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Brilliant stop action advert for Sneaux "Human Skateboard" Directed by PES... [All the others are INCREDIBLE as well]
On going green ~ Domino teams up with Graham Hill of treehugger, Shalom Harlow, and Louisa Shafia, the health foodie... to present their 2007 GREEN LIST of products and companies (great list)
For anyone who hasn't heard, Tyler Brule of Wallpaper fame, has started Monocle... first issue out now.
MotoNav ~ motorola's simple new gps/navigation device... aesthetically intriguing.
VIDEOOn the ongoing list of videos i love waking up to... lets add Ok Go's latest wallpaper themed "Do What You Want" ~ and i fully agree with josh spear... such a rip on Banksy's Elephant... it should have had a cameo!
Camera Stabilizing Bag ~ nice idea for dslrs...
FEATUREDCurious Fork / Furious Cork... i am floored by the brilliantness of this name... and loving the logos as well...
NIKE is smoking
wil freeborn is an incredible artist, who captures the everyday in his sketches. check out his work at ghostschool.co.uk
Large stainless steel mirrors and the hanging rope is included! Designed by Afroditi Kressa for E&Y
Random printing press art. These are setup sheets, which are used to test and tune printing presses. The resulting overlays of random images are fascinating
Grooveware is a series of three porcelain dishes and an ashtray. The basic forms are generic, except for the fact that each is paired with, and indented by an appropriate utensil.
Takito Co., Ltd. / Table Studio m
Anamorphic Cups. The stainless steel cup has a polished mirror finish. The porcelain saucer is printed with distorted images or words. Comes in six different words and images.
If there's one thing that i haven't been able to shake since milan... its the phrase ciao ciao... and this is one adorable couple from TokiDoki and StrangeCo - "adios & ciao ciao"
I knew i saved the wii packaging for a reason... someone filled the packaging with chocolate and made edible wiimotes and nunchucks!!!
good friend of mine was part of the team who made this site! "as Guinness expounds on it's "good things come to those who wait" tag with a visually mesmerizing short film from animator/director Michael Schlingmann titled "Hands.""
Jenny Dutton's serpent shoe
lookout sunshine. by alena hennessy
LG teams up with Designers Guild in the UK to create these stunning designer washing machines!
Good things come to those who wait. [Editor's Note: Ahhh, Guinness. Nice ad.]
A friend with a totally different style. Especially look at his Y the Last Man comics - if you haven't already ;) [Editor's Note - beautiful comic illustration work]
Samsonite has an interesting idea here for travel tags,... not sure about how functional it is, but you twist it open and write on the inside...
This kind of gives Skeleton Key a whole new meaning... Skull key covers...
Happy Chinese New Year ~ love this little banner image ToysREvil is running...
POCKET GARDEN - for the lazy gardener... and easier to gift than potted plants... tear it open, add water, and poof! desktop garden.
Global Coral Reef Restoration...Mineral Accretion Technology might indeed save the day and the bay.
FEATUREDOMOP - from method home. Don't you just love it when cleaning can become "hip and sexy" not to mention ergonomic, eco-conscious, and microfibrous... and gorgeously packaged.
Geek design chic. a usb drive enclosure that looks exactly like a naked hard drive.
a table called Dance by Thai designer Duangrit Bunnag for ANYROOM
DIY duct tape wallet from my duct bills.
His & Hers ~ Love the design... from the Garden State music supervisor, Amanda Scheer-Demme! Oasis, and The Dandy Warhols to The Postal Service, Daft Punk, Goldfrapp, and Nina Simone.
Arrrrrrrrrrrrrrr - toast. Gotta love the Fabulist, only she can find the German Pirate Toaster.
An ice cream truck for the urban set. I wonder what their flavors will be called?
Microwave steamers... been using japanese things like this for years, excited to see that Elegan/Rubbermaid has jumped on that and made it more aesthetically interesting.
This "Evolver" t-shirt is what happens when you mix the Beatles' "Revolver" album with Darwin and Planet of the Apes!
FEATUREDWhat happens when aluminum monkeys take over your school? Loving Marjolijn Mandersloot's works after seeing #3133. [Editor's Note: also seen as #2353]
Have you seen how EyeballNYC animates? Its LIVE!
Limited edition collaboration between Lucky handbags and Sailor Jerry brings us only 12 of these leather tattooed bags. $565 each.
Great video! Shot at 2000 frames per second, and well worth it. Vitalic supplies an amazing dance track, too! Bird by Pleix [Editor's Note - wow that was sweet!]
Brand New School has brought us another winner...search their past work for more great adverts!
Marjolijn Mandersloot's giant bobblehead dog sculptures are just some of her amazing public art works.
Wii Weights: Part two. More details of the Wii Weights.
FEATUREDTeaposy ~ hand stitched bouquets of tea leaves and flowers that bloom in your pot. Love the "making of" images of these little bundles.
Continuing the tee theme, Swarovski rhinestone detailing delivers an explosive muzzle flash as rhinestone shell casings eject from the rear of the gun.
Frozen Tidal Wave/Melting Glacier
Handsome Sausage has some fun 80's looking fencer tees
stikova's shikito customs exhibition - our fav little b*shits get customized!!! Some gorgeous pieces here. and new RED* Nuclear b*shit
happy heartbreak is a new medicine for broken hearts. no feelings after 5 seconds! your memory will be erased after 10 seconds! happy heart - happy end! [Editor's Note: great commercial]


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Before you get all excited that my vagina has taken up the 10,000 steps program, this is a re-post from a piece I wrote for everyone's internet heroine Scary Mommy. I'm running it here, with some editing, because I had the good fortune to read it aloud this past weekend. Some of you have probably perused it on the initial pass, and now others of you have had the singular experience of listening to the word 'vagina' reverberate through a crowded banquet room. Since then I've gotten requests from people who have neither read nor heard it to see it posted. And because I'm on vacation with my family, I'm not above passing an old post off as a new one.
To the inimitible Ann Imig, author of work I never miss and the creator of the Listen To Your Mother Show, I thank you for not discreetly tossing my randomly selected name back into the hat from which it was drawn, instead allowing me to talk some nonsense from a podium on your stage. The only time I have ever been as close as I was to vomiting in public was when I mustered the mettle in 7th grade to tell Jacob Ornellis that I liked his skateboard.
The six week postpartum checkup.
It's the appointment in which the OB will stare at your nethers under the glare of a strobe light mounted to a hardhat as she asks leading questions to discern how many times you've fallen down the stairs in a fit of delirium and how closely you identify with the movie The Omen. As you gently hint at the likelihood of getting a script for Tylenol PM for Infants, your doctor will smile at you, offer congratulations for your bundle of colic, and will utter the one sentence you are – no matter what her speculum says – entirely unprepared to hear:
You can now resume sexual activity.
Your Gone Fishin' sign was just yanked right off your vagina. Mayan Year 2012 hit your private parts.
If this visit follows the birth of your first baby, your husband is likely standing beside the table as this news is delivered. The grin to spread across his face will outstretch the one you saw when he was first handed his newborn child. The smile fades as he witnesses your descent through The Five Stages of Grief, all of which occur in dramatic flair with your knees still touching opposite coastlines.
Denial. "I think you have the wrong file. I just delivered a baby. A human. See, that's her right there. That was inside of my body until she tore her way through it, like a goddamn Trojan Horse. Are you certain you went to medical school?"
Anger. "Why did you ask me here? I was told by a woman I work with that you were going to give me happy pills at this appointment, not tell me I need to be having sex with… (unsubtle head tilt in partner's direction). And I would like my underwear back now."
Bargaining. "Listen, I may have overreacted. Let's find some middle ground. You pop a couple of those episiotomy stitches down there and I'll tell all of my friends with yeast infections to come see you. Deal?"
Depression. The utterance of words during the passage through this phase ceases altogether as you consider that the only moments your day permits for a shower and a status update on Facebook have been stolen.
Acceptance. You nod slowly, shifting your eyes from the doctor, to the baby, to your husband, understanding that all are working in chorus to destroy your personal anatomy and your DVR queue.
You exit the physician's office, quite possibly still wearing the oversized Maxi pads you absconded with from the hospital, with a slow and wearied gate.
Dead Vagina Walking.
Your husband, on the other hand, has a buoyancy to his step and is already suggestively whistling something by Marvin Gaye. This is when the calendar floats into your consciousness. Whatever day this 6 week postpartum check falls on – a Tuesday, a Friday, May, December – is the day that will be listed on your tombstone. This is the day you're going to die. Your friends and family will eulogize your life with somber nods, "She endured too much. Sleeplessness, poor oral hygiene, elasticized waistbands, a diet of fistfuls of cereal. Despite this, her doctor told her she was ready for exercise and sex. It was too much to bear."
Your body has been hijacked by hormones, your erogenous zones assassinated by nursing, and your ability to lay prone in the dark without falling comatose has been lost. And you're a bit terrified because your lady innards still feel a lot like Hiroshima must have looked after the A-bomb.
However, he will start dry humping your leg like an un-neutered Jack Russell Terrier if you continue to cite 'funky stuff you don't want to even know about down there' as your reason for celibacy. He will start to suspect you're stretching the truth when you say you're considering a Divine calling to join a Roman convent.
So you will. You will 'do it'. And it will be fine.
But it's completely fair to say you're not taking your sweatpants off.

