Back when the term ?postmodern feminism? hit its heyday, conservatives first weaponized the equality issue by citing bold theories from extreme thinkers and shoving them in front of average women, taunting them with the dreaded warning that ?she says she speaks for you!? In some cases, it worked. Who wanted to be grouped with a strident harpy like Catherine Mackinnon, who said all sex is like rape? That this was an outrageous distortion linked to her work on the impact of pornography seemed unimportant. The damage was done; feminism was about women who made bad choices: the choice to work, the choice to have (and enjoy) non-procreative sex, and the choice to delay marriage. To be a feminist was to be defined by one?s poor choices. And two decades later, that ?bad choices? argument has been mainstreamed. There is so much that is foolish about trying to turn America?s women against America?s other women based on their jobs, their incomes, and their parenting. Ann Romney is no more ?Everywoman? than the rest of us, precisely because there is no such thing as everywoman. There are just many, many women, making the same compromises and bargains that men make.? So why is it still OK to talk about women in stark, cartoonish terms??
This Burger King Whopper has so much bacon that it costs $80
Around here, we have a saying:?Everything’s better with bacon. But surely that adage has met its match in this record-breaking?Burger King Whopper, loaded with a jaw-dropping 1,050 pieces of bacon. Indeed, your jaw will have to literally drop to the floor for you to have any chance at fitting this thing in your mouth.
Don’t go looking for this mammoth sandwich on your local restaurant’s menu, though. It was created under a Japanese promotion where you can add 15 strips of bacon to any sandwich for only 100 yen ($1.20). Apparently, you?can ask for those 15 strips of bacon 70 times, as the person in the video above did. The end result, as you can see, is an absolute monstrosity at the bargain price of $80.
The sandwich was ordered and video taped by news site?Rocket News 24. Apparently, this was the reporter’s second order?? the day before, the site ordered sandwich with a measly 105 pieces of bacon.
In case you’re wondering, this sandwich is most definitely not for?someone on a diet. According to Burger King’s nutrition guide, a Whopper sandwich with 1,050 pieces of bacon would contain 74,170 calories?? more than an average person should consume in a month.
[via?Geekosystem]
This article was written by Fox Van Allen and originally appeared on Tecca
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Networked Politics ? Blog Archive ? Foods For Weight Loss
So what are weight loss foods? We have all heard the expression, ?you are what you eat?. Whether it?s pork chops, fried chicken, potatoes, cheese cake or chocolate, your body will respond based on how you are feeding it. It?s not a bad thing to enjoy the foods you eat, but moderation is the key. You can still enjoy food on a diet, you just need to know there are some foods that when eaten help you lose weight and others that you want to avoid as they will cause you to gain unnecessary pounds.
Cold or chilled soups are great alternatives for low calorie dishes. They can include gazpacho or cucumber-dill, which are typically rich with plenty of vitamin rich vegetables. Consuming low-calorie soups prior to a meal is an excellent method to reduce overeating foods that tend to cause you to put on extra pounds. Also several health researchers confirm that having a type of low-calorie broth-based soup can actually provide you with a sense of fullness.
There is no single food that serves as the perfect diet food no matter how much hype you read in magazines or see over the Internet or on TV. However, if you know the difference between which foods promote losing weight and which contribute to weight gain, you?ve already got a good head start on achieving the ideal weight you desire.
Carrots are great weight loss foods due to its low calorie but high nutritional content (such as vitamins A, C, beta carotene and fiber). Because of its abundant fiber, it fills you up easily, preventing you from heaping on excess calories.Carrots are even more nutritious when cooked, but not over cooked. When consuming raw carrots the cellular walls are tough and harder on your digestive system. Steaming vegetables will maintain the nutrition, but aid in digestion. This enables your body to convert more beta carotene into vitamin A. Alternatively, you can blend carrots into juices with other fruits or vegetables.
You have to distinguish what can be considered ?super? foods which are a must for a healthy weight loss diet. For some dieters, adding these weight loss foods to their daily diet can provide quick weight loss that they need. They prefer this because they feel so restricted on other formal diet plans being offered in the market.
As experts suggest we need to drink at least two to three liters of water each day. But this can be hard to maintain on a consistent basis if you are not used to drinking that much water. An alternative to add food items with a high water content, but fewer calories. These types of foods help to fulfill our water intake and with fewer calories being eaten, our bodies begin to lose those extra pounds while the water helps to flush out toxins which speeds up the weight loss process even faster.
Specific foods aimed specifically at rapid weight loss are ones that speed up your metabolism. These are the kinds of foods that are rich in protein such as chicken, fish, meat and eggs. Caffeine and other weight loss accelerators can speed up your body to make you lose weight. HOWEVER, these adding fat burning pills and accelerators can cause problems and be damaging to your health.. Foods like citrus fruits, soybeans, fresh fruits, garlic, cayenne pepper and olive oil are much better alternatives than artificial accelerators.
For more information about the best foods for weight loss, please go to: a href=?http://www.programacomoemagrecer.org/?como emagrecer/a.
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Two U.S. senators asked federal agencies Monday to look into whether employers and colleges that are asking for access to individual Facebook profiles are breaking the law.?
Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., made the request along with?Sen. Richard Blumenthal D-Conn., who last week said he’s writing legislation that would outlaw employers from requesting Facebook passwords. The issue was?first reported by Bob Sullivan of msnbc.com’s Red Tape Chronicles three weeks ago.?
