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While some people consider melt and pour soap to be “soap making” many of those who make a bar of soap from scratch don’t consider this to be actual soap making. It is true that you can have a lot of fun with melt and pour soaps and that you can make a lot of really cool projects, but it isn’t quite the same as the real deal so to say. Cold process soap is one of the most popular methods. It does, however, take more work then the basic melt and pour project. You will be combining lye (caustic soda also known as sodium hydroxide) with fats or oils. This process causes a chemical reaction between the two ingredients creating soap. While soap can be made in your own home, lye is often dangerous to work with and should be used cautiously.

Things you will need:

In order to make cold process soap you will need a glass measuring cup, preferably four cups. You will need a glass dish so that you can measure out your oils and fats. You will need a few spoons. A scale is also very important because your fats and oils as well as your lye will be measured by weight. You need a pan that isn’t aluminum or a pan and a mixing bowl (I prefer glass). Finally you will need a thermometer.

Ingredients:

Soap is mainly fat and or oil and lye. You can then add colorant, fragrance, and additives for special soaps. It is also possible to affect the soap by choosing your oils and fats. Different oils have different results on the soap. Some cost fast lather with tiny bubbles that disappate quickly. Others have strong lathers that last a long time with big bubbles. This can be helpful in choosing your oils and fats and how much of those ingredients that you need. You can also choose them according to how they help the skin.

Recipe:

Soap recipes can be used. These are ones that other people have put together and named. Some have fancy ingredients like milk, milk powder, honey powder, tea, or cucumbers. These can be great soaps, but it should be noted that unless the recipe was created by someone who knows what they are doing then you should check the values on a lye calculator. Lye calculators are available all over the net. They make it very easy to enter the amounts of oils or fats that you are using. It will then tell you how much water and lye you need to make your soap. This is important because if you have too much lye then your soap will still have lye in it and it could burn the skin. If it doesn’t have enough then it won’t have enough soap and you will have a oil bar. You can also use lye calculators for making your own soap recipes.

The Process:

Making soap isn’t a hard process. You should be very careful with the lye (most people suggest that you wear rubber gloves, a rubber apron, eye protection, and some recommend a mask). You should also make sure it is well venelated and that you aren’t breathing in the vapors. Now that you know the safety aspects you should know the basic process of making soap.

1. Melt and warm your oils and fats together. Depending on what you are using this could take a little while (beeswax is one that takes awhile to melt as well as cocoa butter).
2. Mix your lye into your water. Make sure you gently add the lye to the water. Doing it the other way can cause splashing and burns. You want to stir as you are adding the lye. It will get very warm very quickly.
3. Wait. It takes a short time, but you will want your oils and your lye to cool down. Your recipe may have a temperature at which to mix them. If it does follow this. If it doesn’t then 110 degrees is often standard. The important thing is that both the lye water and the oils should be about the same temp and both should be fairly warm.
4. Mix together. If you have a pan that isn’t aluminum that you have melted your oils in you can slowly add the lye (drizzle it into the oil/fat) directly to the pan. If you don’t have an aluminum free pan you can move your oils to your mixing bowl and then drizzle the lye into the oil/fat.
5. Stir or blend. You can stir your soap now or blend it with a hand mixer or a stick mixer. You will need to do this till trace. Trace is the point where the soap has thickened enough to hold itself up for a time. You can either take the spoon and slice the surface, if your mark stays awhile you have reached trace. Or you can drizzle some of the soap mixture onto the surface of the soap. If it is trace then it will hold the drizzled soap up for a few seconds in a small pile.
6. Once you have reached trace you can add your additives such as fragrance, color, herbs or flowers, and superfatting oil. It is really up to you and recipe.
7. After all your additives are in the soap then you can pour it into your molds. It is sometimes helpful to have sprayed the molds with a little cooking spray. Your soap should spend 24 hours in the molds.
8. You will need to let your soap cure for 4 to 6 weeks before using it. This is to make sure that they lye and the oils have all become soap. After 4 to 6 weeks you can use the soap as you wish.

Advantages:

Cold process soap takes awhile to cure, but it is a smooth bar of soap that can be luxurious and easy to use. You can also design bars of soap to help with certain skin problems or to be used for certain skin types. You can also get very creative and make some truly beautiful soap.

There comes a time where the small chips of soap bars are difficult to use and often get thrown away (or stuck to some corner in the shower). These bars can be turned into liquid soap saving you money and allowing you to recycle them.

