Why Is This Terrified Woman Exfoliating With a Box Cutter? [Beauty]

The life of a product model isn't easy, particularly when it involves demoing questionable skin care contraptions. Like this so-called sonic cleanser that looks so much like a box cutter that this model appears legitmately scared for her wellbeing. More »


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Fundrise: Real Estate Private Equity Investing For The Local Masses

by Bruce Kirsch on August 22, 2012

Fundrise is an exciting new way to invest in real estate locally.

Overview. Two Washington, DC-based entrepreneurs and real estate investors/developers, Ben and Daniel Miller, have launched the Fundrise.com platform to facilitate the raising of equity capital for real estate transactions. In so doing, they are exposing once-inaccessible investment opportunities to any member of the general public with $100.00. It?s revolutionary.

How It Works. You go to Fundrise.com, select an Investment Offering (currently there is only one posted), and then learn about it by studying the wealth of information posted under the various headings: Overview, Tenant, Property, Neighborhood, Financials, and Benefits.

The Fundrise model

How To Invest. You must first be invited to be a member of the Fundrise community. You can request to be invited at the top of the webpage with the ?Request Invite? button. My invitation came in under 24 hours.

Superb marketing by Fundrise

Once you join, you can purchase shares in the transactions currently offered. (Always consult your professional advisors [and significant others] before making any investment?)

Fundrise's current offering in Washington, DC's H Street NE Neighborhood

Voila! You?re a real estate investor.?

Kudos to the Fundrise team for driving a positive change in the commercial real estate business.

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Analysts: Recession likely without budget accord

WASHINGTON (AP) ? A new recession is likely if a stalemate over tax and spending cuts continues between Democrats and Republicans, according to dire projections by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office on one of the this year's defining campaign issues.

In its annual summertime report, the budget office said Wednesday that letting decade-old tax cuts expire and sweeping spending cuts occur in January ? which will happen without congressional action ? "would lead to economic conditions in 2013 that will probably be considered a recession."

If that happened, the economy would contract by 0.5 percent ? a gloomier projection than the budget office made earlier this year when it envisioned slight growth under that scenario. Unemployment would rise to around 9 percent by late next year if the standoff persists, the analysts said, with budget office Director Douglas Elmendorf telling reporters that failing to resolve it would cost 2 million jobs.

"I think the stakes of fiscal policy are very high right now," Elmendorf said at a briefing, adding, "We have very serious budget challenges and very serious economic challenges in this country."

The budget office's latest warning came amid an election year in which neither President Barack Obama nor congressional Republicans have shown any signs of giving ground in their protracted battle over taxes, spending and the budget. The lethargic economy and massive federal deficits are top-flight issues in this year's campaigns.

Obama wants to renew expiring tax cuts for everyone except individuals earning over $200,000 and couples who bring in above $250,000. Republicans are demanding that all tax cuts be extended. The two sides also have made no progress over how to prevent budget-wide spending cuts from taking effect. These automatic cuts were sat in motion by the failure of lawmakers last year to reach a bipartisan debt-reduction agreement.

Both sides were quick to blame the other for their standoff, with the White House saying it is time for the Republican-led House to approve tax cuts for all but the nation's highest earners.

"They're willing to hold the middle class hostage unless we also give massive new tax cuts to millionaires and billionaires ? tax cuts we can't afford that would do nothing to strengthen the economy," White House spokesman Jay Carney said in a written statement.

The No. 2 House Republican leader said it was Obama who must bend

"The president's push for higher taxes on small businesses and failure to prevent devastating defense cuts threaten our national security, jobs and economic growth," said Rep. Eric Cantor, R-Va., citing GOP claims that boosting levies on the wealthy will make it harder for them to create jobs.

According to Wednesday's budget office report, letting the tax cuts continue and preventing the spending cuts from taking effect would leave a deficit next year of just over $1 trillion. If the reverse occurs, the shortfall would be $641 billion ? in effect sucking roughly $400 billion out of a U.S. economy that is already struggling.

