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Who makes changes?
If non custodial is to pick up child on a specific day at a specific time but emails 3 hours before said pick up time that they cannot pick up child until the following day after work, what is one to do?
I'm trying to decide how to respond.
I can't take off work all day tomorrow to stay home with Dd until BD gets off to pick her up and I do not have child care for her. My mom keeps her but she made plans to go out of the area for the day since this was planned months ago by Bd. Dd can go with my mom but won't be home until after said pick up time. She can't adjust this timeframe because she is going to an appointment that can't be changed now.
Should we change all of our plans because Bd couldn't follow through or is it reasonable to ask him to now work around our schedule?
I think it's totally reasonable to ask him to work around your schedule since HE changed things.
That's what we would do in that situation. And the same goes in reverse. If DH or I had a sudden change and could not for whatever reason get SS, we would work with BM and accomodate her schedule.
Basically (assuming BM's in a good mood!) whichever parent is being flexible is the one who should be accomodated.
YOU are being flexible. :-)
he has to accommodate you, not the other way around, he needs to either find ways to get DD on time or he needs to give up visitation this week
it's been long since i had to deal with crap but my ex used to do things like that quiet often
he had to pick DD up at 6PM on Friday, but would pick her up instead early morning Saturday (we are sleeping) claiming that it makes no difference OR he was supposed to pick her up Saturday morning but would show up Friday night instead (we are not even ready)UUGGHHH I miss DD being little but I don't miss any of this crap...
Ok I did. We shall see. I was understanding yet not a doormat. I didn't say 'it's ok' I simply said, 'we have a conflict here is what my offer is, let me know if that will work for you, if not please make another suggestion with the schedule I have provided'.
He is only to get her for a few days. She will be back Sunday morning. He has picked her up at 8 am before so if he is willing to get her Friday morning then I would be willing to allow her to come home later Sunday. We will see. It's been a long time since we have had this come up.
I was a little shocked he told ME when he would be here since he couldn't be here when he originally told ME he would be here. I think if it were the other way around, seeing that I know he works full Time, it's a week day not a weekend, I would have said, since I can't get her 'will it be ok' for me to get her at this time instead? But nope, he actually said 'i WILL get her at this time' which turned my evening into trying to figure out how to work with it and stress over fighting with him if I didn't figure it out.
That's when I remembered something someone said here once. 'my job may not be important to you, but it's damn important to ME!' I can't just take off an entire day because he has to work late ... Ridiculous. What if I planned a weekend get away while he had her?? And was flying out early tomorrow morning?
"he has to accommodate you, not the other way around, he needs to either find ways to get DD on time or he needs to give up visitation this week "
Yup. But in your case, I'd even go further and inform him that DD will be available at scheduled time for her next visitation - because he is unable to pick her up as scheduled for this one, and now that door is closed. What's he going to do - complain that you won't "co-parent"? Take away DD's cell phone? Refuse to let her shower? Oh wait - he already does those things!
Man you guys are tough. I know the initial response is to put it all on the BD....but I have to jump in here and say that I have yet to see a reason for his change in plans.
If its fishing with the guys, watching a game at someone's house, or something like that...then all your replies are completely justified...although it sounds like he is normally pretty good about keeping to the schedule, so I am a little surprised with some of the "zero-tolerance policy" type attitudes...yikes.
If his boss said to him "we gotta burn the candles the next couple days to get this stuff done...", well that's an entirely different story. Work is work....it takes precedence over lots of other things, especially when you are not the boss who makes the schedules.
My ex and I work pretty well with this stuff. When changes in plans are wanted by one of use do to personal reasons...we ask. If it's work-related (business trip for me, late night at the hospital or a seminar or something for her), then it's just understood that it's part of the deal and make the best of it. Of course, as much advanced warning for the change in plans is always appreciated.
The pick-up it seems is the one and only 'rule' ex seems to stick to. He has to be the one to pick-up daughter. I would imagine that the only reason you were notified was because SM can't pull up and beep her horn and have DD run out. First time she tried that Myfam would (hopefully)phone police for tresspassing and attempted kidnapping.
Kinda funny that the only 'rule' never thought of to break is the one that what get SM's buns in trouble. If SM thought she could get away with it, she'd send her ex to pick DD up LOL.
I'm with Mattie on this one, 'sorry ex, she'll be ready to go with you on the next scheduled visitation'. Myfam already has rights of first refusal yet if ex were not the one that is ordered to pick her up, Myfam would have never been informed Dad is not going to be around.
The jerk has no rights to try to arrange your/your parents schedules at the last second just to please him...especially when he/Sm just tossed violation after violation at you this summer. It's one thing to mutually agree and to work something out, but this guy/Sm spits at Myfam repeatedly. I'd feel no obligation to ask Gma to take daughter along, for me to see about taking day off or to consider leaving daughter alone (ex would love the last one, then he could *itch about kid left alone). Nope, he can see her on his next regular scheduled visitation.
While I understand Myfam trying to be the cooperative parent, the one willing to work things out for daughter's benefit blah blah blah, this Dad/Sm would run her right over with a semi without so much as honking a horn of warning first. I'd feel no obligation to mess with my own or my parents household schedule just because ex's schedule got switched at the last minute. Not my problem.
"First time she tried that Myfam would (hopefully)phone police for tresspassing and attempted kidnapping."
OK that's just insane. There's right and wrong, appropriate and inappropriate...but my god, KIDNAPPING? Jeez thank god my ex and I are reasonable and rational people and not drawn into creating drama like that.
Mkroopy, I'm not sure that you're aware of the backstory with myfampg and her ex and his wife.
His wife (myfampg's DD's SM) ASSAULTED myfampg and, I believe, the DD, as well.
BD had supervised visitation and court ordered therapy for a long time. He and his wife have just recently been allowed to have his DD for overnight visits; and right out of the starting gate, they've violated pretty much every order in the parenting plan.
These are not reasonable people. I completely understand what you're saying about "thank God you and your ex are reasonable." Myfampg is very reasonable; her ex-DH is not. That complicates and changes the situation drastically in terms of her reactions and responses.
You cannot apply logic and reason to unreasonable people.
