BioVisions. The Four Excellent Environmental Films That Got Oscar Nods - Environment. As I'm sure you're well aware, the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences have just released their Oscar nominations.
I was a bit startled—happily so—to see that an impressive 40 percent of documentaries nominated for the Academy Awards are somehow environmentally-themed. I've seen all of the four nominated films—two for feature length and two for short subject—and would recommend each without hesitation. (And I should confess that I haven't been especially gracious in past reviews of environmentally-themed art, music, and film.) What these ones all get right, in my opinion, is that they stand alone as human interest stories. They all acknowledge the fact that the most important environmental issues—pollution, waste, extraction, climate change—are also the most important human issues. Here are the four films: Documentary, Short Subject Sun Come Up Sun Come Up follows the plight of some of the world's first true climate refugees.
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This section presents a fairly extensive selection of 50 shoe lacing tutorials. They include traditional and alternative lacing methods that are either widely used, have a particular feature or benefit, or that I just like the look of. 50 Different Ways To Lace Shoes Criss Cross Lacing This is probably the most common method of lacing normal shoes & boots. Over Under Lacing This method reduces friction, making the lacing easier to tighten and loosen plus reducing wear and tear. Gap Lacing This simple variation of Criss Cross Lacing skips a crossover to create a gap in the middle of the lacing, either to bypass a sensitive area on the instep or to increase ankle flexibility. Straight European Lacing This traditional method of Straight Lacing appears to be more common in Europe.
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Check out Cannabis Catering, a San Francisco-based outfit that specializes in marijuana cuisine. The brainchild of Chef Frederick Nesbitt, a California Culinary Academy-trained chef who has worked as personal chef for Jerry Rice and John Madden, Cannabis Catering offers four and five-course meals laced with ganja. The idea for Cannabis Catering came to Nesbitt when he learned that his friend's diabetic mother had been diagnosed with cancer. "I would bring back edibles [from the dispensary], but they're so high in high-fructose corn syrup that she was high off sugar rather than being medicated," he says. So Nesbitt began experimenting with his own pot food--starting with mashed potatoes.
Now Nesbitt cooks an array of cannabis-laced delectables. Each meal contains the equivalent of three to five pot cookies, but Nesbitt says he can customize the food depending on what customers want. [Chef Frederick H. Love Is Sweet. A Dessert Table for 2 for Valentine's Day. Engagement Photos Inspired by Wonderland. I Will Knot! Songs to have sex to. oKsGl.png (PNG Image, 640x369 pixels) Do Nothing for 2 Minutes.