RAINBOW

Pleasing A Women

A new, special kind of store just opened up in a Manhatten shopping center. This store sells husbands, yes that's right - women can browse men from floors of choices.

Actually, there are 6 floors of men, and with an increase in the floor level bringing an positive attributes.. . a nifty setup - with a catch. As you open the door to any floor, you may choose a man from that floor but if you go up, you cannot go back down except to exit the building. Interesting, right?

So a young woman goes to the shopping center to find a husband. On the first floor the sign on the door reads: Floor 1 - These men have jobs. The woman reads the sign and says to herself, "Well, that's better than my last boyfriend, but I wonder what's further up?" So up she goes.

The second floor sign reads: Floor 2 - These men have jobs and love kids. The woman remarks to herself, "That's great, but I wonder what's further up?" And up she goes again.

The third floor sign reads: Floor 3 - These men have jobs, love kids and are extremely good looking. "Hmmm, better" she says. "But I wonder what's upstairs?"

The fourth floor sign reads: Floor 4 - These men have jobs, love kids, are extremely good looking and help with the housework. "Wow!" exclaims the woman, "very tempting. BUT, there must be more further up!" And again she heads up another flight.

The fifth floor sign reads: Floor 5 - These men have jobs, love kids, are extremely good looking, help with the housework and have a strong romantic streak. "Oh, mercy me! But just think... what must be awaiting me further on?" So up to the sixth floor she goes.

The sixth floor sign reads: Floor 6 - You are visitor 7,548,652 to this floor. There are no men on this floor.

National Geographic

The best travel photos in the world: National Geographic announces winners of its prestigious 2013 Traveler Photo Contest

By Daily Mail Reporter

PUBLISHED: 06:17 GMT, 2 August 2013 | UPDATED: 06:32 GMT, 2 August 2013

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National Geographic Traveler Magazine has announced the winners of its 2013 photo contest, featuring breathtaking images that celebrate the earth’s incredible diversity.

This year, more than 15,500 professional and amateur photographers from around the globe entered their works in the prestigious competition.

Photographer Wagner Araujo won the winner of the 2013 National Geographic Traveler Photo Contest, now in its 25th year, and was awarded a 10-day Galápagos Expedition with National Geographic Expeditions for himself and a guest.

The winning entry featured the Brazilian Aquathlon championship in Manaus, Brazil, in which the participants had to swim and run in the Rio Negro, or Black River, so named due to the dark color of its waters.

‘I photographed it from the water and my lens got completely wet, but there was so energy in this boys that I just didn't worry about that,’ Araujo wrote in his submission.

Besides the exciting trip, Araujo’s prized photo will be published in the Dec. 2013/Jan. 2014 issue of National Geographic Traveler magazine, and he will also receive a one-year subscription to the publication.

The range of entries is inspiring and shows just how diverse the world is, from an owl hiding in a tree to traditional Taiwanese performers painting their faces in preparation for a show.

‘Every year the task of judging the contest gets tougher,’ Keith Bellows, National Geographic Traveler magazine's editor in chief, said in a press release. ‘The quality of photos increasingly gets better — and the range of imagery more diverse. It’s exciting to see the emergence of such huge numbers of imaginative photographers.’

The second prize - a seven-day National Geographic Photography Workshop in Santa Fe – was awarded this year to Max Seigal, who hiked out to Canyonlands National Park, Utah, at night hoping to photograph ruins with the milky way in the backdrop, but instead captured a dramatic thunderstorm.

Yahai Bonneh became the lucky recipient of the third prize - a six-day cruise for two from Schooner American Eagle and Heritage - for his photo of cheetahs jumping on a jeep  in  Masai Mara National Park, Kenya.

The contest features images divided into four categories: Travel Portraits, Outdoor Scenes, Sense of Place and Spontaneous Moments. Judges review the submissions over two rounds, choosing the top three images along with seven merit choices. Another photo is selected by readers.

Money shot: The top prize went to photographer Wagner Araujo, who captured this incredible image while attending the Brazilian Aquathlon (swimming and running) championship in Manaus

Mystic haze: Max Seigal hiked out to these ruins at Canyonlands National Park at night hoping to photograph them with the milky way, but instead a thunderstorm rolled through creating this dramatic image

Wild things: Cheetahs jumped on the vehicle of tourists in Masai Mara National Park, Kenya, and Yanai Bonneh was in the right place to capture the big cats in action

Merit prize: Marcelo Salvador captured this poetic image of a woman drawing water from a river near Bagan, Myanmar

Little helper: Mikael Ande, a child of Sami reindeer herders, takes a break indoors after a long, cold day of rounding up the animals for vaccinations and slaughter

Timeless: Hideyuki Katagiri captured the blossoming of cherry trees, or Sakura, in Japan

Inside man: Gergely Lantai-Csont was allowed to photograph women of the secretive Tatahonda in the Democratic Republic of the Congo as they prepared for a religious ceremony

Moment of peace: Queenstown, New Zealand, known as 'The Adventure Capital of The World,' draws adrenaline junkies who spend their days skydiving and and zip-lining, one of whom decided to take a break from all the action by playing a doleful tune

As old as time: A fisherman is seen casting a net at Bira Beach, Indonesia, like generations of his ancestors

Full Moon Night

It looks like an intergalactic pilot is trying to cut the moon in half. In fact, this memorable image was created by a very Earthly vapor trail from a plane.

The shot is one of many extraordinary pictures of our nearest neighbor taken across the world this weekend, including a magical one below at Glastonbury Tor, Somerset.

As well as being full, the moon is currently relatively close to the Earth.

On Saturday it was 220,625 miles away, making it seem brighter and yellower and creating the eye-catching 'super moon' effect.

It was the first time since January 19, 1992, that the moon has been so close to the Earth. At its furthest, it can be 250,000 miles away.