My hair gets kind of flat sometimes, and a great trick for texture and body is to wash it with a natural soap, like Burt's Bees peppermint shampoo soap! It can be any soap, though; it doesn't have to be a shampoo kind. This gives great body and texture, as long as you don't use it too often, because if you do, soap residue can build up and make it look like you have dandruff. Use sparingly and enjoy!
I know the contest is over, but I just remembered this and laughed... I had a friend who got out of a ticket once. It wasn't a speeding ticket; she had made a u-turn in a "No U-turn" intersection. When the cop called her on it, she said, "But officer, I thought it said, 'No, YOU turn!' and so I turned!" He laughed and said he'd let her off because he'd never heard that one before.
Unless there is scienfitic evidence to the contrary, I'm going to keep believing that losing weight is largely beneficial.
It's fairly recent and I'm afraid I can't provide references, but results were released last year from studies which suggest that it's healthier to be fat and active than skinny and inactive.
Based on this, I believe that many, if not most, of the problems typically associated with excess weight are, in fact, caused by lack of activity rather than by being overweight. Previous studies simply failed to control for activity level, probably because weight is so much easier to observe.
Unless there is scienfitic evidence to the contrary, I'm going to keep believing that losing weight is largely beneficial.
If you lose weight through having high sugars (I've known diabetics who do this - they just stop taking insulin until they pee the calories away), then your diabetes will be awful.
Maybe it has more to do with being "in shape" than being thin? When I became diatebic, I was not overweight. The three times in which I have managed my diabetes so well that I didn't need medication, I was no thinner than I had been when I developed diabetes - BUT I was exercising. When I developed the disease, I couldn't have run a block without passing out.
Yep, it's true. I also recently found out that my thin (size 10) 18-year-old cousin just got put on meds because she is becoming type-2 diabetic. I'm 30 years old, defined as "obese" by the BMI, and as of my last check up (~2 months ago), my cholesterol was 147, my resting heart rate was 69, and my blood pressure was 117/72. I've never had an abnormal blood-sugar reading. So, I'm REALLY skeptical when I hear all of that talk about how losing weight improves, given that the sickliest people in my family are the thin ones!
A Type 2 diabetic? Who lost weight and got worse? That sounds like a medical anomaly - I hope they study your family!
In my experience, whenever I lost weight, I can go off my meds. I've never heard of anyone having the opposite experience - thanks for reading, and for mentioning that.
Just a quick point: I wouldn't be naive enough to accept the medical industry's gospel that, as the poster says, "Losing weight is, frankly, the answer to a lot of health problems. In this case, losing weight will require less medication to manage your diabetes". Just about everyone on both sides of my family is diabetic--the fat ones, the thin ones, and the in-between ones. When my Aunt took her doctor's advice to lose weight, she did. She ate very sensibly, exercised regularly, and did it in a very smart way (lots of veggies, no crazy techniques, no 5-grapefruits-a-day or whatever the new fad is), and she lost 30 pounds. The result? Her diabetes got worse, and she now has to inject herself with insulin on a daily basis. So, just a comment to nuance the discussion of diabetes--while weight loss might be useful to some, and perhaps even many, people, some of us are destined to be diabetic (if weight were so important, why are ALL of the thin people in my family diabetic, and the few who aren't happen to be fat?). Of course, talk to your doctor, take your meds, blah blah, but if losing weight doesn't help your diabetes, don't be surprised.
What my father has found works is cutting back really sharply on carbs. By focusing on proteins for snacks to keep an even keel during the day, he says he's feeling tons better.
I don't think the article ever set out to be against recycling. At least, I never read it that way. What I took away from the article, honestly, was the idea that if you're not recycling, don't worry about it, because while there may not be anything inherently wrong with recycling, it's also not as fantastic as people would frequently have you believe.
When I moved into the apartment building where I currently reside, the manager told me that the trash is picked up by a service which sorts our garbage into recyclable stuff and non-recyclable stuff. Because of this, she said, feel free to throw all your trash away together.
Why did I believe her? I don't know. I guess part of me didn't understand why she'd lie about such a thing. Another part of me, of course, took the story as an easy excuse to be lazy. So, yeah, I just throw everything out together. "It'll get taken care of", I tell myself.
Well, once, at a party, a guest couldn't believe that not only was I not recycling, I was also being so flippant about it with my "whatever" attitude. I explained it was sorted elsewhere, or so I was told. Needless to say, she did not believe that actually happened, and was a little surprised that I did believe it.
