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Baby Gender Calculator 0.42s

2007-09-18T03:20:00.000-07:00

Baby Gender Calculator is software that is used to determine periods with increased probability of conceiving a baby boy or a baby girl for a particular parents couple. Basis for this calculation are the birth date data of both parents, and therefore this method is different from official medical method and from traditional Chinese method for future child s gender determination. In particular, in both of these methods, mothers role in conceiving a child of particular gender is stressed, either through her periodic cycle, or through her age and the month of conceiving. Baby Gender Calculator Program is very intuitive and simple to use, and its efficiency is easy to check using data on born children and their parents.

Version 0.42/0.42s is the second operational and public version of this software. Version 0.42s was finished and tested in September 2007, and its author, as of previous one, is Obren Markov. Baby Gender Calculator Program is Shareware, and it works in two modes: Free Trial (unregistered) mode, and Full (registered) mode. Free Trial version is free and assigned to a purpose of testing program abilities by users. In order to register Baby Gender Calculator Program, it is necessary to install Free Trial version, and then to buy the license and implement it into the program.

Date
Added: 13th September, 2007
License: Shareware
File size: 3.69 MB
Price: $12.89
Trial Period: UNLIMITED
Operating
System: Windows 2000,Windows XP,Windows Vista

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It's dove at first sight

2007-09-14T09:40:00.000-07:00

It's a tale straight out of Disney – an abandoned baby monkey, close to death, is revived by the love of a bird. The 12-week-old macaque was rescued on Neilingding Island, in Goangdong Province, China, after being abandoned by his mother.

Taken to an animal hospital, he was weaned back to physical health but still showed little appetite for life. It was not until a fellow patient, a white pigeon, took him under her wing and showed him love and affection that he perked up.

Now the two are inseparable, say staff. They are not the first odd couple. In March, we told how a tiger cub in China was being raised by a sow along with her piglets because his mother didn't know how to feed him.

And in 2005 Mi-Lu the baby deer became best friends with lurcher Geoffrey at the Knowsley Animal Park, in Merseyside, after being rejected by her mother.

source: daylimail.com # metro.co

Dumped for refusing sex

2007-09-14T09:39:00.000-07:00

Dr Victoria Lukats is a psychiatrist and an expert on
relationships and dating. If you want to ask Dr Lukats's advice send an email to
askvictoria@ukmetro.co.uk. Dr Victoria works with PARSHIP.co.uk the company that
powers our dating service. To find a date on Metrosexual online dating, click here.

Dear Dr Victoria... I met a girl off the
Internet recently and she wanted to have sex straight away. I said no. She's
since responded to an email I sent saying she doesn't want to see me again and
that we're looking for different things. I quite liked her though. Should I keep
trying with her? Should I have slept with her when she wanted? However, when you
meet someone on the internet for the first time, you have to remember that it's
like a first date and first meeting all rolled into one. Even if you've
emailed and chatted on the phone, there's still a real possibility that you just
may not fancy each other in the flesh.

It didn't work out with this girl but you shouldn't let that
put you off meeting other people. You should try not to take it as a huge
rejection as it will happen to almost anyone internet dating at some
point. You didn't really say how well you got to know each other or how
you explained that you didn't want to have sex straight away. I'm assuming
that you only had one date together or not much more.

If you had already explained to her tactfully that you found
her really attractive but that you usually like to wait a bit longer because the
anticipation makes it so much better, then you're going to have to accept that
she just doesn't want to see you again.

It's unlikely that having sex straight away would have made her
more likely to want a relationship with you. If you didn't explain
yourself properly at the time then there's no harm in just sending her one short
email to set things straight and leaving it at that. The alternative to
consider is that when she said you wanted different things, perhaps she just
wanted something really casual and she thought you wanted more. If this is
the case then it's better she let you down now. Good luck.

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really right for you with Metrosexual online dating, click here.

Kissing 'means more' to women

2007-09-14T09:33:00.000-07:00

Men use kissing to increase their chances of getting sex -
surprise, surprise!

Women use kissing as a means to assess a relationship and its
future while men appear to kiss in a bid to increase the likelihood of having
sex, a study has found.

Women placed more importance on kissing and were more likely to
evaluate their partner's kissing ability on factors such as the smell of their
breath and the appearance of their teeth.

The study of more than 1,000 students at the New York State
University also found fewer women than men were willing to have sex without
kissing their partners first. Women also felt that a bad kisser was less attractive.

