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Mushrooms for Cures and Sustainability

Mushrooms Treat Breast Cancer, Digest Plastic and  Make Sustainable Styrofoam

Research shows that taxol from the Pacific yew and other plants in combination with a fungus (e.g. mushroom) is effective in the treating several types of cancers.

More good news is that the second of two refinements of taxol used in chemotherapy also dissolves plastics completely away.

A third flash is that another substance found on mushrooms can be grown in containers (brick and concrete block molds) to create strong yet biodegradable building materials.

It looks like we have found cures for some cancers, cures for the Pacific Garbage Patch (there are 5 patches around the world) and a cure for non-sustainable building. Enjoy!

Eating Off a Human Body

Nyotaimori Body Sushi, Human Rights and Women’s Status

Increasingly, we are hearing about licking body shots of alcoholic beverages from someone’s bare body. Drinking alcohol is high risk behavior, health-wise, but still not exciting enough, so extreme drinking games and nudity have been added. Further, we are seeing such antics on the big screen – and the really big screen, IMAX – in more and more movies. For instance, Project X.

Project X is nothing like SpaceX, LunarX or the XPrize. It’s about under-aged house party drinking egged on by the older college crowd until 4 square blocks of an upscale neighborhood are demolished and then burned to the ground. It’s fiction based on a true event. But the bad part is that the teenager that was sucked into doing this was complimented on it by his dad in the film. We’ll see more and more of these kinds of films. We’ll see more of the behavior in the future, since parents took their elementary school kids to see this R-rater and they all laughed together. These families should not be surprised to see naked folks in their homes unexpectedly and their kids licking liquor from their bodies.

People eat dinner from nude people-tables, too. The practice did not catch on in the USA in 2003 and was abandoned. In 2007, it became acceptable. Nude sushi restaurants began to open around the nation with completely nude women and men lying on tables and partially covered with sushi, which was more expensive now, because it had a naked woman (or man) under it. In 2012, the practice is more widespread, but the “tables” wear skimpy clothing now.

What’s next for the human body?

In other countries, women are forced to become sushi serving tables in a form of human trafficking –

Nyotaimori Body Sushi, Human Rights and Women’s Status

Unusual and Great PA Vacations

Pennsylvania contains busy large cities, resorts, roadside oddities and a few counties that are entirely forested land.

For example, Marienville is located in Forest County, truly all forest and all beautiful. It may by home to a State Correctional Institution, but it’s completely safe, low-crime, and gorgeous in Autumn

Continue to other unusual places and find hermit monks’ caves, a resort city on top of a mountain, gigantic farmer’s markets with unusual things to sell as well as fine hand crafted furniture, the first oil well in America, hilarious town names, chocolate museums, and even a Big Mac® Museum.

Best of all – you’ll find peace and quiet, stimulating exhibits, good food, great people, and scenic byways you have not imagined.

Top 10 Most Unusual Places to Visit in Pennsylvania

Gardening Time Again

The gardening and hardiness chart of America has changed because of warming climates. Many of the more northern Lower 48 United States can plant earlier this garden seas during Spring , Summer, and part of the Fall of 2012.

Some of these suggestions for the garden are fun and different for a new year of fruits, vegetables, and flowers.

Spamtown USA Offers More Than Luncheon Meat

City Review: Austin MN – Food Mfg and the Hormel Foodie Throwdown

– The parent company of Spam, Hormel, contributes large grants to local universities and colleges to find cures for cancer through biomedical research. Along with this, new jobs are being created, the Downtown Austin area is offering new businesses and living spaces, and people are beginning to look at Austin, Minnesota in a new way. Food manufacturing is different from automobile manufacturing, but higher paid jobs are just as available. the 2012 Foodie Throwdown was suck a success that is declared an annual event, building on the success of the city’s two food companies.

With tax and rent incentives, crime half the rate of the USA overall, and a lower cost of living, Austin MN is attracting new businesses and new families to its location in Southern Minnesota. Lots of attractions and outdoor activities.

Spam Is Hawaii’s Favorite Food – Recipes and Fun

– Minced Ham and Spiced Ham disappeared in the mid-1930s until Hormel Foods Corporation developed Spam in 1937. It is even  black market item in some countries and sells millions of cans worldwide. Fine a couple of recipes at the link that are not gimmicky – they’re good.

Whatever Happened to Manners and Thought?

