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I have a unique work situation: It's me alone in a room, with just voices and thoughts in my head. (Call it the "Joan of Arc" setup, without the unfortunate stake burning.) My office is at home, and I spend most of my 10-hour workdays behind closed doors, seeing nary another person for much of that time. Yes, I will occasionally spot my husband as he continues the never-ending project of building my house's upstairs level (hopefully, it will be done by Thanksgiving) and my kids burst through the door for a noisy salutation at 3 p.m., but other than that, it's solitude.
I do have a coworker, so to speak—my loyal, lovely cat, Annie. She lies beside me all day long, and follows me when I do exit the office. She's like a faithful dog with her own unique cattitude, though. She might be fetching, but she'll never fetch! The other office mates are my dolls. Yes, you read that right: my dolls.
Not wanting to morph into one of those "crazy cat ladies" who speaks only to felines and only has feelings for those four-legged friends, I make sure to inject a bit of humanity into my work décor. Hence, the lineup of dolls.
If I had my druthers, I'd go out and buy the "Mad Men" Barbies that I covered in a past blog. I love the show, and I really adore the crisp, tailored re-creations that Mattel has done. Unfortunately, my pocketbook is not that plush these days—see above-mentioned building of an upstairs level—so the quartet of advertising gurus will have to remain an elusive pipe dream. Perhaps, I'll scoop them up one day in the future, via eBay, the Internet source for making materialistic wishes come true.
Desiring, however, to have a couple of new faces in my watercooler arrangement, I went out to buy a new doll. Luckily, the shopping spree coincided with my birthday and, even more important, getting a 10-percent discount coupon for Target in the mail.
Anyone who knows me knows that I adore Target. I can't get enough of their surprisingly snazzy household accessories and their beyond-cute selection of children's clothing and women's pajamas. (Remember, I work at home. That means I'm often dressed like the female Hugh Hefner, ready for bed no matter the hands on the clock.) With my coupon in hand, I headed off to the big box store to come home with a big box of make-believe.
The Target near my home has a healthy selection of dolls to choose from, and I had an idea of whom I wanted to find, even before I crossed over the automatic threshold. I recently acquired the "Landmark Statue of Liberty" Barbie, and I felt Lady Liberty was crying out for some friends, some other dolls who were yearning to breathe free. I went out with that mission to spring some characters from a hollow, fluorescent toy aisle.
Keeping with the Landmark theme, I selected the "Big Ben" Barbie, as well as her Parisian counterpart, the "Eiffel Tower" miss. Getting a 10-percent discount was nothing to sneeze at, so I happily headed home with a pair of treasures.
Having the trio of national emblems is a satisfying feeling. The collection was three dolls strong, and I have accumulated ALL of them. But what if others join the motif? That's often a problem with these arching doll themes: how do they begin, and where do they end? The four seasons is a simple one to attain: after all, only four dolls can be manufactured. But Great Eras of History? Hello?!! We have primitive man, all the way to metrosexual man. Where would that line ever stop? (This was an actual Mattel product, and I bailed from it as the decades just kept coming and coming. No end appeared to be in sight.)
Right now, I've got hopes that the Landmarks will remain relatively manageable. If more have to be made, I imagine I'm leaning toward a "Leaning Tower of Pisa" for Italy or a really great-looking "Great Wall" for China. Who knows what others will be concocted by the design team, or if this is truly the end of the line?
I guess this is why I am a collector (or maybe just crazy, see voices-in-my-head reference). I know that three landmark dolls should be more than enough—and each one really is beautiful and regal, standing on her own two legs. But, still, I have that uncontrollable urge to perhaps swoop in and snag another one . . . or four. See, how fast it snowballs. It's a mysterious DNA tag that makes me, and others, want to own a doll for the simple loveliness of the creation, but then also buy more and more for the thrill of the hunt.
There you go, I have stumbled upon my answer. The next and final Landmark entry should be Egypt's "Sphinx Barbie." Known for its enigmatic appearance, and its skill at riddle telling, this sphinx would be the ultimate salute to all of us collectors: we see, we pursue, we buy, and we don't really know why. If anyone can unravel that collectible riddle, a doll should be made in her honor, too!
(Readers, what other landmarks would you like to see done? If you could send a postcard to Mattel, what destination/recognizable edifice would you choose? And, for the brave among us, why do you think YOU collect?)
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I am a doll collector and a doll historian. I would like to connect with you via blogging, facebook, or twitter.
I am a doll collector and a doll historian. I am interested in connecting with you via twitter and/or facebook.
I collect dolls because I like to decorate my home with beautiful works of figural art. Dolls are much softer to the touch. Even an expensive porcelain one still has fabric clothing and a gorgeous mohair wig. My collecting is very tactile.
I think the next Landmark Doll should be the Louvre or some other world-class museum of art.
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Although I'm not an SUV driver at all and probably can't appreciate a Trailblazer, I would say that given today's gas prices, a V6 would be much more practical! Just my opinion...
Looking at buying my wife a Trailblazer, probably 05 or newer. I am going back and forth on the V6 or V8. I know the V8 has the (DOD) but it doesn't get that much worse mileage than the V6, plus you get the added hp and tq.
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The trailblazer doesn't have a V6. It has the 4.2 dual overhead cam inline 6. A great engine by the way.
Yep, you are correct! A slight oversight on my part. The I6 does put out impressive numbers, 291 hp and 271 tq, and 20 hwy mpg and 15 city mpg, compared to the 5.3 which is like 19 and 14.
Is she going to use it for heavy hauling or towing?
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The EPA mileage figures for both engines bear little relation to what the truck will get in real life. Her fuel mileage in the real world depends greatly on what your wife will do with the vehicle and how she drives it.
If the duty cycle will be primarily light loads, driven primarily around town by someone who's an easy driver, the I-6 is clearly the best choice. Once gas goes to 5 bucks a gallon you will welcome that six cylinder.
