text:
|Speed Thrills
|Written by Mike Buetow
|Friday, 31 October 2008 19:00
A touch of Midwestern pragmatism and a large dose of Lean go a long way at MEC.
As the US economic situation yo-yos wildly, the pressure is on companies to seek financial stability and be selective of their suppliers – and their customers.
For Milwaukee Electronics Co. (meccompanies.com), that's no sweat. The 50-year-old firm holds many of the traditional blue-collar ideals the Midwest is known for. And chasing the next big thing isn't part of the company's plan. Instead, the focus is on established firms that are leaders in their respective – often non-electronics – fields.
The company maintains three factories with a combined production space of over 100,000 sq. ft. The largest – MEC Midwest – is in northwest Milwaukee, a 63,000 sq. ft. facility once the home of Philips placement division. On the West Coast is Screaming Circuits, based outside Portland, OR, which houses three SMT lines in a 55,000 sq. ft. space. Finally, in Tecate, Mexico, about 40 miles from Tijuana, the company operates two SMT lines in a 20,000 sq. ft. plant. Equipment sets include Ekra printers, Asymtek dispensers, Fuji chipshooters and Mydata pick-and-place, and Vitronics reflow and waves (one dedicated to lead, one to Pb-free). The high-speed lines are the same in each factory. AOI is not a part of the SMT line, but employees view the first-off parts. Testing is performed on an Agilent 3070 and with CheckSum ICT. MEC employs aqueous cleaning where needed. Potting areas take place in three open spots around the plant. Although traditionally an unsightly operation, MEC opts to keep potting in the open because, as quality manager Don Sivilotti says, "We want it to be clean."
The product mix ranges: medical, appliances, military, industrial and consumer. While publicly vague about revenues – the 300-employee company typically claims sales of "under $100 million" – the Milwaukee plant charts show sales per employee of about $220,000. Inventory turns run about four this year, down from five in 2006-07.
According to the company, it's not necessarily easy to become a customer. "We conduct a lot of interviewing and courting of potential customers," says general manager Hani Malek. "Are they able to articulate a robust outsourcing strategy? Are they the right fit in terms of technology, volume, margin and cultural fit? Are they a leader in their business? And are they willing to meet our team, because that shows they are sincere."
As president Michael Stoehr elaborates, "Our best customers are companies from outside the electronics industry, like farm equipment, where they count on us to be great at electronics." And Stoehr counts on customers holding him accountable: He personally knows more than half MEC's customers' presidents.
Its business model breaks down like this: Milwaukee handles design and high-mix/high-IP assembly, plus certain box build and integration work. The factory in Canby, OR, handles rapid prototypes in lots as small as one to 10 boards, in one to 10 days. Tecate performs higher-volume, lower-mix production. A fourth unit, MEC Innovation, is dedicated to hands-on design. While MEC seeks cradle-to-grave programs, each unit has its own P/L, which allows the company to offer customer-specific services without having to pass on unutilized overhead costs.
What makes Screaming Circuits interesting is it carries its own brand, apart from the MEC label. The idea behind that unit, says Stoehr, is not about establishing a separate identity, however. Instead, he asserts, conducting quickturn efficiently mandates an operational model that focuses on it to the exclusion of everything else. Moreover, he notes, many engineers directly handle procurement for such jobs, rather than shuttling them to purchasing. "We wanted to set Screaming Circuits apart from volume EMS companies that try to do prototypes," Stoehr said.
Program management takes a hybrid form, with PMs generally tied to specific customers and also in regular contact with the company's 12 reps. Plant loading is performed in concert with customers.
Beyond noting the dedicated quickturn operations, Circuits Assembly came away with three distinct impressions during our visit in late September: one, the extreme use of Lean at all points within the facilities (not just the factory floor); two, the depth of consideration to the roadblocks, not just to process flow but to customer deliverables; and three, a startling emphasis on understanding the role marketing plays in customers' strategies.
Marketing matters. Marketing of the end-product is an after-thought at most EMS companies – particularly the smaller ones. In perhaps as much as 25% of SKUs, the EMS provider may not even be informed as to what end-product the assembly is earmarked. Yet, it clearly weighs on the minds at MEC. Explains MEC Innovation vice president of technology James Scholler, "Many industries are myopic in how they solve problems. We like to be involved with customers' marketing people so we can help generate new ideas. It's difficult to get there; you'd think it would be black and white. But why shouldn't we go about extracting from the customers what metrics they would consider to be a success? I think I should be in with my customer's marketing team 80% of my time."
Adds Terry Martin, the company's Lean and Culture Leader in Milwaukee, "We want to eliminate the filters of design. We can do this if we ask the five 'whys' at the front end of the relationship." This goes beyond Scholler's boundlessly enthusiastic and analytical obsession with knowing what his customers are trying to accomplish. Indeed, in some cases, MEC also puts its designers into the design centers of major customers.
Infected by Lean. A Lean culture infects the entire Milwaukee facility. Now five years into its Lean initiatives, MEC has conducted roughly 120 Kaizen events. The factory is laid out in several cells. (While MEC Northwest has a traditional layout, MEC Midwest is designed to facilitate customer interaction with team leaders.) Setup times are tracked with a digital timer mounted high on the wall. All materials are stored at point-of-use. Raw material is received and dispersed to stocking areas immediately, explains Sivilotti, with no kitting or transferring. So-called "in-house supermarkets" maintain standard release quantities (Figure 1), with a pull system that operates under a rule that if nothing is pulled out, nothing goes in. Parts are bar-coded for traceability. High changeover counts are the ideal, and lot sizes kept low to maintain velocity. A large scheduling board located on the factory floor identifies, by color, the status of WIP. Unlike many firms, MEC technicians and operators are encouraged to speak with their counterparts at customers. "Our techs talk to theirs," says operations manager Bob Schultz. "We always want to grow the number of touches (with customers)," adds Sivilotti.
Likewise, Lean manager Martin maintains a Lean Level Training Matrix on which he posts schedules and tracks Kaizen events. The status board is color-coded. The company holds book clubs to emphasize worker training.
Interestingly, Malek points out, the company actually called a temporary timeout on Kaizen events after it noticed returns were slowing; it is using the time invest in team building, and when it returns to Kaizen next year, the firm hopes to have better team and communications tools in place. It then tried to revamp its approach to generate more velocity (a term heard often at the company). Employees undergo regular training workshops and are encouraged to supply feedback. "We won't survive the way we want to survive if we don't do that," Malek says.
In a room that once housed high-speed lines, the company now performs panel wiring and testing in six cells. The space became available following several Kaizen events, and the service has become a "very large activity for us," Sivilotti says.
NPI is visual, too, with a large board showing all the steps. Each customer is asked for feedback by means of a launch release form.
Never stop moving. MEC operates under the thinking that it doesn't know what it will take to complete a project until the customer says "It's done." Most manufacturers – electronics or otherwise – go through "stage gates" to get from design to manufacturing, without giving deep consideration to the deliverable, which MEC defines as "what the customer values."
"Our goal," says Scholler, revealing a series of process flows and sounding more like an industrial engineer than his electrical background would suggest, "is to keep the project moving at all costs. We want to make the 'gates' flexible and embed the critical paths." Gates – hard steps in each process – are necessary to control risk. Unfreezing them implies greater cost and time. Yet MEC proposes to do exactly that. The program, which MEC calls FreezeGate, pushes documentation to the team level, out of management's hands, which speeds decision-making. Explains Scholler, "We said, 'Let's not freeze documents; let's freeze features' " of the end-product.
Some of the biggest hurdles MEC sees lie outside the facility doors: finding engineering talent and the right customers (and having the courage to pass on the wrong ones); and the frenetic pace of electronics today, which makes it exceedingly difficult for customers and supplier to find time to talk.
Still, while 50 years in electronics assembly suggests a track record of success, Terry Martin sounds uneasy. "Are we giving our employees the environment to step forward and be creative?" he asks. It's precisely that type of self-awareness and pragmatism that will keep MEC around for another 50.
|Eastern-US: China's New Competitor?
Parity emerges among EMS Factories from Asia, Mexico and the US.
For the first time in years we see parity in the Eastern US among EMS factories from Asia, Mexico and the US. This EMS market condition will permit American OEMs (the EMS industry refers to OEMs as customers) to have more EMS pathways to choose from. Now more than ever, such EMS assignments will require deeper investigation relating to the OEMs' evaluation of manufacturing strategies.
|Read more...
|The Human Touch
For those who count on the electronics industry for big feats, it's been a remarkable couple of years.
|Read more...
|Advances in Concentration Monitoring and Closed-Loop Control
Contaminated bath water skews refractive index results. New technology can accurately measure aqueous cleaning agent concentration.
|Read more...
|Circuits Disassembly: Materials Characterization and Failure Analysis
A systematic approach to nonconventional methods of encapsulant removal.
|Read more...
PanaCIM Maintenance with Augmented Reality software provides instant communication and information to factory technicians -- when and where it is needed -- so they can respond to factory needs more...


