3 Christmas Screensavers to Help You Get into the Holiday Spirit

You decorated your entire home, you put up a Christmas tree, and you even put on a festive holiday sweater. Did you decorate your computer as well? A computer’s large monitor is ideally suited for spreading holiday cheer. It’s like a blank canvas onto which you can paint festive Christmas ideas.

The Christmas-themed screensavers listed below will help you with that. They feature beautiful winter landscapes, present jolly old Santa Claus, and will delight you with their cute graphics.

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White Christmas 3D – Beautiful winter landscape

A cozy-looking house, a beautifully decorated Christmas tree and several snow-covered trees, a running stream, and snow gently falling from the sky. These are the things you will see when White Christmas 3D launches. It can launch as a screensaver and it can also launch as an animated wallpaper. Here it is in action.



“Ready to meet White Christmas? Got your presents stacked up in your closet and everything prepared for the main holiday of the year? Try this great new winter screensaver to feel Christmassy earlier than others!” says 3Planesoft’s official description for this premium 3D screensaver and animated wallpaper.



White Christmas 3D plays sounds and music. From the settings menu you can adjust the volume for the sounds and music, disable the sounds and music, and instruct White Christmas 3D to play your own music.



Installing White Christmas 3D is an incredibly simple matter. I didn’t bring this up to mention how easy it is to install the screensaver. I brought it up to mention that during the setup you will be asked to install the 3Planesoft Screensaver Manager. From it you can view all the other screensavers 3Planesoft has to offer and you can access each screensaver’s settings.

Download White Christmas 3D right here on FindMySoft.




Santa Claus 3D – Santa's flying sleigh and reindeers

On Christmas Eve, Santa will set off to deliver presents to all the good little boys and girls. You’ll be able to track his journey with Google’s Santa Tracker or with NORAD’s Santa Tracker. And if you go get the Santa Claus 3D screensaver and animated wallpaper, you’ll get to see Santa, his sleigh, and his magical reindeer fly around on your monitor. Just like this.



“Santa is on his way to deliver Christmas gifts to children in many villages. Become his companion today and take an unforgettable ride over splendid countryside landscapes, decorated trees and cozy little villages and towns waiting for his arrival!” says 3Planesoft’s official description for this premium 3D screensaver and animated wallpaper.

Download Santa Claus 3D right here on FindMySoft.

Please note that White Christmas 3D and Santa Claus 3D are not free. These screensavers and an animated wallpapers are only free to try. A nag screen will show up after a while and invite you to register your copy.




Christmas Symphony – Your child is sure to love it

Christmas Symphony, a free screensaver for Windows, blends together static images, animated Christmas characters, and fun holiday music. You’ll see some nice wintery scenes, see Santa and other characters moving around, and you’ll get to listen to music whenChristmas Symphony launches.



The best thing about this screensaver is that has a certain childish appeal. If you’re a parent, your child is sure to love Christmas Symphony. If you don’t have a child, Christmas Symphony will make you feel like one again.



Christmas Symphony is free software that lets you play with lots of settings: shuffle, randomize or play images in order; set the image size and quality; pick a custom background color; set it so the screensaver will close only when you press the Escape key; and more.

Download Christmas Symphony right here on FindMySoft.

How Iranian Women Dressed In The 1970s Revealed In Old Magazines

Iran before the Islamic Revolution of 1979 was quite a different country from the one we see today. It was secular, Western-oriented and allowed a certain amount of cultural freedom.
It might be shocking today, but women of that time also took a modern approach when it came to fashion. They would dress up just like their Western counterparts and would even show some skin.
Today the women’s dress code in Iran is way more conservative than back in the ‘70s; now, they need to cover their hair, necks, and arms. Nevertheless, Iranian women are generally stylish and tend to choose colorful outfits.
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The French photographer and the “world’s most beautiful woman” in Hoi An

Among thousands of portraits and landscapes shot in Vietnam, the favorite photo of French photographer Rehahn Croquevielle is a portrait of Bui Thi Xong, a boat rower in the historic town of Hoi An

