Military Photos - Off Topic and Humor http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums/ en Sat, 21 Nov 2009 05:30:21 GMT vBulletin 60 http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums/images/misc/rss.jpg Military Photos - Off Topic and Humor http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums/ QOD: C/T groups http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums/showthread.php?t=169228&goto=newpost Sat, 21 Nov 2009 05:06:07 GMT If you were going to be dusted by a group who would it be, pick your fate cretins. feel free to post pics of yourselves acting out your fantasy of being an operator. I was limited to 10 groups by hoodrat. lets bring on the trolling/flaming/retard wars. poll is only open for 2 days. If you were going to be dusted by a group who would it be, pick your fate cretins. feel free to post pics of yourselves acting out your fantasy of being an operator.


I was limited to 10 groups by hoodrat. lets bring on the trolling/flaming/retard wars. poll is only open for 2 days. ]]> Off Topic and Humor Albatross http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums/showthread.php?t=169228 Family takes self portraits every year for 33 years http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums/showthread.php?t=169223&goto=newpost Sat, 21 Nov 2009 03:55:56 GMT I've seen this before and it's really interesting. Now that my daughter is approaching her first birthday, I want to do something similar.

http://zonezero.com/magazine/essays/diegotime/time.html

There's another set of photos out there of a father and daughter in their backyard, wearing swimsuits, the girl wearing a swimming cap, and in every yearly picture they're in the same pose, on the same spot, in the same outfits, starting from when the girl was a toddler all the way up until she reaches middle age, and beyond. Does anyone know what I'm talking about? I'm looking for it and if anyone has a link, please post. Thanks!

PS: Photos of "The Downward Spiral" not necessary. Kthxbai. ]]> Off Topic and Humor dave81 http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums/showthread.php?t=169223 Russian Supermarket Lets Naked Shoppers Take Anything For Free http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums/showthread.php?t=169221&goto=newpost Sat, 21 Nov 2009 03:50:05 GMT Russian Supermarket Lets Naked Shoppers
Take Anything For Free



In a Russian supermarket in the provincial town of Kolomna, customers have been allowed to take home any item for free if they came into the shop without wearing clothes.

That was enough to attract crowds of nearly naked shoppers, some of them well over 60-years-old, and even larger crowds of shocked peeping toms.

In fact, some were so shocked they reported the mass parade of flesh to the police.

While elderly people were boiling over the incident, some youngsters were regretting they hadn’t been there to take home everything for being naked.


See The Video/Continue .. ]]> Off Topic and Humor eurekaa http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums/showthread.php?t=169221 <![CDATA["If it's not scottish it's crap!"]]> http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums/showthread.php?t=169220&goto=newpost Sat, 21 Nov 2009 02:45:44 GMT http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6-076NKqwo rofl http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6-076NKqwo

rofl ]]> Off Topic and Humor Fallap http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums/showthread.php?t=169220 Hitler hates Henry http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums/showthread.php?t=169216&goto=newpost Sat, 21 Nov 2009 01:34:33 GMT http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdeMaUrL4Jw (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdeMaUrL4Jw) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdeMaUrL4Jw
 ]]> Off Topic and Humor leloup46 http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums/showthread.php?t=169216 Raccoons in my Backyard http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums/showthread.php?t=169214&goto=newpost Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:46:43 GMT There's been 3 raccoons that have been laying around my backyard, I always see them, be it afternoon or night, I want to grab my shotgun and unload birdshot on them but I live in a little California culdesac and I'm afraid I'll disturb my neighbors, what should I do? ]]> Off Topic and Humor Andelin09 http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums/showthread.php?t=169214 Stormtroopers day off. http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums/showthread.php?t=169213&goto=newpost Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:37:17 GMT Awesomeness :lol: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1228594/A-Stormtroopers-day--Darth-Vaders-minions-enjoy-looking.html Image: http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2009/11/17/article-1228594-073EF039000005DC-385_634x472.jpg Awesomeness :lol:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...y-looking.html

]]> Off Topic and Humor PrivatePyle http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums/showthread.php?t=169213 2009 Bad Sex in Fiction Award shortlist http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums/showthread.php?t=169205&goto=newpost Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:57:28 GMT The shortlist for the Literary Review's 17th Annual Bad Sex in Fiction Award was announced today.

