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We're excited to introduce Young Living's Vitality dietary essential oils, their brand-new line that gives you a new way to discover the versatility of the pure, therapeutic-grade essential oils that Young Living offers!
Perfect for adding flavor to your favorite foods or using as dietary supplements, Young Living's Vitality dietary essential oil line gives you the freedom to share and explore some of their best-loved essential oils in a variety of nutritious and delicious ways.
With four distinct categories - Herb, Spice, Citrus, and Supplement - Young Living invites you to explore Vitality dietary essential oils:
Drop in some flavor with the Herb Vitality dietary essential oils:
Basil Vitality oil (Ocimum basilicum) has a sweet, warm scent and flavor. This herb is found in a variety of dishes and is popular in both Asian and European cooking. With Basil Vitality essential oil, it's easy to add this well-loved seasoning to whatever you like. Using an essential oil, you'll get a brighter flavor than dried herbs without the hassle of fresh herbs.
Young Living's Basil Vitality essential oil pairs well with savory foods, but you can also add its sweet, slightly peppery flavor to any meal. Try Basil Vitality oil with sauces, breads, soups, chicken, or seafood. Or try a sweet concoction like basil-strawberry lemonade. If you want a lighter basil flavor in your dish, dip a toothpick in the oil and swirl it in your preparations.
Basil Vitality Essential Oil Uses:
- Flavor your favorite pasta sauce recipes with Basil Vitality. Add Rosemary Vitality or Oregano Vitality for even more flavor.
- Add to deli salads, Asian- or Italian-inspired soups, and custom salad dressings or vinaigrettes to share with family and friends.
- Boil pasta noodles in basil-infused water for a subtle flavor.
- Pair with lime juice and melons, such as watermelon and cantaloupe, for a fresh summer treat. For a more complex flavor profile, garnish with feta.
- Mix with a mild tea, such as chamomile. Add a dash of honey to sweeten the experience.
Lemongrass Vitality essential oil (Cymbopogon flexuosus) not only invigorates senses with its bright, lemony scent, but it can also support wellness when taken as a dietary supplement in a gel capsule or as an addition to drinks.*
The delicate citrus flavor of Lemongrass Vitality oil complements many dishes - especially Asian recipes - and can be incorporated into your seasonings for meals in various cuisines. To keep hydrated while enjoying the benefits of Lemongrass Vitality, add a couple of drops to a glass of water or a hot cup of complementing tea for a zip of flavor.
Lemongrass Vitality essential oil is a powerful ingredient in the DiGize essential oil blend, Essentialzymes-4 supplement, and MultiGreens capsules.
Lemongrass Vitality Essential Oil Uses:
- Place 1-2 drops in a vegetarian gel capsule to take as a dietary supplement.
- Add 2-3 drops to water or hot tea for a light, interesting flavor. This is also a great way to enjoy Lemongrass Vitality essential oil if swallowing a pill is difficult.
- Add to culinary dishes to enhance and brighten flavor.
Oregano (Origanum vulgare) Vitality is more than just a seasoning - it may also support a healthy lifestyle when taken as a dietary supplement.* Oregano Vitality essential oil is a key ingredient in ImmuPower essential oil blend and is included in the Raindrop Technique essential oil collection.
Oregano Vitality essential oil is an easy way to flavor savory dishes. Its distinctive, pungent taste makes it an indispensable addition to Mediterranean and Mexican cuisines, though it can be used in a variety of cuisines and recipes.
While its spice makes it a delicious addition to dishes when used sparingly, when taking it as a supplement, be sure to use a carrier oil such as V-6 Vegetable Oil Complex or olive oil to dilute this powerful oil.
Oregano Vitality Essential Oil Uses:
- Dilute with a carrier oil such as V-6 or olive oil in a 1:2 ratio and add to a vegetarian gel capsule before ingesting. Take every day to support a healthy lifestyle.*
- Add sparingly to various dishes for extra flavoring, particularly Mexican and Mediterranean dishes.
- Use in a blend such as ImmuPower to support your optimal wellness.*
Rosemary (Rosmarinus officinalis) is a flavorful herb that's celebrated for its role in the culinary world, especially in Italian dishes. Rosemary Vitality essential oil lends a uniquely herbaceous taste to every dish it's featured in, making it perfect for many savory recipes.
As a dietary supplement, Young Living Rosemary Vitality essential oil is loved for its naturally occurring constituents eucalyptol and alpha-pinene, which can help maintain overall wellness*. Rosemary also happens to be an important ingredient in many Young Living products, including Thieves, En-R-Gee, and JuvaFlex essential oil blends, and Essentialzymes-4 and Inner Defense supplements.
Rosemary Vitality Essential Oils Uses:
- Keep your healthy lifestyle going by adding 2 drops in a capsule and taking as a dietary supplement.*
- Stir in a few drops of Rosemary Vitality oil to your tomato sauce to add an authentic, fresh flavor.
- Replace dried rosemary with just a drop of Rosemary Vitality in your favorite recipes, such as breads and pasta dishes.
- Add a drop of Rosemary Vitality to give marinades and salad dressings an extra dose of flavor.
- Combine olive oil, balsamic vinegar, and Rosemary Vitality for a bread dip that rivals that of any restaurant.
Thyme (Thymus vulgaris) Vitality essential oil is the concentrated distillation of Thyme, a classic and beloved kitchen herb. Thyme Vitality oil can be used in place of the dried spice in your favorite dishes and is always easy to keep on hand.
Thyme Vitality essential oil includes the naturally occurring constituents thymol, para-cymene, and gamma-terpinenecan, which makes it perfect for including as a dietary supplement in your everyday lifestyle. The benefits of Thyme Vitality oil make it an essential ingredient in Longevity essential oil blend, Inner Defense, ParaFree, and Rehemogen.
Thyme Vitality Essential Oils Uses:
- Take 1-2 drops in a vegetarian gel capsule to enjoy the benefits of Thyme Vitality's naturally occurring constituents.
- Include in your next pasta or poultry dish for a delicious new layer of flavor.
- Use a few drops in your marinade to infuse meats and vegetables with herby richness.
- Make your dips extra appetizing by adding a drop of Thyme Vitality.
Use Young Living Lavender Vitality essential oil (Lavandula angustifolia) to create elegant dishes that will impress your family and friends. The herb has a sweet, slightly floral flavor that pairs well with both rich and light foods. Use Lavender Vitality essential oil to conveniently add this delightful flavor to your meals.
Although more popular with sweeter recipes, Lavender Vitality oil's benefits extend to savory dishes as well. In fact, lavender is sometimes included in the famous Herbes de Provence along with spices such as marjoram, thyme, oregano, and rosemary. Put a new spin on a classic meal and pair it with chicken, lamb, or even potatoes.
Just a hint can enhance the flavor of your entire recipe. To avoid overwhelming your food, start small. Try dipping a toothpick in your oil and then swirling the toothpick in your food preparations.
Lavender Vitality Essential Oil Uses:
- Make homemade fruit jams infused with Lavender Vitality essential oil. Try mixing it with blueberry, apricot, raspberry, or peach jams and jellies.
- Combine Lavender Vitality's earthy, low notes with bright citrus flavors. Experiment with lavender-lemonade or a citrus sorbet.
- Complement dairy with Lavender Vitality in shortbread, pound cake, ice cream, meringue, or whipped cream recipes.
- Balance Lavender Vitality in savory dishes with herbs such as thyme, rosemary, and oregano.
Peppermint Vitality essential oil (Mentha piperita) has a bright, cool flavor, with benefits that include gastrointestinal comfort and normal digestion support, in addition to its great taste.* Store Young Living's Peppermint Vitality oil in your pantry as a flavoring agent or a dietary supplement.
Peppermint Vitality, part of our Vitality line for culinary and dietary use, is a versatile oil with a well-loved flavor. As a dietary supplement, Peppermint Vitality oil can support healthy gut function and digestive efficiency.* These benefits make it a great way to start your day or end a meal. Additionally, Peppermint Vitality oil as a dietary supplement may support exercise performance to help you have a great workout.
Because of its great taste, it's easy to add this versatile oil to your tea or experiment with it in your baking.
Peppermint Vitality is an important ingredient in Young Living's DiGize Vitality.
Peppermint Vitality Essential Oil Uses:
- Add to your daily dietary supplements as overall support for healthy digestive system comfort.* Simply add 1-2 drops in a vegetarian gel capsule and take daily or as needed.
- Include a drop in a tall glass of cool water for a refreshing start to your morning.
- Blend with your pre-workout drink for an energizing start or wind down after your workout with a mint-infused chocolate or vanilla protein shake.
- Use in baking and in a wide variety of desserts.
Spearmint (Mentha spicata) Vitality essential oil is treasured for its unique minty flavor, as well as its ability to help calm tummies* and support normal digestion* as a dietary supplement. With naturally occurring menthol, carvone, and limonene, Spearmint Vitality essential oil can add a cooling effect to foods that is both pleasant and beneficial.
With a distinctly sweeter, softer mint taste than Peppermint Vitality, Spearmint Vitality oil is perfect for infusing beverages to help cool you down. Because of its versatility, Spearmint Vitality is an important ingredient in Citrus Fresh, EndoFlex, GLF, NingXia Nitro, and Thryomin.
Spearmint Vitality Essential Oils Uses:
- Take Spearmint Vitality as a dietary supplement by adding a drop to a vegetarian capsule and taking daily or as needed.
- Enjoy staying hydrated! Add a drop of Spearmint Vitality to a glass of fruit-infused water to add variety.
- Add a drop to your tea to help support normal digestion.*
- Give meats and veggies a minty note by including Spearmint Vitality in your marinades.
- Make world-class homemade pesto by adding a drop of Spearmint Vitality to your minced basil.
Awaken your taste buds with Spice Vitality dietary essential oils:
Black pepper (Piper nigrum) is one of the most popular spices in the world. Its distinctive flavor makes it a common addition many recipes, from appetizers to entrees. Use Young Living's Black Pepper Vitality essential oil to spice up your favorite soup, rub, or marinade recipes. Black Pepper Vitality oil can replace ground black pepper.
