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X17 Xclusive – January 9, 2010: After getting a cup at Coffee Bean, Miley Cyrus looked perplexed when her auto-unlock key wouldn’t open the door to her black Prius. That’s because it wasn’t hers! Photogs helped Miley remember where HER Prius was. The young star was dressed in paint-splattered jeans and a distressed shirt with the back shredded open. After Coffee Bean, she headed to KTLA 5 Sunset Bronson Studios.

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Giving an eco-friendly or environmentally friendly food gift basket is a great way to help the environment. Whether you buy the gift basket or make it yourself, the environment will be better off for it. Think recycled paper (100% post-consumer, waste/process, chlorine-free paper,) organic where possible, living foods, recycling and composting. Just follow these simple instructions for making your gift basket.

First of all, decide on what food theme you’d like for your environmentally friendly gift basket. Some ideas are: organic fruit, organic foods, organic vegan, organic vegetarian, living foods or wheatgrass gift basket.

Once you’ve decided on the theme for the environmentally friendly gift basket, decide whether you’ll be using organic items or products, organic hardy fruits, organic pre-packaged or homemade foods, or fair trade items like coffee and chocolates.

Next, decide on what items will go into the environmentally friendly gift basket.

For an organic fruit gift basket you’ll want to use organic, hardy fruits that will hold up well like: apples, pears, oranges, tangerines, grapefruit, fuyu persimmons, pineapples, pomegranates, kiwis, baby kiwis, mango, papaya, nasturtiums, pansies or other flowers. These fruits will eventually decompose so take that into consideration.

For an organic food gift basket some ideas are: fruits, vegetables, herbal teas, specialty teas, shade-grown fair trade coffees, fair trade cocoas, fair trade chocolate, trail mix, packaged raw nuts, nuts in the shell, a quality nutcracker, hardy fruits, healthy snacks, organic popcorn, homemade foods, homemade jams, cinnamon sticks, vegan, vegetarian or raw food cookbooks, your favorite vegan, vegetarian or raw food recipe printed neatly on a 3×5 card made of recycled paper, books about organic foods, health, nutrition or energy bars, small bamboo cutting boards, bamboo skewers, non-plastic cooking tools, non-plastic, wooden eating utensils, edible nasturtiums, or other flowers for decoration.

For an organic living foods gift basket some ideas are: raw food ‘uncookbooks’, your favorite raw food recipe printed neatly on a 3×5 card made of recycled paper, packaged raw food crackers, raw food cookies, homemade or pre-packaged raw food brownies, jar of organic tahini, jar of organic almond butter or cashew butter or macadamia butter, jar of organic olives, jar of raw sauerkraut, jar of raw dressing, jar of raw salsa, or a jar of raw, unfiltered farm honey (keep in mind some raw food vegans don’t eat honey.)

For an organic wheatgrass gift basket you can use: wheatgrass growing supplies, organic soil, wheatgrass seeds, books about wheatgrass or wheatgrass growing, or books by Ann Wigmore.

Now that you’ve decided on the theme and what items to use it’s time to put your environmentally friendly food gift basket together.

For gift containers you can choose from: fair trade baskets, wooden baskets, wooden bowls, fiber baskets, straw baskets, locally made pottery, buckets, non-aluminum, non-Teflon cooking pots and pans, large tea pots, potted plant holders, wire baskets, large pasta bowls, large popcorn bowls, clay pots, colanders, fabric gift bags, used baskets and containers from Goodwill Industries and Salvation Army stores or anything recyclable.

For gift basket liner you can use: shredded newspaper, organic cotton tea towels, organic cotton dish towels, organic cotton hand towels, colored recyclable napkins, organic cloth napkins, or fabric pieces.

For gift basket filler, if needed, you can use: crumpled newspaper comics, straw or use your imagination.

And for gift basket wrap and tie you can use: recyclable paper, butcher paper, newspaper, newspaper comics, or reusable brown paper bags. Also check with the Salvation Army or Goodwill Industries stores for inexpensive recyclable wrapping paper. Tie with jute or raffia twine for a simple rustic look or leave the gift basket unwrapped.

