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Recently I started to use the acai berry as an addition to my normal diet. I managed to get some acai juice from a local distributor and have taken the acai juice to work with me everyday since. It’s tasty and nutritious and apparently it’s going to make me fit and healthy.

I started looking for ways to get acai juice after I saw some really interesting reports about it on Oprah. I love Oprah and as she told me the acai juice would do me the world of good I had no choice but to believe her! The acai juice that I buy is delicious and nutritious. It does actually feel like it’s doing me a world of good. Apparently it is the anti-oxidants in the acai juice that do the most good, but there is loads of other juicy goodness in there as well.

Some of the residents in the areas that harvest the acai fruit rely on the berry in a big way. I’m talking about it making up almost half of their diet and providing all of their income. If I’m feeling this much better just from drinking acai juice imagine what it must be doing to them! Amazing!

Yet another US State is considering banning Salvia Divinorum. Salvia is a hallucinogenic herb that, although barely known just a few years ago, has suddenly shot into the limelight. This limelight has given politicians, reporters and writers everywhere a good reason - so they think - to demand the banning of this naturally occurring drug. Salvia is currently legal - with good reason, some would say, since there is absolutely no indication that it is at all dangerous.

The Cincinnati news site news.cincinnati.com presents a typically biased view of the situation, describing Salvia users as experiencing paranoia and panic. What it doesn’t tell us is the potential for positive benefits of Salvia. Not only does Salvia promise a trip like nothing else you’ve ever experienced, but it might also leave you with a feeling of inner peace, it might give you extra drive and motivation, and it might even concentrate your mind and body on whatever task is at hand. People use drugs like Salvia for a whole host of reasons, only one of which is getting high.

Even if people are using Salvia to ‘just’ get high, they can feel safe in the knowledge that there are virtually no toxins put into the body when using Salvia, and there are no known side effects. Mazatec Mexican shamans have been using Salvia to get in touch with their spiritual side for centuries; they do not appear to believe that there is anything wrong with it.

If Cincinnati does decide to ban Salvia then it will be in fairly good company: the number of States now banning Salvia — or at least controlling its use in some way — has gone into triple figures in recent months.

You should ask yourself this: is it worth sacrificing my civil liberties for the sake of an easy vote, an easy house bill, or an easy story for the journalist? Of course it isn’t. Banning Salvia is the first step on a slippery slope that can only end in disappointment.

It is testament to the tenacity and drive of Sarah Palin that she managed to lead her high school basketball team to victory in a small-school basketball championship in 1982. Sarah hit a critical free throw in the last seconds of the game. She did all this whilst suffering from a painful stress fracture in her ankle.

Born in 1964, Sarah Palin is a pretty hockey mom with 5 beautiful children; her eldest boy is serving in Iraq. She is a self confessed bible believing Christian, and this helped to polarize opinion about her across the US Sandpoint, Idaho was the place of Sarah Palin’s birth, but her family moved out to Alaska while she was still very young. Sarah returned to Idaho to complete her University education, graduating with a degree in communications-journalism in 1987.

Sarah Palin’s father used to take her moose hunting before she went to school and the family generally loved the outdoors. Competing together in long distance runs was not an uncommon phenomenon. But Sarah Palin is no plain tom boy: she won the Miss Wasilla pageant and came third in the Miss Alaska pageant. This latter near-victory ensured that she had a college scholarship.

I was trawling through some insane videos on YouTube recently when, to my shock and complete and utter horror, I spotted my daughter high on Salvia in one of them. I recognised a couple of her friends before I recognised her, but there she was, giggling like a maniac and making a fool of herself in front of the world.

Naturally I had to confront her about this.

Yes, she said, she regretted that the video had made its way onto YouTube; she did not, however, regret using Salvia to get high. Again, I was shocked as this simply wasn’t something that I expected from my daughter.

I told her that I’d seen all the bad press about Salvia and that, in my opinion, there was no smoke without fire (so to speak). In her opinion there was, and she had looked into the matter herself once her friends started smoking Salvia to check how safe it was. She told me that it was actually statistically safer than either alcohol or nicotine (and safer by quite some way) and that this research was the basis of her deciding to take the drug.

