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Hostel | 1322 Fremont Street, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA 89101
193 out of 256 customers would recommend this property
Recent review (20/10/2015)
"Had a great night there. I wanted to stay far away from the strip to see another side of Vegas and this is it. It's close to Downtown and the Artist quarter."Read all Las Vegas Hostel reviews
- Air Conditioning
- Credit cards accepted
- Car Parking
- Self-catering Facilities
- No curfew
- Games room
- Secure lockers
- Lounge area
- Internet / Wi-Fi
- Pool table(s)
- 24 hour reception
- Restaurant
- 24 hour hot showers
- Swimming Pool
- Tours/Travel Desk
- Washing machines
- Fax
- Hot tub / jacuzzi
- ATM / cash machine
- BBQ area
- Common area / room
- Communal kitchen
- Elevator / lift(s)
- Outside area
- Television room
What's Included
- Luggage Room
- Breakfast
- Linen
- Towel
Important Information
Must be over 18 years to stay here. Couple dorms are reserved for couples or siblings traveling together. Couples must reserve two beds. Our maximum length of stay is 14 nights for international travelers, 7 nights for Americans; we will decline any reservations which exceed this maximum.
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Customers can cancel their reservation free of charge up to 1 day before arrival (local time). Payments made to HostelBookers are non-refundable.
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|Shared Rooms A shared room (typically a dorm) is a bedroom which you share with other people from the property. The number of beds in a room is shown in the room name, e.g. '5 Bed Dorm', and you can book as many as you need. Some properties have male only dorms and female only dorms.
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And now to save you even more cash we are offering Shuttle from the Greyhound station. Just call us when you arrive and we'll rush right over to get you!
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Great rooms - You'll feel at home in our clean, spacious rooms. The comfortable mattresses and sturdy bunks will ensure you a good night's rest while the bright décor makes our rooms comfortable and inviting.
Lots of common space - Between our lounge with free foosball and billiards tables and the pool and Jacuzzi - we have plenty of space for guests to party, soak up the sun or trade stories about their winnings (and losses) here in Vegas. There is also a fully equipped kitchen with attached dining area and a TV lounge with cable television.
The best service - Our well informed, helpful staff members are travelers from all over the world and we each want to make sure you enjoy Las Vegas as much as we do!
Kitchen Facilities - The large kitchen is fully equipped with oven, stove, refrigerator and freezer, microwave and toaster and stocked with dishware and cooking utensils.
Cleanliness! - We know that the most important part of making our guests comfortable is keeping the hostel spic and span! Our cleaners scrub, vacuum and mop every room of the hostel daily! (I check up after them everyday!)
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Please be aware that taxes are not included on the rate.
Cancellation Polocy: by 3pm 48 hours prior to your date of arrival.
At check in, guests must present one of the following: 1. a foreign-issued passport 2. a Canadian driver's license 3. a US passport WITH a current out-of-state government-issued ID (such as a driver's license) or 4. a current-out-of state college ID WITH a current out-of-state government-issued ID. Guests may also be asked to present proof of travel.
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Las Vegas Hostel has 38 rooms offering shared accommodation as well as private rooms. We have 4 beds, 6 beds and 8 beds and we can sleep a total of 154 people.
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Felix Riascos scored a game-high 17 points as visiting Franklin D. Roosevelt defeated host Marlboro, 50-45, on Friday.
Roosevelt improved to 12-2. Marlboro, which suffered its second straight loss, dropped to 8-2.
Ruben Jimenez had 11 points for Roosevelt, while Jack Raimo added 10.
Alex Smith led Marlboro with 10 points.
Beacon 46, Valley Central 43 - Point guard Rey Silva scored all nine of his points in the fourth quarter Friday as host Bulldogs won their second straight game, defeating Section 9's Valley Central.
Beacon's defense held the visitors to nine second-half points and one field goal in the fourth quarter.
"Both teams started off very sluggish," Beacon coach Tom Powers said. "Our whole theme in the halftime talk was about defense. We made one slight adjustment and it really worked."
Tony Romanelli led Beacon (5-6) with 12 points. Tyree Burns had eight points, eight rebounds, three steals and two blocks. Chas Del Bene added four points and seven rebounds and Elijah Hughes had eight points and four blocks.
Pine Plains 71, Rhinebeck 45 - Tyler Lydon had 23 points, 11 rebounds and six assists as the host Bombers improved to 10-2 with a home win.
Justin Cooper added 19 points and five rebounds for Pine Plains, which won its eighth straight. Adam Miller contributed 12 points and 10 rebounds.
Sam Tigges led Rhinebeck with 14 points.
Highland 62, Wallkill 57 - Junior Ryan Merget scored a game-high 32 points as the hometown Huskies outscored the Panthers 21-14 in the final quarter to prevail. Merget also had six rebounds.
Highland's Travis Marnell added 12 points and seven rebounds, while teammate Bo Garcia (four points) handed out a team-high seven assists.
New Paltz 56, Rondout Valley 27 - Aden Gilmour had 17 points and his brother, Kenna, added 12 as New Paltz (10-1) won its seventh straight game.
Saugerties 68, Red Hook 54 - Mike Rogers led all scorers with 24 points, including a quintet of 3-pointers, but his Raiders lost at home to fall to 5-7 on the season.
Paddy Parr contributed eight points, five assists and seven rebounds to the Raiders, who also used four points and seven rebounds from Will Avis.

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Editor's note: Each week the Night Owl will spotlight hot spots, trends and fun at bars and other hangouts from Green Bay to the Fox Cities.
With the Packers Hall of Fame closed for renovations, what's the best fill-in to help scratch a Packers itch?
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Baseball's almost here! As promised here is the second fantasy squad that I drafted last evening. I posted my first team Hanley Time that I drafted last month for CBSSports.com, and that team was part of a 10 Team H2H league. In that particular league I had the 3rd overall pick; however, last night when I drafted my second fantasy draft for Yahoo! I had the 10th overall pick in a 12 team H2H league. One other noticeable difference between last night and the February CBS Sports Draft was that every single team owner showed up to draft with the exception of one! They had informed the league owner that they wouldn't be there beforehand. It was an overall impressive showing and the draft took under an hour and a half to complete with 12 teams. It was an extreme change from the other draft where at most 3 team owners appeared at some point to pick their players and that was only 10 teams! Check out how I did drafting last night, and any thoughts or comments are welcome as always!