text:
Wobbling my way through a Q&A session with members of the Class of 1975 during reunion weekend (some sort of bug had me a bit under the weather), one question snapped me to attention. Colby magazine is full of articles about remarkable alumni and students, one '75er said, which is all well and good. But (and I paraphrase here) why don't I see more stories about people like me?
This fellow was from Maine, very pleasant, a banker with an M.B.A. By all accounts he's had a rewarding and successful life after Colby. And yet he felt that his accomplishments weren't enough to land him in his own alumni magazine.
I had been thinking about this question already, having just reread the Last Page essay by Chris Schmidt '83 that appears in this issue. Schmidt, communications director for an international management consulting firm (and a very good writer), talks about being a slacker at Colby, how his professors didn't give up on him back then, and that he keeps this in mind now as a manager and a dad.
But Schmidt also points out that he wasn't a star during college or a headliner soon after, and that he probably wouldn't have made the cut for Colby magazine.
So how do we decide who and what to cover in Colby? Does the magazine accurately represent the Colby community? Or is it what Postmodernists might call a construction? Which should it be? Can you make the magazine if you haven't climbed Mt. Everest or haven't done cancer research. (Actually, both of those can be found in this issue: Tom Claytor '85 online and student researchers on page 11).
But, those examples notwithstanding, of course the answer is "yes." The magazine is about and for Colbians in general. It should not be exclusive, leaving some readers feeling left out or that they don't measure up. That said, it's also true that the magazine is a medium for conveying news about Colby, and, as journalists of a sort, we define news as something out of the ordinary, compelling, eye-catching, edifying, or entertaining. We want to provide readers with stories they will read and will benefit in some way from having read.
It's also true that many more Colby alumni, faculty, students are doing interesting and remarkable things than we can fit in a quarterly print magazine—or that we are able to write for the online version. If we had the staff and resources, Colby could be a monthly.
As Chris Schmidt '83 eloquently points out in his essay on The Last Page in this issue, life is about more than résumés and Colby does more than cultivate early high achievers. Some of our most important accomplishments come late. Many don't easily translate to headlines.
It's a balancing act here at Colby magazine. And if we lose sight of that, we need someone to stand up in the back of the room and say so. And keep those story ideas coming.
Gerry Boyle '78, P'06
Managing Editor

subset: commoncrawl


text:
UNC Asheville – Right size, right price, right place
When you're looking for the right match for college-bound students, direct them to UNC Asheville. Not every student is looking for a mega-sized campus. In fact, most students want a college experience where they won't get lost in the crowd and can have more opportunities to learn, grow, and stand out.
UNC Asheville is one of the best-kept secrets in North Carolina education, offering the rigorous academics of a private school — at an affordable public school price. Part of the University of North Carolina system, UNC Asheville is the state's only public liberal arts university. And our mission is to prepare students for the broad opportunities they'll find in the marketplace.
What kind of student will fit in at UNC Asheville? Most of our students graduated in the top 50% of their high school class with SAT scores ranging from 1070-1250. We find they are independent thinkers, curious learners and service volunteers. Other than that, it's hard to describe our typical student because they represent a wide diversity of interests and passions.
Our students choose UNC Asheville for the personal attention they find here with smaller classes and a focus on undergraduate education. With an integrated core curriculum, we help students master complex concepts, then apply what they learn in practical internships, independent study projects, community service and study abroad. Of course, students have plenty to keep them occupied outside of class with clubs, sports, recreation and culture.
We invite you to discover the value of UNC Asheville — and then share it with your students.
Group Tours
Group tours allow students of all ages to see the beautiful UNC Asheville campus. Group tours are a great way to encourage students to seek out learning and higher level education.
To schedule a group tour, please contact Nate Corbitt, Visit Coordinator for the UNC Asheville Office of Admissions, using one of the following contact methods:
Click here to register for a group tour online.
Phone: 828.251.6481
E-mail: email@example.com
Open House
Fall 2013 Open House Dates:
Saturday, September 28, 2013
Saturday, November 9, 2013
Spring 2014 Open House Date:
Saturday, March 22, 2014
Please click here for more information on our Open Houses.
Important Forms
Application Deadlines
- Early Decision - November 15
- Regular Decision - February 15
Please feel free to contact us if you have any questions. One of our Admissions Representatives will be glad to assist you.


text:
Diarrhea, Age 11 and Younger
Topic Overview
Every baby or child has different bowel habits. Many newborns who are breast-fed have 5 to 10 bowel movements a day. They may have as few as 1 or 2. After 2 weeks, breast-fed babies' bowel movements might be less frequent. Bottle-fed babies tend to have 1 or 2 fewer bowel movements a day than breast-fed babies. Babies sometimes go 2 days or longer between bowel movements. This usually is not a problem as long as:
- The baby seems comfortable and is healthy and growing.
- The stools are not hard.
Normal stool during infancy may be runny or pasty, especially if the baby is breast-fed. The presence of mucus in the stool is not uncommon. Unless there is a change in your baby's normal habits, loose and frequent stools are not considered to be diarrhea.
Diarrhea occurs when there is an increase in the frequency of bowel movements or bowel movements are more watery and loose than normal. Diarrhea has many causes.
Dietary changes
A child may develop diarrhea from a change in his or her diet. A baby's or child's digestive tract may not tolerate large amounts of juice, fruit, or even milk. Diarrhea may be caused by an increase in the amount of juice or fruit a child drinks or eats. Diarrhea that is caused by a change in the child's diet is not usually serious.
Diarrhea is often caused by a viral or bacterial infection, such as rotavirus , stomach flu ( gastroenteritis ), or food poisoning . Diarrhea is the body's way of quickly clearing any viruses, bacteria, or toxins such as botulism from the digestive tract. Most cases of diarrhea are caused by a viral infection and will usually clear up in a few days.
Diarrhea may also be caused by a parasitic infection, such as Giardia lamblia . This parasite, as well as other viral and bacterial infections, may be spread by drinking untreated water , unpasteurized dairy products, or by poor hand-washing.
Other causes
On rare occasions, diarrhea can be a symptom of a more serious condition, such as:
- A problem in the digestive tract, such as inflammatory bowel disease or intussusception .
- Diseases that interfere with the normal digestion of food (malabsorption), such as cystic fibrosis or celiac disease .
Children, especially those younger than 6 months of age and those with other health risks, need special attention when they have diarrhea because they can quickly become dehydrated . Careful observation of your child's appearance and how much fluid he or she is drinking can help prevent problems.
Check your child's symptoms to decide if and when your child should see a doctor.
Check Your Symptoms
This site requires ActiveX controls and plug-ins to be enabled. If not already installed, the Free Adobe Flash Plugin is available for download.
Home Treatment
As soon as you notice that your child has diarrhea, it is important to take action to prevent dehydration . Oral rehydration solutions (ORSs) are used to prevent or correct dehydration in young children. ORSs contain the right mix of salt, sugar, potassium, and other minerals to help replace body fluids lost from diarrhea. It may be wise to keep some ORS on hand so that if your child develops diarrhea, you can start replacing lost fluids immediately. ORS will help prevent dehydration, but it will not stop the diarrhea.
The amount of ORS your child needs depends on the severity of his or her dehydration. The more severe the dehydration, the more ORS you will need to give your child.
Newborns and babies through 1 year of age
Don't wait until signs of dehydration develop to replace lost fluids. Signs of dehydration include your baby being thirstier than usual and having darker urine than usual.
- If you breast-feed your baby, feed your baby more often to replace lost fluids. Give an oral rehydration solution (ORS) between feedings only if signs of dehydration develop.
- If you use a bottle to feed your baby, increase the number of feedings to make up for lost fluids. The amount of extra fluid your baby needs depends on your baby's size and the severity of his or her diarrhea. For example, a newborn may need as little as 1 fl oz (30 mL) at each extra feeding, while a 12-month-old baby may need as much as 3 fl oz (90 mL) at each extra feeding. Give an ORS between feedings only if signs of dehydration develop.
- If signs of mild or moderate dehydration develop, the amount of breast milk, formula, or ORS your baby needs depends on his or her weight and the degree of dehydration present. You can give the ORS in a dropper, spoon, or bottle. Continue to give the ORS until your baby's stools return to normal.
- If your baby has started eating cereal, you may replace lost fluids with cereal. Offer the cereal mixture after each diarrhea stool. You may also offer any other foods that your child has had before.
Children 1 year through 11 years of age
Oral rehydration solution (ORS) or plain water (if the child is eating food) may be
used to replace fluids lost from diarrhea.
- Offer your child 0.5 cup (120 mL) to 1 cup (240 mL) of fluids after each diarrhea stool.
- Allow your child to drink as much fluid as he or she wants.
- If diarrhea is persistent or if your child is
, using an ORS as the main source of
replacement fluids is the safest approach.
- The amount of ORS your child needs depends on his or her weight and the degree of dehydration present.
- Keep giving the ORS until your child's stools return to normal.
- If your baby is eating a cereal mixture, it can also be used to replace lost fluids. Offer 0.5 cup (120 mL) to 1 cup (240 mL) of the cereal mixture after each diarrhea stool.
- Give your child frequent small meals,
at least 6 a day, while he or she is having diarrhea.
- The best foods for your child are easily digestible foods, such as rice cereal, pasta, breads, cooked beans, mashed potatoes, cooked carrots, applesauce, and bananas.
- Pretzels or salty crackers can help your child replace the salt lost from diarrhea.
- Foods containing large amounts of sugar or fat should be avoided.
General tips
- Avoid giving your child juice, chicken
broth, soda pop, sports drinks,
ginger ale, or tea. These drinks do not contain the right mixture of minerals
and sugar to replace lost fluids and may make the diarrhea worse.
- Do not offer soda pop, juice, ice cream, or candy, because they contain a lot of sugar and lack the calories and minerals your child needs.
- You may use plain water to replace lost fluids if your child is older than 1 year of age and is eating food.
- Do not withhold food from your child. Studies have shown that children who are fed easily digestible foods have shorter episodes of diarrhea.
- If your child drinks cow's milk, he or she may continue to drink it.
- Do not give your child prescription or nonprescription medicine to stop diarrhea unless you are told to do so by your child's doctor.
- Protect the diaper area with zinc oxide or another cream. Diaper rash is common after diarrhea.
- Wash your hands and your child's hands thoroughly after each diaper change and before each feeding.
- Until your doctor has assured you that your child's diarrhea is not infectious, your child should not attend school or day care.
- Learn how to clean up diarrhea safely. Protect your hands with gloves while cleaning up. Wash your hands after you are done cleaning up.
If your child is also vomiting, learn about home treatment for vomiting.
Symptoms to watch for during home treatment
Call your doctor if any of the following occur during home treatment:
- Blood in diarrhea develops.
- Signs of dehydration develop. These include your child being thirstier than usual and having darker urine than usual.
- Your child has diarrhea and a fever.
- Symptoms become more severe or frequent.
Do not allow your child to drink untreated or unfiltered water from a lake or stream or unpasteurized milk. Untreated water and unpasteurized milk are sources for viral, bacterial, and parasitic infections, such as Giardia lamblia . Avoid having your child brush his or her teeth with untreated water. Even a small amount of untreated water can contain enough parasites, virus, and bacteria to cause diarrhea.
Diarrhea can spread because of poor hygiene.
- Practice good hand-washing.
- Be sure to wash your hands and your child's hands after each diaper change or trip to the bathroom.
- Teach your child to wash his or her hands after using the bathroom and before every meal.
- Do not place soiled diapers on surfaces that are used to prepare or serve food.
- If your child attends school or day care, keep your child at home until your doctor has determined that his or her diarrhea can't be passed to others (is not infectious).
Food poisoning is a common cause of diarrhea in children and adults. Most cases of food poisoning at home may be prevented by taking a few precautions when preparing and storing food. Perishable foods, such as eggs, meats, poultry, fish, shellfish, milk, and milk products, should be treated with extra care. Also, precautions should be taken if you are pregnant, you have an impaired immune system or a chronic illness, or you are preparing foods for other high-risk groups, such as young children or older people.
The following steps are recommended to prevent food poisoning:
- Prepare foods safely.
- Shop safely.
- Cook foods safely.
- Store foods safely.
- Follow labels on food packaging.
- Serve foods safely.
- When in doubt, throw it out.
Many counties in the United States have extension services listed in the phone book. These services can answer your questions about safe home canning and food preparation.
When you travel in wilderness areas or to other countries of the world, it is common to get traveler's diarrhea from food or water because the methods of food preparation are different.
Rotavirus vaccine (What is a PDF document?) helps protect babies and young children from getting a rotavirus infection , which can cause diarrhea and dehydration . Talk to your child's doctor about this vaccine for your child.
Preparing For Your Appointment
To prepare for your appointment, see the topic Making the Most of Your Appointment.
You can help your doctor diagnose and treat your child's condition by being prepared to answer the following questions:
- How long has your child had diarrhea?
- How many times per day does your child have diarrhea?
- Describe your child's diarrhea:
- What color is it?
- Is it mushy or watery?
- Does it contain blood or mucus?
- Have you noticed an unusual odor?
- Does your child have other symptoms such as fever, vomiting, or abdominal pain?
- Has your child taken any new prescription or nonprescription medicines?
- Do you regularly give your child laxatives or stool softeners?
- Has your child been eating new or different foods?
- Has your child been exposed to other children or adults who have diarrhea?
- Has your child drunk untreated lake, stream or well water?
- Has your child recently visited a foreign country where clean water or proper food preparation was not available?
- Has your child been exposed to farm animals?
- Does your child have a history of chronic disease such as cystic fibrosis or celiac disease ?
- Does your child have any health risks?
Related Information
|Healthwise Staff
|Primary Medical Reviewer
|William H. Blahd, Jr., MD, FACEP - Emergency Medicine
|Specialist Medical Reviewer
|H. Michael O'Connor, MD - Emergency Medicine
|Last Revised
|January 15, 2013
- Top of Page
Next Section:Check Your Symptoms
Previous Section:Topic Overview
- Top of Page
Next Section:Home Treatment
Previous Section:Check Your Symptoms
- Top of Page
Next Section:Prevention
Previous Section:Home Treatment
- Top of Page
Next Section:Preparing For Your Appointment
Previous Section:Prevention
- Top of Page
Next Section:Related Information
Previous Section:Preparing For Your Appointment
- Top of Page
Next Section:Credits
Previous Section:Related Information
- Top of Page
Last Revised: January 15, 2013
This information does not replace the advice of a doctor. Healthwise, Incorporated disclaims any warranty or liability for your use of this information. Your use of this information means that you agree to the Terms of Use. How this information was developed to help you make better health decisions.
To learn more visit Healthwise.org
© 1995-2013 Healthwise, Incorporated. Healthwise, Healthwise for every health decision, and the Healthwise logo are trademarks of Healthwise, Incorporated.


