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Seven, stupid, simple ways to be green and save green » Lyved - 0 views

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  • Don’t turn your faucet on until you’re ready
  • we turn on the faucet before the brush or cup is under the water.
  • Take it easy when driving
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  • Also if you’re driving downhill, let your vehicle coast and when you’re coming to a stop don’t slam on your brakes, slowly reduce your speed.
  • Have a dehumidifier? Use the water
  • water your flowers
  • Reuse trash bags
  • Attach funnels to your watering cans
  • when a rainstorm comes the funnels will catch the raindrops and fill the can.
  • Take the time to start tissue and paper towel rolls
  • Water plant roots, not leaves and flowers
  • water the base of the plant to reduce evaporation.
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Attackers chop off man's 'magic' leg - 0 views

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shared by sirgabrial on 17 Dec 07 - Cached
  • Attackers chop off man's 'magic' leg
  • Two men attacked an 80-year-old, self-proclaimed holy man in southern India and chopped off his right leg, apparently believing it had magical powers, police said Thursday.
  • Yanadi Kondaiah, who claimed that those who touched his leg would be cured of illness or have wishes granted, was hospitalized in serious condition after the attack Tuesday, said R. Ravindranath Reddy, a senior police officer.
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  • "We are looking for the miscreants as well as the leg,"
  • remote area 340 miles south of Hyderabad, the capital of Andhra Pradesh state.
  • "This seems to be a case of superstition. The two people might have taken away the leg hoping to benefit from its magical powers,"
  • Kondaiah told police that two men offered him a drink as thanks for previously helping them with his magical touch.
  • After he passed out drunk, the men chopped off the leg below the knee with a sickle and left him to die
  • passing villagers found him and took him to a hospital.
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w00t crowned word of year by U.S. dictionary | Oddly Enough | Reuters - 0 views

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shared by sirgabrial on 24 Dec 07 - Cached
  • "w00t" crowned word of year by U.S. dictionary
  • "w00t," an expression of joy coined by online gamers, was crowned word of the year on Tuesday by the publisher of a leading U.S. dictionary.
  • Massachusetts-based Merriam-Webster Inc. said "w00t" -- typically spelled with two zeros -- reflects a new direction in the American language led by a generation raised on video games and cell phone text-messaging.
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  • It's like saying "yay," the dictionary said.
  • "It could be after a triumph or for no reason at all,"
  • Visitors to Merriam-Webster's Web site were invited to vote for one of 20 words and phrases culled from the most frequently looked-up words on the site and submitted by readers.
  • Runner-up was "facebook" as a new verb meaning to add someone to a list of friends on the Web site Facebook.com or to search for people on the social networking site.
  • Merriam-Webster President John Morse said "w00t" reflected the growing use of numeric keyboards to type words.
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Banning samurai swords | Oddly Enough | Reuters - 0 views

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shared by sirgabrial on 17 Dec 07 - Cached
  • Banning samurai swords
  • The government said Wednesday it would ban the sale of samurai swords because the weapons had been used in a number of serious, high-profile attacks.
  • The Home Office said the swords would be added to the Offensive Weapons Order from April next year, meaning they could not be imported, sold or hired.
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  • However collectors of genuine Japanese swords and those used by martial arts enthusiasts would be exempt from the ban.
  • "In the wrong hands, samurai swords are dangerous weapons,"
  • Home Office Minister Vernon Coaker said.
  • "We recognize it is the cheap, easily available samurai swords which are being used in crime and not the genuine more expensive samurai swords which are of interest to collectors and martial arts enthusiasts."
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