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Martin Resource Management builds petroleum business with diverse fleet
Aviation unit operates Learjet 45XR, Citation CJ3 and CJ1, King Air 350 and 2 Cirrus SR22s.
By Mike Potts
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"Business aircraft give our employees the flexibility to do their jobs," says Pres & CEO Ruben Martin III, seen with the company's new Citation CJ3 and King Air 350.
It was 1951 when Ruben Martin Jr and his wife Margaret moved to Kilgore TX and purchased a butane truck. Ruben drove the truck, servicing residential and commercial drilling rig customers initially, while Margaret kept the books for the Martin Butane Company.
From this modest beginning, Martin Butane has evolved into Martin Resource Management Corp—an enterprise with 97 locations in 12 states and the Canadian province of Alberta, more than 2300 employees and annual sales of more than $3 billion.
A portion of the Martin organization—Martin Midstream Partners—is publicly traded on the NASDAQ exchange, with current market capitalization of about $800 million.
Martin Resource Management's business activities include asphalt storage and distribution, industrial chemicals, lubricants, marine fuel supply, oil refining and marketing, sulfur prilling technology and truck and rail transportation.
Martin Midstream Partners' businesses include sulfur services and fertilizer, liquefied propane gas distribution (the original core business), terminal and storage services, lubricants, natural gas gathering and processing, and marine transportation.
With all of its growth, Martin continues to be based in Kilgore, about 125 miles due east of Dallas, not far from the Louisiana border. Airline service to GGG (East Texas Regional, Longview TX), which serves Kilgore and Longview, is limited to 2 daily round trips to DFW.
Not surprisingly, business aviation has played a key role in supporting the company's growth.
Pres & CEO Ruben Martin III, the son of Martin Jr and Margaret, says he remembers his father "always had an airplane," going back to before he joined the company in 1973.
Today, Martin Resource Management maintains a fleet of business aircraft that consists of a Bombardier Learjet 45XR, a Cessna Citation CJ3, which recently replaced a CJ2+, a CJ1, a Hawker Beechcraft King Air 350 and 2 Cirrus SR22s.
These aircraft provide a transportation network for any Martin employee with a business requirement to travel.
"Business aircraft give our employees the flexibility to be in the office when they need to be there and to be at destinations on the road when they need to be visiting customers or clients, and not wasting a lot of time in between," says Martin.
He continues, "I believe in the value of having people at all levels in the company getting out into the field to see what's really going on. They can get out of the office much more efficiently using business aircraft—particularly when you look at the places we go to, and the fact that we're located in Kilgore TX. With all the managers of the different divisions in our company that need to travel, our aviation department is a huge asset for us."
All in a day's flight
Chief Pilot Jim Caffey leads a team of 7 pilots operating a fleet of 3 jets, a turboprop and 2 piston aircraft.
"There are things we do with our flight department that we just couldn't do any other way," Martin says. "We recently did a tour with our board of directors. We went from Kilgore and then Houston, because we had to pick people up there, to our fertilizer plant in Plainview TX.
From there we went on to Corpus Christi to look at a new crude oil terminal, and then to Beaumont TX to look at our 3 terminal facilities plus a truck terminal we operate there. We did all of that in 1 day using 2 airplanes because we had so many people."
Even with all the obvious advantages that business aviation brings, Martin is adamant about one thing—the cost of Martin's business aviation activity is not passed on to the stockholders. "All of our aviation assets are owned or operated by Martin Resource Management—the privately held segment of our company which bears all of the associated expense," he explains. "I just believe that's how it should be done."
In addition to supporting the company's travel requirements, Martin makes its aircraft available whenever it can to support the Impact A Hero program, which flies severely wounded or disabled veterans to locations they might not otherwise be able to reach.
"All of us at Martin are proud to be able to share our aircraft with the soldiers who have given so much to our country," says Ruben Martin. It also provides similar support to the Make-A-Wish Foundation to grant wishes to terminally ill children.
The Martin aviation department reports to Facilities & Aviation Fleet Mgr Michael Hawkins, who sees his role as both tactical and strategic. "My mission is to provide high quality transportation to the employees of Martin Resources Management who need to travel to support the business," Hawkins says. "We like to be able to get a manager to a meeting and get him back the same day."
Facilities & Aviation Fleet Mgr Michael Hawkins is responsible for day-to-day operations as well as long-term planning for the flight dept.
Continuing, he notes, "I'm also responsible for a master plan that maps out where the department is going over the next 5 years, including working with senior management to project what kind of equipment we'll need and what our manpower requirements will be like. If, for example, we replaced the Lear with a Challenger, how would that impact our pilot requirements and who we hire next."
In addition to the aviation department, Hawkins is responsible for the company's major offices, including the Kilgore headquarters, its marine division headquarters in Houston, and 2 ranches and a fishing camp the company maintains to entertain clients.
