10. Because a reversal of the magnetic poles would not be catastrophic.

It seems that every few hundred thousand years or so, the Earth’s magnetic field dwindles to practically nothing and then gradually reappears with the north and south poles flipped. Now this flipping of the magnetic poles—which appears to have last happened about 780,000 years ago—isn’t particularly dangerous, but this brief period—about a century or so in duration—of decreased magnetic fields could threaten life on the planet, for without magnetic protection, particle storms and cosmic rays from the sun, as well as even more energetic subatomic particles from deep space, would strike Earth’s atmosphere, eroding the already beleaguered ozone layer and causing all sorts of problems to both man and beast (especially among those creatures that navigate by magnetic reckoning). Further, scientists estimate that we are overdue for such an event and have also noticed that the strength of our magnetic field has decreased about 5 percent in the past century, possibly signaling that such an event may be in our immediate future—within a few centuries if not sooner. However, in being so gradual, should scientists in the future discover that such a shift is in the works, there should be plenty of time to take the necessary precautions to avoid the most destructive effects by moving underground or off planet, or perhaps strengthening the planet’s atmospheric defenses through the use of exotic, futuristic technologies. In any case, it isn’t something we need to worry about in the short term—though it could be a concern for those living a few hundred or even thousands of years from now.

9. An increase in sunspot activity in 2012 will not have any particularly detrimental effect on the planet.

As every schoolchild knows, our sun is constantly shooting gaseous plumes of white hot plasma thousands of miles into space which our atmosphere generously shields us from. Sometimes these plumes are much larger than normal, however, and are what we refer to as solar flares
(more properly known as coronal mass ejections). Fortunately, these enormous magnetic outbursts that bombard Earth with a torrent of high-speed subatomic particles are also largely negated by the planet’s atmosphere and magnetic field, so we seldom feel the effects of these plasmic bursts, beyond creating havoc for ham-radio users and increasing the luminosity of the Aurora Borealis or Northern Lights. They are of concern mainly to space explorers, who really would have a problem if they are caught in orbit without suitable shelter when one of these things go off. The sun goes through a natural twenty-two year cycle when such storms increase significantly for a time before decreasing again. Such a period is scheduled to occur in 2012, which has some folks all atwitter. For those who are expecting the worst, it might be beneficial to realize that the sun reached similar period of solar activity in 1990, 1968, 1946, and it will again in 2034, 2056 and 2078. While these periods can produce large solar flares that can effect satellite communications and, in a worst-case scenario, adversely affect the flow of electrical energy through the power grids, it is unlikely to do more than produce some especially spectacular light shows in the northern skies and make people onboard the International Space Station a little nervous.

8. Because the poles cannot shift or the planet’s orbit be otherwise altered.

Some well-meaning but scientifically challenged individuals maintain that the planet’s physical poles are on the verge of reversing (that is, the planet is flipping over onto its top) or that gravitational forces from the other planets or from the galaxy itself could affect Earth’s orbit and, hence, dramatically alter its climate and environment. Fortunately, however, the gravitational forces that effect our planet and its place in the solar system are mandated by Newton’s laws of planetary mechanics and cannot be changed without some extremely rare (think one chance in ten billion over the next three billion years) and dramatic event taking place—such as a collision with a small moon or a massive black hole making its way through the solar system, both of which would be noted well in advance or whose effect would be so gradual as to take centuries to have any great impact. As far as we know, there are no such cosmic events known to be on the horizon—at least for the foreseeable future (and well beyond 2012).

7. Because Earth climate change is a gradual process and one easily adapted to.

Some take a more hand-on approach to the end, claiming that humanity will perish as a result of human-caused weather changes, which, it is claimed, will melt the polar ice caps, raise the ocean sea levels, and change weather patterns over large portions of the planet. Even if the science holds together, however—which many claim it does not—such a process would be felt over a period of years or even decades, giving human beings time to adapt to the changes (relocate, create shoreline reclamation technologies, etc.) It is even possible that a warmer planet might ultimately be beneficial by, for example, increasing arable land in Siberia and North America as the permafrost layer retreats northward. In any case, the year 2012 has no particular significance in regards to any Earth changes that may occur over the next few decades.

