text:
Gov. Bobby Jindal's budget vetoes fell heavily on the pet projects of lawmakers who crossed his administration this session, leading to complaints Monday that Jindal used the budget for political retaliation.
Gov. Bobby Jindal's budget vetoes fell heavily on the pet projects of lawmakers who crossed his administration this session, leading to complaints Monday that Jindal used the budget for political retaliation.
Lawmakers also bristled at Jindal's removal of $24.9 million for coastal parishes battling the Gulf oil spill, saying it could slow cleanup and response efforts.
The governor used his line-item veto to nick about $1.6 million of the $30 million in projects added by state lawmakers for their districts back home.
House Speaker Jim Tucker, who didn't back Jindal in passing the budget, lost several projects in his district. Sens. Joe McPherson and Robert Adley, who successfully pushed bills against the wishes of the administration, say they lost all their earmarks to Jindal's veto pen.
"This is a way that the governor controls the Legislature: reward and punishment," McPherson, D-Woodworth, said Monday.
But the earmark cuts didn't surprise lawmakers like the removal of oil spill money for coastal communities.
"This oil spill is going to kill us. It's killing us right now, and you're going to stand on the sidelines and veto money to help us fight it?" said Rep. Reed Henderson, D-Chalmette.
In his veto letter, Jindal said oil giant BP PLC should be responsible for covering those costs, not state taxpayers. He also said the allocation to parishes exceeded the money available in the oil spill fund that would be tapped.
Coastal parish lawmakers argued local communities can't afford to float the money for response efforts and wait for reimbursement.
"The local governments are crying for financial help, and apparently the governor's decided to let them go cry to BP and let the chips fall where they may," Tucker said Monday.
Despite complaints about Jindal vetoes, lawmakers say it's unlikely they'll return to Baton Rouge to try to overturn them in a veto session.
Questioned about the earmark vetoes, the Jindal administration didn't respond to requests Monday about who decided what should be stripped from the $26 billion budget and why. The governor's veto letters said either the projects should be funded from other sources or didn't meet his criteria that they be regional in nature and have been discussed publicly.
More than 50 items were stripped from the budget bills by Jindal in a series of Friday night vetoes, including three dozen legislative add-ons.
"These vetoes reduce the overall size of the budget. Some people wanted us to veto more, and some people wanted us to veto less. We sought to strike a balance," said Michael DiResto, a spokesman for the governor's budget office, in a statement.
Four earmarks totaling $695,000 that were in or near Tucker's district were removed, including money for a volunteer fire department and a local redevelopment agency.
"I think they obviously must be aggravated with me about something, although they haven't told me what, though I guess you could assume it was on the budget," said Tucker, R-Terrytown, who slammed the budget backed by Jindal as irresponsible.
McPherson lost dollars for a local museum, sickle cell anemia services, cultural programs in Alexandria and a historic site in his central Louisiana district.
Adley's add-ons for the military facility Camp Minden, a portable generator for the city of Springhill, street and water equipment for the town of Cullen, main street development programs for Springhill and Minden and a police car for the town of Sarepta were cut.
Tucker, McPherson and Adley say they've added similar projects to budget bills in previous years - and Jindal didn't veto them. Other similar projects stayed in the budget this year.
"There are main street programs, police cars, generators all over the place. I can only assume these cuts, the vetoes, were made to punish me for my position on transparency, but I find it sad," said Adley, R-Benton.
Adley pushed a proposal to require Jindal's office to make public and to preserve records connected to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. The governor vetoed the bill last week, saying it could harm the state's position in seeking legal remedy for the disaster's damage. Adley repeatedly criticized Jindal this session for battling bills to open more governor's office records.
McPherson won passage of a measure to repeal a $15 price hike in the cost of a Louisiana driver's license that was enacted by the Jindal administration. The governor's office tried to kill McPherson's bill as it wound through the Legislature, but Jindal ended up signing the repeal.


text:
|Characteristics of type holder regular size cloth napkins
'Regular'-sized cloth napkins in physiological light household goods, you can use to adjust the liner pad, sold separately according to the amount of menstrual blood.
|Holder type cloth napkin body structure
Our cloth napkins are all fabric and yarn made in 100% organic cotton and a waterproof sheet containing a chemical substance is not included! Also, to use chemicals to water-repellent processing even with not so, could be revealed.
Terms of purchase of the trial monitor cloth napkins
|If you can write * review shipping costs
After your order we will correct in our shop
Cloth nape / Physiology supplies and hygiene necessaries /Organic Napkin / organic cotton farming
This product cannot be shipped to United States from the store.
Please contact the store for further information.
Save on shipping by combining your shipments.
Ship products from shops that don't provide international shipping.

subset: commoncrawl


text:
Frequent Links
Sue Rodriguez
|Susan Rodriguezs
August 2, 1950
Winnipeg, Manitoba
|February 12, 1994(aged 43)
Sue Rodriguez (August 2, 1950 – February 12, 1994) was an advocate of assisted suicide.
She was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, with the given name Sue Shipley, and grew up in Thornhill, Ontario, a suburb of Toronto. Her first marriage was short-lived.
Rodriguez, who lived in Victoria, British Columbia, was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) in early 1991. She fought to have a legal right to assisted suicide; under the Criminal Code of Canada, assisted suicide is punishable by a maximum sentence of 14 years in prison. She took her cause to the Supreme Court of Canada, but ultimately lost the battle. On September 30, 1993, in what would become a landmark decision, Rodriguez v. British Columbia (Attorney General), the SCC held 5-4 against her.
In 1994, she decided to take her own life with the help of an anonymous physician. Svend Robinson, a New Democratic Party MP who had campaigned her cause, was also present.
A 1998 film called At the End of the Day: The Sue Rodriguez Story, with Wendy Crewson as Rodriguez, tells her story.
- CBC Archives - Sue Rodriguez and the Right-To-Die Debate
- Supreme Court of Canada - Decisions - Rodriguez v. British Columbia (Attorney General)
Lua error in Module:Authority_control at line 346: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Buffer' not found.


text:
For this version we concentrated on features that improve security, flexibility and usability.
All passwords entered in Retrospective are now encrypted and no longer readable by unauthorized persons. When you export log configurations to share them with other persons in your organization or to keep them for later use, you can now choose to keep these encrypted passwords in the export file or wipe them out completely. This feature allows granting access to remote log files to your collaborators without disclosing the passwords to your servers.
Many user had requested a shorthand definition of the search scope. Though the log data profiles are powerful when dealing with complex setups, sometimes they just wanted to search some specific files.
The search definition panel now offers an easy way to access files without the use of a profile. Through a single click to the right of the profile selector you can choose the folder or files to be used for searching log data from.
Optionally, this shorthand configuration can be saved to a profile for future use.
In the preferences dialog, more settings are available for changing the look and behavior of Retrospective:
- The date/time format to be used in search filter criteria can now be freely defined
- Font chooser dialog for customizing the data representation in the result table
- Default visibility of individual columns in the result table upon a single mouse click
- New monitoring starting offset lets you define how much existing data is initially retrieved when monitoring (tailing) is started
- A new search can be started based on a result entry by simply selecting the appropriate item from a pop-up menu. This feature retrieves contextual data that appeared in that same file just before and after a selected result entry.
- Multiple result entry selection has been added. A range of result entries can now be copied into your favorite text editor. It is also possible to successively delete series of result entries to narrow down to relevant log data.
- The local result filter keeps now its own history. Previously used filters can be retrieved by simply pressing arrow down.
- A normalized log level column was added. The log level appears in a normalized form (i.e. "ERROR") regardless if it was logged in another language (i.e. "GRAVE" in French). The log level column is sortable and allows for quick filtering by log levels.
We would like to sincerely thank all people that were contacting us with bug reports and feature requests. It is your input that allows us to steadily enhance Retrospective. Our apologies to all those who wont find their requested feature in this release yet. Don't worry; it is safely kept in our back log.
Retrospective can be downloaded from http://www.retrospective.centeractive.com/downloads


text:
10 Tips for Networking Success by Ford R. Myers
Fri, 11/09/2012 - 4:26pm | by Ford R. Myers
Leverage your relationships and maximize networking opportunities
International Networking Week(R) (www.internationalnetworkingweek.com) will be held February 6-10, 2012. An initiative of BNI, International Networking Week(R) recognizes the key role that networking plays in the development and success of businesses across the world.
Ford R. Myers, career coach, speaker and author of "Get The Job You Want, Even When No One's Hiring" (John Wiley & Sons, http://www.getthejobbook.com), advocates that networking is the number one way job seekers get hired, regardless of the economic climate.
"Networking is not about 'schmoozing,' or selling someone on the idea of hiring you. Rather, it's about purposefully and gracefully asking peers for help, advice, input and contacts - and offering real value in return. Networking boosts job seekers' self-esteem and helps them connect people with opportunities - especially when those opportunities are hard to come by," says Myers.
Myers suggests the following 10 ways job seekers can maximize career networking in a today's market:
1. Schedule face-to-face meetings with your top tier contact list - "centers of influence" who believe in you, understand your value, and are in the best position to help you.
2. Schedule phone meetings with other people who might lead you to key industry influencers.
3. Get at least 3-5 names from each person with whom you speak.
4. Be confident and purposeful.
5. Bring a prepared list of questions and ask if it's okay to jot down notes during the meeting.
6. Establish good rapport by getting the other person to talk about himself/herself.
7. Don't use the word "fired." Keep the conversation positive and focus on the future, not the past.
8. Don't make excuses or sound apologetic for your current career situation.
9. Come from generosity - look for opportunities to offer something of value in return for the other person's help and support.
10. Always send a "thank you" note immediately after your networking meeting.
"When done properly, at the end of every networking meeting, the other person should feel genuinely glad you contacted them, and feel enriched by the experience. Networking always pays big dividends in the long run," adds Myers.
For more information and other useful tips for achieving career success, visit http://www.getthejobbook.com .
Reprinted by permission of Ford R. Myers, a nationally-known Career Coach and author of "Get The Job You Want, Even When No One's Hiring." Download your free bonuses now at http://www.careerbookbonuses.com.


