Avicii vs. Lenny Kravitz – Superlove (Original Mix)
(Source: ravenation)
MY FACEBOOK AND EMAIL ACCOUNT PASSWORD ARE CHANGED WITHOUT MY CONSENT
With exception to this message you’re reading, anything aside from this message you’re reading really came from me. Any Facebook activity like messages, posts, announcements, changes, and other activities beyond yesterday’s 7:18am is not mine. We’ll get over this as swift as I can. For now I can only be reached through phone and my blog. And I’m hoping my Tumblr account will be spared. Thank you.
The food truck craze has officially hit Manila, Philippines by way of the Guactruck, a modern mobile eatery full of sustainable initiatives. The truck itself is a used delivery truck that has been outfitted locally with LED and energy-saving lighting.
Too bad this Filipino-Mexican food truck can’t swing its way elsewhere in the world for a peek at the truck and a chance to taste the delicious-looking food.
The design for the packaging is a creative solution to the wastefulness that most containers are today with it’s single cardboard, origami-inspired design. It’s made of biodegradable paperboard that is easy to recycle. Customers are encouraged to bring their used packaging back and will receive a free meal once they’ve returned 10. The packaging will then be sent for recycling. All of the cutlery used is made from cornstarch and biodegrades within 90 days.
Via Pinoy Tumblr.
Fantastic new tune from Pasta Groove featuring Armi Millare of Up Dharma Down. :)
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Department of Finance Department Order No. 57-2011.
Imported books are exempt from customs duties. They are exempt from VAT. So long as you are bringing them in for personal use, which is defined by law as six copies or less. The only exception are books published for, or by, a commercial enterprise for advertising purposes.
Please read and circulate.
What have they’ve done to these poor girls?
Magdalene Asylums were institutions that were supposedly constructed to house women who were sexually promiscuous or otherwise believed to be “of poor moral character” from the 18th century to the mid-20th century. These asylums operated for girls and women throughout Europe, Canada, and the United States.
“Five years ago in Dublin, Ireland, an order of nuns sold off part of its convent to real estate developers. On that property the remains of 133 women buried in unmarked graves were discovered. It turned out that the women had been incarcerated by the Catholic Church to work as virtual slave labourers in institutions known as Magdalene Asylums.
The asylums were a network of laundries named after Mary Magdalene, who, according to Christian theology, was a prostitute turned devout follower of Christ. The Magdalene Asylums were set up in the 19th century, first as homes to rehabilitate prostitutes and then as industrial orphanages in response to the growth in the number of abandoned children resulting from the devastating Potato Famine of the middle and late 1840s. By the early 20th century, their role was expanded to function as workhouses for women who in a variety of ways had offended the country’s moral code. Run by the Sisters of Mercy in Ireland, the asylums functioned as commercial laundries, financing the order’s operations.
Under pressure from the Church and its archaic mores, families sent daughters who were deemed wayward to the asylums. The girls were brutalized and worked long hours every day but Christmas, for no pay. The choice of work was not accidental. Called “Magdalenes,” or penitents, the inmates were intended to scrub away their sins by scrubbing clean the dirty laundry from orphanages, churches, prisons and local businesses. Many of the women were so broken in spirit and isolated from the outside world that they chose asylum labour over leaving the institutions, some remaining until they died. The Catholic Church in Ireland indentured more than 30,000 women and girls in the Magdalene Asylums. Amazingly, the last one was not closed until 1996.”