Though continuing the tax cuts and blocking the spending cuts would produce higher economic growth over the next two years, "it would reduce output and income in the longer run and is ultimately unsustainable," the budget office warned.

Wednesday's report projected a $1.1 trillion federal deficit for 2012, the fourth straight year the government's shortfall will exceed $1 trillion.

It also envisions an economy recovering at only a modest pace the rest of this year, growing at an annual rate of 2.25 percent.

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Romney says he's spending campaign money ?a little wiser? than Obama

Romney and Paul Ryan in New Hampshire on Monday (John Moore/Getty Images)Mitt Romney took a shot at President Barack Obama's fundraising on Tuesday, telling donors at a Houston fundraiser that he's managed his campaign cash better than Obama.

"You've perhaps noticed in the paper, we're a little wiser in our spending of dollars than the other side, apparently," Romney said. "I'm not managing their campaign for them, but we're going to spend our money wisely, we're going to spend it to win.

His comment came a day after both campaigns filed their July fundraising reports with the Federal Election Commission. According to FEC reports, Romney and the Republican National Committee ended last month with $185 million in the bank?nearly $60 million more than Obama and the Democratic National Committee, which reported just $127 million in the bank.

It was the third month in a row that Romney and the RNC?which are jointly raising cash for a committee called the Romney Victory Fund?have outraised Obama and the DNC.

Romney made his remarks in the midst of a fundraising swing through the Southwest, which began in New Orleans on Monday.

Tuesday's event, held at the Houstonian Hotel, was billed as an energy industry fundraiser and included an appearance by Ohio Sen. Rob Portman, who was on Romney's short list of vice-presidential running mates.

Speaking to attendees, Romney announced he would make a trip to New Mexico later this week, where he'll hold an event to speak about his energy policy. But he declined to tell attendees what he would talk about--noting the presence of reporters in the room.

"We will be, I believe, before the end of this week in New Mexico describing a comprehensive energy plan, particularly as it relates to fossil-based fuels. I know that we have members of the media here right now, so I'm not going to go through that in great detail so I can save a bit of that until a little later in the week," Romney told donors, according to a pool report. "But your input is something I wanted to retain before we actually cross the T's and dot the I's on those policies."

Romney was expected to raise at least $6 million from the Houston event. He's scheduled to travel to Midland, Tex., for another finance event this evening.

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Google Chrome for iOS update brings sharing to G , Facebook and Twitter

Google Chrome for iOS update brings sharing to G, Facebook and Twitter

We've had Google's Chrome browser on iPad and iPhone since June and now it has received its first update. After a recent update for the Google+ iOS app added sharing of links to Chrome, the lead feature in the new version is the ability to share from Chrome to "your favorite social network" (Google+, Facebook or Twitter). There have been a few other tweaks that the team says are in response to user reports including better sync sign in error messages, language detection and a fix for blank pages in incognito mode. While a share function that's limited to just a few apps and not being able to use it as the default browser still doesn't quite match the Android edition, users who prefer it to Safari can snag Chrome 21.0.1180.77 free in the usual place.