On the other hand, if the loads will be heavy or you guys may tow a boat, tow some ATVs or a utility trailer, or she'll drive a lot at highway speeds over medium or long distances and/or the wife is a "lead foot", the V8 is the choice to make.
That said, you should consider carefully whether you need a truck-based SUV, at all.
Many people who want a sports-utility vehicle can actually get by with what the market calls a "crossover" but what really is a car-based, all-wheel-drive, station wagon with high ground clearance.
Crossovers are almost always a little smaller, are always lighter, are easier to drive and, virtually all of them get better mileage than truck-based SUVs and some of them get significantly better mileage than truck-based SUVs. Chevy's cross over is called "Equinox".
If you don't need 4WD or AWD and high ground clearance (and few people do unless they live in places that see below freezing winter temperatures or drive off road a lot) but want an SUV that gets great gas mileage and you can live with something smaller, look at the Chevy HHR. It carries four and has a cargo area behind the rear seat that holds more than one would think. When ordered with the 170hp engine and the sport suspension, it makes an excellent combination of small size, great mileage and modest hauling ability. In fact, I bought my wife an HHR.
Don't get caught up in the idea that full-sized or mid-sized SUVs are inherantly safer than smaller crossovers or compact SUVs. In some cases they are, but in other situations they may not offer any significant safety advantage over a smaller vehicle unless they are also ordered with stability enhancement.
Lastly, don't buy into the urban myth that full-sized or mid-sized truck based SUVs are safer because the driver sits up higher. That, for the most part, is not proven by accident statistics.
My daughter and son in law have a 2002 trailblazer with the I6. I was quite impressed with the power. Most of their driving is in a city of about 140 k and the average mileage sits at about 14 mpg, and my daughter does have a heavy foot. One thing seems to be weak on them. At 50k the sway bar links needed to be replaced. Cost on those was about $25 each, but they were a couple SOBs to get lose. Maybe a good air wrench would have helped.
I appreciate all your responses. I have been thinking about what we will really need, vs. what she really wants. She started out wanting a highlander, and since I had a 4runner some time ago, I didn't disagree to much other than the price tag.
I figured that the trailblazer was a good vehicle, but the equinox has caught my attention. I want her to be safe in whatever she has. Plus 4WD would be nice for here since we do get a fair share of crappy weather.
I guess my hidden agenda is that if she gets something with towing capabilities it would relieve some dutys of my truck
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The weekend's result against the Sydney Roosters was obviously bitterly disappointing and has left us with a lot of work to do to get things back on track ahead of Sunday's clash against the Gold Coast Titans.
We were well off our game in most areas and if you play like that against a team like the Roosters you'll get found out.
The second-half blowout was a result of us not defending as well as we can and the Roosters being red-hot in their intent and execution. They hardly put a foot wrong when they had the ball and we slipped off in defence and let them get on the front foot. Once they got the roll-on it was tough to stop.
We also haven't executed the game plans we've been given as well as we should have over the past two weeks. Although we've proved previously that we can compete with the best teams, we've recently failed to reach that level of performance. We certainly don't shy away from those facts when we review the games and assess where we went wrong and we are all acutely aware of the challenge ahead of us now.
People have asked me whether the big win over Canberra a few weeks back gave us a false sense of where we were at. But that wasn't the case and we didn't read too much into that result at all. We realised the Raiders were off their game that day and we were on and we certainly didn't get ahead of ourselves afterwards.
Similar questions about the changes in our halves are also off the mark, with Chad [Townsend], Thomas [Leuluai] and Shaun [Johnson] all combining together in recent weeks. Those changes don't really make too much of a difference to our structures and we've trained with all the different combinations throughout the year so I wouldn't put our dip in form down to that.
There is a tremendous determination within the group to get things back on track and not let our coach Andrew "Cappy" McFadden down. Everyone has full confidence in what he has brought to the team since taking over and he demands high standards that we have not met in recent weeks.
Individually we've got to look at our own games and see where we can improve. We've put ourselves in this situation and know that we need to be a lot better and will do our best to turn things around.
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Carriers of a BRCA2 variation specific to Iceland are more likely to develop aggressive and lethal prostate cancer than noncarriers, according to a new study. Mutations in the BRCA2 gene are associated with increased prostate cancer risk, but it has been unclear whether they are related to progression of the disease.
Laufey Tryggvadóttir of the Icelandic Cancer Registry and colleagues compared survival and disease progression in prostate cancer patients with the Icelandic BRCA2 999del5 founder mutation and those without the mutation. Using a pool of male relatives of women with breast cancer, researchers identified prostate cancer patients diagnosed in Iceland between 1955 and 2004. The mutation was present in 30 patients (5.7%).
The mutation's carriers were younger at the time of diagnosis and had more advanced staged cancer, higher-grade tumors, and shorter median survival time (2.1 years vs. 12.4 years) compared with noncarriers.
The authors conclude that "it is of great importance to study whether these results can be confirmed for carriers of mutations at other locations within the BRCA2 gene. Finally, the results indicate that in the search for new methods to predict prostate cancer progression, it may be fruitful to look for gene or protein expression patterns in prostate cancers resembling the patterns seen in BRCA2 mutation carriers."
In an accompanying editorial, Sholom Wacholder, Ph.D., of the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Md., and colleagues discuss the limitations of this study and other similar studies--the small number of mutation carriers, changes in screening practices, and the assumption that the date of diagnosis corresponds with the time of disease onset.
"This work may clarify when and how BRCA2 mutations alter carcinogenesis. More generally, it offers an avenue for improving the accuracy of information available to patients when they are diagnosed with cancer. Nonetheless, the immediate clinical utility of these findings is limited, despite unusually rigorous design and analysis," the authors write.
Article: Tryggvadóttir L, Vidarsdóttir L, Thorgeirsson T, Jonasson JG, et al. Prostate Cancer Progression and Survival in BRCA2 Mutation Carriers. J Natl Cancer Inst 2007; 99: 929-935
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My girl friend likes to shake her ass cheeks to all men because she claims this turns her on
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My best friend seduced me while I was sleeping
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I start jogging with my white neighbor's husband and we end up sucking each other and fucking.