The Martin aviation department is located in a 13,680 sq ft hangar facility on the west side of GGG at about midfield on Rwy 17/35. It is less than a 10-min drive to the company's corporate headquarters. Proximity to headquarters is critical because Martin uses its aviation department to respond to any safety issues related to its transport trucks or facilities.
"If there is a safety issue or an accident, our goal is to be in the air within an hour of a call," says Hawkins, "with our safety personnel on their way to the site. In the few times it's happened we've been always able to achieve that because our people are located so close to the airport."


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Vegetable Quiche Cups -SBD-
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These are a breakfast option in the South Beach Diet (phase 1). They can be eaten hot or cold and can also be frozen. These make a handy and healthy snack to take to work too.
Top Review by HocoRuco
I can't believe I haven't rated this yet! I've made this probably a dozen times because my family loves them so much. They're really great and lend themselves quite easily to modifications. I always include the frozen spinach but have also used caramelized onions, chopped mushrooms, Parmesan cheese and goat cheese. Even when I feel like I am way overdoing the cheese and other less healthy (compared to veggies) items, the calorie count still only comes out to about 70 or so which is awesome.
We ate these stuffed inside of freshly baked popovers last weekend and they were a fantastic 150 calorie breakfast.
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Ingredients Nutrition
- 3⁄4 cup pasteurized liquid egg-whites or 3⁄4 cup egg white substitute or 3⁄4 cup egg substitute
- 1 (10 ounce) package frozen chopped spinach
- 3⁄4 cup shredded reduced-fat cheese
- 1⁄4 cup diced red peppers or 1⁄4 cup green pepper (or mixture of both)
- 1⁄4 cup diced onion
- Tabasco sauce or other hot pepper sauce, if desired,to taste
- salt
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- Heat oven to 350F.
- Line a 12 cup muffin pan with foil baking cups, spray the cups with cooking spray.
- Thaw and drain spinach, wring it out well by hand.
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I have killed a truck load of squirrels with 177 pellet rifles. Most fell to a 2100 Classic at ten pumps shooting a Crosman wadcutter. Catch one sitting up and hit him square in the chest with a wadcutter at 550 fps, and you get to decide how to cook him for dinner.
The advice that where you hit is more important than size is true. It doesn't matter at all if you hit just behind the eye with a fast bb or a 22 HP. If you wait till he sits up and angle a pellet thru the vitals, a 177 works as well as anything.
In the smaller calibers your margin of error is less than with the bigger bullets. I have a Techstar in 22 sitting and I am tuning on a Cannon Pumper rifle in 177 for squirrel hunting this year. I am setting up a self contained squirrel sniper rig. Once you get the 177 stepping out there over 800 fps, the only question is bullet placement. At 900 fps, solid hits on squirrel heads produce clouds of red spray out the other side. Dead is dead.
Rabbits are easy to kill. Squirrels much tougher. Possums and coons are about the same. Ground hogs are harder to anchor in place than any of the others discussed.
Reasonable range and accurate placement trumps caliber and FPS every time.
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1Department of Psychology, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 2Department of Computing Science, University of Alberta, Edmonton, 3Department of Psychiatry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, 4Department of Psychology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, 5Centre for Neuroscience, University of Alberta, Edmonton, 6Neuroscience Program, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 7Beckman Institute, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
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We present a protocol that allows investigation of the neural correlates of deliberate and automatic emotion regulation, using functional magnetic resonance imaging. This protocol can be used in healthy participants, both young and older, as well as in clinical patients.
Date Published: 8/26/2011, Issue 54; doi: 10.3791/2430
Keywords: Neuroscience, Issue 54, Emotion Suppression, Automatic Emotion Control, Deliberate Emotion Control, Goal Induction, Neuroimaging
Dolcos, S., Sung, K., Denkova, E., Dixon, R. A., Dolcos, F. Brain Imaging Investigation of the Neural Correlates of Emotion Regulation. J. Vis. Exp. (54), e2430, doi:10.3791/2430 (2011).
The ability to control/regulate emotions is an important coping mechanism in the face of emotionally stressful situations. Although significant progress has been made in understanding conscious/deliberate emotion regulation (ER), less is known about non-conscious/automatic ER and the associated neural correlates. This is in part due to the problems inherent in the unitary concepts of automatic and conscious processing1. Here, we present a protocol that allows investigation of the neural correlates of both deliberate and automatic ER using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). This protocol allows new avenues of inquiry into various aspects of ER. For instance, the experimental design allows manipulation of the goal to regulate emotion (conscious vs. non-conscious), as well as the intensity of the emotional challenge (high vs. low). Moreover, it allows investigation of both immediate (emotion perception) and long-term effects (emotional memory) of ER strategies on emotion processing. Therefore, this protocol may contribute to better understanding of the neural mechanisms of emotion regulation in healthy behaviour, and to gaining insight into possible causes of deficits in depression and anxiety disorders in which emotion dysregulation is often among the core debilitating features.