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    This is the first Barbie commercial that first aired during Mickey Mouse Club! This is higher quaility then our old upload we did last year, enjoy. :) Ruth Handler watched her daughter Barbara at play with paper dolls, and noticed that she often enjoyed giving them adult roles. At the time, most children's toy dolls were representations of infants. Realizing that there could be a gap in the market, Handler suggested the idea of an adult-bodied doll to her husband Elliot, a co-founder of the Mattel toy company. He was unenthusiastic about the idea, as were Mattel's directors. During a trip to Europe in 1956 with her children Barbara and Kenneth, Ruth Handler came across a German toy doll called Bild Lilli. The adult-figured Lilli doll was like what Handler had in mind, so she purchased three of them. She gave one to her daughter and took the others back to Mattel. The Lilli doll was based on a popular character appearing in a comic strip drawn by Reinhard Beuthin for the newspaper Die Bild-Zeitung. Upon her return to the United States, Handler reworked the design of the doll (with help from engineer Jack Ryan) and the doll was given a name, Barbie, after Handler's daughter Barbara. The doll made its debut at the American International Toy Fair in New York on March 9, 1959. This date is also used as Barbie's official birthday. Mattel acquired the rights to the Bild Lilli doll in 1964 and production of Lilli was stopped. The first Barbie doll wore a black and white zebra striped swimsuit and signature topknot ponytail, and was available as either a blonde or brunette. The doll was marketed as a "Teen-age Fashion Model," with her clothes created by Mattel fashion designer Charlotte Johnson. The first Barbie dolls were manufactured in Japan, with their clothes hand-stitched by Japanese homeworkers. Around 350,000 Barbie dolls were sold during the first year of production. Barbie was one of the first toys to have a marketing strategy based extensively on television advertising, which has been copied widely by other toys. It is estimated that over a billion Barbie dolls have been sold worldwide in over 150 countries, with the well-known fact that three Barbie dolls are sold every second. The standard range of Barbie dolls and related accessories are manufactured to approximately 1/6th scale, which is also known as playscale. Barbie products include not only the range of dolls with their clothes and accessories, but also a huge range of Barbie branded goods such as books, fashion items and video games. Barbie has appeared in a series of animated films and makes a brief guest appearance in the 1999 film Toy Story 2. Uniquely for a toy fashion doll, Barbie has become a cultural icon and has been given honors that are rare in the toy world. In 1974 a section of Times Square in New York City was renamed Barbie Boulevard for a week, while in 1985 the artist Andy Warhol created a painting of Barbie. Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts. In a series of novels published by Random House in the 1960s, her parents' names are given as George and Margaret Roberts from the fictional town of Willows, Wisconsin. Barbie has been said to attend Willows High School and Manhattan International High School in New York City, based on the real-life Stuyvesant High School. Today the Barbie line is responsible for more than 80% of Mattel's profits.
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    This is the commercial for the Barbie Candy Glam Style Station Styling Head. You can create beautiful hair styles and mix their very own yummy candy flavored lip gloss with the Candy Glam Style Station. You can make lip gloss using the easy-to-use lip gloss mixer, four different flavored and scented lip glosses (strawberry, blueberry, grape, vanilla) and loose glitter. Girls can then choose their favorite colors to blend and add sparkle from the glitter wand. By simply attaching any of the three sweet treat containers to the mixer, girls spin to create their very own creations. The containers can be used to store the lip gloss or serve as storage for jewelry or accessories. Girls can also style the beautiful candy-scented styling head using the hard candy hairclip and the pretty hairbrush included.
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If you?ve heard anything about Rock Fresh in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, it has probably been something about their delicious entr?es or convenient take-out service. But what you may be interested to learn is that owner Rockne Becker has recently started to increase his community involvement. Becker has begun teaching students about the restaurant industry by enlisting their help in the kitchen. This local eatery gives youth in the Akron, Ohio and Stow, Ohio areas the opportunity to create freshly prepared dishes and find out what it takes to run a successful restaurant.

While there are certainly other businesses around Akron and Stow that provide helpful services to the area, few take the hands-on approach that Rock Fresh does. Rather than merely giving a presentation about his establishment to local kids, Becker has brought them on as Rock Fresh staff members. This is a great opportunity for the children, whether or not they have ever thought about such a career. Becker teaches the students about the restaurant industry by letting them see the inner-workings firsthand. They acquire experience by following safe kitchen protocol, creating freshly prepared dishes, packing up convenient take-out for customers, and more. Becker helps the kids to understand what it takes to run a small business, as well as how each individual has an important role in the establishment.

This Cuyahoga Falls dining facility has gone above and beyond with its community involvement. Not only does Rock Fresh allow local youth to learn about the culinary field in a fun environment, but it also gives them skills they can use in their future endeavors. Even if some of the students don?t go on to work in the business, they will take their newly acquired knowledge and strong work ethic with them. While many people only think of this eatery in terms of its tasty menu, Rock Fresh delivers much more than just good food to the area.