The portrait of Mrs. Xong by Rehahn.
Croquevielle, 36, from Normandy has become a familiar name in Vietnam. He is one of a few foreign photographers whose successful career is very close to Vietnam.
Thanks to the sincere love for the land and the people of Vietnam, photos about Vietnam by Rehahn have their own identity.
In summer 2001, Rehahn traveled to Hoi An and met the old boat rower on the Hoai River. This accidental meeting changed the life of the 74-year old woman and the French photographer.
According to Rehahn, Xong was a poor and timid woman. When he raised his camera, Xong covered her face by her hands for shyness. That natural moment makes the picture especially appealing. Viewers pay attention to the hands and face with the timestamp of austerity and time, but the eyes still light up a smile.
Rehahn said he liked this photo the best among more than 50,000 pictures he took in Vietnam because it shows the joy and the confidence in life, even though the character’s life is surrounded by old age and poverty.
The photo was used for the cover of Rehahn photo book “Hidden Smile”. Rehahn said that this was “the most beautiful woman the world.”
The French photographer promised that if the photo book was a success, he would buy a new boat for Xong. Only six months after the book was published, the “oldest photo model” in Hoi An appeared five times on television and was known by many people around the world.
She has also become “a model” for many Vietnamese and foreign photographers but her portrait shot by Rehahn is still the most inspired work.
This picture has appeared in many travel publications in many countries.

Rehahn and Mrs. Xong

Source:dtinews.vn

By Ha Vu

Vương miện Hoa hậu Hoàn vũ Việt Nam đính hơn 2.100 viên đá quý

Mẫu vương miện Hoa hậu Hoàn vũ Việt Nam 2015. (Nguồn: hoahauhoanvuvietnam.com)
Ngày 30/9, tại thành phố Nha Trang (Khánh Hòa), trong cuộc họp báo trước đêm chung kết cuộc thi Hoa hậu Hoàn vũ Việt Nam 2015, Ban tổ chức đã ra mắt giới báo chí chiếc vương miện dành cho người đăng quang danh hiệu cao nhất của cuộc thi, do Tập đoàn Long Beach Pearl thiết kế và tài trợ, trị giá 2,2 tỷ đồng.

Chiếc vương miện được thiết kế dựa trên cảm hứng từ những biểu tượng, hình ảnh về đất nước, con người Việt Nam qua hàng nghìn năm lịch sử cùng ý nghĩa của cuộc thi nhan sắc này.

Vương miện được đội ngũ nghệ nhân Long Peach Pearl thực hiện trong vòng ba tháng, đính kết hơn 2.100 viên đá quý và ngọc trai với sự kết hợp tinh tế nhằm tôn vinh nét đẹp của người phụ nữ Việt Nam.

Trong số đó, có 18 viên ngọc trai ánh xà cừ tượng trưng cho 18 vị vua Hùng - nguồn gốc hình thành và sự phát triển của dân tộc, tạo nên văn hiến nghìn năm; 54 viên ngọc trai viền quanh chân vương miện tượng trưng cho sự đoàn kết của 54 dân tộc anh em…

Ông Trần Ngọc Nhật, Trưởng ban Tổ chức cuộc thi, cho biết người đẹp đăng quang trong đêm chung kết diễn ra vào tối 3/10 tới đây sẽ sở hữu vĩnh viễn chiếc vương miện này, cùng với những phần thưởng khác với tổng giá trị gần 10 tỷ đồng./.

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Foods, remedy from frog

Not only frog is a kind of foodstuff popular, delicious, high in nutritional value, but also it is a medication originally. Foods – remedy from frog very good for people have a body breakdown; they have just been ill; senior citizen and children eat less, malnourished.
The investigation into component, frog has protein, fatty substance, sugar, calcium, photpho, kalium, natrium, iron, magnesium, zinc, selen, vitamin A, vitamin B, D, E, biotin, caroten,…. The traditional medicine, frog has taste sugared, not poisonous, help recover one’s health, full-blooded, diuretic, children’s malnutrition, high temperature, tuberculosis, itchs,…

