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Laos seems Expensive!
Laos seems Expensive!
At least comparatively.
Laos seems way more expensive than Thailand. I'm in Vientiane, went to the big indoor market today and the scarves, even with bargaining, were all at least 60,000 kip, most of the ones with natural dyes were at least 100,000, almost $12. I'm not saying its outrageous, but for SE Asia it seems high. I was in Thailand last and everything seemed much cheaper there. Tuk tuk rides here in VTE have all been at least $2 a piece, while in Chiang Mai they were usually never more than $1. The larger bedspread-like weavings were going for at least $50, the wood carved bowls and platters were at least $15, etc. Food in resteraunts near the tourist center here are pretty much the same as in America. I know, I know - tourist centers are always higher, but in Chiang Mai I found LOTS of cheap local food, but that doesn't seem to be as available here.
Is this anyone else's experience or am I crazy?
#1 TheNewGuy8 has been a member since 8/9/2010. Posts: 35
My friend, you are crazy!
#2 christay2009 has been a member since 8/2/2009. Location: United Kingdom. Posts: 414
Not at all.
For some reason despite it being 'more advanced' Thailand is cheaper for most things (including street food which at least is edible which you couldn't say about Laos or Cambodia.) accomodation, travel and a host of other things.
But Vietnam has the cheapest beer
#3 sayadian has been a member since 15/1/2008. Posts: 1,557
i remember this topic came up a while back too, with a different person saying pretty much the same thing. my own experience is the same as sayadian's above; that Thailand is cheaper for a lot of things ranging from accommodation to street food to motor scooter or bicycle rental. i think it has to do with development too, meaning that if you want to live at the same comfort level in Laos that you did in Thailand, it will likely cost more. if you are ready and willing to go local standards, i suspect Laos will have lower prices on most day-to-day stuff.
that the price difference doesn't seem to be as much as it used to be. on my last trip to Pakse, i'd say the rooms and the food and the transport costs were really close to what i'd been paying on the other side of the river the week before. great deals and excellent quality too.
anyway, vietnam may have the cheapest beer but Beer Lao is the best! cheers.
#4 exacto has been a member since 12/2/2006. Location: United States. Posts: 2,657
Where has exacto been?
"Food in resteraunts near the tourist center here are pretty much the same as in America"
Newguy this is nonsense. Food here is about half or less what you woould pay in the States. Are you telling me that you can get a large pizza in a restaurant for $5.00? When my wife and I go out and splurge, and spend about $30 for a meal including a bottle of wine. Where in the States can you get that?
Cheap local food? Have you been to Tat Luang market? My wife, sister in Law, friend and I ate splendidly last Sunday. $10 for the four of us including 2 bottles of Beer Laos
"Scarves, even with bargaining, were all at least 60,000" Well I pay about 40K kip when I buy them.
"the wood carved bowls and platters were at least $15" That is dirt cheap. Rosewood is a quality wood and you would pay well over $100 in the US or Oz.
However, yes, a number of things are dearer than Thailand as a lot of things are imported. Western food is a LOT cheaper than in Thailand and alcohol is cheaper again.
Sayadian, I don't understand your comment about street food at all. Street food is cheap and delicious in Laos. I frequently get it to take home.
#5 Rufus has been a member since 22/4/2007. Location: Laos. Posts: 973
You are right about that.Laos beer is the best but i was just mentioning the cheapest which of course is beer hoi in Vietnam.Sometimes I wish it hadn't been so cheap
You're opinion is about Laos street food in Vientiane?
If so I haven't got a clue-found plenty of good cheap restaurants in Vientiane.Going out in 'the sticks' however was another matter.For years I've eaten street food all over Thailand.I find,in general,the food is usually well prepared and fresh and the Thais seem to know about food hygiene.This was not the case in Laos but I would conceed it's not as bad as Cambodia where you are taking your life in your hands eating it.
#6 sayadian has been a member since 15/1/2008. Posts: 1,557
man are you defensive and high strung
#7 villanovajunction has been a member since 4/11/2010. Posts: 8
I got sick of hearing that "Laos is cheaper than Thailand" a long time ago. OK it depends on what part of Thailand you're comparing it to, but if you look at northen Thailand, Chiang Mai , etc. quite a few things get more expensive when you cross the border and continue to follow the tourist trail in Laos. Motorbike rentals, laundry service, the "more-virgin" treks, imported goods at markets (except wine ;-( and even a bowl of noodles (guay dtio in Chiang Mai 20-30 baht, Feu in tourist spots in Laos at least double). Room prices in Vientiane are going nuts! No, northern Thailand is still the best bang for buck in SE Asia.
#8 Captain_Bob has been a member since 27/5/2006. Location: Thailand. Posts: 1,903
Cap, I agree that Thailand is cheaper. However I pay 7000-8000kip for Khao Piak and for Pho. That is about the same as you pay. You can still get a backpackers room in Vientiane for $7-10. Also you can't get a decent western meal anywhere nearly as cheap as I can.
Imported goods are, of course, dearer. We go shopping in Nong Khai for things like baby formula.
#9 Rufus has been a member since 22/4/2007. Location: Laos. Posts: 973
I got to say that I think street food in Cambodia (except for the bugs) is cheap and delicious. I want some Amok now! Are you kidding me that Thailand is better. Good but not better. Vietnam very disappointing in comparison
#10 swatral has been a member since 1/9/2009. Location: Australia. Posts: 16
swatral-this has got to be a troll, right?
