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Home Wrecker
Alderman Joseph Moore turns a deaf ear to the families he's trying to evict.
by Neal Pollack February 5, 1998 August 20, 2021
By Neal Pollack
On Wednesday, January 28, Arlene Mejorado stood before the Chicago Board of Education and begged them not to tear down the Virginian, an apartment building on Marshfield just north of Howard Street, where she's lived since she was nine years old. This was the first time she had ever spoken in public, and she was crying and shaking.
"Excuse me," she said. "I'm very nervous."
"Don't be nervous," said school board president Gery Chico.
Mejorado took a breath. "I've been in that building 22 years. They're saying people in that building are drug dealers, and when they say that they're referring to me! I work 44 hours a week. I have three kids. Where are my kids going to go? We're being relocated. My neighbors are being relocated. I have neighbors who I don't consider drug dealers. They're decent people trying to make a living….You've gotta help us. We're in the community, too. We're being pushed out. I am all for cleaning up the neighborhood, but don't clean it out!"
The Virginian's fate became uncertain in September, when Trkla, Pettigrew, Allen & Payne, a consulting firm hired by 49th Ward alderman Joseph Moore, released a report on developing the area known as North of Howard, a pocket of mostly rental properties north of Howard Street and bounded by the lake, the el tracks, and Calvary Cemetery. Suggestions included tearing down the Howard Area Community Center and the Good News Church, both of which provide services to the neighborhood's poorer residents. Together with a low-cost-housing advocacy organization called the Rogers Park Community Action Network, the church and the community center formed a task force in opposition to the proposal. Moore then assured the two organizations they would not be affected.
On November 5, Moore attended a meeting of the task force at the Good News Church. He assured the group that he wanted to work with them. But he also said the Chicago Board of Education was interested in buying and demolishing some properties around Gale Academy, an elementary school that sits in the middle of the North of Howard neighborhood. It was rumored that one of those buildings would be the Virginian. The board had already purchased and torn down five apartment buildings in order to build an annex for the overcrowded school; the task force voted to petition the board not to tear down any more.
At a November 19 school board meeting on Pershing Road, a representative of the task force singled out the Virginian, saying, "There's a piece of property that we don't want you to buy, we think." Gery Chico said he wasn't sure what they were talking about. He looked through some papers and found that the Virginian was already on the agenda. At the request of task force members, Chico agreed to delay the proceedings. They left the meeting believing they had won.
Larry Turpin, pastor of the Rogers Park Presbyterian Church, stayed behind. He was at the meeting on an unrelated issue. Turpin says Moore talked to Chico privately after the task force members left. Then Moore stood in front of the board to speak. He apologized for contradicting the task force, but, he warned, the Virginian was about to go into a sealed-bid auction. If the board didn't purchase the building immediately, it would be lost. According to Turpin, Moore went on to characterize the Virginian as a neighborhood scourge, full of "terrible people," and he said it should be demolished.
"I was shocked and appalled," Turpin says. "My jaw was on the floor. He completely undid everything the task force had just done. I went up to him afterwards and said, 'I hope you will work with the task force on this.' He said, 'Yes.'"
When task force members later found out what Moore had done, they were even more appalled. They didn't know why Moore wanted to overturn their deal with the board. They would soon find out.
Like many apartment buildings in Rogers Park, the Virginian was once a luxury residence, but it saw its best days many years ago. Of its 26 units, only half are occupied. Since June of last year, the Virginian has been owned by Bank One, which foreclosed on it. The courtyard has the atmosphere of a ruin. Brick towers on either side of its entryway are leaning and look close to falling. Flowerpots on top of the towers are cracked and overgrown with moss. Gutters leak, and pigeons roost on the roof. A glass window on one of the doors has been shattered. Anyone could walk right in.
For Arlene Mejorado, the building is a compromise. She pays $385 a month for a one-bedroom apartment that she shares with her three children, ages two, three, and five. "This apartment is my way of balancing out my life," she says. "I do less with my apartment so I can do more for my kids." With the money she saves, she's able to afford day care for the older children and a full-time babysitter for the youngest. She's also able to make car payments and can take the kids out once in a while. Mejorado knows the Virginian isn't good housing, but it's good enough for her. She also knows that her neighbors, many of whom don't speak English, have even fewer options than she does.
At a December 10 community meeting, Alderman Moore presented a plan to create a "campus" around Gale Academy. Under the plan, several buildings fronting Howard Street near Ashland Avenue would be demolished, including a Kentucky Fried Chicken franchise and a strip mall that contains a pawnshop and an adult video store. Ashland would be closed off north of Howard, and the entire area, including the present Kiwanis playground, would be turned into a park. The plan, which carries a $6 million price tag, calls for a baseball diamond, two play lots, a field house, and the demolition of the Virginian, which would be converted into a parking lot.
At a December 17 meeting, the school board voted to begin negotiations for the building's purchase. Alderman Moore wrote a letter notifying Fran Tobin of the Rogers Park Community Action Network. Moore said he had wanted to postpone the matter until January, but he received a phone call from the board's attorney late in the day of the December meeting saying that the Virginian would be on the agenda. "By the time I received the message, the board was already in session and I was unable to reach anyone by phone," Moore wrote. He said he drove to board headquarters, but the meeting had ended by the time he got there. He added that he'd planned to urge the board to close on the Virginian deal, "unless someone steps forward between now and then with a feasible alternative plan."
Tobin wrote back to Moore as a representative of the task force. He explained that the Virginian's inhabitants were not the only people in the neighborhood who feared displacement. Some area residents wondered whether the park was another piece of the development strategy connected to a nearby mall slated for Clark and Howard. "Given the substantial development pressure now focused on and around Howard Street," the letter read, "it is inevitable and quite logical that much of the community is at least skeptical when they hear of proposed 'improvements' which will lead to increased property taxes and rents. The real estate market has its own logic. Unless there are structural controls far beyond what now exists, the gentrification process takes on a life of its own and goes where it will, regardless of the good intentions of public officials or civic associations."
Tobin and other task force members began looking for a "feasible alternative plan" for the Virginian. They called John Mitchell, executive director of Uptown Habitat for Humanity, which is located in Rogers Park. Mitchell agreed to examine the building. Moore then invited Mitchell on a tour of the neighborhood with a Board of Education lawyer to look at other properties in need of rehabbing.
Though the Virginian is in poor condition, Mitchell thinks it could still be saved. He says that Habitat for Humanity doesn't take sides in neighborhood political disputes. But if the community could take control of the Virginian and someone would put up the development money, he says, Habitat would be interested. "It's not a promise," he says. "It's not like we can magically make this deal happen. It's not like I can get the board to approve an idea, cut a check, and there we go. Unless somebody comes up with the money, we're not going to get involved. The Board of Ed assumes that we're not going to get the money, and so far nobody's riding in on a white horse."
Tobin and the task force persisted. They staged protests at City Hall and in front of an Evanston branch of Bank One. They tried to identify other sites in the neighborhood for a parking lot. Meanwhile, Moore was meeting with various factions of Gale Academy's local school council, and last week it voted 10-1 for his plan. Moore had already met with residents of the Virginian on January 3 to tell them they were probably going to have to move. They would get the Board of Education's standard relocation package–$1,500 plus moving expenses.
More than 100 units of affordable housing had already been lost to the Gale Academy expansion, and task force members feared the Virginian was not the last in line. "If the only thing the school board wants is parking, that can be solved without tearing the building down," says Sister Cecilia Fandell, community outreach director for the Howard Area Community Center. "Why are we slated to take down buildings? We're in the city, too. I'd like the school board to answer it, the alderman to answer it. Why do we absolutely need that space for parking when the problem can be solved in other ways? If they say it's a crime problem, you don't solve a crime problem by creating a housing problem."
The Virginian has had problems with crime, but, task force members insist, it's far from the worst building in the area. According to police records, during the past year there have been 58 arrests on the Virginian's block. Only five of the people arrested were Virginian residents. Tobin claims the building is too valuable to lose as low-cost housing. "We're trying to put together a positive strategy," he says. "We know the building's in crisis, but it's a viable building. Let's take it over, let's clean it up. There are lots of different ways this can be configured. There's no need to get rid of the Virginian to make this work."
Moore counters that there's plenty of affordable housing in the neighborhood and the Virginian was about to be auctioned off anyway. "We have a situation right now where we have a crack house literally next door to a school building," he says. "No reputable buyer has come forward. Someday someone might come along and purchase it and rehab it. But you have to do more than just hope for something to happen. Sometimes it unfortunately doesn't happen, and sometimes there are occasions where housing units are lost. We can't save everyone, particularly when you've got a dangerous building, not only for the people who live there but for the schoolchildren who have to walk by it every day. Is the task force going to answer to the parents whose child is dragged into that building by some drug dealer when they're walking to school one day? It's all well and good to sit here and armchair quarterback, but up until the time that this plan came out those folks had paid no attention to that building."
