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So I was persuaded by someone to repost my Apr 2008 blog post so here it is.
After I bought my Tengas from ToyDemon (I bought 2 to try, a normal Deep Throat and a US Size Deep Throat), I was pleased with both products (haha I hope my readers take this maturely). The US size is large but provided more suction while the regular D.T. was awesome. As advertised, these are meant to be disposable. But after paying 20 some dollars for them, I didn't want to use them just once and throw them away. I searched online and ran across a Taiwanese forum that teaches you how to clean it, they even have pictures! I'll translate it here for every Tenga user's reference. But keep in mind, these products are meant to be disposable. I'm sure the manufacturer don't want you to re-use them. So re-use at your own risk! Or wear a jimmie hat =)
1. First, you remove the lid (this picture is kind of pointless)
2. Pull the outer wrapper down (or remove it completely), so you see the parting line between the cap ring and the body.
3. Now remove the ring. The ring fits tightly on to the body, so in the picture this person is using a screw driver to pop it. I'd recommend it too (it's really hard to take it off).
4. After the ring comes off, you should be able to disassemble all the parts. You'll get the body, the internal sleeve, the ring and your cap. Also there are foam paddings in some of the models that are fixed to the body, don't touch those! You need to wash the internal sleeve. Flip it inside out and wash it, if it has a foam ball inside throw that away (it just collects lotion and gets nasty after the first use).
5. After you've washed the internal sleeve, let it dry inside out. Then put it back in as shown. You'll have your self a clean Tenga!! But don't put silicon based lotion in there (warning by ToyDemon), it will damage the silicon.
Hope this helps! I think Tenga came out with a Flip Hole model that is re-usable. So if you don't want to wash your Tenga, then maybe the FlipHole model is a better option for you.
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I tried that with my first deep throat. Turns out there's slits on the silicon for air to flow through.
I even tried glueing the slits up but really it ends up pretty nasty. Some of it ends up in the foam, and getting the outer ring back on is a pain.
Honestly, if you're that cheap with jacking off you might as well go back to your hand...
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Well the post is outdated but back in the days before toy demon was around, a tenga cup cost over 20 dollars before shipping everywhere else. Definitely not economical or one time use prices.
Still these are tough times and can't fault people for trying to save a little money.
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I took it apart out of curiosity. There's an easier way to remove the ring which locks its sleeve in place. Just press down on the casing to create a dent next to the ring, which also create a gap. And you will be able to pull its locking ring off easily.
As for lubricants getting into foam. I would think the simplest solution would be to get a sheet of foam, and cut a bunch of them in one shot. And just insert a new foam for every reuse.
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Joe Szuecs
Joe started his career as an electrical engineer/software developer at Hewlett Packard. After a decade there, he went off on his own and developed a line of music education software followed by a few years of creating multimedia CD-ROM experiences for major publishers. That led to him being asked to become EVP of Technology for a dot com startup back when that was the thing to do. After a few years of that he relocated to bucolic Sonoma County and started exploring the world of hands-on making. This led to him creating the gallery/retail space Renga Arts that showcased products made from reclaimed and recycled materials. Along with that, he still managed to engage in software development projects as well as build cool things for the shop. During this time he became involved with the Maker Faire team and dove into the world of microcontrollers, CNC machines, and creative technologies. He has created numerous exhibits and installations for Maker Faire Bay Area and the World Maker Faire in NYC over the past decade.
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Most people think of Kimberly Mullen as a stay-at-home mom. Her best friend describes her as a force. Kimberly likes that best.
A funny thing happened on Kimberly's road toward becoming a Director of Marketing at progressive company. She found herself with a two year-old and newborn twins! Outnumbered by littles, she left her treasured career and became a full-time mom.
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For the last five years, homeschooling has required Kimberly's business savvy, research skills, organization, creativity, flexibility, and frequent adaptation. She is a home education entrepreneur, who is leading, innovating, and risk-taking.
With determination, Kimberly forges a path of unique educational opportunities, including convincing the Santa Rosa Junior College Engineering Club to accept her then 10 year-old son as a member at their weekly meetings. She fearlessly contacts trailblazing artists, authors, scientists, and engineers, in search of dynamic possibilities. She also advises and collaborates with other educators and credentialed teachers. Through helping others pursue a love of life long learning, Kimberly has finally discovered success doing the work that gives her soul joy.