1. Task Design, Stimuli, and Experimental Protocol
The overarching protocol involves assessments of emotional ratings of pictures (immediate impact), and of the memory for
these pictures (long-term impact), as a result of inducing the goal to regulate emotional responses. The goal to regulate is induced explicitly or implicitly, and the immediate and long-term impact is assessed relative to ratings of and memory for pictures presented during baseline blocks/runs that precede the ER manipulations (pre-ER induction baseline); see Figure 1 for a diagram of the overall experimental design. Below we provide details regarding all these aspects.
Figure 1. Diagram of the protocol. The ER goal is induced in each participant both consciously/explicitly and non-consciously/implicitly, but the order of induction is different and counterbalanced across participants - i.e., those assigned to explicit ER in the first part complete the implicit manipulation in the second part, and vice versa; each manipulation is preceded by its own baseline runs. See below for detailed descriptions of the Rating and Memory tasks.
Emotion Regulation Manipulation
Assessments of the Immediate Impact of ER manipulation: The Emotional Rating Task
Assessment of the Long-Term Impact of ER manipulation: The Memory Retrieval Task
2. Preparing the Subject for the Scan
All participants provide written informed consent prior to running the experimental protocol, which is approved by an Ethics Board. They are also warned that many of the pictures depict distressing events, such as acts of violence or trauma, and are provided with printed examples of representative pictures.
Before Scanning
In the Scanning Room
3. Data Recording and Processing
Scanning Parameters
We collected MRI data from 24 young healthy participants, using a 1.5 Tesla Siemens Sonata scanner for MRI recordings. Our anatomical images are 3D MPRAGE anatomical series (repetition time (TR) = 1600 ms, echo time (TE) = 3.82 ms; number of slices = 112; voxel size = 1x1x1mm). The functional images consist of series of 28 functional slices (voxel size = 4x4x4 mm), acquired axially using an echoplanar sequence (TR = 2000 ms; TE = 40 ms; field of view FOV = 256x256mm), thus allowing for full-brain coverage.
Data Analysis
We use Statistical Parametric Mapping (SPM: http://www.fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk/spm/) in combination with in-house MATLAB-based tools. Pre-processing involves typical steps: quality assurance, TR alignment, motion correction, co-registration, normalization, and smoothing (8 mm3 kernel)9. Individual and group-level statistical analyses may involve comparisons of brain activity according to ER manipulation (ER vs. baseline runs; see Figure 2), emotional valence (negative vs. neutral), arousal (low vs. high), and memory performance (remembered vs. forgotten). Correlations of brain imaging data with behavioural data (e.g., picture ratings) and/or scores indexing personality measures (e.g., personality traits indexing habitual engagement of ER strategies) can also be performed, to investigate how brain activity co-varies with individual differences in behaviour and personality.
4. Representative Results:
Figure 2. Decreased amygdala activity and increased prefrontal cortex activity following ER manipulation. Inducement of the ER goal was associated with reduced activity in brain areas associated with emotion processing, including the amygdala (a), and increased activity in brain regions associated with cognitive control and emotion regulation10, including ventrolateral prefrontal cortex (PFC) (b), dorsolateral PFC (d), and medial PFC (c)11,12. As shown in the bar graph illustrating the vlPFC activity, explicit and implicit ER were associated with similar patterns of response, suggesting that these changes reflect joint contribution of explicit and implicit ER. The "activation maps" are superimposed on high resolution brain images displayed in coronal views; the color bars indicate the gradient of t values of the activation maps, based on group statistics (N = 24), reflecting brain activity in voxels that show decreased (left panel) or increased (right panel) activity as a result of ER manipulation. It should be noted that activation blobs in the PFC may cover more areas, as follows: vlPFC/Insula (b) and dorsal Anterior Cingulate Cortex/Premotor Cortex (c). The bar graphs illustrate percent signal changes in response to emotional (Emo) and neutral (Neu) pictures before (i.e., BaseRuns) and after the induction of the ER goals (i.e., Combined ER = Explicit and Implicit ER averaged together, Explicit ER, and Implicit ER), as extracted from voxels showing pre- to post-ER differences. L = Left; R = Right.