text:
And now, the last of the book posts from 2015! As I said in my stats post, I didn't read very much science fiction this year, but what I did read, I liked.
This year I read Ann Leckie's Ancillary Sword, and I fully intended to read Ancillary Mercy as well, but I ran out of reading time for the year before I got to it, so it may well show up in my 2016 reviews. Sword wasn't the mind-blowing experience that Ancillary Justice was, but that's often my experience with a second book in a series. However, in this case, Sword was intentionally a different book. The first book of the trilogy was very much a wide-ranging, time-spanning space opera. The second book, by contrast, zooms in to a much smaller scale, as we follow the main character on a mission to a single space station and its nearby planet. While this book's story clearly has larger implications for the universe as a whole, the format is much closer to a mystery than a space opera. As Leckie said in an interview I proofread for Lightspeed:
I was definitely going for a different kind of vibe. On the one hand, I would love to give people more of the same who liked the book to begin with, but on the other hand, it would be kind of dull to write the same book a second time. Also, Breq's situation is very different. She's in the first book undergoing this huge tragedy and also looking for some kind of revenge or redress. In the second book, that's already been resolved to the extent that she could do it and now her problems are a little bit subtler, a little bit different, and they're going to be superficially quieter, at least for a while. So that really did require a different sort of book.
I have talked about the book with at least one friend who was disappointed in the change in tone, but personally, I liked it. (Then again, I like both genre mash-ups and mysteries in general quite a bit.) The other thing I liked about this book was its focus on the long-term, and much more personal, impact of extended colonial rule, especially with regard to class. (Writing these year-end reviews, I've noticed this is a cross-genre theme in my 2015 reading, and I definitely approve. I love seeing historical/societal issues being addressed by my friends in mainstream academia then picked up by fiction authors and applied to worlds of the imagination, because it both lends depth to those worlds and provides the reader with another lens through which to examine said issues, which has always been a strength of SFF.) I'm looking forward to seeing how Breq's story continues to evolve in Ancillary Mercy.
Speaking of playing with ways of telling a story, Catherynne M. Valente's Radiance provides a stunning example. This is perhaps the most original book I can recall reading in quite some time. First of all, it's science fiction as if the retrofuturistic vision offered in Metropolis had come true. All the planets of our solar system have been settled by humans, who travel to them in rocketships fired out of cannons. It's been termed "decopunk," and I, for one, hope this is an aesthetic that catches on. Here's Valente's own attempt to sum it up at the beginning of this Big Idea piece:
Radiance doesn't have a big idea at its heart.
It has about six. It's a decopunk alt-history Hollywood space opera mystery thriller. With space whales.
At its core, it tells the story of the mysterious disappearance of a noted film director, Severin Unck, and chronicles her father's attempt to come to grips with what happened. But since he's also a director, the story is told through the medium he understands best: film and audio clips from the archives and multiple drafts of a script for a film he's trying to write about her disappearance. The story is not very linearly told, which makes it all the more effective at communicating the confusion surrounding Severin's disappearance (and presumed death.) The film and audio clips from the archives, which come between the main chapters, give the reader some idea of Severin's true life and the facts that are actually known about her–quite a lot, really, since she grew up on a movie studio lot with a father obsessed with recording events. But the power of the camera and the director to change the shape of those events through the way the story is framed becomes evident as the main body of the novel begins to unfold in the form of supposed script for a new movie about solving Severin's death. The main character will be a fictionalized version of her adopted son, hired as a private detective and sent to investigate his own mother's long-ago disappearance. The first third of the book is framed as a noir detective story, but when that begins to break down for the director, the second third is presented as a gothic horror, which is then scrapped once again for a final third that's more… adventure? By that time I was so invested in finding out what happened, I apparently didn't register the exact genre shift. It sounds crazy and chaotic, and it is, except it's amazingly beautiful at the same time (Valente excels at poetic visual descriptions), and it will make you think about the history of science fiction and space travel and film and the nature of storytelling.
In other tales of travel to other planets, I also read Planetfall, by Emma Newman. I'd previously read Newman's Split Worlds urban fantasy trilogy, so I thought I knew something about her writing, but Planetfall is completely different. From Regency-influenced faerie courts frozen in time, she now turns to a hard SF tale of a human colony on a far distant planet, scientists and adventurous explorers who have followed Suh-Mi, a semi-messianic figure, away from Earth in pursuit of an apparent invitation from aliens. The book is told from the perspective of Suh-Mi's lover, Ren, the woman who believed in Suh-Mi's vision enough to do much of the background scientific work needed to get a colony spaceship off the ground and all the way to its destination, now the colony's 3D printing engineer. But now the colony has been on the planet of the vision for more than twenty years, and it's soon clear to the reader that not all is right. The residents of the colony believe Suh-Mi is communing with the alien presence that called to her and will emerge eventually to tell them the message they all came so far to hear. But Ren and the other colony leader have a secret… and it could destroy everything if their lies are revealed. This book's true strength is in the narration. Ren has an incredibly compelling voice, and watching the story unfold from within her perspective is eerily powerful. I can't give away too much about Ren's life and personality without revealing major spoilers, but I have rarely read a first-person narration that so completely pulled me in. Maybe Caitlín R. Kiernan's The Red Tree.
I swear I don't read with intentional themes in mind, but in trying to decide which order to talk about these books in, I find there is a tie from Planetfall to the next book, William Gibson's The Peripheral: 3D printing. Both books envision futures where 3D printing has become so commonplace as to be a staple of everyday life. The Peripheral, though, offers us two visions of Earth, rather than transporting us to another planet. But as Gibson so often proves, life here is strange enough. This book features two storylines that become intertwined: one in far-future London, sparsely populated and full of enormous Shard towers; the other in a more mid-term future in the rural American South. How are they connected? Someone in future-London has figured out how to contact people in little pockets of the past, or history "stubs." Said future people can affect what happens in their stub, but know that they're doing so in a timeline unconnected to their own. It's just a curiosity, a passing fad for the idle rich. But one of those idle rich hires a gamer from a stub's version of the American South to fly a surveillance droid outside her apartment to keep away the paparazzi… and that gamer ends up witnessing a murder. Which leads to the main character from the mid-future timeline having to travel into the world of the far-future timeline via a telepresence robot (the titular "peripheral") to help solve the murder, except of course the murder is part of a much larger political plot that ends up with extreme consequences for both timelines. Though I've seen a lot of fan response to this book's vision of far-future London and the proliferation of telepresence robots, the thing I found most interesting about this book was how spot-on I felt Gibson's vision of the futuristic rural South was. Lower middle class people in a small town making a living from illicit 3D printing of high-tech devices that they all casually use in the most everyday ways; retired army veterans who used to pilot droids (or were maybe piloted in some ways themselves) now reliving the war by playing MMORPG video games as hired gladiators for rich guys to lay bets on; complexly intertwined family and friend networks of gossip, news, and support leveraged to overcome international crime syndicates. It's a prescient extrapolation of the future that I completely buy as what I'll find when driving through eastern North Carolina in about 20 years.


text:
I found my calling…
So there is this show on GAC Great American Country channel. It's called Flea Market Flip. Oh I am so an addict! It's permanently on my DVR. Pacer and I created our first "yard sale" flip. We found these really cool old twin headboards in the back of some guys barn. We got it for a steal and then came home spent the afternoon turning it into a beautiful bench. I used scraps of fabric to make the bench seat cover. It was so simple and the bench is so adorable.
On the same weekend we found an old sewing machine table that was broken for a few bucks. We sanded and repainted and turned it into a useful mini bar. It's really cute. We also found this cool old table, we took it apart, sanded and repainted. We found some super fun bright colored fabric and turned it into an ottoman.
go here to purchase
go here to purchase
|$45 Antique chair bench
|$25 each colander lights
|$15 ottoman
|$35 Meat grinder lamp
|$20 magazine table made with pennies
|$20 magazine table made with pennies
|$5 for a set of four handmade vintage stamp coasters
|$80 twin head/foot board bench
|$40 sewing machine vanity
|$40 blue sewing machine wet bar
|$40 entryway bench
We have been enjoying these projects for a few weeks now. We are currently selling the above items.


text:
- Search CSN:
- Members: Login to search all areas
- Not a member? Click here to search public areas
May 16, 2013 - 11:42 am
Hi Folks,
I hope you are all doing well. Kreg is doing well at 6 months out of tx. Eating, drinking, and his taste are all coming back. The question of the day is, has anyone had any tenderness around the neck where the lymph node was affected? He never had surgery, just rads and chemo. He noticed this feeling just recently. Not hard pain, just tenderness and little sore in the neck. Anyone have anything similar to compare to? He doesn't go back to ENT til middle of June.
May 16, 2013 - 1:20 pm
Like Kreg, I had my tonsils out, but the tumor dissolved away, no surgery....
At nearly four years post Tx, I still have various feelings there (where the tumor was), and where the rads were most concentrated... Not really hurting, or sore, just it's noticeable...
May 16, 2013 - 1:39 pm
Yes John, it has to be me....the pain in the neck (or ***) ...LOL
Tim described his feeling like "bruised".....as soon as I mentioned that to Kreg, he said "YES, that's what it feels like". Tender, like it has been bruised.
May 16, 2013 - 1:46 pm
Mine is kind of like when you have a nerve firing...
You feel it, and know generally where it is..., but you can't quite put your finger exactly on the spot... Which would lead me to presume it's nerve or cell damage from the rads, residual, scarring, etc...
Some of those various aches, pains, sore spots that I speak of....
May 16, 2013 - 1:17 pm
1 year out and I still get allot of tenderness and tightness but not pain. I did have surgery so not sure where mine comes from. My surgeon told me to call if I ever felt anything similar to a grape. I don't think what Kreg is feeling is unusual.
May 16, 2013 - 1:51 pm
yes going on 4 years out.....soreness on both sides, and once in a while the muscles will lock, sounds wierd, but it happens.....Dennis, Normal, they tell me exercise and stretch, sorry folks.....its there for life
May 16, 2013 - 9:08 pm
I did get sliced & diced and I do feel a slight tenderness where the lymph node once was (17 months post-surgery).
It sounds like there will always be reminders.
May 17, 2013 - 9:45 am
Come to Florida for a little R&R, I'll tenderize your azz..., LOL fishing in this sun, and sweating out Yankee blood, LOL.
May 16, 2013 - 10:12 pm
I have tenderness and a off and on again tingling and other strange feelings in my neck where they surgery and radiation took place. On the other side where no surgery but radiation some tenderness, but not as much as other side.