On January 27, the day before the school board's final vote, Moore met with Tobin and a couple of other task force representatives, as well as three residents of the Virginian. Task force members presented their alternate maps, including several options that, they claim, would have created more parking spaces than the alderman proposed. But Moore was not moved. "After we went through our whole presentation, he basically said, 'Sorry, the discussion's closed,'" Tobin says. "We said, 'Well, can't we talk about it?' He said, 'Sure, we can talk about it, but the decision's been made.' We said, 'Well, isn't there any openness at all to negotiate any reconfiguration?' He said, 'No.' I said, 'I thought you said you would consider viable alternatives.' He said, 'Well, I think I have enough community support.'
"The way he's presented it is, here's a plan. Do you want a park or not? And if that's the question, then, of course, we want a park, too. He's framing it as there's only one plan, there's only one possibility. Any discussion otherwise means no park. So given that framing, for the most part, people would say, 'Yeah, if that's the way it is, then, sure, I guess we have to have a park.'"
On January 28, the Board of Education voted unanimously to pay $375,000 for the right to demolish the Virginian. Alderman Moore brought along a vanful of kids from Gale Academy and some neighborhood teenagers who held up signs reading "We Support Schools and Parks" and "Parks Keep Kids Off the Street." In his testimony, Moore said of his opposition: "I believe that in their well-intentioned but misguided effort to try and save a building, they're forgetting that what we're really trying to do here is save our children and save the community. And that while we may lose a few units of housing, by enhancing our community we're making it a more attractive place to live."
Members of the task force held up their own signs. Arlene Mejorado gave her impassioned testimony. Sister Cecilia Fandell presented a number of alternate parking options. "Is taking care of bad buildings the role and responsibility of the Board of Ed?" she asked.
In the end, however, it was a chronicle of a demolition foretold. Moore says his office will help Virginian residents find alternate housing, hopefully in the neighborhood. The building should be unoccupied, he says, by May 1 and will be demolished by the end of the summer. The proposed park may take a little longer, he says, because the city has to buy and demolish several other buildings, including the Eagle, an art deco structure on Howard that contains an Ace Hardware, a small church, and a tutoring center, as well as 15 low-income apartments.
"As far as the tenants in the Virginian are concerned," Moore says, "I think that as time goes on they will realize this will provide them an opportunity to secure a better, safer apartment. Their concerns will abate. It's not a good experience to lose one's home. It's a scary experience. But you can't please everyone. I'm sorry that there are some people that are upset. I'm sorry they don't see the bigger picture here."
Arlene Mejorado only sees that she's about to lose her home. "A two-bedroom apartment in my neighborhood runs $700," she says. "With $1,500, I can pay my security deposit and one month's rent. Then where am I gonna go? How am I gonna pay my rent after that? And what about these other tenants that have even less money than I do? They say they want a park. But whose kids are gonna be going to that park in five years? Not mine." o
Art accompanying story in printed newspaper (not available in this archive): Ariene Mejorado/ the Virginian photos by Chip Williams.
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"You just knew they're more concerned with themselves than with their teammates," Calipari said.
The Kentucky coach cited a recent text-message exchange with former big man Josh Harrellson as an example of what he wants from the current players. Calipari gave Harrellson, now off to a promising start as a rookie for the New York Knicks, some advice.
"You better work like you've accomplished nothing," Calipari texted Harrellson.
The exchanged continued Calipari facetiously texting Harrellson, "Looks like I held you back."To which, Harrellson replied, "Coach, you did fine. We had a terrific shooting team. I didn't need to shoot jumpers."
As Calipari recalled the exchange of text messages, Harrellson's selflessness gave the current Cats an example to follow.
"Did it work out for him?" Calipari said. It was a rhetorical question. "You don't have to worry about yourself. Do what you're supposed to be. You'll be presented in a way (NBA) people like you."
Early in the 11-minute session with reporters, Calipari verbally ran with a question about the number of shots taken by point guard Marquis Teague.
"If anybody here is worrying about shots, I said it (Sunday to the team), they can't," the UK coach said. "Because guys doing the dirty work don't complain about shots. So if anybody else complains about shots in here, you have no right."
Meanwhile, Kentucky's opponent Tuesday night in Freedom Hall, Arkansas-Little Rock, might have difficulty seeing the problem. Steve Shields, the winningest coach in UALR history, said he studied UK statistics on his team's Sunday flight from Denver to Louisville. He looked for statistical hints of vulnerability.
"You try to pinpoint certain things about the team," Shields said. "Maybe this. Maybe that."
Shields saw UK's:
■ 48.4-percent shooting, making the Cats the nation's 26th-best shooting team).
■ "very solid" three-point accuracy (36.3 percent).
■ a "great rebounding team." UK ranked No. 12 nationally with a margin of plus 8.3. As Shields noted, that margin in the last five games is plus 11.2.
■ "Then you look at free throws," Shields said. "Maybe they're bad free-throw shooters. No, dang, they're shooting them well." UK is making 71 percent of its free throw. Maybe more tellingly, the Cats have made more free throws (252) than the opposition has attempted (235).
■ The field-goal defense of 35 percent ranks behind only Wisconsin (34.5 percent).
■ Anthony Davis leads the nation in blocks (4.6 per game) as does Kentucky (9.2 per game).
"We have a tough challenge," Shields said.
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Fault Based Grounds for Divorce
December 28, 2015 By Katie Carter
Most people, at some point or other, really want to explore all of their options when it comes to divorce. For most people, too, that starts with carefully considering fault based grounds.
They're definitely appealing. For a lot of people, selecting from among the fault based grounds of divorce feels almost compulsory, if those grounds exist. For others, being able to use fault based grounds provides a level of justification. It's almost a way of saying, "See? The law recognizes why I can't stay!" For still others, there's a religious compulsion behind the need to seek out fault based grounds for divorce; proving them provides a way to be recognized by the church, mosque, or synagogue in a way that is meaningful and not tainted by the fact of the divorce.
There are lots of reasons to consider fault based grounds first. But, under the circumstances, is that really the best place to start? What are your alternatives? What will, in the long run, yield the best results?
That's really the key question, isn't it? It's not just about the act of getting divorced; it's about getting divorced in a way that sets you up in the best possible way for success, happiness, and fulfillment after divorce. When you imagine what you want for yourself after the ink dries on your final divorce decree, what do you see? How do you get there? And, to what extent do your choices now affect whether or not you'll be able to realize those goals?
Like anything, divorce is a matter of strategy. You want to come up with a plan that makes your divorce as successful as possible. How do you measure success in divorce? As far as I'm concerned, the best, most successful divorce is the one that paves the way to allowing the divorcee to become the woman she always wanted to be. At the beginning, I try to keep my mind on the end point. Where do you want to be? What do you want to do? And, ultimately, how are we going to get you there?
Let's start, as I often do, with a discussion of fault based divorce.
What are the fault based grounds of adultery in Virginia?
In Virginia, the fault based grounds for divorce are adultery, sodomy, buggery, cruelty, desertion, abandonment, apprehension of bodily hurt, and felony conviction. They're mostly pretty self explanatory, but I'll go into some detail on each.
The sexual based fault grounds: adultery, sodomy, and buggery
Most of the time, the three sexual based fault grounds are all lumped together, even though they're technically different.
They all refer to sex-based offenses occurring outside of the marriage. Adultery, by definition, is when a person who is married intentionally has sex with a person who is not his or her spouse. It's all about sex; we're not talking about hand holding, kissing, or "I love you." Adultery usually encompasses vaginal sex.
Sodomy, on the other hand, includes oral and anal sex. Buggery is the rarest of the three (thank goodness), and includes bestiality. (Luckily, I have never had, or heard of, a case that involved buggery.)
Cruelty and Apprehension of Bodily Hurt
These two grounds are the domestic abuse grounds, and they are construed pretty broadly. They can include physical and emotional violence and abuse.
Desertion and Abandonment
Desertion and abandonment are also closely related. We use these grounds in two main situations. First, where one party has left the marriage with no explanation—like, when a husband moves out without explanation or agreement. We also use it in a situation where one spouse is suddenly and inexplicably cut off from the marital money. For example, when a husband suddenly announces he'd like to be separated, and then has his paychecks automatically deposited into another account. If he then refuses to provide financial support for the wife and family, we can use financial abandonment or desertion as our grounds.
Felony conviction
If either you or your husband has been convicted of a felony for which you could serve a year or more in prison, that is also grounds for divorce.
How does using fault based grounds change the divorce process?
Filing for Divorce
In Virginia, you have to have grounds to get divorced, whether they're fault based or no fault based grounds. You can't file for divorce at all until you have grounds, so, when it comes to fault based divorce, filing is a little bit easier. Once the adultery, cruelty, desertion, or felony conviction happens, you have grounds and can file using those grounds immediately. This means that you get into the courts right away, and can use the tools provided for you by law to move things along.
