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WTF?!?! — Sounds dead boring to me! — I don't believe that man could think of such a thing. Religion is not for the rational man. — Where the hell does it say you can do that in the Quran! Why would you want to!!! The other laws are the usual sexist bull you get in Muslim countries …
Discussion: Weekly Standard, The Gateway Pundit, Wonkette, americanthinker.com, Israel Matzav, Weasel Zippers, The Daily Caller, small dead animals, Belmont Club, The Jawa Report, A Blog For All, Clayton Cramer's Blog, Atlas Shrugs, Questions and Observations, The Daily Dish, National Review and The Other McCain
Lee Smith / Weekly Standard: The Real War on Women
Jim Hoft / The Gateway Pundit: Yippie. Egyptian Lawmakers Approve Sex With Dead Wives Up to 6 Hours After Death
Thomas Lifson / americanthinker.com: Sex after Death — Ah, you've just got to love the results of the "Arab spring."
ZIP / Weasel Zippers: Egypt's New Islamist-Led Parliament To Legalize Men Having Sex With Dead Wives For Up To Six Hours …
Richard Fernandez / Belmont Club: Dark Sacrament — The Arab spring in Egypt has provided …
DMartyr / The Jawa Report: New Egyptian Law Allows Necrophilia, Child Brides And Eliminates Women's Rights
Pamela Geller / Atlas Shrugs: Islamic Egypt Plans "Farewell Fornication Law" so Husbands can have sex with dead wives and marriage age lowered to 14
Bruce McQuain / Questions and Observations: "Farewell sex" to be legal as Arab Spring continues to flower in Egypt
Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish: "We All Hate Our Women," Ctd
Robert Stacy McCain / The Other McCain: 'Arab Spring' Anniversary: Egypt Legalizes Sex With Dead Wives, Marriage at 14
Abeer Tayel / Alarabiya.net English:
Egypt's women urge MPs not to pass early marriage, sex-after-death laws: report — Egypt's National Council for Women (NCW) has appealed to the Islamist-dominated parliament not to approve two controversial laws on the minimum age of marriage and allowing a husband to have sex …
Discussion: Christian Science Monitor, ThinkProgress, National Review, Hot Air, Sister Toldjah and The Volokh Conspiracy
Eli Clifton / ThinkProgress: 'Farewell Intercourse' Law Sparks Fury In Egypt
Andrew C. McCarthy / National Review: Rogering that! — On the subject of Mark's post …
Allahpundit / Hot Air: Egyptian parliament considering bill legalizing, er, sex with spouse after death?
Phineas / Sister Toldjah: The real "war on women," presented by the Religion of Misogyny and Necrophilia
Eugene Volokh / The Volokh Conspiracy: Legalizing Spousal Necrophilia in Egypt?
Scott Keyes / ThinkProgress:
After Previously Praising Her, Paul Ryan Now Disses Ayn Rand: 'I Reject Her Philosophy' — Rep. Paul Ryan and his on-again, off-again political inspiration, Ayn Rand — In 2005, Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) heaped praise on Ayn Rand, a 20th-century libertarian novelist best known for her philosophy …
Discussion: The Impolitic, PERRspectives, TBogg and CANNONFIRE
Libby Spencer / The Impolitic: The Cons must be crazy
Robert Costa / National Review:
Ryan Shrugged — 'You know you've arrived in politics when you have an urban legend about you, and this one is mine," chuckles Representative Paul Ryan, the Budget Committee chairman, as we discuss his purported obsession with author and philosopher Ayn Rand.
Discussion: Washington Monthly, Crooks and Liars, ThinkProgress and The Raw Story
Ed Kilgore / Washington Monthly: Paul Ryan, "Second-Hander"
Blue Texan / Crooks and Liars: Ayn Rand Fanboy Paul Ryan Now Says He Rejects Ayn Rand's Philosphy (UPDATED WITH VIDEO)
Travis Waldron / ThinkProgress: Religious Groups, Georgetown Faculty Protest Ryan's Use Of Catholic Social Teaching To Justify Budget Cuts
Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Paul Ryan defends budget to Catholics
Paul Ryan defends budget to Catholics
Discussion: Washington Monthly, The Huffington Post and CNN
Ariel Edwards-Levy / The Huffington Post: Paul Ryan Defends Budget's Catholic Principles At Georgetown University
Paul Ryan / CNN: Ryan defends budget in face of Catholic critics
Paul Waldman / American Prospect:
The Cool Kids Versus the Squares, Yet Again — When Barack Obama appeared on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon the other night, he walked on stage and gave Fallon a quick pound hug, that handshake/one-arm hug that we cool guys do these days to express a sentiment something like, "It is good to see you again …
Discussion: Washington Monthly, Swampland, Hullabaloo, The Daily Dish, AlterNet and Washington Post
Ed Kilgore / Washington Monthly: That 60s Show — Paul Waldman doesn't quite share my feeling that the …
Adam Sorensen / Swampland: The Ned Flanders of Politics: Romney Isn't Cool and the GOP Shouldn't Worry About It
Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish: Here We Go Again — The latest revel in ressentiment from Rove's PAC:
Alex Pareene / AlterNet: Why Is Mitt Romney So Incredibly Weird?
Chris Cillizza / Washington Post: Barack Obama is cool. Mitt Romney is not. What does it mean for 2012?
Alicia M. Cohn / The Hill:
Crossroads ad attacks Obama's 'celebrity' presidency
Crossroads ad attacks Obama's 'celebrity' presidency
Discussion: CNN, No More Mister Nice Blog, Ballot Box and Weekly Standard
Cameron Joseph / Ballot Box: Haley Barbour: Obama's cash will let him define Romney
Michael Warren / Weekly Standard: Crossroads Ad: 'After 4 Years of A Celebrity President'
Carolyn Kaster / ABCNEWS:
Campaigning for the 'Cool' Vote
Campaigning for the 'Cool' Vote
Discussion: Runnin' Scared
Victoria Bekiempis / Runnin' Scared: Eyeroll: Barack Obama and Mitt Romney Clash Over Coolness
Evan McMorris-Santoro / 2012.talkingpointsmemo.com:
TPM2012 — Romney Campaign Again Warns Of 'Soviet' Threat — The Romney campaign has been accused of being stuck in the 1950s. But it also seems mired in the 1980s — it again invoked Cold War threats on Thursday, as it tried to attack the Obama administration on foreign policy.