Kimberly's other passions include photography, reading, learning with her friends at Sebastopol Makers group, and volunteering at Chimera Art & Makerspace.
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Spring Maxfield is a curator, event planner and avid supporter of all things art. With a background deeply rooted in DIY culture, Spring applies her experience and education in both art history and museum studies to create vibrant community based art projects through various approaches. An art curator for over fifteen years, Spring's work has included shows in underground galleries, wineries as well as established art institutions. She has also worked as a costume designer and seamstress within her local theater community.
After years of putting on art events, in 2008 Spring co-founded The Great Handcar Regatta festival which at its peak drew an attendance of up to 18,000 participants. In addition, her innovative organizational skills have been utilized at events such as Iron Horse Winery's Earth Day Celebration, The Harmony Festival and Maker Faire. Spring's support for the arts also overflows into community involvement and public art projects, where she serves on a number of grassroots, city government and private art foundation committees.
Spring holds a BA in Art History and Art Practice from Sonoma State University and an MA in Museum Studies from San Francisco State University. When not busy constructing clothing, curating art shows, improving her neighborhood with public art advocacy or riding one of her homemade bicycle contraptions, Spring can be found in the garden at her mini urban homestead with her husband and daughters in Sonoma County, CA.
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Dana founded Chimera Art Space in early 2012 as a place to bring talented, creative and innovative people in the North Bay together. He has worked as a software consultant and serial entrepreneur for nearly a decade working with companies including Google and Comcast and founding multiple companies. Dana builds interactive art sculptures, furniture, and other artwork using woodworking, metalworking, 3D printing, laser cutting, electrics and CNC machining. He studied fine art at the University of the Pacific and loves traveling, the outdoors and kittens 😸.
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Jim has worked in the computer software world his whole life. Mostly he concentrates on audio and music applications, having worked as a consultant for many companies and for Yamaha Music Technologies, Mixman Technologies, and most recently, Audible Magic Corp. His own company, Harmonic Systems, Inc. produces software products for fun and profit.
He has lived in Sebastopol for 13 years and is an active bass guitarist. He enjoys fixing old instruments and finding new homes for them, as well as inventing gizmos and gadgets. He very happy to have found a group of smart, creative, and friendly folks who call themselves Chimera.
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Caleb Adam Haye has been developing software professionally since 1997. He now works full time as Principal of Fire, Inc., a software development consulting company based out of the San Francisco Bay Area. Caleb formed Fire in 2005, moved the company to Sebastopol in 2008, and since has built web and mobile apps for companies like Google, Apple, Intuit, Netflix, Yahoo!, Visa, Genentech, and Adobe. As a former Yahoo! employee, he was the initial member of the Yahoo! Media Innovation Group, pushing the boundaries of rich Internet and client media software on a variety of content delivery platforms. While at Yahoo!, Caleb also was on the winning team for Yahoo's inaugural Hack Day. Caleb is a sought after speaker at technology events around the world, and taught as a professor at the Academy of Art Graduate School of New Media. Caleb has worked with and in some of the world's most respected research laboratories, including Google Creative Labs, IDEO and Xerox Palo Alto Research Center.
Bryce Dow-Williamson
Bryce Dow-Williamson is the Marketing Director for SOMO Concerts and Second Octave Entertainment. He spent two years working with the Wells Fargo Center for the Arts, and currently serves as a board member for the Chimera Arts & Maker Space. Bryce cut his teeth at a DIY venue in Santa Rosa called the Boogie Room and Gardens and comes from a background of poetry, loud local shows and a degree in Sustainable Business from Warren Wilson College.
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"In an increasingly globalized world – in which societies are growing more diverse – tolerance is central to living together," Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said in his message to mark the International Day for Tolerance.
"In the face of economic and social pressures, some seek to exploit fears and highlight differences to stoke hatred of minorities, immigrants and the disadvantaged," he added. "To counter the rise of ignorance, extremism and hate-based political appeals, the moderate majority must speak up for shared values and against all forms of discrimination."
