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Learn To Obtain Additional Us Passport Pages Fastest Way

If you travel abroad often, you might yourself running out of room in your passport. The standard US passport is issued with 24 visa sheets. If that’s not enough for you, you can get additional US passport pages fastest way into your book.

Traveling

As a frequent world traveler, you should be keeping close tabs of how many blank sheets you still have and how many you might need on your next trip. When you find yourself with fewer than four blank visa pages, you should apply for your extra blank sheets. Even if you don’t need them immediately, you’ll be glad to have them.

DS-4085

However you request them, you’ll have to complete the DS-4085 federal form. This is the application specifically for requesting additional sheets. You’ll find it on any number of websites and you can download it. Make sure you sign it before submitting your application.

Valid Documents

To complete your application packet, you’ll also have to include your current, valid passport and the applicable fee. If you opt to manage this process on your own, you’ll send your application packet to the processing office. There are two offices where you can send an additional page request, each which will turn your request around on different schedules. The typical wait time is four to six weeks. However, if you want it in two to three weeks, you’ll send it to the special, expediting office address.

Additional Pages

However, if a two to three week is still too long, you can use a private company to get it done for you faster. The US government has authorized a number of private companies to act as an agent on your behalf to expedite your passport requests. While there are a number of companies that can handle this for you, you want to use one that will guarantee the quick processing time they promise. So, getting your U.S. passport is easy!.

Locality

You decide how quickly you want the private company to get your passport back to you based on how much you are willing to pay. The most expensive service will be for its fastest turnaround time – same day service. The same day service is usually only available if you live in a city where the company is located. Anywhere else, the fastest service is 24 hours. However, you have a number of speed options ranging up to two weeks.

Blank Visa Pages

As a frequent traveler abroad, you might make things even easier for yourself by requesting extra pages when you renew. Instead of accepting the standard 24 sheets, you can make a request for a 52-page travel document in your renewal application. This could make it less likely you’ll get caught short while traveling.

Can’t stop now! By John Yamrus

John Yamrus has been featured previously here at Poet Hound and his latest collection of poems, can’t stop now!, published by Epic Rites Press is an excellent collection. From every-day humor to every-day tragedy it is all here. I flagged so many poems to share that it will be difficult to choose just a small sample to entice readers into purchasing a copy for themselves. There are poems that made me laugh out loud, poems that made me say out loud “Isn’t that right?” In any case, John Yamrus’ writing is straightforward and to the point and I am happy to share just a few poems below:

right around the ninety minute mark
the poetry reading
got nuts.

it was one of those
blog-talk radio
things

and there were
four of us,

all on the phone
from wherever
we were,

and,
(like i said)
right around the
ninety minute
mark

the wine and beer
kicked in,

and Plath,
(still on the phone)
ran out of
smokes,

so,
he went
to a mini-market,

and,
in the lot
he sees this girl
who was kinda cute
and he starts talking to her…

“hey,
you like poetry?
i’m on the radio right now.

you wanna
hear some poems?”

and he
puts her
on the phone,

and
Carstens
starts reading,

and you can hear Plath
in the background
trying to talk her
boyfriend

out of decking him.

and
when she
hands the phone back,

Plath
says to us:

“i’m gonna grab another.”

and
he finds this
old juice-head
sitting in the lot,
and Hardung reads him
one about his junkie days,

and the old guy’s almost in tears,
when he hands back the phone,
saying:

“god bless ya,
man.

god bless
ya.”

that’s just the way
it goes.

sometimes
you’re lucky
and find the poem.

and, sometimes
it finds
you.

This poem makes me grin ear to ear. I can just picture this poet on the radio walking outside and finding random people to connect with on the air to poetry. The “juice-head” is moved to tears, blesses the poets, and the poets are indeed, blessed. To have your poem move someone, anyone, is always the ultimate goal and the scene depicted in this poem makes it fun to imagine and hope for.

he says to me

“i can’t believe
you actually
throw some poems out.”

“sure i do.
lots.”

“why
would you ever
throw a poem out?”

i looked at him and said:
“if they don’t work,
there’s no sense
in keeping them.

so,
i throw them out.”

“that’s nuts
(he says)
my words are
like gold.

i’ve slaved
every word i ever wrote.

i’d never
throw them out.

they’re covered in my
blood,

drenched in my
sweat.”

i didn’t know
how to answer that.

i couldn’t tell him
that i can’t
stand
the sight of blood,

and a long time ago
i made a promise
to myself

i’d never
ever

let them
see me
sweat.

