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It is Christmas, 1948, and Sal is celebrating the holidays with his Southern relatives in Testament, Virginia, when Dean arrives on the doorstep with Marylou and Ed Dunkel. Dean is madder than ever. He left Camille and a new baby daughter in San Francisco, and with Ed and Galatea Dunkel (a woman Ed recently married, hoping she would fund their trip--but she was uncooperative, and they left her in Arizona), zoomed across the country, stopping in Denver where he hooked up with Marylou again and brought her along. Dean is more frenetic than ever.
Meanwhile, Sal has been going to school on the G.I. Bill, and met Lucille, whom he wants to marry. Dean offers to deliver some furniture to Sal's aunt's house for the relatives: two trips back and forth from Virginia to New Jersey, on the second bringing Sal's aunt back to New Jersey. Sal joins them; he's on the road again. After they get to Paterson, Bull Lee calls from New Orleans to tell them that Galatea Dunkel has arrived there, looking for Ed. Camille calls too. Then they call Carlo Marx, in Long Island, who comes over. Carlo has spent some time in Dakar and is quieter, more serious and somewhat disapproving of Dean's reckless movement.
On the drive back to Virginia, Dean talks continuously, describing to Sal his newfound mysticism: he believes in God and that everything will work out. What he says doesn't make any sense, but Sal feels like he understands anyway. They get back to Testament in the middle of the night, and immediately start out for New Jersey on the second trip, this time with Sal's aunt and more furniture. Dean describes to them the details of his new job as a railroad brakeman. Around 4 am, they are pulled over by a cop and given a speeding ticket, even though Dean was going only 30 mph at the time. Dean will have to spend the night in jail if they can't pay the fine; neither Dean nor Sal have any money, so Sal's aunt pays. The cops are confused: what is a respectable middle-aged lady doing with these vagrants?
On their way again, Sal tells Dean about a dream he had of "the Shrouded Traveler": a strange Arabian figure is pursuing him across the desert, and overtakes him just before he reaches "the Protective City." Dean instantly identifies the figure as death, and the dream as longing for death. He says he wouldn't have anything to do with it, and Sal agrees.
Dean and Sal are re-united with their New York friends, and there are big parties all through the New Year's weekend. Sal brings Lucille to the biggest one; she doesn't like Dean and Marylou much, or how Sal acts around them. Marylou starts flirting with Sal to make Lucille jealous, and though Sal won't respond, he enjoys it. In retaliation, Lucille goes out with Dean to his car, but they just drink and talk. Bop music playing everywhere, they go from party to party, and then spend a night at their maniacal friend Rollo Greb's house in Long Island.
Dean and Sal go to Birdland to see George Shearing, a blind jazz pianist, play. The crowd, and Dean, are ecstatic at Shearing's passionate, sweaty performance. Dean says Shearing is God. After the concert, it is raining. Dean is still awed; Sal feels crazy and confused, and then realizes that this is probably because of the marijuana they are smoking.


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text: preservation Preserving The Past While Planning The Future By Mark Heyne • May 31, 2016 Bill Rinehart / WVXU Listen Listening... / 17:52 May is Preservation Month in Cincinnati. Which seems appropriate, given the current dispute over whether to preserve or demolish the former Dennison Hotel. Last week Cincinnati's Historic Conservation Board delayed a decision on the hotel to a later, as yet unscheduled, hearing. High-Tech Food Preservation Gets A Second Look By Ann Thompson • Feb 1, 2016 Avure Technologies-pictures,WVXU's Jim Nolan-graphic. Listen Listening... / 4:54 Food scares and an increased demand for organic fruits and vegetables are helping propel interest in high pressure pasteurization. HPP, as it's commonly known, uses ultra-high pressure purified cold water to keep packaged food pathogen-free without the preservatives and can quadruple shelf-life. Davis Furniture Building: Demolish or save? By Bill Rinehart • Nov 3, 2014 Bill Rinehart / WVXU The 157 year old Davis Furniture building at Central Parkway and Main Street, has been vacant for ten years, and since that time, it's been deteriorating. Scott Stough of the Stough Group says it's an eyesore that his company would like to get rid of. They've been renovating buildings across the street, and he says the Davis building is depreciating the value. The Stough Group purchased the four story structure last year and looked into fixing it, but he says it was too costly. Stough says they looked for historic tax credits along with credits to turn the building residential, or a com Walnut Hills study begins this week By Jay Hanselman • Aug 18, 2014 A revitalization study of Cincinnati's Walnut Hills neighborhoods gets underway Tuesday afternoon. Margo Warminski with the Cincinnati Preservation Association called it a data driven planning tool. "It was created in response to the issues in older industrial cities that have lots of population and job loss mostly in the Midwest and East but elsewhere," Warminski said. "And as a result they've got large inventories of vacant, often decaying, buildings many of which are historic and often they're torn down without an overall plan." Preserving Modern Architecture in the Midwest By Kevin Reynolds • Apr 19, 2013 Listen Listening... / 10:16 The Cincinnati Preservation Association will host a two-day symposium entitled Preserving Modern Architecture in the Midwest on April 24-25. CPA Executive Director Paul Mueller tells our Stuart Holman that the event will be held at the historic, and recently renovated, Frederick and Harriet Rauh House in Woodlawn and will feature tours of the home and discussions of preservation efforts of modern architectural gems. Western Wildlife Corridor By Mark Perzel • Oct 12, 2012 The Western Wildlife Corridor is working hard to improve the Ohio River Valley, specifically on the western side of Hamilton County. Stretching from Mill Creek near downtown to the Great Miami River bordering Indiana, one of the primary threats, according to WWC President Tim Sisson, is the prevalence of invasive plant species. Mark Perzel talks with Mr. Sisson about this and other threats, and how the WWC is working to improve this area of the county.


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New research paper available : "Liquidity risk in fixed income markets"
Natixis AM's Fixed Income investment division is pleased to present its latest research publication. Composed by the Quantitative Research and Analysis team, the document highlights the theme of liquidity risk in fixed income markets.
"Market risk and liquidity risk are by far the main sources of uncertainty affecting a portfolio's future P&L. While the former can be explained by uncertainty regarding price fluctuations, the latter is incurred when trading assets. Illiquidity increases with the size of the position. It occurs over some short term but vanishes over a longer horizon. Typically a security held to maturity has no liquidity cost.
However, unlike other risk factors, liquidity risk cannot be diversified. For example, one cannot offset a given level of liquidity "exposure" by going short an illiquid security. More generally, no known liquidity-based derivatives could hedge this particular risk. Indeed, in stressed markets, bid rather than mid prices prevail.
In this paper, after a brief survey of the financial theory on liquidity risk, we examine its main characteristics, its measures and drivers as well as its preeminent role in the development of crisis and the burst of bubbles."


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Two-time National Book Award nominee Melissa Fay Greene puts a human face on the African AIDS crisis with this powerful story of one woman working to save her country's children. After losing her husband and daughter, Haregewoin Teferra, an Ethiopian woman of modest means, opened her home to some of the thousands of children in Addis Ababa who have been left as orphans.
There Is No Me Without You is the story of how Haregewoin transformed her home into an orphanage and day-care center and began facilitating adoptions to homes all over the world, written by a star of literary nonfiction who is herself an adoptive parent. At heart, it is a book about children and parents, wherever they may be, however they may find each other.
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|Sep 4, 2007
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Dynamic staging, narrative rhythm and takes.
A clip of George Burns's dialogue from the show is played when Kenny passes his soul on the way into hell
Conan O'Brien says, "What have I done?"
