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LIFE is one long holiday for Simon Calder. The Independent's travel editor famed for being the "journalist that pays his way" must be envied for having a job that can take him to the world's most exotic locations.
So where could he be found a few weeks ago? On a narrowboat chugging at four miles an hour through Droitwich. And I don't suppose I was the only reader who fell in love once again with the dream of a snail-paced peaceful life through Britain's network of canals and rivers.
A boat or narrowboat holiday is a delightful means of escape but how about living permanently on the river bank? Incredibly half the population of the UK lives within five miles of a canal or river – and add on that those living beside the sea.
There's 2,200 miles of canals and rivers to choose from and that figure is actually growing. In the past decade 200 miles of new waterways have opened, the first time the network has grown since the mid-19th century. Mr Calder's sojourn along the Droitwich canal marked the reopening of this Midland waterway after a multi-million pound restoration project.
But before you dive in – if you'll pardon the pun – and sell up your family home in favour of a residential mooring, there is much to consider. Hopefully the links below will steer you in the right direction.
First, you may want to weigh up whether it will cost you more or less living on a boat. There's the question of mooring fees, maintenance fees, council tax, fuel costs, electric and water supplies, insurance and so forth. The livingonaboat website tackles these and many other issues.
If you're looking at a boat as a first home or need help with the 'mortgage' then marine finance is a topic you'll need to get fully to grips with. A quick Google will put you in touch with the many commercial websites offering such services.
As to the practicalities of living on a narrowboat or boat moored in a marina, the first stop online probably needs to be the British Waterways home page. It covers just about everything you'll need to know and has a subsites on other topics such as the vexed topic of licences. Yes, you'll need a licence for living, working or sailing around the UK's waterways and those licences come with a variety of conditions. You'll also find the British Waterways' leisure website, waterscape.com full of practical advice on topics ranging from moorings to boating etiquette. One fantastic resource is a downloadable guide for each waterway and you can decide what features – navigation notes, visitor moorings etc – you want included.
As to council tax – it's complicated. The Residential Boat Owners Association gives advice on this issue to its members but says on its website:
"Based on examples known to the RBOA (and we're not joking), there are three ways in which a local Council might view a liveaboard for Council Tax purposes: the liveaboard is not liable for Council Tax; the liveaboard is liable for Council Tax; or the landlord is liable for Business Rates but the liveaboard is not liable for council tax."
You'll need to check carefully before buying your new house/boat and take care also to find out any restrictions on living and working on the boat, and for what period of time you can guarantee staying in one place. But moving house will at least be a simple case of chugging down river at four miles an hour…
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How Microsoft Xbox Uses Twitter to Reduce Support Costs
For Microsoft's Xbox support team, there's no such thing as unwanted messages on Twitter – no matter how vulgar they may be.
So why is a $58 billion company spending time listening to off-color tweets?
Because "foul-mouthed tweens" just might be the first tip-off of a major service outage. Before any calls or emails come in, the support team can catch a tweet and get technical folks on the task.
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Early efforts in social media marketing have created a tremendous amount of buzz and interest, but surprisingly few case studies focus on monetization.
A recent study by Ketchum and Nielsen shows the number-one activity of social media users (online or offline) is reading blogs – even above TV!
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WALL, S.D. (AP) – An electrical fire has destroyed a museum in South Dakota dedicated to the 1890 Wounded Knee Massacre on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation.
The Rapid City Journal reports that the Sunday fire burned 80 percent of the building in the town of Wall along with the 30 exhibits inside. Museum co-founder Steve Wyant says "it's like a parent losing a child."
Wyant says fire investigators determined the blaze started in faulty wiring beneath the floor. He's still compiling a monetary loss.
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I noticed every where that we went in Uruguay, kids were walking around in white lab coats.
They also had a scarf tied in a bow, around their neck. The bows were in different colors around various schools. So that must have been the school color or something like that.
I have never seem a school uniform like that in any other country.
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I don't know what they call this statue but there seemed to be offering left here by passersby.
It had something to do with the sea, I am sure.
We saw it beside the beach on the road between La Paloma and La Pedrera.
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The chassis is the "skeleton" of the car - providing the structural strength, and the mounting points for other components. In this section, we will be looking at the various types of chassis design that have been used in cars.
Early Chassis Designs & Ladder-Frame Chassis
Many of the principles and techniques used to build cars evolved from the manufacture of horse-drawn vehicles, and early chassis design reflects this. The image on the left shows a 1920's Dodge minus it's body, and is a typical example of pre-war chassis design: Two long rails running the length of the vehicle, with the engine mounted between them and the axles suspended underneath. The body would then be mounted on top of the chassis.
This kind of chassis is generally known as a ladder-frame design, as the members that run between the two rails resemble the rungs of a ladder when viewed from above. To start with, the rails would have been simple, straight lengths, but over time the design of these chassis incorporated bends to clear axles, and to bring the rails closer together at the front where the engine mounts and so on. Aside from such minor changes, the essense of a ladder-frame chassis is unaltered since it's inception.
Building a chassis like this is technically undemanding: As long as you align everything properly, you can weld all the joints manually, and the materials used are cheap and easy to come by. However, it takes time to make all the joints, and the resulting structure suffers from a lack of diagonal bracing - it can be easily twisted along it's length. Also, the accepted technique for making a stronger, more rigid chassis involved adding extra members and using thicker material, which adds weight.
In general, a ladder-frame chassis is a crude, heavy structure that does not really provide a good platform for building a vehicle on. But why, then, did the design last so long - the chassis on the right is from a '60s Land Rover, and is pretty much identical to the design used in a 2005-model Defender?
To start with, the limitations of such a chassis design were irrelevant - the general crudity of other aspects of vehicles meant that it was hard to isolate what faults were purely down to the chassis, a factor compounded by a lack of effective analysis techniques. When your suspension, steering and drivetrain all have a large amount of play in them anyway, flex in the chassis is the least of your problems.
Also, ladder-frame chassis do have some good points. First of all, when you are talking about loadings such as carrying heavy payloads and impacts, they are very very strong indeed - after all, what you are looking at are basically steel girders. This is actually a major factor, as one of the most common mistakes people make is to equate this kind of ultimate load capacity with strength, often at the expense of a stiffer structure (more about this later). It is this load-carrying capacity that results in ladder-frame chassis still being used for the majority of trucks and commercial vehicles.