When it comes to a no fault divorce, on the other hand, your grounds have to do with your period of separation. In Virginia, you have to be separated for a year before you can file for an uncontested divorce (unless you don't have any minor children and you have a signed agreement, in which case you can file after six months). Instead of being able to file right away, like in a fault based divorce, in a no fault divorce you have to wait until your period of separation has run.
To file for divorce using fault based grounds, you don't have to actually prove your grounds exist. You just have to have a reasonable belief. Most of the time, in fault based cases, we file the complaint using as much information as we have at the time so that we can demonstrate that our belief really is reasonable. We won't have to prove it until trial, so there's still time to gather information, talk to witnesses, and make sure that we have all of our proof lined up. For example, in a case where adultery is the issue, we would allege, in the complaint, the approximate location and date of the affair and the initials, if we have them, of the paramour. That's enough to get us in the door of the courthouse.
Immediate Divorce
In Virginia, using adultery as your grounds qualifies you for an immediate divorce. It doesn't work that way for any of the other fault based grounds; in those types of cases, though you can immediately file for divorce, you can't actually get divorced until you've been separated for the full year.
With adultery, though, you can get divorced immediately. At least, theoretically you can get divorced immediately. In real life, though, very few people actually even try to get divorced immediately, let alone actually get divorced.
Why? Well, to start, adultery is difficult to prove. We'll talk about that more in a minute, but you have to prove that adultery exists in order to get a divorce using adultery as your grounds. Since you have to have grounds to get divorced, there's a potential issue. What if you file for divorce and go to court, only to find out that the judge doesn't believe the proof that you provide is enough to support your adultery allegations? Then, the judge can't grant your divorce. There aren't any grounds!
As a practical matter, many attorneys don't move forward with trials for divorce using adultery grounds until the full year of separation has run. Why? Well, it's expensive to get to trial. And, if you get all the way there, spending all your client's money, and then you CAN'T prove adultery, you can't turn around and ask that your divorce be granted on no fault grounds in the alternative.
What would you have to do? If the judge wasn't convinced by your evidence, he'd dismiss your case. Your attorney couldn't then use no fault grounds, so you'd be back to square one. You'd have to start your case all over again.
So, even though it's technically possible to get an immediate divorce, most attorneys choose not to move forward with adultery cases that way. We tend to wait the full year before we move forward—and, in many cases, we need the year to prepare anyway.
In a contested, fault based divorce, you have to go to trial. Because fault based grounds carry potential criminal and civil penalties (and adultery, for example, is still a crime in Virginia), you have to go to court to prove that your grounds exist.
In a no fault divorce, you can agree to a lot of things—like how to divide the assets and liabilities, and how to handle custody and visitation. But you absolutely, positively cannot agree to get a divorce using your fault based grounds. It may sound counterintuitive, since you can agree to so many other things, but evidence and testimony is required in these types of cases. There are certain levels of proof required by different grounds, and you have to satisfy a judge that the appropriate level of proof has been met.
At trial, you'll have to introduce evidence, question witnesses, and provide testimony to handle two different issues: (1) whether your grounds are valid, and (2) how everything should ultimately be divided. As you can probably tell, these are all fairly complicated issues—which is part of the reason why contested divorces tend to take longer and cost more than uncontested ones.
Proof Required
Different fault based allegations require different levels of proof. Because adultery is a misdemeanor in Virginia (even if it is rarely prosecuted), it requires the highest burden of proof. To prove adultery to the satisfaction of a judge, you're going to need clear and convincing evidence. That's a pretty high standard.
Just to provide you some background, there are a number of different levels of proof used in court. You're probably pretty familiar with the "beyond a reasonable doubt" standard used in criminal cases. That's a super high burden of proof; it's actually the highest possible burden of proof. Why? Well, because, in a criminal case, there's a lot at stake. Specifically, there's potential jail time. When a person risks losing his or her liberty, the highest standards are applied—to protect the accused. You know the whole "innocent until proven guilty" thing; it's a core standard of our judicial system.
Family law standards are different. No one risks losing his or her liberty there; there's not going to be jail time. So, we use lesser standards of proof. Clear and convincing evidence requires less proof than beyond a reasonable doubt, but it's still fairly high.
To prove adultery, we need a corroborating witness. We need someone, like the girlfriend or a private investigator, to testify in court. We often can't get the girlfriend (unless, of course, they've broken up); a private investigator, on the other hand, can be hired to follow your husband, to see where he goes, to watch the exits, and, basically, to testify that the opportunity to commit adultery has occurred.
For the other fault based grounds, we need proof based on a preponderance of the evidence, which is the lowest burden of proof. Preponderance just means that, if you had a set of scales that were absolutely perfectly evenly balanced, one single feather placed on the other side would tip the scale in favor of that side. In other words, your grounds 50.01% likely, versus 49.99% likely.
What is the difference in cost of a fault based grounds, as opposed to a no fault divorce?
There is a MAJOR difference in cost! It is really difficult, ahead of time, to estimate exactly how much a divorce will cost. Still, it's very easy to say that an uncontested divorce is far, far cheaper than a contested one.
I'll give you a ballpark idea, but I want you to keep in mind that's all this is—a ballpark idea. It's not a guarantee or even an estimate of costs based on your particular case, which may cost less or more. It really all depends. Still, typically, an uncontested divorce runs in the $2,000-5,000 range.
A contested divorce, on the other hand, runs in the $20,000-40,000 range. Have I seen divorces that cost considerably more? Yes! Fairly regularly, too. (Oh, also, keep in mind: I'm talking about costs per person, not total overall cost.)
Why do contested divorces cost so much more?
There's a lot more time involved in a contested divorce. There are a number of court hearings (like the pendente lite hearing, for example), which require attorney time and preparation. There's more evidence, exhibits, and witnesses, which have to be thoroughly examined, organized, synthesized, and prepared for presentation. There are settlement conferences, pre trial briefs, and other documents that need to be prepared.
Judges don't really like family law cases a lot of times, so they place a lot of roadblocks in the way to encourage settlement and discourage litigation. Lots of courts require judicial settlement conferences and other things to take place before a trial date can even be set. Each of these appearances and documents and things required by the court cost time and money, because the attorney has to prepare—often extensively.
Is it worth it to pursue a fault based divorce? Why would someone choose to move forward with a fault based divorce?
Most of the time, it's probably safe to say that contested divorces really AREN'T worth it. Why? Well, this isn't a personal injury case. It isn't one where you have a lot of money to win. In a divorce, you only have the money you had during the marriage, divided between the two of you. So, automatically, you'll feel like there's less money after the divorce than there was beforehand.
But won't fault based grounds mean I get more?
Honestly, probably not. Though the judge CAN take fault based grounds into account when deciding how everything should be divided, that doesn't mean that he has to. In fact, most of the time, fault based grounds really don't make a difference to the judge.
Of all the fault based grounds, it's probably easy to say that adultery is considered the most serious. Even in cases of adultery, we don't often see the guilty party receiving a lesser share of the marital assets. Fault based grounds don't really give you a golden ticket; most of the time, we see people spending exorbitant amounts without an improved return.
Talk to an attorney about your case before you make a decision about how you want to move forward. Your attorney can give you an idea of whether your grounds will really be worth pursuing, or whether you'd be better off trying to negotiate a signed separation agreement.
Keep your goals in mind. Where do you want to be at the end of this? I'm going to take a shot in the dark, but I think you'd like to have as much of the marital money left over as possible, so that you can get yourself the fresh new start you've imagined.
Why might someone choose to move forward with a fault based divorce?
Negotiating a signed separation agreement does require some cooperation on the part of both parties. Sometimes, we get a case where the other side absolutely won't agree, no matter what we do. In that type of case, we have no other choice but to file for divorce.
If your husband won't cooperate, you may have to file for divorce. But that doesn't mean that you'll have to go all the way through with a contested, fault based divorce. In many cases, even though these things start out contested, negotiation is possible later on. If your case starts out with tensions super high on one or both sides, don't worry. These things often work themselves out over time.
If not, you'll want a licensed and experienced attorney on your side. Take a deep breath, and cross each bridge as you come to it.
For more information about fault based grounds, or to talk to an attorney about your upcoming case, give our office a call at (757) 425-5200.
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/*
 * Plays back FPGA stereo data into a format suitable for the HUD.
 *
 * Author: Andrew Barry, <abarry@csail.mit.edu> 2014
 *
 */

