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This is weird for me. I've heard stories about guys getting off watching their wives with other men. How they set it up or beg until the woman gives in. Wives performing for their husbands. Not my style or Dan's. We are not swingers by any stretch of the imagination. I think we have a good sex life, although like many busy couples and parents, opportunities to get away to enjoy each other are rare. We like each other and one of the secrets of our success as a couple is that we have somehow managed to blend our needs without sacrificing either of us. Compromise yes, but not sacrifice.
Though we are not afraid of attractions with others, neither of us has ever expressed a desire to act on them in 12 years together. I belong to the 'I don't care where you get your appetite…. as long as you eat at home' school of thought. So I still don't know which of us was more surprised about what happened!
We have a lot of friends, no, more than friends, more like a very extended family. The group has it's share of sexual history, but it's mostly ancient history and we're more like old shoes with each other. And so we both felt Jason was a little brother to our family. Not that he's a baby or anything, more like late 20′s. It's no secret that I think Jason is attractive and would make a good catch for any smart woman. Actually, I think his ex is a fool. Not that he's some God, but down to earth, considerate, good-looking, great body, yes. A little naïve and inexperienced maybe but on him it's attractive.
Many of our friends live more than a half hour from the city, so our house often is used as a central meeting place. Stop off to change or shower before an appointment, or place for an impromptu party, whatever, our door is open. So it was not unusual when Jason showed up to shower and dress for a Halloween party in town.
Jason's costume was pretty much the standard devil costume. Little devil boxer shorts, red silk pants and shirt, red cape, horns and tail of course. And lots of red grease paint. Anyway, after his shower, Jason threw on the boxers and pants in the spare bedroom and asked me for some help in applying the grease paint to his face and neck.
I was glad to help and started to apply it on his forehead, cheeks, jaw, etc. I must admit to being aware of the closeness and slight eroticism of the situation. I took my time, making sure every spot was covered and enjoying the feel of the grease paint and Jason's skin against my hands. I had to step closer to apply it under his chin and neck and couldn't help but notice some tension in the room. Not enough to make me uncomfortable but palpable. It was then that I noticed my husband leaning in the open door frame. Dan uttered simply "whoa" and I knew he was not commenting on Jason's costume.
He stepped into the room and up behind me, unaware (I think) of his adding to the tension by sandwiching me in between two attractive men. I didn't exactly feel it between my legs but higher up inside me and deeper. I went to reach for the black lipstick to paint on eyebrows and black lips but I couldn't hold it for all the grease paint on my hands. My husband grabbed it from me and said he would do a better job anyway. He reached around me and behind Jason's head to hold him still in order to apply the lipstick. The result being that he was up against me from behind and pressing me even closer to Jason. I had to put a hand on Jason's chest to keep from falling into him. I could smell the peppermint scent of our dr. bronner's and the grease paint. I love that fresh showered odor. With nothing to do I started to spread some of the grease paint on my hands over Jason's chest. My hands were moving in a soft, circular motion that ended up being much more sensual than I intended.
Dan finished Jason's makeup and stepped back to admire his work. I was relieved yet disappointed to suddenly have breathing room. Then he started teasing Jason about his chances that night, but if he did get lucky, might not his conquest be disappointed to find that not all of him was 'little devil red'? Startled, Jason blurted out that he was not going to apply the grease paint on there. Equally startled, I was annoyed but curious that my husband had pushed our playful mood in this blatant sexual direction.
About the time I started to feel like this new twist was going to die an embarrassing, silent death, my husband shocked us further by saying that he would do it. The swaggering undertone in his voice was not missed by any of us. Jason, sure that it was a bluff, scoffed and took a step closer. My husband reached out for the tube of grease paint.
"Drop 'em, Jason", Dan challenged as he waved the tube of grease paint. "No way, you started this" Jason replied. I couldn't help but wonder what Jason looked like. I realized it had been some 15 years since I had seen any penis but Dan's. And by the thumb method of evaluation I suspected Jason's was worth seeing.
My body began to tell me I was interested. I telling them I was enjoying seeing Dan get humbled when he stepped forward to grab Jason's waistband. With a panicked look Jason grabbed his pants and held on for dear life. I told him I'd seen them before, it was no big deal and Dan was bluffing anyway. Jason let go disbelievingly and we all waited.
Dan looked straight into my eyes and said 'I dare you' knowing that I hated refusing a dare. It was a challenge I couldn't resist, even though the bastard was trying to weasel out of a tight spot, so I reached over and pulled them down to his knees. I bent over to drop them to the floor, bringing my face 'innocently' inches from Jason's crotch. I couldn't help but notice the musty 'male' smell of him mixed with peppermint from his shower.
The fact that it was so different from Dan's cock made my heart skip a few beats. Jason's cock was darker than Dan's, especially his balls. It looked to be about the same size though maybe having the potential to grow a bit larger. Honestly, size was not of much interest for me right then. Which is good because it seemed that Jason's cock actually shrank a little from embarrassment. At first anyway. And I was looking at the cock of an attractive man other than my husband for the first time in 15 years.
To break the awkward silence, I handed the grease paint to my husband and said "you're on big boy". I was sure this would be the end of it, much to my relief and disappointment. But Dan stepped toward Jason looking ready to go for it. Jason backed quickly up against the wall. I was surprised and felt that 'tickle' again when he didn't pull his boxers up. "I'm not gonna let a man grease up my dick". "Well, are you gonna do it yourself?" Dan asked in response. "NO!" retorted Jason. "I guess that leaves Jeri then".
I couldn't believe Dan just put me in this position. But then, I had just hung him out to dry myself didn't I? Jason was sputtering something about she wouldn't want … and Dan chimed in with some stupid taunt that put me over the edge. I was going to do this just to show him! He would be the one to back down. He started this. He's gonna have to be the one to tap out.
I held out my hand for the grease paint. Dan hesitated, a look of disbelief on his face, then took the cap off the tube and squeezed a big glob in my hand. Now it was my turn to hesitate. I swear I would have chickened out right then but Jason's cock began to grow. Not a full fledged hard-on but standing straight out at this point. This time I did feel it between my legs. With the challenge from my husband and the thrill of Jason's cock pointing straight at my secretly wet pussy, I found my courage.
I stepped up to Jason and wrapped my hand around his half-hard dick. I moved my hand in circles around his shaft and up and down its length. He was hard in an instant. He was a little bigger then Dan, maybe an inch, but definitely thicker. And standing straight up at me. His whole shaft was red by now and looking kind of angry against his white stomach and thighs. I turned to get more grease paint from Dan and from the look on his face I didn't know whether he was going to run out of the room or fuck me. He wordlessly squeezed more paint into my left hand. I got down on one knee so that I could smooth out the heavy globs on Jason's cock with my right hand and rub grease paint onto his belly with my left. Unbelievably, as turned on as I was getting, I was actually trying to do a good job.
Holding his ass cheek in my left hand (later, the hand print looked kind of cute) I turned my attention to his thighs. I started on the inside area about mid-thigh slowly working my hand up until the back of my hand was caressing his balls. I reached back without looking (I was afraid to) to get more grease paint from Dan. I gently cupped his balls in my right hand and grabbed his shaft with my left so I could hold him and stroke him while I applied the paint to his ball sack. I spilled some of the paint on my shorts and stood up, without letting go of Jason, to let it roll off. When it stuck there I decided to ask Dan to take the shorts off me instead. I figured it was an opportunity for him to stop things before they went too far or, if he dared take them off, let things go further.