Frog

Many foods, remedy use frog :
To foster one’s strength, have just been ill : frog 100g, clean and cut it, dry with onion. Or frog 100g, embalm a little soy sauce, sugar, ginger, then sulfurization. Eat in family meal, once a day. Continue a week.
Antifebrile detoxicate, control children’s pimple in summer : frog 100g, amomum powder 5g, a jacket collar lining, ordinary rice 150g. Cooked frog gruel and give amomum powder, jacket collar lining was covered the pot. Stew 5 minutes, get cold, throw jacket collar lining, wedge spices. To children eat for breakfast.
Children breakdown,  have indigestion, difficult to digest : frog 100g, ordinary rice 100g. To slaughter frog, cleaned, cut piece of frog, embalmed spices, put into pot and cook. Wash the rice and slow-cook, wedge onion, spices, instant, once a day. Eat in a week.
To fortify the kidneys, polyuria at night : a frog 100g, pepper 9g, codonopsis 9g, medlar seeds 15g. To slaughter frog, cut head, foots, skin, viscera, cut a piece and put into pot with spices, well-stewed, wedge spices. Anyone has low-temperature on vesica, who shouldn’t eat them.
To fortify the kidneys, virility : frog, clavaria, sparrow, the same amount. Dry and eat with rice. Can be eaten regularly.

Cooked frog and china squash, it’s good for diabetic.

To be treated diabetes by kidney-liver damaged : frog 100g, china squash 200g, garlic, spices barely. China squash was sharpened, cut thin. To heat oil and dry garlic, put china squash and frog into pot, add water to it, slow-cooked about 30 minutes, wedge spices and eat. Using on meals. 2 or 3 times a week. Uses : to refresh oneself with drink, to decrease amount of sugar in blood,…
Note : Frog live in the field so they usually have tapeworm larvas, processing food should know that guarantee safety : cleaned innards, take the nerve and throw out to eliminate parasite can be in it, clean with salt, cooked for a long time to reduce parasitic worms.

The tourist attractions in Singapore

Singapore tourist attractions by the beauty of the blend of the cultures of Asia-Europe. Although the Singapore Government’s relatively tough people and tourists but definitely you will be difficult to resist the beauty charm of this multicultural country. The following are the top tourist attractions in Singapore:
Resorts World Sentosa:
Located on Sentosa Island off southern Singapore integrated resorts, restaurants, luxury hotels, casinos and amusement parks; is suitable destination for visit irrespective of age. You will have fun and discover the island of Singapore, the water park and the indoor artificial fish.


The Zoo – Night Safari:
Instead the Club with the familiar space, lion island nation to bring you the new and exciting discoveries in the Night Safari-the first night Zoo in the world. Open since 1994, the Night Safari is the leading tourist attraction of Singapore, every year there are more than 1 million tourists visit. You can stroll along the trails, learn the habits of the animals here and see the unique animal circus. Night Safari is exciting wilderness adventure you should not ignore.


Underwater World:
Here at the Singapore visitors can admire 2500 individuals of over 250 species of marine fish. You will especially enjoy when watch this ocean fish into fish feeding daily hours: 14 h 30, 11:45 and 4:45 pm.
Cinemania: the only place of Singapore travel lets you get the strong feeling when conquering expeditions through multi-dimensional imaging technology 3D and 4D.

George, Athens

The majority of annual visitors to Greece arrive on package tours to the Greek islands and rarely get the opportunity to explore the sights of Athens, which is a pity, because despite the noise and traffic jams, it is one of the most exciting and fascinating cities in Europe. To make sure you get to see the most important sights, you can book a city tour at a very reasonable price. However, it is always wise to pre-book tours of Athens, especially if you are going to come in August. There is a wealth of scenery to enjoy in the surrounding countryside,too, so try to take in other one-day excursions out of the city. At the heart of the city, nestled at the foot of the Acropolis in Plaka, the oldest and most picturesque neighborhood in Athens. Overlooked by the glorious temple of the Parthenon, it is a maze of narrow streets running in all directions around the Acropolis.

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27 September / 28 September 2015 — Total Lunar Eclipse

In the US, Canada, and Central and South America, this rare Total Lunar Eclipse of a Supermoon will begin on the evening of September 27, 2015. In Europe, South/East Asia, Africa, the Arctic, and in the Pacific, Atlantic, and Indian Oceans it starts after midnight on September 28, 2015.
Also called a Blood Moon this eclipse will last for about 1 hour and 12 minutes.
NEW: See pictures of this eclipse!
Was this Total Lunar Eclipse visible in Ho Chi Minh?