Black pepper is the most common and potent flavoring of the peppercorn family. Add this cherished seasoning to your kitchen with a convenient bottle of Black Pepper Vitality.
You can find Black Pepper Vitality oil in Young Living's invigorating sparkling drink, NingXia Zyng. The warm flavor of Black Pepper Vitality balances the sweet blend of Lime essential oil and wolfberry puree for a light and refreshing beverage.
Black Pepper Vitality Uses:
- Add 1-2 drops of Black Pepper Vitality and 2 drops of V-6 Vegetable Oil complex to a vegetarian gel capsule and take daily as a dietary supplement or as needed.
- Use in marinades and rubs for pork, beef, poultry, or seafood, or add to roasted vegetables or homemade salad dressings.
- Add to a salsa fresca or guacamole for a quick way to spice up Mexican favorites.
- Use to flavor pasta, rice, mashed potatoes, and deli salads.
Cinnamon Bark (Cinnamomum verum) Vitality essential oil is a concentrated and potent flavor that complements a variety of classic culinary treats. Not only is Cinnamon Bark Vitality oil used for its unique and spicy notes in recipes, but it's also a great dietary supplement and important part of Thieves, Abundance, and Inner Defense essential oil blends.
Using Cinnamon Vitality oil brings a warm taste and sensation to your favorite dishes. Taking Cinnamon Bark Vitality essential oil as a dietary supplement can support healthy digestion and help maintain a healthy immune system.*
Cinnamon Bark Vitality Essential Oil Uses:
- Dilute 1-2 drops with V-6 Vegetable Oil Complex in a vegetarian gel capsule and take as a dietary supplement to support your regular digestion.*
- Turn your NingXia Red shot into a "Hot Shot" by adding a drop or two of Cinnamon Bark Vitality.
- Take a banana smoothie to a sweet new level with a drop of Cinnamon Bark Vitality.
- Use a drop to spice up your hot cereal.
- Substitute Cinnamon Bark Vitality in any recipe that calls for ground cinnamon.
Clove (Syzygium aromaticum) Vitality essential oil is the concentrated distillation of the same distinct, spicy cloves that have been used in kitchens for thousands of years. Perfect for adding flavor to both sweet and savory dishes, Clove Vitality oil includes the naturally occurring constituent eugenol and is beloved for its use as a dietary supplement.
When taken as a supplement, Clove Vitality essential oil promotes a healthy immune response* and may support overall wellness*, making it an important part of our Thieves, ImmuPower, Inner Defense, and Longevity formulas.*
Clove Vitality Essential Oils Uses:
- Support your healthy immune system* every day or as needed by adding a drop of Clove Vitality to a vegetarian capsule and taking as a daily dietary supplement.
- Substitute Clove Vitality for the ground spice in recipes.
- Bring gingerbread, molasses cookies, and spice cake to life by adding a drop to the batter.
- Combine Clove Vitality with the Vitality oils Lemon, Cinnamon Bark, and Nutmeg in homemade cider or wassail recipes.
- Try adding a drop of Clove Vitality to a warm bowl of oatmeal for a tasty, comforting start to your day.
Ginger (Zingiber officinale) Vitality essential oil is distilled from the root of the ginger plant and lends itself to a wide variety of applications. Used as both a flavoring in the kitchen and as a dietary supplement, Ginger Vitality oil is a distinct and versatile oil that's great to keep on hand.
Ginger Vitality essential oil benefits are derived from its naturally occurring constituents zingiberene and beta-phellandrene, making it a key ingredient in DiGize, Digest & Cleanse, EndoGize, ICP, and Essentialzymes-4. No matter if it's included in a sweet or savory dish, Ginger Vitality essential oil stands out from the crowd.
Ginger Vitality Essential Oils Uses:
- Add a drop to your tea for a nice, soothing hot drink.
- Dip a toothpick in Ginger Vitality and add it to your stir-fry for a zing of exotic flavor.
- Ginger Vitality makes a great dietary supplement! Add a drop to a vegetarian gel capsule to support normal digestion*.
- Add a spicy twist to a refreshing classic! Try adding a few drops of Ginger Vitality to a pitcher of fresh-squeezed lemonade.
- Mix a few drops of Ginger Vitality with your marinades and salad dressings to add a warm, spicy note.
Carrot Seed (Daucus carota sativa) Vitality essential oil is distilled from the seeds and aerial parts of wild carrots. Carrot Seed Vitality oil provides an herbaceous, floral note to foods, making it a great addition to savory dishes. Its complex flavor brings an earthy, delicious taste to your favorite recipes.
With many of the same constituents as the carrots from which it's derived, Carrot Seed Vitality oil's benefits may include supporting health and well-being.* Be sure to include a drop of Carrot Seed Vitality oil as part of your daily wellness regimen to enjoy all of its great properties.
Carrot Seed Vitality Essential Oils Uses:
- Add 1-2 drops to a vegetarian gel capsule and take daily as a dietary supplement to support your well-being.*
- Add a drop to roasted vegetables for an extra earthy flavor.
- Use a few drops of Carrot Seed Vitality to salad dressings to infuse fresh greens with its rich taste.
- Give quinoa or wild rice a new dimension of flavor by including Carrot Seed Vitality.
Produced from the steam distillation of dried seeds, Celery Seed Vitality brings a pleasant aroma and taste to pickling blends and brines. Celery Seed Vitality offers a flavor profile that is commonly described as earthy and grassy. It can add a unique depth of taste to coleslaw and salad dressings and can also be used for seasoning poultry.
Celery Seed Vitality Essential Oil Uses:
- Add 1-2 drops of Celery Seed Vitality to a vegetarian gel capsule and take as a dietary supplement as needed.
- Combine Celery Seed Vitality and Carrot Seed Vitality for an impactful flavor in your next vegetable or poultry-based soup.
- Add 1-2 drops to the cooking water for rice and serve with baked poultry.
Dill Vitality essential oil provides a fresh, pungent flavor to replace fresh or dried dill in dressings and dips. Its flavor also pairs beautifully with Carrot Seed Vitality and Lemon Vitality as a flavorful ingredient for soups and stews. With fresh dill being a key flavor in many traditional Russian, European, Mediterranean, Asian, and Scandinavian dishes, Dill Vitality can be a great way to lend a rich flavor to a wide variety of cuisines!
Dill Vitality Essential Oil Uses:
- Add 1-2 drops of Dill Vitality to a vegetarian gel capsule and take as a dietary supplement as needed.
- Combine Dill Vitality essential oil with olive oil to use as a marinade for fish and veggies.
- Add a little Dill Vitality oil to your favorite game-day dip for a burst of flavor.
Fall in love with oils all over again with Citrus Vitality dietary essential oils:
Cold pressed from the fresh bergamot fruit that gives Earl Grey tea its distinctive flavor, Bergamot Vitality essential oil has a fresh, complex citrus taste that makes it the perfect addition to many summer dishes. With a distinctly tart finish, it can also liven up sugarless baked goods. The taste of the Bergamot Vitality is somewhere between a sour orange and lemon, making it a distinctive, zesty addition to seafood recipes.
Bergamot Vitality Essential Oil Uses:
- Add 1-2 drops of Bergamot Vitality to a vegetarian gel capsule and take as a dietary supplement as needed.
- Several times during grilling, brush seafood with olive oil infused with a few drops of Bergamot Vitality.
- In baked goods recipes that call for citrus zest, add an unexpected twist by stirring in a drop of Bergamot Vitality for every teaspoon of zest.
- Add 1-2 drops of Bergamot Vitality oil to Blue Agave natural sweetener and drizzle the mixture over muffins and tarts.
Can't get enough citrus in your life? Citrus Fresh Vitality essential oil combines Orange, Grapefruit, Mandarin, Tangerine, and Lemon oils with a shot of Spearmint for a zesty and refreshing burst of flavor. The constituents limonene, beta-pinene, and linalool all naturally occur in the Citrus Fresh Vitality oil blend.
This invigorating and pleasant blend is an ideal addition to water, fruit and vegetable juices, and NingXia Red. Simply add a drop or two to your 2-oz. serving of NingXia Red for a zip of flavor and freshness. Add to other fruity treats for a citrus boost to your indulgences.
Citrus Fresh Vitality Essential Oil Uses:
- Citrus Fresh Vitality tastes great, but it also makes a great dietary supplement! Just add 1-2 drops to a vegetarian gel capsule and take as needed.
- Keep hydrated by giving your daily intake of water a burst of flavor. Infuse your water by adding 2-3 drops to a glass or bottle of water.
- Add 1-2 drops to every 2 oz. of your favorite fruit and vegetable juices or NingXia Red. Drink each day or whenever you're looking for a quick burst of nutrients and flavor.
Grapefruit (Citrus paradisi) Vitality is known for its invigorating citrus scent and delicious, tart taste. Grapefruit Vitality essential oil can also support weight-management programs when taken internally and paired with a healthy diet and exercise.* Add Grapefruit Vitality oil to water to give your drinks a little zing, or add a hint of citrus by incorporating it into culinary recipes. Give NingXia Red an extra boost of flavor with a couple drops of Grapefruit Vitality.
Can't get enough of the tangy grapefruit flavor and scent? Slique Essence essential oil blend and our Power Meal meal replacement both include Grapefruit Vitality oil as a key ingredient.
Grapefruit Vitality Essential Oil Uses:
- Support your weight-management program by taking Grapefruit Vitality as a dietary supplement. Just add 1-2 drops to a vegetarian gel capsule and take it daily or as often as needed.
- Find it difficult to take capsules? Blend Grapefruit Vitality NingXia Red for an added boost of wolfberry goodness.
- If you love infused water but are too busy to make it the night before, simply add 2-3 drops of Grapefruit Vitality and other citrus Vitality oils to cold water to make a refreshing drink and stay hydrated.
- Add it to culinary recipes to add a distinct, citrus flavor. Grapefruit Vitality tastes great in desserts, marinades, and salad dressings.