I flushed at the excitement and fear of asking my husband to remove my shorts while I my hands were filled with another man's cock. Dan's stepped up behind me to show me his hands covered with grease paint. I looked at Jason and his hands went immediately to my button and zipper. The shorts fell away and I quickly stepped out of them. Jason's hands lingered on my hips. He rubbed them up and down over my French cut bikinis, then back up to my waist. He pulled me closer, matching with his hands the look in his eyes. He ran his hands over my ass and grasped a cheek in each hand from inside my panties. He reached down between my legs from behind with his right hand to stroke my very wet pussy. I froze, with knees turned out to give him access. My panties pooled my juices in the crotch. It turned me on that he would know I was so wet and a new wave of moisture flowed out of me. I felt my lips swollen and protruding. I was at that point that most women try to hide from men. That point where we want it as bad as they do and we would beg to get it.
Without looking, I could feel Dan moving. I turned to see him slip from the room. My heart pulled me from the room but my body wouldn't move quickly enough. Jason instinctively wrapped an arm around my waist and held me there. He continued to rub my pussy and though I stiffened, he wouldn't let me go or stop touching me. I squeezed my legs together. "Jason stop!" No response. "Jason, what about Dan?" Jason's simple reply was that Dan started it. I flashed back on Dan's challenge and between the anger and the heat my resistance weakened. I let my legs relax…
I can't believe this. I know I could have backed down too but …. Did I want to? I didn't want it to go any further then playful but I have to admit to not wanting it to stop either. I know how Jeri gets when she is challenged. And I know better then anybody how she gets once she is aroused.
I love to see her when she gets to that point that nothing will stop her. I love that look on her face, the pink color of her neck and chest when she is hot. I knew exactly how wet she was and how her lips puff up and swell. But to see her go for Jason's cock like that, to see her react to his touch the way she does to mine,,, no, to see her react even more. I couldn't stay there anymore.
As magnetizing as it was, I couldn't watch, I couldn't deal with all the feelings happening at once. I still can't. I am hurt, sad, scared, lonely and ashamed. And hard. I think that's what I am most ashamed about. I'm not one of those men that get off on slutting their wives out. I don't harbor desires of seeing Jeri perform for me with other men. Yet here I am laying in my bed alone with a hard dick and a brain as confused as it has ever been. And too guilty to cum and get it over with. I can't stop wondering what they are doing and hating myself for wondering. It seems like hours but I know it hasn't been that long. If I could sleep or pass out somehow…
At last I hear the front door open and close. The lights go out in the rest of the house and I sense more then hear Jeri come to the bedroom. I, of course, pretend to be asleep.
"Dan?" ……."Dan?" I hear her move almost silently to our bath. "Where are you going?" "I was going to take a bath." "No, come to bed". "I want …" "Come to bed." Jeri slides under the sheet staying an arms length from me. She is naked. I am relieved to feel her body in our bed but unable to reach out and touch her. Neither of us knows what to say. We have been together a long time, know our reactions, and most of our feelings. But this is new to us. I think to make a joke but can't. I start to speak but no words come out.
Jeri opens her mouth, stops, starts again and is finally able to ask if I am angry, if I love her, if our marriage is over, do I hate her. Now that she has broken the silence she can't stop. I put my hand over her mouth to quiet her and tell her I am not mad, at least at her, I am hurt and confused and scared and I don't know how to let it go. In unison the tears come for us and we reach out for each other. We hold on to one another for what seems like hours as the fear fades away. I gently kiss her on the forehead, cheeks and finally on the lips. I can taste the grease paint on her lips and the realization of how it got there stiffens my body and propels me to turn my back to her.
"Dan?" "Dan?" "How can I help you?" "How can I help you get past this?" "Do you want to?" "Dan?" Images are spinning in my mind so fast that I have no words. "I'll do whatever you want about this." "Should I leave you alone, do you want to talk about it?" I don't know and tell her so. Jeri moves closer, puts her arm over me and keeps silent.
After the longest time I turn on my back and put my arm under her head. Rubbing my chest with her fingertips, almost absently, Jeri says that she thinks she knows what needs to happen but that it is completely up to me when, how or if it happens. I don't have any ideas so I ask her what she is thinking of. After a long hesitation, she says that she thinks she needs to talk about what happened. It makes me angry that my dick starts pulsing. But I also know she is right. I asked her if she could be completely honest about everything, be willing to reveal all the details and answer every question I ask fully. It will be hard if she thinks it will hurt or threaten me but she agrees.
"Ok, tell me what happened and tell me everything."
After I felt you leave the room I got scared and wanted to go after you. Jason sensed it and put his arm around my waist to hold me there. I squeezed my legs together to stop him from rubbing me and asked him 'what about Dan, you're his friend?'. His reply was that you started it. Between my anger at your challenge and the Jason's fingers working my slit, I gave in. Willingly. I relaxed my knees and let them open for him. He stuck a finger inside me and before long a new wave of juices soaked my underwear.
He had me then and he knew it. I liked that he knew and reached out for his cock. He moaned, leaned back against the wall and pushed my shoulders down. I resisted his push for a few seconds and then willingly got on my knees, his cock in front of my face. He told me to lick his balls and rub my face all over him. I was surprised at how much I liked being told what to do and doing things I don't do with you. I wished you were there to see me licking his red balls and between his legs with his balls in my face.
He turned around to face the wall, reaching back to hold my hair loosely in his hand. I looked at his muscular ass cheeks and imagined you pushing my head between them. I licked his balls with my nose at his asshole. He told me to use my tongue. He smelled clean and I knew he just showered so I stuck my tongue in. He moaned and pushed back against me and I pushed my tongue in as deep as I could. I knew you would be jealous and angry and hot all at the same time because I won't do this for you and it just made me more excited. I reached up with my hands and spread his cheeks so I could get my tongue in deeper. Part of me felt like I was watching someone else but most of me just loved it. I know how you love it when I lose control and the thought of you watching me lose control with my tongue in another man's ass made my cunt pulse and gush in waves.
As Jeri recounted her story, she gently moved her palm around my stomach and chest, carefully avoiding my embarrassingly hard penis. She lay there with her head on my shoulder, whispering her story an inch from my ear. Her breathing was measured and regular, as if to avoid any appearance of arousal. She asked if I wanted her to stop. I asked her if telling the story, thinking about what had happened was turning her on. She said that telling me the story was a turn on for her, that seeing my dick hard and being afraid to touch it was making her wet. Telling the story was almost like having me there with her when it happened and sharing it with me made her feel closer and more intimate than she had ever felt.
My dick rather obviously believed what she said but my mind was confused and I struggled in a turmoil of emotion. I turned onto my side, facing away from her. She pressed up behind me, put her hand on my hip and asked if I wanted her to go away. I responded with a quick 'no' and she remained silent but resumed rubbing my chest and stomach once again, 'accidently' bumping the back of her hand on my semi-hard penis now and then. She told me to tell her if I wanted her to stop the story. I was in silent confusion. She waited a few seconds, then gently wrapped her hand around the base of my cock with her fingers covering my balls. When I didn't stop her, she began casually stroking up and down my hardening shaft and ball sack as she resumed the story.