The Humbling by Philip Roth
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"He had let Pegeen appoint herself ringmaster and would not participate until summoned. He would watch without interfering. First Pegeen stepped into the contraption, adjusted and secured the leather straps, and affixed the dildo so that it jutted straight out. Then she crouched above Tracy, brushing Tracy's lips and nipples with her mouth and fondling her breasts, and then she slid down a ways and gently penetrated Tracy with the dildo. Pegeen did not have to force her open. She did not have to say a word – he imagined that if either one of them did begin to speak, it would be in a language unrecognizable to him. The green cock plunged in and out of the abundant naked body sprawled beneath it, slow at first, then faster and harder, then harder still, and all of Tracy's curves and hollows moved in unison with it. This was not soft porn. This was no longer two unclothed women caressing and kissing on a bed. There was something primitive about it now, this woman-on-woman violence, as though, in the room filled with shadows, Pegeen were a magical composite of shaman, acrobat, and animal. It was as if she were wearing a mask on her genitals, a weird totem mask, that made her into what she was not and was not supposed to be. She could as well have been a crow or a coyote, while simultaneously Pegeen Mike. There was something dangerous about it. His heart thumped with excitement – the god Pan looking on from a distance with his spying, lascivious gaze.

It was English that Pegeen spoke when she looked over from where she was, now resting on her back beside Tracy, combing the little black cat-o'-nine-tails through Tracy's long hair, and, with that kid-like smile that showed her two front teeth, said to him softly, "Your turn. Defile her." She took Tracy by one shoulder, whispered "Time to change masters," and gently rolled the stranger's large, warm body toward his. "Three children got together," he said, "and decided to put on a play," whereupon his performance began.



The Infinities by John Banville
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Alba has stepped out of her dress in one flowing, stylised movement, like a torero, the object of all eyes, trailing his cape in the dust before the baffled bull; underneath, she is naked. She looks to the side, downwards; her eyelids are so shinily pale and fine that Adam can see clearly all the tiny veins in them, blue as lapis. He takes a floating step forward until his chest is barely touching the tips of her nipples, behind which he senses all the gravid tremulousness of her breasts. She puts her hands flat against his chest and leans into him in a simulacrum of a swoon, making a mewling sound. Her hips are goosefleshed and he can feel all the tiny hairs erect on her forearms. When he kisses her hot, soft mouth, which is bruised a little at one corner, he knows at once that she has been with another man, and recently – faint as it is there is no mistaking that tang of fish-slime and sawdust – for he has no doubt that this is the mouth of a busy working girl. He does not mind.

They conduct there, on that white bed, under the rubied iron cross, a fair imitation of a passionate dalliance, a repeated toing and froing on the edge of a precipice beyond which can be glimpsed a dark-green distance in a reeking mist and something shining out at them, a pulsing point of light, peremptory and intense. His heart rattles in its cage, a vein beats at his temple like a slow tom-tom. When they are spent at last, and that beacon in the jungle has been turned low again, they lie together contentedly in a tangle of arms and legs and talk of this and that, in their own languages, each understanding hardly a word of what the other says.
Rhyming Life and Death by Amos Oz
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Almost in an instant his desire rises to a level where the pressure to reach a climax stalls and gives way to a sort of sensitive physical alertness, pleased with its own sexual generosity, that gets a kick out of giving her thrill after thrill and postponing his own satisfaction, feeling to see how he can give her more and more pleasure, until she cannot take any more. And so, in complete self-denial – in every sense – with his fingers, now experienced and even inspired, he starts to steer her enjoyment like a ship towards its home port, to the deepest anchorage, right to the core of her pleasure.

