Serious

Once a relationship becomes serious, you both need to speak up and express your thoughts and feelings. If either of you is overly private or withdrawn, the relationship will be in jeopardy. If the man is too quiet, do not assume all is well. Draw him out. Even if you are shy or reserved, you need to tell him about yourself.

Some quiet people take great pride in being self-sufficient, even to the point of hiding their personal needs or wants. These folks display affection by performing their duties in their relationship, but not by talking about the relationship or its problems. Excessive people take pride in verbalizing their wants and needs...

Some people have a very strong sense of personal privacy and consider inquisitive people to be nosy. Yet people who are caring and concerned will inquire about a loved one's private life and expect some answers."

This is what Margaret said.

Bundy

"What did Ted Bundy have for his last meal? this is, by far, the most frequently asked question. Surprisingly, Ted Bundy had no speical last meal request. He was served the traditional last meal of steak, eggs, and potatoes...Ted did not dine with the same gusto...Perhaps he believed a little last minute weight loss would help him slip from the shackles of the Florida electric chair for a third dramatic escape from judicial confinement. (He already mastered two escapes from a Colorado jail)."

This is what Ty and Michelle said.

Guards

Prison guards soon find out if they want to earn some extra money, they can smuggle as a sideline. Often, it starts out in a minor way, with a convict asking a guard if he'd smuggle out a letter that he doesn't want read by prison officials. If a the guard accepts, and takes payment from the addressee, the hook is planted. The next request might be to bring in an envelope or small packet, without disclosing the contents to the guard.

If the packet contains illicit drugs, the guard is more beholden than ever. this gives the inmate and his outside confederate a hold over the guard, and leverage to oblige him to do more 'favors.'...

In some especially corrupt prisons, administration officials are part of the scheme. The prison administrators can try to stamp out smuggling if they wish, by enforcing strictly all of the regulations, or they can turn a blind eye. Some will go so far as to take part of the action by themselves, on the basis that, as smuggling is inevitable, they might as well profit from it. In one prison, the deputy warden was the leader of the smugglign ring, and the illicit drugs 'passed across his desk.'....

The guards who are 'clean' resent this, but are powerless to do anything. Smugglers operate secretly, and in any event any guard who exposes another runs the risk of reprisals from his fellow employees, much the same situation that affects a corrupt police department. This affects the morale of honest guards."

Correction To ISP

ISP should correctly read what Thom said, not Martin.

ISP

"Many of us are accustomed to viewing the Web as a wellspring of vast number of sources of information, free of restraining influence. Indeed, if properly used by knowledgeable people, it can be. Bur in practice, perhaps not as much as we would think. In August 2001, the authoritative Jupiter Media Matrix research company reported that just four corporations own the Web sites that more than 50 percent of Americans spend time viewing...Your ISP can program their sytems to give you quick access to Web sites of corporations who pay a fee to them, and subtly (or not so subtly) slow your access to the rest of the Internet. Although many Internet users think of the World Wide Web as a commons of ideas, it's a commons whose access is now almost entirely controlled by a small number of very large corporations.""The FCC has recently allowed four giant media corporations to buy up radio stations nationwide to the point where four companies now control 90 percent of total advertising revenues.""Today, despite more than 25,000 outlets in the United States, twenty-three corporations control most of the business in daily newspapers, magazines, television, books, and motion pictures."

This is what Martin said.

Ph.D

"The next time you get the opportunity to talk to someone who has run the Ph.D. gauntlet, or even better, someone who started but dropped out, ask him about his experience. Did he find it fair, challenging? Did he think he was treated well, with respect? There is no better way to understand what is involved than to listen to the pain and anguish of one who has experienced it.

"Perhaps the most startling finding of this work In Pursuit of the PhD is that fewer than half of all students who enter Ph.D. programs ever get the degree- more than half drop out along the way. They don't drop out casually, but more likely 'after pursuing degrees for anywhere from six to twelve years.

This terrible waste and abuse of some of America's finest talents has been going on silently, virtually unnoticed, for decades...The traumas associated with the pursuit of the Ph.D. may even have discouraged many scholars from returning to such a personally painful subject.."

"What we see are 33,000 middle-aged men and women groggily grasping the Ph.D. degree every year. What we don't see are the ten of thousands of brilliant minds who would not tolerate the abuse, the students who would not submit to the humiliation and exploitation. Tragically, this probably includes many of the best minds in America."

This is what Martin said.

Beware

"Some chop shop operators may steal their own vehicles. Other chop shops with exclusive clientele may have a professional steal a vehicle to order.The term 'totaled' according to insurance companies means that a vehicle is so badly damaged that the cost of building it is more than the fair market value of the vehicle. If a driver totals his car, it simply means that his carrier, instead of paying to have it repaired, will find it cheaper to have him buy a similar vehicle on the car market."

This is what Burt said.

The 'chop shop' is an illicit auto dismantler, a receiver of stolen vehicles who dissects them for resale as spare parts...A driver with a junker is less likely to want his vehicle repaired beyond a certain point than the driver of a late-model car.Several factors help increase the demand.Some drivers are reluctant to declare 'fender-benders' and make claims upon their insurance companies because of the increase in premiums that this will bring. When it's necessary to pay out of pocket for repairs, the driver will seek out the maximum savings possible.Competition between auto body shops is fierce, and one way to beat the competition on price is to use second-hand and reconditioned parts. These can be legal parts, or they can be black market parts, obtained at cut-rate from chop shops. Even without the stimulus of competition, some body shops owners are simply greedy."

>"In many cases, the investigator, police or civilian learns to spot fraudulent claims because the fraud artist develops a behavioral profile unlike that of legitimate claimants. Spotting these differences takes in several areas:>>The circumstances surrounding the claim are unusual. The claimant may have bought or increased his insurance coverage shortly before the date of the claim. There may be no police report, which is very unusual in a vehicle theft. If the claim is for material stolen from the vehicle, such as a stereo or tape deck, this is more understandable because many people believe (correctly) that the chances of solving a minor theft are very poor and not worth the trouble to report it."

This is what
Burt said.