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“I LOVE YOU” in sign language. Or is it a family member of the late great Ronnie James Dio erecting a tribute in the middle of suburbia?
Either way, we think is such a unique display that anyone can enjoy, especially since most people who don’t know sign language can at least recognize the hand gesture for “I love you.” The builder does a wonderful job of turning this symbol into a really amazing piece of art. What a positive message to place in front of your home!
Rock on, snow dude!
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/07/snow-sculpture-sign-language_n_2426879.html
Parking Panda, a new service that allows drivers to list their empty spaces and others to rent them as needed, is looking to solve the problem of an ever-increasing shortage of parking spaces nationwide.
By compiling a network of unused parking spaces, Parking Panda provides drivers with a list of available spots, allowing them to reserve and pay online.
Anyone using the service can register an unused spot. Those looking for a parking spot at a particular time can log on and search available spaces, rent and pay online with a guaranteed empty spot. However, spots may not always be available as availability depends on how many people register empty spots and where and when they are accessible.
“A single space in a driveway or backyard is hardly worth marketing,” Slate’s Matthew Yglesias wrote, “but if an online service can drastically simplify the discovery process, then suddenly ‘hidden’ parking capacity can be unlocked.”
Try Parking Panda in Chicago. It could relieve all your woes in coming to the city with just a few clicks!
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/27/shared-parking-spots-may-lessen-the-hassle-of-finding-parking_n_2371168.html?ir=Small+Business
https://www.parkingpanda.com/chicago-parking
We all are given the same 24 hours in a day. Then how is it some people can’t seem to get anything done, while others appear superhuman? It’s about choices that allow people to make the most of every day, and still feel happy and relaxed. Try these tips and see if they work for you.
1. Pick Your Priorities
Make choices about the activities in your life. With most endeavors, you can either go deep or go wide. Focus on spending time that for you is fun and productive.
2. Go For Efficiency
You don’t do everything well. The things you do well usually give you greater joy and require less time. Don’t take on something with a steep learning curve if you don’t have the available bandwidth. Design your life to meet your wants, and recognize when to say no to opportunities that are outside the scope of your desires. Live your life by design, not default.
3. Actively Manage Time-wasters
Social media, family, friends, employees, co-workers and general whiners all under certain circumstances can suck precious time from you if you let them. Budget your time for necessary activities. Make a choice to limit non-supportive interactions that don’t energize you. As for social media, it can easily be a black hole for time and productivity.
Like these so far? Want additional ideas to get more bang out of your day?
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Source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/12/6-things-really-productive-people-do_n_2285606.html?ir=Small+Business
Brain drain, I mean Android battery drain gotcha down?
Android smartphones run the gamut in terms of battery quality, from the incredible longevity of Motorola’s Droid RAZR MAXX to the quick-draining mediocrity of certain other handsets that will remain nameless. So if you’ve got an Android that could use some extra battery juice — or if you frequently find your smartphone in the red with no outlet in sight — Huffington Post has put together a bunch of tips, tricks, techniques and apps that can help you maximize battery life on your Android phone.
GET INFO HERE
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/05/galaxy-s3-battery-life-11-tips-tricks-android_n_2130787.html?ir=Technology#slide=1759508
She looks her disease in the face. Scoffs. And conquers.
Ann McDonald, 60, proves that you don’t need hair to look great. The Scotland grandmother suffers from alopecia and, as a result, has been completely bald for the past three years, the Daily Mail reported.
Three tattoo shops turned McDonald away, she said, but she ultimately ended up working with tattoo artist Pete Gillespie, who owns a tattoo shop in the town of Dalkeith. It took Gillespie a total of 12 hours to etch the intricate black-ink design onto McDonald’s scalp.
The tat cost a cool £720 — about $1,159 — and McDonald says it was “worth every penny.” We think so too, Ann!
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/05/ann-mcdonald-tattoo-scalp-head-alopecia-grandmother_n_2247087.html?utm_hp_ref=good-news&ir=Good%20News
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!
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
Microsoft may boldly go where no one has gone before.
At a demonstration in China on Oct. 25, Microsoft’s chief research officer Rick Rashid revealed a new technology seemingly straight out of Star Trek. In the classic sci-fi television show, a gadget known as the “universal translator” (seen here) was used to decipher languages in the 22nd century. And now, Microsoft has created a program that takes spoken English and translates it to spoken Chinese in realtime.
Pretty futuristic, right? Here, let’s try it with what we have available today (this is not a big secret): Q101 suona la migliore musica in tutto il mondo!
If we all had a universal translator at the ready, you wouldn’t have to type the message into a computerized translator, trying to figure out which language was spoken!
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/09/microsoft-voice-translator_n_2102158.html?ir=Technology
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
It’s been almost a month since two people were abducted from their California home, and one of them was burned, doused with bleach and had his penis partially severed. Investigators are still looking for clues.
An unidentified 29-year-old man and 53-year-old woman were kidnapped from separate rooms in their Southern California home on Oct. 1, tied up and driven to the Mojave Desert where they were left to die, according to the Los Angeles Times. Kyle Shirakawa Handley, 33, was arrested in connection to the crime on Oct. 6, but two remaining suspects are at large.
The motive? Unclear. Perhaps medical marijuana or money. Handley has pleaded not guilty to charges of aggravated mayhem, felony torture, felony burglary and two felony counts of kidnapping for ransom. Cutting it off? A pretty stiff punishment for not giving up some weed and cash.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/24/kyle-handley-arrested-severed-penis-kidnapping_n_2012212.html?utm_hp_ref=weird-news&ir=Weird%20News
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