Jade Lemon Vitality has a unique lemon-lime taste that is a favorite beverage infusion. When used in culinary applications, Jade Lemon Vitality adds a wonderfully bright flavor and invigorates the senses. A surprisingly delicious ingredient in baked treats, Jade Lemon Vitality can liven up any recipe that can benefit from a citrusy kick of character.
Jade Lemon Vitality Essential Oil Uses:
- For a twist of fun, combine Jade Lemon Vitality essential oil with your next frozen yogurt treat.
- Add 4 drops of Jade Lemon Vitality to a pitcher of sun tea for an exotic warm weather beverage.
- Combine 1 drop of Jade Lemon Vitality to your next 2-oz. serving of NingXia Red for a flavorful mixer.
Lemon (Citrus limon) Vitality can add a bright, dynamic flavor to many dishes. Its versatility in sweet and savory recipes is what makes this fruit a popular item in kitchens around the world. Use Young Living's Lemon Vitality essential oil to add flavor to savory foods like fish and chicken or sweet foods like pastries and cakes.
Lemon Vitality oil has a bright taste you'll want to keep on hand for almost anything you whip up. Instead of zesting or juicing, use Lemon Vitality for a convenient way to use this great flavor. Start small with a single drop of oil.
Lemon Vitality Essential Oil Uses:
- Add to a tall glass of cold water for a fresh drink to start your day.
- Add 1-2 drops to a vegetarian gel capsule and take daily or as needed.
- Blend a drop of Lemon Vitality in Gary's True Grit Einkorn Pancake & Waffle Mix batter and top your waffles or pancakes with fresh fruit for a healthy, tasty breakfast.
- Create custom vinaigrettes or marinades to add a bright taste to summer salads and grilling.
- Add it to tea, baked goods, homemade preserves, and other treats.
- Add 1 drop in plain or vanilla yogurt. Top with fresh berries.
- Combine with savory foods such as chicken, fish, shrimp, and vegetables and with sides such as noodles, rice, or pasta salad.
Lime (Citrus latifolia) Vitality essential oil is prized for its ability to bring a unique citrus flavor and delicious zing to any food or beverage. Adding a few drops of Lime Vitality essential oil to your dishes is the perfect way to elevate your cooking.
Young Living Lime Vitality oil is versatile and concentrated, making it an important ingredient in one of our most popular blends, Stress Away. Whether you're stirring it into drinks for a bright burst of flavor or giving your food a little extra citrus zip, Lime Vitality essential oil is a welcome kick of summer that you can enjoy year-round.
Lime Vitality Essential Oil Uses:
- Add 1 drop of Lime Vitality to a vegetarian gel capsule and take daily or as needed as a dietary supplement.
- Combine Lime Vitality essential oil with olive oil to use as a marinade for meat and veggies.
- Include a drop to your stir fry to bring dimension and add a great depth of flavor.
- Add a little Lime Vitality oil to berry dishes to complement their natural sweetness
- Enjoy staying hydrated and add variety by infusing your water with a drop or two of Lime Vitality
Orange (Citrus sinensis) Vitality has a clean, refreshing scent and flavor and contains the naturally occurring constituent limonene. Young Living uses it in many products, such as NingXia Red and our proprietary wellness supplement ImmuPro.
Embrace the versatility of Orange Vitality essential oil as a culinary tool by using it in your cooking to brighten up or complement dishes with its citrus flavor. Use it in baked goods for an acidic contrast to the sweetness of desserts and baked goods.
Keep your body hydrated by adding a few drops of Orange Vitality oil and other Vitality oils such as Ginger Vitality to your water for a burst of flavor. Orange Vitality combines well with other fruity flavors, making it the perfect addition to smoothies, drinks, and NingXia Red.
Orange Vitality Essential Oil Uses:
- Support your wellness daily by adding 1-2 drops to a vegetarian gel capsule and taking as a dietary supplement.
- Use in culinary dishes - sweet or savory - for added flavor and zest.
- Add 2-3 drops to a water bottle or glass of water for flavor, or mix it with other Vitality essential oils for various flavor combinations. Infusing water with dietary essential oils is a great
- option for anyone who struggles swallowing pills and capsules.
Tangerine (Citrus reticulata) Vitality essential oil is one of the sweetest flavors of all our citrus Vitality oils. Bringing complex citrus notes to savory dishes and desserts, Tangerine Vitality essential oil is a bright, tangy addition in the kitchen. When you want to give your recipes an extra kick of something unexpected, try reaching for Tangerine Vitality.
More than just another citrus essential oil, Tangerine Vitality oil includes naturally occurring limonene and is an important ingredient in Citrus Fresh, Joy, Inner Child, Peace & Calming, NingXia Red, Slique Essence, and Super C.
Tangerine Vitality Essential Oils Uses:
- Add a drop of Tangerine Vitality to a vegetarian gel capsule and take it as a daily dietary supplement to enjoy its many benefits.
- Add a drop or two of Tangerine Vitality to NingXia Zyng for a delicious and tangy twist on our lightly sweetened sparkling drink.
- Give your marinades a sweet kick by adding Tangerine Vitality instead of Lemon Vitality or Lime Vitality.
- Infuse your water by adding a few drops with to encourage yourself to drink more during the day.
- Try adding a little Tangerine Vitality to your salad dressing for a wonderful citrus zing.
Add an oil-infused boost to your day with Supplement Vitality dietary essential oils:
Use DiGize Vitality essential oil to help you enjoy each and every meal! This proprietary blend of Young Living essential oils is a great mealtime companion and addition to your wellness regimen.
DiGize Vitality blends Tarragon, Ginger, Peppermint, Juniper, Fennel, Lemongrass, Anise, and Patchouli essential oils for a fresh-tasting blend - a perfect follow-up to any meal. Some cultures munch on fennel seeds after meals, and the use of this potent plant even dates back to ancient Egypt. Experience the power of Fennel Vitality and these other essential oils for yourself!
Take this best-selling essential oil blend with Essentialzymes-4 or on its own before each meal to support your wellness regimen.* The versatility of DiGize Vitality oil means that you can take it in a gel capsule, mix it with water and Peppermint Vitality for a rejuvenating infused water, or combine it with honey for a sweet treat. For even more wellness support, take DiGize Vitality with Essentialzymes-4 at breakfast, lunch, and dinner for all-day support. DiGize Vitality is also a great complement to our supplements ComforTone and JuvaTone.
Our proprietary DiGize Vitality oil blend includes the naturally occurring constituents menthol, citrol, and zingiberene.
DiGize Vitality Essential Oil Uses:
- Add 1-2 drops to a gel capsule and take it as a dietary supplement every day - or whenever you need it.
- Give your water a twist and add 2 drops of DiGize Vitality and 1 drop of Peppermint Vitality.
- DiGize Vitality is a great complement to Essentialzymes-4. Take both before every meal to support your wellness.*
- Flavor honey with 2-3 drops of DiGize Vitality for a sweet, spicy treat without the refined sugar.
- Take with ComforTone and JuvaTone in whatever form you prefer.
Keep up with your overall wellness and day-to-day schedule with help from EndoFlex Vitality. Young Living's EndoFlex Vitality essential oil uses a base of sesame seed oil and adds our proprietary blend of essential oils for wellness support.
In addition to the popular Spearmint Vitality essential oil, EndoFlex Vitality oil features Sage, Geranium, Myrtle, Nutmeg, and German Chamomile to create a unique blend that may support a healthy lifestyle*. Adding this oil to your wellness regimen is as easy as combining it with a refreshing glass of juice or relaxing cup of tea.
EndoFlex Vitality Essential Oil Uses:
- Take daily with a gel capsule. Combine 1 drop EndoFlex Vitality with 1 drop of V-6 Vegetable Oil Complex.
- Add a drop or two to 2-4 oz. of NingXia Red for a quick shot of this blend.
- Create a drink that uplifts and invigorates by adding EndoFlex to our sparkling NingXia Zyng. Use this essential oil-infused beverage to jump-start the day or make it through the afternoon slump.
- Combine a drop of oil with a large cup of warm tea or tall glass of water. If you find a drop overwhelms the flavor, dip a toothpick in the oil and swirl it in your drink.
Frankincense (Boswellia carterii) has been sought after and traded since ancient times and plays a special role in many religious ceremonies.
Distilled from the resin of trees in the Boswellia carterii tree family, Frankincense Vitality oil contains the naturally occurring constituent alpha-pinene, which is what gives it its distinctive rich, balsamic scent. Love Young Living's Brain Power, Awaken, and Highest Potential essential oil blends? Frankincense Vitality essential oil is an important ingredient in each!
Known for its unmistakably complex, sweet, and woodsy flavor and aroma, the benefits of Frankincense Vitality essential oil go far beyond its taste and smell. It also supports well-being and normal cellular health when taken internally.*
Frankincense Vitality Essential Oil Uses:
- Support your well-being and normal cell health! Take Frankincense Vitality internally as a dietary supplement by adding 1-2 drops to a vegetarian gel capsule.*
- If you have trouble swallowing capsules, take Frankincense Vitality internally by adding it to water, juice, or even your daily shot of NingXia Red.
With Thieves Vitality you'll have a quick and easy way to balance your busy life and your wellness. With Young Living's Thieves Vitality essential oil you can support overall wellness and a healthy immune system* with just a few drops.
Thieves Vitality combines Lemon, Clove, Eucalyptus Radiata, Cinnamon Bark, and Rosemary essential oils to create one of our most popular products. These ingredients synergistically combine to offer one of the key benefits of Thieves Vitality oil: overall wellness and support of a healthy immune system. Additionally, Eucalyptus Radiata Vitality may also help support a healthy respiratory system when taken internally*.
Use the sweet, spicy flavor of Thieves Vitality as an addition to your daily wellness regimen. Its constituent oils such as Clove Vitality, Lemon Vitality, and Cinnamon Vitality give a comforting seasoning to warm food and drinks. Add Tangerine Vitality or Orange Vitality essential oil to Thieves Vitality to further brighten the flavors of your favorite foods.
