you knew i was going to make one. they are all over pinterest....(i still am not signed up for pinterest because i don't have time for one more thing but browsing is fun!) so we made one. i took a box of 64 crayons and took out the blacks and browns.i used another small box and doubled up on the good colors i liked and hot glued them to the top of our canvas. then we turned our blow dryer to hot on high. not long after you set the hair dryer by the crayons they get shiny and then the wax starts to melt! and it dries really quickly too. seriously. what could be happier than this?? GREAT project. loved it today is the first FULL day with ALL my kids in ALL day school.yeah...i am smiling as i type that. it's good. it's quiet. i am rockin' it. removing wallpaper.....making code for craft weekend stuff.....doing my hair....going to lunch..... it's all good. hooray for school!
Maximum Muscle Building Routine If you’re someone who is hoping to pack on more lean muscle mass, it’s important that you’re training correctly using the right program approach. If you go about your workouts in the wrong manner you could in fact just end up losing lean muscle mass, rather than building it up. Fortunately, if you train properly and get yourself on a good, higher calorie diet, you’ll see your muscle building results progress incredibly quickly. The following workout program has been designed to be performed four days per week, breaking the workouts up into upper and lower body sessions. You’ll perform two exercises in a row, take a day off to rest, and then perform another two day cycle before breaking for the weekend. This allows you to target each muscle group twice, while ensuring plenty of rest for recovery purposes. Do your best to lift a weight that does have you fatiguing by the time you reach the final rep to ensure sufficient overload that encourages muscle growth. Monday: Upper Body Workout
» Listen to your Internal Organs at the “Anechoic Chamber” Zazen Life April 6, 2012 by breakinbadd The Anechoic Chamber is the worlds quietest place. It is a room located at the Orfield Laboratories in South Minneapolis, and it is 99.99% sound absorbent. Orfield Labs If you have kids or a stressful job, this may seem pretty relaxing to you, but it turns out that people can’t stand to be in it for too long. Anechoic Chamber Steven Orfield is the founder and president of Orfield Labs, and he admits that he can only stay in the chamber for 30 minutes. His description of the experience is probably the most accurate: “When it’s quiet, ears will adapt. Since there is no other sound in the chamber, you are in fact the only sound in the room. “You take away the perceptual cues that allow you to balance and maneuver. As most of our ZazenLife followers know, space can be considered one gigantic Anechoic Chamber itself. Products are also tested in the Anechoic Chamber. Harley Davidson used the Anechoic Chamber to help them manage the sounds of their motorcycles.
Men's Health Muscles are funny things. They respond to just about any type of training, as long as it's hard and as long as it's not the same damn thing you've always done. That's the beauty of density training: It's a whole lot of stuff you haven't tried yet. And best of all, it'll hit your major muscles in a fraction of the time. Unsure what exercises you should focus on? THE PLAN: Do three density workouts a week, with at least 1 day off in between. Pushup Assume a pushup position, with your hands slightly beyond shoulder-width apart, feet together, and body in a straight line from head to ankles. Reverse Lunge and 1-Arm Press Stand holding a pair of dumbbells next to your shoulders. Inverted Row Lie underneath a secured bar. Prisoner Squat Place your fingers on the back of your head, pull your elbows and shoulders back, and stand with your feet shoulder-width apart. Explosive Pushup Perform a basic pushup. Reverse Lunge with 1-Arm Press Elevated-Feet Inverted Row Goblet Squat Isometric Explosive Pushup
Orfield Laboratories' anechoic chamber is the world's quietest place | Space, Military and Medicine Orfield Laboratories has an anechoic chamber like this one created by Eckel Industries. Picture: Courtesy of Eckel Industries It's official - the certificate stating Orfield Laboratories is the quietest place in the world. Picture: Courtesy of Guinness World Records It's Guinness World Record's world's quietest place No one has lasted more than 45 minutes in there Made of metre-thick fibreglass acoustic wedges THEY say silence is golden, but there's a room in the US that's so quiet it is unbearable. The longest that anyone has survived in the anechoic chamber at Orfield Laboratories in South Minneapolis is just 45 minutes. It’s 99.99 per cent sound absorbent and holds the Guinness World Record for the world's quietest place - but stay there too long and you may start hallucinating. It achieves its ultra-quietness by virtue of metre-thick fibreglass acoustic wedges, double walls of insulated steel and 30cm-thick concrete. "When it's quiet, ears will adapt. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
