I am going to try to file a lawsuit in the near future, because I was wrongfully terminated from my job for being a whistleblower. It does not make a lot of sense to me, that they would fire me, because I was actually helping the company out. I guess the biggest problem is that some of the things I blew the whistle on, became public, and caused a scandal in the media. I have been browsing http://www.whistleblowerlawsuitcenter.com to try to look into get legal representation and starting a lawsuit for being fired illegally.

I am pretty sure that firing me was illegal, and that I have legal protections, because I was a whistleblower. Continue reading →

It is not as though I would have to worry much about this place if it were in great all around shape, because if that were so it would not be in the realm of the possible for a person of my current means. This place looks a bit like a deathtrap to be honest, the professional electrician I know looked at the wiring and told me that only an idiot would have used it in it’s current condition. I am not sure when it was built, but it was probably around fifty years ago or some such thing. It was definitely not made with the current electrical codes in mind. Even I could look at the place and tell that it was not all that safe or even nearly ready for the sort of things that you need with a modern home. This is the level of power usage that people would have found adequate around half a century ago perhaps.

The house has been vacant for a half a decade from what the neighbors tell me. Right now it is in the outer suburbs, but it was obviously a country home when it was built. Obviously the city was about one third the size it is now back then. In fact there was not even a little town or village here when this place was built. It is not going to be efficient to use it in it’s current condition either. The thing to do is to gut the place and start all over from scratch and that was what I had planned from the moment I looked at the place. I gave the seller a price offer based on what it would cost me to fix it up and they took it, probably glad to be rid of it.

The plumbing in my house can take a lot of abuse, but sometimes it can’t handle everything. I had some pretty bad clogs in the past year. One of my showers had so much hair trapped in it that the water wouldn’t drain. The sink also had the same problem. I had a toilet clog at the worst possible time. Even the drain for the washing machine became slower. These problems were too much for me to handle, so I had to find a professional for drain cleaning in westchester county.

I don’t really like to rely on professional drain cleaners, because some of them charge high prices for their services. When the task is light enough, I can save money and do the cleaning on my own, but I didn’t have much of a choice this time. I looked in the phone books and online for some companies who could do the job for me. Continue reading →

Of course my brother in law had no idea he was going to get deployed. He is not supposed to tell anyone where he went, but seeing as how he is an arabic language expert it is pretty obvious that he is not going to be stationed in Canada or South Korea. At any rate my sister and he decided that she would move back down to North Carolina, so they could save money. I drove up to Falls Church with my truck and my cargo trailer. He gave me his satellite dish and if you click here you will see the deal he got. He just paid his bill the other day, so I guess I will end up giving him twenty bucks. Continue reading →

For a family event where we were going to have some group photos made as well as wanting to give away a token gift we decided to print some t shirts. We chose our family reunion color and had the t shirts printed with the reunion event and the family name. Everyone got a t shirt who showed up. They looked great in the group photos. We found a company that does t shirt printing in San Diego to do the job. They are not those cheaply made shirts either. These are real high quality cotton shirts that will last for years.

The printing we had down looks great. The print is bold and clean. Mine has not shown any wear even after several washings. You know clothing is made good when the kid versions hold up to hot water washing to get out all of the stains. The dyes are colorfast, and the seams are sewn smoothly. The t shirts they printed our info on are very well made. Continue reading →

I remember back when I was in secondary school. I had a little acne, a really awful hairstyle and I had to go to a Conden Specialist in Singapore to get braces. I cried when I looked at my smile in the mirror with the braces on. I think pretty much every teenager feels like this. Well, at least the ones who have to get braces. However, as the months wearing the braces went on, I noticed even behind the metal framework of the braces that my teeth were getting straighter. I abhorred my smile before I got the braces. I had inherited the crooked teeth on my dad’s side of the family. Mom had straight shiny white teeth.

It was about four months into having the braces when a round of teasing at school started on me again. I was feeling a bit down about it and my mother told me a secret. Continue reading →

So I need to get a magician for a kid’s party. It is one of my boss’ kids and he apparently likes magic. The kid is only six and his parents are split up, so the two of them are not cooperating very well and I am going to be in charge of planning the party. It is going to be held on neutral ground, a little park where they can rent the space. I was looking at different sites. This one is called http://www.emagicalmoment.com and that seems like it might be what they want, but how do you know if a magician is any good or not. Of course personally I am not really paying too much attention to magicians and their acts. If they have a pretty girl assisting them then that is as close as they can come to getting my attention. Continue reading →