text:
Hello everyone!! Lifelong motorcyclist, first time Goldwing owner, and new to this site!!
-So, I just bought a beautiful 1996 gl1500, and although the bike is great condition, the rear speakers dont work. speakers are there and test fine with a direct signal.
I followed the speaker wires up to the front cowling, and i cant figure out how the wiring is supposed to be.
does the radio only have a right and left output, and it just splits from one output pair into two? if so, where is the split?
I'm guessing the previous owner may have installed something in that circuit and not reconnected it..
Thanks for any guidance
Newbee rear speaker wiring question gl1500 96'
Information and questions on GL1500 Goldwings (1988-2000)
- Sponsored Links
Post Reply
3 posts • Page 1 of 1
- brian darflinger
- Posts: 3
- Joined: Thu Jul 12, 2018 7:20 pm
- Location: United States
- Motorcycle: 1996 gl1500
- SG_Jay
- Posts: 63
- Joined: Tue Jun 09, 2015 5:55 am
- Location: Northern MN
- Motorcycle: 1998 GL1500 Aspencade
Re: Newbee rear speaker wiring question gl1500 96'
Most likely there is a fader control to balance the sound between front and rear. A knob somewhere that you might be overlooking? Maybe down below the left pocket, up above the radio somewhere? Or anyplace else it may have fit nicely.
- Stew
- Posts: 344
- Joined: Mon Oct 23, 2017 10:40 am
- Location: Smokey Point, WA - USA
- Motorcycle: 2000 GL1500 SE
2005 Honda CRF230F
Previous bikes:
2003 Honda Ruckus
1993 Honda Elite SR
1986 Honda CR125R
1979 Yamaha GT80
Re: Newbee rear speaker wiring question gl1500 96'
I believe you are correct Brian. The factory radio only has L & R output and the fader control is what splits the signal between front and rear so that would be where you want to look if you are getting front output.
Winging it every chance I get
19,119 miles when I got it from dad Oct 15, 2017 --- 24,532 miles and counting as of Oct 17, 2018!
19,119 miles when I got it from dad Oct 15, 2017 --- 24,532 miles and counting as of Oct 17, 2018!
Post Reply
3 posts • Page 1 of 1


text:
They know it's hard but they dont seem to emphasize with salespeople that it is that hard.
@LionoverLamb, I think you mean to say empathize.
The reason people who are not in sales don't empathize, is that they really don't know how difficult it is to be a true salesperson.
When most people think of sales, they think of store clerks or car salespeople. These are NOT salespeople. These are order takers. They are no different than the server who takes your order in a restaurant and then brings you your food and drinks. Sure, they have to try to upsell you on options or extras, but if you do not go to them, they cannot take your order.
Sales is not this at all.
OK, getting down off my soapbox now.
I completely agree with you. Most people who look down on salespeople think they can do what we do which is comical.
Very few people can go talk to stranger and have them open up and trust them. And like you said waitresses for example have clients come to them so they can upsell, same thing with retail clerks.
And telemarketers are mostly human robots not true salespeople
I remember when I used to do stand up comedy, people would actually admire my bravery and toughness and freely admit they couldn't do that and I was a failed low level open mic comic.
Conversely I do high end B2B sales now and yet people look down on that and think it's easy and they could do it but they make excuses like I like steady pay as the reason they don't pursue it.
© Copyright 2000-2016 salesforce.com, inc. All rights reserved. Various trademarks held by their respective owners.
Salesforce.com, inc. The Landmark @ One Market, Suite 300, San Francisco, CA, 94105, United States
Data.com is a brand of salesforce.com.


text:
Tuesday, November 13, 2007
Wordstock 2007!
Whew! This past weekend was the 3-day extravaganza that is Wordstock, Portland's Festival of the Book, and I'm still recovering. We kicked off the fun Thursday night, when my good friend and comrade-in-arms, Sally Nemeth (she of the funny and poignant YA novel, The Heights, the Depths, and Everything in Between) arrived fresh from the Hollywood writers' strike. First on the agenda: catching up over pub food and some fine local microbrews. Then, Friday morning, Sally went off into the hills with a wild-food expert, part of her research for her new YA novel (check out her blog for more on her adventures in untamed NW cuisine).
In the meantime, I was having my own adventures. As part of Wordstock's publicity blitz, those madcap book folks thought it would be fun to have authors sit in a store window in downtown Portland and read to folks passing on the street. When I first got their call for volunteers, I thought, No way. Never in a million years.
Whatsa matter? Chicken?
No, I'm not chicken! It's just…
Bra-a-a-w! Braw-braw-bra-a-a-w!
So do it, then. Dare you. Double dare you.
I shot off an e-mail to the Wordstock organizers: Sign me up! And then spent the next two days wishing I could take it back. I was only joking. Someone sent that e-mail without my knowledge. I have a family emergency. My house burned down. I lost my book. I lost my voice.
But when Friday afternoon arrived, here I was:
Wordstock did a bang-up job, not only making a cozy author space in the window, but setting red Wordstock armchairs outside so folks could take a load off while they listened. People would be hurrying past, on their way to wherever, and they'd glance up with puzzled looks (where is that voice coming from?) Then they'd pause. Sometimes just for a few seconds, but often for a few minutes or even longer. It was, as another author-in-the-window told me later, "Weird and wonderful!" By the end, I was wishing I could read some more.
Other festival highlights:
Here I am at the authors' reception with Sam Moses (for an absolute nail-biter of a true story, check out his book At All Costs: How a Crippled Ship and Two American Merchant Mariners Turned the Tide of WWII) and Sally Nemeth.
Sally's reading on the Children's Stage:
And then my own reading, Sunday afternoon. I shared the stage with my friend and mentor Karen Karbo, who read from the third book in her YA mystery series, Minerva Clark Gives up the Ghost.
I can't stand still long enough to speak from a podium. Even when I was teaching, I always had to move around. Plus, I talk with my hands. Drove some of my students nuts. Get over it, I'm Italian--I can't help it.
The inimitable Karen Karbo. When I grow up, I want to be just like her.
And finally, last thing on Sunday night at the festival's close, a photo session in the big red Wordstock chair:
I already can't wait until next year. I'll be reading from Ten Cents a Dance--and if any store windows are up for grabs, get out of my way. I'm there!
3 comments:
That's hilarious - the photo guy asked me to pose the EXACT SAME WAY in the big red chair. He's gonna have lots of photos of the soles of writer's shoes.
It was BIG FUN. So glad to finally spend serious time with you, my new BFF! Let's do it AGAIN...after we catch up on sleep, bills, work, significant others....
- Christine Fletcher said...
And here I thought I was being ORIGINAL!! *Sigh...* Actually, it wasn't my best idea. From that angle, my honkin' size 10s are going to take up the entire frame!
Do it again? In a heartbeat! Hark, is that the West Hollywood book fest calling...?
- Melissa Marsh said...
This looks like a wonderful event. Glad you enjoyed it!
Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)


text:
Comfortable, dynamic, and packed with Ford's technology, The Ford Terrier Camper Van meets all the requirements of a modern Camper and more. Interiors are kitted out in leather, polished surfaces and recessed lighting, but it is not just good looking, it's also incredibly practical. Fitted with a sink, twin hob, a 42-litre fridge and portapotty are all very accessible and easy to use. You'll also find handy, smart stowage solutions throughout the camper.
Cause van envy with colour-coded elevating roofs, 18" alloy wheels and twin bonnet stripes, this really is a stand-out vehicle that will attract a lot of attention. With a choice of 7 exterior colours, and colour coded roof, bumper & side mouldings to match as an extra, you can make your camper van unique to you.
Easy to drive, with technology assisting every metre travelled. The Ford Campers come with Cruise Control, and Hill Start Assist as standard on the Trend model and are available with a reversing camera, parking sensors and power steering make it easier to park up when you're out and about, and make any tricky maneuvers the road may provide. As for comfort, heated drivers seat, and air conditioning, so you really will feel like you're on holiday the moment you leave the house.
Radio/CD with multi function display and Bluetooth also make the road more enjoyable. Add in Ford SYNC for convenience which lets you make and take hands-free mobile calls, read out texts you receive, and control the music on your MP3 music player using your voice. It also comes with Emergency Assist, so that if the worst should happen, and you are involved in an accident, the Emergency Services will automatically be contacted and provides essential information such as your coordinates.
To achieve the upmost comfort, your camper needs to adapt to your needs and as seats take up the most interior space, it's important these aren't in the way. That is why the Ford Terrier has a seating arrangement that transforms from vehicle to home. When it's time to lay your head, you can turn the seats into a bed in a matter of seconds. Depending on which model you choose, the seats will either be formed as a three-seat bench or a sofa-style arrangement.You'll find handy, smart stowage solutions throughout the camper allowing you to pack more into your holidays without sacrificing space. The Ford Terrier also has sliding doors on either side, enabling easy access- You could also cook whilst looking over an undisturbed view.
For more information on the Ford Camper Vans, or a full spec list, contact us by phone or by completing an enquiry form. Alternatively, visit us in branch today.


text:
Relevant has partnered with PayPal to make online giving easier and more convenient.
All you need is a credit card and an email address to make your donation. Once you click the donate button you will be directed to PayPal's site. Follow the instructions on the screen to complete your donation. You will receive an e-mail receipt once you're finished which you may save for your records. Thank you in advance.