Cambodian street food consists of various babequed meats(ang) which would probably follow you if you whistled.You can also get the most delicious bones and rice I've ever had and the sausage you would(will, more like it) die for. Now if you are talking about restaurants, and that is what I think you mean, there are some great Khmer places which sell chicken or beef with a bowl of prahok and a salad to dip in it with a jug of fresh draught beer- should cost you around $4-5.
#11 sayadian has been a member since 15/1/2008. Posts: 1,557
"Street food is cheap and delicious in Laos"
Street food isn't delicious anywhere on the planet. If you are lucky it's edible. Delicious is a Schweinebraten mit spaetzle from a German guesthouse or a Filet Minion with baked pattato and sour cream, ceasars salad on the side. That's delicious. Pad Thai or some such is OK, but let's not get carried away.
I found accomodation in Savankhet as cheap as anywhere I've ever been, at 150 baht a night with a hot shower. That was a good deal. Food? Perhaps Vientiane is cheaper here, but yes, Rufus, Dao Cafe in Savankhet charges prices MORE expensive than in the states (well, not more expensive than New York City, but more expensive than Newton Mass). A burger and a beer there will set you back about 15 bucks. It's good, and it's a classy place, but it ain't cheap.
#12 MADMAC has been a member since 6/6/2009. Posts: 6,957
Sayadian mine is not a troll post. I do love a good BBQ! You are right though the cheap cafes offer fabulous food. One of the reasons I think I like Cambodian food so much is because I am a little Thai'd out. Love the delicate flavours of Cambodia which are new for me.
#13 swatral has been a member since 1/9/2009. Location: Australia. Posts: 16
I just want to know why you would go to Laos and want a burger in the first place? Same goes for Newton Massa - surely they have some local cuisine and it is not just about burgers and pizza. Clam chowder? I agree Rufus Australia is outrageously expensive for food dining out, drinks and accommodation
#14 swatral has been a member since 1/9/2009. Location: Australia. Posts: 16
"but more expensive than Newton Mass"
I don't think I would ever go to Newton Mass.
Mac, can you get a 700gr imported rib roast for two plus a bottle of wine for $30 in the States? I can get that here. You certainly can't in Oz. Mind you, Oz is ridiculously expensive now.
The problem with a post like Cap Bob's is that he may well know places to go in Chiang Mai. However as I stated, I can get the same prices in Vte. I am surprised about the price he says he paid for Pho and I wonder where this place is? Perhaps he will tell us? However, the best Pho I ever had was in Lyon, France at a Cambo/Thai/Lao restaurant. It cost $11.00, but gee it was good!
Now if Bob were speaking about Luang Prabang, he would have a strong argument, as prices there have escalated drastically. Again, though, compare it with popular tourist destinations in Thailand like Phuket, and it looks cheap. Phuket is ridiculous now.
As I said though, for things like cosmetics, (for the missus not me), formula, and other imported stuff, Thailand is cheaper. Quality clothes are better, a little cheaper and you have a bigger choice. We head over to Nong Khai about once a month to shop. Mind you, by the time you pay the fare from the Fr. Bridge to NK and back, you are back to square one again.
One last comment: Mac, street food can be delicious. I had a superb pork rib washed down by a couple of bottles of Beer Laos the other day at Tat Luang night market. The pork here in Laos is superb, the beef is crap.
#15 Rufus has been a member since 22/4/2007. Location: Laos. Posts: 973
Well, the beef here isn't any better.
I'm not a street food fan (although I eat it often because it's cheap), and have never had anything I would call "Delicious". There's a guy who does smoked chicken at the night market and it tastes just like German fest chicken. It's pretty good, but again, Filet Minion it's not.
"I just want to know why you would go to Laos and want a burger in the first place?"
Because I get sick and tired of eating asian food all the time. Pickings where I live are mighty slim. We have asian food, and asian food, and then there's asian food. Aside from the Pizza place and KFC... well, my wife is a good cook and she cooks German thank God.
"Same goes for Newton Massa - surely they have some local cuisine and it is not just about burgers and pizza. Clam chowder?"
I don't particularly like clam chowder and it's expensive. Tom's Pizza in Newton can't be beat. Fantastic pizza. It's not just about local cuisine. I grew up in Newton, so "local cuisine" doesn't harbor some sort of mythological greatness for me. And I live on the Lao border in Thailand, so local food here doesn't have any hold either. Local doesn't mean good. Some things have a world wide rep for being good for a reason - pizza and burgers are in that select group.
#16 MADMAC has been a member since 6/6/2009. Posts: 6,957
Jakaten burgers mm there's a thought.could be the way to make a killing in Issan Madmac.
#17 sayadian has been a member since 15/1/2008. Posts: 1,557
Ahhhhhh maybe not.
#18 MADMAC has been a member since 6/6/2009. Posts: 6,957
For tourists it certainly is more expensive in Laos, or should I say for typical tourists. For savy backpackers on a budget they know that in smaller towns it's certainly possible to get very good rooms with attached for three of four dollars tops. Lao people aren't going to pay $2 to eat a meal, what about you?
Food isn't bought like in Thailand, Laos isn't Thailand, people coming from Thailand using the same language and way of buying food are going to pay a price. Lao people can't afford to go out to eat the way Thai people can, except rich Lao maybe. There aren't as many tourists in Laos. In the big towns you are at the mercy of what the last pilgrims paid, that's why 2000 kip tuk tuks cost 2$ instead.
Up top of this thread was a comment by username Christay. As I remember he spent a few weeks in Laos, went treking including a town seen by probably less than 20 foreigners in the past 50 years and got lost finding a water fall no foreigners had yet been to, hit the main big towns, spoke very little of the language if at all when he went there, all for a very few hundred dollars.