In the hospital a note can be seen written for "Dr. No" which reminds him to kill James Bond.
The skating scene after the kids see the Terence and Phillip movie is very reminiscent of that in A Charlie Brown Christmas and the music is similar as well.
Sheila's speech to the US troops at the USO show is an allusion to the famous first scene of Patton.
The V-chip is reminiscent of the Ludovico technique used on Alex.
Kenny lying on the hospital table with his chest open and ribs showing, also Stan Marsh is named after Stan Brakhage, the director of this film who taught Trey Parker and Matt Stone in high school.
The poster for "Mecha-Streisand Takes New York" is a fictional movie based on this.
The establishing shots of the planes before the Baldwins are killed are based directly on the famous scene from this film.
Brooke Shields says, "I farted once on the set of The Blue Lagoon."
When Satan throws Saddam Hussein off a cliff he says "I have had enough of you" which was the same line Kirk said to Kruge when he pushed him off a cliff
Both movies have characters that start singing spontaneously, reference "The Resistance", have a character called "The Mole" and the climax centers around breaking into/gaining access into a place through a whimsical plan.
In one scene, The Mole asks Stan if he has the "buttfor". Stan asks, "What's a buttfor?" The Mole replies, "For pooping, silly." This is similar to a scene in "Spies Like Us" where Chevy Chase's character asks Dan Aykroyd's character, "Did you hear that?" Aykroyd replies, "Yeah, it's a dickfir." Chase asks, "What's a dickfir?" Aykroyd says, "To pee with."
The "I don't know what I've been told, Eskimo pussy is mighty cold" scene is payed homage to with the nationality changed to Canadian.
The Mole says "Do you think this is TV kiddy hour where we all sit around and lick Barney the dinosaur's f***ing p***y?!"
The graph of Canada's economy reveals that a significant portion of the country's income comes from filming of The X-Files.
Terrence and Phillip appear on Late Night With Conan O'Brien
Kenny's heart is replaced with a baked potato, a reference to a line in the opening song of this earlier Trey Parker movie "My heart's as full as a baked potato!"
Conan O'Brien jumps out of a building.
Winona Ryder, at the USO show, does her own version of the "Ping Pong Ball Trick".
The rocky formation that Satan stands on near the end resembles Pride Rock.
The repeated line "What would Brian Boitano do?" is a quote from this earlier short by Trey Parker & Matt Stone.
In one part of the song "Kyle's Mom Is A Big Fat Bitch", Cartman uses the word "Kamehameha". He also seems to have a Dragonball Z esque power up near the end of the film
Two pictures of Orgazmo can be seen in Cartman's room on the wall when he goes to sleep.
The song "Kyle's Mom is a Bitch" sung by Cartman in this movie is taken from this episode of South Park.
Damien can be seen in the background the second time the boys go to see the Terrance & Phillip movie.
Musical cues from the film the South Park kids go see, Asses on Fire, reference the Tubes of Fire soundtrack.
Cartman is referred to as "Dude" and "Lebowski".
A poster at the cinema is for "Mecha Streisand Takes New York" which is a reference to the plot of this episode.
The first diagram Gregory presents on where Terrance and Phillip are being held is the same diagram used of the hospital in "Cartman's Mom is Still a Dirty Slut".
Referenced in
Talked about
The Mole from this movie can be seen on TV very briefly when Stan is flicking channels. Ontop of that, he is on Late Night With Conan O'Brien and the 'set' used is the one from this movie. This episode aired just after the movie was released so it's a reference to the film's release.
"Blame Canada" sign in the crowd
exploding baked potato/Satan is upset in this episode after ending his relationship with Saddam in the movie
Satan is upset in this episode after ending his relationship with Saddam in the movie/mention of Saddam being killed by a pack of wild boars
Wayne says "Blame Canada!" in "Superheroes".
Chef mentions the time the kids came and asked him what the clitoris is, this event happenned in this movie.
Poster seen in the "Film Club" room
The two boys in the arcade use some of the dialogue from this movie.
Some one holds up the dvd and says "here is the latest South Park" indide the hosptial.
A still from the movie is shown of Terrance & Phillip's movie poster. They talk about Terrance & Phillip writing the movie Asses of Fire which is the movie the boys see in this film, the documentary then talks about how the film lead to the America/Canada war of 1999, a reference to how this movie is about WWIII between those two countries and happenned in 1999.
Bill Gates has a hole in his head because he was executed in the movie
A trailer is seen for "Asses of Fire 2" (the new Terrence & Phillip Movie), the first "Asses of Fire" was the film within this film.
1. Asses of Fire poster in Kenny's room. 2."Our intelligence tells us that when Saddam Hussein was originally killed, his soul actually went to hell, but while in hell he began a homosexual relationship with Satan the prince of darkness, Satan however decided he didn't want to be with Hussein anymore and broke up with around August. When Saddam got jealous and tried to kill Satan's new lover Chris, Satan had Saddam sent to heaven to live with Mormons as a punishment". This recaps the plot of this movie and it's follow up episode.
mentioned by Spike
mentioned once
"I rented the South Park movie"
Standee is shown in a video store.
Talked about during South Park segment.
Asses of Fire poster in Talent Agent Lobby
Poster is shown.
referenced in clue in "Movie Songs" category
Jim Carrey's character states that he "stole the south park movie"
Makes the countdown, is talked about.
Blame Canada
Cartman puts Butters' penis in his mouth and takes a picture while Butters is asleep; this is similar to the movie when Terrance tells Phillip that being executed "is worse than that night I fell asleep and you put your dick in my mouth and took a picture."
Video case is shown.
"Fuck fuck fuckity fuck"
poster on wall
DVD cover shown.
Poster is shown at some point
Hewy says the actor who voices Prince Derek sings in this movie
Duke: "What's the matter? You got sand in your vagina?"
Movie is reviewed
"Asses of Fire 2: 3D", a sequel to the film featured in the movie is playing at the cinema. The Ticket-Taker at the cinema makes a re-appearance. An 8-bit version of "Blame Canada" is heard.
The episode's title comes from the song featured in this film.
Willie keeps a poster of this film in his bedroom.
Clip of George Clooney's cameo in the movie
An acclaimed animated film that AniMat got to review through the Animation Hat.
Craig mentions the movie by name.
correct response in "Trailer Park" category
Poster shown as an example of an animated film that's funny and has great songs.
The depiction of Kenny flying towards Heaven is a reference to his death in this film.
Terrance and Philip claim that they can't believe they've lived long enough to see this happen again, referring to the events of this movie.
Footage on TV's in the TV shop at the start of the episode is from this episode. It's a Terrence & Phillip episode the boys watch in this episode.
A clip from this episode is on a TV behind Stan in the opening song in this movie.
Featured in
Clips shown for the review.
A clip is shown.
reviewed + footage used
Clips from this film are shown when the American-Canadian War of 1999 is mentioned
One of the characters watches the show on TV.
Clips are shown
Clips are shown
Clips are shown
Features clip from the movie
Reached #5 in poll, clips shown
A scene is shown in which Mr. Mackey discusses curse words on a blackboard.
"Movie Theology with Father Brett" segment
"La Resistance" plays over the title card
movie and its soundtrack are reviewed
Big Gay Al singing
clip shown
"Blame Canada" plays.
Hewy Mentions & recognizes Howard McGillin's voice in another animated film during the 90s; clip of "La Resistance" is shown
Big Gay Al's "I'm Super" plays over a scene
"Kyle's Mom is a Bitch" is played as the segue
Matt Stone as Saddam Hussein is #9.
"Blame Canada" plays
Satan is #8.
South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut is #10.
