Tuesday, November 27, 2012

How To Add a PDF File to a Website

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Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) is a great way to display documents that need to be printed, but might be too complex for a web page. Learn how easy it is to include a PDF file on your site.

Difficulty: Easy

Time Required: 5 minutes

Here's How:

Create your PDF file using Adobe Acrobat or other PDF printer.
Upload your PDF file to your hosting server. If you have a lot of PDF files, it's best to keep them in a separate directory from your HTML files.
Link to your PDF file as you would any other file:
<a href="acrobat_file.pdf">pdf file</a>

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It's a good idea (although not required) to link to the Acrobat Reader Web sitehttp://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep.html
Use Acrobat files for documents you don't want people to be able to edit.

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his ex
ay my insistence , eric madea call .
he had a friend who had a contact in the NYPD who sid he could get a guy to check on lisa at the extended stay hotel we'd rented for her in morningside heights . my word that lisa had disappeared off the face of the earth apparently wasn't enough to get the cop to visit her palce and look around to see if there were any clues inside that might tell us where she had gone with my baby . in fact , before eric's friend's contact would even consider going over there he had to get confoimation from her sister , who lived across the river in tenafly , and her mother , who lived in carlsbad , california , that lisa's absence was truly worthy of his time .
the sister , stefanie - everyone in the family called her stevie , apparently - had agreed to drive over the bridge from new jersey that evening to meet with me and with eric's NYPD guy .i'd already talked to steive - she hadn't been able to reach lisa either . she didn't , however , share my concern about lisa;s welfare .
eric was away , of course . he was in the dstrict , consulting with somebody . over the last few months , while he was prepping to be chosen for his dream job , i swear i saw him only when he needed to drop off dirty suites and shirts and get fresh ones . half the time when i asked whom he was working with , or what he was consulting about , he's tell me he'd prefer if i didn't . ask , that is .

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. if she were a screenwriter or novelist , reviewers would accuse her of failing to develop her characters . but she was a news producer , not screen writer , and her occasional failing not allowing the players in the stories she was telling toshow themselves to full effect onscreen . merideth needed to be the one to define th characters , to be the pupper master pulling the strings . her chosen narrative thrust always took higher billing than the palyers .
but put merideth in the story ? everything changed . once she was in , it became a different story , and the telling became an entirely diferent process . she'd stumble out of the gate , her sharp analytical perspective would vaporize , her professional distance would disaperspective , and her narrtive sixth sense would be nowhere to be found .
my simple question to her that day in manhattan was : what happened between that sunday when lisa skipeped brunch and our thusday rendezvous in the afternoon heayt in strawberry fields in central park ?
after much longer than it should have taken i was able to cut through the stopsand starts , the tangents and dead ends, and learn that lisa - the surrogate with merideth's and eric's embryo nestled in her cushy uterus - had vanished .
none of her friends or family had seen or heard from her .
merideth is nothing if not resourceful . her ability to corral the the most elusive get is legendary in the news and feature business . she finds the most cloistered , cajoles the most shy , and seduces the most press-phobic . she remembers names nad faces the way dogs remember smells . phone numbers stick in her memory as though they've been velcroed there . in her producing life she knows exactly when to send flowers , and exactly when to send veiled blackmail . she's sucked up more old dir than all the hoovers - the vacuums and J.Edgar - combined .
but lisa the surgate had vanished so completely that merideth couldn't find her . or find even a clue that might lead to finding her .
by late afternoon on the sunday that lisa the surrogate stood upmerideth the mother for brunch , merideth had a;ready assembled a roster of every name and phone number in the voluminous file that . she had accumulated about lisa when she was stil a potential surrogate . by early that evening , merideth had started methodically calling the names on that list .
i could put on a psychologist 's mask when circumstances required , and i knew well that merideth could wear a producer's mask with the same effortlessness . during those initial hours , when her concer would not yet have developed into anticipatory grief , her phone calls wouldn't have allarmed the friends and family members she was calling . merideth would be as smooth as silk as she asked ," have you heard from lisa lately ?
she would hve called everyone she could think of .

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. it's not always the easiest thing in the world to get a staright story from merideth . it certainly wasn't while we were married .
the current irony didn't escape me - revealing the chronology of a recent sequence of events should be the most natural thing in the world for a woman who makes a fine living producing stories for a national netwrk weekly newsmagazine . in her job merideth is responsible for directing a team that produces - conceptualizes , pitches , develops , researches , writes , and tapes - the long form pieces that arc between commercials during a prime time hour . her stories act as lense focusedon the issues - inane , mundane , and occasionally even profound - of our time . she's recieved enough broadcasting awards - including a couple of peabodys - to fill the insecure cavities in the souls of most people . as well as anyone in her field and bett er than ninety-plus percent of her peers , the woman can analyze news , tease out just the right narrative thread from nonlinear factual jumbles , cut through extraneous crap , cajole her recalcitrant talent to present things her way - which is usually the correct way - and end up telling her audience a hell of a story .
when i happened to watch a show that included a piece that merideth had produced , i could invariably guess which story was hers . her signature clarity , organization , and sense of drama were easy for me to spot . there was usually a price to be paid , however , in viewing merideth's work .

