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Why is the Best Eco Yoga Apparel Made From Bamboo?

Everyone should make it a goal to decide to buy all natural clothing products which are produced in tune with the earth. Bamboo fabric is the perfect choice for sustainable yoga clothing for a number of reasons.

Clothing made from bamboo is incredibly soft. Lots of consumers compare it even to cashmere or silk. The reason for this is because bamboo fibers naturally have a rounded surface. Which makes bamboo clothing very soft to the touch, even for those with allergies and sensitive skin.

Bamboo clothing is extremely liquid absorbing. This indicates that when you are perspiring bamboo fabric will wick away the excess moisture from the surface of your skin. You should feel more comfortable and dry while wearing bamboo activewear for yoga or any other physical activities.

Bamboo material is filled with little spaces which allow the fabric to breathe. You can expect to feel more cool if wearing bamboo clothes in the warmer months. While in the colder months, bamboo clothing can provide an excellent insulating layer which keeps you nice and warm. Bamboo clothing is also observed to block out around 98 percent of ultraviolet rays, so this fabric helps save your skin from cancer.

The wonderful bamboo plant possesses a natural antimicrobial bio-agent called bamboo kun. The anti-microbial abilities of the bamboo kun are still at work in bamboo textiles. You can notice that bamboo clothes, bath towels, and sheets inhibit the growth of fungus and bacteria. Your bamboo activewear will smell cleaner for a longer time than apparel made of other fabrics. This makes eco yoga wear from bamboo such a great choice. Lots of consumers choose to buy bamboo underwear and bath towels for this same reason.

Bamboo is known as one of the quickest growing plants of all, but did you know also that it is actually a type of giant grass, and not a species of tree? This means all of the various bamboo stalks are united by a network of roots below the ground. Only the canes that have matured for three or four years are cut down, while the newer culms are left for another year. This way bamboo can continually be collected in a sustainable manner in the same location every year. Furthermore, bamboo has its own natural defense against pests. So this plant can be grown easily in an organic process without the use of poisonous pesticides that damage the environment.

Bamboo also gives much back to the air and soil as it grows up. A single acre of bamboo plantation converts a greater amount of carbon dioxide into fresh oxygen than an equivalent forest of hardwood trees. The intertwined root system of a bamboo stand helps hold moisture within the soil and stop erosion. A bamboo stand can be cultivated on sloping terrain where other crops are not grown easily. The bamboo harvested for making fabric only needs rainwater for its water needs. By comparison, the cotton plant is one of the most water intensive crops in the world. It takes many tons of irrigated water just to grow one pound of cotton fabric.

Well now you know, bamboo is an incredible natural treasure with an impressive amount of benefits as a material for fabric. Those who care about the environment will feel great about sporting clothes made from bamboo. It is ideal for anybody practicing yoga, jogging, or any other kind of athletic activity. Bamboo clothing wicks away moisture, so you are going to feel more comfortable. While at the same time, bamboo material reduces bacteria growth. So your yoga wear will smell more fresh. Lastly, bamboo clothing is so comfortable and good looking that you will not want to wear anything different.

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Ooh La La: Sarkozy Gave the Obamas $42,000 Worth of Swag

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Friday, the Federal Register released a list of all the gifts that foreign leaders gave President Obama in 2011. His haul included a basketball signed by the Toronto Raptors (from the Canadian prime minister), more than a dozen Brazilian soccer jerseys (from the governor of Rio de Janeiro), a pretty sweet-looking eco-friendly bamboo bike (from the ambassador of the Philippines), and an array of rugs, paintings, and statues.

Presumably the president smiled and said thank you to all these presents, because, as the Register dexplains, “Non-acceptance would cause embarrassment to donor and US Government.” Even if Obama liked any of the gifts, he’ll never get to use them: They all go to the National Archives and eventually, to his library and musuem.

French president Nicholas Sarkozy and his wife, Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, made the rest look like cheapskates. They gave the first family more than $42,000 worth of French luxury goods including purses, perfumes, goblets, a Lacoste polo shirt, bath robes, and a Hermès golf bag worth $7,750. Some of the more insane gifts the Sarkozys gave the Obamas:

His and hers bathrobes
From the official description: “His and hers white, belted Dior bathrobes with ‘Dior’ embroidered on the breast pocket.”

Hermèseverything
From the official description: “Large, black Hermes golf accessory bag including set of lock and key, and extra strap in bottom compartment, presented in cream colored drawstring bag.”

The Sarkozys are partial to the French luxury brand. Other Hermès gifts: A $7,500 golf bag, a golf “travel bag” (there’s a difference? Apparently there’s a difference.), a travel case, a scarf for Michelle, and a cotton beach towel, which retails for around $600.