#include "fpga-playback.hpp"

using namespace std;

lcm_t * lcm;

vector<long> frame_table;
string fpga_img_path = "";
string publish_channel = "stereo_image_left";
long fpga_offset;
long fpga_delta = 8333; // 120 fps
long global_timestamp = -1;
int frame_offset = 0;

// globals for subscription functions, so we can unsubscribe in the control-c handler
lcmt_deltawing_u_subscription_t *servo_out_sub;

int main(int argc,char** argv) {

    Scalar bm_color(.5, .5, .5);
    Scalar block_match_color(.8, 0, 0);
    Scalar block_match_fill_color(1, 1, 1);
    Scalar octomap_color(1, 0, .4);

    string listen_channel = "servo_out";
    string fpga_log_filename = "";

    ConciseArgs parser(argc, argv);
    parser.add(fpga_log_filename, "f", "fpga-log", "FPGA log file in CSV format.", true);
    parser.add(fpga_img_path, "i", "image-path", "Path to FPGA images.", true);
    parser.add(listen_channel, "l", "listen-channel", "Channel to listen for deltawing_u messages on.");
    parser.add(publish_channel, "p", "publish-channel", "Channel to publish images on.");
    parser.add(fpga_delta, "d", "frame-delta", "Frame delta in microseconds. Default 120fps");
    parser.add(frame_offset, "o", "frame-offset", "Offset frames by this amount.");
    parser.parse();

    lcm = lcm_create ("udpm://239.255.76.67:7667?ttl=0");
    if (!lcm)
    {
        fprintf(stderr, "lcm_create for recieve failed.  Quitting.\n");
        return 1;
    }

    servo_out_sub = lcmt_deltawing_u_subscribe(lcm, listen_channel.c_str(), &servo_out_handler, NULL);

    // control-c handler
    signal(SIGINT,sighandler);

    // build FPGA data from file

    cout << "Loading FPGA data from " << fpga_log_filename << endl;

    io::CSVReader<2> csv_reader(fpga_log_filename);
    csv_reader.read_header(io::ignore_extra_column, "frame", "vicon_time_us");
    int frame;
    long timestamp;

    while (csv_reader.read_row(frame, timestamp)) {
        // load this row

        frame_table.insert(frame_table.begin()+frame, timestamp);

    }

    cout << "Done reading CSV file." << endl;

    // the table is not super-accurate, so figure out a constant
    // timestamp for each frame

    if (frame_table.size() < 200) {
        cout << "Error frame table smaller than 200 frames (minus ignored frames)." << endl;
        return -1;
    }

    fpga_offset = frame_table.at(200) - 200*fpga_delta;

    cout << "FPGA offset = " << fpga_offset << endl;

    //fpga_img_path = fpga_log_filename.substr(0, fpga_log_filename.find_last_of("/"));

    cout << "img path: " << fpga_img_path << endl;

    //namedWindow("Input", CV_WINDOW_AUTOSIZE | CV_WINDOW_KEEPRATIO);

    bool change_flag = false;

    while (true) {
        // read the LCM channel
        while (NonBlockingLcm(lcm)) {
            change_flag = true;
        }

        if (change_flag == true) {
            change_flag = false;

            int frame_number = GetNearestFpgaFrame(global_timestamp);

            cout << frame_number << " vs " << GetNearestFpgaFrameFromTable(global_timestamp) << endl;

            string filename = GetFpgaImageFilename(frame_number);

            cout << filename << endl;

            Mat image = imread(filename);

            //imshow("Input", image);

            //waitKey(10);

            SendImageOverLcm(lcm, publish_channel, image, -1);
        }

    }

    return 0;
}

void sighandler(int dum)
{
    printf("\n\nclosing... ");

    lcm_destroy (lcm);

    printf("done.\n");

    exit(0);
}

// from: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1120140/how-can-i-read-and-parse-csv-files-in-c
std::vector<std::string> getNextLineAndSplitIntoTokens(std::istream& str)
{
    std::vector<std::string>   result;
    std::string                line;
    std::getline(str,line);

    std::stringstream          lineStream(line);
    std::string                cell;

    while(std::getline(lineStream,cell,','))
    {
        result.push_back(cell);
    }
    return result;
}

int GetNearestFpgaFrame(long timestamp) {

    if (timestamp < fpga_offset) {
        return 0 + frame_offset;
    } else if (timestamp > (int) frame_table.size() * fpga_delta + fpga_offset) {
        return frame_table.size() - 1 + frame_offset;
    } else {

        return (timestamp - fpga_offset) / fpga_delta + frame_offset;
    }
}

int GetNearestFpgaFrameFromTable(long timestamp) {
    // a binary search would be more efficient

    long best_diff = -1, this_diff;
    int best_frame = -1;

    bool first = true;

    for (int i = 0; i < (int) frame_table.size(); i++) {

        long this_time = frame_table.at(i);

        this_diff = abs(this_time - timestamp);

        if (first == true || this_diff < best_diff) {
            first = false;

            best_diff = this_diff;
            best_frame = i;
        }

    }

    return best_frame;
}

string GetFpgaImageFilename(int frame_number) {

    boost::format fmt("%s/%d.png");

    fmt % fpga_img_path % frame_number;

    return fmt.str();
}

void servo_out_handler(const lcm_recv_buf_t *rbuf, const char* channel, const lcmt_deltawing_u *msg, void *user) {