"There's right and wrong, appropriate and inappropriate...but my god, KIDNAPPING? Jeez thank god my ex and I are reasonable and rational people and not drawn into creating drama like that. "
mkroopy, exactly. Myfampg's ex is absolutely not reasonable and/or rational and his new wife is worse, which is why advice directed to her is not the same as posters would be suggesting to someone else. There is a search function which you can use to view older postings if you'd like to know the backstory.
not to mention, mkroopy, that the every last time this particular SM did pick up DD from Myfam's home police had to be called and this woman attacked MyFam.
We are not just giving out general generic advice to a non-known poster. Most of us have followed Myfam's posting since for months.
I do agree parents need to co-parent and work together, but go read the backstory here on this one...there is no reasoning and coparenting with this ex/SM.
mkroopy, I totally agree under normal circumstances it would be OK to make different arrangements.
But this situation is different, this gut violates court order on a consistent basis (doesn't allow phone calls, picks up DD for a visitation but then sends her to stay with his wife's exDH-single man for 5 days, until recently he was allowed only supervised visitations and SM was not allowed around at all, SM physically attacked myfam and physically abused DD) these people are a mess big time.
"My ex and I work pretty well with this stuff. " sure we did too, but we never had any of the horror myfam and her DD go through. She needs to follow rules and court order dealing with these people.
Thank you all for supporting me. It's def. Not a 'co parenting' situation. Hince the need to 'parallel parent'.
Ex's job is absolutely important and things come up, but this is ALL the time. He was even told by the judge, maybe you should find a job that would allow you to be a parent more. Of course I am not waiting for Bd to quit his job because his boss expects him to work late often but why should my boss be understanding that I have to leave or take off because HIS job is more important. Sacrifice. I do it all the time for Dd and I'm happy to work for a family friendly company but I get tired of the expectation that 'oh well, you figure it out'.
He is going to pick her up at the time I designated to him as a suggestion but not without letting me know what an inconvenience it is for him. Its not earlier than he suggested, it's only one hour.
But he says he goes to the gym and will have to 'cancel' his appointment. Well I'll be damned! Absolutely cancel that damn appointment. If I had to deal with finding child care for YOU because YOUR plans changed because work was so important then yes please cancel your gym appointment and be a father.
DD says that ex Mr. Sm is out of town (not sure how she would know this except they told her he would be when she comes back) so we do know that he won't be showing up at my door lol but that would be so funny if he did.
If SM showed up to pick up Dd I wouldn't call the police just because I know there is nothing they can do. I might think about it though. There is no order that says she can't pick her up NOW. That's all been dropped since our order was put into place. She can't come to my door but she can pull up and I can send Dd out. Sometimes I can't tell who is driving but I know it's their car ... She won't show up though. She is scared of goin to jail again. I don't think she liked it much last time she got to call the place home so she stays away from my neighborhood.
I just hate how he thinks he is more important.
Also. When I said I Did not have child care in place for tomorrow and Dd would be able to stay with grandparents, he was sure to tell me that HE pays child support and Dd should be in daycare. Well... She doesn't have to be in daycare if a willing and capable family member is willing to keep her. Dd would flip if I took her to daycare. She Loves being home this summer. When I work she stays with my mom. When Bd works she stays with his wife. Can someone explain to me how that is different? Or how he thinks he can tell me how to spend HIS child support. I believe the order says, custodial parent has the exclusive right to receive and dispurse child support payments from non custodial parent. Does not say how I spend it. I am responsible but come on!! How is it his right to say I should be paying a stranger to care for our child instead of letting her be with family? AND I do give them money. Because they have to feed her and they take her places and do fun things and buy her things. It's non of his business. If it was, the order would say, custodial parent must show itemized receipt for use of non custodial parents child support payments. Am I right?
You are very right myfampg. You don't have to show him how it's spent nor do you have to explain it to him.
We deal with this all the time. Especially from ss bm. She ALWAYS changes her plans and she ALWAYS expects us to just go with what she wants. That's another thing I'm tired of doing. I have a life and I don't want to live it around hers. The parent whose time it is to be should be the one making the arrangements for care of the child.... or to make sure they are ontime with pickup/drop off.
I don't know how many times I've had to deal with rearranging my life to accomodate that woman.... or for that matter really, my ds16 bd. Ds16 will be able to drive soon enough and that'll all be over. But ss is only almost 11. UGH!! I'm glad you stood up for yourself though.
Ok, I understand. I don't spend that much time on this board that I know the background of the people, so I was just going from that was written in THIS thread. It seemed like a big over-reaction to me...but I guess if I knew the background I would have understood why.
I think a lot of NCPs think they can change plans at-will because CPs don't really have a choice. Like if X couldn't pick up DS, I have no choice but to keep him and make arrangements for him.
X's money is more important than mine. For example, X doesn't get DS for a month in the summer like he is supposed to (doesn't get DS his one weekday night, either). That first summer he thought I was supposed to continue paying for daycare for the month he had DS and wouldn't let me have visitation. Oh and GF had planned to go on all these field trips with the daycare. When I pointed out that in the papers it says the person who has posession has to provide all necessities such as clothes and childcare, he flipped a lid (mind you he was not paying any CS during the first year we were divorced). So he kept him that month and had GF stay home with him all day, still didn't allow me any visitation. Hasn't taken his month since then, or any extended time for that matter. So that leaves me with having to arrange/pay for it.
What else am I supposed to do? You can't MAKE someone come get their child, plus it would make me "look" like I want to get rid of DS if I were to take him back for contempt for not taking his alotted visitation.
X's sleep is more important than mine, too. Just in May, DS was getting ready for school and DH and I were getting ready for work, and I needed to make arrangements for DS to get to baseball practice because my first option backed out. So I texted X at 6:48 AM asking if he would be able to pick DS up for baseball practice (he was the assistant coach, BTW). He texted me back at 8 AM telling me yes and to not text him so early because he was still asleep. I was so friggin furious! How come HIS son is up getting ready for school and worried how he's going to get to practice, and we have to be considerate of X's sleep needs? BS! It was a TEXT, not a call, and it's not like I do it all the time. He could choose to ignore it. See...here's the thing...I'm supposed to be mindful of X's sleep, but X doesn't have to be mindful of DS's schedules.
