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Podcast: Top 10 Questions to Ask Your Divorce Lawyer pt. 2
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In this transcribed interview with Dale Goldhawk of Zoomer Radio AM740 in Toronto, family and divorce lawyer Lorne Fine of Fine & Associates Professional Corporation discusses some of the important questions one should ask his or her divorce lawyer. Read the interview below, or listen to the podcast at the bottom of the page.
Goldhawk Fights Back Podcast: Recorded January 2, 2014
Dale: Okay it's 12:17 here on Zoomer radio, where Lorne joins us, our family and divorce lawyer. Lorne, I hope you had a good holiday season.
Lorne: I did, thank you.
Dale: All right.
Lorne: Thank you for having me.
Dale: I'm glad to have you back here on duty.
Lorne: Happy New Year. Yes.
Dale: Now, we started with the top ten questions you should as a divorce lawyer. This is something that's posted on your website.
Lorne: It is.
Dale: At Fine and Associates, right?
Lorne: Right.
Dale: So people can go and read it.
Lorne: Right.
Dale: But, of course, I have you in the studio. So I get to ask a few additional questions about each point.
Lorne: Ask away, yes.
Dale: Ask away. All right. Okay. Sure, you say that now. Here is, let's go to questions six.
Lorne: Right.
Dale: And, these are questions, remember, that you can be asking your divorce lawyer. And question six starts out "can you estimate the cost of my divorce?" Now I would think, for a lawyer, a divorce lawyer, that's a very, very difficult question to answer.
Lorne: Right. And it happens all the time. Everyone always . . .
Dale: Well, because people want to know.
Lorne: People want to know.
Dale: Yeah.
Lorne: And it's very difficult because you're not buying like, a pen. You're not buying an item.
Dale: Yeah.
Lorne: You're buying time. And it depends on so many factors. It depends on both parties. It depends on the lawyers. It depends on the level of conflict. So it depends on so many factors that it's hard to give an exact amount. You can give it a range. You know, depending on certain circumstances. But it's very, very difficult, if not impossible to say this is what's going, this is what it's going to cost.
Dale: But will some lawyers not even attempt to do that? I mean, say I, who can, how high is up? How can you estimate?
Lorne: You can't.
Dale: Blah, blah, blah.
Lorne: Yeah, you can't. It's very, very difficult.
Dale: Yeah.
Lorne: You can say if everything is amicable, and if everyone's reasonable, I estimate the cost to be approximately X amount.
Dale: Yeah. Well, if you, I mean, knowing a particular case you could say "if scenario A works out, it could be in the range of blah, blah, blah."
Lorne: Right.
Dale: "If Scenario B, you know." So, there would be at least some indication. Because people know, I think generally speaking, that it could cost them a fair chunk of change, as we say…
Lorne: It can be expensive.
Dale: …to get divorced, right?
Lorne: It can be expensive. Yeah. Like I said, it depends on so many factors. It depends on the issues. And it can, it can be expensive. And it's very difficult to pinpoint the amount of the cost.
Dale: Well, let me ask you this though. In your area of, in your years of practice in the field, what's, what are the limits? What are the parameters? I mean, how cheap could a divorce actually be ever from a lawyer? And how expensive?
Lorne: Good question.
Dale: You know, it's just you give us an idea of the range.
Lorne: Okay, so if it's a straightforward divorce . . .
Dale: Yeah.
Lorne: … let's say there's no kids, no property, no support issues, so it's just a simple divorce.
Dale: Yeah.
Lorne: Right? So, to process a simple divorce, it's, you start a divorce application, and then there's no response. It's an administrative process where you have to file an affidavit and so on.
Dale: Yeah.
Lorne: And eventually you get a divorce judgment. The cost for an uncontested divorce is somewhere around, let's say, $1,000 for the fees. Plus disbursements and so on. There's various court costs, and fees, and so on.
Dale: Yeah.
Lorne: And, after process server fees and so on, so, all in, it's somewhere around $2,000, let's say, for an uncontested divorce. If there's issues in regards to children, issues in regards to support, it may be necessary to have a separation agreement. In which case, if it's a separation agreement, it may be anywhere from $1,500 to $5,000, or $10,000, depending on how complicated…
Dale: Well, the sky's the limit if it went on and on. Isn't it?
Lorne: Well, for a separation, I'm talking just for a separation agreement, if it's simple separation.
Dale: Yeah. Yeah.
Lorne: You're right. If it's more complicated, if there's valuation issues, determining the value of a business, let's say. Or determining someone's income for support purposes, we'd need an expert. You know, if you have a self-employed individual who has a business, and he's paying child support, or spousal support, you need to get an expert to determine that person's income. You know, some, they're called CBVs, certified business valuators, who have an expertise in family law. For them to determine the value of a business, or to determine someone's income for support purposes, that may be anywhere from $5,000 to $10,000, or more.
Dale: All by itself.
Lorne: All by itself. Or more.
Dale: Well, but we could separate the two things here because, essentially, previously we were talking about your time, or a lawyer's time in dealing with the case.
Lorne: Right.
Dale: And you're now also talking about…
Lorne: Disbursements.
Dale: …other experts.
Lorne: Other experts.
Dale: Disbursements that you would have to make…
Lorne: You're right.
Dale: … in order to process the divorce.
Lorne: That's correct.
Dale: And that can add up too, then.
Lorne: That can add up. Right
Dale: All right.
Lorne: Yeah. So, it's, there's appraisers…
Dale: Well, what runs through, then? You mentioned appraisers. What other kinds of experts might be required?
Lorne: So there's, as I said CBVs, certified business valuators. They can determine someone's income for support purposes.
Dale: Yeah.
Lorne: They can determine the value of someone's business. An appraiser, a property appraiser. There may be properties that have to be valued. They can cost $1,000, $2,000, depending on the nature of the property. Actuaries, accountants. If there's custody access issues, you may need social workers, or psychologists.
Dale: Yeah.
Lorne: If they have to access the access assessment, it's very expensive. That could be $10,000, $20,000. You know, I've $50,000.
Dale: What's the most expensive divorce you've ever heard of?
Lorne: The most expensive divorce?
Dale: Yeah. I mean, but you'd have to qualify it, wouldn't you? The most not involving, say, the splitting up of assets, but just in terms of the time and efforts of a lawyer, or a law firm.
Lorne: Well, there was, you know Peter, remember Peter Naygard, Peter Nygard ?
Dale: Nygard. Yes, of course.
Lorne: Nygard case, where…
Dale: That went on forever, didn't it?
Lorne: Went on forever.
Dale: Yeah.
Lorne: And the husband frustrated the wife's efforts to get support, and so on.
Dale: Yes, indeed.
Lorne: And then the wife's solicitor submitted a bill of cost to the judge.
Dale: Yeah.
Lorne: And he was awarded cost of a million dollars, right?
Dale: Wow. Wow.
Lorne: Which is huge
Dale: Yeah.
Lorne: And very, very unusual.
Dale: Yeah.
Lorne: That's very unusual.
Dale: So that would certainly be near the top, then.
Lorne: That's the hardest, that's the highest I've heard.
Dale: Okay.
Lorne: And I think that actually was the record. I think Harold Nyma was the lawyer for the wife.
Dale: Oh, my.
Lorne: But that went, that's huge.
Dale: Yeah.
Lorne: And very unusual. But, you know, it's, I would think that, you know, for a divorce with some property issues, some kids, you're looking at anywhere from, you know, I would say $10,000 to $20,000 dollars, usually.
Dale: That's a median.
Lorne: Yeah, just as a guestament.
Dale: That would be a median. A good median. Yeah. Yeah. But, then again, hard to know. Because of different specifics.
Lorne: Very hard to know. Yeah.
Dale: Now, and when we think of divorce, or divorce in the movies, or we think of movie like War of the, remember War of the Roses?
Lorne: Good movie.
