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Februay 18, - Week 7
1997 International Year of the Reef
The earthĺs climate has changed in the past and continues to change. A reason for skepticism about global warming and the role of humans in climate change is that accurate measurements of temperature and other climate variables have been made only for the last one hundred years or less. Scientists need to consider conditions over hundreds to thousands of years to understand the potential changes by man from natural variability even at seasonal to decadal time spans.
Even the reliable prediction of climate from one season to a decade in the future requires knowledge of past climate variability and an understanding of how the climate system operates and responds to altered conditions. While climate models help us to replicate past conditions, even these require accurate records of past climate conditions.
Coral reefs have been a fixture of oceans for millions of years and are sensitive to climate changes. As many corals grow, they grow skeletons in bands much as trees grow rings. These bands provide an accurate calendar from which samples can be taken which can be dated to the exact year, season and perhaps month or week that they were deposited.
Chemicals in the calcium carbonate skeleton can reveal invaluable information on ocean temperatures, rainfall/salinity, currents and upwelling. Examination of the skeletons can even reveal chemical contamination of their environment, the timing of their seasonal reproduction and past episodes of severe stress such as coral bleaching. Corals are providing an accurate long-term record of climate change and extending our knowledge of even seasonal climate variability in many remote tropical oceans.
Why do we care about the climate on tropical coral reefs? Much of the worldĺs climate system is driven by the heat of the tropical oceans, especially the Pacific. The El Ni˝o/Southern Oscillation (ENSO) system has tremendous effects on climate in the Americas and beyond. Recent advances in predicting tropical ocean temperatures have dramatically improved NOAAĺs ability to provide seasonal climate forecasts.
The temperature of the central Pacific can influence droughts in the southwestern U.S., floods in the Mississippi and snow in the Pacific Northwest. A strong El Ni˝o can wipe out fisheries in South America. By comparing past records of ocean climate with past records of the effects on land we can better understand natural variability and human influences on the climate system.
Scientific research carried out through various NOAA programs is helping us to understand the past climate changes on coral reefs around the world. Researchers supported by the NOAA Climate and Global Change Program are sampling corals across the Pacific and Indian Oceans to map El Ni˝o events over the past few hundred years. Scientists at the NOAA-cooperative Caribbean Marine Research Center in the Bahamas are examining cores drilled from reefs to estimate changes in temperature and rainfall for the last 500 to perhaps 15,000 years.
Researchers working with the Texas Flower Garden National Marine Sanctuary are using corals to understand linkages between climate in the Pacific and the Gulf of Mexico, while in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary researchers have tried to understand how coastal construction there changed circulation in ways that dramatically altered the environment for corals. Scientists at the National Undersea Research Center in the Florida Keys are using corals to understand how changing UV radiation can influence marine animals.
Through this work and more, scientists are using corals as natural instruments to record climate. While we can start new programs to monitor the earth, it is only through work like this that we can understand our environment from times before we started to take records.
FOR MORE INFORMATION ON THE INTERNATIONAL YEAR OF THE CORAL REEF OR THIS SUBJECT, PLEASE CONTACT MATT STOUT AT: 202-482-6090 OR email@example.com
NOAA's Coral Reef Home Page
Coral Health and Monitoring Program (CHAMP)
OR contact: NOAA Climate and Global Change Program:
Mark Eakin, Program Manager (301) 427-2089 ext. 19 Caribbean Marine Research Center:
Jamie L. Serino, Science Director (561) 471-7552 National Undersea Research Center, Florida Keys:
Steven Miller, Science Director (305) 451-0233 Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary:
J. Harold Hudson, Regional Biologist (305) 451-1644 Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary:
Stephen Gittings, Sanctuary Manager (409) 779-2705
Niall Slowey, Research Scientist, Texas A&M University (409) 845-8478
Pacific Coral Paleoclimate Researchers:
Robert B. Dunbar, Rice University (713) 527-4883 Richard G. Fairbanks, Columbia University (914) 365-8499 Latin American Coral Paleoclimate Researchers:
Jorge Cortes, University of Costa Rica (506) 207-5087
Hector Guzman, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (507) 228-4022
Effects of UV Light:
Gerard M. Wellington, University of Houston (713) 743-2649
Internet Resources:
Coral Paleoclimate Data are available at:
Examine an actual coral core at:
Other NOAA Resources
Weekly Story Ideas


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- Type ctrl+alt+F2 to change to a different tty login. (type ctrl+alt+F0 to go back)
- Press the Tab key on the command line halfway through typing a filename to auto complete the rest of the filename.
- Type "sudo apt-get install synaptic" to get an easy to use package manager that is available from the desktop. (you might need to apply this bug fix http://elinux.org/R-Pi_Troubleshooting# ... y_password )
- Links is a surprisingly good and very fast text only browser that works in a terminal. (install using "sudo apt-get install links" or using Synaptic).
- use "WinScp" from a PC to remotely navigate and edit files on the pi. (you may need to enable ssh on the pi first).
- If you don't want to always turn on your HDMI TV first then edit as root config.txt in /boot (using "sudo nano /boot/config.txt") and add the line "hdmi_force_hotplug=1"
- from an Android phone use "AndFTP" to access your files on the pi. Use sftp/ssh. (you can even use "ConnectBot" with "Hackers keyboard" to access the terminal).
OK so there are my best tips, what are your tips?

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ScottK brauchte ein neues Logo Design und hat einen Wettbewerb auf 99designs gestartet.
Aus 100 Designs von 34 Designern wurde eine Gewinner gewählt.
A logo is needed to represent DrunkLastNight.com. Logo will be used for everything involved with DrunkLastNight.com. Will be seen by many users.
Be creative, all ideas are welcome.
Logo was first invisioned to have "DrunkLastNight" look to be filled up with beer and have foam spilling over.
".com" in one solid color to seperate from drunklastnight.
Abbreviation of DLN can be included. Include logos with and/or without catch phrase.
All other ideas and creations are welcomed. Be creative and original.
- Logo should include whole website: DrunkLastNight.com
- Catch phrase to go below: Everyone has a story...
- Relate logo to drinking but keep it classy
All ideas are welcomed.


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Messin' With the System
by Ann Coleman
(TMF AnnC)
Reston, VA. (October 21, 1998) -- Philip Morris (NYSE: MO) reported increased earnings yesterday, coming in at a penny per share higher than analysts' estimates. Today the stock had a nice rise in the face of a more or less flat Dow, which is good news for those holding Flip Mo in their Foolish Four portfolios. Eastman Kodak (NYSE: EK) also continued its slow but steady climb back out of the earnings pothole it hit last week.
Everybody likes Kodak moments, but Philip Morris is another story. It ranks up there with politics and religion as a polarizing topic of conversation. So today I reluctantly take on the topic of Your Foolish Conscience, prompted in part by a comment on the Dow Dividend Approach/Foolish Four message board to the effect that an investor's reluctance to invest in a cigarette company was "not Foolish."
It's true that I spend a good deal of time telling people that messing with the system is probably not a good idea. The Foolish Four is a mechanical stock picking system, and to whatever extent past performance relates to the future (a very good question!), that amount of predictability is lost when one starts to change the stock picking parameters.