Table 1. Decreased emotional ratings following ER manipulation. Similar to the fMRI results, there was a reduction of emotional ratings following ER induction, and this effect resulted from decreases following both explicit and implicit ER. Importantly, emotional ratings did not change significantly in a control group that performed the same task following similar delays but in the absence of ER goal induction. Supporting these ideas, a 2 (Manipulation: Baseline vs. ER Induction) x 2 (Valence: Emotional vs. Neutral) repeated-measures ANOVA on data from the experimental group* yielded a significant main effect of Manipulation (F[1, 19] = 11.21, p < 0.002) and a significant Manipulation x Valence Interaction (F[1, 19] = 3.02, p < 0.05), and a similar 2-way ANOVA on data from the control group (N = 9) did not yield a significant main effect of Delay (Baseline vs. Delayed Runs) or a significant Delay x Valence interaction. These findings suggest that the decrease in ratings in the experimental group was due to the induction of the goal to control emotions rather than due to habituation following repeated exposure to emotional stimulation. *because of data attrition due to common causes (e.g., technical failure), behavioral analyses in the experimental group were based on data from 20 participants.
Taken together, these behavioral and brain imaging findings validate the present experimental design, which can be used to compare explicit and implicit inductions of the goal to regulate emotions. It should be noted that the present report emphasizes aspects that result from the joint contribution of the Explicit and Implicit ER manipulations, but this does not exclude the possibility that their effects may be dissociable at behavioral and/or brain level.
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About the Book
This book contains just a few of my digital iPad paintings. I mainly use
two Apps for my iPad paintings, ArtRage and SketchClub.
I enjoy painting differant subjects from landscapes to portraits plus some concept art too. The iPad allows me to be more mobile which suites my impressionistic style. Most paintings in this book were made very quickly, infact I normally give myself a time limit of 30-40 minutes per painting allowing me to paint very loosely.
Hope you enjoy my artwork,
Thanks for your interest.
Features & Details
- Category Fine Art
Standard Landscape, 10×8 in, 25×20 cm
42 Pages
- Publish Date Jun 04, 2013
- Language English
About the Creator
Photoshop and ArtRage are just a few examples of software I've been using. Photoshop is probably the most common and widely used programme to produce digital art, it opens your imagination to a whole new level of creativity where the possibilities are endless. ArtRage on the other hand is a very underrated art programme, but in terms of simulating oil painting and pastel artwork it has no equal (that's just my opinion of course). I sell a lot of my artwork and have a good solid following. I suppose I'm well known for my hand painted POP-ART canvases which are fun to paint, but!!! creating good oil portraits and colourful landscapes is where my passions lay.
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As we already know, Emmanuelle Alt will be taking Carine's place as head of French Vogue.
To me Emmanuelle is probably the most gifted stylist, she has done some truly amazing work for Vogue Paris... And she is quite the fashion queen with her great, big shouldered, embellished jackets and her exquisite shoe collection.
In this post I feature my favorite images of Emmanuelle's work for VP, also I feature my favorite images of Emmanuelle herself.
Enjoy! And tell me what your feelings are about Emmanuelle taking the top spot at VP, how/will the magazine change?
(images via tfs, jak&jil)
Leaving you with this post, I would like to announce that I will be taking 3 weeks off from any form of technology. That means I will not be blogging for three whole weeks...
I will be away at a basic training camp in Israel.
So, I wish everyone a really lovely month.. Thank you for always coming back to my blog, you all are the best!! xx


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Monday June 24th, 2013 - 9:52AM
FORTUNA DE SAN CARLOS, COSTA RICA—Driftwood Hospitality Management is now managing the 50-room Arenal Lodge here, making it the company's third property in Costa Rica.
The hotel joins the oceanfront Flamingo Beach Resort & Spa and San Jose's city center Holiday Inn San Jose Downtown-Aurola.
"The number of international travelers to Costa Rica has increased substantially over the past few years, with a record 2.34 million in 2012. We see terrific value in growing our portfolio there," said Carlos Rodriguez, EVP/Driftwood Hospitality Management.
Arenal Lodge's location offers panoramic views of the Arenal Volcano and Lake Arenal. The hotel offers guestrooms, suites and chalets along with an on-site restaurant, gift shop, outdoor pool, three heated Jacuzzis and a butterfly garden.
Guests may enjoy horseback riding across the 2,000-acre property, bird watching and hiking or book an array of day trips from the hotel, including canopy tours, waterfall and hot springs excursions and lake fishing trips.
"Increasing our presence in key markets like Costa Rica is the natural next step for Driftwood, as we look to expand our international footprint," said Rodriguez.


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*You want your candy melts to be kind of thick so you get a nice coating on your cakester, however, if your melted candy melts are too thick, you may need to add some Paramount Crystals (recommended) or a bit of vegetable oil in order to thin them out. Add a very small amount at a time until you have the desired consistency.
