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Guerrilla stunt going on NOW in downtown Vancouver, Bristish Columbia, Canada. A giant plastic six-pack ring is tangled on a wildlife sculpture at the corner of Georgia and Thurlow st.
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Building good cholestoral and getting rid of bad cholestoral....
1. The grain issue. Most cholesterol-lowering guides will recommend that you switch refined carbohydrates to whole-grain carbohydrates (such as whole-wheat pasta and whole-grain bread). If you’ve been living on a diet of starchy carbohydrates, this switch will help lower your cholesterol. But to really lower your cholesterol – and reduce inflammation, which is just as significant to heart health and more significant for overall health – eliminate grains entirely. Yes – you read that correctly. Here’s why you need to banish even complex grain carbohydrates from your diet. 2. Eat fruit instead of guzzling juice. If you are going to eat something sweet, first make sure it’s fruit instead of desserts and candies. But choose fruit, not fruit juice. The benefit of fruit comes from the fiber, so if you drink juice, you’re losing that wonderful benefit and essentially drinking sugar water. 3. Eat at least 5 servings of vegetables daily, and work up to 9. Good ones are colorful bell peppers, chili peppers, and broccoli. 4. Raise your good cholesterol! We tend to focus on the negative, but it’s equally important to raise your good cholesterol. Do this with a daily serving of essential fatty acids from avocados, nuts, olive oil, nut oils, and nut butters. 5. Take advantage of every opportunity for Omega-3′s. Switch from regular eggs to DHA-enhanced eggs. They’re all over the place and relatively inexpensive. 6. Fish: the multi-tasker. Eat wild, fatty, cold-water fish and consider a fish oil supplement. (Best bets: wild, Alaskan salmon, wild mackerel, Nordic sardines.) Fish is the richest source of Omega-3 fatty acids, so aim for two or three portions a week. Make sure you choose wild, cold-water fish to reduce exposure to chemicals like mercury. 7. Garlic. Garlic is wonderful for your cardiovascular system and as part of the allium family of plants it’s a natural anti-inflammatory. Other great foods that reduce inflammation: ginger, curry, and chili peppers. 8. Onions ‘n things. Whether it’s scallions, leeks, chives, white onions, red onions, or shallots, these flavorful bulbs are terrific for quelling inflammation and healing your arteries. Onions also contain high levels of quercetin, an important flavonoid that reduces cholesterol. Try to eat some every day. In general, focus on eating only fresh, whole, unprocessed foods: meats, fish, eggs, vegetables, legumes, fruits, and nuts. Build good cholesterol by doing what is listed below The two types of fats that good cholesterol foods contain are polyunsaturated and mono unsaturated fats. Both of them are mainly found in plant products. Monounsaturated fats can be found in good cholesterol foods like peanut, olive, and canola oils. Polyunsaturated fats are mainly derived from sunflower, corn, soybean, and fish oils. Another thing that will increase your HDL to LDL ratio is Omega-3 fatty acids. These can be found in a lot of popular fish, such as salmon and tuna. Even if you eat just a couple of servings of this fish per week, it will give you positive results in terms of decreasing your bad cholesterol. More good cholesterol foods to indulge in are soybean products, fish oil, and leafy greens. |
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new commercial; have you seen it?
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Cloudbusting!
Cloudseeding is a real technique, and is used to induce rain or snow in clouds.
