Painted Faces

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people want to change themself, especially women. It's common to see women with painted faces either on the street or in the office.By making up, you can have a good looking and also leave a good impression to people.

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Painted face
I've recently been buying and experimenting with makeup in preparation for doing my own for the wedding. Usually, I'm completely barefaced, especially at work during the week. I tend to go to the gym in my lunch hour, which makes wearing make-up fairly pointless, and while I like the way I look with makeup on, I dislike the way it feels on my skin.With the wedding in mind, I've made some makeup purchases, notably some super-long-lasting lipsticks and some translucent powder to use on my face. One day a week at work I've been practicing different possible versions of my wedding Look, which I'm sure is puzzling my colleagues.At present, I begin with moisturiser, then foundation, and then powder over that. Today is the first day I've tried the powder, so I'm not sure yet whether it lives up to its claim of making foundation last longer. After the powder, I smile cheesily at the mirror, and dab on a little blush on my cheeks. Did you know there are videos on YouTube demonstrating makeup application? I suppose given the sheer number of videos on YouTube this is not a big surprise, but I had never thought about looking there for ideas. I'm using the blush technique I picked up here.After blush, a little neutral eyeshadow goes on, along with a brown eyeliner along my eyelid. Then I swipe on the long lasting lipstick, let it dry, and pop on the moisturising top coat. For those not in the know, the way those "kiss proof" lipsticks work is with a bottom layer of the colour, which you let dry onto the lips, and a clear moisturising coat which you can reapply throughout the day to keep the colour look shiny. While it's true that the lipstick doesn't come off on people, if you've just applied the moisturising coat you might get people rearing back from you and wiping off the tacky residue you've left on their skin.I find it very hard to judge what colour a lipstick is going to look like on my lips just from looking at the bottle. While I'm not above surreptitiously smearing a bit of a tester lipstick onto my finger and then my lips, that method doesn't really work with these lipsticks - the little bit of colour you smear on doesn't come off, so you're stuck with very odd looking lips. I ended up buying three different shades of a Max Factor lipstick which I found on special - the first shade was quite a dark purply pink, and not quite the subtle look I was after. The second shade looked pretty when smeared on my hand, but was in fact far too subtle when applied to my lips - it looked as if I was wearing a clear gloss. Irritated, I tried layering the two shades, but the end result was still a bit purple for my taste. The third shade is a winner, I think - a pleasant deep pink which goes well with the rest of the Look. Colours aside though, I'm really pleased with how this brand lasts, and it doesn't feel like I've smeared liquid concrete on my lips, which is always a bonus.In order to get this maquillage off my face, I've been using some makeup removal wipes, which deal with even the very determined lipstick. I'm rather pleased with the ten minute little routine I've developed for week mornings - I feel confident that given a more leisurely preparation time, I can create a very satisfactory wedding Look, and something that will fit my criteria of subtle, long lasting, and looks-pretty-in-photos.

Pirates

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There are countless popular stories of male pirates who terrorized the seas in search of treasure. Many were famous for their cruetly. But history often overlooks the hundreds of women pirates who were often more terrifying and more successful then their male counterparts.There are still some pirates today, but they they use high-tech tools to locate ships to attack instead of wearing eye patches with parrots on their shoulders or being armed .

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Columbia Encyclopedia

Blackbeard,d. 1718, English pirate. His name was probably Edward Teach, Thatch, or Thach. He probably began as a privateer in the War of the Spanish Succession (1701–14), then turned pirate. In 1716–18 he preyed on shipping and coastal settlements of the West Indies and the Atlantic coast of North America, becoming notorious for cruelty. His headquarters were in the Bahamas and the Carolinas. The governor of North Carolina shared some of the booty, but despite his protection Blackbeard was killed by a British force from Virginia. Legend has romanticized Blackbeard; his ship, found near Beaufort, N.C., in 1996, is key to a tourist Pirate's Trail.

The First Secret Codes

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people have always needed to share secret information and found unusual ways to do so. An ancient Greek King, for example, had a message to another king tattooed on the shaved head of a slave. After the hair grew back, the slave journeyed to the second king who shaved the slave's head and read the message. But this certainly wasn't the fastest way to send secret messages. It would be quicker to send a coded message that could message that could only be read by intended recipient.

There are four examples of secret codes given- Transposition Ciphers, Block Ciphers, Substitution Ciphers and Book Ciphers. Among them, Book Ciphers is still the unsolved one.In the past,these secret codes that have fascinating histories of how they were written and cracked.