The ladder-frame's trump card, though, is it's adaptability. Once you've built the chassis, you can shorten, lengthen, widen, or narrow the design quite easily. Also, with only slight restrictions due to the placement of major components, you can put pretty much any body on top that you want. As such, a saloon, convertible, pick-up and van can all be built on the same chassis - one of the secrets of successful ladder-frame designs such as that used by the Model T Ford and the Land Rover is to take this to the logical conclusion of having a "modular" design - all bodies have their mounting points in the same place, and so you use pretty much the exact same chassis design for every model, without even having to add extra brackets on. Most pre-war manufacturers would happily supply a chassis, with the mechanical components attached, onto which an independent company (a coachbuilder) would mount their own design of body. Again, this is why this design is so good for commercial vehicles; most ambulances, motorhomes, and other specialist applications are built independently on a "chassis-cab" unit supplied by the manufacturer (left).
Overall, a ladder-frame chassis works well if you're not going to ask too much of it, and you're willing to put in the time required to align and weld the individual pieces together. For early vehicles, and for modern commercial vehicles and off-roaders, the brute strength and adaptability advantages outweigh the dynamic problems. For road and performance cars, though, as the problems with things like suspension and steering were engineered out, the limitations of ladder-frames became more and more of a hinderance, particularly with regard to building a stiff structure. And this leads us on to...
Space-Frame Chassis
As we mentioned, the problem with a ladder-frame chassis is that, although strong, it isn't very stiff. The suspension and steering systems on cars are designed on the basis that they are mounted to a solid object, so having a chassis that "squirms" under load prevents the suspension doing it's job as intended. Obviously, this is a major issue when you are designing a racing vehicle, and so it is here that we shall look. If you were to try and make a ladder-frame chassis stiffer, you're natural starting point would be to add bracing to prevent twist. The picture on the right shows bracing struts on a chassis built by Lotus founder Colin Chapman, based on the ladder-frame from an Austin 7, which stiffen up the structure significantly.
Once you start to introduce the idea of bracing a chassis against twisting, the next logical progression is to consider the following fact: If the bracing is preventing the chassis twisting, do the main chassis members have to also resist twisting, or can you leave all those forces to the bracing components? Working on this principal, it should be possible to build a chassis where every single member has a bracing attachment, and has no twisting forces acting on it - just compression and tension. It is this principle that applies to spaceframes - removing bending forces acting on chassis members to allow you to make them smaller, thinner and lighter at the same time as building a stiffer overall structure.
The picture on the left shows a Maserati "Birdcage" chassis, which is just about the perfect example of this design philosophy. Look at how thin the tubes are - because each one has only tension and compression loads, there's no need to worry about them bending. Remember how you used to make bridges out of glued-together spaghetti when you were a kid? Same principle - making sure each member is only loaded in the direction which it's strongest.
Obviously, not every gap between tubes can be braced (you need enough room for the driver to sit in the car etc), so in reality the chassis members must retain some resistance to bending. However, you still have a structure that is much, much stiffer than a ladder-frame chassis at a far lower weight. The downside is, with all those tubes running everywhere, you aren't left with much space, which isn't good for carrying loads. Also, the design relies on even distribution of loading, so isn't suited to carrying a couple of tons on the back of a truck, for instance.
A secondary problem is that a spaceframe is an utter nightmare to build. Even leaving aside the difficulty of ensuring that all required bracing has been designed in, the trouble is that at some point you're going to actually have to weld all the sections together accurately. Even for a relatively simple spaceframe, such as the Gordon Keeble chassis pictured right, this is a hugely labour-intensive exercise - far more so than any ladder-frame design.
On the plus side, there's nothing that exotic about the materials and principles used, and if you're willing to dedicate the time to it, a very stiff, light structure can be assembled without any special techniques. It is for this reason that, although now overshadowed in terms of ultimate performance by other designs, the space-frame chassis remains a very popular way of building high-performance vehicles where speed of production, interior space, and ultimate stiffness & weight-reduction can be sacrificed in exchange for being able to use relatively basic materials and techniques: Most kit cars, as well as many racing vehicles, use space-frame construction.
Backbone Chassis
A space-frame chassis works by distributing the loadings on it across the whole structure. However, as mentioned, having to make room in the middle for the driver reduces the possibility of running bracing struts across, and so reduces the possible stiffness of the structure. If you instead hung the passenger area on the outside of the chassis, you would have no issues with being able to fit the bracing in place. Although this would necessitate moving the chassis rails closer together to fit between the seats, the loss of stiffness this would cause can be compensated for by the fact that you can now add almost unlimited bracing to this central area. Rather than using several tubes, the easiest way to accomplish this would be to use a panel across the surface of the frame - effectively making a single, giant square-section down the centre of the chassis. And if you're going to do that, you might as well just do away with all the tubing and make the central section into a square-section made from folded and welded sheet metal. On the chassis for the original Lotus Elan, pictured here, you can see that this has been taken to the logical conclusion, with most of the structure made from folded sheets.
A backbone chassis like this can actually be slightly stiffer than a spaceframe of the same weight. However, because the chassis has to fit within the confines of the centre of the body, it can only be made so stiff. As such, it tends to lend itself better to small or medium sized vehicles, as large, powerful cars do not necessarily have enough of a proportional increase in the room available for the central backbone to allow it to be scaled up to cope with the increased loads. This is not so much of an issue for extremely large vehicles, though, and Czechoslovakian manufacturer Tatra has successfully used a backbone chassis on large military trucks (right), although in this case the chassis structure is tubular rather than square. Although Colin Chapman is often credited with inventing the backbone design, it's actually Tatra who first developed it.
A side note on backbone chassis is that, with the structural component of the car in the centre, the outer body panels can be made from very light material such as composites or aluminium. While this is good for weight-reduction, it also means that a backbone chassis car is not necessarily the place you want to be in the event of a side impact, as there isn't a lot there to protect you. Saying that, the DeLorean was designed using a backbone chassis (with the help of Lotus, as it happens), and was designed from the outset to be an extremely safe car, with good side-impact protection. The secret here is that the DeLorean was part backbone chassis, and part monocoque. In fact, this is true for most backbone-chassis vehicle designs. Monowhat? We'll talk about that later...
