http://realideal.com/forum/ Portal J Repository » Recent Posts en Sun, 20 May 2012 17:39:40 +0000 http://realideal.com/forum/topic/1174#post-1330 Sat, 19 May 2012 04:11:39 +0000 admin 1330@http://realideal.com/forum/ <font face=arial size=3><br /> <center><img src="http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/17mqxhhyjsaipjpg/cmt-medium.jpg" height=260/></center><br /> <br /> If you're suffering from a moment or a long period of low self-esteem, chances are the problem isn't internal. As <i>Psychology Today</i> points out, the problem is more likely caused by issues you have with people other than yourself:<br /> <br /> <i>Think of self-esteem as the fuel gauge on a car. Most of us are busy driving around trying to keep the indicator from registering "empty." The whole time, we're focused on the alerting system-instead of on its true function: keeping fuel in the tank. "In the same way, in focusing on the psychological gauge, many psychologists have erred by concluding that people are motivated to maintain self-esteem for its own sake," Leary[, a professor at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina] says. Instead, we should be using self-esteem as a gauge "to keep our 'interpersonal gas tanks' from running low</i>."<br /> <br /> Call it a "sociometer." When self-esteem sinks to the danger zone, the appropriate response is not to fix some inner sense of self, but to repair your standing in the eyes of others, to behave in ways that maintain connections with other people.</font> http://realideal.com/forum/topic/1173#post-1329 Fri, 18 May 2012 21:16:21 +0000 admin 1329@http://realideal.com/forum/ <font face=arial size=3><br /> Tell me a fact and I'll learn. Tell me a truth and I'll believe. But tell me a story and it will live in my heart forever.<br /> <br /> <center><object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" width="640" height="420" id="viddler_jackmichaelson_219"><param name="movie" value="//www.viddler.com/simple/89214080/"/><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"/><param name="allowNetworking" value="all"/><param name="allowFullScreen"value="true"/><param name="flashVars" value="f=1&openURL=56483706&autoplay=f&loop=0&nologo=0&hd=0"/><embed src="//www.viddler.com/simple/89214080/" width="640" height="420" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowScriptAccess="always" allowFullScreen="true" allowNetworking="internal" name="viddler_jackmichaelson_219" flashVars="f=1&openURL=56483706&autoplay=f&loop=0&nologo=1&hd=0"></embed></object></center></font> http://realideal.com/forum/topic/1172#post-1328 Wed, 16 May 2012 22:14:05 +0000 admin 1328@http://realideal.com/forum/ <div class="articleHeader" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 25px; 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line-height: 24px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; ">Researchers who study the friendly bacteria that live inside all of us are starting to sort out who is in charge—microbes or people?</p><p class="articleInfo" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 104px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="byline" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; 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background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(25, 67, 124); text-decoration: none; ">Jennifer Ackerman</a>&nbsp;</span>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<span class="datestamp" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; white-space: nowrap; font-family: arial, sans-serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">May 15, 2012&nbsp;|</span>&nbsp;</p><br /></div><div id="articleContent" style="margin-top: 0px; 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vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; display: block; font-family: Georgia, serif; "><b style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; text-transform: uppercase; "></b></span><span class="imageCredit" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; 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"><span class="fff" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 5px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 5px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 18px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; ">In Brief</span></h3><div id="conceptsBox" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 15px; padding-right: 10px; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 10px; border-top-width: 1px; border-right-width: 1px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-width: 1px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; border-top-style: solid; border-right-style: solid; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(222, 222, 222); border-right-color: rgb(222, 222, 222); border-bottom-color: rgb(222, 222, 222); border-left-color: rgb(222, 222, 222); background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><ul style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; list-style-type: none; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial; line-height: 20px; font-family: Prelude, arial, sans-serif; "><li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Bacterial cells in the body outnumber human cells by a factor of 10 to 1. Yet only recently have researchers begun to elucidate the beneficial roles these microbes play in fostering health.</li><li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Some of these bacteria possess genes that encode for beneficial compounds that the body cannot make on its own. Other bacteria seem to train the body not to overreact to outside threats.</li><li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Advances in computing and gene sequencing are allowing investigators to create a detailed catalogue of all the bacterial genes that make up this so-called microbiome.</li><li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Unfortunately, the inadvertent destruction of beneficial microbes by the use of antibiotics, among other things,&nbsp; may be leading to an increase in autoimmune disorders and obesity.</li></ul></div></div><div id="suppMaterialSlider" class="thumbSlider" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 6px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; position: relative; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); "><span class="slideButton rightButton" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: rgb(252, 252, 252); display: inline; position: absolute; top: 8px; right: 0px; width: 18px; height: 18px; cursor: pointer; "><font face="PreludeBold, arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 19px; line-height: 35px;"><b><br /></b></span></font></span></div></div><p style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: georgia, times, serif; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 25px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; line-height: 24px; ">Biologists once thought that human beings were phys­iological islands, entirely capable of regulating their own internal workings. Our bodies made all the enzymes needed for breaking down food and using its nutrients to power and repair our tissues and organs. Signals from our own tissues dictated body states such as hunger or satiety. The specialized cells of our immune system taught themselves how to recognize and attack dangerous microbes—pathogens—while at the same time sparing our own tissues.</p><p style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: georgia, times, serif; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 25px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; line-height: 24px; "></p><p style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: georgia, times, serif; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 25px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; line-height: 24px; ">Over the past 10 years or so, however, researchers have demonstrated that the human body is not such a neatly self-sufficient island after all. It is more like a complex ecosystem—a social network—containing trillions of bacteria and other microorganisms that inhabit our skin, genital areas, mouth and especially intestines. In fact, most of the cells in the human body are not human at all. Bacterial cells in the human body outnumber human cells 10 to one. Moreover, this mixed community of microbial cells and the genes they contain, collectively known as the microbiome, does not threaten us but offers vital help with basic physiological processes—from digestion to growth to self-defense<br />.</p></div> http://realideal.com/forum/topic/1171#post-1327 Tue, 15 May 2012 05:38:14 +0000 admin 1327@http://realideal.com/forum/ <div style="text-align: center;"><img src="http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/17m5tte6rw8x7jpg/original.jpg" alt="These double ice halos could make you believe in a cosmic designer"/>&nbsp;<br /></div><div><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 13px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 15px; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Liberation Serif', serif; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">The double sun halo is the result of simple optics and suspended crystals in the atmosphere. And yet these beautiful circles have great significance for the movements of planets other than our own. It's either a strange cosmic coincidence — or proof that someone arranged all of this and is signing their handiwork.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 13px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 15px; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Liberation Serif', serif; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Some of the most beautiful sights on Earth are the result of uncanny coincidences about the arrangement of the solar system. For one thing, the Moon, the sun and the Earth seem to be a very particular size and distance away from each other. When the Earth passes in front of the Moon, blocking the sun's light, its shadow fits over the moon pretty much perfectly for a lunar eclipse. Meanwhile, when the Moon gets between the sun and the Earth, it blocks out the sun perfectly. If any of these objects were any other size, or placed a different distance from each other, we wouldn't get the spectacular eclipses we do now.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 13px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 15px; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Liberation Serif', serif; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">But there are even more uncanny placements in the solar system, and they have their echoes right here on Earth.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 13px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 15px; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Liberation Serif', serif; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">When the atmospheric conditions are right, tiny ice crystals fill the atmosphere. They bend light coming in from the sun at a certain angle, creating a halo around the sun at an angle of twenty-two degrees. This is an ice halo. A double ice halo appears when other crystals bend light to forty-six degrees. On very cold, clear days, with a lot of ice bumbling around in the sky, entire sets of curved lines can appear around the sun, but the picture above shows the full glory of a double halo.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 13px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 15px; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Liberation Serif', serif; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "></p><div class="lyteboxContainer left editorial" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 40px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-style: inherit; font-size: 15px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; float: left; position: relative; z-index: 1000; width: 300px; height: 338px; "><div class="lyteboxLink" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; width: 300px; height: 338px; text-indent: -1000em; position: absolute; "><a href="http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/17m5up8jwxnd2jpg/original.jpg" class="noHrefOverride" rel="lytebox" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(121, 18, 101); display: block; height: 338px; text-indent: -100em; width: 300px; background-image: url(http://ganja.gawkerassets.com/assets/base.v10/img/lytebox/blank.gif?hash=fc94f); background-attachment: scroll; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: 100% 0%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; ">Full size</a></div><img src="http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/17m5up8jwxnd2jpg/medium.jpg" width="300" height="338" style="margin-top: 5px; margin-right: 40px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; float: left; "/></div>Meanwhile, we see the sun every day, but the sun obscures the planets that move around it. They move around it at different rates, and at different distances from the sun. The two that are closer to the sun than we are, and whose orbits can be inscribed in our sky, move around the sun at about what we would see as twenty-two degrees and forty-six degrees from the sun. If you see an ice halo around the sun, its path is approximately the same as the mean orbit of Mercury. If you're lucky enough to see the faint impression of the outer halo (In this image, it's near the number two), you're seeing, roughly, the mean orbit of Venus.<p></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 13px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 15px; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Liberation Serif', serif; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">There is no way the way the light that refracts from ice crystals can have an effect on the orbits on the Earth, Venus, and Mercury, making each of them line up in this precise way. So we can be forgiven for considering this just a bit on the spooky side. Of course, if they hadn't lined up in the sky the way they do, we'd never have noticed — we'd have gone about our business until we found something else that was a coincidence.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 13px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 15px; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Liberation Serif', serif; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Still, even without the mystical connection, it's amazing to look up in the sky on a cold day, see a circle around the sun, and realize that a distant planet is roughly somewhere along that circle.</p></div> http://realideal.com/forum/topic/1170#post-1326 Tue, 15 May 2012 04:39:19 +0000 admin 1326@http://realideal.com/forum/ <div style="text-align: center;"><div class="imgwrap abovewrap" title="Meet Calvin the calico lobster, a &quot;1-in-30-million specimen&quot;" style="margin-top: -13px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 13px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Liberation Serif', serif; vertical-align: baseline; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; position: relative; width: 640px; height: 360px; z-index: 0; line-height: 18px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><div class="lyteboxContainer left editorial" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-style: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; width: 640px; height: 360px; "><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"/><img src="http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/17m8dd1ia0uo3jpg/xlarge.jpg" width="640" height="360" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-style: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; "/></div></div></div><div><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 13px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 15px; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Liberation Serif', serif; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">What's a lobster gotta do to avoid getting eaten these days? If you're a lobster living on the coast of Winter Harbor, Maine, the answer is: look like a lava lamp.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 13px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 15px; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Liberation Serif', serif; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">A pincer-wielding, black-and-orange lava lamp.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 13px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 15px; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Liberation Serif', serif; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><a href="http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2012/05/10/152434750/rare-calico-lobster-turns-heads-and-escapes-dinner-menu" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(121, 18, 101); ">According to NPR</a>, "Calvin" the calico lobster was close to being dunked into a vat of boiling water when the staff at a Cambridge, MA restauraunt noticed its mottled coloration:</p><blockquote style="margin-top: 20px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 20px; padding-top: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-bottom: 1px; padding-left: 10px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 4px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 15px; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Liberation Serif', serif; vertical-align: baseline; quotes: ''; background-color: rgb(242, 242, 242); border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); color: rgb(81, 100, 120); line-height: 22px; "><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 13px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); ">Chef Jasper White tells&nbsp;<a href="http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2012/05/08/rare_calico_lobster_found_at_summer_shack_headed_for_new_england_aquarium/" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(121, 18, 101); ">The Boston Globe</a>&nbsp;that he named the lobster Calvin — and contacted the New England Aquarium, which then made plans to pick Calvin up. The lobster will eventually take up residence at the Biomes Marine Biology Center in Rhode Island, according to the aquarium.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 13px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); ">A post at the aquarium's blog explains that lobsters come in many different colors, ranging from brown and orange to white.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); ">"While white appears to be the most rare at an estimated 1 in 100 million, coming in second place with an approximate 1 in 30 million is the calico lobster," according to the aquarium's exhibit galleries blog.</p></blockquote><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 13px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 15px; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Liberation Serif', serif; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "></p><div class="lyteboxContainer left editorial" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 40px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-style: inherit; font-size: 15px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; float: left; position: relative; z-index: 1000; width: 300px; height: 230px; "><div class="lyteboxLink" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; width: 300px; height: 230px; text-indent: -1000em; position: absolute; "><a href="http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/17m8g79ax03owpng/original.png" class="noHrefOverride" rel="lytebox" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(121, 18, 101); display: block; height: 230px; text-indent: -100em; width: 300px; background-image: url(http://ganja.gawkerassets.com/assets/base.v10/img/lytebox/blank.gif?hash=fc94f); background-attachment: scroll; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: 100% 0%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; ">Full size</a></div><img src="http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/17m8g79ax03owpng/medium.png" width="300" height="230" style="margin-top: 5px; margin-right: 40px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; float: left; "/></div>Personally, I've always been a fan of the bilateral asymmetry of the orange-brown split colored lobsters. (Pay no mind to the blue lobster in the middle — those occur about once every 2-million lobsters... I mean that's practically&nbsp;<em style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 15px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; ">common</em>, for God's sake.) Your chances of happening upon an orange-brown split colored lobster are around 1 in 50 million, making them even rarer than their calico cousins. Plus, they're usually gynandromorphs.<p></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 13px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 15px; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Liberation Serif', serif; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">What's that? You don't know what gynandromorphy is? Oh, man.&nbsp;<a href="http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/tag/gynandromorph/" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(121, 18, 101); ">Say goodbye to your afternoon</a>.</p></div> http://realideal.com/forum/topic/1169#post-1325 Mon, 14 May 2012 20:25:39 +0000 admin 1325@http://realideal.com/forum/ <div style="text-align: center;"><iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/DG0HldVSkzU?wmode=transparent" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="" style="font-size: 16px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "></iframe><br style="font-size: 16px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "/><br style="font-size: 16px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "/><a href="http://mercola.fileburst.com/PDF/ExpertInterviewTranscripts/InterviewDrNatashaCampbellMcBride-GAPS.pdf" style="color: rgb(8, 105, 189); cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none; font-size: 16px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Download Interview Transcript</a><span style="font-size: 16px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">&nbsp;</span>&nbsp;<br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><blockquote style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 38px; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 19px; ">Dr. Natasha Campbell-McBride is a formally trained Russian neurologist whose child developed autism.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 19px; ">As a result of her own research into autism, she ended up developing what might be one of the most profoundly important treatment strategies not just for autism, but for a wide range of neurological-, psychological-, and autoimmune disorders as well.