Dale: Yeah. Where in the final scene, they're on the chandelier.
Lorne: Destroying the house.
Dale: Oh, good grief.
Lorne: Destroyed everything.
Dale: That was Michael Douglass and Kathleen…Kathleen Turner? Is that who I'm thinking of her?
Lorne: Yes, I think you're right.
Dale: Yeah, that's it. Kathleen Turner. Yeah. That was a, that was a great movie. A horrendous movie.
Lorne: That's, that's unusual too. That doesn't usually happen.
Dale: But it does speak to the emotional part of a divorce that you have to deal with every day.
Lorne: Right.
Dale: It's not a simple business transaction. It involves trust, and then loss of trust, betrayal.
Lorne: Right.
Dale: All those other negative human emotions and foibles that really can get you totally involved, right?
Lorne: Right. People sometimes lose it, right?
Dale: Yeah.
Lorne: There are some people who have the ability to separate their emotions, and to say "It's a business transaction, let's try to focus on doing the deal in a reasonable manner, in a cost effective manner."
Dale: Yeah.
Lorne: But sometimes, you know, people can't control that their emotions just overwhelm…
Dale: "I'm out to get her." Or, "I'm going to break him." You know.
Lorne: Yes. Destroy.
Dale: These kinds of, these are things you've just…
Lorne: Destroy. "I'm going, she's not getting my tools."
Dale: Yeah. That's right. That's right.
Lorne: It's the last thing.
Dale: "I'll declare bankruptcy before I give her a nickel." You know.
Lorne: We hear that all the time. Yes, we, it never happens.
Dale: Yeah, this is not.
Lorne: Yes. Or I'll disappear.
Dale: It never…
Lorne: I'm going to disappear and she'll get nothing.
Dale: Yeah, right.
Lorne: And I'm not paying child support.
Dale: Yeah.
Lorne: It happened once in my career, where someone actually did disappear.
Dale: They did? Yeah?
Lorne: They actually did disappear. And whenever I…
Dale: Did they pay your bill before they left?
Lorne: I think they did. I think they did. But whenever I see the wife's lawyer, we always say "remember that guy who really did disappear?"
Dale: And he's gone. He really did.
Lorne: He just took, he just, yeah, he had kids and he just fell of the face of the earth. So that's very, everyone threatens it — not everyone — but a lot of people threaten to go bankrupt.
Dale: Well, it seems like the thing to say, right?
Lorne: Yeah, because you're angry.
Dale: Yeah, of course.
Lorne: But, you know, if you're reasonable, as I said, take a step back.
Dale: Yeah.
Lorne: Work with a lawyer. Because your lawyer's not emotionally involved, you're lawyer's objective. And a good lawyer will guide you, and try to make sense.
Dale: Well, but you have to try to get the emotion out of it as much as you can. Or at least, at least, you know, try to tamp it down a bit. So that you can get on with the process.
Lorne: Right. You try to guide your client. As I said, the lawyer's not emotional. For a lawyer, you're trying to assist the client in coming to a reasonable resolution.
Dale: Yeah.
Lorne: As fast as possible. At a reasonable cost. But, like I always say, it takes two to tango. Right? If the other party is not reasonable, it's going to result in increased cost. So there's only so much that the lawyer can control, right? It's, you try your best, but there's a lot of factors out of your control.
Dale: All right, now let's move to your point number eight. Your suggested question number eight.
Lorne: Yes.
Dale: Things you should be asking your divorce lawyer. And question eight goes along the lines of the whole notion of mediation.
Lorne: Correct.
Dale: We often think of divorce as ending up in court where somebody is saying "I object, your honor. Blah, blah." And all that TV stuff.
Lorne: Right.
Dale: But in essence, a lot of cases do not get into a court room.
Lorne: Correct.
Dale: They're dealt with through mediation, right?
Lorne: Or negotiation.
Dale: Or negotiation, in some.
Lorne: You may, you retain your lawyer.
Dale: Yeah.
Lorne: And, I should say firstly that, if any listeners want to see the list, they can just go on my website.
Dale: Yeah.
Lorne: www.torontodivorcelaw.com.
Dale: All right.
Lorne: And so, they can see the list themselves. Just download the list, the questions. So, as far as mediation, most things, most cases are negotiated. So you'll, one party will have a lawyer. The wife will have a lawyer, the husband will have a lawyer, and you'll try and negotiate a separation agreement.
Dale: Yeah.
Lorne: Mediation is a good option to resolve disputes. If there's a level playing field, if there's no abuse. If there's disclosure. If you trust the other spouse, and you trust they're not going to hide things from you, you may go, both spouses may go to a mediator. So both, without lawyers, may go to a mediator. And the mediator is a neutral party. And the mediator tries to negotiate a separation agreement. And then sends the parties off to get independent legal advice. So they both have a lawyer to consult with, and to tell them about the rights and obligations. So that's one option. So you can go to mediation without lawyers. Or you can go to mediation with your lawyers.
Dale: But will all divorce lawyers necessarily want to use the mediation process? Or would some rather go to court? I mean, I guess that's a professional preference, but I mean…
Lorne: It's, you know what? It depends on the case.
Dale: Yeah.
Lorne: If you think that, you know, a mediator can't force a resolution. A mediator can only facilitate discussion to come to a resolution. So if you…
Dale: There has to be a spirit of cooperation before that's ever going to work.
Lorne: Exactly. So, if you go, if you think the other part is just, it's you know, it's, let's say "his way or the highway," right? That he's not prepared…
Dale: Something else that's frequently said in a lawyer's office, I'm sure. Right?
Lorne: Yes. If you don't think the other party's reasonable, that it is not going to compromise, then mediation is, there's no point in going to mediation. You know, I've had situations where we say "Is it worthwhile to go to mediation, or should we just go to court?" Because I know if I go to court, I have a pretty good idea what's going to happen in court. So, even though, I'm thinking about one case. Even though, you know, there's one party really wanted to keep things as amicable as possible, and really did not want to go to court. And we had to make a decision whether we were going to force the issue or go to mediation.
Dale: Yeah.
Lorne: And, essentially what we did was, we gave the other side a deadline. "You have until next week to either accept this proposal, or not, or we go to court." And, in that case, the other side actually accepted the proposal.
Dale: Yeah. But essentially, that's certainly something that a potential client should be asking of his, or her, lawyer. What about mediation in our case?
Lorne: Right.
Dale: Because you need, as the client, to hear what the alternatives might be that might, if nothing else, save you a buck or two in the final analysis.
Lorne: Right. So, any lawyer, or most lawyers should, discuss with their clients the various types of dispute resolution mechanisms. Right? One, negotiation. Can we negotiate this person? If not, mediation. With council or without council. If not mediation, mediation arbitration, right? If you go to a mediator, as I said before, a mediator can't force a decision, but an arbitrator can..
Dale: An arbitrator can.
Lorne: Yeah, like going, it's similar to going to court. So if it's mediation arbitration, do you go…
Dale: Well, it's like compulsory arbitration in labor decisions as well.
Lorne: Exactly the same thing. Right. The person makes a decision.
Dale: Yeah.
Lorne: So do you go to that one person that mediates and then arbitrates? Or do you go to one person to mediate and then another person to arbitrate?
Dale: Okay.
Lorne: There's all different types of options.
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Dale: Ah, yes. That puts us in the mood, doesn't it?
Lorne: Yes, very relaxing.
Dale: Lorne is here. He's our family and divorce lawyer. And we're running through the ten questions you should be asking your lawyer. And here's question number nine. And I'm sure every lawyer dreads this questions. "Well, what do you think? Are we going to win, or are we going to lose?"
Lorne: "What's the odds?"
Dale: They want you to predict, right?
Lorne: "What are the odds."
Dale: "What are the odds," right?