My caution against messing with the system is based on the fact that we usually have no way to evaluate the possible results of such changes -- not because messing with the system in general is a bad or unFoolish thing to do. If we hadn't been willing to mess with the original Beating the Dow strategy four years ago, the Foolish Four and its many variations and improvements would never have happened.
If someone wants to follow a strategy with the expectation that its performance in the future will be similar to its performance in the past, then changing that strategy without backtesting the change is a bad idea. Even worse is trying to avoid certain stocks because they are losing money, facing new competition, being sued or are simply reviled and spat upon by the masses. It is those very situations (which usually turn out to be exaggerated dangers in hindsight) that are the basis of the Foolish Four's success.
Those kinds of changes are different from the Philip Morris controversy, however. Someone who understands that a change may very well result in lower returns, but who is willing to give that up for whatever reason, can certainly make a mature and perfectly Foolish personal decision to change the set of stocks that the strategy picks to a set that they find more personally acceptable. In other words, to dump Philip Morris.
I did some snooping back through the Dow Returns, and it's quite clear that Philip Morris and the other tobacco stocks have been strong performers. Flip Mo was rarely in the Foolish Four prior to its split in 1997 (the price was too high), but it often made the High Yield 10 and in every year that it did, its performance was better than the average Foolish Four performance.
No question about it -- you skip Philip Morris at your own risk.
But that is the point, isn't it? Anyone who is willing to give up the possibility of higher returns because they don't wish to own a company (it could be any company) with an image that is extremely distasteful to them can certainly do so without being considered "unFoolish." The very essence of Foolishness is taking personal responsibility for one's own investing decisions.
In fact, it is quite easy to skip any company on any of our lists. Our Current Dow Order page (see below for the link) list the High Yield 10 in both yield and price order and the top 10 RP stocks. High Yield 10 investors can switch to a High Yield 9 strategy. Foolish Four and RP4 investors will find their stocks identified on the appropriate list, so it is a simple matter to just select the next stock down if you want to leave out any Foolish Four or RP stock -- just be sure that your reasons and expectations are "Foolish."
Fool on and prosper!
Current Dow Order | 1998 Dow Returns
10/21/98 Close
Stock Change Last -------------------- UK - 9/16 41.31 IP - 1/2 48.06 MO + 15/16 49.94 EK + 7/8 76.50
Day Month Year FOOL-4 +0.23% 1.43% 12.42% DJIA +0.16% 8.63% 7.73% S&P 500 +0.56% 5.20% 10.25% NASDAQ +2.17% -1.13% 6.65% Rec'd # Security In At Now Change 12/31/97 206 Eastman Ko 60.56 76.50 26.32% 12/31/97 289 Int'l Pape 43.13 48.06 11.45% 12/31/97 276 Philip Mor 45.25 49.94 10.36% 12/31/97 291 Union Carb 42.94 41.31 -3.78% Rec'd # Security In At Value Change 12/31/97 206 Eastman Ko 12475.88 15759.00 $3283.13 12/31/97 289 Int'l Pape 12463.13 13890.06 $1426.94 12/31/97 276 Philip Mor 12489.00 13782.75 $1293.75 12/31/97 291 Union Carb 12494.81 12021.94 -$472.88 CASH $754.73 TOTAL $56208.48


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Permian players are running hot after a third, strong IPO this year, and more may be in store.Parsley Energy Inc. (NYSE: PE) is the company of the hour. After six years proving up and acquiring land in the Midland Basin, the company went public.
In part, the company planned to use proceeds from a stock offering to grab several thousand acres in the Permian.
The company's success has been galvanizing and bodes well for "the wide swath of Permian players seeking additional investor funding to enact their development plans," said Ethan Bellamy, a senior analyst at Baird Energy. "This is the third Permian-focused IPO this year, following RSP Permian Inc. (NYSE: RSPP) and EP Energy Corp. (NYSE: EPE)."
The company's IPO made Bryan Sheffield, president, chairman and CEO, an instantly wealthy man. The company's $18.50 per share offering was quickly eclipsed, and on June 4, traded at $24.94.
Sheffield grew up the son and grandson of oilmen in Midland, Texas, and moved north after college to seek riches in the Chicago options pits. After a few years clerking at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and trading interest rates for First Continental Trading Inc., Sheffield returned to Texas -- and found his fortune.
Since his oil and natural gas company sold shares in an IPO on May 22, the company has soared more than 29%, making the 36-year-old one of the youngest billionaires in the U.S., according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.
"Exciting times for Parsley Energy," Sheffield said in an email.
The company has about 112,000 net acres and stakes in 555 wells in the Permian Basin, a large oil and gas deposit in north-central Texas, according to a company fact sheet. It had sales of $143 million in 2013, about 80% from oil.
Before its IPO, the company disclosed it had entered an April 10 agreement for an option to purchase 4,867 net acres, primarily in the company's Midland Basin core area for $132.8 million. The company expects to exercise its option and planned to use net proceeds from its IPO to fund the purchase of the assets.
On May 1, 2014, the company also completed a purchase and sale transaction, acquiring 1,997 net acres in the Midland Basin core area. The assets include 6.3 net wells with average production, for the month ended April 30, of 861 net barrels of oil per day.
The company said it would pay $165.3 million.
Sheffield owns more than 15% of the company after selling 1.8 million shares in the IPO. He owns another 22.7 million units that are convertible into common stock, according to the company's prospectus filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
Parsley Energy will pay him and the company's other pre-IPO owners 85% of the tax savings the business received as a result of the offering. If the company terminated this tax-receivable agreement today, Sheffield would be paid about $122 million, according to the prospectus.
Brad Smith, a spokesman for Parsley, said the regulatory quiet period precluded Sheffield from commenting further.
Parsley is one of 28 energy IPOs to be held this year, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. The group has gained 22% since their pricing, trailing only the communications sector as the best-performing in the market.
The spate of energy IPOs reflects the brightening sentiment for the sector, according to Jonathan Waghorn, manager of the Guinness Atkinson Global Energy Fund.
"We went through a 34-month bear market until basically about three months ago," Waghorn said by phone from London.
Since February, the MSCI Global Energy Index has rallied more than 16% as anticipated increases in oil coming from OPEC producers, such as Iran and Libya, hasn't materialized.
"There is a sentiment change in the market that says even with the U.S. oil shale bonanza of excess supply, maybe we're not going back to $50 oil," Waghorn said.Waghorn's fund doesn't own shares of Parsley Energy.
"In the Permian, specifically, reserves and resources estimates are continually getting revised higher," Andrew Cosgrove, an energy industry analyst with Bloomberg Industries in Princeton, N.J., said by phone. "Horizontal drilling is in the early innings in the Permian."
Parsley has identified 1,681 locations on its property suitable for horizontal drilling, about a third of the potential wells it has identified, the company said in its prospectus. Improvements in horizontal drilling technology have revived oil production prospects in fields across the U.S. including the Permian, Cosgrove said.
Sheffield left Chicago to enter the oil business in 2006. He struck a deal with his grandfather, Joe M. Parsley, to take control of more than 100 wells Parsley retained when the business he co-founded, Parker & Parsley, merged with another company to form Pioneer Natural Resources Co. (NYSE: PXD) in 1997, according to regulatory filings.
The billionaire's father, Scott D. Sheffield, has served as Pioneer's chairman and CEO since 1997. The Irving, Texas-based company owns about a one-third interest in Joe Parsley's old wells. The younger Sheffield joined Pioneer for an annual salary of less than $60,000 in 2006, and started overseeing oil properties, according to SEC filings.