Jason was bent over with his hands on the wall pushing back onto my tongue. I thought about how this scene would look if I could see myself, how it would look to you if you were there. I pulled my tongue from Jason's asshole and pulled my head back some to look at his hanging balls, tight ass and even the pink hole that my hungary tongue had just been willingly violating. Still holding his ass cheeks spread wide apart, I moved back in.
I started at the very bottom of his ball sack and licked all the way up through the crack of his ass. On the way back down, I paused at his hole to slide my tongue in once again and roll it in circles as deep inside him as I could get it. I let go with one hand to reach between his legs and stroke his cock. He breathlessly moaned, almost begging me not to touch his cock or he would explode. I told him not to wait, I wanted to see him cum now! I was ready too and seeing his balls contract, his shaft twitching and his semen spurting from the head of his dick would put me over the edge.
Jason spun around with his cock in his hand and told me to open my mouth. He pumped his shaft exactly twice before his first stream of cum shot straight down my throat. I choked a little and closed my mouth. His second spurt hit my face and the next few my face and hair. I opened my mouth again and took the last of his load in my mouth. I swallowed it and licked his cock clean. He asked if you liked it when you came on my face and down my throat. I told him that you have never done that to me. He asked if I liked it with him. I told him yes, it made my pussy so wet that he probably wouldn't feel it when he fucked me.
Emboldened by my admission, he told me suck him hard again because he had more plans for me. I hesitated but we both knew I would do as he wanted. He moved his soft cock toward my open lips, pulled my head back slightly by my hair so that I had to look up at him as he stared into my eyes.
Startled by her 'BASTARD!' outburst, Kirk rolled over and saw Carmina in the just emerging sunlight. She was wearing a short white robe tied loosely at the waist sitting cross legged with her laptop resting on her thighs. He took in the sight of her still swollen pussy before glancing up to her angry face.
To his obviously puzzled glance, she looked up and smiled brightly "Good morning, my lover! Your coffee is on the nightstand behind you. I just brought it in."
"What are you talking about?" Kirk asked, still fuzzy from just having awakened "What did I do?"
"What you DID was completely and thoroughly fuck me like I wanted and NEEDED to be fucked! What I AM TALKING about is this!" she said turning the laptop so he could view the screen.
He glanced and was amazed that she was working on a PowerPoint presentation. He was stunned by what he saw. Even in thumbnail view it was easy to make out in the left hand column that she'd inserted some of the pictures he'd taken last night. However he couldn't make out the right hand column.
"What are these?" he asked
She said "I'll show you" then clicked a button to display a full screen view of the shots side by side. On the left were pictures they'd taken the night before, neatly cropped so his face didn't show. On the right were pictures of her husband and some women.
Kirk guessed some of the shots were the German bimbo she'd told him about based on Carmina's earlier description. Her stumpy cellulite dimpled legs should never slide into thigh high hose. Her 'spare tire' waistline and flabby tummy would cause nightmares instead of wet dreams. Yet there she was, sucking Carmina's husband's pencil dick.
Each of the side-by-side poses of them and her husband and his wenches was virtually identical!
"And who is this other one?" he asked, pointing to a keen faced, bleached blonde that was straddling Gio on the patio lounger mimicking shots they'd taken last night. "She's my floozy neighbor, just divorced and clearly willing to accept any 'lil dick she can get!"
"I found these on his laptop along with the emails I told you about. If he denies it, I plan to smack him with a six pack of 'Whup Ass!' and show him ours so he can see what a real man, a black man, can get me to want to do! I wanna be fucked — NOT FUCKED OVER!"
Extremely agitated, she continued "I also might show his shots to his boss who already gave him a written warning that he'd be fired if he didn't stop 'stumphfing' the company tramp. His patents be damned."
"He might guess its you in the pictures but can't be sure its not one of the muscular attendants at the gym that he's seen leering at and flirting with me."
Kirk laughed so hard that tears rolled down his face. Gasping for air, he finally managed "I see you had a plan! That explains your insistence of what pictures I should take. Ahhh … the wrath of a woman scorned?"
"It started out that way but now its more the joy of a woman awakened!"
"I've got a lot more pictures I want you to take in the next two days. But only one, of you fucking me in his car in front of the entrance to his office, is a payback picture. The rest are for me. You see, since you first fucked me, I haven't been able to cum at home. I barely did before — only tiny ripples. But since you allowed me to feel what a mind shattering climax is, I close my eyes and imagine you fucking me. Being able to look at us will keep me cumming for years."
Kirk corrected her. "We've got the entire upcoming week to fully explore your sexuality and take pictures in your new Victoria's Secret outfits."
"Oh yeah, THAT'S RIGHT!" she exclaimed, smiling broadly.
And boy did they ever take advantage of the time!
He screwed her at least three times a day, at her house or his, in every room and in every piece of sexy attire she'd bought. He fucked her on the bathroom countertop, standing with her feet straddling a mirror on the floor so she could see his meat plowing her, in midair with him standing upright, cupping her ass with her arms around his neck and as his cock plowed deep into her pussy and a finger deep in her ass.
Several of their white-hot sessions were exceptional — one with her red special occasions dress around her waist as he pounded her on top of his desk. Another as he rammed her from behind in the running suit she climaxed in during his speech rehearsal. He ripped out the crotch and gave her what she'd fantasized about that day long ago.
Some others were more of her special requests.
"Give me something I've dreamed about since I first met you!"
"What's that?"
"I want you to overpower me, tie me to your bed and ravish me!"
As she retrieved rope that she'd tucked in her gym bag, he grabbed her waist lifted her into the air and flung her forcefully across the bed.
"You asked for it and I'm going to give it to you — my way!"
A glimmer of fear flashed across her face as he grabbed the neck of the bare midriff t-shirt she wore and savagely tore it open exposing her diamond hard nipples.
He stretched her arms above her head and secured her wrists to the headboard posts.
Kirk then ripped her jeans open, not bothering to unsnap them sending a button flying across the room and yanked them off in one swift motion, taking her shoes with them.
Leaving her panties on, he lashed each of her ankles to posts and stood back taking in the view of her helpless plight.
"You want to be tied up and ravished and that's exactly what you're gonna get!" As he began to slowly undress.
Her fearfulness had given away to excitement as a large wet splotch on her pink panties broadcast.
"Since I was a teenager, I've been dreaming of being force fucked by a powerfully built black man and I need you to make my dreams come true. Fuck me hard!"
Now nude, Kirk straddled her hips.
"Are you going to fuck me with my panties on?"
The sharp sound of tearing cloth was the only response she heard. Kirk slid his strong hands into the leg openings of her panties and ripped them into shreds. The tattered cloth remained in place only because they were still attached to the waistband.
In one swift lunge, he rammed his hard cock deep into her making her squeal.
"Oh that hurt! You're treating me like the little Italian slut that I am! Take all of me you want! You know that every single inch of me is yours don't you?"
"I know it and I'm staking my claim deep inside your tight slutty pussy! I want to feel it when you cum on the hard black cock you worship!"
Although tied, she somehow thrust her hips upward and began screaming at the top of her lungs.
I'm cumming you sweet black Adonis! I'm cumming all over that black meat I love!"
