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>> 5 Tips to Weave Your Way into any Woman's Heart

"I really don't understand... I have everything a single lady may desire. A nice car, a top-class CV, that can make any other guy look like a loser and to top it all, I wear Armani, so what's the reason that I am always alone."

How many times have you asked yourself these unrelenting questions?

The road to love and romance has many a heartbreaks littered about its length and breadth. So if you think that you're the only one seeking romance and only finding unrequited love, think again.

However, it's not yet time to despair. Whether Christian, interracial, or BBW --however you catagorize yourself -- here are a few tips to find the way to a girl's heart may come in handy at just the right moment:

1) Dressing right at all times: By this I do not mean that you need to wear your Armani to the grocers, in fact just what is required is that each time you make an appearance any place, where there are likely to be humans, just make sure that you are presentable. Some cologne and a clean shaven look ... and you may be on the path to a real relationship, because you could meet her just anywhere.

2) Let the eyes do the talking: Establishing eye contact and bestowing complete, undivided attention to the person who may turn out to be the most important one in your life is the one most important act of wooing your dream girl. Believe it or not Ethnologists have a special name for it "the copulatory gaze". The perfect sexy look can be achieved by enlargement of your pupils. So, how does one achieve that? Just look at her face's most lovely features and let your mind think the most loving and caring Snap out of hopelessness thoughts about her. This will cause your pupils to enlarge to an endearingly large size.

3) Love her with your eyes: While you chat to her, let your gaze hover over her face in a loving caress. Lingering over the eyes, nose and lips turn by turn, your gaze can make her feel like the most attractive and most loved woman of the world.

4) Talk to her about her: Stumped at what to talk to her about? You do not need to exert yourself much, just learn to listen to her and lead her on to reveal more about herself and her experiences. She will love the way you share her deepest thoughts and emotions.

5) Try to keep it romantic: Whatever you do, do not indulge in talk about stocks and market conditions. Unlike men, women like to discuss feelings and emotions. What for you is $2000 expenditure could just as well be her way of relieving her worries. So, try to connect to her by talking to her about things that actually matter to her.

All this may seem like plain common sense, yet most men do not care to follow these tips.

So if you want that special somebody -- go all out for it!

>> AFRICA TRAVEL TIPS:

Top 10 Tourist Destinations in South Africa 

So you have been given the green light to arrange your next exciting overseas travel adventure. You have chosen South Africa is the travel destination but in your planning process, you're at a loss to know what best to include on your itinerary. You've accepted the long haul flight from your home country and want to make the most of every moment of your time in South Africa by including the most exciting highlights.

You may ask what South Africa's highlights are and maybe the first thoughts that jump to mind are Cape Town and the Kruger National Park. Well, can I take this opportunity to tantalize your taste buds?

Cape Town and Kruger National Park are the biggest selling destinations in South Africa, but wow, there is so much more to explore in this beautiful country! Let me divulge on its "must see and do's".

Cape Town, Western Cape Province

Just recently been voted "the 3rd Best City in the World" by US Travel and Leisure Magazine 2008. Cape Town offers a huge diversity of things to do including culture activities and theatre shows, great shopping, casino entertainment, outdoor adventures and scenic nature tours, historic tours, wine tasting, beer tasting and brandy tasting. You will find a number of things here to keep you entertained. She's beautiful, she's vibrant and she'll leave you with lasting memories.

Cape Winelands, Western Cape Province

The Cape Winelands refers to the beautiful wine growing area stretching from Paarl, Franschhoek and Stellenbosch all the way over the Hottentots Holland mountain range to Montague and Robertson showcasing over 200 different wine estates. These world-class estates offer wine tasting and some offer cellar tours providing a fascinating insight to the winemaking industry. The scenery is magical with dramatic mountain backdrops and endless vineyards that change colours with the changing seasons.

Hermanus, Western Cape Province

Known as the best land based whale-watching destination in the world, Hermanus is visited by Southern Right Whales between May and December every year. Moving north from the cold Antarctic, attracted by the warmer waters along the South African coastline and the calm waters of the protected bays, they come to mate and calve. The most spectacular close up sightings of these gentle giants can be seen from the rocky coastline or from a licensed chartered boat offering exhilarating boat-based whale watching. Witness them skyhopping, lobtailing or breaching, typical actions that when seen close up leave you breathless. September month seems to attract the majority of numbers and this is also when you can experience the colourful Hermanus Whale Festival, festivities celebrating the return of the whales.