Now the instructions for putting your friendly gift basket together – first start with your chosen container. Place the liner inside and add the basket filler. Arrange the items with the tallest in back. If needed, fill any holes with organic wrapped candies or crumpled shredded recycled paper. Cover with wrap and tie with jute or raffia twine. Don’t forget the personalized, recycled card. If you’re using a homemade card include a great, happy, positive uplifting, spine-tingling favorite quote or saying. That’s it! You should have a fine-looking eco-friendly, environmentally friendly food gift basket!

Helen Hecker
http://www.articlesbase.com/environment-articles/how-to-make-an-environmentally-friendly-food-gift-basket-10414.html

The Batooro people are a group of Bantu speaking people in Uganda. They are found in Western Uganda near Mount Rwenzori ranges .They are under Tooro Kingdom which is among other kingdoms in Uganda. They are neighbors to Banyankole ,Bakiga, Bakonjo, Banyoro,Baganda and Bamba people .

Their culture is very interesting as it is welcoming to every one who comes to this land. Among other this that interested us is their African traditional marriage ceremony. Marriage occupied an important position in the cultural life of the Batooro. Man would not be regarded as complete before he got married. Although much has changed, Batooro traditional marriage has not changed. On this article we give you the details on how marriage among the Batooro people in Uganda was taken traditionally.

Formerly, marriage would be arranged by the parents of the boy and the girl without their knowledge with or without their consent. During the preparations however, the consent of the girl would have to be sought. A middle-man was usually sought by the boy’s side and his role was socially recognized and rewarded. He was known as Kibonabuko.He had the duty of making investigations about the character of the girl, her family background and her ability to work. After such ground work was completed, the kibonabiko would proceed to secure the girl from her parents on behalf of the boy’s family.

The Kibonabuko would wake up one morning and go to the girl’s family and declare his intentions to marry their daughter. He would make the following statement to the father of the girl:“Sir, I come to you that you should build a house for me. I would like you to be part of my clan; I have come to ask for a wife, the builder of the house.”

The normal response from the girl’s father was: “I don’t have any child”. The Kibonabuko would insist that the child was there, and on being asked who exactly he wanted, he would name the girl.If the father consented, the Kibonabuko would thankfully kneel down as a sign of appreciation. The next step would be for the boy’s family to take beer to the girl’s parents for the bride wealth to be fixed.

The bride wealth was normally in the form of cows. It varied between the Bahuma (cattle keepers) and the Bairu (cultivators). For the Bahuma, it ranged from six to twenty cows.For the Bairu, the ceiling was about eight cows. They would often make payments in goats and hoes. All or part of the bride wealth when due, would be received during a ceremony known as Okujuga.

It was a very important ceremony involving a lot if eating, drinking and merry making. There after, the young man’s family could send barkcloth and some skins for the bride’s dress. Meanwhile other formalities would be finalized for the wedding.

On the wedding day, another big feast was organized. The bride would be collected around six or seven o’clock in the evening. Before leaving, she would first perform a ritual of sitting on her parents laps.This ritual was known as okubukara. She would then be lifted onto a litter and carried to the bridegroom’s home. On arrival, she would perform a ritual of being carried on her parent’s in –laws laps.

There she would be sprinkled with some herbal water (endemezi) to welcome and bless her. Before the feasting started, the bridegroom would go to bed with the bride, to perform another ritual, okucwa amagita.Thereafter, the guests were given coffee berries, smoking pipes, beer and later food. If the girl was found to be a virgin during okucwa amagita, a gift of a cow or a goat would be sent to her mother to congratulate her on raising her daughter well.

On the third day, the bride’s friends and relatives would give her gifts from home. They would come to see where she had been taken.The bride would spend some days in confinement and, at the end of it all, an elaborate ceremony would be held to bring the girl out and to initiate her into the art of cooking and house keeping.

