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LUBBOCK, Texas - Police in this staunchly conservative West Texas city are keeping close tabs on a young entrepreneur's recently opened cleaning service that offers nude maids. Lubbock police Sgt. Jonathan Stewart said the owner of Fantasy Maid Service of Lubbock doesn't have a permit to operate a sexually oriented business and officers are watching for any violation, which would bring a $2,000 fine. But owner Melissa Borrett insists she's not operating such a business. Customers pay $100 an hour for one maid or $150 an hour for two maids, and no touching is allowed, she said. "I run a maid service," the 26-year-old entrepreneur said. "We really just clean houses. These girls are not performers. They're maids." The West Texas native and mother said she started the business about a month ago because she was struggling as a waitress to make ends meet. She had even been living at the Occupy Lubbock encampment near Texas Tech University's campus in Lubbock. "I just decided to go a little bigger, work a little smarter," she said. Her business model isn't unique, but the city's ordinance requires all sexually oriented businesses to apply for a permit, which costs $650 a year, and to post a $5,000 surety bond or letter of credit. Such businesses are defined as any commercial venture whose operations include "providing, featuring or offering of employees or entertainment personnel who appear in a state of nudity, seminude or simulated nudity and provide live performances or entertainment," intended to sexually stimulate or gratify customers "and which is offered as a feature of a primary business activity of the venture." Stewart wouldn't say how police planned to keep tabs on the maid service, and Borrett said she would hire an attorney to fight any attempt by the city to shut her down. So far, Borrett said, business has been good and she is now busy interviewing to hire more maids. She currently has three on staff. She offers a regular discount to government employees and law enforcement, and an ad posted Friday on the online bartering site CL offered 20 per cent discounts for Easter weekend. If requested, the maids would clean fully clothed, but the cost is the same. "It is kind of pricey, but we're fantasy maids," Borrett said.

Right here: http://www.cerb.ca/vbulletin/announcement.php?f=207&a=10

Well you did say any question, so how about one he already knows the truthful answer to? :)

By "strict" interpretation of the rules: "...this includes not talking about them anywhere on the board..." So "anywhere" means PMs also (even if it that wasn't the intention). As they don't want to participate here and therefore don't purchase advertising like so many others do, I would have to guess that CERB shouldn't be used in any way as a vehicle to send them business or not.

Oh please tell us this hasn't happened and you are speaking hypothetically? How would such a pig get in through your front door in the first place? Icky.

I would think you would really have to be into a guy to do this on purpose and although I don't see the point I don't judge anyone either. I know when I find an SP that lets me forget she is an SP and it is a totally "real" feeling GFE, it's really nice. That said, any girl that does BBBJ risks CIM (surprise!) but willing to swallow instead of spit it out is yet taking this further and, well, that seems more something for truly intimate partners in a committed relationship and beyond what one could reasonably expect in a "professional" friendship with an SP. But you just never know do you? Some wonderful girls like to break the mold. YMMV.

Oh so wise Phaedrus (as usual). After much anguish it is truly the only way I have found to deal with this when it happens (and with my SO I still never know why). Yes there are more polite ways and I've tried so very many over the years but when it happens it will go on for weeks (as opposed to days) if I don't do as you suggest ("OK, talk to me when you're ready,") and go on with my life almost with a right back at ya attitude. I really feel bad when I do this but I have come to know through much trial and error that it is the only thing that works so I just do that and go on a vacation from the relationship for a few days. I really wish I could rise above this but clearly I haven't found a way that works. Very helpful thread as it helped me understand a lot more about the dynamics of this even if I don't have a better solution from it.

I really liked the "Who we are" thread, I learned a lot about those that posted there, many of whom I feel like I 'know" somewhat, never having met them of course. Shame it did take off like some other endless threads did, I kind of hoped it would. If there was more room for a non identifiable bio in the profile I and many others would of course fill it in. Any email discussion with a lady I haven't met before about a prospective engagement always includes much more information than she needs. I'm even polite enough to put the important things first and then break it up, "okay, the rest is not important, read beyond this point only if and when you have the time" :) But at least if she "wants" to know more about me and has the time, she has the information. Seems they do read it at some point before we meet and it makes for a better meeting.

