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For young ladies. a full length cotton nightgown , with father standing behind with shotgun in case on button on it is touched or even thought of being touched. .....

Animals in tights

Do have a special day, Happy Birthday.

The No !@#$ Rule How to indentify a !@#$ Suttons’s dirty-dozen list of everyday !@#$ actions: 1. Personal insults 2. Invading one’s personal territory 3. Uninvited personal contact 4. Threats and intimidation, both verbal and non-verbal 5. Sarcastic jokes and teasing used as insult delivery systems 6. Withering email flames 7. Status slaps intended to humiliate their victims 8. Public shaming or status degradation rituals 9. Rude interruptions 10. Two-faced attacks 11. Dirty looks 12. Treating people as if they are invisible To Avoid being one, 1. Face your past. The past is a very good predictor of future behavior. For example, were you a bully in school? If your parents and siblings were !@#$s, you may have caught the disease. Knowing that you’re an !@#$ is first step towards change. 2. Do not make people feel oppressed, humiliated, de-energized, or belittled. If you find yourself having these effects, it’s time to change your behavior no matter what you think of yourself. 3. Do not mistreat people who are less powerful than you. One of the sure signs of an !@#$ is treating people like clerks, flight attendants, and waiters in a degrading manner. 4. Resist !@#$holics from the start. The easiest time to avoid becoming an !@#$ is at the very beginning. Don’t think that you can do “what you have to” to fit in and can change later. It won’t happen. 5. Walk away and stay away. Don’t be afraid to leave a bad situation. It’s unlikely you’ll change the !@#$s into good people; it’s much more likely that you’ll descend to their level. 6. View acting like an !@#$ as a communicable disease. If you have any sense of decency, when you’re sick, you avoid contact to prevent spreading the disease. So if you act like an !@#$, you’re not just impacting yourself; you’re also teaching other people that it’s okay to be an !@#$. 7. Focus on win-win. Children (young and old) think that the world is a zero-sum game. If another kid is playing with the fire truck, you can’t. As people get older they should realize that life doesn’t have to be a win-lose proposition--unless, that is, you’re an !@#$. 8. Focus on ways you are no better or even worse than others. Thinking that you’re smarter, faster, better looking, funnier, whatever than others turns people into !@#$s. Thinking that you’re no better or even worse keeps you humble. 9. Focus on ways you are similar to people, not different. If you concentrate on how you and others have similar goals, desires, and passions, you’re bound to be less of an !@#$. How can you treat people that are similar to you with disdain? 10. Tell yourself, “I have enough stuff (money, toys, friends, cars, whatever).” Discontentment and envy is a major factor in becoming an !@#$. If you’re happy, there’s no reason to stomp on others. To Deal with one, 1. Hope for the best, but expect the worst. One of the most frustrating aspects of dealing with !@#$s is that they disappoint you--making you wonder the very value of humans. Lowering your expectations can help reduce disappointment. Don’t solely lower your expectations, though, or you will slip into cynicism (and possibly turn into an !@#$ too.) Continue to hope for the best. 2. Develop indifference and emotional detachment. Sutton may be the only author who has the insight and courage to recommend that being indifferent and detached may be a good thing in work environments. If it permits you to survive, then it is. In other words, don’t let the jerks get to you. 3. Look for small wins. Small victories can keep you going. Most !@#$s pride themselves in total control and absolute domination. Any victory, no matter how small, can keep you going. Rest assured that small victories can lead to winning the war. 4. Limit your exposure. You can do what you can to avoid meetings and interactions with !@#$s. This involves finding or building pockets of “safety, support, and sanity,” to use Sutton’s words. He cites an example of a nurse’s lounge as a refuge from an !@#$ doctor. 5. Expose them. In Sutton’s blog he mentions Marge’s !@#$ Management Metric. This refers to four-point system from 0 to 3. Marge, the boss, would point to people who were behaving like !@#$s and hold up one, two, or three fingers according to this code: * 1 = You are a normal person who can occasionally assert yourself on an issue you are passionate about, but you handle yourself in a non-confrontational way in nearly all occasions. * 2 = You can consistently assert yourself in a non-confrontational way and are occasionally an !@#$, but you feel horrible about it afterwards, and you may or may not apologize (but you probably will have to confess your remorse to someone). * 3 = You can consistently be an !@#$ and you either do not recognize this or you simply enjoy it. By the way, 0 in her system means this: You are a very nice person, and very passive. No one can say a word against you and would never think to call you an !@#$. If you are safe in your position, then calling !@#$s out is a good way to deal with them. 6. De-escalate and re-educate. This strategy requires that the !@#$ you’re dealing with isn’t a “chronic,” “certified,” and “flagrant” !@#$. It means meeting !@#$ behavior with calmness (instead of either similar behavior or fear) and trying to re-educate the person about how he’s behaving. 7. Stand up to them. Funny thing about !@#$s: Standing up to them shouldn’t necessarily scare you. While I was an Apple employee, I was in a meeting with a highly placed Apple exec and Apple’s ad agency. The ad agency person showed the new television spots and said he’d give a copy to the Apple exec and me. The Apple exec told the agency person not to give one to me. I spoke up: “Are you saying you don’t trust me?” The Apple exec answered: “Yes.” To which I replied, “That’s okay because I don’t trust you either.” You know what? The sun rose the next day, and my family still loved me.