Discussion: ThinkProgress, The Maddow Blog, Talking Points Memo and Wonkette
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo: The Minimal Standards
Jim Newell / Wonkette: Only Mitt Romney Can Stop The Grave Soviet Threat
Charlie Spiering / Campaign 2012:
Biden: 'The president has a big stick'
Biden: 'The president has a big stick'
Discussion: CNN, New York Magazine, Capital New York and Towleroad News #gay
Dan Amira / New York Magazine: The Many Big Sticks of President Obama
Reid Pillifant / Capital New York: Biden lists Romney's foreign-policy flaws, in an N.Y.U. speech overtaken by a 'big stick'
Josh Lederman / Ballot Box:
Biden: Obama has 'big stick,' Romney doesn't
Biden: Obama has 'big stick,' Romney doesn't
Daniel Halper / Weekly Standard: Biden: 'I Promise You, the President Has a Big Stick'
EXCLUSIVE: New Secret Service scandal centers on strippers, prostitutes in El Salvador — U.S. Secret Service agents brag they routinely use third-world prostitutes while conducting out-of-country security detail for Presidential visits — Sponsored Links — SEATTLE —
Alicia A. Caldwell / Associated Press: Secret Service investigating another trip
David Robertson / Wizbang: Prostitution Scandal There! — El Salvador is another place …
James Eng / msnbc.com: New report of Secret Service debauchery
Dylan Stableford / ABCNEWS: Ex-prostitute threatens to sue U.S. embassy over injuries sustained in Brazilian strip club parking lot
HotAirPundit: KIRO TV: Another Secret Service Scandal Centers on Strippers, Prostitutes in El Salvador
Darius Dixon / Politico: Report: 2nd Secret Service scandal
Ed Morrissey / Hot Air: New Secret Service scandal in El Salvador?
Doug Mataconis / Outside the Beltway: Additional Secret Service, Millitary Advance Team Scandals Uncovered
Ed O'Keefe / Washington Post: Lawmaker confirms Secret Service investigating new misconduct allegations
Rand Simberg / Transterrestrial Musings: "Of Course It Has Happened Before" — You have to be pretty ignorant …
Pew Research Center for the People and the Press:
More Support for Gun Rights, Gay Marriage than in 2008 or 2004 — OVERVIEW — Opinions about a pair of contentious social issues, gun control and gay marriage, have changed substantially since previous presidential campaigns. On gun control, Americans have become more conservative; on gay marriage, they have become more liberal.
Discussion: Washington Monthly, Prop 8 Trial Tracker, Towleroad News #gay, Advocate and ThinkProgress
Ed Kilgore / Washington Monthly: Pew on "Social Issues"
Jacob Combs / Prop 8 Trial Tracker: Pew Research poll shows ever-increasing support for marriage equality
Andrew Belonsky / Towleroad News #gay: Gay Marriage Support Has Risen Steadily Since 2004
John Sexton / BREITBART.COM:
SECOND FIRING IN FALSE ZIMMERMAN 911 EDIT — There has been a second firing at NBC over the misleading edit of George Zimmerman's 911 call. A report published yesterday afternoon by the Miami Herald identifies reporter/producer Jeff Burnside as the individual responsible for the edits …
Tom Maguire / JustOneMinute: NBC's Bad Zimmerman Edit - The Non-Story Expands
Robert Stacy McCain / The Spectacle Blog: NBC News and the Death of Truth
George Zimmerman / Trayvon Martin: NBC6 fires local reporter Jeff Burnside in editing of Zimmerman police call
Robert Stacy McCain / The Other McCain: Media's Lack of Accountability Now Blamed on 'Right-Wing Bloggers'?
Susan Duclos / Wake up America: George Zimmerman/Trayvon Martin Conspiracy: Yes Steve, You Are Crazy
Datechguy / Datechguy's Blog: Steven Taylor strikes back...and wiffs
Classical Values:
Zimmerman Raised With Black Children, Is Black
Zimmerman Raised With Black Children, Is Black
Discussion: Booman Tribune, The Week, Fox News, The Daily Caller, Taylor Marsh, protein wisdom and Transterrestrial Musings
BooMan / Booman Tribune: Some Context for Zimmerman
Jim Treacher / The Daily Caller: It was so simple: A white vigilante with a gun murdered a teenager …
Vermontaigne / protein wisdom: White Hispanic Was Black, All Along [Dan Collins]
Larry J. Sabato / Sabato's Crystal Ball:
Plan of Attack: Obama, Romney and the Electoral College — The presidential election could very well come down to one state — which one? We offer our thoughts on the Electoral College, plus answer questions on House, Senate and gubernatorial races, in our latest Crystal Ball video:
Discussion: msnbc.com
Mark Blumenthal / The Huffington Post:
The HuffPost Election Map: A First Look At The Presidential Race
The HuffPost Election Map: A First Look At The Presidential Race
Discussion: Hot Air
Media Matters / Media Matters for America:
Fox's Monica Crowley Reacts To Fluke's Reported Engagement: "To A Man?" — Fox News political and foreign affairs analyst Monica Crowley reacted to a report that Georgetown Law student Sandra Fluke got engaged to her boyfriend by tweeting: "To a man?" — Following criticism of her on Twitter …
Discussion: ThinkProgress, Little Green Footballs and Indecision Forever
Adam Peck / ThinkProgress: Fox News Contributor Mocks Sandra Fluke By Questioning Her Sexual Orientation
Charles Johnson / Little Green Footballs: Fox News Analyst Monica Crowley on Sandra Fluke's Engagement: 'To a Man?'
Dennis DiClaudio / Indecision Forever: Fox News' Monica Crowley Knows Funny!
Frank Newport / Gallup:
Young Voters Back Obama, but Many Aren't Poised to Vote — Older voters much more likely to vote, and more likely to support Romney — PRINCETON, NJ — President Obama continues to enjoy a substantial lead over Mitt Romney among voters under 30, but these youthful Americans …
Discussion: Ballot Box, Mediaite, National Review and GOP 12
Jonathan Easley / Ballot Box: Obama leads among young voters, but many might not vote
Noah Rothman / Mediaite: Gallup Poll Finds Young People Support Obama, But Are Less Likely To Turn Out To Vote For Him
Katrina Trinko / National Review: Kids These Days ... ... still overwhelmingly prefer President Obama, notes Gallup:
Christian Heinze / GOP 12: Huge generational gap in Obama vs. Romney
Elizabeth Hartfield / ABCNEWS: Young People May Not Bother to Vote for Obama: Poll
John Parkinson / ABCNEWS:
Pelosi Says GOP Plan on Student Loan Rate 'Assault on Women's Health' — House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi railed against Republican efforts to offset the one-year extension of the 3.4 percent student loan rate by taking money out of a fund she believes is imperative to the "survival to women."