Kyle's Mom's a Bitch is #5.
USA vs. Canada gets an honorable mention.
I Can Change is #5.
Reviewed, clips shown.
South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut gets an honorable mention.
South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut is #7.
South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut is #4.
Taking Off the Hood is #7.
Satan & Saddam Hussein are #6.
Clips used in review.
Mentioned as one of Trey Parker and Matt Stone's works. Clip shown.
Saddam Hussein gets an honorable mention.
One of Nobby's children watches it on television
South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut is #9.
a film that took no prisoners
The depiction of hell in South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut is #3.
South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut is #3.
Saddam Hussein is #5.
Saddam Hussein is #3.
South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut is #4.
South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut is #10.
Cartman's Song is #5.
The scene where Satan throws Saddam Hussein to his death is #9.
The voice of the Clitoris is based on Glenda from this film, similar music to Glenda's theme plays when Stan finds her.
At the end of the song Uncle F***a, Terrence & Phillip spell out "U-N-C-L-E" just like the word "Oklahoma" is spelt out in a song in this film.
During the la resistance song all the characters sing about what will happen tomorrow night, spoofing the tonight song from this movie.
"Kyle's Mom is a Bitch" is sung to the same melody as the main theme from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.
A poster outside the theater advertises "Terror of Mecha-Streisand"
The scene where the demons break out of hell with Satan spoofs the scene when the demons come out of the Ark.
When the Mole dies in the arms of Kyle, it is a parody of Return of the Jedi.
The Clitoris is a spoof of Fin Raziel
The song "Up There" partially spoofs
The opening song "Mountain Town" spoofs the opening song from Beauty & the Beast "Belle".
The surgery scene is based on this show, it also features George Clooney as a voice and he starred in the show.
The entire movie is a spoof of Les Miserables. The shots of Gregory when he starts singing, fading over each other are based on this TV version of the stage show.
The song "Up There" partially spoofs "Out There"
When Cartman's implanted "V-chip" starts to malfunction can cause electric bolts to shoot out from Cartman whenever he swears, Cartman begins to harness this new "power" by swearing. This is a spoof of Dragon Ball Z and their attack summons like Kamehameha and Final Flash.
The annoying character who says "Do some people gonna die?!" in a stupid high pitched voice is a parody of Jar Jar Binks being famously annoying and his line "Yousa people gonna die"
Spoofed in
Windsor & jake sings Terrence & Phillip & quote "Thought we told you we can't stop"
Jake & Windsor was singing Terrence & Philip's song from the movie.
Some scenes are recreated and subverted with Kyle in the role of his mother.


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Floor coverings retailer Carpetright has reported like-for-like sales up 7.5% in the UK in its third quarter following new Boxing Day offers.
For the 13 weeks to January 24, Carpetright's total sales increased by 6.6% and in the rest of Europe, like-for-like sales increased by 1.7%.
For the British retailer, total sales declined by 0.8% which becomes 6% after the impact of currency movements.
Carpetright chief executive Wilf Walsh said:
"I am pleased to report that the Group's trading performance improved year-on-year during the third quarter.
In the UK our continued focus on effective promotional activity and the introduction of an interest free credit offer from Boxing Day has delivered a like-for-like performance slightly ahead of the level experienced in the first half. Sales in our Rest of Europe business have also continued to improve.
Trading remains in line with management's expectations and our view for the year as a whole remains unchanged."
Greg Bromley, Consultant at Conlumino, comments:
"This represents a fairly positive performance for flooring specialist Carpetright, which has seen a strong sales growth in the UK at the same time as fairly weak, yet improving trading at its international business. Crucially, these figures are much stronger than over the same period last year, when the retailer issued a second profit warning in four months as group sales dropped 0.5%.This time round, international sales, while still declining, have improved significantly, and the retailer has stated that overall group trading performance has therefore increased on a year-on-year basis.
At its UK arm, LFLs grew by a healthy 7.5%, which suggests Carpetright is beginning to feel some effects of its new strategic review launched under Chief Executive.The retailer is looking to retain its core value heritage, while simultaneously aiming to attract more affluent consumers from premium rivals such as John Lewis. The retailer states its promotional activity over this period was effective, while the introduction of an interest free credit offer from Boxing Day helped to bolster LFL performance. Credit offers have become increasingly popular among big ticket furniture and flooring retailers over recent years, encouraging consumers to purchase and pay later or pay in chunks. While this may boost sales figures in the short term, we do not believe this to be a sustainable and sensible strategy to rely on in the long term, with it possibly leaving the retailer with cash flow problems and unpaid balance issues in the future.
The retailer closed two further stores over the period to leave it with 461 outlets, and states that full year guidance for a decline in gross profit percentage of 100-150bps remains unchanged, likely due to continued store investment.
While its Rest of Europe business has been showing signs of improvement, it now has another challenge to contend with in currency issues. To this end, while total sales saw a modest decline of 0.8%, after the impact of currency movements this translates to a 6.0% decline in total sales. However, with LFLs up by 1.7%, this suggests that while Carpetright is now managing to get people to buy at its stores, the value of these purchases has declined due to the weak value of the Euro and general economic uncertainty in these countries. Two stores closed over this period, leaving the retailer with 137 stores trading in these countries, while full year guidance for an uptick in gross profit of 250bps is unchanged.
Overall, this is a relatively positive set of results for Carpetright. In the UK, the solid uplift in LFLs suggests the retailer is moving in the right direction as its new growth strategy is implemented. Elsewhere, while currency issues are likely to remain a major issue going forward, trading on a LFL basis at its international business is beginning to look more posit


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I really can't describe what I would want to do on a first date because it has to be a mutual decision. It isn't all just about me and what I would want to do.
I'm quite flexible and don't need something super unique. A public place, no pressure atmosphere. Not too loud, so we can get to know each other without having to scream over people or loud music.
Movies & Games!
I'm simple, nothing big, to be honest I'd rather watch a movie at home or your place, and fix some drinks, listen to music, and talk, just the two of us.....
Your house or mine... A nice drink.. Some music and conversation... Get to know me while I get to know you.
tonbe discussed with each other , However could meet for a coffee and see how it goes
Somewhere nice and clean ..and have a good time without any drama..I'm retired military single guy i just like to laugh and have fun.
Many different things would make an amazing date in my opinion, but the perfect date for me would include live music, good food, and lots of smiles.
Maybe sit and watch a sunset?
Swimming with the moon above us, until we meet and land beneath the diamond sky for a dance(twist).
I think a first date is about getting to know one another so anywhere we can talk a bit would be great. Something casual though.
i have no idea..... but people always say coffee..... so how about a decent cuppa tea..... a good tetley n im yours haha x
It would all depend on the man I'm meeting. Everyone has different social preferences.
I'm looking for a nice, quiet, first date where we can talk and learn more about one another.
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Real Time Decision Making
Came across the materials on OilGasDenmark's 2013 Offshore Safety Conference and found the introductory article included in the conference newspaper.
A sample quote as it relates specifically to the CoRep program:
When an offshore installation is in operation you are required to bring the right parties together and arrive at the right decisions based upon the strengths of all involved. You need the ability to get people to cooperate – getting the process to continue and at the same time preventing that a conflict develops.
We help the CoRep participants to find their own strengths and expression – which may pose a particular challenge when you work in a language that is not your native tongue. Therefore the training starts on day one with facilitated role-play and finishes off in an extensive real-life simulation. In the final full-day exercise all participants are confronted by professional business actors who recreate the participant's own challenges in much the same way as live flames in a fire drill.