Someone else interupted the conversation, told me to not feel so bad, and pointed me towards that link. I read it, and ya know what, I really don't feel bad anymore. First of all, I cling to the remote possibility that my trash is actually sorted and handled appropriately. But, in the more probable scenario that it isn't... well... whatever. ;)
Great post Troy. I actually read first Sarah's post that is about getting what you want to work, impressing your boss...
My opinion is, if you're not happy anymore with your career, try looking for some new things, new lifestyle. Not just looking for new job in new company. Ask yourself what you really want, what's your passion. If you will know, then try pursuing it.
I found a place that was conditionally sold and told the agent if it fell through to call me.
A week later it did fall through and met with the agent and said I was willing to pay 155k, but the seller wanted 157k (that was what the last offer was so they were certain they could get it again).
I explained that without me having a buyers agent my offer was more than they wanted and said I would give them the same as the 157k offer they were holding out for.
So we agreed that I would "get the 2.5% buyer commission" towards the home so that my total offer was 157k, but almost 4k of that was the buyers commission they would have had to pay out anyways (the 2 other interested parties had buyer agents).
So I ended up with the place for a little over 153k so that all parties won. The seller got teh net amount he wanted, the agent got a few hundred more in commission than if they sold to a buyer agent, and I got the place I was willing to pay 155k for, for a little over 153k.
As an aside the home was listed at 167,500 and I really don't think a buyers agent could have saved me any money considering I spoke with a few friends who are realtors and they were shocked when they found out how cheap I got it and they all asked who my agent was that got me the deal. =)
to get rid of slugs and snails in a veg .garden:-
Put out a saucer of BEER, level with the ground.the critters will get drunk and drown [truly]
put out the shells of GRAPEFRUITS, the slugs/snails will hide under there...scoop them up and dump them.
Use plenty of MULCH around the veggies, they have a hard time crossing it.
Make little piles of organic BRAN, they eat it and die.
For the past few weeks I've been applying a thin film of honey to my face before bed. Just a dab of honey (1/4-1/3 a teaspoon or so), with a TINY bit of water to help it spread, has helped my skin lose its redness and blemishes. I started using it because honey is apparently a natural antibacterial agent. If applied sparingly enough and you pull your hair back at night, the honey won't get anything too sticky. Still, you'll probably have to wash your hair each morning.
I know someone already mentioned honey+aspirin, but this is MUCH gentler on the face, and it works for me! :)
Actually, I'm not surprised at all. Thank you for bringing this up, by the way. I struggle with these issues every single day.
The article you linked, however, does not strike me as a definitive damning of recycling. The author doesn't link to much evidence, aside from some EPA data that I will now have to hunt down and examine, and I'm worried about the logic behind some of the arguments. Take this tidbit, for example:
Turning a live chicken into a meal creates food waste. When chickens are processed commerically, the waste goes into waste. When chickens are processed commercially, the waste goes into marketable products (such as pet food), instead of into a landfill.
I'm a bit baffled by that one.
I think that lots of environmentalists struggle with issues like recycling - I do think about things like, does it consume more water to make a new plastic bottle, or to recycle the one I just used? I don't think we have any hard, definitive data to answer this question yet. The article doesn't answer those questions, but it does raise some points that we definitely need to explore further. Also, I think it sets up a few strawman arguments that are easy to knock down.
But you are correct - recycling as we do it now isn't a be all, end all solution to our problems.
You, as well as many environmentalists, may find it very surprising to learn that recycling is not all it has been cracked up to be. Check out http://ecoworld.com/Home/Articles2.cfm?TID=340 for more info.
I mention this because the idea of recycling has come up repeatedly in your three part series, as well as in the user comments below. Seriously, just check out the article. I found it to be incredibly interesting when I first stumbled upon it.
My hair gets kind of flat sometimes, and a great trick for texture and body is to wash it with a natural soap, like Burt's Bees peppermint shampoo soap! It can be any soap, though; it doesn't have to be a shampoo kind. This gives great body and texture, as long as you don't use it too often, because if you do, soap residue can build up and make it look like you have dandruff. Use sparingly and enjoy!
Woo Hoo!! New fantasies await!!!
The Katrina cottage sleeps four and is roughly 30K. I don't know about hurricanes and tornadoes, though.
Even prefab homes start at a quarter million where we live! Time to leave this county, and maybe even the state!