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. "okay ," he said . the word was one note shy of condescending . i wish i had that skill . the ability to couch my condescension . i don't .
now i have the bitch , though . that's almost as good .
" her hotel , the one we got for her ,is in morningside heights . that's not too far from here -it's near the other end of the park . but she wanted to go to someplace she'd read about downtown . i offered to pick her up . but she said she had errands to run and would meet me there . when she didn't show up at the restaurant , and then didn't answere her cell . i went to her palce to make sure she was all right . and ......she wasn't home ."
"she also told me she would meet me for bunch ."
" maybe she forgot . or something came up . people do miss ....engagements , meri ."
" cell phone ? text ? email ? phone call ? she has all my numbers . i put them in her speed -dial myself . if she wanted to find me , she could have betweent ?"
" that was sunday . today is tuesday ." he said ." what happened in between ?"
alan was telling me that he wasn't going to get infectted with my hysteria based on less than forty-eight hours of silence from my surrogate
well , why the hell not ?
the bitch spoke up just then . my narcissismgoverness . she said ," why the hell not , dear ? two reaons . because he isn't married to you anymore , and because he doesn't have to ."
the reality was that eric wasn't ready to panic with me eu=ither . from my perspective , he was way too calm about lisa 's " absence ."
that's what he called it - as though her disappearing act was akin to missing a couple of days of school . he remined me that the contact didn't ompel her to stay in constant contact with us .
doing nothing to find lisa wasn't possoble for me . it wasn't in my genes. if i had to search around in lis's background without without eric finding out about it , so be it ,but first , i had to convince alan to help . i needed him to call sam purdy for .
alan had come uptown to meet in strawbeery fields . he'd help .

Monday, November 26, 2012

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. an in line skater- a novice , obviously - almostly - almost killed herself just then . she came barreling down the path behind us and barely caught herself on the back of the bench .
alan made a fuss to be sure she was okay . i waied until she left ." where was i ? i was visitig lisa at this extnded - stay hotel where she was staying uptown when she had her first positive pregnancy test - it was just one of those sticks you pee on . we'd walked over and picked it up at duane reade .
" she was glowing when it turned blue . i was glowing too . i could feel my skin flush . that';s how right everything was . dean confirmed the preganancy the next day . for the first few weeks he kept telling us that it couldn't have been going better .".
i had my antennae tuned for judgment , but alan was wearing his therapist's mask . he has compassionate eyes . they've always sucked me in . i didn't want him to be judgmental about this . i let them suck me in again . i liked that i knew it was a choice on my part .
i began to feel my energy wane . i hadd shared all the good news .
alan could tell that i was done with all good news . he said , " and then ?"
" lisa had less than a week left in new jork before she was going in back to LA . i was going to take her out to brunch last sunday . i try to get together with her a lot . i like her . she doesn't know many people here . eric's gone so much on bussiness . but , yes , yes , i know , i want to make sure she's okay , too . and that she's being good .
" the contract specifies things she can't do - use caffeine , drink alcohol , extreme sports - but i do want to make absolutely sure she doesn't stop at stabuck in the morning for a double shot or that she doesn't have just one cocktail at the end of the day with some new girlfriend . you know me . i'm the one who has two cell phones just in case one isn't getting a signal . come on . this woman is carrying a baby . i have to see her . i have to be sure ." i knew i wasn't revealing anything alan didn't already know about me . thought he'd be pleased at my insight about it all .

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. and where . lisa would live while she was pregnant . she didn't want to leave LA , of corse . i didn't want her to be out of my sight , of course .
"we compromised . the agencies helped . she agreed to come east for the in-vittro procedure from my fertility people here and then stay until we were sure she was pregnant . and stable . then she would go back home . later on , i'd take a pregnant leave from the network and fly out and stay at my place in LA .for final couple of months before lisa's due date .
" she would be followed by an OB in los angeles , and deliver there , in LA . at cedars . in between ? we agreed to some restrictions on travel , but what are you going to do ? she has to have a life , right ?"
alan still seemed rapt ." the in-vitro procedure went great . like magic " - i snapped my fingers - " smoother than mine . dean - dr . dunfey . the fertility guy , he's terrific . and ....well . he's gay . how weird is that ? do you find it odd ? a gay fertility guy ?"
alan didn't respond . he apparently hadn't given the whole ob/gyn/gender/sexual orientation question much thought . no surprise there , i suppose . maybe i'd suggest it to one the producers i know on the view . it would be an effing good topic for them . it would .
"dean let me put candles in the procedure room during the implanation and dim all the lights except the one he was using . we had music palying . eric was there . not there , exactly , you know , but he sat beside lisa and he even held her hand when the catheter was in . i thought it was sweet . me ? i was right there .exactly . it was .... this will sound weird - romantic for me . the karma was perfect .i vibes , i didn't wanted it to feel romantic , to feel erotic . i wanted the implanation of the fertilized egg to have the same passion and ....i don't know ...to be just like if eric and i ....were doing it knowing that i was ovulating and we were about to make our baby . i wanted everything to be right from the start ."