On Monday, the senators asked the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) and the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) to investigate whether the practice violates federal laws — specifically, the ?Computer Fraud and Abuse Act?(CFAA) and the the?Stored Communications Act?(SCA).
As the senators wrote to the DOJ:
We urge the DOJ to investigate whether this practice violates the Stored Communication Act or the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. The SCA prohibits intentional access to electronic information without authorization or intentionally exceeding that authorization, 18 U.S.C. ? 2701, and the CFAA prohibits intentional access to a computer without authorization to obtain information, 18 U.S.C. ? 1030(a)(2)(C). Requiring applicants to provide login credentials to secure social media websites and then using those credentials to access private information stored on those sites may be unduly coercive and therefore constitute unauthorized access under both SCA and the CFAA.
“Employers have no right to ask job applicants for their house keys or to read their diaries ? why should they be able to ask them for their Facebook passwords and gain unwarranted access to a trove of private information about what we like, what messages we send to people, or who we are friends with?” Schumer said in a statement.
Like Blumenthal, Schumer cited how job seekers may feel obligated to give up access to their Facebook accounts or other personal information in order to get the job.
“Facebook agrees, and I?m sure most Americans agree, that employers have no business asking for your Facebook password,” Schumer added, refrencing Facebook’s official statement on the practice.
On Friday, Erin Egan, Facebook’s chief privacy officer on policy, decried ?the practice of employers asking for access to Facebook accounts. She went on to say that such requests are a direct violation of Facebook’s terms of service and “it also potentially exposes the employer who seeks this access to unanticipated legal liability.”?
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Various Facets of Photography Lighting
When there is talk about photography lighting, there is no dearth of topics related with the subject. There is so much to read and write on, apart from learning on the subject. It becomes really impossible to decide what to write on and from where to start a matter. Lighting is whole and sole of photography, even backdrop loses its effect if there is not proper lighting.
Various facets of photography lighting
As one talks about various facets of photography lighting technique, the beginning should be made with kits that are available for bringing in a particular effect. This is a trick which one has to learn, if you know how to use backdrop and want to better your photography skills then take tutorials on lighting.
There are some useful tutorials that are available on the net to train an individual who want to learn about lighting.
Online tutorials are very effective and can be used whenever you want quick reference. There is almost everything online like how to maximum, minimize, on which angle the light should be put and how much and what kind light should be used for bringing out an effect say as highlighting a white background and others.
Once you have learnt about the usage, you can either hire or purchase the tools that are required to create natural effect inside the studio or for diffusing and controlling light while shooting is on.
Photography lighting is an extensive topic and the photographer grows with it. A good photographer is one who is able to invent new tricks and techniques and produces a great photograph.
Keep reading on photography lighting to learn about new effects and techniques and move from being just an amateur to a professional photographer.
Some more nuances about photography lighting
Moving ahead if you get little deeper, then you would realize how photography lighting is different for various themes.
Like fashion lighting is completely different from product lighting. There is no match between the two, and one has to understand this before taking up the fashion photography.
Taking photos is an art which is ruled and governed by the features of lighting that is used from various angles while taking a photograph.
Today many people are taking up photography as their hobby due to internet as it is their complete source of information. If you want to take it as a profession, then also you can learn about it online.
It is the most cost effective way to gain inputs on how to improve your skills of photography and get better day by day. As one attains knowledge and learn the technique about photography lighting, then one can get careful about the brand of products. There are various types of products that are used for lighting. You can make a choice once you have become deft at handling the equipment in the best way.
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Learning best when you rest: Sleeping after processing new info most effective, new study shows
Learning best when you rest: Sleeping after processing new info most effective, new study shows
Saturday, March 24, 2012
Nodding off in class may not be such a bad idea after all. New research from the University of Notre Dame shows that going to sleep shortly after learning new material is most beneficial for recall,
Titled “Memory for Semantically Related and Unrelated Declarative Information: The Benefit of Sleep, the Cost of Wake,” the study was published March 22 in PLOS One.
Notre Dame Psychologist Jessica Payne and colleagues studied 207 students who habitually slept for at least six hours per night. Participants were randomly assigned to study declarative, semantically related or unrelated word pairs at 9:00 a.m. or 9:00 p.m., and returned for testing 30 minutes, 12 hours or 24 hours later. Declarative memory refers to the ability to consciously remember facts and events, and can be broken down into episodic memory (memory for events) and semantic memory (memory for facts about the world). People routinely use both types of memory every day ? recalling where we parked today or learning how a colleague prefers to be addressed.
At the 12-hour retest, memory overall was superior following a night of sleep compared to a day of wakefulness. However, this performance difference was a result of a pronounced deterioration in memory for unrelated word pairs; there was no sleep-wake difference for related word pairs. At the 24-hour retest, with all subjects having received both a full night of sleep and a full day of wakefulness, subjects’ memories were superior when sleep occurred shortly after learning, rather than following a full day of wakefulness.
“Our study confirms that sleeping directly after learning something new is beneficial for memory. What’s novel about this study is that we tried to shine light on sleep’s influence on both types of declarative memory by studying semantically unrelated and related word pairs,” Payne says.
“Since we found that sleeping soon after learning benefited both types of memory, this means that it would be a good thing to rehearse any information you need to remember just prior to going to bed. In some sense, you may be ‘telling’ the sleeping brain what to consolidate.”
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