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Why doesn't everyone have this option rather than having to pay for MediAlert bracelets? - Gienah Ghurab

I did not get past the fact that DRACO MALFOY IS ON TWITTER. Hehehe! - Gienah Ghurab

This isn't the perfect kitchen, but the lead photo makes me so happy. One guess as to why... - Gienah Ghurab

I WANT ONE!!! - Gienah Ghurab

HAPPY HAPPY JOY JOY HAPPY HAPPY JOY JOY... - Gienah Ghurab

I. Would. Like. This. Dress. - Gienah Ghurab

Quote from the article: "Perhaps in the back of our minds we already understand, without all the science, that something terribly wrong is happening. We know that it cannot possibly be healthy to raise such grotesque animals in such grossly unnatural conditions. We know that if someone offers to show us a film on how our meat is produced, it will be a horror film." - Gienah Ghurab

OMG LOOKIT LOOKIT LOOKIT AT THE PUMPKIN DEATH STAR! o.O - Gienah Ghurab

I would like some wreaths and a wreath hanger, please. Thank you. - Gienah Ghurab

[I]n 1970 — just a few years after Medicare's enactment — the defense budget stood at 8.1% of the nation's economic output, as measured by GDP. Combined spending on Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid, meanwhile, stood at 3.9% of GDP. But in 2019, almost a half-century later, defense is expected to fall to about 5% of GDP, while the big three entitlement programs will approach 12%. By 2050, they will exceed 18% of GDP — which is about the historical average of total revenue collection each year. The U.S. government, like GM today, will then be mainly in the business of providing health and pension benefits, and will struggle to perform its other basic functions — maintaining a standing army, for example — on the side. - Gienah Ghurab

You may think of your size 10 friend as "skinny," but no matter what she weighs she may never feel that way about herself. She could be three sizes smaller, and STILL see a fat girl in the mirror. The fact that she looks thin to you doesn't change how she perceives herself. Don't diminish her feelings about her own self-image just because her feelings don't align with your perceptions of her body. Consider, too, other people battling the same issue. There may be women out there who wear size 28 and would kill to be your size 18. Does that change how you feel about your size? - Gienah Ghurab

I wonder if this would work with Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome? I don't know what a "thoracoscopic ablation" is. Is this a surgery which affects the AV node (which, to my very very layperson's understanding, limits the electrical activity that reaches the ventricles of the heart [I cribbed that from Wikipedia *'.'*] - the excitation of which is the issue in WPW.) Wow. Didn't know I was so in to the condition my mother had. - Gienah Ghurab

(Some images NSFW!) - Gienah Ghurab

"The poisons cause the little dogs to slowly bleed to death, thus weakening them and making it easier for other animals to catch them and eat them... since the drugs can linger in the prairie dog's body or carcass for weeks, anything that comes along and eats them also gets the poison in their body. In this case, threatened and endangered species are inadvertently harmed. Black-footed ferrets... Swift foxes, golden and bald eagles, American badgers, and ferruginous hawks are also all at risk." - Gienah Ghurab

(Great, fun stats.) - Gienah Ghurab

Note to self: To see what's going on in my area, go to http://trendsmap.com/local... - Gienah Ghurab

Reader Diana recently e-mailed her process for deciding what stays and what goes when she is uncluttering. Simply stated, she asks: Does this make my life better? - Gienah Ghurab

We buy doo dads and knick knacks and a seemingly unlimited supply of things to proclaim, “this is who I am!” We think our stuff tells the world who we are, but our eyebrows — little bits of hair that nature automatically provides — say more than our possessions ever will. - Gienah Ghurab

As soon as you see someone suffer what you think may be cardiac arrest, call 911, start giving chest compressions 100 times a minute, and don't stop for anything. To get more information and to find classes in your area in emergency cardiovascular care, go to the American Heart Association Web site. - Gienah Ghurab

And at nearly 500g a week, we eat twice as much sugar as we used to. We also consume more processed and junk food. One of the problems is that these often rely on corn syrup as a flavouring and cheap preservative. And, as nutritionist Katherine Zeratsky explains, when we metabolise this form of sugar, it doesn't trigger the production of hormones that help regulate appetite and fat storage. - Gienah Ghurab

You can use this to decide what to get rid of. Try things on. Look at them. Consider not only your unvarnished emotional reaction to them, but also the way that they interact with all the other pieces in your wardrobe - Gienah Ghurab

(Health tips.) - Gienah Ghurab

Although she makes others aware of her food allergies, Kelly has found that few people understand them. Even her mother forgets sometimes, and will offer her carrot cake without considering nut content. "Fifteen years ago, if someone had said this to me, I wouldn't have understood either, because I was able to eat any and everything, and I did," Kelly said... For those of us in the allergic adult world, however, it's often a battle to make sure meals are safe, and a struggle to communicate that even a tiny piece of almond could result in a life-threatening reaction. - Gienah Ghurab

(Man I wish the hone 'net was working so I could show this to my boys!) - Gienah Ghurab

Typedia is a font-centered community project that indexes, catalogs, and displays fonts of all sorts. - Gienah Ghurab

However the researcher from the USDA report in a new study that the heating of HFCS raises levels of hydroxymethylfurfural (HMF), a toxin that causes gut ulceration and dysentery-like symptoms in bees. In humans it has been linked to DNA damage. - Gienah Ghurab

The H1N1 virus, commonly known as swine flu virus, could infect between 30 percent and 50 percent of the American population during the fall and winter and lead to as many as 1.8 million U.S. hospital admissions, the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology reported. - Gienah Ghurab

Paraffin is obtained from petroleum during the refining process. In fact, it is the very last thing that is extracted during the refining process. Asphalt is the second-to-last byproduct removed... The soot released during a romantic candle-burning is similar to the emissions released by diesel-burning vehicles. Contaminants may include: toluene, benzene, methylethylketone, naphthalene. Benzene and toluene are considered carcinogens by the EPA. - Gienah Ghurab

(I do most of these. :)) - Gienah Ghurab

There are two kinds of vacations: the kind where you’re trying to actually do something—explore a foreign country, see the sights, climb the mountain, learn to scuba dive/ski/blow glass, and the kind where you do nothing at all—you lie out on a beach, read the paper by the pool, or simply slowly decompose in front of the TV. (Too bad my vacations are neither!) - Gienah Ghurab