Hurry over to my friend Marcus Goodyear’s site where his post today and comments are about this latest about Barrack Obama from Marc Ambinder (The Atlantic):
“He aims to post every piece of non-emergency legislation online for five days before he signs it so that Americans can comment. A White House blog—also with comments—would be a near certainty. Overseeing this new apparatus would be a chief technology officer.”
Thanks to Fritinancy for the tweet on this!
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Also known as “the toothbrush made from yogurt cups,” the Preserve Toothbrush was designed by d
entists and engineers to be an innovation in both oral care and eco-friendliness.
The dentist-recommended 45° curved handle and soft bristles guarantee a thorough and even cleaning of your teeth. Available in seven vivid colors, the handle is made from recycled plastic, including Stonyfield Farm® yogurt cups, meaning that fewer natural resources are used to get your teeth sparkling. Combine that with the Preserve’s stylish design and reusable travel case and you’re not only living green, you’re living happy.
When it is time to replace your toothbrush (dentists recommend switching it every three months) send the toothbrush and case back to Preserve using our postage-paid label to be re-processed into plastic lumber for picnic tables, boardwalks and decks.
• Handle is made from 100% recycled plastic, including Stonyfield Farm® yogurt cups
• Curved, easy to grip handle makes it easy to reach every part of your teeth and gums
• Soft, virgin nylon bristles placed in a tri-level configuration with softer outer rows to protect your gums and tooth enamel
• Available in Medium, Soft, and Ultrasoft
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Recycline makes Preserve® — a line of stylish, high performance, eco-friendly products for your home. As a company, we strive to combine socially and environmentally responsible business practices with groundbreaking design to create products that people feel good about having in their homes. We believe that choosing eco-friendly products doesn’t mean having to sacrifice quality, price, or performance. We believe they should make you feel good.
In 1996, founder and president Eric Hudson was committed to the need to use our earth’s resources more efficiently and responsibly. The developing plastic recycling market represented a great new opportunity to reuse our earth’s resources (plastics are made from oil and natural gas-making up roughly 9% of the world’s petroleum usage). However, at the time that Recycline was formed, there was a lot of concern that recyclables were not necessarily turning into new products.
Seeing an opportunity, Eric started Recycline to reuse Earth’s precious resources and turn them back into products that people wanted. He worked with dentists, scientists and engineers to create Recycline’s first high-quality product from recycled plastics – the Preserve Toothbrush.
Since then, Preserve has grown into a dynamic, green lifestyle company offering a range of products for almost every room in your home. Using innovative methods, we turn used materials into razors, colanders, cutting boards, tableware and more!
As we grow, our core principles remain the same:
•Preserve products are made from 100% recycled plastics and 100% post-consumer paper. By using recycled materials, we save energy, preserve natural resources and create an incentive for communities to recycle.
•All of our plastic products are recyclable, either through our postage-paid labels and mailers (toothbrushes and razor handles) or at the curb in communities that recycle #5 plastic.
•We make our products in the USA, so that we can ship them shorter distances, using less fuel and limiting our environmental footprint.
•We don’t test on animals. Period.
• Preserve products are made to last – and to look good doing it.
The Recycline team is made up of 14 people and a host of talented interns who bike, walk, train, and drive (some in bio-diesel fueled cars) to our office outside of Boston intent on bringing Preserve and our mission into more homes everyday.
Q&A with Eric Hudson, President/Founder of Recycline
Why did you start Recycline?
I started Recycline in 1996. I wanted to start my own business that developed creative ways to conserve and re-use the earth’s resources. There was a lot of recycling going on back in the early ‘90s and there weren’t a lot of companies putting those materials back into new products. I saw an opportunity in that 45% percent of people recycled, and I thought they would have an interest in products made from their efforts. The biggest opportunity was with #5 plastics. They weren’t being recycled well nor reused well. And there you have it. I also wanted to start a company that I would feel good about coming to every day.
What is Recycline’s mission?
Simply put, to deliver consumer products that offer great looking design, high performance and are better for the environment than alternative products. We do this by using recycled materials for our products and packaging. To reduce the waste created by consumer products, we work with suppliers and other companies to reduce, recover, and reuse. We also have a commitment to support the recycling industry through our business practices and through volunteer, professional and community efforts.
