Google Image Search Adds Search-by-Style Options

Thyis is awsome! I have needed this in the past, and now here it is! Google adds clip art and line drawings to their image search criteria, in addition to photos and faces.
To restrict your search to either line drawings, clip art, photos, or faces, choose the style criteria from the drop-down on an image results page.

Happy Birthday Vogue Russia

>>>I love Matryoshki, so I was delighted to hear that for the 10 year anniversary of Vogue Russia, some of fashion’s biggest names designed a Матрёшка (Traditional Russian doll) -the dolls will be auctioned for charity at a super-chic party on November 20. The designers sketches were realized by Russian craftsmen, who hand-painted the 50 centimeter dolls. “Every Matryoshka is unique and a piece of art in itself,” said Alyona Doletskaya, Russian Vogue’s editor-in-chief. “Installation, sculpture, objet d’art - you can call it however you wish.”

Designed By: Roberto Cavalli

"My Pick of Pics" 12.Nov

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Avoid Flu Shots

The AMA is recommending that you should get a flu shot.

But, who would risk getting Alzheimer's disease, a weaker immune system, a possible allergic reaction and the unknown consequences of having Mercury and Aluminum injected into your veins?

The CDC’s 15-member Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) makes recommendations each year on who should be vaccinated. Almost all the ACIP members who make these recommendations have financial ties to the vaccine industry. The CDC( Center for Disease Control and Prevention) therefore must grant each member a conflict-of-interest waiver.

>>>First, Lets see how effective Flu Shots are:

Randomized controlled trials are the most reliable way to determine the efficacy – and safety – of a given treatment.

In one widely quoted study, Flu shots reduced the absolute risk of contracting influenza by a meager 1% (not 50%, as the "relative risk" portrays it). In actuality, for every 100 people that have a flu shot only one will benefit from it – this, in medical parlance, is the "number needed to treat" (NNT) in order to achieve any benefit from the treatment. A flu shot provides no benefit for the other 99 people – 2 of them will get influenza anyway – and all 100 risk being harmed by the vaccine.

Two-thirds of the vaccines made for the 2008–09 flu season, 100 million of them, contain full-dose thimerosal, an organomercury compound, which is 49% mercury by weight. It is used to disinfect the vaccine. Each one of these 100 million flu shots contain 25 micrograms of mercury, a mercury content that is 50,000 part per billion, 250 times more than the Environmental Protection Agency’s safety limit. Mercury is a neurotoxin, which has a toxicity level 1,000 times that of lead.

>>>Next, Lets see what some risks/side effects could be: (hint: they can be pretty bad!)

(1) There is some evidence that flu shots cause Alzheimer’s disease. This most likely is a result of combining mercury with aluminum and formaldehyde, which renders them much more toxic together through a synergistic effect than each would be alone.

(2)Mercury in vaccines has also been implicated as a cause of autism. Vaccine makers have now removed thimerosal from all childhood vaccines, except flu shots.

Some other acknowledged adverse reactions to the flu vaccine are (3)joint inflammation and arthritis, (4)anaphylactic shock (and other life-threatening allergic reactions), and (5)Guillain-Barré syndrome. Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS) is a paralytic autoimmune disease that fells people several weeks after their flu shot.

One woman with post-vaccination GBS writes:

"I had a flu shot in November, and by December I became weak and continued to get weaker until I collapsed and was taken to the hospital… I was helpless, totally paralyzed with Guillain-Barré syndrome… I was in ICU for three weeks and then transferred to a rehabilitation center. Three months later I was released to come home because I could ambulate approximately 100 feet with a walker. I continued rehabilitation as an outpatient for the next three months until I could walk with hand crutches. Today, I need a cane. I was not forewarned of any possible hazard when they gave me the flu shot."

Another woman, diagnosed with GBS after a flu shot, spent 16 months in the hospital paralyzed on a ventilator and life support. After several subsequent multi-month hospitalizations she writes:
"On my last visit to my neurologist I was able to walk about 6 feet holding his hand, not much but it took years to be able to do that. I scratch my head when I hear them promoting flu shots… Most people that I come into contact with – in the hospital and out (nurses, doctors, and regular people) – after hearing my story, feel that it is better to chance the flu and not get the shot." (These statements are in Vaccine Safety Manual for Concerned Families and Health Practitioners: Guide to Immunizations Risks and Protection by Neil Miller [no relation], pages 84–86.)

The package inserts that come with the flu vaccine note that GBS is a potential complication. There are 1 to 2 cases of GBS per 1 million vaccinated persons. (There were 10 times that many cases of GBS in 1976 with the flu vaccine used that year). Taking a flu shot is essentially the same as buying a lottery ticket for acquiring Guillain-Barré syndrome.

Would you risk being one of the 2 cases?

It's almost always a secondary bacterial infection that invades the airways which have been compromised by the virus.

Star Shower

The star sower monument in Kaunas, Lithuania. In the daytime this monument doesn’t make any sense, but when night comes down to the city….