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 19px; ">I believe her Gut and Psychology Syndrome, and Gut and Physiology Syndrome (GAPS) Nutritional program is vitally important for MOST people, as the majority of people have such poor gut health due to poor diet and toxic exposures. We’ve previously discussed how the&nbsp;<a href="http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2011/07/31/dr-natasha-campbell-mcbride-on-gaps-nutritional-program.aspx" style="color: rgb(8, 105, 189); cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none; ">GAPS program</a>&nbsp;can help those with autism and other neurological- and psychiatric disorders, such as:</p><ul style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 38px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; list-style-position: outside; "><li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">Dyslexia and dyspraxia</li><li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">Depression</li><li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">Obsessive-compulsive disorder</li><li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">Bipolar disorder</li><li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">Epilepsy</li></ul></blockquote><h2 style="margin-top: 32px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 18px; color: rgb(204, 0, 0); text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">What is Gut and Physiology Syndrome?</h2><blockquote style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 38px; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 19px; ">In this interview, we discuss how your gut affects your immune system, as there’s profound dynamic interaction between them. Dr. McBride covers the problems related to Gut and Psychology Syndrome in her first book by the same name. Her next book will cover Gut and Physiology Syndrome, which relates to diseases that are not located in the nervous system but rather elsewhere in your body, such as:</p><ul style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 38px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; list-style-position: outside; "><li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">Arthritis</li><li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">Asthma and allergies</li><li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">Skin problems</li><li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">Kidney problems</li><li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">Digestive issues, and</li><li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">Autoimmune disorders</li></ul><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 19px; ">Abnormalities in your immune system are a common outcome of GAPS, and such immune abnormalities are at the root of virtually all degenerative diseases.</p><blockquote style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 38px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 19px; "><em>“Why is that? It’s because about 85 percent of our immune system is located in the gut wall,”&nbsp;</em>she says<em>. &nbsp;“This fact has been established by basic physiology research in the 1930s and the 1940s. Your gut, your digestive wall, is the biggest and the most important immune organ in your body. There is a very tight conversation and a relationship going on between the gut flora that lives inside your digestive system, and your immune system...</em></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 19px; "><em>Your gut flora—the state of the gut flora and the composition of microbes in your gut flora—has a profound effect on what forms of immune cells you will be producing on any given day, what they’re going to be doing, and how balanced your immune system is.”</em></p></blockquote></blockquote><h2 style="margin-top: 32px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 18px; color: rgb(204, 0, 0); text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">How Your Gut Flora Directs Your Immune System</h2><blockquote style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 38px; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 19px; ">There are two primary “arms” in your immune system:</p><ol style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 38px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; list-style-position: outside; "><li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><strong>Th1 immunity</strong>&nbsp;is responsible for normal reactions to anything in your environment, from pollen to animal dandruff, dust mites, chemicals, food and anything else you come into contact with. Th1 is kept robust and healthy by your gut flora. As long as your gut flora is normal, you will have no adverse symptoms when exposed to these types of environmental influences, but if your gut flora is abnormal, your Th1 become increasingly disabled</li><li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><strong>Th2 immunity</strong>&nbsp;is designed to address immune functions inside your body, and is not equipped to handle environmental influences. However, it will try to compensate if your Th1 becomes disabled. Unfortunately, since it’s not properly equipped for this job, it ends up dealing with environmental influences like pollen and foods in an inappropriate way; the end result of which is allergies and intolerances.</li></ol><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 19px; ">It’s important to realize that food allergies and intolerances are a very different group of allergies from the more acute anaphylactic allergies. Food intolerances caused by disabled Th1 (due to abnormal gut flora) are not mediated by the same immunoglobulin as the true allergies are. Food intolerances can also manifest hours, days, or even weeks later, making identifying food allergies very difficult.</p><blockquote style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 38px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 19px; "><em>&nbsp;“Different reactions can also overlap on top of each other. For example, on any given day you can be reacting to broccoli that you have just had for lunch, and to lamb that you’ve eaten yesterday, and to egg that you’ve eaten two days ago, and to a piece of bread that you’ve eaten 10 days ago. All of these reactions overlap on top of each other. On any given day, you have no idea what exactly you’re reacting to,”</em>&nbsp;Dr. McBride explains.</p></blockquote><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 19px; ">Making matters even more difficult, these food allergies and intolerances can result in all sorts of reactions, from headache, to sneezing, to rashes, or abdominal pains or swollen joints. Or they may result in psoriasis, or cause eczema to flare up.</p><blockquote style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 38px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 19px; "><em>“Or, it can be an episode of depression, anxiety, or a panic attack.&nbsp;<strong>Any</strong>&nbsp;kind of symptom can be brought up by food allergies and intolerances,”</em>&nbsp;Dr. McBride says.</p></blockquote><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 19px; ">At the same time, because your gut flora is abnormal, your gut lining begins to deteriorate, since it is actively maintained by our gut flora. (The beneficial bacteria in your gut make sure the cells that line your entire digestive tract are healthy, well-fed, and protected from chemical- or microbial attacks.) As your gut lining deteriorates, the junctions between the cells open up, causing your gut to become porous, or “leaky.”</p><blockquote style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 38px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 19px; "><em>“It becomes like a sieve, and foods don’t get the chance to be digested properly before they are absorbed,”</em>&nbsp;Dr. McBride explains.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 19px; "><em>“They’re absorbed in this maldigested or partially broken down form. When the immune system and the bloodstream finds them and looks at them, it doesn’t recognize them as food. It says, “You’re not food. I don’t recognize you,” and it reacts to them. It creates immune complexes, which attack these partially digested proteins. As a result, we’ll get all sorts of symptoms in your body.”</em></p></blockquote><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 19px; ">So what’s the answer? &nbsp;</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 19px; ">The key to resolving your health issues is NOT to determine which foods you’re reacting to in order to avoid them. Rather you need to focus on healing your gut lining, because this is the most likely root of your problem. This will also be your most cost-effective strategy, as allergy testing can be quite expensive.</p><blockquote style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 38px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 19px; "><em>“There are many testing methods developed now for food allergies and intolerances,”&nbsp;</em>Dr. McBride says<em>. “... [But] if you had enough money to test twice a day for two weeks in a row, you would discover that you react to everything you eat... The majority of practitioners who are experienced in this area give up on testing... They recommend focusing on healing and sealing your gut lining instead. Then these food allergies and intolerances will disappear, and you will be able to eventually start eating foods that you could not tolerate before.”</em></p></blockquote></blockquote><h2 style="margin-top: 32px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 18px; color: rgb(204, 0, 0); text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">GAPS and Autoimmune Disease</h2><blockquote style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 38px; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 19px; ">Autoimmune disorders are a very common side effect of GAPS. Conventional medicine has identified about 200 different autoimmune conditions so far, and the list is continually growing.</p><blockquote style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 38px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 19px; "><em>“The testing in autoimmunity is fairly expensive, so not many people get tested,”&nbsp;</em>Dr. McBride says<em>. “But the more we test, the more we realize that pretty much every degenerative condition has got an autoimmune component. Why is that? Because 85 percent of your immune system is located in your digestive wall, in your gut wall, and the state of your gut flora has a direct and very profound effect on the way your immune system functions.</em></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 19px; "><em>... Your immune system is a very hungry organ. It needs to be continuously fed... People with abnormal gut flora – GAPS people – do not digest and absorb their food properly, so they develop multiple nutritional deficiencies; their immune system is starving... At the same time, a river of toxicity is flowing from the gut into the bloodstream of these people, because all those pathogenic microbes sitting in their gut flora are converting the food that comes along into hundreds and hundreds of very toxic substances.</em></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 19px; "><em>The immune system gets quite a lot of this toxicity, so... we have a poor immune system—it is malnourished; it is intoxicated; it is unbalanced, and, at the same time, it is challenged with a huge amount of work to do. Of course, it cannot function properly. Of course, it cannot react appropriately to various things. Autoimmunity is the result of that.”</em></p></blockquote><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 19px; ">Abnormal flora in your digestive tract can easily lead to overgrowth of:</p><ul style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 38px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; list-style-position: outside; "><li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">Pathogenic bacteria</li><li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">Pathogenic viruses</li><li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">Fungi</li><li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">Worms</li><li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">Protozoa</li></ul><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 19px; ">Once your gut lining begins to deteriorate, these disease-causing agents can be easily absorbed into your bloodstream and circulated throughout your body. Some of them have affinities for certain proteins, and will attach themselves to them. When that happens, it changes the three-dimensional shape of that protein molecule. When your immune system comes across this foreign-looking protein, it will attack it and begin producing antibodies against it.</p><blockquote style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 38px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 19px; "><em>“This mechanism is particularly at work in multiple sclerosis in patients. We have researched that quite a lot,”&nbsp;</em>Dr. McBride says.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 19px; ">“<em>Mercury, lead, aluminum, other toxic metals and organic molecules that contain this toxic metal have a particular propensity for getting stored in high-fat tissues such as your brain and the rest of your nervous system, particularly the myelin sheath on your nerves... These toxic metals target your brain and your nerves. But when they get accumulated in those high-fat tissues, these toxins attach themselves to proteins in your myelin, in the white matter of your brain, and other parts of your nervous system. Once they’ve accumulated, once they’ve attached themselves to those proteins, they change their three-dimensional structure. Then the immune system develops an antibody against your protein and your myelin.</em></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 19px; "><em>That is the number one antibody, which is at work in multiple sclerosis. It is called a myelin-specific protein antibody. It’s an antibody which attacks proteins in your myelin... What the immune system is trying to do is it’s trying to clear out mercury, lead, and other toxic metals out of the nervous system, which got stored in there. Where do they come from?&nbsp;<strong>99.9 percent of anything toxic in your body comes out in the digestive system</strong>.”</em></p></blockquote></blockquote><h2 style="margin-top: 32px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 18px; color: rgb(204, 0, 0); text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">GAPS and Multiple Sclerosis</h2><blockquote style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 38px; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 19px; "><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"/>Interestingly, when your body is unable to clear a particular toxin on its own, it will invite and employ microbes from the environment to help clear these toxins.</p><blockquote style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 38px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 19px; "><em>“The microbes in the environment are not our enemies at all. They’re actually our allies. They’re our helpers. Your body employs them when it needs them,”&nbsp;</em>Dr. McBride explains.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 19px; "><em>“If you have accumulated certain amount of mercury in your brain and in your nerves... your body might employ a virus... If you got a cold, that virus (many viruses target your nervous system) will go directly to those toxic patches in your brain and your nervous system and attack them. It will start gobbling it up... Of course, your immune system then joins in, trying to attack the virus. It joins in with inflammation, and you [begin to experience] symptoms of multiple sclerosis. You will get tingling. You will get numbness in your face or in your extremities. You might start wetting your bed, or you might get peripheral loss of vision for a while... That’s one of the first symptoms in multiple sclerosis.</em></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 19px; "><em>in this situation, if you would just feed your immune system properly and leave the work for the immune system to complete, then these symptoms would last for a month or two, and then they would disappear, because... the virus will gobble up the [toxins] and your immune system will clear out the virus. Your nerves will recover naturally.”</em></p></blockquote><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 19px; ">Unfortunately, this is not what happens nowadays. Typically, as soon as people get tingling, numbness, and other symptoms, they rush to the doctor, who will immediately put them on some form of medication, which will typically have a dampening effect on the immune system. As a result, the viruses spread and become even more established, and the disease becomes chronic and permanent.</p></blockquote><h2 style="margin-top: 32px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 18px; color: rgb(204, 0, 0); text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">You have Natural Antibodies Against Virtually All Autoimmune Diseases...</h2><blockquote style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 38px; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><blockquote style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 38px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 19px; "><em>“What people have to understand is that we all – 100 percent of humans – have in our bodies antibodies to deal with multiple sclerosis, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, rheumatoid arthritis, osteoarthritis, lupus, or any other autoimmune condition,”</em>&nbsp;Dr. McBride says.</p></blockquote><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 19px; ">It all begins in utero.&nbsp; As soon as the baby’s thymus develops, the proteins floating about in the bloodstream, which is shared between the mother and the baby, begin to educate the baby’s immune system, and allocate a particular responder cell to every protein encountered. Autoimmune conditions develop when your immune system attacks particular tissues or proteins in your body because they’ve been contaminated by toxins or some other environmental influence. And remember, this imbalance, this toxic influence, originates from your digestive system or gut wall.</p><blockquote style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 38px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 19px; "><em>“Autoimmunity is born in the gut. That’s where it comes from – your gut wall,”&nbsp;</em>Dr. McBride says.<em>&nbsp;“That happens because your gut flora is abnormal. In order to heal any autoimmune condition – whether it’s multiple sclerosis, rheumatoid arthritis, osteoarthritis, lupus, alopecia, psoriasis, or anything else that has got an autoimmune component – you have to focus on healing and sealing your gut lining with the GAPS Nutritional Protocol. And you have to focus on... normalizing your gut flora. You have to drive out the pathogens from the gut flora and replace them with the beneficial flora. Then a lot of healing will happen...’</em></p></blockquote><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 19px; ">Unfortunately, conventional medicine is largely ignorant about this research, and does not view autoimmune disorders as digestive disorders, which Dr. McBride is convinced is the case.</p></blockquote><h2 style="margin-top: 32px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 18px; color: rgb(204, 0, 0); text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">The Importance of Fermented Foods</h2><blockquote style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 38px; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 19px; ">Did you know the number of bacteria in your body outnumber your cells by about 10 to 1? These bacteria in turn are comprised of both beneficial ones and harmful ones. The ideal balance is about 85 percent good bacteria and 15 percent bad. Maintaining this ideal ratio is what it’s all about when we’re talking about the importance of probiotics. It’s important to understand though that probiotics are not a new concept. The only thing that’s new is that you can take them in pill form. But historically, mankind has consumed large amounts of probiotics in the form of fermented and cultured foods, which were invented long before the advent of refrigeration and other forms of food preservation.</p><blockquote style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 38px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 19px; "><em>“Every traditional culture, when you look at their traditional diet, they ferment their foods. They fermented everything. You can ferment dairy, grains, beans, vegetables, fruits, meats, and fish. Everything can be fermented, and there were fermented beverages in every culture. When the cabbages were ripe in September, you made it a fermented cabbage. Perhaps for a month or two, you were eating fresh cabbage, but then for the rest of the year, 10 months of the year, you ate your cabbage in a fermented form. Quite a large percent of all the foods that people consume on a daily basis were fermented. And with every mouthful of these fermented foods you consume trillions of beneficial bacteria…”</em></p></blockquote><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 19px; ">Fermented foods not only give you a wider variety of beneficial bacteria, they also give you far more of them, so it’s a much more cost effective alternative. Here’s a case in point: It’s unusual to find a probiotic supplement containing more than 10 billion colony-forming units. But when my team actually tested fermented vegetables produced by probiotic starter cultures, they had&nbsp;<em>10 trillion</em>&nbsp;colony-forming units of bacteria. Literally, one serving of vegetables was equal to an entire bottle of a high potency probiotic! So clearly, you’re far better off using fermented foods.</p></blockquote><h2 style="margin-top: 32px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 18px; color: rgb(204, 0, 0); text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "></h2><h2 style="margin-top: 32px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 18px; ">How the Fermentation Process Works</h2><blockquote style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 38px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; "><blockquote style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 38px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 19px; "><em>“Mother Nature is extremely wise and extremely kind. It populated all organic fruit and vegetables, the dust on our soils, and all plant matter with Lactobacilli. The fresh cabbage leaves, if it’s organically grown (not the one from chemical farming), will be covered in Lactobacilli—lacto-fermenting bacteria. You don’t need to add anything. You just chop it up. Add some salt in the initial stages. (The salt is added in the initial stage in order to stop putrefactive bacteria from multiplying.) Then as the Lactobacillus stop working and start multiplying, they produce lactic acid. That’s why they’re called Lactobacillus. That’s just lactic acid.</em></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 19px; "><em>If you look at the research in lactic acid, it is one of the most powerful antiseptics. It kills off lots and lots of bacteria.... So as the lactic acid starts producing, it will kill off all those putrefactive and pathogenic microbes and preserve the food. It’s a great preservative... A good batch of sauerkraut can keep for five to six years without spoiling or rotting, as long as it is covered by its own juice.”