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Sour Cream Biscuits
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- prep 15 min cook 10 min
- serves 12-14
- 12⁄3 cups all-purpose flour
- 1⁄3 cup cornmeal
- 1 tablespoon sugar
- 1 tablespoon baking powder
- 1 teaspoon dried minced onion or minced onion
- 1⁄2 teaspoon cream of tartar
- 1⁄8 teaspoon salt
- Dash ground red pepper (cayenne)
- 1⁄3 cup shortening, butter, or margarine
- 1⁄2 cup reduced-fat sour cream
- 1⁄2 cup low-fat (1% milkfat) milk
How to make it 25 minutes
Preheat the oven to 450°F. In a large bowl, stir together the flour, cornmeal, sugar, baking powder, onion, cream of tartar, salt, and red pepper. Using a pastry blender or 2 knives, cut in the shortening until the mixture resembles coarse crumbs. Add sour cream and milk all at once and stir just until a soft dough forms.
Knead on a lightly floured surface for 30 seconds, then pat or roll until 3⁄4 inch thick. Using a 21⁄2-inch biscuit cutter, cut into 12 to 14 biscuits, rerolling and cutting the scraps. Place on an ungreased baking sheet.
Brush the tops with a little additional milk if you like. Bake for 10 to 12 minutes or until golden. Serve warm.
Nutritional Information(per serving)
- Calories: 150
- Fat: 7g
- Saturated Fat: 2g
- Cholesterol: 4mg
- Sodium: 154mg
- Carbs: 19g
- Protein: 3g
- Fiber: 1g
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A soldier from Joint Base Lewis-McChord is a person of interest in the Nov. 30 slaying of a 19-year-old woman in Kirkland, according to a base spokesman.
Joe Piek, spokesman for Joint Base Lewis-McChord, said on Tuesday that the soldier was booked into the base corrections facility on Nov. 30 for going absent without leave (AWOL). Army officials were notified by Kirkland police the same day that he was also a person of interest in the slaying of Scarlett Paxton.
"The base leadership has been informed that this particular soldier is a person of interest in the ongoing murder investigation," Piek said.
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There is no evidence that Paxton and the soldier knew each other, Murray said.
"As far as we know we have not been able to make any connection to him and the victim, but we're still looking," Murray said.
Piek said the soldier had gone AWOL several times in recent months and once missed a mandatory unit movement. Piek said he "is considered a flight risk."
"This particular soldier has only been in the Army a little over a year. He has never been overseas," Piek said.
Authorities said knowing the man was behind bars on the base gave police additional time to conduct their investigation before seeking criminal charges in King County Superior Court.
Piek declined to say when the soldier was off base on other occasions or whether he is under investigation for other crimes.
Around 1 a.m. Nov. 30, Paxton and her boyfriend went for a walk near their Juanita apartment. At some point, they split up and Paxton apparently went home.
When the boyfriend returned home, he found Paxton bleeding outside the apartment. She died shortly after medics arrived.
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Denver, & Rio Grande R. Co. v. Denver, 250 U.S. 241 (1919)
Denver, & Rio Grande Railroad Company v.
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Nos. 322, 323
Submitted April 23, 1919
Decided June 2, 1919
Contract and property rights of a railroad company in respect of the operation of a track in a public street are held subject to the fair exercise by a state, or by a municipality as its agent, of the power to make and enforce regulations reasonably necessary to secure public safety. P. 250 U. S. 244.
A track constructed under ordinance grant by a railroad as part of its main line, but later used only to serve abutting private industries, traversed a city side street and crossed a thoroughfare used daily by thousands of people in approaching and leaving the Union Depot, which was very near the intersection. Held that in ordinance of the city requiring removal of the track where it crossed the thoroughfare, for the safety of the public, did not violate the rights of the railroad under the contract and due process clauses, it appearing that use of the track could still be maintained through connections with the yards of its owner and of another company, and that resulting expense and loss of revenue would be relatively small. P. 250 U. S. 245.
An ordinance which makes no discrimination against interstate commerce, and affects it only incidentally and indirectly, is not objectionable under the commerce clause. P. 250 U. S. 246.
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The Pizza Man Always Rings Twice
So this is the situation: You are famished and dead tired from your long day of widget making. You can barely summon the energy to walk to the kitchen. The fridge is bereft of provisions except for a motley assortment of condiments. In the crisper, there is an ancient-looking Tupperware container. You detect streaks of color through the translucent plastic--sickly hues of green and blue like the ones you see on a bruised ankle three days after a bad accident. You shudder, and very nearly lose your appetite. But the hunger won't let go. It never does with gluttons like you.
So you lunge for the phone, hit speed dial, and order delivery from your favorite pizza place. Thirty minutes later--a blink, really, just time for a toke, a Coke, and a sitcom--and the pizza guy is banging at your door. He is holding a steaming-hot pizza bag. Soon you will be feasting, and the world's woes--or at least your woes, which are really all you're worried about--will recede like the tides. But wait. There is a problem. You must pay the delivery guy. Where the fuck is your wallet? You can't find it. You can't find your checkbook, either. So the pizza guy just stands there and waits.