Discussion: Weasel Zippers
Igor Volsky / ThinkProgress:
GOP Proposes Cuts In Health Prevention To Keep Student Loan Interest Rates From Doubling
GOP Proposes Cuts In Health Prevention To Keep Student Loan Interest Rates From Doubling
Discussion: Firedoglake, Democrats, The Hill, The Maddow Blog, Alan Colmes' Liberaland, NPR and Suburban Guerrilla
Democrats: House Democrats Announce New Bill to Keep Student Loan Interest Rates Low and Reduce the Deficit
Ian Swanson / The Hill: House to vote on student loans
Steve Benen / The Maddow Blog: One step forward, one step back on student loans
Odd Man Out / Suburban Guerrilla: GOP's student loan solution
Paul Krugman:
The New Voodoo — Every time I think we might be making progress against the prejudices and myths that pass for judicious thinking these days, something like this editorial in the FT comes along to renew my despair. — The editorial is a response to the latest bad UK economic news …
Discussion: Green Eagle, DownWithTyranny!, Cafe Hayek and Brad DeLong
J. Bradford DeLong / Brad DeLong: Why Oh Why Can't We Have a Better Press Corps? FT Editorial Edition
Karl Rove / Wall Street Journal:
I Was Wrong About Dick Cheney . . . . . . and other lessons I learned from vetting vice-presidential candidates. — We've entered the silly season when vast numbers of words will be expended on who Mitt Romney's vice presidential running mate should be. Since the actual announcement …
Discussion: Guardian, Politico and New York Magazine
Tom McCarthy / Guardian: Obama plans back-to-back rallies to kick off campaign - the day in politics
Alexander Burns / Politico: Rove: I was wrong about Cheney
David Catanese / Politico:
Dick Lugar trails by 5, poll says — Indiana Sen. Dick Lugar has fallen behind state Treasurer Richard Mourdock by five points, according to a new poll released Thursday. — The survey, taken Tuesday and Wednesday by Wenzel Strategies on behalf of Citizens United, places Mourdock at 44 percent and Lugar at 39 percent.
Discussion: Power Line, Sky Dancing, Weekly Standard and Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion
Paul Mirengoff / Power Line: Poll shows Mourdock leading in Indiana
Michael Warren / Weekly Standard: Poll: Mourdock 44, Lugar 39 (Updated)
Lisa Hirsch / ETonline.com:
Ann Romney on Recent MS Scare on Campaign Trail — Although her husband Mitt Romney is the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, Ann Romney's battle with multiple sclerosis hasn't stopped for the campaign trail. — The mom of five sons has suffered from the debilitating autoimmune disease since …
Discussion: ABCNEWS, Ballot Box, HotAirPundit, The Caucus, Yahoo! News and CNN
Holly Bailey / ABCNEWS: Ann Romney had a health 'scare' ahead of Super Tuesday
Ashley Parker / The Caucus: Ann Romney Discusses Super Tuesday Multiple Sclerosis Scare
Holly Bailey / Yahoo! News: In Delaware and Pennsylvania primaries, Mitt Romney sets a record he probably didn't want
Paul Bedard / Washington Examiner:
Vacation backlash: Blue collar Dems jealous, angry at Obamas — Blue collar workers are upset with the number of vacations the first family take. The Obamas are shown returning from their Christmas vacation in Hawaii in January. (Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images)
Jim Hoft / The Gateway Pundit: Working Class Dems Angry at Obama Royal Family ...(Michelle's Spanish Excursion Cost $467,000)
Daniel Allott / The Spectacle Blog: Out of Touch in the Rust Belt
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Judge rejects mistress's secrecy bid at John Edwards trial — The federal judge overseeing former presidential candidate John Edwards's trial on campaign finance charges has rejected what appears to be a bid by Edwards's ex-mistress to keep some of the trial exhibits secret.
Discussion: ABCNEWS and Yahoo! News
Dylan Stableford / ABCNEWS: John Edwards trial: Andrew Young's credibility questioned by defense
Maggie Haberman / Politico:
Andrew Cuomo vs. Hillary Clinton in 2016? — "Welcome to my announcement to run for president of Malta," Hillary Clinton joked Wednesday night as she took the stage at Lincoln Center, where she was one of 100 luminaries honored by Time magazine. — Surveying the crowd …
Discussion: Capital New York, Runnin' Scared, A plain blog about politics, ABCNEWS, New York Magazine and Swampland
Josh Benson / Capital New York: While Hillary makes a joke, Cuomo addresses the 2016 thing like Obama isn't even there
James King / Runnin' Scared: Andrew Cuomo Won't Talk About His Running For President In 2016. Everyone Else Will
Jonathan Bernstein / A plain blog about politics: In Defense of Insane 2016 Stories
Michael Falcone / ABCNEWS: Obama to Kick Off Campaign With Ohio, Va. Rallies
Chris Smith / New York Magazine: Andrew Cuomo Says 2016 Presidential Speculation is 'Fascinating,' and He's Right
Jay Newton-Small / Swampland: Hillary Clinton Makes Light of 2016 Speculation
Eugene Volokh / The Volokh Conspiracy:
Kentucky Employees May Not Be Fired for Lawfully Storing Guns in Their Cars — That's what Kentucky statutes provide, and today the Kentucky Supreme Court applied this rule in Mitchell v. University of Kentucky (Ky. Apr. 26, 2012). There was something of a complication because the defendant …
Discussion: ProfessorBainbridge.com and Clayton Cramer's Blog
David Miliband / New Statesman:
Exclusive: George Galloway's conversion to Islam — Jemima Khan, in an interview with the Bradford MP, reveals the background to his Muslim conversion. — In a wide-ranging interview in this week's issue of the New Statesman, George Galloway MP talks about his spectacular by-election victory …
Discussion: Telegraph, Harry's Place, Guardian and Jihad Watch
Associated Press:
Deal on Senate vote on violence against women bill — WASHINGTON - Senate leaders on Thursday overcame the gender politics that had roiled debate over the government's main domestic violence program and agreed to a vote on renewing it before heading home for a week's vacation.
Discussion: ThinkProgress
Annie-Rose Strasser / ThinkProgress: Senate Passes Violence Against Women Act


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MASHHAD, Iran, March 21 (UPI) -- Iran will destroy Tel Aviv should Israel launch a military strike against Iran, Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei said Thursday.