</em></p></blockquote><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 19px; ">For instructions on how to ferment your own vegetables, which is easier than you might think to do at home, listen to Dr. Mercola's interview with Caroline Barringer:</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 19px; text-align: center; "><iframe width="560" height="315" frameborder="0" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/hy87TnyNCPk"></iframe><br /><br /><a href="http://mercola.fileburst.com/PDF/ExpertInterviewTranscripts/InterviewCarolineBarringer.pdf" style="color: rgb(8, 105, 189); cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none; ">Download Interview Transcript</a></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 19px; ">This anaerobic process (fermentation) does more than just preserve the food, however. It also makes the nutrients inside the food more bioavailable. For example, according to Dr. McBride, the amount of bioavailable vitamin C in sauerkraut is&nbsp;<em>20 times higher</em>&nbsp;than in the same helping of fresh cabbage!</p><blockquote style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 38px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 19px; "><em>“This is because in the fresh cabbage, vitamin C is bound in the cellulose structure and various other molecules, and our digestive system is just not able to cleave it off and absorb it. Lots of it goes undigested and come out right out of you. So despite the fact that cabbage may be very rich in vitamin C, a lot of it you will not be able to absorb. But if you fermented that cabbage and made sauerkraut, all the vitamin C becomes bioavailable,</em>” she explains.</p></blockquote></blockquote><h2 style="margin-top: 32px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 18px; ">How to Reduce Chances of “Healing Crisis”</h2><blockquote style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 38px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; "><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 19px; ">There is one precaution that needs to be discussed here, and that is the potential for a so-called healing crisis, or what Dr. McBride refers to as a die-off reaction, provoked by the massive die-off of pathogenic bacteria, viruses, fungi, and other harmful pathogens by the reintroduction of massive quantities of probiotics. It can significantly worsen whatever health problem you’re experiencing, before you get better.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 19px; ">The reason for this is because when the probiotics kill off the pathogens, those pathogenic microbes release toxins. These toxins are what’s causing your problem to begin with; be it depression, panic attacks, rheumatoid arthritis, multiple sclerosis, or any other symptom. When a large amount of toxin is suddenly released, your symptoms will also suddenly increase.</p><blockquote style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 38px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 19px; "><em>“If you’ve never had fermented foods in your life, you need to start very carefully and very gradually,”</em>&nbsp;Dr. McBride warns.</p></blockquote><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 19px; ">She recommends starting off with just ONE TEASPOON of fermented vegetable, such as sauerkraut, with ONE of your meals, and then wait for a couple of days to see how you react. If it’s manageable, you can have another helping, and gradually increase your portion.</p><blockquote style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 38px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 19px; "><em>“But if the die off is too much, then you need to stop. Let the die off subside, and then have a tiny amount of sauerkraut, or even just a teaspoon of juice from it first; not the cabbage itself. Then two teaspoons per day and so on, until enough die off happens in your body, and your gut flora has changed enough for you to be ready for having the cabbage itself.”</em></p></blockquote><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 19px; ">It’s important to realize that besides containing massive amounts of beneficial bacteria, fermented foods also contain many active enzymes, which act as extremely potent detoxifiers.</p><blockquote style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 38px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 19px; "><em>“Healing goes through two steps forward, one step back, two steps forward, and one step back,”&nbsp;</em>Dr. McBride says<em>. “But you will find that the next layer is smaller. The die off and the detox will not last as long as the previous one... We live in a toxic world, and many of us have accumulated layers and layers of toxicity in our bodies. The body will clean them out, but you will find that each layer will last shorter and not be as severe... Eventually, you will come to complete, radiant health. You will feel 100 percent healthy, no matter how ill you were before.”</em></p></blockquote></blockquote><h2 style="margin-top: 32px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 18px; ">More Information</h2><blockquote style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 38px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; "><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 19px; ">You can find more information on Dr. McBride’s website:&nbsp;<a href="http://www.gaps.me/" style="color: rgb(8, 105, 189); cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none; ">http://www.GAPS.me</a>, and on her blog at&nbsp;<a href="http://www.doctor-natasha.com/" style="color: rgb(8, 105, 189); cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none; ">http://www.doctor-natasha.com</a>. She recently came back from Australia and New Zealand, where she trained 40 health practitioners to become certified GAPS practitioners. All GAPS practitioners are listed by country on her website.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 19px; ">If you're a doctor, nutritionist, dietician, osteopath, homeopath or other health practitioner and you'reinterested in&nbsp;<a href="http://gaps.me/preview/?p=446" style="color: rgb(8, 105, 189); cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none; ">becoming a certified GAPS practitioner, please see this link</a>&nbsp;for more information.</p></blockquote></div> http://realideal.com/forum/topic/1168#post-1324 Fri, 04 May 2012 19:29:51 +0000 admin 1324@http://realideal.com/forum/ <font face=arial size=3><br /> Windows/Mac: If you have more than one computer at your workspace, ShareMouse will let you control them all with a single keyboard and mouse, as well as copy and paste text between them and drag files back and forth. 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[<a href="http://www.keyboard-and-mouse-sharing.com/" target="0">ShareMouse</a>]</font> http://realideal.com/forum/topic/1167#post-1323 Fri, 04 May 2012 19:02:51 +0000 admin 1323@http://realideal.com/forum/ <div style="text-align: center;"><div class="imgwrap abovewrap" title="10 Strangest Advertising Superheroes of the 1940s" style="margin-top: -13px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 13px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Liberation Serif', serif; vertical-align: baseline; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; position: relative; width: 640px; height: 360px; z-index: 0; line-height: 18px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><div class="lyteboxContainer left editorial" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-style: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; width: 640px; height: 360px; "><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"/><img src="http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/17lax0w7fvv3ajpg/xlarge.jpg" width="640" height="360" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-style: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; "/></div></div></div><div><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 13px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 15px; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Liberation Serif', serif; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">We all remember the golden years of 1977-1982, when Hostess ran ads for their food in comic books: as&nbsp;<a href="http://www.seanbaby.com/hostess.htm" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(121, 18, 101); ">this exhaustive site puts it</a>, "five years of amazing super beings tossing food to madmen." For modern readers, Captain America and Batman throwing Hostess Fruit Pies and Twinkies to supervillains to distract them remains the iconic use of superheroes in advertising.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 13px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 15px; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Liberation Serif', serif; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">But as an older generation of comic book readers could tell you, the golden age of superhero spokesmen took place not in the late 1970s, but in the 1940s. Here are 10 of the weirdest advertising superheroes from the Greatest Generation.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 13px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 15px; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Liberation Serif', serif; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><a rel="lytebox" href="http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/17lax0w7h1dy1jpg/original.jpg" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(121, 18, 101); "><img src="http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/17lax0w7h1dy1jpg/medium.jpg" width="300" class="image_1 v10_medium" alt="10 Strangest Advertising Superheroes of the 1940s" title="10 Strangest Advertising Superheroes of the 1940s" style="margin-top: 5px; margin-right: 40px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; width: 300px !important; float: left; max-width: 300px; "/></a><strong style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; ">10. The Kooba Kid.</strong>&nbsp;In 1940, Victor Fox, publisher of Fox Syndicate comics, decided that he would cash in on the soda pop craze (Coke and Pepsi both being extremely popular at this time) by publishing ads for "Kooba Cola" in his comics. There was no such cola, but Fox thought he could drum up interest, then sell the license for Kooba Cola to one of the major soft drink companies. Fuller story [http://atocom.blogspot.com/2010/03/kooba-cola-drink-that-never-was.html] here</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 13px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 15px; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Liberation Serif', serif; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><a rel="lytebox" href="http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/17lax0w7i9ryojpg/original.jpg" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(121, 18, 101); "><img src="http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/17lax0w7i9ryojpg/medium.jpg" width="300" class="image_2 v10_medium" alt="10 Strangest Advertising Superheroes of the 1940s" title="10 Strangest Advertising Superheroes of the 1940s" style="margin-top: 5px; margin-right: 40px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; width: 300px !important; float: left; max-width: 300px; "/></a><strong style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; ">9. The Pepsi Cola Cop.</strong>&nbsp;In 1946 and 1947 Pepsi was falling behind Coke in the cola wars. Coke was distributed far more widely than Pepsi, and G.I.s had spread the taste for Coke to many more countries than Pepsi. So Pepsi put on a marketing blitz, hoping to continue the success it had in 1940 with its ad jingle (and eventual hit record) "Nickel Nickel." Part of this marketing blitz was Pepsi the Pepsi Cola Cop.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 13px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 15px; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Liberation Serif', serif; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><a rel="lytebox" href="http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/17lax0y6cwywdjpg/original.jpg" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; 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background-attachment: scroll; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: 100% 0%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; ">Full size</a></div><img src="http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/17lax0y6g8dtljpg/medium.jpg" width="300" height="92" style="margin-top: 5px; margin-right: 40px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; float: left; "/></div><strong style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-style: inherit; font-size: 15px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; ">8. Thom McAn.</strong>&nbsp;These day's men's casual footwear is usually sneakers, a trend that began in the early 1980s, but for decades before that leather shoes were standard for men, and one of the most popular producers of leather shoes for men was Thom McAn. For over 10 years their advertising hero was young Thom McAn, who as you can see here had some vigorous adventures.<br /><a rel="lytebox" href="http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/17lax0y6hcz1njpg/original.jpg" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-style: inherit; font-size: 15px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(121, 18, 101); "><img src="http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/17lax0y6hcz1njpg/medium.jpg" width="300" class="image_5 v10_medium" alt="10 Strangest Advertising Superheroes of the 1940s" title="10 Strangest Advertising Superheroes of the 1940s" style="margin-top: 5px; margin-right: 40px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; width: 300px !important; float: left; max-width: 300px; "/></a><p></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 15px; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Liberation Serif', serif; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); clear: both; "></div><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 13px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 15px; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Liberation Serif', serif; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><a rel="lytebox" href="http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/17lax105jwynljpg/original.jpg" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(121, 18, 101); "><img src="http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/17lax105jwynljpg/medium.jpg" width="300" class="image_6 v10_medium" alt="10 Strangest Advertising Superheroes of the 1940s" title="10 Strangest Advertising Superheroes of the 1940s" style="margin-top: 5px; margin-right: 40px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; width: 300px !important; float: left; max-width: 300px; "/></a><strong style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; ">7. Bubbles and Yanks.</strong>&nbsp;Super Duper Yanks Bubble Gum didn't outlast the 1940s, and Bubbles and Yanks only appeared in 1947, but they deserve inclusion here for the clever use of bubble gum to help save America's atomic secrets.<br /><a rel="lytebox" href="http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/17lax105l2gcljpg/original.jpg" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(121, 18, 101); "><img src="http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/17lax105l2gcljpg/medium.jpg" width="300" class="image_7 v10_medium" alt="10 Strangest Advertising Superheroes of the 1940s" title="10 Strangest Advertising Superheroes of the 1940s" style="margin-top: 5px; margin-right: 40px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; width: 300px !important; float: left; max-width: 300px; "/></a></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 15px; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Liberation Serif', serif; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); clear: both; "></div><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 13px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 15px; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Liberation Serif', serif; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "></p><div class="lyteboxContainer left editorial" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 40px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-style: inherit; font-size: 15px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; float: left; position: relative; z-index: 1000; width: 300px; height: 234px; "><div class="lyteboxLink" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; width: 300px; height: 234px; text-indent: -1000em; position: absolute; "><a href="http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/17lax105f1upvjpg/original.jpg" class="noHrefOverride" rel="lytebox" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(121, 18, 101); display: block; height: 234px; text-indent: -100em; width: 300px; background-image: url(http://ganja.gawkerassets.com/assets/base.v10/img/lytebox/blank.gif?hash=fc94f); background-attachment: scroll; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: 100% 0%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; ">Full size</a></div><img src="http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/17lax105f1upvjpg/medium.jpg" width="300" height="234" style="margin-top: 5px; margin-right: 40px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; float: left; "/></div><strong style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-style: inherit; font-size: 15px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; ">6. Smith Brothers.</strong>&nbsp;I'm not sure what disturbs me more about this one: the kids alone in the cave, or the talking logo on the Smith Brothers box.<br /><a rel="lytebox" href="http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/17lax124h33ufjpg/original.jpg" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-style: inherit; font-size: 15px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(121, 18, 101); "><img src="http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/17lax124h33ufjpg/medium.jpg" width="300" class="image_9 v10_medium" alt="10 Strangest Advertising Superheroes of the 1940s" title="10 Strangest Advertising Superheroes of the 1940s" style="margin-top: 5px; margin-right: 40px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; width: 300px !important; float: left; max-width: 300px; "/></a><p></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 15px; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Liberation Serif', serif; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); clear: both; "></div><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 13px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 15px; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Liberation Serif', serif; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><a rel="lytebox" href="http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/17lax124jl0ikjpg/original.jpg" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(121, 18, 101); "><img src="http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/17lax124jl0ikjpg/medium.jpg" width="300" class="image_10 v10_medium" alt="10 Strangest Advertising Superheroes of the 1940s" title="10 Strangest Advertising Superheroes of the 1940s" style="margin-top: 5px; margin-right: 40px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; width: 300px !important; float: left; max-width: 300px; "/></a><strong style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; ">5. R.C. and Quickie.</strong>&nbsp;As best I can discover, Donald O'Connor never teamed up with R.C. and Quickie, but perhaps future research will prove me wrong.<br /><a rel="lytebox" href="http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/17lax124kofzpjpg/original.jpg" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(121, 18, 101); "><img src="http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/17lax124kofzpjpg/medium.jpg" width="300" class="image_11 v10_medium" alt="10 Strangest Advertising Superheroes of the 1940s" title="10 Strangest Advertising Superheroes of the 1940s" style="margin-top: 5px; margin-right: 40px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; width: 300px !important; float: left; max-width: 300px; "/></a></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 15px; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Liberation Serif', serif; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); clear: both; "></div><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 13px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 15px; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Liberation Serif', serif; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "></p><div class="lyteboxContainer left editorial" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 40px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-style: inherit; font-size: 15px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; float: left; position: relative; z-index: 1000; width: 300px; height: 229px; "><div class="lyteboxLink" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; width: 300px; height: 229px; text-indent: -1000em; position: absolute; "><a href="http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/17lax143ipn74jpg/original.jpg" class="noHrefOverride" rel="lytebox" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(121, 18, 101); display: block; height: 229px; text-indent: -100em; width: 300px; background-image: url(http://ganja.gawkerassets.com/assets/base.v10/img/lytebox/blank.gif?hash=fc94f); background-attachment: scroll; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: 100% 0%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; ">Full size</a></div><img src="http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/17lax143ipn74jpg/medium.jpg" width="300" height="229" style="margin-top: 5px; margin-right: 40px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; float: left; "/></div><strong style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-style: inherit; font-size: 15px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; ">4. Volto from Mars.</strong>&nbsp;Volto only had a two-year run (1945-1946) but he's worth remembering as one of the two most overtly superheroic of the advertising superheroes. He did Grape Nuts Flakes proud with his magnetic ability, and Marvel and DC could do worse than to rescue Volto from obscurity.