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Customers expect orders made on Wish to be fulfilled in a timely manner. Orders that are not fulfilled in a timely manner lead to a poor customer shopping experience and hurt overall merchant performance in the Wish marketplace in the long run. To provide a better customer experience, Wish is announcing a new Fulfillment Policy in line with customer expectations.
For all orders released on April 12, 2018 or later, orders that are confirmed fulfilled late may be fined according to the Late Confirmed Fulfillment Policy 5.5. An order is considered to be confirmed fulfilled late if the time period from when the order is released to merchant to when the first carrier scan was recorded is longer than 168 hours (7 days).
What are the fine penalty details for orders that are confirmed fulfilled late?
Merchants will be fined 20% of the order value, or $1, whichever is greater, for any orders that are not confirmed shipped within 168 hours of the order being released. Order value is defined as order quantity * (merchant set price + shipping price).
Addendum: This fine policy will only apply to orders where (merchant price per item + shipping price per item) is less than $100.00.
An order's fine for late confirmed fulfillment will be reversed if the order is confirmed delivered by the carrier within X days from when the order was released to the merchant. 'X' varies by country, which you can view here.
Please allow up to 72 hours for fines to be reversed after delivery status of orders are updated.
Where can I see which orders have received fines?
Fines are deducted from a merchant's account at the order level. Fines are visible in the Wish merchant dashboard on the Account Balance page (Account > Account Balance):
Also, from the Orders > History page within the Wish merchant dashboard, merchants can view the payment status of each order by clicking on link in the Payment Status column, which will bring up the pop-up module below. The section on "Fines" will include mention of any fines related to Late Confirmed Fulfillment fine policy.
Can I dispute these fines?
Fines can be disputed via the Tracking Dispute tool, which you can learn more about here. Merchants can submit Tracking Disputes from the following places within the Wish Merchant Dashboard:
- Orders > History > Payment Status column
- Orders > History > Shipment Details
- Orders > History > Actions
Once submitted, the status of a Dispute can be viewed in Account > Disputes. When a dispute related to Late Confirmed Fulfillment has been submitted by the merchant, updates will appear on the Tracking Dispute details page:
When a fine dispute has been approved by a Wish, the Payment Status for that order (visible in Orders > History within the Wish merchant dashboard) will look as follows with the Fine Status updated as "Cancelled:"
How do I find my store's Late Confirmed Fulfillment rate?
"Late Confirmed Fulfillment Rate" is calculated as the number of orders confirmed fulfilled late divided by the number of orders with valid tracking for that week. To view your store's late confirmed fulfillment rate, please visit this page.
How do I improve my late confirmed fulfillment rate?
- Ship your orders as soon as possible. Giving customers updates on their orders' tracking information is crucial to customer satisfaction. Note that tracking information may not be modified past 21 days after order has been released to the merchant.
- Use a shipping carrier that provides valid tracking numbers and has a fast confirmation time. You can view the performance of various shipping providers: here
- If you need help understanding your performance or choosing an appropriate shipping carrier, please reach out to your account manager.
Where can I see which orders have received fines?
To view all fines, check out the link here. From there you will be able to filter all fines for your orders.
You can also go directly here to view all fake tracking fines.


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|Home | About | Contact | Vitamins for Schizophrenia
August 08, 2004
An initial trial of 4 new possible meds for schizophrenia
Meltzer HY, et al., Placebo-Controlled Evaluation of Four Novel Compounds for the Treatment of Schizophrenia and Schizoaffective Disorder. Am J Psychiatry 2004; 161:975–984.
This article is about a trial of 4 new types of antipsychotic medications at the beginning of their testing on people with schizophrenia. As the mechanism of schizophrenia is only partially understood, there is still room to discover new activities in the brain that may contribute to the symptoms that are visible on the outside. Traditionally, antipsychotic medications have focused on the neurotransmitter dopamine which is a chemical in the brain that when too abundant in particular areas can cause hallucinations, delusions and other symptoms. Newer antipsychotics have become more focused in certain dopamine receptors and have also targeted other neurotransmitters receptor sites in order to help minimize side effects. The medications in this study all target new receptors in the brain and work in ways significantly differently than the medications currently on the market. Each of these receptors are like keyholes in which a molecule called a neurotransmitter is the key that helps turn on or turn off various activity in brain cells. They naturally exist in the brain for various purposes but can be altered in schizophrenia and therefore may be targets for new medications. Of the 4 medications in this trial, one targets a cannabinoid receptor, another works on a specific type of serotonin receptor, another works at a neurokinin receptor and the last works as a blocker of the neurotensin receptor.
To study these medications, the authors of the study compared these new compounds to haloperidol (Haldol ®) and to a sugar pill or placebo. Ultimately, 2 of the medicines (the one that worked on the neurokinin receptor and the serotonin receptor drug) worked as well as haloperidol in certain aspects and will warrant further study. Neither drug worked better than Haldol though each may ultimately have subtle benefits that might make them more useful in particular patients. Also, they may have fewer side effects than Haldol, however longer term studies will need to be done in order better estimate side effect profiles. It is encouraging that in this study, none of the drugs studied had any more side effects than placebo.
This study is encouraging because it shows that there are new molecules being tested to treat schizophrenia. While none of these are a magic bullet, two of the four medicines will be further studied and may make contributions to the armamentarium we have to treat schizophrenia. Despite these advances, much more testing will be needed on these medications, both in terms of safety and effectiveness, before they will be ready to come to market.
This trial was sponsored by Sanofi-Synthelabo Research which developed each of these medicines.Posted by Jacob at August 8, 2004 11:31 PM | TrackBack
As these four new drugs represents novel mechanisms of actions, I think it is very important that they will be tested on persons that does not respond to antipsyhotics at all. The greatest need of effect is for those that does not get any effect at all. Approx 20 % does not get effect of antipsychotics today and 50 % get only partial effect.
Posted by: Sir Nil at August 10, 2004 07:27 PM
sir, the drugs should be tested right away with volunteers who are available in plenty in India and there are not much antimedical legal cases. NIMHANS OF Bangalore is the prremier psychiatry hospital which can do this
Posted by: captain johann at August 16, 2004 11:25 AM
Great idea, captain. Let's use the poor and oppressed as guinea pigs. You're right, there will be minimal legal implications. Better yet, they're not white and not christian. By what other means does the american patient prosper but by the experimentation on those who are without power and justice?
Posted by: indigo at August 25, 2004 03:20 AM
do you have any results of the second generation drugs my son is currently on rispridone and has been suggested to change to clozapine,
Posted by: judy slieker at September 1, 2004 01:30 AM
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There's nothing better than a fabulous pair of sunglasses on a hot, summer day… unless said pair is eco- friendly and manually assembled… now nothing beats that (and while we're at it, why not throw in a beautiful, hand carved phone case). So yes, what I am trying to say is, you can be saving the planet all while looking chic and summer fresh. It's that simple.
Go Wood is a brand of sunglasses and phone cases based in Montreal, specializing in products made from high quality wood. They offer a selection of wooden materials, ranging from feather light natural bamboo to sturdy skateboard wood. Having had their doors open only since January 1st of this year, Go Wood has had plenty of success bringing in this unique trend from the European catwalks onto North American soil.
I'm wearing the 'Toulouse' brown skateboard wooden sunglasses and my phone is protected with the lightweight bamboo wood with custom engraved tree art iPhone 5 case.
jacket: Guess | dress: Guess | bag: Just Fab | shoes: Aldo | sunglasses: Toulouse (here) | phone case: Engraved Tree (here)
Special thanks to Go Wood for partnering with me on this post


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Tamera Mowry-Housley Was a Virgin 'til 29. Would You Wait for Marriage?
Tamera Mowry-Housley did something pretty unusual for these days: she kept her virginity until she was 29.
In an interview with Hot 97, the actress and co-host of The Real divulged details about her decision to wait to have sex with now-husband Adam Housley, the only man she's ever slept with.