text:
Skip to comments.Obama Apologized To California's Kamala Harris For Calling Her The 'Best-Looking Attorney General
Posted on 04/06/2013 9:21:28 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
President Barack Obama called California Attorney General Kamala Harris from Air Force One Thursday to apologize for calling her the "best-looking attorney general in the country."
The remarks, made during a fundraiser in California yesterday, sparked a swift backlash among political commentators. New York magazine's Jonathan Chait called the remark "disgraceful," and Los Angeles Times columnist Robin Abcarian characterized it as "more wolfish than sexist."
Clearly, Obama's handlers recognized they had a problem on their hands, and Obama called Harris a few hours later to apologize, according to White House Press Secretary Jay Carney.
You know, they are old friends and good friends and he did not want in any way to diminish the attorney generals professional accomplishments and her capabilities," Carney told reporters at the White House press briefing today, according to The New York Times.
(Excerpt) Read more at businessinsider.com ...
It must be kind of fun for her to be at the receiving end of that kind of presidential gaffe.
He meant to say she is a credit to her race, which is how she got her job, I imagine.
When did da sistah get cracker-like?
i guess this means he thinks she is ugly?
It's part of the plan; too many folks were catching on to Soetoro's homosexuality, so his handlers engineered a false flag sexual harassment incident..
I'm not surprised that Obama finds Kamala Harris to be the best looking female politician. Harris looks like Obama — same coloring, similar features. If we're going to be handing out politician superlatives, as we know, Obama is the most narcississtic. Basically, Obama is telling us that he finds himself wearing a wig hot.
Obama's got binders full of Katherine Harris!
Sorry - Kamala!
But then Reggie got really jealous and made him apologize.
I'm guessing she's 1/32 Cherokee based on those high cheekbones.
Most likely 0dumb0 was trying to hit up on her, and got called out by some of the liberal media. The rest of the liberal media was defending 0dumb0's remarks.
The thing that I look forward to, is for "single parent" moochelle to open up a giant can of whoopass on her effeminate hubby 0dumb0 when he returns. I bet $100 he is sleeping for the next couple of nights in the Oval office just to get away from phat ass moooochelle.
Air brushing photos can work wonders with improvements! I doubt she can hold a candle to several dozen republican ladies, like Sarah Palin, Wisconsin Lt Gov Rebecca Kleefish, etc.
Save your breath Barry. We still think you're a rumpus wranglersaur.
Reggie Love, Hussein Soetoro's REAL advisor..
Yeah, they had to engineer this to cancel out Moochie's "single mom" remark to draw attention away from it. [I'd call myself a "single mom" too if I had to use a turkey baster.
> Im guessing shes 1/32 Cherokee based on those high cheekbones.
...Harris is the first female, African-American, and Asian American attorney general in California, as well as the first ethnic Asian Indian American attorney general in the United States.
So,,, now he's saying she's NOT good looking?? So Obama is saying she's ugly, and probably thinks her ass is fat too!
If he was a heterosexual, he'd know you can't escape by just apologizing to a woman and then everything is OK. But he wouldn't know that.
Hindu-Asian Indian-Jamaican-American per Wiki.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.


text:
Welcome to Cuitus! Hold your dicks and get ready for grannys big pussy, 50 year old having sex, free fat old tit, sexy granny film, best granny porno, older pussy sex and old grandma nude pics.
|Figure #3397
Old woman doing porn, older mature amatuer videos, old amateurs sex and mature 70 granny.
|Image #13423
Nude beaches older woman, old women want sex, old mature xxx thumb tube, granny cums pics and free grany picture porn sex.
|Pic #10697
Sexy old women pussy, grandma hot sex, granny porn pussy and older women lesibians.
|Pic #12086
Porn pics older woman, hot sexy elders clips, hot older asians, grandmother fisting and mature old granny fucking.
|Image #5894
Busty old lady, flat chested old lady, naked old asses, older sexy woman giving blow jobs and older naket women.
|Image #6285
Mature nude grandmas, nude woman over 50 galleries, granny bum and granny anal assfuck buttfucked.
|Figure #3259
Porn milf older woman, old slut sex videos free, juicy older lady, granny porn com and olderwoman getting fucked.
|Figure #5893
Old sexy woman creampie clip, older woman sex picture, woman over 50 erotic photographs and naked nude older mature woman.
|Figure #2831
Skinny older women hard core porn, older bikini fucks, milf senior old free granny pics and big fat older woman.
|Pic #13429
Hairy nude old women, very old naked woman, old asian pussy gallery, huge tittied granny and grandma giving me head.
|Pic #5218
Sex old women photo, older woman mov, old babes sucking cock, older hot wife and granny sexy pussy.
|Photo #2355
60 plus fucking old girls, free vidos of older women, dirty grandmas freak slut, hot pics of older women and older lesbinan pics.
|Figure #5930
Granny mature pictures, very old woman sex tube, granny tube xxx and older bbw.
|Image #13310
Big boob elders, old tits, old people blue hair, granny big tit porn and granma pussy.
|Figure #2104
Big titted granny fuck, granny s pussy pictures, the granny sex pictures and old granny sluts tube.
|Figure #9955
Old lesbian women fucking, grandmas who squirt, elderly whores, amature older women free porn and free video hot older pussy.
|Pic #8388
Older wemon sex, free old nude sexy sluts, older naked milffs, bbw granny anal sex and older ebony sex.
|Figure #6360
Naked older woman pictures and video, nude old women free, granny you tube porn and old lady nude video.
|Pic #7121
Fat and old tubes, old aunty fucking, older hot wife, hairy granny ussy and nice naked older women.
|Image #11883
Lesbian grandma loves pussy, old mature aged woman porn gallery, grandma porn pics and granny over 60 tube.
pants down granny panties
brunets granys ass
extreamly old lady porn
grany back seat fucking
free sexy busty old granny
woman 60 and older
old tanned women pics
over 50 free porn
elder granny porn sites
free xxx over 50 nude pics
old woman sex xxx
older women shots
granny nasty whore
old woman strapon
sexy granny
|Photo #11715
Grannys sex porn, free old woman nudes, mature milfs over 50, elder pussey and older women smoking fetish.
|Pic #5659
Fifty year old hotties, grandma sex clip, hot over 50 gals, big old lady s nude and grandma s horny.
|Pic #2942
Grandmothers lust, naked older wife, voluptuos older women and old woman sucking cock.
|Image #8055
Granny prono pics, free pictures of older woman nude, granny porn free pics and free mature older woman sex pics.
|Pic #12539
Busty bbw granny videos, free aged porno videos, bdsm grandmas, naked granma hippie and oldernaked woman.
|Image #11909
Granny fucking picture, old woman porn thumbnails, sex big old women, hardcore granny vids and free pictures of old big tits.
|Figure #10346
Free home made xxx grannys clips, aged couple fucking, fetish granny hairy pic and all nude older wives.
|Image #9054
Granny tgp, amaiture granny xxx, free 50 plus gallery and fucked older tits.
|Image #9509
Beautiful older woman nude video, plumper granny video, very old woman porn clips and women 50 over nude.
|Figure #3246
Granny vouyer, old granny tube vids, gran fuck boy and naked granny milfs.
|Image #2573
Older big mature, older woman mastrubation, durty old women sex and woman old having sex.
|Figure #9901
Anal very old woman, elder orgy sex pics, free grany sex and old cunts that lov young cock.
|Image #5092
Big titted grandma porn, lesbian grandmas videos, granny anal creampie and old women tities naked.
|Figure #5811
Old pussy picturs, free old women sex pics, hot mature older women, tiny older pussies and great grandma naked.
|Pic #10101
Grandma ass fuck, old granny cunt pics, 50 year old women sucking, nylon on grannys and grandma naked.


text:
Why Florida State Should Worry That Miami Is Trying to Flip C.J. WortonMarch 29, 2013
C.J. Worton is a 3-star wide receiver recruit who's currently committed to Florida State, but the Miami Hurricanes may have something to say about that before all is said and done.
Worton has been committed to Florida State since August of 2012. As we all should know though, anything in recruiting can change in the blink of an eye. The trick for Florida State will be keeping him committed.
That's why it's worth noting that the Miami Hurricanes just recently offered Worton, and he has an established relationship with former Seminoles coach and now current Hurricanes offensive coordinator James Coley. Worton talks about the offer, per Corey Dowlar of ESPN:
"It is very interesting," he said. "I wasn't expecting at first. I knew Coach Coley was there and I like Coach Coley, but it just came out of the blue, truthfully, for me."
Worton's relationship with Coley is already established. He knows what he is dealing with there.
But meeting the rest of the coaching staff was important.
"I have met almost the whole coaching staff," Worton said. "They are characters. They are funny people. The whole time, they were just joking around and had a smile on their face. They just looked like they were having a good time."
According to Dowlar's report, there could be reason for Florida State to worry now that Miami has entered the picture:
For now, Worton is still committed to Florida State. But he does admit that he might have a tough decision on his hands when next February comes around.
"Of course, the decision is going to be tough, but it does make it a little bit tougher," he said. "It makes you think about what schools you fit in at. Right now, I still feel like Florida State is the leader, but Miami, it blew my mind when I got the offer."
Miami throwing its hat into the ring is very big, and at the very least, it's something for the Seminoles to worry about a bit.
Miami has had its fair share of problems in the past few seasons, but there's a trend developing on the recruiting trail right now, and that trend is that Miami seems to be becoming a factor again. Al Golden seems to be the right guy to turn the program around, and the future is much brighter than the past few seasons have been.
The Hurricanes already have a good core of 2014 commitments, highlighted by 5-star running back Joseph Yearby, and Miami is still targeting a handful of other big-time recruits. 2014 could end up being a great cycle for Miami, and if Golden can get better results on the field, the program could slowly but surely start turning around.
I'm starting to think that recruits are noticing this trend, and momentum is huge in recruiting. Worton could be one of those swayed recruits when all is said and done, and at the very least, Miami appears to be in a good position to try to make that happen.
Considering the aforementioned hype, plus Worton's connection to coach Coley and the fact that Homestead, Florida is only about a half hour away from Coral Gables, there's a lot going for Miami in this recruiting race.
Miami may not get a flip, but at the very least the Seminoles need to be worried that Golden and his staff appear to be trying to sway Worton away from FSU.


text:
Chief Executive (magazine)
This article possibly contains original research. (May 2009) (Learn how and when to remove this template message)
This article relies too much on references to primary sources. (July 2011) (Learn how and when to remove this template message)
|Michael Winkleman
|Business Magazine
|Year founded
|Chief Executive Group, LLC
|United States
|Based in
|Stamford, CT
Chief Executive is a business magazine published by Chief Executive Group, LLC.
Chief Executive began publication in 1976. The magazine is published six times a year and has a circulation of 42,000 copies. It is audited twice yearly by BPA Worldwide. The magazine began publishing its magazine online in 1998.
Some of the magazine's featured sections include: CEO Chronicles, Thought Leader, Chief Concern, Labour Relations, Strategy, Financial Management, Roundtable, and the CEO Confidence Index, which reflects the CEO population's perspective on the economy, employment and investment opportunities via a monthly survey.
Each May, the magazine publishes its "Best and Worst States for Business" rankings, based on survey results from its CEO readership base. CEOs grade the states on taxes and regulation, the quality of the work force and living environment, among other categories.[2] The 2011 rankings elicited a friendly political feud between Florida Governor Rick Scott and Texas Governor Rick Perry, whose states ranked 3 and 1, respectively.[3]
Chief Executive features a 'CEO of the Year' award. Past recipients include: Jack Welch, Bill Gates, Andrew Grove, Lawrence Bossidy, Herb Kelleher, Michael Dell, Fred Smith, A. G. Lafley, Bob Ulrich,[4] Anne Mulcahy,[5] Jim Skinner, Hugh Grant,[6] and Alan Mulally.[7]
- ^ Magazine information[permanent dead link] Retrieved 28 March 2010.
- ^ "States of Business: Wisconsin Jumps Ahead in a New CEO Survey" [1], The Wall Street Journal, May 16, 2011
- ^ "Florida's Scott Takes on Texas for Top Business Ranking" [2], Bloomberg, May 19, 2011, Retrieved May 26, 2011
- ^ "CEO of the Year: For Target's Bob Ulrich, It's the Triumph of the Team," Chief Executive magazine, June 2007, pp. 50-55
- ^ "CEO of the Year: Xerox CEO Anne Mulcahy's Second Act," Chief Executive magazine, June 2008, pp. 26-31
- ^ "Monsanto's Hugh Grant, CEO of the Year 2010" [3],Chief Executive magazine, June 2010
- ^ "Ford CEO Alan Mulally Named 2011 Chief Executive of the Year" [4], AutoGuide.com, June 27, 2011, Retrieved June 27, 2011
External links[edit]
|This business magazine or journal-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.
See tips for writing articles about magazines. Further suggestions might be found on the article's talk page.


