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Police in Congo have arrested 13 suspected sorcerers accused of using black magic to steal or shrink men’s penises after a wave of panic and attempted lynchings triggered by the alleged witchcraft.

Reports of so-called penis snatching are not uncommon in West Africa, where belief in traditional religions and witchcraft remains widespread, and where ritual killings to obtain blood or body parts still occur.

Rumors of penis theft began circulating last week in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo’s sprawling capital of some 8 million inhabitants. They quickly dominated radio call-in shows, with listeners advised to beware of fellow passengers in communal taxis wearing gold rings.
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“I like my poak chop extra crispy”

Front on the big girl if you want but she worked it.

And yes, the official website

Download this song in mp3 format.

“Fashion designer TAMECHI TONEY BRIGZ’s cutting edge style has attracted the attention of some of Hollywood’s most elite performers. The owner and founder of BRIGZIT FASHION, Tamechi was responsible for creating the legendary baggy pants worn by M.C. Hammer, a look that helped define him as a multi-platinum recording artist. Original designs from BRIGZIT FASHION have appeared in some of the most notable magazines of today, including PEOPLE, IN STYLE, SIXTEEN, VOGUE, THE STAR, L.A. WEEKLY, JET, RIGHT ON MAGAZINE, FRESH, YO, ESSENCE, EBONY, VIBE, SOURCE, AND ROLLING STONE. Celebrities wearing BRIGZIT FASHIONS have been seen on many television shows including Ellen, Jimmy Kimbel, The View, Soul Train, Entertainment Tonight, E Red Carpet with Melissa and Joan Rivers, BET Awards, MTV Awards, World Music Awards, Dick Clark’s New Years Rocking Eve, NAACP Awards, KTLA Morning Show, VH1, American Music Awards, and countless others. BRIGZIT FASHION defines self-expression thru total design and seductive display. Some other clients of Tamechi include Sherri Sheppard of “The View”, Kelita Smith of the Bernie Mack Show, Josh Henderson of Desperate Housewives, Club Nouveau, Vesta, Shanice, dance artist Karel, James Brown Bitter Sweet, Paula Jai Parker, Angelle Brooks, Mel Jackson, Playboy Playmate, and The Mary Jane Girls. BRIGZIT FASHION caters to the damsel in distress to the woman or man in complete control. Boundaries not withstanding, BRIGZIT FASHION represents imagination and fantasy uninhibited through fashion and interior design. ”

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Too much fabulousness.

Enjoy.  I know I did.

Whilst touring Disney’s Land pavilion at EPCOT, I took the “Behind the Seeds” tour of the greenhouses. One of the more impressive of the plants being grown was this single tomato “tree” with tens of thousands of tomatoes growing on it. The guide did tell us that this particular plant came from seeds attained from China. And she told us the record at Disney was 36,000 tomatoes from one tree – but that was not the world record. That was held by a grower in China.

These are grown with hydroponics, using a substrate for root growth, but being constantly fed mineral nutrient solutions, rather than depend on soil. The guide gave each of us on the tour a tomato to taste. They tasted like, well, like tomatoes.

The greatest advantage to growing hydroponically is not quality, or even space saving, it’s the increased rate of growth that makes it worthwhile. The tomatoes harvested here in the greenhouses get used at the restaurants throughout Disney World.

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“Ra-Re’s tone is like chocolate silk. The lyrics are pure and the vocal arrangements are left but exactly right…a must get!”
- Jill Scott
Singer/Author/Actress

“Truly one of the most forward thinking artist to emerge in the soul genre. Ra-Re Valverde’s A Beautiful Mess is pure artistry.”
- Rahsaan Patterson
Singer/Artist

Renowned back-up singer and songwriter for Jill Scott, Trina Broussard and Rahsaan Patterson, Ra-Re Valverde achieves the latter on her esoteric debut, A Beautiful Mess. A Kandinsy painting, this vibrant album bridges several different musical genres to create an eclectic listening experience. For the risk adverse music buyer, there are enough tuneful primary colors artfully assembled on A Beautiful Mess to produce easy smiles and reassuring head nods to keep you plugged in through the more abstract landscapes.

~Soul Tracks

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If you like Erykah Badu or Jill Scott, you will LOVE this girl.

A pinhole camera uses a very small hole to create a lens for the light to enter and expose the film. These cameras can be downloaded and printed at your computer, built, and used to make your own pinhole camera!

You will need:

* A printer
* Some good printer paper
* One thin cereal box for the light-safe interior
* A razor blade for cutting
* Some double-sided tape or glue
* Thin needle for making a pinhole
* Small piece of aluminum foil or soda can to puncture with the needle
* One new roll of film, preferably ISO200
* One film canister from which the film has been removed. You can empty a new roll, or get an empty canister at any photo supply store.
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For now, men who want to do their part for birth control have meager choices: A vasectomy — meant to be permanent — and condoms.

For years, experts have predicted that male contraception is under development and that more choices will be here soon.

But when? Experts agree it’s still a ways off, but it’s getting closer.

“It has been slow,” said Dr. Ronald Swerdloff, a researcher in the quest to find feasible male contraceptive methods. But there are good reasons for that slow pace, added Swerdloff, an endocrinologist and chief of the division of endocrinology at Harbor-UCLA and professor of medicine at the Harbor-UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles.