Sheffield left two years later to start Midland, Texas- based Parsley Energy. Its first assets were 109 wells obtained from his grandfather, who now owns 6.5% of the public entity, including convertible units, according to the Parsley prospectus filed Tuesday with the SEC.
Parsley accumulated more than $450 million in loans from its founding through March 2014 to increase its acreage and wells beyond its initial assets. Higher sales followed the rise in wells. In 2011, the company had under $11 million in sales before tripling in 2012 and again in 2013.


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This morning I asked my son if he had good dreams and he replied I never remember my dreams which is quite annoying, because our homework right now is to keep a dream journal.
I replied Oh no! Maybe you can borrow some?
He answered in a resigned voice I doubt that is allowed.
This is one of the rare days I remember a dream, and it was about my aunt.
I was standing in her living room, blonde baby boy on my hip, and she was sober - this bit was historically accurate; she was clean a decade before her death.
The room started filling up with people I never see because they live far away, like Jon Rietfors, and people I'll never see again because of the choices they've made.
I handed the baby to my mother, who was laughing, and went from person to person, urgently trying to get their addresses and phone numbers. My aunt walked in the room and she was crying - something I personally never witnessed in real life, not after her accident, not any of the times I picked her up from jail or rehab, not when her mother died, never, not even smashed out of her mind.
Someone asked what was the matter and she said she had learned something about her boss that would force her to quit. I knew the job and sobriety were connected and tried to convince her that we could figure out a solution, but she kept crying.
Looking around the room for assistance, I noticed that more than half the crowd went to Evergreen. I held out my hand and said We can seminar the problem away!
They all laughed, at least.
I woke up and pulled the blanket up over my head, contemplating the alarming fact that even my subconscious is pragmatic.
Though it was nice to see my aunt again.
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I've been sorting through digital archives, and one of the things I found was covertly filmed footage of an ordinary ferry ride.
I was bemused to watch myself, bedraggled in a tattered vintage dress, with pink and white striped hair, walking around with a four year old child in a suit and bow-tie.
Memories are curious; I actually do recall that day, and approximately what I was thinking about that summer.
What I'd forgotten is how it felt to be so entwined with a small vulnerable human that we could not handle being more than a few feet from each other. The tape documents how we used to wander, touching every few minutes, aware of the other person and very little else about our surroundings.
Parenting small children is a tactile experience. Their immediate physical and mental needs are of paramount importance, to the exclusion of much else - even if you have other responsibilities or desires. This isn't a choice, it is just part of the deal.
All babies love me (the same is true of abused dogs and lost tourists), but the only toddlers and small children I've ever enjoyed have been my own. Taking care of them, while sometimes difficult, has never been a chore. I have been delighted by their individual, alarming, dramatic selves at every stage of life.
I don't just love them; I enjoy and adore them.
This was of course no guarantee that the feeling would be reciprocated as they grew up. I know that lots of attentive, loving families break down, that grown-ups make their own choices. I'm not the sort to expect fealty, or filial devotion of any kind. They owe me nothing.
It is a surprise then to have a ten year old who still wants to hang out with me. And a grown-up, fully launched daughter who invites me to go see the Decemberists, not because she needs a ride or cash, but because she actually likes me.
It is an honor to have the opportunity to know them.
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I am currently being persecuted by a vile illness: the sniffles! After I dropped my kid off I stopped to buy water and the Bacchanalia dude said Care to try some wine?
Furrowing my brow, I brilliantly replied Huh?
There is a wine rep - a new line - you should try it!
Oh, shivers. I don't know how to do that!
He laughed at my stricken expression and said Go on!
Do I have to?
Yes. It is mandatory!
Obedient for once, I reluctantly walked to the back of the shop, where a very nice Australian man explained the differences between, um, different grapes. I think. It was confusing, I'm sick, and I didn't know where to look.
Now I have officially gone to a wine tasting. With a head cold. How horrifying!
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Last night I arranged to meet Josh at the Maypole - haven't seen him since the spring, and that is a long time given that he is one of my favorite people!
When he arrived I gleefully inquired How are you?
He spread out his arms and replied I never know how to answer that.
Easy, I answered. I always say I'm awesome!
He retorted I've been here too long for awesome!
We were served by the bartender who winks at me then retired to the back room to catch up.
He mentioned that he flies to Seattle this week and I excitedly offered lots of tips, then realized he probably won't enjoy hanging out at either the Bus Stop or the Crescent.
I rattled off a series of stories about Seattle that are only available in person, late at night, and we laughed and laughed for hours.
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I spent the better part of the last two weeks in London enjoying the peace and quiet of the borrowed flat. It has been exactly a year since Iain and Xtina loaned me their place while they were away, a fact that surprises me.
Looking back at the journal entries from that visit, I am amazed at how much has happened in twelve months, and how much has remained the same.
The cataclysmic and entertaining events of the year have of course made an impact (the death of my aunt most of all); in some ways I am hardly recognizable as the same person. But in all fundamental matters, nothing has changed.
Last year I was already planning a trip back to Seattle within moments of arriving in England; this year I am making a choice between San Francisco, Montreal, or New York.
In my peregrinations I walked from Finsbury Park to Alexandra Palace, criss-crossed central London, wandered at will through countless neighborhoods. I went to the same museums, pondered the same subjects, ate the same flavor jelly bean. I worked while simultaneously convinced that I was wasting time. I was homesick for the Puget Sound while also pleased to live so far away.
I mourned the people who have died, was perplexed by those I will not see again, felt delighted by the changing relationships with those I still choose to know.
I went out with the East London Massive, hatching a plot with Peter that will have huge consequences on my daily reality. I guided Anika around London, telling her scandalous stories and reminiscing about impoverished rural Northwest childhoods. I successfully evaded the attentions of a stalker who wanted to party - um, no thanks.
Mostly though I elected to be alone, because the darkest part of the year is approaching. Building up a reserve of quiet solitude is not just important but critical - and these independent days in the city, walking, thinking, writing, were a true gift.
This life is a constant surprise in many ways, most of all in the generosity of dear friends. I cannot possibly thank Iain and Xtina enough for all that they have offered, and all the wonderful times still to come. It is an honor and privilege to have their friendship, and to offer mine in turn.
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When I arrived in Cambridge I went to the post box and there was a package from Gabriel waiting for me. I was distracted by the usual flurry of arrival nonsense so my brain didn't properly understand what I had in my hands.
When I turned the pages to the index, it felt like my heart literally stopped - it is a 1961 catalog from an exhibition titled Six Photographers.
Featuring Ralph Eugene Meatyard.
In my opinion Meatyard is one of the most important practitioners of the medium in the previous century, with a body of work far superior to any of his splashy contemporaries. On a personal level he certainly influenced me more than any other artist of any description. His photographs have been vastly more meaningful to me than any book I've ever read.
In short, Gabriel is the best ever and I am so lucky that we're friends!
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It was already autumn when I flew back here in late August, though the dudes at Bacchanalia assure me that summer never happened.
Now the weather has advanced from bright and crisp to cold which is very exciting - fall is the best time of year here!
Except of course spring, when all the baby animals are born. Or winter, when the city is empty and misty. Or summer, when hordes of strangers descend and roll around in the parks....
