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July 04, 2011, 11:33:26 PM »
Hey everybody, been reading the forum for a while now and gotten tons of good advice from previous posts, and am blown away by the fount of knowledge on here.
The reason I've broken my silence and chose to speak on here was I because I am desperately needing some advice. Until two days ago I was riding a 2000 Kawasaki ZR-7. The bike was great for me; good speed without being obnoxiously fast, great mileage (46mpg avg.), large gas tank (about 250 mile range), not a lot of plastics to worry about in a lay down, easier maintenance and didn't kill me with the insurance costs either. I primarily used the bike fr one up commuting, about 45 miles one way, but my GF has started riding with me on 1-2 hour trips to day destinations. But I had also planned on several two-three week road trips over the next year or two. Well, Friday night my baby was suddenly and tragically taken from me by a kid in a pickup truck. He pulled in front of me, and I was forced to lay her down. She's totaled and I spent two days in the hospital. Cest la vie. When the insurance money comes in, I'm looking to get a new bike.
I know that picking out the perfect bike for a person is based mostly on personal preference and experience, but I need some advice on what you guys think of the following three bikes for commuting/sport touring. I like having a large fuel tank, some wind protection, 6 gears if available (ZR-7 only has 5 gears), chain drive, and ease of maintenance (carbs actually preferred here). I have a ton of soft luggage, but I wouldn't mind being able to upgrade to hard luggage if the bike I get has it easily available.
Anything you guys have to contribute would be greatly appreciated, thanks again.
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Re: Bandit vs. Sv650
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July 04, 2011, 11:46:06 PM »
why chain drive? and what kind of bandit are you talking about.. first gen? 600cc. 1200cc., or the second gen 1250cc... i think the SV is a good bike.. but i think you have to add some things to make it a touring mount, different seat, bar risers, i dont have any experiance with the first gen bandits.. but i have heard and read that they are prety much rock solid. now the 1250.. my wife has one.. and she loves it. needs a different seat. also how much money are you looking to spend? if you can do without chain drive,, and need best value for your money.. look at a C10 concours.. great weather protection, great stock seat, good removable luggage, ohh and mine gets around 45 mpg,, with a 7.5 tank on it.. and it has carbs.
hope some of that helps.
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July 05, 2011, 09:12:16 AM »
My gf put 2k on her SV650 over the long weekend. Unlike my bike there are hard luggage options. There are many easy suspension upgrades - hers has a gsxr 1k front end - and the bike handles better, especially after upgrades, than a Bandit. They're super light too. The S-model's fairing is pretty good, but your legs get cold in very late and very early season rides.
The downside to the SV - IMO - and probably with the Bandit 600 as well, is that high speed riding is not a strong suit. She had to ring that thing's neck to keep up with the Literbikes and even 750 and 600 I-4's that were also on this trip. A couple legs through NB where we put on around 140miles at 105 mph the little SV started spitting out coolant as soon as we pulled off for fuel -they are not made for that kind of abuse.
Get a superhawk and put a fuel-cell on it...
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Re: Bandit vs. Sv650
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July 05, 2011, 09:37:55 AM »
Quote from: kawi crasher on July 04, 2011, 11:33:26 PM
. He pulled in front of me, and I was forced to lay her down. She's totaled and I spent two days in the hospital. Cest la vie. When the insurance money comes in, I'm looking to get a new bike.
VERY glad you're not hurt, but here comes the safy Nazi. ....
Although I'm not in on the details, in 98 % of cases, "Laying her down (the bike
) isn't the best thing to do, as rubber on pavement stops better than steel/plastic on pavement.
That said, the SV, isn't as comfortable than the Bandit, much lower bars. One of the most sporty bike that's comfortable is the V-Strom. (You can't see it's looks when you're riding).
It is ESPECIALLY comfortable for the passenger. Another advantage is it doesn't fair too badly when the road sucks.
For two up, the 1000 is an exceptional sport touring mount.
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July 05, 2011, 10:44:41 AM »
If you're gonna be riding two-up, go for the Bandit over the SV.
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July 05, 2011, 04:27:29 PM »
What about a used VFR?
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July 05, 2011, 11:00:43 PM »
I you're thinking about layin' her down in the future, maybe you should check out a Harley
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July 06, 2011, 12:17:35 PM »
Sorry I've been away from the computer for a while, enforced bed rest and some pretty good pain killers have left me in a less then 100% state.
I like the chain drive because it's what I've always had, and to be honest I prefer them over other final drives because I enjoy wrenching on my bikes as much as possible. It's just what I've gotten used to I guess. Same thing with the carbs, I can rebuild/clean them myself if necessary as well as doing carb syncs.
I don't know how much money I'm gonna have to work with in the end, still waiting on the insurance company to send me an offer that will probably need some negotiating/adjustment. I'm thinking anywhere from $2000-2500. One of my thoughts was to hold off and get the bike this fall when the prices drop a bit, and I can't ride or wrench till I'm healed up anyway (Doc's say about 2 months give or take).
As far as which bandit, i was thinking about a 2000 or so, and probably the 600 (1200 would probably cost to much to insure). But I haven't ruled out the sv650 (naked or faired, haven't decided). I don't mind getting a bike that has some engine problems or light cosmetic damage as I'll have all winter to work on it and get it up to standard, like I sai I don't mind a bit or wrenching. Either way, since the accident my GF has decided she probably won't want to ride with me anymore, guess she finally saw the extent of the dangers associated with bikes.
So this discussion may be a bit premature, but even laying in the hospital bed I was already thinking about my next mount. I figure why ride 4 wheels when two wheels works just as well.
Birdrunner: Your right, rubber does help with the stops,
but the kid pulled out about 50 feet in front on me while I was doing about 60mph. It was either go to ground or hit the truck and become a human projectile. Still ended up with a ruptured spleen, bruised lung and dislocated shoulder. Doc's say I should make a full recovering without need for any surgery (fingers crossed).
Hope this answers most of the questions, and again thanks for the input guys. I'll let you know how it goes with the insurance company, hoping for the best.
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Re: Bandit vs. Sv650
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July 10, 2011, 08:38:52 AM »
SO here are my thoughts after a bit of research, internet since I can't go on any test rides, Damn Doctors.
First I'm 5'10 around 175-185 lbs (fluctuates depending on my work out plan that month)
Second, probably gonna get about $2500 from insurance company for the ZR7.
Third, the GF isn't at all eager to get back on the bike anytime soon, so two-up riding is no longer a primary concern.
Fourth, I'm looking for a sport touring mount, but 80-90% of my riding is an hour and a half or less at a time, so a full fledged tourer is not necessary. Maybe it's more accurate to say I'm looking for a sport/standard with touring capabilities.
Thought about getting one of these two and then changing ergos to suit a more upright position. Heli bars one the S model with the high foot pegs. Or the naked version with a give or targa windscreen/mini fairing. The thought would be to later (when more funds are available) add a full fairing kit to either bike, and clip ons if I got the the naked model, with the lower foot pegs. Either way trying to get a bit of wind/element protection from either bike. Saw a nice full set from sharkskinz. I like the SV650 since I've ridden one before and know it has the power I need. Pus there are plenty of aftermarket hard luggage sets available for these unlike the ZR7. But, I'm not crazy bout the 180 mile range with the 4.1 gal tank.
Honda VFR
Would love a 2004 with the factory bags, but no way that's gonna be in my budget. :-(
2000-2002 Bandit 600S
This is right up there with the only real contender with the SV as far as what is reasonable on my budget. It has the range (200+ miles per tank) that I want, and the aftermarket support (full fairing kits, hard luggage) and the reliable proven engine. I'm just concerned it's not gonna have the power I'm used to coming off a 750cc engine. I know I can swap engines for a gsx750 but then mileage goes down and I'm not that eager to do a full swap...just yet.
Yamaha FZ6
Same boat as the Honda VFR.
I know I'm being picky here, but with my budget I have to make this count. All these bikes have pros and cons, it's the sifting through them that the hard part. I'm hoping to heal up quickly so I can actually go out on some test rides instead of just dreaming on the internet. Any thoughts? Please?