Khamenei addressed crowds during celebrations for Nowruz, the Persian new year, in the northeastern city of Mashhad. He warned Israel not to test Iran's patience.
"Israel's leaders sometimes threaten Iran but they know that if they do a damn thing, the Islamic Republic will raze Tel Aviv and Haifa to the ground," he was quoted by Iran's state-funded broadcaster Press TV as saying.
Khamenei added that Iran's adversaries were working through economic channels to undermine the country's reputation, adding the "center of conspiracy and the basis of hostility with the Iranian nation is the U.S. government."
His comments came as U.S. President Barack Obama stood with Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas in support of the two-state solution to Middle East peace.
Obama expressed concern about Israeli settlement activity and the role of Hamas but said direct negotiations between Israeli and Palestinian leaders could bring about peace. He added his support for an "independent, viable and contiguous Palestinian state."
Obama added there were "unbreakable bonds" between the U.S. and Israeli governments.

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20 Aug 2013
Dragonair today (20 August) announced that the following flight to Taipei on Wednesday night has been cancelled due to the forecast impact of Typhoon Trami. The airline expects that flights to and from Taipei, Taichung and Kaohsiung may be further disrupted from late Wednesday to early Thursday. Passengers are advised to check the latest flight information on the airline's website before departing for the airport.
Details of the flight cancelled are as follows:
Flight No.
Scheduled Departure Time (HK Time)
From Hong Kong to Taipei
9:05 pm on 21 August
Passengers booked on the cancelled flight are advised not to go to the airport. Dragonair will assist with alternative arrangements for affected passengers.
To ensure customers receive the latest flight status updates via SMS or email, they are advised to update their contact details in Manage My Booking at www.dragonair.com .
The airline will continue to monitor the situation closely and will issue further updates should there be any changes to the flight schedule.


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Stream Loose My Mind, the newest drop from K-Young. The cut was released on Wednesday, August 25th, 2010. Things are looking better for K-Young with each new release, which Loose My Mind has proven yet again. It's worthy addition to the impressive body of work K-Young has been developing over the years. We're looking forward to hearing what's next.
Have you heard K-Young's Please Me, featuring Bobby Brackins & Yung Berg? If you're down, make sure to visit K-Young's profile page for the newest info, news, songs, and mixtapes.
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|"The Royal Album"
Endpaper of Photo Album 26
|Unidentified Woman
Album 26
Unfortunately, lots of photograph albums are thrown away and lost. But those of famous people are saved in archives and historical societies. If you are lucky enough to be related to someone famous, or locally famous, you should search out these treasures. I went to the Hawaii State Archives in Honolulu to see if there were any photo albums or single photographs of my great aunt Mary (Jones) Dominis, but didn't find any. In the finding aids, and in discussions with the archivists, I found many photos of Queen Lili'uokalani, her daughter-in-law, in official files. But they also told me that there were seven of her personal photograph albums in the vault. This was my best bet for finding family photos.
|Photo Album 28
We photographed the cover, and tag, of each album
They were old, fragile and historic, but the photos were
in very good condition considering their age.
|"Owen J. Holt"
Photo Album 26
[son of Robert William Holt and his 2nd wife Caroline Tauwati Robinson,
named after his first wife's (my 4x great aunt Ann Marie Jones) father,
Owen Jones b. 1768 in Wales and died 1850 in Boston]
|"Mrs. William Lee" by Sarony's Studio, NY
Photo Album 26
I had a phone consultation with genealogist Maureen Taylor, the Photo Detective, about this photo. She is certain that it dates from the mid-1870s and shows a very wealthy, well dressed woman between 30 to 50 years old. Wife #1 was Anna M. T. Leavitt, born 1819 in Hampton, New Hampshire and died in 1883. She married William Lee in 1861, and in the mid-1870s she would have been about 50 years old. Wife #2 was Sarah White, born in 1849 in Hillsdale, New York and died in 1925. She married William Lee in 1888 and in the mid-1870s she would have been in about thirty years old. If anyone knows of a photograph of wife, I would love to compare it to this photo to see which wife this is! I've never seen a photo of either woman, so this would be a great clue.
|"Georgie Holt"
Photo Album 24
[George Hoonewaneewa Holt (1868 - 1929) son of Owen Jones Holt]
|"Mr. Aldrich"
Photo Album 26
[William Arnold Aldrich (1824 - 1892) husband to Elizabeth M. Holt,
daughter of Robert William Holt and Ann Marie S. Jones (my 4x great aunt)
He was born in Westmoreland, New Hampshire ]
My husband patiently photographed every page of all seven photo albums, and took closeup photos of the ones we knew or suspected to be relatives. In looking through letters in the archives there are many references to "I'm sending a photograph" or "Did you get the photograph?" and I hope to match up some of these, but it is an almost impossible task since I never met these folks, and they all died almost 100 years ago. But it is a project we can work on slowly over time, and hope that more clues will become available.
Hawaii State Archives http://hawaii.gov/dags/archives
All these photographs are from the Hawaii State Archives, Photographic Albums, Queen Lili'uokalani Collections, Albums 24 - 30, from the Lili'uokalani Estate 1921.
Maureen Taylor, "The Photo Detective" http://www.maureentaylor.com/
Copyright 2012, Heather Wilkinson Rojo


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Poll: Do You Eat and/or Dip Your Pizza Crusts?
Published: Last Updated:
Among pizza-eaters there seem to be various crust-eater types*: those who leave the crust as "pizza bones," folks who relish the crust and eat every bit, and those who like to dip it in something to give it a little extra oomph. This week's Slice pizza poll asks which one you are (with a subset of answers on dipping preferences for the dippers among us).
* Yes, we've covered similar ground before—"Types of Crust Eaters"—but not in a poll, all pseudo-scientific-style.
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Castagneto Carducci, June 2011, 8-16
by enrico caracciolo
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About the Book
About the Creator
Born in 1964 in Roma, he lives in Castagneto Carducci (Toscana); he is free-lance photographer, journalist and travel writer. His activity as photographer concerns mainly geographical and travel reportages - in Italy and abroad - published in the best travel and weekly magazines. He's specialized in bicycle travelling. In recent year he has explored and travele extensively through many countries (Alaska, Australia, Africa, South America, New Zealand and Europe). Actually he's working mainly in Italy and he's professionally interested in outdoor travelling, traditional handcrafts, ethnography, cyclism culture. His photojournalistic archive include a comprensive reportages on the natural, historic and artistic wonders of Italy.