Floorpans & Tubs
Now that we've established the use of folded sheet metal for chassis components, it's time to look at designing a "chassis" purely from sheet metal. The hard way of doing this would be to take lots of individual pieces of metal, fold them into tubes and weld them together. The easy way is to press two large sheets of metal with lots of ribs, and then sandwich them together so that the ribs form tubes between the two sheets. You've now made a similar structure to a ladder-frame chassis, only without messing around lining up tubes. On the left is a VW Beetle floorpan - see how the pressed steel forms a backbone-like structure along the length of the car? The Citroen 2CV also used a floorpan like this. Doing this gives many of the advantages of a ladder-frame chassis (such as the adaptability for various body designs) without the time and labour penalties for manufacturing such a structure from carefully-aligned individual components.
An improvement on the floorpan idea is to build a tub out of sheet metal or composites, so that the "walls" of the tub help add stiffness. The Lotus Elise chassis shown right is a very good example of a tub design, made from glued-together aluminium sheet. This gives the car a very, very stiff structure onto which the other components can be mounted - one of the reasons why the Elise is proclaimed by many to be the best-handling production car ever built.
Monocoque Chassis
Ok, up until now, we've been looking at designs where a chassis takes all the structural loading, and the body panels just sit on the outside and look nice. The problem with this is that no matter how light you make the chassis, you're going to be adding weight when you put the body panels in place. There are two solutions to this problem. First, you could fit only the bare minimum of panels required to cover the chassis, made from the thinnest, lightest material easily available to you (say, sheet aluminium). If you did, then, you'd probably end up with something like the Lotus Seven pictured left, which is little more than a thinly-skinned chassis.
Alternatively, you could make the body panels work for you. As we saw previously, you can use shaped sheet metal to make chassis sections as well as body panels. Logically, therefore, you could use the body panels themselves as chassis members, and eliminate unnecessary weight from having both. If you did this, what you would have is called a monocoque ("single shell"). The idea of having the panels of a structure that give it it's outer appearance also providing the structural strength is nothing new (most aircraft are constructed this way - often referred to as "stressed skin" construction), and is simply a progression of the use of pressed panels we discussed in the previous section. However, instead of only making "sandwich tubes" for the floor, you do the same for the side panels as well. If a floorpan is like a ladder-frame made from pressed sheet, then a monocoque is like a similarly-constructed spaceframe. Because you're able to press complicated shapes, rather than just using straight tubes, you're not as limited with where bracing members can be placed, so you can build a stiff structure that still has plenty of room inside, without bloody great tubes running everywhere.
With the ability to build light, stiff structures that can still be very "open plan" inside, coupled with the ease of construction in a production-line environment (especially with modern robotised factories), monocoque construction is now the technique of choice for mass-production vehicles. Although lacking the absolute strength of a heavy ladder-frame chassis, and bettered by other designs in terms of weight and stiffness, the pressed-steel-panel monocoque is currently the best compromise available once you have to take cost and production concerns into account, and is likely to remain so for several years to come.
Although the thinner material used in monocoque designs compared to tubular-based structures is easier to buckle, if it wasn't for this factor, we wouldn't be able to have the safety-enhancing "crumple zones" built into modern cars. By allowing the energy of a crash to be distributed around several panels, crumpling them in the process, the length of time it takes the vehicle to come to a full stop is extended - thereby reducing the accelerative forces on the occupants. Although such systems can be incorporated into the ends of chassis rails, for example, it is nearly impossible to provide as high a level of protection with a traditional separate chassis arrangement. The payoff, of course, is that you completely trash the bodyshell in the impact - but this is regarded as a price worth paying to save lives. These crumple zones can be made to act in any direction, so allow you to design for side impacts too, and this highlights the major advantage of pressing sheets to shape compared to using tubular material - you can choose which directions you want a component to be stiff in, and which to make it easily collapsible.
In most instances, a car will have all it's major components mounted directly to the chassis. However, in some cases, a subframe will be used. This is an individual "mini-chassis" that carries certain components (such as the engine and drivetrain, or the rear suspension) as an assembly, and is then attached to the main chassis or bodyshell. The best known use of subframes is in a mini (left), where a front subframe carries the engine, gearbox and front suspension, and a rear subframe carries the rear suspension, but many cars use a simple subframe as the mounting point for the rear suspension.
In most cases, a subframe design is used in conjunction with a monocoque design - There's no reason why you couldn't use a subframe with a ladder-frame or space-frame chassis, though there would be no real advantage to doing so.
The advantage of a subframe is that it allows you to assemble components together before you assemble the whole vehicle, and gives you the adaptability benefits of a ladder-frame chassis - you can use one subframe assembly with several designs of bodyshell, and you can get many of the stiffness benefits of a space-frame or backbone chassis at critical points (such as the suspension mountings) without sacrificing the benefits of using a monocoque bodyshell to build the vehicle's main structure. This is particularly true where the first monocoque designs are concerned, as such early examples were not always as stiff as they could be, and being able to have a rigid "traditional" chassis for things like suspension mounting points gave a certain amount of belt-and-braces reassurance. In modern designs, however, the chief advantage is that you can have very tight, accurate tolerances on the sub assembly, with the accuracy of the alignment of the major structure less critical to things like correct suspension alignment.
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In a letter sent last week to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and Entergy Nuclear, attorneys representing three residents of Kingston and Plymouth say Entergy violated the federal Clean Water Act more than 33,000 times by discharging heated water and other pollutants into Cape Cod Bay. Because of those alleged violations, they're talking about seeking $831 million in damages.
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|Prearrest administration of low-molecular-weight heparin in porcine cardiac arrest: hemodynamic effects and resuscitability.