How to Act at The Public Library

Although they are public facilities, public libraries are workplaces for staff,  volunteers, researchers, and tutors. Personal and professional etiquette is important for good customer service to patrons and to have a place conducive to work. Even though you as a patron are not usually purchasing something at the library, you are a customer. Read some of the horror stories at local libraries above at the link – cars driving through buildings, fistfights, all sorts of things.

Children in Restaurants – How to Have A Friendly Meal

Have you ever been knocked down by toddlers running through the aisles and under tables in a nice restaurant? have you ever sat down in a chair smeared with condiments? While many good parents train their children on how to behave in a restaurant, some other parents do not, and still others do not watch their kids at all in these establishments – when they are ready to leave, they don;t even know where their toddlers are. Some really simple ideas would help us all to have a friendly meal, if they were followed.

Christmas Fun – Deliciously Different

A lot of these recipes can be prepared for an ocean of special occasions and they sparkle up any holiday season with something fresh and different. You can be sure that every 10 years, homemaking magazines come up with only slightly different versions of the same recipes of the past decade, hoping to attract new cooks. However, the rest of us get tired of “same same same.” You will not get tired of these dishes!

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Did you know that Christmas was once illegal in both the UK and the Thirteen Colonies? — The Irish and others used a code to celebrate anyway and we use it today.

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Have you lost loved ones close to Christmas, making it a sad time of year? You can turn all that arond with some moving tributes to help you remember them:

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Do you like Christmas Films? These are not the ones you’ve seen already 100 times, but they are funny, poignant, and memorable.

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How about Christmas Travel? -

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Historical Accuracy: 1621 Thanksgiving – No Pilgrims or Pie, But Beer

Museum documents in the form of correspondence and diary pages from settlers and the Mayflower; along with marketing records for smaller department stores,  F&R Lazarus, and the larger Federated Department Stores enterprise and big business in 1840 show that the scenario of black-and-white dressed Pilgrims and pies did not appear at the First Thanksgiving at all.  The first harvest failed.  The popular story is a marketing ploy invented by a female advertising person for a department store in the US East in 1840 – revisionist history written to make the English settlers more sympathetic and to garner more Holiday Shopping dollars. I had ancestors that saw it all happen. This need not ruin Thanksgiving, but many people are tired of the lies.

The Pilgrims stayed in England. The poorest of the poor  were sent to America and called themselves “saints.” They brought kegs of beer, according to historic records and eye-witness accounts, and no seed for crops.  They did not plan ahead, thinking everything they’d need would be in the New World,  and their governor was disgusted at one point – although he should have accepted some of the responsibility. His edict of He who does not work shall not eat was not only necessary, but NOT one that would have been used on disciplined and hard working Pilgrims.

Native Americans provided most of the food, along with 90 uninvited guests -  traditions that surprised the 1621  English. The natives provides all of the corn – 10 acres of it. There were no pies, because there was no wheat to grind into flour! Puddings of the day – like pies without crusts – were made instead. The food was good and we have the original recipes form The Ohio State University, whose staff researched the first gathering and the foods.

Please enjoy:

French Tarragon Bean Casserole – A Better Thanksgiving

This is by far a tastier dish than the canned-soup-bean-canned-fried-onion bowl that some have seen overcooked for many years. Using real mushrooms, fresh green beans, and lite sour cream or Greek yogurt, this is a casserole  that takes just a little while longer to prepare than the usual fare. In fact, the longest step in the recipe is cooking for 10 minutes inside the oven.

Try this recipe and find out what tarragon has to do with a Dragon and the play Waiting for Godot!

A Fresh New Classic – The Little Dragon Alternative

And don’t miss this fascinating and delicious dessert:

Christmas and Holiday Sugar Dusted Tomato Spice Cake – Extra Moist and Delicious!

Brownies are good for any holiday and a lot of everyday affairs:

Best Unique Brownie Recipes for the Holidays – Add Fruit!

Weekly Writing Contest

Many people today are considering online writing as a means to an income while they look for work. They have been downsized, displaced, left by a spouse or partner that produced the family income, have been hit by medical misfortune, and suffered any of dozens of problems that stopped their income. They are struggling with substantial effort to make a living. Others are new high school and college graduates that enjoy writing and also seek online writing as a source of supplemental income while they look for work.

We have a weekly writers’ recognition program that  publishes the articles of writers on our site for three months are less. We nominate 18 of them each week and 9 win extra Internet traffic through a variety of means.

Please visit the round-up of this week’s writers and review the Nominees’ work and please vote. Anyone can vote, no registration required. You’ll be helping someone earn an income! And thanks very much.

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