Through this dry run of truly difficult situations, the participants are far more likely to be able to also handle the tough leadership challenges in real life. The participants are trained in non-confrontational, interpersonal leadership while simultaneously avoiding silently accepting at-risk behaviour. They must step into a situation and interact without causing an unnecessary escalation and/or decision delay.


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Faux Barn Find
Title: "Faux Barnyard Find"
Type: Concert 10
Intended to look like it was found in Farmer Raymonds Barn this is instrument's body is built out of new Vertical Grain Fir and faux finished by artist Robin Cooper to look like antique wood. There are just a couple of thin coats of semi gloss lacquer over her acrylic painting to seal and protect the faux work. The neck is a vacuum roasted Curly Maple wood that is finished in a normal smooth fashion. The roasting of the wood (not done by me but by professionals who make this their business) makes the wood look aged but it is not.
On top are peg head 4:1 planetary geared tuners and a piece of rosewood was chosen for the fingerboard that is appropriately mottled and streaked and funky looking to match the rest of the instrument.
So, if you like the old barn find look then visually the ukulele is there, and since it is made out of fir it's super lightweight weighing only about 14 ozs.. Ideally this concert ten design should be super sparky and percussive sounding which this one achieves magnificently. It can be picked with great volume and clarity but it's strength is for the player who wants to play the rhythm part of a song strumming strong chords and having the instrument answer with a sharp staccato sound attack.
Overall Length approx 23", weight approx 14 ozs.


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California is a community property state. This means that the assets and debts of married couples are presumed to belong both spouses equally. If a Judge is required to divide property that belongs to both spouses (or domestic partners) it must be divided 50/50. Spouses who can reach a settlement agreement are allowed to divide their property anyway to which they can agree. Controlling the division of your marital property is just one of the many benefits of divorce mediation. While marital property division appears relatively simple, there are actually a number of issues that must be determined before you divide your property.
Is the property community property or is it separate property?
Property includes virtually any asset that can be bought and sold. This includes homes, cars, furniture, and jewelry. It also includes bank accounts, retirement accounts, stock options, restricted stock units, life insurance policies, interests in a business, intellectual property, vacation pay, and other valuables.
Property acquired during the marriage is known as community or marital property and is divided pursuant to the California community property laws. Earnings on community property are community property, even if these earnings are earned after your date of separation.
Property that is acquired prior to the marriage or after the date of separation is known as separate property. Separate property also includes assets that were acquired by gift or through an inheritance during the marriage. Separate property belongs to each spouse and not to the couple. Earnings on separate property also remain the earning spouse's separate property unless the non-owning spouse can show that the community contributed labor or money to the owning spouse's separate property. In that case, there are a number of ways the communities share is determined.
Divorcing parties often argue that their property is separate so they don't have to split it with their spouse or partner. The separation date is the date one of the parties decides the marriage is over and takes some affirmative steps to show that the marriage is over. The separation date is crucial in asset division as it marks the point in time when the parties stop contributing to the marital assets.
What is the value of each type of property?
Some assets, such as the money in a bank account or certificate of deposit can be easy to value. Other assets such as real property or retirement assets can be hard to value. The ways to value the property can differ depending on the type of asset. If needed, appraisers, accountants, actuaries, and other financial professionals are hired to place a precise value on the assets. In divorce mediation, we use one professional to provide information for both spouses, thereby saving on the costs of your divorce.
Must we sell assets that cannot easily be divided?
Thankfully, no. You can agree to divide your marital assets, including homes, cars and other property that is not easily divisible in a variety of ways. Selling assets is one of these ways, but by no means is it required. You and your spouse can assign values to the property that you wish to keep and not sell and then select items one at a time until each of you has an equivalent share of the nondivisible items. Or one spouse can buy the other spouse's share of a nondivisible asset. Finally, you can each take turns selecting a nondivisible item without concern for the value.
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Gerard And Maureen Chandler Got More Than They Bargained For With Their '71 Cuda
"The car started out to be a summer car to cruise with and take to a few shows," says Gerard Chandler of his '71 440 'Cuda. Of course, as you can see from these photos, Gerard and wife Maureen, residents of Livonia, Michigan, seem to have overshot that mark by a pretty big margin.
"It was in good shape when we purchased it," says Gerard. "No major rust or holes. The seats and dash were a little torn. It was tomato red, with an ugly black stripe, stock wheels and tires, and a 318 engine."
After purchasing the car in March of 1992 and driving it several years, the two began the dirty work of disassembling the beast to the bare shell in late 1997. Gerard sandblasted the undercarriage and engine compartment and painted the undercarriage with a rock-hard coat of POR-15 before sending it to Product One Autobody Center in Dearborn for some minor body work and the application of a Prowler Purple topcoat. They also modified the original steel hood to include the Six-Pack scoop.
While the body was getting its "makeover," Gerard and Maureen turned their attention to the powerplant. The couple ditched the 318 in favor of a 440. Far from stock, it now displaces 496 cubic inches, complete with Eagle rods, Ross flat-top pistons, and a 7-quart Milodon oil pan. Gerard chose -452 ported heads fitted with Ferra valves (2.14 intake and 1.81 exhaust), Isky springs, Indy 1.5 rocker arms, and Competition solid lifters, all actuated by an Ultradyne .586 lift/286 duration cam. Atop this was seated a Mopar Performance single-plane intake and Holley's 950 CFM Pro Series carburetor. Two-inch Hooker headers were added to help exhaust flow, trailed by a 3-inch ceramic-coated stainless steel H-pipe and tailpipe made by Watson Engineering, and Flowmaster mufflers.
On the transmission side, the Chandlers beefed up the 727 Torqueflite with an 8-bolt MP flex plate, Coan 10-inch street torque converter, A&A reverse-pattern shift kit, and a Winters shifter.
Nine months after the 'Cuda went to the body shop, it arrived back home just in time for Gerard and Maureen to spend their Christmas vacation beginning the assembly process.
With the help of Maureen, her brother, and friend Pat Hassa, Gerard and crew spent several months piecing the 'Cuda back together…with a few twists. To help the car's handling match the increased output delivered by the modified 440 drivetrain, special attention was given to the suspension. They added all-new polyurethane bushings up front, as well as heavy-duty 111/416-inch tie rods and large 0.90-inch torsion bars.
Out back, MP Super Stock rear springs were moved inboard three inches and mated to the 3.91:1 Sure-Grip-equipped 831/44 rear end. The front and rear suspensions were tied together by 2×3-inch tubing under the floor. Power transfer is aided by an adjustable pinion snubber, Dynotech chrome-moly driveshaft, and KYB gas shocks. Wheels are Weld Pro Stars (15×3.5 front, 15×12 rear), with Hoosier rubber (26×4.5×15 front, 29×14.5×15 rear) rounding out the rolling stock. Naturally, the back seat had to be modified to accommodate the mini-tubs.
Since completing the buildup, Gerard and Maureen hit the cruise and show scene with a vengeance. And it's paid off. At the February 2000 Detroit Autorama, the wild street 'Cuda grabbed a First Place trophy followed by many others, including a First at the Mopar Nationals, and a Mopar Nationals Best of Show pick selected by Mopar Muscle magazine.
As Gerard told us earlier, the 'Cuda was originally destined to be a summer fun car. "It turned out to be a lot more than that," he admits. "After four First places and Best of Show at the Mopar Nationals, this is way more than we ever dreamed it would be."


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For those of you without the patience to wait six months to see what happens this season, let me tell you:
National League
- West – Giants: Hard to imagine the defending champs not winning the west again this year, considering they'll have the same team, except with a full year of Buster Posey, another rookie of the year candidate in Brandon Belt, and probable bounce back years from Pablo Sandoval and Tim Lincecum (although he doesn't have that far to bounce back).
