ antibiotics targets wide range of bacteria. Antibacterial antibiotics are among the most commonly used antibiotics. The mechanism and selection of antibiotic to treat any disease depends upon their mechanism of action, chemical structure or causative microbe for the disease. Some target the bacterial cell wall, some target cell membrane, some inhibit the synthesis of bacterial enzyme or protein synthesis. The idea is to inhibit the metabolic reactions of the disease causing organisms which affects our immune system.
Now, let us know about the history of antibiotics. It all started in 1929, with the observation of Alexander Flemming while working on disease causing bacteria called streptococcus. He found that in one of his unwashed cultural plate, bacteria was not able to grow or killed. He concluded it was due to the presence of the fungal mould( penicillin) in cultural plate. Florey and Chain, then added their idea to this observation to use penicillin as antibiotic. Florey, Chain and Flemming were awarded with Nobel prize for this revolutionary discovery.

Most the antibiotics which we are using today were discovered in the mid 1980s. The discovery of arsphenamine, first synthesised by Alfred Bertheim and Paul Ehrlich in 1907, used to treat syphilis added to start antibacterial chemotherapy. Prontosil, was the first active antibacterial drug discovered by Gerhard Damagk and he was awarded with Nobel Prize (1939) for this discovery.

Off course, there is no doubt that antibiotics have made our life better and disease-free. But yes, we can ignore it’s limitations. The side-effects includes allergic reactions, diarrhea, abdominal pain, vomiting, drug fever and even toxicity in your body. Antibiotics may have widespread use but they are not effective against most common fungal or viral infections such as common cold, ringworms etc. If your stopping your antibiotic treatment or not taking it properly, it may lead the disease to worst or may be bacteria get resistant to the antibiotics. So,it is advisable to don’t become your doctor yourself, if you have started taking antibiotics. Taking proper medication from your doctor is must and needful

Stay aware, stay healthy.

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kellybrown
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Who wants to buy health problems with their hard earned money. But, we all are doing the same. Impurities in food items has been very common these days. Food contamination is taking a big toll on our health. Adulterants are being added freely in food items in the name of color, aroma and what not.

FDA has permitted a limited amount of chemical adulterants that can be added into edibles. But, those limits are being crossed carelessly by the food producing companies. Besides that every food item is not regulated by FDA such as loose pulses, rice, milk etc. Now, the question arises on the reliability of the edibles we introduce in our daily meals. Some chemicals can even cause deadly diseases like cancer.

How can we safeguard our families from these harmful chemicals? Do not panic, we are here to tell you how you can test the purity of your kitchen stuff.

Milk: Milk is considered as a whole meal and the most reliable source of nutrition. Milk is said to be pure and serene that’s why it is used extensively in Puja rituals. But, milk also is not free from added impurities.

Starch and urea are the common adulterants found in milk. Read on to find the testing method for identifying them.

Starch- If a blue color formation is seen after adding a few drops of tincture of iodine, it indicates the presence of starch in the milk.

Urea- Add half tsp of soybean flour to 5ml milk and shake for 4-6 minutes. Then dip a turmeric indicator paper in the solution. If the paper turns red , it shows presence of urea in the milk.

Turmeric Powder- Chalk powder and synthetic colors are most commonly found contamination in turmeric powder.

Synthetic color- Add 5 ml of water and a few drops of concentrated hydrochloric acid to one tsp of turmeric powder. You will notice formation of pink color, it will disappear soon but the color persists then the turmeric powder is contaminated with artificial color.

Chalk Powder- When 3 ml of water plus a few drops of concentrated hydrochloric acid to one gram of turmeric powder produces effervescent indicates chalk powder is added to turmeric powder.

Table Salt- Salt is another commodity that is really essential for cooking. Salt may contain powdered white stone.

White Stone Powder- Add one tsp salt in one glass of water and stir well. Salt is completely soluble in water. If it leaves white color behind that clearly states that it has presence of white stone powder

Ghee- Ghee normally contains impurities of starch.

Starch- Boil a small amount of Ghee with some water and allow to cool. Then add a few drops of iodine solution. Formation of the blue color shows presence of starch in ghee.

Stay aware, stay healthy.

countries that are not at all democratic

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Abhay Sharma
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Democracy is the most beautiful thing every country should have. But there are yet many countries in world which are not democratic at all. They are purely ruled by kings. The royal family has full ruling authority and the family spent their life royally with all luxuries. Here is a list of 7 countries which are not democratic :

Cuba

Cuba is operated through communism system. Since 1960, the communist party of Cuba is the only political party in the country. The people of Cuba has no basic human rights. The coffee country suffers mainly from tortures and human rights violations from part members.

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Cuba

Vatican City.

The world ‘s smallest country has royal law and orders. This amazingly beautiful country with world largest church is ruled by pope. The country with just 2 km long border is located in capital of Italy as a different country. The royal family issues it’s own identity cards, driving licenses and other things like a standard country. The country has embassies of all countries. Isn’t it great for that small country.

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Vatican City

Swaziland

The royal king of the African country is known as Ngvenyama  means lion. The king runs his Kingdom with help of her mother also known as Indlovukazi. The current king of the country is Maswati-3. The royal family members enjoys all luxuries of royalties. Although the country has supreme court and ministries , the king has final authority of decisions. And as all other royal kings, this king also has 15 wives and 30 children.

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Swaziland

Oman

Oman has only one authority and that is Sultan. He is the ultimate army leader of country. The country has no government and no body other than King has authority for any politics. He is prime minister , home minister and finance minister of the country. Looks like he want to be like Rahul Gandhi.

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Oman

Brunei

The south-eastern country got free from British Kingdom in 1985. Since then it is ruled by its sultan,  Hasan-Al-Bolkia.

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Brunei

Andorra

Andorra is in Europe. This country has effect from Spain and France. It neither got free not is under full dependency. Andorra got established in 1607. This country has realty of Bishop Kingdom of Spain.  Along with it the president of France works as a king here. The most interesting fact about this country is that it has only 12 policemen in whole country who are also for just formality. This country is extremely rich and totally depends on tourism.

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Andorra

UAE

Total states are merged in UAE. The supreme sheikh of abu dhabi is considered as leader of alliance. The current president of country is Sheikh Khalifa –Bin –Zaid- Al-Zahein. On the other hand , the king of dubai Sheikh- Mohammad- Rashid-Al- Maktaum.  All sheikh of all seven states has their authority of ruling in their states separately and freely.

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UAE

Qatar

Qatar has ruling of King of Thani Kingdom Amir-Hamad- Bin-Khalifa- Al. Although he declared country’s first democratic election on 2013. But king has final authority of any decision. The country is being ruled according to Islamic rules.

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