Friday, November 5, 2010

Bohemian Hall & Beer Garden

The oldest beer garden in New York City is 100 years old. Since 1910, Bohemian Hall has been a part of New York City history. This is the last original remaining Beer Garden in all of NYC. I remember the first time I had entered this place . It was eighteen years ago, and I was concerned that this is a place which is gonna die very soon. There were just four people with me and a bartender. The place was very slow, but after restriction of smoking in bars and restaurants, this place started be very popular among a smokers and beer lovers. You can easily fit over 1000 people in there. The garden is surrounded with 15 feet high stone walls and beautiful trees behind them. Especially in the summer time place is packed with the people and there are very long lines to get in . Miracles happens all the time, and this is a miracle that the garden didn't die.

NYC marathon

NYC Marathon is behind the corner.NYC Marathon along with the Boston Marathon and Chicago Marathon, it is among the pre-eminent long-distance annual running events in the United States. Not everybody can run it and overcome 42.195 km .For those who don't know, it is held on the first Sunday of November and attracts professional competitors and amateurs from all over the world,and has been run every year since 1970. Runners pass through all five boroughs of New York City.So hurry up get ready for this big event of the year.

Saturday, October 30, 2010

Halloween and pumpkins.

Halloween is consider as the scariest day of the year. Nobody can imagine Halloween without pumpkins for jack-o-lanterns and decorations. The pumpkin is most often
associated with Halloween, but there are other fruits and vegetables which has a very strong connection to this holiday. In England and Ireland, Halloween lanterns were originally carved out of turnips and large beets and faces of demons were cut into vegetables.People carried these lanterns and placed them by their doorsteps to frighten away evil spirits.
When Irish immigrants arrived in America, they found pumpkins abundant and much easier to carve than turnips so the tradition of turning pumpkins into jack-o-lanterns began.
In the Victorian era the apple played a significant role in determining a young girl’s future: she slipped an apple under her pillow on Halloween eve so she was sure to dream of her sweetheart.Apples were also used to foretell the identity of the man she was to marry. At midnight on Halloween a girl would stand in front of a mirror and brush her hair three times while eating an apple. It is said the image of her future husband would appear in the mirror over her shoulder.
In Mediterranean countries rosemary was placed over the cradle of babies to protect them. It was often burned with juniper and thyme as a means of cleansing the room of bad spirits and witches. Rue was hung from doorways and windows to ward off evil spirits to prevent them from entering the house.
Salvia, also known as meadow sage, was considered a symbol of immortality and was planted on graves in cemeteries to symbolize eternal life.
Salvia, also known as meadow sage, was considered a symbol of immortality and was planted on graves in cemeteries to symbolize eternal life.
Did you know that around 90 to 95 percent of the processed pumpkins in the United States are grown in Illinois?

The twilight episode: "A game of pool".

I never watched the twilight episodes , but this one was interested and i really like it. The great Fats Brown is a long time death pool-shooting legend and nobody believes he can be beaten. On the other hand Jesse, pool-shark, believes he is the best player on the world even better than Fats Brown but how he can't prove it when the guy is dead. One night, he is pissed and he yells out his problems into a empty pool room and the call goes out to the long dead Fats Brown who comes back to earth and accepts Jesse’s challenge. Fats Brown doesn't want to play for money, he instead offers Jesse a real winner take all stake; if he wins, he lives to tell about it. If he loses, he loses his life. Jesse ultimately learns that even being a legend has its price when he wins the game only to find that after his own death he must constantly prove how good he is by playing the living players, like himself, for the duration of his eternity as a kind of a sentence.

The twighlight zone.

This movie is about a Henry Bemas who works for the bank as a teller. He is a "nut- reader", and he reads at work instead of doing his job, because his wife doesn't let him read at home. He is so crazy that he reads anything with the letters on it. One day at the job he had walked down to the vault to get some privacy with his reading, and later he found out that something horrible happened to the world. The H-bomb exploded on the outside when he was reading article about the H-bomb inside the vault.He was the only one who had survived this catastrophe. First thing came to his mind was to take his life away, but hes eyes cached the label with words "public library" on it.That automatically changed his mind, and he got excited about it. Now nobody was in his way to read all the books on this world, and he had all the time to read all these books in his entire life. At this point he was the happiest human being on this world. But evil didn't finished his work yet. What he didn't expected was that his glasses had completely broken, and that was the and of the world for him. I didn't really like the end because it was very cruel to him. I didn't like his wife acting as she hide the book from him and then with a smile let him open the book to read it, and when he opened the book all text was destroyed.I like the beginning of the movie as he couldn't count the money to his customer. At this point everything looked like real life to me, but at the end it was very sad and unreal.

Friday, April 16, 2010

environmental contamination by humans

All life on Earth depends on water. Contamination of rivers, lakes, seas, and precipitation poses serious environmental problems. Human activity is threatening quality of water. The burning of fossil fuels releases air-polluting compounds and large amounts of carbon dioxid into the atmosphere. The chemical reactions of these compounds with water alter the delicate balance of conditions for life by affecting water pH. Acid precipitation has killed fish and damaged other forms of life in lakes and streams, and it also changes soil chemistry and has negatively affected some forests. Major product of fossil fuel combustion is carbon dioxide which stays in the atmosphere. Some carbon dioxide is taken up by plants for their photosynthesis and about 30% is absorbed by the oceans. An increase of carbon dioxide is expected to change ocean chemistry and harm marine life and ecosystems.

Wednesday, April 14, 2010

Anabolic steroids

Anabolic steroids are synthetic variants of the male hormone testosterone.As prescription drugs,they are used to treat general anemia and diseases that destroy body muscle. Some individuals abuse these drugs,with serious consequences. Overdosing may cause liver damage leading to cancer,or alter cholesterol levels and lead to high blood pressure,increasing the risk of cardiovascular problems.Use of these drugs can reduce sex drive,infertility and breast enlargement in men. Use in women has been linked to menstrual cycle disruption and development of masculine characteristics and in teens can cause stunting growth.