- Central – Cardinals: Things didn't start off well for the Red Birds this spring with Adam Wainwright going down for the year with Tommy John surgery. But what they are missing in elbow ligaments they make up in grit and Albert Pujols. The Cards were picked to finish 4th in 2009 and won the central. They were picked to win last year and got second. Most are picking them to miss the playoffs this year, so I'm going to follow the trend.
- East – Phillies: With Jayson Werth gone and Chase Utley's status up in the air, the Phillies' offense could, dare I say, struggle this year. But, lucky for them, they won't be required to score too many runs this year. With their number four starter capable of being the ace for many teams in the majors, look for the Phils to repeat as east champs.
- Wild Card – Braves: With a good rotation, deep bullpen, and solid lineup, the Braves will make the playoffs in 2011, proving once and for all that it was Maddux, Glavine, and Smoltz, not Bobby Cox, that led them to all those playoff appearances in the 90's. In an interesting twist, the Braves will not fire Fredi Gonzalez , despite his success.
- MVP – Albert Pujols: As always, it will be a two horse race for MVP, Albert Pujols vs. the field. Only, this race will be like the 1973 Belmont and Pujols will be Secretariat (R.I.P.), in other words, it won't be a race. In what is his first contract year, it seems impossible that Pujols' numbers could get even better, but it sure will be fun to find out.
- Cy Young – Tommy Hanson: With all the hype surrounding the Phillies' big four (sorry Joe Blanton), many people are forgetting about Hanson, who at the ripe age of 24 has already pitched 33o innings of 3.16 era, 1.18 whip baseball. If his K rate rises closer to his minor league level of 10.7/9 look out.
- Rookie of the Year – Craig Kimbrel: Using Neftali Feliz's blueprint of playing an entire season with a lot of saves and K's for a playoff bound team, Kimbrel will take home the rookie of the year hardware.
- Manager of the Year – Tony LaRussa: With Wainwright's injury, the stage is already set. All LaRussa needs to do is guide his gritty bunch to the postseason and the award is his.
American League
- West – A's: I know it's the sexy pick, but hey, who doesn't like sexy picks?. They led the AL in ERA last season and have made some improvements to one of the leagues worst offenses. But where they will win it is with their bullpen, which even without Andrew Bailey, will be the best in the division.
- Central – White Sox: Led by Adam Dunn and Paul Konerko, there will be no shortage of power at US Cellular Field. Their pitching, while uninspiring, is dependable and the back end of their bullpen is in good hands with closer Matt Thornton and rookie Chris Sale.
- East – Red Sox: It won't be as easy as everyone thinks, considering 60% of their rotation was terrible last year, but their everyday lineup is basically an all star team, so the combined 5.00 era from Beckett, Lackey, and Dice-K won't be that big of a deal.
- Wild Card – Rays: No Crawford, no problem. The Rays should have a good offense and a rotation that has a chance to be better than the Red Sox. The bullpen could pose problems, but if James Shields, Manny Ramirez, and Ben Zobrist can return to form, then the Rays will still be a top team in the AL.
- MVP – Evan Longoria: He may have disappointed fantasy owners last year with his 22 home runs in 2010, but he also set highs in average, obp, ops+, and won his 2nd gold glove. Without Carl Crawford, he will undoubtedly be the face of the franchise and if the Rays are to make the playoffs, it will be because Longoria had a huge year.
- Cy Young – Jon Lester: Averaging over 17 wins and 200 k's for the past three seasons, this will finally be the year that Lester gets the hardware. With the Red Sox offense, 20 wins is not out of the question and all the other stats will be there too.
- Rookie of the Year – Tsuyoshi Nishioka: Baseball writers love first year Asian players that are older than the rest of the rookies. Nishioka will play every day, probably hit around .300, score a bunch of runs, steal some bases, and play good defense. In other words, he'll look pretty good among the other 'rookies'.
- Manager of the Year – Bob Geren: If the A's make the playoffs, then there's no other choice.
- NLCS – Braves over Phillies
- ALCS – Red Sox over White Sox
- World Series – Braves over Red Sox


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blog discoveries : the donut project
I was excited to find The Donut Project, thanks to their nice post about Paperfinger today! After a bit of cruising on their site, I found that this group of designers (all out of Kent State University) share my fondness for quite a few things that I either wrote about here or almost wrote about here. We're in sync, so check 'em out at www.thedonutproject.com.


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How are Maple Island handcrafted log homes built?
In some regards, log homes are built just like any other home. The same steps still apply; site excavation, foundation, sub-floor, framing, and finish work. But handcrafted log homes are also nothing like other types of homes. These homes are quite labor intensive. When logs arrive at our log yard, they are hand peeled using a traditional drawknife to bring out the natural beauty and grain in the wood. No machine can do what our log crafters do.
We use only full-length red pine logs, up to fifty feet long, harvested in northern Michigan. Each timber is individually scribed, notched and fitted into position. Considerable skill is required to make sure that the notching of each log is perfect. This traditional scribing technique is nearly a lost art. Sure, it is a more difficult and time-intensive process than other mass production methods, but the end results are clearly superior.
We first pre-build your log home shell at our log yard, then disassemble it and ship it to your site. At that point, all the 'heavy lifting' of creating the log home shell has already been done. Upon arrival at your home site, we re-erect the log framing portion in a matter of a few days. Most homes take very little time to reassemble. For example, it is estimated that a crew and crane can set a 2,000 square foot home in about two or three days.
Trucking of the logs to our home building site is done by a licensed hauler. The cost is based on your project location. Shipping estimates are available upon request.
Logwork Reconstruction
A supervisor and an assistant from Maple Island Log Homes will be present on site to coordinate the arrival of trucks and to re-erect your logwork shell. The contractor or owner typically also provides a crew of 3-4 to assist in this process. A local crane will also be required and is not included in your log home bid.
Log homes to be completed within Michigan are frequently re-erected by the Maple Island crew using our crane service. The cost for this service is bid based on your site location, size of the home and site conditions.


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This article is a publication for the European Students for Liberty Blog, which regularly publishes liberty-related news stories. You can check out my articles on my blog profile here.
After the Brexit vote in the UK there is a lot of speculation concerning the next countries to leave the European Union. France is being repeatedly named in those lists. There are several reasons why that will never happen.
The European Union embodies the French political dreamland
Unlike the United Kingdom, France has no close relation to classical liberalism, individual liberty or limited government: all their trust is put into government, whether it be related to dealing with the housing situation, unemployment or lifestyle choices. The French are constantly woven in a net of comforting (yet economically devastating) socialism, in which case a political union that tries to regulate them even more cannot find too much opposition in the country.
Adding to this love of redistribution, France loves centralisation. If politicians could coordinate from Paris the construction of tunnels in the Alps they most likely would, but running regions, districts and unified municipalities that are effectively powerless helps satisfying the need of the political class to offer well-paid careers to their members. What more could they want than an enormous political body with numerous institutions in which's maze of unaccountability you will get lost easily?
While British politicians are fairly unpopular in Brussels, French MEPs make up the core of the political groups and their messages, especially those who have pushed political integration and centralisation. It is a roundup to their political career, their last honour or their last chance to be considered real statesmen.
The EU is a bully
The Brexit reactions from EU officials only prove what the general trend of the European Union is: join our club or we will bully you. After creating a single market and restricting trade policy of its members, then forcing those who did not give in to accept all the rules (EEA), they will now get the fear machine rolling to prevent other countries from leaving, especially one of their key players.