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August 21, 2011, 02:51:32 PM »
Between my wife and I we currently have an FZ6 and an SVS in the stable, which is almost like having a Bandit 600 and SV, and it all comes down to what you're planning on doing with your day.
On the one hand, the SV defines "usable power" on the streetno matter what you're doing, you have something resembling power when you twist your wrist. It also handles well, impressively so when you give the suspension some attention. The SV will make the same kind of power at 2k rpm as any 600 I4 at 5k (I used my friend's F4i for specific comparison), and it'll make it all the way to the redline.
On the other hand, if my day is going to be all interstate, I'll take the FZ6. Once you hit the freeway, and the FZ (and the Bandit) are coming into their powerband, there's no competition: the SV will fall behind. On a peaky I4, freeway riding is a total breeze. Once the engine is turning more than 6k, it'll keep up with anythingit's a rocket.
I would pick the bike that matches the riding that you enjoy, regardless of which riding you wind up doing. That's why even though I take more trips and put on way more miles than my wife, the SV is mine.
On the topic of naked or faired SVs, you might wind up being pretty happy with the stock riding position of the naked. All the complaints about not being comfortable for long hauls pretty much disappear with the higher bars and nice upright riding position.
As of yesterday, I actually own both a naked and a faired SV, so this shouldn't come as a surprise: I can not say enough good things about that bike, and especially that engine.
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August 21, 2011, 05:02:36 PM »
Sounds like you are feeling a bit better.
Let me know when you want to part with the XS400.
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August 22, 2011, 04:49:14 PM »
I had an 07 SV650S and liked it, although I did sell it as I thought it was too slow. The best part of the SV is definately the motor (even though I found it slightly on the boring side). It's nice and torquey. I wasn't a fan of the suspension the or the brakes. I know that the suspension can be upgraded (ZX-10 shock and GSXR forks), but I didn't like it enough to put money and effort into it.
I sold it to my Dad, who upgraded from a Ninja 250. He called me the other day and said he saw 121mph on the speedo. My thought was, "Holy cow, Dad...I've created a monster"
. Now I know where I get it from. I never took it that fast. After 100, it climbs a bit more slowly--which gave me time to think about deer, rabbits, flashing red and blue lights, and jail time.
In all fairness, I'm sure I would have enjoyed the SV a lot more if I'd never the ridden what I've got now. Funny how that works...
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August 23, 2011, 08:43:00 PM »
Last summer, my son and I rode up to Deals Gap. We did about 450 miles that day. I was on my '96 600 Bandit and he was on his '07 SV650S. He had just bought the SV as a new leftover. We both agreed that the Bandit was much more comfortable but he much preferred his SV once we got up on the Tail of the Dragon.
To be fair, his SV was stock and my Bandit had bar risers, a tall shield and a gel seat so it should have been more comfortable.
The SV has much more lowend and midrange torque...more peak torque too than the Bandit. The Bandit sure is fun running it up to redline through the gears though.
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September 08, 2011, 11:23:42 PM »
I have a 2006 SV 650s with raised bars. I think it's a decent city bike for one up. I wouldn't want to go very far on it.
I'm wanting more power and something with more sport and tour.
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September 23, 2011, 08:11:48 PM »
Have you actually checked with your insurer to see what it would cost to insure an older Bandit 1200S? I ask this because it might not be as much as you think. With progressive it falls under the 1200cc tier because it is actually 1158cc. I find mine to be a very good ST machine. yes, there are more comfortable bikes and their are more sporting bike, but the bandit is a very good mix of the two.
I find the suspension ( I am about 250lbs) to be fine for legal/sensible speeds on public roads. For the speeds at which it is lacking, you should be on a track.
Power is real world. Mine puts out 103hp at the rear wheel. This may not sound like much in the age of 200hp street missles, but the motor is tuned to make usable power. It makes power where you need it, not just in the top third of the tach. She is happy to run the back roads between 3 and 4k all day long. That said, she will get your attention and go quite rapidly should you ask it of her and take the needle just a little bit further up the tach face.
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Kawi, any updates?
The road is NOT your personal race track -
If you could ride 1/2 as good as you think you do, you would be a pro.
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December 05, 2011, 09:30:15 PM »
o2Tac is right--seriously consider the 1200. I've had both (the 600 and the 1200), and there really is no comparison in terms of real world, usable power. I wouldn't imagine the insurance would be much different on either bike. Stock B12s make good midrange power (as mentioned), but they aren't screamers. Now, if you want to uncork the motor with a jet kit, filter, and pipe...
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December 06, 2011, 09:59:06 AM »
All the goodness of the six fiddy with more power, and adjustable suspension...
I loved mine!!!!
There is another thread on here an things to make the SV 650/1000 good for touring...
taller screen
gel seat
lower foot pegs
bar risers
hard luggage
The 1000 won't be wheezing or leave you wishing for more power.
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Quote from: Bobcat on December 05, 2011, 09:30:15 PM
o2Tac is right--seriously consider the 1200. I've had both (the 600 and the 1200), and there really is no comparison in terms of real world, usable power. I wouldn't imagine the insurance would be much different on either bike. Stock B12s make good midrange power (as mentioned), but they aren't screamers. Now, if you want to uncork the motor with a jet kit, filter, and pipe...
Great real world power. Tons of power does you no good ifit all up in the top of the rpm range.
Insurance is not bad as the 1200 Bandit is actually 1156 which falls under the 1200cc threshold most insurance companies use.
I did add a Holeshot Performance (place to go for Zuki motors) Stage one Mod jet kit to mine. Not for more power, but to fix the factory lean condition. Not a must do, but it does smooth things out and improves milage. I get over 50 mpg with my 1200.
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I have an '07 B1250, it's comfortable no trouble at 70,000 km, all the valves were still within at 70,000km. Riding with a newbie rider at the speed limit, I got 68mpg, about 56.6 US mpg.
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In Closer, Susan Kozel draws on live performance practice, digital technologies, and the philosophical approach of phenomenology. Trained in dance and philosophy, Kozel places the human body at the center of explorations of interactive interfaces, responsive systems, and affective computing, asking what can be discovered as we become closer to our computers—as they become extensions of our ways of thinking, moving, and touching.


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Pancit Palabok (P65)
Thursday, June 21, 2007
RAZON'S of Guagua.., is it?
Razon's - the restaurant that originated from Pampanga, made famous by their Halo-halo and Pancit Palabok, started to invade Manila. To as far south as Alabang, we found one of their Food Court Stalls in Town Center. I have good memories of this restaurant from our NCL (North & Central Luzon) Taste Trek. For so long now, I've been wanting to try these best sellers again. Hence, we were happy that there's now a branch near to us. There's simply no reason to hesitate, we immediately get into the queue.
Unfortunately, to our dismay the pancit palabok is not the same as to what we have tasted back in their Guagua branch. What used to be one of our benchmarks in one of our noodle projects, is now an "okay to be missed" dish. It's short in meaty character, the sauce is almost bland and a bit satiating. There's just something lacking in its overall taste. How come? Is it because, this is a "food court version"? I wonder if the same quality is being served in their bigger Restaurants. We have to go and find out one of these days. (We also have to check the Halo-halo). Is this always the pay-off when you commercialize products? Needless to say, consistent quality seemed to be the most challenging battle for any manufacturer or merchant. Yet, isn't it also the foremost attribute customers will look for?
Razon's of Guagua
Choices at the Food Court
Alabang Town Center
Alabang, Muntinlupa City
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- Anonymous said...
I quite agree with your comments about your Manila experience not being the same as your Pampanga experience. You see, the original Razon's were the three sisters who started the refreshment parlor. The secrets of their cooking/recipe for their palabok & halu-halo were not passed on to anyone else except for the nieces/nephews that actually lived and worked with them. Hence, the Manila recipe would be different because even though they are nieces/nephews of said sisters, the secrets were not passed on to them. Try the Razon's in Sn Fernando, Guagua & Lubao Pampanga and then you will see that I'm right!
- August 7, 2007 at 11:13 PM
- Sherra said...