Thieves Vitality Essential Oil Uses:
- Add 1-2 drops to a vegetarian gel capsule and take daily or as needed as a dietary supplement.
- Put a drop or a swirl of Thieves Vitality essential oil in your morning juice, tea, or coffee. The spicy, sweet flavor will also give your morning beverage a flavor boost.
- Add a drop to oatmeal, granola, or other cereal to elevate your breakfast.
- Take a shot of NingXia Red with a drop of Thieves Vitality for a quick, spicy boost to your daily NingXia Red shot.
- Include a drop of Thieves Vitality in a cup of warm water or milk to add it to your wellness regimen.


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UPDATE: If anybody is interested in reading a really spot-on article by a black sports writer on this whole Imus thing, go here and read Jason Whitlock's take. You may remember him from his numerous appearances on The Sports Reporters on ESPN. I highly recommend this to you.
Wednesday, April 11, 2007
Imus and the "Ho"s
UPDATE: If anybody is interested in reading a really spot-on article by a black sports writer on this whole Imus thing, go here and read Jason Whitlock's take. You may remember him from his numerous appearances on The Sports Reporters on ESPN. I highly recommend this to you.
17 comments:
"How can we teach a new generation to trust and love each other, if they continue to hear bigoted comments from within their own heritage."
Fantastic coming from you, Ed! This will be hard to top, even for you.
For the record:
Bigoted (adjective) - utterly intolerant of any creed, belief, or opinion that differs from one's own.
- Thu Apr 12, 11:32:00 AM CDT
I think you misunderstand. This post belongs to Reid. I agree with him on this matter and will add my two cents worth later.
- Thu Apr 12, 04:29:00 PM CDT
- Reid said...
It is 11pm thursday. I have spent the day at the hospital with my father. He had surgery. I just have spent a few minutes perusing the internet to catch up on todays happenings. Imus was fired. Not news to those of you in the world today, but I am shocked. All day long, apparently, TV and radio has discussed nothing else. His comments were compared to rap lyrics and rap artists took him to task for using their language. I now have another reason to despise rap.I obviously missed many demonstrations and threatened boycotts. I still have yet to hear from a Rutgers player stating anything other than hurt feelings. I wish this country would have remembered the age old adage:
"sticks and stones can break my bones, but WORDS can never hurt me"!
Oh well, I guess its too much to ask for us to act like we expect our kids too.
- Thu Apr 12, 11:11:00 PM CDT
- Ed said...
Here are my thoughts on the Imus hubbub:
-What he said was stupid and hurtful.
-That he was addressing college basketball players(not NBA thugs) constituted the line crossing, not necessarily the words themselves
-MSNBC and then CBS firing him is part of the free market at work. He should not have been fired for any other reason. That sponsors were abandoning the show is a perfect example of the market at work. And look how fast it happened. Government censors could not work that fast.
-It was very weird to hear conservative Hannity arguing for his firing for moral reasons, and liberal Alan Colmes arguing for the free market approach.
-When we start censoring speech on grounds other than economic, open-market grounds, ALL speech is subject to subjective censorship forces.
-Emboldened by his wild successes this week, Al Sharpton may decide to attempt to fry bigger fish using the heinous Fairness Doctrine. He'll go after Limbaugh, Hannity, Boortz, Savage, Ingraham, and others who he deems use hate-speech every day on the radio.
- Fri Apr 13, 08:59:00 AM CDT
Democrats just lost one of their biggest cheer-leaders in Don Imus. Ironically, it was the biggest Dem. (Al Sharpton) who got him fired with racial hysteria.
- Fri Apr 13, 12:07:00 PM CDT
Rhetoric like Imus's should be purged from the public discourse. Whether it's by the free market that Ed loves so much, employers who fear public scorn, or the government (FCC) exercising censorship in the public interest, matters not.
- Fri Apr 13, 12:15:00 PM CDT
- Ed said...
Axel commented earlier:
Fantastic coming from you, Ed! This will be hard to top, even for you.
I went back and read it several times before I realized it was sarcasm...weak, but sarcastic.
His comment can be taken only one way. That is that I am a bigot. Nevermind that it was Reid who posted it. Show me Axel, in any instance, where I have been bigoted toward any group.
Just because I criticize members of some group, doesn't mean that I am critical of the group identity. Despite what mind-numbed, group-think liberals like Axel believe, people are individuals first, regardless of their stupid group identity.
Seriously Axel, I'd like to hear from you.
- Fri Apr 13, 12:25:00 PM CDT
- Reid said...
I guess that puts me in the racist category as well, Ed. At least I have good company.
- Fri Apr 13, 02:13:00 PM CDT
- Ed said...
You and I understand Reid, that the terms "racism", "bigotry", and "hate speech" no longer mean what they used to mean. In today's hyper-politically correct culture, they refer to any idea the liberals don't want us to hear or that dilutes their liberal message.
Today it's Imus, tomorrow it'll be conservative talk radio, and the next day it'll be bloggers who find themselves in the crosshairs of liberal censors.
- Fri Apr 13, 02:39:00 PM CDT
Ed, one only need skim your screeds against Mexican immigrants to get the idea that you are uncomfortable with anyone who is not American. While not outright racist, it is at least xenophobic to rail against people who are simply doing what your white ancestors did 500 years ago, seeking a better life. I do NOT accuse you and Reid of bigotry or racism, but aggressively clinging to your culture in the face of coming change looks like white elitism.
- Fri Apr 13, 03:30:00 PM CDT
My question is just how delicate does society think modern women are? Remember the Virginia Slims add, "you've come a long way, baby"?
Just how far have we come when society gets the vapors when a more or less harmless old man insults us? Who cares for goodness sake? The way to handle insults that aren't worth reply, is to not reply.
Women are either strong, independent, resilient, and street-wise, or we're weak, simple-minded, fragile wall-flowers who need protecting by the patriarchal media. We can't have it both ways. Anyone notice that it's the women of Rutgers' basketball team who have whined the least during all this?
- Fri Apr 13, 03:49:00 PM CDT
paula has a point. Certainly society should not tolerate racially hateful speech, but who is the judge of what is "hateful" and what is simply incendiary? The government? Al Sharpton? Jesse Jackson? None of the above is the answer. Society is the judge and by applying economic pressure to Imus's advertizers, society censored him appropriately, and shockingly fast.
billb disdains the "free market" Ed is always extolling, but the free market worked to get rid of something we as a society decided we didn't want to tolerate, and without government intrusion.
- Mon Apr 16, 10:11:00 AM CDT
- Reid said...
Paula: Good call! The women of the Rutgers team, after a few whines and moans, have kept quiet, accepted Imus' apology and have moved on. They have showed class and decorum. The outsiders, while asking for Imus' head, have acted poorly. Maybe they should have talked to the Rutgers girls before flying off the handle.
billb: In addressing your comment, I do not see a comparision to people coming to an unexplored and undeveloped land and that of the millions of illegals who stream into this utopia of modernism. Yes both groups wanted a better way of life. One for the pursuit of freedom, the other to leave for financial gain. The latter group has none of the love of country exhibited by the first group. I do not beleive in closing our borders to any person wishing to legally immigrtae here. I hope that we always cling to the hope that this melting pot of a country is the greatest in the world. I, however do not accept the fact that there are people coming here, illegally, stealing jobs, food , etc. from citizens of this country. Play by the Rules and I will advocate for ALL people to have assylum here.
billb: Since you continue to stereotype me, let me clue you in. I will be sponsoring a young woman from Costa Rica and her grandmother as they move hear this summer. I am already stocking up on supplies for them and hoping that they can move i9nto this country and love it like I do. I hope that they can adopt its ways and that they will make it a better place to live. I am not xenophobic. Please refrain from casting future aspersions.
- Mon Apr 16, 10:15:00 AM CDT
Reid, just because you are sponsoring this family, which I applaud, doesn't mean they don't have the exact same desires as a Mexican immigrant and his family. The fact that 99% of undocumented immigrants are Mexican is simply a matter of geography. If Costa Rica were on our border, they would be 99% Costa Rican, and you and Ed would be miffed that we were being "invaded" by Costa Ricans. Your fetish with immigration "rules" is a technicality when taken in context with the fact that millions of third-world humans are desperate to escape poverty and despair for a better life. The statue of liberty doesn't say "Give me your educated and wealthy", it says "Give me your tired and hungry".
- Mon Apr 16, 12:00:00 PM CDT
- Reid said...
billb: I do not seperate the desires of any of the immigrants that wish to move here. I seperate the legality of said moves. I have no problem with the Mexican people. Again, if you knew me, you would know that I regularly venture into Mexico on mission trips. I know those people better than most. I understand the abject poverty they live in daily. I would not choose to live there in those conditions. My heart goes out to them, and I am puting my time, talent and tithe where my mouth is. However, I must still uphold the laws of my country. I do not feel that it is acceptable to skirt laws on this or any issue. If any person (regardless of race, creed, color, sex or national origin) truly seeks assylum or a change of domicile into this country, as long as it is done within the legal bounds stipulated in the Constitution - then I am for it. I do not fear that. I fear American people willing to allow some unknown and illegal persons to create havoc with the framework of Democracy that the USA provides.
- Mon Apr 16, 01:10:00 PM CDT
Mexicans invading America. The clash of cultures--isn't that what this Imus thing is about too? African-Americans feel free to use the most vile language to describe themselves and each other but, a guy, not in that culture, pays a severe price when he tries to say the same thing. Double standard? You bet. Why is it that if you or your ancestors were ever the victim of anything, you can say anything you want against another race and nobody cares? But if you are perceived as being in the powerful majority, you are held to almost impossible standards and heaven help you if you make a mistake.
- Mon Apr 16, 03:08:00 PM CDT
- Reid said...
Well said, Dupree!
- Mon Apr 16, 11:10:00 PM CDT

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Winnipeg, MB -- Two pearls of wisdom gleaned from Friday night's game in Manitoba's capital: Never get involved in a land war in Asia and never let a game with the Jets end in a shootout.