It is not any part of my problem, but if there is one thing wrong in the factory it eventually closes down the whole thing. In this case it has to do with the people who were supposed to fix one of the systems. They were trying to speed up the process to maximize the output of the place to match the speed of the machines that they call case packers. The idea is simple. The machines could pack about 5 % more cases than we were putting through, but getting the rest of the operation up another five percent is complicated. All of this is like a very highly coordinated ballet. One guy does one thing and then the next guy does his one thing, same with the machines, one process leads directly to the next. Continue reading →

I understand that Facebook isn’t just for kids and young adult anymore, but I never thought my eighty year old mother would want to have a Facebook account of her own. When I went home at Thanksgiving to visit my parents, both my Mom and Dad were talking about how much they loved the Facebook. They started to ask me about how hard it was to upload their old family photos to the internet, so I told them I would find a way to help them. I went online and did a Google search for Facebook photo scanning software and instructions.

My brother had bought my parents a great new printer that would allow them to scan all of their old photo albums to the internet for safe keeping and allowing all of the family around the country to print them out at their leisure. When I found your website I was really happy because it was extremely helpful in explaining the way to upload pictures to the internet. Within a few minutes I had my parents scanning their family pictures and uploading them to Facebook.

It seems like almost every day I get three or four new pictures sent to me from my parents. They even went to the store and bought a great new digital camera to take great pictures. Technology is great, when you can teach an elderly person to be computer savvy like a teenager. Five years ago when I was just really starting out on Facebook, you would have never been able to convince me that my parents would build a page of their own and become an internet wizard. I am just glad the internet wasn’t around when they were kids, I don’t think I want to see those posts they would have made during their younger years.

Having access to the best VPS provider was my number one priority when choosing a VPS that would work well with my website. I had heard plenty of horror stories about people who used a certain VPS and had so many problems that it interrupted their business. I didn’t want to take that risk, and so I put in the time to do proper research to evaluate all of the VPS solutions available. I chose the VPS provider that I am using now, and my site has been running without any problems.

One of my friends who used one of the bad VPS providers wanted me to help him find a good provider. I gave him the name of my provider and he switched over. His site is a simple craft site where he sells creations and donates some of the proceeds to charity. With the old VPS provider, his site would be down half of the time because of issues with the servers. This caused him to lose a lot of sales that could have gone towards charity donations. Continue reading →

I am not a marketing genius, but even I knew that I had to do something different to pick up my company sales. I was depending a large bit on social media, because it was just cheaper for me that way. I had read of quite a few success stories following the same logic, so I knew that I had to tweak my plan a bit since I was not seeing a significant level of success yet. That is when I found out that I could buy Twitter retweets, which is a huge part of that particular social media platform.

Having a large number of followers is great, and it is quite helpful too. Having my Tweets get retweeted is huge too though. When new followers look at my Twitter profile, they are looking not only at my Tweets but my stats as well. Continue reading →

Christmas is going to be here soon and every year I have a huge party for all of the workers in our office. We own an insurance company and the people we work with are like our family. This year instead of buying little gifts for everyone, that I never know if they actually like I decided to buy designer cocktail glasses, since most of our employees do drink I think they would love the personal touch of a cocktail glasses that was made just for them. Each year I normally buy one type of gift for the women in the office and one gift for the men in the office. Continue reading →

I like to look good. Most guys do. We enjoy buying ourselves good looking clothing. Personally I’m a big fan of Nike clothes – they’ve got the best that you could ask for if you’re an athlete. There is no denying that many of their advanced materials and fabrics have done wonders to change sports completely. Right down to my custom Nike Elite socks, my entire gym outfit is made up of Nike. I refuse to go to the gym without any of it. For one, it’s way lighter than anything that you’re going to be able to find from another company.

I know that Nike can get a lot of flack because of the fact that they are so expensive. When you think about it, you’re not paying only for the Nike brand and the value that goes with it. You’re also paying for the quality of that brand. Including in this value is the quality of the fabric you’re buying which for individuals dedicated to the field of sports is an important considering. Continue reading →

People would probably be surprised to find out that the software behind some of the biggest websites on the Internet is WordPress. It is a popular and highly configurable content management software to run even highly intricate websites. It is much more than just a blogging software. However, even though it is easy to use and easy to get started with, when you want to do some highly advanced things you are likely going to need WordPress tech support. The problem is that hosting companies that provide you the WordPress to use are not always the best at helping you manage it.