The Secretary-General underlined that tolerance is not just a path to peaceful coexistence but also an engine for creativity and innovation as it allows cultures to share values and a free flow of ideas.
"In our evermore interconnected world, promoting tolerance is the way to build the harmony we need to address pressing challenges and secure a better future," he said.
Starting in 1996, the General Assembly invited UN Member States to observe the International Day for Tolerance on 16 November each year, with activities directed towards both educational establishments and the wider public. The action followed on from the UN Year for Tolerance in 1995, proclaimed by the Assembly in 1993 at the initiative of the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).
In her message for the day, UNESCO's Director-General, Irina Bokova, stressed that rapidly evolving societies have multiplied ties connecting people, while also making differences more visible, which can be a source of misunderstanding and tension.
"With closer proximity have come new threats that are exploited by those seeking to deepen divisions," Ms. Bokova said. "The 'local' is but one click away from the 'global' in the digital era, and this creates new, unpredictable vulnerabilities for all societies."
Ms. Bokova noted that UNESCO is helping to build tolerance and solidarity across borders by educating children on how to be global citizens, protecting cultural diversity, harnessing the power of science to share its benefits with all societies, and by defending freedom of expression.
"We must invent new ways to strengthen the binds that bring us together," she said. "We must reach out to young women and men, who carry the greatest burden of change."
Tolerance is a commitment to be learned and renewed every day, the UNESCO chief continued, adding that it must be taught, nurtured and never taken for granted, and noting that "tolerance is a way to disarm fear, to open the world for better change and to lay the foundations for lasting peace."
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Raising interest in deploying EPODE similar programmes across Europe
We are now in the final year of the EPODE European Network project (EEN). This moment is the best time for a first review. This editorial summarized briefly the achievments of this project connecting research and practice to federate, give value, and enrich existing local actions and programmes aimed at preventing childhood obesity in a sustainable way through the EPODE methodology.
Editorial by Dr Jean-Michel Borys
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We are now in the final year of the EPODE European Network project (EEN). This moment is the best time for a first balance.
The EEN Project: A think and Do Tank
To foster the implementation of the EPODE methodology - to date developed in more than 300 towns across Europe - the EEN was aimed at developing concrete recommendations on EPODE pillars and at raising awareness on the interest of the EPODE methodology.
Let's summarize briefly the achievements of this project connecting research and practice to federate, give value, and enrich existing local actions and programmes aimed at preventing childhood obesity in a sustainable way.
Highlighting EPODE pillars in childhood obesity prevention
A core objective of the EEN was to identify best practices, from EPODE (France) / THAO (Spain) / VIASANO (Belgium) and later PAIDEIATROFI (Greece) programmes, and other similar CBIs experiences.
Thanks to the involvement of four associated universities, the EEN was the opportunity to document and conceptualize EPODE practices related to four important pillars of the methodology: Involvement of political representatives, coordination and social marketing, monitoring and evaluation and public/private partnerships. This has been done through a mix of 20 workshops counting with multidisciplinary contributions, broad published and unpublished literature screening and more than 75 interviews with an important diversity of stakeholders.
The next EEN symposium, to be held on 7 April 2011 in Brussels, will be the excellent opportunity to present recommendations developed from this research. It will be open to European scientific experts, policy makers, national and local authorities, public health professionals, private actors and others interested in contributing to the prevention of childhood obesity through the EPODE methodology
Raising awareness across Europe
To foster the set up and the implementation of the EPODE methodology in other European countries, regions and cities. another important objective of the EEN was also to raise political, institutional and scientific awareness of the relevancy of local, long-term and multistakeholders approaches in childhood obesity prevention, counting with the commitment of political representatives, city and regional structures, national public health agencies, scientific groups, as well as private support.
Indeed, the EEN project has contributed to significant progress in this regard. The consortium of EEN partners has been invited to present the EPODE methodology and the EPODE European Network activities to many scientific and institutional public health conferences and congresses over the last 3 years, reaching a significant mass of key opinion leaders, scientific experts, public health professionals, social marketing experts and National/Regional public health authorities. The EPODE methodology has also been described in several reports and publications [1] as a valuable community-based initiative to prevent childhood obesity.
