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Flirting is an important behaviour that is both complex and fundamental. Everyone in the world, at some point in their lives will need to acquaint themselves with the art of flirtation if they want to experience the pleasures of the opposite sex. So let's see some tricks to identify that she is flirting with you.

1. She approaches you to talk:
It is the most serious symptom. It allows her,while speaking to you, to maintain eye contact, play with her hair, lightly touch you and mimic your mannerisms.

2. She enters your personal space:
personal space, by defintion is where others are not. when a women enters this space, say, brushing past you with a glance and a smile, she's inviting a response with this sure sign she's flirting.

3. She makes eye contact:
It has been said that the eyes are the windows t0 the soul, and that through the eyes truth can be gleamed. Eye contact is a sign of confidence and trust. She's stating that she is not interested in games and that her intentions are straightforward.

4.She touches you:
The slight touch that sends chills up both your spines and makes your hair stand on end is one of the hallmark signs she's flirting.

Who doesn't like historical epics? Costume dramas that give you an up-close-and-personal look at some musty but meaningful period when life was tough, but big things were happening?

Well, give director Roland Emmerich credit for attempting a new record in rewinding the clock. He's dared to take us back to the last ice age, to follow the story of a small band of our fur-fitted forebears as they mix it up with a non-stop parade of bad guys. Indeed, the world these heroes occupy seems so riddled with malevolence, you can understand the incentive somebody might have to flood the place, and wash away the general pestilence.

"10,000 BC" is one of those ever-popular, journey-to-manhood flicks. In this case an even-tempered stud named D'leh (Steven Strait) - the only guy in town with clean hair - tries to overcome a bad rap: his long-gone Dad is accused of cowardice. That's got to make it tough during recess, but D'leh shows the schoolyard bullies that he's got what it takes by single-handedly bagging a wooly mammoth. This shaggy Pliocene protein seems to be the principal menu item for D'leh's tribe - which is odd, given that they live above the snow line in a range of mountains that's more forbidding than the Old Testament. What are mammoth herds doing up there, anyway? Even goats would have a tough time finding enough to eat.

Nevermind. D'leh brings home the proboscidean bacon, and everything is looking good - or at least as good as things can look in a society where you probably die at a younger age than your pets - until some prophesied, four-legged demons, a euphemism for hooligans on horseback, ride into town, ransack the hovels (is there a reason to bother?), and then ride back out with our hero's blue-eyed girlfriend in tow. This ticks D'leh off, and shifts the movie into high gear.

What follows is an epic quest for revenge, and the retrieval of Ms Blue-Eyes - sort of like Virgil's Aeneid, but without the poetry. D'leh and his buddies pass from mountains to jungles to sandy deserts as easily as you go from Tomorrowland to Frontierland by turning a Disneyland corner. They pick up a few allies, confront a few nasty critters (saber-toothed tigers and - get this - carnivorous ostriches), and keep everyone facing the screen wondering what misery will engulf these guys next.

Anachronisms are thicker than a hippo's neck here, but it's all good (if improbable) fun that eventually brings our heroes to the nexus of evil - a large-scale construction project on the relentlessly sandy banks of some river. Well, not really "some" river, because what the local residents are building - a couple of giant pyramids, a row of smaller ones, a big ceremonial barque, and a sphinx - I mean, do I have to spell it out for you?

Archaeologists with both expertise and tenure tell us that the great pyramids of Giza were constructed around 2,500 BC. However, a few marginal authors and late-night radio pundits claim they go back about 12,000 years. The chances that this is true are about the same as the odds that a wormhole will open up in your bedroom tonight, and whisk you off to the Large Magellanic Cloud for breakfast with aliens. But in "10,000 BC," you'll be able to see this hypothesis writ large on the special effects canvas. This sequence alone is so oddly imposing, it's worth the price of admission.

Oh, and there's something else to be gleaned from watching this ice-age epic. For those who still wonder how ancient peoples could pile up a million squared-off rocks to make Giza's famous pointy architecture, Emmerich supplies the answer: domesticated wooly mammoths! That's right; these tusky terrors may be only sandwich fixings for D'leh, but whoever is building these pyramids has figured out how to use them to cut the overhead on public works projects. Defanged and tamed, they slog up and down steep ramps, hauling blocks of limestone behind. One assumes that the ramps would soon be adequately, if unappealingly, greased.