Lorne: Yes. Yeah, we hear it all the time. You know, "what's a judge going to do?" And, you know, when it comes to going to court, no one can say for sure, 100%, this is what's going to happen. So there's always a risk. A lawyer can analyze the case, give you the pros and cons, and have some idea what's going to happen.
Dale: Yeah.
Lorne: Especially when it comes to support cases. But, you can't guarantee anything. So that's the risk of going to court is you're allowing a third party, the judge, who although the judges are very knowledgeable individuals, they're individuals. And you don't have control over the outcome of your case.
Dale: Have you, how often have you really been surprised by a verdict?
Lorne: It happens. It happens.
Dale: I mean, it's going to happen. Inevitably it's going to happen.
Lorne: Yeah. Maybe the judge is in a bad mood. Maybe the judge, who knows?
Dale: Well, yeah.
Lorne: They're people.
Dale: Maybe something surprising happened…
Lorne: Yeah.
Dale: …as in a TV drama during the course of a, I mean, these things do happen. I've covered them where they've happened, you know.
Lorne: Yes. Sometimes it happens.
Dale: Yeah.
Lorne: So, you know the good thing about negotiation, or mediation, is that you have control over the process.
Dale: Yes.
Lorne: So you have, so it's your life, and you have some control over the outcome of it. As opposed to going to a judge. And really, litigation is the last option, where you say to a judge "we can't make, we can't determine how this should be resolved. You make the decision as to how it should be resolved." Whether it's who should have custody, or who should have access, child support, spousal support, property. "We leave it to you judge, to decide how things should be resolved."
Dale: Sure. That's why he or she is the judge.
Lorne: Right.
Dale: Yeah.
Lorne: And, you know, that's, as I said, it's more expensive. And, or can be more expensive than mediation arbitration.
Dale: But the point is, when the question is, when you're saying "what do you think? Are we going to win? What are our chances of winning?" Know if you're lawyer is saying "oh, we've got this one in the bag," I mean, you should be a little, shouldn't you be a little trepidatious about that kind of thing? Because you can't really, you can't know as the lawyer, even if you're confident. And I would think if somebody, if the lawyer seems over confident, maybe the client should be a little more cautious about that confidence.
Lorne: Well, I don't know.
Dale: I don't know. I'm just saying, it could happen.
Lorne: Maybe, maybe you have an excellent case. If you really have an excellent case, maybe the judge. You know, a lawyer has the right to be very confident.
Dale: You can be more confident that with some cases where you're not so confident, right?
Lorne: Yes.
Dale: Yeah.
Lorne: I, you know, I always say that it's more likely than not that we'll win as opposed to it's a slam dunk. Right?
Dale: Let me write that down. It's more likely than not.
Lorne: It's more likely than not.
Dale: And so, when it's not, you say "Well, I didn't say it was impossible." Right?
Lorne: It's an uphill battle here. And some cases are an uphill battle, right? Some cases it's more likely you're going to lose than win. So…
Dale: But, like most, and this brings us to question 10 on your list, which involves all the information that you need to know about the whole process. Most people don't get divorced every day, they don't consult a lawyer every day. They're not involved in any kind of legal process on a regular basis. So they don't really know how the various laws and processes are going to apply to them. So you must get questions, and this is what 10 is suggesting, you must get questions from clients saying "how do I learn more about the whole process so that I really can understand it?" A lot of people, they want to know about all of that so that they can judge for themselves as they're doing as they go along. People don't like just leaving the, I don't think, they don't like leaving these things necessarily in the hands of a lawyer, even a good lawyer such as yourself. But they want to know something about that process as well. They want to be involved in that.
Lorne: You know what? Not everybody does want to be involved in the process.
Dale: Really?
Lorne: Yeah, most people, you know…
Dale: "You handle it. You handle it, Lorne. And when you win, let me know."
Lorne: Most people, you'd be surprised, most people don't want to…
Dale: "If anything goes right, give me a call."
Lorne: Well most people…
Dale: Really, they don't, aye?
Lorne: They don't.
Dale: You see, I would. I'd want to know every little thing. Good thing I'm happily married. Yeah.
Lorne: It's a personality thing, I guess.
Dale: Yeah.
Lorne: Most people, you know, I guess you could go online and investigate, you could go and read. But, you're not a lawyer, so it's hard to investigate everything, right?
Dale: Yeah.
Lorne: And even if you go on line, not all the information you get is going to be accurate. So, most people don't want to investigate all the nooks and crannies about the law.
Dale: Really?
Lorne: Yeah, they don't.
Dale: Really?
Lorne: Listen, it's always good to have an informed client, it's good…
Dale: But isn't it, from your, and you're coming up to it right now, I interrupted you.
Lorne: Yep.
Dale: It's better to have that informed client than somebody who's just dumped it in your lap and said…
Lorne: Yes.
Dale: …"Lorne, you fix it."
Lorne: Yes. It's much better to have a client who's involved, who is organized.
Dale: Yeah.
Lorne: Who is involved in the process? Whether it's making strategic decisions, or gathering information that's necessary, than somebody who's not co-operative.
Dale: Well, but it's, I would think, it's also to the advantage of the client to be that involved.
Lorne: 100%.
Dale: Because, essentially, time is money here.
Lorne: 100%, but…
Dale: If you have to spend three or four hours finding out something that the client should have told you in a matter of minutes, or sent you in the right place, to the right location to find something out, and ergo, somebody who's involved in their own case, it's going to pay off at the bank.
Lorne: I hope. I hope these litigates are listening now because you're 100% right. But a lot of people aren't.
Dale: Yeah.
Lorne: A lot of people it's, I guess it's a very stressful process. It's a very tiring process. And you know, I may say to them "give me your bank statements for the last three years." Like "Oh my God," right? "Give me your credit card statements the last three years. I need all your income tax returns. I need all your financial statement, I need all your corporate returns. And it can be very overwhelming for people.
Dale: Yeah.
Lorne: And, yeah, so not everybody wants to be involved. And not everybody wants to have their finger on the pulse all the time. It's great if they do. And it's wonderful.
Dale: Yeah.
Lorne: And it's, you know, when somebody comes to me and says "here's my disclosure booklet, here's all the documents you need, and it's organized." That's excellent.
Dale: This would be another lawyer.
Lorne: Thank the Lord.
Dale: This would be another lawyer, seeking a lawyer to get divorced himself, probably.
Lorne: Well, you know, there's, it's there's some people who are very organized.
Dale: Well, I guess that's true.
Lorne: And there's some people who just really have every document that, from day one, right? And they have it and they're very organized. And it's great when that happens.
Dale: Okay. We, there you are, there are the 10 things, the 10 questions, generally…
Lorne: Generally.
Dale: That you should be asking your lawyer. Now if you have any questions to ask our family and divorce lawyer, Lorne, he's right here at your disposal to answer your questions, offer a little bit of advice on the radio. Here are the numbers. 416-360-0740 or 866-740-4740, about any aspect of the divorce proceedings. A proceeding, and I think you dealt with this in the first one to five. A proceeding, or a process that can really take a long, a relatively long period of time, can't it?
Lorne: It's totally possible. It depends on…
Dale: I mean, again it's an…
Lorne: It depends on the parties, again. It depends on disclosure issues. You know, frequently what takes a lot of time is disclosure to show what your income is, what your property is, to complete something we call the financial statement, which lists all your assets and liabilities.
Dale: Yeah.
Lorne: List your income. That takes time. So it depends on the parties. It may be a very, a very time consuming process. And, like I said, it just depends on the issues and stuff.
Dale: I would think it would be more time consuming if it's the kind of process where the client said "here, you fix it."
Lorne: If they don't want to be involved?
Dale: Well, yeah, the whole non-involvement thing. I know I'm still on about that. But I mean I…
Lorne: Well, you're just shocked that there's people out there who don't want to be involved.
Dale: Well I just, I yeah, I guess I…
Lorne: You are, you're shocked.