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|OBJECTIVE: Both animal and human studies demonstrate activation of coagulation during cardiac arrest. Prearrest anticoagulation is used routinely in many experimental studies. We studied the hemodynamic effects of prearrest anticoagulation with a low-molecular-weight heparin suitable for clinical use during cardiopulmonary resuscitation in pigs. DESIGN: Randomized and blinded experimental animal study. SETTING: University hospital-affiliated research laboratory. SUBJECTS: Sixteen female domestic pigs. INTERVENTIONS: Three minutes before electrically induced ventricular fibrillation, enoxaparin 1 mg/kg or physiologic saline was blinded and administered intravenously. After 10 mins of untreated ventricular fibrillation, advanced cardiac life support was initiated with continuous mechanical chest compressions and interposed manual ventilation with 100% oxygen. Epinephrine was administered after 2 mins of advanced cardiac life support followed by attempted defibrillation 1 min thereafter. Advanced cardiac life support was continued for 10 mins following international guidelines. Electrocardiogram was recorded continuously and ventricular fibrillation waveform was analyzed (median slope). Animals with return of spontaneous circulation were observed for ten more minutes. Blood specimens were drawn for analysis of coagulation activation (thrombin-antithrombin complex) and drug effect (anti-factor Xa activity). MEASUREMENTS AND MAIN RESULTS: Six of eight (75%) pigs in each group achieved return of spontaneous circulation. Thrombin-antithrombin complex levels were significantly lower in pigs that received enoxaparin. There was no significant difference either in measured hemodynamics between the groups during advanced cardiac life support and after return of spontaneous circulation or in median slope values during ventricular fibrillation. Epinephrine caused a significant decrease in femoral and increase in cerebral cortical blood flow with no difference between the groups. CONCLUSIONS: Prearrest anticoagulation with enoxaparin did not influence either hemodynamics during advanced cardiac life support and after return of spontaneous circulation or the frequency of return of spontaneous circulation in porcine cardiac arrest.
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Yong Ae Choi
Sept. 24, 2010
Yong Ae Choi, 87, of Honolulu, a homemaker, died in Nuuanu Hale Nursing Home. She was born in Chung Nam, Korea. She is survived by son Chung Sik; daughters Kyung Ok Bang, Sung Ok Lim, Soon Hee Uyema and Sandee and Son Hee Choi; 20 grandchildren; and 14 great-grandchildren. Visitation: 10 a.m. tomorrow at Borthwick Mortuary. Services: 11 a.m. Burial: 2 p.m. at Hawaiian Memorial Park. Incorrect information published in an obituary Monday.
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Sept. 9, 2010
Ronald Mitchell Currie, 49, of Waianae died in Waianae. He was born in Tucson, Ariz. He is survived by mother Billie Ann Dishman, stepfather Ben Dishman, stepmother Chloe, brother Rene Loya, sisters Sharon Tutino and Karen Loya, and companion Corazon Lazaro. Visitation: 9 a.m. Saturday at House of Salvation Church & Bible School, 89-195 Farrington Highway, Waianae. Services: 10 a.m. Casual or aloha attire. No flowers.
Theodore Finch
Sept. 3, 2010
Theodore "Ted" Finch, 75, of Honolulu, an artist, entrepreneur and real estate agent, died in Honolulu. He was born in Alberta, Canada. He is survived by life partner Wayne Mitchell and sister Corinne Bennett. Private services.
Wah Yuk Fung
Sept. 18, 2010
Wah Yuk Fung, 84, of Honolulu, a noodle factory owner, died in Honolulu. He was born in China. He is survived by sons Kan, Robert and Albert; daughters Karen Cheung, Carolyn Gosset and Erin Saiki; nine grandchildren; and a great-grandchild. Private services.
Barbara Joan Grohs
Sept. 29, 2010
Barbara Joan Grohs, 78, of Pahala, Hawaii, a homemaker, died in Pahala. She was born in North Adams, Mass. She is survived by sons Edward and Markus, daughter Michelle, sister Patricia A. Paiva, five grandchildren and a great-grandchild. Visitation: 10 a.m. Saturday at Holy Rosary Catholic Church, Pahala. Mass: 11 a.m. Burial to follow at the church cemetery. Casual attire. No flowers. No monetary offerings.
Yoshio Higashihara
Sept. 13, 2010
Yoshio Higashihara, 95, of Honolulu, a retired E.E. Black construction superintendent, died. He was born in Hawi, Hawaii. He is survived by sons Yates K. and Rudy R., five grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren. Private services. No monetary offerings.
Joei Irei
Sept. 24, 2010
Joei Irei, 93, of Honolulu, a retired Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard carpenter and Army veteran, died at home. He was born in Waiakea, Hawaii. He is survived by wife Clara, sons Wayne and Steven, daughters Lorraine Irei and Lois Iwasaki, nine grandchildren and six great-grandchildren. Private services.
Teruko Kataoka
Sept. 8, 2010
Teruko Kataoka, 83, of Mililani died in Mililani. She was born in Fukuoka, Japan. She is survived by husband Kinji P., sons Kenny and Danny, daughter Katherine Kramer, brother Minoru Hironaga, sister Kazuko Hironaga and nine grandchildren. Private services and burial at National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific, Punchbowl.
Vicente Curammeng Lagoc
Sept. 26, 2010
Vicente Curammeng Lagoc, 84, of Kaumakani, Kauai, an Army veteran who served in World War II and Pioneer Hi-Bred research worker, died in Kauai Veterans Hospital. He was born in Pasuquin, Ilocos Norte, Philippines. He is survived by wife Rosa, sons Vicmar and Adonis, daughter Rowena Antonio and three grandchildren. Visitation: 9 a.m. Saturday at Kauai Veterans Cemetery Pavilion, Hanapepe. Services: 10 a.m. Burial to follow.
Edward William Lopes
Sept. 27, 2010
Edward William Lopes, 83, of Kailua, a pipe fitter in Marine Corps Base Hawaii, Kaneohe, and an Army veteran, died at home. He was born in Kula, Maui. He is survived by daughter Linda Kahanaoi, sister Marian and four grandchildren. Visitation: 5 p.m. Tuesday at Borthwick Mortuary. Services: 6 p.m. Burial: 11 a.m. next Wednesday at Hawaiian Memorial Park Cemetery.
Richard Richardson Kumailani Mahi Sr.
Sept. 23, 2010
Richard Richardson Kumailani Mahi Sr., 84, of Waikoloa, Hawaii, a retired Hamakua Sugar Co. welder, Safeguard Security officer and Army veteran, died at home. He was born in Wailuku. He is survived by wife Ethel; sons Dicky, Marshall, John, Keli'i and Ricky; daughters Lani-Ann Ferreira, Lani Dano, Gayle Gacayan, Terry De Vera, Ku'ulei Mahi and Candace Alnas; brother John Jr.; sisters Rebecca Min, Rose Victorino, Anna Andrade, Wainani Fudala and Margaret Clark; 20 grandchildren; and 21 great-grandchildren. Visitation: 8 a.m. Friday at Dodo Mortuary Chapel, Hilo. Services: 10 a.m. Burial to follow at Hawaii Veterans Cemetery No. 2, 110 Laimana St., Hilo. Casual attire. Flowers welcome.
