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No prob. When you get it, use a little bit only, and wait about five minutes, then add more if you need to. It takes some time to start soaking into your skin, and if you use too much, it might be too uncomfortable. Like tiger balm, you've got to find your tolerance. My other recommendation is Tiger Liniment. It's like extra strength tiger balm, only a bit stronger and because it's an oil it soaks in rather than staying on the surface and getting everything sticky. http://www.amazon.com/gp/search.html/ref=br_ss_hs/104-0667700-2559956?platform=gurupa&url=node%3D3760931&keywords=tiger+liniment&Go.x=0&Go.y=0&Go=Go I have been known to drive two hours to get all the way to china town to buy this because that's the nearrest store that carries it. If I've got a really bad stiff or sore muscle, I'll use this, and if I've got something that I know is going to be sore (for example, the arches of my feet after two hours of Irish dance) I'll use biofreeze before bed. Tiger liniment is really good when you've got stiff muscles you weren't expecting, but biofreeze is much better at preventing aches to begin with, or to deal with inflamation or more chronic pain.

I always ask them not to use auto tip. I say "If I get great service, I may want to tip more than 15%"

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Well, according to Pat Fish, "Tipping in advance makes it hurt less." www.luckyfish.com Personally, I'd tip 15% before, and probably another 15% after to show satisfaction with the work. Tattoos are art, and the tattooist isn't just performing a service; they're creating a work of art on the canvas of your skin. I've never had a tattoo, but I've tipped piercers as much as 40% when I was very happy with the piercing and it was a somewhat complicated one (industrial piercing in upper right ear...two holes that must align perfectly to hold one barbell). For more straightforward piercings, I've tipped between 20 and 30%, and piercing takes only a few minutes. If you don't like a piercing, you can just take it out, but if you don't like your tattoo, it can be very expensive and painful to remove, if it can be removed at all, so you want to keep your artist VERY happy. My cousin and I are planning on making a road trip up to Pat's studio, since she does amazing work. I just have to save up for it. Juliana wants a knotwork shamrock, and I want a butterfly done in knotwork, representing my celtic roots and skydiving wings.

hmm.... words to replace "raw beauty"... "fluid grace" "unrefined exquisiteness" "rough elegance" um... that's all I've got. Good luck.

Just ask the restaurant not to use auto-tip. Most will honor the request.

Many massage therapists (and sometimes chiros) sell a product called BioFreeze. I've found it works much better than tiger balm in many cases. You can read about it at www.biofreeze.com.

Stay away from a chiropractor until you've seen a regular MD. My mom's cousin suffered from neck pain and went to a chiro for quite a while without improvement. She finally went to a regular doc and it turns out that the pain in her neck was from enlarged lymph nodes due to hodgkin's disease! The chiro had been trying to treat cancer by adjusting her spine. Also, spinal manipulation can be very harmful, especially for people under age 45. There is a professor at my school who was paralyzed by a chiropractor. You can read about some of the risk factors here: http://www.cmaj.ca/cgi/content/full/166/1/40 Some of the problems caused by chiropractic adjustments can be fatal: http://www.canoe.ca/ChiroYork/lana_lewis.html You can find some information about when to use heat or cold to treat an injury here: http://sportsmedicine.about.com/cs/rehab/a/heatorcold.htm What it pretty much comes down to is that if it's swelling or bruising, use cold, and if it's stiff muscles or joints, use heat. The best thing to do, though, is to go see your doctor, and follow their advice.

