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10 Healthy Ways to Help a Hangover - Health

10 Healthy Ways to Help a Hangover - Health
While it's not something I'm proud of, I've got plenty of hangovers under my belt. See, despite all of my healthy practices—yoga, deep breathing, clean cosmetics, brown rice and kale eating—I'm just not that great at saying no to that third or fourth drink once I get going. Bless those of you who are—and damn those of you who are immune to hangovers altogether! Apparently you exist, and you are lucky. But while I am working on my to-don't list (new rule: don't drink before dinner), I've also concluded that the only thing worse than a hangover is the guilt and self-loathing that can come with it. And where does that take most of us? Got any to add? Have some miso soup with your eggs. Take a handful of omega 3s—and then repeat. Drink kombucha tea. Have sex or just a good cuddle. Get some body work. Try some hydrotherapy. Do some exercise—but just a little bit! Have a banana/blueberry/kale/lemon smoothie. Drink coconut water from a coconut. Enjoy your hangover.

How to Thoroughly Clean Your Keyboard (Without Breaking Anything) Your keyboard is one of your most important peripherals, but it’s bound to get clogged with dirt and grime over time. Dust off, scrub down, and clean up your number one input device safely with these tips. There are plenty of ways to clean depending on what afflicts your workspace. We’ll break it down by type, but first thing’s first: unplug your keyboard! Dust (Image credit: Ioan Sameli) A common problem in offices, dust can really make typing unpleasant. A small hand-held vacuum cleaner or a can of compressed air will work well. (Image credit cogdogblog) For more caked on dust, try the brush/hose attachment of a larger vacuum cleaner to help scrape off dust bunnies. Germs Daily use can breed a whole different kind of filth on your precious keys. Be sure to use isopropyl and NOT ethyl, as the harsher ethyl alcohol can take the lettering off of the keys. Take a little alcohol solution and moisten an old rag or a paper towel with it. Spills (Image credit: footloosiety) Food Particles and Grime

Made in America: Semiconductor Company Brings Jobs, Training to N.Y. Town <br/><a href=" US News</a> | <a href=" Business News</a> Copy When Global Foundries was seeking a home for its new $7 billion factory, it skipped over Germany and Singapore, where it already has facilities, and settled on the small town of Malta in upstate New York. "We got a call from folks in New York who had been investing in infrastructure and workforce and everything," said Travis Bullard, a spokesman for the company, which is 100 percent owned by ATIC of Abu Dhabi. Now the semiconductor-making site employs about 1,300 people, with plans to reach 1,600 by the end of the year. "These machines, our technicians, are doing extremely advanced manufacturing work," he said about the process of making silicon wafers. Global Foundries also has partnered with 17 community colleges and a high school to provide those looking for work or a new career path with the proper skills. "We're doing a lot of work with the community. ...

Oceans Food, work, fun, adventure, sport and life – not many things can give us all those things in one. Every day the oceans give us the air we need to breathe; the weather to grow crops; water to support the smallest to the largest animals on earth and 80% of all species; vast ice flows to help regulate our climate; millions of jobs and a life-time of pleasure. Send us your favourite ocean image and it could be featured here! You and I are alive right now because of the oceans. There is no other place in the universe so full of life as this planet; so green, so rich in diverse, beautiful, weird and wonderful, large and small species, on land and at sea and it is all because Planet Earth is Planet Ocean. They are home to the largest animal our planet has ever known – the now-endangered blue whale - but there are still huge areas of ocean that humans have never seen. More people have stood on the moon than dived the deepest ocean trench and less than 5% of all the oceans have been explored.

Are Knockoff Bags Helping To Sell The Real Thing? - Jezebel @The_Cow_Palace: I've also heard (when I was in Vietnam) that workers at factories have been known to sneak back in afterhours and produce more stuff to sell in the markets. This seems a little unlikely, considering that these people are normally putting in 16-hour days to begin with, and I assume the factories would figure out what was going on, but maybe it's possible in Vietnam because they aren't generally making luxury goods. Often you will find that goods that are so-called "third shift" goods, are actually counterfeit. Third shift or ghost shift etc. goods do exist, so it makes for a good believable story for counterfeiters. Hell, these things are on the news every now and then. Consider shoes. Well, guess what, that story is entirely false, from its presumptions up. Hermes and other handmade goods, of course, are immune to this problem. I doubt it.

UK Court Bars 51.5 Million People From Accessing The Pirate Bay If you're an Internet user in the United Kingdom, you're about to be in for a surprise when you try to access file-sharing website The Pirate Bay: nothingness. The UK High Court has ruled that the country's Internet Service Providers (ISPs) must block their users from accessing the Swedish site, according to the BBC. Sky, Everything Everywhere, TalkTalk, O2 and Virgin Media — the UK's top ISPs — are all under order to block users' access to The Pirate Bay. The Pirate Bay is a longstanding and controversial website which hosts "magnet links" that allow users to find files being shared by others across the web. The British Phonographic Industry — the UK's version of the Recording Industry Association of America, or RIAA — welcomed the decision. "Sites like The Pirate Bay destroy jobs in the UK and undermine investment in new British artists," the BPI told the BBC. Do you live in one of the areas affected by the ruling? Image courtesy of iStockphoto, flyparade

What Is Japan's Fetish This Week? Male Daughters - Kotaku @Shippoyasha: Generally, power is not something that is given. It's something that is taken, often by force. Japan has never really had any major social revolutions. I'm sure that plays a large part in the traditional / modern dichotomy of the country. Even in the States, one of the factors keeping women lagging behind is that women aren't as aggressive in pursuit of employment or higher pay. I suppose a big part of that is just psychological differences in how the two genders deal with confrontation. Until Japanese women get together and force some societal changes, the inequality will continue. Good point. That said, I think the way females has historically been treated so badly more or less reflects on the darker side of human psyche. @Shippoyasha: For all our advances in technology and culture, humans are still incredibly primitive. The problem is compounded in that there's essentially a constant fight going on for the hearts and minds of the next generation... Yeah.