"I don't know how to explain this, but I'm religious… So I waited 'til I was 29 to lose my virginity," she said. "And then — you may not understand this — I did it and then I felt guilty, and then I became celibate until I got married."
"Just 'cause you only had sex with one person don't mean you not a freak, and I think that that's a good thing," offered co-host Adrienne Bailon. "I think people think that you could only be a freak by doing it with a bunch of people. You can be a freak and just be a freak with one person. And I think that's beautiful and dope."
This isn't the first time Tamera, a devout Christina, has discussed her long-lasting v-card.
"We decided, it was both of our decision, not to live together for religious reasons," she once said in an interview with Young, Black and Fabulous.
"I'm being very honest. We actually didn't wait before we got married to be intimate…but we did wait 3 years. […] I wanted to do what felt right for me," she explained. "I became re-virginized. It's something that just felt right for me. It was just a personal choice. And even after being intimate, we decided as a couple to be celibate until the wedding."
I give props to Tamera for being so open and confident about her personal decision, given how unusual that path is today.
But is it wise to wait until marriage to have sex?
Although some studies suggest couples who delay sex are happier in the long run, almost all Americans have had premarital sex (95 percent of those interviewed back in 1995). The high rates even extend to those born in the 1940s, so it's not a new development. (No wonder the people on TLC's The Virgin Diaries seem so unusual.)
Slate columnist Dear Prudence is outspoken about her disapproval of waiting until marriage: "I'll never understand people who don't go for a test drive before purchasing the vehicle," she advised a reader earlier this year.
Author Jessica Ciencin Henriquez agrees. She took a virginity pledge at age 14 and says it ended up ruining her marriage.
"There were some issues that I wasn't really aware of in our relationship that came to light in the bedroom," she said. "There's a different way of interacting during sex than you do in other aspects of your relationship."
Are you waiting until marriage to have sex?


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University police are here for the USF Health community [video]
The nooks and crannies of the many, large and maze-like buildings that make of USF Health could seem impossible to navigate by anyone. But if faculty, staff or students need help, it's good to know there is a team from the University Police Department (UPD) dedicated to USF Health. In fact, the team is based at USF Health and each officer thoroughly knows those nooks and crannies.
UPD Sergeant Mark Aristizabal supervises the USF Health team of officers. The main unit is located in the MDC courtyard, just across from the USF Health Bookstore. In addition, there are two sub-station offices, one in the USF Health Psychiatry Center and one in the Florida Mental Health Institute facility.
The multiple sites give UPD easy access to all areas of USF Health when calls for help come in, Sgt. Aristizabal said.
"USF Health is a massive complex and needs officers with a great understanding of the geography," he said. "If a call comes in for service, someone unfamiliar with USF Health may not know immediately that it's from the third floor in the far eastern corner, for example. These officers have that specialty. And they also have a good understanding of the day-to-day business that takes place here, as well as the chemicals that are in the area and the hazmat concerns. They have that increased knowledge."
USF Health has had its own UPD officer almost since the area was built in the early 1970s. Expanded facilities, buildings and colleges, along with a lot more people, over the years require a greater security presence. So today there are four officers who staff the three locations, in addition to the patrol officers that patrol the campus and surrounding areas. In essence, USF Health is being patrolled 24/7.
In general, crime rates are not high at USF Health and typically include mostly property crime, Sgt. Aristizabal said. But because he specializes in crime prevention – certified by Florida's Attorney General's Office, in fact – any crime seems frustrating.
"Property crime is the number one issue we deal with on campus and a lot of the times it could easily be prevented by securing valuables, locking doors, and keeping valuables out of the sight of criminals," he said. "I took this job because I like to help people. That's kind of the crime prevention passion, getting out in the community and working with folks and getting them to understand that they can help themselves just as much as I can help them keep themselves safe."
The first step in helping, he said, is to call when you have concerns.
"We're always available to respond to any suspicious activity, be it people or suspicious articles," he said. "We encourage folks to report suspicious activity and suspicious persons. It's our job to respond. And we'll identify whether or not that suspicious activity lends itself to any criminal activity and we'll take action if it does."
How do we know when to make that call? Sgt. Aristizabal offers a foundational suggestion: Anything that gives you that gut feeling that something is wrong or out of the ordinary.
"If you're walking through the parking lot and you see something that just doesn't add up, some behavior, something someone is doing that doesn't make sense to you, you call," he said. "As staff, faculty and students here, you have a better understanding of what happens on a regular basis and it's important that if you identify something that makes the hair stand up on the back of your neck or that gut feeling, you call us. Or if you come into work at 6 a.m. and you know there's a select group of vehicles you see every morning or select group of staff you see walking to and from, and you see there's someone loitering around that you don't know, maybe looking into cars or doing something suspicious, call us. It's our job to respond to those things. That's what we're here for."
Sgt. Aristizabal urges faculty, staff and students across USF Health to be more active in helping keep USF Health safe for everyone, and offers key points we should all consider:
If you run into an emergency situation, first and foremost call 9-1-1.
If it's a pressing emergent situation, like seeing someone looking in car windows or someone up on the floors loitering or going in and out of an office or something that just doesn't add up, call 9-1-1.
If your concern is something delayed – you saw something earlier that morning and now it's late afternoon and it has you wondering – then call the non-emergency number, which is 813-974-2628.
Sgt. Aristizabal has worked for USF's University Police Department for eight years, seven of which have been in the University Police Patrol Division.
"I'm happy to be here at USF Health," he said. "It's a great community, very accepting of law enforcement. They love us here and we love being here."
Crime prevention tips
- Remain aware of your surroundings: you may be able to catch something or see something and report it before a crime actually occurs.
- Reach out to the police: I can't tell you how many times crimes occur and it's a witness-rich environment and somebody could have called, and nobody did – so take the next step and call.
- Follow the same safety efforts you do at home: lock your car doors, secure your valuables.


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It is happening again. If you are like me, you have spent a chunk of time every few hours recently deleting piles of messages from email virus protection systems elsewhere, all claiming that I sent them infected emails (the latest viral attachment crud, W32.Novarg.A@mm, yum what a name).
Nothing has changed since September 9, when I penned Stupid Practice in Email Virus Protection Systems: Stop Spamming the Innocent.
Here is the crux. All the Norton's, Symantics, etc deployed at your office or school's system spends a lot of time sending out reject email messages to people who did not really send, or their computer did not send these messages, It is time to stop writing such lazy, stupid software, that does not recognize that the vast majority of infected email has "spoofed" email headers. No they keep spitting out reject message, again, and again, the same thing. The notification is going to the wrong people- they keep buggin the innocent rather than the technical folks that can actually address the situation.
How am I so sure I am not the cause? It is spelled I-80I-USE-AMAC.
In the meantime, rip out you calculators and give a big fat ROI for how much time/productivity is lost across the system on deleting these "warning" messages. How about all the poor people getting these messages that have no clue? What about all the people dealing with answering questions at the computer helpdesks?
Wake up, Dr. Norton- Stop Spamming the Innocent Stop Spamming the Innocent Stop Spamming the Innocent Stop Spamming the Innocent Stop Spamming the Innocent


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May 19, 2015 – Monthly Meeting
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AgeWell New York FIDA is a Fully Integrated Duals Advantage (FIDA) Plan. A FIDA Plan is an organization made up of doctors, hospitals, pharmacies, providers of long-term services and supports, and other providers. It also has Care Managers and an Interdisciplinary Teams (IDTs) to help manage our member's services with providers to stay safe in the community.
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[Manga] Naruto Chapter 622 Discussion Thread
Welcome to the weekly manga chapter discussion thread. This thread is created early to discuss spoilers and speculation about the upcoming chapter as well as discussion of said chapter once it has been released.
As per the forums rules, please don't ask for or mention about where to download the (licensed) manga. Also remember not to post or link to any translations of the manga, since this is illegal as well. Posting a synopses or summary is fine (and welcome) but please do not discuss scans, raws, translation groups, etc. Additionally, if you are posting someone else's synopsis (or their translation of a synopsis), then please provide credit were credit is due.