Bryan Little netted the winner in the fifth round, as Winnipeg rallied for a 3-2 victory over the Philadelphia Flyers at
MTS Centre.
Dustin Byfuglien posted both regulation scores on power plays for the Jets, who have taken four straight overall.
Ondrej Pavelec made 32 saves for Winnipeg, which improved to 5-1 this season in the game-ending breakaway competition.
Scott Hartnell and Wayne Simmonds tallied for the Flyers, who failed to
string together their first four-game win streak since the end of
last season but managed to come away with five points (2-0-1) on their
three-game road swing.
"I think they believe they can win
games," said Philadelphia head coach Craig Berube. "They play like it,
but I still think we need to push more. We had the lead tonight in the
third and we should have went and pushed more in the third period.
Whether we sat back or whether we're tired, I don't know. I just think
we can be more aggressive."
Steve Mason was the hard-luck loser with 36 stops.
Each side had scored once through the first four rounds, then Little
began the fifth by beating Mason with a quick shot inside the right
post. Pavelec didn't have to do much but close off a small spot between
his pads on Kimmo Timonen's chance to wrap up the game for the hosts.
On the opening man advantage, Byfuglien was allowed to skate up the
right side uncontested and beat Mason with a wrister at 5:36 of the
first period. The Jets entered the game with the NHL's worst power
play, clicking at a 6-for-71 rate.
Hartnell's attempt at a
wraparound from the right post at the 6:25 mark managed to cross
the goal line before Pavelec snatched it away with his glove. Despite a
no-goal call on the ice, replay reversed that decision for a 1-1
It was 2-1 for the visitors with 8:15 left in the first,
as Simmonds pried a Timonen shot from Pavelec's glove then
outworked two Jets defenders to backhand the rebound home. The
tally was Philadelphia's 10th with the extra man this season.
Both goaltenders stopped nine shots in a scoreless second period.
Byfuglien's blast from the blue line on another Jets advantage got
through traffic and past Mason for a 2-2 deadlock with 5:37 left in
"Well, the power play obviously was a big plus for
us getting us a couple of goals and long time waiting for us for that
to happen," said Jets head coach Claude Noel.
Mason was quick
with the pads to shuttle away a Mark Scheifele chance in close with 2:38
to play, and Pavelec had to be sharp as the Flyers peppered him with
eight shots in overtime.
Notes: Winnipeg improved to 3-1-1 against the Flyers in Manitoba's capital
since the franchise's transfer from Atlanta in 2011 ... This was
Philly's first game this season decided in a shootout ... Olli Jokinen
registered two assists for the Jets.


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Lots of animals masturbate, but none with the intensity and ejaculation frequency of human males—except when in captivity (according to Leonard Shlain, MD).
The current theory is that we humans masturbate more because we can fantasize. A related assumption is that our rather manic masturbation has gone on for as long as we've been human—except when temporarily suppressed by unnatural forces, such as religious or social constraints. From these two assumptions follows a third: that fantasy is a natural, healthy adjunct to, or even sine qua non of, a fulfilling sex life.
Certainly fantasy facilitates frequent orgasm, just as sex toys and pornography do. Yet does our capacity to fantasize (which may, or may not be unique to humans) fully account for our masturbation and fantasy marathons?
I recently eavesdropped on a cyber exchange between two thoughtful men with lots of experience masturbating and fantasizing. The points they raised led me to do a bit of historical sleuthing, which I'll share below their remarks.
First guy
Fact is, we have no way of knowing how much people masturbated in the past, although it is certain that they sometimes did. Today's experts mistake modern conditions for "natural conditions." They see a lot of people (especially men) masturbating a lot, and look for explanations outside the social structure we're raised in. To analyze this structure objectively, they'd have to set aside some of their beliefs about the desirability of living in a 24/7 porn universe. Like the fish in the fishbowl that never question the fact that they swim in water, they don't question their assumptions that porn is "progressive," and so forth. They analyze based on ideological beliefs in the benefits of unlimited masturbation (the opposite of those old prudes who held the view that it was always bad).
Some researchers have been surprised to find so little masturbation among other primates. Said one such animal researcher, Gilbert Van Tassel Hamilton,
Of all my male monkeys only Jocko has been observed to masturbate. After a few days confinement he would masturbate and eat part of his semen. I have reason to believe that he lived under unnatural conditions for many years before I acquired him.
Notice how confinement is a condition of Jocko's behavior. I submit that today we are living under some seriously "unnatural conditions!" Could they be contributing to all this "natural fantasy" as well as to the admission by ninety percent of the population that they masturbate? When everyone nods in assent that "boys will be boys" and masturbation is totally "natural," kind of like apple pie, it makes the influence of our captivity on our behavior invisible.
I number among my friends some captive primates housed in miserable conditions, such as extremely high unemployment, lack of basic medical care, attacks on their basic standard of living, a barrage of high stress propaganda detailing environmental degradation and war, leaving people feeling helpless, a racist system of economic segregation, the general degradation of women and the sexual exploitation of children...Need I go on? No wonder everyone is addicted to something!
We are all in some ways like those "captive primates," and that's even excluding the 2.5 million people who actually are captives in America's gigantic prison system. These "natural conditions" remain completely unquestioned. Yet these and other factors should be considered especially relevant to the discussion of people who admit that heavy porn use is a problem for them.
Second guy
The greatest damage to my marriage occurred precisely when my 'masturbatory fantasy training' was at its most extreme. I actually impaired my ability to engage with the consensus reality (including my own nude wife in front of me). During intercourse, I could picture her doing exactly the things I desired. The only element of the fantasy that prevented it from being completely disjoint with reality was her body. In total opposition to the view that sexual fantasy enhances sex, only when I eliminated fantasy from sex could I desire my wife as she is. In the bad old days of my fantastic folly, as I used her essentially for a masturbatory aid, she would often ask me, "What are you thinking about?" And I would lie, "Oh, nothing really."
Over the past two years, as I relentlessly uprooted my sexual fantasies, there has been an immense shift. I get highly aroused by touching. My wife still asks me what I think about during sex, but now when I respond that I am not thinking, I say only the truth. As I improve my ability to keep fantasy out of my consciousness, my marriage is progressively more successful. If the activity in the mind is given ultimate legitimacy, then it is improbable that physical circumstances will conform to the mental image. The result is fundamental dissatisfaction with one's situation.
As far as our sexual habits go, the position that modern human behavior is the only possible human behavior pattern is horribly flawed. Nearly every one of us lives in captivity, often voluntarily, but in captivity nonetheless. We lock ourselves inside at night. We may not be locked inside during the day, but the doors don't even need locks because we are thoroughly conditioned to remain confined at work until released from thrall.
After work, we can do more or less as we like (rec-room time), but the array of acceptable activities is highly constrained for most people: television, eating, grooming, family interactions, non-electronic escapism (art, bars, rat-wheel exercise, attempting to hook-up), electronic escapism, and sex. Moreover, we have only ~8 hours in which to explore 'freedom.' We feed ourselves, talk to each other, pleasure ourselves, and then it's time to repeat the sleep-work-play cycle.
On perhaps six occasions during the last few years, I've had the luxury of living outside this cycle for ~2 weeks at a time. As far as I can tell, this kind of activity would be consistent with prehistoric patterns: self-determined schedules, close quarters living with family and acquaintances, little privacy. There was considerable hard physical labor involved as well, which I suspect would approximate subsistence activities. My frequent sexual behavior nearly disappears. Instead of 4 orgasms per week, I had 0 to 2 orgasms in two weeks, and did not use porn.
Obviously 'more studies need to be done' and my 'sample size is too small to draw any real conclusions,' but all the same, I'm now looking for a strategy to increase my freedom rather than my orgasms.
Did the march of civilization change sex habits?
Curious about mankind's historical habits, I delved into Thomas W. Laqueur's Solitary Sex: A Cultural History of Masturbation. There I learned that observers of the eighteenth century referred to compulsions, including excessive masturbation, as "diseases of civilization." Apparently they were uncommon until Europeans moved away from extended families into cities with unnatural levels of confinement and isolation.
For the first time in history, stimulants (and stimuli), old and new, also became widely available: tobacco, chocolate, rum, gambling, shopping, financial speculation, pornography and novels about passionate romance. The word "addiction" now appeared in the English language. And compulsive masturbation gained traction.
Obviously, masturbation wasn't a new idea, but, prior to the eighteenth century, no one saw a bit of self-pleasuring as likely to bloom into an intrusive habit, except for the occasional sexually segregated cleric. Now, however, people were becoming hooked on all sorts of behaviors that were not serving them, single-minded pursuit of orgasm included. Such compulsions were unfamiliar and scary because they were not easy to overcome.
Eighteenth-century observers pointed to the distinction between sex with a person, and sex with one's imagination. The participation of a partner naturally set a brake on sexual behavior in the form of partner availability, family demands, financial constraints, or the burden of arranging trysts. Do-it-yourself sex, on the other hand, had no inherent limit, and could more easily become a demanding habit. Intercourse based on "natural needs" (and mutual agreement) was thought to be more beneficial than orgasm produced with fantasy or other self-stimulation. (Incidentally, the work of psychologist Stuart Brody seems to confirm that intercourse is more soothing and beneficial than solo sex.)
Excessive masturbation was by no means the only habit-forming enticement causing new levels of distress, but it was the easiest for children to stumble into. Not surprisingly, fears about excessive masturbation were first publicized in regard to kids in boarding schools. These children were no doubt already anxious due to unnatural confinement and deprivation of contact with families and peers of the opposite sex.
Yet how to explain the risk of an escalating habit to kids? There was no conception of the brain science of addiction. Instead, kids were admonished to avoid "self-pollution." Tragically, generations of children were raised to view the search for relief from sexual urges via masturbation as a moral failing, rather than as a normal inclination (especially given their stressful circumstances), which merited foresighted management.
The entanglement of masturbation with morality was wrong; shame is destructive. However, both this historical approach and today's backlash frustrate a relaxed, inquiring attitude about masturbation—one which would permit us to find a healthy balance without fear that we risk unhealthy sexual repression.
