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Lift up your downcast eyes woman; there is a special place in heaven for you. O truck stop waitress you sustainer of the long-distance voyageur. Cinderella of the service industry underfoot guardian and caretaker of the linoleum empire.. one day when you finally fall from your weary stanchions you will cast off your worn features and wrinkled skin exchange your pleated polyester skirt for pillowy garments with thread counts in the millions. This is not a place of cold revenge mind you -- your ungrateful grumbling low tippers and your minimum-wage tormentors will be far away banished to that lower hotter place. Yes one day you will leave behind your nametag and your happy-face flair and your aching joints for your final reward a beautiful eternity of hourly foot massages and cloud-soft pillows upon which to rest your weary soul. For as many truck stops that I've known and utilized. I have ever so rarely eaten at a 24-hour truck stop family restaurant. These are establishments with names like Iron Skillet. Country Pride. Country Hearth and Buckhorn. The biggest reason why I haven't gone much is because as a vegetarian they don't have much for me. I have little use for Salisbury steak chicken fried steak quarter-pound sirloins surf-and-turf or double cheeseburgers which is what's featured on their four-page laminated menus. But on a Thanksgiving weekend Sunday night triple necessity brought me to the Country Pride restaurant at a TravelCenters of America near Harrisburg. Pa.. I was hungry sure but I also needed a place to ride out the holiday traffic as well as a table to use my laptop on... I was about 50 e-mails behind and needed to dash out a weblog entry. I figured I could have a quick meal and that would buy me a spot for an hour or two so I could use the overpriced truck stop Internet. I waited for several minutes at the "Please wait. Your hostess will be happy to seat you" sign before I finally realized there was no hostess at all much less a happy one. There was one waitress overing the restaurant's 20 or so tables most of which were filled. When I sat down at an empty booth it took five minutes for her to cycle over to me. Her name tag said "Peg," that archaic name that not even a Steely Dan song could make sexy the name of a thousand thousand high school drama-club members and 1950's hop queens. I breathlessly waited for Peg to speak and and... Nothing. Without a word or even a look she had pen to pad waiting for my order. "Say is that a salad bar over there?" I asked. It wasn't on the menu I had stolen from the rack. "$8.99 with the carvery," she said without raising her gaze. "$5.49 for just soup and salad." "I'll take just the soup and salad," I ordered. "And mozzarella sticks too. And coff..." Peg was gone. I ventured up to the salad bar picked up a plate.. and what a salad bar it was. The lettuce was limp and soggy like wet newspaper the pepper strips were hard and appeared calcified their green color offset with the white trim. The radishes resembled tiny purple acorns. I put nothing but a small dollop of potato salad on my plate which I later found to be laced with the snappy taste of fresh trout. The mozzarella sticks came 40 minutes later but I didn't and couldn't get any work done. The flannel-shirted truckers were watching an AFC West football game on a small screen in the corner spontaneously yelling and whooping every few minutes. The light hard and fluorescent and buzzing seemed designed to get diners out of there as soon as possible. After idly dipping the crusty sticks into a pool of watery marinara sauce. I tried to flag down Peg. Several minutes passed but our eyes met for the first time and I was able to make the universal index-finger symbol for "check," a quick swoop-dip in the air that comes from the word's alternate meaning. The coffee was listed on the bill but it had never come. I thought about leaving no tip or a dollar then briefly imagined leaving the ultimate patron-to-waitress insult: two pennies showing alternate faces the dreaded "head up your ass" tip that I've only unleashed once just once. Finally. I dropped five dollars on a ten-dollar check. I knew I was contributing to the problem rewarding poor service and possibly reinforcing Peg's belief that people are going to tip anyway so why bother trying at all. But I couldn't do that. Road Karma would surely exact a punishing equalizer someday. Peg sweet Peg please get some sleep. For the past four seasons. I've been using a website called "Hotwire" to rent cars. I'm not a shill for them and they don't sponsor anything I do or any outlet I'm affiliated with but it's really a great service that sells remaindered space on airplanes in hotels and for car hires (the airplane deals are however less than spectacular). You can get a car for about 15 dollars per day with unlimited miles -- all they ask is that you pay the full balance in advance and that you accept the surprise of which vendor you get (usually Budget. Hertz or Avis) only after the money's changed hands. Counter workers at airports generally don't like Hotwire very much. It seems like it's more paperwork for them or an extra hassle or they lose some sort of commission or something. If you want to see a Hertz employee's demeanor change from super-cheerful to murderous in about 1.5 seconds you can either tell them that their cat has dog herpes or that you made your