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- Serves: 4; 3 ounces shrimp, heaping 2 cups salad, and 2 tablespoons dressing per serving
1/2 medium lemon, thinly sliced
1 medium garlic clove, halved, and 1 medium garlic clove, minced, divided use
4 whole peppercorns
1 pound fresh or frozen peeled shrimp, 21 to 26 count, thawed if frozen (see Cook's Tip on Shrimp, below)
1/2 teaspoon cornstarch
1/3 cup fat-free, low-sodium chicken broth
2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
1 tablespoon white wine vinegar
1 tablespoon snipped fresh oregano
4 ounces romaine or mixed salad greens, torn into bite-size pieces (about 4 cups)
3 ounces fresh spinach, torn into bite-size pieces (about 3 cups)
1/2 medium red bell pepper, thinly sliced
1/2 medium cucumber, thinly sliced
1/4 small red onion, thinly sliced
1 medium tomato, cut into 12 wedges
2 tablespoons crumbled fat-free feta cheese
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In a medium saucepan over medium heat, bring the water, lemon slices, halved garlic, and peppercorns just to a simmer, covered. Add the shrimp and cook, uncovered, for 2 to 3 minutes, or just until the shrimp turns pink. Drain, discarding the lemon, garlic, and peppercorns. Spread the shrimp in a single layer on a large plate. Refrigerate for 10 to 15 minutes, or until cooled.
Meanwhile, put the cornstarch in a small saucepan. Pour in the broth, whisking to dissolve. Cook over medium-high heat for about 2 minutes, or until boiling and thickened, whisking constantly. Pour into a small bowl. Let cool at room temperature for 5 to 10 minutes.
Whisk the lemon juice, vinegar, oregano, and minced garlic into the broth mixture. Set aside.
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- Nutritional Analysis
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- Calories Per Serving
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- Total Fat
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- Trans Fat
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- Polyunsaturated Fat
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- Monounsaturated Fat
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- Cholesterol
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- Sodium
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- Carbohydrates
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Four of the site's 68 turbines are having one of their three rotor blades painted in the contrasting colour.
Statkraft is also investigating the use of ultra-violet (UV) light, which birds see much better than people, by installing UV lamps on turbines.
If the trial proves successful it might move on to testing UV-reflecting paint, invisible to the human eye but highly visible to birds.
The black rotor blades are primarily designed for the protection of white-tailed eagles, but Statkraft is also looking into contrasting colours for the lower part of the turbine tower to protect lower-flying birds such as ducks and grouse.
"There are some methods on the market today, most of them still in the experimental phase, which are intended to scare birds away from wind turbines," said Statkraft environmental adviser Bjorn Iuell.
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We had an awesome Christmas. I hated not being with my family and not being able to share in our traditions, but my Christmas was the best it could have been. Kicked off with Kim and Nancy having an awesome "Bad Sweater" Christmas dinner. They are SO good to all the kids in our little circle. They got all the kids toys, Lo got a tea set that she loves! She has tea parties with Ty and I every day.
You can't tell how trully awful my sweater was in this pic, but it had a Golden Retriever on it. It was hideous.
After that was our "White Trash" Christmas party. It was such an amazingly good time. We have this party every year with a different theme and this was by far the best and the one people most got into. We served pigs in a blanket, mac and cheese with bacon, tater tots, graham crackers and frosting, twinkies and all the cheap beer you could drink!
My hair was the most awesome part... I took tips from my mom from back in the 80's. It rocked!
After that we had Christmas Eve with Tom, Kate and Kevin. It was small, but awesome. I decided to do a big dinner Christmas Eve so I could spend all day playing with Lo and vegging. It's tradition to open pajamas and have daddy read T'was the Night Before Christmas.
Christmas morning was awesome. Lo loved getting all the toys. But it was hard to get her to focus on anything except her big teddy bear. Then once she saw the kitchen it was over. But she managed to open everything and had so much fun playing with all her toys.
She got a guitar from Nana. Since Dad's favorite game right now is Guitar Hero- Lo loves to rock along with him. It's the cutest thing ever. I keep the guitar hidden until Dad plays his so it remains a special toy.
My friend Jessica just got back from Hawaii so she brought Lo a grass skirt and coconut bra. She LOVES to put the skirt on and dance all over the house. The sunglasses came with the guitar, but somehow she knows if she has her skirt on, she needs her sunglasses... she brings them to me every time she wears her skirt.


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Angela Martinez-Balderaz should not have been standing on a stage in downtown Dallas on Saturday, addressing thousands who had come to protest the 40th anniversary of legal U.S. abortions.
"Twenty-five years ago, this could have been the city that was the death of me," said the 25-year-old Grand Prairie woman, who described how her mother had tried to abort her through legal means and then by taking illegal drugs.
"I was born healthy, alive and without any sickness," Martinez-Balderaz told the cheering crowd. "Speak up for the unborn. I could have been one of them."
An estimated 8,000 to 10,000 anti-abortion demonstrators marched from the Cathedral Shrine of the Virgin of Guadalupe on Ross Avenue to the Earle Cabell Federal Building on Griffin Street, where the Roe vs. Wade abortion lawsuit was filed in 1970.
Anti-abortion rallies have been staged at this site for years, although this year the crowd was larger in recognition of the landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision, which was handed down on Jan. 22, 1973.
"We wanted to pray at the court building where the lawsuit began," said Sister Bernadette Nguyen, who drove from Houston with a group of Vietnamese Dominican Sisters. They recited the rosary as the march wound through largely vacant downtown streets.
The protest drew a wide range of ethnic groups, many of whom carried homemade or manufactured signs that targeted abortion. "Don't Mess With Unborn Texans," warned one sign. "Save Da Babies," said another.
Malyss Brightwell, an 11-year-old girl from Mesquite, had made a glittery sign stating "Fight for Life, Stop Abortion." It was her idea to attend, she said, but she brought along her mother, Darlynda Brightwell, so they could share their first protest against abortion.
"I just want abortion to end because it's murder," the girl said.
The attendees were mainly Catholics, who had been enlisted by their pastors to take a public stand against abortion. They came from small towns and cities throughout North and East Texas as well as some Dallas parishes.
"We're just tired of the killing of babies," said Gina Fuller of McKinney, a member of St. Gabriel's Catholic Church. "We believe these children have a right to live like every other child in America."
Others gave more personal reasons for showing up, including dozens who carried signs that read, "Women Do Regret Abortions."
Joanie Quint of Terrell carried such a sign, but said she was marching on behalf of her sister, who had undergone a legal abortion in 1973.
