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Makita Street Ad Made From Over 20,000 Drill Holes
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This incredible Makita Drill ad was created from 20,081 individual drill holes. Advertising agency Saatchi & Saatchi drilled over twenty thousand holes. The distances between each hole had to be carefully calculated so that lighter and darker tones on the wall.
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Hot Peppers Make Prostate Cancer Cells Die and Taste Buds Come to Life
I've read a lot of lists online on the supposed health benefits of chile peppers, but they always come up light on the the amount of evidence to back them up. I did, however, come across this interesting article highlighting studies on how hot peppers made cancer cells die:
Hot Peppers Make Prostate Cancer Cells Die and Taste Buds Come to Life
By Barbara Minton, Natural Health Editor
Hot peppers are great for spicing up food. They may be even better for keeping the human body feeling in the spice of life. Capsaicin is the active ingredient in hot peppers and the one that turns up the heat. It is a compound useful in nature for preventing pepper plants from being eaten by insects and animals. When capsaicin is consumed by humans in the form of hot sauce, chili peppers or cayenne pepper, it offers a wealth of health benefits. One that has received much recent attention is the ability of capsaicin to make prostate cancer cells commit suicide.
Moderate dose of capsaicin makes 80 percent of prostate cancer cells die.
In 2006, a team of researchers from the Samuel Oschin Comprehensive Cancer Institute at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, found that capsaicin induced 80 percent of human prostate cancer cells growing in mice to follow pathways leading to certain death. They also found that prostate cancer tumors in mice fed with capsaicin were about one-fifth the size of tumors in non-treated mice. Additionally, capsaicin had a profound anti-proliferative effect on cultured human cancer cells according to a scientist at the UCLA School of Medicine. It dramatically slowed the development of prostate tumors formed by cells from the same lines as those grown for the mouse models.
The scientists estimated that the dose of pepper extract fed to the mice was equivalent to giving 400 milligrams of capsaicin three times a week to a 200 pound man. This would be about the amount found in three to eight fresh habanero peppers, depending on how hot the peppers were. The hotter the pepper, the greater the capsaicin content. Habanero peppers, which are native to the Yucatan, have the highest amount of capsaicin. On the Scoville Heat Index, habaneros score 300,000 heat units. Jalapeno peppers, popular in the U.S., score between 2,500 and 3,000 heat units...
Read More: http://www.naturalnews.com/026076.html
My Top 10 Favorite Candies of All Time
I'm not a huge candy fan; ice cream is my sweet food or dessert of choice. When I get the craving for a sugary snack, here's a list of ten items that I would want:
1. Twizzlers (the regular, good-old fashioned strawberry twists)
2. Candy Corn
3. Milky Way Midnights (dark chocolate Milky Ways)
4. Orange Slices (the orange-flavored "jelly" candies with a sugar coating)
5. Reese's Peanut Butter Cups
6. Hershey's White Chocolate Cookies N' Creme Bars
7. Cow Girl Chocolate Habanero Caramels
8. Rollos
9. Reese's Fast Break bars
10. Cadbury Creme Eggs
What are your favorites of all time? What kind of candies can you not live without?
More Americans Believe Global Warming Natural Versus Man-Made
There's some great news on the junk science front: there is a higher percentage of American who believe that any global warming is due to nature than to human interference, based one a new Rasmussen Report:
"Just one-out-of-three voters (34%) now believe global warming is caused by human activity, the lowest finding yet in Rasmussen Reports national surveying. However, a plurality (48%) of the Political Class believes humans are to blame.
Forty-eight percent (48%) of all likely voters attribute climate change to long-term planetary trends, while seven percent (7%) blame some other reason. Eleven percent (11%) aren’t sure.
These numbers reflect a reversal from a year ago when 47% blamed human activity while 34% said long-term planetary trends..."
Review - Marie Sharp's Orange Pulp Habanero Hot Sauce
I've been a fan of Marie Sharp's Fiery Hot Habanero Pepper Sauce for the longest time. Taste one drop of it and you'll see why - achingly fresh ingredients, cool vegetable taste and a blistering hot flavor make it one of the standard-bearers of the carrot-based corner of the spicy foods marketplace. Because of this I had high expectation for Marie Sharp's Orange Pulp Habanero Hot Sauce....
Spreading the Link Love Around
Okay, this isn't the most earth-shattering news, but I have added a website field to the comments section of each page. What's even better is that the website linked from your comment name will NOT have the dreaded "nofollow" tag. Yep, I'm giving any link to your site a little bit of link love (just please return the favor every now and then;-)).