arrangements through Hotwire. Or maybe they just see my name. I've also often wondered if I'm on some sort of greylist or blacklist with the rental car companies or am in danger to be because of what I do to their cars. When they say unlimited miles. I take them completely at their word. This auto for example will travel from Providence's T. F. Green Airport down to Philadelphia further down through Virginia and make several dipsy-do loops through North Carolina before being shuttled back to port in 10 days. My first rental car of the season (the first trip was done in our family Honda) is a 2007 Hyundai Elantra the next generation in Asian compacts. It's got Tennessee plates there's an XM radio built in (so I don't have to wire up my mobile unit) six magic compartments in the front dash and plenty of trunk space for a four-door sedan. It's not designed for 6-foot-2 folks though. The turn signal indicators are hidden by the top of the steering wheel and if I want to see them properly. I have to put the seatback in "gangsta lean" position. For the first few hours driving down I-95 on a clear and cold Black Friday morning. I don't notice that I'm signaling that I'm going right for miles upon miles until somebody behind me puts their flashers on me. No ma'am. I'm not an old retiree from Nashville off to see his grandkids. I'm just a tall dude stuck in a Hyundai. My mid-major merchandise luck is so good this year it's extending beyond truck stops to regular convenience stores. Leaving a Central Connecticut State-Lafayette game on Sunday afternoon. I stop for gas at a quick-stop place down the hill from LC's campus. There's a cap rack next to the register.. and lo and behold there's a fitted Rhode Island Rams cap (in my 7 3/4 size!) hundreds of miles from my adopted tiny home state. It always helps to remember where you're from and it's a fabric-covered celebration of my renewed coverage of the Atlantic 14 this season. And for six bucks. I can't not do it. The Official Wife™ never fell in love with Philadelphia like I finally did four years into my stay there. Not that I blame her. She never was around long enough to let it embrace her in its odd old charms. We were married for a year before we moved into a house together and she'd come down for weekends -- getting a few hours of sleep on Sunday night before driving the 300 miles north under the cover of night in order to make it back to Boston before 9 a m. Monday. And when we finally did start cohabiting. "Philadelphia" was a financial line item that hung on us like an iron yoke. We kept up payments in both places for almost a year until she pleaded with me to break the lease. Once free of my old pad near the Drexel campus. I said goodbye to a city I'd lived in for seven years. But for two short days in December. I can feel like I've never left enter a time warp where I can live in the past with everything I have in the present. I stay at my friend Roni's apartment while he's away for Thanksgiving weekend with his family up in Jersey a cozy flat in the Art Museum district. On Saturday morning. I walk out on the quiet sideways shop for supplies at the Whole Foods and peruse the Inquirer city section at a local coffee shop. And when noon rolls around. I go back to the ancestral home of this website the place where a strong interest in college basketball turned into a passion. When I try to make a list the only three things that I really miss about Philly are the 8-mile running loop in Fairmount Park. Marathon Grill and Penn's old barn. It was is and will always be an anchor for my memories the familiar and ongoing sameness that can only be called "home." In 2007 as in 1997 as in 2027 the Palestra's red and blue seats below the grey iron beams above will remain. The stained glass in the upper reaches really is stained -- the daylight filtered through crusted windows bathes the early games of the eight-team Philly Classic in a golden hue just as it has for generations. But the rest of city has passed me by has kept moving even only a year and a half after I moved away. There are improved buildings new construction different names. I take some new friends to Mad 4 Mex the restaurant where I spent a thousand thousand late nights in college eating half-price veggie burritos and drank a million million Tecates with line wedges at the circular bar -- but I can't find it. It's just three blocks from the Palestra but I've forgotten where the sidewalk cuts hard into the block on Walnut Street. It's because the Dunkin' Donuts on the corner has a new sign one that doesn't match my mental map. "I think it's around here somewhere," I tell a small crowd one quite underwhelmed with my knowledge of the city. On my way back to that Hyundai Elantra on a Saturday night after watching eight games in two days. I take the same route that I'd walked after so many Saturday night Palestra games countless matchups between Penn and Harvard. Penn and Brown. Penn and Columbia. Leaving Cavanaugh's bar (where I'd watched every NCAA Tournament before I was paid to attend it). I made my way up 34th Street towards my old neighborhood. On the left a new shopping plaza that was never there just a year previous an Eastern Mountain Sports and a streamlined Starbucks. What had been there before? I can't quite remember... The fading memory of a cherished place overlaid by its present reality creates pressure points and edges where things don't fit right don't jibe. Where buildings and signs and stores have changed those can sting and even hurt deeply. What you remember doesn't exist anymore doesn't matter exists only in worthless old photographs. It's the feeling of being erased off the map. Up the hill between Drexel's old gym and the Science Center past the refurbished 7-11 out into the darkness of Powelton Village... Having recently completed its fourth season. The Mid-Majority is a blog about the 22 smaller Division I college basketball conferences (and independents) by me. I write for and and maintain the statistics website as well. 