Thanks for that enlightening comment, hopefully we can push through with our Pampanga Culinary Trek and find out.
- August 8, 2007 at 8:27 AM
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- - SW microbes live in lower level salinity?
SW microbes live in lower level salinity? I'm got a bunch of dead rock, that was once live rock. Just can't afford to get live rock. So, I'm planning on putting my GSP in his larger tank (68 gal), and I want to match the salinity of what is in his current tank (28 gal) (that a neighbor is buying from me this weekend) because I know the filter (or good bacteria) isn't able to handle more salinity. I've been raising salinity slowly, but currently I keep getting a nitrite reading :( If I get some substrate from a SW tank and put it in the new tank, is there any good reason to do this? Will it help with any possible cycling? Would any of the small creatures be able to live in salinity of 1.012? Or would getting that just create more waste, as they die off? I'm so worried about moving my little guy,because I'm afraid all the dead rock and crushed coral substrate may have tons of waste in it (though I rinsed it well) and create a hugh cycle, though I'm putting my existing fluval 305 on the new tank, and adding a emperor 400 also, with new filters. Any ideas, before I take this plunge! Gwen |
If you just put the Rock form the 28g in the tank along with the substrate and nothing else, you will be ok. It will probably shot up a mini cycle, but should not take long nor be very dangerous. If you put all the dead rock in at the same time, this will give you a full blown cycle, as the bacteria will start to grow on it all, at the same time. Put your 28g in the new tank, then slowly like every 2-3 weeks add more rock. But, yoiu didnt' mention what salinity level the fish is in right now, and is it the 1.012 that you are going to bring it to right away? |
Adding a scoop of "Live" substrate from a friend's tank will help to increase the beneficial bacteria, as well as the good reef bugs and worms. The deeper denitrifying bacteria will take a while to culture in your tank, especially if you are going through salinity changes. |
Okay, this may prevent me from selling my 28 gal to my neighbor for awhile. The rock is all new, It's not been in my 28 gallon. I've set the large tank up with the rock, and new substrate (because I don't want a sand bottom, which is in my 28 gal). I want to use the crushed coral I got, which is used but it was dried out for some time and I rinsed it. The only thing that would be the same in both tanks, is the fluval 305 filter and medium. So, your saying I would create a full cycle? Yikes! I can't have that. Taking substrate from a SW won't help? I'm matching the salinity in the new tank, with what is in the old, which is 1.012. I've started in guy in freshwater, and it's been about 2 1/2 months, and I'm at this salinity, but I'm battling a small nitrite reading. Thanks for your help!! Gwen Gwen |
Here are my readings in my 68 gallon tank, with no fish. This surprises me I have nitrates already. I'm used to cycling FW and that takes weeks. What does this mean for my tank? Remember I put in "used" dead rock and substrate (rinsed) but I've added no other means of "waste" ph 8.2 ammonia 0.25ppm nitrite 0 nitrate 10ppm Thanks!! |
You don't need to add anything to start a cycle, as you can see, it does it all by itself. Trates from your substrate form old tank? Is that what you used? Also, if you threw your filter on there, it will have some Trates in there also. But no worries, these are all good things, the bio load that thing has on it alone should make quick work of a cycle. |
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Good to know. Reading today .025 ammonia. 0 nitrites 10ppm nitrates. Substrate is not from old tank. Got arogite sand for free. Hearing different things. Does salinity have to b at fullsrine for live coral? If so what level? Posted via Mobile Device |
Live Corals yes, you should keep it at 1.025-1.026. Also, I might add to test for these levels also if yoiu plan on Reefing it up. ALK-8-12 Magnesium- 1200-1400 Calcium- 400-460 Phosphate- less than .01 |
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Kelly Abernathy 4/29/2004 1:09:55 PM
Beautiful shot, but that guy? - NO THANK YOU! I couldn't do it! -K #122789Damian P. Gadal 4/29/2004 1:11:12 PM
Me either - I think he's out of his mind! :-) #509668Donna LaMattino Pagakis 4/29/2004 2:04:22 PM
Great image Damian. So cool. #509786Susana Matos 4/29/2004 2:43:07 PM
ahahahah, i´ve done it but the voilier was smaller and it was in the marina... I can´t imagine how it feels like to climb such a high one!!!!wow...Marie Fields 4/29/2004 4:10:26 PM
Great shot! #509981Steve Williams 4/29/2004 5:58:28 PM
Is that a panoramic shot or did you crop it?? Awesome! #510104Damian P. Gadal 4/29/2004 6:26:37 PM
Thanks Donna, Su, Marie, and Steve! I cropped it a bit as I didn't really need the sides, and I wanted to add to the impact a bit... I left the boat on the right in so that this would have a sense of scale - this was one big boat... #510142Allan L. Whitehead 5/8/2004 5:00:49 AM
Been there, done that, and on the water too. Its a great spot to get photographs from, Damian. This boat looks to be at least 45' +. Great capture and I like yoiur use the other boat for scale. FYI, each set of "spreaders" on a mast usually indicates about 15 feet of boat (but not always). I love this, well done - Allan #525914Damian P. Gadal 5/8/2004 6:23:43 AM
Thank you Allan! :-) #526042Kathleen Clemons 5/13/2004 4:32:02 PM
Congratulations to you, Damian. :) #534563Murry Grigsby 5/13/2004 4:37:32 PM
Congrats and good luck Damian! #534595Diane Dupuis 5/13/2004 5:19:44 PM
Bravo Damian! #534803Stanley J. Contrades 5/13/2004 5:29:34 PM
I'll ditto Diane's BRAVO, Damian and offer my Congratulations as well! Maybe that's the reason I have a bad case of vertigo ... this way I won't be thought of as a "nut"!!!Donna W. Neal 5/13/2004 6:58:40 PM
Congratulations Damian. Very nice capture. #535565Brenda W. LaFleur 5/13/2004 9:54:36 PM
Excellent, Damian! Good luck! #536469Dale Ann Cubbage 5/14/2004 3:06:19 AM
Congrats Damian! This is fabulous! #536972Carolina K. Smith 5/14/2004 3:21:40 AM
WHOA! Beautiful Capture, made me hold my breath seeing the guy... CONGRATULATIONS! #537039Jill Battaglia 5/14/2004 4:58:31 AM
Wow! very cool shot! Congrats!! #537501Allan L. Whitehead 5/14/2004 5:17:45 AM
"Over the bounding main" Damian, congratulations, and good luck, my friend, on your finalist selection for last month. This is richly deserved. Extremely well done - Allan #537602Cathy Barrows 5/14/2004 5:50:45 AM
Congrats!...job I don't want #537796Sharon E. Lowe 5/14/2004 6:00:44 AM
Congrats Damian! #537872Kam 5/14/2004 7:10:28 AM
Wow awesome image, GOOD EYE!! And congrats to a fellow finalist :) #538387Kelly Abernathy 5/14/2004 8:47:28 AM
Woo-Hoo! I'm glad to see it here - it's such a good shot - but I still say 'no way....' :) Congratulations! -K #538737Carol Brill 5/14/2004 10:30:18 AM
Damian, this is spectacular, congratulations and best of luck! #539096Susie Peek-Swint 5/14/2004 12:27:48 PM
Many congrats Damian! #539556Susana Matos 5/14/2004 12:36:54 PM
Congratulations, great photo!#539617
Pu Chen 5/14/2004 2:13:05 PM
Great shot of a very cool boat! That guy looks like an acrobat there --- make me tense just to look at him :) Congratulations, Damian! #539937Debra Booth 5/15/2004 5:22:09 AM
Excellent, Damian! Congratulations! #541138Patrick Campbell 5/17/2004 7:59:31 AM
Great catch, Damian! How the heck does he get up there? Wouldn't want to be doing this in a gale! #545340
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LOS ANGELES (Variety.com) -- This is what makes Disney (DIS) such a powerhouse.
"Beauty and the Beast," the studio's latest live-action update of a cartoon classic, waltzed its way to a towering $170 million debut this weekend, setting a new record for a March opening and solidifying the Mouse House's status as the dominant player in the film business. No other company can match the streak that Disney is currently enjoying, thanks to a series of multibillion acquisitions that put the likes of Pixar, Marvel, and LucasFilm in its Magic Kingdom.