text:
more news
Four Nigerian Plaintiffs take Shell to Court in The Netherlands
Plaintiffs from devastated communities in Nigeria tell their stories in their own words.
Friends of the Earth Europe: Shale gas: unconventional and unwanted
New report highlights dangers of unconventional fuel to environment and health
Join the Global Frackdown for a Ban on Fracking!
Friends of the Earth International is supporting Global Frackdown, a mass global day of action on Saturday, September 22 demanding a ban on fracking around the world.
Next 3 items » 1 2 3 4 … 7


text:
Fredrick Mbate at Osire settlement's supplementary feeding centre
(Copyright: WFP/Irene Kyomuhangi)
In Namibia, Frederic Fights Malnutrition In The Kitchen
Frederic Mbate has perfect qualifications for working in the supplementary feeding centre at Osire refugee settlement in central Namibia. Prior to leaving Rwanda in 2002, he used to be a hotel kitchen assistant.
WFP Offices
Recent stories
- 11 February 2013 In Namibia, Frederic Fights Malnutrition In The Kitchen
- 27 September 2012 Helping Them Leave Namibia For Home
- 28 May 2012 WFP And SADC In Historic Alliance To Fight Hunger In Southern Africa


text:
Land Rover Prices | Land Rover Costs | Land Rover's LR2, LR4 and Range Rover Sport luxury SUVs are produced by Jaguar Land Rover (Tata Sons Ltd.), located in Great Britian. The newest Land Rover currently offered at Land Rover dealerships include the 2013 Land Rover Range Rover Evoque, the LR4 and the Land Rover Range Rover SC Autobiography Ultimate Edition. Land Rover consistently prove to be one of NADAguides most popular SUVs.
2003 Land Rover Discovery
A rugged yet luxurious five-passenger SUV, the 2003 Land Rover Discovery is exceptionally capable of the beaten path yet refined enough for everyday use.
2003 Land Rover Freelander
The 2003 Land Rover Freelander is a compact five-passenger SUV that is offered as a four-door or the all-new two-door version which features a removable rear soft-top.
2003 Land Rover Range Rover
Totally restyled and upgraded, the 2003 Land Rover Range Rover is a luxury SUV that seats five passengers and is powered by a 4.4L V8 generating 282 hp and 325 lb-ft of torque.
|Your ZIP Code is used to provide you with information specific to your location.


text:
9240 S Cicero Ave, Oak Lawn
Meghan was great- Food was excellent. We will be back!
4401 W 95th St, Oak Lawn
the first time i went to pete's i was a little unsure b/c it didn't even look like a resturant from the outside i thought it was someones home. but when i sat down i was impressed…
5219 W 95TH St, Oak Lawn
Very nice sports bar atmosphere with an outdoor beer garden in the summer. They have a small menu but everything is done well with great burgers & nachos. Reasonably priced for a…
5420 W. 95th St., Oak Lawn
111th & Pulaski, Oak Lawn
South Side Irish pub offers Guinness and Harp on tap, live music and classic Celtic fare.
9090 S Roberts Rd, Oak Lawn
The Road House is an excellent place to unwind and have a great time with friends.
5432 W 95TH St, Oak Lawn
I've been going to McMahon's since Roger opened it up. Great place to relax and he has a good selection of tap and bottle beer with very good burgers from the grill. Been there…
9953 Southwest Hwy, Oak Lawn
9306 Central Ave, Oak Lawn


text:
Blake Shelton, Miranda Lambert Divorce: He Wants the Liquor, She Wants the 'Baby'
Blake Shelton and Miranda Lambert are happily married, but the tabloids haven't accepted that so the country couple is having fun with the divorce rumors.
Blake Shelton and Miranda Lambert are happily married, but the tabloids haven't accepted that so the country couple is having fun with the divorce rumors.
Are you looking for some Easter egg hunts to take part in? Well here is a list of some in the area
This amazing display of water vs. fire took place in Canada. Due to the remoteness of the location, officials were afraid that a fire truck couldn't make it there in time to prevent an all out forest fire, so they sent in a water bomber! This is WOW footage!
--Oil blotting sheets
--Michael Kors' Leg Shine (bronzer)
--Hybrid Lip Gloss: "a huge trend this season." and "the perfect mix between gloss and lipstick."
My Facebook has been flooded lately, but not with the usual buzzfeed quizzes or mind numbing videos of people or pets doing random things. For the past few days my account has been packed by loving Missoulians who are coming together to support one of their own.
The days of mascara are long gone! In come lash serums and the best substitute...the lash extension! I am a huge fan and let me tell you why
Missoula police received a report at about 6:00 p.m. on Tuesday regarding a possible scam involving the payment of a power bill perpetrated against a local business.
On Tuesday, April 15, Tax Day, a group of Montana Tea Party supporters met in Helena and presented a petition to the Montana Commissioner of Political Practices.
A century-old mistake has kept the Northern Cheyenne Tribe from access to 117 million tons of coal laying beneath the tribe's southeastern Montana reservation.
Tyler Hennes, an 18 year old from Stevensville has been battling osteosarcoma for 4 years. When Ty learned that his cancer has spread even more, he created a bucket list...One of the many items includes a dance party with a DJ for him and all of his friends. We believe that with the help of the community we can absolutely make Ty's dream come true.
We are currently in the planning stages of this event. Below are a list of items needed to truly create the best dance party possible, we are hoping some of you can offer services to help make this a party he will never forget. We ask that you take a look at the items below and see if there might be anything you can do on your end to pitch in.
The study finds median rent prices in 90 cities across the U-S are higher than a basic affordability threshold for middle-income families.
Keep in mind, the study is looking not at where rents are highest, but where they're becoming least affordable based on local incomes.
A new app wants to help get the party started. Winkli lets Facebook users view the profiles of people attending the same events, allowing them to filter based on relationship status. Essentially, it helps you check out the cute single people at the party before you even get there!