Whether it?s community involvement,?freshly prepared dishes, or?convenient take-out?around the Akron, Ohio and Stow, Ohio area, Rock Fresh does it all. If you?re interested in taking a peek at the menu to see what all the fuss is about, visit their website at www.rockfresh.biz or call 330.923.7625 to place an order. Of course, you could always stop by the eatery at 3883 State Road in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio to catch a glimpse of Rockne Becker as he teaches students about the restaurant industry!

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Modern-Day Phineas Gage? How Man Survived a Rod Through His Brain

Phineas Gage, the 19th-century rail worker who secured himself an immortal place in entry-level psychology textbooks when he survived an accident in which his brain was fully pierced by a large iron spike, can get off his historical high horse.

A 24-year-old Brazilian construction worker named Eduardo Leite has just survived an eerily similar accident, and he may walk away from his ordeal in better shape than Gage, who reportedly underwent pronounced personality changes after the spike was removed.

Luiz Alexander Essinger, the chief of staff at the hospital where Leite was taken after his frontal lobe was gouged by a 6-foot (2 meter) pole, "said Leite was lucid and showed no negative consequences after the operation," as reported by the Associated Press. The rod fell from the fifth floor of a building Leite was working on, piercing his hard hat before entering the back of his skull and exiting between his eyes. ?

"Today, he continues well, with few complaints for a five-hour-long surgery," Essinger told the AP. "He says he feels little pain."

The head of neurosurgery at the Rio de Janeiro hospital where Leite is recovering credits the man's astounding recovery to the fact that the rod pierced a "non-eloquent" region of his brain, an area that has no easily discernible cognitive, motor or sensory functions. [How Did Teen Survive Fall from Golden Gate Bridge?]

But despite Leite's doctors' heartening reports, Marla Hamberger, an associate professor of clinical neuropsychology at the Neurological Institute of New York, isn't convinced that he will emerge from his ordeal with a totally unchanged personality. According to Hamberger, even the impressively stiff upper lip that Leite seems to be keeping might be a sign of mental changes wrought by his brain injury.

"Even the fact that he doesn't seem to be bothered by it could be the effect of a frontal lesion, because most people would be bothered by that," she told Life's Little Mysteries. "Sometimes someone can seem functionally intact, but when you actually do some testing, there may be more of an effect than is obvious."

In her work, Hamberger uses electro-stimulation to map non-eloquent regions in patients? brains before they undergo neurosurgery, in order to plan surgical routes that will minimize long-term functional decline. She says that before Leite has undergone in-depth testing, it will remain unclear whether his accident damaged a region that handled a cognitive faculty, such as strategy planning, that isn't called up during bedside conversation.

"With Phineas Gage, [a change] also wasn't apparent immediately," she said. "My guess is that there?s probably something that's changed; the frontal lobes are extremely important for social behavior and higher cognitive function."

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Bloombox natural iPhone amplifier dock doubles as a fancy planter

Bloombox natural iPhone amplifier dock doubles as a fancy planterIf you like quirky designs and love your iPhone then this particular Kickstarter project may be just up your street. Say hello to Bloombox, no that?s not a typo, it?s a play on words to pretty much describe exactly what this project is about. It?s first and foremost a charging dock for your iPhone but also offers an acoustic amplifier through It?s simplistic hollow square framed design along with a place to plant a few bits of greenery.

The Bloombox is made out of ceramic molds created at Mudshark Studios. Each Bloombox is painted with a light matte glaze in either white or black. The Bloombox was born out of the combination of my three driving passions and my own need for a dock. Design, ceramics and technology (namely Apple products) all culminated together to create a habitable environment and acoustics for iPhone and iPod docks out of one single piece of ceramic.

The design aesthetics are simple and compliment Apples iPhone & iPod devices. The Bloombox was designed to have enough room to create a functioning environment for most small plants and also amplify the audio from your device by 30 percent.