Her voice and pulsating cunt sent him over the edge. He plunged powerfully into her and filled her aching womb with thick cream.
Her last request was for the 'Man-Milk bath' she alluded to long ago. She took a bath sheet from his linen closet, spread it before his floor to ceiling mirror, stripped and lay back.
"Give me a bath with your hot sweet cream! Cover me from head to toe!"
He stripped and stood above her, straddling her hips.
"Pump that black hose and come all over me!" she demanded and started frigging herself with both hands. One hand worked her clit while the fingers of the other probed her ass.
Kirk pumped his cock in concert with her humping hips and felt his balls tighten.
"Can you see the throbbing black cock that's about to wash you?"
Her eyes alternated between looking directly at his meat and their reflection in the mirror.
"I can both see it and want its hot cream NOW!" she grimaced as a hard orgasm wracked her.
The first hot rope of jism arced into the air and splashed her face from her chin up into her hair.
"Get some on my breasts too!"
He shuffled back and saw the second eruption splash from her breasts to her navel.
"Cream my hot slutty pussy!"
A third milk rope coated her hands and wet mound.
Scampering to her knees, she spread her cheeks.
"My ass, cover my cheeks and make it run down to the asshole you fucked so well!"
She slumped and began massaging his just deposited cum all over her body. Paying careful attention to her face, she covered it completely.
"I've heard a cum mask is good for the complexion." She chuckled. "I want it to dry and then have you take pictures of my new beauty treatment!"
During their nonstop week together she went from passive to assertive then hyperactive lover, once even straddling his face and humping it hard until she came. By week's end, she was exhausted, barely able to walk with deep dark rings beneath her eyes. On the night before her husband's return, they enjoyed a quiet meal she'd prepared and snuggled together on a lounge.
As they undressed for bed, she said "Kirk, would you put on some music?" As he turned to get into bed after loading a CD, he saw her lighting candles. She rested her head on his chest, stroked his muscular arms and began to whisper.
"Thank you for indulging me and my curiosity. You let me explore my sexuality which I totally and completely enjoyed. I feel like the weight of the world has been lifted from my shoulders. I want only one more thing to cap off the best week of my life — to have you make long … sweet … slow and sensuous love to me while the music plays."
Kirk rose above her, lowered his hips and entered her slowly.
"Perfect! she murmured "This is absolutely perfect!"
They came in unison and drifted off into a deep sex-induced sleep.
Their respective partners returned, contrite and pledging to make up. Kirk's fiancé finally managed to land a position about an hour's flight away. He was recruited to the same city and accepted a CEO position. The board accepted his recommendation that Carmina be promoted to a manager's position in the merchandising department.
He enjoyed the tributes from colleagues and co-workers at his going away party in a large ballroom. Carmina, decked out in crisp red suit, and he exchanged knowing looks whenever they glanced at each other. Upon arriving home after the bon voyage dinner he found a card with familiar handwriting in his mailbox.
Thank you for respecting me and my marriage. You knew that I wanted you, but like the gentleman you are, you didn't take advantage of me.
Thank you too for your trust. When, finally, you became my lover. You took me at my word that our respective relationships could remain intact.
And finally dearest, thank you for allowing me to fully explore my sexuality. You accepted me, never questioned my needs/desires/fantasies and filled them far better than I'd dared even dream.
Because you respected me, trusted my word and allowed me to explore my fantasies an unexpected benefit emerged. I not only willingly opened my legs to you, I also opened my heart. You also taught me a lesson that I only wish many others would learn — skin color matters little. While I enjoyed the erotic contrast of our skin tones, only one color really matters, the color of one's heart. You my dear friend and lover truly have a heart of gold!
Though, as we knew would someday happen, we go our separate ways so I have one final thought to share.
I'll love you dearest always and in all ways for being you and helping me become the fulfilled woman I now am.
Although Carmina and her hubby stayed together, Kirk lost the tug of war with his fiancés' mother. And irony of ironies, his now former fiancé married (unhappily he learned) an Italian guy. In one of their infrequent phone calls, he learned that the relationship was abusive and his former mother-in-law to be voiced her regrets.
"I am so sorry that I came between you and Kirk, he treated you like a princess."
It was just as well because the courts granted Kirk full custody of his now teenaged children. He was now a fulltime single parent, returned to the Midwest and established a consulting practice.
Carmina rose through the ranks and was appointed Vice President. She was no longer a conservative trailing spouse or an Executive Assistant. Though she earned her position through excellent performance, she credits Kirk for bringing out the best in her.
As luck would have it, she had several employees posted in the town where Kirk now lives. They got together when she visited occasionally and explored her newfound womanhood in great and vigorous depth over the ensuing years!


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Tales of the mundane. And Pokemon. And anything else worthy of being categorised as a tale.
Let's all just build a huge boat, and like, y'know, sail away or some.
Friday, August 24, 2012
So I went crazy listening to Champion Iris' theme on Pokemon Black and White 2.
And then I went on to make this.
I spent about two hours on this thing, and no one but me likes it. WHY.
I even made it a StarBar just the way you like it!
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2010 Mitsubishi Outlander GT: Seats Need Some Work
October 08, 2010
As I settled in for a 180-mile road trip the other day, I quickly found one of my first complaints regarding our Mitsubishi Outlander - the seats. Sure, they look nice, but appearances don't tell the whole story.
My first problem presented itself when I was adjusting the seat for my oh-so-average 5' 10" frame. The lack of range in some adjustments had be compromising on total comfort. I felt the seat was too tall for my tastes, even at its lowest setting. I was also a bit irked that the seat cushion angle wouldn't tilt further back. The end result: I felt the driving position was too upright.
My next complaint came after about 50 miles into the road trip. I thought the leather seats, while attractive, were a bit stifling - as if they were made from vinyl. As well-equipped as our Outlander GT is, ventilated or cooled seats would've been a nice addition. As it turns out, that feature isn't offered on the 2010 or 2011 models.
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2012 completes our rear landscaping with Spring delivering a burst of growth to the young plants.
Final project is to construct the BBQ area between house wall and Alfresco pier.
Front garden 18 months on and continues to thrive.
Deb you definitely have a green thumb, everything looks so healthy and beautiful, I only hope my garden looks half as good at 18 months!!
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The report concludes that top management buy-in and integration among different functional roles contribute to the successful embedding of emergency communications capability. Furthermore, organizations must focus on encouraging responses to emergency communications and this begins by defining acceptable response rates. This should be made easier as mobile communications are increasingly used by organizations as part of their emergency communications arrangements and technology has advanced so much so that this is a basic capability. Key to getting buy-in is education and training programmes which must be implemented as part of an overall holistic approach to continuity and resilience.
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Octopus Data Center
Data Center is designed for organizations that want a consistent continuous delivery & DevOps story at scale. Data Center provides high availability, performance and scalability for your entire enterprise.
Highly available
Standard Octopus server installations run on a single central server node. When that node fails, or needs to go offline for Windows Updates, the Octopus service is unavailable.
With Data Center, Octopus instances can be load balanced and run across a cluster of nodes, ensuring the Octopus service is highly available. This allows Octopus server nodes to be temporarily disabled for operating system updates, and provides redundancy in the case of node failure.