Eventually, you discover your wallet wedged between the sofa cushions, right next to the missing TV remote. A two for one. Good for you. Now, finally, to the transaction. You notice that the pizza guy looks irritated. It's cold outside, but his hands are bare: He can't make change while wearing gloves. You don't know that. You don't care.
By the time you finally extract the portrait of Andrew Jackson from your wallet, you glance outside and spot the driver's vehicle. It's the usual rust-bucket jalopy--a single blinking flasher, sputtering engine, side-view mirror dangling like an eye plucked from the socket. You experience a moment of compassion. You think: What a loser. There but for the grace of God go I. So you tip the guy a dollar. And by the time you've planted yourself in front of the TV, you have completely forgotten the delivery guy.
But the pizza guy hasn't forgotten you. In fact, as he wends his way back to the shop for the next run, he is mentally aggregating multiple aspects of your persona--profiling you.
He knows more about you than you will ever know about him. There are the tangibles: your name, your address, your phone number. And there are the countless intangibles. If he has worked in the racket for a few years--and a decade's labor on the pizza road is not so unusual--he has glimpsed the insides of thousands of homes and apartments. He has borne witness to unimaginable squalor. He has breathed in the stink from your unemptied garbage and your beige urine-soaked carpets. He has gawked at the regal excess of your Lake of the Isles mansion. He has made countless numbing visits to your bleak, ill-lit shithole apartment. He has even caught the scent of the hydroponic marijuana you furtively cultivate under grow lights in the basement.
You should know this: If you stiff the pizza man, he will hate you. There are Nazis. There are baby rapists. And there is that vast class of indifferent, callous swine who stiff the pizza man. Same shit, different name. On the other hand, if you do him up right--prompt exchange, $5 tip--the pizza man will sing your praises to his fellow drivers. If you tip him extravagantly--say, $20 or more on a large order--he will personally arrange an audience with the pope to make the case for your beatification. To the pizza man, the tip is the thing.
In the popular imagination, the pizza man is many other things. He is the punch line to loser jokes. The pimply-faced teen working his first job. The reckless driver who mows down the glaucoma-stricken nun in the crosswalk. The stoner who has lost all ambition. The hapless crime victim whose sorry demise gets 30 seconds on the 10:00 p.m. news. Sometimes, though less commonly, the pizza man is celebrated. In Neal Stephenson's cult cyber-punk novel Snow Crash, he is the hero. The Deliverator, as he is called, works in a failing future America in which pizza delivery constitutes a last remaining arena of national competence. And, finally, there is the pizza man as sexual buccaneer--the stud who stops by for impromptu encounters in countless porn movies and Penthouse Forum letters.
As with so many stereotypes, there are nuggets of truth embedded in all of the above. Last month, City Pages sat down with six of Minneapolis's most prolific pizza drivers to talk about their livelihood: the day-to-day realities of the work, the legendary customers, the rank indignities and, of course, drugs and sex. Over stiff drinks--and on condition of anonymity, to keep these modern-day deliverators from running afoul of their bosses or the law--the pizza men shared their stories. One thing became apparent: The average pizza driver is the consummate profiler. All things considered, he is probably better at his job than the average cop, lawyer, psychiatrist, or other professional profiler. When the pizza man fucks with you, he's playing for keeps.
City Pages: What's the most fucked-up thing you've seen while delivering pizzas?
Mr. Blue: I had one regular, an old woman. I'd always say, "So, how are you doing?" And she was like, "I'm dying. My lungs are failing. I just had my third dialysis." She had to pause between her words to spike up her life force. Then she'd say something like, "Oh, Jesus, I'm in rough shape."
Mr. Brown: I had one like that. I knew he was getting ill. There were all these empty, tipped-over vodka bottles. You could just smell death, a dying animal smell. But God bless him, he kept on ordering.
Mr. Blue: At a certain point you do see death coming for some of the customers. There was this other regular who lived downtown on Seventh Street. She was notorious. She always stiffed you and she smelled like a dog that rolled in a dead raccoon. I think she died from a meatball lodged in her aorta.
Mr. Orange: I used to really fear this guy at Hennepin and 11th. He lived with his mom and had a real Henry, Portrait of a Serial Killer aspect about him--the blunted affect, the monotone delivery. The minute you picked up the phone, you'd hear his voice and think, "Oh no, I'm going to get stuck with this run." He'd call back three or four times every time he ordered, asking some question about extra sauce or something.
Mr. Pink: I don't know. Sometimes, I kind of like the deliveries where there's something really freaky going on.
Mr. Blue: You mean like the guy who had the piles of Charmin everywhere? I think he was very worried about running out of toilet paper.
Mr. Brown: Remember that one fucker on Ridgewood? He was always bitching about his child support payments. Sometimes he'd come up on the stairs on all fours because he was so drunk. Then he'd start beer-burping on you.
