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Resolved Question: Unique places to stay - aka Valentine's Day / Birthday Dilemma?
My boyfriend's birthday is next weekend, so it's a lot of pressure on me to come up with something great for us to do when you factor in Valentine's Day.
He's a smart cookie- likes Discovery Channel and whatnot, so I was going to sign us up for the Valentine's Day adult sleepover at the Georgia Aquarium. It seemed perfect! Well, they are totally booked.
Does anyone have any ideas? I am stumped. It's still cold in this area so that eliminates camping. Hotels are boring. I hate bed and breakfast places. Cabins are booked. Other aquariums within 1-2 hours of here do not do sleepovers unless you are part of a huge group.
Please help!
In summary, I need a unique lodging idea and activity. Thanks!
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Resolved Question: Southeast Coast Winter Vacation?
Where do two 25yr old guys go the week between Christmas and new years? Looking for cheap lodging, plenty of bars and nightlife, and better weather than Chicago. Where is the best city for this in the southeast, somewhere in Georgia or something? Not quite as far as florida, we are going to drive.
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Resolved Question: can you summerize this for me?
Ugandan refugee turns hotel soap to hope
Nearly two decades after he arrived in this country, Ugandan Derreck Kayongo is still bowled over by one subtle display of American wealth: the endless array of soaps available in stores.
In his African homeland, the cost of soap is out of reach for many, often with tragic consequences. In 2004, the World Health Organization found roughly 15 percent of deaths among Ugandan children under age 5 resulted from diarrheal diseases, many of which could be prevented through hand sanitation.
Now America's bountiful soap bars have prompted Kayongo to launch the Global Soap Project, an effort to help his country's poorest - one used bar of hotel soap at a time.
An Atlanta-based anti-poverty advocate, Kayongo has collected several tons of lightly used soap bars under a plan to melt them down, sterilize them and reshape the soap for shipment to refugees in Uganda to help curb disease.
For Uganda's destitute, soap is a luxury. "Most people find it very hard to spend money on something like soap which could actually help them prevent diseases," Kayongo said. A bar of soap can run 500 Ugandan shillings - about 10 American cents - on a continent where many refugees have a dollar to live on daily.
Cleaning up with used soap sounds, well, dirty.
But Kayongo said soaps will be separated by hotel brand and gently washed to remove makeup and other surface dirt. Next, bars will go into a high-temperature oven where they will melt and transform into a soapy, sterile, slurry. Kayongo said the mixture will go into molds to harden and emerge as large bars of soap. "All it needs is just cleaning and re-melting and remolding," he said.
Soap for charity
Each day, in millions of American hotel rooms, the cleaning staff replaces soap and other toiletries.
Patrick Maher, a consultant to the American Hotel & Lodging Association, said hotels usually throw away used soap. But he said nonprofits have begun stepping up to recycle soap for charitable purposes.
"It's one of the new things this year," Maher said.
One such charity, Florida-based Clean the World, says it has collected about 17,000 pounds of used soap since February for distribution in impoverished countries worldwide.
For the Global Soap Project, Kayongo says he has gathered 10,000 pounds of used hotel soap from 60 hotels in Georgia, Florida and Tennessee. Hotels collect lightly used bars which they place in bins. One of Kayongo's 10 volunteers takes the bars to a donated warehouse near Atlanta that he's using.
Kayongo's own family had once thrived off his father's business making soaps and running a printing press in Uganda. But Kayongo said they went from being members of the middle class to refugees, losing everything under the harsh rule of former Ugandan dictator Idi Amin.
The family fled to Kenya, where Kayongo said life without basics became the norm.
Now Kayongo wants to give other refugees a small item that can make a big difference. He plans to send off his first shipment in late October.
Kayongo, a senior advocacy field coordinator for CARE International, has committed about $5,000 of his own money toward the $13,000 cost to send the soap and is seeking donations to make up the rest. CARE International, a global anti-poverty group, is not sponsoring the project.
The luxury of soap
Since June, just one Ritz-Carlton hotel in Atlanta's Buckhead neighborhood has turned over 3,000 pounds of soap which otherwise would have gone into the trash.
"When I heard Derreck speak about it, I thought it sounded really easy and why haven't we been doing this all along?" said Olivia Brown, a manager at the hotel.
Kayongo got the idea back in the mid '90s. He'd recently arrived in America and when he settled into his hotel, Kayongo was surprised to find packages of soap.