Glory Tuliao Mamuad
Sept. 2, 2010
Glory Tuliao Mamuad, 88, of Waialua, a retired Our Lady of Sorrows Church employee, died in Wahiawa. She was born in Baldias, Dingras, Ilocos Norte, Philippines. She is survived by sons Elpidio, Ernesto, Franklin and Ruben; daughters Amelia Batangan and Hortemia Valmoja; brothers Petong, Pedro and Flor Damo; 15 grandchildren; and nine great-grandchildren. Visitation: 9:30 a.m. Saturday at Mililani Mortuary-Waipio, makai chapel. Services: 10:30 a.m. Burial: 2:30 p.m. at Sunset Memorial Park. Aloha attire. Flowers welcome.
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Sept. 24, 2010
Yasuko T. Miyahira, 89, of Pukalani, Maui, a Maui Land & Pineapple Co. field worker, died in Pukalani. She was born in Puunene, Maui. She is survived by sons Colin and Calvin; daughters Jane Kinoshita, Judy Lindstrom and Janice Upshaw; brother Norman Taira; sister Jean Arakawa; six grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren. Private services. Donations suggested to Rinzai Zen Mission, P.O. Box 791586, Paia, HI 96779.
Charlene Momiululani Mamala Nataniela
Sept. 25, 2010
Charlene Momiululani Mamala Nataniela, 59, of Kapolei, a genealogist and researcher, died in Aiea. She was born in Honolulu. She is survived by sons Kali Finch, Charles Mamala and Matthew Dougherty; daughters Kathleen Finch, Christmas-Lily Dougherty and Charlene and Christina Mamala; hanai daughter Melissa Lee; parents Charles Mamala and Velma Louis; brother Anthony Mamala; sisters Colleen, Geraldine, Gladis, Adrianne and Lehua Mamala; six grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren. Services: 2 p.m. Sunday at Sokagakkai International Community Center, 2729 Pali Highway. Aloha attire. No flowers.
Richard Acoba Nieto
Sept. 19, 2010
Richard Acoba Nieto, 62, of Honolulu, a retired Lenny's Lunch House and Wagon owner, employee of various hotels and restaurants, and an Army veteran, died in Tripler Army Medical Center. He was born in Honolulu. He is survived by wife Cora, son Eric, daughters Caroline and Carrie, brother Arthur, sisters Rose Campo and Josephine Lahep, and three grandchildren. Visitation: 6 p.m. Monday at Borthwick Mortuary. Services: 7 p.m. Additional visitation: 8:30 a.m. Tuesday at Holy Family Church. Mass: 9:30 a.m. Burial: 11 a.m. at Hawaii State Veterans Cemetery, Kaneohe. Casual attire.
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Aug. 30, 2010
Tsuruye Nishi, 90, of Numila Camp, Kauai, an Up to Date Cleaners employee, died in Garden Isle Healthcare. She was born in Lihue. She is survived by husband Shigekazu; sons Robert, James and Wayne; daughter Janet Kagihara; brother Hideko Sasaki; sisters Akio Matsuyama and Momoe Sato; seven grandchildren; and six great-grandchildren. Private services.
Hiroshi Nishimoto
Oct. 3, 2010
Hiroshi "Hiko" Nishimoto, 76, of Honolulu, a former supervisor at Holiday Mart, Honolulu, died in Hospice Hawaii Palolo Home. He was born in Hilo. He is survived by brothers Tsuyoshi and Ronald S. Visitation: 11 a.m. Friday at Hosoi Garden Mortuary. Services: noon. Casual attire. No flowers.
Robert A. Oura
Sept. 30, 2010
Robert A. Oura, 83, of Kahului, a retired state plumbing inspector and Army veteran, died in Ewa Beach. He was born in Honulua, Maui. He is survived by wife Betty, son Michael, daughter Gwen Higa and two grandchildren. Visitation: 4 p.m. Monday at Wailuku Hongwanji Mission. Services: 5 p.m. Casual attire.
Franklin J. Pruse
Sept. 10, 2010
Franklin J. Pruse, 64, of Ewa Beach, a Rolloffs Hawaii driver, died in Ewa Beach. He was born in Aiea. He is survived by wife Alice M., son John, daughter Glenda Kapaona, sister Tina Gomes and four grandchildren. Visitation: 5 p.m. Friday at Mililani Mortuary-Waipio, makai chapel. Services: 6 p.m. Casual attire.
Albert Ragsac
Sept. 3, 2010
Albert Ragsac, 75, of Honolulu, a Navy housing management specialist, died in Ewa Beach. He was born in Honolulu. He is survived by son Mark, daughters Tracy Edwards and Carol Smith, brothers Ted Ragsac and Ruperto Agcaoili, sister Nina Lovan and four grandchildren. Visitation: 9:30 a.m. Friday at Hawaiian Memorial Park Mortuary. Services: 10:30 a.m. Burial: 1 p.m. at Hawaii State Veterans Cemetery, Kaneohe. Casual attire. Incorrect information published in an obituary Sunday.
Edward Pisa Taimi
Sept. 21, 2010
Edward Pisa "Eddie" Taimi, 46, of Honolulu died at home. He was born in Honolulu. He is survived by wife Katerina; sons Fiataugaluia E., Ti Eliu and Manuele T.; daughters Catherine Jardine, Tanya, Joanna, Rosanna, Pou and Alofa Taimi, and Frances Ulugaono; mother Pisa; brothers Vesiai, Butch and Auvae; sisters Vivian Tuaefe, Pisa Tuvale, Deborah Segich, Matalena Faapito, Clara Lam and Auvae, Faabinu and Tuulenana Melei; and 18 grandchildren. Visitation: 10 a.m. Monday at Moanalua Mortuary. Services: 11 a.m. Burial: 2 p.m. at Valley of the Temples.
Michael Thomas Jr.
Sept. 18, 2010
Michael Thomas Jr., 26, of Honolulu, a Commander Navy Region Hawaii engineer, died in Kaneohe. He was born in Honolulu. He is survived by sons Keaneu and Julian, parents Michael and Charisse, brother Jerome, hanai brother James Sanders and sisters Sabrina and Uilani Jones and Michelle Thomas. Services held.
