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Automatically posting to Twitter through AltGlobe

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I am trying to understand how the new Drupal module that I just uploaded to www.altglobe.com is working.
I really hope it will work smooth, so I will save energy by not having to move from one website to the other every time I am posting something and will be able to offer it to the members of the community. Read more...

What did you do in 2008?

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Oh yeah I know the feeling. My first reaction would be to take my head into my hands and shake it vigourosly: "one entire year spent doing nothing"!

Apart from getting married, and, going to Brazil (twice) for the first time, and Oh yeah...becoming American...oh I went back to France too...when was it? March? April? Read more...

Do you KNOW what you are putting on your skin?

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Have you ever thought about how amazing your skin is? It is the largest organ in the body, and weighs up to 11kg. It acts as a barrier to infections, preventing microorganisms entering our bodies. It is full of nerve endings that give us our sense of touch. It regulates our body temperature. Read more...

Mining e-waste: The New Gold Rush?

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From April 2007 to February 2008, the city of Odate, Japan gathered about 17 tons of e-waste (according to a report from Harufumi Mori in Japan's Asahi Shimbun newspaper). Read more...

Meditation Music Opens Your Seven Chakras

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Your chakras are the "energy conduits" of your body, and should be maintained with daily meditation. From the base of your spine to the crown of your head, the seven chakras allow different kinds of energy to flow freely through your body. When these chakras become blocked, energy cannot pass throughout your body. To cleanse your chakras, meditation music is ideal.
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Dodging Denatured foods

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Denatured is a term that signifies the altering of a protein or product in a way that makes it dysfunctional, unnatural, and abnormal.  Commercial processing makes many foods unfit for consumption or for their intended biological purpose. Unfortunately, much of the food made available to us at our supermarkets has been denatured. 
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The Pros and Cons of Fair Trade: Is it really all that it is cracked up to be?

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What is Fair Trade?

As consumers, we have a responsibility to consume products that are sustainable. We need to choose products that will keep our world healthy for generations to come.
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The winter holidays, the sun and beyond

Aviad's picture
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The holidays of light

 "Utterly meaningless! Everything is meaningless." “The sun rises and the sun sets, and hurries back to where it rises.
Kohelet, Ecclesiastes, chapter1.
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