Attentive to the very faintest of signals, like some piece of sonar equipment that can detect sounds in the deep imperceptible to the human ear, he registers the flow of tiny moans that rise from inside her as he continues to excite her, receiving and unconsciously classifying the fine nuances that differentiate one moan from another, in his skin rather than in his ears he feels the minute variations in her breathing, he feels the ripples in her skin, as though he has been transformed into a delicate seismograph that intercepts and instantly deciphers her body's reactions, translating what he has discovered into skilful, precise navigation, anticipating and cautiously avoiding every sandbank, steering clear of each underwater reef, smoothing any roughness except that slow roughness that comes and goes and comes and turns and goes and comes and strokes and goes and makes her whole body quiver. Meanwhile her moaning has turned into little sobs and sighs and cries of surprise, and suddenly his lips tell him that her cheeks are covered in tears. Every sound, every breath or shudder, every wave passing over her skin, helps his fingers on their artful way to steer her home.
The Naked Name of Love by Sanjida O'Connell
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This time her body felt real to him, not fragments from a dream, or a surreal hallucination, but there was a certain clumsiness, an awkwardness on his part as if it were the first time for him now that he was bereft of the herb that made him feel how she felt. They were not in tune and it was as if he were splashing about helplessly on the shore of some great ocean, waiting for a current, or the right swimming stroke to sweep him effortlessly out to sea. He felt they were lacking some vital ingredient; she was only partly engaged, the building explosion of sensation that had made her unfurl like a flower, a morning glory greeting the sun, was missing. He stopped.

"What is it?" she asked.

"You," he said. I've lost you, he whispered.

She smiled, wide-eyed, lithe as a cat, she twisted her body, took his hand and showed him what to do; he felt her breath hot against his throat, her pulse quicken, limbs grow taut. He was hanging in deep green water, waves breaking against him, the clean sweep of the shore attainable in a few slow strokes.
A Dead Hand: A Crime in Calcutta by Paul Theroux
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'Baby.' She took my head in both hands and guided it downward, between her fragrant thighs. 'Yoni puja – pray, pray at my portal.'

She was holding my head, murmuring 'Pray,' and I did so, beseeching her with my mouth and tongue, my licking a primitive form of language in a simple prayer. It had always worked before, a language she had taught me herself, the warm muffled tongue.
The Death of Bunny Munro by Nick Cave
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He slips his hands under her cotton vest and her body spasms and slackens and he cups her small, cold breasts in his hands and feels the hard pearls of her nipples, like tiny secrets, against the barked palms of his hands. He feels the gradual winding down of her dying heart and can see a bluish tinge blossoming on the skin of her skull through her thin, ironed hair.

'Oh, my dear Avril,' he says.

He puts his hands under her knees and manoeuvres her carefully so that her bottom rests on the edge of the settee. He slips his fingers underneath the worn elastic of her panties that are strung across the points of her hips, slips them to her ankles and softly draws apart her knees and feels again a watery ardour in his eyes as he negotiates a button and a zipper. It is exactly as he imagined it – the hair, the lips, the hole – and he slips his hands under her wasted buttocks and enters her like a ****ing pile driver.
The Kindly Ones by Jonathan Littell
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Una had stretched out on the bed of the guillotine; I lifted the lunette, made her put her head through it, and closed it on her long neck, after carefully lifting her heavy hair. She was panting. I tied her hands behind her back with my belt, then raised her skirt. I didn't even bother to lower her panties, just pushed the lace to one side and spread her buttocks with both hands: in the slit, nestling in hair, her anus gently contracted. I spit on it. 'No,' she protested. I took out my penis, lay on top of her, and thrust it in. She gave a long stifled cry. I was crushing her with all my weight; because of the awkward position – my trousers were hindering my legs – I could only move in little jerks. Leaning over the lunette, my own neck beneath the blade, I whispered to her: 'I'm going to pull the lever, I'm going to let the blade drop.' She begged me: 'Please, **** my pussy.' – 'No.' I came suddenly, a jolt that emptied my head like a spoon scraping the inside of a soft-boiled egg.
The Rescue Man by Anthony Quinn
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'What are you thinking?'

'I'm thinking … of all the things I'd like to do to you.'

