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letter page edge

Tue, 20 Nov 2007 17:40:31 GMT

clipped by: tarynleah
clipper's remarks: love this creative idea!

STEP 1: Arrange letters along the edge of your paper to spell out the title.

STEP 2: Trace around them lightly with a pencil.

STEP 3: Use a straight edge to draw a base line. This will be where your paper ends and the cut-out title begins. This gives you a guideline for cutting.

STEP 4: Use a sharp craft knife to remove the negative spaces. Be sure to stop cutting at your base line that you drew in Step 3. This will ensure the letters stay attached to your paper. Please see the layout for further reference.

Tags: scrapbooking

Citrus Juice, Vitamin C Give Staying Power To Green Tea Antioxidants

Thu, 15 Nov 2007 14:08:26 GMT

clipped by: splendidus

Clip Source: www.sciencedaily.com

A little juice in your hot tea may increase the amount of tea-derived antioxidants that your body is able to absorb, said Purdue associate professor of food science Mario Ferruzzi. His study found lemon juice had the most profound impact, followed by orange, lime and grapefruit juices. (Credit: Purdue Agricultural Communication photo/Tom Campbell)

Catechins (pronounced KA'-teh-kins), display health-promoting qualities and may be responsible for some of green tea's reported health benefits, like reduced risk of cancer, heart attack and stroke. The problem, Ferruzzi said, is that catechins are relatively unstable in non-acidic environments, such as the intestines, and less than 20 percent of the total remains after digestion.

"Off the bat you are eliminating a large majority of the catechins from plain green tea," Ferruzzi said. "We have to address this fact if we want to improve bodily absorption."

Tags: green tea, lemon, vitamin c

Recycle Your Old Sneakers

Wed, 14 Nov 2007 09:32:19 GMT

clipped by: thisnamecantbetaken

Clip Source: www.care2.com

Sneakers

Recycle: There are a number of charities that send your used sneakers to impoverished places with little access to athletic shoes. Shoe4Africa collects running shoes, cleans them up and ships them to East Africa to encourage sport. The first pair of Shoe4Africa shoes to be donated back in 1995 went to Mark Wendot Yatich, then an unknown runner—he went on to win the Los Angeles Marathon. Another runner to get shoes that year was Japheth Kimutai, who three years later won the Commonwealth Games 800m gold medal.

Nike has a fantastic recycling program called Reuse-A-Shoe , which is working to close the loop on the life cycle of literally millions of pairs of old, worn-out, or otherwise unusable athletic shoe material. Nike collects worn-out athletic shoes of any brand, not just Nike, and recycles them into a material that is used to make new soccer and football fields, tennis and basketball courts, running tracks and playground surfaces around the world.

Tags: recycling, sustainability, charity, aid, sport, africa

Basic Human RIghts

Tue, 13 Nov 2007 10:37:36 GMT

clipped by: DouglasDirk
clipper's remarks: Basic Human Rights for ALL people!

Clip Source: bcn.boulder.co.us

BASIC HUMAN RIGHTS:

Each person has a right to be treated respectfully.

Each person has the right to say no without explanation and without guilt.

Each person has the right to slow down and take time to think.

Each person has the right to change his or her mind.

Each person has the right to ask for what he or she wants.

Each person has the right to ask for information.

Each person has the right to make mistakes.

Each person has the right to make choices and accept the consequences of those choices.

Each person has the right to own and express his or her own feelings.

Each person has the right to ask for help.

Each person has the right to maintain a separate self that is independent of the expectations, the approval, or the influence of others.

Tags: rights, human rights, equality

Biofuels Could Kill More People Than the Iraq War

Sat, 10 Nov 2007 15:23:18 GMT

clipped by: JICWyllie

Clip Source: www.alternet.org

If there is one blindingly obvious fact about biofuel it's that it is not a smallholder crop. It is an internationally-traded commodity which travels well and can be stored indefinitely, with no premium for local or organic produce. Already the Indian government is planning 14m hectares of jatropha plantations. In August the first riots took place among the peasant farmers being driven off the land to make way for them.

