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Add castile soap to your shopping list
Castile soap is made from plant oils. It comes in bar and liquid form and is a frugal and versatile product to keep on hand. It comes scented and unscented. Some scents are better suited for certain tasks; for example, you might prefer citrus scents for cleaning in your kitchen versus on your body, where you might prefer floral scents. Keep in mind that if you're using scented Castile soap in the recipes below, there's no need to include the optional scented essential oils.
Here are a few ideas and recipes for using Castile soap in your home:
Car wash:
Castile liquid soap or any vegetable-based soap and water will work for a home car wash. Mix two parts water with one part soap.
Use Castile soap instead of Zote or Fels-Naptha in homemade laundry soap recipes.
Powdered Laundry Soap
2 cups finely shredded Castile soap
1 cup washing soda
1 cup borax
Combine ingredients and store in an airtight plastic container. Use 2 tablespoons per laundry load.
Castile Floor Cleaner:
1 gallon hot water
2 tablespoons liquid Castile soap
15 drops orange essential oil
10 drops lemon essential oil or 1/4 cup lemon juice
Blend all ingredients in mop bucket. Mop floor as usual. No need to rinse.
Dish Soap I:
2 cups of Castile soap
A few drops of essential oil
1/2 cup water
Save a store-bought dishwashing liquid bottle. Combine liquid Castile soap with warm water. Add a few drops of essential oil for scent. Mix ingredients and pour into a bottle.
Dish Soap II:
3 tablespoons lavender liquid Castile soap
2 cups hot water
2 teaspoons vegetable glycerin
2 tablespoons white vinegar
10 drops lemon or lavender essential oil
Combine all ingredients in a squeeze bottle. Shake well to blend.
Counter Cleaner:
1 teaspoon liquid Castile soap
1/8 cup vinegar
1/4 cup lemon juice
2 cups water
6 drops citrus essential oil
1 teaspoon borax
Combine in a spray bottle. Label. Shake before using.
Natural Scrub Cleanser:
2 cups baking soda
1/2 cup liquid Castile soap
3 teaspoons vegetable glycerin
A few drops essential oil
Mix together and store in a sealed glass jar. When cleaning areas such as a bathtub, spray the area with vinegar to loosen dirt, apply natural cleaner, use a luffa sponge to scrub and rinse with water.
Bubble Bath:
5 drops essential oil
1 ounce liquid glycerin
1 ounce coconut oil
4-ounce bar Castile soap, grated
4 cups distilled water
Mix ingredients together. Store in spill-proof container. Add to bathwater.
Body Wash:
2 cups Castile soap, grated
1/2 gallon distilled water
2 tablespoons vegetable glycerin
15 drops skin-safe essential oil
Mix grated soap, water and glycerin together in a large pan. Warm on the stove using low heat. Stir until the soap dissolves. Add essential oil and mix well. Transfer to a jar with a tight lid. Can be used for shaving or to bathe dogs, too: Use the above recipe or simply use two parts water to one part liquid Castile soap.
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ugh. i am *so tired*. my 18 month old does not sleep through the night. she never really has, but a handful of nights. i nurse her to sleep at nap and at bedtime, and then when she wakes in the night. it helps her get to sleep, *usually*, but sometimes not and i end up nursing for an hour or two attempting to get her back to sleep. she seems to wake at least once in the night, usually between 2-4am and sometimes we are up for 2-3 hours. for the first time since having her, i am now developing blisters on my nipples and nursing is *hurting* me. i have tried night weaning and she just sits up awake for hours, wide awake and crying in my arms or lying next to me, poking at me. the last of her set of teeth (before 2 year molars) are all through the gums, just 2 still coming down. this all wouldn't be so bad but i have a 4 year old who doesn't nap and so i have 14 hour days with kids without much of a break. my husband helps when he can (rocking her, etc.) but he is a farmer and growing season has started and he is super busy.
my older child was definitely sleeping thru the night by this age, and was night weaned. i could put her down tired but awake and she would go to sleep in a few minutes. so now i feel like, why won't my baby sleep for me by now?? some days i think i am going to lose my mind. i could give so much more to my kids/family if i wasn't so tired.
any thoughts?
Mama to two girls, born 5/08 and 11/10.
Secondly, I'm not sure *what* it is, but what you are describing is not simply not sleeping through the night. My DD didn't sleep more than 4 hours until after 2 and for more than 8 hours until after 3. DS didn't sleep for more than 4 hours until 4.5! BUT, they would wake up, nurse and go back to sleep.
Is there any chance she is in pain/sufferring from an illness? You mentioned teething--- have you tried to give any pain relievers during this time? Any chance she has an ear infection?
What have you tried so far? How is her day time nursing/sleeping going? Has anything changed recently? Is this hours in the middle of the night a new thing or pretty consistent?
I know that around that age, both my kids woke up when they'd wet at night. It'd take forever for them to get back to sleep after that unless I actually got up to change them (and then they'd go back to sleep pretty soundly and a lot quicker). It made such a difference in our quality of sleep that the getting out of bed was worth it.
If you're using cloth diapers - pretty easy to verify. But even if otherwise - that nighttime wetting is definitely bigger at this age and probably more uncomfortable - thus causing a wake-up.
Gosh! So nice to see a similar story. DS is also 18 months old and I also have blisters...
My theory is he's teething. When he first started teething he also grazed the new tooth along my boob, so I guess something about these eye teeth is really hurting him.
He's never slept any tremendous length of time either. There was a magical 10 hour night one night a couple of months ago, but I was up waiting for him to wake up and didn't get the rest I could have!
yeah-gotta love that when they do actually sleep and you lay there all night, restless, waiting for them to wake up. *sigh* one day we'll sleep again!
Mama to two girls, born 5/08 and 11/10.
well she is improving a little, but i think i am also accepting that she just needs reassurance in the night.
first, she was in a crib and now we have converted it to a toddler daybed, so no waking her as we awkwardly lower her over crib rail down into crib after rocking her to sleep in our arms. also, i have been going to her in the night when she wakes and just lying next to her, but no nursing. first few nights of that she was really restless and flopping around, but within an hour was back to sleep. now she seems to sleep thru (6-7 hours) every other night, only night waking *about* every other night. she is definitely still teething, and sometimes a little tylenol has helped, but i really think she is just wanting to know we are there if she wakes.
so, hoping we continue on the improvement curve. thank you for the reassurance, mamas! sometimes its just so hard to be a wacky, sleep deprived mama.
Mama to two girls, born 5/08 and 11/10.
LMBO! so true! Both of my kids went through a period where they would be up for a few hours in the night...wanting to read, play, nurse, go downstairs, whatever. Frustrating. teething is a big part of this I feel. If you dont want to give tylenol all the time. the homeopathic Chamomilla (sp?)by Boiron is terrific.
My 3y10mo still wakes 1 or 2x a night. My 25mo is usually up 2 or 3x to nurse. What is sleeping through the night? I usually get up once to use the potty myself. LOL!
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This months guest editor Darin Brumby, CIO of FirstGroup, talks about how he is keeping the transport company on track while driving change.
When Darin Brumby joined FirstGroup as CIO in March 2003, he inherited an ailing IS set up with symptoms which mimicked the UKs transport infrastructure - which the company serves with its buses and trains.
"I would describe it as reflective of most of the transport industry - not a huge investment over the past five to 10 years. It lacked a clear and understandable strategy," says Brumby.
Turning around IT "It was IT for the sake of IT and was certainly not well led. It was fragmented across the different product lines and ultimately high cost, low value add and poor service. The remit was: Its not working and its costly. We need it as an enabling part of our business. How do we get there?"
On joining, he started canvassing FirstGroups senior executives and users about what they wanted from IT. In the first few months he visited over 40 locations, sampling some of the services of its four UK passenger rail franchises.
The Aberdeen-based company also operates buses for 2.8 million people everyday in the UK. And the north American transit management divisions provide more than 17,000 yellow buses for students in the US and Canada, vehicle maintenance and transport systems management services.