6. Because the people who suggest the end is coming don’t know what they’re talking about.

Unfortunately, human beings have a tendency to invest great authority in people who can convince them they are prophecy “experts” or have some sort of hidden knowledge others do not possess that allows them to read the future. Many of these people are sincere individuals who simply misinterpret ancient bible texts, while others are deluded crazies who only want to include others in their fantasy world. A few are even unscrupulous charlatans out to make a quick buck. The bottom line is, however, that nobody really knows what the future holds regardless of who they are or what methodology they use. There simply is no evidence that anyone has ever successfully prophesied some future event (beyond some short-term political or military events easily surmised by gauging current international trends) with anything approaching clarity or accuracy.

5. Because the Bible Code is a parlor trick.

Using a complex type of cryptographic code called Equidistant Letter Sequencing (ELS), journalist Michael Drosnin, author of The Bible Code, contends that one can find meaningful and related patterns of words and dates in close proximity to each other within the words of the Pentateuch (the first five books of the Old Testament and the heart of the Jewish Torah) which would seem to go beyond mere chance. One of these, he says, suggests the planet will be struck by a comet in 2012, with all the unfortunate consequences that would entail. However, critics dismiss Drosnin’s methodology as little more than a parlor trick, demonstrating that meaningful words and phrases can be produced using his method on any similar sized manuscript. For example, Australian mathematician Brendan McKay, an ardent critic of Drosnin’s process, demonstrated that a computer search of Herman Melville’s nineteenth century classic Moby Dick found a number of meaningful phrases in close proximity to each other (specifically having to do with the late Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin’s assassination in 1995), suggesting that just as the eyes can be tricked into seeing familiar faces in random patterns of light and shadow, so too can the mind be tricked into finding meaningful phrases in random collections of letters where none exists. And if that’s not enough, Drosnin has been proven wrong about other “significant events” he claims were contained in the Bible, so I wouldn’t worry about it too much.

4. Because the Earth isn’t that easy to destroy.

3. Because doomsday prophecies have consistently been proven wrong.

Literally hundreds of dates have been picked by various religious leaders and self-proclaimed prophets over the last two thousand years as being the end of the world and not a one of them has ever even come close to being accurate. So why do we believe these same people today when they tell us the end is coming in 2012 (or whenever they imagine it to be coming)? Listen, you wouldn’t believe your doctor if it has been repeatedly demonstrated that he has never once correctly diagnosed a patient, so why give these guys the benefit of a doubt?

2. Because Nostradamus never picked 2012 as the end date.

It has been popularly believed that Nostradamus, the famous sixteenth century French mystic, suggested the end would come in 2012, perfectly coinciding with the Mayan date, which, if true, would be very spooky indeed. However, in reading through Nostradamus’ many quatrains, nowhere does he specifically mention the year 2012 or even suggest that the end would come around that time. In fact, his predictions extend all the way to the year 3797, making it seem we have some time yet before the end is neigh. Additionally, his writings are so obscure as to make any interpretation little better than a guess. Most of them are likely referring to events that took place in his lifetime, with the rest being so vague that they can be made to fit any time frame the reader so desires.

1. Because the Mayans never claimed it would.

The Mayans had many calendars they used, one of which was known as the “long count” calendar, which measures very long periods of time. According to this calendar (which has been known to archeologists for decades, by the way) the Earth’s “fifth sun” would end at the Winter solstice, December 21, 2012, at which point a new, sixth 5,125-year cycle would begin. What significance this had to the Mayans is a source of some debate, but it is the general consensus that they did not attribute to it any catastrophic events. Most likely, they simply considered it a time for spiritual renewal or introspection, which doesn’t sound all that dangerous to me. The teaching that the Mayan’s believed it was the end of time, then, appears to be a largely westernized misreading (or deliberate misrepresentation) of the significance of the Mayan calendar and Mayan beliefs associated with it.

