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1. Blue Whales -- Rorquals
   Blue whales grow up to about 80 feet (25m) long on average, weighing about 120 tons. The females are generally larger than the males, this is the case for all baleen whales. ^The largest specimen found was a female 94 feet (29m) long weighing more than 174 tons^ (Satchell 1998). The head of the Blue whale forms up to a quarter of the total body length. Compared with other rorquals, the head is very broad. The blue whale heart is the size of a small car and can pump almost 10 tons of blood throughout the body.
2. Helmet (Band)
   The HALO Reflective Helmet Band incorporates state-of-the-art materials to provide the coolest looking and best performing reflective helmet band available. The HALO Reflective Helmet Band is 300% more reflective than the leading adhesive vinyl sticker reflectors.The HALO Reflective Helmet Band is a 1 5/8" high closed loop of neoprene that is completely covered with Scotchlite reflective material. The HALO stretches around the base of motorcycle and bicycle helmets and stays in place without the use of any glues or adhesives.The HALO is used and endorsed by the Motorcycle Safety Foundation, the leading motorcycle safety instruction organization in the United States.
3. Motorcycle Helmets
   Some Motorcycle Helmets come with a separate structure that bolts to the helmet that are designed to cover the lower part of the face. These removable chin bars are often intended to deflect small stones and debris encountered in some motorcycle sports and may not be effective facial protection in falls and accidents. The Foundation does not test removable chin bars and considers any headgear equipped with them to be an open face helmet.
4. Counterstrike
   Counterstrike is a team-based multi-player game where online players are grouped into competing teams where each team is assigned a specific goal. The environment of the game is pre-loaded and clients exchange game state over the network using small UDP packets. Bursty losses can have an adverse effect on the progress of this game. First, during the initiation phase, the client generates important control packets which if lost can render the client unable to connect to the server. Second, a burst of packet losses during the middle of a game can either cause skips or cause a player to get disconnected. A skip can arise because the game state messages received immediately after a congestion provides a context jump in the game.
5. Facial -- Facial Exercise
   Facial-Flex was first developed to help restore facial muscle tone for stroke and burn rehabilitation. As a daily facial exercise, the device is placed between the corners of the mouth, then flexed by pressing and releasing for about 2 minutes. Simple and painless, yet it may produce results that take years off your looks!
6. John Wayne -- Cancer
   John Wayne died of stomach cancer on June 11, 1979 in Newport Beach, California, and was interred in the Pacific View Memorial Park cemetery in Corona del Mar, Orange County, California. Some trace his cancer back to his work in The Conqueror, filmed about 100 miles downwind of Nevada nuclear-weapons test sites. However, it should ... be noted that until 1964 Wayne was a chain smoker, which was more likely to have caused his cancer. Other actors who worked on that movie and later died of cancer were also heavy smokers, including Dick Powell, Agnes Moorehead and Susan Hayward.
7. Lance Armstrong -- World
   Almost three months after winning an unprecedented sixth consecutive Tour De France, Lance Armstrong doesn't look that different. He looks a little tired from a recently heavy travel schedule and has a little stubble on his chin, but that laser-like focus is always there in his slate blue eyes. 33 just one month ago, Armstrong is widely regarded as the world's best endurance athlete who is now at the pinnacle of success as a Grand Tour rider. In fact, a recent Sports Illustrated fan poll voted Armstrong "All-Time Greatest Sportsman", ahead of Michael Jordan, Muhammad Ali and many other great names from the world of sport.
8. Large Breasted Women -- Large-Breasted Women
   Although large-breasted women often have more difficulty positioning their babies at the breast while sitting up, nursing lying down is sometimes easier for them than it is for small-breasted women. In the traditional lying-down position, the mother lies on her side with a pillow under her head. She positions the baby on his side with his mouth in line with her nipple. While a small-breasted mother may need to place her arm under the baby's head to bring the baby's mouth up to her nipple level, a large-breasted mother may or may not need to do this. Her breast may rest on the mattress with her nipple low enough for the baby to grasp easily. Once the baby has latched on properly, placing pillows behind his back will help support him while nursing.
9. Motorcycle Helmets -- Riders
   Beginning production of Motorcycle helmets in Bergamo, Italy since the early 1970's, Nolan began using sophisticated materials to bring optimum performance to motorcycle riders at a competitive price. Throughout the 30 years since Nolan's first production helmet, Nolan hasn't ceased to use innovative technology to broaden its range of products. Today, Nolan Helmets hold more than 50% of the European market and manufactures all components to their helmets in house.
10. Snoring -- Snorers
    Snoring may be a sign of disturbed sleep, meaning you are less alert during the day. Lots of couples row about snoring, and often sleep in separate rooms because of it. Sharing a bed with a snorer can seriously affect the partner’s sleep; this was proved by a study in America (reported in the Mayo Clinic Proceedings 1999;74:939–66), which showed that when snoring was eliminated, the bed partners got an extra hour of sleep each night.

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