Well, I quit my 50K a year job to go to law school. I gave up financial security and independence, and right now I'm dependant on my parents to co-sign on loans and leases. I've been wanting to move out of my current apartment because it's so damn expensive ($1500/mo!) because my roommate moved out because of a job transfer, but my dad wants me to stay where I'm at, and without his signature, nobody will lease to me. So, my parents are paying part of my rent because they want me to stay in my current apartment because it's a very safe area, but safe areas cost a lot of money here in sourthern california. I'd found another apartment in an okay but not as nice area that was the same size but $600 a month less, but my dad didn't like it, and so he wouldn't co-sign, so they wouldn't rent to me. My parents having that degree of financial control over me has been extremely frustrating, and they hold it over my head sometimes, which can be really annoying, but they are helping me out a lot, and I am grateful for that. It's just very frustrating going from being financially independent and comfortable to depending on my parents for some things, stressing over money, and counting pennies. I'm working two jobs just to have the utilities paid and a little bit of pocket money (amusing thing here is that one of the jobs is paying me more per hour than I was making at my job with the LAFD! It's only a few hours a week, though, so not enough to make a real impact). So far, I like a lot about law school. I enjoy the reading and class discussions. What I don't like is that the administration insists on treating the students like they're in high school, but I get the feeling that may just be unique to my school. When I was an undergrad and grad student at a different school, the way that school treated their students was 180 degrees different. They had the idea that we were adults, and we would come to class if we needed to, we would do the reading if we needed to, and we would do what we needed to do to learn, because, after all, we were adults and actually wanted to be there, so they trusted us to know what to do to succeed and provided support when requested. My current school takes attendance, punishes and penalizes us by marking us absent if we don't do the reading (more than 5 absences and we get a failing grade!), and has sent out over 700 emails this semester alone full of hand-holding and unwanted advice, and unfortunately, there's no opt-out option. So, I guess that while I do enjoy law school, I really wish I'd picked a different school. The school I'm at offered me a scholarship, and I took it, instead of going to a school I really wanted to go to. I'll let you know whether it was worth it after I graduate and get a job.

If it's the footnote I think you're looking at, it's a reservation saying that the US is not going to do anything that is against the US constitution.

Well, it was stuff I'd had to research for my international law classes, so I already had it bookmarked.

We ratified the convention against torture on Oct 21, 1994. http://www.ohchr.org/english/countries/ratification/9.htm We ratified the Geneva Conventions on Feb 8, 1955. http://www.icrc.org/Web/Eng/siteeng0.nsf/iwpList143/9DB17D6DB7539C6DC1256B660059E824

I thought a general would qualify as a uniformed officer of the opposing party, and fall under the convention... I haven't read it in a while, though, so I don't recall the exact definition.

Andrea Yates has a very long history of mental illness... You think she's been faking since she was a teenager? That's an awful long time for a charade. According to time.com, she had thousands of pages of medical records. Thousands. That's a heck of a lot of documentation for faking and imitating.

If it was my friend/family/child, I'd probably do whatever I could with whatever I had.

She's had mental problems most of her life, but this particular episode was triggered by having a baby, and got worse over the weeks since the delivery. PPP is not something like have the baby and you're instantly crazy. It appears over days to weeks, and the person goes from normal to behaving oddly to full-blown psychosis. Sometimes it's gradual, sometimes not so gradual. Depends on the person and whether or not they had mental illness in the past that could be triggered or increased by the hormone fluxuations of having a baby.

Well, personally, there's no way in hell that I'd challenge a guy with a gun if I was only armed with a pool cue and had a way to avoid the confrontation. Confronting someone like that just increases the odds you're going to end up dead. If I had a gun, might be different. If people say "don't bring a knife to a gun fight" why the heck would someone want to bring a pool cue to a gun fight?! Chances are you'd break the cue before you broke his head.

If she's found insane, she's not responsible. I don't think you understand the complete lack of reason and logic that comes with psychosis, that people hear things and see things that aren't there, and have no perception of reality. If they don't know what's real and what's not, how can they be held responsible for a crime that requires that they know what they're doing? edited for grammar

She didn't have post partum depression. She had post partum psychosis. Huge difference. Symptoms of PPP can mimic schizophrenia. Someone with extreme PPP is insane; they don't just "get sad sometimes."

