A summer time is at its height. Some counted weeks left to the end of this season. If you still didn’t have any chance to take pleasure in sea trips, surfing, and rock climbing or just lying on the beach in the sun and while away the time, I try to urge you on tours and traveling!

Sure thing it doesn’t concern active people who’re always on the go. Such danger freaks and just extreme tourists will leave me in the dust. By the way, being a couch potato or a crazy geek, I guess you’ll burn with desire to visit and see your own eyes magnificent places all around the world.

I hope nobody will be indifferent to an online video guide JungleJam.tv I want to introduce. It’s just like a travel tour company that shows delightful videos both of ancient and modern architectural creations. No matter where you’re now, because it can take your body from one place to another.

There’re some reasons to use JungleJam.tv instead of a travel tour company:

• Various historical European buildings and landmarks will gladden the eye and the hearts
• Find and discover picturesque places by means of geo-tagged videos listed on Google maps
• Freshen your memory of seeing unknown lands and depths (you can view footage on sites covering art, churches, museums, castles, local businesses, graveyards, etc.)
• A filter feature makes it possible to specify the types of sites you want to see
• A massive storage of information catered for tourists
• Stand out among such travel-related sites as Wikitravel, Tripadvisor, Lonelyplanet., etc.
• iPods’ and iPhones’ users are allowed to download all types of information for free
• and a user-friendly interface!

They say: “At Jungle Jam TV we specialise in making video guides of buildings and landmarks rich in information and geo-tagged on Google maps. See our comprehensive list of videos for Bologna covering art, churches, museums and much more. Our video guides take you inside places traditional guides only write about.”

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What do you think over every morning opening your eyes and seeing the same and habitual things around you? Are you tired of job, became idle and fell into a rut? Faces of your beloved family shouldn’t be taken into account! Just imagine the life without all these people around you! No more support, love and care, only you face to face with the rough life!

How to change your life to the best? If you really want to revise your way of life, become more independent and self-reliant, you have to try yoga workout! Sure thing, you’ll taste something unusual and out of the ordinary making use of special exercises alone or in pairs with a partner.

Don’t ask me why you have to change you lifestyle to practice yoga. I’ve done it and don’t feel sorry. The most important point, however, is that Yoga is a group of ancient spiritual practices originating in India. Be inspired with Asian spirit and religious karma, believe in your strengths.

Speaking about Yoga, we can define it like “technologies or disciplines of asceticism and meditation which are thought to lead to spiritual experience and profound understanding or insight into the nature of existence.”

Furthermore, this method is better than morning exercises and jogging, i.e. Yoga supplements them. In other words, if you want to reduce tension, tone your muscles, shed weight, light up your inner spirit, or seek peace from within, these videos can come in handy.

There’re many ways to set to Yoga:

- fitness gym and a trainer

- video guides online

Sure thing, under the direction of your private trainer you’ll achieve proper results, gain specific skills (aka 16 specific “yogi glyptics”) and knowledge. He gives more consideration and advises how to impart knowledge to “ritual discipline and concentration.”

At the same time, internet let you a chance to order Yoga DVDs which will teach you a few of the fundamental poses of yoga. Of course, the videos are supplied with audio and visual instructions, being a perfect introduction to yoga for the beginner and a nice routine for anyone to follow along to.

By the way, there’re a lot of free online Yoga videos available for you on the go. If you want to reduce tension, tone your muscles, shed weight, light up your inner spirit, or seek peace from within, these videos can come in handy. Choose an appropriate technique and go ahead!

Some other useful resources at your consideration:

a2zyoga.com - Yoga is not a religion. It doesn’t require that you fast or abstain. You don’t have to become a vegetarian or change your eating patterns. Nor do you have to give up drinking or smoking.

yoga-videos.net - Our yoga videos bring a teacher into your home, so it is like having your own private classes - except you get to learn from the world’s top experts!

myyogaonline.com - At My Yoga Online, we strive to expand the knowledge and experience of Yoga, Health and Wellness. With our high quality videos and excellent instruction by world class certified teachers, MYO offers the ideal location for your Yoga, Meditation, and Pilates practice while leaving the pace and scheduling up to you.

yoga.org.nz - “Yoga exists in the world because everything is linked (Desikashar)”

yoga.com - Different yoga styles meet different needs. You can find restorative, gentle yoga that relaxes and renews.