text:
4820 Chicago Ave, Minneapolis, MN | Directions 5541744.915395 -93.263031
Mon - Sat 11am to Midnight, Sunday 10am to 11pm
Neighborhoods: Field, Nokomis
Used to be a good place to go – We have been going to Pepitos for 30+ years and it has really gone down the toilet.
Pepitos seems to really take their customers and the business that they get for granted.
There is an attitude of general disdain toward the customers. Kind of, if you don't like it, we don't care if you ever come back attitude. Drove all the way from St Paul and Eden Prairie (to meet family) for horrible service and slop for food dinner. Took over 45 minutes to get a basic dinner (taco plates and mexican pizza). What they finally gave us was totally insulting. The Mexican pizza was very tiny and came on a ripped tortilla at room temp with 12 shreds of cheese. We didn't say anything as the attitude of the staff there was very cold. Not welcoming at all.
I remember all the remodels of this restaurant over the years as they expanded. I remember meeting Tony Olivia in there (MN TWINS) when he was still playing. This place used to be cool. Our family won't be going there anymore as we refuse to be ripped off and would rather spend our money at a business that appreciates it's customers. Wake up Pepitos and realize where your bread is buttered.
Won't go back – Was excited to eat lunch here, as it used to be one of my favorite restaurants, and I hadn't been to Pepitos in years. My friend wanted Tamales..."no tamales today". OK, then instead she ordered Tacos--"El Pastor". When it arrived, 2 teeny soft tacos arrived in a plastic red basket with checked paper. No kidding....we giggled and thought it was a mistake and was a kids' menu item. The corn tortilla used could not have been bigger than 5 inches. All that was in the taco was beef and cilantro. Bland, boring, not even a garnish. I think it was $8-$9. Ridiculous. The server was kind and asked how lunch was...we mentioned the size of the tacos for the price, and she came back and said "they were steak Tacos"......
I ordered flautas/Taquitos...they were OK, nothing to get excited about. I would not return to Pepitos....it is too bad. They at one time were a destination for many people I know.
Zero Stars – Nice waitress said she worked there 9 years so I asked her recommendation and she said she gets the chili relleno for herself it is so good. Since I love that dish and she confirmed they make them at the restaurant instead of buying them already prepared, I thought this was going to be a good experience. What I got was a grease-sodden, tired, most pathetic chili relleno ever in my life. The sauce on top and layers through the chili tasted like homogeneous and bland nondescript moist goo. The beans and rice looked old and lifeless with a taste that matched their appearance.
Pros: My fork came with a free appetizer dried on it.
Pepito-Bismol's?? – On vacation from Chicago, 1st time to twin cities. home of Lil Mexico (for the record). I wanted to see if there was any comparison, so my wife asked the front desk for a recommendation, & this is what we got>> An over-priced, cup full of lipstick, no nacho bringing, gay waiting, beans "OR" rice, non-mexican cooking, Ultimate Burrito is .30 more then the regular Burrito, hole in the wall, wanna be, authentic mexican restaurant, owned by gringos, who claim to have, brown pride somewhere along their ancestory, but were really born on a farm & expect a real Mexican to place an order.. C'mon, you really think with 5 minutes of this I wanted to gamble my $ on their food. No TY!!! Glad I didn't after reading these reviews, & hope you don't either!!!
Poor Customer Service – Up until tonight, we have been loyal Pepitos customers. But tonight we ordered our food and the waitress asked if we wanted rice or beans with it. We said rice and later learned we were charged extra. When we confronted the waitress, rather than apologizing and taking the $2.95 off our tab, she went on to justify herself saying "no...I asked if you wanted an extra side..." Being a former server, her response should have been, "oh I am sorry for the miscommunication, let me take care of that..." - DONE. It's too bad they are losing our business over a $3.00 bowl of rice.
I paid what for what – Where to start? It took over an hour for us to be served our food (our server was excellent - she apologized for the wait and checked in with us several times - you could tell she was concerned with our experience). One us ordered a taco with black beans instead of meat and the beans where cold (the manager made it seem like that is how taco is made with cold beans). The kids meal was not enough to feed a 2 year old (our child is older) and the cost for a tortilla with some cheese sprinkled on and few black olives (the menu did say a few - they meant a few) was outragious. The manager was tyring really hard not to be defensive when I spoke with him about the food but he was irritated with my comments (especially when I said the canned beans in the taco where cold as they make their beans - sorry?). The prices are too high for what little food we did receive. The best deal was the chimichanga (the rice was mushy). But if you want something fun to read - the menu was great reading: tacos come in a CHEAP plastic basket; the California burger stated generous amount of vegetables (one small lettuce leaf, one or two thinnly sliced tomato and two thinnly slice onion rings) and there was something about 2 1/4 pound patties weighing as much as a volkswagon???? Sorry we will not be returning.
Pepito's is overpriced and has lost it's Charm.. – I used to think Pepito's was good but over the years they have lost all there Mexican Charm they are so well known for. The are extremely overpriced! and the staff has no sense of Mexican hospitality.
Last night I really hit the floor.. I ordered the " Carne Asada" Burrito off the menu and she didn't know what I meant!, So I hat to say steak Burrito.. Yipes.. When they brought out my ?? $12.00+ Steak Burrito, it was plopped into some cheap plastic burger basket with a sheet of tacky paper.. The burrito looked White and Cold, not even a singe garnishment!! . BTW, It was Cold also! When I told here her I was shocked that it was not served on a plate, she said, she could put it on one if I REALLY wanted it. I told her I would manage... <poor> .. Then Never came back to see how we were doing.. I really wanted another Margarita after our long wait for dinner as well..
Anyhow, I hope the do a big improvement on their atmosphere!!
We have other Authentic Mexican Restaurants close by you should try out.
Will Never Go Back! – My husband and I visited the Minneapolis restaurant this past Monday. It took 50 minutes for our order to get to our table. When it did finally come (we both ordered Ultimate Burritos w/grilled steak), my order was wrong - no beef, only black beans. The waitress was willing to take it back to the kitchen to get it fixed, but we had just finshed waiting 50 minutes to get it in the first place! I told her no, I would just eat it as is but expected to get credited for the price of the entree since it was wrong. She said she would talk to the Manager. She came back and said, that he would only comp our bill 1/2 the price of the entree since I had agreed to eat it! The burritos we did get, were terrible - no sauteed veggies as the menu said. The "grilled steak" looked like 3 day old roast beef leftovers. I told the waitress to tell her Manager, we were very disappointed and that we would not be back. We finished our meal, do you think we saw anything of the Manager? Any good Manager would have come to our table, spoken with us and compted us for at least the entree (how much does it cost them to make it? - $2.00-$3.00). We ended up paying a $65.00 bill (drinks because we had to wait so long) - they made a ton of money off us, but the Manager "Kenny" (as we saw printed on our bill) couldn't even come out to talk to us. No fault of our waitress Samantha. She did a good job, and was just doing damage control that should have been the responsiblity of her Manager. We will never be back, will tell others not to come, and recommend that you not go either.
If zero stars was an option . . . – I ate at Pepitos last night and it was the single most outrageous dining experience of my life. I ordered a vegetarian dish, since I haven't eaten meat in over twelve years. When I bit into it, it was filled with ground beef instead of grilled vegetables! I spit it out and informed the waitress. She didn't so much as apologize for the mistake, instead blaming it on the kitchen staff. After about 10 minutes, I received a vegetarian dish. I ate it -- it was subpar but at least it didn't use to have a face. When the bill came out, I was shocked to see that I hadn't even been given a discount for the mistake. I asked the waitress about it, and she again blamed it on the kitchen staff and told me that the situation was completely rectified by the fact that I did, eventually, receive a vegetarian dish. I asked to speak to a manager. He came out in jeans and a smirk. Again, no apology for the mistake, no acknowledgment of the fact that someone's error caused me to consume a product that I haven't touched in over a decade. He was actually combative, saying things like, "So you want us to pay for your food even though you ate it?" He finally said, "Fine, whatever" and walked away. There are too many great restaurants in Minneapolis and St. Paul to waste your time and money at a place that treats you to terrible customer service and outright disrespect coupled with food that is mediocre at best. Never again, Pepitos!
Don't waste your time or money! – The food is average at best but definitely overpriced. The Margaritas come out of a spicket (unless you order top shelf tequila) and are also overpriced . We used to overlook those things because it was close to home and there were a few bartenders and waitstaff that were really nice and cared about us and their other customers, but we noticed that as soon as those employees seemed to be getting to know folks and other regulars; they were there less and less until they were no longer there at all. What's up with that?( It"s a proven fact that it's those employees who know their customers that keeps the business coming back)
The management is poor and can be downright rude at times. They give you the impression that if you don't like the way they are doing things, don't go there, which is exactly what we are going to do after being regulars there for the past 3 years.
I can say that I am happy that they bought and reopened the Parkway Theatre. They have good movies, shows and events there, and real butter on their popcorn. Other than that, I wouldn't recommend Peptios to anyone and would go as far to say find another Mexican Restaurant to go to. There are plenty more out there with better, more authentic food, prices and management .
Sign in with Facebook Sign in with Facebook to see what your friends are up to!
Do you have a review of Pepitos on your blog? If you include the Citysearch image link (shown below) in your post, we'll automatically link to your review from the business profile page. Here's how our Linkback system works:
The Linkback system is free and automatic. It's really that easy.
To link to our business profile page, copy the html below to your web page.