My wife is disabled and suffers from chronic pain, so she is often cranky and largely I have learned over the years to over look this from my understanding of and compassion for what she goes though every day. But every so often she gets mad at me (and I never know why) and I get the silent treatment for a few days. Used to bother me much more than it does now. This always resolves itself after a couple of days and when she does start talking to me again she is no longer mad at me and it seems can't even remember why she was (thus I never know what I did, if anything, to cause this). When it happens I just (these days) look at it as an opportunity to catch up on my work, or even an opportunity to come and go without having to say a word about were I am going or when I might be back. A couple of times I ended up wishing it had gone on another day or two so I could get even more work done. This may sound callous but it is very disrespectful when you refuse to talk to your partner and won't even tell them why and I always feel bad about doing the same to her until she comes around, but if I don't (tried that) it just goes on longer. Oddly a few days later when we inevitably kiss and make up she can't remember how it all started and I had no idea to begin with. I think it is childish behavior and it is really not part of my being to respond back in-kind with equally childish behavior but after much trying other things, it's all that I've been able to find that eventually "works". I'll never figure this one out so I have learned to adapt.

I found this news article gave me some new insight, something I didn't before know, in particular the paragraph in bold. Of course it is clear why the Californian stopped. Navigating the ice field in the dark of night was just too dangerous but the Captain of the Titanic wanted to make the record books: he did. CAPE RACE, N.L. - In a remote Marconi wireless station on the southeast tip of Newfoundland, the bland stream of "Wish you were here" messages from passengers aboard RMS Titanic ended with the inconceivable. "My God, Mr. Gray, the Titanic has struck an iceberg and is calling CQD," head operator Walter Gray would later recall being told by his subordinate, J.C.R. Godwin, at 10:25 p.m. EST on April 14, 1912. It was just before midnight, ship's time, and the luxury liner would be under water in less than three hours. CQD was the early Morse code distress call used by Marconi installations. Titanic's head operator Jack Phillips, a good friend of Gray's from Marconi training, also sent out the more novel SOS. Cape Race was the closest land base to the stricken ship, which met its fate about 600 kilometres southeast in the North Atlantic's freezing Iceberg Alley. For the first hour or so after that first distress call, "there was no thought of the ship sinking," Gray wrote in his memoir "The Life Story of an Old Shetlander." After all, the jewel of the White Star Line had been glorified as unsinkable. "It was only when Phillips announced ...'We are now sinking slowly by the head. Putting women and children off in boats. Weather remains clear and calm,' that the horror gripped," Gray wrote. Gray and his three-man crew continued to relay fading signals from Phillips in a desperate effort to get help from nearby vessels. The actual Marconi logs at Cape Race were lost to fire or were accidentally thrown out, according to differing historical accounts. But a log later replicated from those notes by one of Gray's assistants, Robert Hunston, documents in eastern standard time the last messages between Titanic and other ships. "11:00 p.m. Titanic continues calling for assistance and giving position." "11:36 p.m. Olympic asks Titanic which way latter steering. Titanic replies: 'We are putting women off in boats.' " "12:50 a.m. Virginian says last he heard of Titanic was at 12:27 a.m. when latter's signals were blurred and ended abruptly. From now on boats working amongst themselves relative to Titanic disaster. Nothing more heard from Titanic." About two hours and 40 minutes after striking the iceberg, the fabled ship had filled with water and was speeding toward the ocean floor. Just over 700 people would be rescued from lifeboats or makeshift rafts, including Titanic's assistant wireless operator Harold Bride who survived on an overturned collapsible lifeboat. More than 1,500 people died. It's unclear why the closest ship, the Californian, did not respond from where it had stopped several kilometres away in an icefield. An inquiry after the disaster heard that the wireless operator had gone off shift and never heard the pleas for help, and that Titanic's emergency rocket flares were either misinterpreted or downplayed. There are also contradictory accounts about who first heard the Titanic distress call. Dave Myrick's family lived and worked for generations at Cape Race. His great uncle, Jimmy Myrick, was a 14-year-old wireless apprentice the night the Titanic sank. According to family lore, he told a relative decades later that he happened to be alone as the ship's distress call came in while senior operators were briefly out of the wireless room. "Young Jim heard the CQD, SOS from the Titanic," Dave Myrick said in an interview at the Myrick Wireless Interpretation Centre at Cape Race. "He rushed out looking for Mr. Godwin and found him subsequently coming back in." Godwin then found Gray, who had been checking the engines that powered the station. "Mr. Gray took over the operation then and everything else that followed was sworn to secrecy. Young Jimmy was sworn to never tell that he was left alone for even a few minutes." Such details are fodder for debate. But there's no doubt about the huge role that tiny Cape Race played as the disaster unfolded, said Lynn-Marie Richard, curatorial assistant at the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic in Halifax. "They were first to receive the message," among land-based wireless stations, she said. "For Gray to be on the receiving end, knowing that this was his friend ... it must have been a terrible, terrible feeling." And that was just the beginning of an onslaught over the next hours and days of frantic messages from relatives, politicians and newspaper editors all scrambling for details, she said. "You can imagine this little station in Newfoundland, how busy they would have been, the calls they would have had, and the responsibility of trying to satisfy everybody." Telegraph messages were handled with strict confidentiality. Gray would later write that his first reports on Titanic were shared only with "the ship's owners in New York, Southampton and Liverpool; to a certain New York newspaper and to my company in Montreal, all of this being in accordance with standing orders." Larry Daley, president of Titanic Expeditions Inc. in St. John's, is planning a re-enactment on the night of April 14-15, as a ship over the Titanic wreck site sends the exact same messages to a wireless operator at Cape Race. "We can do this safely and through regulations because we're not actually sending the distress signals over the airwaves," he said in an interview. Instead, it will be a closed-circuit re-enactment using satellite transmission that won't go out to ships in the region, Daley explained. "Cape Race was the 911 of the day," he said of the lonesome seaside station that "played a pivotal part in the rescue and saving over 700 lives."