"She married later and couldn't have kids," Quint recalled. "She blamed the abortion for it. It was always too painful for her to go to a march like this, and then she died in a car accident two years ago."
Some speakers at a post-march rally focused on the number of abortions performed since the Supreme Court ruling. In 2011, the Guttmacher Institute, a nonprofit organization that tracks abortions, estimated that 50 million U.S. abortions had been performed from 1973 through 2008.
"This holocaust has to come to an end," said Bishop Kevin Farrell, one of a dozen rally speakers.
"Fifty-three million people — stop for a moment to think — 53 million children were not defended," he said. "We must do much more to create an environment, an atmosphere where human life is the most important gift. We must respect human life from conception to natural death."
The six-hour protest began with prayers recited outside a Dallas abortion clinic, followed by a bilingual Mass at the Catholic cathedral and a worship service at First Baptist Church downtown.
The events were sponsored by the Catholic Pro-Life Committee of North Texas, Texans for Life Coalition, Pro-Life Dallas, Catholics Respect Life of Fort Worth, First Baptist Dallas and Hike for Life Texas.


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A watch maker needs very good vision to work on the small parts inside a watch. He might not tolerate any blurring or distortion of his vision. Someone else might not be bothered much by quite a bit of blurred vision.
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It has been said that everyone that lives long enough will get a cataract. Some develop very slowly and some can be caused quickly by circumstances. A strong electric shock can cause a traumatic cataract. An accident from a high voltage power line or even a bolt of lighting might cause the lens in the eye to become cloudy. That is what a cataract actually is, a clouding or lack of transparency in the natural lens of the eye.
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A new "Romney for President" video is the latest attempt by the Romney campaign to appeal to Hispanic voters.
Titled "Dismal," the ad, which has both Spanish and English versions, cites recent statistics about Latino poverty and unemployment to attack President Obama's record and claim that his policies have hurt Latinos. "Under President Obama, Hispanic unemployment has increased from 10 percent to 11 percent," the ad states.
The web ad displayed on the campaign's web site, is a direct response to a recent Obama campaign Spanish-language video and challenges the administration view that the country is again "on the right path."
The video combines footage from Obama's Spanish media ads with recent data from the Census Bureau, the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the Pew Research Center, and Fox News to highlight Latino unemployment. The ad, which features headlines such as "Childhood Poverty among Hispanics Sets Record, Leads Nation" superimposed over grainy images of somber-looking men, women, and children, does not mention Romney, but instead points to the Obama campaign's premise that "we're on the right path" and asks, "Really?"
The Obama campaign fired back, pointing out that unemployment among Hispanic Americans has dropped nearly 2 percentage points in the last 27 months, while overall private sector job growth has increased.
An independent examination of BLS statistics shows that both candidates' claims are technically correct. Unemployment among Hispanics has jumped from 10 percent to 11 percent since January 2009, according to the BLS statistics, which also show that the jobless rate among Hispanics spiked at 12.6 percent in March 2010.
Obama campaign spokesperson Gabriela Domenzain, responding to the Romney web video, said "Hispanics stand to lose the most from Romney's insistence on the same failed economic policies that created the economic crisis, including his plans to give massive tax breaks to millionaires and billionaires, allow Wall Street write its own rules again, and let foreclosures 'hit the bottom.' "President Obama is fighting for an economy built to last _ where we create jobs, grow the middle class, and reward hard work and responsibility. We are seeing results."


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Skype founders sue former Joost boss
Trade secrets spat goes public
The founders of Skype are suing Michael Volpi, the ex-chairman of Joost, for allegedly stealing trade secrets relating to the peer-to-peer technology shared by Skype and the web TV firm.
The two, Janus Friis and Niklas Zennstrom, have already taken legal action against eBay through their company Joltid, which they say owns the technology used by Skype. The action also names Silver Lake Partners and the other investors who agreed to buy Skype from eBay for $2bn earlier this month.
The filing to a Delaware court accuses Volpi of "the acts of a faithless fiduciary", and suggests he stole confidential and highly proprietary information. The Wall Street Journal has a copy of the document.
Joost, owned by Friis and Zennstrom, sacked Volpi last week and said it was investigating his actions while he was chief exec and chairman.
eBay paid $2.6bn for Skype and never really seemed to know what to do with it. Plans for an IPO were scuppered by the row over patents.
eBay had to warn the markets back in July that there were questions over its ownership of the central technology.
At one stage it looked like the online tat bazaar would sell Skype back to its founders, which was the fate of eBay's other baffling buy - StumbleUpon - which it sold back to its original owners in April.
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Flower Box Award: 3 (?) Minetta Lane
I often walk across the one winding block of Minetta Lane to get from the central Village over to the West Village. It's a short, sleepy block where nothing much seems to happen.
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This week, as I passed through in my usual quick way, I caught the scent of lavender, and slowed down. There, through a gate for 1-4 Minetta Lane, was a stoop, potted from top to bottom with lavender plants... and a parrot. It was like Provence meets the tropics. Life, teeming from a New York City doorstep - this is what we like to see!!! Next time you're trying to cross the village, forget Bleecker Street, stroll Minetta Lane and you might just see a sight you've never seen before in Manhattan. skgr


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The new Action Comics #14, published this month by DC Comics, reveals that even Superman visits the Museum's Hayden Planetarium—and not just to see the Space Show.
The superhero, it turns out, comes once a year to see images of his far-off home planet, Krypton, said to orbit its home-star every 382 days. To locate the fictional planet in the actual sky, DC Comics worked with astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, director of the Museum's Hayden Planetarium. "When an artist's muse leads to scientific themes," says Tyson, "we are there to help out." Tyson elaborates on the process in this video.
Tyson's first task was to figure out where the planet Krypton would be located in the galaxy. Using the facts of Superman's fictional life—such as his age, about 27—Tyson studied published catalogs of known stars to determine a few possible candidates about 27 light years from Earth, around which Krypton might orbit.
After hearing about the candidates, DC Comics homed in on one—a star known as LHS 2520—because it was within the night-sky constellation Corvus, which is Latin for crow. As Superman aficionados know, the mascot of Smallville High School—which Clark Kent attends growing up—is the Crow.
Back on Earth, astronomers don't know whether LHS 2520 has any planets orbiting it. But over the past two decades, many astronomers have discovered planets orbiting stars other than our Sun. Though only a small portion of the sky has been surveyed so far, about 800 of these exoplanents have already been discovered, with thousands more observed but not yet confirmed.