"Beauty and the Beast" represents another part of Disney's branded strategy. It's the latest fairy tale adaptation to hit screens. Others in the lucrative group include "Alice in Wonderland," which picked up $1 billion worldwide, "Cinderella" with its $543.5 million global haul, and last year's "The Jungle Book," which racked up a mighty $966.6 million after finishing its run.
Remakes of "Dumbo" and "Mulan" are already in the works, as Disney commits to putting a live-action spin on the bulk of its animated properties (fans of "Treasure Planet" may be out of luck).
The latest fairy tale follows Belle, a bookish girl in France played by Harry Potter film veteran Emma Watson, who helps a tortured Beast (Dan Stevens of "Downton Abbey" fame) break out of his shell. In the process, she lifts a curse that's left the Beast's kingdom populated by talking household items.
"Beauty and the Beast" didn't muck about with the elements that made the 1991 film so beloved. Director Bill Condon kept the basic plot intact, while fleshing out a bit more of Belle's backstory and retaining a soundtrack that includes "Be Our Guest" and "Belle."
All those elaborate musical numbers and chatty cutlery don't come cheap. "Beauty and the Beast" carries a hefty $160 million budget. But it should make that money back manyfold after ticket sales are tallied and new lines of princess wear are whipped up to satisfy new generations of Belle lovers.
Most major studios steered clear of "Beauty and the Beast." The only other new release of note, "The Belko Experiment," debuted to $4.1 million, which its backers say is a success given its model.
The film boasts a unique distribution strategy. "The Belko Experiment" opened in 1,341 locations, roughly a third of the theater count for a major studio offerings. The theaters are chosen because they're more popular with horror fans. Orion, an MGM label, backed the film and is distributing it with BH Tilt. That label is overseen by "The Purge" and "Insidious" producer Blumhouse. It's trying to find more cost-efficient ways to bring smaller films to the masses.
"The Belko Experiment" follows a group of American corporate types, who are locked in a high-rise office in Bogota, Colombia. They're ordered by a voice on the intercom to kill one another in a gray flannel-version of Social Darwinism.
With "Beauty and the Beast" dominating ticket sales, last weekend's champ, "Kong: Skull Island," fell 53 percent to $28.8 million. That pushes the monster movie's domestic haul to $110.1 million. Warner Bros. (TWX) and Legendary Entertainment teamed up to produce the remake of King Kong.
Fox's "Logan" took third place, pulling in $17.5 million and bringing the R-rated superhero tale's stateside total to $184 million. Universal and Blumhouse's "Get Out," a thriller about a black man whose girlfriend's white family holds a sinister secret, nabbed fourth position. It made $13.2 million, bringing its gross to $133.1 million. With a budget of $4.5 million, the film is one of the year's most profitable. Lionsgate's "The Shack" rounded out the top five, generating $6.1 million and pushing the faith-based drama's earnings to over $42.6 million.
In limited release, "T2 Trainspotting," a sequel to the 1996 cult comedy about a group of heroin addicts, opened in five locations, earning $180,000. Ewan McGregor reprises his role as a drug-addict Scot. The actor also has a supporting turn playing Lumiere, a candlestick, in "Beauty and the Beast." Sony is releasing "T2," which is heavily geared toward European audiences. The drama has already made $34 million overseas.


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Over the past several decades, Antonio Lopez Garcia has become known as the finest Spanish painter of his generation. His intensely realistic paintings—ranging in subject from grimy bathroom sinks to expansive Madrid cityscapes—often take him years of meticulous work to complete. These sculptures, and several other recent works by Lopez, were inspired by the birth of his grandchildren. When his second grandchild, Carmen, was a few months old, Lopez began modeling two portraits of her head, one depicting her awake and the other asleep.
In an interview given at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Lopez explained that these sculptures presented his first opportunity to work on a monumental scale. The process of transforming his intimate portraits into large-scale bronzes endowed them with an entirely different, unexpected character. "Your starting point is the representation of everyday life, and what is close to you," he reflected, but "what is created becomes about many things, known and unknown." Night and Day are now in the MFA's permanent collection. Another slightly larger pair is located in the Atocha train station in Madrid, where they commemorate the victims of the 2004 terrorist train bombings.


text: A tomboy private investigator goes undercover as a sorority girl to protect a coed whose father is set to testify against a dangerous mobster in this comedy starring Miley Cyrus. Molly (Cyrus) is a teenage private eye who gets the evidence most sleuths can't. But when the FBI asks her to pose as a rich sorority girl, she's not sure she'll be able to convincingly shed her gruff exterior. With a little make-up and a new wardrobe, however, Molly fits right in on campus. Before long she's best friends with the girl who has information that could bring down the mob. Meanwhile, the obnoxious antics of Molly's hopelessly spoiled sorority "sisters" repeatedly test both her patience, and willingness to maintain her cover. Jeremy Piven and Kelly Osbourne co-star. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi


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Stop the abuse of workers in Nashville hotels
I support housekeepers who are standing up to end abuses from their boss. Violations of minimum wage law, and other worker abuses are unacceptable and make southern hospitality look bad.
"According to the lawsuit, the hotels, the Best Western Music Row on Division and the Comfort Inn Downtown on Demonbreun, paid housekeepers as little as $3.50 an hour and made them work up to 70 hours a week without breaks.
"I am not asking for anything extra. I am only asking for what is fair," said plaintiff Henry Hernandez, 29, who worked in construction in Los Angeles before moving to Nashville some months ago. The worst part, Hernandez said, is that management "didn't do anything to stop it."" - From the Tennessean ( http://www.tennessean.com/article/20130215/NEWS/302150115 )
You are invited to join the worker as they march to their workplace, at 12pm on February 17. Meet at Workers' Dignity workers' center: 3753 Nolensville Pike , Nashville, TN 37211
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Sydney Clayton didn't win a state championship last season for Nettleton High School in girls powerlifting.
The 130-pound blonde lifts in the 148-pound class. Maybe that's why.
"I have to drink tons and tons of water to make the 132-pound limit to lift in that class," she said, then laughed.
But Clayton's quest is not to win powerlifting honors. Instead, the senior wants another state championship ring in softball, and lifting weights, she believes, will help her and the Lady Tigers achieve that goal.
Nettleton won a fast-pitch state championship last spring and has opened the slow-pitch season on fire, jumping out to a 13-1 start.
"Lifting weights has helped us a lot," said Clayton, an outfielder who bats cleanup. "I think it's helped me a lot with my hitting. I'm hitting the ball a lot harder and a lot farther."
Nettleton coach Dana Rhea credits his team's weight training with its success on the diamond.
"It's paid dividends," he said. "It's made us stronger. We can do a lot more things with the bat."
The team doesn't lift heavy weight during the season, however. Sore muscles and base hits don't mix.
"We're just trying to maintain," Rhea said.
"We've scaled down our lifting," said senior third baseman Heather Noe. "We lift four times a week and work on our abs once a week. We don't do so much that we get sore."
Noe, who started lifting weights last season, believes it has helped the team improve.
"We're all hitting the ball harder," she said. "You can see an increase in everybody's ability. We've progressed a lot physically and mentally."
Veteran team
Rhea, whose lineup features six seniors, said he stresses playing good defense and timely hitting.
Noe, shortstop Holly Schlicht, second baseman Makenzie Hawkins and first baseman Michele Hester give the Lady Tigers one of the area's top infields.
"Their shortstop (Schlicht) is one of the best defensive players in the area," North Pontotoc coach Shane Montgomery said. "I think they're really a good hitting team.
"It's all about playing good defense, getting timely hits, and getting runners home."
The lone team to find a flaw in the Lady Tigers' armor thus far has been West Union. The Lady Eagles defeated them 5-3 last week in the Nettleton Tournament.
In that loss, the usually potent-hitting Lady Tigers collected just three hits off West Union starter Rachel Baker, a senior with 100-plus games under her belt.