The 1960s were a tumultuous time for racial relations in our country, especially in the South, but I feel that by the 1980s great progress had been made. My name is Sandra, and my husband Mitchell and I are both black. We both went to college, and after graduating in 1985 we got great jobs and bought a nice home in a mostly-white, middle class suburb in the Birmingham area. Most of our...Read On
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After a breakup my stepfather consoles me
My name is Lucy and I'm nineteen and my boyfriend is twenty one. We'd been dating since high school and I really believed he was the one I would marry. But, he went to college and met some sorority girl that was wild and crazy, and he wanted to be with her. I was just devastated. I started to lose a lot of weight. I'm not a very big person to begin with. I lost about ten pounds. I'm now...Read On
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My girlfriend maneuvered me into a night of group sex that was my first with a man, but not the last
A few months after my divorce I moved down the coast a short way from San Francisco, to a smallish town where I hoped to get some of the quiet I had long craved. The divorce had not been especially angry or bitter; after a while my wife and I simply had nothing to say to each other, and while we rarely argued, the long silences at had home become oppressive to us and to our teenage kids....Read On
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A Simple cheerleaders initiation
The day I made the cheerleading squad was the happiest day of my life. I remembered driving to class when the phone call came. I was so shocked and excited that I almost drove into a cops car. I didn't think I was going to make the team. I'm only 5'4" and 117 pounds so naturally I thought I would get passed over. Unlike the other girls on the team, I wasn't a knockout or had huge pair of tits....Read On
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Robin does not want to be an anal virgin anymore...
Robin is a very gorgeous girl; she has a beautiful face, long blonde hair to her ass and a figure that is absolutely outrageous. For 18 this girl has what Marilyn Monroe looked like with hips, tiny waist, and big tits. Honest to god she wars a 32D bra. I am 19 years old and pretty normal for a boy I love women and love to fuck them. After all I have not yet had the pleasure of fucking...Read On
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A South Asian bull tells his story of how he cuckolded a husband and his wife.
I recently had a very informative email exchange with a dominant man named Steve. I was trying to understand what it is like to be dominant, and what dominant men think of cuckolds who like to eat cum from their wives' pussies. Steve asked me to write, with him in first person, about a real encounter that he had with a cuckold couple. My name is Steve and I live in Ohio. I am of South...Read On
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Bitchy brat gets a botty-bashing
Angela's no Angel, that's for sure. The girl's got a great pair of tits and she's definitely not shy about showing them off - which is a bit of a problem given that she's my girlfriend's younger sister. I'd been going out with Tina for a few weeks when she decided it was time for me to meet her parents but it was Angela who made a real impression on me. "Do you like my T-Shirt?" she...Read On
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I was a piece of ass to my husband's friends
Almost from the first day of our marriage, my husband Ed used me to entertain his friends. Ed was several years older than me when we got married, but was really a fun person to be with and was great in bed, so I didn't hesitate when he asked me to marry him. Little did I know at the time what he had in mind for me. The night we were married, as we were getting ready for bed a friend of...Read On
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Come home from work to find out my wife has made arrangements to make all my fantasies come true.
As soon as I walked in the door from being out on the road for a week, my wife told me to go have a shower and then to get dressed in what she had laid out for me on our bed. I could see that she had that certain twinkle in her eye when she is either really anticipating something or really horny. I just wasn't sure which one it was this time. As a long haul trucker, I don't get too...Read On
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My friend and I go way back, from the time we were at University. We were very close then and now, fifteen years down the line, we are still very close. A lot have changed since our university days. My friend is now married to his second wife Lisa, while I still have my college sweetheart with our four beautiful kids. At thirty-five years old, my friend and I are still in pretty good shape. ...Read On
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My girlfriend loves anal sex.
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Husband allows a younger man to service his wife
I had chatted to this guy online a few times. Then we text'd for about two months. We were both married and looking for some no strings fun. He was obviously sex crazy. We had been constantly flirting and there was definitely a sexual attraction. Finally, the day came for us to meet. I got up that morning and my husband and I chose what I was going to wear. we decided on a pair of skin...Read On
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Synopsis of Part One & Two: Miriam finds an old lantern while working for an antique dealer. It is a special lantern – one with a handsome genie residing inside who has the ability to grant any three wishes made by its possessor. Miriam makes her first and second wishes and they are fulfilled beyond her expectations. Miriam put her cell phone down on the small glass-top table and...Read On
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The true story of my night with a friend's auntie
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She wanted some hot sex, but she didn't expect this.
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I guide a stranger to the ways of the nude beach, and she guides me in so many other ways.
The day started out like any other day. Well, like any other day in the past few weeks, that is. Normally, I would have gotten up, shaved, showered, and headed off to work. But it's tough being an executive of a company where the owner is more concerned with what's going up his nose than he is earning a profit. Since my firm closed, my days have taken on a monotonous regularity. Get up,...Read On
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I finally tried sex with a man and it was great
I have long been a reader of erotica but this is my first time as a contributor. Actually, this is the first time I am telling anyone about my first (and so far only) experience with another man. I met my wife when I was 20 and got married a few years later. We have been together for 20 years, have 3 kids and a good sex life by most standards. Earlier this year I realized that I was with...Read On
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Mrs Howard spanks both Ellie and Marsha as she takes on discipline for the household
Mrs Collins brought Ellie home from camp knowing she had promised Mrs Howard she would give her 16 year old daughter a really hard spanking. "Put all your clothes in the linen basket Ellie, and then come straight to my bedroom" she instructed her daughter. Ellie knew her Mother had threatened to spank her and fully expected to have her knickers taken down and make...Read On
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There are worse things a slave can be forced to do
Hello, little bird. You may not know it, but we have much in common you and I. You were born to fly free on the wind, but fate has betrayed you and now you live in a gilded cage. You are cared for but still a prisoner. I wonder, do you miss flying through the clouds? Or is the golden cage your home? I ask myself this often. I am Asius, a slave to the House of Quintus Lucius Antonius,...Read On
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My neighbor's young eighteen-years-old son fulfilled my fantasies.
