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) Interesting Product of the Week
Normally, I would call this my "Useful Product of the Week," but I am not sure how useful this Verilux ClearWave Deluxe Acne Light really is.It's definitely interesting. I will give it that. Interesting and expensive.
Has anybody heard of light as an acne remedy? I never did, until now. Here is an article about light treatment from BBC News, which cites a study of acne "patients" who were treated with blue and red light wavelengths for 15 minutes a day for 12 weeks. The patients, on average, showed a 76 percent decrease in the number of visible acne spots on the area treated.
Basically, this product is the lightbox used in that study.
Here is the product description on Amazon.com: "This breakthrough personal care device uses the power of light to stimulate the body's natural processes to help clear skin. More>>
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) Life on the Farm
The first couple of bands did more screaming than singing, and I was beginning to feel like the dirty old man in a room full of acne-faced, tattoo-clad, studded-belt-wearing teenagers.“It's cool," giggled Kayla Smith, 19, a fellow concertgoer. “It's good for the young kids, I guess. It reminds me of Jillian's … but safer."
“It's [a venue] for people who aren't a part of the ‘older' age group to come and do something," chimed in Smith's friend Dani. I wanted to go home.
Yet while I contemplated death on the farm, Old Yeller-style, local punk outfit Lydia Vance impressed onstage. And like that, everything suddenly made sense: the spitting, cursing and Social Distortion-esque riffs from the band, the teenage angst swelling through the crowd, the dark openness of the space—but then, the lights came on, and the moment was gone. More>>
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) What Your Facebook Profile Picture Says About You
No matter how cute you might have been as a kid, it's still not going to change the fact that along the way you developed horrible acne, premature ejaculation, or some combination of the two. Instead of flooding the sandbox or actually doing something that involves going outside with other human beings, these individuals usually end up spending the majority of their time eating Reese’s Pieces while playing World of Warcraft for hours on end. If the kid in their profile picture could see them now he'd probably kill himself, but since he can't, he'll just have to accept that his future consists of spending more time preparing for a virtual raid than he does attempting to lose his virginity.
</p> text-autospace:none"> </p> text-autospace:none">With Their Significant Other: Remember the first few nights of college, when you still didn't even know how to pronounce your roommate's last name (the "e" was silent) and couldn't get into any parties? While most of us made friends with our hallmates and bonded over not being able to get plastered off campus, these two shared a late night serving of frozen yogurt in the cafeteria and it was love at first bite. More>> - (
) Miley Cyrus Dishes On Nick Jonas
For starters, she wants you to know that acne is a real bummer. In fact, it was acne in part that contributed to the bratty, Hollywood attitude she adopted after shooting her second season of Hannah Montana. Fortunately for her, she met a 9-year-old with cystic fibrosis not long after getting her first pimples and it was that meeting that inspired her to put her life back into perspective. Miley prayed to God "to take away my vanity and self-centeredness." The implication is that God listened.Other things she wants you to know: She's tired of the media ragging on her and her dad, Billy Ray Cyrus, for "being too close and too cuddly." For the two of them, showing their love is "not weird at all."
Finally, the real humdinger: her love affair with Nick Jonas. Of course, she doesn't really refer to it as a love affair and she doesn't even call Nick by his name. More>>