The Omaha Beach invasion from Saving Private Ryan is an honorable mention because it’s been on several lists already. It deserves a place, though, because during the first 25 minutes of the movie, no one munched popcorn, no one rattle candy wrappers. Everyone just sat with their mouths and eyes wide. Grown men started screaming at the screen, “Yes! Shoot back!” Moviegoers bought ticket after ticket and left after this scene was finished (then returned for the final 25 minutes).

Okay, okay, boxing fights never look like this. In terms of realism, all the Rocky films are idiotic. But face it, you’d rather watch something like this than a real boxing match in which the fighters land a few punches per round and someone wins on points.

This is by far the most violent of all the Rocky fights, and it will make you laugh out loud at how much abuse and brain damage Rocky is taking. And yet, you cheer for him, and love it when he knocks Drago out. You find yourself wanting more and more punches and sound effects. It’s a guilty pleasure.

This one is a bit of a cheat, since there are two scenes in question in this film, but this lister always fast-forwards and watches them back-to-back.

There are few films out there that try to capture man-to-man fighting in a realistic fashion, but this one does well, as the two stars are highly trained in Sayoc Kali, a Filipino knife fighting martial art that stresses extreme close quarters. Most fights don’t last more than a minute or two, after which one or both men are chopped to pieces.

The choreography is based on fast-paced, vicious killing blows that the opponents have to fend off one after another, all with knives. What makes it work is that they actually score brutal hits on each other throughout, until by the end, they’re both streaming blood and in obvious pain.

Still the finest movie based on a very thin source, a single, lyric poem by Kipling. The whole story, thus, was written by someone else, with Kipling’s poem more inspiration than basis. Sam Jaffe should have won an Oscar for his portrayal of Gunga Din, a bhisti, or water-bearer, who wants to be a soldier and bugler with the Brits.

They treat him like garbage throughout the film, and yet, at the end, right before the Thuggees ambush the whole British army and then tie the lead actors’ faces to bags of hot ashes, Gunga Din, already badly wounded, crawls up to the top of a parapet and sounds a bugle alarm to warn the army. The army fans out and ambushes the ambushers, and Gunga Din is shot dead.

The Marx Brothers are probably the finest comedy team in film history. They still appeal to the public today! At theater screenings of their films, you’ll still see college students, high schoolers, little kids, old people, watching and laughing.

And of all their slapstick brilliancies, the idea of filling a stateroom on board a cruise liner with so many people that it becomes like a cartoon has to take the top prize of their work.

It starts out innocuously, which is the key to the fun. It’s Groucho’s room, and he’s supposed to be staying alone. But out pop Chico and Harpo and Allan Jones, stowaways, and they proceed to order food. Then every serviceperson on board comes in to help out with whatever he or she does, until at last, Kitty Carlisle opens the door, and they all spew out into the hall like a Bugs Bunny stunt. Groucho is cracking jokes the whole time.

William Friedkin took the infamous “crabwalk” scene out of the final product because test screenings scared people so much that they got up and ran out of the theaters, or talked about the scene throughout the rest of the film. Friedkin thought it took some of the impact away from the actual exorcism sequence that comes later, but he should have left the scene in. The exorcism is pure phantasmagoria. By the time you get to it, you’re virtually desensitized to the fear of the Devil, because how many times can you have the pants scared off you?

Yet, the exorcism fills you with a morbid fascination, and horror that has been distilled, as you watch a demon cast down from Heaven with Satan’s other minions, Pazuzu, duke it out with two servants of God.

The film will have you saying to yourself, “There is no way this can be really happening in this movie. It can’t make good on all this build-up.” And it does. Both priests die, the demon flees, and the room is nearly brought down on them.

And while we’re talking of William Friedkin, he was known before The Exorcist as a guy who could film a good car chase. When Bullitt came out in 1968, Friedkin figured he could top the chase scene in it, and actually pulled it off, in this lister’s opinion. The Bullitt chase is a definite must-see, if you haven’t, but it lacks the hair-raising, jump-from-your-seat thrills of the chase between Jimmy “Popeye” Doyle and the Frenchman on the El-train in Brooklyn.