<br /><a rel="lytebox" href="http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/17lax143it9qcjpg/original.jpg" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-style: inherit; font-size: 15px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(121, 18, 101); "><img src="http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/17lax143it9qcjpg/medium.jpg" width="300" class="image_13 v10_medium" alt="10 Strangest Advertising Superheroes of the 1940s" title="10 Strangest Advertising Superheroes of the 1940s" style="margin-top: 5px; margin-right: 40px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; width: 300px !important; float: left; max-width: 300px; "/></a><p></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 15px; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Liberation Serif', serif; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); clear: both; "></div><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 13px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 15px; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Liberation Serif', serif; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "></p><div class="lyteboxContainer left editorial" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 40px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-style: inherit; font-size: 15px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; float: left; position: relative; z-index: 1000; width: 300px; height: 235px; "><div class="lyteboxLink" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; width: 300px; height: 235px; text-indent: -1000em; position: absolute; "><a href="http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/17lax143kbbp1jpg/original.jpg" class="noHrefOverride" rel="lytebox" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(121, 18, 101); display: block; height: 235px; text-indent: -100em; width: 300px; background-image: url(http://ganja.gawkerassets.com/assets/base.v10/img/lytebox/blank.gif?hash=fc94f); background-attachment: scroll; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: 100% 0%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; ">Full size</a></div><img src="http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/17lax143kbbp1jpg/medium.jpg" width="300" height="235" style="margin-top: 5px; margin-right: 40px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; float: left; "/></div><strong style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-style: inherit; font-size: 15px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; ">3. Captain Tootsie.</strong>&nbsp;Tootsie Rolls! Beloved chewy chocolate treat of our childhood and of trick-or-treaters everywhere. One of the most successful of the advertising superheroes here, Captain Tootsie appeared from 1943 to 1953 and even&nbsp;<a href="http://images.comics.org//img/gcd/covers_by_id/49/w400/49165.jpg?-3261124947659721458" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-style: inherit; font-size: 15px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(121, 18, 101); ">got his own comic book.</a><br /><a rel="lytebox" href="http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/17lax162h6v5ljpg/original.jpg" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-style: inherit; font-size: 15px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(121, 18, 101); "><img src="http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/17lax162h6v5ljpg/medium.jpg" width="300" class="image_15 v10_medium" alt="10 Strangest Advertising Superheroes of the 1940s" title="10 Strangest Advertising Superheroes of the 1940s" style="margin-top: 5px; margin-right: 40px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; width: 300px !important; float: left; max-width: 300px; "/></a><p></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 15px; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Liberation Serif', serif; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); clear: both; "></div><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 13px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 15px; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Liberation Serif', serif; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><a rel="lytebox" href="http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/17lax162hylo8jpg/original.jpg" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(121, 18, 101); "><img src="http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/17lax162hylo8jpg/medium.jpg" width="300" class="image_16 v10_medium" alt="10 Strangest Advertising Superheroes of the 1940s" title="10 Strangest Advertising Superheroes of the 1940s" style="margin-top: 5px; margin-right: 40px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; width: 300px !important; float: left; max-width: 300px; "/></a><strong style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; ">2. Sam Spade.</strong>&nbsp;The most famous screen portrayal of Sam Spade is of course Humphrey Bogart, in the 1941 Maltese Falcon. But that was only the third film version, previous ones having appeared in 1931 and 1936. In 1943 and 1946 Bogart played Spade on stage, and in 1946 a radio show, The Adventures of Sam Spade began.<br /><a rel="lytebox" href="http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/17lax162n58b3jpg/original.jpg" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(121, 18, 101); "><img src="http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/17lax162n58b3jpg/medium.jpg" width="300" class="image_17 v10_medium" alt="10 Strangest Advertising Superheroes of the 1940s" title="10 Strangest Advertising Superheroes of the 1940s" style="margin-top: 5px; margin-right: 40px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; width: 300px !important; float: left; max-width: 300px; "/></a>Much more light-hearted than Bogart's version, the radio Sam Spade was wry and comedic. To support the radio show, the image of Sam Spade was sold to licensors for use in ads. One of those licensors was<a href="http://www.oldtimeradiofans.com/old_radio_commercials/Wild_Root_Cream_Oil.mp3" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(121, 18, 101); ">Wildroot Cream Oil</a>, which would later use Fearless Fosdick, from the comic strip Lil Abner, in similar ads. Wildroot is still made today.</p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 15px; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Liberation Serif', serif; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); clear: both; "></div><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 13px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 15px; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Liberation Serif', serif; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><a rel="lytebox" href="http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/17lax181mvsejjpg/original.jpg" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(121, 18, 101); "><img src="http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/17lax181mvsejjpg/medium.jpg" width="300" class="image_18 v10_medium" alt="10 Strangest Advertising Superheroes of the 1940s" title="10 Strangest Advertising Superheroes of the 1940s" style="margin-top: 5px; margin-right: 40px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; width: 300px !important; float: left; max-width: 300px; "/></a><strong style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; ">1. Peter Wheat.</strong>&nbsp;Far and away the most successful of the advertising heroes, Peter Wheat was created and drawn by Walt Kelly, better known for "Pogo." Kelly created the character and the strip for Peter Wheat Bread (prepackaged bread) and Bakers Associates, and the comic book The Adventures of Peter Wheat was sold in bakeries and stores, which had their names printed on the cover. The Adventures of Peter Wheat, a fantasy involving a young boy, his animal friends, and the wicked creatures they vanquish, ran for eight years and 66 issues.<br /><a rel="lytebox" href="http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/17lax181i0pmjjpg/original.jpg" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(121, 18, 101); "><img src="http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/17lax181i0pmjjpg/medium.jpg" width="300" class="image_19 v10_medium" alt="10 Strangest Advertising Superheroes of the 1940s" title="10 Strangest Advertising Superheroes of the 1940s" style="margin-top: 5px; margin-right: 40px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; width: 300px !important; float: left; max-width: 300px; "/></a></p></div> http://realideal.com/forum/topic/1166#post-1322 Wed, 02 May 2012 01:59:41 +0000 admin 1322@http://realideal.com/forum/ <font face=arial size=3><br /> <i>Duck Dynasty</i> is a reality television series on A&E. It shows the lives of the Robertson family, which went from poverty to being wealthy due to the sales of their duck caller <i>The Duck Commander</i>. Phil Robertson claims to have spent 25 years standing in his dilapidated shed, handcrafting duck calls from the native cedar trees of the swamps of Monroe, Louisiana. His son Willie is now the CEO of the company.<br /> <br /> <center><object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" width="640" height="380" id="viddler_jackmichaelson_218"><param name="movie" value="//www.viddler.com/simple/a1f34934/"/><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"/><param name="allowNetworking" value="all"/><param name="allowFullScreen"value="true"/><param name="flashVars" value="f=1&openURL=41164264&autoplay=f&loop=0&nologo=0&hd=0"/><embed src="//www.viddler.com/simple/a1f34934/" width="640" height="380" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowScriptAccess="always" allowFullScreen="true" allowNetworking="internal" name="viddler_jackmichaelson_218" flashVars="f=1&openURL=41164264&autoplay=f&loop=0&nologo=1&hd=0"></embed></object></center></font> http://realideal.com/forum/topic/1165#post-1321 Tue, 01 May 2012 19:56:44 +0000 admin 1321@http://realideal.com/forum/ <div style="text-align: center;"><img src="http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/17kh7miyryxdhjpg/xlarge.jpg" alt="Behold the water slide so dangerous it was shut down immediately"/>&nbsp;<br /></div><div><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 13px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 15px; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Liberation Serif', serif; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">From 1978 to 1996, the Action Park of Vernon Township, New Jersey provided thousands of teenagers with the white-knuckle thrills only inattentive employees and poorly conceived amusement park rides can deliver. The Park's dubiously safe rides were responsible for countless scrapes and bruises and at least six fatalities.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 13px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 15px; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Liberation Serif', serif; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Half of these deaths were caused by drownings in the Park's wave pool. The other fatal accidents were the result of a head injury on a luge, a heart attack induced by cold water, and exposed electrical wiring on a kayak ride.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 13px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 15px; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Liberation Serif', serif; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Despite the armada of lawsuits, safety citations, and injured children sent to nearby hospitals, Action Park trundled on for almost two decades, enticing patrons with sun, fun, and brushes with the Grim Reaper. There was however one ride that was too extreme even for Action Park. This water slide flipped the bird at physics so rudely that it was open for a single summer and then abandoned like a drainage pipe along the River Styx. We are referring to the infamous, gravity-defying Cannonball Loop.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 13px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 15px; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Liberation Serif', serif; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Due to its special status as one of the most monumentally bad ideas in theme park history, the Loop has an aura of mystery surrounding it. According to the most common reports circulating around the internet, the Loop was open for one month during the summer of 1985 before being shut down by the New Jersey Carnival Amusement Ride Safety Advisory Board. Only a few brave souls rode the loop, many of them park employees who were bribed into testing it. According to one rumor, test dummies subjected to the Cannonball Loop came out missing limbs.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 13px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 15px; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Liberation Serif', serif; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Who built this monstrosity?&nbsp;<a href="http://www.weirdnj.com/index.php?option=com_content&amp;task=view&amp;id=39&amp;Itemid=28" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(121, 18, 101); ">One former employee who spoke with Weird NJ</a>&nbsp;claimed that the ride&nbsp;<em style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; ">was not</em>&nbsp;in fact invented by Acme Industries of Wile. E Coyote fame:</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 13px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 15px; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Liberation Serif', serif; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "></p><div class="lyteboxContainer left editorial" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 40px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-style: inherit; font-size: 15px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; float: left; position: relative; z-index: 1000; width: 300px; height: 202px; "><div class="lyteboxLink" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; width: 300px; height: 202px; text-indent: -1000em; position: absolute; "><a href="http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/17khb14qxrhjvjpg/original.jpg" class="noHrefOverride" rel="lytebox" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(121, 18, 101); display: block; height: 202px; text-indent: -100em; width: 300px; background-image: url(http://ganja.gawkerassets.com/assets/base.v10/img/lytebox/blank.gif?hash=fc94f); background-attachment: scroll; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: 100% 0%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; ">Full size</a></div><img src="http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/17khb14qxrhjvjpg/medium.jpg" width="300" height="202" style="margin-top: 5px; margin-right: 40px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; float: left; "/></div><p></p><blockquote style="margin-top: 20px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 20px; padding-top: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-bottom: 1px; padding-left: 10px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 4px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 15px; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Liberation Serif', serif; vertical-align: baseline; quotes: ''; background-color: rgb(242, 242, 242); border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); color: rgb(81, 100, 120); line-height: 22px; "><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); ">The Cannonball Loop was the brainchild of some Swiss guy they imported on a week-long visa. I was one of the idiots that accepted you-know-who's crisp $100 bill to test run it. That was my last ride. $100 did not buy enough booze to drown out that memory.</p></blockquote><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 15px; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Liberation Serif', serif; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); clear: both; "></div><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 13px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 15px; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Liberation Serif', serif; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Another employee recalled&nbsp;<a href="http://thecenteroftheaction.blogspot.com/2007/04/ride-that-spawned-thousand-legends.html" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(121, 18, 101); ">the bureaucracy of the loop</a>&nbsp;and the vetting process that cleared out those attendees who were deemed unworthy of the 45°-angle, 15-to-20-foot drop:</p><blockquote style="margin-top: 20px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 20px; padding-top: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-bottom: 1px; padding-left: 10px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 4px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 15px; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Liberation Serif', serif; vertical-align: baseline; quotes: ''; background-color: rgb(242, 242, 242); border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); color: rgb(81, 100, 120); line-height: 22px; "><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 13px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); ">This was an enjoyable ride to attend, because most people were completely afraid of it [...] A good portion of those who wanted to were nixed because of inappropriate attire— anyone wearing anything with zippers or grommets or anything that could possibly cause a snag was turned away. Too big? Sorry, you could get stuck. Too small? Ooh, you probably won't get up enough speed to clear the top [...]</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); ">If the rider got to the top, he (Again, the riders were mostly dudes. Read into that what you will.) suffered the final indignity of being sprayed with a garden hose. The top attendant then instructed the rider on the only acceptable ride position (on your back, feet first, arms folded across chest, ankles crossed), waited for the hatch attendant to check inside for any weirdness (cracks, water not flowing, etc), and then WHOOSH! Off they went. They made a godawful racket in there, with the bumping around and the screaming, but they always made it out alive, though no one was foolish enough to ride it a second time.</p></blockquote><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 13px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 15px; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Liberation Serif', serif; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">And for those who did qualify for this deathtrap, there was the risk of only halfway conquering the loop.&nbsp;<a href="http://www.domainofdeath3.com/actionpark#comment-51" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(121, 18, 101); ">Here's the testimonial</a>&nbsp;from an Action Park patron who hazarded the slide as an adolescent:</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 13px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 15px; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Liberation Serif', serif; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "></p><div class="lyteboxContainer left editorial" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 40px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-style: inherit; font-size: 15px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; float: left; position: relative; z-index: 1000; width: 300px; height: 184px; "><div class="lyteboxLink" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; 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background-attachment: scroll; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: 100% 0%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; ">Full size</a></div><img src="http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/17ki8crjm3obijpg/medium.jpg" width="300" height="184" style="margin-top: 5px; margin-right: 40px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; float: left; "/></div><p></p><blockquote style="margin-top: 20px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 20px; padding-top: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-bottom: 1px; padding-left: 10px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 4px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 15px; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Liberation Serif', serif; vertical-align: baseline; quotes: ''; background-color: rgb(242, 242, 242); border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); color: rgb(81, 100, 120); line-height: 22px; "><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); ">I vividly remember the sensation of my feet going up as I realized "Here comes the loop!" I remember being ecstatic when I had cleared the pinnacle of the loop, however the worst was yet to come. Apparently my sub 100 lbs. body was not heavy enough for the ride and rather the sticking to the slide on the back end of the loop, I actually fell to the bottom of the loop. I smacked the back of my head on the slide and was nearly knocked unconscious. It was then I saw light as I sputtered out of the exit of the tube [...] I was able to orient myself enough to get to my feet and smile with pride as the stunned crowd cheered for the little kid who just went down the most dangerous water slide of all time. It was closed again within minutes and although I went to the park a dozen times after that day I never saw that slide opened again.</p></blockquote><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 13px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 15px; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Liberation Serif', serif; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">For those who couldn't clear the loop, an escape hatch provided a welcome reprieve. Another Action Park employee reports that&nbsp;<a href="http://www.domainofdeath3.com/actionpark" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(121, 18, 101); ">those who bucked the natural order came out bearing scars for their insolence</a>:</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 13px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 15px; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Liberation Serif', serif; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><img src="http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/17khb14r30qj4jpg/medium.jpg" width="300" class="image_3 v10_medium" alt="Behold the water slide so dangerous it was shut down immediately" title="Behold the water slide so dangerous it was shut down immediately" style="margin-top: 5px; margin-right: 40px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; width: 300px !important; float: left; max-width: 300px; "/></p><blockquote style="margin-top: 20px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 20px; padding-top: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-bottom: 1px; padding-left: 10px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 4px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 15px; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Liberation Serif', serif; vertical-align: baseline; quotes: ''; background-color: rgb(242, 242, 242); border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); color: rgb(81, 100, 120); line-height: 22px; "><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); ">The biggest problem is that sand and dirt and such would collect at the [bottom] of the loop and the people would start coming out with abrasions over their entire backs. Then they would have to close it down and clean it out.