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How to Fix a Scratched CD

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While compact discs (CDs) are remarkably durable, it’s nearly impossible to prevent scratches and scuffs from occurring from time to time. The resulting damage can be either a skip in your favorite music track or, in the case of data CDs, the loss of that spreadsheet you worked on for two weeks. Don’t despair — repair! While commercial CD repair kits and CD refinishing machines are available, you may be able to repair the damage on your own with products you already have.

Posted from Rodale

Help For Your Grieving Pet

posted by Rodale Mar 18, 2011 4:01 pm

Coping strategies for when your dog loses her best friend
By Justine Lee, D.V.M., Prevention
A Golden Retriever and a Maltese may seem like an odd couple, but Indy and Katie were as close as two dogs could be. After spending their days together, Katie would sleep on Indy’s back each night, her four-pound body rising and falling with his snores. “It was adorable,” says their owner, Karen Wolkenberg of Roslyn, NY. But at fourteen years old, Indy’s health deteriorated, and the family had to put him to sleep. Immediately after, the normally sweet-natured Katie, who at age ten had grown up with Indy, turned nasty, refusing to eat and urinating all over the house. “I’d look at her and think, What’s going on?” Wolkenberg says. “Then it finally hit me that she was grieving.”

Taken from Caring.com

Top 10 Heart Attack Symptoms You Might Ignore

posted by Lara, selected from Caring.com Nov 3, 2010 4:01 pm

By Melanie Haiken, Caring.com senior editor

Heart attacks don’t always strike out of the blue — there are many symptoms we can watch for in the days and weeks leading up to an attack. But the symptoms may not be the ones we expect. And they can be different in men and women, and different still in older adults. Last year, for example, a landmark study by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) published in Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Institute found that 95 percent of women who’d had heart attacks reported experiencing symptoms in the weeks and months before the attack — but the symptoms weren’t the expected chest pain, so they went unrecognized.
7 Heart Attack Signs Women — And Doctors — Often Miss
Don’t let that happen to you. Here, 10 heart symptoms you’re likely to ignore — and shouldn’t.

Posted from Cracked.com

John Wilkes Booth's Brother and Abe Lincoln's Son

Edwin Booth, perhaps unfairly known today as the brother of assassin John Wilkes Booth, was once upon a time known as the greatest actor in American history. In fact, certain theater historians and steampunk enthusiasts would probably argue that he still is today. His reputation as an actor was described as "mythic," and a statue of him stands in Manhattan's Gramercy Park to this very day.

Posted from Nature's Head.net

A Few Facts About 

Our Water Supply

Only 3% of the water on our planet is fresh. Less than 1/3 of 1% of this is available to humans.
The rest is beyond our reach--deep within the earth or frozen in glaciers and polar ice caps.

The Truth About Tytler
by Loren Collins

A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world's greatest civilizations has been 200 years. Great nations rise and fall. The people go from bondage to spiritual truth, to great courage, from courage to liberty, from liberty to abundance, from abundance to selfishness, from selfishness to complacency, from complacency to apathy, from apathy to dependence, from dependence back again to bondage.

Taken from article, "I Dreamed of Being an Internet Billionaire: or, How I spent My SummerVacation in Islamabad" from "The Roundtop Register/Fall 2010"

Recipe for an Entrepreneurial Project
by Christopher K. Travis

Ingredients:

2 cups of Can Do
3 cups of good BS
3/4 cup of inflated ego
1/2 cup of relentlessness
2 rounded tablespoons of moxie
1/2 cup of unresolved needs for maternal approval
a pinch of creativity
1 teaspoon of opportunity
and 1 glass of Kool-Aid

Directions:

Taken from Care2.com

Tigers Among US

 

Captive tigers in the United States and their impact on tigers in the wild

Did you know that there are more tigers in American backyards than there are in the wild around the world? The United States has one of the largest populations of captive tigers in the world − estimated at perhaps 5,000 tigers, compared to as few as 3,200 in the wild. They are found in backyards, urban apartments, sideshows, truck stops and private breeding facilities.

Taken from TipHero.com

Top Free Samples of the Week 11/1/10

Submitted by: Kira @ Tip Hero  11/03/2010 11:47 AM

Here are this week's top free samples and freebies:

Taken from SlashFood.com

Cocoa Power -- Food from the Edge

by Rebecca Rothbaum, Posted Jun 22nd 2010 @ 12:00PM

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Thanks to its high antioxidant content, chocolate has in recent years undergone a rehabilitation that has transformed it from sinful snack to super food. Now, chocolate boosters can also point to the treat's environmental bona fides: this month, Lindt USA embarked on a novel partnership with a public utility that will use cocoa bean shells to produce electricity.