1. Gather up your old used soap bars into a ziploc bag until you have a bunch.
2. It is best when you mix them according to attractively mixed scents and colors. White and pale yellow bars tend to look a little yucky once turned into liquid soap. To avoid this add soap colorant or a colored bar of soap to the mix.
3. Once you have grouped your soap you can place it in a small pan with about two cups of water. Add a tablespoon of an oil of your choice (I often add vegetable oil, it is cheap and always available).
4. Melt your soap. Stir it often with a wooden spoon.
5. Once the soap is melted you will want to let it cool. After it has cooled check the consistency. If it is too thick add another cup of water and reheat. If it is too thin then boil it for twenty minutes or so to reduce the amount of water in the soap.
6. Remember to keep it liquid soap! If you want you can add soap fragrance or colorant for a different look.
7. Let cool thoroughly and place in a storage bottle (a hand soap refill bottle is perfect!). You can then add it to your soap pumps for new liquid soap from your old leftovers.

This is a good way to have a good smelling house as well. The soap will smell good as it heats up. Plus you save money and make something new.

“An essay into the field of Churchill reading material that might be of more interest and use than reviews, this is a column that YOU can contribute to easily.” Thus wrote the late Dalton Newfield, editor, in FINEST HOUR 31, from which these notes are reprinted.

Have you noticed that almost every book collection which ~ beyond Churchill himself has England Under Queen Anne/Blenheim, by Trevelyn -but almost none have the companion Ramillies and the Union With Scotland, equally Churchill-related? Delighted to find Famous American Belles of the Nineteenth Century, V.T. Peacock, Lippincort, 1901, with a chapter and picture of Jennie Jerome. It is very nicely bound…. Tom Thomas reports The Reminiscences of Lady Randolph Churchill, Mrs. George Cornwallis-West, was reprinted by Cedric Chivers, 1973… Centenary-year publications: Winston Churchill by Elizabeth Longford, a pictorial biography with foreword by Eden, after-word by Winston S. Churchill MP…. Winston Churchill, Henry Pelling, 724 pages including 79 pp of indices and notes, is still generally regarded as the best single-volume biography… Likewise, Churchill/A Photographic Portrait, Martin Gilbert, with 364 pages of photos and cartoons, remains the best overall photo-documentary…..Winston S. Churchill/His Complete Speeches 1897-1963, edited by Robert Rhodes James, 8 volumes (Chelsea House/Bowker) was said to be “absolutely complete” but wasn’t - key passages were edited including some of the most famous.

Delightful discovery: War Impressions by the artist Mortimer Menpes, 1901, contains 99 watercolors of Boer War scenes and portraits of British leaders and personalities, two pictures of WSC, plus several pages of text, and one of Sunny Marlborough … The Great Boer War, Arthur Conan Doyle, 1900, has three WSC mentions including a description of the Armoured Train Incident. Doyle was an Army doctor and Menpes’ book has a number of pages on him as a dedicated medico … Another unusual acquisition: True Remembrances, Philip Tilden, 1954. Tilden was Churchill’s architect when Chartwell was rebuilt. No Churchill when it comes to writing (he wanders), but there are Chartwell insights that deserve shelf-space … Tom Thomas reports Battles of the Boer War, W.B. Pemberton, 1964, was republished 1974 as a Pan Books “British Battle Series” paperback. Mention of WSC, of course … Also, TT recommends two books of Fisherisms by Admiral Lord Fisher himself, Memories and Records, Hodder & Stoughton; WSC, of course, in these too…

“Leatherbound” does not exactly describe my Lives of the ‘Lustrious by Stephen & Lee, 1901, as it is covered with limp calfskin, no boards. A spoof of the great, it gives a pungent page to “CHURCHILL, WINSTON, Unknown Quantity”. … How seldom we see Marlborough with unfaded spines! I found it recently in original dust jackets, spines immaculate, but it wasn’t cheap…

[There followed some remarks about the Woods Bibliography's current availability status. Like most of us, Mr. Newfield ran hot and cold on Woods]: It amazes that this work, which is by far the best In its field, has received such criticism. Perhaps the critics will seek to improve it with their own? [Well, the critics are still promising.]

After telling the bookseller I was only interested in Churchill, he was surprised when I pounced on a copy of The War and Colonel Warden. [Reminds me of how another bookseller did a double-take when I pounced on my copy of Long Adventure - Ed.] … Possibly the most beautiful of Churchill books, Woods D(a)5 and D(a)8, published by Rarsohoff~ and printed by the Grabhorn Press in San Francisco, were printed in limited editions of 250 each; grab them when you see them. It is a tragedy that Grabhorn used “selfend” papers, the result being that almost every copy has one of two binding flaws front and back. Grabhorn should have known better - but they are still most desirable… Can anyone find a copy of Cawthorne’s Mr. Speaker, Sir?……. Was Ascalon/The Story of Sir Winston Churchill’s War-Time Flights 1943-1945, Gerrard Tickell, H&S, London, 1964, ever produced in hard cover? … And, if you collect mentions of Randolph Churchill and his son, don’t overlook The Great Saharan Mouse-Hunt, Pomeroy and Collins, Hutchinson, London 1962; a comic bit on RSC and some views of the then-student WSC.

