TEDtalksDirector asked:

http://www.ted.com In this energizing talk, Amory Lovins lays out his simple plan for weaning the US off oil and revitalizing the economy.TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world’s leading thinkers and doers are invited to give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes — including speakers such as Jill Bolte Taylor, Sir Ken Robinson, Hans Rosling, Al Gore and Arthur Benjamin. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, and …

GEOFFREY

riyaz_caballero asked:


I had a ‘portable closet’ made of wood that I painted with an oil enamel paint. I made a mistake and tried to paint a coat over the area I messed up and made things worse.

It seems like I will need to remove the paint off the section of wood now and repaint it. How would I go about removing that oil enamel paint? Sandpaper? If sandpaper, considering how thick the paint is, would I need to use a fine or coarse grain?

Any other suggestions from someone experienced with this would be very welcomed and appreciated.

CARROLL

cannabistherapeutics asked:

An Integrative Medicine Nutritionist, MaryBeth Augustine describes the nutritional profile of Hempseed Oil; the Therapeutic role of EFAs (Essential Fatty Acids);and a comparison of Hemp Oil to Fish Oil, Flaxseed Oil and Soybean Oil. Presented to 2002 Cannabis Therapeutics Conference, hosted by Patients Out of Time. DVDs are available.

DARYL

magpie232 asked:


I give my dog fish oil pills. I give her 1 a day. She is a 50 pound mixed breed. Should I be giving her more for her weight or leave it as it is?
-I give her Costco’s(kirkland signature) fish oil pills.
The fish oil is for people. So it does not have instructions for dogs. But my vet said it was good for my puppy and I wanted to get my other dog on it(which is my mutt).

ABE

bstansbu asked:

At work on an offshore oil rig in Azerbaijan.

ERNESTO

pagamenews asked:


I am curious to know how much oil people use daily or monthly to heat their homes in the winter with home heating oil. If you can also give an idea of the floor area you are heating, it would be helpful.

CALVIN

Mike Rosania asked:


It’s that time of year again. You’re in your car and you happen to glance up at that little Jiffy Lube sticky on the top in the upper corner of your windshield. “I was supposed to change my oil when?!” You immediately panic when you realize your oil change is five months and two thousand miles ago overdue (which ever came first).

As long as you actually have enough oil in your engine you aren’t in horrible shape. If you had a leak or were low on oil, then you would have a problem. Your engine is comprised of metal parts that are constantly moving. The oil servers as a lubricant and is the blood of the engine. It is vital. Never drive without oil.

I just want to stress that oil is everything to your engine. Not regularly changing your vehicle’s oil will drastically shorten the life of your engine.

You should really consider having it done by a service. For not much more than you will pay for a new oil filter and 5 or 6 quarts of oil you can have the oil changed professionally. You also need to take the old oil to a mechanic or auto shop for disposal anyway. It can also be a messy procedure. Professionals can do oil changes with their eyes closed. It will take 20 minutes and cost a few bucks more. But, if you insist on doing it yourself, read on.

Before you start, gather the necessary tools and supplies. You will need the following: a new oil filter, 5 or 6 quarts of the recommended oil (check your car’s manual), an oil filter wrench, a socket set, rags and an oil pan or old bucket to catch the old oil.

You will also want to warm the engine up taking your car on a short drive around the block. Warning—you only want to warm up the engine to loosen up the oil. Warm oil drains better, but hot oil is flat out dangerous!

Now position the drain pan directly underneath the oil pan’s drain plug. Using the socket wrench, loosen and remove the oil pan plug, allowing the oil to drain freely. Be careful of hot oil and try not to drop the plug into the pan. This is what you might want to wear old clothes. Watch for splattered oil—it stains.

After all the oil has drained, remove the oil filter from the vehicle using an oil filter wrench. Set the old filter to the side and clean off the filter’s mounting surface with a clean rag. You can now take the new filter and apply a thin coating of oil to the gasket. Attach it to the vehicle and tighten according to the directions on the package (usually hand tight).