I think it safe to say I enjoy the weather in England. I definitely understand why locals spend so much time talking about it!
It appears that I neglected to book the Canadian book tour. My fault! I was distracted by stateside hedonism, and then forgot in the flurry of settling back into the routines of this fine nation. Sorry, Rachel and Trixie! I promise I will make it to Montreal one day!
Though my failure to plan means I have time to go elsewhere! Leading the options: San Francisco, because I didn't go this summer and because Gordon is having a birthday party.
Though I am strongly tempted by invitations from Ana Erotica, newly ensconced in a railroad flat in Brooklyn, and KTS, officially Dr Karl by the time I would arrive in NYC....
Or of course, Seattle, Seattle, Seattle! With the inevitable side serving of Portland.
What to do, what to do!
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The other day I met my agent for lunch in the West End.
We haven't seen each other since the spring and she cocked her head expectantly but I held my hand up in the Boy Scout pledge and said I swear, I've caused no recent scandals! I was excessively pure and innocent all summer!
After some discussion she believed my assertions, but that just opened up the conversation for an investigation about what I've been doing instead. Which is, well, not much! Or at least, nothing that can be published, because I threw away the stuff I finished over the summer.
This is of course exasperating to certain people, not least my officially recognized literary agent, but it is also how I've always worked. I produce very little, very fast, with long gaps between each session.
To avoid the inevitable chastisement I hurriedly offered up the funeral story.
Susan was nicely distracted throughout the rest of the meal, and we said goodbye on good terms.
Hours later I received a text pointing out that my anecdote would be an excellent first chapter for a novel.
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Anika is opening a branch of her business in London and flew in from Seattle last night. We met at Trafalgar Square, and when asked what she might like to do, the reply was I need socks, and a haircut!
Fair enough, and honestly, this is the best kind of guest - concrete goals are easy!
We set off toward Covent Garden, everyone chattering away, and both goals were accomplished easily with stops at M&S and Hair by Fairy. It was barely noon when I asked what she wanted to do next, and her answer was predictable: Let's get a drink!
I guided the group to the pub at Seven Dials, where we had a rollicking discussion about life in the UK, much to the consternation of Damian, who will be heading up the office. He lives in Sammamish, for goodness sake!
Everyone would have been happy to stay there but I'm too pragmatic for such antics, and pushed the group out the door to eat lunch on Brick Lane.
My stateside friends were bemused at the typically hostile service, but three years in this country has toughened me up. Menus smacked down, strange attitude, shouted complaints? Standard! The fact that the toilet was flooded? Also completely ordinary for an English restaurant.
What was not normal? The fact that the waiter, at the end of the meal, asked in a very concerned voice Was everything ok?
Yes, I replied, amazing!
He cocked his head and said You haven't been here in ages.
Surprised, I told him that I've been traveling. Who knew that the dudes at the restaurant recognize me, and care if I fail to turn up!
We wandered through Shoreditch in the sunshine and ended up at Vibe Bar, chatting and laughing. At one point we were in the restroom and Anika commented in her bright western voice I think it is a fantastic plan to store the toilet paper on the floor!
As we walked out to rejoin the others she stopped in front of a vending machine that dispenses sex toys, exclaiming in shock Ten dollars for a cock ring?! That is fucking insane! How do you live here?!
Good question, really. I guess the answer is - because I can, and because I am easily amused!
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I stayed in Portland an entire weekend - that is a record for me! Normally the experience is too bittersweet and I bolt, but it was Marisa's birthday - what a temptation!
My daughter skipped the Zine Camp party which was unfortunate as it was great fun and an opportunity to catch up with Sara, Meadow, Dennis, countless others.
Six years ago I ran away from home and holed up at Gabriel's mountain house outside of Aspen. This kid named Justin gave me a ride back to Denver, I took a shower at his parents house in another ski resort, and we talked for hours about love and life. Who would have guessed we'd end up putting out books with the same publisher, hanging out extensively in NYC, and that later yet someone would get in touch and ask if he would be a good person to head up the IPRC?
It was awesome to see him even if only for a few minutes. Also Nicole, and Lli, and all the children who have grown so much in the five years since I left!
We went out to Sauvie Island for the birthday bash, an event notable in many ways. The best moment happened when Byron mysteriously acquired an infant and Beth Ditto chased him around the beach hollering Tall man, give me that baby!
There were too many other brilliant things to keep track - the Zine Symposium, and seeing the Bitch staffers, and running into Jaina (surely a magical creature given all the strange places we've met over the years)! Portland is simply the best!
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From the fab & amazing Ayun Halliday:
The entire staff of the East Village Inky would be most obliged if you'd give a heads up to all your friends, family, and multitudinous associates in Juneau, Alaska, that the long-awaited prequel to Urinetown, Greg's YEAST NATION: The Triumph of Life will be having its world premiere at Perseverance Theater in October. We're sending our theater critic! You send yours. It's a Grand Jamboree of un-Sameness.
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The day before I left the states I was standing on the foredeck of the Mukilteo ferry staring at the receding landscape and idly chatting about topics like Whatever happened to the Mukilteo Fairies?
Though honestly, I have no recollection of seeing them perform - my Olympia years were a blur of studying, working, testifying in assorted court cases, conducting semi-clandestine love affairs. By the time I finished grad school I was already working in government; it seems unlikely that I attended many queercore shows!
Reminiscing about those years, I asked Byron if he remembered the point where my youthful idealism had been stretched so thin by bad managers and cynical stakeholders that I developed a misguided plan to throw away the career implementing civil rights laws and join the ferry service.
He blinked in astonishment; apparently I failed to mention it to him (we weren't especially close at the time).
Half of my family worked on the ferries, and I thought it sounded quite tempting to spend my days on the water. I only changed my mind when I realized my college degrees would make me a manager by default, and I had no intention of letting that happen ever again - let alone with the possibility of being senior to my uncles at age twenty-four.
Just then I turned and spied, ten feet away, the very same person I handed my resignation letter to twelve years ago!
He was not the bad manager - I had the director fired before I left, obviously.
I pointed out the coincidence to Byron and he laughed, then reminded me that nobody from Olympia would recognize me now. Why don't you go say hello?
Baffled, I asked Why would I? What would we talk about? The fiscal mismanagement and ruinous controversies endemic to the agency?
You could catch up!
Um, no.
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Today I went to the Hunterian to see A Visible Difference: Skin, Race, and Identity 1720-1820.
After pensively staring at the skeletal remains of Caroline Crachami for awhile I meandered off to the V&A because I'd heard a rumor of a Lee Miller retrospective. Too early! It opens later this week - color me excited!
Then as I moved to depart, wonder of wonders, what did I see in the European Galleries? A very sketchy looking man with a unicorn tattooed on his neck!
This, if you may recall, was the ultimate holy grail in our Hunt for Bad Boys and Lumberjacks! I stood there gawking, then realized he might mistake my fascination for prurient interest and scurried away before the dude could talk to me.
Lurking in the sculpture gallery I rapidly texted Ana Erotica to let her know I'd spotted her man. Maybe fate will throw them together one day! Though she has lately been trying to date Very Smart Boys, even if she doesn't find them hot.
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When I repudiated January I gave myself a different day to celebrate my birth.
This is the second year running I forgot about it.