This poem reminds me of the countless times writers volley back and forth with each other about whether to keep or toss works they are not proud of. There is also the battle within ourselves. This poem hits me personally, I tend to keep even the lousy work but I live in fear that some poor soul will stumble upon my “treasure trove” of work after I die and try to “put it out there” for the world to see and that gives me nightmares. This poem hits home.

every year

someone
sends me
an entry form
for the local
Poet Laureate competition.

unable
to throw the thing out,
but unwilling to co-operate,
i take ten minutes
and fill out the form,

sending in
the required
number of entries,

all the while
making sure
that each and every poem
is about hemorrhoids,
a hair on the tip of my nose,
bad breath
or my dog
taking a dump in the yard.

i know the poems
won’t be what they want,
but they
just might be

precisely
what they
need.

This poem makes me laugh out loud. I like the rebellious attitude of Mr. Yamrus. I am just dying to know what the people who appoint the Poet Laureate think when they see his application and his poems!

Mr. Yamrus has been publishing poems since 1970 and his work has been translated into many languages including Italian, Spanish, Japanese, and so on. He has also published two novels in addition to eighteen volumes of poetry. If you enjoyed this short sample, you may purchase a copy of can’t stop now! by John Yamrus at Epic Rites Press for .00 at:

http://www.epicrites.org/bookstore.html

Thanks always for reading, please drop in again soon…

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Looking For The Very Best Black Marlin Fishing

When looking for the best Black marlin fishing, there is only one place to look, the tropics. However, individuals planning on fishing for such large fish may want to read a variety of reviews and testimonials before embarking on such a challenge. For, it often takes a special person to catch what has often been called one of the fastest, longest and heaviest creatures of the sea.

Weight

However, as these fish tend to be top swimmers in the cool clear waters of the Pan-Indian ocean and beyond, such are fairly easy to locate. In fact, most fishermen agree, that such areas are often the first place to go when wishing to catch a fish. For, not only are the fish calmer when swimming top-side, it is also easier to ascertain where to drop a line.

Agility

Now, while it sounds like such fish may be rather easy to catch, this is somewhat of a misnomer. For, while being one of the longest and boniest fishes on earth, it is also one of the fastest. As such, it can be very hard to capture these massive creatures of the sea.

Red List

For, only when knowing where such fish are the most prevalent at any given time can one have a chance of catching such fish. Of course, as such catches are quite rare, such are often noted in local newspapers and magazines. As such, when fishing for such fish in the tropics, fishermen never knows when one might find oneself in the news.

Fisheries

Of course, there are also other concerns when it comes to embarking upon unknown waters. For example, fishermen might also want to be aware of any statistics related to shark attacks or other areas of interest before heading to such areas. As such, when taking a guided trip, such concerns are often taken care of by the company providing such tour.

Fishing Trips

However, to assure one is covered when fishing for this great fish, it is often suggested that one go n a guided fishing trip in order to do so. For, as most individuals never need a fishing license except when going on such a journey, most often fishing licenses are issued to the sponsoring company which cover those on board. Although, when planning on going on a solo journey to catch such awesome creatures, it may definitely be best to do so in a strong vessel which is also covered by insurance.

Solo Journey

Of course, as with automobile, homeowners or other insurance, it is always suggested that individuals compare polices and prices against several different agencies. In addition, as where one resides often plays a great deal in how much one pays for such insurance, one may want to base such insurance out of a home port. For, in doing so, one can also assure that one can take care of any necessary business should an issue arise related to such Blue marlin fishing insurance.

SOPA / PIPA information

Today the internet is taking a moment to protest the current US internet censorship bills.

SOPA and its brother PIPA are universally seen as limiting free speech on the internet. Many organizations including Google, Wikipedia, Reddit, and thousands of others are using today to better inform the public in a non-partisan way that these bills are bad for freedom on the internet at large.

You can find more information on SOPA, PIPA, and who you can contact to voice your opinion to at sopablackout.org

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Death Becomes Her

Well, folks, my laptop has finally given up the ghost. At nearly ten years old it decided to stop accessing my Word Files and the internet on exactly the same day that my husband’s power cord to his laptop fell apart. We weren’t able to resolve either issue until yesterday.

At the moment, my prized posts from last week are being pried free of my old laptop and onto an external hard drive compliments of the Geek Squad team at Best Buy. My husband has replaced his power cord and we now share his computer.

What does this mean for everyone? It means that posts will be rather sporadic for the next couple of weeks as I search for a new user-friendly laptop. Thanks for your patience, I have some excellent books that I can’t wait to feature here on the blog and at least this interruption allows more time for reading these books more thoroughly.

In the meantime, please enjoy the sprinkling of posts over the next couple of weeks and thanks always for reading…

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