Remember that the manga is licensed, do not post significant parts of the chapter. This stands for pictures and direct translations. Summaries are OK, crops of pictures are OK as well if you want to illustrate your point but this is it.
Complete spoilers have been released. Have at it.
|2013-02-27, 00:35
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It was a cool start that ended with a foreshadowing future....
I am afraid that neither the kids or the adults can blame each other for each other's POV. In my opinion, the man with the Sharingan might have been Madara's dad....
Looking forward to more flashback now...
|2013-02-27, 00:51
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Location: East Cupcake
What a boring chapter. And it's nice to know that all Hashirama's ideas stem from Madara.
On the upside, Itama died. What and ugly character design for a non-Zetsu. It's like Kishimoto made him so ugly that we literally have to applaud his departure just so we don't have to see his ugliness any longer. (Hashirama's hair isn't much better.)
|2013-02-27, 04:55
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Location: NL
The world was a shitty place and kids died young. We already knew the previous shinobi system was the same as current Africa no point in repeating that.
Lot's of wasted panels, this should've been done in less pages for a better impact and faster pace.
|2013-02-27, 06:32
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the benefit is learning more about there Fathers and forefathers, learning how they become to be the people they are. we know Naruto's driven by what his learned from the people in his life, so anytime we can see that from the elders is a blessing.
the only problem is when you do it at a time like this in the middle of a crisis. good to know Madara had 4 Brothers too, and I always questioned who or where Hashirama's Dad came from like I did Minato's Dad. hopefully we'll get answers to these questions soon enough. I'd still like to know if Hashirama and Minato's were Sage's, or if that mark on Hashirama's forehead was something to do with how Tsunade's power works.
|2013-02-27, 07:00
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Location: Location is all relative.
You know, I could go into some small tirade about how this chapter served to do nothing other than repeat the same information we've heard of before (well aside from Madara not being able to do Number 1 if someone is behind him). So let me just summarize my feelings of this chapter with a short sing-along:
This is so boring,
This is so boring,
Get to the show".
|2013-02-27, 07:27
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Location: Rochester NY
I have nothing negative to say about the chapter.It wasn't revealing,just establishing the main re-occurring theme again,no surprise,it's been the style from the start.Being a forum newbie i am a bit confused,should i post on a Onepiece forum instead,i hate that Manga.
|2013-02-27, 07:49
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Join Date: Apr 2012
Location: in Darkness
i din't hate this chapter, even though this chapter did not reveal anything else from the history but it intensified of what we know how the lives of shinobi were before the village system, i think the intention of this chapter wasn't to reveal any information but to reveal the lives of Hashirama and Madara, so i think it was good to show lives of theirs so that it could be established properly as to why those two are always seen fighting a death battle.
i think these flashbacks and past is necessary to portray things in the future,
|2013-02-27, 08:19
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Join Date: May 2003
Location: Doesn't look like Kansas
I find this chapter better written than all those of the current war put together. I find the relation between Hashirama and Madara already more believable (which is saying something) than Naruto and Sasuke ever was and ever will be and I'd rather have death always presented like that than the token freed birdy we've had.
There's nothing new in this chapter true but it's good background. Mostly it's sad because this show how the story could have been instead of what we've got.
|2013-02-27, 08:53
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The First Rasengan!!
Join Date: Nov 2007
really enjoyed this chapter. i like the reveal of these historical characters. cant wait to learn how/why hashirama is so powerful. did he leave the clan to go train at a temple??
also, the panel underneath senju dad telling hashirama to cool/calm down...what was going on/what was that? did he grow a tree? i couldnt tell lol
(also also, is there a notification setting for when posts get replied to?)
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Bill de Blasio to appear on "The Good Wife"
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio has only been in office for about two months -- but he's not wasting any time getting in front of the camera.
He's expected to make a guest appearance as himself on the March 16 episode of "The Good Wife" on CBS.
De Blasio, who met the cast earlier this week, said he and his wife Chirlane McCray are "deeply obsessed" with the political drama.
Dubbed "A Few Words," the episode will follow Julianna Margulies' Alicia Florrick character as she's asked to be the keynote speaker at the American Bar Association conference in Manhattan. That same episode will find Jill Hennessey guest-starring as power lawyer Rayna Hecht and Eric Bogosian returning as Nelson Dubeck.
Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg appeared as a guest star on "The Good Wife" last year.


text: This was stated in the invitation sent by the company to the international trade press. At the same time benchmarks GeekBench and GFXBench has published some technical information about the new product. It turned out that Elife will receive S8 OCTA core processor MediaTek Helio P10 with a clock frequency of 1.9 GHz and a graphics accelerator Mali-T860. In addition, performance will meet four gigabytes of RAM. According to statistics of the benchmark, Gionee Elife S8 will be equipped with 4.6-inch screen with a resolution of 1920×1080 pixels. On storage of personal data given to 64 GB. The memory card slot will be absent for microSD. Also implemented will be the 15-megapixel main and a 7 megapixel front-facing camera. The latter will support 4K video. Top features include the presence of the screen, the touch sensitivity.


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A Peace of My Mind: Free Art Exhibit
A Peace of My Mind: Free Art Exhibit
Center for Transforming Communities welcomes A Peace of My Mind to Memphis this week!
The exhibit features the work of award winning photographer, John Noltner.A Peace of My Mind employs art and storytelling to encourage all of us---of all ages---to consider the common humanity that connects us while serving as catalyst for community dialog about conflict resolution, civic responsibility, and social change.
Learn more about the exhibit here: https://apomm.net/
Open for Public Viewing from 10am-5pm on the following days:
Friday, January 27
Saturday, January 28
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SECTOR Large van GVW 3.5–7.2 tonnes FUEL n/a CO2 n/a
The onward march of the Iveco Daily continues with the launch of the latest version, bringing a number of revisions to the 'Bullnose' Daily launched in 2014. While the latest revisions are concerned with introducing the Euro-6 engine line-up, the company has taken the opportunity to bring in some fairly significant revisions.
Iveco claims reductions of up to 8% for fuel consumption compared with Euro 5 models and reductions of up to 12% in maintenance and repair costs. In-cab noise is said to have been lowered by 4dB – meaning it has been more than halved. The Hi-Matic eight-speed ZF automatic transmission is now available with all variants of the 2.3-litre and 3.0-litre four cylinder engine families, except the 150hp unit.
From 2017 all Daily engines will be equipped with selective catalytic reduction (SCR) using the AdBlue urea additive.
Iveco has also launched the Daily Business Up Mobile App for Android and Apple iOS smart phones and tablets, which offers a useful package of fleet management and telematics possibilities. Daily will be available with a new 5,100mm wheelbase chassis for 7.0-tonne GVW variants and the revised range will be available from June.
New power ratings replace those for the previous models with the 2.3-litre engine offering 120hp, 140hp and 160hp, while the 3.0-litre engine comes with 150hp, 180hp and 210hp. In addition there will be natural gas and electric versions. Service intervals have been extended up to 50,000km when using synthetic oils, while Iveco says that SMR costs can be cut by a further 10% for those choosing the Hi-Matic transmission.
The Daily Business Up App leads where others are likely to follow, by making a range of telematics information available via the driver's smartphone or tablet. All UK Dailys will come with the new DAB radio that is needed to link with Business Up. With it, drivers can see a real-time assessment of their driving style with acceleration and braking monitored. For manual transmission models, gear selection is also recorded. The app can offer extra information not shown on the vehicle dashboard. Business Up also includes an interactive User Handbook with links to pages and a dealer locator.
Other functions include radio, music, and a phone manager to handle calls and messages. Iveco has partnered with Sygic to deliver a fleet management package offering tracking, navigation and routeing and scheduling with job dispatch. The driver can obtain customer signatures on the smart phone or tablet to close the delivery. All data can be downloaded by the fleet manager.
Inside the cab, there's a new leather covered steering wheel, blue seat covers and textile foam headrests. Up to 18 storage compartments are now included. On the road the reduction in noise is immediately noticeable, making the Daily cab an even more pleasant place to work. I drove a 2.3-litre 140hp version on the launch with the Hi-Matic transmission, which would be a real help to drivers on multi-drop routes. Our route included twisting mountain roads and the ZF gearbox always picked the right gear even on steep climbs with hairpin bends.