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Not long ago I stumbled upon repulsive shoots and videos of amputees. On the one hand, it looks disgusting and weird due to their dissimilarity. But we should take into consideration that they’re live people who run into trouble.

On the other hand, amputee people are greatly in need of human help and understanding. I’ve got an acquaintance that has to move only by the use of an invalid carriage. I’m not sure whether such people need a pity or something like that.

The web area is full of various amputee online video clips. For what purposes do they upload the like videos? I can number some reasons why such videos are in demand:

- Amputees make themselves known as talented people

- Paralyzed people proved to be good sportsmen

Surfing the web and looking for amputee online video clips, a disabled man finds out that he/she is not hopeless. For example, video guides are catered to such people to learn how to live among the like throughout the world.

At devguide.org you’ll find out many related links. Amputee disabled women are capable of working with fitness programs for people with disabilities, invite to visit social clubs and support groups. They make extra money online at the expense of photo sets sale.

Google directory also presents a lot of links devoted to amputees. Different specialized web-sites are catered for amputees, amputee education and support groups. Promote the full participation of the disabled and the issue of accessibility. Loads of links.

The most important point, however, is that perverts are able to use these videos to suit their own ends. Which ones? Alas, I can’t answer this question.

Be careful sharing your private video collection on the web, because your face may become a part of one’s home video collection like porno clips.

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How it is important sometimes to be dead on time and a place. How many times do we become thoughtful and want to give back and change everything?! It’s easier to pull down than to build. Thus, some niggardly people accumulate trifles (without need to use them in the future), the others reckon they’ve got time to do that later.

As the saying goes, never put off till tomorrow what you can do today. It can’t be related to the People’s Republic of China. They always act on their authority violating freedom of speech (I mean mass media). By the way, it was issued a law according to which mass media can’t report on negative and offensive events and accidents. Don’t worry, be happy, Chinese people! Feng shui will help you!

Some years back, namely in 2001, popularity of the Internet made China to sharpen edge with this massive source of information. According to the People’s University of China, unconfirmed and inaccurate information on the web may mislead the Chinese people. Pull the Iron Curtain?

According to Roya Akhavan-Majid, the Chinese Communist party-state implemented the mass media reform in China, because historically analyses of change in mass media systems have tended to draw upon a ‘dissident vs. state’ framework, derived largely from the western historical experience.

Last Sunday China blocked internet users (fellow countrymen) from seeing YouTube.com. What’s holding matters? There were dozens of videos about protests in Tibet uploaded on this video-sharing site. Everything points to the fact that the communist government’s efforts control the media high and low. As compared with such Chinese web-sites as 56.com, youku.com and tudou.com, there were no protest scenes.

“Foreign Web sites run by news organizations and human rights groups are regularly blocked if they carry sensitive information. Operators of China-based online bulletin boards are required to monitor their content and enforce censorship.” (via)

What should we expect from the Chinese government? China banned YouTube, and suddenly remembered the laws it had put in place. It’s now announced that 25 video hosting sites need to be shut down and another 32 will be “punished.”

Yellow-faced nation has taken up the web area (specially e-business directories), being agents and middlemen. Repulses the USA?

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If you”ll be asked a question, “How many card games movies can you name?”, - what would you answer? I believe just about everybody can easily remember a pair of films related to card-players or gambling somehow or other. Surely, professional gamblers probably know many more motion pictures. Okay, what playing-card games you can recollect? Put out of your head!

All movies display big bets and winnings with great hands. Writers and producers have an intention to attract and delight by arousing interest to this kind of activity. Hollywood often uses gambling, but rarely shows realistic card playing. I believe, real aces and amateurs at poker, fool, bridge, preference, etc. probably take advantage of such movies.

The most important point, however, is that such card-playing movies are great helpers if you have an eager desire to learn these technical skills. Live and learn. At the same time, you see only the most spectabulous moments in movies, that’s why, for example, poker films are not realistic, but very exciting. By the way, a number of films are poker oriented ones.

What else? Main heroes and characters put up a show of how they’re skilled at gambling. I picked up a great many movies devoted to the best card playing scenes. I tried to sort out those ones that related to gambling one way or another. (Most of these movies can be ordered via Amazon.com and imdb.com).

