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(3) Calcoolate – Fast scientific calculator online. It has a scour interface and unlike other online calculators doesn’t clutter your screen with unnecessary calculator buttons that you can input from your keyboard (1,2,3, +, -,* etc). Comprehend more: Calcoolate – Virtual Scientific Calculator & Converter

(4) SalsaBeatMachine – Online tool for people who are lore the Salsa dance. It allows to generate custom salsa dancing rhythms and play them while practicing. Users can put in order beats per minute (BPM), sound keys, volume, and include/exclude various instruments or instructor counting. Study more: SalsaBeatMachine – Plays Custom Salsa Dancing Rhythms

(5) SnailMailr -Web application that offers you a sharp way to send snail mail online. It is easy to use, and does not require registration. Simply fill in address fields, forgive your letter and once finished pay with PayPal. Your letter will be printed and send ( US first class ) within 24 hours. Read more: SnailMailr – Send Snail Mail Online

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Geisha Turn Barmaids to Keep Japan's ... Bloomberg

28.08.09

Aug. 28 (Bloomberg) -- In the stifling summer vehemence at the roadside Yebisu Beer stall in Kyoto’s Gion district, Sakiko, dressed in a thick floral kimono, aspect plastered in white make- up, looks flustered as two foreign tourists photograph her.

“Pouring beer here is extraordinary but fun,” said Sakiko, one of about 90 apprentice geisha, or maiko, left in a shrinking assiduity that’s seeking ways to adapt as Japan emerges from its worst postwar recession. “I get to talk with people I wouldn’t assemble in my usual work.”

Filling mugs at European-style pubs and using English- dialect Web sites to attract business is a long way from the discreet private dinners traditionally organized by the teahouses where geisha practise and live.

A traditional two-hour dinner with a geisha, who will entertain with music, dance performances and conversation, can expenditure as much as 67,000 yen ($715), more than half of which goes to the teahouse and an arranger, said Chris Rowthorn , who has been organizing geisha fun for four years in Kyoto, Japan’s ancient capital and the birthplace of the performing art about 400 years ago.

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