Used alongside a clustered SQL Server database, this configuration allows you to keep the Octopus service available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
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Having a consistent continuous delivery and DevOps story across your enterprise just makes sense. It makes it easy for people to change between teams, allows for greater knowledge sharing, allows you to balance the benefits of team autonomy and "self-service" with managing the risks around security and access to production.
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As more and more teams use Octopus, the number of projects and environments can appear overwhelming - especially if you prefer to give teams view-access to projects beyond their own.
"Spaces" will make it easy for team members to focus on only the projects that matter to them, by grouping projects, environments and other settings into isolated spaces within Octopus. This keeps all the teams on a common platform while making it easier to concentrate on what matters to them.
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Release Promotions will work whether your Octopus servers are divided by an air gap and you need to use a USB thumbdrive to promote them, or if there's one-way network access via a DMZ.
We have 350 applications and deploy to 2,700 web servers. We have 6 delivery centers across the globe that are using Octopus. We're a 24 hour shop 7 days a week. The availability of Octopus is very key to us. It needs to be up. — Jim Szubryt
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For fun, here is an easy holiday appetizer. It is super easy to make, especially if you have left over cranberry relish from Thanksgiving. If you do not have leftovers, below is the recipe I used when I made the relish. You can also purchase a bit of relish from the deli section of the grocery.
Cranberry Bites
Athens Mini Fillo Shells
Cranberry Relish
Brie Cheese
Basil or mint for garnish (optional)
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Take Mini fillo shells from the freezer. Add a bit of brie and top with cranberry relish. Heat in pre-heated oven for approximately 10 minutes, or until heated through. If desired, add a little garnishment with a sliver of basil or mint. So pretty and yummy!


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The Houston Astros are soaring, owning the best record in the Major Leagues, and for those betting baseball they are the second-best wager at +10.7 units, just behind Colorado.
After winning big four-game series at Yankee Stadium over the weekend, Houston heads to Miami for a three-game interleague series, with the opener on ESPN Monday. While not as hot at the Astros, I look to improve upon a recent 4-3 mark on my MLB picks.
Pitching Matchup: Musgrove Vs. Straily
Houston's Joe Musgrove (2-3, 5.02 ERA) has gotten off to a bit of a rocky start and it is of his own doing. Musgrove has low 90s fastball, slider, cutter, curve and change-up. While the first three pitches are a notch above average, the 24-year-old started to have problems with home runs allowed in Triple-A and he's given up eight in just under 38 innings of work covering eight starts. The key for the right-hander: When he has more ground ball outs than fly-ball outs, that will be good outing.
Dan Straily (1-3, 4.03) is an odd starting pitcher. His fastball tops out at 89 mph, and his secondary pitches tell scouts long reliever yet he's made 38 starts the past two years and has ERA under 4.00 and 15-11 record. Analytics types claim it's all luck, with his batted balls finding fielders. Balderdash I say, there are at least 30 starting pitchers with better stuff who would kill for his production and probably twice that many in big league bullpens. Is Straily an ace, of course not, but most days he gives his team a chance to win. Straily has not faced Houston since 2014 and is 2-0 in three starts.
Home/Road Dichotomy Favors Houston
Among the reasons Houston has such a good record and Miami has the most losses in the NL East is how the Astros are playing on the road and the Marlins' failures at home. Houston is 12-6 away from H-Town and its offense is actually one full run better (5.5 vs. 4.5) when wearing the gray uniforms.
Miami is virtually the opposite at 6-11. The Marlins are outscored by one run per contest at home (4.1 vs. 5.1), compared to a more competitive dead -ven result in run differential on the road. In order to defeat the 'Stros, Giancarlo Stanton and Dee Gordon have to produce more offense.
Betting Odds & Bullpen Numbers
When last reviewing the MLB odds, Houston was a -110 road pick by the sportsbooks with total of 9. The Astros have the No. 3 bullpen in ERA and lead the majors in strikeouts. Miami is 22nd in ERA and has blown six of 10 save opportunities. Ouch!
The Winner Is ...
This pick is not going to make much sense; nevertheless, Houston might be a little flat after taking Yankees series and playing a day/night doubleheader. In the past two years Straily is 10-2 at home when the money line is +125 to -125 (Team's Record), which gives me reasons to take Miami and hope the bullpen does not blow it.Free MLB Pick: Marlins +102Best Line Offered: 5Dimes
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The 10 kilometers race of Cricova wine cellars, first time occurred in 2016, in Moldova, at 100 meters depth underground. The Cricova Wine Run race is one of a kind.
There are wine races on grape fields in other countries, but only in Moldova was organized a run competition on the one of the largest wine cellars of Europe. Cricova is one of the landmarks of Moldova, which attracts not only native habitants but also tourists from abroad. It is a real underground town with streets and lanes, of an approximately 120 km area.
The race is organized to popularize the run in Chisinau city, the healthy lifestyle, but also to identify the strongest sportsmen between the professionals and amateurs.
First time, the official race occurred in January of 2016, 200 runners from 10 countries took part in it: Moldova, USA, Brazil, Czech Republic, Finland, Ukraine, Romania, Russia, and even from Angola.
On the 29th of January, 2017, the 10 kilometers race of Cricova wine cellars – Cricova Wine Run, will take place the second time. The organizers have increased the number of participants in the upcoming race, and in the second race, will have the opportunity to take part – 300 participants, amateurs and professionals who have registered and paid in advance for their participation in the Cricova Wine Run via website www.winerun.md.
The Cricova wine cellars race will occur in the real Moldavian tradition, where the runners will have the opportunity to enjoy national dishes and the most delicious wine. The sportsmen will run under the sounds of folk music and national dances.
All those who will reach the finish, will get memorial medals, and the winners and prize-winners of the run competition Cricova Wine Run will be awarded with diplomas and prizes from sponsors.