Mr. White: For three nights in a row, I had this side-door delivery on Portland Avenue. They were just really tweaked-out dudes. One guy was always shirtless, and he was just fucking skeletal. It was like you could see his skull. The other guy seemed a little more together. The kitchen had a shitload of dishes and reeked of rotten food. You see that once in a while--young guys living alone who are super depressed. But this was beyond that. In the middle of the floor, there was a big hole that went straight through to the basement. They had to walk around it to get to the door.
CP: What are the worst deliveries?
Mr. White: Public housing, because of the fear of getting knocked over the head. And hospitals. I don't have much fear there, but I just get a terrible feeling. Especially the Children's Hospital. What can you say? "Enjoy the pizza. Hope those tubes don't fall out of your kid tonight." And you can't even bitch about a shitty tip.
CP: Driving jobs often make people a little crazy, and on top of that you guys also have to deal with bad customers. Is rage a problem for you?
Mr. Brown: It was for me. After a while, I couldn't let anything go. After nearly getting killed a couple of times in weird traffic situations, I would just get really fucking angry. For me, it was always traffic-related.
Mr. Blue: I think there is something particular about pizza delivery that forces that issue on you. There is just this anonymity from being in a car. You're encased in a big steel cage, and no one can hear all the shit you're talking to them. It's almost like a bunch of pure ids driving around. Brings out the worst in people. I've had the point where I realize, "I am enraged. This is ruining my life."
Mr. White: Just recently, I delivered to this woman. She seemed nice enough, but I could tell right away she was very particular. She had very neat handwriting. Anyway, she tried to give me an out-of-state check. I said, "Sorry, I cannot take that check." She said, "Fine, I don't want the pizza," and snapped the check back. Then she turned around and made a grab for the goods. We wrestled over that pizza long enough for me to think, "This is my life. I'm in my early 30s and I'm wrestling with some fucking woman over a pizza."
By the time I got control of the pizza, we were both breathing kind of heavily. And then she says, "Fine, I'll just pay you in cash!" She had cash the whole fucking time. I think it was a $19.25 pizza, and I just grabbed her 20 and left. So I actually got a tip.
Mr. Orange: I've had some full-blown shouting matches with people. When I'd get back to the shop, I would always give the boss a preemptive warning that a guy is going to call with a complaint. He would be ready for action. The guy would call and say something like, "I'm writing to the Better Business Bureau!" And my boss would say, "Fuck you, asshole! Write a letter to God!"
Mr. White: Last night, I had a guy go ballistic on me when I was explaining our check policy. He had a bald head, and it turned all red as he was screaming at me. His wife was just standing there. He was yelling about how he orders from us all the time, and how people in Kenwood don't write bad checks. He said, "I'm never going to order from you guys again!" I told him that was the best thing I heard all day. He was still screaming as I was walking out the door. Later on, I looked his house up on the web. It has an estimated market value of half a million dollars.
CP: Have any of you been robbed?
Mr. Blond: I got mugged four months ago. Not for cash. For pizza. These three kids were milling around. One of them was pretending to ring the doorbell. All of a sudden the older kid rips the whole bag out of my hand and starts running down the block. I chased him, shouting, "Come on! There's three fucking orders in there! Let me have the other two!" I couldn't catch him.
Mr. White: Not when I've been on duty, but in my delivery area. And there have been people who shorted me money, and people who have given me counterfeit money.
CP: Describe the ways a pizza man gets back at a hated customer.
Mr. Brown: I know one driver who has some very elaborate retaliation methods. I saw him coming out of an apartment building once looking really pissed. He said, "That fucker is getting a magazine!" I'm not sure what it was, but he used to work at Shinders, so he knew a lot about different magazines.
Mr. Blue: I think it was [a subscription] to Fuck Finger. It's a magazine that has pictures of naked men giving you the finger. The idea is kind of like, "Fuck you for looking at a naked picture of me."
Mr. White: Right before I quit delivering pizzas the first time, I went to this one apartment of real assholes--fratty, hip-hoppy guys who never tipped worth a shit and wrote checks from their mom's house in Burnsville or wherever. They had this fucked-up door. Sometimes the knob would fall off, and if they couldn't find it, they couldn't open the door. On my last delivery, the doorknob came out on my end. And I just said, Fuck this, and took it. I keep it as a trophy in my apartment.
Mr. Blue: The most common thing is that you just shake the pizza box. I had a regular customer who was just a total fuck. He would always order at horrible times and he was at the far reaches of the delivery area. He had a few other behaviors that were annoying to the pizza man: He would take forever to come to the door. After he'd finally answer, he would go back inside to get the money and dillydally. He looked ashamed of his meager 40-cent tip. You know, some customers are clueless about the concept of tipping. It's just not on their radar. And then there are other customers who know they're stiffing you. So when I pick up that guy's delivery, I get in my car and go straight to the grocery store. I clip coupons and compare prices. I really take my time with that delivery.