Additionally, along the second year of implementation of the EEN, attention was raised across Europe about the interest of implementing the EPODE methodology and similar initiatives. Several teams kept in touch and new teams contacted the EEN coordinating team. On-site visits and workshops in European countries and regions have thus been organized to initiate dialogue on the way to launch and implement EPODE similar initiatives.
This was the case in the United Kingdom (South Yorkshire, East of England and Northern Ireland) but also in Malta, Netherland and Romania.
Particularly active is the network of Healthy Weight Communities in Scotland that is aimed at involving councils, National Health Services, the voluntary and private sector in schools, shops, community centres and parks to prevent obesity and associated illnesses with a particular emphasis on addressing health inequalities.
Based on the EPODE methodology and adding a pillar on "Obesity Care", the Covenant on Overweight recently launched the JOGG program in Netherlands, currently in 6 towns.
In Romania, an EPODE methodology pilot study called "Acting together for children's Health" (ACTSCOP) has been implemented in two counties.
Moreover, regular contacts are maintained in other European countries and beyond, to discuss the possibility to launch an EPODE-similar programme involving multiple stakeholders at national level. Again, next EEN symposium will be a key opportunity to give a voice to several of these community-based intervention programmes similar to EPODE, which will add value in the process of sharing knowledge and experiences across borders.
EEN Newsletter N°6 - January 2011
- (1) "Prevention for a healthier America" (Trust for America's Health, 2009)
- "Future Breakthroughs in Science and Society" (Falling Walls Conference, Berlin, November 2009, http://www.falling-walls.com/blog/en/pages/Vortraege-Ansehen).
- "Population-based prevention strategies for childhood obesity" (Report of the World Health Organization, Report and technical meeting, December 2009)
- "Achieving healthier weights in Canada's communities", Call for proposal, Public Health Agency of Canada, May 2010
- "F as in Fat: how obesity threatens America's future" (Trust for America's Health, June 2010)
- " Principles and practice of social marketing: An international perspective" Cambridge University Press.Donovan, R. & Henley, December 2010


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The upcoming episode of family drama Saath Nibhana Saathiya that is being showcased on channel Star Plus will witness alot of twist and turns.
The main leads of the show Jaggi is potrayed by Mohammad Nazim and Gopi is potrayed by Devoleena Bhattacharjee.
Kokila gets arrested for kidnapping Urvashi but Jaggi-Gopi knows that they Kokila did not kidnapped Urvashi.
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Enjoy the easy reference for making a cuppa loose leaf tea. Share it with friends if you like, but mostly make sure you enjoy lots of tea and good company. We're hoping to expand our own tea time company at our new home in Mesa, Arizona. And the Apothecary may be opening its doors in a more off-line sorta setting.
Good gracious, our tea time possibilities are ever expanding!
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Wednesday, November 5, 2014
Paint Shopkins Duplicates
My daughter collects Shopkins. They are little toys that are shaped like various items you would find in a store. Often times there are surprise packs where you don't know which one you are getting which leads to her having duplicates. I decided to paint the duplicates. In the pics they are paired up with the original ones on the left and the one I painted on the right.
I used small paint brushes and regular acrylic paint in any brand. After they were completely dry I put a coat of varnish on top to make them shiny.
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Star Trek: Insurrection Review
By Christopher Null
But you can't keep Trek down, and the crew saddled up for this lackluster experience, the likes of which would typically comprise an hour-long episode of The Next Generation, and not even a season finale.
This mission takes our heroes to a tiny society on a planet inhabited by settlers from another world who, of course, harbor a secret: They're hundreds of years old, and they don't age. The magical powers of the planet eventually even give Geordi has sight back and the female crewmembers a little extra cleavage (not kidding). Of course, this fountain of youth is desired by all manner of factions -- but it's Starfleet itself (along with an odd hanger-on played by F. Murray Abraham) that threatens to relocate the 600 residents of the planet in order to harvest its medicinal powers. (With just 600 people on it, it's a miracle they can't find some more room for inhabitants, but that's another story.)