    // got a servo message

    // use the timestamp to figure out the closest frame from the FPGA log, read that frame, and publish it

    global_timestamp = msg->timestamp;

}

/**
 * Processes LCM messages without blocking.
 *
 * @param lcm lcm object
 *
 * @retval true if processed a message
 */
bool NonBlockingLcm(lcm_t *lcm)
{
    // setup an lcm function that won't block when we read it
    int lcm_fd = lcm_get_fileno(lcm);
    fd_set fds;
    FD_ZERO(&fds);
    FD_SET(lcm_fd, &fds);

    // wait a limited amount of time for an incoming message
    struct timeval timeout = {
        0,  // seconds
        1   // microseconds
    };

    int status = select(lcm_fd + 1, &fds, 0, 0, &timeout);

    if(0 == status) {
        // no messages
        //do nothing
        return false;

    } else if(FD_ISSET(lcm_fd, &fds)) {
        // LCM has events ready to be processed.
        lcm_handle(lcm);
        return true;
    }
    return false;

}

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Nixa, will be eligible to receive Rural Development housing assistance effective May 6, 2014.
Due to the recent passage of the 2014 Farm Bill, Missouri has proposed that the community of Nixa, will be eligible to receive Rural Development housing assistance effective May 6, 2014.
In addition, the 14 communities that were slated to be ineligible for assistance based on the 2010 Census will continue to remain eligible through receipt of the 2020 Census due to the revised rural area definition. Those communities are: Bolivar, Carthage, Neosho, Ozark, Republic.
This bill passage will greatly change the market for Nixa, MO. Demand for starter homes will increase. It will take time to see an increase in selling price but at the same time, homes in the Nixa area will begin to see a shorter market time due to easier financing to new buyers. Higher priced New construction will be the main reason existing homes will see a price increase.
If you are looking to buy or sell in the Nixa area, contact me today for more incite.
Choose a Real Estate agent you can trust with experience and market knowledge.
Visit with a loan officer and get pre-approved. Real Estate agents have their preferred lenders to help you.
Review your wants and needs and Pre-Approved loan amount with your Agent.
Make your offer and be patient. You may have to make offers on more than one listing.
Your agent will help you with real estate contracts, buyer's inspection, financing, and the closing process.
Keep a close watch on your credit! Don't make any purchases until after you close on your loan. Buying a new refrigerator could lower your credit worthiness!
Buying a home should be an exciting experience and not one to endure.
For Ozark, MO and Republic, MO USDA eligible loans are still available. These loans can mean zero down, 100% financing for qualified buyers. Buyers will still need to come up with the Closing cost and pre-paids.
If you need help searching for a property to see if it is in the eligible area, contact me and I can check it for you.
USDA Loans are available in Ozark, Republic, Willard, Clever, Billings and other areas are also included.
Nixa and Springfield are NOT in these eligible areas. I can help you check these boundaries.
I have preferred lenders that specialize in these USDA loans.
Its all over the media! Foreclosures on the rise AGAIN! How can YOU stop a Foreclosure and get back in control. Is a Short Sale the answer? Possibly..
Selling a home via a short sale is a legitimate method for stopping the foreclosure process, allowing YOU the homeowner to get on with life and without the ding to the credit record. But remember not all short sales are successful in stopping a foreclosure that may already be in the process.
By definition a short sale is literally the sale of a home for less money than is currently owed the lender on the outstanding mortgage being foreclosed on. In other words the home is upside down from a financial aspect. Therefore, the catch is that in order to successfully conduct a short sale, the foreclosing lender has to agree to it, essentially agreeing to accept less money than it is owed on the loan secured by the house.
Lenders are not in the business of owning real estate. They get upset when they have too many properties on their REO (real estate-owned) books instead of out in the market making it a profit through monthly mortgage payments. Plus, the foreclosure process is not free. Every house they foreclose on costs them thousands of dollars. So, in some instances, agreeing to a short sale is in the lenders best interest.
Further more, an empty house does not get any better. Most lenders would rather you be in the home keeping it livable, clean, lawn mowed, and any other ways to help sell the home. Houses do not sell as easy boarded up and winterized. Keep your house Presentable to help your house be marketable and get you out of a stressful situation.
Also, an important aspect most homeowners dont realize when they decide to go the short sale route, is that any amount of the debt that the lender forgives is considered to be taxable income by the Internal Revenue Service. The lender must submit a form to the IRS stating the amount of debt forgiven, so the tax man can be waiting for the homeowner when April 15 rolls around next year if any of the debt was indeed forgiven. Check with your Tax Adviser to see if you are subject to these taxes.
Bottom line: If you want to stop foreclosure, dont be afraid to ask a real estate professional if he or she has any experience working short sales. If not, move on and interview until you find one who has. Possessing a real estate license does not make them an automatic expert in short sales. It calls for extra training not all real estate professionals have.
Do your homework! Contact your Attorney, Tax adviser, your Lender and your Real Estate professional to assist you with your best options. Breath in, breath out..
A short sale is a good way to get the bank off your back. Here is how it works: Imagine your home is worth $200,000, but you owe $220,000 on it. If you were to sell it on the open market at $200,000, you might net $184,000 or $36,000 less that what you need to pay off the loan. A short pay off is where your lender will forgive a portion or all of the short amount.
So the question is why a bank would take less than what is owed and why are banks taking so long to make a decision on a short sale because we know that they don't really want the house back?
One of the main reasons a lenders do short sales is so they can recoup as much of the loss as possible.
Be cautious, because most lenders accepting short sales are not waiving personal liability or deficiency judgments. These lenders may require the homeowner to sign a new promissory note. You should contact a good real estate attorney to understand your options and what your lender is actually trying to tell you.
A bank may not chase you to collect a deficiency judgment, but the Internal Revenue Service will likely pursue collection of income taxes triggered by debt forgiveness.
Talk to your Tax Adviser or Attorney to see what your best options are and cover all your bases.
Be cautious of those predatory investors that want to buy you out and negotiate the short sale for you. You may still be liable to the bank for any short fall of your loan and the investor will walk away with a profit, leaving you with a greater dept to the bank. I can walk you through the short sale process and help you get the most out of your home to lesson the anguish.


