The Hunter

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Ashley Madison: Where Bored, Straight Husbands Go to Meet Other Guys Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, huffingtonpost.com

The hackers who are having a jolly time bringing down Ashley Madison exposed many men who were trying to cheat on their wives. I say trying because, according to the hackers, Ashley Madison lied to their clientele and refused to reveal that 95% of…

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25 scientific ways your childhood influences your success as an adult Rachel Gillett and Drake Baer, businessinsider.com

From the biological side of things to how we're nurtured, a lot of what goes on during childhood influences how we turn out as adults.

And while there isn't a set recipe for ensuring achievement and happiness in adulthood, psychology research ha…

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How to Lose Weight Without Even Trying By POPSUGAR Fitness, womenshealthmag.com

Weight loss just got easier!

By Leta Shy for POPSUGAR Fitness

Losing weight takes a lot of sweat and discipline, but even when you're not powering through a treadmill interval workout or counting calories, there are a lot of simple ways…

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This is how your kid learns: The amazing new neuroscience of “brain plasticity” — and how to make your child smarter Stephen Camarata PhD, salon.com

New products suggest they can build a designer brain for your kid. How can parents take advantage of new science?

What happens to our child’s brain when we parent?

The discovery of the nature and extent of brain plasticity has led to a…

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Coffee by Christian Reed

Cof­fee

Sweet and savory tides Fill the self-perpetuating void Spin­ning spokes of inspi­ra­tion Dis­til­late of jun­gle and earth

Coffee by Christian Reed was originally published on Your Coffee Suite

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Expensive Coffee in Australia

Expen­sive Cof­fee in Mel­bourne I love good cof­fee like any­one else, but I’m not one of those peo­ple who is will­ing to pay more than he should for his cof­fee.  Now I can under­stand if a large por­tion of the out­ra­geous fee would be sent to the peo­ple who are out on the farms picking…

Expensive Coffee in Australia was originally published on Your Coffee Suite

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Poppy Pour-Over Coffee Maker

  In the pur­suit of the per­fect cup of cof­fee, there are more than a few things you have to pay atten­tion to. The Poppy Pour-Over han­dles all of them.  Cool Mate­r­ial This Poppy Pour-Over is a nifty device.  Imag­ine being able to make fresh cof­fee every morn­ing.  It has a grinder attached so you…

Poppy Pour-Over Coffee Maker was originally published on Your Coffee Suite

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5 Reasons Starbucks #Race Project was a Bad Idea

Peo­ple do not want to be told what to talk about

It’s really nice that the peo­ple at the head­quar­ters of Star­bucks think the rest of us really need to be dis­cussing race, but to be hon­est, no one wants to be told to talk about race. The news is full of sto­ries about race, and even sto­ries that might not have any­thing to do with race are often twisted to come across as race related. Peo­ple do not need some cor­po­rate mon­ster telling them that they should be more engaged.

Being a Barista just got more difficult

I can under­stand if a Barista at Star­bucks just nat­u­rally felt strong about an issue relat­ing to race and decided they wanted to have a chat with a cus­tomer about it, and that cus­tomer in some way had inti­mated that they may be open to the idea, but to have your employ­ees engage cus­tomers in this way puts them in a very uncom­fort­able and quite frankly unen­vi­able posi­tion. What is going to hap­pen if an employee does not feel com­fort­able about this? Do they have the right to refuse to engage peo­ple in this man­ner? Are they going to be pres­sured by their super­vi­sors to engage cus­tomers in a racial man­ner even if they don’t want to? I can’t imag­ine there are Star­bucks employ­ees out there think­ing ‘hey this is exactly what we have been ask­ing for from our bosses for a long time’. This kind of top-down ini­tia­tive is what is wrong with so many com­pa­nies out there. I won­der if the higher ups at Star­bucks sought the input of their employ­ees before they made this deci­sion. And did they won­der how it would affect their orga­ni­za­tional culture?