Do we need a different strategy?
Given the cultural history of masturbation, it seems likely that humans didn't generally rely on frequent climax and sexual fantasy for mood-altering relief—until they found themselves in aberrant circumstances. Might today's nonstop pursuit of orgasm be an attempt to self-medicate in the face of stressful conditions that our brains have not evolved to handle well? One Canadian addiction expert doesn't think we'll ever touch the problem of addiction until we develop (return to?) a viable culture.
Neurohistorian Daniel Lord Smail points out that one can view the entire history of civilization as an accelerating trend toward greater use of mood-altering (psychotropic) substances and activities, including shopping sprees and gorging on empty calories. Pursuit of frequent, sex-aid-enhanced orgasm is but one of many—although a particularly compelling one.
Both our tendency to self-medicate and the stressfulness of today's circumstances appear to be accelerating rather than leading us to contentment. If so, are we wise to assume peace of mind lies in more frequent climaxing to ever more potent stimuli? Recent research suggests this course may, in fact, be futile. Extreme stimuli can make satisfaction increasingly elusive because of their power to numb the brain's pleasure response.
Might greater contentment lie in learning to steer for neurochemical (and therefore emotional) balance—even under difficult modern conditions? The impulse to self-medicate appears to be less urgent when we find ways to meet the fundamental requirements of our brains, which evolved to keep us in balance when we weren't in captivity. For example, research shows that exercise, friendly interaction, touch, pair bonds, and daily meditation are surprisingly effective as mood regulators and anti-stress measures. And what about ancient techniques for careful management of sexual desire itself?
I'm a fan of this article.
Modern conditions are not the same as the conditions under which humanity evolved.
First Guy makes some great points but Marnia, thank you for writing this article. This is a great opening of the discussion and I don't really see it happening anywhere else.
Thanks for your
contribution. I'll put it up on "Psychology Today" one of these days and keep you informed if it sparks an interesting debate.
Any suggested improvements meanwhile?
I don't have any specific changes to add.
I think there are few people asking about why this phenomena has happened. What are the conditions, legal, economic and social that have created this "porn generation." Maybe I'll write my own book on the topic after awhile. I am pleased and thankful that you value my contributions and take my ideas seriously. Even if they are a bit...off the beaten track.
Most everything I learn on this subject
comes through you guys who are actually wrestling with it. I'm very glad you're collecting your thoughts to write about them. The world needs the insights of those who have faced this challenge, and porn recovery is still not my main focus.
My theory is that today's issue is really just "extreme stimuli." Now, each brain will register different things as "extreme." However, today's Internet porn delivers a cornucopia of extreme things...for ANY human brain. So it has the potential to throw all of us into dopamine dysregulation. This was less likely when we had to rely on our hands and imaginations...or even a porn magazine.
It's the extremeness of the stimulation, relative to what our ancestors' (and our) brains evolved with, which is causing the problem here....because more intense excitement means a bigger blast of (dysregulating) neurochemicals...and a number pleasure response for a time afterward...making the "need" for escalation so much more demanding.
I think once we see the problem in these terms, everyone can make his own experiments with whether cutting back returns his brain to greater sensitivity to "normal" stimuli.
Ya know...
I look forward to a time in the not too distant future when I am on here not to get over porn but to contribute thoughts to your "main focus" of this site. If the porn stuff wasn't here, I wouldn't be here. In addition, the concept of Karezza is still pretty radical and new and really the opposite of what everyone is chasing. I'm attracted to your work because of this. It's like an answer that is there all along and is kind of obvious but people just aren't thinking about having less of anything these days (even though they are being forced to through economic privation.)
It's great
to have you here in any context.
Normal stimuli
The true danger and challenge we face is that the world is moving at such a pace that society's view of what "normal" stimuli is will soon be lost under the sands of time. Is it just me or are attention spans shorter, do people read less, self-medicate more - is society more likely to drown its problems than face them than ever before? We need to continue to encourage thought and debate, raise awareness and most importantly provide alternatives.
thanks for reading,
Here's an article that
addresses the importance of a healthy, stimulating environment on tendencies to self-medicate with addictive behaviors:
"Rat Trap"
The only way we'll ever touch the problem of addiction
There are undoubtedly many people now compulsively addicted to masturbating using pornography who, because pornography is so widespread, started off thinking of themselves as perfectly normal for using it. Then, as their requirements for ever harder pornography became apparent to them they may notice changes in themselves that make them feel uncomfortable but feel that the problem is becoming too much for them to deal with alone. Then, it becomes difficult. I mean who do you talk to about this? Not everyone can either face or afford counselling and so the problem becomes their's alone, and they may choose just to ignore it, which would become increasingly difficult, avoid it altogether (very difficult), or, as many people on this website have found, try to understand has happed to them in terms of psychology.
Pornographers are largely to blame for the "everybody's doing it" attitude that pervades society regarding pornography/masturbation (obviously there is also a good deal of smutty humour relating to the subject). Pornography is a multi billion dollar industry worldwide. Perhaps the new message should be "emancipate your left (or right) hand: don't be a slave to masturbation"; "actually lots of people aren't doing it"; " lots of people are trying to stop doing it"; "some people have stopped for so long they've forgotten how to do it and are doing things that are much better instead"; "doing it isn't the answer, doing it right is"; "if masturbation is a symptom then what is the cause?"; "find the cause find your cure"; "if it doesn't make you happy why do it?"; "how do you want to feel?"; "if you can't get no satisfaction then do something else".
It's vital to think of the women in pornography in terms of their potential rather than as objects. The world knows the price of everything but the value of nothing it seems. The pornographers pay women in financial difficulties or women in developing countries to pose for pornographic photos and act out sex in videos. A question I'd like answered is how can men who are developing an awareness of the situation help to change this? Obviously... stop paying for it, but is there anything else? What can be done to stop this misery (for men and women) perpetuating? Everybody can find some answers to this question in their own heart; and if they act on it who knows where it can lead. Perhaps to a true "sexual revolution", an educated sexual revolution rather than the blind rebellion of the '60s and 70's that has led to this current mess.
Imagination of course is a marvellous asset, but like all tools that can be used for good or for bad. Fantasy based on pornography is both bad for mental, spiritual and physical health because of the stress it puts us under in the long run. Craving the unattainable is just hollow, stressful and unsatisfying. Strive after things that are attainable, fulfilling and worthwhile and you'll find happiness along the way. It is also a privilege and extremely rewarding to fulfil a human duty to help others to do the same.
Thanks for reading,
there may be truth in this
In 2008 I spent some time working as a farm labourer in the South of France. I remember one job in particular - it was a cold farm house on an isolated mountain where I chopped wood, built fences, cleared bush and fed pigs, and guess what... after 2 weeks I remember thinking "wow, I haven't ejaculated in 2 weeks, I haven't even thought about girls!"
Thanks for your wisdom, guys
Once I post this item on my "Psychology Today" blog, I might ask you to go over there and add your comments. It's time we all gave more thought to the fact that we have action-oriented, bonding/touch-oriented hunter-gatherer brains stuck for hours in front of computers. Not a good combo, and it goes far beyond questions of entertainment vs. morality, into very real issues of well-being. How can men be inspired pilots for society, or even enjoy their relationships properly, while laboring under such a burden?
Amazing article
Sorry I have been busy, finishing a long term project. I just want to add an observation. When I look back at the last 8 years of my life, I know that I have forced myself to live in a kind of prison ( Working under a dishonest and dictatorial boss), which I could not quit for other things on my job was crucial for my career.
This has greatly contributed to my dependence on porn and masturbation. Once I finish and get out of this place, I know it would be far more easier not to masturbate and watch porn.
If I am living in a natural environment which I like the chances of a healthy life are automatic.
But the point is many of us do not even know that we are living in hazardous environments and that is what is creating the need for masturbation and porn.
We do not realize, that it is not natural.
For some of us there may not be a choice. But one never knows until one tries !
Realization for a wave in the ocean is when it comes to know it is water.
If you want to add your comments about this
to the version on "Psychology Today," please do:
this is right! I often find
this is right!
I often find that during the xmas break for 3 weeks from work do I abstain from masturbation and ejaculation easily.
I tend to use masturbation and ejeculation to relieve myself from stress and frustration, or loneliness.


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As is his custom, Karl Lagerfeld shot the Chanel Fall-Winter 2013 Ready-to-Wear press kit at Studio 7L in Paris. Here is a sneak peek of the behind the scenes action of the photo shoot.
Photos by Olivier Saillant for Chanel
As is his custom, Karl Lagerfeld shot the Chanel Fall-Winter 2013 Ready-to-Wear press kit at Studio 7L in Paris. Here is a sneak peek of the behind the scenes action of the photo shoot.
Photos by Olivier Saillant for Chanel
Here's a look at the making of the Chanel Spring-Summer 2013 Haute Couture press kit. Shot by Karl Lagerfeld at Studio 7L, Paris, we get a preview of the etheral haute couture collection Karl presented earlier today in Paris.
Photos by Olivier Saillant for Chanel
MISS is back again with more CHANAILS for their MISS Nails Did 2012 calendar. Nothing says spring like flowers and if you're going floral – whether on your jeans, kicks or nails – they might as well be Chanel-inspired. Since color is huge for spring, and in particular for 2012, we opted for bright vintage Chanel gift wrap for our background and authentic Chanel camellia brooches to accompany our CHANAILS. I hope you're having a great spring and let's get ready for summer!
Download the free MISS May 2012 "Nails Did" calendar and desktop by clicking here.
Chanel wrapping paper and camellias: Liz Baca
Photographer: Amanda Lopez
Nail Artist: Liz Baca
Nail Assistant: Lila Robles
Model: Mayra Ramirez
Producer: Gabriella Khorasanee
Each month MISS, La Chanelphile's sister site, releases a desktop image and monthly calendar for free download. The theme of the calendar is "Nails Did" and each month we match a manicure to a designer accessory. To celebrate March Madness we decided to don Chanel pearl knuckles and play some ball – with a Chanel basketball of course! We also brought out an A-team of Chanel's fragrance heavy hitters, including Jersey Numbers 5, 19, 28 and 31, definitely the most chic basketball jerseys I've ever seen. For links to download the free desktop and calendar please visit MISS.