What we think
The latest Daily is an impressive development, with lower noise, reduced running costs and the Business Up app.


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"O.K.," I said. "You're basically alone. Your wife is still asleep"—he was then married, but not for much longer, to Marla Maples—"you're in the bathroom shaving and you see yourself in the mirror. What are you thinking?"
From Trump, a look of incomprehension.
Me: "I mean, are you looking at yourself and thinking, 'Wow. I'm Donald Trump?'"
Trump remained baffled.
Me: "O.K., I guess I'm asking, do you consider yourself ideal company?"
At the time, I deemed Trump's reply unprintable. But that was then.
Trump: "You really want to know what I consider ideal company?"
Me: "Yes."
Trump: "A total piece of ass."
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Friday, April 29, 2011
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Wednesday, April 27, 2011
I'm so tired. I been so tired a long time. I used to pop up out of bed in the morning and feel like a million bucks.These days it takes a few minutes and a soak in the shower with my eyes shut before I get my legs under me. Then I feel like a million bucks, or at least I say I do because it helps. It really does help.
I go in to work and I have the most boring job in the world these days. I'm almost catatonic when I leave. I get through it because its a job I cannot replace.
I'm too old to go a-whalin', too dumb to go to Harvard Law, and too young to retire.
And now I flunked my Testosterone Test. My doctor says that is why I'm so tired.
What kills me is how old I'm starting to act. I come home in the evening and back-sass the weatherman on TV and feel good about that. I look forward to it. But a minute later I'll be sitting in my rocker, my head is rolling around because I am sound asleep, mouth wide open, with drool coming off my chin and down the front of my checkered shirt. I need a bib, or an attendant to wipe my face and roll me back into my room. I just about need a button to press to call the attendant.
I have long conversations with friends about Health Care and what medicines we take.
Now heres the capper. They replaced the Luby's Cafeteria around the corner with a new buffet called the Texas Firepit. But make no mistake...its still a Luby's and just the way Luby's was Great-Aunt Glesnal's favorite, the 'Pit has become my favorite place. I was there at 6:00 sharp 5 days in a row last week. I know half the waitresses by name now. I can walk to the Texas Firepit from my apartment. I wear my checked Bermuda shorts, striped polo shirt, white socks and loafers because I am old and crotchety and don't give a damn. Like grandpa, I've begun "dressing for comfort" either out of sheer laziness or complete ignorance - take your pick.
If all that still doesn't make me old, this is a sure sign:
I've made friends with a table full of widow women down there.
They smile and wave to see me come in, and let me sit with them. I've even started dressing better when I go.
I can't wait to get there tonight.
Posted by bulletholes at 9:37 AM 4 comments
Tuesday, April 26, 2011
Austrian Philosopher Wittgenstein to the two examiners of his Doctorate thesis at Cambridge:
"Don't worry boys, I know you'll never understand it."
as he slapped them on the shoulders.
I like that.
Posted by bulletholes at 1:45 PM 0 comments
my Testosterone test.
The good Dr. Strznik says this explains why I am tired all the time.
It may explain a lot of things!
Posted by bulletholes at 9:25 AM 2 comments
Sunday, April 24, 2011
December 20, 20XX
XXXXXX Group
Duly I arrived when I was approached by one of my fellow H&I Subcommittee Reps.. He proceeded to inform me that there were some rumors circulating concerning him and our group here at Last Chance Group. In keeping with our traditions of anonymity and placing principles before personalities, I will say only that I assured him that Last Chance still operates under the Third Tradition, that the only requirement for membership is a desire to stop using, and that there had been no motions before the group to bar him for being a jerk. Not yet,.
It was out of compassion that I (being a fairly crotchety loudmouthed opinionated old man with a lot of hair on my ass and thoroughly set in my ways) refrained from informing this person that my personal experience with him could possibly substantiate the first rumor, and he was lucky I didn't just go ahead and punch him in the nose..
As for the second rumor, I informed him that here at Last Chance we are still stressing the importance of the 12 Steps, that we will continue to do so until hell freezes over, and that the only reason we are out of Step Guides is that they have been on back-order since December 1st.
It is not my purpose to perpetuate the spread of these rumors, which I consider to be fairly innocuous if not irresponsible, immaterial and nothing more than idle chatter among loose mouthed people, but to give you a fairly objective and interesting report that might describe and illumonate some spiritual principles, or the lack of, as they present themselves to me in my H&I Experience.
That is all I have to say about that.
It is none other than our own fearless leader who manages to fill many shoes and wear many hats: President, Vice-President de facto, Treasurer tempore', Asst. Treasurer at large, Rogue Chairperson, President of Third Tradition Motorcycle Club, Sponsor of many and inspiration to all ….
Ladies and Gentlemen I give you Petro!
In a secret meeting at an undisclosed location, I confirmed with the Petro the Rogue Chair that there is a meeting being taken into SpringXXXXevery single Monday night at 8PM, that these meetings meet or exceed H&I Guidelines, and that there are 6-8 people in attendance. Petro and I have determined that I will take his Report to the H&I Meetings, and submit them as a proxy Representative Chair.
Bulletholes, H&I Subcommittee Group Rep.
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Friday, April 22, 2011
All the man did was travel and talk peace, they said he healed folks too, and performed miracles and everyone was astounded, and he walked and he talked more peace, and made wine, and then he got to arguing with experts. See, that's the problem with an expert, no one holds a jealous grudge like ol' expert; you can water-walk and talk peace, raise the dead, wash folks feet, but the minute you get up involved with some experts and moneychangers; it just don't much matter all the healin' peacekeepin' feetwashin' you might do. They want the details, and good explanations, gonna whup you, whup you good get a confession-oops-get an explanation from you. An they no like your explanation those experts set you on lumber carry up the top of the hill and yes, there will be nails, and blood because mister, this ain't theatre in the round, no, them experts mean business. But the man traveled I say, and its hard to stop a travelin' man that talks peace, and they took him down wrapped him up and set him in cave, and when they went to check on him, he back to travelin', and they beheld angels said don't look for travelin' peaceful men among the dead, and then he left the peace talkin' to be carried on by us.
So I figure you can either be an expert, or you can talk peace, but I'm not sure you can do both.
Posted by bulletholes at 1:56 PM 2 comments
Thursday, April 21, 2011
When I was a boy, I used to spend a week with my grandparents in Grandview twice a summer. Papa had a peach orchard of about 100 trees and several of them were mine. I had planted seeds from the peaches I had eaten years before, and now those trees bore fruit.
In the house there were jars filled with homemade peach preserves. They lined a very sizable pantry on the porch and shelves that ran along the stairway that led to the second floor. Papa had a huge cereal bowl that he filled with corn flakes every morning then topped with half a jar of peach preserves and milk. Then he would take a shot of Sunshine Prune Juice that came in a really cool looking green bottle. All the while during breakfast, the farm report would play from this ancient radio that sat next to the table. It seemed like there was but one weather report all summer long:
"Clear to partly cloudy and hot."
People came by all the time to get some peaches, and anytime we went anywhere in the car we took peaches with us to give away. I think maybe Papa knew just about everyone from Itasca to Rio Vista. You know, Papa had all those peach trees, but I do declare that he never sold peach one.
Besides the orchard, Papa had a huge garden. It wasn't quite a farm, though it seemed that way to me when I was a boy. He and Grandma grew most of the food they ate. There was always just a little too much okra and squash on the table for my taste, but what I wouldn't give now for some of those black-eyed peas!
For Papa, the highlight of those summer visits was at the end of the week. On Saturday, before I left for home, he would take me downtown and get my hair cut. Back then, it was called a buzz-cut and left every hair in your head about quarter-inch long. Then the barber would splash some sweet-smelling rose water or tonic or something on you and remove the cover that protected you from all the hair that had been shaved from your head. He took a brush to any remnants off your shoulders. When you ran your hand across your head, it felt funny and gave you a chill up the back of your neck. Sometimes I thought my head resembled a peach after that haircut.
