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Health Benefits of Quenepa Fruit or Spanish Lime - OMTimes Writer's Community

This small round fruit is about the size of an olive with a hard skin. Inside you’ll find a very sweet luscious fruit with a jelly like consistency, most people eat them fresh... but they can also be made into sauces, desserts, and juice. Quenepa Fruit is full of fiber for lowering cholesterol and preventing constipation, also Vitamin A that boosts your immune system and prevents formation of urinary stones; Vitamin C which is very important as a great antioxidant; calcium which keeps your teeth and bones strong and helps prevent cancer; phosphorus which is important for digestion and regulating hormones.

Geronimo descendant sues Skull and Bones. For those of you who don’t know, The Order of the Skull and Bones is a secret society at Yale University.

Geronimo descendant sues Skull and Bones

It’s basically a fraternity of rich dorks with the concomitant hush-hush rumors of dark rituals and political intrigue, which features in a fair few conspiracy theories along with the Freemasons and Illuminati. Well, one of the hush-hush rumors is that initiates are made to kiss a skull, possibly the skull of the great Apache warrior Geronimo, stolen from his grave in Fort Sill, Oklahoma, by a cadre of rich dorks including Prescott Bush, father and grandfather of a couple of former US presidents, while stationed at the Fort during World War I. Harlyn Geronimo wants the truth, and has filed suit against Yale, Skull and Bones, President Obama, Defense Secretary Robert Gates and Army Secretary Pete Geren to get it.

Harlyn wishes to reinter Geronimo’s remains in his ancestral lands, so he wants Fort Sill as well as Skull and Bones to cough up any remains they might have. Your Lifestyle Has Already Been Designed. Well I’m in the working world again.

Your Lifestyle Has Already Been Designed

I’ve found myself a well-paying gig in the engineering industry, and life finally feels like it’s returning to normal after my nine months of traveling. Because I had been living quite a different lifestyle while I was away, this sudden transition to 9-to-5 existence has exposed something about it that I overlooked before. Since the moment I was offered the job, I’ve been markedly more careless with my money. Not stupid, just a little quick to pull out my wallet. Three Good Links. A Concept Blog from a Concept Human Exposing the great 'poverty reduction' lie. Mé'êško'áe — Recourse for Trafficked Native Women in the Duluth...

Please don't use third world (i think it's... Building an Escalation Machine. [Note for TomDispatch Readers: A little update on my new book, Shadow Government: Surveillance, Secret Wars, and a Global Security State in a Single-Superpower World.

Building an Escalation Machine

Ex-CIA case officer and columnist Philip Giraldi recently reviewed it, calling it “a book I would have liked to have written myself... Engelhardt... gets it right. He cuts to the quick and never takes his eye off the ball.” It was also chosen by Truthout's book club as its “progressive pick.” (Check out the recent interview I did with Mark Karlin of that site on the nature of the national security state.) The Pressure to Escalate The Phantasmagoric World of Washington By Tom Engelhardt Sometimes it seemed that only two issues mattered in the midterm election campaigns just ended. The history and future of cool: What does the term mean in 2013? Left three photos courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.

The history and future of cool: What does the term mean in 2013?

Right photo byMerrick Morton/Columbia TriStar Marketing Group, Inc. Part 1 of a monthlong series on the history and future of cool. Study Shows Startling Race Gap in Air Pollution. A plume of exhaust extends from the Mitchell Power Station, a coal-fired power plant built along the Monongahela River, 20 miles southwest of Pittsburgh, on Sept. 24, 2013, in New Eagle, Pa.

Study Shows Startling Race Gap in Air Pollution

Jeff Swensen/Getty Images A new study by researchers at the University of Minnesota have uncovered a disquieting racial gap when it comes to exposure to air pollution, the MinnPost reports. Examining air-pollution exposure across racial, economic, educational and other relevant categories, researchers realized that race and income had the greatest impact on exposure, with people of color being exposed to 38 percent more outdoor nitrogen oxide from vehicle exhaust and power plants than their white counterparts. READ: Excerpt From "Capitalism: A Ghost Story" By Arundhati Roy. I Had An Affair With My Hero, A Philosopher Who’s Famous For Being ‘Moral’ They say we should never meet our heroes, but I never really listened to what they say.

