Shopdropped Fake Magazines (Neatorama)
The artists/pranksters at TrustoCorp made three fake tabloid magazine covers and left them in store magazine racks throughout New York City. If not for the graphics, would you even know the difference?
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HATE TAXES? 102 THINGS NOT TO DO
So, you're a Republican who hates taxes? Well, since you do not like taxes or government, please kindly do the following. 1. Do not use Medicare. 2. Do not use Social Security?3. Do not become a member of the US military, who are paid with tax dollars.
Sen. Michael Bennet: Bring Teachers' Pay Into This Century (Huffington Post)
When talented women had to choose between becoming teachers or nurses, we could convince them to teach "Julius Caesar'' for 30 years with a small salary that built toward a generous pension in retirement. Fortunately, women today can choose from an array of lucrative professions. But our system of teacher compensation has yet to evolve to reflect this choice.
Susan Estrich: Say It Ain't So, Alec (Creators Syndicate)
The only thing worse than guys dating women half their age is women resorting to extreme measures - and I mean extreme - to try to look half of theirs. I'm not talking Botox. I'm not talking about getting rid of the bags. I'm talking multiple surgeries - lift the face, flatten the stomach, redo the breasts, even redo more personal parts. I kid you not, there is a doctor here in Los Angeles whose only specialty is rejuvenating vaginas. Yikes.
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Four Thieves Vinegar (Vinaigre des Quatre Voleurs) is a concoction of vinegar (either from red wine, white wine, cider, or distilled white) infused with herbs, spices or garlic that was believed to protect users from the plague. The recipe for this vinegar has almost as many variations as its legend.
Vinegar has been used to fight plague since the Middle Ages and herbal vinegars have been used as medicine since the time of Hippocrates.
Early recipes for the concoction specifically known as Four Thieves Vinegar sometimes employ a different number of thieves, and in the 18th century the mixture was sometimes just called "Thieves Vinegar" or in at least one instance, "Three Thieves Vinegar." In Italy a mixture called "Seven Thieves Vinegar" is sold as a smelling salt, though its ingredients appear to be the same as in Four Thieves mixtures.
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Charlie was first, and correct, with:
To ward off the plague.
Sally said:
If one is a follower of Witchcraft, "Four Thieves Vinegar" is used for protection from undesirable influences and for enhancing any spell (usually harmful in nature) that calls for vinegar.
If your believe in natural or alternative medicine, then "Vinaigre des Quatre Voleurs," is said to be an antidote for traveler's diarrhea, and to treat other parasitic infestations.
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AUTHENTIC FOUR THIEVES VINEGAR
PS: "Jim from CA, retired to ID," I COULD have gone on that cruise with you as a translator, had only you ASKED, you know?? Sigh... Okay, guess I made my point here (I am green with envy), so just have yourself a GRAND old time. (A photo of your travels would be nice too, I'm just saying...)
Adam answered:
To make your salad tasty? No...
Four Thieves Vinegar (Vinaigre des Quatre Voleurs) is a concoction of vinegar (either from red wine, white wine, cider, or distilled white) infused with herbs, spices or garlic that was believed to protect users from the plague. The recipe for this vinegar has almost as many variations as its legend.
Best to leave it on your salad.
BttbB replied:
It's what Aladdin used to polish his lamp... Har!... No, really, it was a concoction that was believed to protect its users from 'The Plague', you know, like, the 'Black Death', 'Ring around the Rosy...' thing... White vinegar does have medicinal ENT purposes as I presently know well ... But, in the interest of not, Oh... how can I put this? Not grossing you out... yeah, that's it... I'll spare you the more ghastly details... Suffice it to say that I hates it!... Really... I do...
Jim from CA, retired to ID is enjoying a cruise.
Marian responded:
protect from plague
MAM wrote:
It was believed to protect users from the plague. It was a concoction of vinegar (either from red wine, white wine, cider, or distilled white) infused with herbs, spices or garlic. It is also used by modern practitioners of witchcraft to ward off the spells of other witches,
or to enhance spells that call for vinegar.
Ingredients in Four Thieves Vinegar.
Alan J (180° out of phase) said:
to ward off the Plague.