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In Native American society, illness and disease bring the patient closer to spirit.
Hillsborough, NC (Vocus) July 6, 2009
Cultural expert Laine Cunningham spent the last ten months working with the EarthStar Spiritual Center to become certified as a Master Shaman. For over a decade, she has immersed herself in the traditions of Native American, Australian Aboriginal and Hawaiian peoples. She discovered that these tribal cultures offer solutions for the modern world's most pressing issues.
For example, she was invited on a radio show to discuss the native take on the swine flu epidemic. Cunningham talked about the Hawaiian concept of kokua, which emphasizes the support every person should offer their friends and family in times of trouble. In Australia, sickness always points to a problem either with the patient or in the larger society. Everyone works together to solve the issue in order to heal the sick.
She also appeared for a recent television program to discuss abundance. Every culture seems to have its own approach to creating joy and the material goods that make life comfortable. In Australia, singing and storytelling play critical roles. The land is sung up to ensure that it provides plenty of food, shelter and water. Native Americans rely on the potlatch. They give away gifts and generate abundance when the gifts are returned to them fourfold from other sources.
This month she recorded a subscription-based podcast with a psychologist on women's issues. After sharing the story of the six months she spent camping alone in the outback, Cunningham offered native perspectives on a host of women's issues. The conversation touched on how mothers can create simple ceremonies to mark their preteen daughters' movement into womanhood. She also shared what women of every age can do to support themselves spiritually.
For a recent televised program, she offered different perspectives on chronic illness and debilitating injuries. People who suffer long-term or life-changing ailments often feel as if they've lost part of their lives. Cunningham says it's important to acknowledge that, and to acknowledge the person's new role. "Whenever a person heals themselves from a disease, they are able to help others heal from that same disease," she says.
Often patients have visions that turn out to be important to their families, communities or society as a whole. Black Elk had his famous vision while suffering an fever as a child. Cunningham says that's because "In Native American society, illness and disease bring the patient closer to spirit."
EarthStar's certification program was a way for Cunningham to further her commitment to the people she works with through her public speaking engagements. The spiritual center, based in Greensboro, NC, offered the series of workshops for the first time starting in 2008. The center is a nonprofit organization dedicated to providing interfaith perspectives for growth and service. In 2005, Cunningham was ordained as an interfaith minister through that church.
Although she has always been drawn to ancient cultures, Cunningham's journey began in earnest back in 1993. She sold everything she owned then spent six months camping alone in the Australian outback. Every day she cruised the rough desert roads in a twenty-year-old Ford sedan. Every evening she cooked over an open fire and listened to the dingoes circle her campsite. She also learned to play the didgeridoo, a traditional Aboriginal wind instrument.
After moving to Minnesota, she connected with a Native American community and began attending ceremonies. She has performed workshops on spirituality and personal growth on White Earth Reservation. She has performed spiritual, craft and storytelling programs for cities, churches, art and cultural organizations, colleges and K-12 schools across the United States.
This fall, Cunningham will launch a series of nonfiction books based on native perspectives. The first, Seven Sisters, pairs Australian Aboriginal stories with essays that outline solutions to modern problems. The answers cover topics as diverse as marriage and courtship, community relationships, warfare and spirituality. As Cunningham points out, "People haven't changed much in thousands of years. Lessons that centuries old still ring true today."
Aboriginal communities relied heavily on their relationships with neighbors, family and friends. It's natural, then, that Seven Sisters offers quite a bit of advice on enhancing modern relationships. Women and men will find the book a valuable resource when dealing with career issues, implementing their dreams, and understanding intimate relationships.
Cunningham is available as a keynote speaker. She has developed seminars and workshops that help people integrate the spiritual lessons offered by native cultures. She has appeared in MSNBC's The Well-Mannered Traveler, the Sydney Morning Herald, USA Today, Awareness magazine, and dozens of radio shows and TV programs. She is available on short notice and can be reached at 336-267-6572.
Her first novel, Message Stick, weaves Aboriginal dreamtime tales and culture into a modern story of suspense. When Gabriel Branch searches the outback for his best friend, he faces a murderous shaman and the Aboriginal heritage he lost long ago. The novel has won two national awards and was featured in a celebrity swag bag soon after it was published. For more information, visit her website at http://www.lainecunningham.com.


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This is a page with me and the famous persons I have met, but I have met more and didn't have my camera. Anyway, knock yourself out!
Pic I: w/ Sheryl Crow at Lilith Fair, 7/17/99, Rose Bowl
Pic II: w/ Kelly Ward, AKA "Putzie" from Grease
Pic III: TMB w/ Rosie O'Donnell, guests on 2/19/98 show
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The Mac and Me * Stevie Nicks * Pictures * Links * More about ME! * NEW pics!


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Happy Friday to you!
It´s in the am here in Sweden and if you didn´t die from sweet overload last night, I hope you´re up and happy, bright and early!
Let´s make a deal, shall we? Let´s make something great out of this day! Think about it, it´s Friday, so you´re probably already in a good mood, will have more patience and more energy today. If you´re not dressed yet, put something on that makes you happy and good about yourself. Treat yourself to a good and healthy breakfast and leave the house in time to enjoy your morning ride/walk to wherever you are going.
Text a friend today, tell them what they mean to you and how happy you are to have them. Run ou ton your break and get some fruit or sweets for the co-workers, just to add some fun to the day. Time to give somebody a call to meet up later? Or invite some people over for dinner, just pick up a few things at the grocery store and get going. Let´s not make it complicated, just good.
Listen to some good songs on the radio or whatever music player you may have. Give yourself time today, and trust in yourself. You will make things happen.