The study, published in Evolutionary Psychology, found men were
less discriminating when it came to deciding who to kiss or who to have sex
with. Dr Gordon Gallup, who led the research, said kissing had
evolved as an adaptive courtship strategy "that functions as a mate-assessment
technique, a means of initiating sexual arousal and receptivity, and a way of
maintaining a bonded relationship". We suspect that overall, women place a greater importance on kissing not only to make more judicious mate assessments, but for those in
committed relationships kissing is used (wittingly or not) to update, monitor,
and assess the status of their partner's continuing commitment (or lack thereof)
to the relationship," he said.

"Males tend to employ romantic kissing as a means of increasing
sexual receptivity and gaining sexual access, to affect conflict resolution and
to possibly monitor the fertility of his mate."

Men were more willing to have sex with someone without kissing,
to have sex with someone they are not attracted to and agree to have sex with
someone they considered to be a bad kisser. Men also place less importance on kissing as the relationship progresses, while women thought kissing was important throughout a relationship.
More men than women used kissing in an attempt to end a fight
and there was also a difference in the sort of kisses that men and women
preferred, with men liking wet, tongue kisses.

A model showcases

2007-09-11T09:32:00.000-07:00

A model showcases a wacky hairstyle in Sanya, south
China's Hainan Province. A hairstyle show was held as part of the New Silk Road
Model Competition.

small dog gets

2007-09-09T09:31:00.000-07:00

small dog gets a face full of fresh air while
riding in a car in Great Falls, Montana, while balanced on the car window.

It looks like

2007-09-05T09:30:00.000-07:00

It looks like a choreographed dance as five as the
seven members of the ground crew at the Pine Grove's Walnut Street Cemetery in
Berwick, Pennsylvania, move through the grave sites cutting the grass.

A policeman uses

2007-09-04T09:29:00.000-07:00

A policeman uses a Segway for transportation at the premises of
the International Automobile Show is being held.

Painted activists

2007-09-03T09:28:00.000-07:00

Painted activists from PETA (People for the Ethical
Treatment of Animals) display placards at a protest in the Philippines calling
on residents to boycott Manila Zoo.

Claudia Mikosch

2007-09-02T09:28:00.000-07:00

Claudia Mikosch from the Bushmann-Winkelmann farm in Klaistow,
about 50 miles south of Berlin, sorts pumpkins ahead of an exhibition.

A woman feeds

2007-09-01T09:27:00.001-07:00

A woman feeds her daughter outside her house damaged by a powerful earthquake in Lais, Bengkulu, Sumatra island, Indonesia.

German police scuffle

2007-09-01T09:27:00.000-07:00

German police scuffle with environmental organisation Greenpeace
activists staging a protest outside the International Automobile Show in
Frankfurt, Germany.

Firefighters shut

2007-02-02T09:24:00.000-08:00

Firefighters shut the water off on Chester Avenue in Bakersfield,
California, where a fire hydrant had been broken.

A flock of birds

2007-02-02T09:21:00.000-08:00

A flock of birds line electric wires along Michigan Street in
Sidney, Ohio, at dusk.

British tennis players

2007-02-02T09:20:00.000-08:00

British tennis players Andy and Jamie Murray play
train drivers on a wooden train at Dorchester Primary School in Surrey.

Dayana Mendoza competes during

2007-02-02T09:19:00.000-08:00

Dayana Mendoza competes during the swimsuit event of the Miss
Venezuela beauty pageant 2007 in Caracas. Mendoza won the title.

A domestically-developed

2007-01-14T09:18:00.000-08:00

A domestically-developed H2-A rocket, carrying a lunar orbiter,
lifts off from the Tanegashima Space Centre in southern Japan.

Anti-war protestors

2007-01-01T09:17:00.000-08:00

Anti-war protestors chant outsise the White House in Washington DC
as US President George W Bush spoke about the war in Iraq and troop withdrawl in
a live TV address.

US surfer Kelly

2007-01-01T09:16:00.000-08:00

US surfer Kelly Slater casts a shadow as he cuts back on a
wave during his round three heat against Rob Machado during the Boost Mobile Pro
surfing tournament at Lower Trestles in California.

Carsten Mitchell

2007-01-01T09:15:00.000-08:00

Carsten Mitchell, one, Gavin Adams, three, and
Carter McDonald, two, snack on apples from the Beautyrock Plantation in Ontario.

Soldiers of Russian

2007-01-01T09:14:00.000-08:00

Soldiers of Russian Presidential Regiment hold
national flags of participants of the International Military Brass Bands
Festival in Moscow's Red Square.