</p></blockquote><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 13px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 15px; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Liberation Serif', serif; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Those who survived the vortex were greeted not with a ticker tape parade but "a puddled wet mat instead of an actual pond or pool." Once it was closed down by fun-hating realists, the Cannonball Loop was not disassembled. No, it stood unused for all patrons to fear, like some entombed ancient god magically bronzed as a statue in a medieval town square, dreaming of a nosy archaeologist.&nbsp;</p></div> http://realideal.com/forum/topic/1164#post-1320 Mon, 30 Apr 2012 12:12:59 +0000 admin 1320@http://realideal.com/forum/ <div style="text-align: center;"><img src="http://www.tuberose.com/Graphics/monsantoland.jpg"/> </div><br /> <br /> <br /> <div style="text-align: center;"></div><div><div class="lyteboxCont<ainer left editorial" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 40px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 15px; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Liberation Serif', serif; vertical-align: baseline; float: left; position: relative; z-index: 1000; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); width: 300px; height: 169px; "><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"/><img src="http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/17khdoa0pqxrnjpg/medium.jpg" width="300" height="169" style="margin-top: 5px; margin-right: 40px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; float: left; "/></div><strong style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 15px; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Liberation Serif', serif; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><a href="http://www.sciencemag.org/content/early/2012/03/28/science.1215039" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(121, 18, 101); ">Pesticides play a major role in bee colony collapses</a>:</strong><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Liberation Serif', serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "> A study published last spring in <i>Science</i> proved what many have feared — low levels of a common pesticide may confuse honeybees, making it much more difficult for them to find their way home after trips away from the hive. The authors of the study say the results raise questions about the use of the chemical, neonicotinoid, while others note the possible role of other factors, such as increased susceptibility to disease and a reduction in wildflowers because of land development. In fact, serious honey bee die-offs have been occurring around the world for the past decade. The U.S. and the U.K. both reported losing a third of their honey bees in 2010. Italy has lost half of theirs.</span> </div><br /> <br /> <div></div><div><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 19px; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Genetic engineering of crops has also been blamed for dwindling bee populations. Monsanto, which is the leader in this type of biotechnology is likely none too pleased about the accusations, which, if found to be truthful through the dedicated application of research into the mystery, stands to lose just about everything—both their genetically engineered crop seeds and the pesticides/herbicides to go with them. It appears Monsanto has taken a proactive stance to the problem and is getting more involved—by purchasing one of the leading bee research firms... A recent Activist Post article reports<sup style="font-size: 10px; "><a href="http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2012/04/21/vanishing-bees-film.aspx?e_cid=20120428_DNL_artBeesCA_1#_ednref21" name="_edn21" style="color: rgb(8, 105, 189); cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none; ">xxi </a></sup>:<br /> <blockquote style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 38px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 19px; "><em>"Recently <a href="http://naturalsociety.com/poland-ban-monsantos-genetically-modified-maize/" style="color: rgb(8, 105, 189); cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none; ">banned from Poland</a> with one of the primary reasons being that the company's <a href="http://naturalsociety.com/genetically-modified-foods/" title="genetically modified" style="color: rgb(8, 105, 189); cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none; ">genetically modified</a> corn may be devastating the dying bee population, it is evident that Monsanto is under serious fire for their role in the downfall of the vital insects. It is therefore quite apparent why Monsanto bought one of the largest bee research firms on the planet.<br /> <br />It can be found in public <a href="http://investing.money.msn.com/investments/company-report?symbol=MON" style="color: rgb(8, 105, 189); cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none; ">company reports hosted</a> on mainstream media that Monsanto scooped up the Beeologics firm back in September, 2011. During this time the correlation between Monsanto's GM crops and the bee decline was not explored in the mainstream, and in fact it was hardly touched upon until Polish officials addressed the serious concern amid the monumental ban.<br /> <br /> Owning a major organization that focuses heavily on the bee collapse and is recognized by the USDA for their mission statement of "restoring bee health and protecting the future of insect pollination" could be very advantageous for Monsanto. In fact, Beelogics' company information states that the primary goal of the firm is to study the very collapse disorder that is thought to be a result — at least in part — of Monsanto's own creations."</em><br /> <br /> <br /> </p></blockquote> <br /> </p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 19px; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">It'll be interesting to see the results emerging from Beeologics in the future, with regards to Monsanto products and their impact on bee populations, now that Monsanto owns it lock stock and barrel.<br /> <br /> <br /> </p></div> http://realideal.com/forum/topic/1163#post-1319 Mon, 30 Apr 2012 11:59:29 +0000 admin 1319@http://realideal.com/forum/ <div style="text-align: center;"><img src="http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcS_X7oKZaxEth7CfPLGpx2cMhYe8GUrOaRDBWrYa1rthsSX5-fdNTmboNlX"/>&nbsp;<br /></div><div><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 13px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 15px; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Liberation Serif', serif; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Most dog owners go into a panic if their pet makes a lunge for the candy bowl — but is this worry really necessary?</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 13px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 15px; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Liberation Serif', serif; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Theobromine, a bitter chemical found in cocoa beans, is the molecule in chocolate tied to illnesses in canines. But how much theobromine is there in most chocolate? And how much theobromine would it take to kill household pets? It turns out, you might be more likely to die by chocolate than your dog.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 13px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 15px; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Liberation Serif', serif; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "></p><div class="lyteboxContainer left editorial" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 40px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-style: inherit; font-size: 15px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; float: left; position: relative; z-index: 1000; width: 300px; height: 280px; "><div class="lyteboxLink" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; width: 300px; height: 280px; text-indent: -1000em; position: absolute; "><a href="http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/17kpjacgb3rtyjpg/original.jpg" class="noHrefOverride" rel="lytebox" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(121, 18, 101); display: block; height: 280px; text-indent: -100em; width: 300px; background-image: url(http://ganja.gawkerassets.com/assets/base.v10/img/lytebox/blank.gif?hash=fc94f); background-attachment: scroll; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: 100% 0%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; ">Full size</a></div><img src="http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/17kpjacgb3rtyjpg/medium.jpg" width="300" height="280" style="margin-top: 5px; margin-right: 40px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; float: left; "/></div><strong style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-style: inherit; font-size: 15px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; ">Theobromine, the danger in chocolate</strong><br />Structurally, theobromine is one methyl group away from caffeine, and the duo are often found together. When isolated, theobromine is a&nbsp;<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=t7VW3PucgboC&amp;pg=PA140&amp;lpg=PA140&amp;dq=theobromine+white+crystalline&amp;source=bl&amp;ots=SK3ebsTel5&amp;sig=us8RZFQ0c7cF9GY1GxE-gSTs7Sg&amp;hl=en&amp;sa=X&amp;ei=n6uYT_mzBo2c8QTS4YiKBg&amp;ved=0CEAQ6AEwBA#v=onepage&amp;q=theobromine%20white%20crystalline&amp;f=false" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-style: inherit; font-size: 15px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(121, 18, 101); ">white, crystalline powder</a>with a bitter taste. The molecule is naturally found in cocoa beans, the main component of chocolate.<br /><p></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 13px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 15px; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Liberation Serif', serif; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Physiologically, theobromine&nbsp;<a href="http://www.jci.org/articles/view/100749" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(121, 18, 101); ">widens</a>&nbsp;the blood vessels, causing a decrease in blood pressure. The molecule also acts as a diuretic, general cardiac stimulant, and in some cases, it alleviates&nbsp;<a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/4056254" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(121, 18, 101); ">asthma symptoms</a>. Humans metabolize theobromine very&nbsp;<a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/6144479" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(121, 18, 101); ">quickly</a>, much quicker than canines, and this is a part of the problem for man's best friend.<br /></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 13px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 15px; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Liberation Serif', serif; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Cats lack the capacity to&nbsp;<a href="http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=strange-but-true-cats-cannot-taste-sweets" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(121, 18, 101); ">taste</a>&nbsp;sweet foods (dog owners, feel free to use this fact in arguments of dog vs. cat superiority), leaving felines less susceptible to poisoning, since there's little reason to keep eating chocolate — without its sweet and/or bitter flavor, chocolate simply becomes a waxy solid.<br /></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; 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font-size: 15px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; float: left; position: relative; z-index: 1000; width: 300px; height: 270px; "><div class="lyteboxLink" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; width: 300px; height: 270px; text-indent: -1000em; position: absolute; "><a href="http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/17kq6vpa96ltsjpg/original.jpg" class="noHrefOverride" rel="lytebox" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(121, 18, 101); display: block; height: 270px; text-indent: -100em; width: 300px; background-image: url(http://ganja.gawkerassets.com/assets/base.v10/img/lytebox/blank.gif?hash=fc94f); background-attachment: scroll; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: 100% 0%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; ">Full size</a></div><img src="http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/17kq6vpa96ltsjpg/medium.jpg" width="300" height="270" style="margin-top: 5px; margin-right: 40px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; float: left; "/></div><strong style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-style: inherit; font-size: 15px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; ">How much theobromine is in chocolate?</strong><p></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 13px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 15px; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Liberation Serif', serif; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Dogs dying from a theobromine overdose perish due to a combination of heart problems and respiratory failure. The amount of theorbromine necessary to kill one out of two members of the canine population (the LD50) is&nbsp;<a href="http://www.sciencelab.com/msds.php?msdsId=9925229" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(121, 18, 101); ">300 milligrams per kilogram</a>&nbsp;of body weight. Toy breeds like Yorkshire Terriers weigh around 3 kilograms, Cocker Spaniels weigh about 15 kilograms, while larger breeds like a Dalmation or St. Bernard weigh in at 25 and 90 kilograms, respectively.<br /></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 13px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 15px; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Liberation Serif', serif; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Using this value of LD50, 900 milligrams of theobromine would kill your average Yorkshire Terrier, but is this a lot of chocolate? A single Hershey's Kiss contains&nbsp;<a href="http://www.thehersheycompany.com/nutrition-and-wellness/chocolate-101/theobromine.aspx" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(121, 18, 101); ">8 milligrams</a>&nbsp;of theobromine — your tiny Yorkshire would need to consume well over&nbsp;<em style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; ">100</em>&nbsp;milk chocolate kisses before nearing death's door, an unlikely scenario. The considerable difference in weight between breeds also poses a problem here — what would kill a Cocker Spaniel would not even faze a St. Bernard.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 13px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 15px; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Liberation Serif', serif; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><strong style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; ">Dark chocolate is the killer</strong></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 13px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 15px; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Liberation Serif', serif; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">As we move from milk chocolate to dark chocolate, the amount of theobromine increases, decreasing the quantity of chocolate your dog needs to eat before finding out if all dogs truly do go to heaven. The boutique Scharffen Berger 82% Cacao Extra Dark Chocolate contains&nbsp;<a href="http://www.hersheys.com/nutrition-professionals/chocolate/composition/caffeine-theobromine.aspx" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(121, 18, 101); ">1100 milligrams</a>&nbsp;per $3-4 bar - enough to easily meet the LD50 for a small 3 kilogram dog. A typical Cocker Spaniel would need to eat five of these large (129 gram) bars before death comes into the equation, quite a large amount of chocolate.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 13px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 15px; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Liberation Serif', serif; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><img src="http://img.gawkerassets.com/post/8/2012/04/sb.jpg" class="image_3 v10_medium" alt="Could eating chocolate really kill your dog?" title="Could eating chocolate really kill your dog?" style="margin-top: 5px; margin-right: 40px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; width: 300px !important; float: left; max-width: 300px; "/><strong style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; ">Could dark chocolate kill you?</strong><br />Theobromine, in substantial quantities, can poison humans, with the&nbsp;<a href="http://blogs.plos.org/speakeasyscience/2012/02/14/the-curious-toxic-chemistry-of-chocolate/" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(121, 18, 101); ">elderly</a>&nbsp;particularly sensitive to the molecule. The LD50 (amount of a molecule necessary to kill 50% of the population) for humans for theobromine is 1000 milligrams per kilogram, over three times that of a dog, but a very manageable number — especially when taking into account the human propensity for gluttony.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 13px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 15px; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Liberation Serif', serif; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Looking at a range of human weights between 60 kilograms to 100 kilograms, consuming between 54 and 91 bars Scharffen Berger 82% Cacao Extra Dark Chocolate would allow an individual to reach the LD50 for humans. That's seven kilograms of chocolate for a person weighing 60 kilograms and 12 kilograms for someone weighing 100 kilograms. Eating 12% of your body weight in chocolate is an unusual way to shuffle off this mortal coil, but&nbsp;in the realm of possibility.<br /></p></div> http://realideal.com/forum/topic/1162#post-1318 Sun, 29 Apr 2012 10:08:30 +0000 admin 1318@http://realideal.com/forum/ <font face=arial size=3><br /> <center><img src="http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/17kv3jzdskjeajpg/xlarge.jpg"/></center><br /> <br /> At first gaze this could be the fantasy field of poppies that preceeds the Emerald City in the Land of Oz. Every spring there is an ocean of yellow flowers in the county of Luoping, an underdeveloped area on the east of the Yunnan Province, China. They are canola, used for the production of oil for humans, animals and biodiesel cars. They cover absolutely every field in sight.<br /> <br /> <center><img src="http://img.gawkerassets.com/post/4/2012/04/131555552_71n.jpg"/><br /> <br /> <img src="http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/17kv3jzduxt2pjpg/xlarge.jpg"/></center></font> http://realideal.com/forum/topic/1161#post-1317 Sun, 29 Apr 2012 00:32:04 +0000 admin 1317@http://realideal.com/forum/ <fomt face=arial size=3><br /> Brian Edmund Posehn is an American actor, voice actor, musician and comedian, known for his roles as mail clerk Kevin Liotta on NBC's Just Shoot Me!, a cast member and writer on HBO's Mr. Show, and most recently as Brian Spukowski on Comedy Central's The Sarah Silverman Program.<br /> <br /> <center><object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" width="640" height="380" id="viddler_jackmichaelson_217"><param name="movie" value="//www.viddler.com/simple/e1c07669/"/><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"/><param name="allowNetworking" value="all"/><param name="allowFullScreen"value="true"/><param name="flashVars" value="f=1&openURL=10464353&autoplay=f&loop=0&nologo=0&hd=0"/><embed src="//www.viddler.com/simple/e1c07669/" width="640" height="380" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowScriptAccess="always" allowFullScreen="true" allowNetworking="internal" name="viddler_jackmichaelson_217" flashVars="f=1&openURL=10464353&autoplay=f&loop=0&nologo=1&hd=0"></embed></object></center></fomt> http://realideal.com/forum/topic/1160#post-1316 Sat, 28 Apr 2012 21:55:45 +0000 admin 1316@http://realideal.com/forum/ <div style="text-align: center;"><img src="http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/17kwnejvhrqmvjpg/xlarge.jpg" alt="The Bathroom That Was Built on an Elevator Shaft Has a See-Thru Floor"/>&nbsp;<br /></div><div><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 13px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 15px; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Liberation Serif', serif; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 19px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">The crème de la commode inside a newly constructed Guadalajara "PPDG Penthouse" built atop a 1970's Mexican colonial building is this crap-inducing bathroom overlooking a 15-story elevator shaft.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 13px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 15px; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Liberation Serif', serif; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 19px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Architecture firm&nbsp;<a href="http://www.hernandezsilva.com.mx/#" style="font-family: inherit; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(215, 81, 72); ">Hernandez Silva Arquitectos</a>&nbsp;explains:<br /></p><blockquote style="margin-top: 20px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 20px; padding-top: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-bottom: 1px; padding-left: 10px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 4px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 15px; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Liberation Serif', serif; vertical-align: baseline; quotes: ''; background-color: rgb(246, 246, 246); border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); line-height: 19px; "><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); ">A characteristic feature of the project is that a volume that was originally intended for a second elevator and was never installed becomes a powder room with a glass floor that looks down all the 15 levels.</p></blockquote><p style="padding-top: 1em; padding-right: 12px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 12px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: justify; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><a href="http://www.homedsgn.com/2012/04/27/ppdg-penthouse-by-hernandez-silva-arquitectos/ppdg-penthouse-17/" rel="attachment wp-att-41733" style="color: rgb(14, 106, 151); text-decoration: none; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; font-weight: bold; "><img src="http://www.homedsgn.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/PPDG-Penthouse-17-800x533.jpg" alt="" title="PPDG Penthouse by Hernandez Silva Arquitectos (4)" width="800" height="533" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-41733" style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 12px; "/></a></p><p style="padding-top: 1em; padding-right: 12px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 12px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: justify; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><a href="http://www.homedsgn.com/2012/04/27/ppdg-penthouse-by-hernandez-silva-arquitectos/ppdg-penthouse-17-1/" rel="attachment wp-att-41734" style="color: rgb(14, 106, 151); text-decoration: none; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; font-weight: bold; "><img src="http://www.homedsgn.