How to Make Gift Giving More Green
Go Green with Your Gift-Giving (photo courtesy of bindarri) Earth Day is coming up which means many of us are thinking about how to be more eco-friendly and reduce our carbon footprint. You may think going green requires big, bold steps like installing solar panels on your roof or trading in your car for a bike. But there are so many small, simple ways you can go green– including with your gift giving! Here are ways to make your gift giving more green
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Cooking with the iPad
In addition to being a cooking encyclopedia, we’re also an online media company, and at every online media company you’re bound to find at least one gadget geek. Therefore, I wasn’t too surprised when a member of the team brought an iPad into Foodista HQ on Monday. I was, however, shocked and delighted when he announced that we could each take it home to play with
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Get Ready for the Summer of Watermelon and Beer. Together. In a Can.
Gloomy Seattle has me longing for summer, sitting on a porch or patio, and knocking back a cold beer. I have to admit I kinda laughed/cringed when I first saw this watermelon wheat beer from San Fransisco’s 21st Amendment Brewery .
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THN.com Blog: Five biggest surprises of ’09-10
With the season winding down we look at some of the most surprising individual performances that may have flown under the radar. -
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How to Grow Gifts in Your Backyard
Your Backyard Bounty Makes Great Gifts (Photo Courtesy of Technotheory) Spring is here which means it’s time to get outside and enjoy the warmer weather. A great way to spend more time outdoors is by starting a backyard garden. Not only can a garden offer great, organic and fresh food for you and your family, but it can also be a great source of gifts for family and friends this summer
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Heel Pain – How to Stop It
The best treatment for heel pain is usually rest from the activities that caused the problem, but there are several popular products designed for specific types of heel pain. Allegro carries hundreds of products for foot pain and heel pain in Shop By Condition: Foot Pain or products specifically for Plantar Fasciitis and Heel Spurs .
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Gifts for Amateur Golfers
With the Augusta Masters just around the corner, there’s going to be a lot of amateur golfers polishing off their golf clubs and sitting wide-eyed in front of the television to catch all the action. This is the ideal time to give an impromptu gift to celebrate the beginning of spring, which brings warmer weather – perfect for getting back into the swing of things. Gifts for the amateur golfer in your life may include: Samsonite Golf Trunk Organizer When making the trip to a golf course, there are a lot of pieces of equipment, tools, gadgets, and clothing often included in a day at the greens.
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Asthma Sufferers Product Guide
Asthma is serious business. According to the CDC there are approximately 16 million Americans who currently have asthma, 7 million of whom are children. In fact, asthma is the most prevalent chronic illness in children affecting nearly 10% of the population. Asthma attacks can last for minutes or even days and are generally characterized by coughing, wheezing, shortness of breath and chest tightness. Asthma is generally treated or controlled with anti-inflammatory drugs and bronchodilators but asthma symptoms can be substantially reduced by avoiding exposure to known allergens and respiratory irritants such as pollen, dust mites, mold and animal dander. Other asthma triggers include irritants like smoke, pollution, fumes, cleaning chemicals and sprays. Popular Asthma Products Nebulizers – Nebulizers deliver lifesaving aerosolized liquid medicine to the lungs through a tube-like mouthpiece. Allegro offers a wide assortment of nebulizers including the latest piston-powered, pediatric nebs, hand-held ultrasonic nebulizers and compact nebulizers. We suggest the MABISMist II Handheld Ultrasonic Nebulizer , the CompMist Compressor Nebulizer Kit or the Beetle Neb Compact Ultrasonic Nebulizer
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17th Anniversary Gift Dilemma
The 17th anniversary year gift is a real dilemma. For a starters, there is no traditional 17th year anniversary gift. Wasn’t considered special enough, so they just didn’t bother to list one. Next, you’ll find that the modern customary 17th year gift is furniture! Come again?! Furniture!?
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No Justice for Cows in Pennsylvania
Despite overwhelmingly sad video and photographic evidence of lame, thin, and downed cows left to suffer and die and a cow whose teat was banded and left to decay and fall off—not to mention expert testimony that all this constituted cruelty—a judge whose courtroom was packed with dairy farmers today dismissed all charges against the owners of Reitz Dairy , a filthy Land O’Lakes supplier in Pennsylvania that PETA investigated last year. Conditions like these were defended as “standard dairy practice”! Share on Facebook | Viewing Options Embed PETA’s investigator found cows on this factory dairy farm collapsed, lame, and struggling to hobble through a deep soup of feces and urine in the perpetually filthy conditions. Cows suffering from painful infections and severe lameness were deprived of even basic care; dying cows were not even put out of their misery
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The Human Side of Slaughterhouse Abuse
The findings of a new report from Britain’s Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) should come as no surprise to anyone with an ounce of sense: Abuse and exploitation run rampant in meat factories , no matter the victim’s species. http://www.flickr.com/photos/southernfoodwaysalliance/ / CC BY 2.0 One in three workers interviewed by the EHRC claimed to have heard or been the victim of verbal abuse by superiors, and one in five admitted to “being pushed, kicked, or having things thrown at them.” The report contains testimony from employees who claimed to have had frozen burgers thrown at them by managers and states that workers with bladder conditions admitted to urinating on themselves after they were denied bathroom breaks. It doesn’t take a great leap of logic to understand that the callousness required to hang gentle animals by chains and shackles , cut their throats while they are still conscious, and begin to skin them while they are still blinking will bleed into employee relations, and it’s no coincidence that the hardships endured by humans are eerily similar to those endured by animals.