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The relationship of man with Cosmos is a particular case of the relationship of the Part with the Whole. This is a basic theme of classical philosophy (The Gnosticism, Hans Jonas).
The Great Unified Theory (The GUT)
The first 50 years of the past century have been marked by the "phantom" of the Great Unified Theory (GUT). In the sciences, with the United Field Theory (Einstein, 1928); in politics with Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism and State and Revolution (Lenin, 1917); in economics with The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money (Keynes, 1936); and in architecture with The Athens Charter (Le Corbusier, 1931). In the arts, there had already been movements with omniscient ideas such as Futurism (1909), the Dada Manifesto (1917), the creation of the Bauhaus by Gropius (1919). Moreover, the Psychoanalytic Society was taking form in Vienna (1908) and a little later C.G. Jung was elaborating the Collective Subconscious. These developments show how man was trying to obtain and find a unified definition in order to mark a humanistic "neo-renaissance". Most likely, Psychology and Ethnography were positively influencing a century that was destined to produce great fruits; and one that was also destined to be later refuted and proved wrong by the very ideologies, such as Fascism, Communism and Nazism that were then emerging and that ferociously brought on, only a few decades later, the utmost degradation. Everything departed from there, from the Great Unified Theory, which supposedly was giving sense to human existence and which, with an eagle flight, could dominate the world. The sense of power was unlimited and brought on great goals but the explosion of the Atomic Bomb zeroed the world of that period with its immense roaring of death. At that point of a crisis, a new critical sensibility was forming. It had already been instilled in the most sensitive spirits by the literature of senseless wanderings of the Ulysses by Joyce (1922) and of The Trial (1925) by Kafka. From then on, the poles of attraction for all human activities appeared to be a need for unity on one hand, and, on the other hand, a need to break away from structured hierarchies. It is in this context that both the concepts of Modern and Post-Modern insert themselves. However, an underlying uneasiness remained and there was more and more talk about unity while a new search for recovery in the tribal and in the particular started to emerge. And this was to happen in all fields. There was for instance the Unity of the Nation as opposed to Federalism. Also, at the beginning of the 1940s, the Education System divided the Academy of Fine Arts from Architecture, whereas before they were united. Therefore, the manual aspects of painting and design of the old educational system was lost and the Architect no longer needed to know how to paint. A good example of this is given by Jeanneret, who was a cubist painter using the pseudonym of Le Corbusier. It is here that the first schism started to take place: for decades it was to mark an Architecture that had already been unbound without the Fine Arts. In recent times, this made Renzo Piano to state: "I like to stray from Architecture and to meet writers, musicians, artists, poets and whomever has a different approach to work". This is a clear indication of his request to go back to an operational and conceptual unity. The atom too had been split into two, three and then four. Now we are looking for the soul of God (the Unity) in the subatomic particles (the Bosons). In the Arts, there has been a transition from schools such as those of the Impressionists to the Avant-Garde movements like the Cubists, the Futurists, the Dadaists, the Surrealists and then to the great personalities like Picasso, Matisse, Kandinskji, Mondrian, Malevic, Fontana, Giacometti and so on. Globalization today has allowed India and China to enter the Empyrean of art so that it has become impossible to know all the world's artists. It is therefore the market that today commits itself to "separate the grain from the chaff", while art ponders the context in which it is developed and becomes a structure. At the bottom, there always remains a need for unity that can be explained with a bigger look at its "context".
Centripetal/Centrifugal
At a first glance, Marcello Guido's work can appear dissonant, atonal and, consequently, prone to a chaotic and explosive dissemination. Therefore, at a first glance and in terms of a structure, it seems that this drive of his comes from a declared liking for an art that makes its own identity out of a de-structuring, destructive concept, like the Dadaist idea of art. He quotes Dadaism as one of his first loves since he asserts and underlines the same imperative "I am against all systems" ; while he also knows quite well that "our head was made round so that the ideas could move around", as another Dadaist, Francis Picabia, once said. Marcello Guido is then looking for his Zeitgeist when he wonders, in an interview conducted by Giovanni Damiani: Is it possible to create space without acquiring the experiences of the past? Do connections exist between events chronologically distant that express the same cultural tensions? and also: if a connection exists, how can it move effectively into contemporary action ?".
To present date, this is the question that has torn all contemporary art. It is an art wherein figurative and abstract painting coexist, as well as all the efforts to conjugate both forms. Truly, if it is possible to move a form of the past to the present, this is due to a "spirit of time" (Zeitgeist} that does not go through the chronicled history of the form, but rather finds it in its main ideals and tensions. This has become an ordinary server of our soul, or historical conscience, however we want to call it. In other words, in order to make ourselves clear, a man chooses what bears affinity to him. If the historical distance that separates him from the initial events is too big, his experiences will be similar; for sure, he will meet a thought that had been thought, as Adorno was saying. A thought that will give him tranquility or, better, that will confirm his own existence and social communion. The comparison, in the above-quoted interview, of Borromini's Sant'Ivo della Sapienza is quite appropriate: it refers to Marcello Guido's signs and graphic work, his maps and also to his watercolor plates done by hand. He uses the triangles in a centrifugal way but they are placed in a swirling whirl that wraps them or that at least gives a sense in the paper of a complex and articulated figure made out of the centripetal action. Moreover, in his snake-like and abstract-geometrical doing, he steadily returns to a curvilinear imprint which reveals a founding necessity (history) to connect, to "whisk up", as per the cuisine language, all geometric ingredients. In these maps or graphic plates, he is closer to Kandinskji, while he still keeps the curvilinear Borrominian trait, since everything fluctuates in a-dimensional space, at least on the paper. As a reader, as I am, of comics and of popular scientific magazines, the 11th dimension, called of the stripes, tells us that space has other dimensions and that, therefore, also the construction of the physical space is altered by our psychological perceptions. So, Marcello Guido has another counter-altar besides Borromini: it is that of Frank Gehry who builds up a structure that on the outside is a thing while within is another. The deconstruction of Marcello Guido's design is still analytical and tied to the history of forms. This attitude of his underlies a technical operational need in order to achieve a sense lost in the planning realizations. They are mutations of the sense of perception and, therefore, despite the affirmation of a personal civil conscience, they may clash with a deforming "spirit of time". Especially, the work will appear complete in the eyes of those who look at it (Duchamp). Is not for this reason that Architecture is made? If I could give an opinion on the work of Marcello Guido regarding the unity that underlies the design as a project vis a' vis the building -as a structuring of the space- it would be quoting the manner of Michelangelo, that is by taking away. I would say that he keeps a unity of thought like a humanist although he deconstructs the tree of the architectural science in Millepiani (Mille Plateaux). Disconnected in an horizontal thought, they give democratic weight to his work as it is considered, always and in any case, in its togetherness. As if he had not built many works and residential units but rather a unique model that although changes with the time it remains faithful to itself. It is a rhizome-type operation connected to the subterranean routes of history more than to the present and to the fashions of the moment. His architectural work appears, therefore, in such a way, unified and diversified, through his graphic-artistic production.
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3 Questions Grads Should Ask Themselves Instead of 'What's My Passion?'
Struggling to find the right career path? Ask yourself these questions.
By Jessica StillmanContributor, Inc.com@EntryLevelRebel
If you're struggling to find a satisfying career path, no doubt someone will soon offer you this gem of advice: "What's your passion? Just follow that!"
To which you are almost certainly going to want to respond, "If I knew the answer to that, genius, I wouldn't be having this problem in the first place."
We all know that the best work is the kind you find engaging and valuable -- in short, a job you have passion for -- the trouble for a huge percentage of people is discovering what that passion might be exactly. There's lots of advice out there on how to locate yours (more on that later), but pretty much everyone agrees that sitting on your couch musing about the issue isn't going to get you far.
As MIT career counselor Lily Zhang wisely points out on The Muse, "the question is so big that it's completely paralyzing for most people." So what should you ask yourself instead? Zhang offers three great suggestions.
