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The One-Shoulder Jersey Top, shown, is just one example of effortless style you can find over at Vivre.
Ferrari Looks and Ford Power
Reisner's first production car was named Torino but was short-lived, for in 1967 he unveiled the Italia, the preferred engine being a Ford 351 cubic inch Cleveland V-8 mated to a 4-speed manual. A mere 376 Italia coupes and Spyders were built, leading Classic & Sports Car magazine to remark in 1993 that ".... the Italia may be one of the most gorgeously styled cars ever made, but you may never have heard of it." The Italia in this photo sold at RM's Hershey auction for $44,000, somewhat of a bargain. Bomstead amusingly says that membership in the Sports Car Market Intermeccanica Italia Owners Club was "reduced by a third" with this sale as there were only three members.
Work Those PVC Leggings!
Here is definite proof that PVC can be worn by anyone, as long as they have enough attitude. I love how the first girl paired hers with a dress and cardi for a great girly-tough contrast, while the second girl (Agathe from Style Bytes) paired hers with a black T and killer heels for a sort of rocker look. Of course, the girls' great legs don't hurt either. Jealous.
Girls Dressed by Boys
The advertisers in their argument said that the program was a light-hearted entertainment show that targeted women between the ages of 25 and 44 years. They further clarified that the campaign was now finished and was not set out to embarrass or cause offence to any person. The Complaints Committee ruled that the use of the image in the advertisement was in breach of the Code and upheld the complaints.
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Extreme Home Organization: Sloan Edition
This past weekend, I took inventory of all that needs to be done and what resources I currently have to perform.
The biggest issue I seem to have is lack of “order.” However, as I searched through my house, I realized that I had a lot of space not being utilized to its capacity and some not being utilized at all. So, my first order of business has been to list each room, where I have found disorder, and what organization resources I have available in that room.
My next plan of this extreme home organization makeover is to start one room at a time… the master bedroom is first!
Kitchen Organization- Great How-To
9 Traits of Organized Kitchens 1. The number one rule of an organized kitchen is to store items where you use them. Put your plates near the table, glasses near the fridge and cutting knives and board near island or counter where you cut up produce.
2. If you do any baking, set up a baking section. Store together all items you use when baking.
3. Clean and organize your fridge and freezer. Do a quick upkeep once a week on trash day. If you don't use it, get rid of it.
4. Move the excess clutter. For example, seasonally used items such as platters and holiday dishes are better stored in a basement or attic. Unless you have a very large kitchen, it is best to remove items that are not used on a regular basis.
5. How many glasses do you really use between dish washings? Store only as many as you regularly use (glasses, dishes, wine glasses, etc.), and place the extras in storage.
6. Go through your cookbooks and keep in the kitchen only the ones you use regularly. Seasonal cookbooks can be stored with your holiday dinnerware, others can be stored elsewhere or given away.
7. Here's a tough one. If you don't use it every day, remove it from your counters. So many of us complain about not having enough counter space yet we crowd the counters with items we don't even use.
8. Check out all the racks, drawer units and organizers on the market to more efficiently store your kitchen items. You'll find a variety of selections at home stores throughout the country.
9. Set up a small pantry somewhere in your home for extra cans of soup, coffee, etc. You'll save money by buying in bulk or during sales and you will save space in the kitchen for more important things. A small closet can easily be converted to a pantry. Once you have one, you'll never want to be "pantry-less" again.
Found it here: http://www.divorcekit.com/Kitchens/9_Traits_of_Organized_Kitchens.html
Slimming : Chris Oliver's story
A life time of frustration and yo-yo dieting, often to to avail. For those with serious, life threatening obesity one of the options is gastric banding.
The brief mention of Chris Oliver's blog in this week's BritMeds attracted a lot of interest. Chris is an eminent orthopaedic surgeon in Scotland and has particular interest in upper limb problems especially involving the hand and elbow.
Chris tells his own slimming story.
As a youth Chris was a keen sportsman; white-water expedition kayaking, kayaking sprint and long distance racing, power-weight lifting, marathon running, cycling, surfing, skiing, sailing. And then, somehow, for whatever reason, he started putting weight on. Lots of weight. Lots and lots of weight.