"We caught them at the right time," West Union coach Andy Kirk said. "They just had one of those games when they didn't hit."
Actually, the Lady Tigers did hit the ball, Kirk said. "They hit it right at us … and they hit it hard."
Nettleton, a 3A school, defeated 1A West Union in a preseason season tournament. It's the type matchup Kirk believes will get his ballclub ready for a postseason run.
"Nettleton's as solid as they come, one through 10," he said. "They're the best team around, no doubt."
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As if dating weren't complicated enough, when two people who are seriously commited to their Christian faith decide to begin dating, tons of new issues arise.
Christian dating brings up questions about appropriate intimacy, maintaining a proper relationship with Christ, honoring God through your dating relationship, and following the teachings of Christ while remaining a happy couple. Some wisdom on proper dating can be gleamed from the Bible, and other advice on Christian dating comes from our clergy, our parents, and even our Christian friends.
Let's take a look at some of the big issues involved in Christian dating.
Does God Want Me to Date?
Obviously God intends for human beings to marry and procreate. It is part of His plan that men and women should marry and be physically intimate with one another in order to advance His kingdom. The question is — does God want us to date, and if so, at what age should we begin looking for our spiritual life partner.
Nowhere in the New Testament of the Bible are "arranged marriages" suggested. It was common in the Old Testament for men and women to be married by arrangement, but after the sacrifice of Christ on the cross, a new covenant was made. Now, marriages are arranged by God only. This means that prayer and serious meditation must occur when a Christian is choosing when to date and who to make that date with. If it were only as easy as asking God to send you the right mate, none of us would ever have to date. However, as we know, God doesn't usually communicate that directly. You can talk to God in prayer and let God know your feelings and questions — that you want to know if you are ready to date, and that you're wondering how to decide who to date — but you must be willing to listen to the "still small voice" for your answer. It is not likely that you'll pass a burning bush on the street one day and instantly know who it is you need to marry. What is likely is this: if you live your life according to Biblical principles, and if you pray earnestly for guidance from God, you will get your answer.
God wants us to date and to marry, and God wants to guide us in this process — but there are still some issues that come up in Christian dating that can't be addressed through prayer alone.
Should Christians be Intimate?
This is an issue that divides many Christians. In general, the more conservative and more evangelical a Christian is, the less likely that Christian is to want to involve intimacy in a dating relationship. There is a growing movement among very Fundamentalist Christians toward something called "courting". "Courting" means you spend time with a person that God leads you to believe would be a good marriage partner, but you do not touch them, kiss them, or even have intimate feelings towards them. This belief is based on a literal interpretation of Biblical verses that warn against the "sins of the flesh" — the belief is that God doesn't want any physical intimacy to occur outside of sacred Christian marriage.
At the other end of the spectrum, many Christians (especially the more liberal or "open" congregations) are accepting of the fact that we live in a very different age, an age of openness and sexuality that it would be foolish and counterproductive to ignore. Some Christians even feel that non believers are less likely to convert if they think they will not be allowed to have intimate relationships outside of marriage — an idea that is supported by anecdotal truth. For instance, I know I would be less likely to be involved in a religion that forbids me to have an intimate relationship — much less if that religion forbids me from even touching or thinking about a woman I have feelings for.
These kinds of decisions are very personal, and should be made on a case by case basis. If you believe God is calling you to avoid sex until marriage — do so. If, on the other hand, you don't think you are breaking a covenant with God by being intimate with someone you're dating, don't feel guilty about your decision. The underlying message of the Bible is that God loves us and wants us to be happy. Pray about the decision, and consider the specific beliefs of your Christian sect. Talk to your partner, and make the decision together. Again, seek the advice of a pastor or trusted church member.
Does my Christian Boyfriend or Girlfriend Have to Belong to My Church?
This is another question with multiple answers. According to some sects of Christianity, you shouldn't date a Christian that doesn't share your specific beliefs about Christ, God, the Bible, and the teachings of Christianity. Specifically, Charismatic or Evangelical Christians tend to want to date only other members of their specific sects. More important than what your church tells you is what God tells you. When you pray about the person you want to date, does God lead you toward them or away from them?
Christian dating doesn't always even happen between two Christians — the person God leads you toward may not even be a Christian — there are many instances in the Bible, both Old and New Testament, where God led someone to marry a non believer, and that marriage led to conversion and salvation and happiness. As with the other questions here, Christian dating should be based on answers received from honest and heartfelt prayer.
If you feel drawn by God toward someone who doesn't belong to your specific denomination, you should pursue that relationship. God is, after all, the ultimate authority — your pastor, your parents, your friends, and members of your church should not feel compelled or allowed to tell you what kind of person to date.
Taking all of these lessons into consideration, approach your pastor or an elder at your church with any questions you may have about Christian dating. It is always wise to seek the counsel of others, and the Bible often instructs us to seek multiple sources of wisdom. Keeping God first in your life may be difficult when attempting to date someone, but as a Christian, this should always remain your priority.


text: The Martin D28 Authentic 1941 Acoustic Guitar with Case is an authentic remake of the original D-28 1941 Dreadnought. World war II caused there to be restrictions of certain metals, trims and materials by 1941. Martin was affected just like all other American companies. The D-28, however, still retained some resticted materials like a metal T-bar truss road, bone or ivory saddle, fine German herringbone wood inlay, diamond and square fingerboard inlays, Adirondack spruce top, and Brazilian rosewood back and sides. An evolution in guitars and materials have changed the materials and builds of guitars, including a shift away from scalloped bracing because of the use of heavier steel strings, and some would disappear altogether or return only years later. Among collectors and players alike, the 1941 D-28 is highly prized as the penultimate Martin Dreadnought for its exceptionally consistent, powerful, balanced, and open tonality - the best of the big, long scale, steel string acoustic guitars. Due to scarcity and regulation, the genuine rosewood of the Brazilian variety used on all pre-1964 rosewood Martin guitars can no longer be used on Martin guitars. The back and sides of this stunning guitar are offered in solid Madagascar rosewood, a very close cousin of the Brazilian Rosewod, in place of the Brazilian. In all other respects, the D-28 Authentic 1941 mirrors the original in appointments, features, tone, construction methods, and materials, including a genuine mahogany 14-fret neck, solid Adirondack spruce top and scalloped Adirondack spruce braces, ebony bridge and fingerboard, diamond and square position inlays, grained ivoroid bindings, period Waverly tuners, hide glue construction, and more. NOTE: Non-VTS (Vintage Tone System).


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Chiefs Head Into Playoffs On Ten Game Winning StreakThe Kansas City Chiefs scrapped and fought for more than two months to piece together a franchise-record 10-game winning streak, allowing them to return to the playoffs after a one-year absence.
Top 70 NFL Fantasy Football Wide Receivers For 2015The NFL regular season is getting closer by the day as teams are finishing up with their respective training camps and preparing for week two of the preseason.
Dwork On Sports: Dolphins Weighing Options At Wide ReceiverIt's no secret that Miami is in the market for another starting wide receiver and they've brought in three free agents that are prime candidates for the role.
Free Agent Receiver Wes Welker Visits DolphinsWes Welker is the latest free agent receiver to visit the Miami Dolphins.
Former Vikings Receiver Greg Jennings Visits DolphinsThe Miami Dolphins still have some roster holes to fill and may be looking to address some of them before the NFL Draft later this month.
Dolphins Lose Clay To Bills, Bring In Three Players For VisitsThe Miami Dolphins have lost one of their most productive offensive players to a division rival.
Free Agent Receiver Michael Crabtree Plans Visit With DolphinsThe Miami Dolphins are certainly going to have a different look in 2015 than they did at the end of the previous season.
Jonathan Martin Makes 49ers' 53-Man RosterOffensive lineman Jonathan Martin, who had a tumultuous departure from the Miami Dolphins last October amid a bullying scandal, made the 49ers when the team trimmed its roster to the NFL's 53-man limit on Saturday.
Stevie Johnson Returns Home To Round Out 49ers Receiving Core And Silence CriticsThe 49ers' acquisition of wide receiver Stevie Johnson is a win for both the team and player. San Francisco gets what they hope is the final missing piece to their passing game, while Johnson gets the chance to return home and not only play for a contender, but play in a market where his talents will not go un-noticed.