Betty S. Wilson
Sept. 9, 2010
Betty S. Wilson, 79, of Honolulu, a retired Social Security Administration office manager, died in Honolulu. She was born in Lahaina. She is survived by son James W., daughters Nadine N. Wilson and Joni J. O'Donnell, sisters Gladys Kurosu and Edith Watanabe, five grandchildren and four great-grandchildren. Visitation: 5 p.m. Saturday at Mililani Mortuary-Waipio, mauka chapel. Services: 6 p.m. Aloha attire. Flowers welcome.
Yung Ngock Lew Young
Sept. 20, 2010
Yung Ngock Lew Young, 93, of Honolulu, a retired Tripler Army Medical Center meat cutter foreman and Army veteran who served in World War II and was awarded the Silver Star, died in Honolulu. He was born in China. He is survived by wife Chee Yat, son William W.C., daughters Linda W.L. Young and Annette W. Tagawa, five grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. Private services. Additional information for an obituary published yesterday.


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Broken Market Chronicles: Algos Gone Autosell Wild - Video Explanation Of What Happened
Still scratching your head over what happened this morning (this would be everyone at the SEC but not their porn webstream vendors - even they by now realize just how broken the market is)? Don't be - courtesy of Dennis Dick and Premarket Info, here is a 20 minute video explanation parsing the tape and showing precisely what happened that impacted nearly 150 stocks.
In summary:
- Rogue algo strikes number of stocks: up to 148 symbols impacted
- WFC preferred security JWF trades 4.9MM shares, and trades down more than 10%
- VZ, PEP, RSH, BBY, WFC and many more all affected
- Appears to be an auto buy program error on some issues
- An auto-sell program on other issues
And since nobody at the SEC will move a finger to fix what we have been pounding the table on since April 2009, we can only hope that we get more and more increasingly more ridiculous market swings such as this one which will finally get absolutely everyone out of the markets. Even the vacuum tubes.
And for those curious, here is the list of 140 stocks that were BATSed, straight from the NYSE.
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Just watch KCG stock price to know if they are gonna bust or not. Its a good hedge
The County Coroner has examined the corpse and it is indeed dead.
Is there an Egyptian involved & has it been violated?
Love the parting comment: "Don't use stop orders, that's the moral of the story"
"...here is the list of the 140 stocks..."
Manchester United isn't on that list ?
With the help of KCG, good day to start shorting WFC. WFC stock will never get beyond $35.
Its low volume rally look at this chart http://www.freefdawatchlist.com/p/stock-chart-analysis.html
Selling to be outlawed in 3...2...1...
Maybe Bernanke suffered "premature ejaculation" today prior to the FOMC, by attempting to blow Wells Fargo shorts out of the water and trigger a runaway breakout in some key financial names.
Or maybe this is a warmup for some type of "shock and awe" intervention, so that Bernanke doesn't get embarrassed by a 3rd market selloff after his "Pie Hole" comments emerge during the FOMC chatter.
Robo, was that you "putting the boner to" GMCR just a few minutes ago?
android vs IOS while Samsung is copying.... the algoritm for copying messed up all those stocks.
When algos go wild, that means they show their boobs, right?
This is a special occasion. No regular old beads -- a string of pearls.
Rogue = exposes the gig and brings too much focus.
Too many "tech glitches" Bitchez. Something's up.
Yes, it's a rigged market. It can't get any more obvious.
make sure you hold physical assets of real value and actual know the real value of your labor? Turning japanese indeed.
My services as a web page designer for pet grooming salons is sure to command top dollar in the new paradigm...
MSM is saying only a few stock symbols.
Nothing to see here. Move along.
Some people on ZH says this is good. No BS.
Algo mulligan bitchez!
Made a trading mistake, thats okay Algos get a do-over
Made a trading mistake, thats okay Algos get a do-over
Fyi. You're only allowed 2 posting do-overs.
It's just a little after dinner mint...
is this what it looks like when two algos go head to head against each other? Can't wait for the Algo Battle Royale, only on pay per view!
My best Tommy Boy impression...
"Unplug the Godamn thing!! For the love of Christ!!"
Presumably, the algo-master was not previously long 3 million shares of AWF...so once again, a clear example of Naked Short Selling (illegal).... which of course, doesn't actually exist and is just a paranoid delusion.
Agreed - I highly doubt the seller even had the shares to sell such a quantity. I highly doubt they preborrowed that amount either.
Now we also must question -- Who the hell would jump in and backstop that trade with that quantity of buy orders? No market maker will back AWF that much -- its way too much risk on their books. This whole thing is a fraud.
Bring back the Uptick rule. But since the SEC is owned by the algo trading firms, it will never happen.
This sustained selling is a regular feature of the silver and gold manipulation.
We have a winner! PMs have been bad, they must be punished. Moreover, commodities also need to be suppressed.
one can only hope it is only another episode of: theChroniclesOfTheShitfacedGolfer/Traderz
SEC is throwing in the towel on money fund reforms. Little guys beware of your cash...big guys will be out at a buck before shtf
Hmmm, sounds like it's time for the market to break to the UPside again. ;-) LOL, what a joke.
it's brianSack test-driving his new fuking 'edsel'?
It will be interesting to see who gets Corzined In this mess
Relief. We know they know what's causing these problems. Now back 2 the Olympic Badminton results....
Only wish the lot size was 10k, 5k or even 1k.
Market armageddon would have ensued and Bob Pisani would have been screaming literally..
Looks to me like somebody laid their arm on the keyboard while they were in a real interesting half-hour conversation. "What is that damn beeping?!?"
if timmah were still with herr finiMiniSchewobble, they would be having wheel-chair races with hookers over this
The guy who was supposed to be watching this algo was getting a bj from an intern in an air-handling closet. The most expensive bj in history...
Love the piece by Fox quoting a trader:
"The algos went nuts this morning. Someone has a major, major problem on their hands."
Indeed they do.
P.S. See the Drudge headline. Great stuff.
Crap he changed it. Had a 1940s poster of a woman flexing saying We Can Do It. Underneath; Federal Deficit Highest Since 1940s.