Have a nice day with family and friends... Happy Birthday.

Never smoked , never drank....

In perspective you being 17, he as Coach, then General Manager and President his teams won 16 Championships. In Sport the Top of the Top he would be included amongst John Wooden, Vince Lombardi, Toe Blake, Knute Rockne, all standards of excellence without peer in their sports. The great mystique of the old Boston Garden, looking up and seeing all the Championship Pennants, remembering the gallery Gods yelling from above, the parquet floor at the Garden its special checker board design, the great announcer Johnny Most, the great players of Cousey, Russell, Havilcek, later on Larry Bird. , seeing as games came to end Red Auerbach lighting his cigar as sign of victory. The place could give you shivers up your spine. Red Auerbach was amongst a number of men and women without peer who are responsible for sport and achievement being very much part of the American Psyche. From todays Boston Globe, Former Celtics coach Bill Fitch remembered Red Auerbach as a "great shopper." When the two traveled to Hawaii with an All-Star team, they stopped at a local store for some souvenirs. Fitch settled on a piece of ornamental jade and showed it to Auerbach. Fitch thought it was a beautiful piece before Auerbach took one look and told him, "It's fake." "How do you know it's fake?" asked Fitch. "Because it's too close to the door to be the real stuff," said Auerbach. To Fitch, that story captured the savvy and intelligence Auerbach used to build Boston into a basketball dynasty and leave an indelible mark on the NBA game. "He was always a step ahead," said Fitch, who won one NBA title while coach of the team from 1979-83. "That was the way he thought. I called him a one-up guy. He was always one-up on you. When we played racquetball, he was always negotiating for the serve, for points, for something. He was a fierce competitor." Arnold 'Red' Auerbach Although Auerbach required regular dialysis, needed a wheelchair and oxygen, and did not look well when honored by the US Navy in Washington last Wednesday, his passing at 89 from a reported heart attack still shocked those connected to him through the organization. Tommy Heinsohn said Auerbach always seemed tough enough to carry on despite his health problems. M.L. Carr said it was "a sad day." Jan Volk said "it's very, very hard." Fitch said, "I had my cry." Those who were lucky enough to know and work with Auerbach during his nearly 57-year affiliation with the franchise shared stories about the Celtics patriarch and praised him for his many contributions to the city and the game. "I remember my first year in Boston, we clinched the best record in the division and we were celebrating a little bit in the locker room when Red came in and he said, 'What's all this,' " said Carr, who won titles as a player in 1981 and 1984 and coached the team from 1995-97. "We told him what had happened. And he said, 'We don't celebrate division titles. We celebrate championships.' He set the bar high for everyone. "This is not the passing of a man, it's the passing of an institution. He came into a hockey town with a 6-9 black guy [bill Russell] and sold professional sports in a racially charged city. That was one sales job." With the regular season starting Wednesday at TD Banknorth Garden, the Celtics are dedicating the season to Auerbach and plan to honor him opening night. Listening to Bob Cousy, Danny Ainge, Carr, Heinsohn, Fitch, and others, it's clear any tribute would have to recognize his devotion to the Celtics and the game. "I've been accused of being competitive, but [Auerbach had] total and absolute commitment," said Cousy, who played for Auerbach from 1950-63, winning six titles. "He was the most relentless person I've ever met in terms of achieving his goals. He did back then what it takes about eight people to do today. I've never seen such dedication. You can argue about this, but I think he produced the greatest dynasty in the history of sports, certainly in basketball. He knew talent. He knew how to acquire it. He knew how to coach it. He knew how to motivate it. His legacy in terms of sport achievement is unparalleled." Added Ainge, the team's executive director of basketball operations, "I loved Red. Red was the guy who drafted me. I have a lot of fun and fond memories of Red from early in my career. I don't think there's a legend who was as beloved as Red is in Boston. "This was going to be his [61st] opening night and we were looking forward to that. To endure for [57] years with the same organization, through all the ownership changes, the coaching changes, it's amazing. He was one of the greatest coaches, one of the greatest managers, in the history of our game." Heinsohn remembered Auerbach as both "a guardian of the game of basketball" and a practical joker, recalling times when the two exchanged "loaded cigars." "He was an original," said Heinsohn, who played for Auerbach from 1956-65, winning eight championships. "He left an indelible mark on the game of basketball and the NBA. He was a champion and he made champions." -There is much to read in Globe and other media resources, a person would be rewarded in taking some time.