He peaked last summer at 162 Kg, which is 357 lbs, which is 27 stones 7 lbs, giving Chris a BMI of 50.5
In February 2007 he had a gastric banding operation and then started on a radical exercise program.
How is he progressing?
Take a look at Chris Oliver's own slimming story. It is inspirational and told both with insight and good humour.
Chris has now kindly agreed to open up comments on his blog.Labels: Chris Oliver, diets, slimming
Gay gaze
It turns out that men have a considerable secondary focus on the nads of other men. The scientists also point out that:
Men tend to fixate more on areas of private anatomy on animals as well, as evidenced when users were directed to browse the American Kennel Club site.
Which, sadly, helps explain why men like dogs. Big dogs.........
Irresistible shoes
The Report Signature Women's Sigourney buckle pumps are as pretty and special as shoes can be. Animal print leather, a buckle and the D'Orsay cut - all elements of trendiest styles incorporated in a pair of shoes. Would look great worn with a gray or blue dress, paired with a sweater and cropped pantsYours to own at Endless for $150
Home Based Knitting Business
Always start with a business plan. A business plan is an outline of everything that has to do with your business and helps you take a methodical approach to operating your business. It will also ensure that your business is heading towards the direction you wish for it.
Important Parts of a Business Plan
Start with an executive summary - this can be from one to three paragraphs long and summarizes the rest of the business plan.
Secondly, state your mission-vision: why are you putting it up and what you wish to achieve because of it. Thirdly, provide key details about the market - who your competitors are, where you stand in the industry and what possible factors can affect your entry and success, and who your customers are. Next, make a SWOT - strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats - of your business to create the necessary strategies. Afterwards, provide an outline for the flow of production and lastly, create a financial analysis for your business: how much you need to invest, how much you expect to earn, and how long before you'll be able to recoup your investment.
Apply for the necessary licenses for your business. Make sure that you check with the respective authorities to ensure that you're indeed within your rights to set up a knitting business at home. Do your best to qualify for the various tax benefits offered for home business owners like you.
If you are interested in selling online, determine beforehand what type of payment methods you're going to provide your customers with. For your mutual safe interests, consider accepting bank transfer payments and online services like PayPal only.
Who is happy?
One might reasonably conclude, therefore, that changes in life circumstances would not have long-term effects on our happiness. This indeed has been the dominant model of subjective well-being: People adapt to major life events, both positive and negative, and our happiness pretty much stays constant through our lives, even if it is occasionally perturbed. Winning the lottery wont make you happier in the long run (goes the theory), and while a divorce or even a major illness will throw your life into upheaval for a while, your happiness level will eventually return to where it was at beforethat is, its set point.
But new research, and reexamination of old research, is challenging some of the claims of set-point theory.
In the recent issue of Current Directions in Psychological Science, Richard E. Lucas of Michigan State University and the German Institute for Economic Research, reviews some recent studies suggesting that adaptation to changing life circumstances only goes so far. "Happiness levels do change, adaptation is not inevitable, and life events do matter," Lucas asserts.........
Green Resistor Triplets Necklace
The little green resistors can be recognized as such only from a close distance and can be easily mistaken doe "precious" beads crafted together in a very elegant design. The necklace is available for $120 at fractalspin, where you can also purchase a pair of matching earrings for $15. (They also ship to Europe).........
Lifetimer For Your Lifetime Memories
How much additional functionality can you include in a clock other than its most elementary features of time and alarm? Looks like quite a few other people have pondered over this question already. So we now have clocks which talk, scream and even counsel.
Via Along comes another one for those people obsessed with count-downs - the LifeTimer. 3 more months to your birthday, 5 since you last had a date, and probably a 100 more for you to contribute anything remotely significant to mankind in this lifetime - fascinated with such time-stamps? Then just to help you along, the Lifetimer is designed to hold all such important events of your life. Punch in the events of the past or future into the timer and you can retrieve the number of minutes, hours and seconds left before (or passed since) the event. The clock has buttons on its face which you press to retrieve a particular count-down (or count-up). Its somewhat cute-looking round LCD screen reminds me of the dialing pads which were so prominent on the finger-based dialing telephones of the 80s. Apart from this, the Lifetimer includes the other normal features of date, time and alarm.