I respect my daughter as much as I hope she respects me, and I’m not one to dismiss her opinion on this outright, as much as I thought it to be rubbish. I decided to give her the benefit of the doubt and to go and do some of my own research into Salvia.

Well, what can I say? I always knew that my beautiful daughter was clever and resourceful, and she’s also quite often right. She was in this case.

I’m no longer worried about her smoking Salvia for the health reasons: any doom saying on behalf of the media is just there to improve their potential for a good story. Salvia seems to be completely safe and there have been no deaths reported where Salvia has been the major contributing factor.
I still don’t like the fact that she was on YouTube, but at least I can rest safe knowing she’s not going to kill herself.

Dealio is a rather aggressive and very nasty piece of adware that infects your computer when you are least expecting it; unfortunately some people offering useful software decide that it will be better packaged with adware such as Dealio.

Ares Destiny is one such piece of useful software tainted by the color of this nasty disease.

And I didn’t realize until too late.

The first thing that you will likely notice about Ares Destiny is that the website is clean and professional looking; the next thing will be that it is entirely free of cost; the third that the download process works quickly and the fourth that the installation process is surprisingly painless. So far so good, you may be thinking.

And indeed that is what I thought. Even to the point where I was downloading and sharing music with others all over the world. I’d seen other versions of Ares around but Ares Destiny was the first one I’d notice that was free. I’d even started to recommend Ares Destiny to some of my friends.

Oh dear: what a mistake. It was only after a while that I noticed the popups ads appearing all over my computer. It was a little while after that that I tied these popups to Dealio which in turn I managed to tie to Ares Destiny. This is definitely no longer on my recommended software list.

What benefits does owning and running your own home based business bring? This short article will try and enumerate the immense pleasure and freedom that a home based business can bring you. But remember: it does not come by itself. Every home based business requires a lot of hard work and attention, just like any other business.

First you have the freedom that working your own hours can bring. If you want to pop out to pick up your kids or your wife (or husband) then you are free to do so. If you want to work nights then you can do that too. If you want to work 20 hours a day or just 4, a home based business can be the answer, too.

Another very real benefit is the fact that you work for yourself. No more pandering to the whims of “the man” in the office. No more making coffee for ungrateful coworkers who make no attempt at being sociable.

Then there’s the commute. Set off at 8.59 and be in your office at 9.00. Magic. This really can be a reality with a home based business.

Whatever your reasons for wanting a change in lifestyle, a home based business could well be the answer to your prayers.

This article is going to take a very brief look at Salvia Divinorum and why the hell it has suddenly got so unpopular with politicians and lawmakers in the US. This is a question that needs to be answered, because just a few years ago these very same politicians and lawmakers would never have heard of Salvia or its hallucinogenic effects.

Which is odd, because now they all talk as it has been the scourge of humanity for a generation; if you were to judge Salvia purely by what has been written about it by over zealous journalists and over eager politicians then it is Satan’s own drug, and potential users are lured to their inevitable and instant death.

Of course this isn’t the case… at least we hope that Satan isn’t involved somehow.

The fact is that politicians and, subsequently, media types have picked up on Salvia as an easy target. They can punish those who enjoy Salvia because the public perception of those involved in any kind of hallucinogenic drug is one of evil bottom-feeders who pick on kids coming out of school. This is a minority drug and they’re not going to get any major opposition to its ban. The fact that both alcohol and nicotine are both far more widely used and far more damaging seems to have conveniently passed them by.

Naturally if politicians go on the warpath then the journalists are not far behind. What is an easy vote for politicians is an easy story for the media.

So the answer to the question of why Salvia is hated so much is simple: it isn’t, really. There are just a lot of people who are willing to use it as a scapegoat simply because they have no other ideas about decent policy or decent stories.

Nobu just released a new inwall touchscreen computer that will be shipping by mid-December. The unit features a 1.0GHz fanless Intel processor, a revolutionary 4GB solid state disk drive.