Finally reinstall the oil pan plug, pop the hood and fill the engine with the amount of oil specified by your manufacturer. Be careful not to over pour. The new oil will likely take a little time to travel down into the engine. So if the oil level on your dipstick looks low, give it a second and add a very little bit. Too much oil will require you to repeat the whole process.

That’s it, you are done. Now just clean up your mess and properly dispose of your used oil and filter. Your local mechanic should be able to guide you on where you can get rid of it.

If you want to save money, look for coupons. If you’re having doubt about your skills learned in auto shop, then you might as well take it in to a professional. Good luck!



DOUG

fknnewz asked:

POVERTY ADJUSTMENT FOR SLAVES WITH FAKE ECONOMIC OIL CRISIS - **** NIGHTMARE CRIME TRAGEDIES, FILL YOUR MIND WITH NEWS LUST - FKN NEWZ STUDIO SWAMPED BY RAIN AND LEAKING LIKE A SIEVE

CHANG

peachy asked:


am really craving popcorn, i usually eat the trader joe’s gourmet one. but i dont got any, and i cant drive over to buy it..so i found some of this kernel kind, in my pantry, but it says to use oil. so how can i make it with a butery taste?

ERNIE

Jaden Santon asked:


Coconut oil is great as a skin moisturiser. A revise shows that addition virgin coconut oil is as moving and reliable as granite oil when worn as a moisturiser, with absence of adverse reactions.

The coconut oiled will aid in removing the external layer of flat skin cells, making the skin smoother. The skin will become more evenly textured with a vigorous “shine.” While liability this, the coconut oil will breech into the deeper layers of the skin and strengthen the underlying tissues. Coconut Oiled can help to keep the skin from developing liver acne, and other blemishes caused by aging and overexposure to sunlight.

Most commercial creams and lotions mainly water. Their wetness is rapidly absorbed into dry, crumpled skin. As the water enters the skin, it expands the tissues, like inside an inflate with water, so that wrinkles fade away and the skin feels smoother. Nevertheless this is only passing. As rapidly as the water evaporates or is passed away by the blood tributary, the dry, furrowed skin returns. No concern how hard you try people will never be able permanently to heal dry, furrowed skin with any commercial body cream or body caution merchandise. Besides water, most lotions have an oil of some quality. This oiled is almost forever a warmly refined vegetable oil lacking of all likely protective antioxidants. One significance in our food equip and in body precision harvest that leads to a great covenant of limitless radicals is tarnished vegetable oils.

Cocout Oil is not like other oils worn to diminish brutal, dry skin. It will help to slash constant skin inflammation within existence and be relaxing and curing to wound, blood blisters, rashes, etc.

Our skin is made up of connective tissues. These tissues give our skin forte and elasticity. When we are little and vigorous the skin flatten, stretchy and agile. This is the effect of tough connective fibers. As we age their fibers are continuously subjected to gratis-radical assault which breaks them down. As a product, connective tissues become hardened and squander both elasticity and power. The skin loses its capability to reckon itself together and begins to sag and become wrinkled. Once brood, yielding and flat the skin turns dry and gristly.

The standard unguent is one that is made from an oil that not only softens the skin, but protects it against scratch, promotes curative and gives it a younger, wholesome appearance. Coconut oiled hysterics that description.

Once a gratis-radical significance is ongoing it can origin a fetter feedback which produces more released radicals, which ultimately costs thousands of molecules. The only way our body has to conflict them is with antioxidants. When a liberated radical comes into exchange with an antioxidant, the bind outcome is blocked. For this dispute, it is good to have heaps of antioxidants in our cells and tissues to safeguard us. The number of antioxidants we have in our tissues is determined to a large magnitude by the nutrients in our diet. Having anti oxidants in skin concern food is important, too. Dr. Ray Peat, a biochemist who has written about the antioxidant properties of coconut oil, states “It is well established that dietetic coconut oil reduces our crucial for vitamin E, but I think its antioxidant function is more general than that, and that it has both straight and indirect antioxidant activities.” Virgin Coconut Oil is especially handy in fighting gratis-radicals, as it is organic and hasn’t been extracted of any of its true components through the refining treat.