Semantics are key: "leaving Europe". Europe as a continent (physical) is quite different from the European Union (political), but equating the two makes every potentially defecting country feel the effect of 'physically' drifting away. It's the playground bully telling his friends not to play with one particular kid so that he obeys by the rules.
The French are impressionable with this rhetoric. As said before, French people have great trust in government (even though they make sure to never like their current one), and have no notion of evaluating if more government does good or harm. The same fear-tactic used by the Remain campaigners wouldn't work on the ordinary French voter, all they need is a charismatic leader who says that he will engage honest reforms. I kid you not, they believe that every time.
The biggest factor in this instance is the press. While the British press has been, to put it quite frankly, enormously critical of the EU, the French press doesn't feel this need at all. In the UK the press pushes the parties, in France the parties push the press. News sources are either state-run or affiliated to one of the two main parties, of which both praise the European Union above all else.
Remember the last referendum?
In 2005 the French electorate said No to the EU constitution. The reason for that was that French voters feared that the EU would impose 'a neoliberal economic model' and reduce the standards of social security in the member states (like that would ever happen). Former president Nicolas Sarkozy then instigated together with other European leaders this backroom deal called the treaty of Lisbon, but made it quite clear that there would not be a vote on this treaty at all. The Dutch and French failure taught the EU a lesson: referenda aren't quite so good.
France is the next Greece
This is by far the most important part of this argument that absolutely needs to be made. France was a strong voice for solidarity in the Irish and Greek bailout, with support from the public, because the EU will be France's best insurance policy in the next crisis. While all of Europe was experiencing economic advancement through free market-policies, the socialism of François Mitterrand brought France to its knees, until they had to privatise state-run companies such as banks, TV stations or energy providers.
This time around France doesn't want to go down that path: no reforms, no apologies. And since the European Central Bank must deal with the consequences of France's drain on the Euro, the rest of the continent will have the bailout the République, that even outside of a crisis almost reaches a public debt level of 100% of GDP.
Vive la France. Although that might not be for long.
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Those are all correct. Just two remain.
I'm racking my brains but am struggling to come up with anything. Sorry Steve.
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I suppose I'm the one who should apologize. I apparently have vague as fuck musical tastes.
If you were to stack two green citrus fruits, #1 would be the one on the bottom. It could also be a green citrus that has somehow been rigged to travel deep underwater and perhaps house Sean Connery or Steven Seagal.
I seem to be the only one who gives a shit about #5 these days, despite the fact that I still hear their songs pretty regularly on the radio. Though not on this album, those songs include such noteworthy hits as Til I Hear It From You and Follow You Down.
#1 is Sublimes self-titled album
#5 is Gin Blossoms New Miserable Experience
Last edited by meandi; 06-02-2018 at 03:50 PM.
From what I can tell you needed an American to get the Gin Blossoms. They don't seem to have made much of a dent outside North America.
"The worst moron is the one too stupid to realise they're a moron."
Honestly, it didnt even click until Steve gave song titles. They didnt last too long around here, either, from what I remember.
The Gins had a pretty solid run from their debut album in 1992 until they split in early '97. That's not a bad run at all. They had 4 singles and 2 albums that charted in the UK and 3 singles, 2 albums that charted in Australia. If you listen to any sort of channel that plays 90s hits, you'll definitely hear some Gin Blossoms. Though their run was somewhat short lived, the songs produced stand out as some of the most played of the decade.
Sublime was a monster hit, though. I honestly thought it'd be guessed pretty early on, as everyone I knew had that album back in the day.
Both are correct, obviously. meandi with the win. You're up.
I did see that they'd charted here, but as the albums didn't crack the top 40 (kind of our mark that really designate a hit) which is why I didn't think anyone would get it. Looks like a couple of the singles did a little better here. Could literally be that I'm a couple of years younger, but yeah, I don't think I've ever heard them on the radio so after the first release I think they'd have just disappeared from our consciousness.
It's interesting how different bands fare like that internationally because some do better away from their home market, too.
So... can you guys tell me how to actually make the pic so I can get it posted at some point?
Well there's a number of ways to do them. Someone else might have a better one, but mine is https://ipiccy.com/
I edit the photos down to the bit I want and save them, and when I have 9 I use the collage function to put them all together.
My tip is when you google images make sure you search for large images so it isn't too pixelly when you cut it down. I also aim for a 600 x 600 pixel canvas and each album takes up 200 x 200 pixels
Thanks. Ill play around with it tonight when I get home from work and hopefully have something by the end of the night.
I tend to use the same method as Sam. I use paint.net to do it, which is like a free extremely base level version of Photoshop. Prime's way seems to work just fine, though. I guess it's whatever is easier for each individual.
I'd love to do one of these album things, but that's means winning one first of all and then making the bastard thing.
I'm pretty sure I could put some really obscure/abstract metal albums up people don't know and a few easy ones.
Ugh... finally figured all this out. Posting it was the hardest part. Anyways... there's a theme, but if I say what it is, I'm pretty sure this will take no time at all to figure out. So, yeah...go.
1 Britney Spears - Britney (Steve)
2 Katy Perry - Teenage Dream (SirSam)
3 Christina Aguilera - Stripped (SirSam)
5 Kesha - Animal (Gooner)
6 Rihanna - Rated R (Gooner)
7 Madonna - Music (SirSam)
9 Taylor Swift - Red
SirSam - 3
Gooner - 2
Steve - 1
PrimeTime - 1
Last edited by meandi; 06-05-2018 at 07:49 AM.
This is embarrassing
2- Teenage Dream by Katy Perry
3- Stripped by Christina Aguleria
I guess I was a frequent visitor of the guilty pleasures thread on the old board.
4 is givng me some serious flashbacks too.
Last edited by SirSam; 06-04-2018 at 10:28 PM.
Correct on both, sir.
And, yes... it is kind of embarrassing.
Eh, a good song is a good song no matter if it is pop or whatever else.
As for Stripped, well lets just say that some of the video clips were early teenage Sir Sam's favourite 'work' by any female singer.
Last edited by SirSam; 06-04-2018 at 11:56 PM.
Pretty sure I know exactly which video youre talking about. And then that Maxim cover spread she did shortly thereafter...
#1 is definitely Britney by my future wife, Britney Spears.
Wait, I just noticed the M in the corner of number 7. Is it Music by Madonna?
Steve and SirSam, you are both correct
I'm also going to assume that the theme is that all the albums are by female artists.
I feel like I recognize both #3 and #5 but can't make it click for the life of me. And I know that #9 is a picture of Taylor Swift, but I couldn't name one of her albums if you forced me at gunpoint. She's one of those artists that I only know some of the songs, not the albums.
Odd fact, but apparently a few of Taylor's songs meld perfectly with Sami Zayn's entrance theme. Check it out on YouTube. Kinda fun.
Anywho, I'm thinking that may be all I get from this one, as I'm woefully uninformed as it pertains to modern music, which is what I assume most of these are.
Steve, you are correct with the theme. Thought it might be fun to just throw up a bunch of female pop artists.
Ill have to check out the Sami Zayn/Taylor Swift stuff. Funny side note... I didnt see you put Sami at first, and I totally thought you were about to say how awesome the Zayn/Taylor song from some soundtrack (one of the 50 Shades movies, maybe?) was.
Also... its not completely all modern stuff. Some of the albums are a decade old at this point.
Last edited by meandi; 06-05-2018 at 01:11 AM.