The Bloombox is certainly different and not something that I have seen before. It would certainly not look out of place in a smart apartment or luxury home. The thought of watering plants right under your iPhone makes me a little concerned; so you would have to make sure it was done very carefully.

If you like the idea of the Bloombox dock, you can become an early adopter with a pledge of $50 or more to secure one should they make it into production. The Bloombox currently has around $3,200 of pledges and it needs to hit over $5,000 to gain enough to be funded; it still has 32 days to go. As with all of these Kickstarter projects, just because a particular item reaches its funding total doesn?t guarantee it will go into production.

Do you think the Bloombox is a good idea or is it a little bit over the top?

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Cardiio App Monitors Heart Rate With a Scan of ... - Diets in Review

Monitoring you heart rate can be a pain, especially for those who have to do so frequently for health purposes. But a new mobile app aims to make this sometimes tedious task not only simple but enjoyable. What some may view as a game, Cardiio makers view as a pivotal health tool that measures your heart rate by simply taking a visual scan of your face.

That?s right: Cardiio users simply hold their iPhone or iPad up to their face, the app does a quick scan, and then your heart rate, projected life expectancy, and how you compare health-wise to the average person is revealed.

We reached out to Cardiio co-founder and CEO,?Ming-Zher Poh, Ph.D., to get a better idea of what this cool, new app is really all about.

What does this app do, and how exactly does it work?

Cardiio is a beautiful and fun app that accurately measures?your pulse by scanning your face using the front-facing camera of your iPhone/iPad. Every time your heart beats, more blood is pumped into your face. This slight increase in blood volume causes more light to be absorbed, and hence less light is reflected off your face. With Cardiio, your device?s front camera can track these tiny changes in reflected light that are not visible to the human eye to calculate your heart rate.

How was Cardiio developed, and by whom?

The technology behind Cardiio was developed back in 2009 during my Ph.D. at the MIT media lab?where I was working on new ways for gathering?physiological information unobtrusively. We?ve since refined the technology and made it compatible with mobile devices.

How accurate is Cardiio?

Our peer-reviewed studies have shown that measurement accuracy is within 3 bpm of a clinical pulse oximeter when used properly in good lighting conditions. Best practices can be found on the Cardiio app website.

Is its purpose to promote healthy living, or just be a cool gadget?

Cardiio is certainly one of the coolest apps for your iPhone/iPad, but its purpose isn?t merely to ?wow? people. The goal of Cardiio is to promote healthy living by making?tracking one?s health delightful and?engaging?instead of a chore. Your resting heart rate is an important indicator of general health and Cardiio makes it really simple to track it over time.

What do people need to know about this app before and after buying it?

Cardiio offers a unique, touch-free approach that needs no connection?to your body. One of the key strengths is that?the measurement technology?behind our app has been validated and peer-reviewed. Another aspect that stands?out is?the user experience of our app. Cardiio was designed to make health?tracking a very simple and engaging experience.?Instead of merely giving you?your heart rate measurement, our app puts your data in context so that you can?understand what your readings mean and how you measure up.

What kind of consumer response have you seen so far?

The response so far has been extremely positive! Cardiio is now one of the top-ranked apps in the Health & Fitness category. Consumers are really excited about how technology has the potential to improve health care and provide them with more tools to take charge of their own wellbeing.

The Cardiio app costs $4.99 and is available for iPhone and iPad.?After trying this app myself, I was impressed. The sheer fact that my phone could scan my face and reveal my heart rate was amazing! And even though it seemed like it was just a cool gadget at first, I loved hearing from the co-founder that it really is intended to be a tool for health. I agree that if we can make monitoring our health fun, perhaps more people will get on board ? and that?s a trend our nation could afford ascribing to.

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images from cardiio website

August 21st, 2012

Source: http://www.dietsinreview.com/diet_column/08/cardiio-mobile-app-monitors-heart-rate-with-a-quick-scan-of-the-face/

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