text:
Welcome to our premier blog post! We thought we'd kick off with some exciting news..
Studio 103 has been shortlisted as an emerging designer for the 2014 IDEA awards, and our recently completed project for the Rialto Management Team has been shortlisted for the workplace under 1000 square metres category.
Located in the podium of the Rialto South Tower, the new offices and control room for the Rialto management team are a marked change from the dark rabbit warren they previously inhabited. The fitout provides new offices, a boardroom, meeting and breakout spaces for the building management team, as well as a new security control room and amenities.
The irregular floor plate in the tower podium encouraged the shift from closed to open work space, creating an airy, light-filled space. No obvious traces of the space's 1980s origin remain. The open plan office and social zones are located along the building facade, making the most of the full height glazing and natural light.
Inspiration for the design came as a fresh take on traditional parquetry. Pale oak spills over floors, extending up walls and over joinery. The lines of the oak twist and turn, much like the irregular floor plate; the entry space floorboards angle up where they meet the reception desk, continuing down to the floor behind, and up the wall beyond.
The white timber floors are offset by crisp black steel-framed glazing, New York loft-style, creating a calm, corporate environment. Marset Scotch Club pendants and Gubi Semi pendants provide feature lighting to the reception and meeting rooms respectively.
The oak flooring in the breakout space is carried through to the base of the upholstered bench seating and kitchen joinery. Splashes of cobalt blue and copper relieve a neutral palette.
More news soon.. Stay posted for our design finds and other random thoughts!


text:
Lizzie McGuire (mmff, celeb)
by Storytrade ([email protected])
Gordo, Lizzie's best friend, was determined to get her the best birthday
present possible, but after trying to come up with a gift for two weeks, he
still could not think of anything. She was going to be 13 and he wanted her
birthday to be something special. Finally after hours of thinking, it came
to him. He would see if he could get Aaron Carter to sing Lizzie a song for
her birthday. Aaron Carter had just been in town a few days earlier, and
Gordo was able to get his email address from him. Gordo wrote to Aaron
immediately, asking him if he would sing a song for Lizzie.
When the teen music star, Aaron Carter, received the email, he became hard
immediately. From the moment he saw Lizzie, he knew he had to fuck her.
Aaron wrote back to Gordo, telling him that he would be back in town the
following week, which was Lizzie's birthday and that they could meet at a
hotel near by. Aaron couldn't wait, he would fuck the little girl as soon
as he could. Even though Aaron had already fucked 5 girls, he was still
very horny and couldn't wait to fuck her.
Gordo couldn't believe it, he was going to give Lizzie the best gift
possible, and hopefully, she would finally fall for him, cause he had had a
crush on her for months. He wanted to kiss her so badly, and hopefully she
would kiss him now. Gordo got so hot thinking about it that he began to
jack-off. He undid his pants, revealing his little 4 inch penis. He just
recently got hair around his dick and it grew a whole lot, but at the same
time, he still had a small dick compared to the rest of the boys in his
class. As he was jacking off, he began to dream of Lizzie naked.
Gordo told Lizzie to come with him to the hotel room, Miranda decided to
join them, so the three of them went over to the hotel to get Lizzie's gift.
Lizzie knocked on the door and was very surprised to see Aaron Carter again.
She loved his voice and couldn't believe he was going to sing to her on her
birthday. She was so happy, she gave Gordo a huge hug and then the 3 kids
sat on the bed as Aaron Carter sang happy birthday to Lizzie.
After that, Aaron told them all to stay around for a while, since he had
nothing to do that night. The 4 teens started to watch TV, when Aaron
suggested that they play truth or dare. They all agreed so the game started
with Aaron going first.
Aaron: Truth.
Lizzie: Have you ever been kissed?
Aaron: Hell, yeah.
Lizzie: Truth.
Miranda: What celeb would you most like to make out with?
Lizzie: Well...um....Justin Timberlake.
Everyone laughed at that.
Miranda: Just to make things fun, give me a dare.
Gordo: I dare you to steal the room service from someone in the hall.
Miranda went outside and returned with a hamburger. This caused the other
3 to start cracking up.
Gordo: Truth.
Aaron: Have you ever jacked off?
Gordo: (his face turned red) Umm, no.
Aaron: Challenge, every guy does it, don't tell me you don't.
Lizzie: Yeah, Gordo you know you do.
Miranda: Yeah you are lying.
Aaron: I guess that means we get to give him a truth and a dare.
Lizzie: I agree.
Miranda: Me too!
Miranda: So Gordo, how big is your dick? And lets see it.
Gordo: Um, what? Are you serious? Its average size, I guess.
Lizzie: Just show us Gordo. Come on, I want to see it.
Gordo: Only if you let us see your breasts.
Miranda: I will, if Lizzie does and Aaron shows his dick too.
Aaron: I am game.
Lizzie: I am, too.
Miranda: Wait, I want to see who is bigger Aaron or Gordo.
With that Gordo and Aaron removed their pants. They saw Aaron's first it
was huge, it had to be 7.5 inches which was huge on the 13 yr old star. Then
they saw Gordo's which was not quite 4 inches and looked even smaller next
to Aaron's.
Miranda: Gordo why is yours so small?
Lizzie: Yeah, Gordo it looks so little.
Aaron: Girls, some guys have dicks and some don't.
With that Lizzie and Miranda were laughing so hard.
Then both girls began to strip, and started to make out with Aaron. Lizzie
was kissing him, while Miranda was sucking on Aaron's huge rod. Meanwhile,
poor Gordo was sitting in the corner masterbating.
Miranda then decided to fuck Aaron. She pushed him on his back and got on
top of him, lowering herself onto his dick causing him to break her cherry.
She then began to ride Aaron for 5 minutes before he came. Once Aaron got
hard again, Lizzie jumped on and had Aaron take her virginity away. At the
same time Miranda and Gordo were involved in a "69" in the corner. The
teens continued to fuck for another hour switching partners several times.
Eventually Gordo did get to fuck Lizzie, but she was no longer a virgin and
wasn't as tight as he had hoped, thanks to Aaron.
_ _ _
Should I continue or write a new Disney show story? I could add Nick Carter
or even the members of NSYNC or other chaarcters in the show Lizzie McGuire?
I am thinking about a Zenon story as well as the Jersey, So Weird and Even
Stevens. If you have any suggestions for these stories such as characters
and other shows you want written just e-mail me at: [email protected]
Submit stories to:
[email protected](dot)com
with the title heading "TSSA Story Submission"
Copyright © 2002-2014 TSSA Click For Celebrity Pics


text:
Motor Control Centres
Motor Control Centres
Model 6 Arc Resistant Motor Control Centre
This industry-leading MCC provides an additional level of arc flash prevention, and minimizes the potential for personnel injury.
Model 6 intelligent Motor Control Centres (iMCCs)
Integrated intelligent components and device-level networks provides superior performance to enhance any process or production method.
Model 6 Low Voltage Motor Control Centres
Feature-rich modular design engineered to deliver rugged, dependable service for years to come. Incorporates a wide selection of state-of-the-art product components.
TMD2 Low Voltage Motor Control Centres
Motor control centre with IEC type motor starter components.
- Model 6 Arc Resistant Motor Control Centre
Motor Control Centre Features
Model 6 Motor Control Centre with Altistart Solid State Reduced Voltage Starters
A pre-engineered integrated package consisting of a combination disconnect and soft start controller for reduced voltage starting.
Masterpact Circuit Breakers in Model 6 Motor Control Centres
Provides a greater level of protection in a smaller footprint.
Model 6 Low Voltage Motor Control Centre High Resistance Ground Unit
High resistance ground unit designed for use in ungrounded delta or wye systems.
Model 6 Motor Control Centres with AC Drives
Motor control centre solutions incorporating Altivar AC drives.
Model 6 Motor Control Centres with Closed Door Racking System
Increases uptime and reliability while enhancing worker safety.
- Model 6 Motor Control Centre with Altistart Solid State Reduced Voltage Starters
Reach UsHave a question, complaint or is there some feedback you'd like to send us to make your experience with Schneider Electric better? Contact an Expert
Where to BuyA simple tool to locate easily your nearest Schneider Electric distributor Find a distributor
FAQ'sStart here for access to our Knowledge Base to get answers to over one hundred thousand questions online in seconds. View them now