Lack of faith "The first thing I noticed was that besides the systems, processes and people - there was very little trust in IS. So those bridges had to be built with the management teams and customers.
"Some of the comments used to describe IT were a necessary evil, an overhead and generally quite poor customer service type of comments, although they were respectful of the work that had been done with very few resources to date."
After three months, Brumby decided on an all-encompassing change programme. The scope of the programme covers the companys entire infrastructure, business applications, processes and employees. To gain the support of the board, Brumby backed up the business case by promising mouth-watering cost savings.
Nailing the colours
"We needed to put a stake in the ground. I told the board: If I cannot get £5m worth of savings in the first 12 months then you can get rid of me and find someone else who can." He need not have worried, as IS delivered £4 million of savings by the end of the second financial quarter of 2004/05.
FirstGroups IT budget for the 12 months ending March 2005 is a target of £37m, compared with £42m a year earlier. Another major change is that Brumby now holds the IS purse strings for the whole company. "All IS expenditure is controlled centrally from the UK. So I am now responsible for that top line number. This was not the case previously when the IS budget was fragmented among divisions and local operating companies."
Evidently Brumby reckons that IT can make a significant difference to the bottom line.
"I think we can take off £30m over the next four years. The £5m in savings for this year is not a one-off. We believe the run rate in four years time will be significantly lower, but our services will be significantly increased."
FirstGroup reported revenues up nine per cent to £2.5 billion for the 12 months ending March 2004. IT set the cost-cutting wheels in motion by reducing the "low-hanging fruit" of telecoms and service desk contacts within each division.
In fact it had a sprawling set of 189 core business applications across the companys entire landscape.
"We found significant duplication." It has already moved all the UK and US divisions on to a single payroll system last year.
Saving money Above all its biggest cost saving has come from migrating the UK bus division on to a single SAP ERP system last October. Each of the 20 bus operating companies had different versions of enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems - many from different suppliers - prior to 2004.
"The ERP system is at the core of our UK bus operation. The system is not only providing cost savings but is also allowing us to work in new ways. For example, it provides management with a common view of the metrics on which we run our business." It intends to complete the installation of additional core business applications, including human resources and finance, for UK bus in 2005.
There is a different standardisation drive with the UK rail business. "The focus in our rail business is to deliver on bid commitments by providing innovative technology to improve the customer experience. We will be looking to standardise our ticket issuing systems, a wider rollout of CCTV technology and streamlining our back-office operations and processes across all of our franchises."
Sharing services
Once this work has been done, FirstGroup will examine wider opportunities to share IT services across UK bus and rail, but employees will have to wait beyond 2005.
The reality is that the diversity of the companys divisions will limit the amount of standardisation it can perform. "We have very few enterprise wide systems".
"The three core product lines do have a number of similarities where IT services can be provided in different shapes and forms. But they are quite different product lines and we do need to recognise some of that uniqueness in the way we structure the IS programme. For instance, the US business provides transit management services - but there is no rail business."
"We will not share the unique industry specific systems. Ticketing systems, CCTV systems and real-time passenger information specific to bus and rail, for example, will stay as unique services."
Acquiring new skills The company has also shifted the balance of its IT skills pool. FirstGroup has not made any of its 110 IT staff redundant (90 in the UK and 20 in the US), but it has retrained them to focus on more value-added activities, such as project management and delivery."
We recognised that our IS services were more focused on technical fault and fix services. We had to transition some people over to development, business analyst and programme management activities at the sharper end of the business proposition for IT. Certainly we now have more project managers."
Associated with these changes, FirstGroup has centralised project delivery and management across all divisions from the UK.
"We have created a project services office for the management of all capital investment projects within the organisation. This has probably been one of the single biggest risk reduction exercises that we have done. There is now a track record of delivering budgets on time or ahead of targets."
Adjusting to change Change management has been a critical element of the whole programme, says Brumby. "Culturally, it is one of the biggest challenges that we face. Most change programmes that IS had started or taken on board before my arrival had a very poor track record - and most had failed.
"We had to do a lot of selling, marketing and face-face meetings with customers. We had to strengthen relationships because we were dealing with customers who had not been receiving a good quality service."
Employee fears IS faced classic resistance to change. "Employees comments ranged from: I dont want it - as it is not going to help me, I know there is a secret agenda here to I am going to lose my job, arent I?"
To allay such concerns, FirstGroup set up an intranet facility where employees could ask Brumby any question about the change programme.
There are also monthly video-conferences to update all IT staff on progress, along with monthly newsletters. Further change could be just around the corner. This is because FirstGroup is contemplating outsourcing infrastructure services in the UK - covering all hosting, help desk, network and data services.
To date, the UK has not outsourced any IT, although the US division does outsource some services.
The UK bus and rail divisions will make a decision about a preferred outsourcing supplier by the end of March.
"This would be followed by three months of due diligence, then a contract signing and commencement of new services."
Staff buy-in Overall, the success of the change programme will depend on the commitment of FirstGroups employees.
"We have a massive change programme. It wont work just because I say it will. It will only work if the 110 IS staff on the change train dont just want to be passengers - but actually want to knock me out of the way and be drivers," says Brumby.
"This is the sort of internal competition that we want to create and if you can get that passion it adds significant value."
Trust me - I'm a CIO
When Gartner recently forecast that at least one-third of IT directors will lose their jobs by 2007, Darin Brumby, says they "are absolutely right if they do not become leaders of change.
The role of the CIO in terms of influencing change should be a very powerful one and important within organisations."
Building trust is critical to achieving this. "It is building trust at all levels of the organisation. You have not only to do what you say, but also behave in a way that shows how the organisation can change. Delivery is the great trust builder. Leadership is transparent - people can see through it."
He reckons a lack of trust is one reason for a significant attrition rate for UK CIOs. "It is rare to find a CIO who has been at a publicly listed company for longer than three to five years. It is not a healthy situation. This churn rate among leaders at the top is helping to proliferate the perception that IS must be in dire trouble."
Asked why there is such a high turnover, he says: "There is an element of burnout as these are very challenging roles. There is also a huge trust issue from the management teams with the CIO and if that trust is ever broken, or not developed, it is likely to lead to a change of leadership.
"If CIOs cannot continually exceed customers expectations in a service delivery role - they will be moved. They cannot keep thinking that they are going to be successful just based on the fact they are the technology experts in the organisation. Where organisations view IS as a cost rather than a value set up, I am seeing more CFOs come in as technology caretakers."
One way that CIOs can add more business strings to their bows is to take non-IS roles within organisations.
"That is one of the real opportunities that few CIOs take. They are so busy doing the job of running technology they are unable to move away from IS - perhaps from not having the right succession planning in place - in their day job and do something else."
CIOs are also often the barometer for how IT perceives itself within an organisation. "IT must stop talking about the business as a third-party entity. This is a subservient message."
"I do not see the role of IT as support to the business. It is a service function - and no service function should be subservient."
Brumby attributes ITs low self-esteem to a poor track record. "It is very easy to fall into this mindset and think we must be doing it wrong. I think IT does suffer from a victim culture." The bottom-line, however, is that the organisation as a whole must accept responsibility for underperforming units. "All elements of an organisation must be in peak condition if it is to perform well."
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Issue #7 of OBSOLETE! has reached a record number of readers, with 3000 copies being distributed across the US and Canada through our Guerilla Distribution Network. Now, it's time to get to work on our next issue. Loosely themed "Obsolete Media: It's Alive!", we are looking for essays, fiction, poetry, photographs and comics. Let me stress that it is not required to address that theme directly, so don't let that hang you up. All submissions will be considered. Feel free to pitch ideas before submitting.
Essays and non-fiction pieces could include subjects like shortwave, CB or pirate radio, zines, vinyl, broadcast TV, film photography, letterpress printing and/or new uses for old communications technology or interactive formats of any sort. Sports, theatre, music, publishing, politics– it's all open for discussion. We will also be including reviews of books, recording, films and "doopers" (your favorite old-school devices).