And, Joe S answered:
The name is actually a corruption of For Thieves, Vinegar. It was a vinegar for thieves or more correctly to catch thieves. It was used mainly by women in Olden Times who wanted their own thieves as it was very important to have a man about the house, and preferably and wealthy man, and who is more wealthy than a thief. For proof, look at the bankers and health insurance executives. See? Anyway as the story goes all a woman had to do was take a bottle of the Vinegar For Thieves, or whatever, and sprinkle it on the tail of your chosen thief and capture him. There were a few women thieves about but the stuff didn't work on them.
Hope I didn't miss the deadline
CBS starts the night with '60 Minutes', followed by a FRESH'Big Brother', then a RERUN'Mike & Molly', followed by a RERUN'The Good Wife'.
NBC opens the night with 'Dateline', followed by the movie 'Indiana Jones And The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull'.
ABC begins the night with a RERUN'America's So-Called Funniest Home Videos', followed by a RERUN'Extreme Makeover: Home Edition', then '20/20'.
The CW offers an old 'Friends', followed by another old 'Friends', then a RERUN'Nikita', followed by a RERUN'Supernatural'.
Faux has a RERUN'American Dad', followed by a RERUN'Bob's Burgers', then a RERUN'Simpsons', followed by a RERUN'Cleveland Show', then a RERUN'Family Guy', followed by a FRESH'In The Flow With Affion Crockett'.
MY has an old 'How I Met Your Mother', followed by another old 'How I Met Your Mother', then an old 'The Closer', followed by another old 'The Closer'.
A&E has 'Criminal Minds', another 'Criminal Minds', still another 'Criminal Minds', and 'The Glades'.
AMC offers the movie 'The Cowboy Way', followed by the movie 'No Country For Old Men', then a FRESH'Breaking Bad'.
BBC -
[6:00 AM] Top Gear - Episode 3
[7:00 AM] Top Gear - Episode 4
[8:00 AM] Top Gear - Episode 5
[9:00 AM] Top Gear - Episode 6
[10:00 AM] Top Gear - Episode 7
[11:00 AM] Top Gear - Episode 1
[12:00 PM] Top Gear - Episode 2
[1:00 PM] Top Gear - Episode 3
[2:00 PM] Top Gear - Episode 4
[3:00 PM] Top Gear - Episode 5
[4:00 PM] Top Gear - Episode 7
[5:00 PM] Top Gear - Episode 1
[6:00 PM] Top Gear - Episode 2
[7:00 PM] Top Gear - Episode 3
[8:00 PM] Die Another Day
[9:00 PM] Top Gear - Episode 5
[10:00 PM] Top Gear - Episode 6
[10:30 PM] Die Another Day
[11:00 PM] Top Gear - Episode 1
[12:00 AM] Top Gear - Episode 2
[1:00 AM] Top Gear - Episode 4
[2:00 AM] Top Gear - Episode 5
[3:00 AM] Top Gear - Episode 6
[4:00 AM] Top Gear - Episode 1
[5:00 AM] Top Gear - Episode 1 (ALL TIMES EST)
Comedy Central has the movie 'Harold & Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay', followed by the movie 'Talladega Nights: The Ballad Of Ricky Bobby', 'Workaholics', and another 'Workaholics'.
History has 'Pawn Stars', another 'Pawn Stars', 'Ice Road Truckers', followed by a FRESH'Ice Road Truckers', then a FRESH'Top Gear'.