Last night I took myself out to a solitary dinner and read about the scandalous lives of poets, then watched several hours of television (quite the anomaly and treat). It was so much fun I overslept, by approximately a whole day, and had many lucid dreams involving Seattle and Portland and Cambridge and London friends all converging at the Maypole for much hilarity with a soundtrack provided live by Beirut. I think I even roller skated!
It is my birthday indulgence to relate the contents of a dream, since I would never normally impose such things on friends.
Happy fake birthday to me!
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Heather Jackson has resigned from producing Girl-Mom.com to pursue other projects.
Please join me in thanking her for two years of tremendous work; the job is extremely difficult and requires a very specific kind of sensitivity and strength. I've been amazed and admiring of how she has collaborated with and assisted the community - and with her patience over various technical quagmires.
Heather is a truly impressive woman, mother, and colleague. I wish her all the best in the future!
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Last night at 2AM my phone received a call from an unknown number. I would have answered - I was awake and in a fantastic mood - but didn't hear it as I was elsewhere. It was Gomyo ringing from Japan - now that would have been an entertaining conversation!
This afternoon another unknown number called. Learning to use the telephone is so odd and intriguing; answering from a caller id called withheld is like buying a Grab Bag at Ye Olde Curiosity Shop!
This time it was Rachel asking for dating advice and I exclaimed Because I'm so good at that?! (high sarcasm there; I'd earlier been chatting with Gordon about how rubbish I've always been with such things).
We had an excellent chat as I ventured toward Jai Krishna, amazed that the day was warm and balmy. It is a custom to go there for the Iain birthday celebration, so I associate the place with brutal cold. Poor winter babies! Jody wants to come over and throw a joint birthday party, but as I pointed out, England is actually closed that week.
I glanced up from contemplating the menu and recognized the tattoo on an arm wandering by. We've never met in person but I would know Ally anywhere. Very much against my normal hesitant (not to mention oblivious) routine I reached out and tapped her arm and said hello. Great fun, lovely woman, expat solidarity!
My agent texted to invite me out to bear boy burlesque but with all the coincidence in the air today I decided to retire to the borrowed apartment rather than risk it. Who knows which person from my past I'd see at that show!
What advice did I give Rachel? Make yer move! Don't process! Be a man!
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Earlier today I was on the boat reading up on the history of the San Juan archipelago including the extremely fascinating Pig War (and jotting down notes on 3x5 cards - because yes, my sophomore summer is apparently transitioning to junior year AP mode) when Iain called to tell me scandalous secrets.
I have officially advanced in phone etiquette to the extent that I occasionally speak instead of just giggling - amazing!
Over the course of the conversation Iain reminded me that I have access to his flat for two weeks while he and Xtina are on holiday. They are the best ever! I feel so lucky that we met - knowing them has enriched my life beyond imagining.
Right after we said goodbye my phone started ringing again, this time with an unknown number. I surprised myself by answering - and a good thing too, because it was Jody calling from Israel to tell me about photographing graffiti in Yafo and reading newspaper reports about NIN at the Wailing Wall.
I offered to introduce him to one of my assorted Tel Aviv friends and he exclaimed He might be a serial killer!
I answered I know serial killers, but he isn't one, I swear! I would tell you!
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Just before I ran off to the states for the summer I submitted to a series of blood tests.
Then I promptly forgot about the whole thing.
When I arrived back in the UK and checked six weeks of accumulated mail there were several letters from specialists at the teaching hospital trying to arrange appointments, including a tedious new survey from medical genetics.
The stack also included a letter stating The result of your blood test has now arrived back from the laboratories. Please could you telephone the surgery to speak to Dr. X to discuss....
Now, if everything is fine, they just send a badly copied slip of paper with cryptic notes saying essentially all clear.
So, as of Saturday afternoon I was aware that my blood work might indicate one of two things:
Option A, cancer-suppressive medication needs to be adjusted.
Option B, new and lethal cancer has been detected.
Either way, this is significant news. My meds haven't been changed in ten years, and if it is necessary to do so I'll have to go to numerous tedious appointments at the sinister teaching hospital, with lots of people gawking.
Alternately, if there is cancer brewing somewhere inside me, it is a variety that has limited treatment options.
Welcome to my annual Big Cancer Scare, four months early!
I've been through this too often to get excited. I certainly did not let the news detract from my weekend, or the residual glee over a truly excellent summer.
That is not to say that I felt sanguine, or that I was in denial. I just declined to panic.
When I am truly frightened the experience is visceral - my body goes into a modified state of shock and (regardless of the temperature) I start shaking with cold - deep, incurable, disastrous.
Thinking about my own mortality while waiting to call during office hours did not freak me out. If my DNA dictates an early death, that is hardly a surprise; I'm not inclined to die at the moment but I've had more time than I ever expected.
I do not proactively grieve. I rarely even feel that emotion when appropriate - I react after the fact, when safe. Throughout the weekend I felt variously exasperated and annoyed - but not sad.
During the course of the recent research on Sharing, Relating, and Ladychat it became abundantly clear that even if I can learn a few new skills it will be more on the level of a conjuring trick than a true ability to communicate about certain subjects.
My instinct to tell anyone about this round of medical drama was in fact nonexistent. Partly to protect people; my mother and friends do not need the burden of worry.
Beyond that I've lost too many dearly beloved over this kind of thing, both over the course of this strange life and in the last few months. I appreciate that particular human frailty. However, saying that, I don't want to know which of the people I currently love will abandon me out of fear - or whatever.
I didn't even remember to tell Byron until late on Sunday. He replied All the cool kids are getting cancer! It's like the new tattoo!
Yeah, gallows humor does in fact help. Byron is rock steady in that regard.
So, what is the outcome, what did the tests indicate?
My medication needs to be adjusted, of course. It is unlikely that I would have mentioned anything if the situation were more serious.
Sign me up for dreary meetings with excitable endocrinologists - they love me since my particular presentation of disease is so very unusual.
Back to the experience of being a specimen. Fun!
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Last night I met Satnam at the Castle - it was excessively good to catch up on all the local gossip, including affairs and scandals and the news that someone in his field just sold a company for five hundred million dollars.
Yeah, really.
Satnam claims he followed me to Seattle, and later England, and whenever there is a hint that I might move again he flings himself to the floor in exaggerated horror.
There are many secret adventures on the horizon for all of us but I opened my eyes wide and solemnly promised Next time I'll follow you!
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Massive celebratory congratulations to Ana Helena & Chris on the arrival of baby Ursula, and Ariel & Maria Fabulosa on the birth of baby Maximillian!
On a side note, I hear that Ana Helena was already performing with Ape Shape the next day. That girl is hardcore!
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Back in the UK, land of strong tea and aggressive driving! My first stop? Bacchanalia, of course. I cycled over to buy water and chat about the weather; the jolly people who run the place are some of my favorite people in this town.
Last night I aired out the boat then wandered through the city centre at twilight once again astonished, baffled, and delighted to live in a place drenched with history and populated by such demented and entertaining people.
When I am away I always forget about the ravishing beauty of this city - oh, Cambridge!
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The other day I was driving around Whidbey Island, singing along to the radio, thinking about performing with the Chorus, and I tried to coax my companions to remember those old songs.
Of course we still know all the lyrics to Union Maid and Rote Zora (including the German bits) but between us we could only come up with fragments of Sabotabby Kitten, Coal Tattoo, Dump the Bosses, Bread and Roses.