That's how it is Ashley, always has been for me too. All the way around. Part of the reason ds11 bd never saw him is because during the first three years he was not allowed over night visits. He would call me and tell me to bring him to him so he could see him. I would simply say "I don't have to make that drive"... then he'd drop it. If he was in my town or I had plans to drive to his I'd let him see him. If he would have said.... meet me half way, I'd have done it. That never happened. He never really wanted him to begin with.
With ds16 his bd has cancelled soooooo many times I can't even count. When ds16 was 4 1/2 he asked me why daddy didn't like him anymore. That kinda woke bd up. He's been better since. BUT... I still have to make all the arrangements for EVERYTHING. ALL sports practices/games, ALL school events, just everything. I ALWAYS paid for daycare. I don't think bd for ds16 has EVER taken him for more then one week. He's never asked.
Now.... ss bm.... she would constantly ask us to do her favors. Changing the time EVERY WEEK!!! At one time we met her in one city along with ds16 bd to do the exchange. We ALWAYS had to go on her schedule. ds16 bd would get sooooooo mad. I told him to take it up with her while we were there. LOL!!! I'd love to have seen that. It would've been GREAT! He never did cause he's a wimp too. LOL! Even when my dh's dad was dying she couldn't change her plans to take care of ss. There were three days that dh needed to spend with his dying dad. Guess who had ss..... that'd be me. Thankfully my grandma helped me out with him... he was like 3.... and I also had my ds4 and ds1 (at the time)... so doing all this on my own and comforting my in-laws while bm was out drinking it up was great fun. Without my grandma it just would've been total hell.
Custody isn't just a right, it's also a responsibility.
If Dad is supposed to have the child from X time to Y, Mom has the right to make other plans during those times -- plans for the kinds of things you can't (or shouldn't) do with a kid along.
Then if Dad needs to change those plans, it's Dad's responsibility to provide alternate child care for the times that he was supposed to be having custody.
If language to that effect isn't in your parenting plan, you may want to get it added.
Sweeby it is in the parenting plan. As is to give notice 24 hours in advance of changes. I got an 'email' an hour before he is to be here.
He simply could not get to my house by the time and instead of getting her late or in the morning, he said oh I'll get her after work tomorrow.
I can't force him to take his visitations. They won't find him in contempt for not taking them either. It's simply ridiculous.
And again another way to just try to make me fight with him. I felt as if I was being 'provoked' today by him. To see if I was going to explode in writing. Well I have news for you Mr ex husband, myfam has learned her lesson! And she ain't takin' the bait! Ever again!
I'm not so annoyed now that some time has passed but ugh he still annoys the fire out of me with his 'entitlement' issues.
Let me ask another question:
Wouldn't it be better if someone is running a little late for drop off to actually call or text rather than send an email?
I get kind of annoyed that I'm expected to be logged on to my email constantly in case I receive an email. There is no reason that Bd can't pick up the phone and say 'hey I'm running late'. It is much quicker than sending an email but he refuses to call me.
It might make a difference between MyFam knowing exactly who is texting her against pretending who is emailing her?
And no, to answer in my opinion...tell ex if he needs a quick message to text. You have other things to do and you may not see the message which defeats the purpose of sending you one.
I think your ex sounds extremely childish!!!!! Your poor daughter, having to put up with her father who acts like a child himself.
You know a llooooooonng time ago. I was dating this guy, he was getting ready to graduate high school and his parents were divorced. They were going to make him have two separate parties because they didn't want to be around each other. They lived in the same general location. I told him I thought his parents were being immature and it was time they grow up. I also told him he should explain to them that this one time they could get along for a few simple hours. He wasn't going to have 2 weddings, 2 births of 1 child... or baptism, etc, if something happened to him he wouldn't have 2 funerals. So they needed to start getting along right then and there. He did tell them both and ended up with just one party... both parents in attendence. It was nice. I think it made him feel good too.
I put up with the ex's when it's needed for my child. Your ex and that psycho sm need to get over it and learn to co parent with you. That little girl isn't going anywhere and there's going to come a time you'll have to be in the same place at the same time like it or not.
JMT- exactly! Lol well Bd claims he doesn't have a cell phone so he can't text but SM can. As long as the text is child related I wouldn't care if it came from SM's phone. They don't want me to have her #. Which is just as silly. I've never abused phone use so I am not going to NOW start prank calling sm or calling her at odd hours nor will I ever just call her to chat or to explode on her. I would only use the # in extreme situations. But ... Whatever.
Momof3 -- you are very right. This is how it was for us too. My parents refused to be in the same room together and finally my sister had had enough and basically told them to suck it up. Granted I don't have much of a relationship with my dad but I do believe that Dd will have a relationship with her dad and will want us to both attend special things. She wants that now and they refuse to attend because 'myfam might attack at any moment'. I see it the other way around. SM might attack at any moment.
I thought about emailing him next time and saying, thanks for the email. I did not get it right away. Would it be easier for you to just send a quick text? For me, it would be helpful because I don't keep my email open at all times unless I'm working. I'm ok with quick texts in regards to pick up/drop off or any schedule conflicts that don't warrant a response. Let me know if this will benefit you as well.'
What do y'all think?
I think that sounds very good! You are being the adult in the situation. They are being children trapped in adult bodies.
I have my ss bm phone number in my phone, it's new since the last time I personally spoke to her. I haven't used it but it's there incase of an emergency. I don't have my ds16's sm phone number. I think that's because they constantly switch phone companies/phone numbers because they can't keep up on their bills. So I never know what the number is anyway or if they currently have a cell. Right now I know their cells are turned off due to non-payment.
Keep a journal with times, dates, problems for awhile then go to court. If you can keep track of how much time the boy sleeps over at the grandparents to see if they are raising him. My nephew's ex wife started a divorce almost 5 years ago, it was only finalized about a year ago because of her tactics. He learned to keep a journal and it helped him in court.
I'm so tired of the cancellations. Why oh why did this man fight me so hard in court for years on end to get the maximum visitation if he cancels constantly. This man has not seen his child in over a month. Won't answer her calls, won't return her calls, hasn't 'seen' her in quite a while... Wtf??