At the end of a long day battling street traffic, bike messenger Jace Damon has one last drop to make. But while he’s peddling to finish up with his day’s work by this last drop he’s been chased through back alleys, and shot at. So now Jace Damon( who plays the role of messenger boy ) wonders why is he been chased and shot for. Unfortunately the last drop he was having didn’t strike him. oops…all he thought was oh thank god i escaped.Jace returns to Lenny Lowell’s( the last drop was to this lawyer’s house ) office only to find the cops there, the lawyer dead, and Jace himself considered the prime suspect in the savage murder. Suddenly he’s on the run from both the cops and a killer, and the key to saving himself and his ten-year-old brother.

Kev Parker plays the role of homicide detective.Lenny Lowell had a connection to something big enough to be killed for. Parker begins a search for answers that will lead him to a killer or the end of his career. Since, Parker very well knows that delivering the truth can be deadly in a town built on fantasy and fame. So read the book and find for what reason this Jace was chased and also why the Lenny Lowell’s was killed.

Hey guys ,nowadays i have started reading a lot of books and its been a great experience.I would suggest you guys also to read as many as books you can.i got mesmerised by some books up to an extent that i forgot to take my lunch.In the forthcoming posts i would write reviews of books which i have read.If you guys know any intersting books then let me know

Words that end in - gry
We have stopped counting how many times we have received this question by email…
“There are three words in English ending in -gry. I only know hungry and angry. Please tell me what the third one is.”
It is time to clear up this mystery once and for all.
There is NO mystery! This question has evolved into an urban legend that is impossible to solve.
The fact is there is NO third common word in the English language ending in -gry.
Sources claim that the question had been taken from an old book of puzzles, and had been given publicity on the Bob Grant radio talk show on WMCA in New York City in 1975.
One version is:There are two words that end with “gry”.Angry is one and hungry is another.What is the third word.Everyone uses it every day andEveryone knows what it means.If you have been listening,I have already told you what the word is.
Notice the third line “sounds” like a question when read.
Another version is: Think of words ending in ‘gry’.Angry and hungry are two of them.There are only three words in the English language.What is the third word?The word is something that everyone uses every day.If you have listened carefully,I have already told you what it is.
In this case the real question is: “There are only three words in the English language. What is the third word?” That is, there are only three words in the phrase “the English language”. The third word is “language”, which is indeed something we use every day. The first two words are “the” and “English”.
And a third version…Published in the US magazine Parade in March 1997 and claiming to be the original…There are at least three wordsin the English language that end in g or y.One of them is “hungry”, and another one is “angry”.There is a third word, a short one,which you probably say every day.If you are listening carefully to everything I say,you just heard me say it three times.What is it?
This version of course relies on verbal trickery to confuse the quickly-said “g or y” with “gry”. The answer is actually ’say’.
You see, in one form or another the riddle has apparently been known for many years.
Now that we have cleared this up, the question remains - “Are there any words in the English language, other than angry and hungry, that end in -gry?YES!
Research from the Oxford English Dictionary, Simon & Schuster’s Webster’s New World Dictionary, and the G.C. Merriam Company gives us this list:
aggry: A glass bead found buried in the ground in Africa. A word of unknown origin. Seemingly always used attributively, as in aggry beads.
braggry: A variant form of braggery.
conyngry: An obsolete dialectal variant of conyger, itself an obsolete term meaning ‘rabbit warren’.
gry: The smallest unit in Locke’s proposed decimal system of linear measurement, being the tenth of a line, the hundredth of an inch, and the thousandth of a (’philosophical’) foot. Also the grunt of a pig, an insignificant trifle, or a verb meaning to roar.
iggry: Egyptian colloquial Arabic pronunciation of ijri: ‘Hurry up!’, brought back after the First World War by members of British and Australian forces who had fought in Egypt.
mawgry: from Old French: being regarded with displeasure.
meagry: Having a meager appearance.
nangry: A variant form of angry.
podagry: Dodder, or the condition of a plant infested with it.
puggry: A variant form of puggree, a light scarf wound around a hat or helmet to protect the head from the sun.

Now a days you might have received sms from vodafone and other friends and saw ads in tv stating that if you send “CREDIT’ or ‘CA’ to 144 then you’ll receive 10 rupee credit .Is this true ?
YES this is absolutely true
vodafone now becomes first cellular network in india to introduce credit system in mobile recharge.
The main purpose of this plan is to help customers of vodafone in remote place whose balance is low and there are no near by vodafone shops or retailer shops to recharge.So now you can recharge from any place !
Ok , does vodafone give you that 10 rupee free ?
No , not all . Credit usually means you get something before and pay aftrewards.So how you pay afterwards ?
After 7 days you use this system , on the 8th day automatically 10+1=11 rupees will be deducted from your balance.That 1 rupee is additional service charge.
Now you’ll ask , what if my balance is zero ?
Then your balance will go in negative and then when you recharge next time , it’ll be deducted.