CP: Who are the best tippers?
Mr. White: Waitresses, of course. They come home from work, and they've been on their feet all day and have made a load of money. They're the best. I've found the new condo people in Uptown are shitty tippers, and getting to the door can be a pain in the ass because of the weird layouts. Doctors are a real crapshoot. Sometimes you get the hip young doctor and he tips great. Sometimes the doctor stiffs you. I know one particular lawyer who always--always--tipped one dollar. I said, "You only tip the pizza man a buck?" From my point of view, being a good tipper is one of the greatest virtues a person can have.
Mr. Brown: I once got $80 on a big downtown order. But from just a normal, goodhearted person, 20 bucks is my personal best.
Mr. Blond: I know a driver who got 85 bucks from Karl Malone. Proof that an asshole can be generous.
Mr. Blue: Bobby McFerrin is a huge tipper and nice guy. Paul Magers was an adequate tipper.
Mr. Orange: I'd say Paul Magers was middle-of-the-road. Maybe a dollar more than you'd expect. But Christ, he lived on Lake of the Isles.
Mr. White: A decent tip is three dollars. If someone orders something that costs eight bucks, maybe two. But three bucks as a general rule. And if it's a big order, or it's cold outside, you have to treat me right. A four-dollar tip makes me feel good. A five-dollar tip says you really care.
CP: In the Minneapolis of the early '90s, a driver could live a reasonable slacker lifestyle by working two and half shifts per week. Have the economics of pizza driving changed since then?
Mr. Blue: I've got about 12 years on the pizza road, with a few sabbaticals. The economics have changed palpably. Until recently, I was working 32 hours a week and I was still feeling the crunch. We were having some real fallow periods. There are certain anomalous trends. But from a 12-year cycle, I've got a pretty meaningful data set, a longitudinal study. And over that span, it's gotten worse.
CP: How much do you make on an average night?
Mr. Brown: Eighty to 120 dollars.
Mr. Orange: If you average four bucks a run, that's pretty good. Thirty runs is okay. Sometimes you get 42 and you can walk out the door with $150 in cash.
CP: There's a major hidden cost of business in the pizza-delivery game--keeping your car running. Talk about your car histories.
Mr. Orange: I went through about twelve cars over five years. That's why I always liked the old dinosaurs. They're like tinker toys--easy to put together, easy to take apart.
Mr. Pink: I'm in my second pizza car ever. Both were Mazdas.
Mr. Brown: I had about five or six, but some were total junkers. So realistically, I'd say four. Two of them were totaled in accidents that were by no means my fault.
Mr. Blue: If you work as a pizza driver long enough, you become an armchair mechanic. The main thing that destroys you on the pizza road is just basic physics. You need to drive a small car.
Mr. Brown: And at a minimum, you have to learn how to replace radiators, alternators, starters, brakes. Most of us can do that shit in half an hour.
Mr. Blue: I avoided fixing my rotors for so long because I have four-wheel drive. It was just a massive job, $800. So for a while, the shuddering was pretty incredible. My passengers clutched the rearview mirror like rosary beads.
Mr. Orange: I had a Chevy truck that was just toxic. It had mice. I don't know how they survived, because I got dizzy just driving the thing.
CP: Do you have run-ins with the police? Are your vehicles legally registered? For instance, I have heard stories of various forms of chicanery when it comes to expired tabs.
Mr. Blue: What do you mean? Some kid threw a snowball at me, and it just so happened it covered my tabs. And it just so happened my tabs were expired.
Mr. Pink: I made some tabs on my computer using a digital camera. It was easy. You need the good-quality shiny paper. We did it for a friend's boat, my motorcycle, and I used it on my car for a while, too. You just have to get the right color photo paper. It's not identical to the real tabs. But at a glance you can't tell the difference.
CP: Have you been pulled over on the pizza road?
Mr. Pink: Once I got stopped for having no lights on, once for weaving on LaSalle, once for speeding.
Mr. Brown: I've been pulled over at least eight times. Usually just for flying. Sometimes because I didn't realize my tabs were up. Working on the south side, the cops let you go because [the boss] always gave them half off on food. So I got used to that. But working downtown is different. Every time you get pulled over, they fuck you. I used to drive an Electra without a back window, just plastic, and no side-view mirrors. When I was delivering downtown, a state patrolman really went after me. He put me in the back of his car. He had his hand on his gun and stuff.
Mr. Brown: One driver told me a story about how he was delivering pizza, and he had a beer in his lap. And he drives by this old gas station, and he's taking a swig when he notices a cop looking directly at him. So his response was to gun it, turn up an alley, and whip his beer bottle into the wall. He tried to cut through a parking lot, but it was a dead end. So he just waited for the cop. The cop was saying, "What were you doing? I should give you a breathalyzer." The driver says, "Well, I don't want to do that right now because I'm working." And the cop says, "Who do you work for?" So the driver tells him, and the cop let him go.
