No S Diet: Lifehacking your way to Skinny

The No S Diet, described below, is a diet I invented for myself that I imagine might work for similarly minded people.No funny science or calorie accounting involved, just a few simple and mnemonic tricks for giving your willpower the upper hand.There are just three rules and one exception: * No Snacks * No Sweets * No SecondsExcept (sometimes) on days that start with 'S'That's it... (more)

No S Diet: No snacks, sweets, seconds, except on days that start with S.

Getting to Deadline - Programmer Productivity Tips At Work (Getting to Done)

I am my own worst enemy when it comes to achieving my deadline goals. These are tips / reminders I’ve found useful through work experience.Most of the tips are general, but some are specifically suited to programmers/engineers in situations with long compile/simulation phases (compiling is the act of building an executable, simulation is the act of running it to completion).

Getting to Deadline - Programmer Productivity Tips At Work (Getting to Done) « //engtech

Use ChipIn to Pay as a Group

In office life, there’s the constant thrum of someone raising money through selling cookies, or collecting a few dollars for a baby shower, or a few more for someone’s 10 year anniversary at the company. It’s easy to give and receive money for these because you’re all in the same place. Sunil comes over and collects a few Euros, and then goes to see Ramesh and Shashi. Soon, the task is complete... (more)

Use ChipIn to Pay as a Group - lifehack.org

Where have you been all your life? Free and Fun.

Where are you going and where have you been? Exploration Age is the site all about places. You can create a map of anything, and catalog your personal travels with your own Virtual Pin Map
 
Build Your Virtual Pin Map
Create your own travelogue of the places you've been. In just a few easy steps, you'll have your own personal travel history to share... (more)

Exploration Age

Burgers, buddies and cabins: poll says Canadian travellers prefer simple life

OTTAWA (CP) - With the summer holidays winding down, a new public-opinion survey suggests Canadians are a people with modest travel tastes.They prefer burgers, buddies and lakeside cabins to five-star dining, shmoozing the rich and famous, and glitzy hotels in foreign capitals, says the Decima poll... (more)

CANOE Travel - News - Burgers, buddies and cabins: poll says Canadian travellers prefer simple life

Harmony Across a Divide: Israeli and Arabs Together

By Alan Riding

IT was an immensely appealing experiment, both in its idealism and in its simplicity: Let young Israeli and Arab musicians play together in an orchestra to show that communication and cooperation were possible between peoples who had long fought each other... (more)

All About Jewish Theatre - Harmony Across a Divide

THE CYCLADIC SISTERS: TWO GODESSES AND A TEMPTRESS

The magic of Greece is in its very ambiguity, in the tensions that pull it from one wonderful, delicious extreme to the other. The senses are pleased and pampered by the serene beauty of Greece found in the depth of its vistas, the spectacular sunrises and sunsets, and the radiance of the light that even the poets cannot adequately describe. The senses are titillated and tempted, also, by Greece�s extremes of food and drink, flesh, nightlife, music, and the burning sun. These tensions intrigue and mystify the visitor?the barbarian who comes to the shores of Greece?but they are perfectly understandable to the Greeks who live everyday with the conflicting realities of life in the land of the gods...(more)

Hellenic News of America

As Barbaro continues fights for life, Matz reflects on fateful day

That was a long, sad day, beginning in cool sunlight at Pimlico and ending in darkness at an animal hospital in Pennsylvania, where began the battle to save Barbaro's life. It was a day that took its place in racing lore

SI.com - Writers - Tim Layden: As Barbaro fights for life, Matz reflects on fateful day - Friday August 25, 2006 1:40PM

She was born Zhu Zheqin, but is better known as Dadawa

She was born Zhu Zheqin, but is better known as Dadawa. Tibetan music was her first inspiration, but the singer has now travelled the world. And she's back with a new album, of what she calls Pan-Asian music. We went to her Beijing show, where Dadawa agreed to a Culture Express interview. And, let me tell you, she's just as fascinating as the music that she makes.

This is Dadawa's comeback concert, after a decade long break. She performed new songs, from her soon to be released album "Seven Days".

This is not traditional Buddhist music, nor is it sung in some lost, ancient language. It's simply an expression of Dadawa's inner world.

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.CCTV International