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A tale of fire and ice: a river trip through the Grand Canyon. The air temperature at the bottom of the canyon will be trying to hit the triple digits. FIRE! The icy waters of the Colorado River will be 72 degrees Fahrenheit. It doesn't sound too cold, but with white water waves crashing over the sides of the boat, the spray from the waves will have its chilling affects.
"It's an unusual environment this time of year," says one veteran boatman. You can be really hot and then really cold all on the same day." I was asking about tips for what kind of clothing to pack. "Forget the rain pants, it will be too hot for those," he adds.
Our all-girls river trip launches 9-9-9 from Lee's Ferry just below the Glen Canyon Dam near Page, AZ. I think most of us are going for the scenery, but I have a feeling that this trip will provide the perfect venue for personal discovery and growth. There is still space -- and last minute deals. Call Joy or Cherly at Canyoneers in Flagstaff, AZ... and get onboard for some real Girls Adventure.
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27 Eylül 2012 Perşembe
All-Gals River Trip Insider's Tips
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Last week while in Phoenix and Scottsdale for a fantastic Girls Getaway, I asked one of our hosts, Seth Heald of ARIZONA OUTBACK ADVENTURES for some insider secrets for a great Grand Canyon river trip. Seth, president of AOA is a veteran river runner.
"Do you want to know the REAL advice? Even if it is a bit gross?" he asked.
"Oh, yes, I want it all. Give it to me," I challenged.
"OK then. You are going to be sitting on a plastic seat for seven days. You're going to be wet most of the time," he said alluding to ailments that might affect the bottom side. I think he said get a C-cream. "You might not need it, but if you do, you'll be happy you brought it along."
"I should have written it down," I thought as I perused the huge pharmacy aisle. In preparation for our upcoming river trip, I went into Flagstaff, AZ today to procure "butt balm" and waterproof band-aids."Should I get PreparationH?" I couldn't find any C-cream. Or was it Sea-Cream?
I was hoping that no one would come and ask if I needed help.I finally found Cortisone cream. It was half the price of the H-cream, so that settled it for me.
Band-Aid now makes a clear, WATER BLOCK PLUS bandage. They're supposed to give 100% waterproof protection. I guess we'll find out as we float down the river next week.
Girls Adventure Guide Tip: For extended river trips, bring along cortisone cream for any rash that might appear on your bottom side. It will also work on cracked heels if the sun and water do a number on your feet.
There is still room available on the 9-9-9 All "Girls" river trip. Call Joy or Cheryl at Canyoneers at 928-526-0924.
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"Do you want to know the REAL advice? Even if it is a bit gross?" he asked.
"Oh, yes, I want it all. Give it to me," I challenged.
"OK then. You are going to be sitting on a plastic seat for seven days. You're going to be wet most of the time," he said alluding to ailments that might affect the bottom side. I think he said get a C-cream. "You might not need it, but if you do, you'll be happy you brought it along."
"I should have written it down," I thought as I perused the huge pharmacy aisle. In preparation for our upcoming river trip, I went into Flagstaff, AZ today to procure "butt balm" and waterproof band-aids."Should I get PreparationH?" I couldn't find any C-cream. Or was it Sea-Cream?I was hoping that no one would come and ask if I needed help.I finally found Cortisone cream. It was half the price of the H-cream, so that settled it for me.
Band-Aid now makes a clear, WATER BLOCK PLUS bandage. They're supposed to give 100% waterproof protection. I guess we'll find out as we float down the river next week.
Girls Adventure Guide Tip: For extended river trips, bring along cortisone cream for any rash that might appear on your bottom side. It will also work on cracked heels if the sun and water do a number on your feet.
There is still room available on the 9-9-9 All "Girls" river trip. Call Joy or Cheryl at Canyoneers at 928-526-0924.
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Girls Adventure Guide offers adventure travel tips and Girls Getaway ideas for increasing your travel fun quotient.
Sedona's Seven Secrets
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Sedona, AZ -- Enter the Red Rock country of Sedona and you will feel a sense of adventure radiating from those terra-cotta colored walls. Walk along paths that are wearing into sandstone ledges and you know you are experiencing a place that has long been inhabited.
Natural light and cool breezes make this secret place a natural respite from the hot Arizona desert.
Yesterday photographer Charles Bame and I spent several hours photographing and writing about one of Sedona's secret places. Do you recognize it in the photo above? Probably not, since it is hidden away inside thick sandstone walls. It is not a far hike from downtown Sedona. Leave a comment below if you know this secret place.
Canyon Adventure
Watch for all seven secrets to be revealed on Girls' Adventure Guide website, and soon in a new book that you can order online. Don't forget to subscribe to this website in the right-hand column.
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Natural light and cool breezes make this secret place a natural respite from the hot Arizona desert.
Yesterday photographer Charles Bame and I spent several hours photographing and writing about one of Sedona's secret places. Do you recognize it in the photo above? Probably not, since it is hidden away inside thick sandstone walls. It is not a far hike from downtown Sedona. Leave a comment below if you know this secret place.