Garden Route, Western Cape Province

The coastal area stretching from Mossel Bay to Tsitsikamma is known as the Garden Route. A beautiful area made up of rugged rocky coastline, long white sandy beaches, fairytale evergreen forests, protected endemic fynbos vegetation and botanically rich lakes and estuaries. The popular coastal towns of George, Wilderness, Knysna and Plettenberg Bay attract a huge number of tourists every year who come for the temperate climate, natural beauty and numerous outdoor activities.

Game Reserves of the Eastern Cape Province

Africa is well known for its exciting wildlife but also for its malaria. The Eastern Cape offers excellent Big 5 game viewing in a malaria free zone, a big draw card, especially for families travelling together with young kids.

Isimangaliso Wetland Park, Kwazulu Natal Province

Listed as South Africa's first World Heritage Site in December 1999 in recognition of its superlative natural beauty. Covering about 240,000ha, with a further 84,000ha in, on or under the sea, this is a large chunk of sub-tropical paradise stretching 220km along the East Coast from St Lucia to the Mozambique border. As well as a mind-blowing range of natural systems, ranging from dune, swamp and coastal forests to rocky and sandy shores, coral reefs and submarine canyons, mangroves, savanna grassland and the largest protected wetland in southern Africa, it is a culturally fascinating area and has immense fun potential. Game drives, bird watching, hippo and crocodile cruises, cultural tours, fishing, canoeing, scuba diving, snorkelling and whale watching are some of the activities that can be enjoyed.

Kruger National Park, Limpopo and Mpumalanga Province

World renowned as an exceptional wildlife destination, Kruger National Park is approximately 2 million hectares in size and is South Africa's largest game reserve. Unrivalled in the diversity of its life forms and a world leader in advanced environmental management techniques and policies, Kruger is home to an impressive number of species: 336 trees, 49 fish, 34 amphibians, 114 reptiles, 507 birds and 147 mammals.

Sabi Sand Game Reserve, Mpumalanga Province

The Sabi Sand Reserve is the birthplace of sustainable wildlife tourism in Southern Africa, and is the oldest of all the private reserves in South Africa. It has only ever been a wilderness area and is home to a vast wildlife population, including The Big Five, and a number of endangered species too. Flanking the Kruger National Park, animals pass unhindered between the reserves. This is where you will find some of the oldest and well-known private game reserves such as Londolozi, Mala Mala and Singita offering their exclusive luxury lodges and the authentic all-inclusive African safari experience.

Cradle of Humankind, Gauteng Province

The Cradle of Humankind Site covers 47 000 hectares of land, mostly privately owned and is made up of 12 dolomitic limestone caves containing the fossilised remains of ancient forms of animals, plants and most importantly, hominids. The dolomite in which the caves formed, started out as coral reefs growing in a warm shallow sea about 2.3 billion years ago. The Maropeng Visitors Centre, an internationally acclaimed tourist attraction, highlights, by means of interactive, visually stunning exhibits, the universal relevance of the Cradle of Humankind as our ancestral home. A fascinating display and a definite "must see".

Soweto, Gauteng Province

Soweto - melting pot of South African urban culture, rich with the history of the struggle against apartheid. Soweto is the most populous black urban residential area in South Africa with a population count of close to 900 000. The name Soweto is an acronym for South Western Townships, a cluster of townships sprawling across a vast area 20km south west of Johannesburg. Soweto is best visited accompanied by a knowledgeable guide who will not only give a real sense of its history but help you understand its ongoing evolution. A tour to Soweto would normally include the Mandela Museum, where Madiba once lived; a stop at the Hector Pieterson Memorial; a drive down Vilakazi Street, the only street in the world to have housed two Nobel Prize winners (Nelson Mandela and Desmond Tutu); Freedom Square, where the ANC's Freedom Charter was proclaimed to thousands in 1956; and the Regina Mundi Church, the "Parliament of Soweto", where the bullet-marked walls are witness to ex-security-police brutality.