If the governments promoting biofuels do not reverse their policies, the humanitarian impact will be greater than that of the Iraq war. Millions will be displaced, hundreds of millions more could go hungry. This crime against humanity is a complex one, but that neither lessens nor excuses it.

Tags: energy, biofuels, i-policy, i-starvation, i-consequences

Using Your Limited Power Effectively

Sat, 10 Nov 2007 15:09:41 GMT

clipped by: debbyski
clipper's remarks: "In fact, it isn’t up to you to save this nation. It is up to us all. And you need to convince me, your friends, your family, your co-workers, etc. every single day that if we aren’t acting or paying attention, we are letting the powers that be hold their prized power over us for one more day."

Clip Source: www.opednews.com

You are just a citizen who has little power. Realize that. But don’t let it get you down. By realizing that you do not possess the power to end world hunger, bring peace to the world, and institute justice in the world you will become more powerful than ever.

You cannot stop a war. You cannot stop the next war from happening. You cannot stop global warming. You cannot stop our addiction to oil. You cannot stop the FBI, NSA, or CIA from violating your civil liberties here or abroad. You cannot raise people out of poverty. You cannot bring health care to all people in America. You cannot ensure that everyone in this nation gets to vote or will vote for that matter. However..

You can sit at home and write letters to friends and families who can write their friends and family.

You can educate them on instances of injustice and events that they need to know about.

You, yourself, can do a lot more if you don’t think that you have to do it all.

Tags: think, small

The Meaning Of America

Sat, 10 Nov 2007 15:05:24 GMT

clipped by: debbyski
clipper's remarks: I've watched it happen over the years since hate radio and its multimillionaire mavens first gave voice and increasing political clout to resentment, intolerance, bitterness, anger, frustration over broken dreams, and unfulfilled entitlement. We've turned mean. We've been encouraged to go onto knee-jerk, scorched-earth attack mode by politicians, activists, and media brokers who gained influence and financial reaffirmation. The loudest and most dominant voices don't urge us to find root causes of problems and their solutions, or to reach for true understanding. All we are told, and all we know anymore, is hitting, and hitting harder, and hurting deeper, killing, demonizing, punishing, mocking, name-calling, eviscerating, marginalizing, threatening, intimidating, bullying, bombing, and war-making.

Clip Source: www.opednews.com

I think maybe it's time to start asking the following question: What have we come to?

At issue here is whether we, as a nation, are okay with torture.

Do we even care? Do we care that torture doesn't reliably work - that the victim is liable to say anything he or she thinks the torturers want to hear just to make the suffering stop? Do we even care if, say, that victim might even be innocent, might have nothing whatsoever to do with the suspicions and suspects we have in mind? Do we care what that says about us as a nation, as a people?

Is this where we should be, as Americans in the 21st Century? Is that how we are? Seems unnecessarily and uncharacteristically mean to me. But, hey, maybe we ARE meaner people now.

Truly we are NOT who we used to be.

To me, it seems rather un-American to find torture acceptable.

If that's where we are, then the terrorists won. They wanted to change us, even pervert us and the way we lived and the way we were, and they did.

Tags: thank, you, so, much, for, my, nightmare

Saddam Hussein Offered to Exile Before Invasion

Thu, 08 Nov 2007 22:56:03 GMT

clipped by: ZachReynolds
clipper's remarks: This article is from September, but is very important because it shows that the Bush administration was intent on going to war with Iraq from the beginning. Saddam offered to go into exile, and the whole war could have been prevented for $1 Billion, and 0 lives lost, but look where we are now...

Clip Source: www.dailymail.co.uk

Saddam asked Bush for $1bn to go into exile

Saddam Hussein offered to step down and go into exile one month before the invasion of Iraq, it was claimed last night.

Fearing defeat, Saddam was prepared to go peacefully in return for £500million ($1billion).

The extraordinary offer was revealed yesterday in a transcript of talks in February 2003 between George Bush and the then Spanish Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar at the President's Texas ranch.

The White House refused to comment on the report last night.

Only yesterday, the Bush administration asked Congress for another £100billion to finance the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan.

However, according to the tapes, one month before he launched the invasion Mr Bush appeared convinced that Saddam was serious about going into exile.