Team Name : MARLO's_WIRE
- C - Matt Wieters
- 1B - Adrian Gonzalez
- 2B - Gordon Beckham
- 3B - Ian Stewart
- SS - Alexei Ramirez
- OF - Jason Heyward
- OF - Michael Stanton
- OF - Domonic Brown
- U - Starlin Castro
- U - Adam Jones
- BN - Desmond Jennings (OF)
- BN - Adam Lind (1B, OF)
- BN - Mike Moustakas (3B)*Dropped*
- BN - Cameron Maybin (OF) *Dropped*
- BN - Sean Rodriguez (2B,OF) *Added*
- SP - Roy Halladay
- SP - Jon Lester
- P - Mat Latos
- P - Jake Peavy
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- P - Brian Matusz
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|I can't watch the movie without thinking fondly of my senior year of high school. Back then I had a regular subscription to the Smithsonian's Air & Space magazine. The Feb/March 1995 edition had an article by Homer Hickam about the Big Creek Missile Agency and their attempts to build rockets. At the time my school had an elective science course that gave me a little too much free reign that was called Science, Technology, and Society. Basically was supposed to allow students to explore various forms of science and technology and their effects on society, and vice versa, though it really wasn't very well structured.
At the time I was looking into aerodynamics and the article gave me a crazy idea. Hickman talked about a demonstration his teacher had given the class on rapid oxidation which he and his friends saw as a means of rocket propellant. Fortunately for me he gave the ingredients used and the amounts, which proved unfortunate for a poor petri/mixing dish. I got the idea to try making a rocket plane, which my teacher too readily agreed to mainly because he wanted us to produce these awe inspiring projects. Got to expiriment with a pretty pink flame, trying to find the right burn rate. Then once I had what I thought was the right burn rate I tried making a poster board nozzle, figuring it'd naturally burn away but I'd at least get an idea how well it might work. I've no clue what happened exactly, why it didn't burn like I expected, but the nozzle was still largely intact. However, it must have produced a very small amount of thrust which combined with the heat cause the dish was split in two.
Nothing really came of the experiments save for a rather useless rocket motor that couldn't even ignite. But when I saw the commercials for the first time years later all I could think of was that dish. Same thing whenever I see the movie.


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text: Tailgating triumphs can be found in The Tailgating Cookbook: Recipes for the Big Game by Bob Sloan, charmingly designed and laced with tailgating tales and onsite photos of the fare and the folks. And Bob's fare is top-notch: his Chicken and Chorizo Empanadas have impressed serious steak-eating Giants fans and svelte Manhattan soccer moms; Red Wine Rib Eyes with Mixed Pepper Salsa is a knockout developed by James Lupo, winner of the 2004 NASCAR Crew Chef Challenge; Tailgate Gumbo served at LSU games can warm chilled Northerners, too; and the chilies, kabobs, stews, sides and sweets are all winners no matter whom you're rooting for. Bob takes you through at-home and tailgate-site prep and makes life beyond burgers and brats a fun-filled reality.


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Who does one speak to about our (lame) main stream media? You know, those folks known irreverently, but aptly, as "talking heads" who ostensibly impart the news!
If what is being poured into the airwaves for hours on end is "all the news," you would think only those select items were the only things that had actually occurred. Each station attempts to out-do their competitors, yet drones the same things. It would appear they compare notes, select what will be broadcast, and then see which of them can say the same thing longer, louder, better, with more graphics, and/or additional guests to substantiate their message. Is it a contest? They start before dawn, give full throat at noon, and then belabor the repetitive messages for another hour and a half at supper, winding up the day with a shorter repeat at night.
And then there's the 24-hour a day channels, each alternating with either a single "reporter" or with whole tables full of "reporters" who "contribute" to the selected stories by talking over one another in full-pant to make their take on the issue the one deemed as primary.
Now, they have their First Amendment rights to Free Speech – everybody seems to be very big into claiming "rights" these days – and they certainly use theirs. However, all this coverage has a glaring omission – where's the news?
In their breathless inundation of words, they neglect the important things going on in the world and in our own country. Instead, our national reality-show mentality addiction gets its "fix" by fillers and distractions like endless trial coverage, in courtroom and out. One has to wonder if the manufactured over-kill is to cover up the omission of such little things like world affairs or broadcasting the entire speech at the UN by the brave young girl who only wanted to go to school.
Recently the most glaring omission was the president's speech on climate change. Sloughed off with mere seconds of coverage on every major channel showed our president, and we citizens, their total disrespect.
Due to this disregard to our nation's leader, and to the obvious needs of our country, Organizing for Action (OFA – a national non-profit, non-partisan group) is holding a "for your information" meeting regarding the climate change agenda. This will be at our Macon County Library, 6:30 p.m., Tuesday, July 23. We will cover the four primary goals in the complete understanding they will not effect an immediate magical cure, but we understand (as some do not) that we must make a start. To deny is easy, harder is taking the time to learn, and making the effort to do the work. We invite you to come be with us, and talk about it. It's not a debate, it's a forum – there is no admission, and no omission, but is the "news" you may have missed.
And, my original question, "Who does one speak to?" Answer: Each other.
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Branson wanted to prove two things on Tuesday: that its win over Nixa on Friday wasn't a stroke of luck and that the Pirates are a legitimate contender in this year's Central Ozark Conference Large Division race.
And while Branson struggled at times offensively in the first half, it was a big second-half surge that propelled the Pirates to a 56-50 conference victory.
"After our win on Friday, we wanted to come out and prove to everybody that it wasn't a fluke and that we're the real deal," Branson senior Thatch Unruh said. "Getting this win helps do that." ...


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Sent by Alfred Russel Wallace, Passo, Amboyna [Ambon] Island, [Indonesia] to Samuel Stevens, [London] on 31 December 1859.
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Wallace, Alfred Russel. (1860). Letters from Ceram and Amboyna. Ibis, 2: 305-306. [p. 306]
Transcriber: Smith, Charles Hyde
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"Passo, Island of Amboyna, Dec. 31, 1859.
"My letter was returned to me because I had not prepaid the postage as far as Singapore. I now add a few lines. I have just arrived here, being quite tired of the barrenness of Ceram. I shall stay about three weeks, and then go to East Ceram and Kè, if possible."
1. Editor Charles H. Smith's Note: Second of three extracts from letters on collecting dated 26 November 1859, Awaiya, Ceram, 31 December 1859, Passo, Amboyna, and 14 February 1860, Passo. Printed in the Ibis issue of July 1860.
This transcript originates from Charles H. Smith's The Alfred Russel Wallace Page website (http://people.wku.edu/charles.smith/index1.htm): See http://people.wku.edu/charles.smith/wallace/S059.htm
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Ex Girlfriend Shows-Off Her Hot Body
Day-yum! Another cutie with a great body. I don't know about the Snoopy bikini, but I'm sure she's turning heads at the beach. Of course, she looks even better naked. She looks so soft and clean, I just want to eat her up…and out. I wonder if that Playboy necklace of hers is an aspiration, because she just might be able to pull it off as a Playmate. I'm a little old to hang centerfolds on my wall, but she would definitely have a special place under my mattress.