NYSE Listed Halts High Frequency Trading as Algorithms Runs Rampant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gMbuJsbhac&feature=g-all-u
Force Yahoo to investigate the (very few, always active) Botnets which people the Yahoo Finance boards - and you'll quickly get to the bottom of everything.
I believe these Botnets, if investigated well and thoroughly enough, would be found to be "run" by just a handful of mostly Asian HFTs, in turn linked to various Organized Crime entities.
Of course, Mitchell and Byrne have been saying something like this for years. But Yahoo could actually DO something about it, if it chose to cooperate with international police authorities.
I demand an inquiry into Yahoo Finance! Headed up by Bart Chilton & Jay Rockefeller. This damn world wide web pages must be stopped!
slewie intel indicates that "yahoo" has been completely hacked by rooskie mobsters vacationing on the jersey shore
they may control you too...
How many of these trades were naked short sales, I wonder.
The banks are up today, are they expecting a gift from their buddy B.
the fact that the term "rogue algo" is even part of the lexicon of todays market should be more than sufficient evidence to prove just how broken the market is.
You mean 1984, of course...
These technical fubars are doing a great job restoring confidence in the market, as in everyone is confident that the market is a corrupt ponzi scheme.
New memes: 'rouge algos', 'technical fubars' - DAMN, what a great age we live in.
'Technical Fubars' is a plus 10
ameritrade trade with confidence bitch. Get 10 free trades stopped out per month. bitch
What's real? What's not?
Just because one of the machines that display red and green numbers went off today, there are questions. What about all the other red and green numbers that are displayed before people? Seriously, what confidence can there be in any of the numbers that are flashed before us?
What's funny is the conclusion in that video is to not use Stop orders and they should of had a panic off switch? So, most have known for a long time not to use market orders and now (actually for some time) don't use stop orders. Here's the next logical question, why use limit orders if the numbers you're watching are just bait and switch prints from some HFT? Really, the joke is no one pulled the plug?
My visual is JPM trading desk A is selling xyz stocks to JPM trading desk B, the bid and ask both from JPM and both created out of thin air. As they push the xyz up and down, maybe getting creative and trying to trace patterns out of the zig and zag, at the end of the day JPM has not gained or lost unless some fool comes along to buy xyz stock, then they HFT that dumb ass at what ever the fake trading level is for the day and on and on as ever fewer clueless dumb asses are around to throw their hard earned savings into the wood chipper.
I don't get this, isn't there a minimum transaction fee for trades? Wouldn't that solve all this BS?
why should humans have to pay to trade and algos don't ?
just a glitch in the matrix.
LOL, I think they're just testing out a new defense. From "I don't know how the customer funds got co-mingled" To " Our computer screwed up and co-mingled the customer funds.
One thing is for sure. Someone's clients are going to pay for that prop mistake.
welcome to the world of junior miners
shoot first, feel sorry later...
Don't be a bunch of dumbasses. 3 min before 4 the race to the exits happened. Then today they just stop trading in all kinds of stocks...This is the crash, but many people will not realize it because the prices are being held up by the FED. If you try to exit from large positions you will be prevented by any means necessary.
Its over. If your not in cash or gold your screwed. This market is but a dream.
Chinese hacking? wtf? LOL listening to this. They better make these trades stick! Was it Knight Capital?
The Jetsons Algo
(Stop this crazy thing)
In the 60s it took a handful computers to make round trips to the moon. Today a computer has a million times the capacity and power and tens of thousands of them are involved in trading. It looks like in a few years we will need 99.9% of our technological and energy resources only to maintain the financial markets. Where is the kill switch for all this insanity please?
Welcome to the world of Modern MONEY LAUNDERING...by the elites...
Aren't Free Markets Great!
ppffftt ..seems like a normal day's trading in the paper silver market.
why the hell is algo-trading permitted in the first place?
i guess it's too late to change.. without algo-trading, there wouldn't be ANY volume on the exchanges.
Please also take SIRI to where it belongs... NOT
Ummm, if I shorted some stocks just before the Draghi comments, can I now say that it was "my alogorithm" and get my trades cancelled?
That'll teach you Americans to bad mouth Chinese swimmers!
As the bots become self-aware, they are emotionally immature, just playing childish pranks on y'all.
The 30 minutes is highly suspicious. Where I work, we keep the IT tracing and double checking everything in real-time even when we're doing automatic account topups for measly pennies far, far, far, short of the mutly-million market maker algo. Even at such low values, I've seen people yank the network cables out of servers in order to stop them from making a mess; and you're telling me noone noticed for 30 minutes? Bullshit.


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Activity the week of Sept. 17 and Sept. 24:
» Aaron Stuchell, 38, Moxahala Avenue, Zanesville, was sentenced to nine months in prison on a fifth-degree felony count of theft.
» Jodi Haarman, 32, Township Road 171D, Fresno, was sentenced to three years of community control sanctions on two fifth-degree felony counts of possession of a controlled substance.
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I saw her at the nursery the next day, while dropping by to pick up some more fertilizer for the new rose bushes. The kind that Gloria told me they needed to look as pretty as she wanted. But I knew that Ruby would be there working.
She wore her hair in a thick ponytail and a salmon pink shirt beneath her denim overalls. A row of shelves was waiting for her to fill them with a new shipment of vines, morning glories, passions and others that had just arrived. She had a bottle of water next to her as the morning had started out hot. Summer was most definitely here.
I ran into her when she went to the vending machine to fetch a cola advertised as being ice cold. She put in her money to get the drink, snapped the cap off and then took a big sip of it. Her full lips wrapped around the opening of the bottle, clearly enjoying the taste. I could think of other things I'd rather she be sucking than on a cola bottle.
She looked up and saw me a couple yards away and after wiping her mouth with a hand, she smiled.
"Hi Devlin…"
"Hi Ruby…"
She licked her lips after taking another sip.
"What do you need?"
A loaded question if there was one.
"I mean besides me…because you didn't want me."
"Ruby…you're a lovely girl, very sexy…but it's not easy to keep secrets in this town."
She started to nod…she must know already. She would find that to be the case with her and Brock. Caroline might be in London but that didn't mean she didn't have friends here who might tell her what her boyfriend was doing while she was gone.
"I'm also very horny Devlin and I want to take care of that with someone," she said, "and what's the crime in doing that? I'm a grown woman and I want a man's attention."
"I can see that," I said, "after all, I know what that pussy feels like. I know what it tastes like."