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From the articles and conversation in class, it can be very expensive to justify an investment on security. For exampled in the aviation system document, the industry has very strict security policies so it is very important to keep up to industry standards. It is not always easy to upgrade one system to another because… Continue reading Week 11 Justify Investment on Security
Week 10 Data and Security
From the readings and class session this week I actually did not know that the secret service handled data breaches in the banking industry. I thought they were only supposed to protect the President. As far as a data breach goes in a major corporation, I believe they should disclose the information as quickly as… Continue reading Week 10 Data and Security
Week 9 Core IS Theories II
From the readings, I believe that the best way for a firm to be competitive is to integrate the firm's IT resources into the company through management. There needs to be a strategic end goal that the company has. A company can pour thousands if not millions of dollars in IT resources, but if there… Continue reading Week 9 Core IS Theories II
Week 8 Risk Management and Public Policy
From the class discussion and readings, cyber security risk insurance seems to be a very risky business. I would not want to be in a company that works in that industry because the recent amount of large corporation hacks that have occurred. In my opinion, having cyber security risk insurance is like purchasing car insurance.… Continue reading Week 8 Risk Management and Public Policy
Management and Security
After looking at the Three Components of a Balanced Approach to Organizational Security, I believe it is very important to to keep a balance between Organization, Critical Infrastructures and Technology. However, I believe Critical Infrastructures could be the most damaging if taken out. A company needs to have backups onsite and offsite. For example, we… Continue reading Management and Security
Week 6 Human factor Articles
In the article "Cybersecurity's Human Factor:Lessons from the Pentagon", it talks about six interconnected principles that the Navy uses to help contain the impact of human error. These safeguards include Integrity, Depth of knowledge, Procedural compliance, Forceful backup, A questioning attitude and a Formality in communication. I believe that it is extremely important to have… Continue reading Week 6 Human factor Articles
The Stages Theory article
In this article, it talks about how there are three different S curves that include the DP Era, Micro Era, and Network Era. The Network Era has created the infrastructure for the next era which I believe is the Internet of Things. After the Network Era, mobile devices such as smartphones, laptops, tablets, smartwatches and… Continue reading The Stages Theory article


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Fun-Run-A-Rama! Hamilton Vein Center is Off to the Races
It's cooling off, which means running season is heating up!
Hittin' the pavement is one of our fave pastimes at HVC, and we are pumped that it's finally feeling fall-ish. All of us are reporting "faster" times suddenly 😆
Luckily, there are plenty of fun runs in the area to keep us jazzed. We encourage all of our patients to get out and run/walk/skip – whatever your preferred mode of movement to keep you healthy and your circulatory system happy.
Here are 3 months of Fun Runs being held in the Houston area – each one is themed and a great way to enjoy this festive time of year. Let us know on our Facebook page if you're running in any of them – we want to hear how it goes!
Child Advocates Superhero 5K and 1K — October 19 — CityCentre/West Houston
Harvest Moon and Margarita 5K – October 19 — Galveston
Zombie Fest 5K — October 19 — Lake Jackson
NASA Nightmare Run – October 25 — Clear Lake
Monster Dash 5K & BASF Kids Run – October 26 — Lake Jackson
Trick or Trot 5K Fun Run – October 27 – Katy
The Color Run – October 27 – Minute Maid Park, Downtown
15 Hamilton Vein Center runners are participating in the Color Run! Have you done a Color Run before? This will be our second group effort. Needless to say, we love this one!
PARC Monster Dash – November 2 – Pearland
Run for Health 5K Fun Run – November 2 – Dickinson
Firefly Run – November 2 – Reliant Park
Houston Dynamo Go for Goal 5K – November 2 – Downtown
Rockets Run 5K – November 9 – Downtown
Play Dirty Adventure and Mini-Muck – November 9 — Sam Houston Race Park
Clear Lake City Half Marathon – for the tad more serious runner! — November 10 – Clear Lake
Run to Cure HD – November 16 – Sugar Land
Coach Kikunga "K" Memorial Run – November 16 – Kingwood
Step Out: Walk to Stop Diabetes – November 23 – The Woodlands
HMSA Classical 25K & 5K Fun Run – Marathon Warm-up Race – November 24 – Downtown
GE Run through the Woods – November 28 – The Woodlands
Alright, turkeys! Here come the Trots. Run one of these and eat the rest of the day guilt-free!
TXU Energy Turkey Trot – November 28 — Galleria/Uptown
Sugar Land Turkey Trot – November 28 – Sugar Land
Katy YMCA Turkey Dash – November 28 – Katy
Lake Jackson Turkey Trot – November 28 – Lake Jackson
Bay Area Turkey Day 10K/5K/Kids K – November 28 – Clear Lake
The Glow Run 5K – December 1 – Sam Houston Race Park
Gingerbread Jog – December 1 – Katy
CHRISTUS Reindeer Run – December 7 – Nassau Bay
Jingle Tails Fun Run/Walk – 4-legged friends welcome! – December 8 – Katy
Sugar Land Finish Line Sports 30K – Marathon Warm-up Race — December 15 – Sugar Land
TOTAL Jingle Bell Run – December 15 – Downtown
12K of Christmas – December 21 – Downtown
That list should keep you busy the next three months. We also have a Hamilton Vein Center group training for the Houston Marathon in January. We'll hear from them soon when we check in and see how the training's going. Whatever you're running or walking – for fun or for distance – let us know how you're doing. Send us a message on our Facebook page or comment to this post. We'd love to hear from you!
As much as we love running, we want everyone to feel good while they're doing it. So if you notice your legs are feeling tired, achy, painful or they are swelling and not feeling right – come in and let us take a look with a thorough exam and ultrasound. It might be more than just "tired muscles" causing your discomfort. Undiagnosed vein disease affects a lot of runners – we can fix that for you and get you back up and running in no time. Call 281-565-0033 to schedule.


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Thursday, 15 December 2011
'Nother Repaneled Submission
From "The Chemist and the Capuchin" by John Bagnall. First one his, second one my rather literal re-interpretation.
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Wednesday, 23 November 2011
Yeah, I know that a tinea pallescentella's markings are different, but I had a lot of space to fill up, alright?
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Saturday, 12 November 2011
Some pencils from the page I'm working on. I like the (warning: pretentious art school talk ahead) quality of line. And non-repro blue always looks nice with normal lead, don't you think?
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Saturday, 5 November 2011
The world collapses around our ears and I'm "drawing" comics about trendy cuntish Vice magazine comic reviewers with outlandish facial hair. That, to me, encapsulates the futility of human existence right there. We're ALL cuntish Vice magazine comic reviewers, at heart.
Wow man.
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Saturday, 25 June 2011
For Jayr Pulga
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NEX Page 9 Inks
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Tuesday, 7 June 2011
Portrait of my Dad, birthday card for my good friend Sally and a study for dad's get well card. Which wouldn't upload. I tried four fucking times.
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Friday, 15 April 2011
Repaneled Submission
My "re-interpretation" of a panel by the great Walt Holcombe, from "The Red Grampus", got accepted by the "Repaneled" blog. Next up: something for "Recovered".....
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Policy Brief
Pennsylvania School Tax Burden
PA Act 35 was signed into law on June 1, 2016. The act amended the state public school code, including the creation of a school funding formula. In policy brief "Pennsylvania School Tax Burden,"Gregory Collins examines how the new formula directs state basic education funding, how it is allocated to local school districts based on need, its ability to pay, and the local school tax effort. Pennsylvania School Tax Burden examines the claim that differences exist in local school tax burdens across Pennsylvania's 500 districts.
Gregory J. Collins is an advanced doctoral student in education policy at the University of Pennsylvania's Graduate School of Education. A former high school science and economics teacher, and operations engineering leader, Collins' research interests center on teacher and educational leadership policy and school and district organization.