The whole time, Papa would be talking with all his buddies, so proud of the young man and the haircut taking place. As you stepped from the chair, the ol' timers would tell Papa what a good looking young man he had there. The barber shop on Saturdays was the meeting spot for Papa's buddies — the same buddies who always had two tables of dominoes going in Papa's barn with a cloud of tobacco smoke and gentle smell of whiskey in the air.
One year, I think it was right after seventh grade and Kent State, when it came the last day at Papa's at the end of the summer, he asked if I was ready to go downtown for my haircut. I remember looking up at him and saying:
"You know Papa, I've been thinking. I might want to let my hair grow out a bit."
I'll never forget the look on his face. You would have thought I'd cut his heart out.
I've been thinking all these years that Papa had that look on his face because he didn't like long hair. But now that I'm older, I think maybe he had that look because he was going to need a new excuse to go downtown on Saturdays.
This was first published as a post titled "PEACH FUZZ" a few years ago. It is my second story to run in the Alvarado Star Newspaper. They titled it "Summer visits meant peaches and haircuts" which I am not really wild about, but it is assumed they know what they are doing.
Posted by bulletholes at 11:23 AM 3 comments
Wednesday, April 20, 2011
"Tonights the Night" by Rod Stewart
Look at that androgenous look on his face; he just wants to be touched and he doesn't really care by who. If you look closely you can see he has at least been vaccinated for something.
Sometimes I let a bad song pass because maybe it helped get me laid, but I just can't do that here.
Its bad enough that Rod threatens to kidnap you and keep you hostage with these frightening opening lines:
"Stay away from my window
Stay away from my back door too
Disconnect the telephone line"
That's creepy.
Its hard to stop a man wearing a waist bracelet.
But did we really need to suffer through all the moanin' and groanin' going on at the close of this song?
Posted by bulletholes at 12:15 PM 2 comments
Tuesday, April 19, 2011
"Pam, are you OK?"
She shakes her head no.
"Pam, are you choking?"
She shakes her head yes, vigorously.
'Pam, will you consent to me performing a Heimlich Maneuver, without the fear of lawsuit or litigation should this all end badly?"
She rolled her eyes and shook her head yes.
I hollered 'Someone dial 911" just to cover my bases because that's what they taught me in order to get my First Aid Merit Badge way back when.
I got behind Pam Paul and grabbed her up good with my arms around her, up under her breasts, bent her over a bit and I squeezed like all get out; I think the technical term is "Abdominal Thrusts"; and I could tell that first thrust didn't do no good, so I said:
"Are you ready for another one baby?"
and she shook her head and I give another abdominal thrust and I could tell that didn't do any good either 'cause nice soft little Pam Paul was still hard as a bicycle tube under that blouse and I was just about to give her another good abdominal thrust when I look up to see Snow White Miller standing there (she was wearing the most gorgeous arctic cream colored fuzzy fluffy sparkly deep fluffy turtle necked top that accentuated her pixie face and magnificent fluffy bust line, and ridin' pants tucked into some kinda knee boots like I never seen before, she's a real number, that Snow White Miller is) and she is looking at me all aghast like "What the hell are you doing to Pam Paul?" as though I am acting out a modern day "Rape of the Sabine Women" and I tried to get the guilty look off my face and said:
"Its not how it looks Snow, I promise"
and gave one last deep abominable thrust and *POOF* out came the Fajita Nacho Pam had swallered whole and Pam's body relaxed, began to deflate, her cute smile returned to her dimpled face, her color restored and she could breathe again.
She was back to lovely.
And that's how I came to save Pam Paul's life last night.
I was a Chef for 25 years, but this was the first time I ever did a Heimlich.
Pam came to me a little later and said "Ooooh, Steve, I'm still shaking" and I winked at her-
"Me too baby, I need a cigarette!"
Posted by bulletholes at 8:40 AM 5 comments
Monday, April 18, 2011
I've had this picture for months. You'd think after blogging for 5 years, and reading posts by Davy and UF Mike, that I would be able to come up with some kind of crazy story to go with this picture, but I just absolutely have no talent for fiction.
You can tell it is a Maneater, a rogue, and once a squirrel gets a taste for man-flesh people will come up missing. Even thats not original; I stole it from Souby
Or there is a really bad joke about a squirrel hunter in East Texas that knocked squirrels out of trees, stone cold dead as they hit the ground, just on the virtue of his being so ugly. When asked if he knew anyone else ugly enough to kill a squirrel, he indicated his wife was, but she couldn't come squirrel hunting anymore because she was SO ugly it tore 'em up too bad, and there was nothing left of them after they seen her.
There were squirrels in our neighborhood in Detroit, and the brown ones could be tamed with a bag of nuts to the point they would eat out of your hand. The black ones, well, they never did seem to trust nobody, but in Detroit in 1967, how could you blame them.
Anyway, thats about all I know to say about this really funny picture.
Posted by bulletholes at 7:36 AM 5 comments
Friday, April 15, 2011
Posted by bulletholes at 12:49 PM 4 comments
I started this blog almost five years ago to try to learn to type better, and to try to improve my writing skills to where I didn't send out as many dipshit unreadable E-mails as my co-workers. The next thing I knew, I had myself a full blown hobby. At times I may have written myself out of some dark and misty places. Along the way I picked up some pretty good friends that I will likely never meet, yet we may know each other in ways that folks that see us every day do not.
But writing, it was fun. I had a run a while back where I did like 320 posts in 340 days. Then I slowed considerably on the blog, but continued pretty heavy on Facebook.
And like anything else in this world, its who you know as much as what you know.
I met a woman on Facebook a while back, and she became Editor of a weekly newspaper, the Alvarado Star. And she saw some of my stories, some of which take place around Alvarado and she wanted to use some of them in her paper because of that. My grandparents lived in the vicinity for 60 odd years, and I have relatives around Alvarado dating to 1850.
Yesterday, they published one of these stories. Here is the link, and a picture of me large enough that it looks like I could eat Tokyo, or at the very least a Bowling Alley.
I do not get paid. . My hope is that I will get to do more stories for the Alvarado Star. The payoff is that sometimes I can write a story that will bring fond memories back to folks that read them. That always makes me feel good, and I usually know it when I have done it, though I don't really know anything about writing
But the Grand Prize for me will be when someone that knew my grandparents, or their parents that settled and lived and farmed and died here; or my father when he was a boy; or Uncle Harry who allegedly never drove a car but preferred to ride his horse right up till 1970; the Grand Prize will be when someone reads a story of mine and says:
"I knew your grandparents Steve, I remember them well "
and then, THEY can tell ME a story. I would like that maybe more than anything in the whole wide world, so much the thought brings a lump to my throat.
Yessir, that would be the day!
Posted by bulletholes at 10:18 AM 7 comments
Thursday, April 14, 2011
She called me Monday to confirm our appointment on Tuesday.
'How have you been Mr. Bullets?"
"Doc, I hate to say it but I think I gained weight again"
'Thats not good"
The reason I told her I might have gained weight was because even though for one week I had played tennis twice, gone dancing twice and played two hours worth of softball, the last week I had done nothing but walk from the car to the couch.
But when I weighed at the scheduled appointment I was surprised to find I had lost 4 pounds!
Four pounds!
I was so excited that I gave her a high five, and they had to recheck my blood pressure.
After I consult with her for thirty minutes, the Doctor always comes in and consults with me. He was right pleased I had lost weight, and my blood pressure checked good on the re-check, and he asked about my diabetes numbers, which also looked good.
'Have you had a Testosterone Test?" he asked.
"No doc, do I need one?"
'Well, if you are low on testosterone, sometimes that can affect your blood sugar, and if we get those levels corrected we could possibly reduce your diabetes medicine."
"Well how about that doc!" says I "And maybe that would explain why Mr. Happy ain't as happy as he used to be" and I pointed down to my crotch.