Some backpackers doing gap year round the world tours are actually a lot better travelers than people who live somewhere for years. Not skinflint cheapskates, just careful how they spend. Locals understand and appreciate thoughtful spending.
#19 somsai has been a member since 1/3/2006. Location: United States. Posts: 568
"Lao people aren't going to pay $2 to eat a meal, what about you?"
Laos people aren't going to get a cheeseburger either, but I sure am. I do not have the remotest desire to live as a Lao person does - be that dietary or otherwise. So while I am sure it is possible to travel cheaply in Laos, it wouldn't surprise me if it sucked to do so.
"For savy backpackers on a budget they know that in smaller towns it's certainly possible to get very good rooms with attached for three of four dollars tops."
The problem is that I wouldn't be in a smaller town in the first place (although, as I said, I got a decent room in Savankhet for 150 Thai Baht). Small rural towns are far too boring for the tastes of a lot of people (whether they be in Laos, Germany, the US or wherever). This is precisely why those kinds of places are cheap. It's a supply and demand issue.
#20 MADMAC has been a member since 6/6/2009. Posts: 6,957
"Lao people aren't going to pay $2 to eat a meal, what about you?"
You sure about that Somsai? How long is it since you have been here? If it is 2 years or more, you will be in for a shock the next time you arrive.
Example: The wife and I had dinner in La Terrasse last week; the place was packed. Apart from me, EVERY one in the restaurant was Lao. There were a few westerners sitting outside. 70% of the clientielle in the Jazzy Brick, the hippest, (and dearest)< cocktai bar in Vientiane is Laos. A hamburger place has opened up. Guess who orders hamburgers? The most frequent visitors to that ghastly "Pizza Company", are young Laos.
As Bob Dylan says, "The times, they are a changing."
#21 Rufus has been a member since 22/4/2007. Location: Laos. Posts: 973
I was in Thailand (2 months) and then Laos (1 month) in mid 2009 on a very tight budget and I spent less per week in Laos than Thailand. Vientiane and Luang Prabang are more expensive, but once you get into the rural areas prices drop. I seem to remember there was a nice night market along the river in Vientiane that had pretty cheap food? If that helps at all. Although I think there was some kind of construction going on to expand it or make it permenant when I was there so maybe it's more expensive now. I do remember the room I stayed in when I was in Vientiane was the most expensive room I stayed in while I was in Laos.
#24 _gabriella has been a member since 6/11/2010. Posts: 7
If you compare rural Laos to urban Thailand, of course Laos will appear cheaper. How much time did you spend in rural Thailand (you didn't mention it)? I went to the Mukdahan night market last night to buy dinner for my family. I paid 100 baht (a touch over three bucks) to feed me, my wife, my daughter and my sister in law. I bought sweet and sour chicken, corn on the cob, some slimy stuff my sister in law and wife ate, and fresh milk for my daughter and I (we love that stuff). When I feed myself alone from the night market I can usually do so for less than a buck. If I eat food from indigenous sources, it's very cheap here.I don't doubt that Laos is reasonably inexpensive, but remmember, Laos is a net food importer and Thailand is a net food exporter, and that effects prices (although it's not clear to me why this is given their similar climates and Laos low population density).
#25 MADMAC has been a member since 6/6/2009. Posts: 6,957
Yeah, you know that fresh milk stuff that's sweet with a yogurt like substance in it? I love that crap.
#27 MADMAC has been a member since 6/6/2009. Posts: 6,957
"Is it really worth it??? I think not..... Save it for when you get home, give the locals back their beautiful town and don't be another number on their death list"
If this had been parachuting accident or a football accident would he have had this "Is it really worth it" thing going? It's obvious from the "Give the locals back their beautiful town" nonsense (as if the backpackers invaded and stole it) that he had a target in mind drowning or no drowning.
People who do this know the risks - and if they don't then they are candidates for the Darwin Awards. You can't protect people from being morons. The Laos created the attractions, the Laos created the bars, the Laos built the guesthouses and the restaraunts. Outsiders didn't build any of these things.
#28 MADMAC has been a member since 6/6/2009. Posts: 6,957
I was in Isaan for 2 weeks and Laos for 4. I can't remember much difference in terms of price of street food. To me, it was all cheap - what is a dollar or two difference? I am not going to deny I am careful with money but all of the time - at home too. Infact, discussing the "expense" of Laos/Thailand seems abit odd really if you are from a Western nation...unless you live there of course. You do see people arguing down 35,000kip to 30,000kip though.
I did find the price of fruit to be much more expensive in Thailand but maybe I was just being ripped off. A kilo of bananas in Laos was around 8000kip and Apples about the same [maybe 10,000]. Infact, i think i was being ripped off but as i never really thought about until now it obviously didn't break the bank. I usually bought food in Markets/stalls. Just see where the locals are going mostly > like the pots in Vang Vieng or even that market outside town that no tourists i spoke to had heard of > or the big market in Nang Rong etc etc
Accomodation was all cheap everywhere. I don't see how you can complain about prices in Vientiane too much; it is a capital city (even if it is in Laos). There are still good deals to be found; 30,000kip inc. breakfast at Mixay (dorm). Luang Prabang was more expensive but even then, 60,000kip for a double room - is that so bad? I think I was paying around 150baht in Thailand. Some had onsuite cold showers, some had shared hot.