Finally we gave up and defaulted to Caleb Meyer - there is nothing quite like a murder ballad to round out a bright sunny day of wholesome fun!
Why did a Union Chorus perform that one specifically? Well, we also did The Pill and My Big Iron Skillet.
Yes, it was quite a spectacle, particularly when my (then nine year old) daughter took the solo spot for songs about gender equality and sexual identity.
Now I live in a land where May Day is officially recognized, and I often forget the September stateside nod to what was originally conceived as the strength and esprit de corps of the trade and labor organizations.
Happy Labor Day weekend!
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text: I have some partly filled frames of caped honey from last year. I suspect it is sugared as it was out in the cold all winter. ?When I give it back will they reprocess it so as not to be sugared? If they don't what will happen when I extract this fall?. It is in shallow frames so I can't put it in the brood boxes> Should I scrape the cappings?? Will it hasten the sugaring of my new honey? Any other comments I don't know enough to ask?


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Funeral services for Jesse Frank Macat were held at 10 a.m.
Wednesday, Jan. 14, 2004 at the Nelsonville Brethren Church with
Rev. Michael Groseclose officiating. Burial followed in the National
lived in Houston for 4 years before returning to the Nelsonville
area where they have made their home since that time. Jesse was a
carpenter by trade and enjoyed building things. He liked to hunt and
fish and loved playing with his grandchildren.
Frank Macat passed away Sunday, Jan. 11, 2004 in Bellville at the
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Terotechnology : its application to the Australian coal mining industry
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The Port of Tauranga and its leading man have been nominated for prestigious awards that recognise the country's outstanding businesses and individuals.
The port is a finalist in the Company of the Year and its chief executive Mark Cairns is up for the Executive of the Year in the Deloitte/Management Magazine Top 200 Awards.
The port has also been nominated for the Most Improved Performance award.
The awards, established in 1990, are run annually to recognise and applaud outstanding individual and management team performances among New Zealand's largest companies and trading organisations.
The finalists are selected from the 2012 Top 200 Companies list.
Mr Cairns was one of three people nominated in the Executive of the Year category.
He will take on Dean Bracewell, managing director of Freightways Group, and Simon Challies, managing director of Ryman Healthcare.
The winner will be announced in Auckland on November 29.
Challenging the Port of Tauranga for Company of the Year are Ryman Healthcare and Trade Me Group.
Mr Cairns attributed the company's success to the "excellent work of everybody at the port, including staff and contractors".
"I'm really chuffed with the [chief executive nomination] but I'm more excited about the company of the year and the most improved nominations and I'm privileged to lead the team of great people at the port."
Meanwhile, Port of Tauranga chairman John Parker was last night awarded a Beacon award from the New Zealand Shareholders Association for leadership and guidance on corporate practice.
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Heart failure often occurs in children with congenital heart defects. Other medical problems that can cause heart failure include, but are not limited to, the following:
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Life for under-fire AC Milan coach Clarence Seedorf gets no easier when his side visit Fiorentina in Serie A on Wednesday.
The Rossoneri have not won in more than a month and travel to Florence in danger of slipping to 14th if they lose.
For Milan to be mired in mid-table mediocrity is simply not acceptable for the 18-time Italian champions and although Seedorf's men showed signs of improvement in a 1-1 draw at Lazio on Sunday, the winless run continued.
For Seedorf to take the sole blame for that is unfair, given the 37-year-old only took over in January, but his arrival has failed to revive the club's fortunes.
Only Real Madrid have won more European Cups than Milan's seven, but they will not part of the competition next season due to their poor form.
And for a side in need of a morale-boosting win, a visit to the fourth-placed Fiorentina is hardly what Seedorf would have had in mind.
Milan defender Philippe Mexes was buoyed by the side's point at Lazio a match in which Mario Balotelli also hit the post and insists that everyone at the club is united behind Seedorf.
"We're very united and I mean that with all sincerity," the Frenchman said.
"We'll always give everything. It's a particular moment that we're going through and we won't get out of it without the fans behind us. We know what this jersey means to them.
"We'll do everything we can to get out of this situation and we're ready for the match against Fiorentina. We want to bring home a positive result."
Goalkeeper Christian Abbiati could return from suspension for Milan in place of Marco Amelia, while young forward Stephan El Shaarawy (foot) is still sidelined.
Milan will take heart from the fact that Fiorentina have not won one of their last seven Serie A home matches against them.
Of those clashes, four have been away wins and Milan would dearly love a big scalp on the road to boost spirits.
Fiorentina, though, are sure to be in good spirits after an excellent 1-0 victory at Napoli on Sunday.
Vincenzo Montella's side took advantage of Faouzi Ghoulam's first-half red card, but left it late, Joaquin's winner coming with just three minutes left.
The result ended a three-match winless league run on the road and saw them move four points clear of the rampaging Parma, who are unbeaten in 17 Serie A matches.
However, Fiorentina will be without Mario Gomez for the visit of Milan, after the Germany international, who had only just returned to full fitness, suffered a knee injury at Napoli that could rule him out of action for up to a month.


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Thats a good lookin tool/toy.
Good luck with her.
Hey guys, its finally here. I've waited 10 days for it. Stupid Cali law!!! Picked up my gun and a box of Federal HS personal defense ammo. Im so excited and anxious to get out to the range next week. Gonna unload at least 300 rounds!
Thats a good lookin tool/toy.
Good luck with her.
Thats a good looking weapon. 10 days? That makes me feel a little bit better about my situation. I live in Maryland, we have an 8 day wait. I just ordered a S&W M&P40 tonight. So sometime next week I'll get it.
Dave G.
congrats on your purchase. you are more patient than myself.
That in a great looking Sig. Let us know how it shoots!
Congratulations on the new arrival! Wow, those Federal rounds are an expensive way to get to know a new gun. I shoot S&B FMJ to save $$$ while being attacked by paper targets. The Federal rounds only go into the magazine at home (except for a few to test the magazine with the round).
In Washington, we had to wait nearly 15 minutes to pick up our pistol.
That sure is a good looker. All Sigs are keepers, but she's precious. Even the magazine looks purty. I'd wait a whole month for that rig. Well...
Range report when you get back please.
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Anybody know if you can get those grey laminated wood grips separately? I'd like to get some for my 226 but I don't see them on the sig website.
Nice looking 220 BTW!
True the HGSC is valid for 5 years but on only one gun. If you plan to buy another gun...you have to take another test. the guy at the gun shop told me its valid on only 1 handgun.
HSC ProgramWhat are the Handgun Safety Certificate (HSC) requirements?
Prior to purchasing or acquiring a handgun, unless exempted, you must have a valid Handgun Safety Certificate (HSC). You must present your HSC to the firearms dealer at the time you begin a transaction to purchase/acquire a handgun.
Maybe the guy was talking about my HSC cause it expires the 31st of this month. Lol Thanks guys


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ENFP Learning Style
ENFPs learn best by exchanging ideas, conceptualising and role play.
To them, learning is a way of expanding their horizons and a path towards growth and development. They prefer to learn in an unconstrained, self-directed manner in which they can follow or absorb themselves in their current interests. They enjoy playing with ideas, experimenting with possibilities and thinking around the subject. They take in information globally, seeing first its broad shape and the possibilities inherent in it before looking at the detail, which they sometimes overlook.