text:
What's the best way to get management motivated to invest in training? Get a critical product development project into a whole lot of trouble. As the 19th-century intellectual Dr. Samuel Johnson said to his biographer Boswell, "Depend upon it, sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully."
Colorbus Inc. of Irvine, Calif., provides raster image processors--incredibly complicated hardware and software for operation with networked color printers and copiers. A new print controller had been promised for Ricoh Inc., the Tokyo-based electronics giant. And things were not going well. At the time, Arthur Kirsch, then head of the company's R&D effort, called it a "death march." Product development was based at Colorbus' office in Melbourne, Australia--a mere six time zones away from California headquarters--where programmers were writing code furiously without producing much forward momentum. Looking back on it with a year's perspective, Jeffrey Hayzlett, former executive vice president of business development (he and Kirsch stepped away from Colorbus in April to start a dot-com, but they retain financial interests), is philosophical:
"We had this one project that was nearly impossible to get done," he says. "Nonetheless, like most companies, we sold it anyway. We went to our teams and asked them if they could they do it. Everybody said they could. And then we actually got the project. We had to teach everybody, and we had to teach them fast, because we had to deliver this project in an unbelievably short amount of time."
While the Ricoh project had served to concentrate the minds of Colorbus managers, there were other problems. "We had purchased a number of companies in various countries over the last two years," says Hayzlett. In fact, a lot of what was Colorbus had been, as recently as October 1998, Atlanta-based Star Imaging, itself the product of several mergers. "So we had different cultures," he says. "Imagine you're building a football team and you have championship-level players, except nobody agrees on what the word 'huddle' means. We had to pull all those cultures together."
Call in the Marines Hayzlett and Kirsch started shopping around for help. They stopped when they got to Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, home of SportsMind, a consultancy that teaches teambuilding. (The company recently relocated to Mill Valley, Calif.) Kirsch, who lists his experience as a Marine in his corporate resume, was especially taken with SportsMind, which had among its clients the U.S. Marine Corps. Whatever the initial attraction, companies such as Microsoft and Motorola told the Colorbus executives that they were gung-ho on SportsMind, and that was enough to get Hayzlett and Kirsch to enlist the services of Chris Majer, organizational guru, retired rugby player, and co-founder of the consultancy.
To answer the question on everyone's mind, yes, SportsMind--which began life in 1984 providing performance counseling to athletes--employs ropes courses in which software engineers who haven't seen the sun in years find themselves laboring through physically challenging exercises in trust. In fact, once upon a time, ropes courses were all that SportsMind offered to corporate clients. Not anymore.
"In our view, learning shows up as a capacity to move differently in the world than you did prior to the learning experience," says Majer. "No single event is going to make a difference. It's all long-term process, because the way you build competence is through recurrent practice."
Moody Clues When SportsMind set up an initial training event for Colorbus, its purpose was to shift the mood of the organization. At the outset, the mood was not good. Colorbus management had looked at the new project and hadn't liked what it saw. "Man, we had holes in communication, in commitment, in overall follow-through," Hayzlett says. "We had people doing jobs they'd never done before."
According to Majer, the first task of the first event with Colorbus was "to generate some genuine ambition, an appetite for real learning. Most people, especially technical people, don't understand that mood is everything." He hastens to add that mood is not the only thing, but it provides the clues to whatever is going to happen in a business. "If people are in a culture of cynicism--or arrogance, which you see a lot of in technology companies--it doesn't matter how great your technology is, it's not going to do anything."
Majer is the first to say that a ropes course by itself is merely entertainment. "Lots of people want to hire us just to do ropes courses," he says. "We tell them to go to Disneyland." What SportsMind did with Colorbus was hold a series of off-site meetings in Australia, the United States, and Europe. In the United States, the consultancy usually uses one of 16 locations around the country--some conference centers, some hotels--where it has developed relationships for outdoor experiential work as well as such details as healthy food service.
What happens besides rope courses? "We talked a lot about what we wanted to be when we grew up," says Hayzlett. "We had to come up with a mission, a vision, and decide how we wanted to operate as a team."
So Why Do the Ropes, Anyway? Ropes courses make great photo ops, but why, really, are they necessary? "We can talk all day about trust and risk-taking," says Majer. "Your body doesn't distinguish between fear on a ropes course and fear of going into a stressful situation, like a meeting where you know you have to give bad news. The ropes course gives people practice at dealing with stress." He adds that while a ropes course breaks self-limiting beliefs, it does not produce competence. But being willing and able to take new actions--to take risks--makes managers able to develop new competencies. And it is the competency-developing part that constitutes the real work.
Both Majer and Hayzlett say the last day of the off-site meeting was critical. Employees were divided into teams with the explicit goal of getting the new product project done. Perhaps the toughest part was getting all participants to realize that they had a lot to learn. "You can't start off as an expert," says Hayzlett. "We had to learn the basics." That's a lot to swallow, says Majer. "They think the hard part of business is the technology stuff, when in fact the hard part is coordinating the action to get projects done."
How Things Get Done In fact, before the first big meeting, SportsMind did a considerable amount of groundwork. They interviewed people at all different levels of the organization. "Our first job is to figure out how things actually work, compared to management's idea of how things work," says Majer. The first meeting was just the first step. If there is a secret to really changing the behaviors, it is that the outside organization doesn't leave after the initial event. "It really is a great sports analogy," says Hayzlett. "You have to get in shape, and you have to stay in shape."
Thus, what started out as a series of special events turned into a relationship that lasted several months. "They traveled all over with us--here in the U.S., in Australia, and in Europe," says Hayzlett. "We put them on site at our offices for months at a time." The coaching was specific and had to do mostly with learning how to be better communicators. "There's a difference between someone saying 'I think I can get that for you Friday' as opposed to 'I'll get it to you Friday at 5 p.m.,'" says Hayzlett. "In our old way of thinking, if someone said 'I think I can get it' we took that as a commitment, when it was really a maybe."
The Bottom Line With help from SportsMind, Colorbus turned around a project that was on the brink of disaster. Privately held Colorbus doesn't disclose numbers, but Hayzlett says the impact on the company was immediate and positive. "We increased productivity all the way around," he says. "We had better communication. The level at which commitments were made was dramatically improved. We got back on track with our programming, and sales numbers improved."
This kind of effort does not come cheap. Corporate Technology Information Services, based in Concord, Mass., estimates that Colorbus revenues were somewhere between $25 million and $50 million in 1999. SportsMind charges in the neighborhood of $500,000 for its services. That means Colorbus shelled out between 1 percent and 2 percent of its sales for the SportsMind program. It's got to be a tough sell. Not so, says Majer. He asks just two questions of potential participants: "How long do you plan to keep working? Do you think you now know everything you'll need to know to be successful over the rest of your career? Nobody in their right mind says yes."
Training Resources A great place to learn more about the benefits of ropes courses and other "experiential training" methods is www.experientia.com, a Web site operated by Experientia, a nonprofit consortium of academics and researchers who conduct studies into the effectiveness of experiential training. Simon Priest, PhD, a senior member of the group, offers a summary of research and a useful glossary of terms that does things like explain the difference between experience-based ("all learning is experience-based") and experiential ("active doing rather than the passive being done to"). There are also links to companies that offer training.
Why Tech Firms Need Management Training "Technology people live in a story that says people are like computers, and learning is like putting new software in a machine," says Chris Majer, co-founder of SportsMind, a management training consultancy based in Mill Valley, Calif. In that story, he says, training means giving a big, all-day multimedia presentation where the instructor speaks and attendees listen. The metaphor is that attendees are reprogrammed and that when they leave the room, they'll know exactly what to do.
"In the history of human beings, that's never worked for anybody, but we still fall for it," he says. SportsMind used to offer these kinds of one-day programs, but Majer stopped several years ago because it wasn't working. "You can't sustain the euphoria these programs create; it's like giving out cotton candy to starving people."
Majer reserves special criticism for dot-com companies. "These companies believe they are too busy to do anything other than what they are doing at the moment," he says. "They do not distinguish between frenetic activity and accomplishment. The smart ones are beginning to realize that being a masterful technologist has no bearing--in fact it has an inverse bearing--on their competence as leaders and managers. You get these bright twentysomethings who start their own companies, think they're on top of the world, and when things start to implode, they're totally at a loss ."
Swapping Equity for Training A dot-com growing at 200 percent a year not only has a hard time stopping to reassess, it typically doesn't have any cash to fix what's wrong. In the right circumstance, SportsMind will take a piece of the company in exchange for management training. "It's got to be a situation where we think we can have a dramatic impact on the stock price, not just the business," he says. For example, if he believes he can drastically cut a product introduction schedule that will result in earlier-than-expected revenues, that may have an impact on the stock price. He stresses that taking stock is not a general policy. SportsMind won't take stock in a private company, because it's not liquid. And taking stock in a public company creates major accounting difficulties.
Nonetheless, SportsMind, which made its reputation with big clients like Microsoft and the U.S. Marine Corps, is attracted to small tech companies. "We're having the most fun with them," says Majer. "Once you get past the initial we-don't-need-any-help phase, they're really quite eager to learn. Underneath the bravado is a deep sense of being in over their heads." He laughs, and adds with empathy, "I come in not only as someone with proven practices, but as someone who built a business over 20 years and made every stupid mistake," he says. "We don't come in as Human Resources Inc. We've worked with athletes; we've worked with soldiers. We bring an edge."


text:
*** There is a problem with new registrations - Contact us when you did not receive an activation email ***
by reboot365 » 10 May 2012, 21:08
by mikeconte » 21 Jun 2012, 09:27
by Holies » 05 Jul 2012, 22:56
mikeconte wrote:Yes, the paris consulate requires that NY documents be "legalized" for all vital records. This means they are apostilled and translated correctly.
They will also request the NY Consulate approve any records as being of the correct form, ie a birth certificate is in fact a birth certificate.
Return to Emigration, Immigration, Naturalization and Italian citizenship
Users browsing this forum: No registered users and 1 guest


text:
( Randomness 5
Musically Inspired 3: Another Way to Die by Disturbed
Well partially... Tis a prequel to a book im hoping to write. This one is called: The End. A Valdimir Strange Novel. hahahaha whenever that happens *snicker*
This would be considers a rough draft at best... I'll go over it later and maybe place it in a different topic but right now this will do fine))
I'll tell you what: Things were not pretty when the food sources began to die off. Me, being what i am, i could only watch in horror as people began to fight against one another. An observer to how all the sh** that hit the fan. You want to hear what happened in better detail don't you..... Sigh. Fine.
It was gradual. Something that people knew ahead of time that it was going to happen, but did nothing about it. They thought they had at least a few hundred years or more before they really had to worry. Truthfully it was much much less than that.
The supernatural creatures like myself and the rest, all felt it coming. The world retaliating. The world trying to purge but it was struggling underneath the torture. In its last ditch effort it sent out ... Soldiers if you will. Soldiers whom were extremely rare. Maybe one or two of them over a few decades or more. In total there was at least 20 of them out there trying to reduce the human populations by feeding off of them. How? They would actually suck the very life essence out of them and leave nothing but a corpse. They tried to repair the damage, that was their purpose; However, they were only so few, and to have so many at a given time, some of them went a little crazy.
They ended up finding each other and pretty much wiping themselves out. Why? They were with Humanity too long. Like domestic animals that don't know any better, watching humans and how they behave, each ended up with their own ideals and could not be swayed from them. Naturally no one in the human race knew about this. If they had they might of figured out from that alone that we were on the road to disaster.
Oh sorry i keep changing my pronouns. From them to us sort of thing... I am half vampire so i share an affinity with both humans and the supernatural since I am of both. Anyway.
This is how it happened:
"Scientists are now saying that they have made a mistake in calculating just how much food there is for everyone." The News lady announced," I have with me Dr. Manchester who is the lead scientist on the Ecology of the world. Tell me Doctor, just how much time do we have?"
I paused what i was doing for a moment to look out into the living room. This is one of the things i have to have on while doing anything really. Its my background noise and you never know when something important shows up.
" Well Betty, to say the least we have 10 years before things start becoming less and less. With all the clear cutting and the amount of pollution that is taking over our planet its too much for the remainder trees to handle. They are, in a sense gorging to the point where they are dieing. Vegetation, such as our tomatoes and other fruits and vegetables, are also taking a good brunt of this. We have just started to discovered certain foods being tainted with the atmospheric chemicals that our in our air. With that said, we will see more and more of these cropping up and dieing within the next 10 years." The doctor explained. I could tell just from looking at him on the screen that the numbers were much more drastic than a mere 10 years. With that thought in my head i could only shake it in dismay. " Even with 10 years doc, you're looking at a wide mass hysteria," With that said i moved from the living room to the dinning room and had a look at the night time city. I could tell some people already heard the news as they began panicking and started rushing towards the grocery store. These were the poor ones, i knew that much. Everyone else didn't seem to mind because they knew that if need be they would be able to deal with it when the time comes. They had the money and the means to.
"Prime targets," I smirked shaking my head again as i lit my cigarette. We all have vices, even vampires.
If that wasn't bad enough, i could feel the shifting and the pawing of supernatural powers at war in a dimension i wasn't even certain existed. Every so often i would get the splitting headache like i had just fallen from a 4 story building and landed face first. I can't tell you what happened, because I don't have any contacts or links in that dimension; However, that's a story left for someone else to tell, not me.
Sighing i sat down in the chair after having grabbed a cold beer and a packet of blood from the fridge. I opened the packet and beer and poured them both carefully into a glass. Nothing like blood beer to wake a Half Blood, like myself, up.
This was before my sleuthing days, so i didn't much care what happened out there. I lived alone, that was how i liked it. No one to bother me, not even those damned full bloods. I was completely off of the grid.
Though someone still managed to find me.
A knock came from the door, making me jump. Nothing makes me jump, okay? Nothing catches me off guard. No one could find my place for the talismans i had placed all over it. Even in the registry of the apartment building, there was a missing number. If anyone walked down the hall they wouldn't see my apartment number, it would go to the number after mine. So you can see why it made me jump.
After i had finished pouring my tall cold one, i casually walked over to the door. All the while i tried to sense who or what it was that had broke through my barrier, but i could sense nothing. This scared the crap out of me and when i opened the door i came face to face with a demon.
" You Valdimir Strange?" The guy asked. He seemed like a short scrawny kid. Light brown hair, dark eyes. For some very odd reason i was reminded of a small song bird. Reading my thoughts he smiled but said nothing.
"Well, this ain't the home of Craig, the bastard who cheated on his girlfriend a few days back, is it? And I'm sure as hell, he ain't gay." I remarked bluntly watching this kid carefully.
"Of course not. May i come in?" he answered back not even batting an eye. I stood there hesitantly, for there was something about this kid that gave me the creeps, but eventually i let him in.
"Forgive me if i don't offer you a seat, or to look more presentable for you lad. It's just that i don't know who the F*** you are. " I remarked as i watched him almost glide in. The power in this light brown haired kid was astounding. I have never felt the presence of a demon before. Also i wore a wife beaters tank top and just a pair of tattered jeans. If i knew someone was coming i would've dressed a little bit more nicely.
"Half demon." He corrected my thoughts," My name is Tori and I am the lord of the underworld's messenger. I am also in charge of his domestic disputes and various other charges which His Lordship is unable to deal with himself as he has other pressing matters to attend to."
I raised an eyebrow at this. "What the hell does that have to do with me? What do you want?" I pressed getting more than a little agitated.
He raised a hand up to signal for me to calm down and explained. " His Lordship, is currently in.... Distress. He has left me in charge of finding whomever i can to help in an up coming war. It won't happen just yet, but with the Surface here on the brink of destruction, i figured i would recruit as many people while i can, for we are all running out of time.... Why you? You have a rare blood type that hasn't been seen before. The fact that you come from a different blood line of vampires outside of the ones we have already encountered, is quite fascinating and-"
" Whoa whoa whoa....." I interrupted feeling only slightly overwhelmed by this. Just slightly." Run that by me again.... I'm a rare blood type? ME? ... look if you don't start making more sense than this i will kick you out of here permanently. I don't know how you got in here boy, but i am not following someone i wasn't even sure existed until a short minute ago..."
"Let us sit down and i shall explain things in detail." he offered politely. which was one thing that ticked me off about him. I'm sure that no matter how much i swore at him, he would just smile pleasantly, silently knowing that he could flatten me in one move, and i wouldn't have a chance.
(i'm gunna leave that there for now 'cause there's still a few things i have to run over in my head. )