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Perit Alexander Borg, Director of Enforcement said "Whilst we cannot take things for granted and sit on our laurels we are pleased that over this past year, being our first year as an Enforcement Directorate, we have managed to work more effectively and efficiently in dealing with enforcement cases. We are satisfied that we have managed to close off, in a reasonable short period of time, a number of new enforcement cases that we investigated this year. More awareness has consequently been created among the public of the need to comply with planning and environment regulations and we are satisfied that in this short time frame, the rate of people removing their illegal developments themselves has increased markedly."


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Community water systems (CWS) are public water systems that supply water to the same population year-round. In fiscal year (FY) 2016, more than 300 million Americans (U.S. EPA, 2017a)—roughly 95 percent of the U.S. population (U.S. Census Bureau, 2017)—got at least some of their drinking water from a CWS. This indicator presents the percentage of Americans served by CWS for which states reported no violations of EPA health-based standards for more than 90 contaminants (U.S. EPA, 2017a).
Health-based standards include Maximum Contaminant Levels (MCLs), Maximum Residual Disinfection Levels (MRDLs), and Treatment Techniques (TTs). An MCL is the highest level of a contaminant that is allowed in drinking water. An MRDL is the level of a disinfectant added for water treatment that may not be exceeded at the consumer's tap without an unacceptable possibility of adverse health effects. A TT is a required treatment process (such as filtration) intended to reduce the level of a contaminant in drinking water (U.S. EPA, 2017b). TTs are adopted where it is not economically or technologically feasible to ascertain the level of a contaminant, such as microbes, where even single organisms that occur unpredictably or episodically can cause adverse health effects. Compliance with TTs may require finished water sampling, along with quantitative or descriptive measurements of process performance to gauge the efficacy of the treatment process. In general, MCL-regulated contaminants tend to have long-term rather than acute health effects, and concentrations may vary seasonally. Thus, compliance is based on averages of seasonal, quarterly, annual, or less frequent sampling.
This indicator tracks the population served by CWS for which no violations were reported to EPA annually for the period from FY 1993 to FY 2016, the latest year for which data are available. Results are reported as a percentage of the overall population served by CWS, both nationally and by EPA Region. This indicator also reports the number of persons served by systems with reported violations of standards covering surface water treatment, microbial contaminants (microorganisms that can cause disease), disinfection byproducts (chemicals that may form when disinfectants, such as chlorine, react with naturally occurring materials in water and may pose health risks), and other contaminants. The indicator is based on violations reported quarterly by states, EPA, and the Navajo Nation, who each review monitoring results for the CWS that they oversee.
What the Data Show
Of the population served by CWS nationally, the percentage served by systems for which no health-based violations were reported for the entire year increased overall from 79 percent in 1993 to 91 percent in FY 2016 (Exhibit 1). Drinking water regulations have changed in recent years. This indicator is based on reported violations of the standards in effect in any given year.
When results are broken down by EPA Region, some variability over time is evident (Exhibit 2). Between FY 1998 and FY 2016, most Regions were consistently above the national percentage. Only Region 2 remained consistently below the national percentage over the entire period of record, largely because of a small number of public water systems serving large populations.
In FY 2016, reported violations of the health-based disinfection byproducts rules (Stage 2) affected 11 million people (4 percent of the CWS-served population) (Exhibit 3). Reported violations of heath-based coliform standards affected 6 million people (2 percent of the CWS-served population), and reported violations involving surface water treatment rules were responsible for exceeding health-based standards for 4 million people (1 percent of the population served by CWS nationally).
- Non-community water systems (typically small systems) that serve only transient populations such as restaurants or campgrounds, or serving those in a non-domestic setting for only part of their day (e.g., a school, hospital, or office building), are not included in population served figures.
Domestic (home) use of drinking water supplied by private wells is not included. Approximately 15 percent of the U.S. population get at least some of their drinking water from private wells (U.S. EPA, 2017c).
- Bottled water, which is regulated by standards set by the Food and Drug Administration, is not included.
- National statistics based on population served can be volatile, because a single very large system can sway the results by up to 2 to 3 percent. This effect becomes more pronounced when statistics are broken down at the regional level, and still more so for a single rule.
- Some factors may lead to overstating the extent of population served by systems that violate standards. For example, the entire population served by each system in violation is reported, even though only part of the total population served may actually receive water that is out of compliance. SDWIS data does not indicate whether any, part, or all of the population served by a system receives water in violation. Therefore, there is no way to know how many, if any, people are actually drinking water in violation. In addition, violations stated on an annual basis may suggest a longer duration of violation than may be the case, as some violations may be as brief as an hour or a day.
- Other factors may lead to understating the population served by systems that violate standards. For instance, CWS that purchase water from other CWS are not always required to sample for all contaminants themselves.
- Under-reporting and late reporting of violations by states to EPA affect the ability to accurately report the national violations total. For example, EPA estimated that between 2002 and 2004, states were not reporting 38 percent of all health-based violations, which reflects a decline in the quality of violations data compared with the previous 3-year period (U.S. EPA, 2008).
- Data reviews and other quality assurance analyses indicate that the most widespread data quality problem is under-reporting of monitoring violations. Even though these violations are separate from the health-based violations covered by this indicator, failures to monitor could mask violations of TTs, MRDLs, and MCLs.
Data Sources
Data for this indicator were obtained from EPA's Safe Drinking Water Information System (U.S. EPA, 2017a) (https://www.epa.gov/ground-water-and-drinking-water/safe-drinking-water-information-system-sdwis-federal-reporting). This database contains a record of violations reported to EPA by the states or other entities that oversee public water systems, along with annual summary statistics.
For More Information
- EPA: Safe Drinking Water Information System (SDWIS) Federal Reporting Services
- EPA: Ground Water and Drinking Water
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Amnesty says veil bans rob Muslims of jobs, education
By Tim Castle
LONDON (Reuters) - Bans on full-face veils in France and Belgium and a failure by other European countries to stop employers from enforcing informal dress codes means Muslim women are being denied jobs and education, Amnesty International said on Tuesday.
In a wide-ranging report highlighting examples of discrimination against Muslims across Europe, Amnesty said governments were pandering to prejudices by stopping Muslim women from wearing full-face veils and urged France and Belgium to repeal their own bans on such veils.
"Muslim women are being denied jobs and girls prevented from attending regular classes just because they wear traditional forms of dress," said Amnesty researcher Marco Perolini.
"Rather than countering these prejudices, political parties and public officials are all too often pandering to them in their quest for votes," he added.
The human rights group said countries like Belgium, France, Switzerland and the Netherlands were also failing to prevent employers enforcing informal policies that banned religious dress - such as headscarves worn by many Muslim women - on the grounds of preserving neutrality, promoting a corporate image or pleasing customers.
Pupils in these countries and others had also been barred from wearing religious and cultural dress, it said.
"Women should be able to wear whatever they prefer ... States have focused so much in recent years (on) the wearing of full-face veils as if this practice were the most widespread and compelling form of inequality that women have to face," the report said.
Amnesty called on the European Union to ensure European legislation banning discrimination by employers on the grounds of religion or belief was properly implemented across its 27 member states. Continued...


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Vietnam Bay: From the Mississippi to the Mekong, a delicious cultural collision
From the Mississippi to the Mekong, rice is nice at Vietnam Bay.
Danielle Lirette
Since critic Gretchen Kurtz is on vacation this week, we decided to take regular readers of the Cafe review on a culinary trip of their own: to Federal Boulevard, where Mark Antonation has been eating his way up from the southern edge of Denver. Every Wednesday morning in A Federal Case, which is posted on Cafe Society, Antonation describes another visit to a spot on Federal. Over the past several months, he's treated readers to meals at Taco House, the oldest Mexican restaurant in town that we've found (it's celebrating its 55th birthday this year), as well as noodle joint after taqueria after noodle joint after taqueria.
This week he landed at Vietnam Bay Seafood and Grill, 472 South Federal Boulevard. The pristine white facade and nautical blue logo of this unassuming joint don't give much of a hint at the collision of cuisines within. Like its predecessor Red Claw, Vietnam Bay specializes in Cajun-tinged seafood platters, odd mash-ups of Louisiana flavors with Vietnamese ingredients, and straight-up drinking food accented with delta spirit (whether from the Mississippi or the Mekong) and spice levels dialed up to meet cold beer head-on. Po' boy sandwiches and market-priced crawfish by the pound show obvious Gulf Coast origins. But Vietnam Bay's curried frog legs and savory rice porridges called chao rank among the rarer Vietnamese specialties that he's found along Federal. And he couldn't resist the fish-sauce glazed wings and the gumbo-dumpling hybrid called "gumlings" — dishes fused together with nothing but the kitchen's bravado and knack for reinvented comfort food.
It's no accident that Vietnamese-Cajun seafood joints have spread from Louisiana to places as far away as San Diego, Atlanta and Denver, Antonation notes. A little experimentation, a profound respect for bold flavors and a pioneering spirit have created something new from disparate sources. The French may have placed their stamp on Vietnamese and Cajun cuisines, but Vietnam Bay and other restaurants like it have accomplished something even more delightful by fusing flavors that come alive with many worlds at once, speaking a new language while maintaining authenticity in its truest sense: something genuine and of undisputed origin. That origin is simply the joy of cooking, eating and sharing good food wherever it is found. Read Antonation's full account on Cafe Society, where you'll also find photographer Danielle Lirette's documentation of all the delights of Vietnam Bay.
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rusto bucket paint and vinegar
what's the ratio on that, Cust? 2/3 like all? or do you change it up?
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I've never heard of using vinegar,
why not just use thinner?
vinegar is okay if you want to fuck everything up
for decos (which are very similar to uni's) I've heard people get good results with 50/50 oil based bucket paint/paint thinner
lolz at this whole god damn page..
Vinegar? That dumbass is having a go at you. Anyone who puts something for food inside a marker is retarded. Which that guy probably is .and for that matter anyone who believed him haha.
Back to my question I was more curious as to what name brand inks, like ded or smash?Never used either but since Rusto gloss black is a bitch to make not streaky when just mixing with thinner ,id rather buy something .
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I'm sorry, I'm rather new to making GK. I've stuck with ink so far.
No More Weekly Toy Battles.
try different thinners to reduce streaks...not gna give u the name..and glop is pretty nice for mops..
New jack?Hahah, on bombingscience or to the game? Your wrong either way. You joined this site in 08 and ive been here since 05.And i dont need a bunch of stupid posts that you have to prove that. If your going to type in this thread you might as well give me a REAL answer instead of fake answers because your taking away from the thread by trying to be funny and giving stupid answers. So what the fuck do you expect? I asked a specific question and wanted an answer from someone intelligent who knows, and if you cant do that then shut up. So now you can stop crying and can take it to the PMs if you have anything else to say.
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calm the fuck down its bombing science do you actually expect good answears and grog makes good inks
i have bought a flowpen on the run, i think its really good marker , but when i used it and put the cap on it again it's always leaking a bit.
can i do something about that ?
gewoon niet zo vaak de punt induwen,alleen als het echt nodig is bv als je lijnen strijkerig worden
(correct me if i am wrong my dutch is a lil rusty since grandma passed away a couple years ago...)
Essentially I think he said:
"You don't need to push the tip in all the time just if your lines become streaky..."
In other words, If you press the nib down to much you are going to over-saturate it with ink and it will leak a little...
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Trowel your dutch is still ok thats what he was saying
that will be my problem thx
bedankt iselldope ^^
quick question. a friend of mine bought a krink (k-71?) and at first it was like damn too much money..
tried it once and fell in love with the nib.. my question is if there's any other marker in like art stores or any store thats rackable with th same nib style?
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At $898,000, tonight's Show Me Cash drawing boasts the largest jackpot ever offered in the game.
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Tickets for tonight's drawing can be purchased at any Missouri Lottery Draw Games retailer until 8:59 p.m.
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Thanks, will try it again.
Well, don't know why, but it works. One problem I am seeing is, when I try to import an image from another folder, I get a pop up that reads "SecurityID doesn't match, possible CSRF attack." Any ideas?
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The school says that all alumni, students and friends are invited to Homecoming 2012 on Saturday on the Clarkesville Campus of North Georgia Technical College.
A number of activities are planned including a 5K Road Race, Arts & Crafts Show, Classic Car Show, and the annual alumni meeting.
The day will begin with the Foundation 5K Road Race at 8:00 a.m. The cost is now $20 for registration, including those who register Saturday. All proceeds will be used for scholarships for students attending classes on all three North Georgia Technical College campuses.
Set-up time for the Arts & Crafts Show is 8-10 a.m. and the show will run from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Only handmade or homemade items may be placed in the show and participants must provide their own table, tent, or other items needed for their display.
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The Annual Alumni Meeting will be held in the Dining Hall Annex at 10 a.m. with brunch served and the awards ceremony. The meeting is open to all former students, instructors and staff and friends of NGTC. The cost is $7.50 per person and reservations need to be made in advance.
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Daniel Kitson, a comic virtually unknown to mainstream television audiences, today received the ultimate accolade when he was declared the funniest man in the business by his contemporaries.
Mark Haddon made his name with The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, a novel about the break-up of a marriage as seen through the eyes of a teenager with Asperger's syndrome. When I heard that he had written Polar Bears, a play about the stresses of loving a female with a bipolar disorder, my first cynical reaction was to wonder whether he has started to collect disorders for creative exploitation across the art forms.
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Is it normal weight for an exactly 4 months old kitten to weigh 1.77 kilograms that is 3.9 pounds ?
Wat is the average weight of a healthy 4 months old female kitten.? Also can i spay my cat at this stage? Is it a good idea to get her spayed at this time with this body weight of her?.
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Normal size depends on the individual kitten. My vet has always preferred 5 months or 5 pounds. But even within the Persian breed, all of mine are different sizes. Destiny is only 5 pounds full grown and we even had to wait longer than normal to get her rabies vaccine until the vet felt she was large enough. The rest of them range all the way up to 12 pounds full grown and each one is "normal" for her frame. My vet decided when each of my girls was ready to be spayed. Desi was 7 months old before we felt she was ready because she was so tiny.
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So It Begins: Turkey Warns Greece Against Oil Exploration In The Aegean, Turkish experts accuse Greece of illegally snatching 16 islands
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you guys think that globalfirepower is so credible but your wrong.. the ranking just counts numbers it doesnt count the skill and experience of the armies and the currect commanders and technologis.
1)turkeys army atm has no skilled command. erdogan jailed his skilled command when he took over the country.
2)turkey gets some of its weapons from israel so its safe to say that israel hes more advanced weapons then turkey(Espacilly air based).
when it comes to cyprus they wont be able to take it since israel will most likely defeat their airforce and navy. just look at the amount of experience israel has with its air force and the turkish airforce experience and the actual numbers of advanced jet fighters and not aircrafts or jetfighters in general.
when it comes to greece i think israel will be able to only support it via arms and mybe some air cover but greece will have to fight turkey and in a conflict like that with the turkish navy and airforce stuck fighting israel i think the turks will have hard time.
the other thing that could happen is egypt joining in to help their muslim brotherhood friends in the turkish govermant wich will cuase a hard mayjor war that i cant predict who wins but i know that israel will not get invaded becuase if it does then both turkey and egypt will become nuclear wastelands so its most likely going to be egypts navy and airforce fighting with the turks against israel over cyprus.
anyway thats what i think as an objective man(atlast i try to be) with experience as a officer in the israeli army but on a final note i'd like to state that no one can know how any war will end becuase wars are determined by what happens in the field and not by numbers and analysis on paper.
Lets just hope that war wont break
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You and I both know that history repeats itself. Back in the day, the ottoman empire controlled a good chunk of the world. The ottomans were almost all turkish, and as an albanian, i can say that they couldnt do any of that without superior albanian command (i.e. Ali Pasha the albanian who controlled the middle east).