These suggestions offer a basic insight to South Africa's ability to "wow" her visitors but there are many more hidden gems under her veil. The "off the beaten track" areas are sometimes even more spectacular so be sure to investigate these. Also combining a visit to a neighbouring country like Botswana, Namibia or Mozambique adds great value as well. So is South Africa a great travel destination? I believe you will find it absolute fabulous!

>> On Safari in Botswana

Botswana is the location of the HBO hit "The #1 Women's Detective Agency."

Once a year deep in the central African highlands, heavy seasonal rains fall. Floodwaters gather momentum and head south into the Kalahari Desert forming the largest inland delta in the world - The Okavango Delta in northern Botswana. This unique wetland supports and sustains a huge diversity of wildlife and is considered by many to be one of Africa's most prolific wildlife and wilderness sanctuaries.

This natural phenomenon contrasts with another flourishing ecosystem driven by different stimuli in the Chobe and Linyanti regions north of the delta. The many varied habitats within the Chobe and Linyanti wildlife areas - such as marshes, waterways, riverine forests, dry woodlands and the world-famous Savute Channel - have created an area renowned for its predators and large concentrations of game, particularly elephant that can sometime gather to some 400 strong.

Botswana government abandoned mass tourism and focused on high quality / low volume tourism as the best way to create a sustainable industry that would employ a large percentage of its people, while still preserving the environment. Today wildlife and tourism employs about 45% of the population in northern Botswana. The country has remained focused on delivering the finest possible authentic wildlife experience, which is accomplished through one of Africa's most sensible land plans ever devised. While there are national parks open to the general public, much of the country's most productive wildlife areas lie outside these parks in private reserves known as concessions. These concessions are leased out to safari companies that must manage them within strict guidelines to prevent overcrowding, must train and employ local people and are obliged to pay for the privilege of using these areas. In this way 40% of the country has been set aside for wildlife.

It is for this reason that a relatively high-end budget is required to experience a safari in Botswana. The all-inclusive luxury game lodges within the private concessions have exquisite remote settings, all naturally blending in to their surroundings. Access into the Okavango Delta and Linyanti Region is limited to light aircraft chartered flights adding to the magnificent wildlife and nature experience of your safari as you fly over the game rich areas and water wonderland.

The best time of the year to travel to Botswana:

The winter season is generally known as the best season to view game in Africa because it is the dry season. The bush is dry and largely leafless making it easier to spot the game and the game tends to gather at waterholes to quench their thirst and are therefore easy to find. However the green season in Botswana has incredible diversity and what's more is it offers "out of season" rates.

The green season (summer) covers the months November to April and has long been considered low season by the travel trade. Because rain has fallen game has dispersed, vegetation is thicker and humidity is higher. As a result many would rather send their clients elsewhere. To do so is to miss out on an explosion of life and colour and some exceptional game and bird viewing in spectacular scenery. The birthing of multiple antelope species makes for interesting predator-prey interactions and the myriad migratory bird species and green luxuriance make for spectacular photographic backdrops. Of course some areas do become less productive, but the trick is picking an itinerary that takes in those areas that produce year round high quality game viewing, as well as those areas that come into their own in summer.

Although the rain received in the summer months has a minimal affect on the water levels of the Okavango Delta, this is not the main cause of high and low water levels. In fact the delta high-water level takes place in the dry winter - April to October or November. It takes many months for the summer floodwaters from the Central African Highlands to reach the Okavango Delta, once again changing its appearance and therefore the experiences available to you.

To enhance your wildlife and nature experience, many varied inclusive activities are available to you from these luxury game lodges. Safaris by boat and dugout canoe (mokoro) allow an amble stroll through the peaceful waterways and are particular brilliant for bird watching, while game drives and night drives by open 4x4 vehicles are best for tracking the animals. Guided walks are unsurpassed experiences for being in touch with nature. Elephant back safaris are available from specific camps as well. This is however an optional experience at an extra cost.

Mobile tented safaris are also available for walking safari experiences, concentrating on wildlife rich areas guests would not normally see. Walking on safari has always been regarded as one of the finest ways to get a feel for the African wilderness, allowing guests to get their feet on the ground and get away from vehicles, to really feel, smell and touch Africa.