Mr. Orange: The police are always insisting there are no quotas, but it is belied by their behaviors. I've always found a lot of vehicle profiling. I had an old Cutlass that was totally ghetto, and I would get pulled over for no reason at all except that they thought I was black. When the cops would get to the window, there would be a look of surprise, like--Oh, a honky. Other vehicles never got a second look.
CP: Let's discuss car insurance.
Mr. Blue: Well, I have heard of car insurance. Currently, I am in the midst of my longest period without it, three years.
Mr. Blond: Well, I've always been insured. It's a good thing because I've been in three or four accidents. None were my fault. I'm a good driver. I got a new car out of one. The other guy went through a stop sign and totaled my Neon. But, no, I don't tell my insurance company that I drive pizzas for a living.
Mr. Blue: You know, none of the accidents I've been in have ever been my fault. We pizza men need to close ranks on this one.
CP: How have you guys lasted in this racket for so long?
Mr. White: I enjoy the driving part, the smoking cigarettes, the listening to Mischke on the radio. But I really, really do hate the Kenwood buck [south Minneapolis pizza-man lingo for the one-dollar tip said to be common in the ritzy Kenwood neighborhood]. It's like, "Dude, I need two dollars way more than you need two dollars."
Mr. Blond: Personally, I'm trying to get out of driving. I'm tired of being by myself so much. It's too isolating.
Mr. Blue: I like the illusion of freedom. Sometimes it is true freedom. I can tell my manager, "I'm going to the bar to play a video game. Give me a call on the cell when a delivery comes up." So honestly, I rarely dread going to work. That was a new experience for me with this gig. I don't take any shit home with me. And at the end of the night, I've got a fistful of cash. Not to breathe an artificial level of nobility to it, but I've liked what pizza delivery has enabled me to become. I stay in touch with a street-level reality. Seriously. Think about some of the fuckers you deliver to who have their heads so deeply embedded in their asses.
CP: The Onion once ran a story with the headline "Everyone Involved in Pizza's Preparation, Delivery, Purchase Extremely High." What do you say to that?
Mr. Blue: I'd say 30 to 40 percent of our customer base is high. Cooks, maybe 60 percent. Personally, I've just had three times where I went to work high. Once, when I was delivering to an address in deep south Minneapolis, I was just cruising along and listening to a tape before I realized that I was on 35W headed toward Bloomington.
Mr. Pink: Pot has never caused me any trouble. Sometimes I space out a little and keep driving beyond the delivery area, but that's the worst thing about it. One time I delivered to this regular at a mansion by one of the lakes. I think he was a realtor or something who made it big in the boom. But he was still basically a regular guy. So I see that his wife and kids were gone, and he is hanging out with some friend. And they have these huge bottles of ultra-expensive scotch and enormous bags of marijuana and hash spread on the bar. So I spent about half an hour there. It was my greatest delivery.
Mr. White: I've been tipped in pot. One time I delivered to this girl on Hennepin Avenue, and she said, "Wanna come upstairs and smoke some pot and do some whip-its?" So I said okay, and hung out with her for about half an hour. But I get dyslexic when I smoke pot, so it's not very good for me. My math skills get poor.
Mr. Brown: For me, it's just a waste of a fucking buzz. It makes the shift go on too long. You've got to sit and listen to the people at work, asking all these weird questions. Being high around that sort of stuff is just too much for me. But if I worked at Domino's, I'd have to get fucking high just to put the outfit on.
Mr. Blue: I would have to get drunk and high. You know, there is this total caste system in pizza delivery. I'm 34 years old now, but when I pull up next to a Domino's driver, I'm always like, "Oh, you poor fucker."
Mr. Blond: I have never done it [smoked pot on the job]. I'm pretty straight. Someone once asked me, "How did you get this job? You're so normal."
CP: Let's talk about naked customers and sex.
Mr. Pink: Over the years, I've come across a lot of naked people. Unfortunately, they have mostly been guys. Sometimes it is just a pathetic situation. I vividly remember this one guy in a high-rise on Third Avenue. He came to the door in the wheelchair, wearing a filthy white T-shirt and nothing else.
Mr. Brown: I think a lot of people get their kicks from being half-naked in front of the pizza man. There was a gay couple I delivered to--the guy who answered the door was fully clothed. But then this other guy came dancing around the corner, wearing nothing but a T-shirt. He had money in his hand. And he was holding it down there [gestures to crotch] so I could get a good look. He was getting his kicks out of it.
Mr. Blond: Once I answered the phone at the restaurant to take an order. I could tell right away the caller was kind of drunk, but we were getting along. So I said, "I'm getting off pretty soon," and she said, "So am I." I thought to myself, I have got to make this run. When I finally get there, she's wearing a bathrobe that's open. She's completely naked underneath. So she pays for the pizza and says, "Do you want to come up?" I followed her into her apartment and she starts kissing me, nibbling on my ear and grabbing my ass.