"FAiL" Humor

Herds of Milk-Producing Cows Are Rife With Bovine Leukemia Virus

Bovine leukemia virus is a cancer-causing microbe in cattle.
Just how many cows have it?
The US Department ofAgriculture reports that nationwide, 89 percent of herdscontain cows with BLV. The most infected region is theSoutheast, where 99 percent of herds have the tumor-causingbug. In some herds across the country, almost every singleanimal is infected. A 1980 study across Canada uncovered alower but none-too-reassuring rate of 40 percent.
BLV is transmitted through milk. Since the milk from allcows in a herd is mixed before processing, if even a singlecow is infected, all milk from that herd will have BLVswimming in it. Citing an article in Science, oncologistRobert Kradjian, MD, warns that 90 to 95 percent of milkstarts out tainted. Of course, pasteurization — when done the right way — kills BLV, but theprocess isn't perfect. And if you drink raw milk, odds are you're gulping down bovine leukemiavirus.Between dairy cows and their cousins that are used for meat (who tend to be infected at lowerrates), it appears that a whole lot of BLV is getting inside us.

A 2001 study in Breast CancerResearch detected antibodies to the bovine leukemia virus in blood samples from 77 out of 100volunteers. Furthermore, BLV showed up more often in breast tissue from women with breastcancer than in the tissue from healthy women. Several medical studies have found positivecorrelations between higher intake of milk/beef and increased incidence of leukemia orlymphoma in humans, although other studies haven't found a correlation. No hard evidence has yet linked BLV to diseases in humans, but do you feel comfortable knowing that cow cancer cells are in your body?

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Mr. Clean - (Italy)

To show how effective Mr. Clean cleaning supplies are, the brand is displaying one line of a crosswalk a brighter and cleaner white than the rest.



Folgers - (New York)

We all knew there was some purpose for those most often disgusting man holes in New York City.
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Bic Razor

Look @ this Fine american....

Damn I can't believe this is real & not a joke. Makes me sick.

The next Facebook...for the business world?

I had never heard of this before, and I will check it out. There is a new player capturing headlines in the social networking world, it's called LinkedIn.
The company is designed for the business and professional world, and is like Facebook.

The more than 23 million registered users represent over 150 different industries. It's a place to swap ideas, best practices and other opportunities. With fresh growth capital, LinkedIn will expand its marketing efforts globally and grow its user list. The user list is the most valuable asset and each member is valued at over $50. LinkedIn was founded in 2002 specifically for the business community.

>>>>>>>>>http://www.linkedin.com/

Another proof to stay true!

A German scientist has proved that smiling while repressing ones true feelings can harm your health.

Dieter Zapf of the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt, Germany studied 4,000 volunteers working in a fake call center. Half were allowed to respond in kind to abuse on the other end of the line while the other half had to repress their true feelings and were not allowed to respond in kind to abusive callers.


He found that those able to answer back had a brief increase in heart rate. Those who could not had stress symptoms that lasted much longer.
"Every time a person is forced to repress his true feelings there are negative consequences," Zapf said. "We are all able to rein in our emotions but it becomes difficult to do this over a protracted period."

Myotonic "Fainting" Goats

These special goats, have a hereditary trait where when they get startled, they just freeze up and fall over. They almost look like they are playing!

Functional/Mod Bag

I think this Mod Mustard, vegan leather bag is looks nice & is worth checking out!

http://www.mattandnat.com/product/display/123/1

Popular/Hott Shorts in Cali

These shorts by Eventide are way hot right now all over California. I like em too!!




http://www.standarddeviationny.com/eventide-tap-shorts.aspx

Failed Time travel funny

Funny video:

http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/58baaf7758

What Obama revealed before he was in politics

In his first memoir, “Dreams from My Father,” Obama wrote:

“I ceased to advertise my mother's race at the age of 12 or 13, when I began to suspect that by doing so I was ingratiating myself to whites,”

Although Obama spent various portions of his youth living with his white maternal grandfather and Indonesian stepfather, he vowed that he would

“never emulate white men and brown men whose fates didn't speak to my own. It was into my father’s image, the black man, son of Africa, that I’d packed all the attributes I sought in myself, the attributes of Martin and Malcolm, DuBois and Mandela.”

Obama wrote that in high school, he and a black friend would sometimes speak disparagingly “about white folks this or white folks that, and I would suddenly remember my mother's smile, and the words that I spoke would seem awkward and false.”

As a result, he concluded that “certain whites could be excluded from the general category of our distrust.”

During college, Obama disapproved of what he called other “half-breeds” who gravitated toward whites instead of blacks. And yet after college, he once fell in love with a white woman, only to push her away when he concluded he would have to assimilate into her world, not the other way around. He later married a black woman.

Such candid racial revelations abound in “Dreams,” which was first published in 1995, when Obama was 34 and not yet in politics. By the time he ran for his Senate seat in 2004, he observed of that first memoir:

“Certain passages have proven to be inconvenient politically.”