Somsai is right though. I spent very little for what i got out of Laos. I did everything i wanted to do. Then again, i spent very little in Thailand too. This is abit of a ramble so i don't mind just stopping anywh
#29 christay2009 has been a member since 8/2/2009. Location: United Kingdom. Posts: 414
Hi there! I agree that the price level in Laos seems to be higher than in Thailand. We have arrived in Laos from Thailand 8 days ago and came to wonder about the cost of living as soon as we arrived in Luang Prabang . Already accommodation was more expensive if booked in advance (probably due to the fact that most hotels and guest houses are not yet represented on the usual booking sites, but have their own websites that might not come up during a browser search).
However, Luang Prabang has a large choice of eateries and restaurants - quite a few of them also for low budget travellers. Shopping at the night market can be slightly less expensive (for the same kind of product) than in Thailand if you negotiate well.
One thing that might make travelling more expensive than in Thailand is that they started to charge entry fees even for places where they want to sell something (as at the Ethnic product center). Average admission fee for strangers is now about 20000 KIP (maximum in LP 50000 KIP for the audio tour of the Royal Palace Museum).
In Vientiane finding a reasonable priced hotel or restaurant seems to more less evident, especially since the city area is larger and makes a search more difficult. We ended up at the Sengtawan River View Hotel - which is at some distance (a 30000 KIP tuktuk ride for two) from the center at a price where you could have a much nicer hotel anywhere in Thailand). Fortunately there are some small river facing restaurants with acceptable prices just some steps away...
Guess we will do most our shopping back in Bangkok also because on top of the higher prices there seems to be a sparsity of ATMs providing cash for users of foreign credit and bank cards and with one million KIP maximum retreat (generating about 8 Euro total costs at the local and home bank) you cannot get too far.
#30 penthesilea has been a member since 23/8/2009. Posts: 4
"a sparsity of ATMs providing cash for users of foreign credit and bank cards and with one million KIP"
This is incorrect! There are a lot of ATMs in Vientiane. Had you read other posts here, you would also know that the ANZV allows withdrawals of 2million Kip. Admitedly they do charge 50,000 Kip for the privilege.
"n Vientiane finding a reasonable priced hotel or restaurant seems to more less evident, especially since the city area is larger and makes a search more difficult."
I would have thought this makes finding a hotel/guesthouse easier.
"Sengtawan River View Hotel" I hope you don't regard this as a budget hotel. The costs are very high. You could have got a nice room in the middle of town for $25 pn. The cheapest double on their web site is $50.00. A 30,000 Kip ride, - 60k there and back, would mean that you have added $8.00 more to your room cost. The Lao Orchid, also in the centre of town, is a great little hotel and only costs $45.00 pn. There are many others that are cheaper and also very nice.
#31 Rufus has been a member since 22/4/2007. Location: Laos. Posts: 973
This seems a bit weird to me, I've not been to Laos yet but for buying items like clothing I found Cambodia to be cheaper than Thailand and good luck finding a guesthouse in BKK wtih A/C, TV and your own bathroom for $15 like you can easily do in PP or Siem Reap where you could get that for $10. Of course there are things that go the other way.
Oh and $12 does seem outrageous for a scarf, I paid that much for 6 of them in SR last year, of course we can't compare quality though.
#37 Voyagner has been a member since 12/7/2009. Posts: 30
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#38 lebabinh85 has been a member since 17/11/2010. Posts: 4
Sounds like you had a good experience. I'm glad for you. But the reason it was cheap for you is because you did serious work arounds to make it cheap. You can do that in the US too. Roadside camping in the desert or deep wooded regions (I've done this), buying fresh foods from markets and cooking it yourself (cheap), and so forth. You can also do this in Thailand or wherever. But for basic comparison purposes, food in Laos (even for the locals) is more expensive than Thailand because, as I explained, Laos doesn't grow sufficient food so it has to import food. Laos is landlocked, so importing most goods costs more. So even though Laos is poor, it's not cheap.
#39 MADMAC has been a member since 6/6/2009. Posts: 6,957
A little tout fishing once in a blue moon is OK. You know the saying, if you ain't cheatin', you ain't tryin'. The Vietnamese are always cheatin'. But you got to love 'em anyway. Well, maybe not if your Laos, since the Vietnamese have been screwing with the Laotians for eons. Funny how a people with such a warlike history, dating back for millenium, have managed to successfully paint themselves as victims.
#41 MADMAC has been a member since 6/6/2009. Posts: 6,957
Well, I'm not surprised. Vietnam is to Laos what Germany is to Poland.
#43 MADMAC has been a member since 6/6/2009. Posts: 6,957
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We can experiment with the pose quickly if we go back to the original ZSphere structure. The first step in posing is to establish a shift in weight of the whole body. Now you can't directly rotate the whole body by rotating the root ZSphere. So if I go up to the Rotate tools and I try to rotate the ZSphere, it's just not going to work. So I am going to undo that. What you can do is rotate the entire creature in the Deformation palette. So I am going to open this up -- and actually let's go back to Draw mode and in rotate we can just slide this and just move the Dewhopper one way or the other, and maybe I want to rotate in the Y- axis a little, bit and maybe in X, by leaning forward a little bit.
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Let's click on the segment between the ZSpheres. It obviously kind of rotates, but the limbs below that joint cannot stay in the same orientation. If you use Move tool on this ZSphere, then it will stretch out the joints and that's probably not what you want when you are posing. So I am going to undo that. So let's go back into the Rotate tool and just start moving things around. Try to find a pose that you are happy with, maybe I'll tilt the head to one side and let's move the tail around a little bit.
I actually have the tail kind of swishing off to one side. It's easy to go really fast at this point. So you don't have to be locked into any one pose. You can try out lots of different variations. Probably a good idea to make sure that the two feet are resting on the exact same level and maybe you can have one of these legs come down lower than the other.