Chanel Basketball & Chanel Pearl Knuckles: Liz Baca
Photographer: Amanda Lopez
Nail Artist: Liz Baca
Nail Assistant: Lila Robles
Model: Mayra Ramirez
Producer: Gabriella Khorasanee, La Chanelphile
I had the honor of working with a great team to create these stunning images featuring cosmetics from Chanel Les Scintillances de Chanel Holiday 2011 Makeup Collection courtesy of Chanel and vintage Chanel apparel and accessories courtesy of The Goods! . Please enjoy Behind the Coromandel Screen…
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Photographer: Arturo Torres/LOOK Artists Agency
Stylist and Vintage Archivist: Liz Baca, The Goods!
Makeup Artist: Jenni Tay, Tay Faces
Hair Stylist: Filomena Bettencourt/LOOK Artists Agency
Nail Stylist: Lila Robles
Model: Nida/LOOK Model Agency
Producer: Gabriella Khorasanee, La Chanelphile
Sending lots of love, chocolate and hopefully Chanel your way! Have a great day!
Styling and Jewelry Provided By: Liz Baca, The Goods!
Photographed by: Gabriella
I'm happy to introduce the first of La Chanelphile beauty editorials. The Chanel PR team was generous enough to send over Illusions d'Ombre de Chanel, the Fall 2011 cosmetics collection. The shimmering metallics were a beautiful counterpoint to the gorgeous gold vintage Chanel accessories provided by The Goods! by Liz Baca. Please enjoy the photos and stay tuned for "get the look" breakdowns and a behind-the-scenes video.
Production Credits:
Photography: Amanda Lopez
Stylist: Liz Baca, The Goods!
Makeup: Jenni Tay
Hairstylist: Filomena Bettencourt
Nail Stylist: Elizabeth Robles
Models: Malia, Jordan and Rachel, LOOK
Behind the Scenes Footage: Nina Parks
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By Ed Harris
The annual Food for Fines program has returned to the Southington Library.
In existence for more than a dozen years, the program will run through December 31.
"The library started with the Mitten Tree then expanded to collecting non-perishable food items for Community Services," said Southington Library Publicist Jeanne D. Chmielewski. "The community benefits by receiving an overwhelming amount of needed food items and the library benefits by getting back some late books. Plus we get our delinquent patrons to return. They feel good about doing something meaningful for their community in the process."
The minimal donation is one non-perishable item, which will cover late fines. The program does not cover lost or damage materials, fees that are in the collective stages or lost card fees.
"Our patrons look forward to this time of year to have their late item fines eliminated with a non-perishable food item donation," Chmielewski said. "Many patrons bring a bag full of items others donate out of simple kindness. The minimal amount of staff time and a negligible loss in income gives the library enormous returns in community outreach, staff morale, circulation statistics, and late-item recovery. The program reinforces the image of the library as a learning place that reaches out to all of the members of its community, regardless of income."
All donations must be unopened. The cans or jars cannot be dented or broken. Also, keep an eye on the donation's use by date.
Library brings back popular Food for Fines program
By Ed Harris


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TAHOE, Calif. – Kobe Robbins, a sixth-grade student from Mrs. Bendock's classroom, won the North Tahoe school-level competition of the National Geographic Bee and a chance at a $25,000 college scholarship. Kobe competed against 12 other students through nine grueling rounds to earn the 2013 NTS Champ title. In the first round, four sixth graders: Thierry Thys, Kobe Robbins, Aidan Tippins and Aidan Smith, five seventh graders: Johanna Lemke, Dominic Hatch, Gio Sanchez, Josh Brown and Nicole Evans and four eighth graders: Nathan Lutz, Savannah McMorrow, Garrett Dixon and Tobin Johnson participated. After five rounds, the challenge had narrowed to three: Nathan Lutz, Josh Brown and Kobe Robbins. Brown and Robbins continued for another three rounds, until Robbins took the championship. Kobe will take a final written component this week to determine if he will get the chance to advance to the Washington, D.C. challenge on May 22-23, 2013.


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Flexibility is provided by six months of elective time and three months of selective time to give the student ample opportunity to pursue his/her special interests.
The assigned clerkship sites are predominately in Pennsylvania and over 67% of our students are from Pennsylvania.
Whenever possible, we use hospitals approved by the AOA for post-doctoral training because the inspections by the AOA, in addition to our own, provide assurance of adequate teaching material and faculty. Also, the interaction with the house staff increases the student's opportunity for learning. In addition, we have ambulatory training sites that range from private practices to urban and rural health centers.
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I have a question about hypergraphs that I hope some combinatorics/graph theory experts can answer. The motivation for this question is group-theoretic and comes from the study of a certain space of measures that comes equipped with a natural affine action of the group Out(F_n). I'll skip the detailed background here, but if someone is interested, please look-up my paper with Tatiana Nagnibeda arXiv:1105.5742
Let G be a finite simple graph. For every vertex v of G the link Lk(v) is the set of vertices adjacent to v. Now form a weighted hypergraph Lk(G) whose vertex set is the same as the vertex set of G and whose hyper-edges are exactly all sets Lk(v) as v varies over the vertex set of G. Every hyperedge E in Lk(G) comes with a positive integral "weight" w(E) which is the number of vertices of G such that Lk(v)=E.
Now suppose we are given a finite weighted hypergraph H with positive integral weights on its hyperedges. I'd like to know if there are known necessary and sufficient condition for H so that there exists a graph G such that H=Lk(G).
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On Thursday night at the Bowery Ballroom, Lake Street Dive took the stage under a haze of smoke that made the place feel like an old-time jazz lounge.
It was an atmosphere befitting the group's retro sensibility. Built around a guitar, drums, upright bass, and a powerhouse lead vocalist (with a dash of trumpet for flavor), the Boston quartet performed a mélange of folk, jazz, and rockabilly that wouldn't be out of a place in a Buddy Holly biopic.
Yet for all of their rootsy underpinnings, the group write songs with an indie pop flair that is very much of the moment.
Songs like "Henriette" and "Wear a Wedding Band" showcase a kind of '60s girl-group earnestness, cooing backup harmonies and all, but they're delivered with rock-club verve. Slower tunes like "Don't Make Me Hold Your Hand" display a mastery of the downtempo groove, anchored by Bridget Kearney's funky, syncopated acoustic bass lines. At the head of it all is lead singer Rachael Price, a classically trained jazz vocalist who boasts an astonishingly full-bodied contralto and a knack for coquettish posturing – her voice and her stage presence are the stuff of a film-noir temptress.
And what's most evident live, which you don't necessarily hear on record, is that this is a top-notch rock band. They don't shy away from frenetic drum fills and free-jazz bass solos, and upbeat tracks like "Elijah" get a blissfully vigorous treatment that's damn near explosive.
The night's headliners, The Infamous Stringdusters, thrive even more in the live setting. They've released four excellent studio records so far – winning numerous awards from the International Bluegrass Music Association and, in 2011, grabbed a Grammy nomination – but they're one of those bands for whom albums are merely a loose foundation. To truly appreciate the band, you have to see them in concert.
The members of the bluegrass quintet have become so fluent in their respective instruments that the normal stage protocol no longer applies: they move about, swap places, huddle around soloists – it's all fluid and flawless. In fact they're so technically proficient that you'd almost think their performance was mechanical if it weren't for the frequent jam breaks.
More often than not, one song opened up to allow for extended solos from several of the players and then bled effortlessly into the next. They also covered songs liberally, from traditional Americana rock fare like The Band's "Up On Cripple Creek" and Flatt & Scruggs' "Foggy Bottom Breakdown" to more inventive material: The Police's "Walking on the Moon," U2's "In God's Country," The Beatles' "Norwegian Wood."
They played for nearly three hours, duly rewarding their fans with tracks from their 2007 debut Fork in the Road all the way through this year's Silver Sky. This exhaustive commitment to the live experience has allowed the Stringdusters to maintain a strong following despite minimal coverage from the music press; they even funded Silver Sky entirely through fan donations. In the end everyone left the concert last night feeling a bit closer to home, wherever that may be.
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Steamboat temperature monitoring equipment is currently nonoperational. New instrumentation will be installed Spring 2019.
This geyser is located at the eastern edge of Norris Back Basin. It rarely has major eruptions, but when they occur they are powerful. In these events, columns of hot water reach heights up to 100 meters followed by a raucous steam phase that can last for over a day, loudly discharging steam nearly 200 meters into the atmosphere. The water is neutral-to-alkaline and rich in Cl. Small ("minor") eruptions can occur every few minutes. The temperature is measured in the outlet channel downhill from the geysers vent.
Steamboat has proven more active during the early 21st Century than any time since the early 1980s. Between late 1991 and 2000, there were no large eruptions. Several occurred between 2000 and 2014. A phase of frequent eruption began in March of 2018.
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John Lewis Long Wait for Christmas 2011
John Lewis, the UK department store chain, has launched "The Long Wait", the Christmas 2011 advertising campaign. The advert at the heart of the John Lewis Long Wait campaign features one little boy, played by Lewis McGowan, who is impatiently counting down to Christmas. We see him tapping his fingers, gazing out of the window, even trying to cast a spell on a clock to make time go faster, but to no avail. The ending provides a wonderful twist, leading into the tag line, "For gifts you can't wait to give". There is something even more wonderful than receiving the perfect gift, and that is knowing you have found the perfect gift for someone you love.
Click on the image below to play the Long Wait video.
Click on the image below to play the "Making Of" video.
John Lewis Long Wait Credits
The Long Wait was developed at Adam & Eve, London, by creative directors Ben Priest, Emer Stamp and Ben Tollett, creatives Matt Gay and John Long, and agency producer Matt Craigie, working with John Lewis director of marketing Craig Inglis and head of marketing Lloyd Page.