Friedkin had a stunt driver do the job, while he got in the back seat, wrapped himself in a bed mattress and filmed it from the inside with a hand-held camera. Then they filmed enough car passes and crashes from the outside to edit it all together and what came out the other end is a slam-bang mash-up. The car barely misses little old ladies, bounces up high over curbs, plows through newspaper kiosks, sideswipes other cars, and all the while the tension remains steadily mounting because the train has no obstacles; it may easily get away.

No, this lister is not some zit-faced fanboy padding a list just to get The Lord of the Rings on it. The movies are fantastic (yes, Virginia, that is a pun), and the Battle of Helm’s Deep is worthy of this list, but to keep things interesting, only this scene from the trilogy is listed.

It uses all available technology in filmmaking up to that point, and shows how a full-scale, classical formation battle really would have played out. All the right notes are hit, drama, action, the big climax (the Ride of the Rohirrim), heroism, villainy, the calm after the storm, etc. The editing is the real stand-out.

This should be placed as high as it is for the monumental difficulty in filming a martial art scene. The choreography has to be done with an eye toward realism, or else it looks too much like a dance (viz. The Matrix). This whole sequence lasts about 20 minutes, and took over 2 months to film.

Chan directed this part of the film, and claims that each day’s worth of shooting would produce about 5 seconds of usable footage. His character enters a steel mill to rescue a friend. Every bad guy in the world comes down on top of him, first an Aussie with a giant chain, then four henchmen with poles, pipes, meathooks, falling barrels, then the two, main bad guys. It just gets better and better.

Finally Chan can’t beat the last man, Ken Lo (his real-life bodyguard at the time), without a little help from 100% wood alcohol (no, you cannot drink it, so don’t try). What follows manages to top all that comes before it. You find yourself staring with an open mouth, wondering how the heck much longer it can go on, but go on it does.

There was never a more violent scene in all of film, until Saving Private Ryan, than the finale of The Wild Bunch. Sam Peckinpah set out to film what gunfights really look and sound like, and given the censorship of 1969, it’s marvelous how much he gets away with.

More blanks were fired in this scene than live rounds were fired during the entire Mexican Revolution.

Four members of The Wild Bunch consign themselves to possible death and walk right into the thick of the bad guys to demand one of their friends returned. One of the bad guys sneers and cuts the hostage’s throat, just to spite them. He didn’t think they’d have the insane guts to start a fight with a hundred or more Mexican soldiers all at once, but by God they do.

Scores of men are gunned down in an orgiastic bloodbath, with small arms, grenades, and a WWI Maxim machine gun. William Holden blows a woman away point-blank with a shotgun (then calls her a vulgar name). Mexican children armed with rifles are gunned down by Ward Bond. Ernest Borgnine uses another woman as a human shield until she and 4 or 5 bad guys are riddled with bullets. Blood and chunks of brick are flying everywhere.

Then Warren Oates gets on the Maxim, and you can’t believe it could get any worse but it does. Ten times worse.

It may well remain forever and ever the grandest, most epic scene in film, because today you can use computers to do anything without any risk of death. In the 1950s you had to hire some really crazy action junkies to do the stunts. This was staged by the one and only Yakima Canutt, the greatest stuntman ever.

It’s somewhat unrealistic in that horses are not going to pull a chariot 9 times around a racetrack if each circuit is about half a mile. They’ll drop dead from exhaustion first, or stop and refuse to go.

This scene took 3 months to film, not counting the 3 months Charlton Heston had to take off when he broke both his arms. That scene is in the film. When his chariot rolls over another chariot at high speed and throws him forward out of his car onto the harnesses, both his elbows snapped backward. The scene then cuts to Heston climbing back into the chariot with the reins. That was 3 months later, after his arms had healed well enough for him to finish.

Moviegoers sat and talked about the scene throughout the rest of the film, and bought more tickets to go back in when the race began again.

There are conflicting reports over whether an extra actually died. The rumor is that a particular extra is required to be run over by a chariot, and though a dummy was intended for this, a stuntman got too close at one point and fell in front of one as it passed. he was trampled and then run over, and this is in the final print. Or so the rumor says.