I've told you about Dr. Strznik before. He has that loppy-jawed Jack Elam eye, and the one happy eye, and I always manage to crack him up. His eyes started this chameleon spin thing they do and he chuckles and leaned back in his chair and says "Are you having trouble with your erection Bulletholes?"
"Well Doc, its hard to say because I haven't really needed one in some time now, because I just seem to be better off by myself these days. But I can tell you that when I am by myself, things just aren't the same as when I was a little boy, if you know what I mean. In fact they aren't the same as about a year ago."
"Well, Bullets, would you like something to help fix that?"
"I don't know Doc. Do guys come in here and get that stuff just so they can have a better time..well...you know... a better time all by themselves?"
And ol' Doc Strznik, he just busted out laughin' and his eyes we're doing that kaleidoscope thing and he says;
"Probably so, but none of them ever do say so".
Posted by bulletholes at 9:36 AM 5 comments
Wednesday, April 13, 2011
"Clear to Partly Cloudy and Hot Today"
Whenever I think of Grandview, I think of sitting in the kitchen in the morning and grandpa had this big black tube radio that took halfway through the Farm and Market report to warm up; it was ancient, this leather clad radio with a weird dial, and sometimes there would be fuzz and feedback and grandpa would give it a backhand saying "cock-eyed radio". He wasn't really angry, it was just part of the routine, the same routine we had while watching Big-Time Wrestling on Saturday nights when he would seem to verbally joust with Dan Coats, the very excitable ring announcer.
"Johnny Valentine has the referee Bronco Lubich caught in the ropes . He's going to hit him with a chair!"
"A chair" grandpa would repeat, in disbelief.
"While Fritz von Erich is knocked out cold in the center of the ring " Coats would gasp.
"No he's not" grandpa would respond, dryly.
" But here comes Wahoo McDaniel!"
the very excited Dan Coats would say, and my grandfather, much annoyed by this, would mumble back:
'Here he comes"
and then Dan would say with some surprise
"Wahoo is doing his War Dance! Wahoo hits Johnny with a huge Tomahawk chop!"
and grandpa would say, with real disgust in his voice this time
"It was HUGE alright"
And Fritz would revive himself, pin Johnny, and Coats would get closure, then they would break for a Kissinger's Discount Auto Parts commercial and grandpa would mumble "cock-eyed Kissinger's" and get up and smile at me and we would go get some more ice cream with peaches from the kitchen.
And every morning you looked out the window and saw the heat waves start coming off the shed roof, and the radio would whine, and you could almost feel the black gumbo dirt slowly cracking open underneath your feet because that's what it surely would do. You could look down into those cracks later that day and I'll swanny, you could almost see clear to China. Some folks call it Blackland soil; the Blackland Railroad operates out of Sulphur Springs. They make a beer in Iowa called Black Gumbo, named after this soil, which is a marine sediment. I remember when I was a kid you could always find cockle shells in the garden, and little clams too. They got black gumbo dirt up all the way to Montana, and Dinosaurs and other critters have been getting stuck in it for 150 Million years.
You might think you seen mud, but you have never seen anything like black gumbo. You don't dare walk across it when its wet. You will end up with feet that weigh 50 pounds each before you get too far. Cattlemen say its hard to run a lot of cattle on this soil during a wet winter, so many get stuck, and there is a concern during the summer that an animal might get swallowed up in one of those cracks, or least ways break a leg.
But it is very rich for agriculture, and grandpa used to say you could stick a crowbar in it and the next day have Mercury dimes.
But grandpa would backhand the cock-eyed radio, the Farm Report would be pork bellies down five cents, beef up about the same; it looked like it would be a real good year for sorghum, but a poor year for cotton . Somewhere probably, Johnny, Bronco, Fritz and Wahoo were all having breakfast together, and the weatherman would drawl the same thing every day:
"Clear to Partly Cloudy and Hot today".
Posted by bulletholes at 12:39 PM 2 comments
Monday, April 11, 2011
They always said my Grandma was the first woman to have a drivers license in Johnson County. I don't know if its true or not, they always said a lot of things but I'll tell you what is true.
Grandma made the best scrambled eggs I ever had.
She had this little Cast Iron Skillet, it was just my size when I was 4,and she would put it on the stove next to the strangest coffee pot I ever saw. It was glass,with a top and bottom, and the water started out in the bottom and it moved up to the top as you watched, and passed through the grounds and finally ended up as coffee in the top. It was a magical thing to behold, and even though I understand the physics of it today, there is still some mystery left within the memory. I've never seen another coffee pot like it, ever.
But back to grandma and those eggs. Her trick, that is to say what she did that made them so good in my eyes, was she would cook them till they were a little brown. My momma cooked them for me like that too, but she didn't have that little black iron skillet, and they just weren't the same. Especially after Grandma reached into the icebox, past the row of six-and-a-half ounce bottles of Dr. Pepper, and pulled out a little Grape Jelly to put on my eggs. Mama never did that.
Grandma would let me help her in the garden. She showed me how to clip off old blossoms on her Roses, and how to snap the little buds off the Mums, explaining how this would make the remaining buds bloom into bigger flowers. She was a member of the Grandview Garden Club, and had a flowered bonnet and friends that came by while we were outside to talk to her, and take a good long look at me. Then we might go hang some laundry on the clothesline, or she might take me to the Crawdad pond, right there south of the house before you got to the High School.
I remember one day after hanging the laundry she went back inside the house to get a string and bacon and a safety pin so we could do just that. I got a little bored waiting for her to come back out, and started to shaking the T-Shaped Laundry pole. It made a funny buzzing sound, and the laundry bounced up and down on the pins clipped to the wire, and the whirring buzzing sound got louder and I shook shook shook the heck out of that pole and then my grandmother was there at the back door to the house and waving her arms and hollering something but I couldn't hear what she was hollering because the buzzing sound was so loud and then I saw a hornet. And another hornet and another, and I started running as fast as I could because now there was that loud buzzing and a cloud of hornets all over my head and they were stinging me as I flew towards the house where Grandma was hollerin' for me to "stop shakin' that pole".
Because there were hornets in there.
What really kills me though, what I think of most when I think back on this, is how no kid in these days of excess would be happy with one little six-and-a-half ounce bottle of Dr. Pepper.
Posted by bulletholes at 9:55 AM 9 comments
Saturday, April 09, 2011
"If you see her, say hello"
In the 9th grade, she sure could wear that choker.
We were the standard for a couple kids going steady back then; matching shoes, shirts and pants; rode the same bus to school; Friday Night couples skate down at Skateland; but we had the added bonus of her being my sisters 2nd best friend which meant...
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Friday, April 08, 2011
Tootie, she is my long lost friend from High School. She was a nice girl when I met her and she was a nice girl when I saw her last, all those years ago, except she had learned, among other things, how to smoke a little pot.
She says her first time was with me, in my car, at the All Saints of the Resurrection Church parking lot in the rain, with "Dark Side of the Moon" playing. I had been trying to get her to have a toke for some time. I was leaning against my door, legs outstretched, and she was leaning against her door and I twisted one up and lit it. The car was a 68 Impala rag top, and I imagine the top leaked and the interior filled with smoke, and we got stoned and made out. That's what I liked to do the best, was get stoned and make out. It didn't matter much if it was "Dark Side of the Moon" or 'Ten years After". But I probably took Tootie home, still a nice girl except for having smoked a little pot and done a little smoochin'.
She told me later that the next day she had gone to the lake with her family. They had a boat out at Possum Kingdom Lake, and they all went skiing. She was in her swimsuit. Her mother started giving her the hairy eyeball.
"WHAT IS THIS?" her mother asks. She moves Tootie's hair from around her neck, revealing a deep purple bruise right at the nape of her neck, just over the collarbone.
"What?" says Tootie, covering the bruise with her hand.
Their eyes lock. In my mind I can see the guilty look on Tootie's face and the wheels spinning in her mothers mind....
"BULLETHOLES!" her mother snaps. 'THATS THAT DARN BULLETHOLES ISN'T IT?"
