Palmistry - The Thumb

Thumb in a way, represents the whole hand. Hence more importance is attached to the thumb than it is given to the lines in the palm. The thumb reveals the whole identity of the individual to the palm reader. The thumb is considered as the root of the whole hand. The thumb is considered as the center of the will-power. It is formed by 2 pieces of bones. The first phalange of the thumb indicates logic and the phalange containing the nail indicates will-power.

According to medical sciences, no harm is done for the individual if the four fingers are cut off. But if the thumb is torn and there is profuse bleeding then the person might go insane and even results in his death.

Parts of the thumb

First phalange of the thumb

If the first phalange of the thumb is very long, then such a person is self-willed while he has less desire to work if the thumb is shorter. Such persons are weak-willed. If the fore part of the thumb is square, the person is clever in legal matters and is respected for his acts of justice. He is very obstinate if the fore part of the thumb is wide. If the forepart of the thumb is extraordinarily long then such a person is a murderer or a dacoit or remain engrossed in anti-social activities.

The Second Phalange of the Thumb

Persons whose second phalange is long, are clever, careful and a take a lead in social activities. They are held in high esteem by the society. If the phalange is short, the person works without any forethought. He works in acts of dangerous magnitude. If this phalange is clumsy, then he is devoid of the power of reasoning. If this phalange is depressed then the person's mind is sharp and sensitive.

Third part of thumb or Place of Venus

The third part of the thumb is not a phalange, instead it the place of Venus. A person who has this part more prominent, elegant with a pink tinge is well-advanced in love matters. They gain full popularity among friends. They succeed in life and smile under difficulties as well. If the mount of Venus is very protruded, then the person would be sexually immoral. If this part is less prominent or submerged with more than necessary lines then the person would be having a frustrated temperament.

Different types of thumbs

Long Thumb - Such persons are self-willed, self -dependent and control others. In their lives intelligence has more importance and they are called intellectuals, and they are especially interested in mathematics and engineering.

Short Thumb- Such persons do not work with their own mind instead do so at the influence of others. Emotions have prominent place in their lives than intelligence. They take special interest in poetry, painting or music.

Hard Thumb- Such persons ae obstinate and alert. They possess the capacity to keep anything to themselves. They are wanting in emotions in their lives and they mostly work on the strength of intelligence.

Flexible and Supple Thumb- A person with such a thumb is much interested in amassing wealth and is capable of adjusting according to circumstances.

Obtuse-angled thumb- If the thumb makes an obtuse angle with the index finger then it comes under this category. Such thumbs are well-formed, long and thin. They are called gentle thumbs. Persons having such thumbs are gentle and sweet-tempered. They are Artists and Musicians.

Right-angled thumb- These are those thumbs which form a right angle with the index finger. These thumbs are elegant, strong and appear like pillars. Such a person believes in hard work. They are short-tempered but quickly cool off. They stick to their words. The feeling of revenge is very strong in them. Such persons can be neither good friends not good enemies.

Acute- Angled Thumb- Thumbs which make an acute angle at the joint with the index finger come under this category. The length of such thumbs are comparatively smaller and look clumsy. Such thumbs are classed as of evil quality.

Persons with this kind of thumb are frustrated throughout their lives. They are very lazy. They do not complete any work. They remain in bad habits with lavish spending. They are less interested in religion and are more inclined towards ghosts, spirits and the like.

They are always attracted towards the other women in life.

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extraordinary Canadian musical

Sadly, most of us here in the U.S. are blissfully unaware of performers that don't hail from one of the 50 states. Ask the average Joe on the street if they know of any Canadian musicians, and if you get any response, you'll hear Celine Dion or Shania Twain, maybe even Bryan Adams or Neil Young. While these are certainly talented musicians in their own right, they certainly do not represent the breadth and depth of the Canadian music scene. Some of the ignorance is due to the cultural similarities between ourselves and our neighbors to the North.
Pop/punk sensation Avril Lavigne is so popular with the tweener set here in the U.S. precisely because she looks and sounds like she could have stepped off of any high school campus in middle America. But aside from such superstars as Alanis Morrisette and Rush who have transcended any national boundaries and become truly international, Canadian musicians have plenty to offer the world in terms of exciting and fresh music. I would like to offer a few suggestions in various categories, and perhaps with a casual listen, you'll discover like I did that the Great White North has more to offer than a few tasty brews.