What This Lunar Eclipse Looked Like

The animation shows approximately what the eclipse looked like from the night side of earth

 This is the last eclipse in the 2014 – 2015 Lunar Tetrad

Where the Eclipse Was Seen

Regions seeing at least some parts of the eclipse: Europe, South/West Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Pacific, Atlantic, Indian Ocean, Arctic, Antarctica.
Taking pictures of the Moon

Expand for cities where at least part of the total eclipse was visible

• Moscow, Russia
• Havana, Cuba
• Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.
• London, England, United Kingdom
• Lisbon, Portugal
• Mexico City, Federal District, Mexico
• Bucharest, Romania
• Paris, France
• Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.
• Rome, Italy

• Budapest, Hungary
• Buenos Aires, Argentina
• Detroit, Michigan, U.S.A.
• Washington DC, District of Columbia, U.S.A.
• Ankara, Turkey
• Madrid, Spain
• Guatemala, Guatemala
• New York, New York, U.S.A.
• Cairo, Egypt
• Brussels, Belgium

Expand cities where partial eclipse was visible

• New Delhi, Delhi, India

Was this eclipse visible in Ho Chi Minh?

ImageAnimation

The animation shows where this total lunar eclipse is visible during the night (dark “wave” slowly moving across the Earth's surface).

Shades of darkness

Night, moon high up in sky.
Moon between 12 and 18 degrees above horizon.
Moon between 6 and 12 degrees above horizon. Make sure you have free line of sight.
Moon between 0 and 6 degrees above horizon. May be hard to see due to brightness and line of sight.
Day, moon and eclipse both not visible.
Note: Twilight will affect the visibility of the eclipse, as well as weather.

Entire eclipse was visible from start to end
Entire partial and total phases were visible. Missed part of penumbral phase.
Entire total phase was visible. Missed part of partial & penumbral phases.
Some of the total phase was visible. Missed part of total, partial & penumbral phases.
Some of the partial phase was visible. Missed total phase and part of partial & penumbral phases.
Some of the penumbral phase was visible. Missed total & partial phases.
Eclipse was not visible at all.
Note: Areas with lighter shadings left (West) of the center will experience the eclipse after moonrise/sunset. Areas with lighter shadings right (East) of the center will experience the eclipse until moonset/sunrise. Actual eclipse visibility depends on weather conditions and line of sight to the Moon.

When the Eclipse Happened Worldwide

Lunar eclipses look approximately the same all over the world and happen at the same time.
The times displayed are accurate to around 2-3 seconds.

Event	UTC Time	Time in Ho Chi Minh*	Visible in Ho Chi Minh
Penumbral Eclipse began	28 Sep, 00:11:47	28 Sep, 07:11:47	No, below horizon
Partial Eclipse began	28 Sep, 01:07:13	28 Sep, 08:07:13	No, below horizon
Full Eclipse began	28 Sep, 02:11:12	28 Sep, 09:11:12	No, below horizon
Maximum Eclipse	28 Sep, 02:47:09	28 Sep, 09:47:09	No, below horizon
Full Eclipse ended	28 Sep, 03:23:05	28 Sep, 10:23:05	No, below horizon
Partial Eclipse ended	28 Sep, 04:27:05	28 Sep, 11:27:05	No, below horizon
Penumbral Eclipse ended	28 Sep, 05:22:31	28 Sep, 12:22:31	No, below horizon

* The Moon was below the horizon during this eclipse, so it was not possible to view it in Ho Chi Minh.
The magnitude of the eclipse is 1.276.
The total duration of the eclipse is 5 hours, 11 minutes.
The total duration of the partial phases is 2 hours, 8 minutes.
The duration of the full eclipse is 1 hour, 12 minutes.
Next Total Lunar Eclipse will be on 31 Jan 2018.

A Total Lunar Eclipse or Blood Moon

A Total Lunar Eclipse can get a deep red glow and is sometimes called a Blood Moon.

Earth casting its shadow on the Moon.

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In Photos: Sept 27/28 Super Blood Moon Eclipse

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The Moon does not have its own light, but shines because its surface reflects the Sun's rays.
Eclipses of the Moon happen when the Sun, Earth and Moon are aligned to form an almost or exact straight line. The technical term for this is syzygy, which comes from the Greek word for being paired together.

11 Facts About the Supermoon Eclipse

Why do Total Lunar Eclipses happen?

During a Total Lunar Eclipse, the Sun, Earth and Moon form a straight line. The Earth blocks any direct sunlight from reaching the Moon. The Sun is behind the Earth, so the Sun's light casts the Earth's shadow on the Moon. This shadow covers the entire Moon and causes a Total Lunar Eclipse.