So maybe it's lifting one of its legs up off the ground and I might need to rotate the entire thing so that this leg is resting on the same level as these two legs. Okay, we are just going to move the rotation here and see if we can get this a little bit closer to even-- all right! That's pretty good. Let's rotate these legs down. So in the later chapters we've been dealing with a lot of fine-tuning. So it might take a little shift and thought process to go back to the idea of making big sweeping changes.
Getting a good pose can take a while, especially if you've never done it before. Do some variations and ask yourself and other people if the pose is reading. By reading, I mean if the pose is clearly communicating the creature's emotions, situations, or personality. When you get a pose that you like, save it out as a ZTool. We'll be loading it up in a later movie to use as a guide when posing the actual model. Working at a pose in ZSpheres' first is a great way to achieve an appealing look, because it's faster than directly posing the sculpted model.


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I only had $60.00 in my checking account at the time, their wasnt even $200 in my account for them to take out and they still debit my account for only $60.00. When I recieved the "Cash On Demand" card along with the other card, their was no catalog and they said that they would be sending me another authorization form that I needed to send in for the "Cash On Demand" along with the catalog "in a few weeks".
That was the last of my money for the week and they took it without my authorization. This company is really ripping people off and they shouldnt be able to get away with this. They are going to keep taking money out of my account and I cannot have this problem with christmas time right around the corner. I need something done about this company.
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Will Deepika be Salman's love interest?
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Don't Blame Me.
I voted for
CHEERS to you too! I voted for Palin/McCain! ;)
LOL! I needed that. Reeeeeeaaaaaaaaaal bad! :)
Ya realistic bastard...
I voted for Palin, too.
Who the hell are the real conservatives in Congress? They're few and far between. As long as the parties grow more and more alike, more voters are gonna stay home.
Sorry world, people of Taiwan, people of Georgia, I voted for McCain Palin. You are on your own.
Same here. I voted for Palin and her grampa.
I voted for McCain/Palin as well so don't blame me either! :)
I voted for Sarah Palin and the White haired guy who enjoys crossing that aisle. But truthfully, I voted for Sarah Palin, if it weren't for her, I would have stayed home. McCain knows that that is why he has become a jealous bastard
Same here!
(I'm sure you'll forgive me, once you read it...)
NO cheers, unfortunately.
I'm glad I kept a few McCain/Palin stickers around .
I put one on my tractor today!
I wrote in Palin.
And given the choices all who didn't, in fact actually voted for Obama. Worse, what my tag line says is reality.
Thanks. So did you like the ceremonies today?
"Out, Damned Spot!"
McCain being nominated helped Obama.
I don't vote liberal.
I have my McCain/Palin sticker on my bigassed SUV. On the back window, I have a Palin Power sticker with a picture of Lady Sarah herself. I plan on leaving it there for 2012.
I won't blame you. :-) But I refused to vote in the national and believe that we need a few years of hardships to encourage more thinking about what is right.
I notice many people where I live continue to have their Obama stickers , yet very few Obama/Biden .
Lib gloating .
If only Sarah Palin had been a bit better prepared, and not so good-looking, and not such a fine family person, and (of course) not a Republican...the media would've loved her.
I ran it by my brother, who is a militant gay and was actually wearing an Obama T-shirt at the time. He was horrified, appalled and does not email me anymore, so I think I have a winner:
"Don't blame me, I voted for the American"
That being the case, and the fact that not voting against Obama was actually a de-facto vote FOR him....,??
On McCain, now he is barely better than bHo. However, he was slightly more controllable than Barry and had borne torture for the US in the Prison Camps in NV. He never gave up during that horrible experience.
Sadly he was the last logical option other than bHo to vote for. Better yet he had a feisty VP who would have played a measure of control over him.
Barry had NO real world experience in ANYTHING at all. Bary never sacrificed ANYTHING for the our country. Never contributed ANYTHING for our country. Nothing.
So a vote for him, or no vote against him, or NO vote meant at all for his opponent was worth "0" in the end in keeping him out of office.
That is the just the logic and reality of the situation just like if you had a gun and saw someone getting mugged in the street. If you used your gun to help the criminal, you too are a criminal.
If you did nothing to aid the victim (even though you could have), you did nothing positive to change the situation... so you allowed a negative outcome you could have prevented.
In both cases you were the reason a crime had been committed on a citizen.
Same with the election if you did not vote against 0 or cast a vote that was not against his election. You in actuality had the same effect as voting for him.
Thanks for identifying yourself as part of the reason the GOP has rotted from within.
McCain lost because he sucks and it's really just that simple.
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Gordon was last year's district MVP while leading the Wildcats in rebounding. She earned a 4.2 GPA. Dubose is a two-time all conference player who carries a 3.6 GPA.
"I picked Jacksonville because I felt that it was a great place for me," said Gordon. "I felt that I fit in and I'd be able to play there.
Dubose is equally excited about heading to the Delta.
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I like the Ruger # 1 in stainless with laminated stock. I have it set up bench rest for 'yotes
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I can't seem to get a child theme created. It keeps telling me the parent is missing. Would it have anything to do with the style sheet being scss vs css?
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Yes, but does it matter if it is scss vs css? I have a style.css file but then the child theme is missing some of the style options showing in the parent theme. It still has all the words, just not the design.
Theme settings and options do not transfer to a child theme - so you have to redo those. Is that the issue?
And yes, it matters. Why are you trying to change the name on the file?
I am not trying to change the name on the file. I am just trying to make a child theme. I am a newbie and followed the instructions on the site. I double checked my spelling and reinstalled the parent theme. But the design is not showing up in my child theme.