Supplies needed:
glass or mug
parchment paper
baking sheet
Unwrap Oreo Cakesters and insert a stick into the cream center. Pour your candy melts into a glass or mug. Dip the Cakester into the candy coating. Lift the Cakester out and allow excess candy coating to drip off. Set on a parchment paper lined baking sheet. Repeat, coating all the Cakesters. Place in the freezer for 5 minutes. Remove and allow the pops to come to room temperature.
That's it. Simple, right?
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When thinking of uses for Facebook's new graph search feature, job recruiting may not have been top of mind, but social employee referral-management platform Zao pointed out that graph search is actually well suited for social recruiting.
Zao pointed out that the targeted searches enabled by graph search are a perfect fit for recruiters searching for talented potential candidates based on their interests and experiences, adding that:
- One out of five Facebook users had contacts share jobs on the social network.
- 14 percent search specifically for jobs on Facebook.
- 52 percent of job seekers incorporate the social network into their job searches.


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UEFA charges Dynamo Kiev and Besiktas following fan violence
UEFA has charged Dynamo Kiev and Besiktas with disciplinary offences after fan violence marred Tuesday's Champions League game between the teams.
The match in Kiev, which Dynamo won 6-0, saw clashes involving hundreds of fans in the Ukrainian capital before the game, leaving 10 injured. There was further trouble at the stadium.
UEFA has charged both teams over crowd disturbances and the use of fireworks, while Besiktas has also been charged with fans causing damage to the stadium.
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The New Zealand Honeynet Project, which produced Capture-HPC (mentioned here last week), also produced an excellent white paper about using Capture-HPC to identify malicious Web servers. On the group's Web site, you'll find that paper, the captured data, and the tools for anyone to inspect and replicate.
[ RogerGrimes's column is now a blog! Get the latest IT security news from the Security Adviser blog. ]
The New Zealand Honeynet Project inspected more than 300,000 URLs (nearly 149,000 hosts) for three weeks and found 306 malicious URLs served from 194 malicious servers. Here are the most interesting points, to me:
2. Many of the malicious Web sites turn non-malicious, and vice versa, all the time. I've talked about this in previous columns, but essentially many malware writers are taking great pains to make sure an infected Web site serves up malicious content to any given IP address only once. That strategy defeats additional inspection by anti-malware researchers and honeyclients.
3. Only 12 percent of malicious URLs appeared on a blacklist. Nevertheless, counterintuitive as it may seem, blacklists were highly effective at blocking a large percentage of attacks. This is because the blacklists often blocked the main back-end computers serving up most of the malware. In today's Web-intertwined world, most of the infected Web sites actually point to a smaller number of "super server" hosts. Block them, and the original infected site is defanged.
4. Fully patched computers blocked 100 percent of the malicious attempts (for the study, the project used Internet Explorer 6 SP2 instead of the better-defended Internet Explorer 7).
5. The study includes analysis of several real Web sites and exploits.
6. Many of the exploits attempted to steal log-on names and passwords.
7. Most attacks used JavaScript to initiate the exploitation.
The paper ends with several defense recommendations, including:
* Keep fully patched, both OS and applications.
* Blacklists are effective.
* Don't run as root or admin in browser sessions.
* Host-based firewalls offer additional protection.
I encourage any computer security defender to download and read this honeyclient paper.


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This week on BBCe we're revving the engine for a driving special! Meet the taxi drivers of London and Cairo and find out what they love and hate about their job.
Traditional London black taxis are called cabs and the drivers are called cabbies. When you get in a black cab, a London cabbie might say, "Where to, mate?" meaning 'Where do you want to go?' Mate means friend.
But today, for BBCe, you can hear them saying it in Egyptian Arabic instead!
There are lots of phrases in English, which use the word 'drive.' Here are three:
- you drive me mad
- in the driving seat
- back seat driver
Find out what they mean by listening above!
Question: Are you a taxi driver or do you drive alot? Do you love it or hate it?
Nabeel, Dubai, UAE
me alwyes i drive here in dubai but i hate because here traffic
i hate it because i hate to be in driving seat i am not confident of my self i always be in back seat all in my life
Actualy I hate driving in streets of the neighborhood because I feel boring,but when I drive on highway,I feel relax because I drive the car without driving very fast just tune in the radio or the tape
Walid, Port Said, Egypt
i like it alot but i feel some bored to driver in along time in my taxi but what i can do its my job
Samowl, Sydney, Australia
Hi guys That's my name I'm new in Australia and that mean I still learn English now you know why I'm listening to yours program. I've been her in Australia for tow years and I started doing taxi driver before five months for it was really very nice and good job for my special I'm new and I need to now about this country . I love it and nothing to hit at less until now All the best to BBCe Your new friend (I wish) Sam
Asma, Jordan
No I'm not a taxi driver,but i like driving very much and one of my dreams to have my own car.Its very interesting thing but after my brother's death in a terrible car accident i affriad of cars and crazy drivers.