What can I do to help other people?
"There are probably a million things that you I to do, but likely fewer that you can do, and even fewer that you can do for the greater good," Zhang writes. She's not the only one arguing that the legions suffering from career confusion (hello, me aged 26!) should think less about their wants and more about the best way to be of service.
"Focus on getting good at something that genuinely helps others and makes the world a better place, and that will lead to passion and a fulfilling career," argued Benjamin Todd, the founder of 80,000 hours, an organization dedicated to helping people make better career choices, in his TEDx talk. He offers a three-step plan to help you hone in on the best career choice for you by thinking this way.
What does my ideal day look like?
"What would the perfect (work) day look like to you? Do you get to have tea on your porch in the morning? Walk to the office? Have flexible hours? Physically meet with people on your team? Go to the gym in between meetings? Have dinner with your family? Whatever it looks like, this is your new professional goal," says Zhang. "For some (read: me), this is a more tangible goal than a lofty and vague position title."
Again, Zhang isn't the only one offering this advice. Chris Guillebeau, author of Born for This: How to Find the Work You Were Meant to Do, made a similar point in an interview recently. "The way we work is just as important as the work itself. Working conditions include things such as how you prefer to spend your time, how much you like to work collaboratively versus independently, and how you like to be rewarded," he said.
"Most people rarely think about the day-to-day ways in which they'll be spending their time when they pick a career path. They just consider the overarching big picture or the difference they seek to make. But it's really hard to keep the big picture in focus if you're hating the moment-to-moment!" Guillebeau stresses.
What do I find intolerable?
"Knowing what you don't want can almost be as helpful as knowing what you want," insists Zhang, so "start figuring out what doesn't work for you."
That doesn't mean you should cross any job that has unpleasant aspects off your list (every job has downsides), just that you should eliminate those that don't align with your core career values.
Or, forget about passion entirely for now
Zhang's suggestions are a vast improvement on the old 'What's your passion?' nugget, but some experts go even further than her, arguing not just that you should rephrase the question, but that you should upend the process of finding your dream job entirely.
Instead, of looking for passion and then taking action, these folks insist that it's far better to just throw yourself into whatever work is available. Passion, they say, comes from effort and expertise, not the other way around.
"It's time to stop searching and start doing. And no, they are not the same thing. Searching for your passion is not proactive; it's actually quite passive, because embedded in the pursuit is the erroneous belief that when seen, it will be immediately recognized. The reality is that a lifelong passion is most often revealed through working passionately on something you have immediate access to," founder Kent Healy wrote on the Young Entrepreneur Counsel blog, for example.
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Since there seems to be growing interest in adding Google Checkout to osCMax, it is time for an official thread addressing it.
I have adapted the official Google Checkout 1.4 module to work with osCMax and have it working nicely in osCMax 2.0 RC3.01 and the upcoming RC4 release.
It needs to be more thoroughly tested with different set-ups, different shipping modules, etc. I am posting a few screenshots to show how it works.
What is Google Checkout for osCMax?
It is a payment module/alternative checkout system. Basically, it adds a Google Checkout button to your shopping cart page that allows customers to checkout directly with the Google Checkout payment system, while recording the order in both Google Checkout and osCMax.
The feature set of the Google Checkout osCMax version is identical to the osCommerce version.
How to install Google Checkout for osCMax?
Installation is a very easy process. For all clean installations of osCMax (meaning you have not added more contributions or hacked up the code) it is a simple upload/overwrite process that takes a couple of minutes.
Detailed installation and configuration instructions are included in the Google Checkout module zip package (not yet released).
Once installed, configuration is a little more involved, but not terribly so. Detailed configuration instructions are included in the package, and this thread is available to discuss all questions, issues, features and function of the module as it relates to osCMax.
This is a brill contribution. I just have a few problems that I've encountered. I cannot find a resolution to it on the forums.
1) Individual shipping cannot be applied via the shipping generator. Can individual shipping be applied at all? I have been able to add the low order fee module and the default one's but thats it.
2)google's chargeback guarantee is only applicable if the item is delivered to the billing address, yet I cannot pin point an item of code that will enable me to restrict this to a billing address only option during the checkout process.
2. Forcing shipping to billing address would have to be handled on the google checkout end of things, not in osCMAx, since they handle the cc processing and checkout system, not osCMax.
I have responded to Ropu. using the URL you advised me to see. He has stated you may want to take a look at the setup which I have configured on the OSCMAX store.
PM me your admin login and I will setup my test store to match your config so I can try to duplicate your issue.
An updated module has been released that fixes the problem with individual shipping.
I have everything in place and now I'm getting an error from google checkout area.
Error "You are not configured to post unsigned carts to this server; please change your settings if you wish to do this. "
As far as I know everything is correct with the merchant ID and merchant key and I've followed the instructions very carefully. I'm using an ssl certificate on google's list, and xml is checked and Shopping cart post security is checked. The module is activated in my oscmax installation and I still get this error. Any Ideas?
But I thought that (Shopping cart post security -For extra security, my company will only post digitally signed XML shopping carts) was supposed to be checked. Regardless, I unchecked it and we'll see what happens.
It should be checked but is not necessary. Since you are having problems posting signed xml, it may be a server compatibility issue. By disabling it, you will be able to process orders while you find what the actual cause is.
I've been trying to get Google Checkout to work for a while now...The module plugs in real easy...I have just not be able to get the shipping to work. It will always take the default shipping and will not pull live rates from UPS or USPS...If i checkout normal through the existing process it works fine.
Ive searched the forum but cannot find anybody else posting on this error.
I upgraded from the beta 1.1 to 1.2 but that did not help either. I've tried with both UPS and UPS(XML).
Default values for real time rates in case the webservice call fails.
FREE SHIPPING! freeshipper not configured!
United Parcel Service (XML) upsxml not configured!
United States Postal Service usps not configured!
But I know my UPS/USPS/Free Shipping is enabled because it works fine using the original checkout method going through paypal.
Please Note: The following shipping modules below pass through to Google Checkout. The rest are ignored by the Google Checkout system as they are not configured at this moment to integrate with their system. As time progresses, this list will be increased. Please be patient as development continues on the Google Checkout module.
We are aware of this issue and ask that you please be patient as development continues.
I am not intending to jack this thread just wanted to ask a couple simple questions.
I am considering installing osMax I have already D.L.ed it.
I intend on using Google Checkout which is one primariy reason for using oscmax. I recently begin using Miva 5 with Google Checkout but having major issues with configuring international shipping costs. Especiallly since I use carrier calulated shipping regarding domestic. GCO doesn't support international carrier calculated shipping from what I understand. And to try and implement anything else is before my hacking skills.
Anyway that is on my .com domain and so far happy with it other than the shipping calculation issue. So I am intending on using my .net for ALL my international business which is 25% of my business. So it's worth while for me to run a whole other domain and cart.
My question is this. I intend on using only two payment methods on OSCMax GCO and Paypal. I was planning on not even implementing a cart but found out I need to unles I want to only sell one product at a time using GCO buy now buttons. Or opt for dealing solely with the invoicing they have for multiple item purchases. I'd rather not. So I am opting for cart number 2 (OSCmax) on my .net domain.
Well back to the question. Since I am using GCO and Paypal Payment Pro will I have any conflicting issues with running both on one cart/domain?
I do also believe I can run the same GCO account with both domains but would not be able to have callback notifications on one of them. WHich is fine for me. But I was told this and not sure if it's right or wrong? I don't see it being an issue. But whether PayPal and GCO on the same cart I am unclear?
how do you get level 2 working? also i'm getting a xml parse error when googlecheckout tries to get the shipping values from the site.
For some reason the low order fee isn't passing to googlecheckout or paypal. is there a reason why? is there somewhere i can check to see what i can do to fix it? it comes up on cc but not on those two i mentioned.
I have checked file permissions, Any suggestions?