IFC -
[6:00AM] The Whitest Kids U'Know
[6:15AM] The Nugget
[8:15AM] The Namesake
[10:45AM] Maria Full of Grace
[1:00PM] Whisker Wars - America's Beardsman
[1:30PM] Whisker Wars - The Beard Circuit
[2:00PM] Whisker Wars - West Coast Showdown
[2:30PM] Whisker Wars - Don't Mess With Texas
[15PM - 16PM] Paid Programming
[3:15PM] Far Harbor
[5:30PM] The Minus Man
[8:00PM] The Last of the Mohicans
[10:30PM] The Last of the Mohicans
[1:00AM] The Order
[3:30AM] The Minus Man (ALL TIMES EST)
Sundance -
[6:00 AM] Kassim the Dream
[7:30 AM] Visual Acoustics
[9:00 AM] IT'S NOT EASY BEING GREEN (Episode 7, Season 3)
[9:30 AM] IT'S NOT EASY BEING GREEN (Episode 8, Season 3)
[10:00 AM] Garbage! The Revolution Starts At Home
[11:20 AM] Green Porno
[11:30 AM] QUIRKY: Huge Gamble, Huge Reward (Episode 1, Season 1)
[12:30 PM] Love Lust & Street Eats
[1:30 PM] Love Lust & Sex Symbols
[2:30 PM] Love Lust & The Social Network
[3:30 PM] Love Lust & The Undead
[4:30 PM] Love Lust & Secret Societies
[5:30 PM] Love Lust & The Paranormal
[6:30 PM] Wendy & Lucy
[8:00 PM] QUIRKY: Huge Gamble, Huge Reward (Episode 1, Season 1)
[9:00 PM] LUDO BITES AMERICA: One More Bite (Episode 7, Season 1)
[10:00 PM] Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
[1:00 AM] LUDO BITES AMERICA: One More Bite (Episode 7, Season 1)
[2:00 AM] QUIRKY: Huge Gamble, Huge Reward (Episode 1, Season 1)
[3:00 AM] Love Lust & The Social Network
[4:00 AM] Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
[6:00 AM] The Human Behavior Experiments (ALL TIMES EST)
SyFy has the movie 'Blade Runner', followed by the movie 'The Fifth Element'.
In Hollywood, there's the reported budget -- and then there's what a picture actually costs.
As confidential sales documents about Revolution Studios' library obtained by TheWrap demonstrate, studios often engage in fuzzy math about movie budgets.
It's an open secret that studios are less than honest about their financials, and the documents show that was definitely the case when it came to Revolution's 46 films.
From bombs like "Gigli" to hits like "Black Hawk Down," the studio could reliably be counted on to shave off between $10 to $20 million from the negative costs of its films.
In the case of "Gigli," a $75.6 million film became a $54 million one, limiting reports of the company's losses after the movie flopped. "Gigli" made a mere $7.7 million worldwide, meaning the studio's losses were actually on the order of $70 million.
Likewise, Revolution publicly stated that "Tears of the Sun" cost $75 million when the true cost of the Bruce Willis dud topped out at $100.5 million.
U.S. actor Matt Damon and Luciana Barroso arrive on the red carpet for the film Contagion at the 68th edition of the Venice Film Festival in Venice, Italy, Saturday, Aug. 3, 2011.
Photo by Joel Ryan
Ancient Egyptians might have been just as vain as humans today. They seem to have styled their hair with fat-based products to enhance their appearance and accentuate their individuality, new research suggests.
"Personal appearance was important to the ancient Egyptians so much so that in cases where the hair was styled, the embalming process was adapted to preserve the hairstyle," the researchers, based at the University of Manchester in the United Kingdom, write Aug. 16 in the Journal of Archaeological Science. "This further ensured that the deceased's individuality was retained in death, as it had been in life, and emphasizes the importance of the hair in ancient Egyptian society."
The researchers studied hair from 18 mummies (15 mummified in a desert cemetery called the Dakhleh Oasis and three from museum samples of unknown origin) who lived around 300 B.C. in ancient Egypt. By taking a close look at the hairs under a microscope, the researchers noticed that nine of these mummies had an unknown substance coating their hair.
Chemical analyses of the coating revealed it was made up of fatty acids from both plant and animal origins.
The mummies had all different kinds of hairstyles depending on age, sex and presumed social status. Researchers have previously discovered objects in Egyptian tombs that seem to be curing tongs, so they might have been used in conjunction with the hair product to curl the hair into place, the researchers speculate.
A collection of rarely seen portraits of Jewish prisoners forced to work for the Nazis in a money-forging scheme fictionalized in the Oscar-winning film "The Counterfeiters" is being donated to Israel's Holocaust museum.
Heirs of the artist who created the 43 portraits formally hand over the works to Yad Vashem (yahd VAH'-shehm) at a ceremony Thursday in New York City.