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This is a discussion on Parents Upset After School Fails To Fire Felons (FL) within the Off Topic & Humor Discussion forums, part of the The Back Porch category; Originally Posted by Sonic Misfit We had a similar case in a suburb of Houston where a convicted felon ( IIRC grand theft auto ), ...
But then never underestimate the courts ability to protect the criminals, and punish the rest of us at the same time.
"fundamental principle of American law that a government and its agents are under no general duty to provide public services, such as police protection, to any individual citizen." [Warren v. District of Columbia,(D.C. Ct. of Ap., 1981)]
If I have to explain it, you wouldn't understand
Your best weapon is your brain. Don't leave home without it.
Thoughts: Justifiable self defense (A.O.J.).
Explain: How does disarming victims reduce the number of victims?
Reason over Force: Why the Gun is Civilization (Marko Kloos).
Get the government out of education and let the free market decide.
1. Parents don't want their children around felons - they will look for some assurance that the school they are considering does background checks on all applicants. If it doesn't, they can choose a different school.
2. A school that is run as a business will make damn sure no one is going to embezzle - they will do background checks on their prospective finance department employees (and of course the teachers, custodians, etc.).
3. A school that is run as a business will do everything in their power to make sure your kids come out of that school ready for life. The best advertising is the recommendation of a past parent or student.
Letting the government run the schools involves many political considerations in administration decisions that often come at the expense of the student's safety and education.
I think people spend too much time complaining about the natural, inevitable results of govt. education while not attacking the root issue: Should the government have total control of your children's thoughts, actions and attitudes? They do.
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For this uber-noob, can you please say which file/where needs that line?
Blog Module /
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In your Page_Controller class in the mysite/code/ folder. Normally goes at the top of the class (after the extends Page_Controller { ..)
Thx willr.
For other noobs like me: insert fix in this file: mysite/code/page.php
class Page_Controller extends ContentController {
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I had to close down this coporation(S-corp) around Dec 2010, I had lost everything from doing this business. One of the creditors - a freight company, with a debt of roughly $10k had sued me recently, they brought the documents to me just a few days ago.
The coporation was dissolved and I did not take any distribution from it, my last income tax of 2010 was a lost.
I have many other collections but none of them have acted besides calling and mailing me collection letters. I don't really care what they do to me, I have no assets, no bank accounts at all. I don't care about my credit either. I'm more worried about creditors going after my wife.
I was married in Jan 2010, and the debts from this freight company were incurred between Apr - Aug of 2010.
My question is, will they be able to place a judgement on my wife's asset?
I was married in Jan 2010, and the debts from this freight company were incurred between Apr - Aug of 2010.
My question is, will they be able to place a judgement on my wife's asset?
Unless the debt is a community debt, then the answer to that is no. But if the creditor gets a judgment against you, it can get to your interest in any community property. Even if an asset or income is in your wife's name only, it may still be community property.
Did you personally guarantee any of the freight company debt? If not, then you can try to avoid the judgment against you by relying on the limited liability that the corporation provides. I suggest you see an attorney in CA for advice on this. Taking the right steps now may be able to avoid all the personal liability and thus avoid having to deal with the possibility that the creditor might seek to come after assets related to your wife.
I agree.
You need a lawyer right now in order to properly answer the complaint.
You generally have about 20 days from process service to file an answer to the complaint.
The alternative is bankruptcy, which may be a lot cheaper, and should get rid of all your debts.
I don't think the debt was a community debt. I was the sole owner of the corporation, the wife had nothing to do with it. and I did NOT personal guarantee any of the debt.
I'm sure they will get a judgement on me, I am going to lose the case no matter what. I don't have any income other than EDD unemployment checks, and my wife receives scholarship funds from the college as her only income.
I don't really want to spend money hiring an attorney, i don't have that money to hire one anyways.
as long as they can't touch my wife then that's all I hope for.
my last resort will be to file for bankruptcy.
"I'm sure they will get a judgement on me"
If the corporation was properly set up and if there was not personal guarantee, how do you think that would happen?
Mike2016:I'm sure they will get a judgement on me, I am going to lose the case no matter what.
You can be guaranteed of that if you don't step up and defend yourself.
With no personal guarantee you can probably get the case dismissed fairly easily.
Did you know that judgments in CA are enforceable for 10 years (and may even be renewable). A judgment can haunt you for a long time and make it difficult to buy, sell, or refinance a home, finance a car, even get a job.
They are suing me as an individual defendant. aren't they able to go after the person who owned the corporation after it's dissolved?
They can "go after" anybody they want. Anybody can sue anybody for anything.
What we are saying is that you have a defense to raise if you did not give a personal guarantee.
If you don't defend, they get a default judgment against you, even if they are wrong.
That's because the judge only sees their side of the story and has to accept it as truth if you don't rebut it.
Do i have any chance of defensing this case without an attorney?
I don't know - can you? Are you skilled in civil procedure? Piercing the cporpoate veil mean anything to you?
haha i don't know what that means.... i don't know anything about civil procedure either.
i guess they just want to screw me over...
I would hardly use that somewhat offensive term to describe a business that wants it's legitimate debts paid.


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We moved into a house in April and it had this timer switch for the outside porch. The dial can be turned to whatever time you want (a.m. or p.m.), but to me that implies "It will turn on at time XXXX and shut off at dusk"
The switch on the right is for another light. However, the one on the left seems to have the OFF (left) and ON (right). If you have it in the OFF position the light will not come on at all. If you put it in the ON position, depending on I don't know what, there is a red light that either flashes red or becomes solid red. I think the solid red means that the timer is 'set' - the flashing red indicates that it's not working or set. Usually, I have had to play around for about 5-10 minutes to get the light to become a solid red.
We've had mixed success. At one point in time, I had the timer set (red light solid) for 9:00p.m. and it seemed to turn on at 9:00 and shut off at about midnight...excellent! But then if I needed to turn on the light manually, you PUSH the big circle and it turns on the light, seemingly screwing up the way the timer works. Later I had to make adjustments and the light would come on at 2:00pm in the afternoon. Now that the days are getting shorter, that is impacting things I believe.
I don't know what is going on, but it's driving me insane!
Anyone have a clue?
I have never seen your type of timer. Remove the cover on the switch box and get a look at the timers's information. Model, and serial number, manufacturer. Go to the web and download a user manual, or call their tech support number.
The knob looks like it has an emblem of the Intermatic company. Try this link:
Go to the website SD515 gave, and do a search for EJ351C, that is the part number for your timer. You will find the user manual for that timer and should be able to figure out your programing issue.
Once again, this site is great! Thanks for the feedback. I have donwloaded the manual and will try to program it when I get home.
Thank you once again for all your insight and help!!!:)
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The Gallagher family celebrated the 100th anniversary of their home with several family members and friends on Saturday, August 8. The property was originally bought by Mary Gallagher (nee Drury) at an auction in Rockaway Beach in 1909 for approximately $4,000. It was built for her and her husband, Daniel J. Gallagher, Esq., that same year at Oxford and Washington Avenue (now Beach 134 Street and Rockaway Beach Boulevard). The house has been home to five generations of the Gallagher family.


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At Gibsonton, the Indians amassed more than 420 yards of offense against the Chiefs, whom many have projected as a sleeper team in Class 7A, District 7.