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my future husband makes me aware of new aspects of my sexuality...
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I visit my stepdaughter at college and end up fucking her while my wife is cuckolding me.
It was traumatic for my wife and me when her daughter, and my stepdaughter, Caitlin left home for college, which is a two hour drive away. We had been a very close family, since I married my wife Dana two years prior, and had a hard time letting her go. Caitlin came home to visit as often as possible, and especially on holidays, and we visited her when we could. She was required to live in...Read On
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Getting soft with girlfriend led him to a new, different girlfriend, and he's never be happier.
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Watching my wife with a stranger turned me on more than I knew it would.
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I'm having a lot of fun with Project 365. I'm hoping to save up for a "big girl" camera and start taking better pictures. My ancient Nikon point & shoot has been good to me, but it's been on its last legs for quite some time.
Anyway, Project 365 has been a great way for me to document my days, especially when I wasn't working. This is my self-portrait for today, taken bright and early this morning. It was my first official day at the new job, and I was being a very good girl, eating a sensible breakfast.
Work is good so far...I've learned my lesson about being overly enthusiastic about a workplace before the "honeymoon period" wears off, so I'm just trying to take everything in and not be too excited at this point.
I am SUPER excited to be working with a good friend of mine again though. We've kind of lost touch over the past few years, and today we just keep looking at each other saying, "it is SO GREAT to see you and be working together again!" Bonus: she's a knitter. Extra bonus: there are even more knitters in the office. A knitter-rich environment has to be a great place to work, right??!


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it was second hand off ebay so wasnt expecting much but it sounds realy nice deep and throaty.
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This is a discussion on Competition Styker-Fired 9mm which one and Why. within the Defensive Carry Guns forums, part of the Defensive Carry Discussions category; I am looking at the three competition 9mm's, the Glock 34 gen4, M&P Pro 5", and the XDM 5.25 9mm. Please some input from those ...
I am looking at the three competition 9mm's, the Glock 34 gen4, M&P Pro 5", and the XDM 5.25 9mm.
Please some input from those of who have owned or shot any of these three, and did the gun require modifications to be competitive?
I like my Glock 26 and my Shield so I am familiar with those brands.
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I would try them all out and pick the one I shoot the best. Everyone has different preferences. All are very good hand guns, but your preference will be the deciding factor. If I were to do competitions, I would definately want to shoot all of the guns to see which one was suited for me.
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Which pistol? Your choice . Why, same reason. They all work well. But it has to be the one YOU like best and fits your hand.
glock 34- accessories are easy to find, stock trigger is the worst out of the 3. Crappy sights but has the longest barrel out of the three. Most popular competition pistol.
M&P- nice trigger, fiber optic front sight, many people love the grip angle, shortest barrel out of the 3, made in the USA
Springfield- awesome trigger, fiber optic front sight, grip safety (but should be a nonissue if you are shooting comp with proper technique),
One thing to think of here is what type of competition you are looking to get into. IDPA does not allow the springfield 5.25 in the SSP class since they do not consider it a true striker fired pistol. In USPSA it is fine for all classes. So depending on what you intend to do you might want to check with your rule book about it and look up what guns are classified where.
I have shot all 3 and own the glock. If I had to go back in time I would go with the springfield. It just feels like a solid gun and not a piece of plastic. With trigger work you get the best trigger hands down and overall felt like the better gun. The glock would come last due to the feel of the grip and how it comes in the box stock...it's really not a competition gun. All they did was increase barrel length and throw in a 3.5lb connector. Only reason I went with glock was for reliability, ease of accessories, and the fact I had a bunch of mags from my g17 so I wouldnt have to spend more on extra magazines. I have some friends that shoot the M&P and springfield and never have had issues so they are all equally reliable in my book.
Rent the guns and shoot them or at least get a feel for them in your hands and what trigger you prefer
edit: it is recommended you change out the sights on the glock, maybe even a little polish on the trigger work. The other two are pretty much ready to go out of the box but you get the extra goodies with the springfield.


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After the release of Scarecrow, Brooks eased into retirement, spending the next few years quietly and not resurfacing in the public eye until he had a busy 2006. Toward the end of that year, he married country singer Trisha Yearwood on December 10, but prior to that, he struck a deal with Wal-Mart to become the exclusive retailer for his back catalog. The first release under this deal was a new box set called The Limited Series that collected all the albums he released after his first box set called The Limited Series. Garth Brooks photo courtesy of garthbrooks.comThis second Limited Series was released in time for the holiday season of 2005 and also included a new disc of outtakes called The Lost Sessions which was later released as an individual disc in 2006. The Lost Sessions featured a duet with Yearwood called "Love Will Always Win," which climbed to 23 on the country charts in '06, a modest placing that was nevertheless his biggest hit since "Wrapped Up In You."
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Police department gets approval from city leaders
SEASIDE, Calif. - Seaside city leaders are giving the police department the green light to start installing a high-tech video surveillance system in high crime areas.
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Seaside Police Chief Vicki Myers said these cameras are sharp enough to get license plates and see people inside cars. Myers said the program is similar to the one used in Boston, which helped solve last years bombing. Myers said it's perfectly legal because all cameras will be placed in public places.
"As we are installing the cameras, if we are inadvertently capturing images that are of people or property that are not generally open to the public, then we will adjust the cameras," said Seaside Police Chief Vicki Myers.
Myers said the department has four cameras and some essential equipment which could be installed within the next month or so. The cameras don't have to be monitored constantly and installing them won't require any additional officers.
City council members also discussed creating a committee of community members to advise the police department on installation and monitoring of the program over the next two years.