text: Chapter 68. Regional Anesthesia & Acute Pain Management in the Emergency Department Jeffrey Gadsden, MD; Knox H. Todd, MD View Full Chapter Figures Only Tables Only Videos Only Print Share Email Twitter Facebook Linkedin Reddit Get Citation Citation AMA Citation Gadsden J, Todd KH. Gadsden J, Todd K.H. Gadsden, Jeffrey, and Knox H. Todd.Chapter 68. Regional Anesthesia & Acute Pain Management in the Emergency Department. In: Hadzic A. Hadzic A Ed. Admir Hadzic.eds. NYSORA Textbook of Regional Anesthesia and Acute Pain Management New York, NY: McGraw-Hill; 2007. http://accessanesthesiology.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?bookid=413§ionid=39828227. Accessed September 21, 2018. MLA Citation Gadsden J, Todd KH. Gadsden J, Todd K.H. Gadsden, Jeffrey, and Knox H. Todd.. "Chapter 68. Regional Anesthesia & Acute Pain Management in the Emergency Department." NYSORA Textbook of Regional Anesthesia and Acute Pain Management Hadzic A. Hadzic A Ed. Admir Hadzic. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill, 2007, http://accessanesthesiology.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?bookid=413§ionid=39828227. Download citation file: RIS (Zotero) EndNote BibTex Medlars ProCite RefWorks Reference Manager Mendeley © Copyright Tools Search Book Top Return Clip Autosuggest Results ++ Emergency physicians are called on to provide care for a variety of emergent, urgent, and often complex conditions. Many patients present with pain as a component of their illness or require diagnostic and/or therapeutic interventions that are inherently painful to perform. As a result, the management of analgesia in the emergency department (ED) is a critical skill and an important element in the overall care of patients in this setting. This chapter is an overview of acute pain in the context of the ED as well as potential therapies, including regional anesthetic techniques for the emergency physician. ++ Pain is the single most common reason patients seek care in the ED, and it accounts for up to 79% of visits.1 Given the prevalence of pain as a presenting complaint, one might expect emergency physicians to assign its treatment a high priority. However, pain is seemingly invisible to providers of emergency medical care. Oligoanalgesia, a term coined by Wilson and Pendleton2 in 1989, is the inadequate use of methods to relieve pain. Multiple studies in the emergency medicine literature have observed that oligoanalgesia is a common occurrence.3 Notwithstanding the issue of providing compassionate care, pain that is not acknowledged and managed appropriately causes anxiety, depression, sleep disturbances, increased oxygen demands with the potential for end-organ ischemia, and decreased movement with an increased risk of venous thrombosis.4,5 Failure to recognize and treat pain may also result in dissatisfaction with medical care, hostility toward the physician, unscheduled returns to the ED, delayed full return to full function, and a potential increased risk of litigation.6 ++ Several studies have attempted to define the prevalence of pain and oligoanalgesia in ED settings. Johnston and coworkers7 investigated the incidence and severity of pain among patients presenting to noncritical treatment areas within the EDs of two urban hospitals in Canada. Fifty-eight percent of adults and 47% of children reported pain on ED arrival. Approximately 50% of these patients described the pain as moderate to severe. At the time of discharge, one third of both groups continued to report pain of moderate to severe intensity. In fact, 11% of children and adults in this study actually reported clinically important increases in pain intensity during their stay in the ED. ++ Another prospective study found that among adults treated at one Chicago ED, 78% presented with pain as a chief complaint.8 Fifty-eight percent of all patients received analgesics or nonpharmacologic intervention, but only 15% received opioids, despite high levels of pain intensity. Guru and Dubinsky9 found that 50% of patients who were treated for acutely painful conditions did not receive prescriptions for pain management at discharge. 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To all core trainees taking the Primary MCQ in February,
Come to the North Central Primary MCQ Prep Course
Friendly, free and informative! Five 2 hour sessions running weekly covering key topics in the primary syllabus with a focus on MCQs
When and Where?
- Every Thursday evening from 7pm-9pm
- The Whittington Hospital Education Centre, N19 5NF
- 25th Jan to 22nd Feb
Whats the aim?
We are aiming to efficiently cover the areas of the syllabus where we felt we all needed to put a bit more time in to get a good grip on the subject, and provide you with some useful handouts and summary sheets.
What will the sessions involve?
- Run over the more complex areas of key core topics
- Cover a few key facts that come up in the MCQs in more niche topics
- Some example MCQs and SBAs in each area
- Time for questions and discussion
- We'll provide summary handouts on the areas we cover, which should also be useful for the OSCE and VIVA
- Snacks!
Who are the organisers?
We are a group of core trainees who have all passed both parts of the Primary, and deciding how to cover the whole syllabus in the right amount of depth was a challenge for all of us. We can't promise finals level knowledge, but we have all been successful in the Primary recently and have had experience of how to efficiently use time studying to cover the breadth of the syllabus.
If you're interested in attending please email us at: firstname.lastname@example.com
Please feel free to just show up on the day, but emailing will help us gauge numbers.
Also, if there are any topics you feel it would be useful to cover please email us; we can't include everything suggested but if there are lots of suggestions for something we haven't included we can cover this.
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Renee Lortie of Fresh Tomato Recipes has come to talk about fresh tomatoes and how to use our summer abundance in delicious recipes.
This website is for sale.
Contact me if you'd like to make an offer.
It's true that when you think about using a fresh tomato, your first thought for preparing them is probably in a salad like a Caprese, a simple vinaigrette with garlic and herbs, or even a fresh tomato salsa for your tacos.
But fresh tomatoes are not just for eating raw!
Cook them! In fact, tomatoes are the only vegetable whose nutrient value actually rises when cooked.
So a roasted tomato meat sauce with pasta, a homemade tomato soup, a stuffed tomato, homemade ketchup -- or even tomato jam! -- not only offers rich and delicious flavour but a big hit of nutrition along with it.
Tomatoes are truly a superfood -- a big part of my adoration for them.
I think one of the most unusual recipes I have come across has to be a fresh tomato cake.
That's right, a decadent dessert! Not your first thought when considering what to make with a fresh tomato.
Tomatoes are technically (botanically) a fruit. They come from the ovary of the plants' flower.
The confusion over whether to call them a vegetable or fruit comes from them being widely used by chefs as a vegetable in their recipes.
I'm still developing my own fresh tomato cake recipe, but I can tell you it will be spiced with freshly ground cinnamon, cloves and cardamon, and iced with a citrus zested butter cream frosting.
As long as they are available from my garden, I use only heirloom tomatoes.
Heirloom tomatoes are the original tomato, offering great taste and full nutritional value.
They also come in more than 700 varieties with amazing shapes and colours from the traditional round red ones to purple, black, green and even white!
I grow about 25-30 varieties every year and have developed a list of my favourites which is always being added to.
Most tomatoes available to you in your supermarket are not heirloom, but hybrids. Hybrids for the most part, have been bred to exhibit qualities like perfect roundness, even colour, and firm texture to allow for long transport times. The outcome is a flavourless, grainy, and far less nutritional fruit than that of its heritage beginnings.
So I encourage everyone to
grow heirlooms of their own!
Thanks for stopping by, Renee!
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Igawa Yoshihiro
Board of Education, Culture and Sports, Tokamachi City
In charge of division for sports promotion in Tokamachi City's Board of education, culture and sports (Niigata prefecture)
-Born in year 1958
-1981: Graduated from Japan Sport Science University
-1982: Employment in Tokamachi City Hall
-1984: General Gymnasium
-1986: Japan Athletics Type 2 authorized track and field stadium,
-2001: ATEMA multipurpose Ground (Croatia Pitch),
-2009: FIS International Ski Federation Official Yoshida Cross Country Stadium,
-2012: Japan-Croatia Friendship House, along with construction of other sport facilities.
1998: Nagano Winter Olympic Cross Country Competition Officer.
2007–2009: For third year in the row in charge of executive committee for organisation of the National skiing competition (All Japan Ski Championships, National high school competition, National Sports Festival)
2002: FIFA Japan-Korea World Cup in 2002. In charge of security, transportation, Tokamachi Camp promotion, acceptance of Croatian National Team and camp activities. I was in charge of camp attracting activities and their acceptance. The bond that was made between Tokamachi and Croatia at that time is growing stronger and deeper every day for last 15 years.


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LUDLOW -- Three larceny suspects led authorities on a multijurisdiction pursuit that began in Wilbraham, continued into Springfield and ended in Ludlow, with multiple crashes along the way.
Anthony Barros, 27, of the Dorchester section of Boston, and Tyler Boyd, 19, of Quincy, were captured in Ludlow by Sgt. James Sevigne and Officer Andrew Roxo around 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Sgt. Daniel J. Valadas, a spokesman for the Ludlow Police Department, said Wednesday.