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/PPDG-Penthouse-17-1-800x1200.jpg" alt="" title="PPDG Penthouse by Hernandez Silva Arquitectos (3)" width="800" height="1200" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-41734" style="border-top-width: 0px; 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border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 12px; "/></a></p></div> http://realideal.com/forum/topic/1159#post-1315 Fri, 27 Apr 2012 07:24:59 +0000 admin 1315@http://realideal.com/forum/ <div style="text-align: center;"><img src="http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/17knex0suv4pljpg/original.jpg" alt="How Technicolor created ruby slippers without using color film"/>&nbsp;<br /></div><div><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 13px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 15px; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Liberation Serif', serif; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Technicolor film was not color film, and it did not produce anything like lifelike colors. But how did it produce color movies? And why did those colors glow? And why did all of it lead to Dorothy getting ruby slippers?</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 13px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 15px; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Liberation Serif', serif; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">As anyone who has seen an old Technicolor film knows, it looks surreal. Blue eyes look like they glow. Pink faces look like they've been painted peach. Red looks scary. It all looks dyed, not recorded — and that's because it was. There wasn't any color film at the time that Technicolor was making its big splash. No one had figured out how to create a film stock that would record color. They had, however, found a way to make film stock that would filter out all the color that shouldn't get through. And they had dyes. By putting them together, they made Technicolor glorious.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 13px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 15px; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Liberation Serif', serif; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "></p><div id="obj_6118" class="videoContainer video_300" style="margin-top: 5px; margin-right: 40px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 15px; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Liberation Serif', serif; vertical-align: baseline; float: left; width: 300px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/5HxtDjpsHGU?wmode=transparent&amp;rel=0&amp;showinfo=0" type="text/html" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" width="300" height="200" scrolling="no" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; display: block; "></iframe></div><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 13px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 15px; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Liberation Serif', serif; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Technicolor cameras didn't film in color. Instead they filmed in black and white, with different filters. The light entered the camera lens and went to a half-silvered mirror, which split the beam of light through a magenta lens (red and blue together), and a green lens. Behind the magenta lens was film sensitive to blue light, and film sensitive to red light. Behind the green lens was just plain light-sensitive film. The production crew ended up with three sets of film, one showing the blue light that the object they were filming gave off, one showing the red light, and one showing the green. All of these were black and white film strips. They just showed odd-looking pictures. For example, on the 'blue' roll, a person with few blue tones in their skin would have skin that looked completely dark, while a blue ribbon would look pure white. Each of the black and white images were dyed with its proper color. Sometimes, when they were dyed, the films would be combined and re-filtered, so that only bright blues would make it out of the blue-dyed film.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 13px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 15px; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Liberation Serif', serif; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">At last, when it was time for the film to be shown, the three dyed films would be layered on top of one another, to make 'glorious technicolor.' This is why, especially in the early films, the coloring looks so painterly. It's also why most early films nearly cause eyestrain — especially the famous film&nbsp;<em style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; ">The Wizard of Oz</em>. The Technicolor process was expensive, not just because of the camera and the technicians needed to film, but the many incidental technical issues. Some colors, if they were too subtle, would suddenly pop out as other colors. Yellows would turn green in random patches, if two much of the wrong color was filtered out. And since the beam of light entering the camera was split between multiple films, only a fraction of the light in the studio made it onto any one film. This meant that the studio needed to be extra bright. Many regulars on&nbsp;<em style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; ">The Wizard of Oz</em>&nbsp;complained of eye damage from the studio lights, that lasted years.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 13px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 15px; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Liberation Serif', serif; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Mostly, though, it meant that production teams didn't want to waste a single opportunity for color. In the books, Dorothy's slippers were silver, and the yellow brick road, silver slippers, and emerald green city were said to represent the gold standard, silverites, and paper money. But silver slippers were no fun at all on film. They might as well be filmed in black and white. Red, however, was easy to see, eye-catching, and didn't wreak havoc with the color mixing — the way the famed yellow-brick road often did. Hence the ruby slippers, which made the most of Technicolor, and an American fairy-tale was changed forever.</p></div> http://realideal.com/forum/topic/1157#post-1312 Fri, 27 Apr 2012 00:55:42 +0000 admin 1312@http://realideal.com/forum/ <font face=arial size=3><br /> <center><img src="http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/17kbbvl1858ztjpg/xlarge.jpg"/></center><br /> <br /> The humpback whale is one of Earth's largest creatures, with an average weight of around 40 tons. But as it turns out, this gigantic creature is vulnerable to the toxins of a much smaller living thing: <i>Aconitum delphinifolium</i>, better known as Larkspur monkshood.<br /> <br /> <i>Aconitum</i> often noted as one of the most deadly plants, and with good reason: it contains both neurotoxins and cardiotoxins. In China, some warriors recognized monkshood's properties as a biological weapon, coating the tips of their arrows in the poison. But in Alaska, the Alutiiq discovered that Aconitum could take down something far larger than a human. Whaling was dangerous business, and Aconitum was a key part of an important hunting ritual. The whalers would mix the toxic flower with human fat — for its spiritual significance — and then apply the mixture to their spears. Even if the spears themselves didn't kill the whales, the toxin would finish the job in just a few days. The dead whales would wash up on shore, and the villagers would be lousy with blubber.<br /> <br /> The Alutiiq regarded these whalers as magical men, and such men would have to sequester themselves from the rest of the village before a hunt.</font> http://realideal.com/forum/topic/1156#post-1311 Fri, 27 Apr 2012 00:42:19 +0000 admin 1311@http://realideal.com/forum/ <font face=arial size=3><br /> <center><img src="http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/17k62av1qcduujpg/original.jpg"/></center><br /> <br /> Big, universal remotes are great because they can minimize the amount of junk laying around, but sometimes they have so many buttons that you can't find what you're looking for easily. Reddit user <i>unamenotakken</i> solved this problem by gluing a button to one of their remote's buttons for easy access.<br /> <br /> It might seem silly at first, but if you've ever tried to quickly find the mute button on a universal remote when you get an important phone call or knock on the door you know it's not always an easy task. This example takes on the center button, but you can use it for whichever one you prefer. Unamenottaken uses a button on the center of the remote, but a little bead of hardened glue should accomplish the same task.</font> http://realideal.com/forum/topic/1155#post-1310 Wed, 25 Apr 2012 21:29:41 +0000 admin 1310@http://realideal.com/forum/ <font face=arial size=3><br /> USD/JPY has gone up 5 out of the last 5 years in Late March. What do you think it will do this year?<br /> <br /> <center><img src="https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/198894_10150136735532094_596432093_6823595_1037266_n.jpg"/></center></font> http://realideal.com/forum/topic/1154#post-1309 Tue, 24 Apr 2012 03:41:02 +0000 admin 1309@http://realideal.com/forum/ <font face=arial size=3><br /> <center><img src="http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/17khkrkmpyyvojpg/original.jpg" WIDTH=660/></center><br /> <br /> Last summer, the Pentagon's Falcon HTV-2 glider —which the Air Force says can fly from New York to LA in under 12 minutes, disappeared. Now we know why: it went so fast it flew out of its skin.<br /> <br /> DARPA has a clean little mea culpa on what was certainly a very expensive accident:<br /> <br /> <i>Larger than anticipated portions of the vehicle's skin peeled from the aerostructure. The resulting gaps created strong, impulsive shock waves around the vehicle as it travelled nearly 13,000 miles per hour, causing the vehicle to roll abruptly. Based on knowledge gained from the first flight in 2010 and incorporated into the second flight, the vehicle's aerodynamic stability allowed it to right itself successfully after several shockwave-induced rolls. Eventually, however, the severity of the continued disturbances finally exceeded the vehicle's ability to recover.</i><br /> <br /> In other words, it disintegrated. But at 13,000 miles per hour, is this really surprising? The unmanned arrowhead was barreling through the air at Mach 20 (20 times the speed of sound). By humble comparison, the Air Force's state of the art manned fighter can barely top Mach 2. Which is still very fast! DARPA expects part of the thing to burn off mid-flight —but not quite this much. The whole vehicle itself is essentially disposable, intended to "have the capability to reach anywhere in the world in less than one hour" (and drop a nuke on that part of the world).</font> http://realideal.com/forum/topic/1153#post-1308 Tue, 24 Apr 2012 00:51:31 +0000 admin 1308@http://realideal.com/forum/ <font face=arial size=3><br /> <center><img src="http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/17jy54fhci883jpg/original.jpg"/></center><br /> <br /> It's all change at Yahoo. Out with Jerry Yang, ditching 2,000 of its staff, and now an announcement that it plans to axe 50 of its online services. It really has got the bit between its teeth.<br /> <br /> The announcement is the latest in a series of radical moves that the company hopes will turn around its fortunes. Yahoo CEO, Scott Thompson, explained to <i>TechCrunch</i>:<br /> <br /> "<i>Yahoo has been doing way too much for too long and was only doing a few things really well... Yahoo has built processes that were originally intended to help us scale but they've become way too complex and stifled innovation</i>."<br /> <br /> It's currently unclear which services will go—or be "consolidated" as Yahoo has also put it. There are, however, reports that it plans to focus its future on the most popular and ad-friendly outlets, including its News, Finance, Sports and Yahoo Mail platforms.</font> http://realideal.com/forum/topic/1151#post-1306 Mon, 23 Apr 2012 23:45:14 +0000 admin 1306@http://realideal.com/forum/ <font face=arial size=3><br /> <center><img src="http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/17kh7g255u2uwjpg/original.jpg"/></center><br /> <br /> A group of Russian scientists and students co-led by conservationist Erich Hoyt recently spotted an all-white killer whale (whom they have named <i>Iceberg</i>) off the coast of Kamchatka in eastern Russia. Hoyt told BBC News:<br /> <br /> <i>We've seen another two white orcas in Russia but they've been young, whereas this is the first time we've seen a mature adult. It has the full two-metre-high dorsal fin of a mature male, which means it's at least 16 years old — in fact the fin is somewhat ragged, so it might be a bit older.<br /> <br /> Iceberg seems to be fully socialised; we know that these fish-eating orcas stay with their mothers for life, and as far as we can see he's right behind his mother with presumably his brothers next to him.</i></font> http://realideal.com/forum/topic/1150#post-1305 Mon, 23 Apr 2012 04:41:37 +0000 admin 1305@http://realideal.com/forum/ <div style="text-align: center;"><div class="imgwrap abovewrap" title="10 Bizarre Ways a Volcano Can Kill You" style="margin-top: -13px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 13px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Liberation Serif', serif; vertical-align: baseline; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; position: relative; width: 640px; height: 360px; z-index: 0; line-height: 18px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"/><img src="http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/17ichqhskvgowjpg/xlarge.jpg"/> </div></div><div><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 13px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 15px; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Liberation Serif', serif; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "> <br /> Not everyone wants to — or can — fit into the social order. Sometimes those outcasts drive obnoxious monsters. Sometimes they drive heroic statements that stand outside normal boundaries. These are <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Liberation Serif', serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px; ">the most blatant and occasionally fantastic violations of proper manners on wheels.<br /> <br /> <br /> <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 13px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; "><img src="http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/17ichqhsp8emhjpg/xlarge.jpg"/><br /> 6<strong style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; ">.) Dodge Viper</strong><br /> </p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 13px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 15px; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Liberation Serif', serif; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><strong style="font-family: inherit; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; ">Why it's an insult to society:</strong> Safety features? Creature comforts? Concern for the outside world? Pfft. Please place in your own exhaust pipe. The Viper is a big brutish anomaly, an end run around propriety that somehow managed to get approved for sale. The new one will feature such sissified "necessities" as stability control (thanks again, Explorer owners), but the originals will forever be the purest and most ass-kicking expressions of the general idea.<br /> <br /> </p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 13px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; "><img src="http://img.gawkerassets.com/post/12/2012/04/prius.jpg"/> <br />5.<strong style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; ">) Toyota Prius</strong><br /> </p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 13px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 15px; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Liberation Serif', serif; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><strong style="font-family: inherit; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; ">Why it's an insult to society:</strong> Smugness is as much a social sin as obnoxiousness, and there is no car on the road today that says "self-satisfied morally superior being" like the Toyota hybrid. Aside from severe concerns about the environmental costs of the car's production, the immensely annoying stereotypical attitude of its drivers remains a constant pain in the ass.<br /> <br /> </p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 13px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 15px; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Liberation Serif', serif; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><img src="http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/17ichqjruc358jpg/xlarge.jpg"/> <br />4<strong style="font-family: inherit; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; ">.) Ford Raptor</strong><br /> </p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 13px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 15px; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Liberation Serif', serif; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><strong style="font-family: inherit; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; ">Why it's an insult to society:</strong> Bro trucks are bad enough, but a factory-built bro truck? With legitimate off-road cred? Whoa. In its own way the Raptor is as ridiculous as the Viper, which makes it both a threat to normal suburban decency and one of the absolute coolest trucks on the market today. The subtlety of a metal-tipped combat boot — and the awe factor of one, as well.<br /> <br /> </p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 13px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 15px; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Liberation Serif', serif; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><img src="http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/17ichqjrliguojpg/xlarge.jpg"/> <br />3.<strong style="font-family: inherit; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; ">) Dartz Prombron</strong><br /> </p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 13px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 15px; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Liberation Serif', serif; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><strong style="font-family: inherit; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; ">Why it's an insult to society:</strong> You can have your Marauders and Knights; if we want to move in ostentatious armor, we're gonna do it in <em style="font-family: inherit; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; ">style</em>, man. Proof that life can be all kinds of deviant fun when you know a vodka-swilling horndog Latvian with a grip on a tsarist-era nameplate and the ability to indulge whatever absurd requests you can dream up, including (ahem) that leather again.<br /> <br /> </p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 13px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 15px; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Liberation Serif', serif; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><img src="http://img.gawkerassets.com/post/12/2012/04/countach.jpg"/> <br />2<strong style="font-family: inherit; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; ">.) Lamborghini Countach</strong><br /> </p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 13px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 15px; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Liberation Serif', serif; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><strong style="font-family: inherit; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; ">Why it's an insult to society:</strong> Possibly the only car in history to be named after a regional expletive, the Countach is as brazen and assaultive an automotive presence as has ever been constructed in (sadly small) numbers. If the Miura was an audacious delight, the Countach always seemed to be one step over the line into something truly evil.<br /> <br /> </p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 13px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; "><img src="http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/17ichqnpp2btgjpg/xlarge.jpg"/> <strong style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; "><br />1.) International CXT</strong><br /> </p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 13px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 15px; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Liberation Serif', serif; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><strong style="font-family: inherit; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; ">Why it's an insult to society:</strong> Not just over the top, but over any reasonable boundary that can possibly exist in the automotive world. Short of using a full Class 8 rig as a commuter pod, this is as extreme and blatantly obnoxious as it gets. What are you really going to do with this that any of the increasingly super-capable full-size pickups can't do? This creation existed as a statement, nothing more. And in that, it's kinda cool.<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> </p></span><br /> <br /> <br /> </p></div> http://realideal.com/forum/topic/1149#post-1304 Sun, 22 Apr 2012 10:21:38 +0000 admin 1304@http://realideal.com/forum/ <font face=arial size=3><br /> Morgan Valentine Spurlock is an American documentary filmmaker, humorist, television producer, screenwriter, political activist, bounty hunter, and journalist. He went to New York University and graduated in 1993 and is a member of the fraternity of Phi Gamma Delta.<br /> <br /> <center><object width="640" height="390"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/p/C86CF983D26BD30B?hl=en_US&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/p/C86CF983D26BD30B?hl=en_US&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="640" height="390" allownetworking="internal" saveembedtags="true" enablehref="false" enablejsurl="false"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param></embed> </object></center></font> http://realideal.com/forum/topic/1148#post-1303 Sun, 22 Apr 2012 03:53:17 +0000 admin 1303@http://realideal.com/forum/ <font face=arial size=3><br /> <center><img src="http://media.treehugger.com/assets/images/2012/04/eole-water.jpg.492x0_q85_crop-smart.jpg" width=660/></center><br /> <br /> A cool new concept being tested in the Abu Dhabi desert uses a wind turbine to condense water from the air and pump it into storage tanks for filtration and purification. The technology was created by Eole Water after its founder, Marc Parent, was inspired by the water he could collect from his air conditioner unit while living in the Caribbean. He began thinking of ways that water could be condensed from air in areas without access to grid power and the wind turbine concept was born.