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Western Colorado is known for the presence of gold. Staking a new mining claim is professional done by located and establishing corners on the ground. A map is prepared of the mining claim and a Location Certificate is filed for the claimed area.
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• Establish mining claim corners
• Prepare plat of mining claim
• Location certificate claiming ground
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• Know where mineral rights are
• Can search for gold or other minerals
• First right to the minerals that may be located under the surface of claim


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Nobody's perfect, but Ryan Gosling comes pretty damn close.
Once upon a time, Hollywood's Prince Charming bought out some lucky little lady's entire haul of Girl Scout Cookies, then handed the sweets out to strangers on the road. On Wednesday's Jimmy Kimmel Live, the funnyman got Ryan to explain his endearingly charitable feat.
Jimmy explained that "five or six years ago," two of his friends encountered the Gangster Squad star in Santa Monica, Calif., and the actor "handed them several boxes of Girl Scout Cookies and then drove off."
Ryan begrudgingly confirmed that it was him, but told Jimmy, "It seemed like a good idea at the time…Look, I regret it."


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The Leisure Challenge
September 8, 2011 Leave a comment
Barnet Council has published details of a Strategic Leisure Review ahead of the Cabinet meeting on Wednesday 14 September.
As we face what is likely to be a decade of public sector austerity, we are likely to be spending less on almost all non-statutory council services, leisure included. This means that every pound becomes more important and we have to make sure it is spent on getting the right outcomes for the people of Barnet.
The council's spend, currently £1.7 million, is a comparatively small amount compared to the overall leisure spending in Barnet. The total residents spend on leisure in the borough is estimated to be around £340 million (around £48.10 each week for each household). That means that the most sensible use of council money is to support the development of opportunities that the private sector cannot provide alone, and to work with public sector partners on an agreed set of outcomes. This review will explore just how we can do this.
Council spending is, of course, centred on encouraging people to take some form of exercise rather on the broader definition of leisure. This is entirely sensible as we need to work with partners to support the health of Barnet residents. There is obviously a clear public good in supporting swimming that is not so immediately apparent in subsidising tickets to the latest Hollywood blockbuster.
So in running the review we will look at how we meet the changing needs of the boroughs population. In Barnet we have both a growing number of young people and a growing number of residents over 65.
We will need to work with colleagues in the health service to ensure that we meet the needs of these groups. The population of young people is literally expanding – childhood obesity has risen as comparatively sedentary pursuits such a video gaming replace sport as many young people's leisure activity of choice.
This, of course, will have to be balanced with the need to support the health of older people. We will explore how council spending can limit future demands on the health service and if it is possible to align health service and council budgets around agreed aims.
I'm particularly keen to see the role in wider wellbeing as well as health. There is for instance a great plenty of evidence to show that an element of exercise is very good for mental health.
Such challenges mean that we will need to have a wide ranging review of our work with partners. As well as a role for the National Health Service, we will be exploring how we can work with the Police and the Mental Health Trust in developing a co-ordinated approach to supporting the health and wellbeing of the borough's residents.
In developing this review we have taken as a model the consultation the council ran over the future of the library service. Our library review looked beyond simply supporting bricks and mortar, to look at the purposes of the service for the future. We concluded that getting young people reading was a priority. It is possible that this review will see getting young people exercising as equally important. We have also had great success supporting reading groups through the library service and it would be interesting to explore if we could support residents exercise groups along similar lines.
That review saw us speak to existing service users, those who no longer used our facilities as well as a large number of groups with an interest in the service.
Every one of Barnet's residents will have an opportunity to give us their views on the council's support for leisure activities and what they believe our objectives should be.
I hope we will hear from as many people as possible.
You can access the Cabinet papers from the Barnet website.


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humanitarianism at the cooper-hewitt
I haven't had a chance to see this show yet at the Cooper-Hewitt, but Christopher Hawthorne (who, by the way, is consistently besting his counterpart at the New York Times as an effective architectural critic) has a piece in the LA Times on the exhibit "Design for the Other 90%." It's a short review, but Hawthorne manages to get his point across - along with some quick barbs at Koolhaas and Hadid, which I, of course, could not help but enjoy.
I've been traveling but should be back with some new posts in the coming weeks. Until then -


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Grand Tourist is delighted to present the opportunity to travel to Basilicata, Southern Italy. We now have a truly amazing medieval village experience to offer our clients.
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Buttery pastries, homemade ice cream, luxury accommodation and exciting excursions are what await you at this three star hotel on Reunion Island. Iloha Seaview Hotel combines all the natural treasures of the Indian Ocean with an array of daily activities that cater for every taste. Five types of accommodation nestled in a three hectare tropical garden give you the space you need to sit back and relax. Bathe in coconut milk at the wellness centre or sip an authentic rum cocktail as you watch the sunset over the bay of Saint-Leu. Paraglide over forested mountains or take a trip to the botanical conservatory of Mascarins.
Learn the secret of making rum 'arrangé', taste South African wines, dine on an authentic Creole buffet or dance to the sounds of Maloya and Séga.
Enjoy inventive and eclectic cuisine prepared using traditional Creole methods and local produce at one of two restaurants. There is also a bar and ice cream parlour, where guests can enjoy delicious homemade ice cream.
Enjoy services such as a 24 hour reception desk, free WI-FI access, private car parks, a laundry room, a luggage storage room and more.
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Using Twilight Teeth is a fantastic way to whiten your teeth in the salon or at home. To help keep your teeth white between applications, you should try adding some of the following foods to you diet.
Pineapples contain an enzyme called bromelain. This enzyme can naturally remove stains from your teeth by separating plaque from the surface of the tooth (or disrupting the proteins on the surface of enamel), plus it can reduce inflammation. Then your saliva naturally washes the stains away, resulting in healthier and whiter teeth. Other foods that contain bromelain are papaya and oranges.
Strawberries contain an enzyme called malic acid. This is another enzyme that can naturally whiten your teeth by acting as a natural astringent to remove surface discoloration, or acts as a bleaching agent. Malic acid is essential in dissolving superficial stains on the surface of teeth and increases saliva production. Another food item that contains malic acid is apples.
Dairy, such as yogurt and cheese, is a great way to naturally whiten your smile as it causes your mouth to produce excess saliva and contains lactic acid. The extra saliva helps to break down enamel stains while the lactic acid can naturally whiten your teeth by helping to dissolve those surface teeth stains.
Other foods that increase saliva production are broccoli, carrots, celery, and cauliflower. They're difficult to chew, so as you grind them up, the veggies strip superficial stains from the surface of your teeth. And the longer you chew the more saliva the mouth produces, which helps to break down stains.
Seeds and nuts can work as exfoliants for your teeth. Their abrasive texture can actually strip stains from your enamel, buffing away discoloration and whitening the surface of teeth. Good ones to naturally whiten your teeth are sunflower seeds, almonds, walnuts, and cashews. Another food item that is a good exfoliator is apples.
Water can help prevent stains from forming on your teeth. Simply swish a mouthful around after eating or drinking pigment-rich foods and beverages to help keep your smile whiter. Then swallow, just like saliva it will naturally wash the stains away. For best results drink flat, or still, water, do not consume sparkling, or bubbly, water which will increase the chances of tooth surface erosion.
Shiitake Mushrooms contain lentinan, which is a type of sugar that does not promote tooth decay. Lentinan naturally prevents plaque-building bacteria from building up in your mouth, thus making it more difficult for stains to "stick" to your teeth. Other foods that contain lentinan are garlic and broccoli sprouts.
Onions contain sulfur compounds called thiosulfinates which is great at reducing the production of plaque. This compound can naturally keep plaque from forming on and in between your teeth. Eating raw onions releases this bacteria-reducing compound, eating cooked onions won't help to naturally whiten your teeth.
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You say Potato, I say ...
Although I appreciated Tolkien's Lord of the Rings trilogy, I did so more from a perspective of appreciating the architecture and framework than the story itself. It was truly a masterpiece of creation, and a great work, but, to me, a fan of Robert E. Howard first, the characters didn't sound like they were talking, they sounded like I was hearing what they meant.
There are obviously people who would disagree with me. But what I found was that Dennis McKiernan's work, while clearly an homage in ways and surely draws influences from LOTR, was more emotively satisfying. I am well aware that this is sacrilege to the fans of Fantasy.
But, taste is a personal thing. I like my characters to be human. Unless of course, they aren't. I heard the emotions in the voices of McKiernan's characters.
Dennis McKiernan's home page
So, I need to ask you: are you tired of winter? Do you need a fun read?