Canyon Adventure
Watch for all seven secrets to be revealed on Girls' Adventure Guide website, and soon in a new book that you can order online. Don't forget to subscribe to this website in the right-hand column.
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Girls' Adventure Guide is written by Arizona travel writer Stacey Wittig. Share your own girls adventure travels by leaving comments. Follow Girls' Adventure Guide for free adventure travel tips and travel deals.
Girl's Arizona Adventure: Fish Pedicure?
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Adventure girls who love to fish are trying something new this angling season: pedicures done by small, finned friends. Yes, stick your phalanges in the pedicure bath and LIVE fish eat away the dead skin between your toes, around your toenails or on your heels.
You won't be able to angle these fish from your local lake or reservoir. Nope, these tiny fish -- Garra Ruffa to be specific -- are imported from Turkey and look similar to the small fish you would see in your dentist's aquarium. Friendly, kind and persistent dry skin eaters. Yum!
Clients enjoy the relaxing "lip" massage and one adventure girl reported that even her husband commented on her soft feet after a Spa Fish Treatment.
Now we adventure girls have a new meaning to the sign posted "Gone Fishin'" on our office door.
Girls' Adventure Guide tip: In the Phoenix, AZ area, fisher women can get the specialty treatment and an Arizona Adventure all rolled into one at Spa Fish. Check out their monthly pedicure specials at Coupons.
Spa Fish / La Vie Nails & Spa
(NW Corner Ray & Val Vista Behind Discount Tire)
Mon. – Sat. 9:30AM - 7:00PM
Sunday 10AM – 5PM
1534 E. Ray Rd. Suite 117 , Gilbert, AZ 85296
(480) 899-9889
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Adventure girls who love to fish are trying something new this angling season: pedicures done by small, finned friends. Yes, stick your phalanges in the pedicure bath and LIVE fish eat away the dead skin between your toes, around your toenails or on your heels.
You won't be able to angle these fish from your local lake or reservoir. Nope, these tiny fish -- Garra Ruffa to be specific -- are imported from Turkey and look similar to the small fish you would see in your dentist's aquarium. Friendly, kind and persistent dry skin eaters. Yum!
Clients enjoy the relaxing "lip" massage and one adventure girl reported that even her husband commented on her soft feet after a Spa Fish Treatment.
Now we adventure girls have a new meaning to the sign posted "Gone Fishin'" on our office door.
Girls' Adventure Guide tip: In the Phoenix, AZ area, fisher women can get the specialty treatment and an Arizona Adventure all rolled into one at Spa Fish. Check out their monthly pedicure specials at Coupons.
Spa Fish / La Vie Nails & Spa
(NW Corner Ray & Val Vista Behind Discount Tire)
Mon. – Sat. 9:30AM - 7:00PM
Sunday 10AM – 5PM
1534 E. Ray Rd. Suite 117 , Gilbert, AZ 85296
(480) 899-9889
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Girls' Adventure Guide gives adventure travel tips and free travel advice to women of all ages. Don't miss your next girls adventure guide tip by subscribing or following this blog. Why wait? It's free, and only take 90 seconds. Faster than a fish pedicure...
Brain Injury Association's YouTube Channel
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Visit the Brain Injury Association of Illinois channel on YouTube. You can find our channel at www.youtube.com/braininjuryhelp
You can view our educational film, "You Are Not Alone". This film is directed to the person who has been recently injured and to his family.
You can also view our camp film, "Making Headway with Brain Injury". This film features the song, "It's My Brain" written by Martin Bautista with input from all of our campers and support group members.
Our public service announcements, "The Bully" and "Crying Mia" can be seen on the channel.
You can view our educational film, "You Are Not Alone". This film is directed to the person who has been recently injured and to his family.
You can also view our camp film, "Making Headway with Brain Injury". This film features the song, "It's My Brain" written by Martin Bautista with input from all of our campers and support group members.
Our public service announcements, "The Bully" and "Crying Mia" can be seen on the channel.
26 Eylül 2012 Çarşamba
Hydroelectric Power Opponents Face Federal Funding Cutoff
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Environmentalorganizations opposing new hydroelectric dams or pursuing litigation seeking totear down existing dams would lose all their federal funding under a billintroduced by Washington Congressman Doc Hastings. HR 6247, entitled “Saving OurDame and New Hydropower Development and Jobs Act,” was introduced August 1 andreferred to Hasting’s own House Natural Resources Committee and to Michigan CongressmanFred Upton’s Energy and Commerce Committee. Though any floor action on this billwill not likely take place until after the November elections, it already has theenvironmental groups it targets up in arms.
Thissimple 17 page legislative measure would strip all federal funding from regulardam construction opponents National Wildlife Federation, American Rivers andTrout Unlimited, which have received millions of taxpayer dollars in pastyears, and used that money to pay lawyers to bring lawsuits seeking to preventnew dam construction and also to tear down existing hydroelectric generatingfacilities. Natural Resources Committee spokesman Spencer Pederson describesthe bill as “a policy statement about the importance of hydropower and howtaxpayer dollars shouldn’t be used to destroy that resource.”