Andreas says his ex girlfriend was very comfortable with sex and being naked, so there were never any problems in that department. Plus, she knew she looked hot and she liked the attention she got from the men-folk when she dressed provocative. However, she was also a huge flirt which increasingly became a problem for Andreas. It wasn't so much her flirting, but that other guys were constantly calling her and trying to get into her pants. He was already at the end of his rope when, he discovered that she had been giving-in to temptation with at least on of her pursuers. That was the final straw for Andreas and he got the hell out. Good idea.
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TAMPA, Fla. -- Liam Hendriks got the message.
After relying too much on his fastball in his previous outing, the Twins right-hander heeded a reminder from manager Ron Gardenhire to better mix his pitches.
The result was a four-inning stint Thursday, March 21, against the New York Yankees in which Hendriks allowed just one hit, a one-out single by Robinson Cano in the fourth. Joe Benson's two-base error allowed Cano to score, but Hendriks still managed to cut his spring earned-run average to 4.74.
He had two strikeouts and allowed two walks.
Cole De Vries followed with four no-hit innings, allowing only a walk to Brett Gardner and hitting Eduardo Nunez with a pitch, as the Twins' rotation derby intensified.
Pedro Hernandez finished the combined 1-hitter with a scoreless ninth as the Twins rolled to a 6-1 win at Steinbrenner Field.
After his side session this week, Hendriks had a long discussion with pitching coach Rick Anderson, who encouraged him to "relax" as he threw his breaking pitches.
"In my bullpen, on my off-speed, I could not locate a single thing," Hendriks said. "It was kind of disgraceful. I spoke with -1/8Anderson-3/8, and he just said to relax: 'Relax and throw it nice and easy.' I did and it paid off tonight."
You wouldn't think Hendriks would need a relaxation reminder, but when it came to throwing his slider and curveball, he did.
"I'm always kind of relaxed," he said. "I think it's the Aussie nature.
"I need to relax and take it nice and easy and make sure everything is the same -- my arm action and everything -- instead of trying to ramp it up."
Twins right-hander Mike Pelfrey made his next-to-last start of the spring Thursday in Sarasota. Pitching for Triple-A Rochester, with Joe Mauer behind the plate, Pelfrey went five innings and allowed three runs on seven hits, including two home runs. He struck out three and walked none while throwing 72 pitches. ... Mauer went 1 for 2 with a double to left center against Triple-A Norfolk. Gardenhire said Mauer would probably catch Vance Worley in Fort Myers on Friday. ... Third baseman Trevor Plouffe played his third straight minor league game and should be OK to return to the Twins lineup on Friday at home against the Yankees. ... Left-hander Scott Diamond is expected to make his second spring appearance on Saturday, again on the minor league side. Friday March 22 is the first date teams can retroactively place players on the disabled list to start the season. ... Aaron Hicks made a great running catch in deep right center in the seventh, then whirled to double the runner off first. Only then did umpires wipe out the play because of a balk call on De Vries. ... Minor league shortstop Levi Michael, the Twins' first-round pick in 2011, has been slowed the past several days by a sore throwing shoulder. The injury is considered minor. ... Right-hander B.J. Hermsen, the Twins' Minor League Pitcher of the Year in 2012, is dealing with an intercostal strain and has been shelved for a few days. Hermsen posted a 13.50 ERA in two Grapefruit League outings before being reassigned earlier this month.


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HSBC bank in the United Arab Emirates has elected to participate in a plan to settle or write off debts owed by UAE citizens. Until now the ability for people to deal with their debts in the UAE without going to jail, has been limited. And while this approach to assisting people with problem debt in the UAE is a ... Read More »
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Rocket Internet recently launched fashion e-commerce site Zalora, and now it has brought out another e-commerce venture that's focused on selling electronics. It's called Lazada. The word 'lazada' itself is the Spanish word for loop, and it is another clone made by the notorious Samwer brothers, ostensibly following Amazon's model this time. Which is a polite way of saying it looks almost identical to the old Amazon.com before its recent refresh – or to the current UK version of the site (pictured above). Based in the Middle East – Dubai to be exact – Lazada has so far launched in Egypt, Indonesia, the Philippines, and Thailand.
Lazada.com will focus on electronic products such as cellphones, TVs, software, computers, and cameras. In Indonesia, there are several brands that have partnered with the new site so far, including Acer, Apple, Blackberry, Canon, Lenovo, Nokia, Samsung, and Sony. It offers free delivery to anywhere in Jakarta thanks to Go-jek Indonesia, just as we saw with Zalora Indonesia. Again, this is not a surprise since the CEO of Rocket Internet Indonesia is Nadiem Makarim, who's also the co-founder of Go-jek.
For Lazada to win the market in Indonesia, it will face the likes of local e-commerce mall BliBli, as well as Japan-based Rakuten's Belanja Online, the latter of which has been going all out recently to build brand recognition and gain market share.
Companies like Amazon or Zappos haven't been focusing on the Middle East or Southeast Asia region, which gives Rocket Internet a window to execute quickly in the hopes of being eventually acquired. It might set an example and a precedent for cloning big names and localizing similar services on an almost indistinguishable webpage.
What do you think about Rocket Internet's operations in Indonesia and other emerging markets? Let us know in the comments!


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Semmie James Smith, 21, of Brookhaven, and Hattiesburg brothers Damien D?Wayne Sartin, 20, and Marcus Dewayne Sartin, 20, are facing charges related to the Christmas Eve death of Elester Sartin Jr., 22.
Hattiesburg police have arrested three more suspects in association with a Christmas Eve homicide.
Department spokesman Lt. Jon Traxler said the suspects were booked into the Forrest County Jail Wednesday night.
Hattiesburg men Damien D'Wayne Sartin, 20, and Marcus Dewayne Sartin, 20, are both charged with armed robbery and conspiracy to possess a controlled substance. ...


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Following a dominant 43-0 victory over Shenandoah last week, the Pella Christian football team has a chance to put a big exclamation point on the end of the regular season with a similar performance against Clarke on Friday.
Eagles' head coach Rich Kacmarynski says his upperclassmen showed how important this season is to them during Senior Night at home last week, and expects that group to lead the charge into this week's game.
"Our seniors, I think, are eager to finish this season strong and to make a playoff run," said Kacmarynski. "I think that's a big thing. I don't think the guys are ready to be done – I think guys are excited about finishing the regular season strong with a win down at Clarke and then getting in the playoffs and making some noise in the playoffs. I think we're all excited about that"
Pella Christian is 6-2 overall this season and 5-1 in Class 2A District 8, while Clarke has struggled mightily this fall, and is winless on the season.
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20 under 40 honorees awarded with dinner
SAN ANGELO, Texas - The second class of youthful San Angelo leaders has joined the ranks of 20 Under 40.
Twenty candidates, chosen because of their career development, community involvement and leadership potential, were honored at a dinner Thursday night.