Hermés

A $400 lighter and pen
From the official description: “Limited-edition ‘HOPE’ fountain pen and Ligne 8 lighter from S.T. Dupont, each in a cherry blossom design, and contained in a 6.5″ x 6.5″ black box with ‘G8 France 2011’ on the top.” A nod to POTUS’s cigarette habit, perhaps?

AZ Fine Time

Baccarat crystal lamps
From the official description: “Baccarat ‘Our Fire’ clear full-headed crystal table lamps on silver pedestals with silver and crystal lampshades in red presentation box.” Estimated value: $5,500.

Baccarat

Grooming products
More than $800 worth of goodies from the Paris perfumeries Frédéric Malle and Bonpoint.

Frederic Malle

The kicker? Despite its first couple’s lavish taste, France actually spent less on its gifts than Brazil or Gabon president Ali Bongo Ondimba, who gave the president a 14-inch blue mask sculpture worth more than $50,000.
(h/t National Journal)

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How Yellowstone Businesses Kept the Snowplows Operating

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The LA Times reports today that the superintendent of Yellowstone Park, in a last ditch effort to deal with budget cuts caused by the sequester, decided to delay snowplowing for two weeks, a savings of about $400,000. Local businesses, afraid that this would hurt the tourist trade, decided to band together and pay for the snowplows themselves. But they aren’t happy about it:

It’s not that residents don’t want to reduce the deficit. Washington needs “to grow the economy, not the government,” said Jay Linderman, who owns an Italian restaurant on Cody’s main drag and grudgingly gave $200 to pay for plowing. What rankles locals is the indiscriminate nature of the sequester, which cut programs across the board without weighing individual merits.

But therein lies the perennial rub: Cuts that are welcomed in the abstract are not always appreciated when they hit home. And everything the government does, however small, touches somebody. “You pay your taxes to get certain services,” said Bruce Eldredge, executive director of the Buffalo Bill Historical Center, a world-class museum in the center of town, which delivered a $10,000 check to the chamber. “We would, I think, probably argue as a community that we pay our federal taxes to make sure the park is open at a specific time.”

This is, obviously, the problem of government in a nutshell: everyone wants spending to be cut, but no one wants spending to be cut on them. They want it to be cut on other people.

In particular—and please excuse the wild guess here—I imagine that most people who have a serious jones for cutting federal spending are really only interested in cutting spending on poor people. Cutting other services just isn’t what they signed up for. It’s the Obamaphones and the food stamps that are wasteful, not the Yellowstone snowplows and small town air traffic controllers. This is why I’ve always been a little surprised that when the sequester was originally negotiated, Republicans agreed to exempt (or treat specially) a whole bunch of mandatory means-tested programs, including unemployment benefits, student loans, community health centers, EITC and other refundable tax credits, CHIP, disability, school lunches, TANF (traditional “welfare”), Pell grants, Medicaid, and SNAP (food stamps). Those are the programs that their base really wants to see cut, but for some reason Republicans agreed to mostly leave them untouched.

Anyway, reading this Yellowstone story reminded me that I’ve never seen a good account of how Obama managed to bamboozle Republicans into agreeing to this. Does anybody know of one?

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The NFL Hits Yet Another Roadblock in LA

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Phil Anschutz, the billionaire owner of AEG, recently announced that he had decided not to sell his company after all and instead planned to take back control into his own hands. This matters in Los Angeles because Anschutz has always been sort of lukewarm about the idea of AEG building a downtown stadium to lure an NFL team, and he’s now signaling that he may have had enough. Michael Hiltzik hopes that he really has:

Anschutz has spent, by his accounting, between $45 million and $55 million of his own money to push the downtown project along. City officials have been herded, like cattle to the abattoir, into pledging to do everything in their power to get the stadium built — though not with a dime of taxpayer funds, wink wink.

One would think that in exchange for these bennies the league would have been moved to deal with Los Angeles, its business community and its residents with good faith and transparency. Instead, it has offered the same unceasing tergiversations, with nary a clue about what would constitute a suitable deal. Well, not entirely no clue: Plainly the NFL wants a deal in which the taxpayers put up all the money for a stadium, and the league’s billionaires take all the profits.

The willingness of local communities to subsidize billionaire football team owners with truly astronomical sums never ceases to astonish me. Los Angeles has actually been pretty good about telling the NFL that maybe a bunch of titans of free enterprise shouldn’t expect taxpayer help for what is, after all, an extremely lucrative private enterprise, and I can only hope that they stick to their guns. As Hiltzik says, city leaders have already caved a little bit by allowing a stadium deal to bypass the usual regulatory hurdles, but that didn’t bother me too much since I figured it was the bare minimum that any big stadium project gets in a big city. So far they haven’t gone any further, and that’s why there’s still no NFL team in Los Angeles. No huge taxpayer subsidies, no football.

Which is fine with me. Let other cities play the sucker. I’m not sure why so many civic leaders are so eager to get bullied and bamboozled by the NFL, but LA is doing the country a favor by setting a good example. They should keep it up.

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