Now his wife did pick her up from school last week but Dd said he never came home. I almost want to call and say, 'do you still live with your wife?' We don't have right of first refusal anymore so I can't use that to keep his wife from picking her up if he isn't going to be home. We took this out at our last hearing because he was using it for stupid reasons. He was doing the whole 'my wife will be the babysitter' thing ao we have since removed this which was just recently. It's actually kind of weird for me to get used to. I have always thrown it at him. But anyway...
It's a holiday weekend. It's his weekend. And supposedly he has to work. I'm so glad Dd gets to be with us all weekend but at the same time I'm just tired of not being able to make plans.
Dh and I planned a little weekend of snuggling on the couch and catching up on us time. We got a sitter for my son but didn't know we needed one for Dd. Of course she is just going to snuggle along with us and make it a weekend long movie event. The one on one with Dd will be great for her because she is going through some things right now. BUT but but but ... Am I selfish in saying I was looking forward to one on one time with my hubby and ex has radar or something and ruined our plans.
I don't want to sound completely ungrateful for extra time with my daughter but we could ALL use a break from each other and my Dh and I could use some serious alone time. I'm such a brat I know.
I'm going to make it a fabulous weekend!! I am excited about being with Dd without my little boy but... You know what I mean?
Ex just pisses me off. He cancels at a whim and he can cancel when he damn well pleases. If I tried to 'cancel' you know what kind of crap I would catch??
Not to mention I again had to find someone to pick up Dd from school since he normally does or should I say, his wife normally does. It's just too convenient for the NCP to cancel ... In my opinion.
But I do know, you can't make someone be a parent .... I just wish he didn't have so many rights if he isn't going to BE A PARENT!!
I've seen court orders where the CP was awarded $$$ if the NCP canceled without notice. If you can show that he cancels on a whim to frustrate you or even if you can just show it's detrimental to the child... picture a child all ready to go see dad, waiting on the porch, getting excited with every car that drives by only to feel disappointed when it keeps going... the court may be sympathetic to that & order him to provide ample notice when he's going to cancel or pay you a penalty. My son's father was ordered to send me a certified letter of when he intended to visit. I would get a letter his wife obviously sent but then nobody showed to get my son... who would literally be ready & waiting to go. The court eventually suspended his visits altogether & put it on him to petition the court if he wanted to resume visits, which he never did. During the seven years we battled in court, it cost me well over 18k. in legal fees & court costs... while trying to support my two other kids.
I just posted in another thread how BM has had it with SD at her house & I suspect she may begin to start canceling her time too. The one thing that has upset me the most in THAT situation is how BM moved away on a whim, never gave it a second thought on how it would affect her daughter (or cared more about herself than her daughter) and while I was here trying to make sense of what she did & clean up HER mess with HER daughter, she was sleeping in everyday & too busy with her new life to answer her phone... and that was two weeks after we spent 12-14k on a court case.
The only reason someone would drag out a court case to see a child they eventually end up NOT seeing is that they want to engage in battle with YOU. It has nothing to do with the child but the child ends up getting hurt,
You are 100% right Ima... they don't care a bit about the child, they're just trying to fight with the other parent. It's BS! My ds16 would sit there with his stuff ready when he was 3, 4 and 5.... then when he was 5 he asked me why daddy didn't like him anymore. I put him in the car and drove him to his dad (whom I had no clue where he was... he wouldn't give me an address... but I found him anyway)... he was taking out the trash as we drove up. I got out of the car and told him what our son asked me and told him it was up to him to explain it. From that point he was soooooo much better about taking him when he was supposed to.
Our bm took off on a whim and left ss too... leaving us with lots of legal fees. It wasn't worth it since she was just going to leave him anyway.
I agree with the others; your ex's behavior is all directed at controlling you.
We went through a spell a few years ago where BM would cancel or no-show all the time. What we did was to make two sets of plans for those weekends - one for if SS was with us, one if he was not. It was a pain in the behind - but it was better than the alternative, which was scrambling at the last minute trying to change our plans. I understand your frustration.
If it makes you feel any better consider the alternative. The stupid judge told BM that she'd "better show up" so now she does. Quite often I wish that she'd no-show with no notice again.
Note to family court judges - If you have to tell a parent that they have to show up to see their kid, said parent is almost certainly not the world's best parent. The only thing you are accomplishing by threatening a parent for cancellations, you dumba$$, is to ensure that now a parent who did not want to see their child is going to do so - and now you've got a child in the care of a resentful and already less-than-stellar parent who did not want to see them but felt forced to do so. Way to go. :-(
'Note to family court judges - If you have to tell a parent that they have to show up to see their kid, said parent is almost certainly not the world's best parent. The only thing you are accomplishing by threatening a parent for cancellations, you dumba$$, is to ensure that now a parent who did not want to see their child is going to do so - and now you've got a child in the care of a resentful and already less-than-stellar parent who did not want to see them but felt forced to do so. Way to go. :-('
I agree with you completely. AND in my case, a child that is left with stepmom who is resentful or with stepmom's ex husband who has no business caring for my child when I am available to be the parent.


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Advances in Mechanical Engineering
Volume 2013 (2013), Article ID 289269, 10 pages
Rossby Solitary Waves Generated by Wavy Bottom in Stratified Fluids
1College of Information Science and Engineering, Shandong University of Science and Technology, Qingdao, Shandong 266590, China
2Institute of Oceanology, China Academy of Sciences, Qingdao, Shandong 266071, China
3Key Laboratory of Ocean Circulation and Wave, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao, Shandong 266071, China
4Faculty of Science, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing 100044, China
Received 5 October 2012; Revised 10 December 2012; Accepted 24 December 2012
Academic Editor: Oronzio Manca
Copyright © 2013 Hongwei Yang et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Rossby solitary waves generated by a wavy bottom are studied in stratified fluids. From the quasigeostrophic vorticity equation including a wavy bottom and dissipation, by employing perturbation expansions and stretching transforms of time and space, a forced KdV-ILW-Burgers equation is derived through a new scale analysis, modelling the evolution of Rossby solitary waves. By analysis and calculation, based on the conservation relations of the KdV-ILW-Burgers equation, the conservation laws of Rossby solitary waves are obtained. Finally, the numerical solutions of the forced KdV-ILW-Burgers equation are given by using the pseudospectral method, and the evolutional feature of solitary waves generated by a wavy bottom is discussed. The results show that, besides the solitary waves, an additional harmonic wave appears in the wavy bottom forcing region, and they propagate independently and do not interfere with each other. Furthermore, the wavy bottom forcing can prevent wave breaking to some extent. Meanwhile, the effect of dissipation and detuning parameter on Rossby solitary waves is also studied. Research on the wavy bottom effect on the Rossby solitary waves dynamics is of interest in analytical geophysical fluid dynamics.