Pressing her down so that she lay lengthways on the sofa, he unbuttoned her coat, but didn't remove it. He felt her body's warmth through the layers of clothes; slowly, he unbuttoned the woollen cardigan she was wearing; he kissed her stomach through the silk blouse underneath, and the sweet embroidered vest beneath that. Then he pushed these back too so that he could taste the pale skin, and felt her trembling against his mouth. His hands caressed the sharp jut of her hip bones, and fingered the buttons at the side of her skirt which he anticipated trouble with, unless … He had the sensation of journeying through veils, of a headlong descent towards disclosure, and the prospect of pausing to fiddle with more buttons was not to be borne. Her breathing had become shallower, and her face was turned distractedly to one side. His head had drawn level with her lap, and as he lifted up her skirt he recalled an image of Bella at Slater Street casually flipping back the dark hood from her camera and removing the plate. Feeling the snaps and entanglements of her underclothes as a delay to his progress, he placed a kiss, quite reverently, on the ivory-coloured sheath of her pants; through the material he traced smooth skin, then the wiry tussock below. The thin silk felt like water purling through his fingers. His hands squirmed beneath the cool curve of her buttocks and stroked the dimple at the base of her spine. Then he dipped his head lower until his mouth grazed the tip of the inverted white triangle that ended between her legs; he brought a hand around and, parting her legs slightly wider, allowed his finger to draw back the pouched silk. It felt to him as if he were tending a delicate weeping wound, and as he probed it with his tongue he heard her moan quietly. Excited by the oysterish intricacy of her he sucked and licked the salty folds until they became sweet, and slowly she arched her back to heighten the angle of provocation. As her gasps grew more urgent he glanced upwards and saw her face almost angrily flushed and straining, his mouth now breathing in the wetness of her until, with an agonised cry, she stiffened and shuddered down the length of her torso.
Love Begins in Winter by Simon Van Booy
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My mouth lingered on hers; I tasted her. I felt for her tongue with mine. I felt the blood surging through my body. We pressed against one another.

Impossibly close.

She gripped my arms. Her nails tore into me. Soon we both were burning.

Sweat pooled in the ridge of my back as I moved like a tide determined to crash against those ancient rocks.

Then – a moment before – inside, I kept very still. Our bodies moved of their own accord. Hannah's body was swallowing, digesting all that was mine to give. For those final moments, we existed seamlessly – all memory negated by a desire that both belonged to us and controlled us.

After, we kept very still, like the only two roots of the forest.
Ten Storey Love Song by Richard Milward
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Let's have sex, they think simultaneously, couples having strange mind-reading powers after months and months of trying to figure each other out. Panting, Georgie starts rubbing her hands round Bobby's biological erogenous zones, turning his trousers into a tent with lots of rude organs camping underneath. Bobby sucks all the freckles and moles off her chest, pulling the GD bib wheeeeeeeeeee over her head and flicking Georgie's turquoise bra off her shoulders then kissing her tits, and he's got so much energy – plus he's very impatient – Bobby tugs off his sweaty sweater himself and gives Georgie a helping hand with his zip. Then comes the enormous anticipation of someone putting their mitts on your cock and balls. Georgie smiles to herself and keeps him hanging on for a bit, which in a way is even better though it makes the Artist want to explode and after one or two tugs he moans 'whoah' then screams 'whoah!' and Georgie lets go giggling, then suddenly her face is all serious and Bobby pulls her polished pine legs apart and slithers a hand up her skirt where her fanny's got a bit of five o'clock shadow like a pin cushion but her lips are nice and slippy, and he slides some lubric*unt round and round, mixing clockwise with anticlockwise with figure 8 until Georgie's shagging the air with pleasure bashing her feet about. Then, Bobby starts scrabbling frantically across the carpet for Mr Condom, sending five or six multicolour Durexes flying through the air, and he struggles getting the packet open and Georgie has to roll Mr Condom down Mr Penis for him and she has to help insert him into Mrs Vagina.
]]> Off Topic and Humor Hadamar http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums/showthread.php?t=169205 Ripples in space divide classical and quantum worlds http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums/showthread.php?t=169204&goto=newpost Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:27:07 GMT Ripples in space divide classical and quantum worlds

by Anil Ananthaswamy
18 November 2009

WHY can't we be in two places at the same time? The simple answer is that it's because large objects appear not to be subject to the same wacky laws of quantum mechanics that rule subatomic particles. But why not - and how big does something have to be for quantum physics no longer to apply? Ripples in space-time could hold the answer.

The location of the boundary between the classical and quantum worlds is a long-standing mystery. One idea is that everything starts off as a quantum system, existing in a superposition of states.

This would make an object capable of being, for example, in many places at once. But when this system interacts with its environment, it collapses into a single classical state - a phenomenon called quantum decoherence.

Brahim Lamine of Pierre and Marie Curie University in Paris, France, and colleagues say that gravitational waves may be responsible for this. These waves in the very fabric of the universe were generated by its rapid expansion soon after the big bang, as well as by violent astrophysical events such as colliding black holes. As a consequence, a background of ripples at very low amplitudes pervades space-time.