Still, distant stars like LHS 2520 are not easily observed; in fact, no telescope today is strong enough to see details of planets as far off as the fictional Krypton would be. To actually see a planet 27 light years away, says Tyson, a telescope "would have to be the width of the Earth!"
Instead, today, exoplanet researchers mostly observe exoplanets indirectly, by watching the effects of a planet's gravity on the star, or the tiny eclipses that occur as planets "transit," or cross, a star.
But astrophysicists can combine the powers of telescopes placed at a distance from one another to amplify their powers of observation. Called interferometry, this method, for now, utilizes small telescopes, not powerful enough to observe far-off Krypton-like exoplanets.
To make the comic's key plot point—Superman observing his home planet's destruction—scientifically plausible, Tyson combined fact with fiction. In the comic, every actual visible-light telescope on Earth observes Krypton at the same moment, in effect creating a massive interferometer—a feat only possible in comics.
Sadly for Superman, this amazing technology allows him to observe the long-ago explosion of his home planet, the light from which has taken 27 years to reach Earth. "The Planet Krypton has been gone for years," reads the comic. "But as far as Superman is concerned—Tonight is the night Krypton died."
Interested in exoplanets?
With about 200 billion stars in the Milky Way galaxy, there may turn out to be trillions of exoplanets. Learn more about Museum scientist Rebecca Oppenheimer's pioneering work in exoplanet detection.
Take a grand tour of the Universe, on Tuesday, November 27, in the Dome of the Hayden Planetarium Space Theater. Using the Museum's Digital Universe Atlas, Brian Abbot will lead you away from Earth, out of the solar system, to exoplanets—and beyond. Purchase tickets here.


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When you're pregnant, living a green lifestyle takes on a new importance. Instead of following the trend to ease your eco-guilt, it's about creating a safe and healthy world for your baby to grow and thrive in. But how do you do it? Here are a few hints.
Replace: From purchasing and eating local produce to ridding your home of toxins in all forms, take stock of the environment closest to you and your baby.
Research: What you use on and around your baby affects her health. From shampoo to clothing to crib sheets, read all ingredient labels and make sure the products are made from organic sources.
Recycle: Take a long-term approach to protecting your baby — and the environment. Reuse and repurpose as often as you can. Here's how five real-world moms, inspired by the birth of their children, started with one simple step and ended up going green for good.
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Recycle, reuse and run a zero waste home
Lisa Mitchell decided she wanted to do something to make a difference and make a living at the same time, and she wanted to set a good example for her daughters, Lucy and Caroline. So shortly after her divorce, Mitchell went into the recycling business.
She learned all she could about the business and, in 2001, founded Recyclaholics (recyclaholics.com), which sells 100 percent compostable products such as trash bags and food-service ware to schools, government agencies and restaurants. For example, her fully compostable cups are made from recycled sugarcane waste. "They start as waste, get recycled into cups, and then go back to the earth as compost; it's the perfect closed-loop product," Mitchell says.
In the interest of closing the loop, Recyclaholics recently spun off a second company, Recology Solutions (recologysolutions.com). Now Mitchell sells compostable products via one company and helps customers compost and recycle via the other. She's also launching a line of retail products online so that anyone can run a zero-waste home or business.
What you can do
Recycle Everything: Go to Earth911.org or call 800-CLEANUP (800-253-2687) to find programs in your area.
Buy Green: Look for biodegradable tableware, new materials that contain sugarcane and corn, and recycled paper towels.
Start Composting: "You can easily compost most of your food waste," says Mitchell. Just remember to keep food and organic matter (such as grass clippings and plant materials) separate from other waste. When the rich soil is ready, you can plant vegetables in it; then, when they're ripe, use them to make baby food. Finally, close the loop: Toss the leftovers back into the composting bin. For complete composting instructions, go to fitpregnancy.com/inthisissue.
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Jennifer Cliff has always been passionate about food and wine, but learning to appreciate locally grown fare took on new meaning when she was expecting. That's when Edible Sacramento was born along with her daughter, Parker, now 3. Cliff publishes and her husband Darren Cliff edits Edible Sacramento (ediblesacramento.com), one of 40 or so community food magazines licensed by Edible Communities Inc.
People need to know they can help struggling local farmers maintain their family legacy just by eating the foods they produce, Cliff explains. Community farmers can use the money you spend to grow and harvest nutritious, flavorful food. It's also easier on the environment than transporting foods over long distances. And, you can actually go to the farm where your food is grown and ask about any chemicals used on its crops.
Eating local is safer When we eat foods from other countries, we have no way of knowing whether they contain pesticides banned in the U.S. Although the FDA and USDA monitor fruit, grain, meat and dairy products for certain banned pesticides, they only sample a relatively small number of shipments. Even worse, some toxic pesticides used in other countries aren't on the list of federally tested chemicals, and therefore there is no way to detect them.
What you can do:
Shop local: To find farmers markets in your area, go to the farmersmarketsusa.org.
Grow your own: For seeds and organic gardening products check out seedsofchange.com and planetnatural.com.
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Put yourself and your baby on a chemical free diet
As a scientist, Andrea Jones knew the advantages of eating pesticide-free foods even before she got pregnant. During her pregnancy, she ate mostly organic foods, but she didn't give it serious thought until her son, Kyle, now 3, was a few months old. Jones started reading about the dangers of pesticides in food. "Because of their faster metabolism and smaller body size, babies can't process and eliminate pesticides as well as adults," she says.
As a result, Jones began buying only organic produce and felt that what she and her son were eating was safe. That is, until she came across an Environmental Working Group study that tested canned foods (including organic varieties) in the U.S. for bisphenol A (BPA). BPA is often used in can liners to prevent the metal from corroding and leaching into foods, but it's associated with breast and prostate cancer, infertility and permanent damage to developing male reproductive organs. The researchers found that the linings of more than half the cans tested contained BPA.
Getting fresh
Jones was shocked to learn that the U.S. government sets no safety limits for the chemical's use in canned foods. [Editor's note: The Food and Drug Administration has not found reason to revise its guidelines concerning the use of BPA in food containers; for the latest statement on the agency's position, go to fitpregnancy.com/fdabpa.] She contacted nine companies and asked them if the cans of organic food her family ate contained BPA. Most of them did.
Some companies responded with explanations, falling back on the government guidelines and claiming there are no safe alternatives. Nevertheless, Jones told them she would stop buying their products. Today, she spreads the word to her family and friends, and she's learning how to make more meals from scratch.
What you can do
Make your own MEALS: By cooking fresh and limiting canned and packaged foods, you'll curb your exposure to chemicals.