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Four, Thirty Four, Sixty Four
I remember being four years old.
I remember being in the back seat of my dads car, driving around Pleasanton on the way home from school.
The sounds on the stereo. The smell of the fabric in the 1983 Toyota Camry.
The way that waking up was a joy, and going to sleep was disappointing. The smell of hay, cows, exhaust, ozone and barbecue.
The feeling that I got when I saw my mom or my dad when they got home from work. When my grandparents and uncle visited.
The heat of the summer and the cool of a pool. The challenge of everything new that was before me. Learning to ride a bike. Put my clothes on. Go to preschool.
I remember being four and having a world so contained and yet so full.
The memories come in flashes. There and then gone, leaving only the deep sense of nostalgia, longing and disappointment that thirty years hence, the world is bigger, more complicated and more willful in its ability to disappoint.
My son turned four last week.
It is an age I remember well. I'm 30 years older and the memories of my youth are now fading, but the memories of my son's youth are being formed. This queer transference of nostalgia to discovery, realizing that for everything I forget, he is experiencing and setting the memory anew.
He wakes up each day to something that he has never seen. There is no routine, no recipe, no looking forward to the days end. Any given day is a wonder of discovery, learning, emotion and experiences. Every night those memories are set, as he greets sleep with a resignation rather than relief. In five years he'll remember four years old as something, and in 10 and in 20.
In thirty years my son will be my age and I'll be sixty four.
Will he look back on today and think about me warmly? Will he remember being in the back of my car on the way to preschool, singing along to Pearl Jam, a band that will be 50 years old at that point? Will he remember me picking him up by the ankles and holding him over the tub when he didn't want to take a bath?
Will he remember my kiss goodnight, or my hug when he awoke? His dogs, his cat? His first bike? His best friends? The people that loved him that have departed?
Will he remember that he was and is the best of his mother and I? A 37 inch ("and a half daddy!") encapsulation of energy and joy that bounces through the world as if thirty years from now is an eternity away?
I had a good childhood and a good life and I look back on four with longing but no regret. I miss the sepia tone memories as the pictures fade, and as the people in them fade as well. I miss these people most of all.
I spend my life with a child who is making the memories of his future nostalgia. I hope our love for him lingers within it.


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With the memory of fireworks' flares and a very patriotic hangover, we can still love America just as much on the fifth. A couple of Advil may be needed, though.
Video games show their love for America in their own special ways that go beyond a good barbecue. There are over-the-top mech wielding Presidents, drug-dealing immigrants wishing for the American dream, or even Templar Agents fighting through the American Revolution.
From Duke Nukem to Big Boss, our favorite heroes let us be patriotic without even leaving the couch, which is perfect for us Americans.
Hope you guys had a great holiday, and to celebrate making it through another July 4th here's a collection of some of America's biggest fans celebrating in some red, white and blue cosplay.
If you are interested in any of these photos, the creator's username for their Deviantart account is listed beneath each photo.


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LYT Review: The Twi, Twi Again Saga – Breaking "Red Dawn"
By Luke Y. Thompson on November 21, 2012
We may have found it, folks; the closest thing to a male version of Twilight that Hollywood can muster. Pretty-faced actors looking older than they are running around in the Pacific Northwest woods with too much hair product and abilities they shouldn't realistically have, facing down absurd threats and the most preposterously exaggerated villains you can imagine. Just replace kissing with killing, and you get Red Dawn, the remake, which is actually more entertaining than the 1984 original… though that isn't saying a lot. (Watch me get quoted out of context on that one)
Nostalgia goggles aside, the original is mostly notable for two things: the cast that would one day become all-star, featuring the likes of Patrick Swayze and Charlie Sheen, and a single famous over-the-top moment from Harry Dean Stanton:
But most have forgotten the rest of the film. Case in point: who are the main bad guys in the original Red Dawn?
Russians? No. I said "main." The premise is a Soviet invasion, but the main on-camera villains who are individually delineated are from Cuba, illegally crossing the Mexican border posing as immigrants; the right-wing agitation at the time was for fighting perceived communist influences in places like Nicaragua. It all led to deals like Iran-Contra, which we're not sure people were all that happy about in the end. But politics aside, an invasion run by Cubans and Nicaraguans on the front lines was actually no less absurd then as a North Korean invading force backed by Russia would be now. Well, okay, maybe less; NK is more famous for malnutrition and an inability to launch missiles successfully. In both cases, the movies stack the deck pre-credits with a series of escalating global crises precisely and preposterously building to only one possible outcome.
But it's a new world, and there are new points of reference. Jed is this time played by Chris Hemsworth, and he's an actual Marine home from Iraq, which makes the training of a bunch of high-schoolers into guerillas slightly more believable (also more believable: some of these teens are dating. The original's director, John Milius, had zero interest in romance). And when his homeland becomes the occupied country, with occupiers claiming they just want to help, he gives a speech about how in Iraq, he was one of the good guys keeping order and now he's a bad guy, who must fight a guerilla war like the Iraqis. It's a welcome note of ambiguity in a movie not targeting the type of audience who'll think long about such things.
They're surprisingly resilient, these North Koreans; also taller and more Chinese-looking than you'd expect. That's because they were Chinese, until producers realized that annoying China was a bad idea financially. It's a shame, because that would be an interesting "what if" scenario; China has the means to pose a legit threat. North Korea? Only with the aid of a magical EMP weapon that takes out submarines but leaves cars running just fine. It's as if no-one ever saw The Day After, and its memorable scene of cars all dying at once after a distant air-burst.