Red Auerbach One of Sports greatest..... Red Auerbach, the Hall of Fame coach who led the Boston Celtics to nine NBA championships in the 1950s and 1960s, died Saturday. He was 89

Periods of rainy weather during the past few months has, at times, pressured farmers to store wet hay and put their barns at a risk of hay-generated fires, Fires blamed on spontaneous combustion of stored wet hay have occurred this summer causing losses of property and livestock. One reported fire erupted when an electrical spark ignited hay dust. The storage of wet hay is the most common cause of hay fires. When the crop is stored wet, microbial action can generate internal bale temperatures well above 150 degrees . After a certain point of heating from the mold growth, other chemical reactions begin to take place, and it raises the heat to a point where the hay can burn. In general, hay is considered too wet for storage if moisture levels are higher than 20 percent in small rectangular bales, higher than 18 percent in large round bales, and higher than 16 percent in large square bales.

Alright , but lets not make me a total pervert, my post contained a young lady at a sports event who pulled up her sweater, a young man in front of her clearly amused. My post did not contain a total porn shot or any such thing. I did not really take as much notice as I should and it was rightly deleted. But I would like it to be clear I did not post a total nude shot , I made a error in not looking at the total page, which I have said I am sorry for.

I am sorry to anyone offended for posting a post with bare breasts in it. Here is a kissing Test I think I would be very upset if someone deceived like this...

Remember to put your clocks back tomorrow night. Sure has been dark in the mornings lately.

Archie and Edith

Leave Guns at Home David Stern understands having a gun to protect your home. He's not convinced carrying one on the streets makes you any safer. For that reason, the NBA commissioner said Wednesday that he would prefer his players leave their firearms behind when they go out.

hard to believe isn't it!

Yes I was near Algonquin Park last week; the Northern Lights can be seen often on clear nights. I think of the Grand Canyon of course and areas on the Baja, the beauty around the Manitoulin Islands, the Niagara falls. I think of the grand panorama that is a stadium full of sports fans, such a breath taking sight. I feel challenged to come up with what I would say is the greatest wonder I have seen, keeping in mind such things are not always the most obvious. So much to ponder in terms of architecture, natural beauty, the arts, people ect. Times long ago where people did so much with so little and now where people do much with access too much

Thank you, Pete, most appreciated. Never have traveled much certainly have never seen the great buildings mentioned only in encyclopedia's ect. Apart from babies being born, the most amazing thing I have ever seen is my sugar bush after a ice storm, the maples covered in ice, the sunlight shimmering through the ice laden trees, the colors so amazing to behold. This was a natural wonder of course.

You have travelled a great deal , what is the most amazing thing you have seen that would be considered a great wonder?

That most certainly does rate as a great wonder.

Seven Wonders of The World Vote Don't know why there is such a vote , but here it is.

Skidboot A plain hard working man and his very special dog....

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Clever Crows

The Difference Between "Guts" and "Balls" "GUTS" is arriving home late after a night out with the guys, being assaulted by your wife with a broom, and having the guts to say, "are you still cleaning or are you flying somewhere?" "BALLS" is coming home late after a night out with the guys smelling of perfume and beer, lipstick on your collar, slapping your wife on the behind and having the balls to say, "You're next!"