Ultimately, Picard refuses to obey orders to relocate the settlers -- shades of Auschwitz, native America, and other well-known incursions are rather blatant -- and the titular "insurrection" occurs. Alas, there's not much of an ethical problem here, really. A little healthy debate probably could have found some breathing room for everyone, without resorting to Picard and his commando crew loading up a transporter with guns and explosives. And gosh, ya think they're going to let Picard back into command once they find out what he's done?
With a $58 million budget (lots of cash was saved by setting the film on a peaceful, green planet (read: a farm in California) and eschewing the alien planets and space battles which would have ratcheted up the budget), Insurrection was a mild success: The film eventually earned about $70 million domestically and probably broke about even. (The next Trek film, 2002's Nemesis, would have no such luck.)
It's hardly the best or worst of the Trek movies: Shatner's God-hunt in Star Trek V and the god-awful Nemesis earn that title. But it is a classic example of what Star Trek has become: Out of stories, and full of actors just phoning it in. This is probably the last Star Trek film, ever, that will be able to coast on its title and the goodwill of its fan base. And that's both a good thing and a sad passing for a once-pioneering series.
Now available on a now-expected Special Edition DVD, Insurrection adds the usual text commentary, plus a smattering of behind-the-scenes featurettes and interviews. It's a smaller package than most Trek movies have received, but then again, there just doesn't seem to be much left to say.
Facts and Figures
Year: 1998
Genre: Sci fi/Fantasy
Run time: 103 mins
In Theaters: Friday 11th December 1998
Box Office Worldwide: $118M
Budget: $70M
Distributed by: Paramount Pictures
Production compaines: Paramount Pictures
Contactmusic.com: 2.5 / 5
Rotten Tomatoes: 55%
Fresh: 37 Rotten: 30
Cast & Crew
Director: Jonathan Frakes
Producer: Rick Berman
Screenwriter: Michael Piller
Starring: Patrick Stewart as Captain Jean-Luc Picard, Jonathan Frakes as Commander William T. Riker, Brent Spiner as Lt. Commander Data, LeVar Burton as Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge, Gates McFadden as Doctor Beverly Crusher, Marina Sirtis as Counselor Deanna Troi, F. Murray Abraham as Ad'har Ru'afo, Anthony Zerbe as Vice-Adm. Dougherty, Donna Murphy as Anij, Gregg Henry as Gallatin, Michael Dorn as Lt. Commander Worf
Also starring: F Murray Abraham, Rick Berman, Michael Piller


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Which Candidate Will Put God First?
Which Candidate Will Put God First?
Essay by Jelena Anderson
As many of you on Wednesday night, I, too, sat down and watched the GOP debate on CNN. There were times when I scratched my head in disbelief and anger; at points my jaw dropped and at other times I laughed out loud, thinking I was watching a comedy club instead of presidential candidates debating hot topics.
I honestly couldn't tell you at this point who I would vote for IF I got to vote. But since I am a legal immigrant and not yet a citizen, I don't have that right. I have to depend on you guys to make a good decision.
So who would be a good president?
Trump, with his non-apologetic ways?
Maybe. I mean, it most certainly is time that we quit bowing down to our enemies.
What about Cruz or Rubio? They make some good points. So does Carson. But they also make some points that I don't agree with, just like every single other candidate.
Over the past seven years I've heard many people talk about how awful Obama is, and people even call him the Anti-Christ; and while I can see their point, let's not give the man more credit than he deserves.
Here is the thing though: if God knew everything Obama was going to do to this country, why did He allow him to become president? Surely God could've fixed that.
What if America needed this wakeup call though? What if this nation had been too far gone already, going along with all the little subtle changes that pulled us away from God one inch at a time?
Maybe the only way our eyes could be opened was to allow Obama into office and make so many drastic changes that we simply couldn't stay silent any longer?
The Bible tells us that we are supposed to obey the law of the land and follow those who are in authority.
Submission to the Authorities
13 Let every person be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those that exist have been instituted by God.2 Therefore whoever resists the authorities resists what God has appointed, and those who resist will incur judgment. 3 For rulers are not a terror to good conduct, but to bad. Would you have no fear of the one who is in authority? Then do what is good, and you will receive his approval, 4 for he is God's servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, for he does not bear the sword in vain. For he is the servant of God, an avenger who carries out God's wrath on the wrongdoer. 5 Therefore one must be in subjection, not only to avoid God's wrath but also for the sake of conscience. Romans 13:1-5
Sounds a little contradictory to me, when I look at everything our current president has put us through, BUT I do believe in God's word.