Here is an excerp from the folks from Nobu:

The new 8″ panel is a fully functional inwall touchscreen PC with all necessary input/output ports to control any subsystem or automation hardware in your home or office. Our goal with the new design is to satisfy a large demand for a smaller inwall touchpanel as well as to create the most robust, powerful, and visually appealing touchscreen computer on the planet. We designed the N8 without a fan because we wanted to eliminate noise and also to eliminate possible points of failure which is also why we will offer the high performance industrial Embedded Disk Card (iEDC) hard drive as an alternative to a standard 5400RMP hard drive. The N8 touchscreen PC will have a fanless 1.0 GHz Intel Celeron M processor. The N8 will be available with Windows XP Professional. We can also sell the N8 without an operating system for special applications.

Acai, Anthocyanins, and the French paradox

Have you ever seen beautiful purple flowers? How about a deep red grape or a bright red Fuji apple? If you answered yes (and if you said no - stop reading this article and go out and enjoy nature more!) then you have seen anthocyanins. Anthocyanins are flavonoid pigments that plants and fruits synthesize. Anthocyanins give plants and fruits their beautiful pigmentation - but it is not all about looks. Anthocyanins can acts as a sunscreen for plants and in fruits the bright color attracts animals which feast on the fruits and in the process disperse the seeds. However, the aspect of Anthocyanins that is of most interest in regard to the Acai fruit is their antioxidant properties.

Fruits (like the Acai Berry Fruit) that are exposed to strong sunlight face a tremendous amount of ultra violet light stress. This UV light triggers free radicals to form in the fruit. Fruits, such as the Acai berry, develop high levels of anthocyanins because they have very strong antioxidants properties and can quench the free radicals. Here is the interesting part - the antioxidant properties of anthocyanins are maintained even after they are eaten by another organism. This is why fruits with bright pigmentation tend to have the great ORAC values - they are loaded with anthocyanins! Yes, you guessed it - Acai berries have a tremendous concentration of anthocyanins.

The French have a diet very rich in cheese, sugar, coffee, nicotine, sugar and white flour. With this type of diet you would expect the French to have a very high rate of heart disease, however, the exact opposite is true. The ability of the French to consume a heart clogging diet and yet have a very low rate of heart disease has been labeled the French Paradox.

Researchers now believe they have the reason for the “French Paradox” - anthocyanins! The French drink a significant amount of red wine and the the red wine grape, due to its anthocyanins is what is believed to be responsible for the very low incidence of heart disease. While red wine has a good quantity of anthocyanins, the Acai berry has over 30 times the anthocyanins as red wine.

Scientific tests on Salvia Divinorum – Sally D or Magic Mint – the legal and totally natural wonder drug that is gaining popularity across the country, have shown an interesting array of reported effects. A Paper released three years ago took the results from the comments of 500 regular Salvia users who reported effects including:

A warm or hot body, improved concentration, increased sweating, decreased sweating, improved mood and decreased self confidence.

Increased insight and connection with the Universe topped the bill with a massive 47% of people declaring that this was one major effect. Calmness and improved mood also came in in over 40% of the replies. 12% of people had difficulty concentrating resulting from their use of Salvia.

Weird thoughts was, perhaps predictably, high on the list with 36.4% of people claiming that this was a short term effect that they had experienced. One has to think that if these people didn’t get weird thoughts when taking Salvia then they were doing something wrong!

Overall the results show a distinct trend of positive reactions to Salvia, with only a few minor complaints showing the potential negative side to the hallucinogenic drug. This backs up (not so) popular opinion that there is simply nothing dangerous about taking or using Salvia as a drug.

The positive effects felt by Salvia users mirror the beliefs of scientists who want to test the drug to see its effects on mental illnesses like Alzheimer’s and Schizophrenia. Research in these areas is inconclusive so far but it is a young area of research and scientists and medical researchers are quietly optimistic that their efforts will bear fruit.

They will bear fruit, that is, if the Government doesn’t continue its run to ban Salvia. Over ten states have now banned or restricted the use of Salvia in some way and the future does not look rosy for users or researchers alike.