Before express my opinion I want to say "Great Blog!"
This article is very interesting and I'm in absolutly agreement with it.
she went white as a klansman's hood and looked like she was going to lose it.
I know the contest is over, but I just remembered this and laughed... I had a friend who got out of a ticket once. It wasn't a speeding ticket; she had made a u-turn in a "No U-turn" intersection. When the cop called her on it, she said, "But officer, I thought it said, 'No, YOU turn!' and so I turned!" He laughed and said he'd let her off because he'd never heard that one before.
you are a retard. wood is not an element, it is made of several different elements and mostly carbon.
Is the tornado factor for these rigs?
From the heart of trailer country,
Jessica (who had every class her freshman year of high-school in a trailer, except PE)
Unless there is scienfitic evidence to the contrary, I'm going to keep believing that losing weight is largely beneficial.
It's fairly recent and I'm afraid I can't provide references, but results were released last year from studies which suggest that it's healthier to be fat and active than skinny and inactive.
Based on this, I believe that many, if not most, of the problems typically associated with excess weight are, in fact, caused by lack of activity rather than by being overweight. Previous studies simply failed to control for activity level, probably because weight is so much easier to observe.
Unless there is scienfitic evidence to the contrary, I'm going to keep believing that losing weight is largely beneficial.
If you lose weight through having high sugars (I've known diabetics who do this - they just stop taking insulin until they pee the calories away), then your diabetes will be awful.
Good explanation here: http://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=18157
Maybe it has more to do with being "in shape" than being thin? When I became diatebic, I was not overweight. The three times in which I have managed my diabetes so well that I didn't need medication, I was no thinner than I had been when I developed diabetes - BUT I was exercising. When I developed the disease, I couldn't have run a block without passing out.
Oops. "improves health", I mean.
Yep, it's true. I also recently found out that my thin (size 10) 18-year-old cousin just got put on meds because she is becoming type-2 diabetic. I'm 30 years old, defined as "obese" by the BMI, and as of my last check up (~2 months ago), my cholesterol was 147, my resting heart rate was 69, and my blood pressure was 117/72. I've never had an abnormal blood-sugar reading. So, I'm REALLY skeptical when I hear all of that talk about how losing weight improves, given that the sickliest people in my family are the thin ones!
A Type 2 diabetic? Who lost weight and got worse? That sounds like a medical anomaly - I hope they study your family!
In my experience, whenever I lost weight, I can go off my meds. I've never heard of anyone having the opposite experience - thanks for reading, and for mentioning that.
Just a quick point: I wouldn't be naive enough to accept the medical industry's gospel that, as the poster says, "Losing weight is, frankly, the answer to a lot of health problems. In this case, losing weight will require less medication to manage your diabetes". Just about everyone on both sides of my family is diabetic--the fat ones, the thin ones, and the in-between ones. When my Aunt took her doctor's advice to lose weight, she did. She ate very sensibly, exercised regularly, and did it in a very smart way (lots of veggies, no crazy techniques, no 5-grapefruits-a-day or whatever the new fad is), and she lost 30 pounds. The result? Her diabetes got worse, and she now has to inject herself with insulin on a daily basis. So, just a comment to nuance the discussion of diabetes--while weight loss might be useful to some, and perhaps even many, people, some of us are destined to be diabetic (if weight were so important, why are ALL of the thin people in my family diabetic, and the few who aren't happen to be fat?). Of course, talk to your doctor, take your meds, blah blah, but if losing weight doesn't help your diabetes, don't be surprised.
What my father has found works is cutting back really sharply on carbs. By focusing on proteins for snacks to keep an even keel during the day, he says he's feeling tons better.
I don't think the article ever set out to be against recycling. At least, I never read it that way. What I took away from the article, honestly, was the idea that if you're not recycling, don't worry about it, because while there may not be anything inherently wrong with recycling, it's also not as fantastic as people would frequently have you believe.
When I moved into the apartment building where I currently reside, the manager told me that the trash is picked up by a service which sorts our garbage into recyclable stuff and non-recyclable stuff. Because of this, she said, feel free to throw all your trash away together.
Why did I believe her? I don't know. I guess part of me didn't understand why she'd lie about such a thing. Another part of me, of course, took the story as an easy excuse to be lazy. So, yeah, I just throw everything out together. "It'll get taken care of", I tell myself.