David Beckham

2007-01-01T09:13:00.000-08:00

David Beckham shows off his well-toned body in a new
advert. The LA Galaxy footballer is face of the new Motorola RAZR2 advertising
campaign.

Microsoft Office or Google Apps?

2006-11-14T07:25:00.000-08:00

Editor's note: Google Apps may have reached a point
where companies should give it some consideration in given circumstances. Check
out our article, and the accompanying interview with veteran Jupiter Research
analyst Michael Gartenberg, who shares his views of the Microsoft side of the
debate.)

Whether your company uses Microsoft Office or not, and plenty do, Google
would like you to consider 'complementing' that desktop productivity suite with
its software as a service options from Google Apps. Capgemini's deal with Google
could lead some clients with large numbers of entry level staffers to switch
them to Google Apps.

It looks like a simple question of mathematics at a high level overview. Why
put a copy of Office, with all of its sophisticated features, on the desktops of
dozens of people who only need basic functionality. Why support patches and
updates for Office with in-house staff when Google will do all of that under the
hood work for you?

» Watch the video with Jupiter Research
analyst Michael Gartenberg «

Here's a brief rundown of what Google Apps offers to those who embrace it:
word processing, spreadsheets, email (with 10GB storage), calendar, IM/voice
client, web page creation, all available from a corporate-branded, centrally
managed start page.

All a worker would need besides the PC and Internet connection would be a
headset, for use with Google Talk. That application may not receive much use on
the voice side, as we think Google Apps would be destined for "cube farm" setups
like call centers.

Google's document and spreadsheet handling can convert various file formats
for viewing. A higher-level staffer distributing an Excel spreadsheet or Word
document to the masses would not have to worry about others being able to read
it.

If they publish it through Google Docs & Spreadsheets, the document in
question can be managed from one place in terms of access and availability.Capgemini said in its statement about the deal that the benefits of such a
software as a service (SaaS) offering goes beyond just tools:

SaaS solutions, such as Google Apps Premier Edition, provide a
cost-effective, easy-to-deploy alternative to installed, licensed desktop
software; they are delivered over the Internet via a Web browser and do not
require companies to install or maintain software locally, or to tap into
internal IT resources.

Email management, especially when it comes to the volumes of spam hitting
inboxes, creates nonstop issues for system administrators. Instead of bogging
down networks and people with the task of maintaining email, Google does the
heavy lifting.

Doing SaaS presents a concern, highlighted by Microsoft in its rebuttal. It's
the same concern that led firms to abandon client-server apps in favor of
desktop software - the issue of the application server, or a network, going down
while people are trying to work with Google Apps.

Outages are not unheard of, even at Google. They aren't unheard of on the PC
side, either. Is the chance of a network or Google outage any greater than that
of a PC problem? Watch the video.

There is another aspect to Google Apps that hasn't received much attention.
It could be a factor that impresses the IT department from a security
standpoint. Google Apps function with the Firefox browser just as well as they
do with Microsoft's Internet Explorer.

If Google Apps does fill a need for companies that can't or won't provide
Office for their lower-level staff, it makes sense to have Firefox as a required
browser to accompany Google Apps. These workers would avoid the security issues
that sometimes crop up when an IE-centric zero-day exploit appears.

Judging by Capgemini's talk, offering Google Apps is a small step into
empowering a lot of people who would not have such a productivity resource made
available to them. Not every company is on a scale where they need a Capgemini
to come in and make this happen. But in this age, all a company needs is an Internet connection, and some time
to sign up for and enable Google Apps. It's an option firms should at least
consider before writing that check for Office licenses.

(Requests for comment from Microsoft and Google had not been responded to
by the time of this writing.)

Superbad

2006-09-14T09:04:00.000-07:00

Plotwise, this US box office smash is pure American Pie.
Porn-obsessed virgins Seth, the fat, angry one (Jonah Hill) and Evan, the girlie
one (Arrested Development's Michael Cera) are best buddies united by a common
fear of girls.

They're about to go their separate ways to college but,
before that, plan to use their fake ID of friend Fogell (Christopher
Mintz-Plasse) to secure booze – and hopefully sex –at the cool,
end-of-high-school party.

Honed by extensive improv, there's more to this
developed character comedy than puerile humour (though admittedly that is
hilarious too). As ever, Knocked Up producer Judd Apatow hides a sweet centre
beneath a gross-out crust. Like Hot Fuzz, this is a male love story – though not
in a Brokeback Mountain way. Superbad is actually supergood.