Barros, Boyd and the alleged getaway driver, who remains at large, were larceny suspects from a shoplifting incident at Home Depot on Boston Road in Wilbraham.
The trio fled Wilbraham in a white Kia van with Florida license plates, cut through the Indian Orchard section of Springfield, then crossed Putts Bridge into Ludlow, where Barros and Boyd were both apprehended.
The van was involved in two crashes during the chase, including one in Indian Orchard and the other in Ludlow, where the suspects bailed out of the van and fled on foot. Police said the vehicle contained stolen merchandise.
"Victims were reported in at least one of these accidents," Valadas said.
Police said Barros was found hiding in a small wooded area near 97 Winsor St., while Boyd was apprehended at the Lighthouse Bar at 108 Sewall St.
Barros, who had five active warrants in Massachusetts, was charged with disorderly conduct and obstruction of justice, while Boyd was charged with disorderly conduct. Additional charges are expected.
The suspects were booked at Ludlow police headquarters and taken to the Hampden County Correctional Center until their arraignments in Palmer District Court. The outcome of the hearings was not immediately known.
Valadas said the case is under investigation. Anyone with information about the third suspect may reach Ludlow police at 413-583-8305.
Police in Wilbraham and Springfield are also expected to file charges in the case.


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I was at lunch with a friend the other day and as we were talking I explained to her that since having Macs I have become even more social and I have a greater need for women and friends in my life. Having a "play date" or a lunch with a girlfriend is so much more valuable to me now than it was a year and a half ago.
I think part of it is that motherhood has made most of my insecurities go away because I realize they just aren't that important. I have better things to worry about, so how people think of me goes out the window. I also think having a human to love so wholly, and who loves you back completely- boosts your self esteem! I am so use to loving and being sweet and friendly to my baby, that when I meet a new person I just automatically act that way, to an extent, towards them. Making new friends, even if it's just for the afternoon is coming so naturally to me now. Anyone who has known me for more than a few years will be surprised to hear that. I really didn't have any kind of desire before to make an effort and look for new friends. Now I would make a new friend every day if the chance presented itself.
And then of course there's that obvious need and drive to find other women in your life who can relate to you and join in the motherhood talks. Bart is still my best friend and favorite person in the world, but there are things he will NEVER understand about motherhood. Talking to someone else who knows what I'm feeling and going through is so comforting and empowering. I'm sorry all you dads out there, but you really just don't understand the stress we feel when it comes to nap time. It's crazy and it's not you, it's us.
Even if I'm with someone who isn't a mom yet, having that connection with another woman has come to mean so much to me! I've really grown as a person this last year, and a lot of that growth has translated to a friendlier demeanor and desire for more people in my life.
I've seen a huge change, but Bart still asks "please be nice to the people" when I ask him about paying to get into his games (aka I ain't doin it) I guess it takes more than a year to convince him I've nice-d up :)


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- Bookstore at the Hall for Contemporary Art
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- Sponsors & Friends
After its comprehensive renovation and modernization, since April 2015 the Hall for Contemporary Art includes its own bookshop for art. Along with the bookshop at the House of Photography, the Deichtorhallen now offers two bookshops with a first-class reputation for quality and service. In a pleasant atmosphere you will find a comprehensive selection compiled in cooperation with booksellers Walther König.
Located next to the exhibition space and the Fillet of Soul cafe, the bookshop for contemporary art stocks our own exhibition catalogues and publications as well as all important publications and new releases from Germany and abroad on art, theory, and architecture. We also offer a selection of children's books as well as various design products. The bookshop opens onto the new Fillet of Soul cafe, where you can read your newly purchased items and relax after your visit to the exhibition.
In close cooperation with the bookshop at the House of Photography, our sales staff will be happy to assist you. Of course, we can also order any available book for you. An online store is scheduled to open during the second half of the year.
Opening hours
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First thursday of the month until 9 pm
Closed on mondays
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If I remember correctly there are both ISO and ANSI standards for things like the height off the floor for hanging pedal assemblies. What I think I would do would be to measure the from the center if the VW pedal pads to the floor then, if you have a car with hanging pedals make the same measurement. I even might go to a dealer or used car dealer and ask if you could get some measurements to see it there is what seems to be a standard height off the floor then use that. Check trucks, sedans and sport car style rigs.
A lot of the floor mount pedal assemblies for rails can be mounted upside down and you rotate the MC's 90 degrees to give you a hanging assembly. I agree with the dual brake MC cylinders w/a bar between them. The bad thing about the hanging pedals with the cylinders facing the rear of the car is the distance between the dash and the firewall. The one picture I showed of the buggy with the hanging pedals had a tube mount made against the firewall to strengthen things up. I can post pictures of that if you want (maybe I will post the pictures, in a while, just to complete what I am talking about). Access to the cylinders behind the dash might be a bit tight unless there is some fancy and creative thinking done.
For heel and toe (its been a long time since I have been around auto X-ing but the video I have seen kind of looks it is 1, 2 and rev the pudding out of it. You still could need the heel and toe rather than the cross-foot braking method) the gas pedal is mounted slightly behind the brake/clutch pedal assy. You should be able to get that information at the same time you measure for the pedal distance off the floor. Also note that the gas pedal is usually tilted towards the center of the car as that is the way feet usually like to work.
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First coast-to-coast road through Waupaca turns 100
This year is the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Yellowstone Trail, the second transcontinental highway in America and the first to go through the northern states.
It went through 18 counties in Wisconsin and eventually became U.S. Highway 10.
The highway was called the Yellowstone Trail because it went through the Yellowstone National Park. In 1912, a group of businessmen gathered in Ispwich, S.D., to explore ways to improve the economic status of their communities. They hit upon the idea of combining the public's growing interest in Yellowstone National Park and its growing love affair with automobiles by creating a highway that would aid travel to the park and bring tourists into towns along the way.
From this meeting emerged the Yellowstone Trail Association. Their idea was to combine numerous county roads into one long highway that would span the United States from Plymouth Rock, Mass., to Puget Sound, Wash.
The trail would follow closely along the established railroads, not only in consideration of farmers along the way but to increase the chances for help should the driver's car break down. Its advantage would be that travelers would not need to carry extra fuel, water or food as there were towns and villages that were seldom more than 25 miles apart and during the summer vacationing season, the weather would be cooler for travelers than the existing Lincoln Highway.
The Association did not build or improve the roads – their contribution was in advertising and promotion. Realizing the economic advantages, progressive businessmen strove fiercely to convince the Association to route the trail through their counties.
Cities along the route were required to contribute $25 to the Association towards its advertising efforts, put the road in good traveling condition and arrange the appropriate signage half-way between it and the cities to either side.
With no highway numbering system, the Association chose to have the trail marked with metal signs bearing a yellow circle and black arrow pointing the direction to be taken by the motorist. Between the signs, the trails came to be additionally marked with hoodoos – yellow bands painted on telephone poles, rocks, trees and fence posts.
In May of 1915, one of the traveling representatives for the Yellowstone Trail Association came to Waupaca to secure interest from advocates of good roads in Wisconsin.
The route to the West coast had been completed and the Association planned to proceed from Minneapolis through Amherst, Waupaca, Weyauwega, Fremont, Oshkosh and Milwaukee and then down to Chicago.