Dale: I guess I am. Well, I'm not shocked. I'm 70 years old. I don't get shocked about much of anything these days.
Lorne: Oh, okay.
Dale: Come on. All right. The numbers here, again, are 416-360-0740, or 866-740-4740. And here's Ed on the line from Toronto. Ed, do you have a question for Lorne?
ED: It's kind of a question, and a suggestion. I know the suggestion part won't do him any good financially. But, I was thinking, should they not make it more difficult to get married? In other words, you have to jump through a few more hoops so that they divorce rate is less? Now I know of some countries in the Middle East like, where things like adultery, it's the death sentence.
Dale: Well, I mean, different rules.
ED: Maybe here, we should make it more like it was 40 years ago. People had to leave town when they were involved in something like that. And maybe, maybe there should be a criminal charge like, for that sort of thing. For the people involved, I think.
Dale: What are you talking about adultery, is that what you mean?
ED: Yeah.
Dale: Oh, okay.
ED: And if you go back to the little more stricter rules on that.
Dale: All right.
ED: Like, that used to be the only grounds for divorce.
Dale: Yes it did.
ED: Because it was so serious.
Dale: But Ed, you bring up a very, a very interesting question. And this is what I'd like to pursue with Lorne. Thanks very much for the call. Maybe, I don't know how we would every do this. Maybe we make it a little tougher to get married, and not quite so tough to get divorced. I mean, you've heard that said many times, I'm sure.
Lorne: Right. Yeah.
Dale: But there's some truth in that somewhere, isn't there?
Lorne: Yeah, there is. There is. Well, yes. It's very easy to get married, and very difficult, well, not very difficult.
Dale: Yeah.
Lorne: But difficult to get divorced. It's a longer…
Dale: Well, you could make it very difficult. You could make it as difficult as you want, I suspect.
Lorne: Yeah, but it's a whole process as opposed. And maybe the listener is right. Maybe Ed's right that maybe some courses would be helpful.
Dale: Yeah.
Lorne: Courses about how to have a good marriage, and how to have, how to communicate. You and I were talking on the break about…
Dale: Yeah.
Lorne: … the top 10, well, reasons why…
Dale: Well, we'll do that in a minute.
Lorne: Oh, okay.
Dale: The top 10 reasons that marriages fail.
Lorne: Fail.
Dale: And who better to ask than you. Because you're there as they're failing, right? Or they've already failed. They've already come.
Lorne: By the time they get to me it's been, it's failed for a while.
Dale: Yeah. Reconciliation is not probably one of the things you experience that much.
Lorne: Well, it's happens. It happens sometimes. And it's actually a lawyer, a divorce lawyer is obligated to say to the client, "have you considered marriage counseling? Do you want to reconcile?"
Dale: Yeah.
Lorne: So, sometimes it happens.
Dale: Really?
Lorne: Oh, yeah. Sometimes it does happen. People have second thoughts. Now very often. And usually when I say "have you considered marriage counseling," the client looks at me like I'm insane. Right. So, but you have to.
Dale: Okay. I understand that.
Lorne: So, you know, maybe some courses about communication before you get married.
Dale: Yeah.
Lorne: Courses about finances. You know, anything like that would help. Because a lot of times people get married and they have, you know, rose colored glasses, and they think everything is going to be wonderful.
Dale: Yeah.
Lorne: And then reality sinks in.
Dale: But some of the statistics seem to be suggesting, certainly in the province of Quebec where it's been this way for a while, fewer and fewer people are actually getting married and are just living together anyway.
Lorne: Yeah, common law. Yeah.
Dale: Just as in a common law situation. But those cases still come before you as well.
Lorne: Yeah. People still break up in common law situations. It's a little bit…
Dale: There's still shared property.
Lorne: Yeah.
Dale: There's still that…
Lorne: Well, it's not the same property issues.
Dale: No. No.
Lorne: It's not the same law as far as married couple. But the law is probably going to evolve to deal with common law partners in a specific way because they're so common.
Dale: Yeah.
Lorne: Right now it's, now there's no hard and fast set rules for dealing with common law property issues. But it's becoming more and more common that, you know, judges are starting to treat them as if they're married. But there's, like I said, there's no hard and fast set rules.
Dale: So that will be set by either by precedent by judges dealing with these kinds of cases, and perhaps a change in law here and there to…
Lorne: For the legislature.
Dale: And some legislative changes that would, yeah.
Lorne: That's right. Right. Because like you said, it's more and more common.
Dale: Yeah. Here are the numbers to call. 416-360-0740, or 866-740-4740. Questions about family law and about divorce proceedings with our divorce lawyer, Lorne Fine.
Dale: 12:49 here on Zoomer Radio. Lorn Fine is here. Questions about family law and about divorce proceedings, the usual fair. And here's Doug on the line from Aurelia. Doug, do you have a question?
DOUG: Yeah, good afternoon Dale, and you're?
Dale: Lorne.
Lorne: Lorne.
DOUG: And you're Lorne?
Dale: Yeah.
Lorne: Good afternoon.
DOUG: I've been separated for, I'd say 20 years, I had a legal separation back about 15 years ago. And everything was cut and dried then. What should it cost me to get a divorce done today?
Lorne: Sorry, what would it cost to get a divorce?
DOUG: Yeah.
Lorne: Okay. So if everything is done, you said you have a legal separation. So you have a separation agreement, right?
DOUG: Yeah.
Lorne: Okay. So it's just, it should be a straightforward, uncontested divorce. As I said before, there's disbursements, there's legal fees. You know, you're probably talking somewhere around, somewhere between $1,500 to $2,000, all in.
Dale: Unless there's some wrinkle that would come up, yeah.
Lorne: Yeah, unless there's, unless there's, assuming that, does she, does your ex still live in the province, or near you?
Lorne: I'm sorry?
DOUG: No, I was just wondering because I'd like a, I have a legal separation, I give her everything anyways. So, back 15 years ago, it was about 20 years ago all together. But I haven't seen her for quite a while anyway. So I figured maybe I'd get.
Lorne: All right, so you have to find out where she is, because you want to serve her with the divorce application, so that's, you know, when I say $1,500 to $2,000, or $2,500, it depends on whether it's easy to serve her. Serving means you have to, someone has to actually deliver the divorce application to her. So you got to know where she lives. If you don't know where she lives, then someone has to go to court and say to a judge, "I don't know where she lives, and I want the divorce application to be delivered to, let's say a relative's house." And it will come to her attention if it goes to this relative. And that gets more expensive. So, the first thing you should do is find out where she lives and, so you can serve her, and it will reduce your cost.
Dale: All right, I hope that helps Doug. Thanks, thanks very much for the question. That could be a big, that could be a large difficulty if, in fact, you're in that, at that stage and you want the full divorce. Finding the spouse, right?
Lorne: It happens. Especially with someone like that who has been separated for a while.
Dale: Yeah. Yeah.
Lorne: Loses touch with the ex-wife. Doesn't know where she is. You have to go to a judge and say "I don't know where she is." A judge will say, "Well, what efforts have you made to try to locate her? Does she drive? Does she have a driver's license? Have you investigated her relatives or friends?" So a judge is going to want to be satisfied that you've made some efforts. And sometimes, you know, you can't find the person. Let's say that the person left the country. You don't know where the person is. You'd have to go to court and get an order dispensing with service, that you don't have to serve the person with the divorce application. So that all adds that, adds that to the cost.
Dale: And that you could get. I mean, that is something that does happen, that you cannot find the person.
Lorne: But it happens. It happens. But you have…
Dale: In absentia, you could still get your divorce, right?
Lorne: Oh, you'll, yeah. A judge is not going to say "no you can't. You have to be…"
Dale: "If you can't find her, we're not doing anything."
Lorne: "If you can't find her, you're married forever." Yeah. So, but, judges want to be satisfied that you made efforts. You know, "Did you try to find her? How did you try to find her?" And so on, and so forth.