Then she pulls me back into another, much darker room. I said, "Where are the lights? Turn on the lights!" I thought I was about to get robbed. All of a sudden, I hear two other voices in the bedroom--a guy and a girl. I guess they wanted a foursome.
Mr. White: I once took a delivery to a place on Emerson Avenue. The girl who ordered specifically asked for me to make the delivery. So I pounded on the door, and it turns out it was this girl who I had delivered pizza to a half-dozen times at about four different addresses. I also used to see her at rock shows. One time I got her into a show for free. I never knew her name, but somehow she knew mine. Anyway, she had a towel on, like she had been in the shower. She was super cute, and I'm thinking, "Oh, my God, this is it, this is it." You know the part, when the porn music comes on. Gung-ch-ch, gung-ch-ch. Then I looked at the shower, and I see this dude step out--big naked hairy hippie dude with his crank hanging out. And then I was like, "Oh, I see what's going on here." He came to the door, and said, "What's up?"
CP: Have any of you guys ever gotten laid on the job?
Mr. Pink: Yes. I was 19, working at this little joint near my mom's house. It was the last run of the night, to this kind of low-rent apartment complex in the suburbs. I knock, and this chick in her early 30s opens this door. She was kind of good-looking but kind of trashy. And she was totally naked. She goes through this little bead wall, and says, "Come in for a second. I've got to get the money." So I walked through the bead wall, and she's sitting on the couch, and says, "Want a drink?" By then it's clear what's going on. She made me some kind of drink, and we smoked some pot. She's totally naked and I'm in my little pizza shirt, and she says, exact words, "Do you have time for a quickie?" I told her, "I've got to go back to close the shop but I could come back."
She says sure, so I went to the store, shut down, and came back. So I'm fucking her and then all of a sudden she says really loudly, "Hey, come on out." And this fat dude comes stumbling through the bead door, stark naked, stroking his hard-on. I got the hell out of there. Then I went home and took a long shower.
Mr. Brown: There is always someone waiting in the wings. The perverted puppeteer. It is an icky, icky world.
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She adores mirrors and will spend hours looking at herself. She dances in front of the mirror; she poses, pulls faces and chats to herself in front of a mirror. She loves big mirrors and hand held ones. It's one of the obsessions which we are ok for her to have, it hasn't caused anyone any problems, which is nice, and it gets so tiring when we have to battle against everything she wants to do. We even use them, on occasion, as 'motivators' - a word which makes me smile, 'bribe' is a better word! We think that the compulsion is to do with her sensory issues, that she can't 'see' what she is doing in her mind so she has to see her physical reflection to make sense of what she is doing.
She also obsessively arranges things to suit her own agenda. The table in her room is covered in carefully arranged small objects, from pieces of jewellery to Playmobil people and accessories. She will spend hours rearranging them and she knows if someone has moved a tiny part of it the slightest bit. She also used to set up her marble run, train set and books in the living room, so much so that you couldn't walk across the room, it was like an assault course, and woe betide anyone who attempted to move any of it!
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I can relate to the obsessions! My son likes DVD's too and yes we to use them as a bribe to get him to do things he does not like to do - which is alot of things! Haven't caught him watching something he should not but sure it will happen eventually. Look forward to your next instalment, kind regards Pam


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Some Oklahoma school districts consider grade-policy changes
At a glance
District EOI grade-change policies
Some school districts are considering whether to give course credit to students who failed a class but passed state-mandated end-of-instruction exams. Here's what some Oklahoma districts are doing:
• Choctaw-Nicoma Park: No such policy exists, said Meda Beall, assistant superintendent of curriculum and instruction. But the link between EOI testing and coursework has raised questions. "You bring a student back in to a class where they've already passed the EOI, and their mindset is, 'But the state says I have mastered this class.' We have had discussions about this," Beall said. "It has created a dilemma."
• Crooked Oak: No such policy exists, Superintendent Brad Richards said. "We do not give credit if someone passes the EOI unless they pass the class," he said.
• Edmond: No such policy exists, spokeswoman Susan Parks-Schlepp said. "It has been discussed in the district but we don't currently allow that," she said.
• Guthrie: Students who pass an EOI but fail a class receive a P for pass instead of an F, secondary education director Chad Wilson said.
• Lawton: No such policy exists.
• Midwest City-Del City: Students who pass an EOI exam on the first attempt receive a grade bump of one letter, according to district policy. The same is true for students who score a 3 or better on Advanced Placement exams.
• Millwood: Students who master an EOI may receive one grade higher in a course, Superintendent Gloria Griffin said. "For example, if their grade is advanced, but they made a C, the teacher may move it to a B," Griffin said. "This is determined by the teacher when they evaluate the level of what you know."
• Moore: No such policy exists, curriculum director Rick Cobb said. "I'm torn because I don't want to undermine the value of what our teachers do for 36 weeks, but at the same time, the most important thing is whether students have learned a subject well," Cobb said. "That's more important than anything else. I'd never want to hold a student back when they've mastered the content."