The first Trail Day, when everyone along the route was asked to work to improve the roads, was set for June 7 and a relay planned for June 15.
Erle Whipple of Waupaca was chosen to serve as the county representative, or "Trail Boss."
Each community formed its own local association. In Waupaca, there was a membership fee of $1 to belong to the association. It was hoped that in time Waupaca, Weyauwega and Fremont would join to create a county association to better coordinate work on Waupaca County's section of the Yellowstone Trail and bring large numbers of tourists into the communities.
Highway's route
The Yellowstone Trail appears to have entered Waupaca from the west past Chady's Corners (State Highway 54 and County Highway QQ) to Hillcrest Street (known at that time as North Fulton) and then merged into Granite Street. Some believe that shortly after the initial route was established it was diverted from Granite Street to West Fulton Street.
It turned onto Main and preceded to Badger where it turned south and merged into School Street until turning south onto Churchill Street. From Churchill, the Trail followed Appletree Lane through the original Barnes Apple Orchard and past the Bunker Hill School, which was located on the south side of what is now U.S. Highway 10.
To help create excitement for the project, a relay was organized to run from Chicago to Seattles. The relay ran from June 15 through June 19. It took the drivers 97 hours and 10 minutes to cover the 2,430 miles.
In an article put out by the Yellowstone Trail Association, Weyauwega received a special mention for having "a mile of torches and red fire with a background of men, women and children" to encourage the driver through their section of the relay.
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A trail day was set up in Waupaca for July 16, but it was postponed to allow a survey of the road between Waupaca and Weyauwega and to formalize plans. Farmers between Waupaca and Weyauwega were organized into teams for the portion of the road that some felt needed the most attention.
Meanwhile, work on grading and laying gravel on the Yellowstone Trail in Farmington was moving smoothly. The town's farmers worked with the city's merchants, who closed their stores in order to work on the roads.
Weyauwega also was noted for its hard work on the roads under their domain. In an Oct. 7 newspaper article it was noted "last Friday morning armed with shovels, picks, hoes, rakes and every conceivable road-making tool, all the able bodied men of the village set out to build the longest piece of road that has been built this season by the local road builders. When night came a full half mile of clayed and graveled road showed for their day's labor."
Before road work began in 1916, a meeting was called and Whipple discussed making the area more cattractive to tourist. He suggested that signs be placed to welcome people as they entered Waupaca. He also wanted "odious speed warning" signs removed, as he believed people knew what the speed limits were.
Seattle or bust
In 1916, the Yellowstone Trail Association made arrangements with the U.S. War Department to carry an official message from Plymouth Rock, Mass., to Seattle, Wash.
The route was divided into 14 relay sections and the 3,489 miles were anticipated to be traversed in 120 hours. The seventh section, from Milwaukee to Minneapolis, was under Whipple's direction.
To assist in this huge endeavor he set up managers in eight sub-relay sections, Waupaca's being Walter Nelson. Depending on the distance, each sub-relay section's car had to travel 30 to 70 minutes.
He was also responsible for providing experienced drivers with high-powered cars that could average 30 miles an hour and then arrange with police departments to permit these cars to travel through their areas without the drivers getting arrested for speeding.
His first driver was to pick up the message in Milwaukee at 4:30 a.m. Wednesday, Sept. 13, 1916. At Fremont, Dr. P.J. Christofferson in his 90 hp Cadillac 8 was to receive the letter at 8:15 a.m., travel through Waupaca around 8:45 a.m. and precede to Stevens Point, where at 9:45 a.m. it was passed on to Arthur Clements in a 55 hp Buick.
Besides Whipple, Christofferson was accompanied by Stevens Point's sub-relay manager, J.L. Seeger.
He actually passed through Waupaca almost two hours ahead of time and despite rain affecting road conditions was only behind the original schedule by a small amount and that was due to a freight train holding the car up at a railroad crossing.
Along the route, there were ups and downs in attaining the proposed time between communities, but at the end of the Wisconsin portion, the relay was one hour and eighteen minutes ahead of schedule.
When the final dispatch was received from Seattle, the transcontinental trip had taken 121 hours, and the trip was considered a rousing success.
Public works project
In 1918, Wisconsin began giving highways numerical designations and the Yellowstone Trail through this region was named Highway 18 with special markers placed along the route to tell travelers it was part of the Yellowstone Trail.
The practice of numbering highways would not become more standard throughout the nation until 1926 when Congress passed its Federal Highway Act.
It wasn't until 1922 that the Yellowstone Trail was officially opened, particularly between the Twin Cities and Chicago.
In 1924, the newspaper reminded its readers: "The citizens of the communities served by the Yellowstone Trail must realize that all of this did not just happen; that in order to reach this prominent place it has taken consistent effort year after year; it has taken constructive plans carried out and put into effect so that they were useful; it has taken money and sacrifice; and it has taken systematic organization. These things had to be done, not on paper alone, not on the spur of the moment, not for a week or a month, but for year after year."
A longer version of JJ Johnson's article on the Yellowstone Trail appears in the Waupaca Historical society's newsletter.


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London Olympics 2012 Case Analysis
The core problem which Paul Williamson is facing is how to decide the price of the ticket. The price should be fixed at that much cost that can be also purchased by the average Londoners or the public can afford. As correctly said it is "everybody's games".
The managing of attendance is a very big concern for Paul Williamson as most of times it has been seen that even the tickets are sold the seats are lying vacant. This situation happened during the BEIJING 2008 games that even the tickets were sold out but most of the people were not there at the time of games , these people were mainly VIP'S and many of the famous media persons.
Solution 2) The dilemma of Paul Williamson - It is given in the first instance that how the importance of ticketing plays a vital role in maximizing the revenue .As if the price is higher the higher will be the revenue.
Another instance being given is that the organizing committee knows that most of the countries would be watching the opening ceremony and also the swimming finals but Paul Williamson wants to not only maximize the attendance during the above two events but also during the events like handball and table tennis.
The third instance which has been discussed is mainly to sell the tickets to those persons who are considered to be the "Knowledgeable Fans".
The final and major concern is to provide tickets not only to high class society and elites but should be costed at that much price that can be easily afforded by average Londoners who are living in the nearby areas of East London.
Solution 4) In London Olympics 2012 the characteristics of a good pricing strategy are as follows:- A. PRICE DISCRIMINATION
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Hilary Clinton just utterly destroyed Donald Trump in three words
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For the most part, Hillary Clinton's attempts to connect with young America have been about as shameless as Donald Trump's attempts to appeal to racist wall fetishists.
How does your student loan debt make you feel?— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) August 12, 2015
Tell us in 3 emojis or less.
But this is something we can get behind. When Donald Trump tweeted out one of his standard, exclamation marked jibes labeling Clinton as 'Crooked Hillary', his Democratic rival needed a well thought-out, cutting response.
Obama just endorsed Crooked Hillary. He wants four more years of Obama—but nobody else does!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 9, 2016
But in the end, Hillary needed only three words.
Knowing that Hillary had just effortlessly laid the smack down, Donald Trump then responded with this.
How long did it take your staff of 823 people to think that up--and where are your 33,000 emails that you deleted? https://t.co/gECLNtQizQ— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 9, 2016
For the record, it took them 5 minutes, whereas Trump's response arrived 2 hours and 13 minutes later.
Better luck next time, Donald.