"Community elders asked a question: Who is going to lead San Angelo in the future?" said Jeff DeLoach, publisher of the Standard-Times, which created 20 Under 40 in partnership with the Young Professionals of San Angelo
"We wanted to recognize young professionals who may grow into leaders."
Local musician Manny Campos, a member of the inaugural 20 Under 40 class, kept the dimly lit Bentwood County Club ballroom swinging through cocktail hour, performing Eric Clapton's "Layla" for the 200 or so attendees.
Newly inducted young professionals mingled with residents young and old, keeping with the spirit of community.
The 20 Under 40 recognition makes honorees visible, allowing them to set an example, said state Sen. Robert Duncan.
"The community needs to know who these people are," Duncan said. "They will be the leaders for years to come. This tells the community who is working for them to better their city."
Only when food was served did the party die down for a moment.
Chicken Marsala and roasted potatoes served by Gayle Bickel, culinary arts teacher at Central High School, and her crew of high school chefs graced attendees' palates.
20 Under 40 recognizes people trying to do more than their jobs call for, said Brian May, president of Angelo State University.
"My father told me you aren't a human being, you're a human doing," May said. "You're not in line for the credit, you're in line for the work. And you are doing the work."
State Rep. Drew Darby, the evening's keynote speaker, challenged the new class to be the leaders of tomorrow. The duty of being a leader is turning a vision into a reality, he said.
"I challenge each one of you to stay active in the community," Darby said, "not just turning out a product, but actually investing in the community. You have a vision. Let's make sure that vision is something to be proud of."
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If you know me (or even remotely know me from my blog) and my sense of style, you know that I love big, fun, crazy jewelry. The louder, shinier and sparklier, the better.
As I continue to scout the Kansas City area and its respective suburbs for fun shops, I've been feeding my addiction to all accessories colorful and kooky. On one recent adventure with my friend Laura, I hit up three local stores (you'll see more about them in future posts for my "shop local" series) as well as national accessories chain store Charming Charlie for some arm and finger candy.
While I left all of these items at each store (I did buy a few other things, though!), I've been thinking about these ever since and wondering if I should return to snatch them up if they're still available. Want to help keep my accessories addiction in check and tell me a yay or a nay on these funky jewels?
The No. 1 accessory that haunts my dreams is this colorful peacock bracelet from Inspire Boutique. It's attention-grabbing and absolutely stunning; I'd wear it with all black or neutrals to really let this piece stand out. It was priced in the $40 range, which is expensive for costume jewelry, but the detailing on it is amazing. What do you think? Worth it?
You know those gladiator sandals we've been rockin' for the past few summers? This ring is the equivalent — finger gladiator. Just as the leather straps on your sandals that climb up your ankles protect you from…something…the armor of this ring from Charming Charlie protects your precious knuckles from
flipping the bird to innocent bystanders something, too. I just don't know what. But it doesn't matter. Fashion doesn't have to be functional, right? Especially when it's accessories! But you tell me: love it or leave it? This ring was something like $10. Should I keep that cash for a rainy day (or Chipotle)?
It was really difficult to walk out of Inspire Boutique without this bracelet. I'm a huge fan of turquoise-greens and adore chunky jewelry. I don't quite remember the pricepoint on this one, but it was more than I was willing to spend that day (in combination with the other ring I did buy), so I passed on it. This bracelet is a stretchy slip-on (even though it looks like a cuff) and was remarkably comfortable even though it had some weight to it. What do you think about this ocean-colored cuff-like find: sink or swim?
So, peacocks, again. Except this time some feather-like texture is involved. This ring is just plain nuts, and I've had many peacock- and bird-hating friends tell me no, no, no! Are they right? Has this gone too far? It didn't seem as crazy as the fuzzy owl ring I found…
I don't need any of these accessories…but the fact that I'm still thinking about them makes me wonder if I can convince the teacher man to get one for me. :)
Which one do you like best and why? Or do you hate them all and think I should hold out for something a little less…weird? Tell me what you think in the comments section, and also, link me to some of your favorite accessories sites!
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Because Samsung are the best (and the cheapest) at doing what they are told. If you do the designs and advanced engineering (brains), samsung can find the right amount of tiny hands and machinery for the job. That's the advantage of owning a whole country. No one can compete with that, not at that price (or close).


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As Target (NYSE:TGT) gears up to battle for a share of the Canadian retail market, competitors are preparing to protect their turf. For example, Walmart (NYSE:WMT), which is already well-established here with 379 stores, has announced it will spend $450 million to expand its Canadian operations this year.
Sears Canada (TSX:SCC), which is widely believed to be the most vulnerable, is already feeling the pain, even before the first Target store has opened. Sears reported that same-store sales were down 5.6% in 2012. That's a steep decline and it's likely to get worse as consumers discover Target.
That's because they're going to like what they see. Having shopped at Target several times in the U.S., I can report that the stores offer good prices and high-quality merchandise from electronics to clothing, including many exclusive fashion lines. In this country, that will include specially designed clothing from one of our iconic garment makers, Roots.
Target stores are also much more visually appealing than their often drab Walmart and Canadian Tire competition. I predict it won't be long before Target becomes a hot topic of discussion and a favourite destination for many shoppers.
So if the stores are likely to be a big hit, why not buy the stock? Good question. Let's take a look at it.
We'll start with the big Canadian news from last week's release of the company's fourth-quarter and year-end 2012 results. The company revealed that its expansion into Canada is costing a lot more than expected. Management originally expected to spend between $10 and $11 million per store, or about $1.3 billion in total. Now the cost is being pegged at $1.5 billion which the company says will translate into a reduction to 2013 projected earnings per share (EPS) of about $0.45. As a result, Target is forecasting adjusted EPS for this year of between $4.85 and $5.05 a share (figures in U.S. currency).
For 2012, adjusted EPS was $4.76 a share, which included a $0.48 charge for the Canadian expansion. That means that projected growth this year will be between 1.9% and 6.1%. At the low end, that's negligible. At the high end, it's a big step down from a 7.9% gain in EPS in 2012.
But the company expects to start getting some payback on its big foreign expansion - the first it has ever undertaken - by the fourth quarter. By 2014, the Canadian operations should be making a significant contribution to the bottom line but at this point no one is predicting how much that might be.
Small wonder! Although Target is very popular in the U.S., no one can say with any certainty how Canadians will react. One thing is certain: there will be a lot of media focus on price comparisons during the early days. Journalists and consumers will looking at how much the same item costs in Canada and the U.S. and how Target's prices compare with its Canadian rivals. If Target comes off badly out of the gate it will put a damper on the launch and slow customer acceptance.
This uncertainty makes the stock a little more risky than it would otherwise be. But it also offers significant upside potential to earnings per share in 2014 if all goes well.