He used the bars, but was confused the next day when he found they'd been replaced.
"This went on for two or three days," said Kayongo, who finally called his father back in Africa and chuckled about it.
The men talked about how the soap could be melted down and reused. Kayongo sat on the idea for a few years, until his father recently brought it back up.
"If you live on a dollar a day," Kayongo said, "what are the chances you spend even one cent of that dollar on buying a luxury like soap?"
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Resolved Question: Good Shoujo Romance Manga...?
Could someone please recommend me a good Shoujo manga? Please no Yaoi, Yuri, Shoujo Ai, Hentai, Adult and Shounen... >.<
Here are some of the mangas I have read:
Naruto
Bleach
Full Metal Panic!
Fruits Basket
One Piece
Prince of Tennis
Detective Conan
CardCaptor Sakura
D.N.Angel
Kodomo no Omocha
Hana Yori Dango
His and Her Circumstances
Peach Girl
Love Hina
FullMetal Alchemist
Yotsubato!
Azumanga Daioh
+Anima
Gakuen Alice
M to N no Shouzou
Ouran High School Host Club
Hana Kimi
Beauty Pop
Chobits
Tokyo Mew Mew
Shugo Chara!
Death Note
Vampire Knight
Special A
AAA
Love Junky
Shinshi Doumei Cross
Umi no Sakyuugi Nocturne
Love Monster
Gakuen Ouji
Chocolate Cosmos
Love Berrish!
La Corda d'Oro
MeruPuri
Akuma to Dolce
Kitchen Princess
The Princes' Cactus
Devil and her Love Song
Rockin' Heaven
Charisma Doll
Kaichou wa Maid-sama!
Boku wa Kiss de Uso wo Tsuku
Full House Kiss
Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle
Oresama Teacher
Celebrity Yuukoujouyaku
Love Celeb
Dengeki Daisy
Five
Koi Suta
Asa Made, Motto.
Bokura wa Itsumo
Akuma de Koibito
Penguin Revolution
Goong
Full Moon wo Sagashite
Con Con x Honey
C♥C♥C
Cat Street
Princess
Adarushan no Hanayome
Hadashi de Bara wo Fume
The Bride of the Water God
Black Bird
Midnight Secretary
Koukou Debut
Nana
Paradise Kiss
Hanatsukihime
Hachimitsu no Hana
Ludwig Kakumei
A Kiss To My Prince
Charming Junkie
WANTED
Galism
Beast Master
Orange Planet
Parfait Tic!
Love Junky
Akuma de Sourou
H20
Hot Blooded Woman
Cynical Orange
Monkey High
Otomentaru
Moe Kare!!
Romantic Beauty
Dekiai Paradox
Kiss Happiness Kiss
To Be...
Koko ni Iru yo!
Aishiteruze Baby
Billion Princess
Kyou, Koi wo Hajimemasu
Lovely Complex
Absolute Boyfriend
Honki de Nakechau Koi
Chibi Vampire
37°C no Boyfriend
Boku wa Kisu de Uso wo Tsuku
Sunadokei
Lovenista
Pink Innocent
Rhapsody in Heaven
Darren Shan
Show Princess
The One
Private Prince
Biyaku Cafe
Gakuen Ouji
MAX Lovely!
Baby Love
Dear Waltz
Honey x Honey Drops
Himekei Doll
Aoi Kiseki
Venus Capriccio
Hakushaku to Yousei
Death Song
Ageha
The Wallflower
Kaikan Phrase
Shoujo Kakumei Utena
Emma
Hidarite no Love Letter
Harem Lodge
Nodame Cantabile
I ♥ HS
Do-Re-Mi-Fa-Sol-La-Si-Do
Skip Beat!
Honey Hunt
Arisa
After School Nightmare
Anta Nante Okotowari!
Cutie Boy
Ojou-sama wa Oyome-sama
Haou Airen
Antique Romance
Switch Girl!!
Bokura ga Ita
Faster Than A Kiss
Anata e no Crescendo
Ueto Aya Monogatari
Bring it On!
Do You Want To Try?
Liar Game
Kimi wo Suki na Ryuu
Hot Blooded Woman
Bring It On!
Superior
Godchild
Angel Sanctuary
Maison de Beauties
Pink de Ikou!