About8% of American electricity is generated by hydroelectric facilities, withCalifornia having the largest number of power generating dams, and Washingtonhaving the largest overall hydroelectric generating capacity. California’sHouse Water and Power Subcommittee Chairman Tom McClintock has denouncedAmerican Rivers as an “extremist organization” in the past, and this new billraises the ante on that remark, with American Rivers Senior Director ofGovernment Relations Jim Bradley now calling HR 6247 “incredibly extreme.”Bradley says “it’s a little bit shocking for a member of Congress to createthis kind of blacklist.”
Ofcourse, dams are used for flood control and water conservation as well as powergeneration, especially in the western states. And the three groups targeted bythis bill do have a history of going to court weighing in on the side of fishand other aquatic species whose habitats are affected by dam construction andoperation. Nevertheless, the rhetoric already generated by introduction of thisbill sounds more like election campaign talking points than serious policydebate. Only time will tell whether the measure ever gets out of the committeesto which it has been referred.
Environmentalorganizations opposing new hydroelectric dams or pursuing litigation seeking totear down existing dams would lose all their federal funding under a billintroduced by Washington Congressman Doc Hastings. HR 6247, entitled “Saving OurDame and New Hydropower Development and Jobs Act,” was introduced August 1 andreferred to Hasting’s own House Natural Resources Committee and to Michigan CongressmanFred Upton’s Energy and Commerce Committee. Though any floor action on this billwill not likely take place until after the November elections, it already has theenvironmental groups it targets up in arms.
Thissimple 17 page legislative measure would strip all federal funding from regulardam construction opponents National Wildlife Federation, American Rivers andTrout Unlimited, which have received millions of taxpayer dollars in pastyears, and used that money to pay lawyers to bring lawsuits seeking to preventnew dam construction and also to tear down existing hydroelectric generatingfacilities. Natural Resources Committee spokesman Spencer Pederson describesthe bill as “a policy statement about the importance of hydropower and howtaxpayer dollars shouldn’t be used to destroy that resource.”
About8% of American electricity is generated by hydroelectric facilities, withCalifornia having the largest number of power generating dams, and Washingtonhaving the largest overall hydroelectric generating capacity. California’sHouse Water and Power Subcommittee Chairman Tom McClintock has denouncedAmerican Rivers as an “extremist organization” in the past, and this new billraises the ante on that remark, with American Rivers Senior Director ofGovernment Relations Jim Bradley now calling HR 6247 “incredibly extreme.”Bradley says “it’s a little bit shocking for a member of Congress to createthis kind of blacklist.”
Ofcourse, dams are used for flood control and water conservation as well as powergeneration, especially in the western states. And the three groups targeted bythis bill do have a history of going to court weighing in on the side of fishand other aquatic species whose habitats are affected by dam construction andoperation. Nevertheless, the rhetoric already generated by introduction of thisbill sounds more like election campaign talking points than serious policydebate. Only time will tell whether the measure ever gets out of the committeesto which it has been referred.
Scandal Plagued SNC Lavalin Poaches CH2M Hill Executive As Its CEO
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Rockedby recent police raids on its corporate headquarters and the scandalous departureof three top executives, Canadian engineering giant SNC Lavalin yesterday namedRobert G. Card, former CH2M Hill executive and former U. S. Energy undersecretary,as its new CEO. Card is just coming off leadership of the construction ofLondon’s Olympic Games facilities and infrastructure, on time and on budget.
March26 SNC Lavalin CEO Pierre Duhaime announced his decision to leave the CEO post,and retired from the company in June, in the aftermath of his approval of $56million in payments of apparent bribes to overseas agents for the procurementof engineering business. Duhaime’s exit followed right after the departure oftwo senior executives involved in the company’s Libyan operations and possibleinvolvement in a scheme to smuggle one of Muammar Gadhafi’s sons into Mexico.Following Duhaime’s announcement, Canadian Mounties raided SNC Lavalin’sMontreal offices seeking documents related to Libyan bribery schemes.
SNCLavalin is the ninth largest design firm worldwide, and also has substantial atrisk construction contracting operations around the globe.
Rockedby recent police raids on its corporate headquarters and the scandalous departureof three top executives, Canadian engineering giant SNC Lavalin yesterday namedRobert G. Card, former CH2M Hill executive and former U. S. Energy undersecretary,as its new CEO. Card is just coming off leadership of the construction ofLondon’s Olympic Games facilities and infrastructure, on time and on budget.
March26 SNC Lavalin CEO Pierre Duhaime announced his decision to leave the CEO post,and retired from the company in June, in the aftermath of his approval of $56million in payments of apparent bribes to overseas agents for the procurementof engineering business. Duhaime’s exit followed right after the departure oftwo senior executives involved in the company’s Libyan operations and possibleinvolvement in a scheme to smuggle one of Muammar Gadhafi’s sons into Mexico.Following Duhaime’s announcement, Canadian Mounties raided SNC Lavalin’sMontreal offices seeking documents related to Libyan bribery schemes.
SNCLavalin is the ninth largest design firm worldwide, and also has substantial atrisk construction contracting operations around the globe.
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