Tags: iraq, saddam hussein, george bush, terrorism

Make money on internet

Thu, 08 Nov 2007 07:33:06 GMT

clipped by: adezalfa
clipper's remarks: make money on internet for the beginner

Clip Source: hubpages.com

If you want to make money on internet just follow this step :

1.Make a Blog.

2.Sign up google adsense.

3.Put article on your post.

4.Put google Adsense on your blog.

5.Make another blog with another topic as much as you can.

6.You will make money on your blog.

you can find another pay per click

Tags: make money

No fireworks for Guy Fawkes day

Mon, 05 Nov 2007 14:05:31 GMT

clipped by: ghgroenewold
clipper's remarks: This is utterly pathetic.

Clip Source: www.nytimes.com

York, along with many other municipalities, has often been the scene of huge events — fireworks, bonfires, the burning of creepy effigies of Fawkes — to commemorate the failure of Fawkes’s plan to blow up Parliament and the king in 1605, a shocking moment in British history. But in the face of increasingly onerous regulations, none are taking place in the city this year.

No one — not the local government, nor any local group — wanted to spend the money to “address the health and safety measures of having large numbers of people in close proximity to the fireworks,” a spokeswoman for the City of York Council said.

Beyond that, York’s fireworks-free day has provoked a degree of soul-searching in Britain, which loves even its gruesome traditions and is ever alert to new examples of how safety regulations are thwarting people’s efforts to enjoy them.

“It’s a sad state of affairs,” Mr. Alambritis said. “Each year, it becomes more difficult, as local authorities become more risk averse.”

Tags: nanny state, england, britain, guy fawkes, wussification, bureaucracy

Grungeboard

Wed, 24 Oct 2007 20:52:56 GMT

clipped by: tarynleah

Clip Source: www.youtube.com

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Tags: crafts, scrapbooking, art

Christmas Tree craft

Wed, 24 Oct 2007 16:23:00 GMT

clipped by: tarynleah
clipper's remarks: would love to make some of these!

Clip Source: staceykingman.typepad.com

made these trees for Fiskars with the Scalloped Daisy Embossing Border Punch. I bought the paper cone trees at Hobby Lobby and covered them with old dictionary paper. I inked them with Ranger Shabby Shutters and added the border punched garlands and Heidi Grace chipboard sticker circles.

Tags: crafts

Illy opens a cafe with push of a button

Tue, 09 Oct 2007 23:37:01 GMT

clipped by: pitim

Clip Source: myitthings.com

Adam Kalkin, the artist-architect behind the Quik House concept says he has more orders than he can handle. I can imagine how many people would love to pay $180k for a house that is built with push of a button! Quick House is a prefabricated kit house designed from recycled shipping containers.

Tags: cafe, architecture, illy, recycle

Seam Carving for Content - WAY COOL!

Tue, 02 Oct 2007 05:20:21 GMT

clipped by: CrystallineTulip
clipper's remarks: This is just about the neatest thing I've seen in a while with regard to digital photo manipulation! This would be such a great tool for scrapbooking...

Clip Source: www.seamcarving.com

Seam Carving for Content-Aware Image Resizing

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Tags: scrapbooking, photos, pictures, editing, software, seam carving

US Votes No For Rights Of Indigenous Peoples

Thu, 27 Sep 2007 03:05:14 GMT

clipped by: Geshizar

Clip Source: www.indiancountry.com

NEW YORK - When Cayuga Chief Deskaheh traveled to Geneva in 1923 to address the League of Nations about the right of his people to live freely on their own lands, practice their own religion and follow their own laws, the door was shut in his face by what he called ''cruel indifference.'

85 years later when the U.N. General Assembly adopted the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples on Sept. 13.

One hundred and forty-three member states voted yes, 11 states abstained, and four voted against the adoption

Canada, one of the countries that blocked Deskaheh in March 1923 from entering the League of Nation's plenary session, continued its negation of the indigenous rights embodied by the declaration, and was joined by Australia, New Zealand and the United States in voting no.

Deskaheh's courageous attempt to bring justice to his Haudenosaunee people was the first step in an ongoing quest that reached a benchmark almost

Tags: ethics, native american, politics, un