Coppy, London
I LOVE TO DRIVE ANY WHERE ACCEPT London & Cairo
Dina, Cairo, Egypt
i m not a taxi driving but i hateeeee drivingggggggg ,i hope if i ve a lot of moneny to have someone to drive for me
Osman , Sudan
yes i love driving because it asort of art
A, Jeddah, KSA
I drive every day more than an hour but i like to benifit in the way so i listen to what i care about and what gives me a lot of new information about my religion Try to do it if your way is long
Adnan, Sydney
i hate this job but its living
Farah, Baghdad, Iraq
I am like driving but not in the traffic jam but I hate going to the mechanician
Blend, Baghdad, Iraq
no i didnt drive taxi but i drive cars alot and i love it specialy when we going to travel
Mohamed, Diarb Nigm El Sharkia Government
I like Driving very much
Ahmed, Babil, Iraq
Hello I'm not a taxi drver and I'm not driving alot too ,but I love driving alot I have no car but I practice driving in my friend's car . Special thanx for BBC for their services
Emad, Qena, Egypt
i dont have a car ,i wish have a car ,i dont know driving , i love dreving becuse if i have i can go to any place any time without wating spec taxi , saving my mony any way i dont hate driving
M.T. Al-Mansouri, Ottawa, Canada
I am not a taxi driver. Seldom I drive cars I like driving. I do it exactly without accidents and respectfully to the city, police rules.
Mahgoub, Khartoum, Sudan
I think a taxi-driver is lucky person because he meet different person have different values, dimension ,race and attitude. Generally is non routine
هل أنت سائق سيارة أجرة أو تقود بكثرة؟ اكتب لنا عن طريق الاستمارة الموجودة أسفل الصفحة و اخبرنا إن كنت تحب أو تكره القيادة بالإنجليزية طبعاً!
ترجمة لبعض العبارات التي وردت في البرنامج:
a driving special
خاص عن القيادة
يذاع برنامج بي بي سي إي يوم الخميس على إذاعة الشرق الاوسط على موجة أف أم 89.5 الساعة الخامسة مساءاً، وأيضاً يوم الخميس الساعة الحادية عشر مساءاً على إذاعة الشباب والرياضة موجة أف أم 108 وكذلك عبر الاقمار الصناعية
قد نضطر لاختصار مساهماتكم، ونعتذر عن عدم تمكننا من نشر كل ما يصلنا من آراء. تعليقاتكم يمكن ان تنشر في اي من وسائل الاعلام التابعة للبي بي سي في مختلف انحاء العالم. شروط وبنود الاستخدام


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Two separate signs on the massage parlour's front window proclaimed: NO SEX. NO DRUGS.
"What about rock'n'roll?" I asked inside. My joke didn't translate into Indonesian, if the polite smiles I got back were any indication.
A menu gave me my choices: from a 15-minute foot rub to two hours of therapeutic massage with various cleansing treatments. Since 120 minutes of massage seemed almost too much of a good thing, I chose an hour-long traditional Javanese full-body treatment. The receptionist brought me to a curtained alcove and gave me a modest pair of shorts to wear. When the masseuse entered I was already lying down on the padded couch, but without my face inside the hole provided for it.
"Scream if you need anything," my friend and occasional guide joked from the other side of the curtains.
"Relax," the masseuse said, seeing I was somewhat ill-at-ease — not being someone who frequents massage parlours, therapeutic or otherwise. Her manner reassured me, as did her appearance. Short hair framed a friendly, intelligent face. She showed little expression except for a smile that was more than polite, but less than familiar. She convinced me I was safe in her hands, so I put my face into the face-hole. I closed my eyes to surrender myself to her and to the pleasures she would undoubtedly give me.
The woman began the massage by separating my two shoulder blades from each other and lifting them up like she wanted to see what was hiding underneath. Satisfied with what she found, she put the blades back and proceeded to work her way up my spine, disconnecting each vertebrae from its neighbour and giving it a twist before moving onto the next. This ended at my skull, the two halves of which she failed to split apart, but not for want of trying.
Less than five minutes had elapsed, but the pain induced by the masseuse's fingers digging through my muscles and cartilage seemed to manipulate time as deftly as the woman did my helpless flesh, stretching it until seconds felt like minutes and the minutes felt like an iron bar bashing a paint can flat — no wait, that was something she later did to my calves with the sides of her clenched palms.
When she gave up splitting my head, she went back to crushing my remaining vertebrae after disconnecting all the ribs, which she flicked like Popsicle sticks before returning them to where they belonged. Then she wrenched my whole spinal column out of my hip bones. My spare tire she kneaded like bread dough, braiding it into fancy pastry.