Dari banyaknya posisi dan teknik bercinta yang mungkin pernah Anda lakukan, ada tiga posisi ML terbaik yang dipercaya dapat saling memuaskan kehidupan seksual Anda bersama pasangan. Khususnya kaum Adam.

Ketiga posisi itu adalah gaya kepiting, Dok-al-Arz (dari bahasa Arab), dan posisi kuda (modifikasi dari posisi misionaris). Simak uraian dari masing-masing gaya tersebut.

Kepiting

Dalam posisi ini pria melakukan penetrasi di antara kaki pihak wanita, sedang salah satu kaki wanita melintang melewati salah satu paha pria. Posisi ini memungkinkan untuk pihak pria melakukan penetrasi lebih dalam dan memberikan rangsangan lebih pada klitoris.

Dok-al-Arz

Merupakan posisi paling terkenal di Arab (dari awal 1400-an), yang dituangkan dalam sebuah buku yang ditulis Muhammad ibn Muhammad al-Nafzaw.

Gaya ini direkomendasikan bagi pihak pria yang mengharapkan pihak wanita terus bermain cinta padanya. Gerakannya cukup mudah, pria duduk di tepi tempat tidur, dengan kaki berpijak pada lantai. Sedang pihak wanita berdiri di hadapannya sambil terus memberikan ciuman.

Pihak wanita yang bertindak melakukan penetrasi dengan terus memberikan ciuman sambil melingkarkan kaki di pinggang pria. Dalam posisi ini wanita yang memegang kontrol.

Kehebatan dari gaya ini adalah adanya stimulasi klitros dan G-spot, bahkan bagian T-zone yang berada di balik dubur.

Gaya Kuda

Gaya ini merupakan favorit dari gaya seks Tao. Kehebatan gaya ini adalah memberikan ereksi maksimum pada pihak pria, dan pihak wanita mendapat penetrasi mendalam, serta stimulasi G-spot, demikian juga dengan T-zone penuh.

Pihak wanita berbaring di tempat tidur yang tinggi atau meja, sedang pihak pria dalam posisi berdiri. Wanita dalam posisi mengangkang serta mengangkat lutut hingga ke dada, sementara pria melakukan penetrasi.

Sebenarnya ketiga posisi seksual terbaik sepanjang zaman ini diambil dari Kama Sutra dan Kebun Wewangian. Kalau melihat karya-karya itu, sepertinya di zaman kunopun telah dikenal tentang titik rangsang kaum wanita. Titik rangsang itu bukan hanya terbatas pada klitoris, G-spot, dan T-Zone saja.

Soal gaya ML ini, dari zaman ke zaman sebenarnya sangat banyak pilihan yang dapat diambil sebagai variasi. Tapi dalam sejarah tiga posisi itu yang dianggap paling baik.

sumber: http://inilah.com/berita/gaya-hidup/2009/10/04/163336/posisi-favorit-pria-dalam-bercinta/

Sarah Palin, mantan kandidat wakil presiden Amerika Serikat dimasa kampanye lalu yang sedianya bakal mendampingi rival politik Barrack Obama yaitu John McCain ternyata juga melakukan apa yang kadang sering kebanyakan orang biasa lakukan yaitu menyontek (ngrepek).

Dalam salah satu talk show secara tidak disadarai apa yang dilakukannya tertangkap kamera dan hal tersebut sempat menjadi heboh dan mengundang reaksi dari berbagai kalangan. Rival Obama tersebut yang juga menjabat sebagai gubernur di negara bagian Alaska memang bukan manusia superwoman, dia juga adalah manusia biasa seperti kita kita juga, yang memiliki keterbatasan. Namun apakah yang dilakukan seorang Palin tersebut dilarang atau tidak patut? atau hal tersebut adalah manusiawi?

Bagaimana sobat, pernahkan Anda ketahuan menyontek?

sumber: http://ruanghati.com/2010/02/11/parah-mantan-kandidat-wapres-as-sarah-palin-suka-nyontek-di-tangan/