Use your purchasing power: If you're not sure whether the canned foods you buy contain BPA, call the companies and ask. Then write to manufacturers and tell them you'll stop buying cans that contain it.
Learn more: For information about reducing your and your baby's exposure to BPA, check out the Environmental Working Group's Survey of BPA in U.S. Canned Foods (www.ewg.org/reports/bisphenola).
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Detoxify bathtime by learning which ingredients to avoid
Cozy Friedman opened her first of three children's hair salons, Cozy's Cuts For Kids (cozyscuts.com), in 1994 with the idea of taking something potentially unfriendly or scary for children and making it fun. She provides colorful car-shaped styling chairs, entertaining videos, toys, balloons and bubbles. She also developed her So Cozy line of hair care products with kid-friendly fruity fragrances.
It wasn't until her two boys, Shane and Riley (now 9 and 7), were old enough to need regular haircuts that she began wondering about the environmental movement and the advantages of using greener products for her children and herself. First, she noticed a lack of FDA control over terms like "natural." Then she noticed a lot of what seemed to be deceptive advertising.
"Any product can say 'natural' on the label. But as a consumer and a mother, I see methyl paraben [a preservative and fungicide that is an endocrine disruptor] on the list of ingredients and I know that's not natural," Friedman says. Also, phthalates (chemicals made from petroleum and commonly used in plastics and cosmetics) are a concern in baby shampoo, and they're not required to be listed on labels.
Clean up with green goods
To ensure the safety of her own line of products, Friedman revised her formulas to make them not only friendly to kids, but friendly to the environment. She replaced the parabens with a naturally occurring amino acid that inhibits the growth of bacteria, yeast and mold.
Friedman also added 11 herbal extracts (including comfrey, horsetail, aloe vera and tea tree oil), wrapped the products in 100 percent recyclable packaging and began using environmentally responsible manufacturing practices. They still have fruity fragrances, but the scents come from a gentler combination of ingredients that are less toxic than many chemicals that can be listed under the generic term "fragrance."
What you can do
Lean toward natural: Go to cosmetics database.com for a searchable database of 25,000 products cross-referenced against 50 toxicity databases.
Read the ingredients list: Before buying personal care products for you and your baby, read labels carefully. Avoid methyl paraben and phthalates. They may not be listed, so check on the Internet.
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Go nontoxic
Replace household and nursery items with more natural alternatives.
When Paige Goldberg Tolmach's 8-week-old son Jackson came down with a oozy, painful rash, she took him to 14 different doctors. "I had a team of specialists standing over my beautiful baby saying, 'It's eczema. There's nothing you can do; just put him on steroids,'" Goldberg Tolmach says.
The doctors said the rash was hereditary and was triggered by changes in the weather, and they suggested that she quit breastfeeding.
None of this made sense to Goldberg Tolmach, who didn't want to put Jackson on steroids unnecessarily. If it's hereditary, she thought, why didn't she or her husband have it? As for the weather, they live in Southern California, where the climate is relatively mild year-round. And she knew breastfeeding was good for Jackson.
After doing some research, Goldberg Tolmach discovered how many products in her house contained toxic chemicals. For example, Jackson's old crib mattress contained a common flame retardant that can harm the developing central nervous system and brain. And, the latex rubber nipples that came with his bottles contained nitrosamines, a family of chemical compounds shown in animal studies to be mutagens (chemicals that change DNA) and carcinogens.
Seek green baby gear
After some serious sleuthing, Goldberg Tolmach found and ordered an array of all natural, eco-friendly alternatives. She bought an organic wool crib mattress; organic baby clothing; and nipples made from non-toxic, medical-grade silicone. While there's no direct scientific proof that the chemical-laced products caused her son's eczema, when she stopped using them, it started to clear up and was completely gone within four weeks.
Goldberg Tolmach knew that whatever was good for Jackson, now 11/2, had to be good for other babies and the planet, so she and two friends (also moms), Beth Birkett and actress Soleil Moon Frye, opened The Little Seed (thelittleseed.com), a Los Angeles-area baby boutique that carries eco-friendly products.
What you can do
Check the materials: Find out what your baby's toys, gear and clothing are made of.
Suspect everything: Research before you buy anything that goes in or is used in your home.
Create a natural nursery: Stock your baby's room with organic cotton, flannel or bamboo sheets. Use low or no-VOC paint and avoid installing new carpet.
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Green resources for parents on the Web
• Go to fitpregnancy.com/goinggreen to assess how green you are now (and get to the next level).
• Healthy Child, Healthy World, healthychild.org.
• Organic Consumer Association, organicconsumers.org.
• Skin Deep Cosmetic Safety Database, The Environmental Working Group cosmeticsdatabase.com.
• Healthy Child, Healthy World, healthychild.org.
• Organic Consumer Association, organicconsumers.org.
• Skin Deep Cosmetic Safety Database, The Environmental Working Group cosmeticsdatabase.com.
•The Complete Idiot's Guide to Green Living, by Trish Riley (Penguin Group, 2007)
•The Complete Organic Pregnancy: What You Need to Know—From the Nail Polish You Wear to the Bed You Sleep In to the Water You Drink By Deirdre Dolan and Alexandra Zissu (Collins, 2006)
•Healthy Child, Healthy World: Creating a Cleaner, Greener, Safer Home By Christopher Gavigan (Dutton Adult Books, 2008)
•In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto, by Michael Pollan (Penguin Press HC, 2008)
•Living Like Ed: A Guide to the Eco-Friendly Life, by Ed Begley, Jr. (Clarkson Potter, 2008)
•Organic Baby: Simple Steps For Healthy Living, by Kimberly Rider (Chronicle Books, 2007)
•The Complete Organic Pregnancy: What You Need to Know—From the Nail Polish You Wear to the Bed You Sleep In to the Water You Drink By Deirdre Dolan and Alexandra Zissu (Collins, 2006)
•Healthy Child, Healthy World: Creating a Cleaner, Greener, Safer Home By Christopher Gavigan (Dutton Adult Books, 2008)
•In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto, by Michael Pollan (Penguin Press HC, 2008)
•Living Like Ed: A Guide to the Eco-Friendly Life, by Ed Begley, Jr. (Clarkson Potter, 2008)
•Organic Baby: Simple Steps For Healthy Living, by Kimberly Rider (Chronicle Books, 2007)
Five steps to go green for your baby
When you're pregnant, living a green lifestyle takes on a new importance. Instead of following the trend to ease your eco-guilt, it's about creating a safe and


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