Easy Whipped Shea Butter

Anne Marie (aka The Soap Queen ) was experimenting with some shea butter and came up with this really easy Whipped Shea Butter recipe: Ingredients 14 oz Shea Butter 5 oz Coconut Oil 6 ml Cranberry Fig Fragrance Oil (or your choice) Electric Mixer 4 ounce jars Instructions Combine all ingredients and whip for 6-7 minutes in an electric mixer on medium/high. Spoon into jars. That’s it

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Glyphs and Ampersands and Rubrics! Oh My!

One of the things that often gets sacrificed to the beautiful regularity of type is the quirky individuality of handwriting, with its swashes, ligatures, and shorthand. Early medieval books copied in Latin were full of abbreviations, rubrics, and illuminated capitals that printers like Caxton tried to emulate, while making their books and broadsides more legible.

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Comment on NAEYC’s Emerging Standard for Daycare Centers and Homemade Baby Food

From Wholesomebabyfood.com – Last week I was contacted by “jane” whose daycare center told her she would not be able to bring in her homemade baby food any longer.  The National Association for the Education of Young Children is a body that daycare centers in the U.S. seek accreditation from.  The NAEYC has proposed

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Experience Writer Needed

Name (Full Name or Company Name) : JACK LEO Your Website : http://freelancer.com Compensation : 500 I need a writer who can always write more than 3 topic Articles a week. I do present this to some Orphanage homes every Week.

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AOL’s Seed at SXSW

TechCrunch is reporting that AOL’s Seed.com (content production site for freelance writers) is making its grand debut at Austin’s SXSW festival. The article at TechCrunch describes a handful of freelancers being assigned interviews with SWSX musical talent, but what it fails to mention is that Seed does not generally assign articles in this manner. As I revealed in this blog post about AOL’s Seed.com , any article that a writer chooses to write does not belong solely to that writer

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Taxi Driver in India Uses YouTube to Find Customers

It is always inspiring to read stories of people who may never have had an Internet connection but are still using the power of Internet to find clients from across the globe. Meet Samson – he drives an auto-rickshaw in the Souther Indian city of Chennai and has a proper website where his prospective clients can read more about his services and where they find him. Samson checks his email every week and says the best way to reach him is text: I can usually be found outside of the Taj Comorandel Hotel, please just walk down the ramp to the street and ask for Samson! I can also be contacted by phone or text message at any time.

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YouTube’s IPL Show Fails to Live up to the Hype

Have been trying to watch the IPL telecast on YouTube for some time and all I get is this “blue screen” saying they are “experiencing technical difficulties.” The video stream does appear intermittently but its extremely slow and flaky. The audio from the telecast has a very low volume and feels completely out-of-sync with video. The video quality of the live webcast isn’t any great either.

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The Surprising Old-School Secret to Blogging Success

About 80% of your blog’s success comes from “ass in chair” time. That’s the time you spend writing posts, editing posts, finding the perfect image, connecting with fellow bloggers, answering comments, shaping up your SEO, and all the other tasks we teach you about here on Copyblogger

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Could Accountability be The Key to A Successful Freelance Writing Career?

I’m on a diet. Have been for, oh, about 7 weeks now. I’ve lost 7 pounds

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Spring break

With the snow gone and the trees still months away from leaving, the train sounds very loud as it rumbles along Main Street just a half-mile away. On Tuesday morning, the Canada geese arrived, honking over our back yard as they banked a turn toward the small pond at the bottom of the hill

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rs35753505 C-alleles make de l’Art Brut of the brain

According to wikipedia, “Jean Philippe Arthur Dubuffet (July 31, 1901 – May 12, 1985) was one of the most famous French painters and sculptors of the second half of the 20th century.”  “He coined the term Art Brut (meaning “raw art,” often times referred to as ‘outsider art’) for art produced by non-professionals working outside aesthetic norms, such as art by psychiatric patients, prisoners, and children.”  From this interest, he amassed the Collection de l’Art Brut, a sizable collection of …

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Back where we started

Starting, well, now, this blog has a new old name – Hakkarainen Clipping Service. In the 1950s, my mother would send newspaper and magazine clippings, books and other items of interest to friends, family, and chance strangers. She nicknamed this practice Hakkarainen Clipping Service with the tag line “No obligation to read, acknowledge, or return.” She continued the service through decades of growth, change, hard times and good, divorce, remarriage and name change, in sickness and in health, until her death in 2000.

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Program Director Healthcare IT

Since its inception, the New England Healthcare Institute has been committed to the identification, assessment and promotion of valuable health care technologies with the potential to improve the quality of care while reducing cost. The Fast Assessment and Adoption of…

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FDA Asks Hospitals to Report Safety Glitches in Digital Health Systems

A theme of my writings on this blog and on my teaching site for the past decade has been mismanagement of healthcare information technology by an industry and people who have been operating for many years far beyond their qualifications and competencies. Technology requiring the highest levels of biomedical-IT cross disciplinary expertise has most commonly been designed, managed, implemented, led and defended by amateurs [see note 1].

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How Your Business Can Get Traction

Does your business need help getting “Traction”? Here’s the book you need – the Traction Book ! Best of all, it’s free! This book demystifies how businesses get traction. It’s made up of interviews with successful entrepreneurs and investors.

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On plausible alternative hypotheses

Nic Wade, usually a reliable writer on matters genetic, says something very strange in his most recent article on whole genome sequencing in reference to the outcomes of genome-wide association studies:The results of this costly international exercise have been disappointing. About 2,000 sites on the human genome have been statistically linked with various diseases, but in many cases the sites are not inside working genes, suggesting there may be some conceptual flaw in the statistics.Erm… …

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The Coolest Carnivorous Plant/Toilet Plant You’ll See This Week | Discoblog

The giant montane pitcher plant is a botanical predator, ruthlessly luring in prey and feasting on its victims–except when it’s not. Researchers have discovered that the carnivorous plant is mighty adaptable; when there’s no prey around, it thrives just fine on the poop of a tree shrew that lives in Borneo’s mountains. The pitcher plant is the world’s largest meat-eating plant; in low altitudes it feeds on ants, small insects, and possibly even small rodents

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Make Up Tips For Cheerleaders

Cheerleading is a sport that uses organized schedules made from elements of some dance, jumps and tumbling and stunting to nonstop the event’s spectators to cheer on sports teams at games and matches or race at cheerleading competitions. It is a lively athletic sport that breath-taking routines like jumps, tosses, human pyramids, yell, etc

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Is texting, talking while driving crucial to work life balance?

Heated debates are going on all over the country on whether to ban text messaging and cell phone use while driving. I've really been thinking a lot about this topic after judging a high school contest and talking to a student who has formed an organization urging people to stop texting and talking in their cars ( STATIC ). I really don't think teens have the maturity to text or talk on their cell phones and drive the car

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Specialist nurses paid higher salaries than family doctors – Mar. 11, 2010

NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — Despite the growing shortage of family doctors in the United States, medical centers last year offered higher salaries and incentives to specialist nurses than to primary care doctors, according to an annual survey of physicians' salaries. Primary care doctors were offered an average base salary of $173,000 in 2009 compared to an average base salary of $189,000 offered to certified nurse anesthetists, or CRNAs, according to the latest numbers from Merritt Hawkins & Associates, a physician recruiting and consulting firm.

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