Top 20 NFL Fantasy Wide Receivers For 2014The NFL regular season is getting closer by the day as teams are now finished with their respective training camps and preparing for the all-important third preseason game. Fans are very lucky these days because every single preseason game is made available to them, whether it be online or on television. That gives fantasy football players the opportunity to scout everyone and anyone that they may consider drafting.
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Memories of Yesterday by Enesco Corporation.
Lucie Attwell Collection, "It's The Thought That Counts".Boy With Empty Pockets Porcelain Figurine - #115029 - YEAR 1988 Measures about 5.5" tall by 2.5" wide. Perfect condition but no box
HUMMEL Goose Girl figurine #47/0 TMK 6 Goebel West Germany
Measures 5" tall. Excellent condition, free from cracks and chips.
Adorable Bahner Studios figurine by Enesco. Double figurine of two bearing gifts. Titled The gift of love, dated 2003. figurine # 112233. Perfect condition.
Adorable Enesco figurine by Bahner Studios, Your Love Keeps Me Warm....2002 ~ 4 1/2 " tall....Excellent Condition. Figurine # 104367
Detailed and nicely made eagle figurine measures 7 1/4: tall. Finely detailed and in perfect condition. A mother eagle perches above her nest of two hungry eaglets as she keeps a keen eye on her surroundings. Not sure of the manufacturer but it would make someone a lovely addition to their collection.
Crystal Cathedral Robert Schuller Memorial Eagles Club 1995 Eagle Collection figurine. Bisque porcelain bald eagle sits majesticly on lookout on a craggy rock. Measures 10" tall. Perfect condition with not the slightest damage. Isaiah 40:31 verse on the bottom. No box
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George Good Wind up musical figure, figurine, statue ceramic porcelain pirate boy, and grey cat in a tub boat. Plays it's a small world after all. Excellent condition and plays well. No damages.Made of bisque porcelain. Measures 5" tall. Original hang tag.
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Shrimp Spring Rolls
- 10 cups of water
- 1 lemon, halved
- Salt
- Cayenne
- Zatarain's Concentrated Liquid Shrimp and Crab Boil
- 1 pound large shrimp, peeled, deveined, and tail removed
- 2 ounces Chinese cellophane or glass noodles
- Dash of sesame oil
- Dash of soy sauce
- 1 tablespoon chopped green onions
- Black pepper
- 8 rice papers or spring roll wrappers
- 2 tablespoons plus 2 teaspoons hoisin sauce
- 4 large romaine leaves, cut in half vertically
- 1/2 cup radish, alfalfa, or bean sprouts
- 1/2 cup matchstick carrot strips
- 1/2 cup packed cilantro leaves
- 1/2 cup packed fresh mint leaves
Line a baking sheet with parchment paper. In a non-reactive saucepan, over medium-high heat, put 4 cups of the water. Squeeze the lemon juice into the water and put the peel in the water. Season the water with salt and pepper. Season the water with the crab boil. Bring the liquid to a boil. Season the shrimp with salt. Add the shrimp to the water and cook for 2 minutes, stirring occasionally. Remove from the heat and let sit for 2 minutes. Drain and cool. In another saucepan, add 4 cups of water. Season the water with salt. Bring the liquid to a boil. Add the noodles and boil until they are clear, about 2 1/2 minutes. Drain and cool the noodles with cold water. In a small mixing bowl, add the noodles. Season the noodles with sesame oil, soy sauce, salt, green onions and black pepper. Mix thoroughly.
Cut the shrimp in half lengthwise. Bring the remaining 2 cups water to a boil in a 10 inch saute pan and remove from the heat. Submerge each spring roll wrapper, one at a time, in the hot water, moving it around in the water until soft and pliable, 10 to 15 seconds. Remove and lay on the parchment paper. Brush each wrapper with 1 teaspoon of the hoisin sauce. Lay a half leaf of romaine in the center of each wrapper. On top of each half leaf, put 1 tablespoon of the noodle mixture and spread evenly. On top of the noodles, sprinkle 1 tablespoon of the sprouts. Top the sprouts with the 1 tablespoon of the carrots, 1 tablespoon of the cilantro, and 1 tablespoon of the mint. Lay 6 halves of shrimp next to each other on top of mixture. Fold two sides of the wrapper toward the center about 1/4-inch, then roll each like a jelly roll, pressing the edges together to seal. Repeat until all eight rolls are done. Either serve the roll whole or slice each roll in half diagonally. Serve the rolls with the dipping sauce.


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Sara's Awakening Part 3
Fiction, Anal, Masturbation, Teen Female Solo
Author's infos
Gender: male Age: N/A Location: N/A
Posted Thu 25th of April 2013
Sara discovers the true purpose of the internet... porn of course
Back to Sara's point of view in this part. She's still remembering the past few weeks so this is still her memories.
She finally crawled out of bed at 11 o'clock and made her way to the kitchen for some breakfast. As she made her toast she thought about the night before. The reaction her body had when she felt her dad's body against her's. The way she felt when she kissed him. What was wrong with her? It was just a kiss on the cheek after all. Why had her body reacted in that way and what in the world had she experienced last night when she had got back to bed? Was what she felt normal? Had anyone else ever experienced that earth shattering feeling before? So many questions flashed through her mind and she had no answers for them. As she ate her breakfast she tried to think of ways to find the answers she needed. She realized there was nobody she could ask about this. She had no idea where her mom was. She hadn't made any friends at school. The only person she could ask was daddy and even though the thought brought back the tingly feeling she knew she couldn't do that. There seemed to be no way for her to get the answers she wanted so badly.
She went out to the living room and turned on the tv hoping it would offer up some kind of solution to her problem. They didn't have many channels. Only a few local ones and some sports channels that her dad loved. She was about to give up on the whole idea all together when a commercial came on for some website that set up domain names. That's when it hit her. The internet. "How could she be so stupid?" she thought.
She nearly ran to the den and hopped on the computer. She stared at the screen and tried to think what to look for first. She decided to type in "rubbing and fingering my vagina" first. Scrolling down she saw a page on yahoo answers that seemed like a good place to start. The girl asking the question had apparently tried putting her finger in too but hadn't felt anything. She was about to click away (since she obviously felt something) when she started to read through the answers. The first person talked about rubbing herself on a pillow or a stuffed animal to "get off" as she put it. Others talked about rubbing their "clitoris" with their finger. What the hell were they talking about? She decided to look that word up next.
She found a page on Wikipedia that talked about it and after a little reading she figured out that this was the spot that she had rubbed last night. She spent nearly an hour reading about her clit, her pussy, and different ways other women used to get off. She felt so far behind. She'd never heard of most of the things she'd read about. Her parents had never sat her down and had any kind of talk with her about sex. Hell if it hadn't been for tv she'd have never heard the word sex and wouldn't have even known how babies were made. She felt so stupid as she looked at all of these things. She discovered that what she had felt last night was called an "orgasm" and it was brought on by "masturbation". She found sites that talked about different ways to do it and found that they even made toys that would help.
She read about things like penetration which immediately made her think about her father. She felt her skin get hot at the thought and that now familiar tingle crawl its way up her legs to her pussy yet again. Even being as naive as she now knew she was she also knew that having these kind of feelings was looked at as being wrong. She decided to look and see if she was the only one out there that had ever felt this way before. She typed in daddy daughter sex. The first few pages she found talked about abuse cases which she felt didn't apply to her since she was now starting to believe she might actually want to have sex with him. As she continued searching she clicked on a page that was covered in pictures of people having sex. Again she felt stupid. Why hadn't she thought to look and see what exactly the act of having sex looked like? The truth was she never thought people would show themselves actually doing it.