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005: With Jeffrey Way
This week we were joined by Jeffrey Way who is a long-time Envato employee, probably most well known to our listeners by being the editor of Nettuts+. Jeffrey hails from the mountain town of Chattanooga, TN, home of the world's fastest internet. We talk about (roughly in order)…
Follow up and hot drama:
- Quick followup on Performer JS
- Bootstrap, the most popular project on GitHub, goes 2.0
- HTML5 Boilerplate goes 3.0 and removes Respond.js and the build script. And how how we mostly use it by just snagging individual lines from the GitHub repo.
- Pea.rs, a collection of neat a clean mini design patterns with HTML and CSS
- All the drama around -webkit-. Non-webkit browser vendors are thinking about supporting that prefix to more sites work, because of lazy developers not including other prefixes. Most folks are crying out that that's a bad idea, but with different proposed solutions. Working group even considering standardizing around -webkit-. Read: [1], [2], [3], [4], [5].
- Will Envato make a marketplace for iOS designs? Already kinda have on Code Canyon.
- Battle of the code editors.
- Should we be able to add class names via CSS?
- How does Jeffrey do it all? Quotes: [1], [2]
- How we test on IE: Browserstack, Virtualbox + Multiple Windows VMs, Actual $200 laptop
More Jeffrey:
Want to win a copy of the HTML & CSS Book? Just send in an audio question and you'll be qualified to win. We'll pick one winner a week for three weeks.
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Old Tractor Gets a "Green" Makeover
Rochester, New York -
A gas guzzling tractor from 1949 is getting a new, environmentally friendly, lease on life.
It's a vintage set of wheels that Erin Bullock puts to use at Mud Creek Farm in Victor.
"All we have to do is pull the throttle back and away we go," says Bullock.
It's a very quiet ride. The tractor, built in the 1940's used to run on diesel. But now, thanks to Bullock, it's electric.
"We just plug it in at night. It charges right up and holds a charge all day, so it's pretty sweet," says Bullock.
The tractor is used for cultivating and a wagon can be attached when it's time to harvest crops. "It's, I think, a really practical thing to do but also it's really fun to drive because you don't have to wear ear protection. It's just a pleasant, quiet, ride," Bullock adds.
The hydraulic lift is actually louder than the engine. Bullock actually got the idea for transforming this tractor from a video online.
"A farmer in the Hudson Valley got a grant to do an electric conversion on this tractor. Part of the grant requirement was that he put it all up on the web," says Bullock.
She held a fundraiser to help cover the conversion costs. It's just one example of the many things she does to help out the environment.
Bullock says, "we use all organic practices on the farm, but we also try to go beyond that and use the most sustainable practices that aren't going to waste resources."


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|When Friends Fight: The Importance of "I'm Sorry"
No fight can end, and no friendship can move on, until everyone says these two little words. Sometimes, though, they can be difficult to say. Here are some things to keep in mind:
It's not about winning
In reality, you'll BOTH LOSE if you let the fight ruin your friendship, and you will BOTH WIN if you find a way to heal it.
Put aside your pride
Take the first step
Apologizing isn't about "bowing down" to your friend or becoming a "doormat." It's about taking some responsibility for the argument, and inviting him or her to take responsibility too. If your friend thinks she's "won" just because you've apologized, then she's not ready to make up yet.
Still having trouble getting the words to come out of your mouth? Try doing it this way:
There are some special cases when you shouldn't be the one to apologize first. For instance, if you've been physically hurt by your friend, or she has done something that is dangerously wrong, apologizing might let her think she has more power over you. This is a form of bullying, and you don't have to put up with it.


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Side Mirror Vibrating
I know a lot of you have changed out your entire mirror assemblies. My side mirror on driver's side is vibrating when I get above 50. Does anyone know how to tighten the mirror itself. It's possible that it's the whole assembly.
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It could be.. if you pop the door panel off there are three screws that hold the mirror to the door.. one of them could need tightening.
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The Federal Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Edgar Schenkman, gave a concert yesterday afternoon at the Federal Music Theatre. The program consisted of Beethoven's "Coriolanus" overture, Schubert's symphony in C major, and the Glazunoff violin concerto, with Noah Bielski as soloist.
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Jon Garland took the loss, giving up seven runs in four innings, allowing 10 hits, walking one and striking out two. Garland's record fell to 3-5. Andrew Good, who started in place of Curt Schilling, picked up the win, giving up three runs in six innings.
Arizona was on top from the get-go, scoring two in the first off back-to-back RBI doubles, going up 2-0; two more in the third off a Shea Hillenbrand homer, going up 4-1; with three more in the fifth and one in the sixth.
Kelly Wunsch relieved Garland in the fifth with two men on and no outs and proceeded to give up a RBI single and RBI sacrifice fly. Wunsch finished the inning, Dave Sanders allowed one run in the sixth and Rick White threw two scoreless innings.
The Sox scored their first run in the second with a homer by Magglio Ordonez, his 10th of the season. The remaining two runs were scored in the sixth, all with two outs. After Carlos Lee reached on an infield single, Frank Thomas doubled to score a run and Ordonez walked to put men on the corners (Thomas advanced to third on a wild pitch) for Valentin. Valentin then singled in Thomas to put the Sox down 7-3.
Valentin went 2-4 for the Sox with a RBI, while eight other Sox' had one hit. Joe Crede and Graffanino went 0-3 and 0-2 respectively. Paul Konerko pinch-hit and went 0-1.
With the loss the Sox are eight games under .500, but remain 7.5 games out.
The final game of the series will be played on Thursday night at 8:35 CT and will be televised on WCIU. Danny Wright is scheduled to pitch against Elmer Dessens.


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The Kirksville Police Department has been participating in one form or another of social media since 2010. Currently the Police Department uses Facebook, Twitter and TextCaster to reach citizens and concerned listeners. The Police Department frequently sends out messages about Fugitives, missing persons, investigations, and community events. Even though the Police Department attempts to send out as much information to the public as possible, citizens are encouraged to follow Local News Media for Emergency information.