Here is the thing: God is still on the throne, so God is still in control! If He allowed this to happen, then there is a reason. Maybe we will never understand that reason, but we know that we can trust God so let's do that and pray FOR our leaders – whoever they may be.
Bringing this back to the GOP candidates:
I'm a firm believer of Matthew 6:33 "Seek first the Kingdom of God above all else, and live righteously, and He will give you everything you need." (NLT)
I know that we have very important and urgent issues in the country and also around the world that need to be addressed as soon as possible; and most of these issues are things that separate one candidate from another.
I can't tell you who to pick; nor do I want to have that kind of responsibility, but if I could vote, I would vote for whoever is going to put God first.
If our future president will seek God's Kingdom first, I believe that all other issues will be worked out for our good. How? I don't know, but luckily I am not the one who has to figure that out. That's God's job, and just like He is doing exactly that in our daily lives, He will also do it for our country.
I believe that a Christian president who puts God above all else will deal with issues like Planned Parenthood, gay marriage, foreign policies and whatever else needs to be handled, in a Godly way.
So let's pray and ask God to show us the candidate that will put God back where He belongs – above all things that concern us. It should be His counsel our leaders seek before considering any plan of action. It should be God's way and according to His will; the way we take care of things in our country and around the world.
If we do that, (put God first) I believe this nation will find its way again and will once again be a prosperous and blessed nation under God, because His word says:
"If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves , and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land." (2 Chronicle 7:14 KJV).


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Obama Visits Shrine Of Key Figure In Cuban CommunityPresident Barack Obama made an unplanned stop while in Miami, to a shrine considered important in the Cuban community.
Patron Saint Of Cuba To Be Honored In Miami SaturdayThousands of people are expected to gather at the AmericanAirlines Arena on Saturday in a huge celebration to mark the 400th anniversary of Our Lady Of Charity, Cuba's Patron Saint.
Bishop Agustin Román Laid To Rest Bishop Agustin Román, the first Cuban to be appointed bishop in the United States was laid to rest Saturday after passing away from a heart attack on Wednesday night.
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MoPho Mid-City (514 City Park Ave., 504-482-6845) is set to open this weekend (Jan. 11), with former August chef de cuisine Michael Gulotta offering a menu of pho, vermicelli and other traditional Southeast Vietnamese dishes and specials that meld Vietnamese and Louisiana influences.
"That's where chef's really going to shine, through the daily specials," says Jeff Gulotta, the chef's brother, MoPho general manager and co-owner. Those specials include dishes like slow-roasted lamb neck in green curry with Creole cream cheese potatoes and grilled Two Run Farms beef ribs and cast iron roasted rapini with lime vinaigrette. "We're using traditional Vietnamese cooking techniques and a Gulf pantry."
The restaurant previously was scheduled to open the last week of December 2013, but Jeff Gulotta says, "We were just waiting on chairs and permits. The chairs came in [Jan. 3]." The Gulottas partnered with August veteran (and high school friend) Jeff Bybee on the new restaurant.
"We may try to do a soft opening on Friday (Jan. 10)," Jeff Gulotta says. "We're shooting for opening next weekend."
The LA Swift bus service that transports commuters between Baton Rouge and New Orleans is one of the silver linings that followed Hurricane Katrina. Now it's threatened with extinction. Local officials in both cities are trying to help the transit service avoid that fate. I hope they succeed.
As horrific as Katrina was for south Louisiana, the storm also forged lasting bonds between communities that came to the aid of coastal parishes and those that were devastated. Baton Rouge responded on many levels, welcoming displaced New Orleanians who sought places to live within driving distance to the metro area.
Many of us still recall with dread the hours-long daily traffic jams on I-10 between New Orleans and the Capital City. To ease the congestion, the state established a park-and-ride commuter bus service between the two cities in October 2005. LA Swift became an instant hit. Even now, almost eight years after the storm, the service (which contracts with Hotard Coaches to provide buses) still provides more than 10,000 rides a month — and ridership is steadily growing.