Money matters:

While all the luxury game lodges are sold on an all-inclusive basis, some do not include all drinks and none include tips (tips are however not compulsory). These lodges do accept MasterCard and Visa credit cards as well as travellers cheques for little extras that you may need. They also accept US dollar, British pound, Euro and Rand cash. The local currency is the Pula.

Allow Botswana to show you her true colours, to creep in under your skin and leave you beaming with excitement as you return home to tell friends and family about your African safari adventure.

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The Jilbab is an outer garment which covers the whole body. This definition is discerned from a lexical and textual basis.

Lexical description of Jilbab as an Outer Garment:

The nature and description of the Jilbab can be understood from the lexical definition of the word Jilbab as explained in classical Arabic dictionaries. These sources also explain the function of the Jilbab as an outer garment:

The classical Arab linguists have drawn the meaning from the root word said: "The Jilbab...is that which conceals the clothes like a cover"

As for modern dictionaries it is worth citing from the monumental work of the 19th-century British scholar and lexicographer Edward William Lane (1801-76): Arabic-English Lexicon: 'Jilbab: …one that envelopes the whole body: (TA) and a wide garment for a woman, less than the milhafah (sheet): or one with which a woman covers over her other garments…'

This description has also been given in the Oxford Dictionary of Islam edited by John L. Esposito where it states:

Jilbab Generic term for women's outer garment (shawl, cloak, wrap) in Arabian sedentary communities before and after the rise of Islam. The Qur'an (333:59) instructs Muslim women to cloak themselves as a mark of status and as a defensive measure against sexual harassment in public places.

Other conditions:

There are other conditions which are not specific to Jilbab but generally applicable to all clothing when women go before non-mahrams (legal for marriage) men whether inside or outside the home. They are the following:

i. It must be loose-fitting ii. Should not be semi-transparent iii. Should not become an immodest attraction (tabarruj) iv. Should not resemble the clothing of men.

To Muslims, the Jilbab is essentially a religious duty first and foremost. The authority for it is derived directly from Islamic sources and not the political writings of contemporary Muslims, as is sometimes believed. It was advocated by the classical jurists who expounded its requirement a thousand years before the phenomenon of resurgent Islam. The Jilbab predates the current political controversies and therefore the motivation for adhering to it is born of a feeling of religious obligation and not a political statement.

Muslim women have proven to fulfil and adhere to this injunction by producing creative designs of Jilbab to assist women in participating in outdoor activities. One such product is a the much famous 'Burkini' newly designed swimming costume for Muslim women covering the entire body except hands, feet and face that gained coverage in media worldwide.

Is Jilbab a symbol of Oppression?

The Muslim woman's attire are viewed by some non-Muslims as oppressive because, it is claimed, the Jilbab represents the inferior status of woman, that they are compelled against their will or that it inhibits their participation in public life. Muslims believe that this view is not born of an understanding of the divine wisdom for legislating the dress and nor from the positive effects that accrue from its adherence.

Rather, the origins of such thinking are the abuse of women by some Muslim men which Islamic law itself denounces or the stereotypical perceptions of role of women in Islam. Muslims believe that Islamic law views men and women the same in their worth and religiosity before their Lord and argue that Islam liberated women and gave them many rights in the 5th Century C.E. such as the right to vote (legalised for British women in 1918) and the right to freely own and dispose of property independent of her husband (legitimised in Britain in 1882).

Former Sunday Express Chief Reporter and well known British journalist Yvonne Ridley defended the Jilbab in an article in the Washington Post called 'How I came to Love the Veil'when she stated 'When Islam offers women so much, why are Western men so obsessed with Muslim women's attire?'

Thus, Muslim women wear the Jilbab to remain modestly attired in public life and feel that it enhances their worth rather than diminish it. Its practical effects are also appealing to women who feel they can confidently participate in the outside activities such as work and study free from the disrespectful glances of men. So far from obstructing women's social participation the Jilbab actually facilitates it by empowering and liberating her from unwanted sexual advances and thereby promoting an atmosphere which is conducive to the social interaction of men and women. Website: Muslim - Muslima - Islamic Jewellry - Syrians, Egyptians and Persians

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