So what makes the newer movie more fun? Mostly it's that the action is done better, with a raid on occupied police headquarters from above being a key set piece far more interesting than the fighting of a tank in a field. It may not have a sight gag to match the prying of guns from cold, dead hands, but it does feature a major victory for capitalism when a Subway sandwich artist saves the day with supplies.
Not everything is better, however – an ending that seems oddly construed to leave way for a sequel is highly irritating in both its inconclusiveness and presumption (given the film's fate on the shelf for so long and the other terrible reviews, it's safe to say no sequel is happening), when the best thing about the original was its ending that both extolled necessary wars and pointed out their pointlessness. And while Jed's dad still gets a great dramatic moment, would it really have been to much for the words "avenge" and "me" to appear therein? Even cheap applause is worth something in a cheesefest like this one. If it had actually been made in the '80s, Chris Hemsworth might be one of the stars of the Expendables franchise today. Yeah, we're assuming his being born earlier, and… ehh, never mind. I'm saying this is more of a Chuck Norris-type unintentional goof than a self-serious Milius diatribe.
If you need brainless action this weekend, you could do worse. But a second-run theater with scratches and pops on a used print, if they exist any more, might make it even more…uh…"good"?
so it's pretty much a cross between the original Red Dawn, and the more Recent Aussie flick Tomorrow: When the War Began. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spUO48xYJps
Thing was that when the original Red Dawn came out we were all hammered by the media about one of two scenarios. 1. Nuclear war with the Soviet Empire, or invasion from the Warsaw Pact countries. Seeing as the Warsaw pact had far far more troops and tanks that was a real concern. Before the Abrams tank it was very likely the Soviets would have won such a war if it didn't go nuclear. Now though, it's highly unlikely anyone would invade anyone else. This movie has no believable premise. -
The Chinese a legit threat? The Chinese don't have the capability to invade the US either. The fact is if you watch the original it is parallel to the US invasion of Iraq except the US plays the role of the Soviets. The fact is the only country in the owrld that has the capability to invade half way around the world is the US.


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display one icon in menu hw?ottosykora - January 27, 2011 - 3:40pm
with the OO2 and OO3 I remember I read somewhere some advise to set it so that only one icon is displayed in the menu, not all the separate parts with each own icon. Can this be done in LO too if yes hw? ( categories: )
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This is a great invention that could save lives since vaporization is scientifically proven to be a great harm reduction tool. Today we will cover the FireFly in all of it's glory.
Some vaporizers are specially designed to stand out of the crowd and provide an exquisite experience at an affordable price. One of these top-notch vaporizers is the well-famed Firefly. One of the most solid vape that has ever hit the market, the Firefly is sleek, smooth and packed with countless useful features that make it the heart of all vaporizers.
The style of this vaporizer combined with its top-quality finish and compact size make it one of the best and most reliable portable vaporizers. In fact, many vapers have declared that the Firefly is better even than the DaVinci Ascent, which was considered the #1 portable vape so far. In this in-depth firefly portable vaporizer review we will look at some of the distinctive features of the Firefly.
Out of the Box
This vaporizer is unique among other portable vaporizers because it uses a convection heating method instead of a conduction one. In other words, instead of heating up by direct contact, this modern device circulates hot air, making it much more efficient. This is the main reason why the Firefly offers a superior experience compared to the Ascent, Pax or other portable vapers.
This vaporizer device is comparable in height with the S4, but has half the width of the famous smartphone. The Firefly is heavier and bulkier than its counterpart Pax by Ploom because it is built from top-quality stainless steel. Its stainless steel heat sink allows the device to remain cool under heat, making it a perfect addition during the hot summer months.
The Firefly comes with a wide range of accessories that improve your experience and allow you to make the most out of this vaporizer. The travel bag with "firefly" emblazoned on it can conceal and protect your investment when you are on the go. The multi-sided brush is another amazingly useful accessory to clean the device. You also get 5 cleaning picks, a few cleaning wipes and 5 replacement screens. Of course, you can order additional accessories, including batteries, car adapters and various cases & cleaning kits.
Firefly Portable-How to Use It
Using the Firefly is a breeze. Most users have outlined the ease of use of this product. In order to use it, all you have to do is to remove the magnetic lid, place your herbs in the chamber and place the magnetic plate back. Simply use the on/off switch to turn it on and press the heater activation button.
Again, cleaning the Firefly is a breeze. If you clean it immediately after a session, it won't take more than 2 minutes of your precious time. Take a paper towel and gently wipe out the entire residue. After heavy use, you will notice a build up on the area around the bowl. The importance of cleaning your unit cannot be overstated. Some users have lost their warranty because damage caused by lack of cleaning can void the warranty.
Overall Experience
All in all, I find this vaporizer to be of exceptional quality. Even though it gets dirty fast and it is not as discrete as the Pax, the Firefly heats up in no time at all (less than 10 seconds), charges in around 40 minutes, looks amazing, comes with a removable battery and produces a vapor that tastes great (due to the convection heating method used).
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Rams QB Sam Bradford has several new receiving options in 2012.
Rams QB Sam Bradford is 8-18 in 26 NFL starts.
New Rams CB Cortland Finnegan is flanked by GM Les Snead, left, and HC Jeff Fisher.
WR Brandon Lloyd caught 51 passes for 683 yards and five TDs in 11 games with the Rams in 2011.
Rams QB Sam Bradford threw just six TDs in 10 starts in 2011.
The St. Louis Rams will be headed overseas the next few years.
St. Louis Rams wide receiver Danario Alexander goes airborne after being hit by Arizona Cardinals cornerback Michael Adams in the first half.
Rams safety Oshiomogho Atogwe sacks Arizona Cardinals rookie quarterback Max Hall in the third quarter. Hall replaced an ineffective Derek Anderson, who completed just seven of 20 passes for 93 yards and an interception.
St. Louis quarterback Sam Bradford (with ball) threw for 187 yards on 18-of-29 passing and Josh Brown kicked four field goals as the Rams topped the Arizona Cardinals at University of Phoenix Stadium.
Geez, that's some pretty violent leapfrog. A new name is most likely in order. "Leap-ram" causes New Orleans Saints wide receiver Marques Colston, top, to fumble the ball as he is hit at the goal line by St. Louis Rams safety Oshiomogho Atogwe, who loses his hat in the process. The ball went out of the end zone for a touchback, but the Saints went on to win 28-23.