The portraits are by Felix Cytrin, a Jewish engraver forced by the Nazis to help produce fake British pounds in a plot to destroy England's economy.
The portraits were created while Cytrin was imprisoned at a German concentration camp. They have been in his family's hands for decades.
U.S director Tate Taylor and U.S screenwriter Kathryn Stockett pose during a photocall for their film "The Help" at the 37th American Film Festival in Deauville September 3, 2011.
Photo by Regis Duvignau
Las Vegas has seen its share of heavy construction equipment as it bulldozed its way through one giant casino project after another. But with the recession having gutted the construction industry, excavators and bulldozers near the Strip are being put to use as toys for thrill-seeking visitors.
A business owner has created what amounts to a life-sized sandbox for adults who pay up to $750 each to push around dirt, rock and huge tires with the earth-moving construction equipment. All it takes is a 10-minute classroom lesson and guidance from trainers through headsets.
Ed Mumm said he started Dig This after renting and operating an excavator for himself for two days while building a house in Steamboat Springs, Colo. He quickly realized that toying with heavy construction equipment is a diversion that takes participants completely out of their everyday lives.
The play sandbox sits just across the freeway from the Las Vegas Strip, near remnants of an actual construction industry that nosedived in 2008 and hasn't recovered. Major projects, including the Fontainebleau Las Vegas and Boyd Gaming Corp.'s Echelon, were started and partially financed but never completed as the Great Recession walloped the gambling industry and made it clear that steady casino construction seen over the past 20 years was over.
A New York court says Prince should pay almost $4 million to a perfume company that claimed he hobbled its efforts to market a perfume named for one of his albums.
A court referee recommended a roughly $3.95 million award last week. The award would have to be confirmed by another judge.
Prince's lawyer hasn't responded to phone and email messages left Friday. He told the New York Law Journal the "Purple Rain" singer and songwriter would fight to keep the suggested award from being confirmed.
Revelations Perfume and Cosmetics Inc. says it licensed the Minneapolis musician's name and likeness and the album title "3121" to market its fragrance in 2006. The Huntingdon Valley, Pa.-based company says Prince broke promises to help promote the scent after its July 2007 launch.
Director Steven Soderbergh (R) poses with actors (L-R) Matt Damon, Gwyneth Paltrow, Laurence Fishburne during a photocall of their film "Contagion" at the 68th Venice Film Festival September 3, 2011.
Photo by Alessandro Garofalo
An adult film performer who tested positive for HIV and caused the porn industry to shut down production as a precaution has been retested and the actor does not have the virus, a porn industry trade group said Saturday.
Production can now resume, said Free Speech Coalition executive director Diane Duke.
The actor, who was in Florida, had been slated to work on a shoot for Mofos.com, but production was halted last week when the test came back positive for HIV.
Production has been shut down since Monday in the San Fernando Valley's multi-billion dollar adult entertainment industry, which includes Hustler and Evil Angel's productions. The case was found at an out-of-state clinic that does not report to California health officials, Duke said.
The risk that an earthquake would cause a severe accident at a U.S. nuclear plant is greater than previously thought, 24 times as high in one case, according to an AP analysis of preliminary government data. The nation's nuclear regulator believes a quarter of America's reactors may need modifications to make them safer.
The threat came into sharp focus last week, when shaking from the largest earthquake to hit Virginia in 117 years appeared to exceed what the North Anna nuclear power plant northwest of Richmond was built to sustain.
The two North Anna reactors are among 27 in the eastern and central U.S. that a preliminary Nuclear Regulatory Commission review has said may need upgrades. That's because those plants are more likely to get hit with an earthquake larger than the one their design was based on. Just how many nuclear power plants are more vulnerable won't be determined until all operators recalculate their own seismic risk based on new assessments by geologists, something the agency plans to request later this year. The NRC on Thursday issued a draft of that request for public comment.
The review, launched well before the East Coast quake and the Japan nuclear disaster in March, marks the first complete update to seismic risk in years for the nation's 104 existing reactors, despite research showing greater hazards.