Thus, in his second memoir, “The Audacity of Hope,” which was published last year, Obama adopted a more conciliatory, even upbeat tone when discussing race. Noting his multiracial family, he wrote in the new book: “I’ve never had the option of restricting my loyalties on the basis of race, or measuring my worth on the basis of tribe.” This appears to contradict certain passages in his first memoir, including a description of black student life at Occidental College in Los Angeles.

“There were enough of us on campus to constitute a tribe, and when it came to hanging out many of us chose to function like a tribe, staying close together, traveling in packs,” he wrote. “It remained necessary to prove which side you were on, to show your loyalty to the black masses, to strike out and name names.”

He added:

“To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists.”

Obama said he and other blacks were careful not to second-guess their own racial identity in front of whites.

After graduating from college, Obama eventually went to Chicago to interview for a job as a community organizer.

His racial attitudes came into play as he sized up the man who would become his boss.

“There was something about him that made me wary,” Obama wrote. “A little too sure of himself, maybe. And white.”

Primitive Tribe found in Brazil

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The tribe is among the last on Earth that has had no contact with the outside world, Brazil's National Indian Foundation, or Funai, said.

The photos, taken earlier this month, show "strong and healthy" warriors, six huts and a large planted area. The tribe's camp is in a protected area along the Envira River, near the Peruvian border.

Full Story & more Pics: >> http://news.aol.com/story/_a/rare-indian-tribe-spotted-in-brazil/20080530092909990001?icid=100214839x1203168640x1200114061

Hate your neighbors?

http://www.rottenneighbor.com lets you rate and review, good and bad neighbors. It's supposed to be for people who want to know BEFORE they move, but I just like it anyway.

Red Square Game

http://members.iinet.net.au/~pontipak/redsquare.html

Happy Roses!

Dutch flower designer Peter Van de Werken created this multi-coloured effect by injecting vegetable dye into flower stalks. The pigment is absorbed and travels to the petals where it changes their hue.
>>> http://www.happy-roses.com/

Some Funny pics, most likely u have not seen.

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More Yucki-ness

I know this is a fake picture, but it captures almost the truth.

A bit creepy but also pretty amazing.

Ok, this is not one of those stupid annoying pop up monsters. It is just sorta creepy, CLICK HERE!

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Egg Shell Art

Think you have the patience to drill 2,500 to 3,500 holes in an egg shell? Slovenian artist Franc Grom does and the results are amazing.


Slovenian artist, Franc Grom creates eggs using an electric boring tool. The results are stunning and as laborious as the finest of craftsmen from centuries past. The eggs that Grom creates have approximately 2,500 to 3,500 holes (he has been known to drill up to17,000 in one piece). The results are simply amazing. Who would have thought that something so delicate could be made even more fragile and precious.

More Story via National Geographic

Pro-USA _vs_ Pro-Europe Point of view

I have heard different people bring up the fact that Europeans get so much more vacation Americans in the United States. I've heard people say maybe it's because Europeans are so much more “chill” about life (wich is the pro-Europe outlook), or that Europeans are just lazy (the pro-US outlook). I think it’s not the Europeans who are lazy, it's the American workers who are being taken advantage of by their employers, but are too brainwashed to realize it.

In America, your status = more possessions, more money, just more. In Europe, people actually view the ability for long vacations as a sign of status, a source of social esteem. European countries provide less incentive to work more hours because of higher marginal taxes?

Did you know that 9 out of 10 European workers are covered by unions who fought for more vacation, vs. 2/10 in the US?

I think the Europeans have it right, "work to live, don’t live to work!!"

A joke I’ve recently heard: An invetsment banker coming to a paradise island for a few days of holiday meets a fisherman who is sleeping on the sand in the shadow of his small boat. “Hey, what do you do for a living ?” the banker asks. “I swim, I sleep, I make love, I play with my children, when I’m hungry I go fishing…” the man replies.“Ouaaahhh, but you could instead borrow some money to buy a bigger boat, then go for industrial fishing, hire employees, deal with the providers, noegotiate with the banks, the buy anoter bigger boat and ultimately make an IPO and reap millions of $ !!“So what ?” asks the fisherman. “Then when you retire you can spend all your time on a beach, go swimming, make love and play with your children…”This little story makes me think about what is my real interest in life: neither showing off in a brand new ferrari (with a 60 mph speed limit !) nor feeling that I have succeed if I earn 1 million $ by the age of 30. Vacation/Holiday is the best possible period of time when you are not upset, angry, jealous that’s why I enjoy it SOOOOO MUCH !Take care of youselves !
Yes, I know there is as much materialism in the UK as in the US, maybe more. The prestige car culture in the UK far exceeds anything in the US, I think.

I know most have seen this before, but just in case you haven't:

LOL....Fro-Hat

Thought I'd share this.

I would like to Buy this shirt!

Unfortunately, I don't remember where on the web I found it:(

This is how an unfortunate moment becomes a fun accessory. A two part pin made from gold matt finish acrylic that will surely make passers by smile. Just smile back.

CNN: Dr.Ronald Mallett’s Time Travel Machine

Dr.Ronald Mallett explains his time travel machine on CNN. VIDEO