text:
Click the link for daily surf reports presented by Nichols Surf Shop, 411 Flagler Ave., New Smyrna Beach
Aug. 18, 2009: Patrick James Holley, 41, New Smyrna Beach, grand theft of more than $100,000, theft by an employee; David Gordon Carr, 38, Edgewater, domestic battery; David Allen Russell, 49, Edgewater, possession of a schedule II substance.
Aug. 15, 2009: Stacey Jeanne Teague, 24, New Smyrna Beach, failure to appear; Rondall Sowards, 57, Oak Hill, possession of a controlled substance without a prescription; Timothy John Lindstrom, 46, New Smyrna Beach, unemployment compensation fraud.
(June 15, 1924 - April 24, 2010)
Mass of Christian Burial for Mary E. Smith Morton, age 85, who died Saturday at South Seminole Hospital, Longwood, will be 10:00 a.m., Tuesday, April 27, 2010 at Our Lady Star of the Sea Catholic Church, New Smyrna Beach, with The Reverend John S. Murray, officiating.


text:
Frank Lampard praised the team's application and desire after his two goals fired us to victory at Everton on Sunday.
The midfielder struck in either half as we fought back from going behind after a minute to take all three points and climb back into third place in the Barclays Premier League, but afterwards preferred to focus on the collective effort.
'In the first 20 minutes we weren't reacting and we let them play to their strengths,' Lampard said. 'This was always a difficult game with the way they're playing this season. The lads dug in and we got a bit of luck along the way but you make your own luck and I think we deserved to win it through that.
'I think probably after half an hour we started to get into the game. They certainly dominated and we could have been more than one down but we got a foothold and knocked the ball about and got a goal at a good time, and I always felt we could score on the counter-attack. It was always going to be close because they keep sticking balls into the box and we rode our luck at times but we held on.
'I loved coming and playing up here at Christmas time and contributing to bring us back in it and score the winner, but the team performance and the way the lads worked deserves the most credit today.
'This is always one of the most difficult games of the season. The atmosphere in the crowd and how they pressurise you, they bullied us last year and this year we had to stand up for ourselves. Going 1-0 down takes a massive effort to win the game.'
The win lifts us to within four points of second-placed Manchester City, with a game in hand, and Lampard says we must keep our confidence that we can fight our way back into the title race.
'We have to keep believing. There is a long way to go and things have changed around,' he said. 'It can only happen if we win our games but if we go on performing like we have done in the last few league games and keep doing that, it's all we can do. We need to keep this form and this attitude.'
On a personal note, the stand-in captain also thanked the Chelsea fans for the support they have shown him recently.
'The fans have been amazing and from the minute I came here they have been behind me. I've got Chelsea in me for life. They back their team here, they back all their players and I can't thank them enough,' he said.


text:
The Alexandria Health Department (703-746-4996), located at 4480 King Street, is one of 35 district offices of the Virginia Department of Health's Division of Community Health Services.
Among the many services available are: vaccines against measles, rubella, polio, diphtheria, mumps, pertussis, tetanus, influenza, Type B hepatitis, and pneumococcal pneumonia; environmental health services; family planning services; well child pediatric services; confidential diagnosis, treatment, and counseling on sexually transmitted diseases; tuberculin testing and diagnostic chest x-rays; confidential rapid HIV testing and early intervention services; adult and child dental services; nutritional education and food vouchers for women, infants, and children (WIC); and processing of birth and death certificates.
NEW 2012 AHD BROCHURES! (English) (En Espanol)
Find neighborhood parks?
Start a small business?
Learn about new development?
Pay my taxes or parking citation?
Report fraud, waste and abuse?
Speak at a City Council meeting?
Apply for a marriage license?
Find information for retired City employees?
Get information about permits?
Search property and sales data?
Find visitor information?
Find volunteer opportunities?
Obtain and review public documents and records?
Find information about parking?
Learn more about Verizon FiOS?
4480 King Street
Alexandria, VA, 22302
Fax: 703.746.4938E-mail
Office Hours:Monday - Friday
8 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Closed Thursday Mornings


text:
The National Business Travel Association's (www.nbta.org) latest survey, released October 1, found that 70 percent of the more than 200 corporate travel managers surveyed anticipate a recovery in business travel within three to six months. Only 12 percent said they expected recovery in nine months, and 18 percent 10 months or longer.
Seventy-one percent said the government management of airport security would be extremely important in getting business travelers to schedule a trip. Other factors cited as extremely important include discount fare availability, an elimination of Saturday night stay rules, and getting rid of 21-day advance purchase restrictions.
A previous survey, which NBTA conducted September 18, found that that 58% of corporate travel managers say their companies will reduce travel, while 23% were unsure and 19% did not anticipate that their firms would reduce travel. Of those reducing travel, 65% are doing so immediately. The new survey asked them what would cause them to lift current travel restrictions put into place following the 9/11 attacks. Forty-six percent said that increased security would be the deciding factor; 30 percent said it would be the economic condition of their individual firm. This issue appeared to be split between the coast, with East coast firms more concerned about security, and West coast firms more concerned about the economic condition of their company.
The survey also found that being able to ensure passenger security would be key to resuming business travel in the next six months, particularly for smaller companies who spend less than $5 million on air travel annually.
For full coverage of the aftermath of 9/11, go to Meetingsnet 9/11 Special Report


text:
Welcome to Smeargle's Studio! Please be sure to review the studio rules.Want real-time art feedback? Want to meet YILX FIRST PLACE ARTIST? Come chat with us in the studio's IRC channel! Log onto #smeargle on SynIRC, or click this link to visit us via mibbit!
Namh's art and stuff
Discussion in 'Smeargle's Studio' started by namh, May 24, 2012.
Page 4 of 5
Page 4 of 5