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Claudia Sotto Solis and her friend Kleyton Farias performing "the prayer" by Andrea Bocellli and Chrisitna Auguilera at waterloo region's got talent in 2010. My video is of the worst quality and for that i do apologize also i'm sorry about the shaking but i was so nervous for her so i couldn't help it. Anyway the video quality is of minor importance to me, what matters is that you can still hear their beautiful voices.
A last preview of the Dorian Gray fashion animation. The final animation will feature, hopefully, twenty one outfits. It's been difficult becasue I've had to re-start it from scratch, when the files were lost a year ago. I'm also working on a separate fashion animation but that one is even farther from completion than this one. The subject is similar in that it is another catwalk sequence, but that's all I'll give away for now. Also, yes I know it is now 2014 and this animation went through a lot of set-backs. This collection probably won't be complete till 2015. Oh and before anyone calls me out on it - yes, i was I highly inspired by the Z-Zegna spring/summer 2010 men's collection.


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James Dunwoody Bulloch
James Dunwody Bulloch (1823 – 1901) was the Confederate States of America's chief foreign agent in Great Britain during the American Civil War. He was the half-brother of a distinguished Confederate naval officer, Irvine Bulloch and of Martha 'Mittie' Bulloch Roosevelt. Mittie was the mother of future U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt and the grandmother of Eleanor Roosevelt.
Bulloch's roots trace back to Scotland, a fact of which he was fiercely proud. His forebear and namesake, James Bulloch received a liberal Glasgow education before entering the clergy. Repression in the early eighteenth century led James to emigrate to Carolina in 1728 before moving sometime later to Georgia.
James Dunwoody Bulloch was born near Savannah, Georgia on June 25th 1823, the only child of Major James Stephens Bulloch and Esther Amarintha Elliot. After the early death of his mother, his father enrolled young James in a private school in Hartford, Connecticut. Major Bulloch then married Martha (Stewart) Elliott on May 8th 1831. She was the second wife and widow of Senator John Elliott. James Bulloch (Senior) and Martha had four children: Anna Bulloch; Martha Bulloch; Charles Irvine Bulloch (died at age two years nine months) and Irvine Bulloch (See photo).
In 1838 Major Bulloch moved his family to Cobb County in the upper Piedmont to become a partner with Roswell King in a new cotton mill. In what would become Roswell, Georgia, the major had an impressive new house built utilizing the labour of both craftsmen and slaves workers. When this was completed in 1839, he and his family moved into the new, 'Bulloch Hall'. Major Bulloch, a planter, also had land used in cotton cultivation and after his death in 1849, Martha Bulloch retained the use of thirty one enslaved African-Americans.
James D. Bulloch married Elizabethe Caskie in 1851 and after her premature death, he married Hariott Cross Foster in 1857 with whom he had five children. He served in the United States Navy for fourteen years before joining a private shipping company. When the southern states attempted to leave the Union and the Civil War began in 1861, one of the first acts of Washington was to impose a strangling Federal naval blockade on the Confederacy. Prompted by these actions and a deep sympathy for the south, Bulloch decided to serve the southern cause. In 1861, he offered to assist the Confederate States of America. Within days, following the attack on Fort Sumter, Stephen Mallory appointed Bulloch as a Commander in the CSN and sent him to Liverpool as the Confederacy's first Naval Purchasing Agent in England. To many, Bulloch was also seen as the Confederate States' first secret service agent.
In 1861 Britain was officially neutral in the conflict between North and South, but private and public sentiment mostly favoured the Confederacy. Britain was still desperate to buy all the cotton that could be smuggled past the Union blockade which in turn, provided the South with its only real source of hard currency. Bulloch quickly established a relationship with the Charleston shipping firm of Fraser Trenholm & Company (Liverpool) which in effect became the Confederare States, international bankers.
Through the offices of his new business acquaintance, Bulloch arranged for the construction and purchase of the commerce raider CSS Florida and CSS Alabama (See photo) - as well as several blockade runners providing the Confederacy's commercial lifeline. With imported cotton easily converted to hard currency, he also purchased war material including arms and ammunition, uniforms, and other supplies. The CSS Florida and CSS Alabama would become equally famous and infamous for causing havoc and destruction amongst the Union's merchant shipping. By coincidence, Bulloch's' brother, Irvine, would himself serve and fight on the CSS Alabama with some distinction.
James Bulloch, realizing that he must arrange for a steady flow of new funds before he could progress his intended purchasing program, bought the steamship 'Atlanta' with which he carried much accumulated ordnance that he and another agent of the Southern War Department had secretly amassed in several locations. He sailed with his new ship to America but within weeks, returned to England to continue the urgent acquisition of other warships and blockade runners for the Confederacy.
One purchase was of considerable significance. This was the 'Sea King' which was subsequently renamed the CSS Shenandoah. Bulloch instructed her captain, James Iredell Waddell to sail '..into the seas and among the islands frequented by the great American whaling fleet, a source of abundant wealth to our enemies and a nursery for their seamen. It is hoped that you may be able to greatly damage and disperse that fleet..' As history records, Waddell and the CSS Shenandoah not only surpassed Bulloch's expectation; but fired the last shots of the war on 28 June 1865 during a raid on American whalers in the Bering Sea.
As 'alleged' Confederate secret agents, James and Irvine Bulloch were not included in the general amnesty that came on the heels of the Civil War. They therefore decided to stay in Liverpool, becoming respectable cotton importers and brokers.
James Dunwoody Bulloch died on January 7th 1901 in Liverpool at 76 Canning Street, aged seventy seven years. In his will he left $30,000 to his nephew, Theodore, who soon after become the 26th President of the United States. Taking cognizance of his treatment following the cessation of hostilities, his gravestone bears this fitting inscription:-
'An American by birth, an Englishman by choice.'
I am indebted to many for information contained in this short summary of James Bulloch.
Among these are Diane Stephens White, Bob Jones and Roy Rawlinson.
Any fault, misrepresentation or error is therefore mine alone. Ian Dewar
Addendum by Roy Rawlinson:
When Jefferson Davis was released from prison in 1868, he visited various countries, including Canada and Cuba, before finally arriving in England, at the port of Liverpool. It is almost certain that as the Davis`s departed their transport across the Atlantic, they were expected, and that the Bulloch`s, James and Harriot were waiting to meet them.
Liverpool was certainly a good choice by Jefferson Davis, for there was at that time, a mini Confederate community resident in Liverpool, containing some of the great names from Confederate Naval History. Commander James Dunwoody Bulloch, of course, (and I did read somewhere once that Bulloch and Davis were actually distant cousins, no doubt someone will put me right on that!). Also in Liverpool was Irvine Stephens Bulloch, James`s half-brother, who sailed on both The Alabama and The Shenandoah.
Captain John Newland Maffitt of The Florida fame, and his son. Lt John Lowe, of the CSS Fingal and the Alabama. Captain James Iredell Waddel, of the CSS Shenandoah.
Moses P Robertson, Bulloch`s wartime secretary and future business partner; and Charles Kuhn Prioleau, of Fraser Trenholm fame, and I have no doubt that there were many comings together of these parties, to talk about the "old days".
After being here for a few weeks, Jefferson and Varina Davis moved on to Leamington Spa, leaving their two boys in the care of Harriot Bulloch. Leamington Spa had been a Confederate hotbed during the war, and was very sympathetic towards the Davis`s and their cause. So much so that Varina stayed there, in Leamington Spa, as Jefferson toured Europe, trying to sell insurance. The Davis children were placed in the same school as the Bulloch`s children, and it was during this period that the Roosevelt`s also came to visit at the start of a tour of Europe. Mittie Roosevelt, James and Irvine`s sister, having married Theodore Roosevelt Snr at Bulloch Hall in Roswell GA. Young Theodore Roosevelt, was taken along to see the Bulloch children at their school, where he also met the Davis boys. Young Theodore and the elder Davis boy got into an altercation of sorts, maybe fists were thrown, maybe not, but they had to be separated. It is only now, with the benefit of hindsight, that we can see the irony of a future President of the United States, fighting with the son of the Ex-President of the Confederacy.
Theodore Roosevelt came to know James D Bulloch very well indeed, visiting him in Liverpool on numerous occasions, and also welcoming him to the Roosevelt home in New York home. He was immensely proud of his two uncles, Jimmy and Irvine, and spoke of them in speeches in the South, during his first Presidential campaign.
This is written from memory, and I hope, factually correct.
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