• Rounders (1998). In The Game Of Life… Play The Cards You’re Dealt. I find this film really exciting, but the main character leaves much to be desired. By the way, the term “rounder” refers to a person whose sole means of earning a living is by playing cards. Some poker scenes are useful, some – absurd. But with the growing popularity of Texas Hold’em and other poker games, Rounders has become a cult hit. That’s we don’t pay much attention to slip-ups.

• The cooler (2003). When your life depends on losing… the last thing you need is lady luck. The film follows a so-called Las Vegas casino “cooler” who spreads bad luck to those who are winning. William H. Macy plays the titular character, whose luck takes a turn for the better when he begins a relationship with a waitress at the casino, played by Maria Bello. This causes friction between him and his boss, played by Alec Baldwin. “The Cooler” is a must to see just for Alec Baldwin’s memorable play.

• Maverick (1994). The greatest gambler in the West has finally met his match. I bet you won’t find any realistic poker scenes in this movie, but still Mel Gibson does all his best (as usually) to win the heart of the audience following his own style of performance. Bret Maverick (as Mel Gibson) is a professional card-player traveling to a major poker game. He wants to win the poker championship for money and to prove that he is the best. The plot is rather shabby, but the play is too funny. All of the poker episodes are Five Card Draw.

• The Cincinnati Kid (1965). He’d take on anyone, at anything, anytime ….it was only a matter of who came first! Eric Stoner or The Cincinnati Kid (as Steve McQueen) is a professional card-player who travels to New Orleans to play in the high stakes poker game against Lancey Howard (as Edward G. Robbins). Surely, The Cincinnati Kid tries to prove himself in this high-stakes match. The game throughout the film is Five Card Stud. It should be mentioned, that the play is quite realistic. But even look back those days we can’t but agree that poker was considered a sport.

• The Big Blind (1999). “This remarkable adventure will keep you guessing. Who cashes in, and who cashes out… Who will live, and who will die?” This movie is truly shot for poker players. It’s not for guys who are interested in actions and like watching films in general, but for curious about poker. To tell the truth the Big Blind offers a lot of training scenes. The motion picture tells us about the lives of poker players at a California card room. The drama of the situation is that most of the characters are losers and crooks. It is of great value due to realistic scenes and actors’ play. Nothing unnecessary, nothing colors the truth.

• Honeymoon in Vegas (1992). It’s a love that’s All Shook Up! The film is opposite to the previous one due to its attitude to poker. Jack Singer (as Nicholas Cage) teamed up with a wealthy gambler (as James Caan) love the one girl. The problem is that Singer’s fiancé reminds the gambler of his ex-wife. Tommy Korman arranges for Singer to lose $65k to him a poker game (they’re playing no limit five card draw). Thus, Singer has to break his word given to his mother on her death bed that he would never get married.

• The Sting (1973). Doyle, I KNOW I gave him four THREES. He had to make a SWITCH. We can’t let him get away with that. The Sting should be estimated at its true worth being among the best poker pictures ever made. Frankly speaking, it’s not about poker, but it contains one famous poker scene where Henry Gondorff (as Paul Newman) cheats the crime boss in a high-stakes game onboard a train, and also a scene where he shows off a very skilled cheat shuffling. As I have said there was not that much poker playing shown, and most of it revolved around cheating. The poker was limited to five card draw.

• High Roller: The Stu Ungar Story (2003). Gambler. Addict. Loser. Legend. The movie is about the life of master card-player, self-destructive junkie, Stu Ungar (as Michael Imperioli). Ungar was known as “The Kid”, who high-rolled himself to an unequalled three World Series of Poker championships, winning a reported $30 million is his brief career. Viewship can’t but agree that Unger had a special gift with cards.

• The Madison Kid (2007). In 1989, the 24-year-old Phil Hellmuth became the youngest World Champion of Poker by defeating the two-time defending champion, Johnny Chan, in the World Series of Poker main event. Hellmuth attended the University of Wisconsin-Madison for three years before dropping out to play poker full time much to the chagrin of his father, a professor at the school.

• 21 (2008). This film is based on a true story, telling us about a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor (Kevin Spacey) who teaches a group of students to use mathematics to count cards and increase their odds of winning at Las Vegas casinos. The students are able to bring home millions as a result.

Decide on a film approppriate to your mood. Find out more about those card-playing movies that you still didn’t watch. Keep an eye open for the next poker movie selection.

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