In announcing its 2012 results, Target said its full-year sales increased 5.1% to $72 billion from $68.5 billion in 2011. This reflected a 2.7% increase in comparable-store sales combined with the contribution from new stores and one additional accounting week
As things stand right now, the stock has a trailing p/e ratio of 14.2 and a forward ratio of 11.4. By comparison, Walmart's trailing p/e is 14.3 while the forward p/e is 12.2. So Target shares are a little cheaper by comparison. According to data compiled by Thomson/First Call, analysts are slightly weighted towards the buy side on their calls with a median target of $71.50 a share.
The stock pays a quarterly dividend of $0.36 a share ($1.44 a year) to yield 2.25% based on Friday's closing price of $64.13. Also, Target has an active share buy-back program. In 2012, the company spent $1.9 billion to repurchase 32.2 million shares at an average price of $58.96. That represented 4.8% of the shares outstanding at the start of the year.
Action now: Target becomes a Buy for patient investors who believe the company's entry into Canada will pay off in 2014 and beyond. The shares trade on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol TGT. My initial target price is $70 which, if achieved, would give us a total return of 11.4% in the first year, including dividends.


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Federal officials have extended a waiver that makes it easier to "flip" properties -- a move meant to encourage the renovation of foreclosed homes but that critics say could herald the return of predatory schemes.
The Federal Housing Administration has waived through 2014 an anti-flipping regulation which had prevented the agency from insuring mortgages on properties sold within 90 days of acquisition. The waiver, first implemented in 2010 to bolster the flagging housing market, is intended to enable investors to buy and quickly rehab properties as the market continues to struggle.
But in Baltimore, one of the cities most affected by fraudulent flipping, some housing experts are concerned that another extension of the waiver may usher in a repeat of predatory transactions that duped hundreds of buyers in the late 1990s and early 2000s, and left many Baltimore neighborhoods scarred with abandoned homes.
The anti-flipping waiver has been controversial even within the Department of Housing and Urban Development, which oversees the FHA. Kenneth Donohue, HUD's inspector general, raised concerns about the waiver soon after it was instituted.
"While we recognize FHA's business decision to again institute its anti-flipping waiver as a way to encourage investment, stimulate the housing market, and reduce blight through home ownership, we continue to have concerns that the anti-flipping waiver will also invite fraud schemes to occur," Donohue said.
He added that officials continue to devote resources to investigating flipping schemes "wherever they may arise."
"We're getting ready to go right back into the mess we just had," said Larry Chriscoe, who says he was the victim of a flipping scam in 1999.
Chriscoe used an FHA-backed mortgage to buy a house in the Waltherson neighborhood of Baltimore. He said the seller had owned the home for a short time and used cosmetic improvements, such as paint and caulk, and a deceptive appraisal to charge him tens of thousands of dollars more than the home was worth.
"I walked out on the property," said Chriscoe, who decided it wasn't feasible to pay off a mortgage that cost much more than the value of his home, which needed major roof repairs and an electrical overhaul. "There were so many things wrong in that house."
Flipping schemes proliferated throughout Baltimore and targeted first-time and lower-income buyers.
In some areas, groups of homes were bought cheaply by speculators, revalued by conspiring appraisers and resold within days or hours for much more than the seller's purchase price.
Like Chriscoe, many buyers walked away from their homes and left behind vacant properties to be dealt with by banks, City Hall and the federal government.
The transactions also destroyed buyers' finances.
Chriscoe filed for bankruptcy and said he is still trying to get his credit in order, eight years after leaving his flipped home.
By 2003, flipping had become a growing problem in Baltimore for the better part of a decade, prompting Sen. Barbara Mikulski and others to hold hearings in the city about the practice, HUD issued the anti-flipping rule that restricted what mortgages FHA would insure. "'Quick flips' will be eliminated," the FHA said in a statement at the time.
But after the housing bubble burst and foreclosed homes became commonplace, the FHA decided to lift the ban to accelerate the resale of homes.
At the time, Donohue said the action had not been vetted with his department. "While we understand the underlying reasoning to turn around foreclosed properties in a quicker manner, we believe its imposition may open a new round of fraud-related flipping abuse," he wrote to a congressional committee.
Donohue said the FHA should be wary of loosening regulations because the government, to encourage lending, has insured more mortgages.
In each of its two most recent fiscal years, the FHA insured 1.2 million loans -- well over $200 billion worth of mortgages each year.
More FHA loans can make "careful and comprehensive lender monitoring difficult," Donohue wrote. He noted that in previous periods of high volumes of FHA loans, "the program was vulnerable to exploitation by fraud schemes, most notoriously flipping activities, that undercut the integrity of the program."
The waiver has been extended twice before, in single-year increments. The second extension was set to expire Dec. 31, but in November HUD announced it was again extending the waiver -- this time for two years, until Dec. 31, 2014.
"FHA research finds that in today's market, acquiring, rehabilitating and reselling these properties to prospective homeowners often take less than 90 days," HUD said in December 2011, announcing the second extension.
To some, the extensions make sense as a way to keep the housing market moving forward.
"It's a different market now," said Andre Weitzman, a Baltimore attorney who represented many homeowners victimized by flipping schemes. "The main catalyst for flipping was the easy availability of loans. Money's not so easily available now."
As long as lenders are more stringent in their mortgage requirements, there seems to be little room for inflated home values to be used as a way to get a quick-flip payout, he said.
Appraisers, too, are being more careful than they were during the housing bubble, said Fern Dannis, the director of housing programs for the Maryland Association of Realtors.
When the market was hot, appraisers were more likely to be taken in by the constantly rising values, instead of focusing on value added by improvements.
Restrictions built into the waiver should also guard against fraud, said Owen Jarvis, an attorney at St. Ambrose Housing Aid Center, which helped lead efforts against flipping in Baltimore.
For instance, to be eligible for the waiver, a property that is being sold for more than 20 percent more than the seller's acquisition cost must provide a second appraisal or provide documentation of the improvements to the home.
An inspection also must be completed if the home is being resold with 90 days for a price that is 20 percent more than its previous sales price, according to HUD.
"As long as that's adhered to, that seems to protect the buyer," Jarvis said, though he added that if no one is monitoring loans to ensure those precautions are taken, there could be a problem.


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LONDON: Britain has made it clear that it was not supporting charismatic cleric Dr Tahir ul-Qadri or anyone else involved in Pakistan.
"We do not interfere in Pakistani politics. We are not sponsoring Qadri's campaign in Pakistan or any other campaign in Pakistan," a foreign office official told The News on Wednesday during an interview. Speculation has grown whether Dr Qadri, who has appeared all of a sudden on Pakistan's national scene, has the support of Britain, Canada and other western countries.
Speaking to this scribe about Britain's stance on the current situation in Pakistan, including the sit-in in Islamabad by the Allama Dr Tahir ul-Qadri and the Supreme Court's order for the arrest of Pakistani Prime Minister Raja Pervaiz Ashraf, the official at the Foreign & Commonwealth Office (FCO) said that Britain fully respected Pakistan's constitution and was keenly interested in a secure and stable Pakistan.