Well, once, at a party, a guest couldn't believe that not only was I not recycling, I was also being so flippant about it with my "whatever" attitude. I explained it was sorted elsewhere, or so I was told. Needless to say, she did not believe that actually happened, and was a little surprised that I did believe it.
Someone else interupted the conversation, told me to not feel so bad, and pointed me towards that link. I read it, and ya know what, I really don't feel bad anymore. First of all, I cling to the remote possibility that my trash is actually sorted and handled appropriately. But, in the more probable scenario that it isn't... well... whatever. ;)
Great post Troy. I actually read first Sarah's post that is about getting what you want to work, impressing your boss...
My opinion is, if you're not happy anymore with your career, try looking for some new things, new lifestyle. Not just looking for new job in new company. Ask yourself what you really want, what's your passion. If you will know, then try pursuing it.
I would like also to share this:
http://davidseah.com/archives/2007/04/18/a-review-of-tim-ferriss-the-4-h...
It's a review of the book "The 4-Hour Work Week". This is very interesting and informative. You can also buy this at http://snipurl.com/1ilc1.
Hope this can help.
Best Regards,
Samantha
I found a place that was conditionally sold and told the agent if it fell through to call me.
A week later it did fall through and met with the agent and said I was willing to pay 155k, but the seller wanted 157k (that was what the last offer was so they were certain they could get it again).
I explained that without me having a buyers agent my offer was more than they wanted and said I would give them the same as the 157k offer they were holding out for.
So we agreed that I would "get the 2.5% buyer commission" towards the home so that my total offer was 157k, but almost 4k of that was the buyers commission they would have had to pay out anyways (the 2 other interested parties had buyer agents).
So I ended up with the place for a little over 153k so that all parties won. The seller got teh net amount he wanted, the agent got a few hundred more in commission than if they sold to a buyer agent, and I got the place I was willing to pay 155k for, for a little over 153k.
As an aside the home was listed at 167,500 and I really don't think a buyers agent could have saved me any money considering I spoke with a few friends who are realtors and they were shocked when they found out how cheap I got it and they all asked who my agent was that got me the deal. =)
to get rid of slugs and snails in a veg .garden:-
Put out a saucer of BEER, level with the ground.the critters will get drunk and drown [truly]
put out the shells of GRAPEFRUITS, the slugs/snails will hide under there...scoop them up and dump them.
Use plenty of MULCH around the veggies, they have a hard time crossing it.
Make little piles of organic BRAN, they eat it and die.
Your post is wonderful & Number 1 is dead-on.
For the past few weeks I've been applying a thin film of honey to my face before bed. Just a dab of honey (1/4-1/3 a teaspoon or so), with a TINY bit of water to help it spread, has helped my skin lose its redness and blemishes. I started using it because honey is apparently a natural antibacterial agent. If applied sparingly enough and you pull your hair back at night, the honey won't get anything too sticky. Still, you'll probably have to wash your hair each morning.
I know someone already mentioned honey+aspirin, but this is MUCH gentler on the face, and it works for me! :)
Actually, I'm not surprised at all. Thank you for bringing this up, by the way. I struggle with these issues every single day.
The article you linked, however, does not strike me as a definitive damning of recycling. The author doesn't link to much evidence, aside from some EPA data that I will now have to hunt down and examine, and I'm worried about the logic behind some of the arguments. Take this tidbit, for example:
Turning a live chicken into a meal creates food waste. When chickens are processed commerically, the waste goes into waste. When chickens are processed commercially, the waste goes into marketable products (such as pet food), instead of into a landfill.
I'm a bit baffled by that one.
I think that lots of environmentalists struggle with issues like recycling - I do think about things like, does it consume more water to make a new plastic bottle, or to recycle the one I just used? I don't think we have any hard, definitive data to answer this question yet. The article doesn't answer those questions, but it does raise some points that we definitely need to explore further. Also, I think it sets up a few strawman arguments that are easy to knock down.
But you are correct - recycling as we do it now isn't a be all, end all solution to our problems.
You, as well as many environmentalists, may find it very surprising to learn that recycling is not all it has been cracked up to be. Check out http://ecoworld.com/Home/Articles2.cfm?TID=340 for more info.
I mention this because the idea of recycling has come up repeatedly in your three part series, as well as in the user comments below. Seriously, just check out the article. I found it to be incredibly interesting when I first stumbled upon it.
I'd say go ahead and give it a try. Paul says he uses it for his lawn.