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One such shop is Craft Brewtique, a bottle shop where customers can choose from around 250 craft beers to take home or drink in.

Luckily, for consumers, many like-minded companies have developed eco-conscious solutions that keep H20 cold, the planet happy, and, in some instances, can even filter out nasties from your beverage. Taking into account materials, capacity, visual appeal, and nice-to-have extras, we’ve rounded up the best reusable water bottles for brides-to-be.

According to the center-right Democratic party, the reaction of Paloka came due to alleged constant mockery from Rama during previous parliament sessions. (Reuters)

Almost everyone admits we are facing an obesity epidemic. Very few would be aware that drinking water from plastic bottles could be contributing to it. Some studies show obese women may have BPA levels 47 per cent higher than those of their normal-weight counterparts; people with the highest BPA levels are 50-85 per cent more likely to be obese and 59 per cent more likely to have a large waist circumference.

When she’s out for coffee, she eschews to-go cups (“even paper ones have a little plastic, so they won’t leak”) and recoils at plastic lids (“made of polystyrene,” which public health officials have said is a suspected carcinogen and a neurotoxin that potentially threatens human health). She has found most establishments are happy to fill her reusable cups. While the big coffee chains give a 10- to 20-cent rebate to those who bring their own cups, Cohen happily has stumbled on steeper discounts. She found that an AM-PM market on Interstate 5, between San Francisco and Los Angeles, gave her the “refill” price of 99 cents, instead of the full price of $1.99, when she filled her travel cup with iced tea. “I loved that!” she said.

A collection of framed prints featuring horses covers a large area of one wall. “She loves horses and used to ride a lot, so I hung the prints as a collection,” Walsh says. The homeowner also loves dogs and wanted her large papier-mâché model of a friendly canine to be part of the décor. Placed on the floor, it may not have been an outstanding focal point, but Walsh knew just how to maximize the look of the unusual piece. “We had a pedestal specially made to raise it,” she says.

5. Fake Wine & Champagne: A few years ago I did a magazine story on “champagne brunches” that actually serve champagne and I could not find the five I needed to fill out the piece in this entire country. I had to go as far afield as Tokyo to come up with the slate. But the problem is much worse than bogus brunch menus. The idea that names have real meaning when it comes to wine is hundreds of years old, and it predates the United State’s wine industry altogether.

Brust explains that spices were expensive in colonial America. "You could have paid your rent in cardamom, and now you can get a bottle for $4." If an 18th-century American dined out at one of our restaurants, he says, "they'd think our food was way too salty and over-seasoned and had a ridiculous amount of herbs in it."

At risk of getting sentimental about a person we’ve never actually met, we have to say great work, Lee.

In case you guys haven’t heard, Lee Clow announced his retirement yesterday with a love letter to the TBWA organization and this thing we call advertising.

A bottle of Carter's "French railroad" copying ink from John Hinkel's collection. Hinkel said some inks were simply called French, even if they weren't made in France, because the French had a reputation for making good ink.

“A softer, petroleum-based wax blend performs best,” she says. “Similar to fashion houses, each luxury candle brand has its own personality and style. In the world of fragrance, each brand can actually create a uniquely different array of moods in your home.”