» Top 5 Reasons You Should Meditate Zazen Life December 26, 2011 by @dieselpokers This article stems from my last post titled Top 5 Reasons You Don’t Meditate You should also read my article The Seven Human Energy Chakras if you want a background on how amazing the human mind and body really is. Free Your Mind Mediation is an incredibly powerful tool. A daily mediation practice can have many benefits for your overall health and life. Here are my top 5 reasons why I think everyone should try meditation: 1. Meditation is a great way to eliminate stress. We all undergo many stressful situations in our life. Tension is not a good thing. A good meditation practice can prevent all of this. By meditating daily and in times of stress, you can clear your mind of all stressful thoughts and in turn, eliminate stressful emotions and feelings. Mediation has also been proven to help individuals lose weight, maintain a healthy blood pressure level, lower cholesterol, improve blood flow, and decrease the aging process. 2. The Seven Human Energy Chakras 3.
» Strange Place: Was the “Eye of The Earth” Created by Extraterrestrials? Zazen Life December 29, 2011 by breakinbadd Imagine being in space and looking down at Earth. Looking at the Richat Structure from space That image is simply amazing, but now imagine seeing an eye on the surface of the Earth that is looking back at you. This is what Astronauts see when they are looking down from space at the Richat Structure, an amazing add to the strange place collection. The Richat Structure is a prominent circular feature in the middle of the Sahara Desert of West-Central Mauritania. Scientists originally thought it was a crater formed by a meteorite, but this was ruled out. Its perfectly circular shape is still a mystery today. Advocates of the EU model claim that: All of these claims sound nice and fancy, but what if it was all false? What if this was the work of some being from a different planet? Some alien believers have come to the conclusion that this “dome” was created by extraterrestrials as a target for when they want to attack or land on Earth. Like this: Like Loading...
The Richat Structure: The Eye of the Earth "QUANTUM SHOT" #271 Link - article by Avi Abrams Spectacular formation remains a puzzle The Richat Structure, Oudane, Mauritania, is not really a "structure" per se, but a huge circular formation (50 km in diameter - 30 miles) that somewhat resembles a human eye when looked upon from space. Originally thought to be a crater, this volcanic dome is most likely a product of erosion, an ancient geological artifact in the middle of featureless Maur Adrar desert, in Africa's Western Sahara. The earliest space missions used it as a landmark, the adventurous 4x4 enthusiasts today consider it to be their playground, and scientists are still debating its origin. (image via) The Google Maps coordinates are 21.124217, -11.395569 - If you unzoom, you can distinctly see the eye: Somewhere on the internet, there is a Photoshopped version of this eye, turning it into an "Optimus Prime"-like face: (image credit: Lebovski) This image was taken by an Expedition 15 crew member on the International Space Station:
» Electronic Tattoo: Monitors Vital Organs Zazen Life January 6, 2012 by breakinbadd Electronic Tattoo One problem of our current medical treatment process is that many medical diagnostics are bulky and expensive, limiting where they can be used. If our doctors had access to sensors small enough to wear, we could better keep track of our health everywhere — not just in the hospital. Scientists and engineers discovered a way to basically shrink all of these bulky medical instruments into a thin (30 microns) polyester sheet with NO mass. Usually, to monitor major body parts, doctors would have to use very large and heavy pieces of equipment, but they would not be needed anymore with the discovery of electronic tattoos. In a study in Science Magazine, scientists and engineers explained that they have come up with a new technology that could save millions of lives in the future. It is said to allow ultra-thin polymers embedded in electronic circuits to take electronic measurements of a person’s body activities. Ultra-thin polyester Like this: