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Minnesota continued to battle towards a playoff spot with the win. The Wild now have a five point lead over the Dallas Stars for the seventh playoff spot in the West.
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I HAVE a secret to share... until April 2011, I'd never had a spray tan.
Not one.
Poor little old me, right?
For a beauty writer, though, to admit that is like a chef to admit they've never scrambled an egg. It's a somewhat (in context, people) embarrassing confession.
But there's a reason for my shying away from such activities.
How many women just looked plain orange after a spray tan? Most. Even the ones with all the money in the world to spend on the most expensive faux tans.
Even when faded down to a more natural hue, there's always a hint of Tango.
Plus, it's expensive. Um, there are plenty other things I'm happy to spend 40 quid on... per week.
And, for that wad of ten pound notes or ten dollar bills, you get a slightly neon color that last only days, making it more expensive than that gym membership you don't ever use. If you do it every week, that's a couple thousand quid down the drain.
And I've heard time and again about the horrors of the patchiness that comes with the fading process. I already have a hard enough time looking put together on a daily basis and don't need big brown patches on my legs and chest, like a bipedal Jersey cow, to make getting ready even more of a process.
But... last month I had a wedding to attend in Cancun.
This time I wasn't going to be the ghostly pale girl in a bikini, garnering looks of pity, amid a sea of caramel-coloured hard bodies. The thing is, I do tan, but I'm never in the bleeding sun long enough to do so anymore! I longingly look at pictures from my youth sometimes, where I'm a shade of brown no helicopter parent would ever let their children achieve nowadays.
In my adult life, I'd never openly cared about being pale in a bathing suit. Sure I'd feel a twinge of jealously when a gaggle of tan girls would saunter by on the beach in Hvar or some exotic friend would seem to turn an even more exotic brown from just 20 minutes in the sun. But that twinge, I figured, was just part of being a girl (and human), so I never really caved.
This trip my vanity won out and I was ready to fake a bronzed glow for the sake of suddenly needy ego.
And, to be honest, my curiosity just sort of got the best of me. Here's this thing that I am constantly hearing about, talking about, analyzing, etc. and I'd just mentally circled the idea of fake tanning like a cautious animal. I was ready to pounce.
So I researched and researched some more. Because lord knows I wasn't sitting in the sun to develop a real tan (not that there is any sun in Chicago in April or May).
Two real options cropped up -- Mystic Tan or Ortanic. Ortanic being new, offering a $10 savings for first timers and having piles of rave reviews I decided to give it a go.
Plus, it was next to Whole Foods and I needed to do a shop.
At the moment, Ortanic is, surprisingly, only in Chicago -- not a city known for being a beauty trendsetter or hub for that matter.
It's housed in various FFC gyms and each location has it's own, secluded room with heat lamps, ventilated booths, a no-nonsense, hand-held airbrush system, full length mirror and dozens of bottles of color (to be hand mixed by your technician).
Lauren was the technician I had that day, and boy I was glad I did. Turns out she's a trained makeup artist and avid Ortanic fan, so she was a dab hand at application and able to custom mix a shade for me based on where I was going, my natural skin tone and what I wanted (to look like I'd already been in Mexico for two weeks).
I stripped bare, although some women (and men, although I bet less so with the latter) bewilderingly leave on underwear. Seriously, girls, just take it all off. Do you really want panty lines included with your faux tan? Save the modesty for somewhere else.
You stand in the both while the technician hooks up your color to the airbrush. Then, arms out, she paints each section of your body (front, back, left side, right side, face, feet, sides of hands) methodically so that you end up with super even color everywhere.
The product smells nice and I didn't feel the least bit asphyxiated during the process.
From start to finish it might have taken 10 minutes and I was able to put on my clothes and go. There is only the gentlest of a cross sell on one of their DIY tan extender products, and she was very quick to let it go when I said no thank you.
Throughout the day, the product they applied deepened in color (I had it done at noon). It is visible when they spray it on, so be forewarned that you will look a bit like Magda from Something About Mary (as one of my sister's so charitably pointed out) while it develops. Most girls, it seems, get it done in the evening and then go straight home so they can sleep in it and shower in the morning.
If you can't do that, simply suck it up and rock a deep bronze for 8 to 10 hours, after which you can wash it off, revealing a super even, very natural (and brown, not orange) tan.
While you wait out those 8 to 10 hours you do have to be careful not to sweat or get your skin wet too.
Lauren advised to avoid very hot water (so hot showers, hot tubs, etc.) and moisturize like mad to maintain a good tan as long as possible.
Even though I went diving once in the sea before the wedding, the tan stayed up, possibly thanks to my religious moisturizing, aversion to hot water and hyper-quick showers.
My airbrush tan was, by far and away, the best accessory I brought with me to Mexico.
Great, natural color, quick, lasts for 5 days, fades evenly, technicians with experience, custom-mixed color, very few ingredients, didn't smell terrible...
Magda-esque bronze you sport for 8 to 10 hours after it's done, too pricey to have done every week, lasts for 3 to 5 days not 7 to 10, only available in Chicago... and this last one: the name implies the product is organic BUT there's no indication or outright statement saying as much. They also utilize a lot of green on the website (images of trees, leaves, etc.), which isn't super honest use of imagery if the formula isn't, indeed, 'green' or organic.
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2. Beats the hell out of ramming Washington or Oregon.
Was funny! Good one Mike!
The Time a Person Spends Windsurfing is not Deducted from their Lifespan...
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If you think about it, isobars, when he gets a bit cavalier and cute in his dialog, repeatedly makes the mistake of crapping on someone or something. It could be freestyle sailing and the mindset involved, or it could be those of us that happily zip around back and forth "mowing the lawn" as he likes to say. Criticism and disdain for the latter is arguably his favorite target because they interfere with his signature swell riding and expert high speed slashing all over the place. However, it's usually his idea of being clever and dismissive of others that gets him into trouble.
Will he turn over a new leaf and learn from his mistakes? Not a chance. Just look back at this thread. It wasn't too many pages ago that he got ugly and mixed it up with PeconicPuffin. The later confrontation with johnl just makes my point. isobars is always loaded and ready to go off. He can't help himself, and predictably, it's always the other guy at fault for "crapping in the punchbowl".
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When I was 14 or 15, I was on holiday with family in Porto Pollo, Sardegna. I had two seasons of windsurfing under my belt at the time (one season on short boards, which equals to about 5 planing days total, realistically). I could not do a carving jibe - my attempts wobbled out dead downwind even after days of trying.
My mom (I know - how embarrassing!) pointed at the water and yelled something like "Just turn like that guy with the pink sail. It can't possibly be THAT difficult!"
Instead of copying Robbie's step gybe, I somehow figured out that my issue was committing to the carve. So I found a smooth spot where I could hit the curve at full speed without bouncing out and ended up learning the strap-to-strap first.
Everyone's different, and part of the fun is figuring things out, but I sure could have used some help back then.
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Posted: Mon Jul 01, 2013 1:43 pm
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For someone who learned late in life the benefits of weight training, Im surprised you have not learned the benefits of light wind freestyle. You have complained of declining balance, so what better way to practice & maintain that balance. Light wind freestyle does wonders for your sail & body balance.
You dont need try a flakadoodle to do freestyle and not all freestyle moves are non-functional. Heck, practicing forward loops has greatly improved my catapult landings. I have learned great rig control while flying through the air so my mast never hits the nose of my board any more.
What could be more functional than that Mr. Pad the Nose to Death?
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Posted: Mon Jul 01, 2013 1:43 pm
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Well I can't understand the 'lawn mowers' who use the sameboard over and over. Shouldn't any keen long serving addict have at least a dozen boards, both old and newer, in use? Ringing the changes can make a huge difference to the mood of the day.
Was out 'grass mowing' yesterday on the Cross 94 and was disgruntled with bothe sea (boring) and the cantankerous puffing and belching wind gods.
Took out the Bic Techno 133 with flicky light 7.0 sail today by way of contrast, and thoroughly enjoyed purposefully ploughing along and clopping over the chop (got to watch that nose doesn't bury itself) at constant lower 20m.p.h. ish speeds. It felt like purposefully piloting a bomber, as compared to a fidgety fighter.
Sat in the car afterwards moodily watching the offshore windmills, with flask of tea, pork pie, and choc bars to hand, wondering why it had been so much fun? I think it was because we don't expect so much from supposedly lower performing boards, so when they do 'turn it on' it comes as a pleasant surprise. (Mind you, my stencilled on mermaid ... she's really a Norwegian troll who drags unsuspecting sailors down to their doom, but with a figure like that who cares ....along with my beady eyed seagull stencilled mascot, might have had a hand in things.)
And yes, it can gybe, in a French don't really mind if I do kind of way!
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Posted: Mon Jul 01, 2013 1:56 pm
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Sat in the car afterwards moodily watching the offshore windmills, with flask of tea, pork pie, and choc bars to hand, wondering why it had been so much fun? I think it was because we don't expect so much from supposedly lower performing boards, so when they do 'turn it on' it comes as a pleasant surprise.
I sold my Techno 153 two years ago, and regret it. What that board gave away in weight and responsiveness it made up for in overall fun and ability to take a hit (except perhaps for the nose tip). A forgiving jiber, too.
The Technos responded well to mast track tuning. Slide your mast foot back 1/2" and the tendency to pearl improves a lot!
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1. At typical B&J spots, about 90% of all windsurfers are what iso would call "hedonists". Perhaps one out of ten windsurfers do something more interesting. A few ... go upwind and downwind at angles that the lawn mowers can only dream off, and passing them as if they were standing still. Their jibes are often outstanding. Some go for speed, and reach speeds that are twice as fast as what we see from the lawn mowers. Others always work on learning new things that seem pointless, and some of them sail more often and longer than anyone else, and apparently have a lot more fun. My wife prefers to work on something new every time she is out. She often gets compliments about her sailing when she gets of the water.
2. Talented young ones like G-Master learn lots of new tricks in a couple of seasons.
3. The most inspiring windsurfers don't restrict themselves to one category.
4. I am mostly mowing the lawn when I am sailing,
5. I have dabbled enough in freestyle and racing/speed to appreciate the skills required and the fun it can be.
6. Some humans see the need to denigrate everything they don't understand.
7. ... someone who thinks there is only one way to jibe or get into foot straps.
8. Maybe, iso, you should try some of the things you diss.
9. Don't give me age as an excuse ...
10. perhaps you'll argue that sitting on the beach ... is more fun [than light wind freestyle]?
Yeah, this is long. But anyone without the time to read it but with the time to lie about me or tell me how I must windsurf can just damned well sit there and look somewhere between ignorant and flat-out stupid.
1. Youre describing my sailing to a T, relatively speaking, except that you omitted what I do while reaching. My speed and pointing angles dont match those of serious racers on serious race gear, of course, but then those folks dont sail where I sail, so many strangers and friends tell me my sailing really stands out. But so what? As a hedonist, at least in this unscored aspect of this sport, my only goal is to have fun, which includes improving relative to my own skills yesterday or 10 minutes ago. To that end, I have a mental list most days of what I want to do better. Ive never seen anyone else do some of the things I do, but thats irrelevant because my fun is based not on what everyone else can do, but on how much fun I can have.
People have asked me why I do some particular unique, seemingly pointless, things. In fact, every one of them has a specific purpose, including optimizing my fun. Whether Im having more or less fun than the next guy, or than this mysterious G-guy or Whitey guy, is irrelevant and undeterminable, but Ive seen VERY few ≤2% of WSers or any other athletes Ive played with, with more endurance than mine, regardless of age until just my past couple of years. People have commented on it most of my life.
2. Which is it, guys? Sone of you say tricks dont require practice/dues/work (whatever you choose to call it), but you (and Brandt) are saying it takes months to learn some tricks. How about yall get together, figure it out, and get back to us? Meantime, Im going WSing (if we get any more wind this summer).
3. I dont sail to inspire; I sail to have fun. I WRITE to inspire, and to motivate those who are interested, but a) their interest is self-determined and b) some myopic people here proclaim it is boasting.
Screw the latter and their buzzkill. For some reason I cant understand, theyre trying to suppress stoke that just might motivate some people to do more stuff without having to pay months or years of dues. They try to mandate freestyle, whereas I try to motivate an interest in other OPTIONS.
4. Im glad you enjoy mowing the lawn. How does that make me a bad person because I choose to spice it up and tell others how accessible extra spice can be? Just think, rather than requiring months to years of hard work, sometimes pain and injury, more TOW than most working stiffs can manage, and lots of frustration, what I prefer doing can begin with noticeable success in one day, one SESSION, even one REACH, if desired. Certainly we get better at it with TOW, but its not like, say, a loop, which either is or isnt.
5. And Ive said or implied that it involves no skills or fun where? (Hint: The answer is, nowhere.) Do you not realize how silly it is to mindlessly echo others false claims, especially after they try and fail to back them up?
Besides, Ive raced in many sports from track and field to WSing, and the latter has always interested me the least, for many reasons Ive posted at length. Ive even peeled out of a couple of the more boring of my 60 or 70 long distance cross country motorcycle races. Beating my head against a wall is for inherently important goals, not tricks, and I get to determine the difference between them, within my life.
6. Good God, guys, where do you come up with this $#!+? No one has yet shown us one post out of my last 20,000 which denigrate WSers or their WSing choices or skills. And whats not to understand? Some people enjoy some stuff, others enjoy other stuff, in every aspect of our lives. Thank God we do, else wed all be elbow to elbow at the best spot for whatever it is we all preferred, all be eating the same food, and all be drinking the same beer (except me, because beer guess what does not interest me).
7. Thats just plain stupid, because its so clearly and provably false. Of all the people here, no one more than I has railed agains that paradigm. My whole point, in countless posts, is that there are more than one way to do almost EVERY WSing thing, especially those you mention. The my-way-or-the-highway guys are those who oppose that concept almost daily, demanding that everyone always strap in FFF, use 30 lines, jibe the Puffins way, sail only in straight lines on starboard just because theres some dude coming at us on port from 200 yards away, use 90L boards in nuking winds, etc. For at least the 43rd time, those and my suggestions are OPTIONAL ALTERNATIVES to the canned solutions.
8. I have tried them ... and theres only one s in dislike.
9. Age, schmage. As Ive said many times, Ive never been interested in tricks in any of my sports (or in magic) in my entire life. Im too hedonistic and too pragmatic to put in the time and effort they take. I dont know how to make it any clearer: THEY DO NOT INTEREST ME.
Example: The Hatchery was closed for a major pro freestyle event. The wind was great, the worlds best FSers showed up, and a great time was had by competitors and spectators alike at the Hatcherys Kodak Point. I chose instead, to park in the cove well before dawn, before they closed the entrance. Why? Because that gave me solo access to some of the best but normally most crowded swell on the Columbia. No one gave a damn because the event was a hundred yards away, and I had one of my best Corridor days in my thousand days there so far because the wind and water were fantastic and the crowds just bent over and grabbed their ankles. I dont know who won their event, but I won mine.
10. TO ME -- and I am the sole judge of what I enjoy -- it is. Youll just have to accept the fact that were not all alike. I enjoy organized sports (participating, not watching), but enjoy unstructured sports even more because I get to set my own pace, without whistles, timeouts, speed limits, etc.
Lets see if I have this straight. Dennis inquires about freestyle, I offer my PERSONAL opinions about it including compliments about its devotees, and people jump on my ass for pages because they dont like my choices of what I enjoy? Talk about hijacking a thread! JEEEZ, but this place would be SO much more useful, fun, and broadly interesting if you guys would stick to the subjects rather than making so many threads about me.
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his narrow view that everybody else is wasting precious time doing it their way...
John, you claim to have been a cop often involved in court, where truth, accuracy, and details are important. I see little evidence here that any of those factors survived your retirement.
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Bullet point #2 ON Page #9
2. Beats the hell out of ramming Washington or Oregon.
Was funny! Good one Mike!
I can't take full credit for it. I know at least two guys who have done it: A physician named Tin and shaper John Doyle. Tin is legally blind, and John was probably trying to demonstrate that shortening a Doyle custom the hard way doesn't have to end a session.
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For someone who learned late in life the benefits of weight training, Im surprised you have not learned the benefits of light wind freestyle. You have complained of declining balance, so what better way to practice & maintain that balance. Light wind freestyle does wonders for your sail & body balance.
Your point is valid, but even if I wanted to try non-planing freestyle again, it would not be an option since my balance went to hell. Any non-fixed object significantly involved in my field of view sends my head reeling ... just one more reason I try to minimize long, drawn-out jibes. Just looking at the mail or at the sky while walking back to the house from the mailbox is impossible without staggering dramatically within one second, falling to the ground if I don't focus back on fixed objects instantly. If my sail passes through my field of vision, I topple.
BTW ... that Superslow weightlifting I mentioned is paying off hugely ... literally. People ask me almost every day how I work out, and I get a kick out of informing them that I lift weights for about an hour and a half every ... year.
They think I'm kidding.
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Phelps County Regional Medical Center will experience a decline in net operating income because of lower payments from the federal government for care given to people insured by Medicare.
"It's because of RAC's," Ed Clayton, senior vice president and chief financial officer, told the Finance Committee of the Board of Trustees Wednesday night as he reviewed the figures for the 2013 operating budget.
The committee later recommended approval of the budget to the full board, which met immediately after the committee meeting. The board later adopted the budget.
RAC stands for Recovery Audit Contractors.
"PCRMC's budget assumes significant take-backs from Medicare associated with the ... program," according to a document handed out at the meeting. "The hospital has budgeted a $4.5 million loss associated with the RAC program for 2013. This represents services provided to Medicare beneficiaries for which the Medicare program chooses to not reimburse providers."
The hospital is also expecting to see more "bad debt expense" in 2013.
"In 2012, PCRMC's uncompensated care expense was $27.8 million. In 2013, the amount for PCRMC's uncompensated care is expected to be $31.5 million," the document stated.
To offset these losses, the hospital will continue to look for ways to create efficiencies in its operations "which will lead to a reduction in cost without compromising the quality of services being provided," according to the document.
In that document, Clayton pledged the hospital would continue providing world-class care to all patients "whether they are un-insured or underinsured without compensation from the government."
In addition to the lowering of revenue from the federal Medicare program, the hospital also foresees more expenses in key areas.
Notable is the 33 percent increase in operating costs of the PCRMC Medical Group, bringing the total expenditures on that group to $25,447,000. Much of the increase is attributable to the expected addition of 10 physicians to the group, as the hospital seeks more diverse specialties to offer.
Another expense that is seeing growth is the hospital's own employee health plan, which will increase from $14.1 million to $16.1 million. "Just because PCRMC is a provider of healthcare services does not mean it is exempt from the ever-increasing cost of providing healthcare coverage to its employees," Clayton noted in the hand-out document.
There is good news in the budget. The number of full-time employees will be 1,452 in 2013, "a significant impact on our local economy."
The hospital is also expecting a 2.8 percent growth in outpatient services.
Clayton said in a prepared statement: "PCRMC assumes the expense of uncompensated care and continues to invest in its medical group for the benefit of our local communities. We know offering access to world-class healthcare to our local communities is the right thing to do for our patients, neighbors and friends."
In other business or discussion:
• Clayton presented November financial highlights, saying, "It was a slow month, primarily related to the Thanksgiving holiday." Although the hospital was $333,000 short of meeting its operating income budget, thanks to a good month for its investments, the net income was just $137,000 short of budget.
• Board chairman Dr. John T. Park presented plaques of appreciation to the officers of the medical staff, who will be replaced with new officers at the next meeting. Park thanked them for their service to the hospital and their assistance to the board in working to offer world-class health care close to home.
• In the Integrated Quality Assessment Committee report, the third year of no central-line infections was noted.
• The board adjourned into a session closed to the public.


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•How was your weekend? Better than Mike Brown's, we're guessing. Cleveland fired Brown after five seasons with nothing to show for it. They're not expected to fill the coaching vacancy immediately, since LeBron may decide to be a player-coach.
•Hey, we've got a series! Amar'e Stoudemire goes off for 42, and Phoenix beats LA 118-109. And Steve Nash wants to lick Craig Sager because he thinks he's Easter candy. (Thanks to 30fps for the screengrab.)
•Chicago has fully committed to the Indian, as the Blackhawks advance to their first finals since 1992 (and hope to win at least one game, for the first time since 1973). The phrase "Original Six" now officially applies to Duncan Keith's teeth.
•Three men were arrested for breaking into Heinz Field by use of a "human ladder." Better than a human centipede, I guess.
•The Independent Leagues pitcher who was traded straight up for Jose Lima last year threw a no-hitter, on the same day Lima was found dead. It's Lima Time in heaven now, kids.
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The Mission Training Complex at Fort Leavenworth recently hosted the Army's largest warfighter exercise in history.
But, the facility is gearing up to break that record once more as it hosts an even larger exercise this month, said Lt. Col. Kelly Brown, commander of MTC-Leavenworth.
A few thousand soldiers converged on MTC last month for the first of the two large scale exercises.
"We're training the division commanders, the brigade commanders and their staff on how to do combat operations, literally how to run or execute an operation," Lt. Col. Sarah Goodson said.
She is the public affairs officer for the Mission Command Training Program, which developed the training scenario.
MCTP is based at Fort Leavenworth.
"Warfighters are multi-echelon exercises that simulate realistic, complex scenarios that Army units must be prepared to operate in.," MCTP Deputy Commander Louis Gelling said.
He said MCTP creates computer simulated combat environments that are "realistic, dynamic and challenging."
Goodson said the scenario used during last month's training, which wrapped up Memorial Day weekend, was fictional but designed to be as realistic as possible.
"It's intended to be challenging," she said.
Multiple units were involved in last month's training.
But, National Guard soldiers from the headquarters of the 42nd Infantry Division from New York served as the lead unit for the exercise.
"It's not often you get everybody together on the ground," said Maj. Jeffrey Oaks with the 42nd Infantry Division.
He said the exercise required soldiers to work with strangers as they would when they deploy.
Goodson said exercises such as the one conducted last month are collective training.
"We're trying to train staff as a whole," she said.
Goodson said warfighter exercises are now designed to train more units at one time, which is why last month's exercise was "full size."
The Mission Training Complex-Leavenworth covers more than 50 acres and has 20 buildings.
Brown said every building was utilized for last month's exercise.
"Every inch of space is pretty much utilized," she said.
Tents and other equipment were set up on the MTC grounds for the exercise.
First Lt. Tyler Mitchell, a spokesman for MTC, said soldiers already have started arriving for this month's exercise. They will be in the area through the end of the month.


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Once you become a teenager things that never crossed your mind before start being your thoughts. On Tuesday, the government shut down because Congress couldn't decide on whether to give or not to give money to fund Obamacare.
Once you become a teenager things that never crossed your mind before start being your thoughts. On Tuesday, the government shut down because Congress couldn't decide on whether to give or not to give money to fund Obamacare. This means that many things that we — the American people — are used to having available may be reduced or taken away.
If you are an animal person and enjoy watching the National Zoo's animals from their animal cams, visiting presidential museums or historical monuments, buying guns or visiting national parks, things are changing. Due to the shutdown of our government, each of these loved activities are facing significant cutbacks. The cutbacks are not only ending here; student loans and school lunches will not be affected immediately, but lunches are given until the end of October and loans a little longer after that.
A shocker to me was that the IRS will be facing a big budget cutback also. Audits will not be made during the shutdown, and tax refunds will most likely be delayed and those done on paper take even longer.
Many national jobs are being cut, which I believe is terrible. Fort Bragg in North Carolina is having to cut 14,500 civilian workers. Active military personnel are deemed necessary and will continue to be paid as will Congress and the president. Also, only active military members will receive the health benefits.
If you work in the Pentagon, however, unless you are based within a security job you will be furloughed and not paid for the time being. This is cutting many members from many jobs. Some have asked if they could volunteer their services but due to a law passed in the old days, you cannot volunteer with the government for fear that after the shutdown you will claim that you deserve a pay.
As a working American teenager, I have to work only a certain amount of hours and must be paid the right wage. My wage is $7.25 an hour. The Department of Labor will suspend its work from the division of wages and hour laws, however the laws must still be enforced and followed.
Overall, I believe that the shutdown is being blown up into something that it isn't. The jobs lost, activities and places shut down, and political drama started are all going to be looked back on as a stupid mistake. America is in need of a very bug change in order to revive our economy and maybe, just maybe, Obamacare is what we need.


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By now most of us have heard about this film Innocence of Muslims, which has sparked riots claiming the lives of several people, one of whom was no less than the U.S. ambassador to Libya. The cruel punch line to all of this — because it's already common knowledge that Islamists are psychopaths who will riot to anything at the drop of the proverbial hat — is that there may, in fact, be no film at all. Some in the media are beginning to be a little skeptical, too.
Sure, there's a "trailer," which you may have seen. Here it is.
If your first thought was that this is some shoddy attempt at a comedy sketch shot for less than what you paid for lunch today, then you'd be surprised as I was to hear the claims that this is allegedly an excerpt from a $5 million full-length feature made by a self-described "Israeli-American real estate developer in California" named Sam Bacile. Bacile claims to have raised his very-impressive-for-an-indie budget from "about 100 Jewish donors," and shot the project last year with dozens of actors and crew. I call bullshit.
Folks, I've worked on a number of feature films. Sure, budget doesn't guarantee talent. But a $5 million budget will most certainly get you an experienced AD (assistant director), DP (director of photography), grip/electric crew, sound engineers and mixers, and proper post facilities to ensure that whatever inexperience your director has will at least be compensated by technical proficiency from your department heads and their respective crews. I've worked on low-six-figure budgeted films that had all those things, and if nothing else, looked like films at the end of the day. Five mil also means that you meet the Screen Actors Guild requirements for their Basic Agreement, which puts you well above their Ultra Low Budget, Modified Low Budget, and Low Budget Agreement categories. You could get name talent for this. Yet no one at any agency has heard of Innocence of Muslims. It has no IMDB listing. Steven Soderbergh's box office hit Magic Mike, which starred at least one A-lister and another one on his way if not already there, cost $7 million.
Sure, there's nothing preventing someone who manages, by ridiculous good luck and some fundraising savvy, to raise the money Bacile claims he raised from being a raging incompetent who still thinks all he has to do to make a movie is buy a 720p camcorder from Wal-Mart, advertise for free actors on Craigslist, and rent some costumes from the local community college drama department. But you should at least have enough sense to get your green-screen work done by someone who knows his business (you can, after all, afford it), which would most likely include telling you that there was simply no sense in badly green-screening your actors against a desert backdrop when, for the money, you could totally do location work in fucking Morocco.
In short, I don't think there's a real movie. I think we're looking at some especially mean-spirited and vicious trolling of Muslims, not coincidentally timed for the 9/11 anniversary. None of this excuses the lunatic rioting or the murders the rioters have caused. But it does make it all the more tragic that there have been more murders committed in the name of religion, and this time, they may have been provoked by nothing more than a lousy internet prank.
Trade journal The Hollywood Reporter also chimes in.
Though Bacile claims he spent $5 million on the movie a figure that would put the film's budget on par with the Toronto International Film Festival entrant and Julianne Moore-starrer What Maisie Knew the 13 minutes of footage available online look unprofessional. Furthermore, Bacile has virtually no footprint in the Hollywood community. The writer-director-producer has no agent listed on IMDBPro and no credits on any film or TV production.
More strangeness is coming to light. This "Sam Becile" guy appears to have been conning everyone he crossed paths with. There was a cast and crew who worked a shoot, but they were, by their unanimous account, deceived into thinking they were working on something else entirely. Gawker dug up what looks like the original crew/casting call. Just weird.
Law enforcement is now reporting "Sam Bacile" has been identified as one Nakoula Basseley Nakoula, a right sleazebag with a rap sheet including federal bank fraud and meth manufacture.


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Brady said in an interview with WestwoodOne Sports that he doesn't know where the reports about tension toward Gronkowski came from. According to Brady, everyone on the team understands that Gronkowski, who is recovering from offseason arm and back surgeries, will come back as soon as he's healthy enough to come back.
"I don't think there's any resentment toward Rob or any other player on our team that is fighting through rehabilitation to get back on the field," Brady said. "Look, everyone loves having Rob out on the field but we also understand that these medical decisions are out of the hands of the players and coaches. And if the doctors, when they clear them, they clear them, and when they don't, they don't. That goes for every player in the NFL. It's not just our team, it's every team. So we'll be excited to get him back. When that is, I don't have the answer, but I prepare each week regardless of who's out there. You got to go with the guys that are healthy and the guys who are ready to play. And look, we've had plenty of guys contribute to get to 5-1 at this point. So I have a lot of confidence in the guys I'm out there with and whenever Rob comes back, whenever that is and he's cleared, the team will be excited to have him back."
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While employed at the New York Times, Joseph Lelyveld reported from South Africa, and then from India. Decades before, one of the world's most famous individuals, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi – better known as Mahatma ("great soul") – had lived in both countries in the same consecutive manner. As a result, Lelyveld began thinking and writing about the complicated, consequential man, assassinated in 1948 at age 78.
Now in his seventies, Lelyveld has written an unusual book, hoping to find the words to understand Gandhi, a man who in many ways, to be sure, was a saint – but a saint who sometimes contradicted himself and who pretty much failed to change the world in the ways that he wanted.
To call Great Soul: Mahatma Gandhi and His Struggle With India a biography is to stretch that genre's meaning. The book does not claim to cover all the important events and individuals in Gandhi's life; its progression is not always chronological; and Lelyveld's speculative passages undocumented by hard evidence are numerous. To call the book an extended essay is to stretch another genre's boundaries, because normal essays do not go on for nearly 400 pages.
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Perhaps the best classification for the book is to call it a rumination, based on copious research and intellectual passion and an author's search for the answer to this question: Is it possible for one individual to permanently alleviate centuries of hatred and misunderstandings over a vast geographical territory?
Born in 1869 near the Arabian Sea in the vast land mass encompassing multiple languages and cultures now known as India, it seemed as if Gandhi's future would be mapped out by his family, as was customary then. He was betrothed by his family at age six to Kastur Makanji; they married when Gandhi was 13 and became parents as teenagers. To some extent, Gandhi broke free of the imposed constraints, traveling to England at age 19 to study law. He became a lawyer in Bombay, but in 1893 his lawyerly vocation took him to South Africa, where he would remain nearly full time until 1914.
Many other men and women born in India resided in South Africa, and those exiles often received second-class treatment from the reigning Caucasians of Afrikaner Dutch descent, the same ruling class that treated South African blacks as subhuman.
Nothing about Gandhi as a young Indian lawyer in South Africa immediately suggested he would become an apostle of passive resistance in a struggle to deliver de facto and de jure equality to the oppressed in either South Africa or India. Nor did anybody foresee that Gandhi – a husband of an arranged marriage who fathered four sons with his wife – would soon renounce sexual contact, meat and most other foods, and would begin what seems to have been a homoerotic relationship with Hermann Kallenbach, a Jewish architect transplanted from East Prussia to South Africa.
When Gandhi returned to India during 1915 to live the remainder of his years, he was already lionized and idolized by millions, and feared as a cryptic agent of change by millions more. Could his personal striving for purity and his intellectual underpinnings truly overcome the cruel caste (class) system stamped onto Indian culture? Could his tireless preaching halt hatred between Hindus and Muslims? Could he play a meaningful role in driving away the British colonizers so that Indians could rule India?
It seemed as if Gandhi had set himself up for failure, and that his followers would eventually feel disappointment when seemingly unattainable goals in fact had not been attained. The eventual partition of India as the nation states of Pakistan and Bangladesh became reality suggest that Gandhi failed spectacularly in the realpolitik realm.
Lelyveld wrestles breathtakingly with the Gandhi-inspired conundrums on a high intellectual plane, with clear writing as a bonus. Lelyveld quotes Gandhi's own words at length, as well as the words of many, many proponents and antagonists of the Gandhi way. Certainly a few snippets cannot do Lelyveld, or Gandhi, justice, but here is one small offering:
"The cleavages among Hindus he had anticipated and feared were now out in the open, but he never turned back. Missionaries travel to lands they deem to be heathen; presenting himself as a Hindu revivalist, Gandhi took his campaign to his own heartland. He didn't have one set piece, what's now called a stump speech, but the same themes reappeared in a more or less impromptu fashion. They all led to the same conclusion. If India were ever to deserve its freedom, he preached, [the caste of] untouchability had to go. Yet at many of the rallies, untouchables were segregated in separate holding pens, either because they were afraid to be seen by caste Hindus as overstepping, or because none of the local organizers was alive to the contradiction of putting untouchability on display at an anti-untouchability rally."
Eventually, Gandhi aroused so much passion – some of it approving, some of it expressed as violent opposition – that death by the gun or the knife seemed inevitable. Gandhi himself began to express the belief that assassination would become the cause of his death. On January 30, 1948, a Hindu extremist made the prediction come true.
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MURFREESBORO, Tenn. – On the second day at Dale Short Shootout, matches were delayed due to the rain by two hours.
Recording five successful single's victories and one doubles victory, the Bisons displayed quality play against SIU.
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WASHINGTON – The Pentagon warned 800,000 civilian employees worldwide Wednesday that they will be forced to take unpaid leave if deep budget cuts take effect next week, fueling growing anxiety about the impact of the automatic spending reductions on the nation's economy and security.
In the most detailed account of the ramifications of across-the-board cuts, called the sequester, Defense Department officials said civilian personnel could be put on leave one day a week for 22 weeks – effectively cutting their pay by 20 percent for nearly six months. Maine civilian personnel would lose a combined $41 million in salary, according to the Pentagon.
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"There is no mistaking that the rigid nature of the cuts forced upon this department, and their scale, will result in a serious erosion of readiness across the force," Panetta told employees in a memo.
The Pentagon announcement sparked fresh partisan sniping, with Republicans insisting it is President Obama's responsibility to prevent the defense cuts from taking effect.
"As the commander-in-chief, President Obama is ultimately responsible for our military readiness, so it's fair to ask: What is he doing to stop his sequester that would 'hollow out' our armed forces?" House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio said in a statement.
Obama, on the other hand, continued his efforts to pressure GOP lawmakers to embrace his proposed fix for the sequester, sitting for eight interviews with television stations in states that would be hit hard by reductions.
"There's a better way to do it than this," Obama told Boston's WCVB, an ABC affiliate. "But the key is for (Republicans) to go ahead to put forward a balanced, responsible approach that will avoid cuts to things like Head Start programs, medical programs, help for the mentally ill, all these things that have an impact on people's day-to-day lives."
The interviews were part of an intensifying push by the president to persuade lawmakers to pass a short-term measure delaying the start of the sequester, which cuts $85 billion in federal spending this year and $1.2 trillion over the next decade.
A report this week by economists at Wells Fargo Securities said Maryland, Virginia and the District of Columbia — in addition to Hawaii and Alaska — are the places that are likely to be most hurt by the sequester. Federal spending represents about 20 percent of economic activity in those local jurisdictions — higher than anywhere else in the country, the economists said.
Defense Comptroller Robert Hale told reporters Wednesday that $1.1 billion out of $4.8 billion in civilian payroll cuts in fiscal 2013 will come from the paychecks of residents of the District of Columbia, Maryland and Virginia.
The cuts also will have a "very substantial" impact on the private sector because of reductions in contract spending, Hale said, although he did not provide details. Uniformed personnel are exempt from the sequester.
Obama has backed a Democratic proposal to delay the scheduled reductions through the end of the year by adopting alternative spending cuts — largely by reducing expenditures on farm subsidies — and by limiting tax breaks that benefit the wealthy. For the longer term, he favors raising new tax revenue from the wealthy and select industries and trimming spending on programs such as Medicare.
Republicans say raising new tax revenue is out of the question and want to replace the defense part of the sequester with deeper cuts to other domestic programs. Republicans also say the federal budget must be balanced within 10 years, which would require far greater cost-cutting than the sequester.
The Pentagon memo was the latest warning about potential furloughs, which would not start until April because of a required notice period. Many details of who would be furloughed, on what days and for how long would be subject to bargaining with public employee unions.
The 20 percent pay cut would hit civilian defense employees hard, union officials said.
"Taking away one day's pay every week could mean the difference between covering the mortgage and putting food on the table," said J. David Cox, president of the American Federation of Government Employees.
Pentagon chiefs have been warning in recent days that the reductions are likely to significantly weaken the readiness of a force reeling from the wear and tear of two long wars.
If the budget is cut according to the congressional guidelines, by the end of the year, Hale said, two thirds of the Army's brigade combat teams will be unfit for deployment.
"It could affect their ability to deploy to new contingencies that come up, or even, if it goes on long enough, to Afghanistan."
Panetta held out hope in the memo that the cuts might be avoided. Even if a deal between the White House and Republicans doesn't occur by March 1, when the automatic cuts will take effect, the parties could reach an agreement that spares the Pentagon.
— The Associated Press contributed to this story.
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Patong Municipality public works staff have been clean up piles of green seaweed on Patong Beach today.
This morning there was a line of green seaweed along 500 metres along the popular beach.
Arnon Poomduang, a jet-ski operator says, "This is a normal and happens every year around this time. This year it is more than in the past years. There is lots of seaweed in the sea and is being washed up onto the beach. But many tourists are still enjoying the beach."
Patong Mayor Chalermluck Kebsup says, "This seaweed has been brought up by waves over the past four days. At this stage we believe that this might be happening because of climate change."
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NB. There is a general tone of supporting western attitudes towards animal welfare throughout this article. The Thaiger does not condone the use of captive wild animals for the purpose of amusing tourists for profit but recognises that it is widely practiced in Thailand and other other Asian countries and is not against the law in those domains.
NB2. This isn't your usual list of dos and don'ts in Thailand – don't point with your feet, don't speak about the Royal family, don't whistle at night, etc. Whilst these still apply, they are not quite as cut and dried as they once were.
NB3. The VAST majority of people visit Thailand and have a perfectly wonderful time.
…Swim at the beaches in the low season
Every year about 50 or so people drown along Phuket's west coast. Mostly in the wet season with the south-western monsoon kicking up the waves washing onto the island's Andaman coast beaches. Sadly, it's mostly Chinese and Russian tourists who end up getting into trouble. There's a complicated litany of reasons for this carnage – many Chinese and Russian tourists can't swim, the lifeguard patrols on many of the beaches are 'patchy', not enough information is provided to tourists about the dangerous rips along the west coast during the monsoon and whatever signage and flags that actually exists do little to deter tourists who seem determined to go swimming. Most of the beaches have the red flags on display when the surf's up but many of the flags are not new and the colour red, which in some western countries denotes 'danger' isn't as effective in being a deterrent colour for the Chinese. In fact it's the lucky colour for Chinese. This is a long-term problem for tour groups, the TAT, airlines and hotels to do more and better education about the clear and present danger of swimming on Phuket's west coast during the May – November low season (which is also the most popular time for Chinese tourist arrivals).
…Hire a motorbike
You get off the plane, catch your passenger van to your hotel, check the minibar and then head out to find the nearest motorbike hire shop – there are hundreds around the island. In most cases a passport will suffice (NEVER let your passport out of your sight, even when they're taking a photocopy of your passport front page) as ID to allow you to hire a motorbike and take it out onto Phuket's roads. The roads in Thailand are some of the most dangerous in the world. If you're under 30 years old, male and riding a motorbike your chances of having an accident are astonishingly high. Have you ever ridden a motorbike before? Probably not. Do you have a motorbike driver's license? Chances are slim. Were you taken for a short test to see if you can ride or handle a motorbike? Doubtful. Does your travel insurance cover you if you have an accident without having a valid motorcycle driver's licence? I bet it doesn't.
Still, it happens hundreds of time a day around the island and tourists, like lambs to the slaughter, head off into the craziness that is Phuket traffic – sometimes shirtless, sometimes after drinking and sometimes without even the basic protection of a helmet. Then we hear that the tourists have had some sort of horrific accident, end up in an international hospital, their insurance won't pay for their medical care and we have another report on our website.
Bottomline, if you don't have a motorbike driving license, have never driven a motorcycle or have been drinking just DON'T hire a motorbike in Phuket. Just don't!
…Go to Tiger Kingdom
Tigers, of all wild beasties, are not born to sit, half drugged-up in chains, to have tourists patting them for selfies. Tigers are critically endangered everywhere in the world. Specifically, the Indochinese Tiger, the species we see in Thailand and surrounding south east asian countries, is a hunter and can inflict fatal injuries with a single swipe if you happen to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. An Australian was mauled at the Tiger Kingdom in Kathu in 2015. He survived his injuries which opened up the front of his chest. The only upside about these tiger zoos is that they conduct (for all the wrong reasons) breeding programs to keep the species alive but the gene pool is very shallow so, in the long run, is not a sustainable method of breeding tigers.
…Go to Phuket Zoo
Voted by many Trip Advisor readers as one of the worst tourist attractions in Phuket – it routinely scores either one or two stars with comments that sound like the visitors have just come from an abattoir rather than a modern zoo. The Phuket Zoo in Chalong leaps from one controversy to another but seems to stave off closure with slick PR and the support of officials who appear to turn a blind eye to the welfare of this place's animals. It's like visiting a zoo in the west in the 1950s when animals are crammed into unsuitable enclosures or cages with little care taken to keep the facilities clean. It smells, the animals don't appear to be in the best of health and it's simply a relic of a bygone era whereas modern zoos have changed dramatically to provide true educational opportunities and vastly superior, and more natural, enclosures for the animals. (I've witnessed an occasion when officials came to inspect the welfare of Milo the Orangutang after many complaints about poor Milo's condition. Whilst waiting for officials to arrive a team of hundreds were swarming around the zoo cleaning, painting and tidying up the mess to bamboozle the officials. And they did.)
You can put the Dolphin Show next door on the same list (this reporter has had a gun pointed at him whilst reporting about the contstruction of the Dolphinarium and been marched off the premises. We're sure the dolphins are reasonably well cared-for but whether they should be in there in the first place is another question.)
…Ride an elephant
Riding elephants in Thailand whilst you're on tour here is just one of those things tourists have on their bucket list. In Phuket there are many, many elephant camps where you can see these wondrous mammals and, if you want, ride on their back through the forests. Generally frowned upon by western values, it's still hugely popular in Asia and all the camps do a roaring trade.
The problem with elephants in Thailand is vexed with a well cared-for pachyderm living up to 60 years – the average age is 48 years. They used to work in the rainforests as beasts of burden but that work has now dried up with the banning of logging in most parts of Thailand so the elephants and their mahouts have gravitated towards the cities and tourist industry to make a living – elephants require quite a lot of food.
To say we should simply 'set them free' is an absurd suggestion and unpractical so a longer term solution needs to be found. There are now at least two elephant 'sanctuaries' in or around Phuket that provide a more natural environment for humans and elephants to interact although these are really just an alternative pay-to-visit 'zoo' albeit a huge step up from the majority of elephant camps on the island. We applaud their efforts.
There's now an even stricter code of conduct gaining popularity in wildlife circles whereby any contact between beast and human would be banned, even feeding and washing the elephants. We will see if this becomes a new norm. It may in other parts of the world. In Thailand? Probably not.
…Go running during the day
You like keeping fit, you run regularly in your home country and you're on holiday where you can get a few extra kilometres under your belt as you explore our pretty little tropical island. Except that it's hot, really hot, most of the year. And humid. A lot more humid than where you've come from. All the marathons and running events held in Phuket start at 4 or 5am in the morning for good reason. It's the only time of the day where you can run in relative safety. If it isn't abundantly obvious that running in the heat of day is just plain dangerous you are going to learn the hard way. People come to Phuket to sit on the beach, enjoy the warm weather and dine outdoors. Keep fit, by all means, but try your hotel's gym or get up really early if you want to pound the pavement.
Same goes for any other types of sport where you're going to exert yourself. You can get sick quite fast if you're not used to the heat and tourists do regularly.
…Get in a taxi or tuk tuk before negotiating your fare
Getting a taxi or tuk tuk to go anywhere around Phuket is expensive, compared to anywhere else in Thailand and even some western cities. There's a long history as to why taxis and tuk tuks are expensive and that's a report for another day. The words 'cabal', 'mafia' and 'extortion' could be used in such an article, but we'll leave all that for another day.
Your best bet if and when you're going to use a taxi is to negotiate the fare before you get in. By all means bargain the stated price down as much as you can but make sure there is a firm understanding with the driver about the price before he turns the key. By law Phuket's taxis are meant to use a meter. It never happens. Never. 'Meter not work', blah, blah.
There has been decades of efforts by Government authorities, the Army and any number of well-meaning officials that has had precisely ZERO effect of the notorious taxis and tuk tuks in Phuket. All you can do is accept that the prices are high and negotiate a fee, BEFORE YOU GET IN.
…Sign contracts without advice from a qualified Thai lawyer
DON'T SIGN ANYTHING in Thailand without getting it checked over by a trusted and qualified Thai lawyer and advice from a western lawyer. You are conducting business in a foreign country, in a foreign language and there are thousands before you who have fallen foul of hastily or poorly prepared legal documents. The list of stories over the years reporting on Phuket 'stuff' about foreigners getting burned over contractual problems has filled Phuket's newspapers and websites. Guy meets girl. Girl and guy move in together. Guy decides he wants to buy a villa. Guy buys property under Thai GFs name (because foreigners can't 'own' land in Thailand). Relationship goes sour. Thai GF vanishes and sells the house without telling ex-BF. And it gets worse from there.
Even if you're signing a basic rental lease, get it checked by people who know the ropes of the Thai legal system. Check, check, check. And then check again.
…Get in an argument with Thai police
You will always come off second best if you decide you're going to challenge the boys-in-brown. Thai police have a job to do and, in most cases, do a sterling job given that a lot of the time (especially in places like Patong) foreign tourists do some REALLY stupid things. They're also poorly paid and there is a generation of police who still work their way up the system 'buying' higher positions in the police ranks so they can get a larger proportion of the 'tea money' (bribes) that are still rife in the system. Whilst there are many, many efforts, made with the best intentions, the 'system' has been in place for many generations and corruption will still be around long after you've left the island. With all that said, if you get stopped for a minor indiscretion – not wearing your helmet or not carrying a valid license with you, etc – just pay up and go on your way. Yes, you are feeding the pyramid of corruption but your other option is not paved with happiness. Ramp up the situation by insisting that you 'speak to the superior' or go to the police station to voice your objection. You will come off second best, every time.
In a more serious situation, like a traffic accident or where someone's been injured, you are best keeping your cool and insisting that a member of the tourist police or a consular official come to the scene before you do anything. At least make sure you call them before agreeing to ANYTHING.
DON'T get angry or get into an argument with the local police. Their English-language skills will probably be limited and they represent a system that can get you into a mountain of trouble, costs or jail if you don't play your cards right.
…Get your gear off
It's hot and humid and you've come to a tropical island to swim. You've seen photos of bar girls in skimpy hot pants and a size-too-small singlets. You're used to western values where topless bathing is acceptable. Forget all this – you're in Thailand and, despite the outwards acceptance of showing some flesh, it is still a deeply conservative country when it comes to what you wear and where you wear it.
There are plenty of double standards when it comes to this issue and you only really learn the subtleties after living here for a few years. The Thais will generally tolerate you wandering around shirtless in tourist zones but you don't have to wander too far from Patong before the idea of 'acceptable' clothing changes quite quickly. This becomes acutely apparent when it comes to visiting temples or anywhere there are images of members of the Thai Royal family or Buddha.
If you're in any doubt about what the dress code is in any particular situation, ask a local. Don't, for example, wander down to the Patong Immigration office in your shorts, sandals and singlet and expect to get service – you won't. And going topless on the beaches will draw undue attention from the local constabulary, most likely resulting in a fine.
1. Have a quick read about the places you're visiting and Thai customs on the internet. There are hundreds of sites that will spell out much the same mantra about behaviour, dos and don'ts. Here's ONE.
2. Do some homework about the places you want to visit, chat to other tourists and your hotel concierge about suggestions (although they're usually on commission too)
3. If you are going to get into any business transaction consult a local lawyer plus a lawyer who speaks your language with experience in the transaction. Especially buying property.
4. Think before you act in most situations. You are in a foreign country and they truly do things differently in Thailand. The longer you live here, the more confusing it can seem. Turn your brain on before you hand over your money.
5. If you wouldn't do it at home, don't do it in Thailand, even if you can.
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Phuket house keeper keeps 2,600 meth pills and 3kg of marijuana at house in Rawai
A Rawai house keeper has been arrested with 2,600 methamphetamine pills and three kilograms of marijuana.
A team of Border Patrol Police has arrested 47 year old Wanlee 'Mai' Eiadkerd. Police seized 2,600 methamphetamine pills and three kilograms of marijuana inside a house in Rawai.
The arrest follows police first arresting a Thai woman with methamphetamine pills in Chalong. She told police she got the drugs from a woman called 'Wanlee'. She said that Wanlee is a house keeper at a house in Soi Yanui, Rawai.
Police continued the investigation and found Wanlee at the house. Police didn't find any drugs in the house but Wanlee volunteered information that she kept drugs in another house in Sai Yuan, Rawai where she also works as a house keeper.
She was taken to Chalong Police Startion and charged with illegal possession of Category 1 and 5 Drugs with intent to sell.
Phuket police launch search for man in Facebook post pointing a gun at his head
Last night Phuket Police launched a manhunt after a photo of a man pointing gun at his head went viral in social media.
The Phuket City Police took about five hours to find the house after the photo of the man, who was pointing a gun at his head, along with a depressing message, was posted on the man's social media page.
Police finally identified the house at Koh Sirey in Rassada, east of Phuket Town. Police found the man had already gone to sleep in his bedroom.
Today police will be questioning him and checking the legality and ammunition with his gun. They will also be urging him to seek help if he is having problems.
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