Rock/Pop/Hip-Hop

Where would any serious discussion of contemporary Canadian rock be without including Nickelback, originally out of Hanna, Alberta, but now based in Vancouver. With smash hits like "Photograph" and "How You Remind Me", it's hard to come up with a more successful Canadian group over the last few years. Ontario based Shaker is an up-and-coming act that is beginning to show great promise. Their first full-length release, "Throw Your Good Side On", is scheduled to be released this year (2006).
Shaker reminds me of a less-bluesy version of "The Black Crows", however, the inflection of vocalist Daniel Brooks is like nothing so much as a latter day version of fellow Canadian vocalist Tom Cochrane. Nelly Furtado continues to impress with her latest effort, "Loose". As usual for Furtado, she continues to explore new ground with her songwriting and looks to continue doing so well into the future. Vancouver based Jakalope is an interesting act that fails to be categorized, alternately sounding like anything from The Smashing Pumpkins to Evanesence to a meth'ed up Madonna, they never fail to be interesting.
In the world of hip-hop, no Canadian group seems as poised for superstardom as Dead Celebrity Status. Their first album, "Blood Music" hit the streets to great reviews. Originally formed as a duo, Project Wyze, in 1988, they have since added mix-master DJ Dopey and have shared a stage with Ozzy Osbourne and Public Enemy. Their impressive performances have given them the juice to add appearances by Dave Navarro, Joss Stone and Bif Naked to their recordings.
I failed to mention Crash Test Dummies, one of the more promising bands from Winnipeg, due to the uncertainty about their future status. They were enormously influential from about the mid-1990's to their last release in 2004. It is unfortunate that apparently artistic differences have taken their toll on the Dummies.

Country/Folk

Canadian singers have made tremendous strides in country music over the last several years and dusky voiced Kathleen Edwards is no exception. Her 2005 release "Back to Me" won her critical acclaim in the U.S., appearing on the David Letterman and Jay Leno shows and opening for Bob Dylan and the Rolling Stones. No less interesting, though decidedly more alternative, the Cowboy Junkies have made a career of turning country music on its head. From sultry renditions of Patsy Cline's "Walking After Midnight" on their 1998 disc "The Trinity Session" to the folkie "Two Soldiers" from 2005's "Early 21st Century Blues", which is eerily reminiscent of the 1970's protest anthems of Dylan and Lennon.
Ontario bred Grievous Angels is certainly one of the most interesting country acts to come along in recent years. Blending new beats, along the lines of the country-pop sounds of Keith Urban and the Dixie Chicks, with the twangy sounds of early 1970's country music. Unfortunately, their once promising career appears to have stalled with the entry of singer Charlie Angus into the political arena – having been elected to Parliament in 2004. It is hoped that once Mr. Angus has served his term that he will return to making music once again, however, at this time that prospect remains uncertain. One also cannot forget the irrepressible k.d. lang, though to refer to her as a purely country act would be selling her short. Lang's amazing vocal talents have been employed on everything from contemporary country to torch songs to pop standards and back again. Her versatility and vocal range are legendary and not listing of Canadian musicians would be complete without her.

Other

Alas, this article is too short to be truly inclusive, but I could not get by without listing two of my all-time favorites. Sue Foley and Diana Krall are two of the most impressive musical talents Canada has to offer, and as a citizen of the U.S., I must thank Canada for these two wonderful chanteuses. Foley, a blues guitarist/singer/songwriter from Ottawa, honed her chops primarily in Austin, Texas, but oddly enough, is rarely recognized in the U.S. except amongst blues enthusiasts. A true virtuoso on guitar with an unusual but delightfully reedy quality to her voice, she has managed to impress some of the biggest names in the business including, B.B. King, Buddy Guy and Koko Taylor.
Sue's latest CD, "New Used Car" (2006) was recently released to excellent reviews. Diana Krall, who hails from Vancouver, is as lovely to look at as she is to listen to. Enchanting is the best way to describe her hypnotizing smooth Jazz sound. She really broke through in the U.S. in 2000 when she toured with Tony Bennett. Her work with Elvis Costello (who she married in 2003) served to further increase her popularity. Though she currently resides in New York, she has maintained her Canadian citizenship and was made and officer of the Order of Canada in 2005.

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Streaming Radio – It Offers Music Online and a Whole Lot More

If you listen to all of the commercials out there, it seems like you need to spend a fortune to listen to music online. With download fees, royalty fees, and monthly listening limits, listening to your favorite music online can get awfully expensive.

But if you're looking for a way to listen to all of your favorites and save some money, check out streaming radio!

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Sometimes it Doesn't Pay to be Aggressive

So I am playing in a Full Tilt SNG early in the tournament and I look down at Q-Q in middle position.  So I think I'll play this and see what comes on the flop.  I make a standard raise of 3 times the big blind and I am heads up with the cut-off who smooth called my raise.  His call gives me no useful information.

The flop comes K-4-J with two hearts.  I'm thinking BINGO!  But there is always the possibility that my set is second best if he has K-K in the hole.  I decide to probe here,

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Poker-Themed Party

The greatest party theme to hit adult parties and gatherings is the poker or casino night. This is a very challenging party because you have to set all the fixtures used for poker and set the right mood and feel like you are in the casino.