My point is that the turks have always been ruthless, never a peoples to fuck with, because the majority of people who fuck with them will eventually lose. Look at them today, 6th biggest standing army, advanced technology, an army that even israel cant do jack shit to, and thats just a fact, not merely my opinion..
So if shit is to hit the fan with turkey, the world will see..
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The Sheriff's Office is notifying the public that a rural Mountain Home man who had previously Registered as an unassessed Sex Offender at the Sheriff's Office on June 22, 2012 has now been assessed by the State as a Level 3 (High Risk to Re-Offend) Sex Offender.
HOME ADDRESS: 4025 Sycamore Springs Road Mountain Home, Arkansas 72653
The offender was convicted of Sexual Assault on a Child on 09/07/2006. The involved the offender engaging in ongoing sexual contact with two female acquaintances beginning when they were approximately 3 to 5 years old and continuing, at least with one of the girls through the time she was 9 to 11 year old. The offender was in a position of trust/authority with the victims.
The offender has a prior history of Sexual Exploitation of Children (2005). The offense involved the offender engaging in frequent sexually explicit chats via the internet with a 14 year old female stranger. He sent hundreds of pornographic images including images of child pornography. He arranged to meet her and was arrested. The offender acknowledged a prior sexual attraction to girls 3 and older.
This person is not wanted by law enforcement at this time. This notification is not intended to increase fear; rather it is our belief that an informed public is a safer public. This information cannot be used to threaten, intimidate, or harass Registered Sex Offenders. Citizen abuse will not be tolerated. Such abuse could potentially end law enforcement's ability to do community notification.
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Tiger and Annika have become golfing buddies while not on tour and regularly play practice rounds together. They even throw in a friendly wager even though more often than not Tiger wins. "We always have to have something riding on it," Sorenstam said. "I think the bets, that's what keeps him motivated to beat me."


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KNOXVILLE, Tenn. -- Tennessee freshman basketball player Bashaara Graves is ready to don the Orange and White.
As one of five newcomers on the Lady Vol squad, the Clarksville, Tenn., native has adjusted to the collegiate athlete lifestyle and schedule.
"Getting in the gym is fun in itself," Graves said. "Just getting the workouts in and getting better each day. The transition from high school to here has been hard, but I've been doing well with it."
With only one returning post player in Izzy Harrison, 6-foot-2 Graves will be looked to for her height and help in the front court. Rebounding is one of her passions.
"I'm ready to step up to the plate," Graves said. "I know it's a great opportunity for me coming in, maybe getting a position to start and get playing time. I'm ready for the challenge, so I'm going to do whatever I have to do."
Ranked No. 5 on HoopGurlz Class of 2012 ESPNU 100 Rankings, Graves brings ample experience to the Lady Vol squad. Graves helped the USA U18 team to a gold medal at the 2012 FIBA Americas Championship for Women in Gurabo, Puerto Rico this past summer, averaging 7.4 points, 6.8 rebounds and 19.4 minutes in five contests. Graves also was a member of USA U17 and U16 squads that won gold medals.
Graves joins another product from her hometown, as she now is a teammate with senior Kamiko Williams, who went to Graves' rival school, Northeast High.
Graves, the reigning Gatorade Tennessee Girls Basketball Player of the Year, also competed in the 2012 WBCA All-American Game, joining UT teammate Jasmine Jones on the victorious White squad.
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AACN and ANA Host the Inaugural Senate Nursing Caucus Event to Release Results from the 2008 National Sample Survey of Registered Nurses
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AACN and ANA Host the Inaugural Senate Nursing Caucus Event
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2008 National Sample Survey of Registered Nurses
WASHINGTON, D.C. - September, 22, 2010: Today, the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) and the American Nurses Association (ANA) hosted the inaugural briefing of the Senate Nursing Caucus to announce release of the final results from the 2008 National Sample Survey of Registered Nurses (NSSRN). Titled "A Snapshot of America's Nursing Workforce: Preparing for the Future Demand," the event featured an address by Mary Wakefield, PhD, RN, FAAN, Administrator of the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA). Prepared every four years by HRSA, the NSSRN compiles the most comprehensive data available on the registered nurse (RN) workforce in the U.S., including information on education, diversity, employment setting, career satisfaction, and factors related to the future supply of RNs.
Senator Jeff Merkley (D-OR), co-chair of the Senate Nursing Caucus, began the event by introducing Dr. Wakefield and explaining the importance of nursing to the healthcare delivery system. ""My wife's career as a nurse has helped me understand the integral role these providers play in our health care system. As a co-chair of the Senate Nursing Caucus, I appreciate Dr. Wakefield's breakdown of the 2008 National Sample Survey of Registered Nurses- her analysis can help us advance the discussion on how to best support and advance the nursing profession," stated Senator Merkley.
"The findings from the 2008 National Sample Survey of Registered Nurses shows what an effective partnership between HRSA and the nursing community can yield," said Dr. Wakefield. "Funding for faculty development has helped increase the number of young nurses entering the profession. We are also encouraged by the increasing diversity of the workforce which HRSA fully supports. These gains are critical to ensuring that nursing is ready to embrace the opportunities that health reform presents."
Held at the Capitol Visitors Center in Washington, DC, the event was well attended by Congressional staff, nursing leaders, and organizational representatives, and demonstrated the importance that quality data has to creating policies that will help build a robust nursing workforce. "The National Sample Survey of Registered Nurses enables us to plan for future demand and evaluate the distribution of RNs and their ability to meet the needs of American patients. These data are especially critical for states like Maine that have pockets of remote populations. I look forward to the future work of the Senate Nursing Caucus so that we can thoughtfully address needed policy challenges," said Senator Olympia Snowe (R-ME), co-chair of the Senate Nursing Caucus.
AACN and ANA were honored to host this briefing as the inaugural event of the Senate Nursing Caucus. AACN President Kathleen Potempa, PhD, RN, FAAN, remarked, "We are pleased to be a part of this historic event that highlights the intersection of nursing education, practice, data, and policy. On behalf of our members, we look forward to continuing our work with the Senate Nursing Caucus, HRSA, ANA, and members of the nursing community to ensure America's patients have access to quality nursing care."
"As the landscape of health care changes, it is vitally important that we have a nursing workforce that can adapt and address these changes. We appreciate the value of a forum like the Senate Nursing Caucus to address the issues that impact nursing, and we welcome a healthy exchange of ideas that will serve to strengthen the nursing workforce and ultimately improve the quality of care we provide," said ANA President Karen Daley, PhD, MPH, RN, FAAN.
Formed on March 25, 2010, the Caucus is co-chaired by Senator Merkley, Senator Mike Johanns (R-NE), Senator Barbara Mikulski (D-MD), and Senator Snowe. Since that time, nine additional Senators have joined the Caucus to help advance nursing policy. "I have tremendous respect and admiration for nurses," Senator Mikulski said. "Nurses are the front lines of the healthcare system, but too often they are overworked, underpaid, and underappreciated. I am proud to be a founding co-chair of the Senate Nursing Caucus, and I will continue to fight for policies that create opportunities for nurses now and help educate the nurses of tomorrow."
"We established the Senate Nursing Caucus to hone in on the barriers the national nursing shortage has presented to high quality patient care. The nursing profession offers a dynamic career opportunity for individuals seeking an intense and rewarding position. I am pleased to join my colleagues in the Senate Nursing Caucus to host our first briefing and seek ways to address RN workforce concerns," said Senator Johanns.
For more information about the Senate Nursing Caucus see:
http://www.aacn.nche.edu/government-affairs/archives/2010/senate-nursing-caucus and http://www.nursingworld.org/SenateNursingCaucus.aspx
For more information about the National Sample Survey of Registered Nurses see:
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The American Nurses Association (ANA) is the only full-service professional organization representing the interests of the nation's 3.1 million registered nurses through its constituent member nurses associations, its organizational affiliates, and its workforce advocacy affiliate, the Center for American Nurses. The ANA advances the nursing profession by fostering high standards of nursing practice, promoting the rights of nurses in the workplace, projecting a positive and realistic view of nursing, and by lobbying the Congress and regulatory agencies on health care issues affecting nurses and the public. www.nursingworld.org/
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This is like, soooo stylishly convenient!