Dale: Yeah. Yeah.
Lorne: But, like I said, that only increases the cost for a divorce.
Dale: Now, something we talked about earlier. And here's my suggestion. You have compiled.
Lorne: Yes.
Dale: The top 10 list of why we, reasons why marriages fail.
Lorne: In my opinions.
Dale: In your, well, but you deal with this every day.
Lorne: I do.
Dale: When you go to work, you're dealing with this.
Lorne: I am.
Dale: Okay. We don't have, I can't do 10 because we don't have enough time left. Let's split it like we split the list of questions.
Lorne: Okay. Okay.
Dale: Over the past couple of shows. Maybe we can do, if you do the top 10 reasons in order of importance, you could start with reason number 10, and we'll work backwards and see how far we get.
Lorne: Number 10, number 10.
Dale: How's that?
Lorne: Okay, so that the least.
Dale: Those would be the least.
Lorne: Okay.
Dale: The least likely reason that a marriage failed.
Lorne: Okay, so, let's, let's look.
Dale: Okay, so what would number, what do you got all these documents there. It must be there somewhere.
Lorne: Well, okay.
Dale: All right.
Lorne: So, I would think that the least, number 10?
Dale: Yeah, number 10.
Lorne: The reason is, I would say…
Dale: You've got to watch Letterman more often. You know how to do this, right?
Lorne: I know, backwards.
Dale: Or Jeopardy, where you have to answer, you know, you answer the question with a question, or whatever.
Lorne: Right. So I would think that time problems, dealing with work, and dealing with family and schedules, you know, sometimes people have a combination between time problems and expectations, right?
Dale: Yeah,
Lorne: Some people think that, maybe unrealistic expectations how when you should be home, when you should be with the family, how much you're working, it's a matter of, you know, like anything in life, it's a matter of juggling. Juggling family, juggling work.
Dale: Yeah.
Lorne: Trying to be home as much as possible. If, you know, someone who works all the time, something's going to suffer. Right? And chances are, their home life is going to suffer.
Dale: Well, it may well be both spouses are in that kind of situation, and the marriage kind of fails through inadvertence in a way.
Lorne: That's right. Because people are apart.
Dale: You kind of fall out of love because you don't see each other very often.
Lorne: You don't see each other. Right. You don't see each other, you spend time apart.
Dale: Yeah.
Lorne: And maybe, you know, the opposite end is you're working, you're at home too much, and you're not working enough. So then there's financial problems, right?
Dale: Yeah.
Lorne: You're not, you're not providing for your family.
Dale: Yeah.
Lorne: So, I think people have to have realistic expectations. And…
Dale: Well, because and understand that as Ed would have said earlier, he'd agree with this, that marriage seldom cures anything.
Lorne: Right. It's not going fix, it's not…
Dale: If you know what I mean.
Lorne: You're absolutely right. It's not going to make things better.
Dale: It'll challenge you.
Lorne: Yes. Yes, so…
Dale: But, but to a better goal. To a higher purpose, as it were.
Lorne: Right, it's, I think some people think that it just comes easy.
Dale: Yeah.
Lorne: So, marriage isn't easy. It's like any relationship. It's not.
Dale: That's right.
Lorne: It should be easy. It, you know, you don't want marriage to be very difficult. But like any relationship, you have to work at it.
Dale: It shouldn't be terribly difficult. But you still got to work at it, you got to pay attention.
Lorne: Like any relationship. Right. Like friends, or family. You can't…yes.
Dale: Okay. So that's reason number 10 in the top 10 list of why reasons fail.
Lorne: Sure.
Dale: Number 10 is, essentially, you fall out of love because you just don't have enough contact with each other.
Lorne: Or, expectations.
Dale: Yeah.
Lorne: Yeah. Expectations, time issues.
Dale: And maybe in a case like that, ending that marriage is probably a good idea.
Lorne: Or, or change your priorities.
Dale: Yeah.
Lorne: Change, shift up, shift up your life so you spend more, you know, try to maintain the balance so you have more time at home and less at work, or vice versa.
Dale: But, nonetheless, there would still be times when people who got married shouldn't have gotten married, and that's why they're getting divorced.
Lorne: It's, sometimes people, yes, act very quickly and get married, but then…
Dale: Right? See, I should be in your office. I would say these things to people.
Lorne: I know, you'd be great. Come on.
Dale: Like, you guys had no business getting married in the first place. What were you thinking? Right? And then you could give the legalese and stuff actually.
Lorne: Yes, okay, you're welcome to come to my office anytime.
Dale: I could be, I could be shown the door. All right. Reason number nine…
Lorne: Number nine.
Dale: …on the top then list of why reasons, why marriages fail.
Lorne: I was going to say personality problems.
Dale: Okay.
Lorne: People, I guess people, you know when you, people change over time, right? People, people don't remain constant throughout years. And sometimes, sometimes people change.
Dale: Yeah.
Lorne: And maybe your personality traits just aren't compatible. So similar to number 10, but…
Dale: But it adds the whole, we can call it the maturation process, we can call it aging.
Lorne: Aging.
Dale: But the point is, somebody at 25 is not necessarily the same person at 50.
Lorne: Correct.
Dale: Or 60, or 70, or whatever. Right?
Lorne: Correct. Yes. Yes. So…
Dale: So that's what you're saying, yeah?
Lorne: Yes, you…
Dale: You can grow out of it because your attitudes and philosophy towards life, perhaps, have changed a bit.
Lorne: Correct. And, I think to address that is communication. And communication is a big issue throughout all these reasons is people fail to communicate. And people either fail to communicate, don't want to communicate, don't want to work at communication. So, you know, as you change, you know, you may want to talk about it with your spouses to why you're changing.
Dale: Yeah.
Lorne: Or what's bothering you, or, before things get out of control, right?
Dale: Well, that's referring back to the work that it takes to keep a good marriage going, right?
Lorne: Correct.
Dale: Right?
Lorne: Yeah.
Dale: Exactly. Okay.
Lorne: Which is communication.
Dale: Reason number eight.
Lorne: Reason number eight is, I would say, family problems.
Dale: Okay.
Lorne: You know. When you marry your spouse, you also get all her family.
Dale: Oh. That family problems.
Lorne: Yes.
Dale: I see.
Lorne: All her family.
Dale: There are people out there going "Oh, yeah." Right.
Lorne: So, right? So you got, there may be stepchildren.
Dale: Yeah.
Lorne: There may, you know, your…
Dale: It could be complicated, right?
Lorne: It could be very complicated. Your in-laws. Your spouse's siblings. Right? There's all kinds of people factor into the equation that you may not like very much. Right?
Dale: And it may, those things won't improve with age, I'm thinking.
Lorne: Correct. Right. And you have to deal with them.
Dale: All right. Okay, we're stopping then at reason number eight. So when you join us again…
Lorne: Yes.
Dale: …in another month or so, we will be at reason seven.
Lorne: Seven.
Dale: From the top 10 reasons why marriages fail and people get divorced, okay?
Lorne: Yep.
Dale: Lorne, thanks for coming in.
Lorne: Thank you for having me.
Dale: Lorne, our family and divorce lawyer. That ends it for today. Our first show for 2014. There will be many more.
Lorne: Happy New Year, thank you.
Dale: We certainly hope.
Lorne: I hope so.
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Well, I haven't seen a good build for Annie yet on here, so I decided to make my own. This build is used so that you may chase down enemies over longer distances and also get the extra edge with your speed + range combo. Annie is also a very good anti-tank. If you can get this build right you could handle up to 3 lvl 18s at lvl 16-18. I hope you guys enjoy!
Chapter 1: Runes
Well the rune build is made so that Annie can get as much Magic damage + penetration as possible. With this, your spells will actually be able to do some damage to those "Freakin' Tanks" you see in every game. It also will make it so you will
Chapter 2: Masteries
The masteries are made to make Annie's basic attack go along with her ability power. The other part in utilities increases your mana and speed so you can keep up with people running away from you. You could also try out armor penetration masteries, but I would recommend keeping some of the magic penetration.
