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advent season: day three, alternative present guide

Oh look, I did it again. Another year where I promised myself I'd be super creative and have all of my incredibly groundbreaking homemade goodies ready and wrapped by December 1st. Wildly overambitous, but with four weeks and three weekends left I like to think it's still possible to pull together some thoughtful presents, a mix of interesting delights found from the shelves of oxfam or worked on at home.I always find those smug Martha Stewart-esque articles (especially the column written by dan

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I Don’t Rebalance

Rebalancing an investment portfolio - much like diversifying and spending less than you make - is classic, sensible, research-proven, oft repeated personal finance advice. It’s important for many reasons: It keeps your asset allocation on target (a key component of total return). It forces you to buy assets when they’re down and sell them when they’re up. It improves performance over the long term by lessening portfolio volatility. It prevents you from getting too conservative or too aggressiv

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Weekly top quality Photoshop tutorials #28

I’ve included in this Photoshop tutorial article roundup a tutorial on how to make images like the ones found in 51 Dark fantasy girls as it was requested. In rest, a few digital art tutorials, text tutorials and misc ones are filling the bucket o’tuts. Awesome Floral Type in Fireworks and Photoshop in 5 minutes A few weeks ago we had a very nice Vector Packs giveway from Designious. For that article I did an image using some of the floral vectors to create a floral type. It was similar

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The Karen Daniel Story

A few weeks ago on one of my weekend round ups, I linked to a CNN article about a woman called Karen Daniel and her journey to a better and healthier life.  To my surprise, I got an email yesterday from her trainer giving me some more information.  With his permission, I am printing that information here: When I first saw Karen Daniel, I knew I was looking at a woman in trouble. At 375 pounds, she took a giant step by entering my fitness center. There I was, face to face with one of the bigges

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Holiday Gifts: Smart Gift Sets

Tis' the time for gift-shopping and one thing pops to mind: headaches looking for that perfect gift. Well, fear not I have done much of the 'dirty job' to spare you cracking your heads. I have found just about the cutest and most adorable gift sets that you can find this season. And, more goodness, they are really very affordable too. We can always count on Pacifica for coming up with great gift sets everytime.1) Soy Candle Gift Box ($50)A set of nine 3-oz Soy Candles comes wrapped in a beautifu

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One Egg

This morning I spoke to a very nice reporter from a Brazilian magazine called Veja - which I am told is their equivalent to Time Magazine. The angle for her forthcoming article is that you can do trend spotting by reading blogs. I half agreed with her. Scanning blogs can be a great start but there’s a lot more to trends analysis than that. For PSFK consultancy clients we mix secondary deep scanning (from an international team of scouts) with primary research on the street and with an extensiv

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One Egg

This morning I spoke to a very nice reporter from a Brazilian magazine called Veja - which I am told is their equivalent to Time Magazine. The angle for her forthcoming article is that you can do trend spotting by reading blogs. I half agreed with her. Scanning blogs can be a great start but there’s a lot more to trends analysis than that. For PSFK consultancy clients we mix secondary deep scanning (from an international team of scouts) with primary research on the street and with an extensiv

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Report Finds Many Low Fat Foods Are High In Salt

(ChattahBox) — A report originally published online Monday by Consumer Reports magazine says there can be plenty of sodium — commonly known as salt — in foods that seem to be health-friendly, and shoppers should know that lower-fat foods can have much more sodium than full-fat products. The report has revealed that even if you never touch a salt shaker and steer clear of potato chips and french fries, you are probably eating more salt than you think, because though the salt may not be visible,

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News - Commentary - Opinions

Bush Still Lies about Iraqi InspectionsBy Robert Parry - Consortium NewsIn what’s been called George W. Bush’s first exit interview, the outgoing President continues a lie that he first unveiled several months after launching the Iraq War, justifying the invasion by claiming that Saddam Hussein didn’t let the U.N. inspectors in.Like previous times when President Bush has used this lie, it went unchallenged by the journalist who heard the false claim, in this case ABC News anchor Charles Gibson.A

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Jump!

Jump!More on photography and travelColoramas - Not as easy as it looks Linkskodak LinksKodakKodak EasyShare GalleryTips & Projects CenterKodak Picture of the DayKodak StorePluggedInGrow Your BizUser LInksFollow UsTwitter - Kodak Chief BloggerTwitter - Jeffrey HayzlettKodak Facebook PageKodak YouTube ChannelKodak Flickr PhotostreamKodak Bookmarks on Delicious Search this blog: Advanced Search... Feedbackblogfeedback@kodak.com December 3, 2008 Jump! Picture Wedne

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NEW PINK HAIRSTYLE! VISUAL KEI J-ROCK HAIR, GOTHIC LOLITA MAKEUP HOW-TO.