After that she attacked my arms, pulling the long muscles out like bowstrings to wring them like sodden dishcloths. The elbows she ignored, but she gave my hands obsessive attention, gouging my palms to touch every tiny bone inside. My fingers and thumbs she pulled relentlessly until they came apart with loud snaps.
What the masseuse did with my arms, hands and fingers she repeated with my legs, feet and toes — although the thicker leg muscles resisted her attempts at wringing them out, so she had to beat them into submission. My calves raised her ire so much she went back to them after she dislocated every bone in both feet and pulled my toes off.
Throughout it all I managed to keep from screaming, but by the time my masseuse was pushing her thumbs into the thickest parts of my calf muscles as if to touch the bone beneath them, I could no longer pretend to be relaxed. I managed to stay quiet, but my whole body had stiffened into a sheet of plywood.
"Are you asleep?" my friend called.
I might have answered, but my ordeal wasn't finished. I had to turn over and I needed all my energy to endure the continuing assault, repeating over and over to myself that as much as my muscles hated me in that moment, they would thank me afterwards. I hoped.
On my way out the two signs again caught my eye.
No drugs? A couple of Tylenol beforehand would have been helpful. But no sex? No problem. I couldn't imagine surviving it.
Michael Johansen is a resident of North West River, Labrador


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Donna Karan NY Spring 2014 Runway Show
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It was luxe hippie voyage at Donna Karan for Spring 2014, with shades of ocher, terracotta, and raw sapphire mingling in prints that recalled Southwestern pottery and were inspired by a recent trip by the designer to India. The whole collection had a weathered-by-the-sun sensation, down to the beaten-up leather hats pulled low over the models' sunkissed faces. Organic wooden necklaces were displayed in plunging, open tops that made the neck and sternum the sensual focal point of the collection. Fans of Karan will have plenty to love come Spring in that mix of ease and chic that she does so well.


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Judge our president by the number of fallen soldiers
December 26, 2012
As a veteran and just over Veterans Day, I feel I must comment on the article by Diana West, whom I do not know, and what Romney said or did not say.
My point is that the writer says Obama has proven himself as a good commander in chief. I realize most people do not listen to their party's promises when running for election. I heard Mr. Obama's promise. It was "If I am elected president, the first thing I will do is to bring all our troops home." How many dead soldiers are there that could have been prevented?
So folks, judge our president by the number of dead soldiers that keeps growing and growing.
Al Hoffmeyer
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A First Time for Everything: Under the Desk and Other Stories
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There's something very special about first times. When that first is a spanking at the hands of a lover, the sensations and memories are especially vivid. Meet five strong women and the men who spank them. Kelly silently craves the contact in "Under the Desk." Andrea is appalled at the idea in "Tenth Reunion." And Connie, well, poor Connie just never sees it coming in "Games People Play." A discussion of football rituals spurs more intimate contact for one woman and her sports-mad boyfriend in "Unnecessary Roughness," and an eavesdropper unintentionally surfaces the idea in "Hear No Evil." There's a first time for everything. Bonus stories: Readers may recognize "Under the Desk" and "Hear No Evil" from Kathryn Jay's early writings in Forum posts. These two stories have been edited and reformatted for your reading pleasure. For adults only. The cover image, left, is a distorted version... More > mandated by Lulu. The actual book cover is attractive and clear.< Less
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Exclusive: Finch Premiere Video for "Letters to You (Live)" off What It Is to Burn X DVD
Post-hardcore act Finch will release their new live album and DVD, What It Is to Burn X, on February 25 via Tragic Hero Records. In anticipation, the band has teamed up with Revolver to premiere the live video from that DVD, "Letters To You." Check it out below and let us know what you think in the comments!
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Four parts today.
Justin Timberlake might be goofing around, but lets face it, he doesn't want Jay-Z to get wet and leave Justin's music video.
Snooki gets lost in a crowd doesn't she? Apparently Jwoww is very proud of her breasts.
I think Miley Cyrus forgot her top.
Meanwhile her possible future brother in law vacationed with Miley and
Liam and another Hemsworth brother and their dad in Costa Rica.
Orlando Bloom and Miranda Kerr at LAX.
Anna Paquin and Stephen Moyer take out the twins.
Ryan Lochte would like you to look at him please.
Sharon Stone walks the mean streets of Beverly Hills.
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Hey everyone,The following errors prevent my web app from working:
"Uncaught TypeError: Cannot call method 'removeAttribute' of null"
"Uncaught TypeError: Cannot call method 'appendChild' of null"
Here's an example: http://bit.ly/10QO0mv
The app should play the video playlist as soon as it's loaded, instead the video just hangs.The playlist will play if you click on the second video and then click back on the first video.