I Had An Affair With My Hero, A Philosopher Who’s Famous For Being ‘Moral’

My hero is a moral philosopher, who devotes his life to global justice. When I met him at a conference I didn’t think he’d remember me, so I was surprised when he sent me an email, prompting a regular exchange between us. He told me he’ll be coming to visit the city where I lived and invited me to his hotel. We talked for hours about philosophy and shared personal anecdotes. I remember worrying about the possibility that he must already have someone in his life, and my friends reassuring me that he wouldn’t be inviting me to his room if he did. The second time he visited City X, he opened the door to his hotel room naked and told me he’s been sleeping. The third time he was visiting City X, we decided he would stay in my apartment. Language and Authority: Why languages disappear. Language and Authority – part 1 We began this discussion on the broad topics of defining language and we found it more difficult than perhaps popularly believed.

Language and Authority: Why languages disappear

This time, we will discuss the trend of language decline in the world and why it is not simply a matter of natural language death, but directly tied to our policies and attitudes towards language, culture and other humans. A Long Time Ago in a China Far, Far Away … A 1980 lianhuanhua version of Xingqiu dazhan 星球大战 (Star Wars) A few of my lianhuanhua (Li Huiniang – a reprint – is unusually large) As much as I don’t miss large swaths of life in China, I do look longingly at kongfz.com, the world’s best secondhand book website, and remember with pleasure being able to purchase a lot of sources and other bits of historical detritus with a minimum of effort.

A Long Time Ago in a China Far, Far Away …

These days, getting ahold of things that catch my intellectual fancy requires contacting several friends, a good bit of guilt on my part for imposing, a wait of months, shuffling money in between international bank accounts, etc. Phillip Brown - Photos from Phillip Brown's post in World... UK Retailers. Pleb Frags.

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The Many Stories Behind Double-Eyelid Surgery : Code Switch

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Off the top of my head alone: Edgar Allan Poe married his 13-year-old cousin, as did Jerry Lee Lewis. Eliza Gauger, collaterlysisters: omghaileydee replied to your... Collaterlysisters: omghaileydee replied to your post “is deepthroating unhealthy? Will i ruin my throat if i put dicks in it? I am too embarrassed to ask an irl doctor” I thought the HPV vaccine was especially for people with vaginas and a uterus. Vaginal Steams: Forgotten Ancient Wisdom for Women's Healing — Birth Institute. Painful menses plague women of all ages, often causing withdrawal from daily activity or the use of toxic pain relievers, month after month. Yet women need not experience their monthly cycle in this way. Ancient remedies hold the key to not only relieving the symptoms of pain, but cleansing the organs so that the cause of such sensation is eliminated from the body.

In this article for Birth Institute, Rosita Arvigo, naprapathic physician and teacher of Maya medicine, reminds us of a forgotten ancient treatment that any woman can use at home. Internet History Sourcebooks. Conservation - City of Sacramento. Skip to Left Navigation / Tab to View Content Winter Watering Schedule: November 2, 2014 - March 8, 2015 Saturday or Sunday only (customer choice) As per City Code, watering times will change at the end of Daylight Savings Time to one day per week. Customers may water one day a week, on Saturday OR Sunday only, beginning November 2, 2014. Acclaimed sci-fi writer exposed as notorious Internet troll.

Manuel A. Alonso. Dr. Rare images document the centuries-long history of Africans in India. Almost a hundred years before Shivaji began to consolidate his empire, Malik Ambar of Bijapur led an army of 50,000 soldiers, many of whom were Marathi cavalry soldiers, against the Mughals. Scientists discover that atheists might not exist, and that’s not a joke.

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