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Jesse James Was My Great Uncle
From what I've been able to discern from first-hand sources, this story and those like it are, at best, exaggeration. It's true that Jesse James was known to have passed through the Joplin area at least a time or two, but there's no documentation that he ever spent any considerable amount of time here. Same goes for the Younger brothers, who, like Jesse, are sometimes reported to have been denizens of Joplin. The Youngers' half-uncle Bruce Younger did frequent the town during its early days, and Fletch Taylor (Quantrill lieutenant and the James boys' immediate commander during the Civil War) did move to Joplin during the early lead-mining days and became a leading citizen of the town. Jesse's sister was even reported in a local newspaper as having visited Taylor in Joplin. But the Younger gang and the James boys mainly spent their time (when they weren't actively on the run) farther north around Jackson County, St. Clair County, and so forth, or else in Texas.
The exaggerated stories about Jesse James's exploits in and around Joplin, though, are hardly unique. Nearly every county in the Ozarks (or the Midwest for that matter), it seems, lays claim to some connection to the notorious outlaw. And if you get to talking about family history with the people you meet, it seems that about half of them claim kinship to Jesse, as though it were some badge of honor.
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You already know that Joe Jonas is MTV.com's POSTED artist for October, right? Which means we have tons of info, interviews and videos surrounding the release of the singer's debut album, Fastlife. So check out new videos below that show Jonas detailing what's on his "bucket list" and explaining the meaning behind the phrase "Fastlife."
While "going on vacation" seems like a strange "bucket list" answer, Joe redeems himself with a list of extreme sports such as skydiving and bungee jumping. There's also a Machu Picchu request, which, if fulfilled, should be accompanied by a MTV Buzzworthy film crew and reporter (cough, cough).
Jonas also details the meaning behind his album title, noting, "It explains my crazy busy life. I don't even know where I'll be tomorrow. That's mostly my schedule. It all depends on realizing that this is a blessing having fun. There's so many people that don't have this opportunity, and I'm lucky enough to be doing this for a living."
Get your Joe Jonas fill all this month at Posted.MTV.com.
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As biodiversity has quickly eroded for the past few centuries, some scientists argue that humans are causing the 6th mass extinction event. This course emphasizes the application of population genetics, molecular phylogenetics, and reproductive genetics to answering biological questions in wildlife conservation. Crosslisted as ANBE 307 and ANBE 607 and BIOL 607.


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Association Against Predatory Credit
You might recall we mentioned our group taking a new approach: via the courts!
Finally, an English name has been chosen for this department:
Association Against Predatory Credit
This remains focussed on Austria for now, so the only information is in German:
– but there's no reason this can't be done anywhere!
Two things that are good to know:
a) When courts sentence people for credit fraud, they usually treat the damages at face value. This is of course not quite correct, considering how this money was created. (A film about this recently passed the 100,000-viewer mark.)
b) – and this is at present the main focus of KOV/AAPC –
When someone takes out a loan, they believe this to be money coming from savers. Furthermore, the price (interest rate) of this fresh money is based on Libor/Euribor, which should ring a bell.
Banks, as I'm sure you'll be surprised to learn, are not people. They are legal persons – a kind of entity whose framework has been structured over the years to benefit… …well, not to put too fine a point on it: people like myself!*
Most of the privileges involved are neither God-given, nor are they in our respective Constitutions. They were won by legal precedent.** Thus, it also makes sense to approach curbing them there.
It's a sad, crazy world in which money can perform its useful, positive function only when others have to be duped into signing the dotted line. Granted: some of them are aware of the risk when taking out a loan. However, case after case confirms that it's usually small and medium-sized businesses that get hit the worst. The big fish routinely offset their debt as a business expense. (And let's not forget that they are more likely to be bailed out.) Please see here for alternatives, thanks.
Do feel free to contact Banks need Boundaries! if you would like to get involved. Let's take AAPC global! It could grow into a new movement for legal aid, focussed purely on dismantling the illegitimate private monopoly on money creation.
Anyone can contribute a little something, some even without intending to. Here's the Post that helped us name this baby:
* see Activism and Happiness and Everything you always wanted to know about finance…but were too rich to ask.
This is a real scandal, considering the first thing a corporation does when it
– pays its lawyers
– gets hit by a fine
– or files a S.L.A.P.P.
is to relay the cost to you guys (sorry!)
One of the big unreported scandals of human history if you ask me, and one can't even begin to estimate the price, monetary and spiritual.
When discussing this with the "comfortably off", they tend to recite all the obvious pros, but regularly demonstrate monumental ignorance about the glaringly obvious, unrefuted cons, e.g. how legal aid to the poor is under attack.
And why not? After all, they're poor, they matter less…which you hear a lot…a bit like the sentence a German comedy news show thankfully picked up, said in all earnest: the poor stay poor because they mismanage their assets.
(This at a time, mind you, that sees most cases on corporate malfeasance settled out of court, i.e. with no admission of guilt). We're all supposed to watch Erin Brockovich and wipe off our tears, and certainly it's never all just purely pointless…but wouldn't it be nice for a change to get to the root of things?
Some links about the war you're not supposed to think about –
CLASS WAR, fought on many fronts, in this case legal aid:
Guardian: "Is this the cut that kills the system?"
New Statesman:
How legal aid cuts are harming the voiceless and most vulnerable
PILnet website:
works to make systems of justice more effective, accessible and fair


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These tools allow your users to access key information and support services, while allowing your operatives to focus on those most in need.
With our sophisticated technology, all user and donor communications are stored in the same place. This means your operatives can access all user contact records at the click of a button. Whether your users prefer to communicate via phone, email, SMS, web chat or social media, a complete automatic record of every contact with every user saves you time and ensures you operate at peak efficiency.