text:
Book your room at Best Western Plus Coquitlam Inn Convention Centre
Please enter your travel dates.
Superior Double Room, 2 Double Beds - Best Value Rate
- 2 double
Superior Room, 1 Queen Bed - Best Value Rate
- 1 queen
Superior Room, 1 King Bed - Best Value Rate
- 1 king
Executive Courtyard Room, 1 King, Jetted Tub - Best Value Rate
- 1 king
Family-friendly Coquitlam hotel with 2 restaurants
This family-friendly hotel is located by the ocean, close to Queens Park, Royal City Centre Shopping Mall, and Simon Fraser University. Local attractions also include Irving House and Massey Theatre.
Hotel Features
In addition to 2 restaurants, Best Western Plus Coquitlam Inn Convention Centre features an indoor pool. Other amenities include a bar/lounge and a conference center.
Room Amenities
Flat-screen televisions include premium cable channels. Guestrooms also feature complimentary wireless Internet access and bathrooms with shower/tub combinations and designer toiletries.Information missing or incorrect? Tell us!
Best Western Plus Coquitlam Inn Convention Centre
- At your hotel
In addition to an indoor pool, Best Western Plus Coquitlam Inn Convention Centre provides a spa tub, a sauna, and a fitness center. Dining is available at one of the hotel's 2 restaurants. A bar/lounge is on site where guests can unwind with a drink. A computer station is located on site and high-speed wired and wireless Internet access is complimentary.
This 3.5-star property offers access to a 24-hour business center, limo/town car service, and technology support staff. Event facilities measuring 5000 square feet (450 square meters) include a conference center, conference/meeting rooms, and a ballroom. This family-friendly hotel also offers tour/ticket assistance, a garden, and a fireplace in the lobby. Onsite self parking is complimentary.
Best Western Plus Coquitlam Inn Convention Centre is a smoke-free property.
- 24-hour business center
- Meeting facilities size (feet) - 5000
- Meeting facilities size (meters) - 450
- Free wired high-speed Internet
- Swimming pool - indoor
- Multiple large conference rooms
- Audiovisual equipment
- ATM/banking
- Spa tub
- 24-hour front desk
- Dry cleaning/laundry service
- Banquet facilities
- Bar/lounge
- Air-conditioned public areas
- Total number of rooms - 105
- Number of floors - 2
- Ballroom(s)
- Breakfast available (surcharge)
- Business services
- Event catering
- Express check-out
- Fireplace in lobby
- Fitness facilities
- Computer station
- Tours/ticket assistance
- Technology support staff
- Free Wi-Fi
- Sauna
- Room service
- Garden
- Limo or Town Car service available
- Free parking
- RV, bus, truck parking
- Free self parking
- Free guest parking during stay
- Luggage storage
- Free outdoor parking
- Conference center
- Number of meeting/conference rooms - 5
- Number of restaurants - 2
- Security guard
- Smoke-free property
- Number of buildings/towers - 2
- Television in lobby
- Tour assistance
- Use of nearby fitness center (discount)
- Wedding services
- Stay connected
Available in all rooms: Free Wi-Fi, Free wired high-speed Internet
Available in some public areas: Free Wi-Fi, Free wired high-speed Internet
- Park your car
Free parking, Free guest parking during stay, Free outdoor parking, Free self parking, RV, bus, truck parking
- In your room
- Free wired high-speed Internet
- Premium TV channels
- Pay movies
- Phone
- Free local calls
- Hair dryer
- Air conditioning
- Coffee/tea maker
- Complimentary newspaper
- Direct-dial phone
- Refrigerator
- Daily housekeeping
- Designer toiletries
- Private bathroom
- Shower/tub combination
- Complimentary toiletries
- Cribs/infant beds available
- Premium bedding
- Blackout drapes/curtains
- Cable TV service
- Flat-panel TV
- Dial-up Internet access (complimentary)
- In-room safe (laptop compatible)
- iPod docking station
- Climate control
- Desk
- Iron/ironing board
- Free Wi-Fi
- Eat and drink
Full breakfasts are available for a surcharge and are served each morning between 6:30 AM and 1 PM.
The Pantry - This family restaurant serves breakfast, lunch, dinner, and light fare. A children's menu is available.
Rockwells Bar and Grill - Overlooking the garden, this restaurant serves dinner, brunch, and light fare. Guests can enjoy drinks at the bar.
In-room dining choices include breakfast, lunch, dinner, and light snacks, available from room service.
- Play
An indoor pool and a spa tub are on site. Other recreational amenities include a sauna and a fitness center.
The recreational activities listed below are available either on site or nearby; fees may apply.
- Golfing nearby
- Golf - driving range nearby
- Golf - miniature nearby
- Snowboarding nearby
- Skiing - downhill nearby
- Skiing - cross-country nearby
- Ice skating nearby
- Boat launch nearby
- Boating nearby
- Dock nearby
- Tennis nearby
- Aerobics nearby
- Running track/path nearby
- Yoga classes/instruction nearby
- Sports center nearby
- Helicopter/airplane tours nearby
- Horse riding/rental nearby
- Fishing nearby
- Bird watching nearby
- Playground nearby
- Bungee jumping nearby
- Bowling alley nearby
- Golf lessons available nearby
- Personal motorized watercraft nearby
- Swimming on site
- Boat cruises nearby
- Accessibility
To make requests for specific accessibility needs, complete the "Special or Accessibility Requests" section of "Trip Preferences" when you book your hotel.
- Accessible parking
The Fine Print for Best Western Plus Coquitlam Inn Convention Centre
- When you arrive
Minimum check-in age is 21
Check-in time starts at 3 PM
- When you leave
Check-out time is 11 AM
- How you can pay
Accepted at this hotel: American Express, Diners Club, Discover, MasterCard, Visa
- You need to know
Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on hotel policy.
Government-issued photo identification and a credit card are required at check-in for incidental charges.
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges. Special requests cannot be guaranteed.
- The name on the credit card used at check-in to pay for incidentals must be the primary name on the guestroom reservation.
No rollaway/extra beds available
No elevators
- We Should Mention
A resort fee is included in the total price displayed. Children 11 years old and younger stay free when occupying the parent or guardian's room, using existing bedding. Only registered guests are allowed in the guestrooms.
Awards & Affiliations
- A Green / Sustainable Property - First Party CertifiedThis property has performed a self-assessment, also known as First Party certification, of its sustainable tourism practices through Green Key thus taking steps to understand its impact on one or more of the following: environment, community, cultural-heritage, the local economy. The property's claims have not been independently verified by a second or third party certification program.


text:
- Comments
Ends at 4PM PST. Green Man Gaming is taking 75% off all Team17 titles with coupon code GIFTS-FROMT-EAM17. The pictured Alien Breed: Trilogy (PC) is $23 - 75% off code = $6 downloaded.
Welcome to Ben's Bargains. Please Register, Sign in or Sign in with Facebook
Already a member? Sign in below.
Registration takes seconds! Once registered you�ll have members only access to:


text:
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: October 1, 2009
For More Information Contact:
Pam Perri Weaver, Executive Vice President, Builders Association of Minnesota • 651-492-0904
MN Department of Commerce And Builders Association of Minnesota Launch Project ReEnergize
Area Homeowners Can Earn Up To $4,000 Rebate for Energy Efficiency Upgrades
ST. PAUL, MINN. October 1, 2009 -- The Minnesota Department of Commerce (DOC) has allocated $2.5 million in funds from the US 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to provide rebates to homeowners for energy efficiency upgrades. Dubbed Project ReEnergize, this program will be administered by the Builders Association of Minnesota (BAM), and serves both to improve energy efficiency in Minnesota homes and to stimulate jobs.
Project ReEnergize will provide rebates of up to $4,000 for a variety of energy upgrades to owner-occupied homes under 3,000 square feet that were constructed before 2000. One rebate check per household is allowed and can be obtained for a wide variety of energy saving measures such as window installation and attic air sealing. The funds may be used in addition to other tax credits and incentives currently available, and will only be available through qualified remodelers.
Department of Commerce Commissioner Glenn Wilson says, "The Department is pleased to be working with BAM for the distribution of these funds. Individuals taking responsibility for their own home maintenance and upgrading is one of the easiest and most efficient ways we have of using energy more efficiently."
"We're very pleased to be able to administer Project ReEnergize," said Pam Perri Weaver, BAM Executive Vice President. "These funds will be supporting workers within the remodeling industry as well saving energy and dollars for Minnesota homeowners. This is a win-win situation for everyone involved."
To earn the rebate, projects must be completed by licensed and trained contractors to ensure the upgrades are completed correctly and safely. "Attic air sealing, for example, is one eligible project that can make a big difference in energy bills on older homes," explains Karen Linner, BAM's Director of Codes and Research. "But sealing older homes also requires care to ensure the home will be safe and healthy for the occupants.
Our trained contractors understand how a sealed building envelope can effect the home's performance and will be able to perform the work as well as necessary safety testing."
Homeowners interested in Project ReEnergize should act quickly as these funds are limited. Reservation forms are available only through qualified remodelers beginning October 1st. More details about the program and qualifying upgrades are online at www.projectreenergize.org .
ABOUT The Department of Commerce: The Minnesota Department of Commerce Office of Energy Security is working to move Minnesota toward a sustainable energy future. One of its current roles is to oversee the distribution of funds from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 related to energy efficiency, heating assistance and weatherization.
ABOUT BAM: The Builders Association of Minnesota is a St. Paul-based trade association representing over 3,600 members involved in home building, remodeling, multifamily construction, and other aspects of residential and light commercial construction industry. BAM is associated with 14 local associations throughout the state and the National Association of Home Builders as a charter member.
Copyright © 2012 Minnesota Department of Commerce. All Rights Reserved.
Minnesota Department of Commerce + 85 Seventh Place East + Saint Paul, MN 55101


text:
Quality of CareMU Health Care is focused on creating a health care environment known for excellent, safe, effective patient- and family-centered care. To learn more about what we are doing to improve our care, how the quality of our care compares to other hospitals in Missouri and the United States, and what patients and their families can do to help ensure top-notch health care, please click here.
Managed Care PlansFor a list of managed care plans contracted with MU Health Care, click here. Patient Education ResourcesTo search our database for patient education materials created at MU Health Care, support groups and frequently asked questions, click here.
Clinical Trials at Ellis Fischel Cancer Center Ellis Fischel Cancer Center PET Scan Trials
Missouri Telehealth Network


text:
Our Spring Double Bill will walk the line between dark satire and hilarious comedy. Mocking oppression and dictatorship, these two operas were written in 1943 Germany under vastly different circumstances. Ullmann's Emperor is a witty send-up of fascism where a mad ruler advocates war against all, evening causing Death to retire from his duties. In contrast, Orff's Clever One is a cautionary adult fairy-tale about a foolish tyrannical king bested by a clever woman.Read More
Get ready for our Spring Double Bill with To Be or Not to Be (1942) staring Carole Lombard & Jack Benny and Charlie Chaplin's The Great Dictator (1940). These two films highlight the consequences of dictatorship while still making you laugh. Enchance your opera experience with different Viewpoints!Read More
... we love opera! Our 40th season has more of the new, rare and relevant waiting for you. I am certain that you will enjoy Duke Ellington's "street-opera", a satirical double bill by Viktor Ullmann and Carl Orff and the "other" Macbeth by Ernest Bloch. Are you ready?
Remember, if you are a first time subscriber you get a 50% subscriber discount on the 2014 season.
Cultivate your curiosity with Chicago Opera Theater, See you at the opera.
Andreas Mitisek
General Director
Join us at Chicago's City Winery as we celebrate 40 years of Chicago Opera Theater and look forward to the future. On Thursday, April 24th, indulge in a gourmet dinner, wine tastings, lively entertainment, and a chance to win a diamond ring.Read More
Still having Polar Vortex flashbacks? Enjoy a private getaway to the gorgeous United States Virgin Islands for one week! You and 9 of your friends can soak up the sunshine at your private villa on St. John Island.Read More
Join us for our Spring Double Bill & Macbeth and save! Starting at $35, experience 2 operas for the price of one. There has never been a better time to join the COT Family!Read More
Thu. April 24, 2014 • 6:00 PM
Learn More
Sun. May 18, 2014 • 12:00 PM
Learn More
Sun. June 1, 2014 • 12:00 PM
Learn More
Sat. May 31, 2014 • 7:30 PM
Wed. June 4, 2014 • 7:30 PM
Fri. June 6, 2014 • 7:30 PM
Sun. June 8, 2014 • 3:00 PM
Learn More
Sat. September 13, 2014 • 7:30 PM
Wed. September 17, 2014 • 7:30 PM
Fri. September 19, 2014 • 7:30 PM
Sun. September 21, 2014 • 3:00 PM
Learn More
Andreas Mitisek, General Director
70 E. Lake Street Suite 415
Chicago, IL 60601
Box Office: 312.704.8414
Administrative: 312.704.8420
E-mail: email@example.com