She looked away for a moment and I knew what I said had affected her which is what I wanted. I wanted to keep the ante up with her.
"But you don't know what it's like to fuck it do you?"
I felt my body tighten at her words.
"Does Brock?"
She didn't answer. She just sipped her cola again and I watched her lips caress the glass as she tipped her head back to drink.
"None of your business Devlin…"
"He's just wants to get you into his bed."
She snorted.
"At least somebody does…and knows what it means to follow through."
She had a mocking tone when she said that and I wanted to push her against the wall behind her and pin her there with my body as I showed her how hard she made me. I'd kiss her mouth so thoroughly, she'd be left breathless.
I knew I couldn't hold back but I had to, until I had her exactly where I wanted her.
For now, I just walked away from her and went to grab the bags of fertilizer and pay for them in the front of the store.
Tiffany and Ruby were out chatting by the pool again, looking at magazines. Ruby in another bikini, pink this time and high cut in the legs. Her body had tanned since she'd been back and she still wore her hair back in that ponytail.
I wanted her hair loose around her shoulders when I fucked her. I searched on the internet for what I needed to order. Some of them would be by express mail, a few necessities. I used a credit card my wife didn't know about that I'd taken out recently.
Their conversation drifted my way as if they didn't bother to hide it.
"That dress looked awesome on you," Tiffany said, "You should wear it when you go to the club to meet some guys."
Ruby shrugged.
"I already know when I want to wear it," she said, "Brock wants me to go dancing when he comes back from his latest gig."
"He's a hot looking guy," Tiffany said, "So how was last night…you never did tell me about it."
Ruby paused.
"It was…fun…I love spending time with him," she said, "I…well…"
I didn't hear the rest of it but Tiffany reacted.
"Get out of town," she said, "I didn't think you'd ever do that."
"Well I did…and I think he liked it a lot," Ruby said, "The way he acted…if my mother hadn't had one of her friend's crash at the house…he would have stayed the night."
I reacted to that, stopping my research. I knew Brock worked fast with a woman but Ruby had been serious when she'd said she would fuck him.
"I'm seeing him when he gets back," Ruby said, "he wants to go out to dinner first when he returns."
Tiffany smiled.
"Pick some place nice…private," she said, "I'm sure he doesn't want this to get back to what's her name overseas."
"He doesn't seem to worry about her when he's with me."
"That's because he's thinking with his cock," Tiffany reasoned, "not with his brain. He's looking for a diversion to keep him busy while she's away."
"That works for me," Ruby said, "We got school in the fall and we'll be leaving. The perfect time to just have some fun…"
I went into the house and saw that my wife had arrived and was unloading some groceries in the kitchen.
"Just stuff for your dinner…the steaks were on sale."
I went to go get myself another beer.
"So Brock's back in town," Gloria said, "I saw him at the store. He said that Caroline…his girlfriend's due back in September."
I flipped the tab on the beer and drank from it.
"We should have him over for dinner," she continued, "when he gets back to town from his trip."
"He's probably very busy."
"I know that and he's very intense," Gloria said, "but it'll be good…I'm sure he's seeing someone."
My brows went up.
"What makes you say that?"
Gloria paused.
"He always does…when his girlfriend's not around," she said, "I remember when he was married."
I sipped my beer again. What was Gloria getting at here?
"It didn't last long before they split up."
"It was over a woman I bet…"
I looked at her sharply.
"It was work, it's hard for a woman to keep up with a guy like him," I said, "He's always been married to his career."
She smiled.
"And you haven't," she said, "I'm lucky I have my life to keep me busy because you're gone most of the time."
She didn't seem upset about it. She just put the groceries away, each item in its proper place.
"Even when you're here…you seem still gone…"
I bristled at that. I'd paid attention to my wife when I've been home. She just kept a busy calendar and didn't seem to think that my being home was enough to ease up on it. We both had our separate lives after 20 or so years of marriage.
"What does that mean?"
She looked at me a moment and then shook her head.
"Nothing…it's silly…we've both got such busy lives and with the kids nearly grown up, it's just natural to feel a little distant sometimes."
So what was the problem? Why had she brought it up?
"I'll give Brock a call and see if he wants to come to dinner when he returns," she said, "He can bring someone if he wants."
I frowned.
"I don't think that's appropriate with his girlfriend out of town do you?"
Gloria just looked at me.
"It's hardly any of our business," she said, "Besides I've known him almost as long as you have and I enjoy his company."
I didn't want the man who wanted to fuck Ruby inside my house. She'd been seeing him since I had turned her away. The thought of him running his hands over her soft skin as he kissed that saucy little mouth of hers, the image of him in between her legs while he buried his cock inside of her…no that wasn't going to happen. I told myself there were other women, young eager women in town who could ease my ache but what I wanted was her.
Suddenly she was there wearing her bikini and nothing else. Her breasts nestled in her top and the bottom clinging to her pelvis.
"Tiffany wants to know if she can go with me to the club tonight."
Gloria looked at Devlin.
"I don't see why not…she's going to get her stitches out tomorrow."
Ruby smiled.
"I'll make sure she doesn't get too wild…We just both want to kick back and listen to some good music. There's a new band there tonight."
Gloria smiled.
"Sounds like a plan."
Ruby looked at me.
"I'm alone tonight too," she said, "My boyfriend's out of town and I need her to keep me from being naughty."
I wondered how my wife would react to that but she just smiled.
"I know what that's like," she said, "Sure…just make sure Tiffany doesn't overexert herself. It's easy to get caught up in all the activity."
"Tiffany needs to be back by midnight," I said looking at her.
Ruby nodded.
"Sure thing…I don't think I'll stay out late myself," she said, "I know I've only been going out with this guy a couple of times but I miss him, you know what I mean?"
Gloria nodded.
"Ah young love…"
I groaned inwardly, knowing that what was going on between Ruby and Brock had nothing to do with innocent love.
"Thanks for understanding Gloria."
She turned around and left without giving me a glance.
"Ruby's so sweet don't you think," Gloria said, "Tiffany's lucky to have such a thoughtful friend."
I just sipped my beer, my hard on mercifully hidden by my pants. But just the sight of her in that bikini and the thought of peeling it off while she lay, tied up and begging me to forgive her for acting the slut…I just finished my beer and went back outside to finish my orders while my wife started dinner.
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