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Famous Unsolved Codes That Have Since Been Solved
Poe's Cryptographic Challenge - In 1839, Edgar Allan Poe published two cryptographic challenges which remained unsolved for over 150 years. The first one was finally solved in 1992, and the second one in October 2000
Cyrillic Projector Cipher - Washington DC sculptor Jim Sanborn, famous for the CIA's Kryptos sculpture, also created some related sculptures which included both the text from Kryptos, and some encrypted Russian text about KGB operations. The best example was the Cyrillic Projector, which was created in the early 1990s and then installed permanently at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte in 1997. It was cracked in September 2003 by an international team involving the Kryptos Group.
Oak Island Money Pit Cipher Stone (solved, though alleged treasure still unrecovered) - In 1795, a teenager discovered a deep pit on Oak Island in Nova Scotia, along with hints that there was a great treasure at the bottom. Over the next two hundred years, multiple well-financed attempts have been made to learn what is hidden, but have been repeatedly foiled due to the unstable nature of the surrounding land, and the tendency for deep tunnels to suddenly flood with water. Something is obviously there, because various tantalizing artifacts from 300 years ago have been obtained, such as a pair of scissors, an encrypted stone tablet, barriers of oak logs, and other man-made objects deep below the ground. In 1976, a camera lowered into a subterranean chamber allegedly recorded images of wooden chests, tools, and a body, before the unstable land again collapsed the exploration tunnel. And in 2002, a report was supposedly produced by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute with more recent information. In any case, along with large amounts of money which have been sunk into this quest, multiple lives have also been lost attempting to solve the mystery.
Smithy Code. In April 2006, as part of the trial ruling of a plagiarism trial about the book ''The Da Vinci Code'', the judge in the case, Justice Peter Smith embedded his own secret code in the 71-page trial ruling (pdf). Once the code was discovered by a London legal analyst, it sparked off a worldwide race to see who could crack the code first. According to The Guardian, it was solved by Dan Tench, the legal analyst who first discovered the code, after he received a series of email hints from the judge. For more information, check here for an explanation of the code by the Kryptos Group (who solved it, but were not the first to do so), and check here for The Smithy code page at Wikipedia.
If you know of a solution to one of the above codes or mysteries, or would like to suggest any changes or additions to this list, please contact the webmistress.

Don't believe everything You read.

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every day we are bombarded with a great deal of information. Much of this information comes in the form of advertisements. We are told to buy things, to do things, to use services ,to go places, to follow rules and so on. How do we make decisions about what we read?The first rule is not to believe everything we read, especially if it's found on the Internet.This chapter we read about the on line scams.Don't believe everything from the Internet and watch out your money.

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HACKERS are targeting high-street banks with a virus that diverts internet bank customers to fake websites in a ploy to steal their personal details and rob them of their cash.
The “Troj/BankAsh-A virus” is the latest in “pharming” attack which divert people visiting legitimate bank websites to fake domain addresses owned by criminals. Barclays, HSBC, Lloyds TSB and NatWest all feature in the attack list of the virus which is delivered to victims via ttachments in spam e-mails. Unlike phishing, which relies on the user clicking on a link to a bogus website, the attack is triggered by the virus itself. This lies inside victims’ computers before automatically redirecting users to a fake website when they try to visit their internet bank. Once password details have been unwittingly revealed, the victims’ accounts are emptied.Lycos.co.uk, the internet service provider, which screens its 25 million e-mail subscribers for viruses, has tracked and stopped 39,789 incidents of the virus since it first appeared on the internet about a month ago. The perpetrators of the Troj/BankAsh-A virus scam, who are believed to be from Britain because British banks are the primary focus of the attacks, have not been tracked down. Wessel van Rensburg, the head of e-mail at Lycos UK, said: “The use of this software is far more insidious than recent phishing attacks because it can be ‘seeded’ out to users’ PCs through viruses, worms or e-mail attachments without internet browsers knowing that it is lurking on their machine.”
The “weak link” of the virus was that it was easily detected by anti-virus filters, he added.
Security experts said that the virus would cease to be a threat if internet banks had to prove their identity to users logging on to their accounts, instead of relying on customers to key in password details.
Paul Docherty, a technical director of Portcullis Security Systems, a security consultant, said: “Unless you are technically savvy, you have to take it on trust that the website you are connected to is who you believe it to be. It would be quite straightforward for the banks to put verification systems in place which would enable users to know the website is for real.
“But the logistics of rolling this technology out to millions of internet bank customers are holding them back and there would also be a cost.”
Sandra Quinn, a spokeswoman for the Association for Payment Clearing Services, which represents the banks on payment issues, said that no banks had yet reported losses as a result of the virus.
She said: “We are looking at a range of security options for the future, but at the moment the systems are what customers want and they give them the security that they need.”

Making Friends-Body Language

There are many different ways to express what do people mean.
we can use many different hand gestures to show the meanings.

*Examples of body language*

• In Brazil, the North America"OK" hand gesture means something rude.
• In India, grasping your ear means either "Honestly" or " I'm sorry".
• In France, the North America "OK" hand gesture means zero.

By using these hand gestures, we can clearly understand about international body language.

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The website is about body language.
http://www.deltabravo.net/custody/body.php