"Modern" to me tends to mean anything released since, like, 2005-ish. For instance, I have vague knowledge of the fact that some pop singer named Zayn exists, and that he was in one of the more recent (probably over a decade old at this point) boy bands or something. That said, I have zero clue who he is. Couldn't pick him out of a lineup, have never knowingly heard one of his songs, had no clue whatsoever that he had done a song with Taylor Swift.
I don't hate on that sort of music at all, of course. It's just that growth within my musical tastes came to a halt some time ago. I mostly listen to the same bands and stuff that I was listening to in high school these days.
As sign that I'm old, though, is that when you said "a decade old" my mind immediately went to the 90s. This time shit just keeps on slipping by me somehow.
6. Rated R by Rihanna. And I have no shame in knowing that.
5. Animal by Kesha. That one I do have shame in knowing...
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Can't add much except the Swift album is, I believe, called Red.
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As sign that I'm old, though, is that when you said "a decade old" my mind immediately went to the 90s. This time shit just keeps on slipping by me somehow.
If youre old, then so am I. From what I gather from columns, were only about a year or two difference in age. I have teenage daughters, though, so maybe that explains why I tend to keep up with current stuff more.
Gooner and PrimeTime, youre both correct.
I'm in the same boat as Sam in that 4) is making some neurons fire somewhere in my brain but I can't dredge the name of it for the life of me.
I figured 4 would be the most difficult. Its the newest artist out of all the rest, and youd honestly have to be up to date on current pop music to get that one.
With that clue I knew I wouldn't get it, cheated, and found it in seconds.
Never heard of it though. It must just look like another cover and my brain is playing a trick on me. Unless I saw it on TV or the 'net somewhere and I'm subconsciously remembering it.
Should I go ahead and throw up some hints? Or should we just shoot this one down? Apparently theres a few people that know female pop... but I mightve taken it a tad overboard.
Steve... just checked out that Sami Zayn/Taylor Swift video. Someone needs to tweet that to her so she can make a little medley during her super-duper stadium tour that she just started. That video was absolutely amazing.
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Way too early to shoot it down. Throw out those clues. I'm sure that the more generally mainstream nature of the albums in question will make them more identifiable than my apparently vague 90s old man stuff. lol
Steve... just made an edit to my previous post directed to you... look up
#4... She grew up with music from the early to mid 90s, and also had legal marijuana.
#8... She went on spring break once and didnt like the outcome.
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The Taylor/Sami stuff really is great. Especially the Shake It Off one. That shit was in my head for a couple days after hearing it.
Maybe time to consider more clues?
I second that emotion.
Yeah... I was pretty drunk when I threw up those first clues. My bad. Maybe these will help a bit more.
#4... While having some moderate success prior, this artist really started finding fame after linking up with The Chainsmokers for one of their biggest hits
#8... She was the most followed on Instagram in 2016 and 2017
Is Number 4 Halsey?
Am I allowed to give a point for just the artist? Or does it have to be the actual album, as well?
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The Nintendo Switch can still be a challenge to find, so when we heard one of the buying ninjas at GameStop got their hands on a supply, we were elated. Timmy thinks it involved some big Colombian banana cartel, but we don't ask questions of the ninjas in Grapevine. Mostly because we can't ever find them.
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As part of a nationwide effort to stop the exploitation of children on the internet, Contra Costa County investigators arrested two men in sting operations, officials said.
The national investigative effort, dubbed Operation Broken Heart, enlisted the Contra Costa County Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force to target people who were distributing child pornography, and those attempting to engage in sexual activity with minors.
On April 6, authorities arrested Russell Meirose, of Milpitas, for allegedly attempting to arrange sex with someone whom he believed to be a 13-year-old girl.
Meirose and an undercover police officer chatted online and he rented a room at a hotel in Pleasanton for them to meet, said Scott Alonso, a spokesman for the Contra Costa County District Attorney's office. Meirose was charged with multiple felonies.
Investigators also arrested Andrew Lund, a fourth-grade teacher and school supervisor at Glen Cove Elementary school in Vallejo.
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First week down!
I survived the first week back at school. Actually it is a lot of fun, but a lot of work getting back into the swing of things. I forgot how much I get interrupted during any given day. When I sit down to work on something, I get a call or someone walks in with an immediate need. Which is fine, but I can't guarantee I ever get back to what I walked away from! A little frustrating, but it all keeps me on my toes. I love the first week and seeing how excited the kids are to be back at school. Of course for some it doesn't last long, just until the homework starts. But I do love it! One little boy heading on the bus Friday afternoon shouted too me... I really don't want to go home. I want to stay here forever!. I told him we'll love having him back on Monday. He just loves learning and seeing all the fun things in first grade. So fun!
In a week lots has happened at our house. I walked in on Wednesday to my husband on the floor installing a new computer. Our old one seemed to have died, but I'm not so sure! All it really needed was a new video card, but we have a smashing new computer along with the old one (still on the floor) in the kitchen! He spent a day or so moving over the old files to the new computer, but this one doesn't have a floppy drive. Which wouldn't really be a problem, but my camera has a floppy drive and no way to hook it directly up to the computer. So at the moment I have no way of adding pictures to my picture host or putting them on my blog. Luckily I took one and saved it before this happened so I can at least show you one progress pic.
Now this was my ILG sox from Tuesday. Since then, with no computer at home and no time at school, I actually finished these socks last night. They fit great and I love the grey tweed. I haven't gotten much done on the X-mas socks. Just the cuff on the second sock. I have knitting group next Wednesday so I thought they would be perfect to bring with me to work on. Today I hope to sew up the ribbon t-shirt so I can get it wrapped for Gracie's b-day on Friday! Then I have to pick another project to cast on. Maybe another baby sweater. There are three boys arriving in the next few months and I only have one blue sweater made. Or I could cast on for Gracie's x-mas sweater. I think it is a hooded pullover. We shall see.


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Carpal tunnel syndrome is a nerve disorder of the hand and wrist. It can cause tingling, numbness and pain. It's due to performing repetitive hand movements, such as scanning.
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7 early 8 early, my Proton car window failed to work. It went down and didn't want to come up. Proton car owners all over the world is now looking at the sky and sighing "Proton!!!" . Ai.. what to do? Made in Malaysia mah.
I had my peer review. Strangely, Bonnie, did not "teach me a lesson." Hmmmmmmm... Overall, very good feedback from 14 people. Boss was impressed :P
Maybe I'm a natural born leader. LOL thinking about this! Ha ha..
Finally, it seems that ALL my readers hated the new template. For the first time in my hundred of posts, all of you provided comment on the same topic! Amazing. But I will not yield to all these temptations to change. White is good. White is pure.. Do not try to taint it, you evil people you! :P
After I published this blog, my choice of words, "1st Day at Work" struck me. I still remember my first day at work in this company. I came to the office around 8am. I am supposed to go to the reception to meet my manager at 8.30am. Having nothing to do and not willing to wait at the reception, like a "so chai", I decided to hang around the ground floor lobby.
That night before, my friend's girlfriend, SK wonder if I will be meeting her friend, Greedy whom she said started work in the same company a month ago. I didn't know Greedy nor how she looked like. I was supposed to meet her when I visited Australia. She was sick at that time (or maybe anti-social) so she didn't come to the Great Ocean Road tour with us. Anyway, SK said that Greedy is very tall. You can't miss her.