It takes away from a very impor­tant issue

It may appear that America’s biggest unspo­ken prob­lem, is race. Now I’m not in any way try­ing to cast aside the fact that Amer­ica has a seri­ous race prob­lem, but the truth of the mat­ter is that race is not America’s prob­lem. Amer­ica has a class prob­lem. Class is the issue that needs to be addressed the most. When you have mil­lions of peo­ple unable or unwill­ing to lift them­selves out from the gut­ter, I think that is the big­ger prob­lem. When the wealthy –and I have noth­ing against the wealthy –seem to be so com­pletely dis­con­nected from every­day peo­ple; you’re always going to have a divide. That divide has less to do with race than it does class. To focus on race in such a broad man­ner, makes no sense. We’re in a cul­ture where peo­ple are bom­barded with junk infor­ma­tion, and Star­bucks’ lit­tle ini­tia­tive is not going to be able to affect change in a lot of people’s lives. Think about it, some barista giv­ing me his opin­ion with my cup of Joe in the morn­ing is not going to affect whether I will be able to make my ridicu­lously high rent next month. Wouldn’t it be great if next time you walk into a Star­bucks your barista explained to you why you should focus on becom­ing debt free rather than take that $3000 trip to Jamaica?

Star­bucks over­es­ti­mates how happy its employ­ees are

I’ve met more dis­grun­tled Star­bucks employ­ees than I can count. I think if they’re really seri­ous about affect­ing change in the world, they should dump all their gim­micks –includ­ing Star­bucks Date –and focus on their orga­ni­za­tional cul­ture. They need to be of bet­ter ser­vice to the peo­ple who work for them. As a mega rich cor­po­ra­tion, they have the oppor­tu­nity to start a grass­roots style move­ment in employee rela­tion. They need to focus on becom­ing a com­pany peo­ple see as part of their future rather than just another stop on their way to a bet­ter life.

  Nobody likes a bored billionaire

Mr. Shultz needs some­one in his cir­cle of trust whom he can run his ideas by before he goes ahead and starts a prob­lem for him­self. Bored bil­lion­aires are always look­ing for some­thing to do. I can under­stand how dif­fi­cult it must be to fig­ure out your next move after you’ve bought all the things you can buy and vaca­tioned in the trendy places, but more bil­lion­aires should behave the way the likes of Bill Gates and War­ren Buf­fet do. Find causes that really mat­ter to you and focus on them. Focus on being of ser­vice, and let things like the dis­cus­sion of race in Amer­ica take place organ­i­cally as they tend to.

    5 Reasons Starbucks #Race Project was a Bad Idea was originally published on Your Coffee Suite

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When I don’t write, I feel my world shrinking. I feel I am in a prison. I feel I lose my fire and my colour. It should be a necessity, as the sea needs to heave, and I call it breathing. If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don’t write, because our culture has no use for it.

Anaïs Nin, from In Favor of the Sensitive Man, and Other Essays (via violentwavesofemotion)

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China kicks off bid to become global footballing power By Tom Phillips, Beijing, telegraph.co.uk

Beijing's plans include bringing football to 50,000 schools over the next decade, building a world-class national team and eventually hosting a World Cup

China has kicked off its bid to become a global footballing powerhouse, unveiling…

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English football still has a race problem Zito Madu, sbnation.com

It may not be as obvious on the pitch, but English football still has a massive problem with diversity in positions of power.

Les Ferdinand was recently appointed the director of football for the bejeweled sinking ship known as Queens Park Range…

How the fuck is Ryan Giggs black?

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Be a Travelling Storyteller: How to Write Your Way Around the World Lizzie Davey, huffingtonpost.co.uk

It's a lot of peoples' dream: travelling the world and getting paid to do so. But because it's a lot of peoples' dream, it's often considered a difficult lifestyle to crack.

Sure, it might take some time before you're writing for the big…

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People who make history know nothing about history. You can see that in the sort of history they make.

G. K. Chesterton (via historical-nonfiction)

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Poor child of danger, nursling of the storm, Sad are the woes that wreck thy manly form! Rocks, waves, and winds, the shatter’d bark delay, Thy heart is sad, thy home is far away.

Joseph Campbell (via itsquoted)

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To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic.

Alphonse de Lamartine (via itsquoted)

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Throughout my career, if I have done anything, I have paid attention to every note and every word I sing – if I respect the song. If I cannot project this to a listener, I fail.

Frank Sinatra (via itsquoted)

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Adam Green, publicdomainreview.org

Julia Pastrana, a woman from Mexico born with hypertrichosis, became one of the most famous human curiosities of the 19th century, exhibited as a "bearded lady" while both alive and dead. Bess Lovejoy explores her story and how it was only in 2013…