"A strong, stable, constitutional democracy and a legitimate transfer of power in the upcoming elections are firmly in the interests of Pakistan," said the spokesman during the interview.
She said: "Elections (in Pakistan) should be held on time and managed by the independent Election Commission."
When asked about the demand of Dr Qadri and others about the formation of a caretaker set-up, the spokesperson said that Britain would like to see an impartial caretaker government put in place "as set out in the constitution". But the spokesperson added meaningfully: "It (the caretaker set up) should last its proper term and no longer."
When asked about the court orders for the arrest of PM Raja Pervaiz Ashraf, the spokesperson refused to comment on this specific case due to its legal nature but commented: "We encourage all institutions involved to respect the constitution and help ensure stability."
Meanwhile, Britain's media said on Wednesday and said that the country is facing a deepening crisis as the government seems helpless to deal with the situation in the wake of Tahir ul-Qadri's sit-in protest and the Supreme Court order for the arrest of Prime Minister Raja Pervaiz Ashraf.
Newspapers quoted the prime minister's advisor Fawad Chaudhry as alleging that the judiciary and the army were working in concert against the government to install an administration of its choosing. He alleged that the "the establishment working" "to dismiss the government and put in a long-term interim set-up".
The Guardian said "few people question that Ashraf has a case to answer for his alleged involvement in a corruption scandal when he was minister in charge of electricity" but quoted analysts who feared a plot to install a government of army-backed technocrats that could rule for an extended period.
The Independent said: "While all of Pakistan's governments have been criticized for corruption and misrule, critics say that Mr Zardari's tenure has taken graft to new heights, while failing to tackle basic problems, including terrorism and an acute shortage of gas and electricity."
The Telegraoh said: "If 111 brigade, which has played a role in securing key buildings in the capital in previous coups, stays in its Rawalpindi barracks then Mr Zardari's fragile coalition should hold together. The country is already awash with evidence-free conspiracy theories that place the military at the centre of a plot to oust the government."
The paper said that western governments have poured billions into Pakistan to shore up its fragile democracy. Its nuclear weapons, Taliban militants and polio reservoirs mean the world has an interest in seeing Pakistan enter a period of stability. The protestors told the paper that they had reached Islamabd becaus there is no employment, food, fuel, health, and wealth.
The Financial Times quoted Western diplomats as saying that "Qadri protests posed one of the biggest threats to Mr Zardari's government since he was elected in 2008". "This is clearly Zardari's most difficult challenge so far," said one diplomat.


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A tornado is seen bearing down on Watford City, N.D., on Monday. Nine people were injured by the twister, which had an intensity of EF2, or winds of 125 mph, according to the National Weather Service. / Associated Press
Despite the forecast, Richland and surrounding counties were largely rain- and storm-free on Tuesday as the trigger for the activity, a frontal boundary, remained stuck up in Michigan.
That cold front was down between Mansfield and the south shore of Lake Erie Wednesday morning, with some rain popping up in Huron County. The expectation is that as that front continues to slowly work its way south through the afternoon the rain and possible storms will begin to percolate in Richland County and points south.
The best window for precipitation here will be from 3 to 7 p.m. today, prime time for the best heating of the day. However, this is a weak boundary, and its proximity to us could result in clouds blotting out the sun needed to destabilize our atmosphere, although dewpoints are certainly already up.
Otherwise, we can expect temperatures to once again top out close to 80 degrees on Wednesday, and stay mild and borderline uncomfortable overnight. Columbus on Tuesday had a record high minimum temperature of 73 degrees, more typical of late July. Is it going to be that kind of summer?
Once this pokey frontal boundary meanders out of our region by later on Thursday, were looking at an extended period of fair, seasonal weather probably lasting through the weekend. A back-door cold front coming out of the Northeast a feature moving from east to west thats common in that part of the country this time of year is expected to affect us here in Ohio by Monday, although predicting their precise behavior is always a little tricky.
In climate news, President Obama and the U.S. EPA will announce next week probably their biggest move yet to curb emissions of greenhouse gases a new rule that will force existing power plants to make modifications. A similar new rule issued in January applied only to new power plants. This second regulation is considered much more onerous by the energy industry.
Onerous or not theres so much lobbying from all sides when it comes to climate change that its hard to get at the truth we can probably all expect our utility providers to raise their rates as they work to meet these new regulations.
Below are the weather statistics for Tuesday, May 27 at my location 4 miles north-northwest of Fredericktown, Ohio:
Conditions Partly sunny, warm, humid
High temperature 83; low temperature 62 (last year, 66 and 42)
Precipitation 0.01 inches
High barometer 29.97 inches; low barometer 29.81 inches
Peak wind gust 20 mph, southwest
High dew point 67
Cooling degree days 8
Today's normal high and low temperatures (Mansfield) 73 and 52
Today's record high and low temperatures (Mansfield) 91 in 2012, 35 in 1949
Today's sunrise/sunset times 6:03 a.m./8:52 p.m.
Moon phase new moon at 2:40 p.m.
U.S. extreme temperatures 117 in Death Valley, Calif.; 28 at Snake River Ranger Station, Wyo.
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Some health concerns for many Thursday on the University of Kentucky campus.
Health officials are concerned for many on the University of Kentucky campus after a student is diagnosed with a case of viral meningitis.
That is the less severe form of the infection, but still UK health officials say students are being encouraged to visit University Health Services if they begin to suffer from possible symptoms.
Some symptoms to look can include high fever, severe headaches, and stiff neck.
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The city of Independence is looking for a little help with a health-related drill on Thursday. Prizes are involved.
The city of Independence is looking for a little help with a health-related drill on Thursday. Prizes are involved.
This week the Health Department is running exercises for distributing medicine to large numbers of people. The scenario is that someone has taken a highly dangerous substance – anthrax in this drill – and managed to spread it across the community in aerosol form. Among other things, the city would open up drive-through inoculation sites.
"We're testing our capacity to see how many people we can get through," said Bridgette Casey of the Health Department.
So on Thursday the department will be set up from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Fire Station No. 7. That's at 2206 Hub Drive, between Sonic and Adventure Oasis off 23rd Street near Missouri 291.
The first 100 people to drive through get stuff: There are the meds – actually Skittles and M&M's – plus a small first-aid kit, a shaker flashlight and an emergency blanket, all the kind of gear people are advised to have handy around the house in case of emergency. Also, the first 100 get $10 gift cards for local restaurants.
Casey said people should be in and out in 10 minutes.
Emergency management officials run exercises like this periodically. They say the drills help them spot and fix shortcomings in their systems, and they say practice makes a big difference when a real emergency arises.