Producer Tom Fontana of the U.S. arrives for the screening of the film "Drive" during the 37th American Film Festival in Deauville September 3, 2011.
Photo by Regis Duvignau
The Vatican on Saturday vigorously rejected claims it sabotaged efforts by Irish bishops to report priests who sexually abused children to police and accused the Irish prime minister of making an "unfounded" attack against the Holy See.
Irish officials defended their claims that the Vatican exacerbated the abuse crisis and criticized the Holy See for offering an overly "legalistic" justification of its actions in dealing with priests who rape and molest children.
The Vatican issued a 24-page response to the Irish government following Prime Minister Enda Kenny's unprecedented July 20 denunciation of the Vatican's handling of abuse - a speech that cheered abuse-weary Irish Catholics but stunned the Vatican and prompted it to recall its ambassador.
Kenny's speech was inspired by the publication of a government-mandated independent report into the County Cork diocese of Cloyne in southwest Ireland, which found that the Vatican had undermined attempts by Irish bishops to protect children by suggesting that their policy requiring abuse to be reported to police might violate church law.
The Cloyne document was the fourth report since 2005 on the colossal scale of priestly sex abuse and cover-up in Ireland, a once staunchly Catholic country that has seen the church's influence wither in light of the scandal. But it was the first to squarely find the Vatican culpable in promoting the culture of secrecy and cover-up that kept abusers in ministry and able to prey on more children.
The CIA worked closely with Moammar Gadhafi's intelligence services in the rendition of terror suspects to Libya for interrogation, according to documents seen Saturday by the AP, cooperation that could spark tensions between Washington and Libya's new rulers.
The CIA was among a number of foreign intelligence services that worked with Libya's agencies, according to documents found at a Libyan security agency building in Tripoli.
The discovery came as the Libyan rebels said they would surround pro-Gadhafi cities until the Sept. 10 deadline for their surrender.
Trying to "to avoid bloodshed and to avoid more destruction to public properties and national institutions, we have given an ultimatum of one week to the areas of Sirte, Bani Walid, Jufra and Sabha," the head of the rebels' National Transitional Council, Mustafa Abdul-Jalil, told reporters in Benghazi.
The 50-foot (15 meters) tall Trojan Horse burns during the Burning Man 2011 "Rites of Passage" arts and music festival in the Black Rock desert of Nevada September 3, 2011. More than 50,000 people from all over the world have gathered at the sold out festival which is celebrating its 25th year.
Photo by Jim Urquhart
A Florida meter reader is coming to collect from the National Enquirer, and he's looking for a lot more than a few quarters.
Orange County, Fla., meter reader Roy Kronk, who found the remains of two-year-old homicide victim Caylee Anthony, is suing the tabloid and its parent company, American Media, for defamation, due to a story that the paper reported about Kronk in a December 7, 2009 report.
According to the suit -- filed Thursday in a Florida circuit court --the Enquirer's story was headlined "Casey Anthony Says Meter Reader Killed Caylee." The ensuing story repeated several claims, attributed to Casey Anthony's legal team, about Kronk's past, including that he had displayed "inappropriate behavior with young girls" and had used duct tape to hold his ex-wife against her will. The suit dismisses the paper's claims as "false and defamatory," and says that it has caused Kronk to suffer "loss of reputation, embarrassment, humiliation outrage."
Authorities in central Ohio are trying to solve a panties puzzle: why hundreds of pairs of mostly women's underwear were dumped along the side of a road.
Fairfield County Deputy Gary Hummel said Thursday the undergarments were found in trees and on hillsides in several spots this week on a road in Berne Township, about 30 miles southeast of Columbus.
He says some of the panties were still folded the way they'd come in packaging, while others appeared to have been worn. There were nearly 1,700 pairs in all, in a mix of colors and patterns. Hummel says when collected, they filled 10 large trash bags.
He says investigators are "baffled" as to where the panties came from.
A Monarch butterfly perches on a leaf at Wendy Park in Cleveland Tuesday, Aug. 30, 2011. The orange and black butterflies use the park on the Lake Erie shoreline as a resting stop on their annual migration Canada to Mexico and Baja California.
Photo by Mark Duncan
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