text:
May 26, 1974
The Rachel Papers
Not the son of Lucky Jim
By GRACE GLUECK
By Martin Amis.
ust 20 years after "Lucky Jim," Kingsley Amis's famously funny novel about life at a minor British university, his 24-year-old son Martin has made so bold as to produce a novel himself; though--to say it right off--not really one to give a novelist father the sweats. (It seems quite in the order of things that the jacket bears a blurb from Auberon Waugh hailing Amis fils as "a new novelist of intelligence, wit and an apparently reckless honesty. . .a formidable and exceptional talent." Is there a club for novelists' novelist sons?)
We shall, of course, sportingly refrain from referring to Martin's book as "Son of Lucky Jim." And, since we know that novels are meant to inflect, not reflect, real life, we shall abstain from comment on the fact that in this crotch-and-armpit saga of late adolescence the young anti-hero finds his father to be a large order of bastard.
About to be 20 and fighting a last-ditch stand against Manhood, Charles Highway (whose ìmedium-length, arseless, waistless figure corrugated ribcage and bandy legs gang up to dispel any hint of aplomb") is a hypochondriacal connoisseur of fleshly lapses (his own and others), a compulsive pimple-squeezer, nostril tweezer, used handkerchief inspector and wrinkle enumerator. Here, f'rinstance is Charles's lyrical description of his mother: "What a heap. The skin had shrunken over her skull, to accentuate her jaw and to provide commodious cellarage for the gloomy pools that were her eyes; her breasts had long forsaken their native home and now flanked her navel; and her buttocks, when she wore stretch slacks, would dance behind her knees like punch-balls." (Commodious cellarage--Jeez! Shakespeare lives.)
Burdened also with asthma, a feeling of personal grubbiness and an itch to write, Charles enters the sexual arena with a certain trepidation, bolstering his confidence by frequent consultations of a folder marked "Conquests and Techniques: A Synthesis." In London to attend a cram school for Oxford, he meets Rachel, a tall, black-haired young beddable (at first suspected-- groundlessly--of being half-Jewish) to whom he lays siege with the spontaneity of a War Office planner.
The classy Rachel's seduction, which Charles styles The Pull, takes place against some sleazily funny counterpoint: Charles's life as a boarder in his sister's prole household; the retchy, pill- popping drop-ins of his school chums, a venereal-alarm visit to a homosexual doctor, his between-the-acts-quickies with a less refined but more generous girl named Gloria. All the while Charles, who finds more abandonment in language than in sex, reports on such matters as his bodily functions, the purchase of plonk (I can't figure out what the hell that is, but it comes in bottles), the smell of his room, the physical grossness of his brother-in-law Norman (also suspected by the family of being Jewish).
His enchantment with Rachel fades when he discovers, alas, her corporeality: at one point she wets the bed, at another she sprouts a pimple and finally, from certain clues, he deducts that like everyone else she--defecates! With passing regret, he gives her over to a bumbling American, DeForest Hoeniger, and braces for the journey through Oxford.
Now, it takes a certain comic talent to make Charles the delectably unappetizing creature he is, and Martin Amis has it. What's lacking is the ability to animate the other characters so that they become more than mere projections of Charles, and to provide the kind of plot invention that would make the book more than an easy-reading, mildly funny series of bed-and-bathroom observations. In the end, I'm afraid, even Charles comes off as too much of a type. I'm sure he'll grow up to work for The Times Literary Supplement.
Grace Glueck is a cultural news reporter for The Times.
Return to The New York Times Book Review Table of Contents
Home |
Help/Feedback |
Classifieds |
Services |


text:
some MILF babes out there are pretty innocent, only showing their big breasts and such, and others are full blown sex starved sluts!.. and yes, Im talking about the recent adventures of Vegas' giant fake tits slut, Claudia-Marie and her adventures @ Claudia-Marie.com.. she recently got a phone call from one of her fans and just showed up there all ready to get fucked like a rag doll.. lucky for her, the partner happened to have a encyclopedia example of BBC, so Claudia-Marie was more than happy to swallow that beast and take it deep inside:
if you're on a look out for one of a kind cock hungry slut that has massive fucking melons and fat fucking ass, you should look nooooo further than Claudia-Marie.com!.. just a quick look @ her website and you'll see what we're talking about here.. and if that is not enough, I dare you to go see her live on webcam via BoobsterCams.com.. you wont believe the stuff she'll do live on cam!


text:
The City of Abbeville is an Equal Opportunity Employer and Drug Free Work Place. All applications must be complete and signed before they will be accepted. Resume`s will also be accepted in addition to an application. Applications are required. Applications can be mailed to:
City of Abbeville or City Hall Attn: City Clerk
Attn: City Clerk 101 E. Washington Street
P O Box 427 Abbeville, AL 36310
Abbeville, AL 36310
Click here for: Abbeville Employment Application


text:
The USA Rice Federation (USA Rice) held its third annual "Rice Chef of the Year" cooking contest earlier this summer at the Center for Superior Studies at San Angel, one of Mexico's most prestigious culinary schools.
Twenty-six top Mexican chefs vied for the honor of being selected as the best rice chef in Mexico. The chefs competed with dishes from main courses to desserts and were judged on preparation, originality, and eye appeal by a panel of four judges.
The chefs represented a cross section of restaurants in Mexico City and Queretaro, including fine dining, cafeteria, family style, and industrial kitchens.
This year's winner, Chef Renee Herrera of El Campanario restaurant, won top honors with Trebol de Sabor (Rainbow of Flavor) — a superb dish of spiced shrimp surrounded by a rainbow of rice of differing flavors and colors. The runners-up were Chef Sandra Avila with Tropical Dream and Chef Jorge Alvarez with Rice & Chocolate Cheesecake.
Judges this year included: Kate DeRemer, acting director, U.S. Agricultural Trade Office, U.S. Embassy, Mexico City; Executive Chef Alejandro Heredia of Hacienda de los Morales (one of Mexico's finest traditional restaurants); Chef Ricardo Santín, director of The Gastronomic Institute of Queretaro; and Chef Iñigo Arámburu, the USA Rice Federation's Rice Chef of the Year 2000.
"We find USA Rice activities like these to be of excellent assistance for chefs to learn more about the different varieties of rice, its preparation, and helps us to increase our use of high quality rice — we are leaning the difference. We are also very impressed about rice's versatility — we had no idea about the many ways rice can be presented," said Heredia.
In all, 60 invited guests attended the event, including members of the print and broadcast television media. Representatives of three Mexican miller/packers attended and displayed U.S.-origin long grain milled rice.
As Rice Chef of the Year 2002, Herrera will appear at various activities in Mexico sponsored by USA Rice throughout the year, such as TV shows, trade shows, and cooking contests.
Mexico has one of Latin America's lowest per capita consumptions of rice. However, with a population of more than 100 million, and domestic rice growers unable to keep up with demand, Mexico has become the largest export market by volume for U.S.-grown rice.
The United States is uniquely positioned to increase sales to Mexico as consumption increases. USA Rice sponsors a wide variety of consumer and food service education programs in Mexico aimed at increasing awareness and use of U.S. rice.


text:
How to Filter Spam with Outlook 2010 Rules
Firstly it is worth pointing out that no E-mail spam filter will ever be 100% reliable, there will always be some legitimate E-mails that get flagged as spam.
If you enable spam filtering using this method you will have to regularly check your "Junk E-mail" folder for legitimate emails.
You should also regularly clear your "Junk E-Mail" folder to save space and resources on the e-mail server, and then consequently your "Deleted Items" folder.
Create a rule to filter spam
All e-mail that is received though the University E-mail system is evaluated for being potential spam. If it is considered to be spam it will be assigned a special header that we can then use in a rule to filter out potential spam E-mails from our Inbox.
To set up a rule for this in Outlook follow the guide below:
1. Click the "Rules" drop down on Outlook's menu bar and select "Create Rule..."
2. Click the "Advanced Options..." button
3. First tick the box for "with specific words in the message header"; then click the "specific words" link in the step 2 box below it.
4. Enter the text (not with the quotes) "X-Cam-SpamScore: s" in the search text box - this has to be exactly as above, note there is a space between the : and s. Then click the "Add" button.
5. If you've done the above correctly it should look like below, then click "OK" and then click "Next".
6. Click the box for the "move it to the specified folder" option and then click the "specified folder" link in the step 2 box below.
You should get a "Choose a folder" popup, select your "Junk E-mail" folder.
Click "Next", and then click "Next" again as there no exceptions to add.
7. You should now match what is below, if it does then click "Finish" and you're done, if not you can click "Cancel" and try again.
If you have created any rules yourself then you probably need to make sure that this rule is at the top of the list, so that it gets triggered before anything else. You may also want to tick the "Stop processing more rules" option in Actions.


text:
Show Summary Details
Quick Reference
Rhetorician of the Second Sophistic; born 117 or 129, died ca.189.
In the discussion of the relative values of philosophy and rhetoric, Aristeides took a clear stand against Plato and ...
Subjects: Medieval and Renaissance History (500 to 1500).
Related content in Oxford Index
Reference entries
Users without a subscription are not able to see the full content. Please, subscribe or login to access all content.


text:
Lupita Nyon'o's Stolen Dress, Anticlimactic Conclusion
Featured Video
The dress was taken two days after it's Academy Awards red carpet debut on the shoulders of Nyong'o. The dress was nabbed from her room at The London Hotel in West Hollywood between 8 and 9pm. The dress was appraised at $150,000 and adorned with 6,000 natural white pearls. No reason was stated as to why Calvin Klein decided to drop charges and Lupita Nyong'o has stayed quiet during the entire debacle.
A Los Angeles sheriff's department spokesperson said there were no suspects identified at the time the case was dropped.
According to TMZ, the dress' thief told the site he had taken two of the pearls off the dress to Los Angeles' garment district where they were appraised as worthless fakes. In the same hotel room as the dress that night was Nyong'o's Oscars gift bag which was valued at $125,000. Fortunately for Nyong'o, the thief chose wrong.