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Naviance is a college and career readiness computer program that the Rosati-Kain Student Support Services Department utilizes in order to connect academic achievement to post-secondary goals.
It enables students to find college and career pathways that are right for them by setting personal goals, exploring career options based on skills, interests and personalities and search for colleges. It enables students, their parents and the counselors to collaborate on the comprehensive college search process. When it is time to apply to college, counselors and teachers may upload letters of recommendation to the student's designated (and protected) page of the system, as well as the student's transcript for electronic submission to prospective colleges. This information is only seen by the Student Support Services Department.
The communication portal between counselors and students and her parents is called 'Family Connection.' Registered students and parents may access the program via Family Connection here:


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E-commerce sales were up 24% on Thanksgiving morning, reaching the half-billion-dollar mark, as shoppers jumped on early holiday deals, even though the discounts weren't as steep as last year's, according to data from Adobe Digital Index.
Shoppers on smartphones and tablets drove 52% of the traffic, with the smartphone share of mobile purchases growing 30%, to 17% this Thanksgiving from 13% during the same period in 2014, according to the Adobe Inc. data that tracks visits to more than 4,500 U.S. retail websites. The share of sales coming from shoppers using tablets stood at 14%, down from 16% in 2014, the Adobe data shows.
Between midnight and 10 a.m. Central Time, U.S. consumers purchased $500 million online, or $100 million more than during the same period last year, Adobe says.
"Thanksgiving morning sales are off to a strong start, dominated early by mobile shopping, and today is expected to offer the highest overall discounts of the year," says Tamara Gaffney, principal research analyst for the Adobe Digital Index. "Average discounts of 23% are 2% less than last year's 25%, but prices are expected to continually drop as more Black Friday sales come online."
If spending continues at the current level, Adobe expects $1.65 billion dollars to be spent online on Thanksgiving Day, up 18% from last year, Gaffney says.
ChannelAdvisor Corp.'s mid-day Thanksgiving report shows e-commerce sales soaring 50.6% year over year for its e-retailer clients, many of which sell on Amazon and eBay.
Sales for ChannelAdvisor retailer clients on Amazon were up 31.19% at mid-day, 11.1% on eBay, 59.54% on Google Shopping, 41.3% on comparison shopping engines such as NexTag and Shopzilla, and 217.6%. on other web marketplaces (excluding Amazon and eBay). Sales from paid search ads for ChannelAdvisor clients were ahead 4.7% over last year.
"This data indicates that indeed consumers are aggressively shopping online this Thanksgiving," says
Scot Wingo, executive chairman of ChannelAdvisor, an e-commerce services provider that helps retailers sell through online marketplaces. "To put this in perspective, last year we saw 19% growth for mid-day Thanksgiving and we ended Thanksgiving up 20%."
The e-commerce trend is staying strong after IBM reported online sales up 35% Wednesday over the same day last year and up 21% Tuesday over the prior year.
On Thanksgiving Day, consumers are spending more per order, as the average order value jumped more than $5 from a year ago to $142.55, according to IBM Watson Trend, which tracks spending by monitoring millions of transactions from retail websites of IBM Corp. clients.
The IBM data shows smartphones and tablets are accounting for 27.83% of the online sales as of late Thanksgiving morning.
Mobile's share of online sales for Sears Holdings Corp. has increased 100% year over year so far this holiday season, says Leena Munjal, senior vice president, customer experience and integrated retail.
The hot-selling products on Thanksgiving Day are Apple watches, Samsung 4K TVs, Sony PlayStaton 4, Xbox One, and Beats by Dr. Dre, according to IBM and Adobe.
A report by SimilarWeb, a digital intelligence firm, released Wednesday, shows web-only retailers gaining ground on retailers with both online and store sites.
The data show U.S. consumers spend on average 22% longer shopping on sites of retailers that sell only on online, according to SimilarWeb's analysis, which looked at an index of leading U.S. retailers covering 47% of U.S. retail traffic.
It also shows online-only eBay secured a market-leading average customer session of 10 minutes 39 seconds among U.S. shoppers. Amazon.com kept customers engaged for 8:50 minutes, followed by Zulily (8:48 minutes) and Etsy (8:33 minutes). In contrast, the least engaging multichannel retailer's site kept shoppers on their website for half this time—at 4:31 minutes, according to SimilarWeb. Even the best performing multichannel sites, those of Kohl's and IKEA, averaged 7:49 minutes per session—almost 2 minutes less than Amazon and eBay, the analysis says.
Hilla Meller, SimilarWeb digital insights manager, says retailers that sell both through stores and online are more likely to rely on a boost from holiday traffic than those that sell only on the web.
Shopping days such as Thanksgiving, Black Friday and Cyber Monday provided multichannel online sites with an 84% traffic increase from October to December last year versus 41% for web-only merchants, Meller says. "However, there is a challenge for brick-and-mortar-based sites in maintaining these gains over a longer period of time and achieving the consistent engagement and popularity of their online-only competitors. Online-only sites get more steady traffic throughout the year and appear to have hit upon a more enticing formula for keeping customers engaged."
Not all retailers are sharing in the good news about online sales growth.
William Bauer, managing director of Royce Leather Gifts, says so far this holiday season, "Our e-commerce sales are down 17.5% and our retail sales are down 22%."
"Consumers still have the burden of the economy on their minds, and different quantitative metrics that indicate consumer confidence have confirmed that belief," he says. "Despite improvements in wages, employment numbers and savings from decreased gasoline prices, there is a cautious pragmatism, if not paranoia, pervading the minds of our consumers."
Bauer says the company is adapting its strategy by segmenting customers into four profiles: Procrastinators—"last minute shoppers;" Foxes— "Black Friday/Cyber Monday hunters;" "Early adopters," and Turtles—"slow and steady consumers."
"We are engaging shoppers at these different time periods throughout the holiday season shopping cycle and communicating with them at times most relevant for them rather than communicating en masse," Bauer says. "Our advice to other retailers is to be flexible by creating variety in their deals to target each particular consumer profile."
Bauer is keeping his hopes up for the remainder of the holiday season. "We remain optimistic in this weekend's potential to transform our outlook," he says. "Should tomorrow's (Black Friday's) revenue prove to be bleak, that will serve as an omen for the remainder of the year."


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Someone please turn this into a mystery novel:
For more than three and a half centuries, the death of René Descartes one winter's day in Stockholm has been attributed to the ravages of pneumonia on a body unused to the Scandinavian chill. But in a book released after years spent combing the archives of Paris and the Swedish capital, one Cartesian expert has a more sinister theory about how the French philosopher came to his end.
According to Theodor Ebert, an academic at the University of Erlangen, Descartes died not through natural causes but from an arsenic-laced communion wafer given to him by a Catholic priest.
Historical fiction isn't my forte, or I'd be on it in a second.