I get the same error regardless if I place
<script type="text/javascript" src="js/playlist_jquery.js"></script>
between the HEAD tags or right before the closing BODY tag
Some people have suggested to
start playing the video once body is loadedor put your code inside an onload event.
$(document).ready(function() {
// start video streaming once all resources are done loading
All of the code that executes the video and the video playlist is from PHP,so what exactly should I put in the document.ready or onload event?
(I can post the html and php if necessary)
Thanks in advance -DK
things video may not be loaded completely or enough to start playing until for a while after the document loads.see if there is any way to detect the video load complete event.
In case anyone is interested I was able to resolve my issue.I overlooked a setting in the SublimeVideo player. The videos now autoplay.


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This time of year many of us will be taking a Christmas Card photo with the intent to send it out to all our friends and family. Sometimes we stress about the process of creating a Christmas card. Today I want to show you that you can create a cute and simple card in Lightroom using overlays for Lightroom.
Follow these directions or skip to the video below to get started making your Christmas card now!
Download and Unzip the Overlays
The first step to creating your Christmas card will be to download the FREE overlays we've created for you and then unzip the folder. To unzip on a PC, right-click and choose Extract Files. To unzip on a Mac, just double-click the zipped file. Put the files on your computer where you will remember where they are.
Navigate to the Photo or Photos for Your Christmas Card
Open Lightroom and find the photo that you want to use for your Christmas card. If you want to use more than one photo then you should consider creating a collection in the Collections Panel. Creating a collection is as easy as right-clicking on one of the collections already in Lightroom and choosing "Create Collection" and then giving it a name. You can just drag and drop photos from the Library Module into the collection.
Move to the Print Module
The Print Module is the second to last module in Lightroom. Open the Print Module. Choose one of the default Lightroom templates of one of the FREE PP blog/facebook timeline templates from the left-side in the Template Browser panel.
In the Layout Style Panel (the top panel in the Print Module) make sure that Custom Package is Highlighted.
Start in the Print Job Section
Next, move over to the Print Job Panel on the right-side. This is where you will set the size of your Christmas Card. Check the Custom File Dimensions box and type the dimensions you want in the section below. Make sure the JPEG quality is set to 100 and your File Resolution is set to 300 ppi. Don't worry about what these changes do to the images boxes that were already on your template.
Delete Old Images Boxes and Add New Ones
Highlight and tap the delete key to delete any images boxes that were already on your template. Now you can add your own. You do this under the Cells Panel on the right-side. No matter which size you add to your print document you can resize and reposition the cells.
Once you have the cell or cells added and positioned where you want it, drag and drop the image you want on the card into the cell. If needed you can reposition the image by holding down the ctrl/cmd key and then click and drag on the photo to reposition it inside the cell.
Add the Christmas Overlays
Now that your image/images are set, we are going to add an Christmas overlay. We are going to do this in the Page Panel using an Identity Plate. Check the Identity Plate box and then click on the little triangle in the lower-right corner. Navigate to the "Edit" option in the drop-down menu that opens up.
Highlight the button next to "Use a Graphical Identity Plate" the move down and click on "Locate File". Here is where you'll need to remember where you unzipped and saved the FREE Christmas Overlays. Highlight the one you want to add and click "Choose" once your are finished.
I like to save my Identity Plate once I have it selected in case I want to use it again. To do this, move down to the dropdown where it says "Custom". Choose "Save As" and give it a name. Then click "Okay".
Position and Size Your Identity Plate
You can position your identity plate anywhere on your image by clicking and dragging it where you want. You can also resize it using Scale slider in the Page Panel or by just clicking on the corner resize handles that border the Identity Plate.
Optional: Use a Watermark to Add your Names
This is quite a work around and your options are limited here. But, you can use Watermarking to add your names or the year to your Christmas card. To do this, check the Watermarking box also found in the Page Panel. Then, from the dropdown menu, choose "Edit Watermarks". Use the Watermark Editor box that opens to add your text. And use the options to the right to change your font and style the text the way you'd like.
You will only be able to anchor your text to certain areas of your photo. You CAN NOT move the watermark wherever you'd like the way you can place the Identity Plate. Use the "Anchor" section in the Watermark Effects area to anchor the watermark where you'd like and then use the "Inset" sliders to adjust the position from there.
Remember, this is a workaround and not the original way it was intended to be used!
Save Your Card
This part is easy. In the Print Job Panel on the right-side of the Print Module, make sure that next to "Print to" you have JPEG File chosen. Turn off the Print Sharpening box inside the Print Job Panel as well.
Then click the "Print to File" button in the lower right. This will open up a box that allows you to name your file and choose the location to save it. Click the "Save" button.
Now you are DONE and ready to upload to your favorite photo or card printer!
Hope you have a merry holiday and that this helps you save some time creating your Christmas card this year!