<br /> <br /> The 30-kW wind turbine houses and powers the whole system. Air is taken in through vents in the nose cone of the turbine and then heated by a generator to make steam. The steam goes through a cooling compressor that creates moisture which is then condensed and collected. The water produced is sent through pipes down to stainless steel storage tanks where it's filtered and purified.<br /> <br /> <center><img src="http://media.treehugger.com/assets/images/2012/04/eole-water-2.jpg.492x0_q85_crop-smart.jpg" width=640/></center><br /> <br /> A prototype of the technology has been installed in Abu Dhabi since October and has been capable of producing 500 to 800 liters of clean water a day from the dry desert air. Eole Water says that volume can increase to 1,000 liters a day with a tower-top system. The system requires wind speeds of 15 miles per hour or higher to produce water.<br /> <br /> This technology uses a simple process that has been experimented with in a variety of designs, but this is the first powered by a wind turbine. That component makes it able to produce large quantities of clean water in areas that don't have ready access to a city's power grid, which makes it especially promising for remote communities and disaster areas. Eole has already landed 12 industrial partners for manufacturing the turbines.</font> http://realideal.com/forum/topic/1147#post-1302 Sun, 22 Apr 2012 03:25:26 +0000 admin 1302@http://realideal.com/forum/ <font face=arial size=3><br /> We've all been there. Those days when you've just had enough already. The slightest provocation and you're ready to blow. If you're like one disgruntled Chinese man, maybe you catapult yourself over the glass-walled ATM vestibule and stab the guy who skipped in front of you in line.<br /> <br /> <center><object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" width="640" height="380" id="viddler_jackmichaelson_216"><param name="movie" value="//www.viddler.com/simple/e0c190af/"/><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"/><param name="allowNetworking" value="all"/><param name="allowFullScreen"value="true"/><param name="flashVars" value="f=1&openURL=93383171&autoplay=f&loop=0&nologo=0&hd=0"/><embed src="//www.viddler.com/simple/e0c190af/" width="640" height="380" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowScriptAccess="always" allowFullScreen="true" allowNetworking="internal" name="viddler_jackmichaelson_216" flashVars="f=1&openURL=93383171&autoplay=f&loop=0&nologo=1&hd=0"></embed></object></center><br /> <br /> What's more incredible than the absolute rage that must have been pumping through his aggressor's veins is the calm manner in which the line-cutter carried on with his ATM transaction. Clearly visible in the final few seconds of the surveillance video is a spreading stain of blood that was not there when the man first arrived.</font> http://realideal.com/forum/topic/1146#post-1301 Sat, 21 Apr 2012 18:32:42 +0000 admin 1301@http://realideal.com/forum/ <font face=arial size=3><br /> Take a look at the International Space Station, where Don Pettit constructs what can only be called Russian Nesting Bubbles - a series of thick-rimmed "<i>anti-bubbles</i>", all of which center themselves in absence of gravity.<br /> <br /> <center><object width="640" height="390"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/lUHXcltJCbY?version=3&hl=en_US&rel=0"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/lUHXcltJCbY?version=3&hl=en_US&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="640" height="390" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true"></embed></object></center></font> http://realideal.com/forum/topic/1145#post-1300 Sat, 21 Apr 2012 17:48:00 +0000 admin 1300@http://realideal.com/forum/ <div><em style="font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-family: arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: small; ">Sheeple</em><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: small; ">&nbsp;(a portmanteau of "sheep" and "people") is a term of disparagement in which people are likened to sheep,</span>&nbsp;</div><div></div><div><div class="lyteboxContainer left editorial" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 40px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; float: left; position: relative; z-index: 1000; 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float: left; "/></div><strong style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; "></strong><strong style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; ">Follow the Signs:</strong>"The public safety officers at my college were not big on following procedure. They always put handwritten signs on things that were broken or to let you know about study curfews. In short, they were idiots. In my junior year, my roommate and I lived in the biggest dorm on campus. It had three entrances and each entrance had a card reader that would let you in only if you swiped your ID card. The card readers were not terribly reliable and it wasn't out of the ordinary for one to randomly not work.</div><div><br /><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 13px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 15px; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Liberation Serif', serif; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 19px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">So, being industrious pranksters, my roommate, her boyfriend and I made handwritten signs from "public safety" saying the card reader was broken and redirecting to another entrance. We put this sign up at every entrance and sat back to watch people mill around, confused that ALL the doors were broken. Many waited around for someone to let them in, others just kept walking back and forth hopelessly. Almost no one swiped their cards.<br /> </p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 13px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 15px; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Liberation Serif', serif; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 19px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">This went on for awhile, until a public safety officer came down on his wee golf cart, spent ten minutes on his walkie talkie and then tried his own ID card. Seeing that it worked, he removed the sign ... on one entrance. So everyone would walk to that entrance to get in, until my roommate decided it was cruel and we removed the other two signs.<em style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; ">— Eldritch</em><br /> </p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 13px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 15px; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Liberation Serif', serif; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 19px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><em style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; "></em><br /> </p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 13px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 15px; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Liberation Serif', serif; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 19px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><em style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; "></em><br /> </p><p style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(20, 20, 20); font-family: georgia; font-weight: bold; "><em style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="font-size: 17px; "><strong>Alexis de Tocqueville :</strong></span></em><br /> </p><p style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(20, 20, 20); font-family: georgia; font-weight: bold; "><em style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="font-size: 17px; "><em>"The dignity of man is not shattered in a single blow, but slowly softened, bent, and eventually neutered. Men are seldom forced to act, but are constantly restrained from acting. Such power does not destroy outright, but prevents genuine existence. It does not tyrannize immediately, but it dampens, weakens, and ultimately suffocates, until the entire population is reduced to nothing better than a flock of timid, uninspired animals, of which the government is shepherd."</em></span></em><br /> <br /> </p></div> http://realideal.com/forum/topic/1144#post-1299 Sat, 21 Apr 2012 16:58:53 +0000 admin 1299@http://realideal.com/forum/ <font face="arial" size="3"><br /> Taxmageddon is a $494 billion tax increase that strikes at the beginning of 2013. Under current law, tax policies in seven different categories will expire, and five of the 18 new tax hikes from <i>Obamacare</i> will begin. If President Obama and Congress fail to act this year, an enormous, unprecedented tax increase will fall on American taxpayers starting on January 1, 2013. The Washington Post called the looming tax increase “Taxmageddon.” American households would face an average tax increase of $3,800.00<br /> <br /> <center><b><a href="http://realideal.com/forum/topic/1144">VIEW DOCUMENTATION</a></b><br /> <br /> <object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" id="4659ee1a-2b7a-365b-21e7-0bbcd080d51a" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; width: 480px; height: 480px; "><embed src="http://static.issuu.com/webembed/viewers/style1/v2/IssuuReader.swf" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" flashvars="mode=mini&viewMode=singlePage&pageNumber=9&titleBarEnabled=true&shareMenuEnabled=false&proSidebarEnabled=true&printButtonEnabled=false&shareButtonEnabled=false&backgroundColor=%23222222&documentId=120420234320-96fc1ece11a64b6988a97fde283534c1" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; width: 480px; height: 480px; "></embed></object></center></font> http://realideal.com/forum/topic/1142#post-1297 Fri, 20 Apr 2012 17:09:26 +0000 admin 1297@http://realideal.com/forum/ <div style="text-align: center;"><img src="http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/17jze8tnc24hbjpg/original.jpg" alt="Being Great at Your Job Can Be a Dangerous Thing—But Keep Doing It"/>&nbsp;<br /></div><div><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 13px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 15px; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Liberation Serif', serif; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 19px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Hard work and competence should be rewarded, but that's not always what happens. Sometimes when you do great work at a company you not only get shafted but kicked to the curb. Jeffrey Steele, writing for personal finance blog Five Cent Nickel, offers up a cautionary tale about being&nbsp;<em style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; ">too</em>&nbsp;competent:</p><blockquote style="margin-top: 20px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 20px; padding-top: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-bottom: 1px; padding-left: 10px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 4px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 15px; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Liberation Serif', serif; vertical-align: baseline; quotes: ''; background-color: rgb(246, 246, 246); border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); line-height: 19px; "><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 13px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); ">A colleague within his organization left on a sabbatical, and Ned was tabbed to cover both his own responsibilities and the sales functions of the departing co-worker. The following weeks proved pivotal.<br />Ned not only shouldered his own duties with his customary aplomb, but injected fresh new insights into the sales position. Under Ned's stewardship, sales and revenues climbed to levels never before tallied by the firm.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 13px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); ">That's when Ned's boss "got it." Not only was Ned good, he was too good. Any more brilliance from him, and she might be leapfrogged on the corporate ladder by the very man whose job performance she graded. When Ned's next job review came around, he had reason to expect an even more glowing appraisal. Instead, his boss tore into him, ripping his decision-making skills and marginalizing his contributions to the company. And from all accounts she managed to pull it off with a straight face.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); ">Maybe she thought he'd get mad and quit, but that didn't happen. So she began hinting, first subtly and then more baldly, that Ned should look elsewhere for employment. Ned finally was forced out, his boss kept her post and large paycheck, and the firm lost a vital contributor.</p></blockquote><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 13px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 15px; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Liberation Serif', serif; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 19px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">It's unlikely that this situation is the norm, but it's not the first time I've heard a story about a paranoid boss trying to sabotage a lower-ranked employee. Does that mean you shouldn't be awesome at your job? In our opinion: No way. Keep doing great work. If you work at a job toxic enough to fire you for being excellent, then it's probably not a place worth setting down roots anyway.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 13px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 15px; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Liberation Serif', serif; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 19px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">It doesn't hurt to hedge your bets, though, and this is a good reminder that you should always be prepared for the worst, even if you're the best. Steele recommends keeping a few months worth of pay as savings in case of unemployment. While this is always good advice, it's the kind of advice many people ignore when they think their job is safe. A lack of competency isn't the only thing that can get you laid off, so always be prepared.</p></div> http://realideal.com/forum/topic/1141#post-1296 Fri, 20 Apr 2012 16:46:52 +0000 admin 1296@http://realideal.com/forum/ <div style="text-align: center;"><img src="http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/17jukbyq03bszjpg/original.jpg" alt="What truths does &quot;truth serum&quot; sodium pentothal actually reveal?"/>&nbsp;<br /></div><div><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 13px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 15px; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Liberation Serif', serif; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">The famed chemical sodium pentothal, which is commonly known as truth serum, has been a mainstay of spy flicks for decades. In real life, scientists have tested it on spies, psychiatric patients, pregnant women, and suspected criminals. They all talked, but did they say something meaningful? Or was it just what the people around them wanted to hear?</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 13px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 15px; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Liberation Serif', serif; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Like heroin, sodium pentothal is a brand name. The drug was manufactured and trademarked by Abbott Laboratories, and its free-for-all name is sodium thiopental. It's a barbiturate, a drug that acts on the central nervous system, which it depresses to calm anxiety, induce drowsiness, eliminate pain, and sometimes entirely knock someone out. That is not why it's become world famous. Sodium pentothal made its name in detective, spy, and pulp novels, where it was famously used as a 'truth serum.' Novelists weren't making it up. Psychiatrists and police officers both swore by it in the first half of the twentieth century - but whether of which of its powers were fact and which were fiction is still debated.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 13px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 15px; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Liberation Serif', serif; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><strong style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; ">The Innocent Origin of Truth Serum</strong></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 13px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 15px; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Liberation Serif', serif; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">The maddening thing about Truth Serum, and the damage its wrought over the years, is that its conceptual originator, Dr Robert House, meant it to exonerate prisoners. During his time in obstetric wards around 1915, he noticed the drug administered to women during childbirth, scopolamine, had a strange effect on his patients. They spoke automatically and unthinkingly, responding to any question. His mind went to prisoners who, under interrogation, maintained claims of innocence. That's easy enough to do when jail would be uppermost in their mind, but if a barbituate could make women forget that they were having a baby, it could certainly wipe ulterior motives from a person's mind. So if asked where they were the night before, if they answered automatically, 'at home,' then they couldn't have been out robbing a bank.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 13px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 15px; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Liberation Serif', serif; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><img src="http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/17julg4zop2fdjpg/medium.jpg" width="300" class="image_1 v10_medium" alt="What truths does &quot;truth serum&quot; sodium pentothal actually reveal?" title="What truths does &quot;truth serum&quot; sodium pentothal actually reveal?" style="margin-top: 5px; margin-right: 40px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; width: 300px !important; float: left; max-width: 300px; "/>The process by which sodium pentothal came to be used to obtain confessions of guilt was a circuitous one. Psychiatrists during the World Wars saw some soldiers with acute shell shock who either had great difficulty speaking or were unable to speak at all. Earlier barbiturates&nbsp;<em style="font-family: inherit; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; ">were</em>&nbsp;used during therapy, but since it did not completely incapacitate a patient as much as they did, sodium pentothal was an ideal drug to be used in programs as an anti-anxiety drug which allowed the soldiers to speak and to eventually recover from their experience - provided addiction was kept at bay and their psychiatrist was conscientious. These programs, during which the drug was injected and the scientist asked questions, were surprisingly progressive, in that the drugs wore off and allowed the soldier to go back out into the community, instead of taking long stays in a psychiatric facility. The idea was to remove inhibitions, including fear of reprisal, and let the soldier talk, then let him recover and go back out, fully integrated into the community. It is still, at times, administered in the UK for the treatment of phobias.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 13px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 15px; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Liberation Serif', serif; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 13px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; "><strong style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; ">The Twisted Side of Truth</strong></p>These psychiatrists consulted at police stations, and it wasn't long before people began making the connection between removing a soldier's fear of past events and removing a criminal's fear of getting caught was made. Truth serum has had no real history in the courts. Courts generally haven't been kind to barbiturate confessions. They have however, recognized confessions when the fact that barbiturates had been administered to the suspect went quietly unmentioned. Throughout the first half of the twentieth century, scandals popped up when investigating officials found that police had administered such drugs to suspects. Even if the person never mentioned anything of substance while under the influence, they generally woke up with no memory of anything that happened. A signed confession waved in their face might induce an amnesic suspect to talk, or to incriminate themselves as the only way to save themselves from a harsh sentence.<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 13px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 15px; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Liberation Serif', serif; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 13px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; "><strong style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; ">But Does It Work?</strong></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 13px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; ">Well, it might. If someone is dead set against telling your their secrets it might make them so disoriented that they'll spill something. It's just that, to make it at all effective, you have to positively know what you're looking for already, because if they tell you that, they'll generally tell you a lot of other things as well. And you'll have to work on your tone, because someone under the influence of any of the 'truth drugs' will most likely tell you what you want to hear. The drugs make people a little more obliging, but mostly they suppress the parts of the brain that have to kick into gear if a person is to assess what's wrong with a question, articulate it, and assert themselves to their questioner. It's easier just to let their imagination go with the flow and tell the questioner exactly what they want to hear.