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Inner-City Style- Redfern, Sydney circa 1996 (For 2 years I lived in the room on the platform behind the weather balloon)
Since the year 2000 I have been seconded away raising kids and working in one of the more remote parts of the world, in a small town that did not have a very stratified social milieu. A month ago I moved to the big city and frankly it has been a shock. Apart from the pleasures of urban life, while I have been away a culture has developed around the inner city of the Hipster. The hipster phenomenon has provoked some reflection for me regarding; what was I when I was 23? When I was younger I lived the whole bohemian inner city warehouse, communal life. I tattooed myself and dressed according to my own variation on fashion. But I remember distinct differences to the inner-city culture of cool (Brisbane/Sydney/Amsterdam/London/Stockholm) in the mid-1990s than how it appears today.
Fashion in mind - me circa 1995.
The inner-city of my youth was more dandy than hipster. Although I believe I came into the early manifestation of hipster, just prior to the Internet launching a thousand YouTube bands and fashion and CD-r labels. The networked culture of contemporary hipster robs it of its earlier radicalism circa 1947. For my youth poverty was an attribute rather than a stigma. Experience was an asset to be guarded and used when necessary rather than a badge. One's social circle was centred on the bar or band you attended or following from personal connections on a local level. We were politically engaged on the level of everyday life. The food coop, market, the recycling centre, the gallery and the dealer were monumental points for social organization. The festival took precedent over the café. Happenings were inherited from earlier counter cultures and being a musician did not necessarily mean you played an instrument (I drove the van for a band and wrote lyrics for their singer). Education was regarded generally with suspicion. While I had been to university, the cooler kids in Newtown, Sydney came from the School of Life (I am still trying to apply for a faculty position with this famed institution).
While reflecting upon the proto-hipster I think may have been, I thought about the other great inner-city creature of the early 21st century; the contemporary dandy. The nonchalance one attributes to the dandy was often valued over the performance of the hipster in my youth. Hedonism, nihilism and creativity were parts of the culture I participated in. These today are not part of the conformity and political correctness of the hipster.
Contemporary dandy Sebastian Horsley (1962 – 2010) imparts his wisdom
("The author of his own misfortune")
"Hipster refers to a subculture of young, recently settled urban middle class adults and older teenagers that appeared in the 1990s. The subculture is associated with independent music, a varied non-mainstream fashion sensibility, Apple products, liberal or independent political views, alternative spirituality or atheism/agnosticsm and alternative lifestyles." - Wikipedia- Buys expensive second-hand clothes in 'Retro Shop' that is called Vintage (often they are actually new)
- Follows music and fashion from blogs, Internet radio, webzines, magazines, films, and television.
- Overly conscious of peer grooming; while the hipster attempts to project an air of anarchistic disregard the level of conformity among hipsters is frightening (see following video)
- The hipster congregates in specific neighbourhoods, seeking out the approval of their peers and driving up real estate prices. Globalization is not on the hipster agenda.
- The hipster avoids danger.
"A dandy (also known as a beau or gallant is a man who places particular importance upon physical appearance, refined language, and leisurely hobbies, pursued with the appearance of nonchalance in a cult of Self." Wikipedia- Has clothes made or simply acquires them via channels of generosity or neglect.
- Does not follow
- Is anachronistic in a disregard for politics, culture, society, law, philosophy and identity, distilling all into a life of desire and the pursuit of beauty.
- The dandy is at home anywhere and nowhere.
- the dandy likes danger
I would like to see a return to danger and exploration with inner-city culture. I don't think this will happen while the hipster culture hijacks peoples youth in the pursuit of image and spectacle.


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I use lemon juice (or lime juice) in a lot of baking, so I was pleasantly surprised to discover the many other uses of these great fruits and their juices as not only an effective and natural alternative to household disinfectants, as well as a natural freshener, but also as a body relaxer and a beauty enhancer!
The Many Uses Of Lemon/Lime:
Beauty Basics
- Blond highlights will magically appear if you rinse your hair with a mixture of 1/4 cup (ReaLemon) lemon juice and 3/4 cup water. For extra lightening, sit in the sun until your hair dries.
- Swimming in a chlorinated pool can give dyed blond hair a greenish tint. One treatment for removing the green is (Campbell's) tomato juice. Rub enough into your hair to cover it, leave on 2 minutes, then rinse.
- Make yourself a simple, inexpensive hairspray. In a saucepan, boil 2 cups water. Add 2 lemons, peeled and finely chopped. simmer over low heat until lemons are soft. After the mixture cools, pour it through a strainer and then into a labeled spray bottle. Add 1 tablespoon of 100-proof vodka; shake well. Dilute with a little water if the spray is too sticky.
- Attack dandruff with lemon juice. Rub 1 tablespoon lemon juice into dry hair, down to the scalp. Shampoo and rinse as usual. Then, rinse hair again using a solution of 2 cups water and 2 tablespoons lemon juice. Repeat every other day for 1 week.
- Soak your fingernails in lemon juice for 10 minutes, then rinse well with warm water. This will help strengthen and brighten fingernails.
- If your hand smells like garlic, rub a cut lemon over them.
- After working with fruit that stains, rinse your hands with lemon juice to get rid of the color.
(Side tip)
with an herbal wrap that's a fraction of the price fancy spas charge. Combine 1/2 cup grapefruit juice, 1 cup (Crisco) pure corn oil, and 2 teaspoons (McCormick) ground thyme. Massage mixture into trouble spots such as hips, thighs, and buttocks. Cover areas with a saran wrap; hold a heating pad over each section for 5 minutes.
- Apply lemon juice to blackheads using a cotton ball or a cotton swab. Leave the juice on overnight. In the morning, rinse your face with cool water. Repeat every night for 1 week.
- To dry up pimples quickly, apply lemon juice several times a day using a (Q-tip) cotton swab.
- Fight blackheads and pimples by washing your face with the juice of a fresh lime (or 3 tablespoons lime juice) in a glass of boiled whole milk. Add 1 teaspoon of glycerin if your skin is dry.
FRECKLES and AGE SPOTS
- Bothered by freckles or age spots? Dissolve a pinch of sugar in 2 tablespoons lemon juice. Apply the mixture to each spot with a cotton ball or facial tissue. Repeat every few days until the spots have lightened to your liking.
- Another trick to lighten the effects of age and the sun: Mis 3 tablespoons lime juice, 3 tablespoons lemon juice, 4 tablespoons plain yogurt, and 2 tablespoons honey. Once or twice a week, gently rub the mixture into each spot with your fingertips. Store in a covered container in your refrigerator.
and other rough spots on your feet, heels and elbos, rub the affected areas with half a lemon.
BRUSHING and BREATH
- Here's a surprising makeshift toothbrush: Take a piece of lemon or lime peel and rub the inside of it over your teeth and gums. both contain chemicals that fight gum disease and help whiten teeth.
- Another way to keep your mouth clean and healthy is to rub your teeth and gums several times a day with a paste made of lime juice and salt.
- Freshen your breath with lime juice. Mix the juice of 1 lime (or 3 tablespoons lime juice) and 1 teaspoon honey in a glass of water. Drink between meals and at bedtime.
This handy tonic works as a deodorant, tightens pores, and eases sunburn and other minor burns.
- In a clean glass jar (with lid), combine the juice of 1 lemon (about 3 tablespoons lemon juice), 1 cup witch hazel, and 3 tablespoons coarsley chopped cucumber.
- Close up lid and let stand for 2 days; strain out cucumber.
- Store remaining liquid in a capped bottle in your refrigerator.
- Apply with a cotton ball.
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Use a Q-tip as a pen to write in Lemon Juice on a piece of white paper. Once it dries, hold the paper near a hot light bulb. The writing will turn brown.
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In a glass jar with a tight fitting lid, mix 1/4 cup lemon juice or fresh squeezed lemon juice with 1/2 cup pure vegetable oil. Apply to wood furniture witha cotton cloth, rubbing in a small amount at a time. Kept out of direct sunlight, this mixture can be stored for several months.
3 tablespoons lemon juice, 1/2 up isopropyl rubbing alcohol, 1/4 teaspoon dishwashing liquid.
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Selecting and storing lemons
The best lemons are those that have smooth, oily skins and are heavy for their size. They should be bright yellow with no green tinges. Lemons will keep for up to a week at room temperature, two to three weeks refrigerated. Lemon zest (peel) can be frozen for months.
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Smoke Joint co-owners and chefs Ben Grossman and Craig Samuel have opened a second Southern-fried cafe in Bed-Stuy, where they're serving barbecue, fish fries, corn and okra – the essential foods of a hot, sticky summer. You can take your food to go or cool off and pig out on the 25-seat garden patio.
Must-have meal: Watermelon salad with arugula, pickled ginger and smoked country ham (right, $5); Smoke Joint baby-back ribs with cornbread and slaw ($15); sides of Tennessee Mountain black-eyed peas, corn salad and Vermont cheddar grits ($3 each); and peach cobbler ($5).
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Must-have meal: Start out with a few sfizi (snack) like fried bread with cured pancetta ($5) and an antipasti like buffalo mozzarella with sliced figs and rosemary oil ($14); enjoy seafood dishes like the Malloredous (Sardinian saffron gnocchetti with crab and sea urchin, right, $24); move on to suckling pig with braising greens and pork cracklings ($29); and for dessert, try the pane rustica (grilled bread topped with local strawberries and orange flower cream, $11).
Soundtrack: An eclectic list that combines a little old (Stevie Wonder), a little new (Ben Harper) and some Italian lounge music for good measure.
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Saudi-led aggression committed late Saturday a new massacre as its warplanes bombed a market in Yemen's northwestern province of Saada.
The airstrike hit al-Moshnak market in Saada's Shada governorate, killing at least 24 people, local sources reported.
The sources added that the strikes continued even after paramedics reach the scene of the attack and started evacuating the killed and the injured people, noting that the death toll could be more than 24.
Among the martyrs are members of relief teams who took part in evacuation operations, the sources confirmed.
Yemen has been since March 2015 under a brutal aggression by Saudi-led coalition. Tens of thousands of Yemenis have been injured and martyred in Saudi-led strikes, with the vast majority of them are civilians.
The coalition has been also imposing a blockade on the impoverished country's ports and airports as a part of his aggression which is aimed at restoring power to fugitive former president Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi.
However, the allied forces of the army and the committees have been heroically confronting the aggression with all means.