Holly sure knows her Dr. Marten purses!
Holly sure knows her Dr. Marten purses!
Oh my! What a great surprise to see Holly on here! Thank you all so much for the kind words!
Yes, the blue merle and the pink look just marvelous together, dahling! Very cute!
"You don't think you're going ANYWHERE without me, do you?"
Holly is adorable, and so fashion forward! LOL!
Holly is a real beauty… And pretty in pink too!
Leave it to a beautiful, stylish Sheltie to have the finest taste in handbags. Now, where did she put that roll of life-savers?
Everything must be Sheltie "chin-rest tested".
Every girl loves her purse ;) Gorgeous girl!
Holly is such a pretty baby and oh so good! My Blue Merle would have already chewed the strap of the purse off! I guess mine prefers a "Clutch" LOL. Your girl is so pretty. May you both have a wonderful life together.
<3<3<3<3<3 Molly gets five out of five hearts. :)
Wow Holly! You sure picked the right bag, your coat is striking and that color is stunning next to you, it just almost pops right off the page! Christie, those eyes are saying plee-e-ase put down that camera, we've got some serious shopping to do and I'm ready to go! Your little Holly is so beautiful, how lucky for you to have such a wonderful companion in your life, I wish you both many years of Sheltie happiness.
I have a special place in my heart for blue merle shelties. I adopted 2 beautiful, sweet blue merle sisters together. They were wonderful and a major joy. Your furbaby is just gorgeous and seems sooooo sweet. And both of you have great taste in handbags.


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Miley Cyrus Tweets Out Photos of Her Giant Freaky Adult Toy!
Miley Cyrus continues to find new ways to shock parents everywhere. In her latest stunt, the singer shared a couple of photos on Twitter of her giant 16 1/2-inch arm-shaped dildo: the Hand of Adonis.
The manufacturer describes it as such:
"NOT for the faint of heart, the Hand of Adonis is a unique tool for size enthusiasts, or anyone interested in fisting. The ultra realistic, 16 1/2 inch arm ends in a 'duck bill' positioned hand, with thick fingers for lots and lots of sensation. The realistic feeling, SilAgel filled rubber material is firm, yet quite flexible, and able to bend and twist for the perfect fit inside. It's also anti-bacterial, non-toxic, and latex and cadmium free for safe enjoyment. The Hand tool is very large, quite heavy, and so not well suited to beginners, but if you're experienced with large sized toys, you'll love it."
The singer has since deleted the tweets, but you can check out the pics up top.


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I know this newspaper can do better at covering Montana politics than what we read in last week's "Etc." column. As we prepare for one of the most important elections in Montana history, readers deserve to know what separates Sen. Jon Tester and the guy who wants his job, Congressman Dennis Rehberg. The differences couldn't be starker.
Unfortunately, last week's Etc. column took the easy way out. Instead of thoughtful political analysis, readers got a disappointing glimpse of Jon Tester's record. The Independent then editorialized on its own incomplete picture of Jon's hard work.
Since the Etc. column criticized Jon's 44 pieces of legislation this year, yet failed to illuminate them, allow me to fill in a few missing pieces. Jon wrote and passed the only jobs bill signed into law this year, the VOW to Hire Heroes Act, which passed both the House and Senate with unanimous support. He introduced legislation to add the "death of a child" to the Family Medical Leave Act. He got the U.S. Postal Service to delay closing any mail facilities in Montana. The crop insurance program Jon created to expand the production of camelina biofuel kicked into gear a few weeks ago. And President Obama just signed into law Jon's bill to make the American Legion more accessible to younger veterans.
I don't expect the Independent to write a story every time Jon Tester sends a press release. But if this publication is going to make light of "Car Collector Appreciation Day" or Jon's role in getting ESPN to air football games, I would expect it to have shared more of Jon's substantive record over the past year.
As for Jon's refusal to give up on his popular Forest Jobs and Recreation Act, he'll continue pushing his responsible Montana jobs bill because thousands of Montanans expect no less of him. Jon's bill is a balanced, made-in-Montana solution to a problem that Congressman Rehberg has refused to address during his 35 years in politics. Now Congressman Rehberg admits he asked his party bosses to prevent a vote on the bill because he knows it would hurt his own senate chances.
So what is Congressman Rehberg responsible for? Very little, actually, unless you count trying to decimate Planned Parenthood, Head Start and Jobs Corps earlier this year. Or calling student financial aid "the welfare of the 21st century." Or suing Billings firefighters. Or trying to take undue credit for Jon's legislation (I don't call that "bickering"; I call it setting the record straight—something newspapers should be doing). Congressman Rehberg has a long list of irresponsible decisions that have only hurt Montana.
In November of 2012, let's hope for an outcome determined by facts and illumination. I look forward to more of that in these pages.
Aaron Murphy,Communications Director
Montanans for Tester


text: I shot this goose the other day and I want to get it mounted. I was told that it was a Hutchinson or Richardsons sub-species. I was wondering what the Tax guys thought on a possible mount. I would like a standing mount of some kind. Would like some input from the people who do this stuff. Also there is a small blood spot on the face and some on one of the wing and a little on the breast. Big deal or not? You can see it in the pics.


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Ten Steamy Minutes In Cancun
A little jet lag, mounds of laundry and a few pounds heavier, I'm back from Cancun. Hubs and I had a fantastic time, with our daily routine consisting of: breakfast, reading by the beach, lunch, reading by the pool, dinner, drinks, sleep. It was seriously the most relaxing vacation I've ever been on.
Since we spent nearly the entire trip in our bathing suits, we mostly took scenic pictures (see above) ; and because we were quite lazy, there's not too much to share with you about the vacation, save my experience at the resort spa…the resort spa steam room to be exact.
On the second day of our tropical vacation, Hubs and I elected to get massages. Contrary to what this blog might make you think, I am not a spa frequenter. My line of thinking is that if it's a choice between 50 minutes of Shiatsu or Michael Kors, the stress knots will have to take up residence in my shoulders. Thus, I am only vaguely familiar with spa etiquette and even less so with Mexican spa etiquette. So, when Louisa, my Spanish-speaking spa hostess guided me to my locker and pointed to the slippers and robe, a wave of panic (the first in a series of many I would face in the next few minutes) set in as I debated whether I should take off my bathing suit and enjoy the spa experience in the buff or play it safe and leave it on.
Opting to abide by one of my style rules (Better to be overdressed than underdressed), I kept my bathing suit on and threw the robe on overtop. Louisa then led me down a hallway of glass doors, stopped in front of a particularly foggy one, and gestured for me to take off my robe.
"Here it is," I thought. "The moment of truth. If I'm supposed to be naked, Louisa or whoever's on the other side of that door will surely let me know."
Louisa seemed indifferent to my swimsuit and pushed open the door to a fog filled room where a very large American woman (who, for purposes of this post I will refer to as "Lamerican") was sprawled out on what appeared to be some sort of step–in her bathing suit!
"Spa etiquette test numero uno? A+," I inwardly exclaimed.
Now, as previously mentioned, this was only my third or fourth time at a spa; and on none of my previous visits had I ever been in a steam room. So, not only was a grateful that Lamerican had her bathing suit on, I was also pleased that she had answered my next spa etiquette question of where to sit in a steam room. With Louisa still holding open the door, I took my place on the bottom step adjacent to Lamerican.
Now, as not previously mentioned, I am mildly claustrophobic. No sooner had I sat down, than panic set in as I realized that I. COULDN'T. BREATHE. The panic only heightened as Louisa closed the door saying that she'd return in DIEZ MINUTOS.
"DIEZ MINUTOS!?" I thought. "I'M GOING TO BE STUCK IN THE OUTER RING OF HADES FOR DIEZ MINUTOS?!"