text:
Wirefly helps you save on cell phones and plans by offering innovative comparison tools so consumers can make educated choices. Start saving today with Wirefly!
Wirefly helps you save on Internet service by offering innovative comparison tools to compare Internet providers in your area.
Test your current internet connection with our speed test and see what services your provider can handle. Find out your download speed, upload speed, latency, and more.
Test Your Internet SpeedInternet Speed Test
No one likes to be sick; however, an illness or injury can occur without warning. When a person goes to the hospital or doctor to receive treatment, it can be quite expensive; therefore, it is important for individuals to have health insurance. Health insurance is a form of insurance coverage that will cover the cost of medical expenses and surgical bills. There are numerous types of health insurance options available. In some cases, people will pay the cost out-of-pocket and then is reimbursed, and in other cases individuals make payments straight to the provider. WIrefly makes it easy to obtain health insurance quotes in Rockham, SD and get online quotes free.
Individuals in Rockham, SD who are looking for health insurance can usually obtain it through employers or private companies. Medicare offers the insurance to seniors, and Medicaid provides it to low-income people. Both of these companies provide insurance at a lower cost than private insurance.
Private health insurance offers numerous levels of coverage. People can choose a less expensive plan that will only pay for tragic events, or they can pay more for insurance that will provide full coverage. Before deciding on healthcare insurance, individuals need to access their condition to predict what they might need.
For many individuals, one of the most difficult things about choosing a health insurance plan is not knowing what the future holds. You could end up with an insurance policy that doesn't fulfill your healthcare needs. To ensure the best results, you should base your decision on your past medical history.
If you are a relatively healthy person, you could save money by choosing an affordable health insurance plan that only pays for the basics such as an annual check-up or the occasional sick visit. However, if you have a serious health condition that requires you to see your doctor on a routine basis, a health insurance company that offers various coverage options would be a better choice.
An affordable option for individuals in Rockham, SD who only want health insurance for emergency situations would be catastrophic-only insurance. This is a good choice for those who rarely visit their doctor and only want health insurance if they are involved in a severe accident or have a sudden health issue that requires immediate medical assistance.
One thing to remember when comparing health insurance plans in Rockham, SD is if you have higher monthly premiums, you will also have better overall coverage. This is something to consider if you currently have a health condition such as heart disease or diabetes, and need quality, ongoing coverage.
Your lifestyle is another factor to think about when enrolling in a new health insurance plan. If you are an avid traveler, enjoy adventurous activities such as skydiving or mountain climbing, you will want to find an insurance plan that will cover visits to the emergency room for accidents or injuries.
In Rockham, SD, there are many different types of health insurance plans available. Although some of them offer the same level of coverage, they may afford varying levels of convenience and flexibility. HMO, PPO, POS, HSA, HRA, FSA, and MSA are some of the choices available. As confusing as it seems, realizing their fundamental differences is of great importance before selecting of plan.
With the Health Maintenance Organization (HMO) network, the insured is required to select a primary healthcare physician to monitor all of their health-related needs. As such, if the insured needs to see a specialist, they have to go to their primary care physician first. The insured will only obtain a referral if the primary healthcare doctor thinks the consultation is necessary. Compared to the other plans, HMOs usually have a lower monthly premium. However, some healthcare providers don't accept HMO insurance plans, and this means that the network of physicians available to the insured might be limited. Aside from the fact that the out-of-pocket costs featured are often reasonable, HMO plans do not have any deductibles.
A Preferred Provider Organization (PPO) plan in Rockham, SD usually involves an extensive network of healthcare providers. Because of the number of physicians involved, the insured can choose a primary health care provider from within the network and seek the services of a specialist without a referral. While visiting the hospitals and medical service providers involved in the network offers the best financial coverage, partial funding might also be available for costs incurred outside of the network. Typically, PPO plans have copayments, deductibles, and limits on the out-of-pocket amount spent yearly.
A Point of Service (POS) plan combines the benefits offered by the HMO and PPO plans. The Point of Service plans provides an appropriately sized network of healthcare providers from which the insured can choose a primary care physician. Aside from enjoying low co-payments, you won't pay any deductibles if you stay within the network. However, the deductibles and copayments will be high if the insured sees a physician outside the network.
Some of the health insurance solutions available in Rockham, SD are not conventional. These insurance plans include the Health Savings Account (HSA), Health Flexible Spending Arrangement (FSA), Health Reimbursement Account (HRA), and Medical Savings Account (MSA). For all of these accounts to operate, an individual and his/her employer have to set aside some money for healthcare-related expenses. Additionally, the money has to be placed in a tax-exempt savings account. Participants can use the money to pay for prescription drugs, medical consultations, surgical treatments, and even over the counter medications in some cases. These health insurance plans allow a lot of flexibility when it comes to how the money is used. Depending on the program, you might be able to rollover any unused money to the next year.
The premium is a payment you make each month to buy health insurance coverage in Rockham, SD. You agree to pay the insurance company each month for the privilege of having in-force insurance. You are required to make monthly premium payments even if you don't see the doctor in that month.
A deductible is the additional amount of money you must pay to health care providers before the insurer pays the promised part of any medical or health care expense. Deductibles differ from out-of-pocket costs. A deductible is the amount of money for which you are responsible before the insurance company begins to pay. In comparison, out-of-pocket expenses refer to how much you spend before the insurer pays 100 percent of your bill.
Both deductibles and out-of-pocket costs generally start over at the beginning of each year. However, the previous year's medical and health care expenses may have an impact on the current year deductible and out-of-pocket costs. For example, if you have a $4,000 deductible and spent $2,500 out-of-pocket last year, your out-of-pocket expenses reset to zero. The $2,500 spent last year does not roll over to the current year. There are exceptions to this rule of thumb, however. Some plans in Rockham, SD allow you to rollover the paid deductible amount from the prior year towards the deductible for the first quarter of the new plan year.
Co-payments, sometimes referred to as copays or coinsurance, refer to your portion of the financial responsibility for a medical service or doctor visit. If your co-payment at the primary care physician's office is $20, you pay $20 to the doctor's office each time you see him or her. Your insurer covers the balance is the services are eligible for coverage by the plan. Co-payments do not apply towards the annual deductible.
Your insurer may offer a maximum lifetime benefit. In other words, the insurance company establishes a maximum amount of money that it will pay for your health care. Once the insurer's maximum is reached, the insurer no longer pays for health and medical care claims.
Employment status impacts the type of health insurance plans available to you. If you are employed by a large company, you may qualify for the group health insurance plan. Group health insurance is often the most affordable type of health insurance. However, you are not legally required to accept the employer's group health insurance. If you accept the employer's plan, premiums are usually directly deducted from your paycheck. Your employer may share the premium costs to make the plan more affordable.
You may purchase private health insurance if you are self-employed or unemployed. If you age 65 or older or you are considered disabled by Social Security and do not work, you may request Medicare benefits. If you are low-income, you may receive Medicaid insurance. Both Medicare and Medicaid are subsidized by the federal government.
Check with your doctor to discuss which health insurance plan in Rockham, SD will allow you to continue to see him or her if you want to continue treating with that doctor. Tell your doctors if your health insurance plan coverage changes. Contact your insurer regarding specific coverage questions.
In today's world, most individuals and families need to have some level of health insurance coverage. There are many different types of insurance available, so each person needs to assess their needs and wants and decide what level of coverage will fit into the household's budget. Use past health as a baseline to decide what coverage may be needed in the future. Wirefly makes it so easy to get health insurance quotes in Rockham, SD by simply entering the ZIP code where the subscriber lives. Let Wirefly help you find the best health insurance plans at the best rates by getting a free quote online today!
Wirefly offers great deals on a large selection of smartphones, cell phones, tablets, mobile hotspots, and other wireless devices for the nation's most popular carriers. Use Wirefly's innovative cell phone and plan comparison tools to ensure you are getting the best deal on the market. Shop with confidence knowing that Wirefly wants to help you find the best prices on cell phones, cell phone plans, TV, and Internet service.


text:
Zodiak Rights has secured the global distribution and merchandising rights for preschool property Little Princess from The Illuminated Film Company.
The Little Princess TV series, based on the literary character created by author/illustrator Tony Ross, currently airs on Five's Milkshake! slot in the UK as well as internationally.
The deal includes three series of Little Princess, totaling 104 episodes. Zodiak Rights holds all future international broadcast rights (excluding Japan and Korea) and all licensing and merchandising rights (excluding publishing) to Little Princess. The company will soon be announcing international TV sales of the upcoming third season and new licensees for the property.


text:
Welcome to our online laboratory!
On the right are some online psychology tests we would like you to take part in...just click on a link...Thank you!
This site is a psychology research website. We collect data from all around the world. By taking part in the studies you help us generate new data on various questions.
Following the links at the top of the page you can get more information about us, our collaborators, and the work we do.
1. Rating voices and faces for attractiveness
2. Play space invaders (for science!)
3. Rating faces for attractiveness
4a. FOR WOMEN: Rating womens clothes
4b. FOR MEN: Rating womens clothes
5. Judging between pairs of faces for attractiveness and other traits


text:
The Center for the Study of Jewish-Christian-Muslim Relations at Merrimack College in North Andover, Mass. has given its first Goldziher Prize to Rabbi Professor Mark Cohen of Princeton University. The prize was conferred during an interfaith ceremony at Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts on October 6th. The prize honors scholarship in Jewish-Muslim relations and is named for the 19th century Islamicist Ignac Goldziher, a Hungarian Jew who revered Islam and Muslim people and validated Islamic studies in the 19th century in the European university system.
Joe Montville Awards Goldziher Prize 2010 to Mark R. Cohen
The Center is the first interfaith academic center to expand its mission from study of Jewish-Christian Relations to include Islam and therefore to focus on the study of all three Abrahamic religions.
The Goldziher Prize was made possible by a grant from The William and Mary Greve Foundation. During the award dinner, John Kiser, principal of the foundation, said that through the Center, Merrimack College is beginning to promote the concept of a Jewish-Christian-Muslim tradition, a groundbreaking extension of the Jewish-Christian ethos.
In accepting the prize, Cohen said that Jews and Muslims have lost sight of the similarity of their faiths, which are intertwined, and that it is important to dispel the mutual ignorance and fear presently spreading across the globe. He said that now more than ever before there is a need for "basic human tolerance which unites all three religions, where a dialogue becomes a trialogue."
Cohen is the The Khedouri A. Zilkha Professor of Jewish Civilization in the Near East, Professor of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University. Essays of his on the history of Jewish-Christian-Muslim Relations recently appeared in the Washington Post "On Faith" Blog and in the Huffington Post online. Professor Cohen is the author of Under Crescent and Cross: The Jews in the Middle Ages.
Also honored that evening were Goldziher Finalists Reuven Firestone, Professor of Medieval Jewish and Islamic Studies, Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, in Los Angeles, California; and Mohamed Hawary, Professor of Hebrew Studies and Jewish Thought at Ain Shams University in Cairo, Egypt.
For more information on Mark Cohen and the Goldziher Prize, please visit the News & Events section of our website at www.merrimack.edu/JCM.


text:
Artist's hand holds the brush over a blank sheet of white paper near open cans of colored paints on grey wooden board and ready to paint with watercolors.
{{ pagination.totalCount }} Comments
{{ comment.nameFull }}
- Purchased
- Staff
- Shop Owner
Need support for this product? Leave a private message for okskukuruza:
- How do I contact support?
If you need help with the product, please contact the shop owner by visiting their shop profile and sending them a message. For anything else (licensing, billing, etc), please visit our Help Center.
- How can I unzip product files?
PC: To extract a single file or folder, double-click the compressed folder to open it. Then, drag the file or folder from the compressed folder to a new location. To extract the entire contents of the compressed folder, right-click the folder, click Extract All, and then follow the instructions.
Mac: Double click the .zip file, then search for the product folder or product file.
If you continue to have trouble, check out this help file for more tips.