"Independence does a really great job with their drive-thoughs," said Rhonda Charboneau-Cooper, regional response planner in the Jackson County Health Department.
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Monday, May 26, 2008
Growing Up Green: Book Review by ChristineMM
Title: Growing Up Green!
Author: Deirdre Imus
Publication: Simon and Schuster, April 2008
Format: Paperback book
Retail: $15.95
Disclosure: I received a copy of this book from the publicist for the purpose of writing a review.
Rating: 3 stars (out of 5)
I really wanted to love this book and had hoped to give it a 5 star rating. In this review I will fully explain the reason for rating this book with 3 stars. I think I have given it a fair judgment. Note I have implemented many of these suggestions in our family's life in the years past and am supportive of families making healthier choices as well as making choices that are better for our environment.
The best thing about Growing Up Green! Is that Deirdre Imus has taken every single green living issue pertaining to children and health and summarized it in one place. Buying and reading this book can save you lots of time and money. As a comparison, I have been reading about health, wellness, and green living and parenting for twenty years and have spent hundreds if not thousands of dollars on books and magazines and hundreds of hours combing through lots of information to extract out the latest recommendation on a topic. If you have not yet invested that kind of time, this book is a time saver for you (and a bargain).
The book is easy to read. You can breeze through it quickly. One of my problems was that I was so horrified by two subjects that twice I had to shelve the book for a few weeks to save my sanity (more on that later).
The book's strong point of being all encompassing and cutting to the chase is also its weakness. Imus covers each topic shallowly, sometimes too thinly. Although she does provide websites to go read for more information on nearly every topic, sometimes there just is not enough information to explain a topic. Other topics deserve reading an entire book (or two) on the topic. Specifically troublesome was that some topics that I know from other sources are conflicted or are being credited as junk science is never mentioned in the book. Things come across as fact without saying that some of these topics are questionable, with conflicting studies published on both sides of the position, so I (the informed reader) don't truly know what to believe (others ignorant on some topics may take everything as gospel).
Several times, Imus says that we should just choose the course of action assuming the worst is true, and avoid that thing lest we possibly harm our children's health. That would not be so hard if it involved one or a few choices in our lives but when you put all the recommendations together, to really do all the things in this book just may drive a person crazy (seriously) or at the least, would leave them worried and possibly angry at the world too.
Another major issue is there is no prioritization of the recommendations. Eating your fruits and veggies versus eating organic versus going totally vegan versus using all green school supplies and children wearing only organic cotton and renovating your home to replace everything with green materials is all weighted the same. The fact is that even if we have a desire, putting every single one of these recommendations into place is not possible, especially when a family's budget is limited. It is not feasible for most families to renovate their homes just to make them greener. Even with our best intentions the fact of the matter is that some of the lifestyle changes that are not prohibited by our budget are hard to be consistent with over the long-term as they require constant effort to go against the tide which can be emotionally draining and exhausting. I speak from experience when I say that swimming upstream is difficult in the long term.
Additionally we hear over and over how the author was able to implement these changes with her only child. Perhaps if she had two or more children she might see that sometimes a parent's best intention is altered by the different wills, personalities, and taste buds of different children even born into the same family and raised with the same parenting style and diet as the other children in the family. Additionally parents with more than one child have less energy and patience to juggle all these recommendations with different aged children. This book does fall prey to the mother of an only child typical thing "I did it with my one child so you all should have the same success with all of your own children if you would just try".
The author gives no sympathy to the reader by way of acknowledging that making all of these changes might be difficult, by the way.
Take it from me, a mother who has over the years implemented and practiced some alternative parenting methods and choices, managing an alternative parenting lifestyle is challenging. We face challenges at the grocery store when shopping, when at friend's and relative's homes, when at children's birthday parties, and when at the doctor's office. The lack of guidance with some kind of a priority scale and the lack of encouragement for readers to use critical thinking and their personal discernment about which battles to fight and which to surrender is an issue. Reading all of these recommendations for green parenting will leave some readers overwhelmed. Some readers will be left confused and may give up, while some may even end up neurotic and angry or exhausted as they try to do everything recommended (and worry of damaging their children if they fail or choose to not follow a recommendation).
I found the book scary in some parts. The most disturbing to me was the one thing that I'd not heard about before. The author says that chemicals and drugs used in the infertility treatment process may damage the very children that are conceived from such procedures. We were not led on where to go for more information or told what studies or reports discuss this. If this really is true our country is in real trouble and we all would have serious reasons to be skeptical of American medical doctors.
The next issue that caused me worry and family strife was the use of plastics in food wraps, food storage containers and water bottles. One of the issues is Bisphenol A. I was so worried about what I read that I went and did more research and found the topic to be debated and studies conflicted each other. The author may be happy to know I've thrown out most of the plastic we own in a fit of fear and anger after reading that section of her book. I'm now worried about hormone disruption in my sons and wonder if they will be infertile in adulthood. My husband thinks I'm crazy and we're actually having disagreements over this topic. This is one topic in the book that is not covered as deeply as I felt it deserved. For example if a study showed that the plastic with food in it should not be heated then why can't we still use it to hold cold food? We are told instead to just avoid the use of it entirely and buy glass food storage containers.
Although the book has a chapter on how to become an activist in the community, it is lacking something else more important. The book really needed a chapter about how concerned mothers can convince their husbands to go along with these changes (especially since some are not easy to implement and others are very costly and some may be too costly for the family budget). In fact the topic of the budget is never discussed, since it is not an issue for the author I guess she thinks it is not an issue for mainstream Americans? Additionally dealing with other relatives on our alternative choices is something that we need support with. That topic is completely absent. If you do all the things in this book it will be you against the world, or perhaps only with the support of other green living parents that you meet in online discussion groups.
The author quotes about a dozen medical doctors who are famous in their fields or have published books on the topics. Their biographies are at the end of the book. To be more of a thinking person readers should really go on to read those books too. I have read some of them and they educate and enlighten the reader more than this book can in its short length and broad scope.
The book really needs an index so we can quickly reference the topics, especially to look back on a topic we know we read on the first go-through. I can't believe there is no index!
The book also had some typos, spelling mistakes and grammar mistakes. One duplication error was in a chemical reference chart. I'm surprised the editor and this major book publisher let those get through.
The topics in the book span from pre-conception through raising teenagers. Some of the larger topics touched upon which deserve more reading and self-education are Autism and the vaccination debate. One or more whole books on those topics really should be read. A few other topics are thrown in like saying we should use public transportation. My husband said he heard Don Imus on the radio the day after Deirdre did a book signing at her own town's library in which he admitted he sat in the limo with the engine idling while she did her talk, and he was chastised by a citizen for doing so. Could they not have driven themselves from their own home to the public library in their same town or used public transportation?