Granted, the service was originally created as a temporary measure to help displaced New Orleanians get to work after the storm, but it has grown into a vital link between New Orleans and Baton Rouge. Riders use it in both directions, so much so that civic and political leaders in both cities are rallying to keep LA Swift going. The service attracts some 200 riders a day.
LA Swift began via a Federal Transit Administration recovery grant, along with a $5 charge for each one-way trip. The grant is still available, but since 2007 it has required a local match, which the state has provided. The state will not provide that match going forward, however, and the service was set to end June 30. State officials last week gave LA Swift a one-month reprieve, giving local officials a chance to raise the local match, which is more than $700,000.
A lot of folks can take credit for convincing Gov. Bobby Jindal to "park" his much-maligned "tax reform" plan last week, none more so than Dan Juneau, president of the Louisiana Association of Business and Industry (LABI). In the Capitol's pack of lobbying hounds, LABI is The Big Dog — particularly on tax matters.
Jindal's proposed tax-swap plan was already on life support even before LABI pulled the plug on it on March 27. When the state's leading business lobby announced its opposition to any plan that would increase the tax burden on businesses (which Team Jindal admitted the plan would do), the patient was officially dead.
Or was it?
Jindal is still prodding lawmakers to eliminate the individual income tax. He just isn't offering any advice as to how to do it.
As Juneau noted in his latest weekly column, the governor's latest move actually exposes his true objective: eliminating the individual income tax at any cost. There's danger in that.
Juneau has led LABI for decades. He has seen — and supported — many attempts at tax reform. His column offers some "unsolicited advice" to lawmakers. They should take it.
I've been around this process almost as long as Juneau. I'm quoting his advice below — and adding a warning of what will happen if that advice is not heeded.
From the "Gee, I'm in the wrong business" file:
A national study conducted by the dating website SeekingArrangement.com and released this week, shows New Orleans has 2.43 sugar daddies per 1,000 adult men in the city, putting the Big Easy 13th on the list. In another survey of sugar daddies released in December 2012, the website broke down statistics by religion, finding the highest number of sugar daddies were Jewish (28 percent), 17 percent were evangelicals (17 percent), 14 percent were Catholic and 8 percent were Protestant. (Twelve percent of sugar daddies in the study were not affiliated with a specific religion, and 3 percent identified themselves as atheist or agnostic.
The new study ranks Atlanta in first place, with 5.98 sugar daddies per 1,000 adult men in the city, Scottsdale, Ariz., came in second with 5.23, San Francisco dropped two places from last year with 4.94, Tampa, Fla., takes fourth with 4.48 and Boston places fifth with 4.29 sugar daddies per 1,000 adult men. Charlotte, S.C., came in last (20th) with a 1.49 count.
There's a classic scene in the movie When Harry Met Sally where Meg Ryan and Billy Crystal are sitting in a crowded deli arguing about whether a man can tell when a woman fakes an orgasm. Crystal insists he can tell — and that no woman ever faked it with him. To prove him wrong, Ryan begins a show-stopping sexual soliloquy that, well, climaxes with her screaming, "Yes! Yes! YESSS!" — and pounding the table with both hands. She then casually picks up her fork and smugly continues eating as a sheepish Crystal and a stunned deli full of gawkers look on.
At a nearby table, an older woman puts down her menu and says to her waiter, "I'll have what she's having."
I thought of that scene recently when I learned that Gov. Bobby Jindal had concluded that raising the state sales tax by 1.88 cents was not enough to cover the revenue that would be lost by eliminating the state income tax, as he proposes. The governor now wants to raise the sales tax by 2.25 cents — giving Louisiana a total state sales tax of 6.25 percent.
At first, I thought it was an early April Fool's joke. It wasn't.
Surely, I thought, the governor must be smoking some serious herb, which is legal now in some of the states he may have visited recently. His plan to give Louisiana the highest combined state and local sales tax rates in the U.S. was already considered D.O.A. in the House of Representatives — and that was when he was "only" seeking to increase the state sales tax by 1.88 cents.