Conventional body mind cargo that was made with refined vegetable oils which have all the antioxidants extracted from them are vastly level to open-radical generation both in and outer the body. That is why ingestion processed vegetable oils can search a deficiency in vitamin E and other antioxidants. The antioxidants are worn up fighting off limitless radicals causing enduring break to connective tissues. This is also the sense why you should be chary about the sort of oils you use on your skin, and in your lotions, creams and lip balms. If you use a balm, or cream with a refined oil in it you are in statement causing your skin to age earlier. The balm, although it may fetch temporary improvement will actually accelerate the aging of the skin and even happen skin canker through the released radicals that are promptly fashioned from the refined vegetable oil.. The oil our bodies give is called sebum. Oil glands secreted sebum (sebaceous glands) located at the root of the curls as well as other spaces. This oil is very important to skin vigor. It softens and lubricates the skin and pelt and prevents the skin from drying and cracking. Sebum also contains middle sequence oily acids, as form franchise triglycerides, that can be released to clash hurtful microbes.

Pure virgin coconut oiled is the best inborn ingredient for skin lotion open. It prevents destructive open-radical formation and has protection against them. It helps to keep connective tissues tough and pliable so that the skin doesn’t sag and furrow. In some suitcases it might even refurbish injured or poorly skin. The oil is absorbed into the skin and into the cell construct of the connective tissues, warning the wound extreme sun exposure can trigger. Coconut oil will not only pass temporary relief to the skin, but it will aid in medicinal and repairing. It will have lasting profit, unlike most lotions. It could help fetch back a childish appearance.

Coconut oiled for your scalp and scalp What coconut oil can do for your skin it can do for your pelt. In India and Sri Lanka, coconut oil is commonly worn for styling mane, and cooling or restful the head and offer stress relief.It is amazing to use as a mustache conditioner. What coconut oiled can do for your skin it can do for your fuzz.The protective environment of the skin and how coconut oil helps Our skin home too many tiny organisms, most of which are innocent; some are beneficial. At slightest one brand of bacterium is essential to the healthy environment on our skin. It feeds on the sebum, breech down the tryglycerides into released greasy acids. The bacteria actually supply on the glycerol part of the triglyceride. The plants greasy acids which are now “freed” from the glycerol element that seized them together. Medium connected greasy acids which jump to the glycerol item as they are in coconut oil have no antimicrobial properties. However, when they are crushed apart into limitless oily acids, they become tough antimicrobials.

So these bacteria move the standard shackle triglycerides (in the sebum or on the skin) into boundless greasy acids that can destroy disease-causing bacteria, viruses, and fungi. The combination of the vaguely acid pH and standard group oily acids has a protective compound layer on the skin that prevents infection from disease-causing organisms. Due primarily to the action of bacteria, the oil on the rise of your skin and beard is tranquil of between 40 and 60 percent unbound oily acids. The standard fettered oily acids in the sebum suggest the protective layer on the skin that kills dangerous germs. Coconut oiled is nature’s richest basis of medium chain fatty acids.

When coconut oiled is put on the skin it doesn’t have any close antimicrobial action. However, when bacteria which are forever present on the skin change these triglycerides into free fatty acids, just as it does with sebum, the result is a grow in the number of antimicrobial fatty acids on the skin and protection from infection. The free fatty acids also help to contribute to the acid environment on the skin which repels disease causing germs. Coconut Oiled is a brilliant ingredient to use in healing salves and ointments. People have used a coconut oil/crushed garlic mixture at night to eliminate plantar warts and athlete’s bottom with brilliant fallout.

In the making of soaps, the soap does not have a tallow smell nor the smell of a vegetable oil. Instead, it has a fine original smell and yields a good fluffy foam. Coconut oil is one of the most general oils used in soap making.



GONZALO