From a legal perspective, you're right in many cases. As long as the suspect knew what they were doing, and knew what they were doing was wrong, insanity is not an appropriate defense, and that's why the insanity defense is used in less than 1% of murder trials, and successful in less than a quarter of cases when used. However, evidence indicates that this was probably not the case in Andrea Yates' situation. If she truly had no idea about her actions and their consequences, our legal system doesn't allow us to hold her responsible for that. It does, however, allow for her to be ordered to an institution where she can receive proper treatment.

Reading this and a previous post of yours, am I mistaken that you recommend a relative brief course of institutalization for the purpose of obtaining theraputic med levels and hormones, followed by release under med supervision? No. I'd recommend that she be institutionalized and placed under the care of doctors who can treat her appropriately. If she was truly suffering from an extreme case of PPP, as evidence seems to indicate, I think the only appropriate verdict would be not guilty by reason of insanity. From nolo.com: "What makes a crime a crime? In most cases, an act is a crime because the person committing it intended to do something that most people would consider wrong. This mental state is generally referred to as "mens rea," Latin for "guilty mind." The "mens rea" concept is based on a belief that people should be punished only when they have acted in a way that makes them morally blameworthy. In the legal system's eyes, people who intentionally engage in the behavior prohibited by a law are morally blameworthy." If Andrea Yates really did have PPP, and evidence indicates that she did, she was hallucinating, hearing voices, and completely out of touch with reality, similar in some ways to a schizophrenic. A witness in the original trial tried to indicate that Yates had the "mens rea" for the crime by implying that it was premeditated, because a law and order episode showed a woman with PPP drowning her kids. However, no episode like that existed, which completely ruins the prosecution's "pre-meditated" argument that led to her conviction and sentence. "Yates never saw a woman kill her children and thus could not have devised a copy-cat killing with a plan to fake an illness. (In fact, her years of coping with mental illness were well-documented and attested to by numerous mental health experts.) So the case presented by the prosecution was based on an idea with no factual basis." -crimelibrary.com The prosecution used the episode of law and order to try to prove that Andrea Yates knew what she was doing was wrong. Without that television show, the evidence seems to indicate that she was insane, had no idea what she was really doing, and firmly convinced that her actions were appropriate. She'll probably end up in a mental institution for the rest of her life, as she had documented psychological problems in addition to PPP.

In the case of PPD/PPP, many cases resolve themselves after the hormones even out. The cure is what she was told before. Don't have any more kids, and it won't happen again.

A parole board could probably do both, although I'm not sure how it would end up if she tried to take it to court (although, when one is let out on parole, they generally don't complain about it). I wouldn't have a problem with it, and honestly, I doubt she would either, since evidence seems to indicate that she resisted going off her meds and having another child, but was talked into it.

Andrea Yates isn't likely to be a repeat offender, as long as she doesn't have any more children. She should, however, be in a mental hospital for however long it takes her to recover, and have her meds monitered for the rest of her life. Medication works for her, as long as she takes it.

When I was in Ireland, a garda (Irish police) took the time to help my friend and me. We were totally lost, and on a round-a-bout. The round-a-bouts in Ireland don't always indicate which way the next big city is. Here in California, we see signs for Los Angeles when we're a few miles outside of San Francisco, but Ireland isn't always like that. Sometimes, the road signs indicate the name of the next town on the motorway, which is sometimes a little tiny town that may or may not be on your tourist map. My friend and I were trying to get to Galway, and had gotten turned around, because we made a lap or two on the round-a-bout trying to find the right exit, and couldn't figure it out, and we'd gone around in circles enough that we weren't even really sure which way we'd come from. So, I kept driving around the round-a-bout, hoping my friend would figure out where we were supposed to be, and after many laps around the circle, I saw these flashing blue lights in the mirror. Cursing, I pulled over, figuring it was against the law to make that many trips around a round-a-bout, and that I was going to get a ticket or something. I rolled down my window, and the garda bent down to eye-level with me and grinned, saying "A little lost, are ya?" Realizing that we weren't sure which way to go, he'd taken the time to stop us just to give us directions! We were happily putting towards Galway a few minutes later.