Pharmaceutical companies are reluctant to take on a new product quickly because of untested liability issues, he said. And “one of the biggest single issues has to do with the fact that contraception in general is a difficult area it would be used by large numbers of healthy individuals.” The safety threshold, he noted, is high. Still, he added, more options are moving closer.

“If we really focus on studies, with funding, it could be four or five years” before more options might be available, said Elaine Lissner, director of the Male Contraception Information Project, a San Francisco-based organization.

The problem, she added, is that the research has been scattergun. “If we [continue to] do a study here, a study there, as we have for the last 20 years, it could take forever.”

At a “Future of Male Contraception” conference, sponsored by the U.S. National Institutes of Health in Seattle, a variety of methods were reviewed, including:

* Hormonal therapy and testicular warming — Swerdloff and his team found that giving men testosterone and another hormone with testicular warming helped suppress sperm. “The transient testicular warming [like sitting in a spa] causes the suppression to occur much earlier [than the hormones alone],” he said.
* Transdermal gels — In another study by Swerdloff’s team, 140 men applied either a progestin gel called Nestorone or a testosterone gel, or both. The researchers studied various doses and then drew blood samples to measure hormone levels. They reported on the 119 men who complied and finished the study, concluding that the combination worked better to suppress sperm.
* “Intra Vas Device,” or IVD — An alternative to a vasectomy, this method involves inserting silicone plugs into the vas deferens, the tube sperm move through and the same tube cut in a vasectomy. “The sperm can’t get past the plugs,” said Joe Hofmeister, president of Shepherd Medical Company in St. Paul, Minn., the IVD developer. “Preliminary six-month data show that 90 percent of 60 men [tracked to date] have zero motile sperm,” he said. More study is needed to track the IVD for reversibility, Hofmeister said.
* Vitamin A blocker — Columbia University researchers tested a drug abandoned by a pharmaceutical company because it interferes with vitamin A receptors in the testes, lowering fertility. It worked well in animal studies; whether it will do the same in human studies is not yet known.

These approaches, if successful, will take several more years to get market approval, all the researchers agreed.

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Most are harmless, but occasionally, they’re a signal something’s not right
By Alicia Potter

Your jaw pops like a bowl of Rice Krispies, in meetings, at mealtime, even during candlelight moments. Is it a joint that needs fixing, or just an annoying sound you can live with? Most body noises, although embarrassing, are harmless. Occasionally, they’re a signal that something’s not quite right. Health Magazine decodes what your body is telling you, from top to bottom, and what to do about it.
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Viagra (sildenafil citrate) is good not only for treating male impotence. Israeli and Australian researchers have discovered that small concentrations of the drug dissolved in a vase of water can also double the shelf life of cut flowers, making them stand up straight for as long as a week beyond their natural life span.

They have already tested Viagra on strawberries, legumes, roses, carnations, broccoli, and other perishables. In this latest research they found that 1 mg of the drug (compared with 50 mg in one pill taken by impotent men) in a solution was enough to prevent two vases of cut flowers from wilting for as much as a week longer than might be expected.
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Check her new hair cut, people.  Fiyah!

Scrubbing the tub and other forms of housework may clean your house and boost your mood.

In fact, as little as 20 minutes of any kind of physical activity a week helped mental health, although the more vigorous the activity, the greater the benefit, said the authors of a study published online Thursday in the British Journal of Sports Medicine.

“There’s such a pervasive feeling in this country that, if there’s a problem, there’s always a pill to fix it,” said Dr. Suzanne Steinbaum, director of Women and Heart Disease at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City. “This study is just reminding us that it doesn’t take much to actually have an effect even on your mood.”

The physical benefits of exercise are well known: It reduces the risk of heart disease, type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure and even some cancers, among other things.

The mental benefits are less clear, although exercise is thought to improve blood flow and reduce inflammation, which have been related to depression and dementia. Exercise might also improve mood by reducing stress levels.

“It’s pretty clear that physical activity does have some kind of positive relationship to good mental health,” said Dr. Jane Ripperger-Suhler, assistant professor of psychiatry and behavioral science at Texas A&M Health Science Center College of Medicine and a psychiatrist with Scott & White Mental Health Center in Temple. “They [the study authors] are trying to figure out how much you need to do.”

For the new study, almost 20,000 men and women participating in the 1995, 1998 and 2003 Scottish Health Surveys answered questionnaires about physical activity and “psychological distress.”

Daily physical activity of any kind — including housework, gardening, walking, and sports — was associated with a 41 percent lower risk of psychological distress. But sports reduced the risk of mood lows the most — by 33 percent.

And just in case women are thinking this study is a ploy to engage in more housework, think again. The study showed that more sports and overall activity increased your mood even more, but extra mopping and scrubbing didn’t.

“The message is do a little bit of housework and a lot of sports,” Ripperger-Suhler said.

According to the study authors, from University College London, this appears to be the first research to look at different specific activities in relation to mental health. The study wasn’t designed to look at a cause-and-effect relationship, only that a relationship exists.

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So, April 2nd is my birthday (yup, I’m reppin that Aries). If you forgot, you can go ahead and buy me something from my wishlists (1 & 2) and I might forgive ya. Anyway, I’ve been feeling mighty old and I have a weird fascination for the odd things in life so my 1 request was for a “death cake.”

Here’s my b-day cake.

1/2 chocolate and 1/2 vanilla. Complete with skulls, insects, and a grave.

My dad never ceases to amaze me.

Mmmm… cockroach.

It was the shit too.

Maybe I’ll save you a piece next year…. Or maybe not.