Although she knew she was alone in the house Sara still glanced around the room to make sure. She clicked on a video with a young girl and a middle aged man in the picture. When the video started to play she felt her body go through the same odd changes that she'd felt the night before. She watched as the man started to undress the young girl while kissing her neck. That visual brought back the feeling of daddy's warm breath on hers. Before long they were both naked. The man layed down on the bed on his back. That's when she realized that his penis was hard. That made sense now that she thought about it. It was supposed to move in and out of her which would be quite difficult if it wasn't. Then she watched as the girl did something she had never thought of. She bent over the man and took his penis into her mouth. He started saying things to her like "suck that cock" and "you're such a dirty little slut". She figured "cock" must be his penis. Much the same way they called girls vaginas, pussies a man's penis was a "cock". She watched as the girl used her hand and her mouth to stroke up and down the man's cock. Then they switched positions and the girl lay flat. Now the man crawled between her legs and started to use his tongue to lick the girl's pussy. The sight of this made her cross her legs tight. She found that this pressure made the tingling feeling increase. Her head started to swim with excitement as she watched.
She now desperately wanted to feel that feeling from last night again. She was so nervous about the idea of watching this video and rubbing herself again that she went and looked out the window to make extra sure that there was nobody outside. Then feeling comfortable that the coast was clear she stripped off her clothes. She laughed a little as she thought about how funny she must look sitting naked at the computer.
She decided to try to copy the video as best she could. While the man used his tongue to lick her pussy she put her finger in her mouth getting it nice and wet. Then she tried her best to follow the same pattern the man's tongue took. She let her finger rub tight firm circles around her clit before switching to an up and down motion. She felt herself starting to get close. Her legs were shaking so bad and she was starting to moan out loud. The man then crawled up the woman's body and slowly let his cock slide inside her. The sight of that pushed her over the edge. She threw her head back and let out several small screams. She tried to cover her mouth to quiet the sound that she couldn't help but make.
She just sat there for several minutes staring at the ceiling. This one had been even more intense than the one last night. When she finally came around she noticed that the video had ended. She restarted it and went back to the last part she remembered seeing. The man was now thrusting in and out of the girl. It went on like that for a while. She did notice one thing that she hadn't thought to try. The man kept pinching the girls nipples. She ran her hands up to her breasts and tried squeezing them softly. It felt really good so she tried pinching her nipples but found it to be too painful so she stopped.
She watched as the girl moved to her hands and knees with the man behind her. Then he did something that scared her. He took his cock and slowly started to slip it into her ass. To her astonishment the girl seemed to not only enjoy it but seemed to encourage the act by pushing back to him. "Why in the world would she want this"? she wondered. She watched fascinated by what they were doing on the screen. It seemed so wrong but at the same time she realized it was the wrongness of it that excited her. She stopped the video and went to search for more like this. The more she watched the more she realized she really wanted to try this. She sat there naked in front of the computer trying to find the courage to try putting her finger "there"... She failed though. As badly as she wanted to try it she just couldn't. At least not yet.
Sara went through the history on the computer and removed every trace of what she had been looking at all day. She had learned so much today but knew that there was still so much out there that she hadn't found. At least now she understood what she was feeling and had a few ideas of things she'd like to try later tonight.
Sara decided she better take a shower and clean herself off. She grabbed her night clothes from off the floor and threw them on her bed. She searched her dresser for some clothes for the day and headed to the bathroom. She climbed in the shower and started to wash herself. As she did she looked at ever inch of her body. It was like she was discovering something she'd never known was there before. After she had finished washing Sara stood and let the hot water cascade over her body. She let her fingers trace over her nipples, then under her breasts. She never thought touching herself here could actually feel good. Before she had always cursed them. They were in the way. They forced her to wear a bra which she absolutely detested. Plus they had grown in way too big. She was a fairly small girl. Tall yes but her frame was little and she always hated how out of proportion her breasts and her butt made her look. But now she wondered if maybe that's the kind of thing men would like? More importantly she thought is it the kind of thing daddy would like?
Sara climbed out of the shower abd dried herself off. When she was nice and dry she stood infront of the mirror and looked at her naked form. The bathroom mirror was the full body length kind and she could she every last bit of her front. Before she had always felt weird looking at herself naked. Most times she'd go as far as to hang a spare towel over the mirror until she at least had a bra and panties on. She no longer felt embarrassed by the sight. In fact she felt turned on again.
Sara sat down in the floor and spread her legs open and finally got her first good look at her pussy. The first thing she noticed was that she had more hair there then most of the women in the videos. They must trim it she thought. She wondered if men prefered them that way? She thought about that for a bit and decided that she wanted to trim her's too. If for no other reason than it would help her to see it better. She'd have to make a trip into town sometime and get supplies for that.
Sara continued to stare at her body in the mirror when she had an idea. She decided to watch herself masturbate. She stacked a couple towels behind her and lay back. She then started to let her finger slide inside her. Then she pulled her finger out and started rubbing her clit much like she had earlier. A thought popped into her head as she watched herself and she let her free hand move up to touch her breasts. The feeling was incredible. She tried pinching her nipples again and this time found that the pain mixed very well with the pleasure she was feeling. This caused her to have another thought. She moved to her hands and knees. It was harder to see the mirror this way but she bent in a way that gave her a decent view of her firm ass. She tried to reach back with one hand while the other played with her clit but it was impossible to watch if she did it that way. So she let her wet middle finger move back while using her thumb to softly rub herself. She could feel her orgasm building but she didn't want to finish till she tried this one last thing.
Slowly and carefully she applied pressure with her middle finger. Her ass was so tight and resisted at first. She pressed just a little harder and felt it start to give. She moved very carefully afraid that this would hurt but the excitement pushing her on. Her finger finally slid the last few inches into her tight warm ass. She began moving it in and out just like the man's cock had done in the video. Her breathing increased and her her vision started to blur. Her free hand squeezed the towel so tightly her knuckles turned white. When her orgasm hit she collapsed onto the floor. Her face burried into the towel as she screamed so loud it hurt her throat. Wave after wave of pleasure wracked her body as she lay squirming on the floor. Her ass tightened around her finger so hard it finally pushed her out.
Sara didn't know how long she'd laid there or if she'd even been fully coherent the whole time. She looked in the mirror to find tears in her eyes. "Wow" she thought. It had been so amazing that it had made her tear up. She rolled over and pulled herself to her feet. Her legs were still wobbly as she struggled to remain upright. Then she noticed the clock 4:53... "Oh no daddy would be home soon. She quickly dressed and ran to the kitchen. Glancing out the window she saw that his car was not back. At least he hadn't got off early.
He arrived home 10 minutes later looking tired. He flopped down on the couch and kicked his feet up. He went right to the sports channels on the tv and got caught up on all of Saturday's college football scores. She heard various "all rights" and dammits" come from the living room as she got dinner prepared. When it was done she took it out to him on a tray.
"Hey there cutie" he said smiling at her. "How was your day"? "Do anything exciting while I was gone"?
She felt a blush creep up her cheeks till it felt like her head was in an oven on full blast. She prayed he didn't notice. "Oh I did a few things that were exciting. I'd love to show you sometime" she thought.
"Just some school work and I went for a jog" she quietly lied. "Other than that not much of anything". "I think I'm going to go read some in my book then head to bed early if that's alright"?
"Sure sure sweetheart" he said smiling.
Sara walked quickly to her room. She was unsure why she felt embarrassed. There was no way he could know what she'd been up too... was there? She crawled onto her bed and wondered if she was relieved he didn't know or if she wanted him to know in the worst way?
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2014-08-13 15:41:06
Sex momteen
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2014-07-29 05:10:49
This is an excellent story! A very beautiful fantasy
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2014-07-29 05:10:26
This is an excellent story! A very beautiful fantasy
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2014-07-29 05:09:50
This is an excellent story! A very beautiful fantasy
Anonymous reader
2014-07-28 09:57:19
Guess some of these people didn't read the opening part of the first chapter. The author said right at the start that it was to give the feeling that she is naive and innocent. Maybe you guys just missed that part
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Debt-ridden Pacific Safety Products Inc. (TSX-V:PSP) will take a proposed merger with Zuni Holdings to its shareholders next month as the defence firm brokers a deal to give Zuni majority ownership.