Hoggane
Basara
Ai Hime - Ai to Himegoto
99% Love
Hadaka no Oujisama - Love Kingdom
H3: Happy Hustle High
Honggane
Crazy for You
Otomen
My Girl
Vampire Girl
Bloodhound
Flowers of Evil
Love Knife
Chiro Star Project
Beauty is the Beast
Yurara no Tsuki
Strobe Edge
Dear My Girls
Be My Sweet Darling
Cinderella Fella
Shitsuji-sama no Okiniiri
Savage Garden
Giri Koi
Himekei Doll
Kyou mo Ashita mo
Otomegokoro
Kodocha
Glass Mask
Georgia!
Honey Bitter
Strawberry Kiss
Shipwrecked
Eikaiwa School Wars
Crash!
Bocchama wa Ijiwaru
You're My Girlfriend
Atashi wa Bambi
100% Perfect Girl
Forbidden Dance
Choco to Mint to
Kinkyori Renai
Heart no Kuni no Alice
Danshi Kinshitsu!!
Heart no Kuni de Ochakai
Cousin
I Accept You
Aozora Pop
Crazy Love Game
Suki♥Doki
Sora sora
Dear Friends
Fujoshi Kanojo
Mayonaka wa Dame yo
Seikimatsu no Angel
Kagen no Tsuki
Tenshi Nanka ja Nai
Zenbu Kimi no Mono
Ichigo to Anzu
Gokujou Danshi to Kurashi Temasu
Rensou no Aria
Hajimari no Kotoba
Ogawa to Yukai na Saitoutachi
Peter Panda
Kyou mo Ashita mo
Ghost Only
Honey na Koto
Hana ni Arashi
Heaven!!
Kiss/Hug
Masca
Koishite Nanbo!
Bara No Tameni
Ruby Doll
Gakkou no Ojikan
Kiss Me Princess
Angel Diary
Rakuen (SAKURAKOUJI Kanoko)
Die
Hyakuman Tsubu no Namida
I'm With Her
Fetish
Otokomae! Beads Kurabu
Delinquent Lesson
B.O.D.Y
Love Lesson.Com
Mayonaka no Ariadone
Love Attack
Ultra Cute
Kyuukyoku Venus
I don't like mangas which are overly cute... or with pathetic female lead... Thanks!
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Resolved Question: How to get lodging on army post?
I am moving my family to Georgia from Texas in a few days for my permissive TDY. Im in the army and was hoping to stay on a army post on the way there. How do I get lodging on post. Hopefully Fort Rucker.
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Resolved Question: How can we cash check in Billings, Montana?
I have a printed check written to me. It's from Atlanta and so am I. Thought there was a wachovia here but there isn't. That is what check is drawn on. Blizzard is coming and we have no gas money or food and lodging money. Trying to get home to our 5 month old son in georgia. How can we get money in Billings Montana???
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Resolved Question: Is there a Web Site for Crown Pointe Ravinia Lodging in Atlanta, Georgia?
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Resolved Question: ski resort for christmas?
I'm looking for a really nice ski resort or lodge, cabin etc... i don't care if you cant ski all that's necessary is lots of snow and hills some where around georgia maybe in south carolina Tennessee or alabama? don't need to bee so close just near
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Resolved Question: St. Simon Island in Georgia (lodging)?
Hi, I plan on going to St. Simon's Island in July of 2009. Looking for a good, clean place to stay that will be on the beach and be close to shopping, food, etc. Also, are there many attractions on the island? Thanks for your help and time. Have a great day!!!!
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Resolved Question: Can someone help me out concerning the dioxins emitted from burning leaves/trash?
I live in Georgia, thirty minutes south of Atlanta, and everyone here, it seems, is completely enamored of burning their leaves and sometimes their trash, too. Almost everyday I smell it in my car. Now, burning trash, especially from a burn barrel, emits a slew of dioxins, heavy metals, carbon monoxide, benzopyrene, amongst other carcinogens. My question is as thus: When driving along, and the smell of something burning wafts into your vehicle, yet you aren't in range of the smoke, are you still having exposure to any and all of these chemicals? When exposure to them is very minimal, can the body protect itself by discarding the substances, or does every breath count towards accumulating the toxins in your body?
I am particularly concerned about dioxins, which have a half life of approximately eight years in the body. Does even such a transient exposure as the 1-2 minutes you get the odor in when driving down the road have have the capacity to lodge themselves in the body so long?
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