She is mentioned in this thread: http://www.cerb.ca/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=60604

Windows 7 is designed to automatically turn off certain features such as Disk Defrag and Superfetch on drives it detects as solid state disks (SSD). http://tweaks.com/windows/39643/optimize-solid-state-drives-in-windows-7/ I just got rid of the services like suggested in the link above to be sure and I didn't care about the performance of the remaining conventional drives as they are only used for long term storage.

That was one of my main concerns also as I can't afford to be off the air. So every so often I do an image backup of the 120 GB SSD to a 2 TB conventional HD. Of course I'm so paranoid about this I have a complete backup computer at the ready to address any failure. I don't store anything of value on my SSD boot drive, just the OS and my software so it loads fast. You are very right, I'm still not completely comfortable with the technology enough for it to be my only drive in the system, although they do say they are more rugged than conventional drives it isn't time tested and proven to be true yet.

There is no one else like her in the world that I have ever had the pleasure to meet. She is so "real" and has the magic formula down pat. Don't ever change a thing girl, why mess with perfection, you got the right stuff and the world by the tail. Definitively a double Goddess.

It's difficult for me as looking back at the last year I have really spent more time away from home than where I would call home -- in fact I'm not so sure where my home is anymore. But I do know the city I was born in and while I may have "homes" in other cities, it is the first of multiple locations (the most common ones) you might find me in on a given day. But a good point, if you don't travel so much you have lost track of where you live then why not fill in the information :)

Excellent post and now a cheap idea. I admit that when I first saw these hit the market I took a lets wait and see attitude and even waited for the SATA 6 Gb/s versions (of course your mother board has to support SATA 6 Gb/s also). Before that, it wasn't that compelling over a 15k rpm enterprise grade drive with lots of built in cache but now it sure is. Gave my trader workstation that drives 8 wide screen monitors a new lease on life!