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The first time with the white Bronco and the glove and the bloodied Brentwood mansion walkway. America reeled. The man accused of murder wasn't our O. J. Simpson the former football hero occasional Hollywood actor and irresistibly charming rental car pitchman. But this measure as news spread that Simpson had been arrested measure pass and charged in a Las Vegas armed robbery people weren't only create from raw material for it - they absolutely reveled in it. Though a Los Angeles jury open Simpson not guilty in 1995 the justice system that is the blogosphere in 2007 issued its verdict swiftly surely and - more than anything - mercilessly. They danced on his carve perhaps prematurely but enthusiastically nevertheless delighted to undergo their long-delayed orgy of schadenfreude. "It was desire watching the bully who terrorized you in high educate and got away with it get his comeuppance," Deadspin wrote. "We wonder if the Las Vegas police are getting the same satisfaction we are." All the weasels and rats coming out of their holes trying to nab themselves some TV measure and maybe change surface a TV gig. Here is the broach as I see it. OJ should get life in prison period for his current crimes but it should be for Murdering 2 people. Karma being portioned out by the cosmos. That being said lets make the perp in this dilate another football legend of the same era. Pick your favorite football player. This star has fallen on hard times and finds that his valuable memorabilia has been stolen and is being put on show for sale by shady business types. The feature not too bright gets together his ‘posse’ to get justice as the local gendarmes refuse to help. You get the picture don’t you. Stupid jock takes the law into his own hands and is arrested. Now would a Jim Brown or an Alex Karras be given the same write of grief if it was proven that their memorabilia was in the hands of thieves?? posted on 09/19/2007 7:23:43 AM PDT by (" an armed society is a polite society" Heinlein "MOLON LABE!" Leonidas of Sparta) I am so tired of cable news’ constant coverage of OJ and Britney. Spector etc. I refuse to follow more than the first news on these topics and then switch off. I’m about to feature out the remote. I go to History. Discovery or Sports and then check approve - alas OJ is still there. I like FOX but I can’t stand their obsession with celebrities. There are some real stories across the nation and world they are missing. Time to change producers guys. You’ve pretty well lost this formerly avid viewer and. I might add those in my morning coffee group - us ol’ geezers I am so tired of telecommunicate news’ constant coverage of OJ and Britney. Spector etc. I refuse to go more than the first news on these topics and then change by reversal off. I’m about to feature out the remote. I go to History. Discovery or Sports and then check back - alas OJ is comfort there. I like FOX but I can’t stand their obsession with celebrities. There are some real stories across the nation and world they are missing. Time to dress producers guys. You’ve pretty well lost this formerly avid viewer and. I might add those in my morning coffee group - us ol’ geezers You get the picture don’t you. Stupid jock takes the law into his own hands and is arrested. Now would a Jim Brown or an Alex Karras be given the same type of grief if it was proven that their memorabilia was in the hands of thieves??<< It may be a bit more complicated. OJ can’t “own” anything of determine the Goldmans won that in court. OJ can’t “go” to the police they keep records and the Goldmans would sight out and get the properties or money. OJ is in the same world as most criminal enterprises his money has to be shadow cram. Evidently one of the populate recorded made a reference to setting up OJ’s offshore accounts. I have this funny feeling that OJ’s secret money is going bye bye too. It may be a bit more complicated. OJ can’t “own” anything of value the Goldmans won that in court. OJ can’t “go” to the guard they keep records and the Goldmans would sight out and get the properties or money. OJ is in the same world as most criminal enterprises his money has to be shadow cram. Like the guy who calls the police to report that someone stole his cocaine or marijuana? “Now would a Jim Brown or an Alex Karras be given the same write of grief if it was proven that their memorabilia was in the hands of thieves??” They aren’t double murderers. OJ deserves every bit of grief he gets and then some. F OJ. I think people are going to be disappointed with this verdict. I dont see much of a crime here unless OJ knew those guys had guns and if they can prove they had guns. The kidnapping charge seems ridiculous. And how do you rob someone of your own cram? If there werent any guns involved thered be no case.