I personally think the Lifetimer is too pricey for the feature it peddles. If you would like to check it out anyway, it's available online at around $27.........
Which products sell better?
"The current research breaks new ground by showing that a product that specializes on a single attribute is perceived to be superior on that attribute relative to an all-in-one optioneven when the description of the specialized and the all-in-one options on the focal attribute is exactly the same," Chernev explains.
Chernev points to the "zero-sum heuristic" in consumer attitudes to explain this phenomenon. In other words, consumers think that options are balanced against one another, such that advantages in one aspect (cavity defense) are likely to be compensated by disadvantages in another area (less whitening capability).
Interestingly, though, when the multi-function product was priced higher than the single-function product, it was no longer perceived to be inferior to the single function product. As Chernev writes: "The findings reported in this research also imply that the widely use strategy of pricing specialized and all-in-one options at parity might, in fact, be sub-optimal".........
It's not easy being green
The University of Leeds-led study observed that consumers who try to live a sustainable lifestyle have difficulty deciding which product to buy. "Consumers find that being green or ethical is a very hard, time consuming, and emotional experience," says Dr William Young. Apart from the usual issues such as price, reliability, and colour, they have the added complication of researching and weighing up all the environmental and ethical issues before purchasing a product, he explains.
Dr Young and colleagues interviewed green consumers about their recent major purchasing decisions for goods such as fridges and computers as well as their more routine shopping habits.
These interviews, together with several focus groups, uncovered three different types of green consumer.
Selectors are probably the largest group of green consumers in the UK population. These consumers are only green in one aspect of their lives. A selector may be an avid recycler or pay a premium for green energy but sees no contradiction in leading an otherwise consumption orientated life.........
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Looking for love on all the right Web sites?
This study will be published in an upcoming Proceedings of Computer/Human Interaction (April 2007), an annual peer-evaluated journal, to be released this spring during a Computer/Human Interaction conference in San Jose, Calif.
Using a new method that measured the actual difference between profile information and reality, the study revealed that men systematically overestimated their height, while women more usually underestimated their weight, said Jeffrey Hancock, an assistant professor of communication and the lead author on this study. "Surprisingly, age-related deception was minimal and did not differ by gender," he said.
About 52.6 percent of the men in the study lied about their height, as did 39 percent of the women. Slightly more women lied about their weight (64.1 percent) than did men (60.5 percent). When it came to age, 24.3 percent of the men were untruthful, compared with 13.1 percent of the women.
Hancock, Cornell doctoral student Catalina Toma, and Nicole Ellison, Michigan State University assistant professor, examined four popular dating Web sites, where users create their own profiles and initiate contact with others: Match.com, Yahoo Personals, American Singles and Webdate. Study participants -- users of these Web sites -- were recruited in New York City through advertisements in the Village Voice and Craigslist.com. The final sample included 80 participants, equally divided between genders.........
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Mood-food Connection
Brian Wansink
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In the recent issue of the Journal of Marketing, Brian Wansink, the John S. Dyson Professor of Marketing, Applied Economics and Management at Cornell, and two colleagues describe several studies they devised to test the link between mood and food. For example, they recruited 38 administrative assistants to watch either an upbeat, funny movie ("Sweet Home Alabama") or a sad, depressing one ("Love Story"). Throughout the viewings the participants were offered hot buttered, salty popcorn and seedless grapes.
"After the movies were over and the tears were wiped away, those who had watched 'Love Story' had eaten 36 percent more popcorn than those who had watched the upbeat 'Sweet Home Alabama,'" said Wansink, author of the recent book "Mindless Eating: Why We Eat More Than We Think" (Bantam Books). "Those watching 'Sweet Home Alabama' ate popcorn and popped grapes, but they spent much more time popping grapes as they laughed through the movie than they did eating popcorn".