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Growing Solutions Restoration Education Institute
2016 Update From Don and Karen
Happy New Years! As we enter 2016 and reflect on our past work and the coming new year the common theme we keep coming back to is: sustainability.
Don and I grew up camping with our respective families in some of the most beautiful and pristine areas of the west. We each have grand memories of these trips—splashing and swimming in clean waters, hiking to view vistas that seemed to go on forever. As kids this was our normal. One of the required commitments of these trips was to leave our camp cleaner than we found it. As kids we were tasked with picking up every last piece of trash, no matter how small. And last thing before we all climbed into the car was an inspection by Dad. The criteria: had we succeeded in leaving no trace? If not, we didn't leave until we got it right.
This was a sustainable routine, our impact on a camping site was minimal—we left and the animals again walked through what had been our camp and the grasses grew back untrammeled. The ecology—with humans as an integral part of sustaining it—worked. Currently as we hear the word "sustainable" and observe marketing efforts to "be green" we know what we'd really like to see besides slick feel-good websites: wild habitats that are functioning.
Integrating the wild and the built environments, aka farming with the wild, in our habitat restoration projects we strive to allow the natural systems to work where predators can hunt, pollinators go from flower to — a robust functioning ecosystem where diverse species can thrive. Our mantra: what's good for the environment is good for us. Because, we ARE the ecology...or at least a part of it.
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Selection Process
ALA's application and selection process is very rigorous to ensure that we select the most outstanding students from across Africa with the potential to drive change. The process is as follows:
ALA's selection process is extremely competitive. The Academy receives several thousand applications from most African countries each year. These applicants come from a wide range of social, economic, cultural & educational backgrounds. The application includes short questions and essays and must be submitted with academic transcripts. Please check the admissions timeline below to confirm the application deadline for your country.
At this stage approximately 400 finalists are selected to attend Finalist events held across the continent. At these events, finalists write entrance exams, participate in group activities & are interviewed one-on-one by the ALA Admissions team. Finalists are also required to submit teacher recommendations.
The hardest part of the selection process: the Academy is only able to select 120 students from the pool of extraordinary finalists to attend the Academy. All finalists will be notified of their admissions status by mid- April.


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Municipality: Cape Winelands District Municipality
The Cape Winelands District Municipality is situated in the Western Cape Province. The district includes 5 local municipalities, namely:
- Drakenstein Local Municipality;
- Stellenbsoch Local Municipality;
- Witzenberg Local Municipality;
- Breede Valley Local Municipalityand
- Langeberg Municipalit Local Municipality.
District municipalities administer and make rules for a district, which includes more than one local municipality. The purpose of district municipalities and local municipalities sharing the responsibility for local government in their areas is to ensure that all communities, particularly disadvantaged communities, have equal access to resources and services. This will help some local municipalities who don't have the capacity (finances, facilities, staff or knowledge) to provide services to their communities. It will also help to cut the costs of running a municipality by sharing resources with others. The 'richer' areas will help the 'poorer' areas.
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A growing number of elderly people are getting into debt because they are bailing family members out of financial strife.
There are reports that some family members use extortion or stand-over tactics to obtain enduring power of attorney or take control of the victim's finances to help buy their own home, or build up their own business.
Grandchildren have also persuaded their grandparents to become a guarantor on a hire purchase agreements or loans and when the young person can't pay, the grandparent was being left to foot the bill.
Tauranga Household Budgeting Service manager Marjorie Spicer said she was seeing more and more elderly clients struggling because their children or other relatives were hitting them up for cash.
"Some people don't think anything of bleeding their own parents dry and think it is their right to do so, she said.
Other social agencies in the area agree that "elder abuse" - especially when it involved money - was on the rise and are urging victims to speak up about it.
Presbyterian Support Services' Older Persons' Advocacy and Liaison Service coordinator, Faye Falloon, said cash- strapped older people were often taken financial advantage of by their own son or daughter, or another close relative.
Latest national statistics show 5 per cent of all elderly people were abused at some point, but there were many more cases which would never come to light.
"That's because the victim is often too scared or ashamed to report it. That has got to change. People must speak out."
As for those victims who do report it, the abuse can often have been going on for months and in some cases, years.
"Often the abuser is an adult child who was spoilt or over-indulged as a youngster and has never been made to take responsibility for their own finances or set any boundaries on the level of acceptable behaviour."
Mrs Falloon said an 85-year-old Tauranga woman recently handed over her bank card to her cousin to pay the bills while she was in hospital. But once she was discharged, the cousin refused to give it back and also tried to persuade the elderly lady to sell her house.
"This lady was in a real fix ... by the time we got involved and assisted another relative to confront the cousin, the lady's bank account was hundreds of dollars lighter," she said.
"Trust and vulnerability are the two big factors when it comes to abuse, as often the older person is in such a vulnerable position and trusts their abuser implicitly. Unfortunately that trust can be exploited."
Mrs Falloon said financial and psychological abuse can soon lead to physical abuse - one 70-year-old Tauranga woman was assaulted by her alcoholic son after she refused to give him her credit card.
"The key to breaking the cycle of abuse is not to keep silent about it. The abused person must talk to someone they trust about it."
Lorraine Wilson, president of Tauranga Age Concern, agreed.
"Speaking out is the key. Whether it is to their vicar, their GP, their neighbour, Samaritans or Age Concern, or another confidant. Keeping things bottled up will only drag the person down further," she said.
Mrs Wilson said insidious forms of abuse often cut the deepest.
Such as family members who only visited to hit the victim up for cash - often using false promises that they would pay it back - or children who refused to allow their parents to go into a rest home because they didn't want to be deprived of their inheritance.
Others take advantage of the elderly person's declining mental health to seize control of their assets.
