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If you’ve been a financial burden to your family (or not), consider this parting gift. Donating your body to science is FREE, and it would put your loved ones at ease at a time when they are mourning your loss and trying to figure out how to pay for your funeral.
Each year, an estimated 10,000 to 15,000 Americans donate their whole body, after death, to medical facilities throughout the country to be used in medical research projects, anatomy lessons and surgical practice.
After using your body, these facilities will then provide free cremation — which typically costs $600 to $3,000 — and will either bury or scatter your ashes in a local cemetery or return them to your family, usually within a year or two.
If you do decide you want to donate your body, it’s best to make arrangements in advance with a body donation program in your area. Most programs are offered by university-affiliated medical schools. To find one near you, the University of Florida maintains a list of U.S. programs and their contact information at www.med.ufl.edu/anatbd/usprograms.html.
In addition to the medical schools, there are also a number of private organizations like Anatomy Gifts Registry, BioGift and Science Care that accept whole body donations too.
After you have made arrangements, be sure your family members know your wishes so they will know what to do and who to contact after your death. It’s also a good idea to tell your doctor and put your wishes in writing in your advance directives. These are legal documents that include a medical power of attorney and living will that spell out your wishes regarding your end-of-life medical treatment when you can no longer make decisions for yourself.
It’s a win-win situation for everyone. Make your wishes known TODAY, before the decision is taken from you!
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jim-t-miller/how-to-save-money-by-donating-your-body-to-science_b_2162564.html?utm_hp_ref=weird-news&ir=Weird%20News
THIS indoor cloud does NOT smell like skunk. It is not a specter. It’s a bona fide, spectacular, real life, living, breathing cloud (I told you a million times I do not exaggerate).
Dutch artist Berndnaut Smilde has developed a way to simulate clouds indoors by carefully regulating the space’s humidity, temperature and light. This intersection of science and art was recently named one of TIME magazine’s “Best Inventions of the Year 2012.”
The fluffy white billows are summoned up temporarily using a fog machine, creating a dreamlike experience in the middle of a room. Smilde has created his clouds inside different types of locations, ranging from corridors and hallways, to bedrooms and common spaces.
Wouldn’t it be HILARIOUS to buy one of these clouds and set it up over the desk of the office curmudgeon (while he/she is not looking)?
http://mashable.com/2012/11/15/berndnaut-smilde-clouds/
Need someone to hold your package while at the mall, all while sucking down a free beverage and reclining on a comfy couch? Many malls around the country are promising Black Friday bargaineers a more white-glove experience.
All it can take is a few TV images of Black Friday deal-chasing—the unruly crowds, packed parking lots and frigid midnight lines—to drive many shoppers straight to the Web for their holiday shopping.
That is why this year shopping malls are testing new services and promotions to draw people back to stores for their day after Thanksgiving spending sprees. Malls are feeling the pressure to step up their services as fewer holiday shoppers are braving brick-and-mortar stores with their gift lists.
The strategy involves taking a page from the playbook of high-end retailers like Bloomingdale’s and Saks Fifth Avenue, which offer such concierge services (including storing your purchases) and perks year round.
As those companies have learned, mainstream mall shoppers who are drawn to these types of conveniences are likely to be bigger spenders in general. And they make attractive targets, says Kit Yarrow, a professor of psychology and marketing at Golden Gate University. “People tend to make more impulse and inspired purchases in person,” she says, “especially if they’ve been made to feel like a first-class shopper.”
Will the strategy work this year? It sure does make mall shopping on Black Friday seem a bit more appealing. There’s nothing worse than being weighed down by a heavy package. A shopper whose load has been lightened will be much happier and will spend more money. Now, for easing the line to see Santa…
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323551004578118960167007702.html?mod=WSJ_LifeStyle_Lifestyle_5
Making money online is a matter of finding an audience who you can either advertise to or receive direct payment from. Either way, you need something interesting or informative with which to catch and hold your readers’ attention. Your content is everything.
I’ll show you how you can make money presenting and distributing content via podcast or a newsletter, and how you can connect directly with your audience as an online tutor.