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. alan didn't need to know i'd come once for every finger on my left hand , save my thumb . aln didn't need to know that i'd loved eric more , and better , that night than i'd ever , ever loved during our marriage .
alan didn't need to know any of it , but still , i wanted to tell him . to make him jealous ? . no . but to lwet him see that i'd grown enough as a woman so that a good man could love me . i needed alan to knjow that about me . i needed him to see that the scarlet letters M-e no longer had a place around my neck .
i felt worthy that night with eric . eric had wanted me know that despite the fact that i knew i was incapable of the most natural of womanly acts - giving birth to a child - that to him i was flawless .
eric's god had offered him some damn good guidance .
effing good .
with lisa almost broke down . she has a pay check to pauy check life . we knew the going rate for surrogates . we wat to pay her for carrying our baby . but she only wanted reimbursement for living expenses . i offered to use some of my contacts after the baby was born , introduce her to some people in L.A YOU KNOW , IF SHE WANTED TO GET A FOOD IN THE DOOR AT ONE OF THELOCAL STATIONS . SHE WASN'T INTERESTED we finally got her to agree to allow us to pay off her student loan. she'd gone to cal state . in long beach . the loan payoff was much less than we thought we should pay her , but ....what were we going to to do ? we had a deal .
"then came waiting for the medical and psych evals and a lawyer in california talking to our lawyer in connecticut . the surrogacy agency here had to coordinate with the surrogacy there ."
i checked alan's face to make sure he was still with me . he was i thought he seemed rapt .
" after the money the most difficult oart of the negotiation .was about travel ,

Saturday, November 24, 2012

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. i was finishing up my explanation to alan ." after the meeting with lisa , i knew - i just knew - that she was the right one . womb . mother , surrogate mother .
"eric wanted to pray on it some more . he wanted to talk to some people at his church . get " guidance ." that's one of his things . he's big on getting " guidance ."
"it took a couple more weeks for him to get comfortable with it . eric had ...moral issue ... with the whole leftover-eggs question . from the in-vitro ." i waited for alan to nod . he did ." but then ....eric has this dramatic , romantic side , too ...this grand -gesture gene that i adore ....he does these ...events sometimes .
"i came home from work and eric greeted at the door wearing these great silk pajama bottoms i'd gotten for him at barneys and ...no shirt . the lights were low in the apartment , perfect music was playing . he lifted me off the ground and carried me to the bedroom . it was full of candles - dozens and dozens of them - bucket of ice with some vintage dom , the bed was covered with gardenia petals and ...."
that's where i stopped the story . alan knew about my chenchants for dom pergnon , and for gardenias . that wasn't a problem . but alan didn't need to know that eric had a chest for the ages . if pecs were precious metal , eric's were platium . alan didn't need to know that when my girlfriends saw eric in the pool or at the beach i would hear about it for weeks . literally , weeks . they would be drooling over his chest .
the pecs .
alan didn't neeed to know that eric had lowered me to the floor and that he'd undressed me slowly in the dim light of the candles . that he'd lifted me , naked , again and carried me to a bath that was drawn and waiting for me .
alan didn't to know that eric had washed every inch of me . alan didn't need to know that for the next few hours we squeezed every drop of semen from eric's balls and every last moan from my lungs .

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. my radar had noted something incoming when eric said her name the first time . i'm not bashful . i asked eric what kind of " friend " lisa had been . were we talking girlfriend ? love ? one-night stand ? what ? i needed to know . i' m not sure it would have mattered to me . jealously isn't my thing .if i was convinced they were over , i would have been okay with it . i waited for him to tell me more . the fact he seemed reluctant to give me details didn't inspire my confidence .
" she was part of that grand canyond thing ." eric said finally .
"ah ," i'd said .
that grand canyond thing .
he had indeed told me about it . but he hadn't told me much .
the grand canyond thing was a fault buried deeply below the surface of our relationship . the romantic geologist in me knew it had significant ppotential energy .
at the moment eric had first alluded to the grand canyond thing . i remembered thinking that i had always thought alan , too , lived above a buried fault , i had never discovered what that was .
not long after , eric and i flew to california for a get-acquainted session with lisa . we stayed at my condo in west hollywood and i met her at a restaurant on mellrose . had a nice meal . when she left the table to go the bathroom , i took both of eric 's hands and i kissed him . i said , " i think she's lovely , eric . she could be the one ."
i'd meant it too . if i had been hiring a nanny whom i thought would be at my child's side for the next ten years , i would have hired lisa on the spot . she was that warm and that sincere and that maternal .she was yang to my pin . or maybe the other way around . had i paid attention . while i was in boulder i would knowwhich was which .

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