Washington coach Jim Zorn, right, exhales as the Redskins run out the final seconds of the fourth quarter. The Washington defense denied a late St. Louis drive after Zorn's fourth-and-1 gamble turned the ball over on the Rams' three-yard-line.
The St. Louis Rams struggled in 2008 to a 2-14 record, forcing the team to make some changes for the upcoming season.
In as the team's new head coach is Steve Spagnuolo, the former defensive coordinator of the New York Giants. Spagnuolo brings a new attitude to a team after helping the Giants win Super Bowl XLII over the previously undefeated New England Patriots.
The team's media relations coordinator Ryan Anderson, right, holds up a screen as Spagnuolo talks to the media following a training camp practice on July 30.
This season, Spagnuolo hopes to have all the right answers to get the Rams back to the top of the NFC West.
Bulger will have to get used to working with a new center as Jason Brown takes over the duties for the Rams this season. Brown says the pair is getting comfortable working together.
"Mainly it's him getting to know my rear end, and him being comfortable with his hands underneath my rear end," Brown says. "He's checking my oil every day."
On defense, the Rams will rely on second-year pro Chris Long to show the way. Long hopes to build upon the four sacks and 16 quarterback pressures that he tallied as a rookie last season.
Second-round draft pick James Laurinaitis could offer some help at the linebacker position while fellow defensive lineman Leonard Little hopes to shake off the injury bug and become an every-down contributor this season.
One thing the Rams hope not to lose this season under new coach Steve Spagnuolo is concentration. Here, Jonathan Wade, center, tries to catch a pass as teammates Tye Hill, left, and Marcus Brown, right, wave their arms to provide distraction during a practice on July 31.
With the departure of Torry Holt, the Rams needed another receiver to complement Donnie Avery, a second-year pro who showed off his skills as a rookie last season.
And so the Rams brought in longtime Oakland Raider receiver Ronald Curry, here hauling in a pass during a practice on Aug. 2, in a trade with Detroit after Curry had signed a free-agent deal with the Lions.


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Jun 8, 2010 2:42 PM by Bea Karnes, News First 5
Coloradans are continuing to keep a nervous eye on rising rivers as a late spring heat wave melts snow quickly, swelling waterways, wiping out bridges and flooding some homes.
The high water has prompted some rafting companies to halt guided trips.
In Estes Park, hundreds of sandbags were handed out Monday to hold back the rising Big Thompson River.
High waters were blamed for the weekend death of 48-year-old William Spang of Aspen, who drowned when his raft capsized in the swollen Eagle River.
Officials worried about a chance of afternoon thunderstorms, which would worsen the flooding.
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The Photoshop Work of Designer Alan C. Kettler
I have been a self-employed commercial artist for over 35 years.
I made a living for over 10 years creating exclusively Photoshop graphics
(combined with Illustrator).
I did Photoshop illustration and design for big companies like National Geographic,
Discovery Communications, and the World Bank.
I am excellent at photo retouching and I excel at the art of photomontage.
I have taken thousands of photographs and I have fourteen websites, all with
graphics and photographs created solely by me.
I really like Photoshop and I am really good at it.
I would appreciate the opportunity for an interview with your company.
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Orvis Fly Reels - Orvis reels stand the test of time, as my own 20 year old battenkill fly reel attests to. |
Fly Reels at Cabela's - Browse and compare a wide selection of fly reels from among popular brands, such as Cabela's, Ross, Sage, Scientific Anglers and others. |
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This short guide has been prepared to help new anglers find the right fly reels for their needs.
Fly reels have two different types of drag systems - the disc-drag and the spring-and-pawl. Both are excellent drag systems, but the "spring and pawl" variety is fast disappearing, being replaced by "disc-drag" systems.
The "spring-and-pawl" drag system is the original drag system and is still as good as the day it was invented. This type of drag system uses gearing inside the fly reel to allow the fly line to exit the fly reel at a very steady and uniform rate. This type of drag system is excellent for trout and other smaller fish.
By contrast, the disc-drag system works similar to that of the braking on a car. A pad inside the fly reel can be adjusted, putting less or more tension against the fly line. In this way, the drag of a disc-drag fly reel can be adjusted to almost infinite levels.
Once upon a time, when these type of fly reels came out, the "jerkiness" of the way the line left the fly reel was stuff of legends. Today, however, virtually all fly reels have at least halfway decent disc-drags in them - and many of the top fly reels have disc-drag systems that exceed the spring-and-pawl systems in terms of allowing the fly line to leave the fly reel in a smooth motion.
By and large, if you are a new angler, go with a disc-drag system. First, if only becuase spring-and-pawl fly reels are difficult to find. And secondly, a good disc-drag model fly reel is basically equal to or better than all but the most hideously priced spring-and-pawl models available.
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The Retrieval Systems of Fly Reels
Their are three types of retrieval systems in a fly reel - the single action, the multiplying fly reel, and the automatic fly reel.
A single action fly reel reels the line back in at the same rate that you turn the handle on the fly reel. In other words, it has a 1:1 relationship - a single full turn of the fly reel equals one full turn of the spool. These types of fly reels are by far the most common, the most reliable and the most simple to use - all excellent virtues when fly fishing.
A multiplying fly reel retrieve system allows line to be brought back onto the fly reel significantly faster. This is accomplished through a confusing network of gears that allow one turn of the fly reel handle to equal 2 or more turns of the spool (the spool holds the line). While this seems nice at first blush, truthfully, these fly reels can be kind of a pain - at least for fishing in rivers. Automatic fly reels have a well-deserved reputation as being tempermental, awkward to use at times and make it needlessly difficult to change spools (say, to go from floating fly line on one spool to sinking fly line on the other spool).
The third type of fly reel retrieve system, the automatic fly reel retrieve, does just what the name suggests - it retrieves all fly line without the angler having to do anything. The fly reel, instead of having a spool which is then turned by a handle, instead has a trigger. When released, the trigger allows the fly line to zip back into the reel. This isn't needed, or actually wanted, when fly fishing for most freshwater fish - particularly when fishing on rivers. But can have uses if you are fly fishing in huge lakes or in Saltwater.