So, there I was at the lobby watching people, when all of a sudden, Greedy walked past me towards the foodcourt. I knew it was her. Such a tall girl. I don't think I have met any girl as tall as I am. She was wearing black.. from top to bottom. Later I learned that that's her trademark dressing.. LOL! (Greedy, you still have that striped T-shirt? Black-white-black lines :P)
So 8.30 and the manager came to accept me and took me to 19th floor. I was introduced to my new colleagues. Anti-ringgit was with SamSee at that time in this old dumb terminal. I remember him because he was really LCLY. When the manager was figuring out which workstation to put me in, she commented why not sit behind me since it is hardly occupied at all (that was anti-ringgit's workstation). He quickly turned and said "MUST PAY MONEY!". Sei anti-ringgit. I knew you "fat chin horn"!!! Celaka. This anti-ringgit didn't want to sit behind boss, see, so he always hide in this obscure dumb terminal behind Greedy to do his work. So, his workstation is really empty and yet he refused to let me use it. Double celaka!
Anyway, then we walked to the other aisle and I was introduced to Greedy. I said, "so we meet at last" and boss remarked "you two know each other?". I was trying to explain to boss that Greedy is a friend's friend. Before I could finish my attempt at explaining friend's friend, Greedy said "we have a mutual friend." Boy! I was impressed. "Mutual friend" compared to "she-she-she's my friend's friend". POWER ENGLISH!
To anti-ringgit's credit, while he may have instilled a LCLY (arrogant) first impression on me, he was also the one who initiated all the group lunches and therefore makes my joining the group so much easier. Everyday we had lunch - me, anti-ringgit, Greedy, SamSee and a few others.
I also remember when I first met kimmikanuyi. It was also in 19th floor just beside the procurement workstation. She's Greedy's friend, you see, so my first meeting with her was when she showed off her new Nokia phone. Wah.. so envy that time. Purple metalic colour phone some more. At that time, hand phone was really a luxury. There's one time she told us that she has to change all her wardrobe because she said she cannot wear "loud" dresses while she was mourning.
Time flies eh? Almost 9 years liow since we first met. Brrrrr.
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1st Day at Work
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OH ! this is a good flashback...all happened in 19th floor :). This triggers me to blog my version pula - but I'm only allowed to blog after I've submitted my assessment report :( , pls pray for me, mentally support me, push me to finish IT !!ReplyDelete
Fun to think of 'Hari Ini Dalam Sejarah', geee - 9 yrs!
I remember that day, I remember exactly where we were standing when LG introduced us, it was in front of the huge steel cabinet where all the system manuals were kept. I remember which striped T-shirt you are talking about. It was my favorite at that time. I looked tall and slim in black :-)ReplyDelete
9 years, dun play play....
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Don't mix threads and forks
Not too long ago, I worked on a project with a substantial Python code base which was used for running automated tests. It had quite a few foibles, oddities, and things which were just plain wrong. This is but one of them, something fairly deep and fundamental which created all sorts of fun when things got hairy. I came in fairly late in the game and had to work backwards to figure it out.
The code in question used ssh to do things on distant systems. It's clear that it had initially been designed to do little more than "shelling out to" the actual OpenSSH /usr/bin/ssh to do its dirty work over and over again, whenever something had to happen on the far end machine. It was a glorified shell script engine.
Well, at some point, a decision was made to do even more with ssh instead of using a locally-available RPC mechanism. This lead to demands like being able to multiplex commands over those ssh connections and recycling existing connections, all things that running that ssh binary through popen (or whatever) just would not do. The code was switched to use a SSH client library instead.
Nobody realized it right away, but this introduced a new failure mode where the processes would get stuck and would never make any more progress. Apparently some weak correlation between this new library and stuck processes was made at some point, and there may have even been an attempt at fixing it, but it persisted anyway.
This is about where I enter the picture. At some point, it became obvious to me that my test runs were failing due to something getting stuck. I'd start something up and it would get to a point where it's supposed to fork and just keep going and ... it would hang. The difference is that I dug into it.
What I found was troubling: my stuck python process was sitting in a futex() syscall which would never return. A bit of reading taught me this was just its way of waiting for a lock to clear, but there was nothing which could clear it. It had just forked, it was just one thread, and nobody else was accessing that memory. It would be there forever.
So I added logging to start figuring out what else was going on during all of this. Perversely, it actually got worse. The highly-instrumented code would freeze its children far more than the untouched stuff. This was a clue, however frustrating it was.
I wound up learning how to use gdb on a Python process -- yep, you can actually get meaningful stack trace data -- and found out that my newly forked process was getting stuck deep in some Python library logging call. That call acquired a mutex, which in this case was implemented with futex(). It would get stuck because someone else already had it.
But wait, how could someone else have the mutex when we just came from a fork() moments ago? This was a mystery briefly, until I started doing traces on the parent process with gdb and friends. That's what finally cracked the puzzle.
Back in the parent process, there were many threads running around doing things. Even though the actual testing suite itself never used threads, it had called upon that SSH library which did quite prolifically. I already knew threading and fork was a no-no, but had to prove it to these people some other way, since they obviously didn't know this principle already and would never take me at face value.
I wound up gathering instrumentation which showed one of the SSH library threads calling the Python log call while another thread called fork(). That fork did the usual copy-on-write thing, and so the child woke up with all of the parent's data structures, including whatever bit that said "someone has this lock". But, since there was no one to finish using it and release it on the child side, the first call to logging there would block forever.
This should have made a solid case for dumping SSH and that library altogether, but it didn't quite work out like that. Last I heard, they were still working on a way to safely allow fork() in a threaded process by running around and cleaning up mutexes in some kind of "at fork" handler.
I wish I was making that up.
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REDLANDS >> Susan Wang never expected a tragedy like the Dec. 2 terrorist attack in San Bernardino.
So when it came to selecting the most significant event from the past year to feature in Arrowhead Christian Academy's 2015-16 yearbook, the choice was obvious.
The page she designed, titled "Too close to home …," earned the 17-year-old Redlands girl a spot in the Top 10 of Jostens' 2016 Adobe Design Contest. The contest invites yearbook staffs from across the country to submit their best designs for a chance to win prizes, including a Macbook. Joining Susan in the top 10 were students from Texas, Kansas and New York.
Contest winners were announced earlier this week. And while Susan did not place in the top spot, she still feels like a winner, she said.
"I have been in yearbook since my sophomore year and actually won the contest last year," she said. "It was my first year and didn't expect to win. It was really a surprise."
Originally from Tangshan, China, Susan is part of ACA's international program, where students from overseas experience student life in the states.
She joined yearbook because of its award-winning reputation, she said.
"We always hear about how yearbook won all of these awards across the country, and I thought it would be really cool to contribute," Susan said. "So I applied and got in."
Crystal Kazmierski, ACA's yearbook staff adviser, encourages her students to apply for Jostens' contest each year. In fact, the first year the company launched the contest, a student from ACA won.
Watching Susan shine in yearbook has been a treat for Kazmierski to witness, she said.
"Susan is setting examples of excellence for her whole country, and it's awesome to see that," she said. "She is very smart and one of our top students. I'm really super proud of her."
Susan is not sure if she will submit one of her designs to the contest next year — she graduates at the end of this school year. But she knows the page she designed will continue to make an impact for years to come.
"We didn't plan on this happening … but it did hit so close to our school and was meaningful to our students," she said. "Having it be recorded in our yearbook so when we look back it will still be meaningful to us, even though it was a tragedy."
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Having high blood sugars sucks. Excessive thirst, the need to go to the loo way too often, dry mouth, fatigue or feeling irritable generally are the first warning signs that something is really wrong. Long-term hyperglycemia can cause kidney failure, eye damage, cardiovascular disease, nerve damage, joint problems, skin and gum infections and may […]


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Hi there penguin pals! Did you know this year is going to be Club Penguins 9th Anniversary! Cool! And you're invited! We're going to have a total blast! Here's the invitation on the site. Click Read More for more details.
Date: 25 October 2014
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