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Housecleaning & Home Maintenance : Removing Rust From Baking Pans. HDMI Cable, Home Theater Accessories, HDMI Products, Cables, Adapters, Video/Audio Switch, Networking, USB, Firewire, Printer Toner, and more! Ninite - Install or Update Multiple Apps at Once. Bike Fit - Proper Bike Fit Can Prevent Pain and Injury. Whether you are riding to the corner store or across the country, you should be comfortable on your bike.

If you have neck, back, or knee pain, saddle sores, or hand or foot numbness, your bicycle probably doesn't fit you properly. Good bike fit can also improve your pedaling efficiency and aerodynamics and actually make you faster. Here are the basic bike-fitting principles: Adjusting the Saddle Your bike seat should be level to support your full body weight and allow you to move around on the seat when necessary.

Too much upward tilt can result in pressure points. Too much downward tilt can make you slide forward while riding and put extra pressure on your arms, hands and knees, which can lead to injury. To adjust the seat height, wear your biking shoes and riding shorts and place your heels on the pedals. You can also adjust the seat forward and backward (fore and aft position). Knee pain is usually associated with a seat position that is too high or low or far forward or back. CABpL.png (1872×1224) How to Ship Cheese Cakes. Optical Illusions In Architecture, Columns. Many optical illusions are found in architecture and, strangely enough, many of these were recognized long before painting developed beyond its primitive stages.

The architecture of classic Greece displays a highly developed knowledge of many geometrical optical illusions and the architects of those far-off centuries carefully worked out details for counteracting them. Drawings reveal many optical illusions to the architect, but many are not predicted by them. The ever-changing relations of lines and forms in architecture as we vary our viewpoint introduce many optical illusions which may appear and disappear. Any view of a group of buildings or of the components of a single building will exhibit some optical illusions. We never see in the reality the same relations of lines, forms, colors, and brightnesses as indicated by the drawings or blue-prints. During the best period of Grecian art many refinements were applied in order to correct optical illusions.

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How To Grow Avocados - Australian Avocados. How to art/design. Body. Elevator.jpg from dumpaday.com. The Shoes Appreciation Society by yellowship. Eight Products You Think You Need—But Don't - Health. Here's a secret the $50 billion cosmetics industry doesn't want you to know: You don't need almost any of what they're peddling.

Truth is, that our bodies are smart, and long before the advent of $200 eye creams—or even basic shaving cream—we were all doing just fine. Of course, some of the products we use have appeal beyond their utility: They smell good, they feel good, they make us look good. Others—and especially some of the ones sold to us as things we need—are nothing more than marketing ploys that create more problems than they solve. Don't buy it? This tidbit from the annals of cosmetics history might convince you: When a certain shampoo maker discovered their hairwash was causing dandruff, the story goes, they didn't reformulate the product—they marketed a dandruff shampoo.

It's a pretty good metaphor for the business, whether it's true or not, which is why there are things like neck cream, lotions that remove our protective cuticles, and so forth. T-Bucket's Wacky Tips to Survive Being Broke in a Recession - T-Bucket. 1. Put an egg in your Ramen 2. Have sex ,alot. It's free and it feels really good if you do it right.

Heck, it even feels good when you do it 'wrong'. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32. DIY Friendship Necklace – HonestlyWTF. As soon as Lauren and I saw this editorial in Flare Magazine, we knew we had to recreate these awesome, friendship bracelet-like necklaces. We promise they are super easy to make and the perfect way to pass the time during those long summer roadtrips. To make a 2-tone necklace, cut a long piece of rope and wrap two different colors of embroidery thread around its own bobbin. Tie a starter knot along with the two colored threads you are using, leaving at least 3 inches of slack, Tape down the slack to a flat surface or safety pin it something that will help keep it in place (feeling nostalgic yet?).

Lay the color that isn’t being used (shown here in purple) in your left hand, along with the rope, and hold them taut. Take the active color (shown here in red) in your right hand, pass it over the rope, loop it under and back through the opening. Pull up and to the right to tighten. Repeat the knots until you are ready to switch colors.