How do you redo the theme options and settings in the child theme? I thought you just had to make a style.css sheet in the child folder.
Please post a link to your site.
I have a tutorial on my site in regards to creating a child theme: http://bavotasan.com/2011/creating-a-child-theme-in-wordpress/
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@ c.bavota.....i went and read your tutorial... seems like i did everything you said...i know my issue is not with one of your themes but I am in dire need to get this child theme created and this website developed....are you able to help on another theme issue? if so i can post the link to my thread or however you say it....thanks!
@dateordutchdotcom - please do not post in other people's threads - that's not how these forums work.
@WPyogi...sorry....same general issue so I thought it would be cool to ask someone who is actually online and replying a general question.
in addition i did read his tutorial for reference. I thought that is what the whole forum setup is for everyone helping each other if you have specific issues. it would be wonderful if instead of constantly re-directing me you could possibly provide useful assistance on the issue.
i think that is what forums should be meant for.
thanks anyway. my apologizes to the original creator of this forum if i violated the forum code by asking a related question on your thread.
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Don't mean to boast, but I can suspend my disbelief as willingly as any credulous moviegoer. Yet not even an industrial crane would have helped here.
This silly extraterrestrial-invasion epic somehow manages the feat of making the destruction of La La Land seem tedious.
H.G. Wells did it better. This movie spends so much yawn-inducing time on variations of the same combat scenario that its final showdown feels rushed.
It's loud, relentless, and difficult to endure, capturing the experience of ground-level alien warfare with woeful verisimilitude.
Packed with gung ho war-movie clichés and subpar shock-and-awe visual effects, this terminally stupid sci-fi adventure pits an army of tentacled aliens piloting "Transformer"-style robots against a platoon of stoic warriors from the Fifth Marines' Second Battalion.
As it lurches from Act II to Act III, Battle: Loss Angeles reveals itself to be a lousy movie.
Except for the relentless, jittery way that the film has been photographed, there's nothing of interest going on in it. It's all fractious guerrilla-newsreel "style" masquerading a void.
The shaky-cam as used in "Cloverfield" and the Paul Greengrass "Bourne" films, and in TV shows from "NYPD Blue" to "24" to "The Office," is worse than amateurism; it's fake amateurism, the visual equivalent of a comedian pretending to have Parkinson's.
Fess up: You want to see Los Angeles get blowed up real good, and it's a measure of this movie's incompetence that it can't even deliver that vicarious thrill properly.
It really is just sensory bombardment, and in two dimensions you have even less of a grasp of what's happening and of what you're looking at than the poor bastards on-screen.
Not a single arresting image is found amid the sci-fi rubble, though unintentional laughs eventually arrive courtesy of a cornball motivational speech by Eckhart's hero.
Here's a science-fiction film that's an insult to the words "science" and "fiction," and the hyphen in between them. You want to cut it up to clean under your fingernails.
This one isn't original, or even bearable. By its thudding end, audiences may wish they could be zapped from the theater to escape the buzzing in their ears.
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Mar 13, 2011Great movie!! If you like sci fi & action you should love this movie, if you don't like it you must be a critic! Their saying oh we have seenGreat movie!! If you like sci fi & action you should love this movie, if you don't like it you must be a critic! Their saying oh we have seen this all before..... right squads of aliens charging up the beaches in LA! Not sure I have seen that before! They have made about a million love stories but critics don't complain we had had enough of those. I was late opening night to see Star Wars in 1977 but still got a good seat because no one though it would be any good.......just saying… Full Review »
Mar 21, 2011People who give this movie below an 8 need to stop being pricks...its a great movie thats more than just a sci-fi thriller...its about being aPeople who give this movie below an 8 need to stop being pricks...its a great movie thats more than just a sci-fi thriller...its about being a marine and the pride that comes with it...Marines are out there fighting for out lives and people give them no credit...Marines Semper Fi… Full Review »
Mar 14, 2011Great movie, I really enjoyed the suspense and action throughout the whole thing. The critics are so wrong about this movie, giving itGreat movie, I really enjoyed the suspense and action throughout the whole thing. The critics are so wrong about this movie, giving it anything less then an 80 out of 100 is an insult...… Full Review »


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I am obviously not alone in having this problem. Last year, apparently, the company took six months to deliver on a groupon deal. However good their stuff might be, this sort of poor customer service will mean no repeat business from me (if I ever get the stuff I ordered nine weeks ago!).
Groupon is trying to solve this for me, but is apparently having their own difficulty getting ahold of employees of Milford Spice Company.
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godaddy.com, GoDaddy refused to release our domains to be moved to competetor Violated ICANN, Internet
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So we chose to transfer this one domain to a competitor. All of our domains had wois privacy option which required us to take the domain to be transferred OFF privacy. We did that and waited for the transfer authorization e-mail from the NEW domain registrar. It never showed. So we contacted the new Registrar and asked why we had not received the e-mail and they told us that they had sent it to the "Admin contact" of our domain as is policy. When we reviewed the admin contact info we were shocked to see that for the past year (we assume) and presently was listed with a server in the Cayman Islands with a non existent do not reply e-mail.
So of course we needed to update the contact administrator info or we can't transfer the domain nor receive the authorization e-mail. However unbenounced to us and without any notification or warning anywhere on GoDaddy site where you click the button to update admin contact info, you have agreed to be LOCKED for 60 days and thus making it impossible to transfer our domain.
We found out when the new registrar received a REFUSAL notice from GoDaddy stating this.
This can only be considered extortion or coercions under duress as we are forced to pay for a minimum year renewal with GoDaddy to prevent the domain from expiring.