Cloud seeding increases the number of the nuclei available to take greater advantage of the moisture in the cloud, forming raindrops that would not normally have formed. https://fbcdn-sphotos-f-a.akamaihd.n...54983938_n.jpg |
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(Copy and pasted from The Earth Story site) CLOUD SEEDING No, this post is not about ‘chemtrails’. Cloudseeding is a real technique, and is used to induce rain or snow in clouds. This is usually achieved by dropping particular particles into clouds that contain supercooled water, to try to cause the clouds to dissipate, modify their structure or alter the intensity of phenomena like wind speed or hail. Cloud seeding can be done by ground generators, plane, or rocket. Natural rainfall occurs when supercooled cold water interacts with particles of dust salt or sand and forms ice crystals. These ice crystals then form a nucleus; more water droplets can then attach themselves to this nucleus and increase the size of the droplet (in colder air these droplets are snowflakes). When this droplet or snow flake reaches a critical size it falls as snow or rain. The idea of cloudseeding started in 1946, when Dr. Vincent J. Schaefer (who was working at the General Electric Laboratory in New York), was researching how to create artificial clouds in a chilled chamber. Schaefer added dry ice to one experiment, to cool the chamber further. The water vapour in the chamber formed a cloud around this dry ice; the ice crystals in the dry ice had created a nucleus around which droplets of water could now form. This process is known as the cold rain process. Cloud seeding increases the number of the nuclei available so to take greater advantage of the moisture in the cloud, forming raindrops that would not normally have formed. The warm rain process involves clouds in tropical regions that never reach freezing point. In these cases, raindrops form around a hygroscopic nucleus, which is a particle like salt or dust that attracts water. Small droplets collide and amalgamate until they form a droplet large enough to fall. Another type of cloudseeding, dynamic cloud seeding, aims to boost vertical air currents; this encourages more water to pass through the clouds, which in turn leads to more rain. To encourage the warm rain process, calcium chloride is commonly used to provide the nucleus for raindrop formation. For the cold rain process, silver-iodide (introduced either via the air or the ground) can be used as a nuclei; its structure is very similar to ice crystals. Dry ice can be introduced from the air (at -80°C) into clouds; this lowers the air temperature so that some of the supercooled water droplets can be converted into ice crystals. Common salt or fine water droplets can also be used to encourage coalescence. Most of the methods that are used to limit the development of hail use cloud seeding that employs ice nucleants, or use silver oxide. Hail damage can in theory be reduced by 25% by using cloud seeding; there have been no quantifiable results demonstrating this however. CSIRO conducted cloudseeding trials in Australia between 1947 and the early 1960s. Only the trial conducted in the Snowy Mountains during the late 1950’s and the early 1960’s produced any statistically significant rainfall increases. The Queensland government of Australia announced in December 2006 that $7.6 million in funding for "warm cloud" seeding research. Clouds were seeded during the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing using rockets, to guarantee there would be no rain during the opening and closing ceremonies. In the United States, cloud seeding is used to increase rainfall in areas experiencing drought, to reduce the size of hailstones that form in thunderstorms, and also to reduce the amount of fog in and around airports. It is also sometimes used by ski resorts to induce snowfall. After the Chernobyl disaster, Soviet military pilots seeded clouds over the Belorussian SSR to remove radioactive particles from clouds heading toward Moscow. Cloud seeding is used on a national scale in Mali and Niger. Diagrams explaining cloud seeding: http://bit.ly/Wcb3ap; http://bit.ly/ZsiszE The image shows a proposed cloud-seeding ship with Flettner rotors that spin about their vertical axis and act as powerful computer-controlled sails. Seawater sprays from the tops of the rotors to seed clouds. According to theory and computer models, seeding marine stratocumulus clouds by spraying them with an ultrafine saltwater mist from ships could significantly enhance cloud droplet number concentration. The clouds, containing more particles, would cast enough sunlight back into space to at least partially offset the warming effects of CO2 from burning fossil fuels (http://bit.ly/VFV8ia). -TEL http://www.weatheronline.co.uk/repor...ud-seeding.htm http://science.howstuffworks.com/nat...d-seeding1.htm http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worl...obyl-rain.html http://media01.couriermail.com.au/mu.../story6-1.html http://www.source.irc.nl/page/10355 http://www.scientificamerican.com/ar...-marine-clouds Image: ©John MacNeil Illustration Quote:
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Shhhh! She is travelling between worlds right now. You can see her holding the tension of not knowing ~ she is simply breathing into her unanswered questions. Sometimes she drinks her coffee with quaking hands, not knowing where her relationship or her bank account is going.
But this time, she is holding on to the tension of not knowing, and is not willing to hit the panic button. She is unlearning thousands of years of conditioning. She is not being split between the opposing forces of fight and flight. She is neither naïve nor ignorant. She is a frontier woman, paving new roads & making new choices. She is willing to making a new transcendent possibility emerge. You may see her now ~ standing at thresholds, or at crossroads ~ breathing into her body ~ intently listening for inner signals. She's learning new navigation skills as she arrives at a most magical moment of her life. Sukhvinder Sircar http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d1...pscffbb341.jpg |
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This image shows an ice cave on the Kamchatka Peninsula of Russia.
Glaciers on the Kamchatka volcanoes have been melting recently, so the roof of this cave is now so thin that sunlight easily penetrates it, illuminating the structures within. https://fbcdn-sphotos-g-a.akamaihd.n...98067760_n.jpg |
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Happy Monday
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After lastnights ha ha moment on domestic violence at the Oscars
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