text:
When I was asked if I'd like to review some clothes for Argos I was a little dubious. To start with, I didn't even realise that Argos sold clothes and secondly I wasn't sure if the clothes would be the style I like to buy. Then they introduced me to the Emma Button range of children's clothes, designed exclusively for Argos and I was pleasantly surprised.
The clothing range included many items that were right up my street, both in styles and colours. I liked the trendy edge that boys clothes had and the girls clothes were just right for my 6 year old girl. I have a constant headache trying to find clothes for her as girls clothes seem to be either too young looking, way too old looking or hideously overpriced from places like Joules or Boden. The Emma Bunton girls range is perfect for her age.
Argos told me I could pick two items for each of my children and for my daughter I selected the Gingham Prom Dress and the Colour Block Skirt. For my son, I chose the Printed Guitar Hoodie and the Union Jack T-Shirt.
Argos told me I could pick two items for each of my children and for my daughter I selected the Gingham Prom Dress and the Colour Block Skirt. For my son, I chose the Printed Guitar Hoodie and the Union Jack T-Shirt.
I had forgotten all about this until I received a delivery at the weekend. The clothes immediately got the children's seal of approval. Well, mummy has good taste. After going into battle with the iron (clothes don't travel well do they?) I popped them on to the children.
The clothes fit really well and very true to size. My daughter particularly liked the dress and it did look really pretty on, the perfect summer dress and the skirt was gorgeous too, nice and swirly as my little lady says.
I have to say I was pleasantly surprised by the quality of the clothes and the fact that they are 100% cotton. I think these will wash well and we will get a lot of use out of them over the summer. In fact, I know that these will wash well as my son immediately put the t-shirt on and promptly dropped tomato ketchup all down the front. I didn't wash it straightaway as I forgot (such a slattern!) but am pleased to report that all traces of ketchup were removed from the t-shirt!
I really like the Emma Bunton range and am already considering buying a couple of items - they're on 3 for 2 at the moment as well which makes them even better value and now I've seen the quality of them firsthand, I wouldn't hesitate snapping them up!
With thanks to the Argos Clothing Team.


text:
Big Bang
Infos sur la scène
Big Bang : Lon Flexx, Chris Stone, Matt Gunther, Luc Francois
- Mis à jour le : 2006-03-01 |
- Longueur : 23:04 min |
- Taille : 248 MB |
- Images : 1 |
- Visites : 2302 |
Chris stone is exercising in the living room when Matt Gunther and Lon Flexx enter. Matt takes one look at Chris's washboard abs and smooth muscular legs and decides that he is going to have Chris's ass. Matt teases Chris with the big bulge packed into his briefs and finally lets Chris have it. Matt slams his dick into Chris's open mouth and Chris easily swallows the thick tool. Lon gets hotter and hotter watching these two go at it and soon pulls his long hard prick out and taunts Chris with his hard meat. Chris lunges at the dick and swallows the big rod. As Chrhis continues to serves these two super studs, Luuc Francois walks in on the action. 'Join in or get out!' orders Matt. Luc obliges and falls to his knees, beginning to work Lon's cock as Chris moves back to service Matt's. In no time Lon and Matt are having their holes probed by the wet tongues of their pals. Luc and Chris work the studs into exhiliration and are soon ordered to sit on the big pricks. They work their open asses onto the fat cocks, heating up as they fuck the thick tools. Matt and Lon turn these cock-starved jocks onto their backs and plow them, ramming their ass cheeks harder and faster. Chris and Luc are so turned on that they beg to get the ass-packing of a lifetime. Matt and Lon throw the two begging and squirming men to the floor and repeatedly thrust their ass-busting cocks into the muscular mounds of ass flesh. When all four are driven to a state of hyper-sexuality, they pump out their loads and Chris and Luc bathe in a pool of combined cum.
Recommended Scenes
Out Of Bounds : Chris Williams, Vladimir Correa
Mis à jour le: 01-01-2006
Perfect Summer : Tony Marino, Johnny Davenport, Ron Pearson
Mis à jour le: 11-01-2005
Touch Me : Brad Phillips, Troy Mackenzie, Butch Taylor
Mis à jour le: 12-01-2005
Touch Me : Race Jensen, Steve Hammond, Casey Jordan
Mis à jour le: 12-01-2005
Behind Closed Doors : Tom Steele, Mike Ramsey, Mike Gregory
Mis à jour le: 01-01-2006
Plunge : Lon Flexx, Joey Stefano
Mis à jour le: 02-01-2004
Private Workout : Greg Conrad, Chris Stone, Lee Jennings
Mis à jour le: 09-01-2006
Big Bang : Lon Flexx, Matt Gunther, Mark Baxter
Mis à jour le: 03-01-2006


text:
| Subject to Credit Approval
"Customer service is priority #1 at Rocky Mountain ATV/MC. We value our customers and strive to be the best shopping experience- when you buy from us, you are buying lifetime service."
-Dan Thomas, CEO and Founder
We take pride in offering no hassle returns. In the event of a return, please call, email or chat with us to receive a solution to the problem. For apparel that doesn't fit quite right, Click here to see our Fit Guaranteed Program.
We will stand behind all products we sell with regards to manufacturing defects in workmanship and material. Most products are limited to the manufacturer's warranty. However, we will do everything in our power to take care of the problem.
Live chat: Click here
(Leave email if after hours)
Call us: 1 800 336-5437
7am-7pm Mon-Fri 8am-4pm Sat (Mountain Standard Time)
Each review submitted enters you into a $100 gift card monthly drawing, and a $500 gift card quarterly drawing!
Comments On Apr 07, 2014:worked great for the yfz.
Was this review helpful?
Comments On Jul 06, 2013:You could use other things.
Was this review helpful?
Comments On Dec 31, 2012:after I honed my cylinder with the flex-hone and this oil, it came out perfect
Was this review helpful?
Comments On Aug 28, 2012:Oils my hone up gooood.Keeps it cutting and smooth.
Was this review helpful?
Comments On Aug 01, 2012:Works great, I have Done 2 top end rebuilds, honing the cylinder each time with no issues.
Was this review helpful?
Comments On Mar 10, 2012:what else could you ask for? it works.
Was this review helpful?
Comments On Nov 03, 2011:i used this with the honing of the cylinder. worked very good.
Was this review helpful?
Comments On Apr 10, 2011:Used with a Flex Hone on a nikasil cylinder and the oil did it's job well.
Was this review helpful?
Comments On Jan 18, 2011:Its oil, worked great.
Was this review helpful?
Comments On Feb 25, 2010:I bought a hone and the oil last week. Got to use it last night. it worked great. my yz250 cylinder looks like brand new inside now. Much easier than going to the dealership. i think i will start charging my buddies!
Was this review helpful?
Stay Connected!
© 2014 Rocky Mountain ATV, Inc. All rights reserved. Unauthorized use of any images, thumbnails, illustrations, descriptions, or editorial content without written permission is strictly prohibited. Prices are subject to change without notice.
See our street site JakeWilson.com for: Motorcycle Parts, Motorcycle Accessories, Motorcycle Tires, Motorcycle Helmets and more.
Take a look at our most popular areas: ATV parts | ATV Accessories | ATV Tires | Dirt Bike Parts | Dirt Bike Accessories | Dirt Bike Motocross Tires | Motocross Gear | Motorcycle Accessories | Motorcycle Exhaust | Motorcycle Helmets | Motorcycle Brakes.


text:
Pre-Workout Supplements
We all know that in order to progress - be that increasing your strength, building lean muscle, or losing stubborn bodyfat - you need to workout hard! Pre-workout supplements like Warrior Rage are designed to increase your energy, intensity, aggression, endurance or strength before a workout. You can only workout so many times per week - make every workout count with a pre-workout supplement!
Stack a pre-workout supplement with a good intra-workout supplement like Bodybuilding Warehouse Excel BCAA blend, and a good post-workout supplement like Pure Whey Protein Concentrate 80 to optimise your supplement plan and make the most progress!
BPI 1MR Powder - 140g£20.98
MusclePharm Assault - 435g£25.74
The Pre-Intra-Post Workout Stack
As low as: £69.97
The Syntha-Xplode Stack£71.99
Latest reviews for Pre-Workout Supplements
Average Rating :
Total Reviews:5
MusclePharm Assault V2 - 290g
Perfect Supp To Boost Your Gym Performance
I bought the raspberry lemonade flavour and found that it was Ok but not the best, but put the taste aside this is one of the best pre workouts I have tried, I didn't feel any itchiness from the beta analine, but that is probably just me but i definitely felt a massive energy blast which let me tear up the gym, but i did feel a bit of a crash after this so i recommend taking it for a evening workout so you can sleep after.
Gaspari Superdrive - 120g (20 Servings)
Love It!!
This has to be my favourite pre workout!! The taste is lovely (fruit punch) and the energy feels clean. It just tastes and feel like a quality product. It's also very cheap!!
Performance Prime
Great Preworkout
Great preworkout which helps me focus, good taste and definitely helps with sleep
Gaspari Superdrive - 240g (40 Servings)
Tastes Great
Very sweet. very helpfull in gym. will buy again
Performance Prime
Having used some of the best (and worst) pre-workouts on the market and having a cupboard so full of supplements that my local pharmacist would be proud of, I think I stand in good stead reviewing Prime. I opted for the Fruit Fusion flavour and in a somewhat cavalier attitude on Sunday decided 2 scoops would be fine. Firstly I can safely say that Prime has succeeded in being the only thing I have ever come across to be as bitter as my ex-girlfriend. I expect it is purely down to me not putting enough water in it though! Once I got past the overwhelming explosion of the Bahamas in my mouth, I headed into the gym and began my warmup. My workout went great, Prime fuelled what can only be described as a horrendously sadistic leg workout very well and following from this several more workouts throughout the week. There is very little I can say bad about Prime (unlike my aforementioned ex-girlfriend). I would definitely recommend Prime to any athlete, beginner or seasoned competitor.