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It Got Worse, and Then ...
A while back, for a long time, I was very anxious. I experienced a constant level of anxiety and fear that stayed with me every minute of every hour of every day.
The anxiety came from fear. The fear was at times more like complete terror. The terror was unbearable ... unbearable in the sense that I wasn't sure I could bear it, carry it, survive it when I was feeling it. I wanted to get as far away from it as possible, I wanted anything, ANYTHING but those feelings.
I did all I could and tried every method possible to get away from those feelings. I worked super hard, engaged my smart and capable brain, used my words to great effect, expressed my emotions and struggled.
It just got worse.
So I pushed myself harder, believing that if I could only change myself, try something else new, change others, lock myself down, hide myself away then I would find a way to get rid of and avoid those feelings.
It just got worse.
So I took a deep breath and tried again ... this time certain that if I read lots of books and websites, stated my case repeatedly, asked friends how they cope, held on with hope that others would change so I didn't have to feel how their choices "made" me feel .. then I would feel better.
It just got worse.
(there was more but you get the picture!)
I write this amazed at what I chose to put myself through. The energy and effort expended to get as far away from "bad" feelings as I could ... in the process getting as far away from my Self as I could ever imagine.
I still marvel at my strength and determination to avoid, thinking I was overcoming those feelings by huge effort and struggle.
I know now that the more I struggled, avoided, denied, the bigger the feelings got.
In the end (is there an end?) I resorted to the only option left: I learnt to feel, to sit with the feelings, to hold the space for those feelings to flow. I am not saying that the experience of feeling the feelings wasn't terrifying ... but I know that I no longer live with an over-riding, constant sense of anxiety and fear.
I feel what I would call "free". Free to feel, free to express, free to sit with the feelings, free to choose all experiences without fear of the feelings they may bring ...
Free rather than pursued, fearful, anxious, terrified, locked away, disconnected from Self and others.
And for that freedom alone, the journey towards getting better at feeling (rather than feeling better) was worth it.
Do I feel better as a result? A resounding YES.
Was that the objective? No, it was a beautiful by-product.
Would I do it all again? To feel, engage with life, be in the moment and truly live ... Yes I would.


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make errors involving Brahms
i have tried to install Brahms on my redhat 9.2 box but when i try to run make i get the following errors:
autom4te: /usr/bin/m4 failed exit status: 1
make: *** [configure] error 1
can any one help me with this,
thanksCry out for freedom! Cry out for Linux!
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You really need to give more info than that. Look through the output of the configure script and try to see where the error appears? It's likley some dependency you don't have installed or some library that is outdated, and that should be reported during configure.
Brahms? that's some kind of music app or what? just curious.
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Building Brahms seems now non-trivial since the last released code (abour 3+ years) ago is out-of-date with respect to modern versions of automake and autoconf. This means most configure attempts ultimately fail for one reason or another. I'm trying to see if I can work this out but although I know m4 a bit I'm no automake/autoconf expert. I'm not sure there's much of channel to post updates.
Yes, Brahms is music app - the intention was for it to be a Linux open source equivalent to things like Steinberg's Cubase and such like.


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None of this is to say Obama hasn't had his own stereotypes to confront during this campaign. He has faced criticism for being too black or not black enough. He's had to battle the unfounded yet persistent Internet rumor that he's a radical Muslim. And when his controversial pastor evoked questions about race and patriotism, Obama promptly dealt with the matter, giving one of the most complex and sophisticated speeches a politician has ever delivered.
There has been clamoring for Clinton to make the gender equivalent of Obama's race speech. In this idealized homily, Clinton would confront the insidiousness of sexism and speak out against the societal ills that affect women; she would renounce the unfair criteria, at once more stringent and more superficial, by which women are judged. She might even address the compromises she is said to have made in her lifethis is idealized, rememberand tell us why those compromises, rather than making her an inferior candidate, instead make her a stronger one, as they can be viewed as her imperfect resolutions to the dilemmas faced by many women: Do you stay with a man who has betrayed you, or divorce him? Do you keep your name, or take your husband's? Do you put your career aside for hisat least for a time?
This speech, of course, is not likely to happen. Not only because, as was pointed out on The XX Factor, women disagree on such fundamental issues as abortion and child care, or because Clinton is politically cautious and to do so would risk alienating male voters. A speech like this would open Clinton to the criticism, leveled at her several times already in this campaign, and at any female candidate who refers to her gender or acts in a particularly feminine way (by crying, for instance)that she is playing the gender card. It would also, sadly, only serve to reinforce the sort of stereotypes she would hope to counter: the nag, the crusading feminist, the ballbuster, the know-it-all with reams of statistics at the ready. But the fact that women are even imagining what such a speech would sound like on the national stage is significant.
As the Pennsylvania primary nears, pundits and party members are again, as they did before Ohio and Texas, calling for Clinton to step down. (The model of female self-sacrifice is deeply embedded in our culture, notes Bennetts.) And indeed it's becoming increasingly difficult to see how this political cycle could end with her victorious. It is perhaps cold comfort to say that if she loses the nomination, her candidacy leaves behind a legacy of reawakened feminismthe fourth wave, if you will. But this is in fact what is happening.
The past few months have been like an extended consciousness-raising session, to use a retro phrase that would have once made most of us cringe. We've parsed the gender politics of the campaign with other women in the office, at parties, over e-mail, and now we're starting to parse the gender politics of our lives. This is, admittedly, depressing: How can we be confronting the same issues, all these years later? But it's also exciting. It feels as if a window has been opened in a stuffy, long-sealed room. There is a thrill at the collective realization. Now the question is, what next?


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There are a number of ways to allow workers to watch live sport with minimal impact on the employer's business:
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- Ask for time off during the working day to watch the event (this is known as a 'split-shift'), with the time being made up at either the start or the end of the normal working schedule.
- Ask to be able to use annual leave or flexitime where you have it.
In all these cases, stress how this can be managed without disrupting your employer's business. Simply making modest changes to working time should mean that it's still easy to hit any important deadlines.
It's also a good idea to tackle the issue early. If your boss is going to make accommodation for staff in some way, it would be easiest, not to mention fairest, if this is discussed long enough in advance for them to make any changes or announcements when the time comes.
Negotiation is easiest on all sides when there are a number of people with the same concern. If you have a union where you work, try talking to your union rep about asking other colleagues and approaching management together to see if there are options that might suit the widest number of people.


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