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Always start with the Boots of Speed. It isn't very smart to go out there and be as slow as a sloth. The potions are recommended for survival in this game, you would have to go back a lot if you don't get them at the first. Get the Catalyst as soon as possible, since its passive will act better than your potions will. After you should get your Boots of Speed to the Ionian Boots of Lucidity. This will help it so your cooldown on your Incinerate and Summon Tibbers is a lot faster. Get the Rod of Ages right after. It will give your that ability power you need that may be causing your character to die against one of the tanks. After which, building Sheen will be the key into making your attack damage more valuable. Lich Bane makes this ability even more powerful by increasing your movement speed and making the next attack added with your ability power instead of your damage doubled. This will make you even more powerful on basic attack. After which you want to buy Kage's Lucky Pick, this will make it so you can earn the gold to buy the rest of your items, and it is also part of the build for another item you will be using later, the Deathfire Grasp. Rabadon's Deathcap will help Lich Bane and all of your abilities.
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What do group policies mean for my older client workstations?
System policies are the primary mechanism by which you can apply change control to Windows NT and Windows 9x clients. Windows 9x and Windows NT clients don't support Windows 2000 group policies. In these instances, you need to either upgrade to Windows 2000 to use group policies or continue using system policies for your 9x and NT clients.
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Windows 2000's Setup program installs the Policy Editor, Poledit.exe, in the %systemroot% folder when you install Windows 2000 Server. The Windows 2000 Server CD includes the System Policy Editor in the Optional Administrative Tools package, Adminpak.msi, located in the \i386 folder. You can install these administrative tools under Windows 2000 Professional to enable administrative capability from Windows 2000 Professional systems.
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Unlike some past negotiations between city councilmembers and the unions, the mayor has taken a collaborative approach to bargaining this year. She noted that last year's confrontational approach with the police union didn't work. So this year, she has pushed for the parcel tax, a move the unions have endorsed, and has sided with unions in opposing calls for putting pension-reform measures on the ballot. Quan also has put forward a plan to sell the closed Henry J. Kaiser Convention Center to the city's redevelopment agency for $29 million — a proposal that would help offset even deeper cuts if it's approved.
However, some councilmembers, including De La Fuente and Reid, have objected to the proposal to sell the Kaiser because the redevelopment money that would be used to buy it has been earmarked for revitalization efforts in their districts in central and East Oakland. Reid and De La Fuente are working with Councilwomen Jane Brunner and Desley Brooks on other proposals to help close the budget gap. Meanwhile, Councilwomen Kaplan, Pat Kernighan, Nancy Nadel, and Libby Schaaf are working on a separate set of proposals that likely will be released this week. All appear to agree, however, that the lion's share of cuts must come from public-employee unions.
If the unions refuse, Quan plans to institute mandatory unpaid days off for all city workers, including police. Such a scenario would force veteran cops to return to patrol duty — a move many of them are loath to make — to cover shifts for patrol officers who are out on unpaid leave. The mayor has said that she plans to maintain a patrol force of 290 officers at all times, even when cops are taking unpaid leave.
As for the parcel tax, it'll be up to the council to put it on the ballot. And several councilmembers have indicated that they will wait to see if the unions agree to significant concessions before doing so. "It's one piece of a total effort," Kaplan said of the parcel tax.
However, if the employee givebacks fail to materialize, the council may reject the parcel tax on the grounds that taxpayers shouldn't have to make sacrifices when unions won't. The resulting cuts to city services not only will be unprecedented, but they promise to reverberate throughout Oakland's economy.
Oakland's Cultural Funding Program, for example, provides competitive grants to local artists and nonprofit arts organizations, and for the last 26 years has fostered the growth of a nationally recognized arts and culture scene. In 2010, the program distributed 57 grants totaling $925,126 to such recipients as Bay Area Girls Rock Camp, Diamano Coura West Africa Dance Company, Oakland Underground Film Festival, and Rock Paper Scissors Collective. It also offered financial assistance to sixteen individual artists and fourteen Art in the Schools participants, who reach tens of thousands of public school students each year.
Under the mayor's "all cuts" budget scenario, the Cultural Funding Program would be wiped out. It would lose its two-person administrative staff and all $725,126 it received last year from Oakland's general fund — already a reduction from the $1.2 million it got just three years ago. The program would be left with $200,000 from the Transient Occupancy Tax, a fund established in 2009 to help support a number of city institutions, but no dedicated staff to administer the funds. And even if Oakland's unions agree to substantial concessions, the Cultural Funding Program would still lose its staffing, and its budget would be cut by 50 percent to just over $365,000. Under the mayor's plan, the only way the arts program will be fully saved is with the parcel tax.
Supporters of the Cultural Funding Program argue that the effects of gutting it would reach well beyond the art world. "If they defund the arts, the burgeoning renaissance and all the new restaurants Uptown, that comes to a dead stop," predicted Michael Fried, cofounder of the Oakland Cultural Trust, an organization formed to oppose arts funding cuts in 2009. "You're putting a knife in the heart of the renaissance."
Economically, Oakland's creative and artistic sector encompasses nearly 1,500 entities that employ approximately 5,000 people, Fried said. According to the Oakland Cultural Trust's analyses, through direct expenditures and leveraged funds, nonprofit arts organizations represent between $80 and $100 million in economic activity in Oakland each year.
Along with the arts cuts and the planned closure of fourteen of the city's eighteen library branches, Oakland's more than one hundred city-owned parks may suffer major cutbacks to basic maintenance services, further devastating the public works department. Between November 2008 and July 2009, Oakland's Public Works Agency lost the equivalent of nearly 23 full-time park maintenance employees and $2.5 million in funding — a roughly 25 percent hit absorbed over eight months. The department now stands to lose ten more of its remaining fourteen highest-skilled workers in July. The laid-off gardeners would be replaced by a number of part-time low-skill workers, saving the city $1.5 million.
According to the mayor's budget proposals, both employee concessions and a parcel tax are needed to save the jobs, and the proposed tax measure may not go onto the ballot until November. In the meantime, the gardeners are all but guaranteed to lose their positions, and there's no saying if they'll still be available — or interested — when the city invites them back if the parcel tax passes.
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I purchased the Altissa Altix-N (along with some accessories from the same era) from eBay. I had no idea what this old film rangefinder camera was about but I like the fact that it has full manual controls, a 15-blade prime lens, and most of all, it was really cheap. I got it for less than 6 Euros + shipping from Germany.
I received the camera a couple of weeks later and boy it was heavy. The whole thing was practically metal, and the leather case was crackly old. Overall, the condition of the camera was very good. Some brassing here and there, but the controls, glass, seals etc. were in great condition.
I spent two days trying to find out how to load the film in, then I gave up and asked Mr. Google for help and it directed me to a great site called "Retrography" by Simon Simonsen (http://www.retrography.com). I dropped him an email and he promptly provided me great details on how to load film, change lenses, and other intricate info that'll allow me to start shooting (thanks again, Simon).
So for my contribution, I'm giving other new Altix N owners some basic illustrations on how to get this baby working.
To Load Film
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Turn the knob counter-clockwise until you feel little to no resistance – the knob is captive, it will not come off.
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I started yesterday with a mission: to make it to the Lower East Side Tenement Museum. That was it. I've been dreaming of going to that museum for months and I was determined yesterday to make that dream come true. I bought myself an educator's membership and, for $40, began the first of many trips to the museum that explore the immigrant experience in New York at the turn of the 20th century. So, beneath the bright sun and clear blue sky with a medium latte from the coffee shop across the street in one hand, and my boyfriend's hand in the other, we took off on the subway into Manhattan and made our way down to the Lower East Side.