Review - Culpeppers Wings - St. Louis Wings, Part Two
For years Culpeppers has garnered a rep as one of, if not THE best, wings joints in the St. Louis, MO metropolitan area. As most of you in the Gateway City know, you can grab the goods at, as of this writing, nine different locations in the Missouri side of the mighty Mississippi river. So how exactly do I grade them? Read on to see...
Jungle Jim's Needs Your Help!
Jungle Jim's needs some help with a catchy phrase for their Weekend Of Fire t-shirts. Think you got a clever one? Jump on over to the Taste the Fear website and leave your slogan idea(s) in the comments section. Bret of Jungle Jim's will choose his favorite six catch phrases, and then a single winner will be voted on by Taste the Fear readers out of the six. The person who thought up the winning catch phrase will will a prize! You have up until April 17 to come up with a killer slogan.
Link: http://www.tastethefear.com/?p=1869
Using the Buffalo Wild Wings Sauce Scale to Grade Football Players
I came across this link and found it rather interesting. A Kansas writer grades spring football players on how "hot" or "mild" their playing is, all based on the current line of Buffalo Wild Wings sauces, with Blazin' being the hottest, then Wild, Mango Habanero, and so on. While the article is ultimately about Kansas college football - something in which I have very little interest - the implementation of the sauce scale is novel and may goofily carry over to uses in other areas of life. If you're a BWW fanatic like me, you'll know exactly where each sauce would fit in just by the mention of its name.
Link: Introducing the Buffalo Wild Wings Scale
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Tabasco Sauce Honored As Her Majesty's Hot Sauce
Her Majesty The Queen of England Bestows Royal Warrant on Iconic Pepper Sauce
AVERY ISLAND, La., April 13 /PRNewswire/ -- News from across the pond: Tabasco(R) brand Pepper Sauce has achieved the ultimate Royal seal of approval. Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II has awarded a Royal Warrant to its maker, McIlhenny Company, a family-owned company that celebrated its 140th anniversary in 2008.
Highly prized as demonstrating excellence and fine quality, Royal Warrants are marks of recognition to individuals or companies who have supplied goods or services for at least five years to HM The Queen, HRH The Duke of Edinburgh or HRH The Prince of Wales.
"We're absolutely delighted to know that Tabasco sauce has a place at Her Majesty's table," said Paul McIlhenny, President and CEO of McIlhenny Company, and fourth generation family member. "England has always been...
Indian Woman Sets Guinness Chili-Eating Record
GAUHATI, India (April 10) - The "ghost chili," the world's spiciest chile, seems to suit her palate.
A 28-year-old Indian woman smeared its seeds on her eyes before gobbling up 51 fire-hot chilies in two minutes for an entry into the Guinness World Records, organizers said Friday.
Anandita Dutta Tamuly performed the feat Thursday, cheered on by celebrity British chef Gordon Ramsay who was visiting India's northeastern Assam state for a television shoot for his new global food series...
The Bogus Chile Pepper Cancer Scare of 1994-95
Here's another good, informative article from Fiery-Foods.com on the The Bogus Chile Pepper Cancer Scare of 1994-95.
"...Mark Preston reports:
During late February and early March of 1994, the popular media reported about an article that had appeared in the February, 1994 issue of The American Journal of Epidemiology. The article linked stomach cancer to chile pepper eating. Mostly the story was picked up off the Cox Newservice wire. This brief story, written by Jeff Nesmyth, pretty much quoted what was written in The American Journal of Epidemiology.
The title of the article was: "Chili Pepper Consumption and Gastric Cancer in Mexico: A Case-Control Study." It will be called the Mexico study for the rest of this story. It purports that those who eat chile peppers are "seventeen times more likely" to contract stomach cancer than those who don't eat them. The first thing I felt I had to do was to check the bibliographic citations at the end of the article. They were the key to the study's sensibilities, around which the premise and logic of the study would be based..."
Review - Intensity Academy Hot Cubed Hot Sauce
One of the perks of reviewing hot sauces is the pleasant surprises that just seem to pop out of no where. I get my fair share of packages in the mail that arrive with great fanfare - they're accompanied by promotional letters and info sheets, plus there's a bombardment of e-mails from the manufacturers which repeatedly query me like an impatient child: "Did you get my sauce yet? Didja? Didja?" This particular one was quiet and unassuming, so to speak. The Intensity Academy aren't exactly shy, but this small box containing a bottle of Hot Cubed (aka Hot3) Hot Sauce, their carrot-based, habanero-heated condiment came "out of the blue" and shocked me with its pure, rich flavor and fresh heat.
Amazing Video of Extreme Shepherding
This is phenomenal!
