Are You Coming?!?

               Unlimited funds. Excellent friends. Great weather. Why not?   I am going to throw a “small” intimate get together for some of my closest friends to celebrate life. This party will take place on February 8, 2014 at the Chenonceau Palance in France (I will make arrangements to fly you out on my private jet February 6).  The party will begin at 5 P.M on Saturday February 8 and will last until Monday noon.  Boy, what I have in store for you. My personal chef and food connoisseur, Geoffrey Zakarian, who has just returned from Yerevan, where he was exploring the unique art of Armenian cuisine, which he will incorporate into his scrumptious food, will prepare for you only the best. Some of the highlights include Beluga Caviar with imported goat cheese and White Truffle Pudding, which would be flown from Yerevan for your enjoyment. For the main course, Chef Zakarian will prepare for us Warm Lobster in Summer Preparation, his signature dish, and Samundari Khazana. Now, for dessert, we are going to have a choice of Madagascar chocolate, Frozen Haute Chocolate Ice Cream with a Dansuke Watermelon, Jackfruit, and Armenian Pomegranate parfait and many more. For entertainment, we will have   Andrea Bocelli performing in the rose garden, Alan Hovhaness, performing his Guitar Concerto No. 1, renowned Armenian singer Charles Aznavour singing everybody’s favorite, La Boheme, LMFAO, and Pitbull will also be at hand to play for those who would like to dance the night away in the Crystal Ballroom. There will also be a polo match with the one and only Prince William and Prince Harry. We will also have Cirque de Soleil performing on the last evening. To close this spectacular event, there will be fireworks while the Los Angeles Philharmonic will perform its finest music. To remember this magnificent party, all the guests will have a choice of taking home with them a Ferrari, Rolls-Royce, Aston Martin,   Tiffany’s Pink Diamond Collection, or De Beer’s Coloured Diamond Collection.  The guest list includes Hovannes Adamian, the inventor of the color TV, Emil Artin, one of the founding fathers of algebra, Bill Gates, the philanthropist, Oprah Winfrey, Anne Hathaway, J.K Rowling, and many more.

 

 

 

Does This Sound Fishy?

By Stephanie Smith
January 18, 2014
cnn.com
"He's going to get better than he was before"

What if taking a few grams of fish oil could wake someone up from a coma? The NorthShore Neurological Institute in Evanston, Illinois has discovered that feeding people fish oil after sustaining a severe brain injury can actually cause the brain to heal and to begin functioning once again. The brain’s cell wall is composed of omega- 3 fatty acids, which is found in abundance in fish oil.  By simply giving the patient a substantial dosage of the fish oil, we provide the brain with the foundation to repair itself. The omega-3 acids also reduce inflammation in the brain, which becomes unstoppable after a serious head trauma. However, there are only seven miraculous cases of fish oil bringing patients back from deep comas that are recorded in medical literature.  There was the case of a teenager named Bobby Ghassemi who nearly died in a car accident before getting a large infusion of fish oil. A couple of months later, after receiving high doses of fish oil, he attended his high school graduation. In another incident, sixteen year old Grant Virgin, who suffered an in repairable brain injury during an accident, was awakened from a deep coma by receiving the fish oil treatment. Unfortunately, we are years away from just taking fish oil and curing brain injuries since we need more extensive studies done.

How Smart is Your Basketball?

www.usatoday.com/story/tech/...smart-basketball.../3435703

            How can you go from a zero to a hero? This is for all the bench warmers out there.  CES has introduced the 94Fifty smart basketball. This basketball is made of an indoor/outdoor synthetic leather, which has nine sensors hidden inside it. The sensors communicate with a companion app on the iPhone or the iPad. It can easily measure the amount of force applied to the ball, the speed of a person’s dominant hand versus the speed of the weak hand, count the number of dribbles, detect when a person has lost control of the ball, and much more.  As the player dribbles or throws the shots, the app provides instant visual and audio feedback to the player, measuring how fast the player makes the shots, the kind of backspin he/she might have, and the kind of arc the player has when they throw the ball towards the hoop. The ball is activated by simply bouncing it four times against the ground and it goes to sleep when it is not being used. Now, any bench warming, nonathletic, disco ordinated person can own a smart basketball with a mere price of $300 and work their way up to become a sleek, fast-moving, slam-dunking heck of a player.

She's Wearing What??

www.vintageallies.com
mens-fashion.lovetoknow.com

Short Skirts, bob hair, new attitudes, oh my! Women in the 1920s, after gaining their rights in the nineteenth amendment, began setting themselves free by shocking the older generations with their new style of clothing. After years of being hidden under heavy fabrics and tight corsets, women let loose by lowering their waistlines to the hips, raising their hemlines to the knees, and wearing silk stockings rolled just above the knees. These young women, who were called Flappers, sometimes were arrested for indecent exposures, since these type of clothes were considered “skimpy beach wear.”  These new clothes were blamed on WWI, women’s suffrage, jazz, and Prohibition. Nevertheless, these free-spirited flappers had an immense impact on the fashion of the future generations. During the decade of the 20s, there were even a few fashion savvy women, who dared to wear pantsuits.  However, the footwear of these daring women was quite simple. Their shoes included a variety of pumps with no ankle straps, the Mary Janes, and the T-shaped shoes with heels between two –three inches.  On the contrary, men did not undergo a major change in fashion. They still wore suits, however, the fabrics and colors were lighter and brighter and jackets were unpadded and slim.