Taken From Care2.com

5 Ways to Make Living With an Older Adult Easier

posted by Lara, selected from Caring.com Oct 25, 2010 4:01 pm

filed under: Alzheimer's, Elder Care, Family Life, Health & Wellness, Healthy Home, Healthy Mind

By Lara Belonogoff, Caring.com staff writer
One issue that family caregivers don’t often talk about is how cranky everyone can get living under one roof — especially if the person you’re caring for is sometimes or often cranky. You know the toll that it can take on the entire household — and how that person’s mood can rub off on you. But how do you go about making your home a happier place?

Taken from Tips at RealAge.com

Protect Your Kidneys with This Pill

The reasons to get your daily dose of the sunshine vitamin just keep piling up. The newest? Kidney protection.
In a study, men who worked outdoors regularly -- and got the most sun -- were 24 to 38 percent less likely to develop renal cell cancer compared with men who got the least sunshine. Experts suspect the link is vitamin D, available in pill or solar-made form.
The Powers of D
Vitamin D is produced in your skin after just 10 to 20 minutes of sun exposure. And researchers suspect D discourages cancer in at least three ways. It inhibits the birth of new cancer cells, it encourages existing "rogue" cells to kill themselves off, and it slows the growth of blood vessels that feed growing tumors. And there's growing evidence that the vitamin protects against more than one type of cancer.

Another week gone and one week closer to Christmas.

It's time for a deep breath and to just relax.  Hey!  It's the weekend!  No matter what happened during the week, it's time to say, "OK, I've done the best I can do, and let's call it a day."  You may be looking back on the week as a huge success; or NOT.  If you are stressing over a disappointment, possibly an old adage from my brother's childhood Karate instructor may help.  He once said, "Even monkey sometime fall out of tree!"

Have a great weekend!

Taken from Tips at RealAge.com

6 Reasons to Drink Green Tea

The steady stream of good news about green tea is getting so hard to ignore, that even java junkies are beginning to sip mugs of the deceptively delicate brew. You'd think the daily dose of disease-fighting, inflammation-squelching antioxidants -- long linked with heart protection -- would be enough incentive. But wait . . . there's more! Lots more.

From NaturalHomeMagazine.com

Grow With the Flow: Legal Uses of Graywater

Graywater is going legit! Learn how to use it legally with Natural Home's guide to graywater.

By Carol Steinfeld - March/April 2008

Used water from inside discharges into covered troughs of sand, then seeps into the surrounding flower gardens of this Maryland home. --JOHN HANSON/NUTRICYCLE

As many regions’ water costs rise, more people are asking if the water that flows down their drains after bathing and washing—known as graywater—can be used to water gardens. Increasingly, state permitting authorities are saying yes—with conditions.

According to Shape Mag Nov/2010 issue:

Did you know?    Brushing your teeth right after eating or drinking something slightly acidic can actually erode tooth enamel.  If you can't wait 60 minutes, swish with H2O to neutralize the acids.

Making Himalayan Sole

Everyone knows that salt dissolves in water, but what happens when you keep adding salt? You’ll reach the point to where the water becomes saturated, creating a perfect saline solution, often known as Himalayan Sole. When the water becomes saturated, there should be salt sitting on the bottom of your jar, no longer dissolving. This simple method allows you to create the HimalaSalt Himalayan Sole that alkalinizes, hydrates, purifies and cleanses your digestive system. It can also be used for washing skin rashes, cleansing wounds, gargling, and endless purifying uses.

An excerpt from "PeopleTowels.com" . You can link to it from this page.

 Why Organic Cotton?
There are many reasons to use organic cotton. Three percent of the world’s farmable land produced more than 50 billion pounds of cotton in 2007 and twenty five percent of all insecticides that are manufactured are applied to these crops. In fact, cotton is the most heavily sprayed field crop on the planet. One third of a pound of toxic chemicals are used to produce one pound of cotton fiber. By purchasing organic cotton, you save our land and water from being polluted by thousands of pounds of toxic chemicals.

Where are all the bees?

We are all holding our breath in anticipation of the upcoming video of Bob capturing his bees.  News has it that his first endeavor resulted in a few hitches.  But we all know Bob will endure.  So, as soon as we have bees, and as soon as we figure out how to actually load a video, the entire adventure will be posted for your viewing pleasure.   =:o)

Amazing Health Benefits of Kuzu Root

From Delia Quigley (more about Delia Quigley at the end of this post)

 

Kuzu, or known in America as kudzu root, has been prized for its medicinal properties in China and Japan for thousands of years. In America we know it as “the weed that ate Dixie” covering most of our southern states and proving impossible to eradicate.