Getting Paid To Podcast
To create a podcast, you will need a microphone and some recording software. If you have a camera, you can also produce video podcasts.
You can download a free recording program from audacity.sourceforge.net, where you will also find tutorials on the technical side of podcasting.
When you have the content and are able to produce good quality podcasts, you need listeners. You can find them by submitting your podcast to directories such as podcastalley.com, promoting it through a website or blog, or advertising in forums and newsletters.
The bigger your market, the better. Don’t be afraid of competitive markets, they’re big for a reason–they pay and people are listening!
You will then be able to make money by finding a sponsor who is willing to pay to reach your listeners. You could find your own advertisers, or join a podcasting network such as podtrac.com.
If your content is desirable enough, you can charge for access to it, through services such as iTunes (apple.com/itunes). If you are selling your podcast, however, it is a good idea to create a free content version too in order to reach new listeners.
How To Get Paid To Publish Online Newsletters
Even if you prefer the written word to audio podcasting, you will still need to take care of some technical details.
The best way to distribute newsletters is through an autoresponder list service. These can be set up to automatically deliver pre-written emails to subscribers at set intervals. Each new subscriber will receive all of the emails in your predetermined sequence. That means you can load up a year’s worth of content (or more), and it’ll automatically publish straight to your subscribers’ email boxes without you touching it again!
A free autoresponder can be downloaded from responders.com, while a more professional program can be bought from aweber.com. These programs will also help with managing your subscriber list, so you stay spam compliant.
A successful newsletter will be attractive, easy to read, and compatible with different computers and internet browsers. You can create beautiful PDF documents using a free program such as openoffice.com.
Also, you do not have to create all your own content. You can get free stock photos and articles from sites such as publicdomainimages.net and ezinearticles.com. You can also pay for pre-written content from sites like associatedcontent.com.
Email newsletters are perfect for marketing your own products, if you are running an online business. You can also make money by selling space to advertisers or even charging for subscriptions.
By using the tools from services such as aweber.com, you can grow your online newsletter list to hundreds or even thousands of people.
Get Paid To Teach People All Over the World
If you have knowledge and experience to share then you can do so in a podcast or newsletter, or by writing content for a site such as demandstudios.com, who will pay for articles.
Alternatively, you can become an online tutor and communicate directly with students through video chat and email. You could find your own students by advertising your services on craigslist.org, or join a company who will pair you up with suitable learners.
In order to get the best jobs, you may need some relevant qualifications, such as a degree, proven experience in a particular field, or a teaching certificate of some kind.
Websites that recruit online teachers include universalclass.com, mytutor24.com, and tutor.com. Wiziq.com has a teacher directory where you can describe yourself and potential students can find you.
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Who says you have to eat this bird, the turkey, on Thanksgiving? It IS a free country, so it should mean Americans are free to choose whatever the heck they want to eat on this most excellent four day weekend holiday (for some).
Skip the turkey altogether and opt for a non turkey Thanksgiving. Food blogger Simply Recipes has many great options to choose from.
It’s a good chance this meal would be on Ted Nugent’s Thanksgiving table: Venison Sauerbraten. All you need to do is bag a deer first, preferably BEFORE Thanksgiving Day. Sauerbraten, a classic German pot roast, was, apparently, originally designed for venison. It is not a “simple” alternative by any means, but you aren’t looking for the easy way out, right? Get the Venison Sauerbraten recipe by Simply Recipes.
If killing just ain’t right, no matter WHAT the holiday, take the road the Smiths did all those years ago with a ‘killer’ vegetable lasagna. Meat IS Murder, no two ways about it. Morrissey would be proud to serve this at his table at Thanksgiving. That is, if he was American and IF he celebrated Thanksgiving. You can brood and pout around your kitchen, reflecting on the burdens of your past or doomed relationships while making this Vegetable Lasagna.