In the event of a divorce, bride wealth would be refunded. However, part of the bride wealth would be retained if the woman had already had some children with her husband.The birth ceremonies varied from clan to clan and others from village to village.

Twinomugisha Charles
http://www.articlesbase.com/culture-articles/free-guide-to-african-traditional-marriage-among-the-batooro-people-in-uganda-692793.html

What is Gratitude?

Personally, I think that many people don’t really understand what gratitude really is.

How many times have we heard things like “He’s not grateful for the money I gave him!” or “She’s not grateful for this or that  that I have done for them!”?

First of all, we have no way of knowing the gratitude that the receiver feels in these situations, but I can tell you this much, if you are making statements like the ones above, you are not giving freely or with an open heart!

Some people have a hard time expressing gratitude outwardly. 

Sometimes all you will receive in return is a simple thank you when inside the recipient of your good deed is welling up and ready to burst into tears of gratitude. 

We are trained to hold our emotions in, including the ones of gratitude!

When you give a gift, be thankful that you can! 

When you give of yourself don’t look for anything in return. 

Be satisfied in knowing that you have done the right thing, that your blessing has helped another and you will be blessed in return, maybe not the way you expect it, but you will be. 

Gratitude comes from within, it is an appreciation of all that is good and welcome in our lives. Gratitude is expressed when we openly give thanks for those things. 

When someone does something for us we are trained to say, “Thank you”, but how often do we really feel the thank you that we are giving?

Think back to a time when you were just so overwhelmed with something someone had done for you and you just had to blurt out a thank you. 

That feeling of thanks, of gratitude, could not be contained. 

If you were to stop and feel the thank you each time you gave it, you would be living in gratitude. 

If you were to stop and feel how much you love and enjoy any little thing in your life, you would be living in gratitude.

Some people think that gratitude has to go deeper than giving thanks for the “things” in our lives and be more spiritual. 

I say that every little thing in your life that gives you even the slightest bit of joy, every little thing that makes your day a little easier is worthy of true gratitude. 

True gratitude is spiritual and fills the heart with warmth and joy!

When you can stop and say, “I really do love my coffee pot! It brews me a wonderful cup of coffee and I enjoy every sip! If it wasn’t for that coffee pot I may not have such a great cup of coffee!”, and truly feel the love and appreciation for the coffee pot, the coffee beverage and even the cup you are holding, to feel the joy that those things bring into your life, that my dear friends, that is feeling gratitude!

Mary Angela
http://www.articlesbase.com/spirituality-articles/what-is-gratitude-730435.html

Coffee, it gets you going in the morning, but could also be adding to your waistline. Those specialty coffee drinks are packed with calories and fat. But if you can’t give up you gourmet cup of joe, here are a few healthy changes you can make that will still satisfy your taste buds.

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Camano Island Coffee Roasters is having it’s 8th Annual Holiday Gift shop on Camano Island. Cristy is here to tell you all about it. Come get coffee and goodies! We’ll see you there!

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SUBSCRIBE & RATE for more FREE craft tutorials! Shows how to use Krylon Triple Thick Crystal Clear glaze to make drinks. REQUESTED BY SWEETMEE83.

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This stop/action animation shows the creation of the ‘Coffee Bean Dance’ coffee painting. It features our little Boston Terrier, Gidget, smiling in a shower of coffee beans.

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Through similar processes could someone use coffee beans to make a tasty hard coffee bar, like a chocolate bar? Could someone roast and grind and brew coco beans into a not overly bitter hot drink similar to coffee?

unfortunately i do no have an answer for you but I though I would post, because me and my husband were just asking the same exact question to ourselves, hmm …entrepreneurship?

http://www.cityperk.net | City Perk Bakery and Cafe in Aliso Viejo, California offers specialty coffee, organic teas, lunch, catering, takeout, breakfast, fresh bakery goods, smoothies, pizza, paninis, burritos, wraps, salads.

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