Tootie still smoked some pot with me after that, but she never let me make out with her anymore.
And I never did get to go skiing with them at Possum Kingdom.
Posted by bulletholes at 1:03 PM 3 comments
Angeline, Angeline
darker nights I've never seen
I don't love these East Texas pines
where I can't find my sleep
in the shadows so deep
dark as these doubts in my mind
slow train down the tressle goin East 'cross the Neches
like the one I got off of a long time ago
outside of a little town where I never meant to settle down
not knowing the seeds I would sow
barefoot in the autumn weeds, cotton dress hanging to your knees
to the eyes of a stranger you offered a smile
I went to work in your daddy's fields didn't seem like such a bad deal
least it would do for awhile
we were both young and unabashed we took what life offered
when the folks were distracted or too tired to care
with a frost on the land the fates forced our hand
your dresses fit tighter with the spring in the air
now I watch the trains rattle on from the seat of the tractor
your daddy's old harness still hangs in the barn
and your mama don't like it that our children all scattered
she swears its my blood
it was not meant to farm
and you and I don't talk alot; we don't really have to
we spent many years reading each other's mind
we used up the lightning now we don't bother fighting
such things will happen in time
Angeline, Angeline
darker nights I've never seen
I don't love these East Texas pines
where I can't find my sleep
in the shadows so deep
dark as these doubts in my mind
james mcmurtry
If ever I'd like to plagarize a song this would be it. Down in East Texas there is the Angeline National Forest, an almost inpenetrable pine thicket where the quiet can almost be deafening and the stars and moon are lost in the tall canopies, creating a darker night than you have ever seen. There is the Angelina River, and the Neches too, that McMurtry references, with weatherbeaten barns and scattered families, broken down tractors and battered old harnesses, and the Neches just runs silently through the whispering pines.
Unlike McMurtry, I dearly do love those pines.
My mama's side is from down there, and he could be singing about them. Quiet people, capable of sitting in a room or on a porch for hours at atime without saying a word, fully content with their lot.
"Such things will happen in time."
Posted by bulletholes at 7:43 AM 2 comments
Thursday, April 07, 2011
A long time ago I had a briefcase full of notebooks with Poetry I had written. It was all very painfull, and mostly plagarized, and the ones in red ink were the worst. You should be very glad that I lost it.
I am.
I'm glad its gone.
I wish I had it back.
Ain't that just like poetry?
Posted by bulletholes at 8:33 PM 7 comments
But there is more to chairing a meeting than having a good voice. As Chairperson, you pick and present a topic, and I'm good at that too. Maybe the most important thing a chair does is to sit back and shut up after the topic is presented, and let the meeting find its way, and to make sure that whoever is sharing has your undivided attention, because you set the example for everybody else.
But I wonder sometimes, what the Old Timers think. Guys that have been around for 20 years and always come off serious as a Heart Attack about everything. Not everyone is supposed to be a loudmouth, not everyone can do that, and sometimes I feel uncomfortable when my personality just takes over and I start in being carefree, laughing, foolish and wise, and I look over at Yak-Yak and Digger, two guys with about 50 years clean time between them, and they are almost scowling at me with Zero appreciation for my jollility..
So yesterday, when it became obvious that we needed a chair for the noon, and L'il Christie asked me to do it, I said "I really just wanted to listen. I really don't feel like putting on the "Steve Show" today" and of course everybody laughed and then Petro, the tough lookin' no-nonsense President of the Third Tradition Motorcycle Club who sometimes looks at me like I'm nuts, he says:
"But I LIKE the Steve Show"
So how could I refuse that?
Its not easy being me , its really not.
Posted by bulletholes at 7:04 AM 2 comments
Wednesday, April 06, 2011
Whenever I think of Grandview, I think of sitting in the kitchen in the morning and grandpa had this big black tube radio that took halfway through breakfast to warm up; it was ancient, this leather clad radio, and every morning you looked out the window and saw the heat coming off the shed roof, and you could almost feel the black gumbo dirt slowly cracking open; you could look down into those cracks later that day and I'l swanny, you could almost see clear to China; the announcer on the radio would drawl the same thing every day "Clear to Partly Cloudy and Hot today".
Posted by bulletholes at 5:09 PM 1 comments
Tuesday, April 05, 2011
THE TENTH STEP (cont.)
Oh lord yes, this Tenth Step is such a pain in the butt, filling out this whole long list, not so much because I have some hard thing to put on my personal inventory, but because yesterday was a quiet, sheepish, lazy day, where I tried to recover from my softball injury (I had taken a hot shot to the shoulder) and did a physical inventory of the Stockroom at work (without incident or complaint, mind you) and then went to dinner at the Fortune Star Buffet, where I got the really scary looking Waitress, the one that looks so Communist with her hair up and Red Uniform with sandals, and that wry smile that is not a smile, but a smirk as if she knows I am not a member of the Party but a Capitalist pig, a fork-using member of the Capitalist Pig Party, but she is depending on my wallet tonight to make her living while the MUZAK plays 'Flower Drum Song". I keep imagining four big Chinese Henchmen to come out from behind the beaded curtain beyond which lay the kitchen, for the purpose of torturing me in some Oriental fashion, but instead its just her nephew, a smiling buck-toothed black eyed little guy named Ed, bringing Hot Tea for the couple next to me. They know how to use their Chopsticks, and I have to wonder if they might be Comrades to the Waitress, but finish my dinner quickly, pay my bill without incident and drive back home to settle in to watch and record Part Two of "Ken Burns 'The Civil War".
I didn't have a blank tape, so I taped over "Amistad". I guess that was the worst thing I did all day, right there.
But I got my list all filled out. Thats fifteen days in a row now.
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She looks like my old girl Cross-eyed Myra.
Same hair, Cross-eyed Myra's hair looked like that always, and it was a good look for Myra; wild, untamed and unpredictable. But thats not the only thing what reminds me of Cross-eyed Myra in this picture.
Nobody ever accused Cross-eyed Myra of being good looking, but she had great meaty beaty bouncing breasts and if you cinched 'em up in a top like that, thats how they would look except she never cinched em up, they always hung wild and free slouched in a halter. But thats not all what that reminds me of Cross-eyed Myra in this picture.
Myra was Sex-crazed and rambuctious. If you started out in bed, you wound up on the floor. Myra lived just a few houses down from me and would call me whenever her parents left.
"I'm having a party" she would call on the phone and say, and you were the party, which started right when she opened the door, and you may or may not ever make it all the way to the bedroom. that was the only thing predictable about Cross-eyed Myra.
The lights stayed on pretty much all night every night in Myra's room. She was the physical embodiment of Robert Palmers song "Addicted to Love". Her teeth would grind, her hands would sweat, she bucked like a wild mare and her eyes would cross when she reached the moment of truth.
What really reminds me of Cross-eyed Myra about this picture is the mouth. Such a pretty, naughty smile. She looks like if she were to open her mouth, two Doves and a Canary might fly out. Cross-eyed Myra smiled and looked at you just like that right before she ate you up.
I don't think I've left much out here.
No, thats not true.
I've left a helluva lot out.
Whew! F'n Myra!
Thanks Mike, for reminding me of Myra!
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Monday, April 04, 2011
She worked the duration of the war without pay.
At the end of the war General Sherman had this to say about her:
"She ranks me"*
Part Two of the Six Part Ken Burns Masterpiece 'The Civil War" on tonight, and continuing on through the week. I advise you record it.
It could help get rid of a pesky bill collector someday.
*Uh-oh-- occasionally I try to write these things up from memory, and after doing a fact check I find it was not Dorothea Dix that General Tecumseh Sherman said this about. It was Mary Ann "Mother" Bickersdyke.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Ann_Bickerdyke
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Friday, April 01, 2011
For proof of this you need only look at the picture above, taken in the "Smoking Area" at my High School. My kids are astounded that cigarette smoking was part of the curriculum at LD Bell High School.
I even had a little saying too, that went like this:
"There are times that you need a cigarette, and there are times that you need a Raleigh"
"When would that be?" you might ask. Times like these.