Once you've whittled down your search for fly reels, the final step is to just match your fly reel with the type of fly line and fly rod you will be using. If you have a 5-weight rod, you will want to get a fly reel for a 5-weight rod. Additionally, you will then want to get 5-weight fly line. As you can see, you want the fly rod, the fly reel and the fly line numbers to match (give or take one position - it is ok to use a 4 weight reel and fly line on a 5 weight rod).
Most likely, at some point, an angler will want to have an extra spool for their fly reel - such as to have one spool contain weight-forward floating line while the other spool contains sink-tip line. However, like all other things these days, fly reels come and go in a hurry. And when the fly reel disappears, so to do the spare spools.
Thus, a word of warning - get a spare spool at the time you order the fly reel. You'll be happy you did down the road.
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Articles By Hannah Graham Pressman
Birthings and Beginnings
Shiphrah and Puah's defiance of Pharaoh's decree and allegiance to God set the stage for the liberation of the Israelites.
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An internal process of repentance must accompany the external, physical cleansing for leprosy.
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Such is the contradiction embedded in Danny Bled, South Florida's omnipresent goth DJ. For the last few years, Bled has DJ'd regularly in all three counties; his mixes of mid-'80s gloom and doom are South Florida night crawlers' bread, butter, and blood. At Respectable Street in West Palm, Groove Jet's "The Church" in Miami Beach, and, until recently, Manray South's "Sin" in Pompano Beach, Bled has entertained the black-cloaked audiences with his overextended library of goth "classics" -- groups like Sisters of Mercy, Siouxsie and the Banshees, and the Cure, the overplayed staples that have fueled the gothic scene since its inception in the early '80s. But Bled spins with trepidation, because goth is not his passion.
Outside the batcave atmospherics, he keeps the mope-rock off his turntables. When at home making mix tapes in his room, or in the recording studio, or at parties in Tampa and San Francisco, Bled primarily mixes jungle, a loosely defined drum 'n' bass subgenre characterized by sampled and cut breakbeats and a variety of layered sounds. Unfortunately for Bled jungle doesn't yet pay the bills. "The scene isn't big enough," he explains. "Jungle was a trend like a year ago when it first hit U.S. shores, but not really anymore. People should experiment more with different styles because it'll be stagnant soon; it needs new ideas, to go into techno and hip-hop and electro styles."
What Bled brings to jungle's mix is a dark aggression culled from his background as an industrial DJ in the early '90s, when Chicago's WaxTrax Records -- featuring the bleak and ferocious sounds of Meat Beat Manifesto, Front Line Assembly, and Psychic TV, among others -- was in its heyday. Having grown fond of industrial music's aural antagonism during his angry-young-man years, Bled, now in his early thirties, incorporates its elements into his jungle mixes. "I think jungle is the logical progression of where industrial left off," he says. "The industrial school has evolved to where it's far more beat-oriented. Industrial was stagnating around '90, and I was very reluctant about jungle. I didn't think it was my cup of tea, but it totally swept me away."
With his Saturday-night residency at Manray South coming to an abrupt end recently, Bled will at last have an opportunity to spend the weekend's prime night freelancing at raves, fetish parties, and clubs where his turntable skills can be exposed. Two Saturdays ago, near the end of his shift, he noticed that the club's fliers for the Bled-christened "Sin" night didn't have his name on them. The fliers listed another DJ, K-7, whom Bled had never heard of. He approached the club's general manager, who pleaded ignorance and promised to return with an explanation, which was this: Manray South's owner simply wanted to try something new -- no warning, no notification, despite the fact that Bled has spun at the club since its opening nearly a year ago. "Honestly, I don't give a fuck. I hate that place, but that's so unprofessional," Bled says. "I really don't want them to use the name [Sin]." Manray's management did not return calls from New Times for comment, but it's common knowledge among DJs that the relationship between club owners and artists is often tenuous. Knowing that, Bled is moving on with little concern.
Danny Bledoeg moved to America with his family from Suriname, a former Dutch colony in South America, when he was 20 years old. After graduating from graphic arts school and working various production jobs (including two with the New Times chain), Bledoeg switched his focus to music. As a freelance reporter writing reviews and covering clubs and concerts, he wrote stories on very-much-underground artists such as pyro-percussion noise-terrorists Crash Worship. His familiarity with the local club scene led to an association with Charles Arnold, long-time area DJ and resident at the now-defunct Squeeze in Fort Lauderdale. "Charles Arnold is my mentor. He's the one that really got me into -- back in the day -- the WaxTrax stuff and all the industrial. The main reason I got into industrial was because of the beat and the aggression, the dance aggression. I would buy all the records that he would buy because he just had the taste that I totally admired. He spun amazing shit."
Arnold's mentorship quickly paid its dividends. "I would always hang out in his booth, so when he would like go take a leak or something, or if he got wasted, he would have me take over," Bled recalls. Soon Arnold recommended Bledoeg for an open slot in Squeeze's schedule, and DJ Danny Bled was born. Since then Bled has spun records "everywhere," including the nightclub he calls his "baby," the mid-'90s-era Nemesis in Fort Lauderdale, which he describes as "truly underground." The club had two rooms -- one gothic and one industrial, with Bled and partner Frank Mendez masterminding the latter. "In the industrial room, we were playing shit that was the most unlikely songs to be hits: the Chemical Brothers, Prodigy, Portishead -- all that shit that hit later on." After Nemesis' demise two years ago, and up until the recent "Sin" debacle, Bled's outlet for innovation was significantly stifled. "People here wanna hear the same shit," he says. "They only know how to move to one song, so that's what I have to play for them."


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Toyota dealers were told Tuesday to temporarily suspend sales of eight models involved in the recall for sticking accelerator pedal.
Camry hybrids are not subject to the recall or sale halt. According to Autodata, Toyota sold more than 356,000 Camrys in the U.S. last year, making it the top-selling car.
The Corolla sold just short of 300,000 vehicles in the U.S. in 2009, making it the No. 2 car in the USA.
Toyota said recently it expects to sell 2.19 million vehicles in North America in 2010, up 11% from 2009, the Associated Press reported. But with sales of key vehicles being stopped sales totals may be affected.