Gravitational waves may be responsible for collapsing quantum ambiguity into a single classical state

Lamine and colleagues calculated how this fluctuating space-time might contribute to quantum decoherence. They found that for systems with very large mass, such as the moon, decoherence induced by the gravitational waves would have caused any quantum superposition to dissipate immediately. At the other end of the scale, such waves would have a negligible effect on massless photons.

To test whether gravitational waves do in fact cause the decoherence seen in large objects, the researchers suggest using a set-up called a matter-wave interferometer in which molecules are made to pass through multiple gratings. The wave-like nature of the molecules causes them to diffract, and the diffracted waves interact to give rise to an interference pattern. Quantum decoherence destroys this pattern, so in principle this could provide a test for whether the decohering effect of background space-time fluctuations matches predictions. Such a system would have to be completely isolated to rule out other effects.

This is, however, impossible in practice - with today's interferometers, at least. Experiments pioneered by Anton Zeilinger, Markus Arndt and colleagues at the University of Vienna, Austria, have been able to generate interference with beams of 60-atom carbon buckyballs, but even with molecules of this size the effect of gravitational waves would be too small to be observed.

According to Lamine, who presented his work last month at the Gravitation and Fundamental Physics in Space meeting at Les Houches in the French Alps, the effect should be measurable in larger systems at high energy. Supersonic beams of about 3000 carbon atoms would do the trick if made to interfere over an effective area of about 1 square metre. This is far beyond the reach of any foreseeable technology.

Some speculative theories predict, however, that quantum decoherence will occur on a lower energy scale than that suggested by Lamine. If so, this could be within experimental reach. "That is why our experiments are pushing [up] the interference mass limit, step by step," says Arndt.

Link ]]> Off Topic and Humor Lt-Col A. Tack http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums/showthread.php?t=169204 Bridge Collapse PC Search: Body Found. http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums/showthread.php?t=169202&goto=newpost Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:59:16 GMT http://uk.news.yahoo.com/5/20091120/...d-45dbed5.html

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Pc Bill Barker, 45, was diverting traffic off Northside Bridge near Workington when it collapsed, throwing him into the River Derwent.


A huge search for the father of four was launched but was hampered by "horrendous" weather conditions.


Cumbria Assistant Chief Constable Jerry Graham said earlier: "I'm devastated by the events of the last few days and particularly the news that one of our officers is unaccounted for."


He said Constable Barker has served in the police 25 years and currently works as a Roads Policing officer in Workington.


ACC Graham added: "He was directing motorists off the bridge, saving lives, when the tragic incident occurred.


"He is a valued colleague and friend of many officers and staff within the Constabulary - and to those in West Cumbria where he lives and serves."


A lifeboat involved in the search for Pc Barker in the sea off Workington was forced to turn back because the weather was so bad.


RNLI lifeboat operations manager Captain Brian Ashbridge said there was a "massive current" travelling down the Derwent, making conditions for searchers "very challenging".


"It's absolutely horrendous. There is a huge amount of debris around in the water at the moment as well, which adds to the difficulties," he said.


Councillor Bob Hardon, who lives in Workington, said residents had been cut off by the floods."This is the worst weather in a long time, he said.


"In 1976 I worked in the brewery in Cockermouth and we had beer barrels floating in the cellar but this is as bad as it's been for ages."


Due to the weather problems 999 calls from Workington, Cleator Moor and Harrington have had difficulty getting through.


To reach emergency services people in these areas are asked to ring 0845 33 00 247.
May he +Rest In Peace +

Sympathy and Condolences to Family, Friends and Colleagues ]]> Off Topic and Humor Connaught Ranger http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums/showthread.php?t=169202 Detroit: Father executes his own son for sexually abusing his sister http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums/showthread.php?t=169199&goto=newpost Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:36:39 GMT Furious father executes teenage
son for 'sexually abusing his
three-year-old half-sister'



Furious U.S. father executed his teenage son after he admitted sexually abusing his three-year-old half sister.

Jamar Pinkney allegedly beat up 15-year-old Jamar Jr then marched him to wasteland, where he forced him to strip and kneel.

The teenager's mother, Lazette Cherry, told how he begged, 'No, Daddy! No' before Jamar Sr shot his son once in the head.

Cherry told reporters that Pinkney turned up at her home in Highland Park, Michigan, with a gun after she told him of his son's confession.