Three keys to the next green business boom FORTUNE -- The clean-tech world keeps looking for a revolution, but that kind of change requires shifts in technology or policy first. Until we see big changes like a price on carbon or an affordable, scalable source of clean energy, it's probably best to focus on small moves that can add up to a big difference. When would-be entrepreneurs come to me for advice on how to turn their clean-tech plan into a thriving business, I share the following lessons with them. Focus on incremental changes. Many businesses are created with a revolution in mind, but most successful ones start with a small improvement. Take the Chevy Volt. But General Motors (GM) has another green car that's doing booming business: the Chevy Cruze, which can get 42 miles per gallon in highway driving and costs about half as much as the Volt. Look for ways to make big ideas capital efficient. Many businesses require large amounts of capital to get off the ground. Keep your potential customer base fairly broad.

Become More Photogenic by Knowing How Genuine Facial Expressions Feel - Lifehacker Can you tell the difference between a real smile and a fake one? There's a neat test you can take to find out. [www.bbc.co.uk] I got 13 out of 20 right, which is apparently a really good score. I concentrated not on the eyes or the mouth, but on how quickly they test subjects returned from smiling to a neutral expression. There's some interesting insight on the post-test page, I'm pasting it for the benefit of anyone who doesn't want to take the test. "Most people are surprisingly bad at spotting fake smiles. Although fake smiles often look very similar to genuine smiles, they are actually slightly different, because they are brought about by different muscles, which are controlled by different parts of the brain. Fake smiles can be performed at will, because the brain signals that create them come from the conscious part of the brain and prompt the zygomaticus major muscles in the cheeks to contract. Bottom line, if you want your fake smile to look real, you kinda have to make it real.

Bill banning employer Facebook snooping introduced in Congress Two members of Congress have introduced a bill that would ban the practice of requiring job applicants, employees or students to provide their social networking information. The Social Networking Online Protection Act, authored by Congressman Eliot Engel of New York and sponsored by Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky of Illinois, is in response to a growing number of reports of employers demanding their employees’ Facebook passwords as a condition of employment. The bill seeks to block any employer from requiring current or potential employees to turn over login credentials to any person; online content can not be used as a condition of employment to "discriminate or deny employment to individuals, nor punish them for refusing to volunteer the information." The bill would apply the same prohibitions to colleges, universities, and K-12 schools. Facebook has already threatened legal action against organizations who require employees to reveal their Facebook passwords as policy.

“The Daily Rind”, a Better Way to Plan the Day — A. King in Society Photo: A sample “daily rind” from my notebook For years my task and schedule management lived across various apps — OmniFocus, Basecamp, Google Calendar, and others (and more recently, as I pared down my “productivity” tools, a simple combination of The Hit List + iCal.) But mapping out what to do throughout my day in a reliable way has always been a problem. I think I’ve found a better way. I still track my projects and tasks digitally, and keep a calendar (with online sync + backup) for planning ahead, but for mapping out what I’m going to do in the day ahead of me, I’ve devised a decidedly low-tech system which I’m lovingly referring to as “The Daily Rind.” For me, it’s proved to be more enjoyable, quicker and more intuitive, and — above all — flexible enough to accommodate the inaccuracies and foibles of my inconsistent, unpredictable daily schedule as a freelance creative. Re-introducing Analog -or- Can’t Get No Satisfaction? Hacking the Muji Chronotebook 1. 2. 3. The First Rind — Day

3 dead, 1 missing in mishap during California yacht race April 27, 2012: Boats tack for position before the start of the Newport Ocean Sailing Association's Newport to Ensenada yacht race.AP A yacht racing off the coasts of California and Mexico apparently collided with a much larger vessel, killing three crew members and leaving one missing, a sailing organization said early Sunday. The Newport Ocean Sailing Association was hosting the 125-mile Newport, California to Ensenada, Mexico yacht race when the collision occurred late Friday or early Saturday several miles off the coast near the border. "An investigation was continuing, but it appeared the damage was not inflicted by an explosion but by a collision with a ship much larger than the 37-foot vessel," association spokesman Rich Roberts said in a news release early Sunday. Three crew members of a sailboat were found dead and a search was under way early Sunday for a fourth, in the state's second ocean racing tragedy this month.

aramatheydidnt: Fuzoku job on a gal’s work history points to rocky road for marriage Sex workers are people too, and they yearn for marriage and family. The fact that many come from broken homes, suggests Nikkan Gendai (May 10), is all the more reason why they desire a normal family life for themselves. Unfortunately, happy endings are the exception rather than the rule. Michie, age 29, has been working in a Yoshiwara soapland (erotic bathhouse) for six years, and has seen many of her colleagues desert the sudsy sex trade and head for the altar. “Probably because of their unhappy childhoods, they all felt strongly about wanting to marry and fix things up,” she says. “But a lot of them are looking for security and tend to marry older men with money, so these gals wind up married to men the same age as their own father. When fuzoku femmes meet customers off the shop premises on dates, one of the first things they want to know is the man’s true financial status. Of course some working girls care more about a man’s character than his bank account. Source

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