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Hosting A Valentines Party

Your valentine’s party should speak for romance from the invitations to the give-aways sent home with the guests at the end of the party.

The internet is full of Valentine’s Day party suggestions, tips and ideas, all you have to do is search the web, gather some ideas and guidelines and be creative. If not, you can follow these suggestions that would insure a romantic and memorable Valentine’s Day celebration for couples spent at your home. 

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How To Plan A Slumber Party For Your Teens

Planning a slumber party for your teens can be hard work but exciting, as soon as you get started with the right idea and know exactly what to do. Here are some helpful hints:

1. The slumber guest list. Talk with your teenager who she wants to invite for her slumber party, taking into consideration the size of your home and more importantly, the size of her bedroom or their sleeping area.

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Celebrating Victory!

Be it graduation, winning in a baseball game, being chosen as a lead in a school play, having high grades in school or making it on the cheerleading team. These are all your loved one’s victory and what better way of celebrating it than having a get together at your home.

Here’s How:

1. Guest list. Coordinate with the “victor” on who she/he wants to have in her party. This would mainly include her classmates and friends. Consider though, the space that is available in your home, so as your home will not be overcrowded. 

2. Theme. Consider when, what, where, how and why. You can research on the internet to get great ideas. As soon as you have decided on a theme, just let your imagination soar and be creative.

Here Are Some Suggestions:

Barbeque party

Luau party

Mexican party

Dessert and coffee bar

Or compose a theme from your loved one’s recently acquired victory such as when he/she won in a swimming competition, a swimming and barbeque party can be a good idea. Or if he won in a football game, a football inspired party can be a lot of fun.

3. Location. A perfect place for such a celebration is your garage or backyard. Should you decide to hold the celebration outdoors, make certain that there will be shelter in case of rain. Tents are great for entertaining outdoors and are readily available for rent.

4. Food. Plan the food according to the theme that you have chosen. For example, when you have a football inspired party, you can serve hotdogs, popcorn, snow cones, etc. Or nachos, tacos, punch and chili dogs for an exciting Mexican party.

Keep in mind that the food really does not need to be expensive and elaborate in order to be excellent. It can be a wise idea to serve simple foods so you can take the time to be with the guest and enjoy the celebration; as simple food preparation will not require a great deal of work as well as clean-up. 

5. Party decorations. Your decorations should enhance the party’s mood, so make an ambience that can really add flair to your victory celebration. 

You can have lighted lanterns, strobe lights, paper lamps, black lights, candles or if you are having a Mexican party, you can make attractive use of inverted Mexican hats filled with white sand with a lighted candle at the center; placing these abundantly at different locations in your yard will certainly create a lively and heartwarming atmosphere to your victory party.

6. Relax and have fun! Its time to relish in your loved one’s victory!!

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Unique Party: Spa Pampering At Home

A spa party is a unique way of hosting a birthday party for a dear friend or a teenage daughter, for a bridal shower or for just getting together to relax with friends.

Mobile spa offers everything that is needed for your unique home get-together complete with rejuvenation and wellness services that include products and professionals. 

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Your Wedding Reception Party

Your wedding party reception should bring you a lot of happy memories when you look at your wedding pictures later on. Therefore you have to plan it that everything should look, feel and work out as you have perceived it to be.

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Tips For Choosing The Best Stockbroker

Choosing a stock broker can be an annoying task. While they all seem the same, there are differences in commission rates that you should be aware of. Depending on the type of investor you are, you may end up paying too many fees depending on the broker you choose. Here are some tips for choosing the best stock broker, depending on the type of investor you are.

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Aliens: Where SETI Astronomers Can Find Them

SETI, or Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, has been an ongoing endeavor for many decades. In the early days, it was expected to be a quick success, so much so that national governments even helped fund these projects. Like the Moon race, there was something of a "find E.T." race. All that is gone now. Government funding has virtually evaporated around the globe. The explanation is simple: no one likes a perpetual failure. The few remaining SETI efforts have to count on private funding to scrape along. Well, the objective of this article is to come to the rescue of the last of the SETI astronomers, to tell them where they can find E.T. so that they can regain the world's respect.

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What is Air Combat Adventures?

Are you a gamer who wants to take on your game to the next level? Do you particularly love air combat games in your gaming console? Do you want to actually experience how to fight in the air?

If your answer is yes to all of these three questions, then this article is for you.
Air Combat Adventures is one of the newest and coolest activity hobbies in the world. In this hobby, you get to pilot an actual air fighting plane and play with your friends in the air. You don't have to have a flying experience before or don't have a pilot license to be able to play this one. It is fun filled and very entertaining, an experience worth remembering for years to come. You never have to worry about anything else when you are doing this because you are safe because you have a pilot and an instructor.