It seemed mandatory to smoke a pack a day, and for 30 years I never varied from the 20 cigarettes that come in a pack by more than 3 butts either way. I could be drinking, drugging, fishing, sleeping, have Double Pneumonia, it didn't matter; I still smoked just about 20 cigarettes a day.
That's why it was a strange thing a few years ago when I looked up one day and became aware that I had only smoked half a pack this last 24 hours.. And then a week later I found that instead of having smoked my mandatory pack a day, this pack in my hands was at least 48 hours old with squares to spare.
A few months later I found that a pack of cigarettes was lasting me a week, and when I lit one up it tasted, in the words of George Carlin, "like crap", and after a few drags I was done. I'd make sour face and snuff the son-of-a-bitch out. I began to sense that I was losing interest in smoking, as if my body and mind were rejecting cigarettes because I was making no effort to quit and yet it was starting to seem like I didn't smoke at all, with no cravings or nicotine fits.
I woke up one morning without cigarettes, and determined to get a pack ASAP. I got home from work later that day and still hadn't bought a pack of cigarettes. Finally at 10:00 that night I walked across the street and dropped a five-spot on the counter and walked away with a pack, a pack that I forgot to open when I got home and did not open till sometime the next day. Later that month I realized the half pack sitting on my dresser had been there for three weeks. I threw it in the trash.
Somehow God had taken cigarettes away from me. I think maybe they were about to kill me, those cigarettes, but not until after they made me really sick first, and some Higher Power within me or without me had intervened.
I can't help it if I'm lucky.
Its been 3 years now, and I still wheeze a little when I breathe.
Smoking. I sure don't miss it one bit, and if I figure up the dollar figure on what I've saved the last 3 years its about $4,500 give or take.
You know what cracks me up? Seeing an Executive in a 3 piece suit probably makes 6 figures standing alone outside his office building blowing smoke rings with a look of supreme concentration on his face like he's really doing something.
He ain't doin' diddly-shit, 'cept standing in freezin' drizzle or scorching heat slavin' away suckin' a butt, and the minute he gets back to his desk up on the 16th floor, he's gonna want another one.
Either way he's missin' out.
You can't get a Raleigh anywhere anymore.
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Some of you may have read my stories about my mom and dad and the year that I lost them. Some of you may know my buddy Souby at Grit in the Gears. He lost his mom last week, and put up what I think is a marvelous story that he will treasure always. He tells it in his usual excellent style, and I could not help but smile with a lump in my throat to read it. It may not have been appropriate while reading a Eulogy, but I actually spewed coffee to hear what an imp his mother had been.
She hid it behind the lettuce.
Good for her.
Click here to read Soubriquets post...SHE"S GONE
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This is getting old. Yala 3ad ya Madonna, grow up already. Apparently, Madoona is still seeing Brahim Rachiki.
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This is getting old. Yala 3ad ya Madonna, grow up already. Apparently, Madoona is still seeing Brahim Rachiki.
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Yesterday I woke up with a pain in my neck, so I went to see my local clinic Doctor. Since I didn't have any sore throat, fever, or other problems; they asked me to checkout my teeth. A lot of times, a toothache could lead to a Lymphic gland pain.
I got super scared and called up my dentist. Thank God, it turned out that I didn't have anything wrong with my teeth.
Anyways, I woke up today with a blocked nose, so I'm kinda hoping that my neck pain is from an upcoming flu session yet to arrive.
Still, I don't know if that's a good thing, because I tend to get sick a lot, which ain't something I like. But at least it's the Flu, and not something more serious.
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Nothing unusual here, Kuwaiti guys go for looks far more than compatibility.
3 nights plus ticket per person, 4 free visit to Atlantis water park, free all-day huttle to Dubai Mall & Mall of Emirates, free session at shooting range, and free wifi. Source
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This is Shia LaBeouf, who OLiver Stones said about: "LaBeouf is no Brad Bitt". The guy is ugly in real, but casts "a spell when filmed". I want to be like that. Don't get me wrong, I look super fine in photographs if I might say so myself; but video wise, that's one whole other story. I wana be just like Shia LaBeouf, cast a spell in videos, lolz.
Below is the famous LaBeouf "sans" the charisma just look at that fat nose and bulging brows for God's sake.


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Speed-project to test sequencing, recording, and compression with the Deuterium engine.
Divisional Articulations | Max Hattler | Hong Kong | 2017 | 4m 33s
Loosely inspired by Paul Klee's Bauhaus teachings, this pared-down audiovisual piece explores divisional articulations of time and space.
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Delmer Patterson
Delmer Patterson, a resident of Dundas Manor in Winchester for the past seven years, passed away at Winchester District Memorial Hospital on Sun., Jan. 5, 2014. He was 77.
He was born at home on Conroy Road in Ottawa on Jan. 10, 1936, to his parents, Alexander and Margaret Patterson (nee Martin). Delmer married Marjorie Jackson in Vars in 1961 at St. Andrew's Anglican Church, and together they farmed and raised six children in the Greely, Vernon, and Iroquois areas.
He was a long-time employee of the Central Experimental Farm in the plot division doing the tractor work. Delmer loved anything about tractors especially Farmall tractors, auction sales, the McHaffie Flea Market on Sundays, going to the C & L Feed Store, and the Brinston General Store for the daily "coffee club." He loved plowing matches and tractor pulls. You could often see Delmer driving around the countryside in his red Chevy truck.
Delmer is survived by his wife of 52 years, Marjorie, and their children, Don (Dawn) of Dalmeny, Debbie (Patrice) Fortier of Vars, Marlene Patterson of Navan, Meryl (Kathy) of Metcalfe, John (Wendy) of Russell, and Bea (Lyndon) Stewart of Iroquois. He will be fondly remembered by his grandchildren, Alex, Ben, Alain, Benoit, Colin, Connor, Jessica, Melissa, Cameron, and Sarah. He is also survived by cousins, nieces, and nephews. He was the brother of Wilma (Lloyd) Sharp of Ottawa, brother-in-law of Jack Hanes of St. David's, and of Norma Dagenais (the late Andre), Mary Jackson (the late George), and Meryland Cherie Jackson. He was predeceased by his sister, Myrlah Hanes.
Friends called at Marsden and McLaughlin Funeral Home in Williamsburg on Wed., Jan. 8 from 10 am until the time of the funeral service at 11 am which was conducted by Rev. Valerie Vande Wiele. A eulogy was given by his daughter, Bea Stewart. The pallbearers were his grandsons: Alex Patterson, Ben Patterson, Alain Fortier, Benoit Fortier, Colin Patterson, Connor Patterson, and Cameron Stewart.
Donations to Winchester District Memorial Hospital or the Dundas Manor Activity Fund would be gratefully acknowledged by the family.
Online condolences may be made at www.marsdenmclaughlin.com.
Thank you to the staff at Dundas Manor and Winchester District Memorial Hospital for all their care, to David Lapier at Marsden and McLaughlin Funeral Home in Williamsburg, to Rev. Valerie Vande Wiele and SandraBarkley-Probst for the beautiful service.
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It seems that the years flew by so fast that Borneo Hornbill Festival is going to be organising its 8th Edition of pageantry with the tagline THE GR8 Road to London BHF 2016.
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I missed last year's Borneo Hornbill Festival as I gave birth to my own Kumang in the making my little Eleanor Lempa. So I hope I am able to see the spectacular presentation of my Borneo culture this year.
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A R Rahman Hits - Pudhu Vellai Mazhai
This is a superhit song from the movie Roja starring Arvind Swamy and Madhubala. The movie had been directed by Maniratnam. The music for this movie had been composed by A R Rahman. In fact this was A R Rahman's debut movie. Rahman's salary for this movie is supposed to have been INR 25000 (approximately $500) ! The movie had been produced by K Balachander and distributed by his production house Kavithalaya. It has taken two big directors of the Tamil Movie industry to have identified and introduced A R Rahman, one as a producer and the other as a director. The rest as we all know is history. This song and all the other songs in the movie had been huge hits.