Wansink suspects that happy people want to maintain or extend their moods in the short term, but consider the long term and so turn to comfort food with more nutritional value. People feeling sad or depressed, however, just want to "jolt themselves out of the dumps" with a quick indulgent snack that tastes good and gives them an immediate "bump of euphoria".........
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Winter Skin Guidelines and Tips
1. Use a humidifier. Air inside your home becomes very dry in winter, particularly if your windows are closed and the heat is on. A humidifier will replace moisture in the air. If you do not have a humidifier, using a few open pans throughout the house, particularly near any radiators, will also work. Keep indoor air moisture levels at 40 to 50 percent. A good rule to remember is if your turn up the heat, turn on the humidifier.
2. Switch your moisturizer from lotions to thicker creams or ointments and use them often. Moisturizers protect your skin from the elements. Think of moisturizers as a daily barrier between your skin and the air. Ointments form a better protective layer on the skin, and seal in moisture. Avoid ointments in areas where you tend to break out. Even if you have oily skin, you still may need a moisturizer in the winter. Use mild soaps, and avoid deodorant, fragranced, antibacterial or abrasive soaps, as these are more drying for your skin.
3. Remember to use Sun Protection. Even though it is cold, your skin is still vulnerable to damage from the suns UV rays.........
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Fastest Cookie Maker with 39-pieces
The cookie maker requires two "C" batteries. There is varying price for this maker at different websites $23.94 at Edealinfo.com and reduced from $40 to $29.95 at Tabletools.com.
It's your hard labor to make unlimited cookies as your cookie maker will never be exhausted.
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Why We Buy Bad Gifts For Loved Ones?
receive a plaid skirt that only the band's singer, Gwen Stefani, could pull off. Another athletic guy will receive an oversize sports jersey even though off the field he prefers Brooks Brothers. Why are we so terrible at predicting the tastes of the ones we love? A new study from the recent issue of the Journal of Consumer Research explains why familiarity with another person actually makes predicting their tastes more difficult.
Past research has argued that lack of diagnostic information causes this sort of misperception, but Davy Lerouge (Tilburg University, the Netherlands) and Luk Warlop (Katholieke University, Belgium) observed that we buy unwanted gifts even when we have plenty of knowledge. In fact, we frequently have the most trouble understanding the tastes of those we know a lot about.
Not only do we feel overconfident that we'll pick something they like, but our tendency to assume that we are extremely similar to the ones we love also motivates us to ignore cues that don't support preconceived notions.
"Our results suggest that familiarity caused [people] to put an overly heavy weight on pre-stored information," write the authors. "The pre-stored information that people possess about their partner is extensive. This elaborate knowledge makes predictors overly confident, such that they do not even attend to product-specific attitude feedback."........
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Happy People Are Healthier
This recent study confirms the results of a landmark 2004 paper in which Cohen and his colleagues found that people who are happy, lively, calm or exhibit other positive emotions are less likely to become ill when they are exposed to a cold virus than those who report few of these emotions. In that study, Cohen found that when they do come down with a cold, happy people report fewer symptoms than would be expected from objective measures of their illness. In contrast, reporting more negative emotions such as depression, anxiety and anger was not associated with catching colds. That study, however, left open the possibility that the greater resistance to infectious illness among happier people may not have been due to happiness, but rather to other characteristics that are often associated with reporting positive emotions such as optimism, extraversion, feelings of purpose in life and self-esteem.
Cohen's recent study controls for those variables, with the same result: The people who report positive emotions are less likely to catch colds and also less likely to report symptoms when they do get sick. This held true regardless of their levels of optimism, extraversion, purpose and self-esteem, and of their age, race, gender, education, body mass or prestudy immunity to the virus.........
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Kylie's Back!
Kylie had to postpone her world tour when she was diagnosed with breast cancer last year, but she has beaten the disease and can't wait to get back to work. "I travelled with pretty much all the band, the dancers, so we're on tour again, whoa!" she said to reporters, jumping up and down and clapping her hands. Last week Kylie spoke of the unstinting support her boyfriend Olivier had given her during her battle and said her ordeal has made her embrace her career even more.........
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The Sexiest Dining Table!
Nice try!........
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