I'd been to this museum years ago when I was an undergraduate English major studying US Immigration history. My professor planned a whole Saturday in New York for us, including a trip to Ellis Island and a dinner in Chinatown. Before that trip to the city, I couldn't remember the last time I'd been there. At college I was a loner. I'd come in as a mid-year transfer during my junior year and had so few friends I was able to pour myself into my books and get lost in my studies. This worked out well in the grand scheme of things as later, because of my hermit undergraduate ways, I was accepted to a fabulous grad school. In any case, this immigration history class was one of the best I'd ever taken with a professor who knew her stuff and who I admired a great deal. The trip to New York was something I very geekishly looked forward to going on, and while my other undergrad classmates moaned and complained about losing a whole Saturday for school, I was trembling with excitement.
The trip to Ellis Island was first and, because I had no friends in the class, I stood by myself at the front of the ferry going over. I was lost in my imagination, wondering what the experience would have been like for me had I come to the US at the turn of the century, arriving first at Ellis Island loaded down with bags and bundles from the mother land, and was still thinking these things as I stumbled off the boat and onto the Island. So imagine my confusion when, standing directly in front of me, was my very own mother. MY mother. My mother who was supposed to be in New Jersey visiting friends of the family. Here it was, ten in the morning on a Saturday in November, and MY MOTHER is standing in front of me on Ellis Island. It took me a moment to realize what was happening, but when I did, I'm pretty sure I squealed with excitement. How very real this immigrant experience was! I was a loner, on a ship to Ellis Island, and upon arrival at the gates, there was my family! The two of us had a great time that day and though she could only stay with me for the Ellis Island portion of the field trip, it made the day unforgettable.
The next part of the trip was the Tenement Museum. I suggest you look at the website if you are remotely interested in immigration history. The museum has preserved an actual tenement building and has researched the histories of real families who lived in the museum, preserving and/or restoring their apartments, and gives a real feeling of what it was like to live during the time. In a building that would now house no more than 30 people, there used to live upwards of 120 or more. No light, no fresh air, no space. It is a phenomenal museum and is so full of information and room for the imagination that the experience sticks with you for a while. It stuck with me for six years and yesterday Dennis and I went back for more. He'd never been, and I'd been talking about it for years, so when we arrived and we were the only two on the 1:40 tour, I just about exploded with excitement. I could ask any question I wanted, I could go anywhere I wanted, I could say anything!!! We took a tour that focused on the garment industry workers, visited three apartments in the tenement (one from the late 1890s, one from the 1910s, and the last from the 1930s,) and learned about the history of the museum itself.
So the mission was accomplished and then some. Because after the museum, we walked a few streets over and had a great lunch in Little Italy, then walked it all off on our way north to Bryant Park to hear free jazzin the blazing sun. It was a testament to how much I love jazz really because when we finally decided to stand up, we were drenched in our own sweat, soaked right through our shirts and pants. There were actual rivulets of sweat streaming down my chest and gathering at the top of my jeans. That's not an easy thing to admit, but I'm doing it anyway. After the show, we rewarded ourselves for our long walk and shameless display of active sweat glands, by having curbside Mr. Softee ice cream cones.
At home we watched a movie and both fell asleep an hour into the film. It was the perfect day, the most perfect day I could imagine. I think I will like it here very much.


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Jul 20, 2010 - 1:06 pm
How long after chemo do you have to wait before starting radiation?
Jul 20, 2010 - 1:24 pm
For me - it was one week after the last of my 12 weekly Taxol.
Jul 20, 2010 - 1:25 pm
I should have mentioned that I'm also a newbie to the site. I have stage 2A breast cancer and have had 2 chemo treatments thus far. My third of four treatments is scheduled for next Wednesday. I also have had to take the Neulasta shot for a low white blood count. After the first treatment I was given a neupogen shot in the wrong arm (the side of the cancer). This arm is still sore. Have anybody experienced this?
A week ago, I got a new job (after being unemployed for 8 months) so I'm very concerned after the 5 1/2 weeks of radition I'm scheduled to have. Do anyone have any advice on whether I should have the radition during lunch or after work? Will the radition make me tired? How long does the radition treatment last?
Jul 20, 2010 - 1:47 pm
Usually begins anywhere from 2-4 weeks following your last chemo...Everyone's
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Jul 20, 2010 - 5:04 pm
I never got tired during rads but then I had been so completely exhausted on Taxol that it would have been impossible to get any tireder and still been able to get there - got better every day/week.
I would say that I was 'on the table' for 5 - 6 minutes - all the time was not radiation but getting lined up right and the machine moving to the different positions took a good bit of the time. 20 min. should cover the time of getting 'undressed', rads, getting 'dressed'. (Where I went, you are given a locker and a cape and robe.) Only you can decide which works better for you - at lunch or after work or maybe before. If you start with one and it doesn't work out right - then change - noting is written in stone. I'm a "stay at home wife" so my time was not an issue for me - other than I don't do good at getting going early and I was doing it during the winter which is 'bad' here so I went at 10:45 to give me time to get going and for the snowplows to get the roads somewhat clear (I have 4X4's but sometimes the roads are closed to all travel).
Take care of your skin - you may burn. I only 'tanned' during rads but at day 23 i started getting a bit pink but not bad - but the day after 25 it was BAD over the whole area and took 6 weeks for the last scabs to come off the deepest area. That is not the norm to happen so don't worry about it - nobody came figure out what happened/why it happened with me but it did. Ask for creams and use them religiously.
That's about all I can think of now.
Jul 20, 2010 - 1:19 pm
i will hopefully be having surgery after chemo, and then radiation after that
Jul 20, 2010 - 1:54 pm
I had surgery, then about a 6 week healing time, followed by chemo. My chemo started in May, ended in October~ I then had radiation about 4 weeks after that~ I finished everything by the 2nd week of December. I could tell you exact dates, but those are because they are indelibly etched in my mind, not that you need them! LOL
Jul 20, 2010 - 2:51 pm
I had an appointment with the radiation oncologist yesterday. I have 6 weeks left of Taxol. He gave me an appointment for the week following my last chemo to set up for radiation and said he would like me to start two weeks after that, total of 3 weeks after my last chemo.
I asked for more time in between (at least a month) and he said from a physiological point of view that would not be a good idea. He likes to do radiation as soon as possible after chemo but also to give me time to recover from the last chemo. I think I need months or years to recover from chemo but I get what he means.
I think each doctor and each situation is a little different but you get the idea and the range of time.
Best wishes to you.
Jul 20, 2010 - 3:56 pm
I saw Dr. P (rads dr) before my last weekly Taxol (I had seen him twice before) and he wanted a new full body CT to be sure what he was working with which they got approval, the appointment made for as soon as I could get up the 2 floors and had changed my chemo til after the CT was finished before I hardly knew what was happening. That was on Thursday, I went in for another scan of just the breast area and mapping at his office on the next Tuesday, WednesdayI went in for tattoos and sim and started rads on Thursday for 25 days.
I'm IBC so as it is very aggressive (mine had definately been aggressive) speed was imparative. I'm very glad that I went from one 'thing' to the next with very little time in-between. To me - I was fighting a battle and you don't take vacations in a battle. That's for after/later. That's just how I feel - it's right for me but definately not for everyone!


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Storytelling around a warm fire, caroling, and craftspeople working in their shops by candlelight set the scene of the plantation's preparations for Christmas. A live nativity scene will feature many of the plantation's animals. Participants may take home their own hand-crafted holiday decorations. Warm drinks and seasonal refreshments are included.
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Below are upcoming Opening Day Events - Rye Arts Festival events happening in Winchelsea Beach and the surrounding area. You can add your own events here.