Types of Eclipses

Upcoming 5 Total Lunar Eclipses

Dates	Path of the eclipse
27 Sep / 28 Sep 2015
31 Jan 2018
27 Jul / 28 Jul 2018
20 Jan / 21 Jan 2019
26 May 2021

More details about upcoming Eclipses

Earth's Three Shadows

The Earth's shadow can be divided into three parts:

• Penumbra - the outer part.
• Umbra - darker, central part.
• Antumbra - a partly shaded area beyond the umbra.

Sun, Earth and Moon Aligned

For a lunar eclipse to occur, the Sun, Earth and Moon must be roughly aligned in a straight line. If the Sun, Earth and Moon do not align, the Earth cannot cast a shadow on the Moon's surface and an eclipse cannot happen.
When the Sun, Earth and Moon are not perfectly aligned, only the outer part of the Earth's shadow covers the Moon. Such an eclipse is called a penumbral lunar eclipse. In a Total Lunar Eclipse, the Earth's umbra completely covers the Moon.
The Earth's umbra is about 870,000 miles (1.4 million km) wide.

Only at Full Moon

Total Lunar Eclipses happen only when:

• The Sun, Earth and Moon are in a straight line.
• There is a full Moon.

Moon phases

Total Lunar Eclipse Infographic. Click image for full version.

Full Moon & Total Lunar Eclipse

Why don't we see a lunar eclipse every month if a full Moon is needed for a Total Lunar Eclipse?
This is because the plane of the Moon's orbital path around the Earth is inclined at an angle of 5° to the Earth's orbital plane (ecliptic) around the Sun. The points where the two orbital planes meet are called lunar nodes. Eclipses can only take place near the lunar nodes - lunar eclipses occur when a full Moon happens near a lunar node.

How to See a Lunar Eclipse?

The Moon Looks Red

Even though the Earth completely blocks sunlight from directly reaching the surface of the Moon, the Moon is still visible to the naked eye during a Total Lunar Eclipse. This is because the Earth's atmosphere refracts sunlight and indirectly lights up the Moon's surface.

What is Earthshine?

The Earth's atmosphere removes or blocks parts of the sunlight's spectrum leaving only the longer wavelengths. Because of this, a totally eclipsed Moon usually looks red.

Why does the Moon look red?

Eclipses in Different Colors

A lunar eclipse can also be yellow, orange, or brown in color. This is because different types of dust particles and clouds in the Earth's atmosphere allow different wavelengths to reach the surface of the Moon.

Seven Stages of the Eclipse

A Total Lunar Eclipse usually happens within a few hours. Totality can range anywhere from a few seconds to about 100 minutes. The July 26, 1953 Total Lunar Eclipse had one of the longest periods of totality in the 20th century - 100 minutes and 43 seconds.
There are seven stages of a Total Lunar Eclipse:

• Penumbral eclipse begins: This begins when the penumbral part of Earth's shadow starts moving over the Moon. This phase is not easily seen by the naked eye.
• Partial eclipse begins: The Earth's umbra starts covering the Moon, making the eclipse more visible.
• Total eclipse begins: Earth's umbra completely covers the Moon and the Moon is red, brown or yellow in color.
• Maximum eclipse: This is the middle of the total eclipse.
• Total eclipse ends: At this stage, the Earth's umbra starts moving away from the Moon's surface.
• Partial eclipse ends: The Earth's umbra completely leaves the Moon's surface.
• Penumbral eclipse ends: At this point the eclipse ends and the Earth's shadow completely moves away from the Moon.

Where Can I See a Total Lunar Eclipse?

Everyone on the night side of the Earth can see a total eclipse of the Moon. For this reason, everyone has higher chances of seeing a Total Lunar Eclipse than a total solar eclipse, even though both occur in similar intervals.

How Often do They Happen?

About 35% of all lunar eclipses in a calendar year are Total Lunar Eclipses. On average, a Total Lunar Eclipse can be seen from any given location every 2.5 years.

Tetrads and Blood Moons

A series of 4 consecutive Total Lunar Eclipses with no partial or penumbral lunar eclipses in between is called a lunar tetrad.
The September 28, 2015 Total Lunar Eclipse is the last total eclipse of the Moon in the 2014-2015 tetrad. The first three occurred on

• April 15, 2014,
• October 8, 2014,
• and April 4, 2015.

In recent years, eclipses in a lunar tetrad are popularly called Blood Moons. This term has no technical or astronomical basis and it is unclear where it comes from.

More about Blood Moons