"Slowly but surely the abuse will escalate. And in my experience it is often the abused person's son-in-law who is calling the shots and providing the bullets for the victim's daughter to fire.
"Because the abuser is often a family member or close friend, the victim feels powerless to act, either because they feel ashamed or fear retribution.
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Nanotech 2007 Vol. 4
Technical Proceedings of the 2007 NSTI Nanotechnology Conference and Trade Show, Volume 4
Chapter 1: Nanoscale Characterization
Image-based Nanocrystallography in Two and Three Dimensions with
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|It is well known that many nanocrystals can not be identified from their powder X-ray diffraction pattern as it is customary for collections of micrometer sized crystals. The crystallographic phase and shape of nanocrystals can, however, be determined by transmission electron microscopy (TEM) at lattice and/or atomic resolution combined with tools for image-based nanocrystallography. This talk discusses two such tools: lattice-fringe fingerprinting in two dimensions (2D) for the identification of unknown nanocrystal phases and tilt protocol applications in three dimensions (3D) for the determination of the shape of nanocrystals. Although feasible in contemporary TEMs, image-based nanocrystallography is much more viable in aberration corrected microscopes. The Crystallography Open Database (COD, http://crystallography.net), its mainly inorganic subset (which serves the TEM community) http://nanocrystallography.research.pdx.edu/cif-searchable/cod.php (TEM-COD), and the Nano-Crystallography Database http://nanocrystallography.research.pdx.edu/cif-searchable/ncd.php are discussed because the whole lattice-fringe fingerprinting concept is only viable if there are comprehensive databases to support the identification of an unknown nanocrystal phase. While and the COD contains the atomic coordinates, space group, lattice parameters, and other crystallographic information for more than 50,000 compounds, the TEM-COD and NCD provide, in addition, interactive 3D structure visualizations and theoretical 2D lattice-fringe fingerprint plots for about 10,000 compounds.
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Five days in paradise – Osa Peninsula
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On our first full day here, we hired a boat to take us to a beautiful beach called Playa San Josecito, where we spent a couple of hours swimming and snorkelling. Scarlet macaws flew overhead and sat in the trees eating beach almonds
The following day, the four of us caught an even earlier boat at 6am and travelled along the coast for over an hour to Corcovado National Park. The coastline here is remote and mostly uninhabited, save for a few out of the way lodges. Corcovado is the last great tract of tropical rainforest in Pacific Central America with an incredible amount of biodiversity. It is home to scarlet macaws, Baird's tapir, anteaters, sloths, peccarys, pumas, jaguars and harpy eagles. From the beach where we landed we followed our knowledgeable guide Rebecca along a trail to Sirena ranger station, where we stopped for a short break before continuing to the Rio Sirena where we spotted a large croc. We also saw agoutis, which are giant rodents, groups of squirrel monkey and spider monkey and numerous birds but unfortunately no sloths or tapirs. We saw a few other people on the trails who were loaded with heavy backpacks and obviously doing the arduous three day hike through the national park. The heat and near 100% humidity were stifling and we were glad that we were only doing a half day hike!
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Gender Today
How Do I Stop Objectifying Women?
I wrote a piece for the Slate Double X Blog recently, in which I explored the conflict between my long-held, deeply-ingrained beliefs about gender equity, which I referred to as "feminist," and my tendency to sometimes reflexively sexualize women in my imagination, which I referred to as "objectification." The gimmick of the piece was that I used a sort of caricature of myself for the narrative voice—a guy who was like me, but more self-righteous about his progressive social views, more distracted by sexual daydreams about women, and more troubled by the dissonance between the two. The project of the piece was to look for ways to curtail my imagination—I'm a happily married dad of two little girls after all, not a bachelor on the prowl—and perform an experiment where I tried not to "objectify" women for an entire day. It was meant to be a lighthearted romp with an undercurrent of uncomfortable honesty.
I didn't really know what kind of response to expect, but I made the mistake of taking the goodwill of my audience for granted, hoping they would chuckle and say, "I know [or am] a guy like this … aren't gender issues tricky and sometimes paradoxical?" And then they would have a nice, friendly conversation about it.
Instead, I was excoriated by everyone from Fox News to Jezebel, and assigned labels ranging from prude, to creep, to eunuch, to misogynist.
The crazy responses didn't bother me that much, and the mockery from Fox News felt like validation; but the chastising I received from feminist commentators stung, especially the parts that made a lot of sense. I hashed out the reasons for the rhetorical failure, but ultimately, it was my blunder to own.
It's clear to me now why feminists were furious that, among other things, I seemed to suggest that one of the goals of the movement is to make male sexuality shameful, since they have been trying to shake that reputation for decades. But one of the criticisms that I'm still puzzling over is that I was using the word "objectification" incorrectly. I used the word the way it had first been explained to me by my mom in the late seventies, and elaborated upon during my college years in the late eighties: treating women as objects for men's sexual pleasure rather than fully-formed human beings. To me, sexual objectification of women included everything from titillating images in beer ads, to pornography, to catcalls, groping, and invasions of personal space; and yes, even to my own testosterone-fueled and culturally conditioned responses to the female form (despite their being confined to my imagination). Not all manifestations of objectification were equally destructive according to this model, but they were on the same continuum, and the goal, I felt, should be to objectify women as little as possible.
Clearly, my understanding was a couple decades out of date. The feminists who said I had gotten it all wrong in the Slate article told me that my vexing erotic daydreams were not objectification, but rather mere sexualization, which I should not worry about. In a post on Slate, one writer told me: "It's OK to strip people naked in your imagination, as long as you respect their right to not know that's what you're doing. This is accomplished by not gawking, ogling, and drooling, but rather learning to be discreet." Others concurred. But I felt like this was a bit facile. The imaginary striptease in my head looked to me exactly like a rap video, a scene from a cheesy porn movie, or a stupid commercial for body spray, all of which I have very limited exposure to, by design. And I'm pretty sure I'm not the only man whose fantasies imitate the images I've been bombarded with over a lifetime. Having one's consciousness permeated by cultural tropes that objectify women may not be the worst problem in the world, but it seems like part of the problem, and to deal with it by shutting up and using good manners seems superficial.