Area 51 is a top-secret military test facility administered as Detachment 3 of the Edwards Air Force Base, California. Area 51 is not the real name for the facility; it was simply a term used on maps from the 1950s and 1960s to identify the unused land surrounding Groom Lake. Other aliases that have been applied to the facility include: The Skunkworks, Dreamland, Groom Lake Military Base, Watertown, The Ranch, Paradise Ranch and The Box. Although Area 51 was the official name for the facility until just before 1990, the name was changed to the more technical Air Force Flight Test Center, Detachment 3 (AFFTC Det. 3) in the late 1980s.

The facility has been used to test many black and grey military projects such as secret planes including the 'U-2', 'F-117 Stealth Fighter' and the 'SR-71 Blackbird'. More recently it has been home to a high speed, high altitude 'Aurora' project and the now famous UAVs or Unmanned Aerial Vehicles such as the 'Predator' which has been used in the 2001-2002 war against the terrorist Al-Qaeda network. The main UFOlogy interest in the base at Groom Lake comes from the belief that the debris and bodies from the Roswell Incident were taken to the Area 51 for reverse engineering and autopsies respectively.

The base is still very active, the so called 'Janet flights' (from the radio call sign) which are unmarked, other than a red stripe on each side, Boeing 737s which transport workers into the base from a high security terminal in the northwest corner of Las Vegas McCarran Airport. Also the White bus brings workers in from Alamo and other nearby towns along the Groom Lake Road. Construction is on going with new buildings, technical facilities and runways being constructed within the last ten years.

Area 51 is located in South Nevada, making up part of the Nellis Range Complex, which lies roughly 100 miles north of Las Vegas. The Groom Lake mountains surrounding the dry lake bed of Groom Lake hide the base from view as much as possible like a natural fortress. 'Extraterrestrial' Highway 375 and the town of Rachel, the 'UFO Capital of the World' are nearby.

There is an area of restricted air space covering 575 square miles above the Nellis range with Groom Lake and Area 51 at the center, this air space is known as 'The Box' by military pilots, possibly because of its nearly square shape. The Nellis Ranges which are Area 51, the Tonopah Test Range (TTR), the Nevada Test Site (NTS) and the bombing and gunnery ranges cover an area of 5,200 square miles. The Test site looks like the surface of the moon due to nuclear testing, and could be highly radioactive.

At night, lots of people camp at the famous 'Black Mailbox'. The 'Black Mailbox' is no longer black, as it has been replaced. The mailbox is located at the intersection between Highway 375 and Mailbox Road. It is owned by Steve Medlin, he has the only ranch in Tikaboo Valley. The original mailbox, the black one, was auctioned off to a UFOlogist for $1000 in 1996. It was replaced by a bullet proof white mailbox because Medlin's mail had been shot at many times, possibly by people under the impression that the mailbox belonged to Area 51 and they would find classified documents inside. The area around the 'Black Mailbox' is a popular place to stay the night to observe the skies above Area 51, make sure you do not block the road or the mailbox. Moonless, dark, weekend nights are always the best time to be watching if you wish to see something they don't want you to see.

The Tonapah Test Range (TTR) is known as Area 52, it is another secret test facility, however security is not as tight as Area 51 and there is nothing to suggest that the two bases are connected. Tonapah Test Range is operated by the Air Force and Sandia National Labs and can be seen from highway 6 and is notable for the large amount of radar equipment. The F-117 Stealth Fighter was stationed in the base before it had finished its time at Groom Lake, there is a lot of secretive activity at the Tonapah Test Range at the moment suggesting that there could be another black or gray project being tested there.

Bob Lazar is a name many connect with Area 51, he in fact claims to have worked at a facility known as 'S-4' in the Papoose dry lake bed. He shot to fame when he announced that he had worked on alien spacecraft for the US government, on Las Vegas television in November 1989. He claimed to have worked at the facility, which is 80 miles north of Las Vegas and south of Area 51 from late 1988 to early 1989.

If there are captured UFOs at Area 51, it would not be too incredible to think that we gained certain new technologies from them, maybe information pertaining to Stealth or UAVs (Unmanned Aerial Vechicals) has been discovered through back engineering. It is also not too incredible to assume that even the worlds greatest scientists would have absolutely no idea how a captured UFO works making back engineering very difficult. A witness to the Roswell crash famously said that scientists could find no evidence that the crashed UFO should fly. Maybe one day people working weekends at Area 51 will find the key to interstellar space flight, maybe they already have.