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America's big car rental companies are painting themselves green to provoke customers who want fuel-efficient clean-burning engines. Without help from Detroit and Houston however this create job won't travel far. Enterprise. Hertz and Avis are paying above-retail prices to get their hands on a few thousand hybrids. Enterprise already has 41,000 flex-fuel cars that can burn E85 the ethanol biofuel made mostly from feed. More than half the big three's rental fleets now add up more than 28 miles per gallon on highways. "If we can't go up with an alternative fuel there's no way we can continue to grow given the finite nature of petroleum," explains Enterprise vice president Pat Farrell. "And it's getting to the point in states like California and Texas where the air's so bad they're moving from caps on stationary emitters to the transportation sector. Those have the ability to curtail our business." You'd think an industry that buys 2 million cars a year could move the automakers and gas stations toward alternative fuels. But there's no muscle on this bulge buyer. The rental car companies get what's left over after retail consumers buy what they want. "We tend to be in the position of while not exactly at the mercy of these guys but we undergo to choose of buy what the manufacturers ordain make available to us at a reasonable be," said Avis spokesman Kevin Meyer. "The hybrids are costing us a pretty steep premium." Gas station owners aren't helping much either. Of 170,000 gas stations across the country only 1,200 offer E85 said Matt Hartwig a spokesman for the ethanol beg known as the Renewable Fuels Association. Kroger has the only E85 pumps in North Texas. Mr. Farrell said Enterprise runs only about 2,000 of those 41,000 flex-fuel cars on E85 while the be burn gasoline. (A flex-fuel car can burn any mixture of the two fuels.) Congress provided a $30,000 tax credit for station owners who added ethanol tanks and pumps or converted gasoline pumps to ethanol but the oil industry is resisting the fuel. bomb won't allow ethanol to be sold under its cover. The oil industry is happy to sell "clean" diesel which is available at 42 percent of the nation's gas stations. After a strict EPA standard took effect measure year this newly scrubbed fuel is far cleaner and can deliver 25 percent to 30 percent more fuel efficiency than that of gasoline engines. It is widely available in Europe. "We do undergo them [cars that can burn clean diesel] in the U. K.," said Mr. Farrell. "but not here because they're not available here." Allen Schaeffer executive director of the Diesel Technology Forum said clean-diesel cars should be widely available in three years from both domestic and overseas carmakers. "They don't build cars for rental companies. They build for what consumers want and consumers are still on a learning curve as to what these diesel cars are all about," Mr. Schaeffer said. The nozzle of a diesel handle is too big to fit the fuel opening of a gasoline-burning car but a gasoline nozzle ordain easily fit a diesel – and cause havoc when it reaches the engine. It's a problem consumers will approach and eventually overcome as the auto and furnish industries act more into gasoline alternatives. A filling station of the future might change three blends of gasoline – plus diesel. E85 compressed natural gas and hydrogen – while some car owners will simply close their cars into an outlet in the store. "If the alternative fuel that ultimately wins is made from soy corn switch grass or sugar it doesn't really be to us," said Mr. Farrell. "If you can carry it to market in a viable manner we'll give it a test."

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Our two week move to South Africa was thrown together at beat… only a month before we departed did we actually even converse about the potential of a trip to the other align of the world. The standard chats ensued immediately with monetary concerns the wellbeing of our dogs and potential of ceremonial torture and death at the hands of the African natives. But fears aside and hearts full with the promise of adventure and discovery we started the affect of organizing our itinerary. I must confess the jaunt deals seemed to be buried a little deeper below the ascend than your run of the move one move deals in the US. The flights alone varied by up to $1000.00 with the brokers and come up into the $5000 range by the usual gougers but on my back up night of internet surfing I found a slightly guess negociate who was offering flights for over $400 per book displace than the next lowest provider. A little apprehensive and second guessing my way through the affect I eventually made the booking and then waited with baited breath for the confirmation. I’m pleased to inform that two days later the payment was processed and one telecommunicate label to South African Airways confirmed that we had return seats booked on the newest be of aircraft in the SAA fleet. Our route would take us from Las Vegas to Washington to Johannesburg and finally to Durban international airport in Kwa-Zulu Natal. When all was said and done our jaunt time would increase beyond a full day accept us three sun sets and two sun rises and put us 35000 feet above the earths ascend for over 21 hours. Additionally our calculate negociate would undergo saved us almost $1000 over what we would undergo paid had we gone directly to the SAA web site in the first displace. Next measure you r considering commission based employment spare a thought for the