After my Internet pummeling, it seemed like a bad idea for me to write anything with the words "feminism," "objectification," or "sexuality" in it. But weeks before the Slate article was published, by coincidence, I had been contacted by StopObjectification, a campaign founded by fashion designer Norma Kamali, and asked if I wanted to talk to Kamali about ways that fathers can "drive messages of gender equality and mutual respect to their children." As much as the topic had begun to make me flinch, I felt like Kamali could at least help me understand what objectification was, and whether there was anything I could do about it beyond minding my manners and insisting that other males do the same.
When I asked Kamali to explain what objectification meant to her, she first mentioned her age (68), which might explain why her take on the topic sounded very similar to what I heard from my mom when I was growing up. Instead of a definition, she gave me several examples. She recounted her own experience years ago as a recent college graduate interviewing for a job in New York's Garment District, when the boss told her to put down her bag and turn around so he could look her over, and how that incident was so humiliating that she couldn't even discuss it until recently. She talked about using the Kristin Wiig/John Hamm relationship in the movie Bridesmaids as a touchstone in conversations she has with female colleagues about their common experiences of enduring sexual and emotional debasement in their "quest to be loved." She talked about how women tragically invest so much of their self-worth into how they look, especially in terms of how sexually attractive they are to men.
Many people think that this kind of objectification is a thing of the past, she said; but in fact it (and much worse) happens every day. Kamali told me that, in her capacity as a fashion and beauty expert, she designs clothes that make women of all different body types feel good about themselves and advocates for healthy lifestyles that engender self-confidence. The StopObjectification project, she said, encourages women to share stories of both their experiences with being objectified and the accomplishments and strengths that make them proudest, as part of a conversation that she hopes will make objectification something that our culture no longer tolerates.
In terms of the strictly sexual objectification of women, Kamali's observation about Olympic women's volleyball players was striking to me. "Seeing how powerful and talented these athletes are," she said, "no one watching them could view them in an objectifying way, no matter how tiny their bikinis are." She argued that the context makes a difference—a woman in the same bikini in a hip-hop video might be perceived as a commodity, but the athlete has agency. Regardless of whether a man is watching beach volleyball out of patriotism, sports enthusiasm, or just a chance to gawk at a beautiful body, if he recognizes the athlete's power, he is not objectifying her.
Her explanation of how she hopes we can speed the demise of objectification resonates with me even more than her faith that men can't objectify women who are undeniably powerful: "I believe I can create an effect that will start to build this advocacy for women where men who care about me, and men who care about your wife, and men who care about your daughters, will act because they're emotionally connected to how we feel. I will share [my experiences of objectification] with my girlfriends, with the guys in my life, so that every man I know, that every woman I know starts to talk about it."
When the Stop Objectification people originally approached me, they suggested that I join them in promoting gender equality and encouraging other men to talk about objectification, so that my daughters and their generation won't have to deal with the garbage their mothers and grandmothers did. After our conversation, Kamali urged me to keep writing about the topic. I told her that I'm a little hesitant to offer my own insights about objectification given the beat-down I received last time. Maybe I'll just ask questions for a while.


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Wells Fargo Dealer Services AKA Seattle branch breach of security----customer and employee information jeopardized Kent Washington
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I am an ex employee of this office and I feel I was terminated due to "knowing too much". Here is the bottom line----for about a 2 year period---give or take a month or so---one of the supervisors there, was bringing her adult daughter into the office on a regular basis----This is a secured office and although our children or grandchildren were allowed to enter with us and be introduced around the office briefly, they werent allows to stay for long periods of time. This supervisor brought her daughter in and the girl stayed for several hours at a time, sometime 4-5 hours on late nights. She sat at her moms desk---wandered around the office talking to collectors, used her moms business phone at her desk etc etc. Although this may sound like just a poor judgement move on the supervisor and the people who allowed this---aka Gary Holley, other supervisors and the branch manager, it didnt feel so harmless to me and a few others---You see, the daughter who was there and who spent hours amoungst the security of our office, HAS A CRIMINAL RECORD FOR IDENTITY THEFT AND DRUGS !!!! This office as all the Dealer Service offices is attached to the WELLS FARGO name and reputation. Recently I have seen a TV commercial stating that WELLS FARGO works around the clock to protect your personal information and I have to strongly call BS !!!! I have to wonder how many people out there with loans through this office have had identify theft against them and NO IDEA how this could of happened ?? Who would think that their finance company would be allowing this behavior ?? So many things in that office that are wrong and illegal. Would love for people to hear the truth and see what kind of company they are dealing with. I worked here for almost 12 years and have experienced the painful truth that they will do anything to cover their tracks and try to keep the truth from being known. I went from my supervisors to the department managers to the branch managers---to the Human Resource Dept and was terminated for a much smaller violation shortly after. There is also the truth about the account that I was terminated for---they claim I pulled a social security search on a 3rd party---NOT a credit bureau---just a search looking for an address on the daughter of the customer. Funny thing about this account that I was terminated for----It was BOUGHT---FUNDED and WORKED all the way through under an incorrect ss # !!! What does that mean to anyone outside of the office ?? It means that this company used and affected someone elses credit and life by allowing all this under the WRONG persons social security---and when this was brought to their attention---they stopped communicating with me !! What are they hiding ??
There is so much you learn from working someplace for almost 12 years and I am willing to talk about it all !!
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When your facial hair only grows on the bottom of your chin and no where else. Can also be done on purpose by shaving.
Guy 1: Hey, I just noticed that your beard only grows under your chin, thats weird.
Guy 2: yeah, yeah I know, its a chintee.
Guy 2: yeah, yeah I know, its a chintee.
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The vengeful act of crapping on a lover's chest while they sleep.Buy the plush