Were you always an environmentalist?
I’ve always loved the outdoors. As you get older, I think you learn to really respect nature. And when I was in my 30s, I felt I wanted to merge my professional life with the concern to reduce our impact on the earth. I mean, I grew up in the Berkshires and my family was a bit crunchy and have been known to literally hug trees, but it wasn’t until the early 90s that I decided I wanted to marry my professional career with my love of nature.
What was the first Preserve® product you came out with?
It was a toothbrush. I actually had an idea for a toothbrush since I was a teenager. My dentist always told me to brush in a certain way, with a 45 degree angle, but the brushes out there just weren’t made to do that. My Dad, who was an industrial designer of cars and boats, designed the first Preserve® toothbrush, with input from professional dentists.
How did you come to partner with Stonyfield Farm yogurt?
They found us at Boston’s Earth Day event on the Charles River. At the time, Stonyfield sent
their excess yogurt containers straight to a plastic lumber company and thought maybe they could do something cooler like make toothbrushes or other products from it. And there we were giving out our Preserve toothbrushes. Our plastics engineers over at UMass Lowell found it hard to use the containers at first but then got the formula right. It’s been a great relationship with Stonyfield Farm as we share similar ideals. They are widely known as a national leader in socially and environmentally progressive business practices and they incorporate environmental action in almost all their initiatives.
The Preserve products are not only made with recycled materials, but are also
recyclable. What happens to the Preserve products that are returned to Recycline?
They are made into plastic lumber, used to build things like bridges, porch decks, benches, picnic tables, and children’s playground equipment.
Designed by Kenneth Lylover, and thanks to POSH MAMA for the heads up on this.
The Surf Chair® was been developed in collaboration with fellow student Leif Sørensen for the ‘Internet Collection’ competition at the Scandinavian Furniture Fair 2000. Among 15-20 other designs from the Internet Collection talent zone it was nominated ‘Best Product’ and covered in several Danish and international magazines and news papers.
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In July of 2007, the American Civil Liberties Union of Louisiana filed a lawsuit asking a federal court to remove a picture of Jesus from a Slidell Courthouse, claiming “mental anguish and emotional distress” (Jennifer Riley, The Christian Post). Two months later, officials added over a dozen framed pictures of “notable lawgivers in history” such as Moses, Charlemagne, Sir William Blackstone, Confucius, Hammurabi, and others. Also added was a reproduction of the United States Constitution.
Now the ACLU is asking a federal judge for over $65,000. Part of the money is for court costs (less than $700), and part for two attorneys and a law clerk.
Hmmm………Jesus making money for the ACLU…………
Now, shifting from the ACLU to OMGme:
Teacher brain. It functions without my permission.
A few days ago, I’m applying eye shadow and wondering why it’s even called “shadow” since that’s really the last thing any woman wants on her eyelids as I’m listening/watching the morning news. We have a television in the bathroom, which is probably TMI for many of you, but I didn’t want you to think the family room was my cosmetic base of operations……anyway…..out of the corner out of yet unshadowed eye, I see a reporter interviewing a young man who is standing in front of what is clearly a semi-demolished home following a recent tornado. I didn’t hear the question the reporter asked, but I did catch his response which started with, “Well, when I seen it coming. . . ”
My sympathetic, compassionate, touching reaction? “Saw, when you SAW it coming. . . ”
And tonight I read that in an upcoming Oprah show, Cher’s going to discuss her brief fling with Tom Cruise when he was 23 and she was 39. Talk about TMI. . .
After this blog post, I’ll need to create a new category. Maybe “Depths of Shallowness” since it’s so oxymoronic. If nothing else, the moronic works.
I suppose, though, this inane topic is the price for waking up an hour before the alarm. Why? Well, let’s see. Toss, turn, toss, turn, turn, toss, turn, toss, toss. If I was a salad, I’d be ready.
I wander into the kitchen, start the coffee maker, read my morning devotion. Then, I check to see if the blog I wrote last night posted. Which it did not. Why? Because today is not the 15th, it’s the 14th. And the blog on the 15th can’t be moved to the 14th.