"It's never as bad as you think and it's never as good as you think, but that's what a preseason game is supposed to be," Indians coach Frank LaRosa said. "We're fortunate that we're on top, but we do have a lot of things we can work on."
Junior quarterback Chris Carpentier, back from a broken leg sustained last season, threw for 143 yards and four TDs out of a spread look the bore few similarities to the Indians' wishbone of the prior two decades. Senior halfback Eric Hood had three TDs, including two receiving.


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TapFish, is for Apple to require different passwords to buy an app and to make an in-app purchase. Apple's solution is to put the warning up for those apps that offer in-app purchases, hoping that by seeing it in writing, parents will be more vigilant about letting their kids have access to their password.
But this is only a half-assed solution to the problem as the warning only appears on the web version of the App Store. Since most purchases are made using the mobile version of the app store, the warning might not stop underage in-app purchases at all. The bottom line is that if Apple continues to let parents off the hook in these situations, it will end up having to shell out more money to prevent what looks like a public relations issue. Sure, Apple has all the money in the world right now, but it should save some for a rainy day and coming up with a stronger answer to this problem would help. Apple recently settled a Class-Action suit filed by parents of children who made in-app purchases. Members of the Class received a $5 iTunes Gift card up to a $30 gift card depending on the amount of the claim. Those who could proved that their child spent more than $30 to make an in-app purchase received cash.
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"The Class," the new film from director Laurent Cantet ("Time Out," "Heading South") comes garlanded with the top prize from the Cannes film festival and an Oscar nomination for best foreign-language film.
Such honours might set up misleading expectations. On the surface, at least, this is a small, modest, observational film that refrains from grand gestures and sweeping statements. That it actually cuts to the core of so many issues around identity, education and multiculturalism is testament to its powerful and uncompromising authenticity.
It is a new school year. At a staff meeting veteran teachers introduce themselves to fresh-faced new colleagues, wish them luck and give them friendly pointers on the problem kids.
Francois Marin is already familiar with most of the 11th-grade students in his French class. They are a mixed bunch, girls and boys reflecting the multicultural make up of their working-class Parisian neighbourhood: native French are just one clique among immigrant children from North Africa, China and the Caribbean.
The Hollywood movie audience is quite familiar with the problem of engaging kids who have more pressing things on their minds than old books and the imperfect subjunctive. We know how this will go: an idealistic, if unconventional teacher meets the kids halfway. Keep John Keats in your back pocket; start off with Kanye and Lil Wayne and hope the school board doesn't find out.
At first, Marin seems to fit the bill. He's patient, firm but fair and recognises that digression can impart more valuable learning than any lesson plan. Over the course of the school year he reaches out to the most reticent and challenging kids -- in particular Souleymanne (Franck Keita), a boy from Mali who has been written off by most of his teachers, but who produces a remarkable, touching self-portrait when Francois allows him to use photographs in place of words.
Still, things don't turn out quite how you might think. In this case, good intentions are not enough.
All too often in American movies these days high school students are impersonated by young actors in their late teens and twenties. Cantet's approach is more exacting, much closer to documentary realism. The filmmaker went to a school in the 20th arrondisement of Paris and devoted nearly a year to weekly three-hour workshops with students, half of who ended up in the movie, along with their real-life parents and teachers.
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Stocks closed lower Friday, led by drops in financials and industrials. The pullback pared gains won over the last two weeks and came as worries resurfaced about the outlook for banks and other financial service firms, says S&P MarketScope. Also, various futures and options expired, and a number of analysts cut earnings forecasts for Dow-component General Electric (GE).
On Friday, the 30-stock Dow Jones industrial average fell 122.42 points, or 1.65%, to 7,278.38. The broad S&P 500 index lost 15.50 points, or 1.98%, to 768.54. The tech-heavy Nasdaq composite index shed 26.21 points, or 1.77%, to 1,457.27.
Treasuries, which soared earlier this week, retreated amid concerns the Fed's debt buying may trigger severe inflation. 10-year notes were lower at 101-06/32 for yield 2.620% and 30-year bonds were flat at 97-19/32 for yield of 3.636%.
In other markets, the dollar index rose to 83.58. April gold futures fell to $957.10, while WTI crude oil slipped to $51.20.
There were no economic reports released today. Ben Bernanke delivered a speech on the financial crisis and community banking.
The Federal Reserve's Term Asset-Backed Securities Loan Facility (TALF) program got off to a slow start Thursday. The Fed's effort to unfreeze markets for securities backed by loans kicked off with requests for $4.7 billion of financing, a total that officials hope will surge to as much as $1 trillion after investors resolve contract terms with dealers and other concerns. Bloomberg reported investors could have used the TALF to finance purchases of as much as $8.3 billion of securities. Investors asked for $1.9 billion in loans to buy securities backed by auto loans and $2.8 billion for debt linked to credit-card loans, the New York Federal Reserve Bank said yesterday.
Washington lawmakers were continuing to pile onto the AIG (AIG) controversy surrounding the bonus issue. There was much debate over Barney Frank's proposal to ban bonus payments at companies getting U.S. aid until borrowed money is repaid.
In other news, a federal appeals court denied a bid by disgraced financier Bernard Madoff to be released from jail pending sentencing. U.S. District Judge Denny Chin in Manhattan ordered Madoff directly to jail last week after he pleaded guilty to 11 criminal counts in connection with a decades-long Ponzi scheme that bilked thousands of investors out of billions of dollars. Madoff, 70 years old, is expected to be sentenced in June and faces up to 150 years in prison.
GE shares fell 6% to 9.52 Friday after several analysts cut their earnings projections for the company on Friday, saying it doesn't look likely GE Capital will hit the more optimistic targets given the tough economic environment. On Thursday, GE said that its finance unit could just break even this year because of the weak economy.
Among other stocks in the news Friday, Citigroup (C) announced that Gary Crittenden, previously CFO, has been named to newly created role of Chairman of Citi Holdings, and Edward "Ned" Kelly, previously the head of Global Banking, will assume the role of CFO.
Xerox (XRX) said that due to the increasingly more challenging global economic environment, it has lowered its first quarter EPS forecast to $0.03-$0.05 from $0.16-$0.20. The company noted reduction includes $0.06 impact from its share of Fuji Xerox's restructuring and a lower-than-expected Fuji Xerox profit contribution with the balance resulting from industry-wide slowdown in technology spending, putting pressure on revenue and earnings.
Ericsson (ERIC) and Sony (SNE) could move on news that their joint venture Sony Ericsson said first quarter net sales continue to be negatively affected by weak consumer demand and de-stocking. Now forecasts net loss of €340-390 million, excluding restructuring charges of €10-20 million. Sony Ericsson expects to ship 14 million handsets in first quarter. Forecasts gross margin to decline both year-over-year and quarter-to-quarter.
Palm (PALM) posted $0.86 third quarter non-GAAP loss, vs. $0.16 loss a year ago, on 72% decline in Smartphone revenue. It says Smartphone sell-through for the quarter was 482,000 units, down 42% year over year. Its CFO reportedly says difficult third quarter issues will persist to fourth quarter.
3Com (COMS) posted $0.13, vs. $0.08, third quarter non-GAAP EPS as higher gross profit, lower operating expenses offset 3.5% revenue decline. The Street was looking for EPS of $0.10.


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