For more recipes of tasty alternative Thanksgiving food, READ HERE.
http://allrecipes.com/recipe/hearty-vegetable-lasagna/
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/09/non-turkey-thanksgiving-_n_2093511.html?ir=Taste
Paleontologists have announced the discovery of a meat-eating dinosaur—as big as a Tyrannosaurus rex—that roamed North Africa 95 million years ago. In a paper published October 27 in Cretaceous Research, its discoverers have dubbed it Sauroniops pachytholus as an homage to the “Lord of the Rings” villain Sauron, National Geographic reports.
Why that particular villain? It all has to do with a fossilized eye socket.
“The idea of a predator that is physically known only as its fierce eye reminded me of Sauron, in particular as depicted in Peter Jackson’s movies,” the paper’s lead author Andrea Cau, of the Museo Geologico Giovanni Capellini in Bologna, Italy, told National Geographic.
Wondering how scientists can identify a new species with nothing but an eye socket to work with? It just so happens that Saurionops had a prominent dome above its eye, a feature that distinguishes this dino from similar species.
Eye can see why now.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/08/sauroniops-pachytholus-t-_n_2088637.html?ir=Science
A Pennsylvania man was arrested yesterday after flashing his breast implants at fellow Walmart shoppers.
Jeremy Owens, 23, was busted following the bizarre incident at the retailer in Lackawanna County. Owens was apprehended after he left the store and boarded a municipal bus, from which he had to be forcibly removed by cops.
Owens, who calls himself “Jamie,” was jailed for aggravated assault, drug possession, and making terrorist threats. But apparently not indecent exposure…
Now, just for fun, let us reverse the story. A girl named Jamie, who calls herself ”Jeremy” walks into a Walmart and flashes HER new “surgically implanted device(s)” that alter her gender. Do you think SHE would be arrested for indecent exposure? I’m not certain equality would apply in this situation. Who knows?
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/buster/man-exposes-breasts-at-walmart-365419
People you wish you knew? You probably DO know some of these folks.
Here’s a captivating time waster for when you are sitting on the can with your iPhone, browsing, waiting for things to happen. The Best? I vote for number five and number forty seven.
Which is YOUR favorite?
SEE THEM
http://www.buzzfeed.com/daves4/people-you-wish-you-knew-in-real-life
Hot nuts!
Gittin’ num on the down low. Do YOU know where your nuts have been?
Authorities are investigating two thefts of more than 80,000 pounds of walnuts from Northern California valued at about $300,000.
A 40,000 lb. truckload of walnuts bound for Miami never arrived at its final destination. Several days earlier, another 40,000 truckload headed for Texas was picked up and never delivered. Authorities believe the same person heisted both trucks.
Northern California deputies have not identified the suspect although they do have a suspect description. In both cases, the driver is described as about 6 feet, 2 inches, and weighing 198 pounds, and he’s said to speak with a “very distinctive Russian accent,” deputies said. The man somehow got the correct purchase numbers to show the companies in order to pull off the theft, they said.
If you are approached on a street corner by some shady dude with a foreign accent wearing a long trench coat asking if you want to see their nuts, run! It could be the thief trying to unload his goods on you, a poor unsuspecting victim.
Shipping security procedures at the NUT HOUSE have been changed this week. It should be tougher to get those round balls of heaven onto the wrong path, heading for parts unknown.
http://www.nbcdfw.com/news/weird/80000-Pounds-of-Walnuts-Stolen-176436561.html
Oh, what is that Courtney Love up to now? If one recent report is correct, she’s getting ready to revisit Kurt Cobain‘s legacy with a musical inspired by his early years in Nirvana. The news was broken by Britney Spears‘ former manager Sam Lutfi, who revealed Love’s plans in the Los Angeles courtroom where he’s involved in a defamation case against Spears’ mother.
It’s wise to take this news with a grain of salt for all sorts of reasons — not the least of which is the fact that Love was recently forced to hand over the rights to Cobain’s name, likeness and image to their daughter Frances Bean, thanks to the terms of a $2.75 million loan Love took against Frances’ trust in 2010. And even if that doesn’t prove a legal barrier on the project’s journey to the stage and screen, the whole thing seems unlikely given Love’s sporadic output over the last 15 years or so.
http://diffuser.fm/courtney-love-nirvana-musical/
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