After contacting them by phone and speaking with the so called senior supervisor who refused to identify himself other than Ian F. he basically told us that we should have seen a popup when we attempted to click update to our admin function. We made it clear to him there was no such popup and we did not have pop up block on. He asked us to go through it as a test live and we did. Still their was NO popup yet he claimed he had one therefore one does exist.
Clearly we stated there must be an issue with your script working with all browsers as we had FireFox. He refused to speak further on the issue and said there is nothing he can do and then hung up the phone.
from that point we inspected all of the 5 out of 8 expiring domains and found the same bogus Cayman Island admin contact info making it again, impossible to transfer any of these domains without being forced into a 60 day lock and thus renewing with Godaddy against our wishes.
We sent further proof of this along with screen shots and they still returned with an e-mail stating in short " nothing we can do" you should have been aware.
We have since sent all of this evidence and screen shots to ICAN. In April of 2008 ICANN sent out an advisory specifically prohibiting the locking of domains due to simply updating admin contact info.
We have since discovered consumer posts that claim exactly what we have here that GoDaddy has repeatedly done this with all domains that are set to expire making it impossible to be transferred before expiration thus forcing the customer owner of the domain to renew with GoDaddy.
This is the ultimate in BLATENT extortion BE WARNED.
We are waiting for ICANN's response in hopes that they will make GoDaddy accountable.
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AUTHOR: Music Lover - (United States of America)
SUBMITTED: Tuesday, April 03, 2012POSTED: Tuesday, April 03, 2012
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AUTHOR: Screwed by GoDaddy - (United States of America)
SUBMITTED: Monday, August 15, 2011POSTED: Monday, August 15, 2011
The problem with your rebuttal is this; the person from Go Daddy that initially set up our domains and then put them on privacy didn't do his job correctly or someone in the interim changed information. We also have the e-mail confirmation from one year ago from that employee which states "I have set up your domains for you and put them on Privacy" and as you well know, once a site is on Privacy - you cannot see the original Whois unless you remove them from Privacy but to put them back on - Go Daddy charges!
As far as your rebuttal, when you go in to change JUST the admin e-mail - yes, that should work HOWEVER if someone from Go Daddy removed an admin FIRST NAME and LAST NAME which leaves you unable to update just your e-mail and the second you change the Name you are locked. We know, this is what happened. WE ALSO HAVE ALL THE screen shots to prove this case.
We were unable to update our admin e-mail to get the domains transfered as the account had "Invalid Contact Information" when that happens, you are FORCED to change all the information as they are required fields and Go Daddy Supervisor Ian F. specifically said if you change the name on all the accounts you are forced into a lock. If the names on the tabs are INVALID you must change them.
Sorry, your rebuttal is moot. All of our expiring domains had invalid contact making them impossible to fix without changing that information and forcing our accounts to be locked.
As an update, we filed formal complaints to ICANN on every single domain that had incorrect Whois data. Only 24 hours after the complaints were made we got an e-mail from Go Daddy stating they would "as a courtesy" remove the locks, therefore we were authorized to change the Whois data without penalty. Your free to see that e-mail as well.
We wouldn't file a Ripoff Report unless we were 100% prepared to back up our claims. So, feel free to request any of the e-mail correspondence or screen shots. We will be happy to upload the screen shots to Photobucket.
Anymore claims that we are false will only prompt us to continue to defend and continue to prove our case. The next rebuttal will include all the e-mails from GoDaddy if necessary.
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Even before the arrival of growing numbers of tourists, she says, the Himba had become increasingly exposed to the outside world as they began to send their children to school and to mix with foreign anthropologists and missionaries, as well as other Namibians who wear western clothing and often work in offices and drive cars.
Today, many Himba dabble freely in both worlds. For instance, Zepauandoui Koruhama, one of Mr. Koruhama's wives, told me she still boiled the root of the sour plum tree to cure diarrhea but also took aspirin for fever.
''The Himba are changing,'' Ms. Jacobsohn said in a telephone interview. ''It's not a static thing and it shouldn't be. People are using both systems now. They live with a foot in each world.''
Before taking busloads of tourists to the villages, the lodge managers say they consult the local chief to see whether foreigners and their cameras will be welcome there. Willy Kasupi, who works as a guide for the Fort Sesfontein Lodge, says he tells tourists specifically who wants to be photographed and who does not, although he says tourists sometimes ignore his instructions.
''Some people treat the villages like a zoo, which is what we want to avoid,'' said Ms. Hamel, the manager of the Ohakane Lodge in Opuwo. ''When we take tourists, we explain that they have to follow the social rules of the village. You do not just walk into someone's garden and start taking photos. It's basic. It's good manners.''
Visitors typically start the journey in Windhoek, the capital of Namibia, which is a two-hour flight from Johannesburg. From there, you can rent a sport utility vehicle at the airport and take the 8- to 10-hour drive to Sesfontein or Opuwo. Or you can charter a small plane, which costs considerably more, and make the same journey in about two hours.
We flew to Sesfontein and stayed at the Fort Sesfontein Lodge, which was built as a German fort back in 1896, when Namibia was a German colony. (The rustic lodge, while attractive, does not have air-conditioning. So be sure to request a room with a ceiling fan if you're traveling during the hot months -- December, January and February.)
The lodge offers day tours to Himba villages, but we wanted to meet people unfamiliar with tourists. So we hired Mr. Kasupi, who belongs to a tribe related to the Himba and speaks their language, rented a sport utility from the lodge, packed our tents and sleeping bags and drove two hours to Opuwo.
