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Archive for August 2009

The Great Tea Survey

Aug 6th, 2009 | By admin | Category: Wellness & Lifestyle

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The following article is a repost of the “Great Tea Survey”, the beginning of Teelanovela’s Call to “Take A Time Out”. It gained such an immense popularity that eventually Time Out Magazine was founded to further inquire into relaxation and easy living. enjoy!
While communication increases through digital connections, it [...]



I Dream of a Non-Electric Life

Aug 6th, 2009 | By admin | Category: Wellness & Lifestyle

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A sudden black out in the middle of my workday inspires me to dream wildly.
I work as a freelancer translator and writer, and my office is a separate building in my backyard, a.k.a. home office. Therefore, you can picture how [...]



How To Ditch Other People’s Negative Emotions

Aug 6th, 2009 | By admin | Category: Wellness & Lifestyle

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Today was a four snooze alarm morning. Between the cold I caught from a fellow guest at a friend’s dinner, deadlines for clients and editors looming over my sleepy head, and the drained energy I felt from dealing with someone else’s negative emotion – I just wanted to crawl [...]



See like an Eagle! An alternative to eyeglasses

Aug 5th, 2009 | By admin | Category: Wellness & Lifestyle

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There are many who consider Aldous Huxley a visionary writer. His Brave New World is a classic often set next to Orwell’s 1984 as mid-century visions of a suspect future. For all his insight as a writer, though, Huxley was nearly blind by the age of [...]



♫ Fania All Stars Salsa Albums

Aug 5th, 2009 | By admin | Category: Music

Sharewiki: The Fania All-Stars was an illustrious and widely distinguished musical ensemble established in 1968 by composer Johnny Pacheco as a showcase for the leading musicians and singers of the record label Fania Records, the leading salsa record company of the time.. listen for free on deezer



Marijuana Mamas! – Is Pot the New Pilates?

Aug 5th, 2009 | By admin | Category: Wellness & Lifestyle

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Gina Kaysen Fernandes: A new wave of reefer madness is sweeping suburbia — but it’s not just teenagers who are lighting up. Middle-aged, middle-class soccer moms are smoking pot … a lot. These women aren’t stoners: they’re teachers, lawyers, and, perhaps, even your neighbor who prefers puffing a joint to sipping [...]



Unplug and Recharge: Sky Gazing

Aug 5th, 2009 | By admin | Category: Wellness & Lifestyle

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Yesterday morning I got up early and went for a walk. There’s a beautiful hiking trail close to my house here in Boulder. It wraps up the back of a mountain, and as you ascend up the trail you get a fuller and fuller view of the city below [...]



Slow Down … to Enjoy Life

Aug 5th, 2009 | By admin | Category: Wellness & Lifestyle

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I don’t usually read forwarded email, but I received one today that caught my attention. It was written by someone who works at Volvo in Sweden, and he mentions how any project in the company “takes 2 years to be finalized, even if the idea is simple and brilliant. [...]



Seeing which way the wind blows Woman wants to install turbine on her Federal Hill rowhouse roof

Aug 4th, 2009 | By admin | Category: World News

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Looking to offset rising electricity bills, Marsha Vitow has a modern solution: installing Baltimore’s first residential wind turbine on the roof of her Federal Hill rowhouse.
It’s a logical move in a city whose mayor has pushed extra tree plantings, recycling and other issues on a “cleaner, greener” agenda, but [...]



A Guide to Creating a Minimalist Home

Aug 4th, 2009 | By admin | Category: Wellness & Lifestyle

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What a Minimalist Home Looks Like
This would vary, of course, depending on your taste and how extreme of a minimalist you want to be. I am a minimalist, but not to any extreme. But here are some characteristics of a minimalist home:
Minimal furniture. A minimalist room would only contain [...]