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 13px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; "></p><div class="lyteboxContainer left editorial" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 40px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; float: left; position: relative; z-index: 1000; width: 300px; height: 415px; "><div class="lyteboxLink" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; width: 300px; height: 415px; text-indent: -1000em; position: absolute; "><a href="http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/17junew8jb5lljpg/original.jpg" class="noHrefOverride" rel="lytebox" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(121, 18, 101); display: block; height: 415px; text-indent: -100em; width: 300px; background-image: url(http://ganja.gawkerassets.com/assets/base.v10/img/lytebox/blank.gif?hash=fc94f); background-attachment: scroll; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-position: 100% 0%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; ">Full size</a></div><img src="http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/17junew8jb5lljpg/medium.jpg" width="300" height="415" style="margin-top: 5px; margin-right: 40px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; float: left; "/></div>That is not a problem if all the questioner wants is a confession, right or wrong. If they want information, though, sorting out a person being honest, being imaginative, misunderstanding the question, and outright lying because it's easier, is tough to do. One of the reasons Multiple Personality Disorder was nailed down as only being cause by severe child abuse is Doctor Wilbur insisting that that was the only cause. Earlier patients mentioned mildly traumatic events in childhood but not necessarily direct abuse, nor was that trauma the only cause of the split in personality. Wilbur then founded an organization which trained therapists to use drugs and hypnosis and probe for childhood abuse. After many leading questions, patients would finally go along with what their therapists were saying, the therapist would declare that a memory had finally be recovered, and the cause of the illness would be reinforced. Recovered memory abuse would range from Sybil's false memory of being flown to (occupied) Holland during World War II to help an English officer smuggle out his wife, all while in the persona of a twelve-year-old, to fantastic stories of Satanic cults sacrificing humans inside regular towns. When cases against parents started falling through, and lawsuits started piling up, truth drugs fell from favor fast. Meanwhile, when the Supreme Court declared that confessions under the influence were coerced, which was unconstitutional, and the easy confessions turned into a lot of freed prisoners, with occasional scrambles to collect old evidence.<p></p>In the end, sodium pentothal proved useless not because no one could get information, but because everyone could get too much. It gave questioners information in endless streams that were near-impossible to sort into fact and fiction. It dangled exactly the reply people wanted in front of them, but made anyone who was informed about the drug question if it was only there because they wanted it. It can't offer any certainty that information gotten out of a person was anything more than fantasy. And since certainty is what 'truth serum' is supposed to be all about, then it definitively fails.&nbsp;&nbsp;</div> http://realideal.com/forum/topic/1140#post-1295 Fri, 20 Apr 2012 15:49:31 +0000 admin 1295@http://realideal.com/forum/ <font face=arial size=3><br /> <center><img src="http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/17jzx5lacpogkjpg/original.jpg"/></center><br /> <br /> Creative thinking is not synonymous with safe thinking, yet we forget to take risks when trying to come up with truly great ideas. This is something that Albert Einstein, the originator of this quote, is famous for understanding. If you neglect to entertain absurdity, you're ruling out many potentially great ideas. Consider everything weird.<br /> <br /> My litmus test has always been to accept the strange ideas when I'm afraid to share them. An absurd idea is often just that, but being afraid to share it means I actually think it's good and I'm worried about how others will judge it. That's how I know I have something worth pursuing.</font> http://realideal.com/forum/topic/1139#post-1294 Fri, 20 Apr 2012 02:42:20 +0000 admin 1294@http://realideal.com/forum/ <div style="text-align: center;"><div class="imgwrap abovewrap" title="10 Pieces of Evidence That Plants Are Smarter Than You Think" style="margin-top: -13px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 13px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Liberation Serif', serif; vertical-align: baseline; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; position: relative; width: 640px; height: 360px; z-index: 0; line-height: 18px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><div class="lyteboxContainer left editorial" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-style: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; width: 640px; height: 360px; "><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"/><img src="http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/17k1arxwnp69ujpg/xlarge.jpg" width="640" height="360" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-style: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; "/></div></div></div><div><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 13px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 15px; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Liberation Serif', serif; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Though plants possess nothing even remotely like brains, they can nevertheless communicate, measure time, and even use camouflage. They may not be thinking in a way that we'd recognize, but our chlorophyll-saturated pals are certainly doing a lot more than sitting around splitting water molecules. Here are ten things plants do that look pretty damn smart — even to those of us over here in the Kingdom Animalia.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 13px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 15px; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Liberation Serif', serif; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><strong style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; ">1. Plants communicate with insects</strong><br />As not<a href="http://io9.com/5623112/the-smell-of-freshly+cut-grass-is-actually-a-plant-distress-call" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(121, 18, 101); ">ed before</a>, some plants have evolved a survival strategy that involves the chemical equivalent of sending out a distress call. When tobacco plants are attacked by caterpillars, they release a chemical into the air that attracts predatory bugs who like to eat caterpillars. So the nice smell you get from crushing up leaves may actually be the plant's way of asking its insect buddies to come bite your head off.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 13px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 15px; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Liberation Serif', serif; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><strong style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; ">2. Plants have memories</strong><br />Certainly plants don't "remember" the way humans do, but&nbsp;<a href="http://io9.com/5587311/plants-can-think-and-perform-computations-say-scientists" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(121, 18, 101); ">a group of researchers discovered</a>that plants learn to associate various wavelengths of light with different kinds of danger. The scientists would shine light on plants for an hour, then expose them to a virus. This was a pathogen the plants could protect themselves from by manufacturing a particular chemical. What the scientists discovered was that the next time they shone light on the plants for an hour, its leaves began to manufacture the chemical necessary to fight the virus. It didn't manufacture the chemical at other times — only when exposed to the same kind of light for the same amount of time. The scientists speculated that perhaps plants have developed this "memory" because each season brings with it a change in the light — as well as changes in the kinds of pathogens likely to attack the plants. So from an evolutionary perspective, a plant that learns to associate light duration with certain pests is going to survive longer.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 13px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 15px; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Liberation Serif', serif; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "></p><div class="lyteboxContainer left editorial" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 40px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-style: inherit; font-size: 15px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; float: left; position: relative; z-index: 1000; width: 300px; height: 236px; "><div class="lyteboxLink" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; width: 300px; height: 236px; text-indent: -1000em; position: absolute; "><a href="http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/17k198n2geaxajpg/original.jpg" class="noHrefOverride" rel="lytebox" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(121, 18, 101); display: block; height: 236px; text-indent: -100em; width: 300px; background-image: url(http://ganja.gawkerassets.com/assets/base.v10/img/lytebox/blank.gif?hash=fc94f); background-attachment: scroll; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: 100% 0%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; ">Full size</a></div><img src="http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/17k198n2geaxajpg/medium.jpg" width="300" height="236" style="margin-top: 5px; margin-right: 40px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; float: left; "/></div><strong style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-style: inherit; font-size: 15px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; ">3. Plants create communication networks</strong><br />Plants don't just yell for insect help when attacked —&nbsp;<a href="http://www.livescience.com/1909-plants-communicate-warn-danger.html" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-style: inherit; font-size: 15px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(121, 18, 101); ">they also warn each other of impending doom</a>. Strawberry, clover, and other ground plants grow by sending out "runners," horizontal stems that eventually bud into their own plants. These runners create simple communication networks between the connected plants. When one plant in a network is attacked by a bug, it sends out a warning to the network so that its siblings can build up defenses against the invaders — ranging from toxins to chemicals that simply taste really bad to herbivores.<p></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 13px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 15px; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Liberation Serif', serif; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><strong style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; ">4. Plants grow differently in response to sound</strong><br />We may have to stop mocking gardeners who talk to their plants: University of Western Australia biologist&nbsp;<a href="http://www.cell.com/trends/plant-science/abstract/S1360-1385(12)00054-4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(121, 18, 101); ">Monica Gagliano found that corn plants could emit and respond to sound</a>. Gagliano noticed that the roots of corn plants made clicking noises at around 220 Hz. She and her collaborators then grew corn suspended in water and played an artificially generated, continuous noise at 220 Hz. The roots responded to the noise by leaning towards the source of the sound. It's not clear why plants would evolve the ability to hear and emit sound, but Gagliano and her colleagues are trying to find out by gathering more data.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 13px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 15px; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Liberation Serif', serif; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><img src="http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/17k198j4fbjzajpg/medium.jpg" width="300" class="image_2 v10_medium" alt="10 Pieces of Evidence That Plants Are Smarter Than You Think" title="10 Pieces of Evidence That Plants Are Smarter Than You Think" style="margin-top: 5px; margin-right: 40px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; width: 300px !important; float: left; max-width: 300px; "/><strong style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; ">5. Plants measure time</strong><br />How do you think plants know when to flower? That's right —&nbsp;<a href="http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=protein-tells-flowers-whe" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(121, 18, 101); ">they're keeping track of time</a>. Scientists have recently identified a set of proteins in plants that respond to the amount of light they're exposed to during the day. When they receive enough light per 24 hour period, these proteins send a signal that activates the flowering cycle.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 13px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 15px; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Liberation Serif', serif; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><strong style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; ">6. Plants know up from down</strong><br />Are you one of those people who likes to screw around with plants by sticking them into the ground upsidown or sideways? Well plants don't give a fuck, just like honeybadgers. No matter how they are positioned,&nbsp;<a href="http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=why-dont-trees-lean" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(121, 18, 101); ">plants will aim their roots downward, into the ground</a>. It's likely that they sense gravity, just the way their ambulatory cohorts do.</p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 15px; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Liberation Serif', serif; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); clear: both; "></div><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 13px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 15px; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Liberation Serif', serif; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><a rel="lytebox" href="http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/17k19ch6s7b0mjpg/original.jpg" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(121, 18, 101); "><img src="http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/17k19ch6s7b0mjpg/medium.jpg" width="300" class="image_3 v10_medium" alt="10 Pieces of Evidence That Plants Are Smarter Than You Think" title="10 Pieces of Evidence That Plants Are Smarter Than You Think" style="margin-top: 5px; margin-right: 40px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; width: 300px !important; float: left; max-width: 300px; "/></a><strong style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; ">7. Plants know who is family and who isn't</strong><br />It seems that plants can recognize kin.<a href="http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/11/plant-family-values/" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(121, 18, 101); ">Explains&nbsp;<em style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; ">Wired</em>'s Brandon Keim</a>:</p><blockquote style="margin-top: 20px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 20px; padding-top: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-bottom: 1px; padding-left: 10px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 4px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 15px; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Liberation Serif', serif; vertical-align: baseline; quotes: ''; background-color: rgb(242, 242, 242); border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); color: rgb(81, 100, 120); line-height: 22px; "><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); ">In a paper published in the November<em style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; ">American Journal of Botany</em>, [biologist Susan] Dudley describes how&nbsp;<em style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; ">Impatiens pallida</em>, a common flowering plant, devotes less energy than usual to growing roots when surrounded by relatives. In the presence of genetically unrelated<em style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; ">Impatiens</em>, individuals grow their roots as fast as they can.</p></blockquote><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 13px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 15px; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Liberation Serif', serif; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Apparently plants recognize their relatives via chemicals exuded from their roots, and choose to share available nutrients with them.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 13px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 15px; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Liberation Serif', serif; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><strong style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; ">8. Plants warn each other about approaching enemies</strong><br />It seems that tobacco plants are pretty communicative. Not only do they call in their insect allies when attacked, but they also prepare for battle themselves when receiving chemical warnings from neighboring sagebrush. To discover this,&nbsp;<a href="http://sciencenetlinks.com/science-news/science-updates/eavesdropping-plants/" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(121, 18, 101); ">scientists clipped some sagebrush</a>, and observed that tobacco plants living downwind were eaten by herbivores far less often than they would be ordinarily. Apparently the tobacco had heeded the sagebrush's "danger" warnings, sent via windborne chemicals, and manufactured some defensive chemicals that made their leaves less tasty.</p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 15px; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Liberation Serif', serif; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); clear: both; "></div><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 13px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 15px; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Liberation Serif', serif; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "></p><div id="obj_9377" class="videoContainer video_300" style="margin-top: 5px; margin-right: 40px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 15px; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Liberation Serif', serif; vertical-align: baseline; float: left; width: 300px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/Zq3UuHlPLQU?wmode=transparent&amp;rel=0&amp;showinfo=0" type="text/html" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" width="300" height="200" scrolling="no" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; display: block; "></iframe></div><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 13px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 15px; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Liberation Serif', serif; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><strong style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; ">9. Plants use camouflage</strong><br />As tobacco plants have taught us, one of a plant's best defenses is to make itself less tasty. The&nbsp;<em style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; ">Mimosa pudica</em>&nbsp;has a unique way of doing this. Instead of using chemicals to produce a nasty flavor, the plant curls its leaves up in response to touch. Scientists believe this is a defense to make the plant's leaves appear smaller and less succulent. Herbivores looking for a nice, leafy snack will go seek it elsewhere.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 13px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 15px; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Liberation Serif', serif; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><strong style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; ">10. Plants are escape artists</strong><br />Light provides plants with energy, a system for telling time . . .&nbsp;<a href="http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-04/si-ssd041312.php" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(121, 18, 101); ">and an impetus to grow big enough to escape the confines of shade</a>. Plant biologist Joanne Chory recently identified the exact protein that triggers stems and stalks to grow taller. The protein, called PIF7, senses the arrangement of light around the plant — and if the plant is in shade, will spur the entire plant to grow taller and seek sun. Chory says that she hopes to use PIF7 to push crops to grow larger and "thus produce more food or feedstock for biofuels and biorenewable chemicals."</p></div> http://realideal.com/forum/topic/1138#post-1293 Thu, 19 Apr 2012 07:32:35 +0000 admin 1293@http://realideal.com/forum/ <font face=arial size=3><br /> <center><img src="http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/17jz8rwdbna34jpg/original.jpg"/></center><br /> <br /> Breaking a bad habit or developing a good one might be hard work, but it's not impossible. In fact, once you know the main structure of habits, you can develop a plan to change them. This flowchart from <i>The Power of Habit</i> author Charles Duhigg guides you through the three steps of breaking the habit loop.<br /> <br /> This is a universal approach to any habit you want to replace, since habits all share basic characteristics: a cue or trigger and a reward that perpetuates the routine. (We've mentioned a similar approach before—breaking habits with an "if-then plan".) To change the habit, the flowchart helps you think through what you're feeling and thinking during each stage of the habit, then substitute the old reward and old routine with new ones. It's a great visual tool to help you practice until you have your new habit loop (or the right "keystone" habits established.<br /> <br /> <br /> <center>CLICK FLOWCHART TO ENLARGE<a href="http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/17jz8rwdhfmudjpg/original.jpg" target="0"><img src="http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/17jz8rwdhfmudjpg/original.jpg" width=660/></a></center></font> http://realideal.com/forum/topic/1137#post-1292 Wed, 18 Apr 2012 22:05:19 +0000 admin 1292@http://realideal.com/forum/ <font face=arial size=3><br /> No one said you couldn't create a Super S'more. A Super S'more, you see, breaks every s'more rule in the book while maximizing the magical experience factor. <br /> <br /> <center><object width="640" height="390"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/9-qaM2Sj0pQ?version=3&hl=en_US&rel=0"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/9-qaM2Sj0pQ?version=3&hl=en_US&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="640" height="390" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true"></embed></object></center><br /> <br /> This ain't a s'more no more, people. This is a s'morgasm. Graham crackers? Pshaw. Let's use Krispy Kreme donuts. Hershey's? Nuh uh. Reese's Peanut Butter Cups. Ordinary marshmallows? Nope, GIANT SIZED PLEASE. Pop a peanut butter cup on one donut, the marshmallow on the other and set it in a toaster oven. Let it melt to wet, gooey and toasted perfection, then smash 'em together and enjoy the delicacy in the peacefulness of your own home. You're never going to rely on a campfire again.</font>