text:
New release: 2CD AHORA MAZDA – Ahora Mazda |4-06-2013
2CD AHORA MAZDA – Ahora Mazda
Ahora Mazda existed in a dark corner of deep space at the heart of the Dutch psychedelic underground. From 1968-70 they were the house band at Fantasio, the epicenter of Amsterdam's hippy movement. Drawing inspiration from Ornette Coleman, Soft Machine, John Coltrane, Captain Beefheart and others, Ahora Mazda's gravity-defying, self-described "musical freedom trips" explored regions uncharted — journeys without maps. Released in May 1970, collectors regard their first and only album as one of the hidden gems of Dutch psychedelia, and sometimes liken it to the best krautrock groups of the era.
This deluxe 2CD set presents the original album in its entirety, along with a wealth of unreleased material, including their 1969 demo-recordings and unedited live-in-the-studio performances from the album-sessions, all mastered from the original tapes. The beautiful original cover art by Rik Lina is featured on the cover of the CD-booklet, which includes rare archival photos and liner notes by Ugly Things magazine's Mike Stax.
Order you copy by mail: email@example.com


text:
It's Friday night – date night to many of you out there. Joe Schmidt: ladies' man, man's man, man about the cereal box, talks about the power of an Italian restaurant. Before you start playing footsies under the table, remember the Orange Karen Anthology submission deadline is coming up on December 15th.
Scenes From An Italian Restaurant
Joe Schmidt
My wife and I recently went to a certain chain Italian restaurant. While eating at said establishment I noticed something puzzling.
There was a shit-ton of teenage kids with dates.
Young boys and girls, some that looked barely old enough to drive—sitting down, dressed to impress, and cramming bread sticks into their mouths. Everywhere I looked there they were, engaging in light conversation—looking at themselves over sodas.
It wasn't until I witnessed one teenage girl move her blond hair to the side that it struck me.
This chain restaurant, this Gawd damn restaurant—with its all you can eat soup and salad, and free wine samples—this restaurant had morphed into a powerful weapon for young guys everywhere.
It wasn't a weapon in the traditional sense. Its purpose wasn't to kill or maim.
It did however up the chance that these young guys, with their trendy outfits, and piece of shit vehicles, were going to get laid.
Did I miss the note that was obviously passed around—that told every horny teenage guy, that the simple equation to getting laid or a handy at the movies was to take your date to this Italian chain restaurant?
Being young and with a limited income, I would guess that options would be few.
And I suppose I could see how taking your dates to a place like this, might somehow manage to help slide your date's panties off—but trying that shit as an adult?
Forget it.
That was what made me laugh when I looked over all the tables of young adults that were engaging in the ancient art of courtship. They were at that beautiful times in their lives were the most expensive and high class joint their boyfriends/girlfriends could bring them was a restaurant that employed cooks that were anything but Italian.
As an adult the game changes drastically, the idea that somehow after we paid the check that my wife would be willing to give me road head on the way home was a joke. Things were more sophisticated now; I had graduated to more exotic fare. The days of being able to rely on this place to help me in my quest to get some ass had long passed.
To teenagers this restaurant may be their golden ticket, but adults this place was just another blip on the screen of a long line of last minute places to eat.
Maybe I wasn't being fair.
Maybe, just maybe there was something more innocent to all of this.
I mean after all, not every young kid is looking to use this restaurant as a tool to help themselves get laid right?
That's when I watched as one young guy looked over to another young guy that was seated at an opposite table.
Their eyes met and almost on cue they both head bobbed quickly at the other—a slight smirk on their faces.
And I remember thinking as I reached for my beer.
That I really should have paid more attention to that note.
Sugarballs, my first book, should be arriving sometime in 2013 It's a humorous look at cereal, boobs, dry-humping, and haunted apartments.


text:
Log in to check your private messages
Log in
Cannot find father to serve papers
SearchMothers.com Forum Index
Child Support Issues
View previous topic
View next topic
Joined: 25 Jun 2006
Posts: 1
State or Province: Florida
Posted: Sun Jun 25, 2006 7:22 pm
Post subject: Cannot find father to serve papers
I want to modify mt CS, but the father keeps running & hiding. In Florida can they post in newspaper, or would I have to hire a PI, to have him served? Also, last time he brought a fake paystub to court, for minimal payments. If I can prove what he was making at his 2 previous jobs, will the judge take that into consideration?
All single mothers - hold your heads high, because we are raising very precious children & are blessed to have them! The hardest thing for me to let go of is the anger I have for my daughters dead beat dad. One day at a time is how I make it right now! I haven't been able to pay rent in 2 months, but I am getting a second job, & do it all myself, because I have found out not to wait for the absent parent to help! Our children grow up too fast, & we need to make everyday the best we can, for them & us!
Back to top
Joined: 13 Sep 2006
Posts: 13
State or Province: South Carolina
Posted: Wed Sep 13, 2006 6:22 pm
Post subject:
they can run it in the newspaper that is how we did it
Back to top
Joined: 20 Aug 2010
Posts: 2
State or Province: British Columbia
Posted: Fri Aug 20, 2010 11:24 pm
Post subject:
Hi, this is my first post and I thought I'd share how I had to serve my husband (we are legally seperated) with the 2nd round of divorce/custody papers when we did not have an address for him:
We first had him served in June 08 at his workplace as we did not have a home address for him - he did not respond....and by the time he had to respond was over, he had quit his job and we still did not have an address for him, so the paperwork was put back into a different file that was not closed and until we had another address or place of employment, there was nothing we could do.
Thanks to another website out there (I'm not sure what the policy here on this site, to cite another website, so I will leave that for now), I was able to obtain some very very useful information and had some resources do me a huge favour and we were able to get AT least the vicinity of his whereabouts - and given that we live on the island associated with the mainland city he was living in, we were able to serve through a family member that I knew for sure still lived there and he had direct contact with. Regular and registered mail was sent out to both relatives addresses and we have notification for sure that at least one of the registered mail packages were signed for.
Soooo....as this has been relatively recent, I am still waiting on the paperwork to be approved by a judge as his time to contest and respond has come and went - and here in British Columbia after a judge or master signs the final paper it takes 31 days for the divorce/custody to be complete!!
Back to top
Joined: 09 Jun 2014
Posts: 1
State or Province: Colorado
Posted: Mon Jun 09, 2014 8:21 pm
Post subject:
Tommy was four, and he liked pictures very much, but he was very bad at drawing.One day he wanted to draw a picture of his father, when he looked at the picture he had drawn, he was not happy. Well, he said to his father at last, I will put a tail on it and make it a monkey.
Back to top
Been There
Joined: 19 Jan 2015
Posts: 2
State or Province: Hawaii
Posted: Mon Jan 19, 2015 10:16 am
Post subject: Finding Absent Parents
I ran into the same problem years ago with my ex. He jumped state lines like a grasshopper running from a lawn mower! He also utilized two social security numbers. When he came into an inheritance his brother put my exes money into an account in his name to protect it from garnishment. His aunt worked at Comerica Bank where she hid his money(from working) in another account that the state did not know about. This account was in her name to protect his assets from being garnished. She was the manager at the bank to boot!
I informed the courts about all his tactics and those of his unsavory family. I brought the death certificate of the party who died and left him an inheritance. I also brought a copy of the probate papers showing the assets left to him, $120,000. At that time my ex owed me $55,000 in back support. The court said they could enforce this if he was there in front of him.
I tried to contact someone up the Federal ladder. All to no avail. Most attorneys realize that local judges will not pursue these matters because when it comes time for election they do not want those with deep pockets to not vote for them. This is why meager collection efforts result in meager results.
He was a master at evading local law enforcement. He never put utility services in his name so he never showed up on the grid. However he failed to realize that one of his actions revealed his location. Most people do not realize that this simple action is a key ingredient of locating a parent who has fled.
I contacted a company who acted as a bounty hunter for child support and was able to locate my ex, have him brought before the judge and pay me what he owed me. They can be contacted at
Try them out, they brought me great results and they can for you as well.
Back to top
Display posts from previous:
All Posts
1 Day
7 Days
2 Weeks
1 Month
3 Months
6 Months
1 Year
Oldest First
Newest First
SearchMothers.com Forum Index
Child Support Issues
All times are GMT - 6 Hours
Jump to:
Select a forum
Introduce Yourself
Announcements and Guidelines
SearchMothers Message Board Guidelines
Child Custody
Child Custody Issues
Custodial Mothering Today
Single Moms with Custody
Non-Custodial Moms
Married with Custody
Joint Custody
Sole Custody
Parenting Time
Mothers and Children's Rights Issues
Family Law Issues
Child Support
Child Support Issues
Getting More Child Support
Single Mothers
Single Mothers
Single Mothers By Choice
Single Parenting
Single Moms and Dating
Parenting Issues
Stepfamily Issues
Toddlers to Twelve Year olds
Mothers and their Teenagers
Stay-At-Home Moms
Dieting and Weight Loss
Popular Diets
General Dieting Issues
Marriage and Relationships
Happily Married
Marriage Needs Help
Pregnancy and Childbirth
Trying to Conceive
Pregnant and Alone
Working Mothers
Work Life Balance
Work At Home Moms
post new topics in this forum
reply to topics in this forum
edit your posts in this forum
delete your posts in this forum
vote in polls in this forum
Powered by
© phpBB Group
©Copyright 1998 to 2016 SearchMothers.com |
About Us
Contact Us
| Become a Member:
Join Now


text:
Jun 17, 2008
From 2006, my two part interview with writer Chuck Austen.
Frankly, the villification of this writer by some comic book fans was to me, one of the ugliest and insensitive attacks I've ever seen, and illustrates the point made by Joe Quessada, when he says,
"Sometimes fans treat our fictional charcters like real people, and treat real people working for us, like they were made of paper."
Personally, I can name a lot of Austen stories I've enjoyed, like his work on the weekly Marvel Max Series War Machine, his run writing Superman on Action Comics, drawing Miracleman for Alan Moore, Elektra for Brian Bendis, and his animation work for many season on King of the Hill, and his co-creation Tripping The Rift.
We cover all that and more in this interview. Thanks Chuck.