Filming was shot by director Dougal Wilson via Blink with director of photography Lasse Frank, executive producer James Bland and producer Ben Link, production designer Andy Kelly, costume designer Michelle May.
Editor was Joe Guest at Final Cut. Post production was done at Moving Picture Company (MPC), London. Sound was designed at Factory. Music was produced at Major Tom, London.
The track 'Please, Please, Please let me get what I want', was originally recorded by the Smiths, and has been rerecorded by emerging artist Slow Moving Millie, licensed by Leland Music.
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Watch this video of Jay Abraham to understand Key Question #3 in this Quick Business Guide
In order to understand the importance of preparation in going to market with any business, you must first install processes that will support your business. One of the most important overview processes to perform is answering the 5 Key Questions to starting a successful business.
If you do not have answers for any of these questions, it is important to stop and examine the "missing ingredient" that may create long term problems for your new startup.
The Five Key Questions
1. What is Your Substance Factor?
These are experiences, education, career titles, collaborations, successes, or lessons learned from failures you accumulated throughout your career that provide the "expert" substance factor that will give you credibility in your business
2. What Are You?
This is identifying what type of company you are about to launch and the market you are targeting
3. What Are Your Products, Services, and Market Strategies?
This is simply identifying whether you provide a tangible or intangible product, services only, products and services, and the strategy that allows you to cross sell and or up sell your customer base on an ongoing basis.
The #1 Market Strategy you can review before going to market is provided by the $7 Billion Dollar Man Jay Abraham in "3 Methods To Grow Your Business"
4. Who Is Your Customer?
Identify your customer, their demographics, their propensity to buy, and the habits this target market exhibits. Identify if you will sell to the general public, small businesses, large corporations, or a combination of the aforementioned. Investigate the possibility of opening up to a global-world wide market
5. What Is Your "Differentiating Factor(s)"?
What makes your product-service special or standout from the marketplace? Do you have an advantage that your niche competitors do not have in their businesses? Can you market this differentiating factor and make it a driving factor in your launch? How can you leverage this differentiating factor in order to convince an established business, in your niche and with established-developed channels into the market, to partner-collaborate-or present you to the marketplace?


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Vienna Acoustics Klimt The Kiss loudspeaker
When I say you, of course, I mean I. When I first saw The Kiss ($16,000/pair), when Vienna Acoustics debuted its newest addition to their Klimt series at the 2009 Consumer Electronics Show, I misidentified every one of those characteristics. Then I listened to the speakersand that drew me in for a far more thorough examination.
Impressed by its performance before I was intrigued by its potentialit proved a fitting prelude to a Kiss.
Let's kiss afresh, as when we first begun
About that "stand"with only a single, slightly bowed side-pillar, it struck several of my visitors as looking incomplete. You'll love it or hate it. But if you buy the concept, you buy the standit's included in the base price, and its height is calculated into The Kiss's performance parameters.
At the heart of The Kiss is the 7" (180mm) flat, radially ribbed coincident driver first seen in Vienna's Musik. The flat-spider-cone portion of the coincident array is made of a compound that incorporates a proprietary material called X3P, and covers everything from 100Hz to 2.6kHz, where a 25mm silk-dome tweeter carries the response out to 20kHz.
Why ribbed? Well, that's for rigiditymany coincident drivers are conical because a cone has better dynamic stability than most lighter, flat pistons. Vienna Acoustics' chief designer, Peter Gansterer, used finite-element analysis (FEA) to obtain a maximum rigidity that interferes as little as possible with a flat response.
The 9" cone of the woofer, also of X3P, is similarly ribbed and designed in-house specifically for The Kiss. It uses a multiple-radius profile to maximize stiffness and minimize mass, and is mounted on a port-loaded woofer enclosure.
The midrange/tweeter array is mounted in its own enclosure, which Vienna calls the Music Center, atop the woofer cabinet, and "decoupled" from it by a swivel joint of drawn aluminum. That joint allows the Music Center to be moved in the horizontal and vertical axes relative to the bottom cabinet, the adjustments controlled by two precision-threaded screws on the rear of the cabinets. Each has its own adjustment "meter" to ensure repeatable and consistent results. The idea is to get the placement of each speaker about as right as possible, then fine-tune the rake and toe-in as needed.
The Kiss also has two small switches, labeled "T" (treble, duh) and "B" (bass, ditto). Neither greatly affects the soundby design, claims Vienna Acoustics. They're there for minute room-acoustic compensation, especially "T," which was included to add air to overdamped rooms.
The Kiss has substantial low-profile binding posts with big, knurled knobsit's easily on my short list for Least Fussy Speaker Connections Ever. The crossover is first-order.
Kiss me and be quiet
In my room, The Kisses ended up about 4' from my front wall and about 2' from the sidewalls, with a fair amount of toe-in. Adjustments via the speakers' caliper knobs were minimal: I needed only a slight declination in the Music Center's rake (I sit high, as they say), and a more moderate additional toe-in. However, after getting the speakers sited pretty well (I thought), those slight final adjustments truly locked in the sound. Neither the "T" nor the "B" switch added substantially to my musical enjoyment, so I left them in their neutral positions. Nice to have, I reckon, but not necessary in my room.


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Six New York City officials, including all four current openly gay city councilmembers, sent a letter (PDF) to the Federal Communications Commission asking for an investigation of recent, homophobic language on the Puerto Rican television show Super Xclusivo broadcast on WAPA América. The crude comments focused on pop star Ricky Martin's coming out, the gay community and Puerto Rican LGBT activist and NGLTF spokesman Pedro Julio Serrano.
Andrés Duque has been monitoring Puerto Rican media and reports:
Immediately after ... Martin came out, Héctor
Travieso, the host of the show who uses a puppet as a bantering
partner, repeatedly used the word "pato" (fag) to refer to the
singer. When viewers, including Puerto Rican LGBT rights activist Pedro
Julio Serrano, complained, he only upped the ante and defended his
usage of the word arguing that there was nothing bad in calling someone a
The furor elicited by his comments, and by references he later made against Serrano's HIV status and sexuality has kept the confrontation between Travieso and Serrano in the island newspapers' front pages. Travieso, who also was the host of a radio show, announced on Thursday that he would retire from that spot. He also extended a semi-apology to Serrano and the LGBT community in an interview that ran yesterday on Primera Hora. No, he did not apologize for using the word "pato". He only apologized for referring to the LGBT community as "gentuza", which could be translated as "riffraff", "trashy people" or 'worthless people." "I accept his apologies, but those apologies have to come accompanied by a change in his behavior," said Serrano to the paper, "He has to stop the homophobic conduct and stop making fun of the gay community."
The letter is signed by Congresswoman Nydia M. Velázquez, City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, and Council members Danny Dromm, Melissa Mark-Viverito, Rosie Mendez, and Jimmy Van Bramer. Quinn, Dromm, Mendez, and Van Bramer are openly gay.
The letter (PDF) to FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski reads in part: "While we respect freedom of speech, using anti-gay language in this context crosses the line and puts the public welfare at risk. New York and Puerto Rico have both been affected by a number of high-profile hate crimes in recent months. It is imperative to stand up against language that can contribute to bigotry." Read the full letter HERE.
That passage undoubtedly refers to last November'sgruesome murder and dismemberment of 19-year-old Jorge Steven López Mercado. You may recall that in January, Serrano and the four openly gay NYC councilmembers traveled to Puerto Rico to meet with the López family, as well as Puerto Rican legislators, clergy and LGBT activists.
GLAAD is also calling on the FCC to investigate Super Xclusivo.


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It's been a great/good/terrible year for movies, depending on what you actually saw and how picky you are. So let's relive the whole shebang with this clip, which combines footage from 258 movies and turns them into one very long trailer.
It's so varied. Shame this isn't for Sucker Punch 2.
2013 Movie Trailer Mashup [YouTube, via Laughing Squid]


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The Cameron University Department of Criminal Justice and Sociology will continue its 2012-13 Speakers Series with a presentation by Warden Hector Rios, Lawton Correctional Facility, on Monday, February 18 at 11 a.m. The presentation will take place in the Wichita Room of the Shepler Center and is open to the public at no charge.
Rios became the warden of the GEO Group's Lawton Correctional Facility in September 2012. He began his career in the Texas Department of Corrections in 1982. In 1988, he began service in the Federal Bureau of Prisons as a correctional officer and took on positions of increasing responsibility in various institutions. Rios was promoted to warden of a federal correctional institution in 2004. From 2005-2012, he served as a Senior Executive Service (SES) Warden at three of the most challenging high-security federal penitentiaries in the nation, each with more than 1,500 inmates.
Throughout his career, Rios has worked successfully with elected government officials, federal, state and local law enforcement agencies, judicial entities and community representatives to build broader support for the mission of the institutions he led. He is the recipient of numerous awards in recognition of his leadership and effectiveness.
The Criminal Justice and Sociology Speakers Series is made possible by funding from The GEO Group Endowed Lectureship in Criminal Justice and Sociology.
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Spa India CD by Various Artists offers relaxation music, spa music and new age music.
Complete your rejuvenating spa journey with the healing power of music. As soothing as an herbal wrap, these magical sounds from the East envelop you in their warm tones, promoting calm and wellbeing as they exfoliate your ears and restore your inner peace.
Artists on Spa India are Gary Stroutsos, Prem Joshua, Manish Vyas, Deva Premal, Liquid Bloom, Desert Dwellers and MC Yogi.
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3.) Prana Shakti (Desert Dwellers) -7:56
4.) Ekoham (Manish Vyas) -10:54
5.) The Seventh Eclipse (Prem Joshua) -7:32
6.) Sammasati -7:14
7.) Whispers of Our Ancestors (Liquid Bloom) -6:55
8.) Shanti (Peace Out) (MC Yogi) -6:58
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Young Jeezy's "CTE World New Years Eve 2013" Party At Club Compound In Atlanta!
Young Jeezy brought in the new year at his CTE World NYE party, hosted at Club Compound in ATL.
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