Below are past that have already happened in Winchelsea Beach and the surrounding area. You can add your own events here.
|Saturday, 16th September 2017, 12:30pm - 5:30pm
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Rat Choc Chip, performed by Beautiful Creatures
Join the queue at the Rat Choc Chip ice cream cart for a 'tail' of the unexpected. Be charmed by the lovable ice cream vendor, help with her desperate attempts to keep her furry friends out of sight of the health inspector and see if you can tell the difference between chocolate sprinkles and well, let's just say, little rodent 'gifts'!
Local Radio, performed by Hunt & Darton
We will be asking audiences to build a radio show with us: creating jingles, phone-ins, features and taking responsibility for what discs should be spun. This show celebrates everything local; people taking pride in where they live. Come and be part of it and tell your story or perform your skill… perpetually present, we will be live and continuous, building a brand new local radio show with and for our immediate audience. Come and be local with us!
The Flying Bazazi Brothers
Bounding onto the stage like Wham in cheap suits after too much Lucozade, this riotous double act dance, juggle and fall over each other for your viewing pleasure. Prepare to be amazed, to be dazzled and to wonder why they don't just quit while they're ahead! Ridiculous dancing, dad humour and a surprising amount of skill and dexterity make this a show you won't want to miss.
Events are between 12:30 and 17:30
Disabled Access to all events, although via cobbled streets.
There are plenty of restaurants, bars and pubs for refreshments throughout the Citadel area.
Jeake's House Award winning 17th century town house in medieval cobbled street
Rose Cottage Accommodation? Check out holiday cottages in Brede
The Parlour Accommodation? Take a look at self catering in Rye
Dolphin Cottage Accommodation? Take a look at holiday cottages in Hastings
Brackledown House Accommodation? Check out self catering in Hastings
Friday 24th November
@ 10:00am
Location: Rye
Rye Country Market will be open every Friday from 10th March - 15th December. We sell Cakes, Savouries, Preserves, Free ... more
Friday 24th November
@ 2:00pm
Location: Rye
This year Rye Creative Centre held an open call for visual artists across the UK and Europe. The response from ... more
Friday 24th November for 2 days
Location: Rye
Acting Up in Rye presents Aladdin. Be prepared to be transported from the streets of Peking to the mountains of ... more
Saturday 25th November for 2 days
Location: Rye
Join us at Rye Creative Centre for our annual festive Designer and Maker's Fair. This year, over two days (10am-4pm), ... more
Saturday 25th November
@ 10:30am
Location: Rye
Join talented artist and educator Julia Andrews-Clifford for a fun workshop. Produce a 3D collage portrait – this could be ... more
Saturday 25th November
@ 1:00pm
Location: Rye Harbour
Get to grips with those tricky winter waders with this short course for beginner birdwatchers. Binoculars and field guides available ... more
Saturday 25th November
@ 5:00pm
Location: Rye
A unique opportunity to explore the ancient streets of Rye after dark with the Deputy Town Cryer. Hear tales of ... more
Sunday 26th November
@ 11:00am
Location: Winchelsea Beach
Winchelsea Beach Community Association are presenting a Christmas Craft Fayre with the emphasis on Real Craft at Christmas. Plenty of ... more
Thursday 30th November
@ 7:00pm
Location: Rye
The star guest this month will be acclaimed singer/songwriter musician/comic Earl Okin who has performed all over the world – ... more
Friday 1st December
@ 10:00am
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Rye Country Market will be open every Friday from 10th March - 15th December. We sell Cakes, Savouries, Preserves, Free ... more


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Episode 1: Out of TownDon accidentally learns a secret about Salvatore during a bu...Aug 16, 2009
Episode 2: Love Among the RuinsDon is brought in to save the day for a P.R. campaign involv...Aug 23, 2009
My Old Kentucky Home
Roger Sterling throws an expensive party with his new wife, Joan throws a dinner party, Peggy and Paul get stoned while working on an ad campaign, and Don's daughter Sally steals money from her grandpa.248111295
The Arrangements
Don has reservations about a misguided potential client who wants to sell jai alai as the "new national pastime." Meanwhile, Sal produces the "Patio" television commercial, Peggy searches for a roommate, and Betty's father passes away.71411393
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Episode 1: Public RelationsThe new firm is struggling for business, so Peter and Peggy...Jul 25, 2010
Episode 2: Christmas Comes But Once a YearFreddy returns with a valuable new client, the firm reluctan...Aug 1, 2010
The Good News
Don flies to Los Angeles to visit Anna before his New Year's vacation to Acapulco, but her bad news influences him to cancel his vacation and return to New York, where he discovers that Lane has problems of his own.248228208
The Rejected
Peter finds out that he will become a father, and has to break some bad business news to his father-in-law. Meanwhile an office focus group study for a client has some unintended personal consequences for Don.826642119
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Episode 1: A Little Kiss, Part 1Megan throws Don a surprise birthday party, the war between...Mar 25, 2012
Episode 2: A Little Kiss, Part 2Megan is hurt by Don's negative response to the surprise par...Mar 25, 2012
Tea Leaves
Betty discovers that she has a tumor, Peggy interviews an obnoxious young copywriter for a job, the firm tries to get the Mohawk Airlines account back, and Don and Harry try to court The Rolling Stones to record a commercial.896224135
Mystery Date
Don runs into someone from his past. Joan makes a decision, and Roger gives Peggy extra work.199510181
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Episode 1: The Doorway, Part 1Don and Megan take a trip to Hawaii for the holidays, Sally'...Apr 7, 2013
Episode 2: The Doorway, Part 2Don strikes up a friendship with the surgeon in his building...Apr 7, 2013
While Don continues his affair with Sylvia, Pete's latest infidelity threatens his marriage. Meanwhile, Peggy's icy relationship with her new staff continues, but she also gets an unlikely tip on a potential new client.581850276
To Have and to Hold
Don works in secret on a Heinz ketchup campaign while Megan gets a love scene on the set of her soap opera. Meanwhile, Harry makes his power play while Joan has more trouble with the secretaries.535816243
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Episode 1: Time ZonesDon is on the outside looking in on the forced indefinite pa...Apr 13, 2014
Episode 2: A Day's WorkSally discovers that Don is not working, Pete lands a big ac...Apr 20, 2014
Field Trip
After a fight with Megan during a surprise trip to California, Don decides it's time to get back to work. Meanwhile, Betty joins Bobby on a field trip to a farm.238043103
The Monolith
Don returns to work, but quickly falls off the wagon after learning that he's been assigned to Peggy. Meanwhile, Roger and his ex-wife go to a commune to rescue their daughter, who has abandoned her child.36771451
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The above titled song was written by Lynn's own Don White. Don is a well known comedian & singer-songwriter with several CD's, a DVD and a beautifully written autobiography to his credit. He has the audience, literally, rolling in the aisle with a couple of screamingly funny, often self-deprecating, ditties at one turn. Only to rip your heart out with a song of incredible poignancy in another. Yes, he's that good. But I digress. One of Lynn's claims to fame, according to Don, is more sub shops & Houses of Pizza than pretty much anywhere else on the planet.
I'm also from Lynn, what can I say? But I've lived in the Metro-West for many years.
When visiting the near & dear, who still live there, it would be nice to have some kind of
Hound Handbook. After searching Chowhound recently for a comprehensive overview of the Lynn dining scene I quickly reached the conclusion that it doesn't exist.Stop laughing, you!
I know Lynn still has the great Capitol diner, Monte's, The Porthole Pub, Blue Moon and doesn't have the late, lamented Oxford St.Grille. But what else is Chow worthy, albeit; restaurants, pubs, butchers, fishmongers, markets and yes, pizzerias & sub shops. At it's zenith of 100,000 people, Lynn was an incredibly diverse ethnic stew of Irish, Italian, French, Greek, Polish, Jewish & Afro-Americans. Today, add Cambodians, Dominicans, Thais, etc.to that original gumbo. There's got to be some incredible hidden jewels and some great locals that have been around so long they're taken for granted. C'mon Hounds write 'em down, so to speak, for ALL of us. TIA.