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First Diaper Kendra Wilkinson Changed Was Her Son’s
Flynet It’s not uncommon for a dad to change his first diaper when he welcomes his first child, but Kendra Wilkinson says she’s a member of the club, too. “The first diaper I ever changed was his, and it was special,” she says of son Hank IV , 3 months. So much so that the reality star tells Wonderwall her fondness for diaper changes has not waned! “[Husband] Hank [ Baskett ] just sent me a video of the baby pooping, and I’m like, ‘I miss his poop so much!’ Everything about my baby, I just love
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Lunches to Get Schooled by Congress?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/back_garage/ CC BY 2.0 “I have been in many lunchrooms during lunch period and can attest to the food that is frequently lacking from a nutritional perspective and very high in saturated fats. … What our bill will do is provide some lower-fat and lower-cholesterol ways for kids to get the nutrition that they need to be healthy.” —U.S.
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Monkey See, Monkey Bite
http://www.flickr.com/photos/34022876@N06/ CC BY 2.0 As if we needed another reminder that wild animals are not wind-up toys , a capuchin monkey reportedly being kept as a “service animal” by a man in Chesapeake, Virginia, bit the man so severely that he had to be hospitalized. A video that aired on a local news broadcast showed the monkey’s cage and the floor surrounding it sprayed with the man’s blood
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Monkey See, Monkey Bite
Cash for Appliances Buyer’s Guide: Water heaters
If you need a new water heater and are planning to take advantage of the $300 million State Energy Efficient Appliance Rebate Program, also called cash for clunkers for appliances or cash for appliances , use the advice below: States offering rebates for water heaters: Rebates for water heaters are available in 32 of 56 U.S. states and territories. Find out whether water heaters eligible for a rebate where you live and use our interactive map to link to the appliance clunkers Web site in your state
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Marcia Cross & Girls Get in the Swing of Things
Ramey Spring is in the air! Marcia Cross and daughter Savannah relaxed in the sand while sister Eden went for a spin on the swings Thursday at a Santa Monica, Calif. park.
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Diving With Dolphins May Destroy Them
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jdebberly/ / CC BY 2.0 Really-old-but-still-totally-relevant history lesson (it’s quick—I promise!): The Ancient Greeks were so awed by dolphins , whom they deemed friends to humans, that every time they spotted one swimming behind a ship, they considered him or her a good omen. Now, a new study suggests that in order to respect our marine friends and cognitive cousins , we must simply stay away from them. Findings from researchers at Newcastle University suggest that human interactions with dolphins—from following them in tourist boats to swimming with them to touching them—are harmful to these intelligent, sensitive mammals.
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Molly Ringwald Chooses Schedules Over Spontaneity
Jeff Vespa/Wireimage/Getty The days of impromptu vacations are a thing of the past for Molly Ringwald ! Since becoming a mom-of-three, the Secret Life of the American Teenager star tells Entertainment Tonight she has “had to get a lot better about scheduling.” “I used to be very spontaneous — I’d get on a plane, go anywhere I wanted anytime I wanted — and that’s sort of changed,” Ringwald, 42, concedes. “I just have to think a little further in advance and that’s okay.” Quick to point out that she has help — a cousin serves as nanny for Mathilda Ereni , 6, and 8-month-old twins Adele Georgiana and Roman Stylianos — Ringwald says she also relies heavily on husband Panio Gianopolous , whom she describes as “incredibly involved” and “a great father.” The family of five like to enjoy dinner together — from beginning to end! “I find that kids tend to be less suspicious of things that they had a hand in making,” she explains.
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The Howell Brothers Present: Dragon Attack!
Today my boys took a Stop-Motion Movie Making class through a program called, Bits, Bots & Bytes. They absolutely loved it; leaving the 3-hour course with their film debut! If you’ve got 40 seconds (ignore the 2:15-most of that’s blank screen) to spare, please give it a screening (they get so excited every time the view number goes up.;-))Thanks!,Vickie
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Get Roped Into These Knitted Necklaces From Orly Genger and Jaclyn Mayer!
What happens when a jewelry designer and a sculptor collaborate? Well, it could create some monstrous and heavy jewelry, or it could create beautiful statement pieces you€™ll cherish forever. For this duo it€™s definitely the latter! Jaclyn Mayer and Orly Genger first paired up to create some jewelry souvenirs for the gift shop of the Indianapolis Museum of Art , where the New York-based Genger was showing an installation consisting of thousands of feet of nylon climbing rope, which the artist had hand-knitted into sculptures.
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