I began to fidget rapidly in between gasps for air. And the voices in my head (they randomly show up at times like this) started to talk back and forth to one another.
"Maybe you can just get up and leave. You don't know anyone here. No one will judge you," said the voice in my left ear.
"Don't be such a pansy," screamed the voice in my right ear. "If you walk out, people in this spa will most certainly judge you and henceforth you will be referred to as the girl who couldn't hack the steam room in Cancun."
"BUT I CAN'T BREATHE!" Left ear voice protested.
Suddenly, the door opened and in walked a small Asian girl (Smasian) who gracefully hopped up on the top stair of the steam room and assumed Lotus pose. Now, the voice in my right ear was doing the cursing. Also at this time, Louisa motioned for Lamerican to leave the steam room.
Perhaps the entrance of Smasian/exit of Lamerican had sufficiently thinned the air in the room or perhaps I was getting used to my environment, but I felt much less panicked as Louisa closed the door for the second time. In fact, taking a cue from Smasian, I leaned my head back and closed my eyes. And then I heard it…A loud whooshing sound that started off distant and got closer until all of a sudden the noise was overhead and the room was filling with steam thicker than it had been when I initially entered it; and even worse, some of the steam was coming from the vent directly in back of my legs.
"OH MY GOSH, THAT BURNS!" I yelled loudly as I jumped to the top stair and forgot all sense of spa etiquette.
"See, I told you that you should have left," the voice in my left ear taunted back.
So now, I not only couldn't breathe, but the backs of my legs were suffering from 3rd degree burns and I'd embarrassed myself in front of Smasian. My only consolation was that the steam was now so thick that I could not see Smasian and she could not see me panicking…again.
Originally, I had planned to spend my time at the spa in prayer, thanking the Lord for my trip and asking for direction for the future for Hubs and I . I did, in fact, pray while I was in the steam room. My prayers went something like this: "Dear Lord, if a year is like a day to you, could you make DIEZ MINUTOS like five seconds to me?" and "Heavenly Father, if you're punishing me for something , please make my misdeeds clear so that I can turn from them and never go through this again."
Sometimes when we pray for something, God is silent. This was one of those times.
Eventually, I slipped into something resembling a breathing routine (which I envision using again when I go into labor) and was able to at least slow my heart rate during my last few minutes in the steam room. After what seemed like a small eternity, Louisa returned for both Smasian and I. Personally, I though that since Smasian came in later than me, she should have had to stay later as well, but then I realized I could breathe again and stopped caring. Besides, both of us were about to endure the same and only slightly less torturous fate: the ice bath.
I wish there was a moral to this story, but sadly there is not. So, I will just hang my head in shame and leave you with the a picture of one of the other steamy moments of my time in Cancun… The day I touched a woman's breast.


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Ring Turns Wearer's Palm Into A Controller [Video]
Fin is a Bluetooth-enabled ring that allows users to assign a range of smart functions to different parts of their hand.
A new wearable, gesture-based device from RHL Vision Technologies literally puts the control in the palm of your hand. Or rather, on your hand.
Fin is a smart ring prototype that is worn around the thumb, allowing users to turn their palm into a digital controller. Fin incorporates an optical sensor that is able to detect swipes and taps on your hand, matching the desired action to an assigned function. Connected to the device you've selected – smartphone, smart TV, etc. – Fin detects the gesture and sends the corresponding command (i.e. changing the song on your phone).
Users will be able to control up to three devices with a single Fin, including smartphones, smart TVs, automobile electronics, and home automation platforms. Communicating via Bluetooth, the aim is to eventually incorporate biometrics into Fin that would allow the device to distinguish between each segment of each finger to make swiping and tapping even easier. Essentially, Fin will turn each part of your hand into a different button.
Rohildev Nattukallingal, founder of RHL Vision Technologies – the startup launching Fin – described Fin's purpose to Mashable.
People in today's world are becoming more busy, but still they are wasting a lot of time interacting with their smart devices….Fin removes this interaction gap by allowing users to quickly interact with those devices.
The current vision for Fin will provide for five pre-programmed gestures, but the creators already have plans for a software kit that will allow developers to create custom ones for related apps. Due to its ease of use and tactile nature, Fin is also anticipated to help the visually impaired interact with technology.
Fin will be available in five different colors and will retail for $120 upon its expected release in September 2014. The project is using the popular crowdfunding site Indiegogo to raise funds, and have already far surpassed their goal. With a stated funding aim of $100,000, Fin has raised over $150,000 with nearly two weeks of funding left. See more about how Fin works below, and visit their Indiegogo page if you're interested in contributing.


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Privilege 585
Hi Nick,
You''re right, there is precious little written about cruising catamarans in general especially the Privileges. I take it you''ve been to the website www.alliaura.com for pictures of the 585. I have no hands on experience with Privileges, but I have been lusting after them for years and have in the process gained a lot of info about them, at least model-wise. I am also currently searching for info on the 585, which is how I came across your e-mail.
Older Privilege models utilized the central nacelle for accomodations, which pushed the ground tackle storage (heavy chain) forward causing more motion. You''ll notice all the latest models have moved the chain storage further back, limiting accomodations in the nose. The 585 is a large enough boat to still have accomodations in the nacelle and still have room left over forward.
Good luck searching and let me know if you find any more info on the 585.
Privilege 585
The earlier Privilege line is quite different than the newer line (the older line, from the late 80s gives measurements in meters, the 39'' is the Privilege 12m) From what I can tell, they designed a luxury 65'' which had quite a new design, then kept improving that design to get the smaller, newer fleet (Privilege 37'', 435, 465, and 585). The newer yachts are supposed to be faster, have less motion under way, and be even more spacious inside (the 585 has about the same room as the 65).
The "nose" is my favorite feature! It is supposed to improve rigidity, as well as vastly increase volume. It looks like it might work well at decreasing slamming, is this the case? I can''t find specs for underwing clearance so I don''t know how it is for slamming in the first place.
Anyone else have experience or opinions or seen reviews on the Privilege range?
Privilege 585
Just got back from sailing Biscayne Bay in Miami aboard a Privilege 39 for the past few days. Enjoyed the boat generally speaking. But personally, I had a few issues with it. The boat had a lot of motion for its size. I thought the layout could have been a little better (although this one, w/4 staterooms / 4 heads had to make the most, and sometimes too much of, the space alotted) and I also found it to be a bit slower than I expected when sailing anywhere from a beam reach to close-hauled. Small tramps too, due to the "nose" that''s so prominent on the Privilege.
Sailed the same waters last summer aboard a Venezia 42, and was quite surprised at the difference. The Venezia had a much better ride, better accomodations, and just a more spacious feel to it.
I will give the privilege this though - the cockpit layout was great. had up to 8 on board and it served us well. Can''t say the Venezia would have done as well there. I guess there are always comprimises!
Privilege 585
I''m looking for reviews or other 3rd party information on privilege yachts and the 585 in particular. To me, they look like the best yachts out there. Do others have an opinion the other way? I haven''t seen much written on them, but plenty of articles extolling the perfection of yachts that don''t look half as good.
(BYW, I''m not in the market for buying one, just fantasizing)
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A children's musical based
on the book by Laurie Keller
Adapted by Frances Limoncelli
Music and Lyrics by George Howe
Directed by Chad Rabinovitz
Musical Directed by Nat Zegree
June 22, 25-29, July 1, 2, 3, 5, 6 &
Great News!
For this show only IU Parking Operations will only charge you $2 to park in the Jordan Avenue Parking Garage. Keep your ticket stub to show the attendant when you leave.
"A delicious new family musical!"
Arnie, a lovable chocolate-covered doughnut with sprinkles, is the happiest pastry in the bakery when he's finally selected by a new owner. But when mild-mannered Mr. Bing tries to eat the unsuspecting Arnie, both are in for the surprise of their lives. Embark upon a hilarious quest to redefine human/doughnut relations with a pair of true originals, in this adorable, family musical.