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Online Video Advertising and Media Spend: 2010 – 2012

Strengthened by transaction transparency, ad networks, marketplace auctions, expanding premium inventories, innovative formats, lower CPMs, unambiguous campaign performance benchmarking, ROI and accountability metrics, combined with broadcast buying scale, online video advertising and related media spend is forecast at $2.7 billion in 2010. Online Video Advertising and Media Spend: 2010 – 2012 shows in-banner video spend surpassed pre roll in dollar value in 2005, and the versatile format is expected to continue to lead the market through 2012, though at a declining rate.

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Compact Entertainment from Dish Network

If you love being able to watch television when you want and where you want, Dish Network's new line of PocketDishes may be a great choice for you. Pocket Dishes are ultra compact portable entertainment systems that make it easy to take your favorite movies television programs, music, and pictures with you wherever you go. You can also play action adventure and role playing video games downloadable from Dish Network onto your PocketDish.

There are three different models in the PocketDish line. There's the super-compact entry level model, the AV402E, the mid sized AV500E, and the state of the art, AV700E. Each has a built in color LCD screen and a hard drive for storing music, digital photographs,

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Dish Network Beats Cable

Cable TV providers are fighting it out with satellite TV providers to see who can deliver the best service, most cutting edge technology, and ultimately win over the majority of customers by doing so. Unfortunately for the cable companies, when you look at a satellite TV company like Dish Network, there's simply no way they can compete.

Dish Network has cable companies beat hands down in terms of value. Programming packages from Dish Network start at about twenty dollars while most cable companies won't give you anything for less than seventy. Dish Network also offers a lot more for the money. Dish Network has hundreds of available channels, while most cable companies offer up to 100, and almost none offer as many as 150.

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What Television Shoppers Need to Know

With all the changes in technology and program content, buying a tv set is not as simple as it once was. While it is easy to be tempted to buy the one that looks prettiest in the advertisement or on the showroom floor, it's not always the best fit for your circumstances. The following will help you make a better informed decision, and using Myshopping.com.au you can make detailed comparisons between set sizes, different technology, brands and vendors.

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It is Time to Learn to Play Guitar Like a Pro

It does not matter whether you are four or sixty-four, you are never too young or old to learn to play guitar or any other musical instrument for that matter. Music is a language that is universal, and the guitar can be a great creative and expressive tool.

Video games like Guitar Hero and Rock Band have actually made a lot of people interested in learning to play music properly. The button bashing-guitars of the console generation may have in many circles become instruments in their own right, but it is still the classical string guitar that many of these converts turn to eventually.

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Mark Tucker, Local Photographer Artist, Celebrity

As I looked for biographical information about Mark Tucker, link after link provided pictures, his blog, and comments about his photographs... but no biographical information about Mr. Tucker. Seeing a phone number listed on his website: 'Mark Tucker, Nashville Tennessee', I thought it harmless enough and called. Mark Tucker answered. He was a bit reserved at first. I identified myself and the nature of my call, a student in photography, writing an essay on photographers with a landscape theme. We spoke for about fifteen minutes.

I asked if it was an accident that there was so little biographical information available. 'Not exactly', he replied. His portfolio includes many music celebrities and well known magazines. I asked a little about his background, history, what brought him to Nashville free 3d models. Mr. Tucker came to Nashville in 1981 with the hope of connecting with the music business. He came from Bowling Green, Kentucky where he had established himself as a commercial photographer and thus arrived with a resume and portfolio. He said that at the time there really wasn't a lot of competition, it was relatively easy to work into the music business and make contacts there.

We spoke about the nature of his photographs and the balance between business and art. While finding business success with some of its burden's, Mr. Tucker continues to pursue the art with an acknowledgment one must 'keep the spark alive'. When I mentioned my class at Nashville State Tech, he said he knew most of the teachers and maintained his links to education for free 3d models.

Finally I asked about the Internet, the powerful changes that have occurred in the decades his career spans; about digital photography versus film. He was both whimsical and practical speaking to the reality of production, ease of digital photography. His favorite film developer is no longer in business and to some degree a professional has to use digital technology.

I couldn't help but notice his 'Hasselblad 203FE', was leaving via eBay today according to his Facebook comment with an additional:

"Son, Yes that was the cleanest one of all. I appreciate you finding that for me. But there has come a time when film is no longer practical in the real world, and for me, that time is now. It's gone on to a man who does not operate on deadlines. free 3d models"

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Law of Attraction And Winning The Lottery - Learn What You Need to Know

When playing the lottery or any game of that matter it is very important you try to keep your focus. Going at something with a negative attitude or thought is never good. And if you are serious about winning the lottery one day then you need to start acting like it. Keeping a positive attitude is one of the best things you can do. It not only helps with stress and your health but can also help with a few other things as well. And if you want to win that jackpot then you should keep reading.
Winning the lottery is one dream millions of people share. It is something almost everyone wishes they could do.

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