In Opuwo, we shopped for pots, pasta, canned meatballs, fruit, bread and bottled water. We booked rooms at the Ohakane Lodge for our return to Opuwo and took off for Ekambu, where we pitched tents, started a fire and cooked our pasta and meatballs and camped for one night under the stars.
Mr. Kasupi, who has been guiding tours for about three years now, said that the Himba were often tickled by the idea that foreigners wanted to visit them. ''They ask me, 'Who are these people who say they have never seen Himba?' '' Mr. Kasupi said. ''They cannot imagine a place where there are no Himba.''
The villagers I met peppered me with questions about where I was from. And I found myself pointing northwest, describing this huge nation across the water called the United States, as they shook their heads trying to imagine such a place.
When the afternoon rains started falling, Mrs. Koruhama invited me into her thatched hut so we could talk without getting wet. I ducked my head to enter the small doorway and sat on the blanket she had spread out on the dirt floor. Mr. Kasupi joined us to interpret.
As her children ran in and out, marveling at me, an oddly dressed stranger, Mrs. Koruhama told me about her family, about the hunger they endure during the dry season, about sending one son far away to a western school and about her fears that the boy might ultimately reject her people's traditional ways.
''The changes are mainly touching younger people, the boys who wear T-shirts and shorts,'' she said, sighing. ''But the older people, they do not change. As you see, I'm still traditional. I will always keep my lifestyle.''
How to visit the Himba
On Feb. 11, the State Department issued an announcement strongly urging Americans to avoid the northern border area of Namibia, including the entire Kavango and Caprivi regions, because fighting in Angola has spilled over the border into Namibia on occasion. But none of the places I visited to meet the Himba are in the region covered by the State Department announcement.
Accommodations and Tours
The Fort Sesfontein Lodge in Sesfontein, telephone and fax (264-61) 25-2508, is built on the striking ruins of a German fort 370 miles from Windhoek, Namibia's capital. The 11 rooms are modest but comfortable and the stone patio has a lovely swimming pool. There are no phones, TV or air-conditioning; request a room with a ceiling fan if you're traveling in summer. (The lodge's generator goes off at 11 every night.)
During the summer season, which ends in April, rooms start at about $122 for a double with breakfast and dinner, based on 6 Namibian dollars to the American dollar. During the fall and winter season, which begins in May, the same rooms cost $155 with meals. Guided tours accommodating up to four people cost about $208 a day in summer and $267 in winter, including lunch. If you have a rental car and just want to hire a guide, the day rate is about $50 through April, $75 after.
The Ohakane Lodge in Opuwo, (264-65) 27-3031, fax (264-65) 27-3025, is a modern, comfortable hotel about 500 miles from Windhoek and 120 miles from Sesfontein. The lodge has small rooms (the single rooms are very small) with air-conditioning and telephones. Rooms start at about $83 for a double with breakfast. Guided day tours to Himba villages that include lunch cost about $30 a person. Five-day camping safaris cost $133 a person a day.
Kaokohimba Safaris, telephone and fax (264-61) 22-2378, arranges package tours for small groups to Himba villages. These include charter flights from Windhoek, rustic lodging, tours and meals. Rates run from $1,053 a person for three days to $2,063 a person for 12 days.
Getting There
Desert Air, (264-61) 22-8101, fax (264-61) 25-4345, offers charter flights from Windhoek to Sesfontein and Opuwo and back. The round-trip flight -- in single-prop planes that seat five people with minimal luggage -- costs about $900. Bush Pilots, (264-61) 22-8316, fax (264-61) 24-5083, flies the same routes for comparable rates. RACHEL L. SWARNS
Photos: Herding the goats. Zepauandoui Koruhama and her daughter, Mavendjikoho. Villager at cattle pen. (Photographs by Greg Marinovich/Liaison) (pg. 8); Kanueja Koruhama adjusts an attachment on a headdress traditionally worn by a married woman; Meverihepisa Koruhama, keeper of the sacred fire in the village of Ekambu, with his children. (Photographs by Greg Marinovich/Liaison) (pg. 9) Map of Southern Africa highlighting Namibia and various regions inhabited by the Himba. (pg. 9)


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SUNY Oswego launched an expanded math bridge camp in August for first-year students in STEM majors. Supported by a SUNY grant for its potential as a template for other colleges and universities, the weeklong camp is a key strategy in the college's retention efforts in science, technology, engineering and in mathematics itself.
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The application period for 2016–2017 fellowships runs from October 1, 2015–January 7, 2016. The application can be accessed here. The Program will be coordinated by Professors Rawi Abdelal (Business School) and Justin Weir (Slavic Languages and Literatures). The theme of the program is "Ideas, Ideologies, and Power: Eurasia Past and Present."
Themes We Explore
Since 2011, the Fellows Program has brought together scholars to focus on a particular theme each year. Learn more about our past, current, and future program themes here.


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Due to the massive influx of spam comments in the last few days (200-250 per day for me) I've turned off commenting altogether and plan on leaving it off indefinitely (yes, the spammers finally won as far as I'm concerned).
However there are several hundred older posts which still have the comment tick box enabled. I'm not about to go thorugh each one and turn comments off for each post, life is too short for that nonsense.
I'm wondering if there's a way to turn off comments for past/older posts en masse? If not, it's a feature that's sorely needed.
I've already had to change my email address on the site so I don't get flooded with comment approval emails.
Since spam comments have gotten so out of hand if there's not a way to disable commenting on OLD posts (the main switch is set to off now for any new posts) I'm just going to abandon this section of my site entirely and start fresh with something that offers more options.