Full Story/Video .. Continue .. ]]> Off Topic and Humor eurekaa http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums/showthread.php?t=169199 Finns are crazy http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums/showthread.php?t=169198&goto=newpost Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:28:31 GMT http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUPZqWF6_sU http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5NEnwp13g4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUPZqWF6_sU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5NEnwp13g4 ]]> Off Topic and Humor Frutzel http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums/showthread.php?t=169198 Are you committing career suicide? http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums/showthread.php?t=169196&goto=newpost Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:40:03 GMT Workers fear that settling for a survival job could hurt them when hiring picks up again.

NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- The difficult job market has forced millions of workers to downgrade into a position they're overqualified for or take a survival job to make ends meet.

And while riding out the recession might be a practical strategy for now, what will become of the underemployed when the dust clears and it's time to get back on track?
There are currently 9.3 million underemployed workers limited to part-time jobs because they can't find full-time employment -- a record high, according to the Labor Department's October jobs report.

"If you are in a situation where you can't pay your bills and you are going to miss you mortgage payment and your kids need clothes for school, you are going to do what you need to do," said career expert for Glassdoor.com Rusty Rueff.
But a smaller paycheck could push you back a rung in the in salary ladder, and make it that much harder to get back to where you were.

That's exactly what Dan Juan is afraid of. Juan, 25, is a sales coordinator at a shipping company in Cincinnati, Ohio and in order to stay employed, he has had to weather three demotions over the last year and half, all with corresponding pay cuts.

"When future employers ask me what my salary was at my last job, I have to tell them that it's $34,000 instead of $42,000," he said. "I do worry that it may affect my long-term career."

Some displaced workers who were forced to take temporary positions or seasonal jobs to pay the bills also fear getting back into their field with a big gap in their résumé.

John Reh, a 35-year-old former recruiter, found himself out of work midway through last year. Despite an MBA and nearly a decade of experience recruiting mid- and senior-level executives, Reh says the only jobs available were entry level "and a solid 50% to 60% less than what I was making."
During his search, Reh started walking dogs to earn some spending cash, and as his job search went cold, he devoted more time to his pet project.

"Not many people were hiring, which means no need for recruiters," he said of the environment last year.

As time went on, Reh knew that going back to recruiting would only get harder.

"Certainly it would be a problem for some employers I'm sure," he said of the time he has spent outside the industry. But, "taking a (lower level recruiting) job that paid significantly less than what I was making was going to put a dent in my résumé anyway."

Getting back on the horse

Career experts feel that employers will be understanding about candidates straying from their chosen career path.

"Particularly in this recession, it is not going to hurt anybody to have a lower level job on their résumé," said Melanie Holmes, a vice president at employment services firm Manpower. "People need to put food on the table."
Glassdoor.com's Rueff agreed: "We're in a totally different age these days."

Even just two years ago, it might have been detrimental for workers to downgrade into a position they were overqualified for, or accept a temporary job in a field like retail, he explained, "but in today's day, a hiring manager would have to be either extremely callous or insensitive if they didn't understand a survival job."

Rueff advises job seekers to keep their skills relevant, even if it means volunteering their time. "If you were in finance, join the audit committee at your church or finance committee at your kid's school, to keep yourself current," he suggested.
And when it comes to trying to get back to your previous field, don't hide what you did in the interim, Rueff says. "Explain, I'm making ends meet but that doesn't mean I've lost any of my career aspirations."

Taking a survival job could also offer hidden opportunities. For those who always wanted to break into another industry, starting with an entry-level position could open doors.
"Taking a temp job is a great way to get hired," Holmes said. "Look for companies you want to work for or in the field you are interested in."

That's how it turned out for recruiter-come-dog walker John Reh. With the support of his wife, Erica, Reh decided to turn his dog walking gig into a full-fledged business.

Reh says that he has no plans to return to recruiting, "unless I have to."

Although he is still earning about half as much as he made before, in three years he hopes to grow his Dogs Love Running business to the point that he will earn a comparable salary to his old one.