Pacific Safety Products makes body armour similar to what this soldier, on exercise in Quebec, is wearing. (Photo courtesy DND)
The two companies inked an arrangement agreement on Nov. 17, garnering the approval of the soft-armour maker's board of directors.
Earlier this year, shareholders turned down several offers by Revision Eyewear Inc. to buy the company and subsequently, some of its assets.
After shareholders accepted a vastly downgraded deal, the chief financial officer left for another firm in August and five board members resigned.
But late Friday, shares of PSP jumped 50 per cent to 75 cents following public release of merger details. Should it be approved, it would take place around Dec. 31.
"The board of directors of Zuni believes this transaction optimizes the value of the remaining assets of the company," PSP said in a statement in October, when news of the proposed deal first became public.
"The board of directors of PSP believes this transaction will solidify its capital position and allow it to take advantage of significant growth opportunities that are available to the company.
"Both boards anticipate that the merger will create savings with the elimination of numerous redundant administrative, public company and other costs."
PSP lost $9.2 million in 2009, and $220,891 in 2008. In the third quarter of 2010, the defence firm disclosed a net loss of $87,000 compared with a $418,000 profit in Q3 2009.
The merger would see 45.8 per cent ownership by current PSP shareholders and 54.2 per cent ownership by current Zuni shareholders.
A share swap would also take place, with Zuni shareholders receiving one PSP common share for each Zuni common share.
Current chief executive Doug Lucky would remain in his position, with PSP's new board including the directors of Zuni and PSP.
Shareholders for both firms will have the chance to vote on the matter late next month.
In March, PSP said Revision Eyewear would purchase the firm for $4.6 million, a deal that was later turned down by shareholders. They also refused a later $1.275 million offer for some of PSP's assets.
By August, when Pacific was operating under forbearance from its bank, shareholders accepted Revision's price of $275,000 for the helmet liner portion of PSP's headborne system. PSP also raised a $1 million private placement to gain breathing room.
Shortly afterwards, PSP's chief financial officer and five board members left the firm.
The company initially moved to Ottawa from the west coast to be closer to its competitors, but has had to let go of dozens of people since then as its financial fortunes fell.


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Three Sisters Who Showed The Way
Elizabeth, Mary, and Sophia Peabody managed to extend the boundaries that cramped the lives of nineteenth-century women. Elizabeth introduced the kindergarten movement to America, Mary developed a new philosophy of mothering that we now take for granted, and Sophia was liberated from invalidism by her passionate love for her husband.
September/October 1987 | Volume 38, Issue 6
Other men," Ralph Waldo Emerson told an admiring crowd in Boston's Odeon Theater toward the end of 1845, "are lenses through which we read our own minds." The eminent philosopher then went on to tell his audience of the importance in their lives of "Representative Men," such as Plato, Shakespeare, Napoleon, and Goethe. "These men correct the delirium of the animal spirits, make us considerate, and engage us to new aims and powers," Emerson concluded. "Thus we feed on genius...."
Emerson's lecture series "Representative Men" became one of his most famous, for Emerson spoke directly to his listeners' need for new models of action in the tumultuous decades before the Civil War. To this day his phrase "Representative Men" reverberates, reminding us not so much of the heroes Emerson identified in 1845 as of Emerson himself and the men he inspired during New England's flowering: Thoreau, Hawthorne, Melville, Whitman, and many more.
There were women, too, among Emerson's listeners. In his audience, no doubt, was the forty-one-year-old Elizabeth Peabody, one of the few female members of Emerson's elite Transcendental Club. She was the printer and publisher of his literary journal The Dial and the oldest of three sisters who could well be called the "Representative Women" of their time. Elizabeth's thirty-nine-year-old sister, Mary, might also have been in Emerson's audience that day, for she, too, attended his lectures whenever she could. Or perhaps she had stayed home that night, for three years earlier Mary had at last, after a long, secret courtship, married Horace Mann; now she was pregnant with their second child. Elizabeth's youngest sister, the thirty-six-year-old Sophia, was a talented painter who had studied Emerson's writings on nature and art and gratefully received his praise of her work. But she most likely never attended his lectures, because severe migraine headaches had confined her to bed through much of her young adulthood. Now the beautiful Sophia was a recovered invalid, married to Nathaniel Hawthorne and living in Salem while her husband served the apprenticeship at the customhouse that would lead to his writing The Scarlet Letter.
What must Elizabeth Peabody have thought, listening that day to the revered Emerson, whose only explicit reference to women was the offhand remark that women learn "by sympathy...as a wife arrives at the intellectual and moral elevations of her husband"? Those words probably rankled Peabody, who never married and who had proved herself every bit as able a scholar as Emerson. After all, more than twenty years before, young "Waldo" himself had told her when she came to him for private tutoring in Greek that she already knew as much as he did. Ever since then Elizabeth Peabody had been earning a living as a teacher, writer, and lecturer, exploiting her extensive knowledge of languages, literature, and history as best she could in a city that still forbade women entrance to its institutions of higher learning, both as students and as teachers. Whose genius could she "feed on"? What lessons could she learn from "Representative Men"?
Nonetheless, the same words that to a modern ear sound condescending were heard as compliments by most nineteenth-century women. When Emerson addressed a women's rights convention in Boston, he joined the women in calling for female suffrage but based his support for the cause on a view of women as special creatures, very different from men. "Man is the will, and Woman the sentiment," he told this audience. "More vulnerable, more infirm, more mortal than men...[women] lose themselves eagerly in the glory of their husbands and children....Women are, by this and their social influence, the civilizers of mankind."
In 1855 this speech brought applause, not catcalls, from feminists. A new age for women was dawning, in which they might ask for voting rights but also take pride in their role as "civilizers" within the home. Elizabeth Peabody, with her hardwon career as a writer and educator; Mary Peabody Mann, with her joy in motherhood; Sophia Peabody Hawthorne, with her illness, her art, and her transfiguring love for her husband—each of the three Peabody sisters in her turn lived out a new pattern for womankind. Their lives can be the lenses through which we may read the minds of America's women.
The American Revolution had brought a sense of heady freedom and exhilarating responsibility to American men; no other modern nation had promised its citizens self-rule. By the 1830s and 1840s men in the established urban centers of Boston, New York, and Philadelphia were already working toward a second revolution—one that was both social and personal. Reformers like Horace Mann, Samuel Gridley Howe, and others founded schools and hospitals for the blind, the deaf, the insane, and launched a great national campaign to improve public education. Crusaders for personal liberty like Emerson, Henry Thoreau, and the more radical Bronson Alcott and Orestes Brownson set up a cry for independence of mind and style of living such as had not been heard since the Pilgrims left Leiden for the New World. Their programs included communes, pacifism, pantheism, simplicity in dress and food, and, above all, self-examination.


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A group that originated in Estes Park, Colorado. They do outrageous things. Can be used to emphasize how crazy or awesome something is. Means: Super Special People Who Conquer Challenges.
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The Rangers' inability to lock down games is a manifestation of their failure to lock into the defensive structure that led the club to the second-best record in the NHL last season.
For the most part, it has been amble-scramble in their own end, with defensemen and forwards alike chasing, and often caught out of position. There were games last season when the Blueshirts spent an inordinate amount of time in the defensive zone, sometimes pinned for a shift at a time, but they were able to keep the puck to the outside, on the perimeter, while denying seams.
This year, seams are splitting. The Rangers are leaving wide swatches of ice in their own end. The shut-down guys on defense haven't been sharp or stiff enough. The neutral zone play and forecheck are deficient as well. And as a result — bang! — a three-goal, third-period lead erased within a stretch of 10:33 by the Bruins in Boston on Tuesday and a two-goal lead surmounted within a span of 6:56 in the second period by the Islanders at the Garden on Thursday.
"The defensive structure is definitely a concern. It has to be better," Ryan Callahan told The Post following Thursday's 4-3 shootout loss. "We know that the foundation works. It was the basis of our success last year, but we haven't been the same tight unit that we need to be.
"We need to close out better and take away time and space. And we're certainly not blocking shots as well. We have to get back to the basics. We have to get back to our game."
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Coming apart at D seams
New York Post | Feb 16