† View Comments Man Heaven (aka Jimi of Rock Japan Elec-tric) recently overhauled his hair with digital straightening and bangs. And it looks amazing. And I'm jealous. As soon as I turned in my Theme Restaurants manuscript (on time - woohoo), I treated myself to a new hairstyle. Got to keep up with the Visual Kei bloggers, right? My stylist used a progre

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XLR8R's Top Albums of 2008 List Speeds Out In Front

San Francisco- and New York-based mostly-electronic music magazine XLR8R has just released its Best Albums of 2008 list, and while they wimped out and didn't rank their 25 titles (come on, hippies!) their choices are so much better than the last magazine's list I'll give them a pass. Noted Party Ben faves Flying Lotus, Beach House, Portishead, M83 and Tobacco are in the mix, as well as intriguing choices from Atlas Sound, Daedelus, The Notwist and Spiritualized. Interestingly, they've rejecte

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Urban Outfitters Charity Album, Full of Excellent Tracks AND Fights Cancer

Urban Outfitters and Filter Magazine have released the fifth installment of their Give.Listen.Help compilation CD to raise money for the Pablove Foundation. The Pablove Foundation is named for Pablo Castelaz, the five-year-old son of Dangerbird Records co-founder Jeff Castelaz and his wife Jo Ann Thrailkill. In May 2008, Pablo was diagnosed with bilateral Wilms' Tumor, a rare form of children's cancer. The cancer appeared out of nowhere, with no warning signs in Pablo's general demeanor or hea

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The Heatwave X Fact Magazine: Class Of ‘08 mix

The Heatwave X Fact Magazine: Class Of ‘08 mix December 2nd, 2008 via Ffffound! This one has been on my to-post list ever since it appeared on Discobelle: Gabriel Heatwave sums up the year in Reggae in Dancehall for Fact Magazine juggling some of my [his] favourite tunes of the year so far, with a focus on new and emerging artists from Jamaica, the UK and the US. It read like this: 01 Lil Wayne - A Milli 02 Busy Signal - Ackee Tree 03 Mavado - So Special 04 Bugle - Doh Be No aka No Ye

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Brad Pitt Discusses Marriage and Charity On Today Show

Ann Curry of the Today show interviewed Brad Pitt in New Orleans where he talked about his charity, Make It Right, his family life, and his hatred toward paparazzi. Talk about a passionate human being! He was more than happy to talk about the work that has been completed for the unfortunate families left without homes after Hurricane Katrina. With 8 families moved in to new homes one year after Make It Right was founded, Brad is still very encouraged to bring the full 150 homes promised to the

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10 Ways Digg Could Stay Profitable and Independent

Businessweek reports that Digg is no longer up for sale: In an interview with BusinessWeek, Digg Chief Executive Officer Jay Adelson says the popular news aggregation Web site is no longer for sale, and the focus of the company is to build an independent business that reaches profitability as quickly as possible. (Ed.: A Google offer fell through earlier this year.) Among the new efforts: The company recently started to sell ads on its RSS feeds. It is on the verge of launching a revamped v

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Brad Pitt Does The Today Show

Brad Pitt went on the Today Show to talk about his new film, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, out this month, his Make It Right Project, the W Magazine photoshoot with partner Angelina Jolie, and the rest of his family — which includes Maddox, 7, Pax, who just turned 5, Zahara, 4 next month, Shiloh, 2 1/2, and 4 1/2-month-old twins Knox and Vivienne. On how he feels about his family: “I’m really proud of this family. I look at my sons and my daughters. One’s from Vietnam. One’s from Camb

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Frost/Nixon Review

And the World Looks Just the Same, and History Ain't Changed Frost/Nixon / Daniel Carlson There's no connective thread for the films of Ron Howard aside from the fact that they were directed by a man whose films offer no connective thread. That's admittedly a pathetic definition, and a bit of a cheat, but for all of Howard's mechanical and technical skill as a storyteller, he's never even hinted at anything that could come close to being called a worldview, or a purpose, or even a loose c

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Beyonce Covers Giant Mag

  I am loving Miss. Beyonce’s cover shot of Giant Magazine. Giant Magazine always has some outrageous looking photos of some of the top celebs. The try to mix comedy, fashion, and some edge in all of their spreads and covers.  You can also check out some of Giant Magazines past covers after the jump.. (more…) ShareThis See original here: Beyonce Covers Giant Mag

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Win an Interior Decorating Book!

click here to comment.  Replies to the email will not be accepted.   Domino magazine points out fabulous finds! And now the book gives you the "how to" on mix, matching and making it all work.   Free shipping on orders over $25 makes Amazon a frequent stop on my virtual holiday shopping trips.  I love spending time on the web, but all the images I see online cannot replace a beautifully printed design book at my fingertips for reference.  It’s fun to pour over the pages; whether you do so in

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