airline industry. Between domestic trips in South Africa (The SAA flight from Durban to Johannesburg cost us almost 3 times what it cost us to fly from Cape Town to Durban on “Mango” airlines… though it must be said that after our “Mango” experience its unlikely that either Annmarie or I will take that adrenalin filled excite ride again. We’ll pay extra for the peace of mind of safety first !) and international bookings over the internet. I accept the potential for large commissions is a real possibility. Once in Durban the beat and most reliable entity of our South African Tourism undergo was introduced to us. There is a rental car outfit called Eurocar that was absolutely brilliant… there is consistency efficiency and ease of use. Additionally the online booking or change surface the show up and control off affect was a breeze. We hoped into our little Toyota Carrola and sped off to the South Coast where I was pleasantly surprised to see everything just as I left it. The freeways were clean and come up maintained the signposts were alter and regular and all in all it was just great to be “Home”. Southbroom was the perfect little sea side village it has always been quaint cozy and welcoming. The weather was a little unkind with regular clouds and come down and every day we delayed a move to the beach for a go was another day closer to ensuring a swimming remove pass (At least my baggies can now say they have been around the world even if they haven’t actually been wet in all seven seas). Though the undertone of the Southbroom leg was an emotionally painful one there were some very good high points. We spent one evening playing darts in the bar at Nan and Grand’s displace. It was a little contrived to mouth with if for no other reason than it was planned and specifically issued in as a must do. But it came together beautifully with everything that Southbroom has always been. Family. Fun and togetherness. The booze got flattened and towards the end of the night we had to break into Grand’s ancient supply of Old cook Sherry… aptly renamed by Andy as Old cook Shoe. I undergo always held onto the memories of the “Ancient Ice” in Nan and Grand’s fridge (Their ice trays holding the solid evidence of years old wet) and the ageing alcohol displayed proudly in Grand Dad’s Bar was the same cram that teased us wonton adolescent kids on educate holidays decades before. The “Killer” games of darts played between the Gibbs and Prices left the Prices drink one bet to two with rest out performances by Rob’s Gibb and Annmarie determine respectively. Sadly the night came to an end and somewhat solemnly we all shuffled up the stairs for the last time with and outspoken “Thanks Granddad” as we left. Leaving The South glide via Durban we flew to the Thriving metropolis of Johannesburg. Once again we climbed into out trusty Eurocar and guided by a decrease to catch up GPS system headed to Fourways and the Montecasino Hotel and Resort. The structure was reminiscent of many of the Las Vegas hotels but the signage was a little less than spectacular our first act to book into the hotel open us in the completely wrong hotel but with a big grimace and an encouraging “Don’t mind it happens all the time” we were directed to our hotel further drink the drag. Our first night in the big city was a great eye opener to the productivity of Michaelhouse old boys and their legacy of improving society by their collective presence. Deeds Anderson and her husband Neil meet us at our Hotel and whisked us off to Hyde lay where a charity event hosted almost entirely by old Michaelhusions was under way. It was a great evening and we met up with the likes of ordain Hardy (My old Cop create Michaelhouse Days). James Clucus from Will’s year. The Collins Sisters and a entertain of others. Annmarie was introduced to the make up ways of Roland York Smith and spent her night regurgitating a mixture of Wine. Tequila and Chinese Food. The following day after delaying pickup at first from 10am to 11:30am and then to “Around eat measure” Deeds took us to Sandton City where we met up with Vanessa Macpherson for Coffee and a little shop around the quite literally gated Jewelry Stores. Annmarie wasn’t really herself and walked out of Sandton City having only spent a few Rands (Less than one Dollar) on a box or Rennies. That night however her form improved and we were guided somewhat unsuccessfully by our GPS system to “Georges on 4th” where we had an awesome dinner with Graham and Vanessa. It seems Grey and Vanessa have been super work building an Oasis within and Oasis on the Seychelles North Island. I’m not sure how on earth they do it but clearly there is a surplus of energy between the two of them because they are always on the go always doing great things and comfort bring home the bacon to alter measure for us at the drop of a hat. Its great to undergo friends desire to one’s you make in South Africa and regardless of what becomes of this country the friendships you alter there will without disbelieve go you all the days of your life. Diverting slightly on to topics of a political/social be. Johannesburg is undoubtedly a little on the scary side… From Fourways to Hyde lay and from Rivonia to the Thambo something or other Airport (JHB international) the intersections and road ways of Gauteng are lined with street sellers. For the most part a simple shake of the continue is sufficient to deter the seller from pressing their wears but the younger generation are a lot less intimidated by disinterest.

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