Can all users use this credit system ?
No , this system has the following conditions.
1.For the past 3 months you should have been a vodafone customer.
2.Your balance must be below 5 Rupees
3.You must have validity at least for 7 days.

WHY A STUDENT FAILS ???It’s not the fault of the student if he fails, because the year has ONLY 365′ days.Typical academic year for a student:-

7. Exam days per year atleast 35 days.Days left 46.

There are many things to think about when purchasing a tie, here are some of the main things to consider.

Tips to help you buy a tie:

Pick the right store at the right time. Take a moment to look for independent local stores that sell suits and ties, as you are much more likely to find a salesman/owner who knows everything there is to know about how to select the perfect tie. Someone who has been at a department store for a longtime can also provide you with lots of helpful tie advice, so ask “how long have you worked here” and if the answer ism’t satisfactory ask to work with someone who has been worked there longer. Give yourself some time to shop. You will get much better service selecting a tie on a Tuesday than on a crowded Saturday.

If you are shopping for a specific event take your suit and shirt with you to the store. This will enable you to get the look that you want. You will be amazed how different the shirt, suit and tie can look so different just by changing one of the three.

If you are tall ask to try a long tie. The triangle point of a properly fitted tie should come down to meet your belt buckle.

Give the tie a good going over to make sure that it is not damaged in anyway, is it smudged, a snag or have a loose thread?

1)Apple Computers

It was the favourite fruit of founder Steve Jobs. He was three months late in filing a name for the business, and he threatened to call his company Apple Computers if the other colleagues didn’t suggest a better name by 5 O’clock.

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2) CISCO

It is not an acronym as popularly believed. It is short for San Francisco.

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3)Compaq

This name was formed by using COMp, for computer, and PAQ to denote a small integral object.

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4)Corel

The name was derived from the founder’s name Dr.Michael Cowpland. It stands for COwpland REsearch Laboratory.

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5)Google

The name started as a joke boasting about the amount of information the search-engine would be able to search. It was originally named ‘Googol’, a word for the number represented by 1 followed by 100 zeros.After founders - Stanford graduate students Sergey Brin and Larry Page presented their project to an angel investor, they received a cheque made out to ‘Google’

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6)Hotmail

Founder Jack Smith got the idea of accessing e-mail via the web from a computer anywhere in the world.When Sabeer Bhatia came up with the business plan for the mail service, he tried all kinds of names ending in ‘mail’ and finally settled for hotmail as it included the letters “html” - the programming language used to write web pages. It was initially referred to as HoTMaiL with selective uppercasing.

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7)Hewlett Packard

Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard tossed a coin to decide whether the company they founded would be called Hewlett-Packard or Packard-Hewlett.

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8)Intel

Bob Noyce and Gordon Moore wanted to name their new company ‘Moore Noyce’ but that was already trademarked by a hotel chain so they had to settle for an acronym of INTegrated ELectronics.

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9)Lotus (Notes)

Mitch Kapor got the name for his company from ‘The Lotus Position’ or ‘Padmasana’. Kapor used to be a teacher of Transcendental Meditation of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.

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10)Microsoft

Coined by Bill Gates to represent the company that was devoted to MICROcomputer SOFTware. Originally christened Micro-Soft, the ‘-’ was removed later on.

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11)Motorola

Founder Paul Galvin came up with this name when his company started manufacturing radios for cars. The popular radio company at the time was called Victrola.

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12)ORACLE

Larry Ellison and Bob Oats were working on a consulting project for the CIA (Central Intelligence Agency). The code name for the project was called Oracle (the CIA saw this as the system to give answers to all questions or something such). The project was designed to help use the newly written SQL code by IBM. The project eventually was terminated but Larry and Bob decided to finish what they started and bring it to the world. They kept the name Oracle and created the RDBMS engine. Later they kept the same name for the company.

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13)Sony

It originated from the Latin word ’sonus’ meaning sound, and ’sonny’ a slang used by Americans to refer to a bright youngster.

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14)SUN

Founded by 4 Stanford University buddies, SUN is the acronym for Stanford University Network. Andreas Bechtolsheim built a microcomputer; Vinod Khosla recruited him and Scott McNealy to manufacture computers based on it, and Bill Joy to develop a UNIX-based OS for the computer.

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15)Yahoo!

The word was invented by Jonathan Swift and used in his book ‘Gulliver’s Travels’. It represents a person who is repulsive in appearance and action and is barely human. Yahoo! Founders Jerry Yang and David Filo selected the name because they considered themselves yahoos.