To summarize if you want to be told what to do and to not think much about all the background information or to even question if these statement are correct you'll love the book and would think it is 5 star book. If you want all the topics in one book for fast reading you'd love it too (5). If you worry that the book over-generalizes or possibly conceals that the topic is actually based on junk science, it is a 3 or a 2. If you are well read on these topics already then the book won't be of much use to you and it would be a 3 or a 2. If you like to gather your own information and think on your own you may think this is a 3 or a 2.
I have implemented many of the suggestions in this book before it was published. If you don't know this stuff already perhaps this is a good starting point for a quick read summary of all the recommendations.
I wish all parents well and hope that everyone's children are healthy now and in the future. I hope you are able to be happy on your parenting journey too—don't let worries ruin it.
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- Kim said...
My motto is "Exploit the Earth or Die" (info here: http://www.theobjectivestandard.com/exploit-the-earth-or-die.asp) and I live by it. I think the question of "how best to make your life more and more difficult" is the only one answered in this book.
The reason why you're having fights with your husband about this is because he, understandably, doesn't want to sacrifice himself and his own well-earned money on a philosophy that basically feels that human beings' comforts and needs are second to the inanimate objects around us. I applaud your husband's sense of life and willingness to stand up to those he loves when he recognizes that any reasonable person is being pushed too far by pseudoscience and an anti-human, anti-life political view.
- Monday, May 26, 2008 at 7:22:00 PM CDT


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Flu shot protects against three strains
October 12, 2010
By Laura Geggel
This year's flu shot protects against three types of influenza: the H3N2 virus, an influenza B virus and H1N1, also known as swine flu.
Flu shots combining vaccinations are not uncommon, said Virginia Mason Issaquah primary care doctor Ted Naiman, citing data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
"Every year, it's got multiple different ingredients," he said. "Basically, what the CDC does is they look at the strains of influenzas the year before that made people the sickest and killed the most people, and they use those to make the next year's vaccine."
Influenza, a respiratory illness, can cause a multitude of symptoms, including fever, cough, sore throat, a runny or stuffy nose, body aches, headaches, fatigue or vomiting.
Most people recover in two weeks, but sometimes the disease has complications leading to pneumonia, bronchitis, and sinus and ear infections.
Every year, between 5 percent and 20 percent of people get the flu, according to the CDC.
The CDC recommends everyone between 6 months and 49 years of age receive a flu vaccine. The vaccination is available as a shot or as a nasal spray, the latter containing a live virus vaccine, meaning that only people with a healthy immune system should get that.
Pregnant women should get flu shots, because their immune systems are compromised, Naiman said. People older than 65, whose immune systems are often less robust, can receive an extra-strength flu shot.
At Virginia Mason Issaquah, people were already lining up last week for their flu shots. Ralph Eikenberry and his wife Marjorie Eikenberry said they haven't had the flu for at least 30 years because they get their vaccinations.
"It's an old habit. We do it every year," Ralph Eikenberry, of Issaquah, said. "It's better to get the shot than to live with the flu."
Flu season typically peaks in January or February, but it can start as early as October, "so you should get a flu shot as soon as you can," Naiman said.
After getting a flu vaccination, it takes about two weeks for the body's immune system to build a resistance. The flu shot contains influenza antigens, which prompt the body to make antibodies that can fight the disease.
"If you get the flu, you're sick for two weeks and then you fight it off," Naiman said. "The flu vaccine just does that in advance."
Some people are wary of the vaccination, afraid the shot will give them the flu itself. A study published in 2010 by the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices showed these worries are misplaced. People who received the flu shot reported flu-like symptoms at the same rate as people who received a placebo shot, according to the study, Naiman said.
Usually, about 1 percent of people who receive the shot report these symptoms, he said.
Even people who typically do not get sick should get vaccinated, he added.
"Even if you get a super mild case and only have it for a day, you could pass it on to someone else," he said.
If someone with the flu comes knocking at Ralph Eikenberry's door, he said he and his wife would be ready.
"We haven't had the flu for years," he said. "We don't allow it in our house. We have a sign that says 'no flu allowed.'"
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Bartell Drugs Issaquah
Walk-in clinic
Cost $29.99
Costco Issaquah
Find clinic hours here.
Cost $20
Walgreens Issaquah
Walk-in clinic
Cost $29.99
Issaquah Safeway
Walk-in clinic
Cost $30
Entitled to a 10 percent off coupon for next grocery purchase
Issaquah Valley Senior Center
Swedish Medical Center vaccine clinic
Oct. 28
For people 55 or older
Rite Aid Issaquah
Walk-in clinic
Cost $24.99
Virginia Mason Issaquah Clinic
Clinics Tuesdays 3-7 p.m. and Fridays 8 a.m. – noon
Insurance accepted, no cash
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Always in Your Heart Valentine Photo Ornaments
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Instructions:You Will Need:
* Block of polymer clay (such as Fimo) in red, pink or magenta
* Rolling pin
* 5-inch and 2-inch heart-shaped cookie cutters (like Wilton's From the Heart Nesting Metal Cutters)
* Plastic straw
* Baking sheet lined with aluminum foil
* Clear tacky glue
* Photo of your child, trimmed to 2 x 2 inches (we recommend a close-up of her face)
* Thick-tipped paint marker in white or silver
* 6-inch length of organza ribbon
1. Preheat oven to temperature recommended on package of polymer clay.
2. Work clay with hands until malleable. With rolling pin, roll out clay, as you would cookie dough, to 1/8-inch thick.
3. Using larger cookie cutter, cut out two heart shapes from clay. Using smaller cookie cutter, cut out a heart from the center of one large heart. Discard the small heart.
4. Stack the two large hearts so that they align exactly, with the hollow-centered one on top. Using plastic straw, make a hole at the top of the hearts.
5. Separate hearts and place them on baking sheet; bake in oven for 10 minutes. Remove and cool.
6. Glue the photo of your child to the center of the solid heart shape. Apply glue around the top edge of the solid heart and affix hollow heart on top. Let dry.
7. Using paint marker, decorate heart with dots. If desired, write a Valentine's message, such as "I love you!"
8. Thread organza ribbon through hole in heart and tie to form a loop.
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While New York Fashion Week's Fall 2014 shows as a whole had a serious shortage of high heels, a number of major designers included impressively towering shoes amidst the abundance of flats. On the catwalk, Erin Fetherston's dainty designs paired nicely with clear-sided pumps, while Marchesa featured intricate, strappy sandals. The season's street style stars and front row celebrities proved that the craziest—and at times, most uncomfortable—high heels are far from dead. While we'll happily slip into a beautiful pair of towering heels any day, we figured we could use a few tips from those in the fashion business who know the shoes best.
To that end, we asked around throughout NYFW for models' and celebrities' tried-and-true tips for how to walk in sky-high heels. Click through the slideshow above for your go-to guide for getting around in stilettos, and you'll be strutting it like a pro in no time.