• Mustang: No such policy exists, spokeswoman Marry Lever said.
• Norman: No such policy exists, spokeswoman Shelly Hickman said. "Students must pass the courses to earn credit," Hickman said. "We consider the grade earned in the classroom as the most accurate gauge for determining mastery."
• Putnam City: Students who pass an EOI but fail a class receive a P on their transcripts in addition to an F, spokesman Steve Lindley said. He said student effort hasn't declined because of the policy.
• Shawnee: No such policy exists, Shawnee High School Principal Vester Hamilton said. "It is being examined, but we don't have a problem with students not passing," Hamilton said. "We haven't really felt a need."
• Tulsa: Students also get an automatic P on their transcripts if they pass an EOI but fail a class, said Chris Johnson, assistant superintendent for accountability. He said the policy hasn't hurt student effort because students already are working hard to pass the test in the first place. "They really try to apply themselves in the class," Johnson said.
• Western Heights: Students who pass EOI exams receive credit for corresponding courses that have been failed, Superintendent Joe Kitchens said. The students' transcripts still show an F, and new grades are marked as "testing-based credit." Students who score "satisfactory" on the corresponding EOIs receive a D, and students who score in the "advanced" category receive a C.
• Yukon: Students who fail a class but pass the corresponding EOI receive a P for pass in addition to the F recorded on their transcripts, chief educational officer Dawn Pearce said. "There is no grade changing because it would affect the overall GPA," Pearce said. The student must meet all other requirements for the class, such as attendance.
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Accreditation and Quality Assurance
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The necessity for analytical quality assurance is primarily a feature of the analytical process itself. With the full establishment of the EU domestic market, it is also becoming a legal necessity for an increasing number of analytical laboratories. The requirements which laboratories will need to fulfil are stipulated in DIN EN 45 001. Accredited testing laboratories must in fact provide evidence that they work solely in accordance with this standard. National and EU commissions, which are legislative authorities, tend therefore to specify analytical methods, e.g. in the form of regulations or appendices thereto, intended to ensure that results from different laboratories will be comparable and hence will stand up in a court of law. The analytical quality assurance system (AQS), introduced by the Baden-Württemberg Ministry for the Environment in 1984, obliges laboratories to regularly participate in collaborative studies and thereby demonstrate their ability to provide suitably accurate analyses. This alone, however, does not sufficiently demonstrate the competence of a laboratory. Only personal appraisal of the laboratory by an auditor, together with the successful analysis of a sample provided by the same and performed under his observation, can provide proof of the competence of the laboratory. From an analytical point of view, the competence of a laboratory must be regarded as the decisive factor. Competence can only be attained through analytical quality assurance, which thus must be demanded of all laboratories.
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The Pitt County Salvation Army kicked off the 2010 bell ringing campaign Friday with a record breaking day.
The Pitt County chapter says says it collected an all time first day high of $2,440. Officials say opening day typically brings in less than $2,000.
Captain John Sikes says he thinks Pitt County residents are being more generous because they recognize that the need for help has grown because of the economy.
Sikes says the Salvation Army received 570 Christmas assistance applications this year, up about 100 from last year. He says the money collected during the bell ringing campaign will go towards buying presents for children and helping seniors with food this holiday season, along with helping people with bills and food throughout the rest of the year.
Captain Sikes says the number of bell ringing locations will increase from 13 to 18 after Thanksgiving.


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Vicente Agustin
Update on Vicente AgustinVicente is 26 years old, he lives in a common-law marriage and he has one child. He lives with his partner and child in Mina de Piedra, a community of the Ventanas Cantón in the Los Ríos province.
He is a member of "30 de Noviembre" (November 30), a Communal Bank located in Mina De Piedra, a community of the Ventanas Cantón where people engage in agriculture and livestock breeding.
Vicente engages in agriculture, planting corn, and in breeding livestock such as chickens. The loan he is requesting will be used to buy products such as fertilizers, manure, insecticides to fight pests and plant sickness; he will also buy animal balance feed. He will buy his products in the town of Ventanas.
He dreams of buying some land to build his house. He loves practicing sports, especially indoor soccer.
Pertenece a la Ventanilla 30 DE NOVIEMBRE se encuentra ubicada el recinto MINA DE PIEDRA perteneciente al cantón Ventanas se dedica a labores agrícolas y pecuarias.
Vicente se dedica a la agricultura a la siembra de maíz y la crianza de animales de corral como pollos. Con el crédito podrá comprar insumos como: fertilizantes, abonos, insecticidas para evitar las plagas y enfermedades, además alimento para los animales balanceados. Las compras las realiza en la ciudad de Ventanas.
El sueño es comprar terreno para construir la casa le gusta mucho hacer deporte sobre todo jugar indor.