No but in your checked luggage if the cap pops off an aerosol can due to rough handling (no they don't handle our checked luggage rough do they? Yeah, it's like gorilla warfare) sometimes it won't even help if it is in a plastic bag, once the next piece of luggage goes on top and presses on the valve, the pressure buildup can be enough to pop a plastic bag open and go everywhere. Of course the worst is shaving cream but it's surprising how much damage a tube of toothpaste can do but any aerosol can go EVERYWHERE if given the chance. I have a simple solution that has never failed me -- vinyl electrical tape. Cheap and you can wrap it around that can or bottle 10 or 15 times if you are paranoid and secure the cap so tight it will never come off; then just throw the rest of the roll of tape in there as well for packing up on the way back (no need to even try reusing it). Even a liquid like shampoo with a tilt valve at the top or a cream that doesn't really have a cap like an aerosol can be secured well, you start wrapping around the body of the bottle and proceed upwards until you reach the top and then a little beyond. Easy to remove also. Always works.

I couldn't agree more with that you say fortunateone. I felt "compelled" to write a review. It was accurate and from the heart without exaggeration based on a phenomenal experience and I could tell it wasn't going to just be my specific experience as this was one wonderful lady in so many ways. My goal was to let people know what a wonderful person I had been fortunate enough to meet to help them decide if they were considering her also. Of course I did what I think only polite: I sent the review to the lady first and asked her it was okay to post it and any changes she wanted made to it would be seriously considered and the review wouldn't be posted at all if she did want it to be. She wrote back and said don't change a thing, but I wouldn't post a review at all without permission, approval and even agreement with the contents from the lady. That's not to say I'm going to let her write it or suggest changes to the point of making it inaccurate, but I think it is nice to make sure she doesn't mind a review and agrees with it's contents before it's even posted.

LOL. That is too funny. I hadn't read RFC1149 (probably skipped it as silly) but now we know it is indeed in real business use (or something similar). But perhaps he has upgraded to an RFC2549 approach for the additional benefits. Of course both methods have the distinct disadvantage that "The carriers may be confused by mirrors.". I would have also expected him to be concerned by the security considerations: "There are privacy issues with stool pigeons. Agoraphobic carriers are very insecure in operation." :) At least us network geeks have a sense of humor.

I think it might be a neat idea. I have been doing income tax all day long and am totally tired of it. Not fair that we are taxed like that in Canada. I have no objection in leaving our great country and in fact plan to do that before too long. Hmm, it may be that we don't need that letter after all? I am getting along fine without it. Maybe I'll rewrite that book I am working on to not have that letter -- it might work out better after all. Yeah, an entire book without the unmentionable letter. That might be pretty crazy.

Doing my income tax and finding out a owe a lot of money (not that I didn't already pay them a ton of money), ouch! does it ever suck bad.

My best guess is that they plan to be an obnoxious no-show (best case scenario as distasteful as that is), next best case is they can't provide a reference and the lady requires one, worst case is if they did provide a real reference and it was checked it would be a very bad one and the lady would be warned to stay far far away. Good girl!

You make an excellent point RG (as usual). In fact it has been my experience that I learn much more from a more tastefully written review than I do from one that is more explicit. I really don't like writing reviews as the find the detail of the initial questions too much like a menu, and if you are only adding a review (to an existing review thread) it's almost like you are endorsing the menu at the start of the review thread. If not for these "explicit" questions, I would no doubt write more reviews. Ideally I like to get to know someone over lunch (when practical) and let them get to know me, by no means a job interview, just a nice fun lunch. Then I wait for a thank you from the lady for the nice lunch and her to express interest in seeing more of me.

Many visits to a mink farm (interchangeable with stink farm) as a child convinced me that we need not raise animals in these conditions only for their fur, especially when we can fake it so well these days it's hard to tell the difference (but of course you can). Oh sure they are really nasty critters that have nice fur but I know they can feel emotions and pain. Just in case you're wondering, I really do give a thought or two for the animal that gave it's life so that I may live when I chow down on that streak. Guess I'm a bleeding heart animal lover too.

Oh that has so happened already (many times), many documented cases in fact. We announce on FB when we going on vacation and even "check-in" to a hotel in another part of the world and it's an open invitation to the burglars to rent a cube van and clean us out. Fortunately as much as I do travel I always have a resident house sitter and post the trip photos on FB once I am back but there have been many documented cases of thieves using social networking to find targets. Something everyone needs to be aware of, thanks for bringing it up.