So, I cruise over to MSN to check the headlines, and I stumble upon a story discussing the latest eating habits of Katie Holmes and Victoria Beckham. This (eating and the mention of those two) also seems oxymoronic. Here’s the scoop (and definitely NOT ice cream):
The magazine (Life & Style) reports that during a recent outing to Madeo, the duo shared a green salad sans dressing, one piece of fish and one side of steamed spinach. They also ordered one regular Coke and two glasses of ice.
“Katie poured half the soda into each of their glasses, then filled up the rest with bottled water,” a Madeo regular told the magazine.
“She is copying Victoria’s fad of eating seaweed shakes, frozen grapes and edamame beans. She is tiny.”
Katie’s getting a reputation for micro-munches. Recently, a fellow diner gave Life & Style magazine a rundown of her light lunch at L.A.’s Osteria Mozza. “She had only steamed asparagus as an appetizer, then a tiny plate of chilled beets for her entrée.”
Granted, I live in a state where a bowl of gumbo and slabs of buttered French bread are considered an appetizer before a lunch platter of fried seafood buried under mounds of hush puppies with a side scoop of potato salad, more French bread, and then bread pudding for dessert.
But, really, ladies. Have some self-respect. You are mothers. You are not supposed to have the bodies of ten-year-old boys. What message are you sending to my daughters, my granddaughters, and everyone else’s daughters?
As my father used to say, “Just shows to go ya.” All that recognition, all that money, but all that still isn’t all that. So sad.
Dinner is served – 165 feet up
All is well until have to go to the bathroom
Dinner in the Sky: A chef prepares meals while diners enjoy panoramic views harnessed in seats that swivel 180 degrees, suspended via a crane.
By Jayne Clark, USA TODAY
Here’s a dining concept that’ll make your head Â- if not your stomach Â- spin: It’s dinner at a table suspended 165 feet in the air with chairs that swivel 180 degrees.
Dubbed Dinner in the Sky, the attraction is making its U.S. debut Monday in Orlando at the annual International Association of Amusement Parks and Attractions convention. About 25,000 attendees are expected at the one-stop-shopping event, where the amusement industry rolls out new thrill rides and related products.
The high-flying dining venue was introduced in Europe last year and consists of a platform suspended from a crane. Guests are harnessed into 22 seats, with space in the center for a chef and two helpers. With local officials’ blessings, the platform can be transported to just about anywhere the crane can maneuver. One recent spot: in front of the Amiens Cathedral in France, with dinner prepared by a three-star Michelin chef.
“It was like eating with the 12 apostles and Jesus Christ,” quips David Ghysels, co-founder of the Belgium-based company.
Ghysels sees all sorts of U.S. possibilities for the dangling restaurant, including air space over the Grand Canyon, Niagara Falls and golf courses.
“I think human beings always like to see what’s happening from the air,” he says. “And there are so many wonderful natural spots in the U.S. Dinner in the Sky could go anywhere.”
The restaurant (dinnerinthesky.com) belongs firmly in the special-occasion category, however. The cost for eight hours is about $11,444 Â- not including catering.< o:p>
I’m so confused.
If this news isn’t already as old to you as Hillary confusing accepting flowers from a child with sniper fire, here goes…
Thomas Beatie and his wife, Nancy, are going to have a baby. Only Nancy had a hysterectomy some time ago.
So did theyadopt? No
Find a surrogate? No.
Attempt a uterus re-installation? No.
They decided…no problem…THOMAS will have the baby ( a girl). And, so far, there’s no evidence to indicate he’s considering a C-section.
Thomas, who is constantly referred to as a native of Hawaii, and I fail to understand the media’s fascination with his island status, is a transgendered male who moved to Oregon. His sex change from Tracy to Thomas involved chest reconstruction and testosterone therapy.
So, despite his hairy underarms and flat chest, Thomas, as Mr. Rogers would say, is still fancy on the inside (boys, of course, are fancy on the outside). And because two X chromosomes do not a baby make, Thomas used a home insemination kit. Hmm. That alone is curious. Where does one purchase such a thing? The kit does not supply prepackaged Y chromosomes because the couple used a sperm donor.
At first I thought this was a delayed April Fool’s joke, but then I read the couple’s making an Oprah appearance, so it HAS to be true. In fact, here’s the latest news from news.com.au:
And, here’s what I’m trying to wrap my brain around. . .maternity clothes for men.
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