Previous Loan DetailsVicente, 25, is in a free union and has a son; he lives with his wife and son in Recinto Mina de Piedra that belongs to Ventanas Canton, Los Ríos Province. He belongs to the "30 de Noviembre" communal bank located in Recinto Mina de Piedra that belongs to Ventanas Canton; it's involved with agri... More from Vicente Agustin's previous loan »
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About Cooperativa San JoseThis loan is administered by Cooperativa San Jose, a 45,000-member credit union located high in the Andes Mountains of Ecuador's poorest province, Bolivar. They offer a unique loan called "Ventanillas Rurales" [Window to the Countryside], which uses a group guarantee but is an individual loan with a savings component, mostly to rural borrowers. Due to low savings rates and a history of macroeconomic instability, many traditional loans in Ecuador demand interest rates that are prohibitively high for some borrowers. There is also a high incidence of extortionist black-market lending in Ecuador. CSJ helps mitigate these problems by providing a less onerous and more appropriate option. Join CSJ's Lending Team!
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This borrower has been listed on Kiva before, so you'll see an updated loan description, as well as excerpts of the original descriptions from earlier loans. Most borrowers take out loans consecutively, meaning that they receive a second loan after having repaid the first. However, sometimes our Field Partners give out concurrent loans, allowing borrowers to take out one primary loan and a secondary "add-on" loan along with it. These "add-on" loans are typically smaller than the borrower's primary loan and serve a different purpose. Because Field Partners can now post loans as successive and concurrent loans, you will be able to track borrower progress over time and see the various ways a borrower is working with our Field Partners through funds from Kiva's lenders.
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The Onslow County Board of Commissioners will have a closed-door session next week.
According to county documents, the board will meet Wednesday at 5 p.m. at the Onslow County Health Department, located at 612 College Street in Jacksonville.
A release from the county states it�s meeting to consider the qualifications of �an individual public officer ... employee ... prospective public officer or employee� or to look into a grievance by or against an individual public officer or employee.
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Bolts have given away two games
Shortly after practice began Wednesday, the Chargers receivers did a drill usually reserved for running backs.
In the exercise, one player holds a ball attached to a tether and tries to run away from another player, who has the other end of the elastic band wrapped around his waist.
The purpose was clear.
It was even more so when the running backs came over a few minutes later and went through an even more arduous drills, wherein an extra player was added – to repeatedly hit the ballcarrier's arms with a blocking bag.
On Thursday, the tight ends did the same drill as the receivers.
Yes, the Chargers are interested in ball protection.
Their so-sad-it's-ludicrous inability to hold onto the ball this season is enough to make Norv Turner suggest drastic measures – perhaps joking, perhaps not.
"You have to understand that ball is a part of your body," Turner said this week. "And the only way that ball should leave your body is if the body part holding it leaves with it."
The nine turnovers the Chargers have lost this season are their most in a three-game stretch since 2005. Their five lost fumbles are just two less than they lost all last season.
Five of those turnovers came in their 27-20 loss at Seattle this past Sunday. Three of those were first-half fumbles. The five turnovers were their most in a game since 2002. But the three giveaways in the first half were merely their most in seven days, as they'd given Jacksonville the ball three times too.
In all, counting three Philip Rivers interceptions that have caromed off receivers' hands and the one at the end of Sunday's game, the Chargers have turned the ball over nine times this season. So despite their defense having eight takeaways, second-most in the NFL, the Chargers' are minus-one in turnover differential.
Sure, a punt return and two kickoff returns for touchdowns have been the single-biggest reason the Chargers have lost two of their first three games.
But there is a constant that runs through the Chargers' sluggish Septembers. In going 6-8 in that month since Turner arrived, the Chargers are plus-one in turnover ratio (29 giveaways to 30 takeaways). By way of comparison, in going 27-10 in the other regular-season months, they have a plus-34 turnover ratio.
Turnovers were why the Chargers did not on Sunday become the first team ever to win a game in which it allowed two kickoff return TDs. And a fumble in Kansas City that set up the Chiefs to score on a 12-yard drive cannot be discounted in that loss.
"Special teams can look at their end," Rivers said. "But offensively, we can say, 'Hey guys, if we don't turn it over, we don't lose, even with the kicks.' "
The last time the Chargers gave the ball away nine times in a three-game stretch was 2005. They finished minus-eight in turnover differential that year.
That was also the last season the Chargers didn't make the playoffs.
Teams that give the ball away more than they take it overwhelmingly do not make the playoffs. Just eight teams with a negative turnover ratio have been among the 60 postseason participants the past five years.
"You're not going to win," Rivers said, shaking his head.
Turner has pointed to the fact that three of the four players who have fumbled are new to having sizable roles in the offense.
"Guys' roles have changed," Turner said. "All of a sudden a guy who used to playing 20 plays is playing 60. Instead of five touches, he's getting 20. If you have something where your careless with the ball there are more chances for it to show up."


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- OB/GYN Of West Alabama
- OB/GYN Of West Alabama
- 2750 Hospital Dr
- Northport, AL 35476
- (205) 339-3039
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