Nathan Robbins (Arnie)
Nick Pappas (Mr. Bing)
Samantha Mason (French Cruller / Doughnut Hole / Ronnie)
Carrie Barnthouse (Powdered Doughnut / Doughnut Hole / Baker / Sheila)
Meghan Goodman (Jelly Doughnut / Doughnut Hole / Mrs. Plute)
Chad Rabinovitz (Director)
Nat Zegree (Music Director)
Christopher Rhoton (Scenic Designer)
Alycia Matz (Costume Designer)
Lee Burckes (Lighting Designer)
Kevin Love (Stage Manager)
Leslie Boyden (Assistant Stage Manager/Props)


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"Always a pleasure": KCOL's "Keith and Gail" welcomed guest who denigrated Hurricane Katrina victims, claimed most blacks "lack moral character"
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For a discussion on the controversy over Don Imus' comment about the Rutgers women's basketball team, co-hosts Keith Weinman and Gail Fallen welcomed their "friend" Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson, who called Rev. Al Sharpton "the devil" and said that because of fears of being deemed "racist," whites are allowing their "enemies" to "destroy them." Peterson further stated, "This is not going to end until white Americans stand up."
On the April 13 broadcast of Fox News Radio 600 KCOL's Mornings with Keith and Gail!, co-hosts Keith Weinman and Gail Fallen invited Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson to discuss the controversy over former radio talk show host Don Imus' reference to the Rutgers University women's basketball team as "nappy-headed hos." In addition to calling Rev. Al Sharpton "the devil," Peterson, who is the founder and president of the Brotherhood Organization of a New Destiny (BOND), argued that white people are allowing their "enemies" to "destroy them" out of "fear of being called a racist." As Media Matters for America noted, after Hurricane Katrina, Peterson claimed on Fox News' Hannity & Colmes that "[n]ot all ... but most [African-Americans] lack moral character. Look what they did to the [Louisiana Super]dome. In three days, they turned the Dome into a ghetto."
Weinman introduced Peterson as "a friend of Mornings with Keith & Gail! and The James Gang here on 600 KCOL, and a friend of all of us." Discussing CBS Radio's firing of Imus from his nationally syndicated show, Peterson stated that "for Imus to go and ask Sharpton for [forgiveness] was absolutely insane. It's just insanity. How do you give that kind of power to the devil?" Peterson later added, "This is not going to end until white Americans stand up."
Near the end of the interview, Peterson claimed that the "white audiences" he speaks to "are afraid to deal with black people for fear of being called a racist." According to Peterson, "White folks -- the white man is losing his wife, he's losing his children, he's losing his business, he's losing his community, and he's giving it to people who don't deserve it." After Peterson complained that he "can't believe that we have a society where white people have this type of fear," Weinman said, "Always a pleasure ... We'll look forward to a next visit."
As Colorado Media Matters has pointed out, Peterson has a history of making racially inflammatory remarks. He is the author of a September 2005 article titled "Moral poverty cost blacks in New Orleans," in which he characterized the black response to Hurricane Katrina as "a pathetic performance by the black community in a time of crisis" and claimed that "most" members of the black community "were too lazy, immoral, and trifling to do anything productive for themselves." Peterson also asserted that "[w]hen 75 percent of New Orleans residents had left the city, it was primarily immoral, welfare-pampered blacks that stayed behind and waited for the government to bail them out."
From the April 13 broadcast of Fox News Radio 600 KCOL's Mornings with Keith and Gail!:
WEINMAN: We wanted to sum it up quickly because we have the chance for the reaction this morning from a friend of Mornings with Keith and Gail! and The James Gang here on 600 KCOL, and a friend of all of us, the Reverend Jesse Lee Peterson with BOND, the Brotherhood of a New Destiny. Reverend Jesse Lee Peterson, good morning and welcome again to Mornings with Keith & Gail!
PETERSON: Good morning. Thank you guys for having me on. I absolutely appreciate it.
WEINMAN: Your -- your overall reaction, the first thought that comes to your mind with regard to the whole Imus story and where it's at now.
PETERSON: I cannot believe that -- that white Americans are giving in to a gutless, racist male like Sharpton or Jackson. I just don't know what it's going to take for white Americans to stand up and not allow themselves to be intimidated. You know, if this were David Duke running around trying to intimidate this country, white folks would stand up against him. But because Sharpton is black, they're allowing themselves to give into it. When Imus made those comments, he was only talking about the basketball players, the girls on the team. He was not talking about all black folks. He did not insult all black Americans. And for some -- and for Imus to go and ask Sharpton for an apology was absolutely insane. It's just insanity. How do you give that kind of power to the devil? He didn't, he didn't do anything to Sharpton. He didn't say anything about Sharpton. It was about the girls. If he owed anyone an apology, he should have just said to them that he was sorry and move on with this. This is out of control. This is ridiculous.
WEINMAN: Which Imus did do repeatedly. He repeated -- he repeatedly apologized to the team. And, and you're saying the fact that Imus actually went and, and apologized to Sharpton was over and above beyond the call of duty, was -- was unecessary.
PETERSON: It wasn't necessary at all. I don't understand why white men feel that they should give into another man like that. He didn't do anything to Sharpton. And, if you noticed, when he went to Sharpton to ask for the apology, Sharpton refused to give it. And that's what the devil does. The devil likes to control you so he's not going to forgive you. And Sharpton is about Sharpton. He's seen Jesse Jackson get away with this for 50 years and now he's doing the same thing, and white folks are giving in to Sharpton and all they're doing is creating someone else to come along and do the same thing. This is not going to end until white Americans stand up.
PETERSON: Right now I'm on a speaking tour. I'm in, I think I'm in D.C. somewhere, Virginia. And, you know, when I speak to white audiences I often ask, how many of you are afraid to speak up when it comes to the issue of race and morality concerning black people? And 99.9 percent of the time, 100 percent of the people raise their hand. And this includes clergies and non-clergies alike. Men and women. And they are afraid to deal with black people for fear of being called a racist. But what they don't understand is when they give that kind of power to their enemies, their enemies will destroy them. And that's what Jackson has done and Sharpton has -- is now doing that. You -- in life, you're going to have to stand up and, yes, you may lose a few material things, but if you don't stand up you're going to lose your soul. White folks -- the white man is losing his wife, he's losing his children, he's losing his business, he's losing his community, and he's giving it to people who don't deserve it. And I just -- I can't believe we have a society where white people have this type of fear.
WEINMAN: Always a pleasure. Thank you so much for your time. We'll look forward to a next visit.
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IIROC updates compliance and supervision guidance
On December 15, the Investment Industry Regulatory Organization of Canada (IIROC) released a draft guidance note regarding the role of compliance and supervision at member firms. The draft guidance is intended to update IDA Member Regulation Notice MR-0435, released in 2006, in light of recent amendments to registration requirements contained in NI 31-103 Registration Requirements, Exemptions and Ongoing Registrant Obligations in order to ensure consistency between the registration reform related amendments and IIROC's guidance. The draft guidance considers such issues as the responsibility for compliance, the distinction between supervisory and compliance roles, and the role of dealers, board of directors, management and the compliance officer. The notice also includes guidance on creating an effective compliance program, and provides information on the circumstances under which IIROC may initiate enforcement proceedings relating to compliance or supervisory matters.
Comments on the draft guidance are being accepted for 60 days from the date of the notice. For more information, see IIROC Notice 11-0361.


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Our largest room features a corner Kiva fireplace with raised hearth, hand-carved king bed and Pendelton Indian blanket. Red rock and Sedona art themed with numerous pieces from local Sedona artists. This room has double doors to the bathroom vanity with two hand-painted Mexican sinks, whirlpool tub and glass shower. Standard size hide-a-bed sofa. French doors open to the veranda displaying spectacular views of golf course and red rocks. Mini-refrigerator with complimentary bottled water, new 32" Flat Screen HDTV/DVD/ESPN/Golf Channel, Sony Dreamachine CD player w/iPod input, iron, free unlimited long-distance calling within U.S., & free wireless internet.