Over the counter medicines can be dangerous!

A  19 year old University of Oklahoma honor student, and Music major, died yesterday after taking acetaminophen (an ingredient in Tylenol, and other over the counter pain medications) for 3 weeks.

She took the medication for a toothache, but exceeded the recommended dosage by only one pill per day.  The bottle warns not to take more than 8 in 24 hrs., but she had been taking 9 a day.  She died of liver failure.

It is not known why she had not sought medical treatment for her discomfort, but this young woman made a fatal mistake in not doing so.

Please be aware of the potential dangers of this common over the counter drug, and use it with care!

Lil

HANDBAGS...

Have you ever noticed gals who sit their handbags on public toilet floors, then go directly to their dining tables and set it on the table? Happens a lot!

It's not always the 'restaurant food' that causes stomach distress. Sometimes "what you don't know will hurt you"!

Read on...

Mom got so upset when guests came in the door and plopped their handbags down on the counter where she was cooking or setting up food. She always said that handbags are really dirty, because of where they have been.

It's something just about every woman carries with them. While we may know what's inside our handbags, do you have any idea what's on the outside? Women carry handbags everywhere; from the office to public toilets to the floor of the car. Most women won't be caught without their handbags, but did you ever stop to think about where your handbag goes during the day.

"I drive a school bus, so my handbag has been on the floor of the bus a lot," says one woman. "On the floor of my car, and in toilets."

"I put my handbag in grocery shopping carts and on the floor of the toilet," says another woman "and of course in my home which should be clean."

We decided to find out if handbags harbor a lot of bacteria. We learned how to test them at Nelson Laboratories in Salt Lake, and then we set out to test the average woman's handbag.

Most women told us they didn't stop to think about what was on the bottom of their handbag. Most said at home they usually set their handbags on top of kitchen tables and counters where food is prepared.

Most of the ladies we talked to told us they wouldn't be surprised if their handbags were at least a little bit dirty.

It turns out handbags are so surprisingly dirty, even the microbiologist who tested them was shocked.

Microbiologist Amy Karen of Nelson Labs says nearly allof the handbags tested were not only high in bacteria, but high in harmful kinds of bacteria. Pseudomonas can cause eye infections, staphylococcus aurous can cause serious skin infections, and salmonella and e-coli found on the handbags could make people very sick.

In one sampling, four of five handbags tested positive for salmonella, and that's not the worst of it. "There is fecal contamination on the handbags" says Amy. Leather or vinyl handbags tended to be cleaner than cloth handbags, and lifestyle seemed to play a role. People with kids tended to have dirtier handbags than those without, with one exception.
The handbag of one single woman who frequented nightclubs had one of the worst contaminations of all. "Some type of feces, or possibly vomit" says Amy.

So the moral of this story is that your handbag won't kill you, but it does have the potential to make you very sick if you keep it on places where you eat.

Use hooks to hang your handbag at home and in toilets, and don't put it on your desk, a restaurant table, or on your kitchen countertop.

Experts say you should think of your handbag the same way you would a pair of shoes. "If you think about putting a pair of shoes onto your countertops, that's the same thing you're doing when you put your handbag on the countertops" - Your handbag has gone whereindividuals before you have sneezed, coughed, spat, urinated, emptied bowels, etc!
Do you really want to bring that home with you?

The microbiologists at Nelson also said cleaning a handbag will help. Wash cloth handbags and use leather cleaner to clean the bottom of leather handbags.

THIS IS WORTH SHARING!!!

AND MEN PLEASE PASS THIS ON TO YOUR WIVES, GIRLFRIENDS AND DAUGHTERS!

 NOW WE'RE COOKIN', will make you drool!  I'm so very pleased and excited about all the new recipes being shared!

Marianne shares a wonderful dish called "Faarikaal" you are going to be wild about., as well as a demonstration of the most unusual orange juicer you've ever seen.

Lil creates a "No Peek Casserole" you have to taste to believe, and Tree3 shares the art of living bread..check it out in the video section.

Mindwalkerstudios, B4Salk, Lynnmbsn, The Webmaster, Raven, Komikero, Deepinthewoods, MotherReiver, Georgswa, ggld2001, and CircaRigel have all shared wonderful recipes you won't want to miss!  Check them all out, and post your favorite dish, while you're there!
http://groups.livevideo.com/group/now-we.re-cookin

After struggling with the new Visa system for a week, now, I'm feeling more optimistic about it, and I'll tell you why.

I guess it's natural to be a bit frustrated with a radical change...we become comfortable with the status quo, don't we (much like our ambivilant feelings about the changes taking place here at LV), and when you're forced to adopt an operating system that is unfamiliar, and I do mean UNFAMILIAR, you get a double whammy. 

I bought an HP Pavillion equipped with Windows Vista, brought it home, hooked it up, and searched for at least 5 minutes before I found the power button on this contraption, but soon discovered that was nothing compared to finding a way to turn it off!  There is no "start" icon, btw, in its place is a round soccer ball colored like the windows logo.  Well, even I quickly decided it must be the "start" button because it's located in the exact same place, but when I clicked on it...right or left...I could find no "turn off computer" or "restart"... it just wasn't there.   What I saw was a double list... one of programs, and one of management tools or functions, but no apparent way to turn off, or reboot, the computer. Finally, I discovered a very tiny arrow > that opened a submenu listing this option.   Whew!  And this was only the start of it all, with nothing in its proper place, or nonexistant, and, of course many of my old familiar programs were gone, and most too old to be supported by Vista, anyway.

I could probably write a book about the differences between Vista and Windows XP, but end this with my feelings of hope and optimism.  I'm finding new features that I love!  Windows sidebar is a feature to keep your "gadgets" close at hand, and I've chosen the news and weather feature with this information showing and updating continually, seen at a glance.
Another great feature is the tiny preview window that pops up when you hover the cursor over an open window icon on the menu bar.  If you have several windows open at once, such as your mail box, browsers, ect., you can check new activity without actually opening the window.  Neat!

I think I like Vista.

SORT'A!  Computer died several days ago, so had to buy a new one....it has the Vista platform WHICH I HATE, SO FAR!

Hey, somebody needs to start yet another group for Vista, users!   I think we must have a group for EVERYTHING else....oh, I haven't checked for "Warts on Ass" group, but bet there is one.

I'm checking in a couple of times a day for mail, but don't have much time to watch many videos.....sorry, hope to catch up later.   Right now,  I'm studing my new Photoshop tutorial....HEY!  Do we have a group for PHOTOSHOP CS3?????????

I'LL JOIN!!!!!!!!