While he was forced into the business out of necessity, it has led to an opportunity, and Reh is happy with his choice. "To me that's the story of our time," Rueff says. "If you gotta do what you gotta do, what matters is you did something."

http://money.cnn.com/2009/11/19/news...ex.htm?cnn=yes ]]> Off Topic and Humor beNder http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums/showthread.php?t=169196 <![CDATA[BREAKING NEWS UPDATE: 'British firing practice against flag with Spanish colours'']]> http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums/showthread.php?t=169193&goto=newpost Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:44:03 GMT BREAKING NEWS UPDATE: 'British firing practice against flag with Spanish colours''



The Royal Navy have been using a buoy with the Spanish flag on it for firing practice, according to Spanish 'Guardia Civil' sources quoted in the El Mundo newspaper today.

A patrol vessel from the 'Guardia Civil' says it spotted the incident last Tuesday at about 7 nautical miles from Gibraltar.

Military sources in Gibraltar said it was not a Spanish national flag but an internationally recognised Numeral 1 flag, which incorporates the colours of the Spanish flag. It is used to mark a target buoy.

The Spanish foreign ministry today summoned the British Ambassador Giles Paxman to complain about the incident, with the ambassador reported in Spain as having apologised.

It was not clear what was he apologising for if, as the Gibraltar military say, this was a marker flag and not the Spanish flag.


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Kurt Badenhausen, 09.29.09, 07:25 PM EDT
Tiger Woods cracks the $1 billion mark in career earnings.

Tiger Woods has been making history on and off the course since he joined the PGA Tour in 1996. First up was a record $40 million contract from Nike. The following year he won the Masters by a record 12 strokes, becoming the youngest winner ever and first black player to take the title. His career has been packed full of accomplishments, including major titles (14), annual money titles (9) and Player of the Year awards (9).

Now Woods can add one more accolade to his trophy case: the first athlete to earn $1 billion. Our calculations show that the $10 million bonus Woods earned winning this year's FedEx Cup title nudged him over the $1 billion mark in career earnings.

Forbes has been tracking athlete earnings since before Tiger turned pro. Woods had earned a cumulative $895 million going into 2009, by our estimates, from prize money, appearance fees, endorsements, bonuses and his golf course design business. If you add his $10.5 million in 2009 prize money, the FedEx bonus and his take so far this year from his more than $100 million in annual off-the-course earnings, Woods' career earnings are now 10 figures.

Woods has only two real competitors when it comes to career earnings among athletes: the two Michaels, Jordan and Schumacher, who dominated their respective sports for nearly 15 years. Jordan's earning peaked during his last season with the Chicago Bulls (1998-'99), when he earned $69 million in salary and endorsement income.

Jordan continues to earn $45 million annually, almost entirely from Nike ( NKE - news - people ). We estimate that Jordan has earned $800 million since he entered the NBA in 1984. Annual sales of the Jordan brand are now $1 billion for Nike, so MJ should hit the $1 billion mark in career earnings in the next four to five years.

Schumacher's earnings peaked at $80 million in 2003, when he won his record sixth World Drivers' Championship (he won a seventh title the following year). His $40 million salary was the highest in sports at the time and his income doubled when you factored in endorsements, licensing deals and championship bonuses. Schumacher has earned $700 million, by our count, since his Formula One debut in 1991.

As for Woods, only his accountant knows if Tiger is a billionaire athlete yet, but if it did not happen on Sunday it is likely only a matter of months or his next check from Nike. Woods has been the world's highest-paid athlete since 2002, when he surpassed Schumacher. His earnings have surged in recent years as he launched a golf course design business. He currently has three courses underway that pay him more than $10 million per project. The launch of the FedEx Cup has been a bonus for Woods, who has taken the $10 million top prize in two of its three years (a knee injury prevented his participation last year). Woods also commands $3 million appearances fees when he plays outside the United States.

Woods lost General Motors' Buick division as a sponsor at the end of last year, but he quickly added AT&T ( T - news - people ) as the brand on his golf bag. PepsiCo ( PEP - news - people ) launched Gatorade Tiger last year in a revenue-sharing deal that potentially could be very lucrative for Woods. His other biggest endorsement deals include Accenture ( ACN - news - people ), Electronic Arts ( ERTS - news - people ), Gillette and Upper Deck.

It is Nike, though, that has been Woods' most lucrative partner. The relationship has been hugely beneficial for both parties, as Nike launched a golf division from scratch, with Woods carrying the brand, and sales are now $800 million annually. Nike pays Woods upward of $30 million annually for his ringing endorsement.

The most stunning part is that Woods is only 33 years old--he might have 15 years of competitive golf left in him, and 30-plus years of designing courses. This is only the first billion for Woods.

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