Some web hosts offer one click installation and building of a WordPress style site. However, they do not offer any technical support. Continue reading →

It is interesting how the sleight of hand experts can grab the attention of crowds. It is funny how otherwise rational adults can be amazed at something their minds know is a trick yet they cannot figure out. My favorite line that people say to magicians is, “Do that again!” Another one is, “How did you do that?” Even though they know the performer is not going to reveal his secrets, they ask anyway. Some are better than others. They hone their skills to wow the crowds like Brisbane magician Simon does for his audiences.

I can’t call myself a skeptic because we know that performance magic is just trickery. However, it is fun to be stumped into figuring out how certain things are done. I saw one act on TV where a magician cut a guy in half. There was half a guy there. Obviously a trick because of no blood and the guy was still alive. Continue reading →

It’s getting closer to the time we can move into our brand new condo over in the riverbank @ fernvale. We have been very excited anticipating the big move to our new place. I like the fact that we will be living close to the river. I have always enjoyed taking the train down to the area so we could walk along the walkways next to the river. It is a peaceful area to me. I have my favorite spots that my wife and I share.

The nice think about the Riverbank @ Fernvale is that it is very close to all the things you would ever want to do. We have access to the LRT (trains) to get anywhere we need to go in a hurry. We used to have a car years ago, but we sold it since it is cheaper and easier to just ride the trains. We have big shopping places close by, yet we also have natural areas close to our home as well. I don’t want our planned children growing up just seeing a cityscape. Continue reading →

When I got started into this Internet business thing I had a hard time at first. I owned a brick and mortar store and the way I got customers to come in was different than how I had to get it done online. Years ago I relied on having an ad in the telephone book to get customers. That was how people looked for us and found us. We hung up a big sign on the building too, and we advertised in the newspaper. My online business was different. I needed more info on how to get customers online when we expanded our business presence to having an Internet store.

I was the parts guy in our region. Continue reading →

Insurance is a part of life, as far as I’m concerned. I remember growing up hearing how important it was but I never quite understood just how saturated our society had become with it. It’s shocking to think just how much insurance is actually available to us and the types of insurance exist for us to sign up for. Sure, you can easily find something like home insurance deals as easily as you might find car insurance. But what about those insurance plans that you hear about in the news, the off-hand comments made about this singer or that Daredevil whom have certain body parts insured? How does that work? Does it ever make you wonder that maybe you too should be doing as they are doing and insuring parts of your own body just in case something should happen? Like, for instance, for the most part a lot of the work that I do is on my feet. Continue reading →

It is a lot more than we can manage right now, even though we have a nurse who comes by Dad’s place and provide him with senior in home care in nassau county ny. That has been going on for almost three years now and he is not even happy about that. In fact he is upset that we took the coil off of his the old Chevy Nova that he used to drive. The car is pretty nasty now as it has been sitting in the same spot under a sweet gum tree that has covered it in black resin or whatever that stuff is that they spew out. Continue reading →

Thanks to the lack of jobs in our area, we have seen a huge increase in non-violent crime. Even my own home was broken into just a few short weeks ago after a spree hit the neighborhood right after one of the packaging factories here was shut down. To me, that’s proof enough that the lack of jobs is the cause behind this sudden increase in crime. Thanks to this issue, I decided to look into ohio home security. I never thought I would actually have to get home security but when you are faced with a problem and the only solution is either buying a gun (which I would be loathe to do) or installing a home security system, I much rather do the latter. Don’t get me wrong, I would resort to violence if I absolutely had to but it is not something that I would rather be forced into. Continue reading →

UltraTrust.com reports on the final fight over a painting by Andy Warhol of Farrah Fawcett. Jury rules portrait will continue to be in the possession of Ryan ONeal.

Boston, MA (PRWEB) December 30, 2013

UltraTrust.com, a website on advanced estate and trust planning, owned by Estate Street Partners, recently released its financial investigative report of the jury’s decision on Thursday December 19, 2013 (3) that allows Ryan O’Neal to keep one of the Warhol portraits of Farrah Fawcett. UltraTrust.com discusses legal principles of ownership, possession, and personal property of this case.

“Possession is nine-tenths of the law,” states matter of factly, Rocco Beatrice, managing director for Estate Street Partners.

“This adage, which is often associated with the Hatfield – McCoy legal battle of the late 19th century, was recently applied by the jury in the case of University of Texas v. Ryan O’Neal, Case No. BC468468, in the Superior Court of the State of California.”

At the center of this legal dispute, as outlined in the court documents, was a valuable objet d’art, a portrait of the late Farrah Fawcett by late American Pop Art master Andy Warhol.

According to a court records, Fawcett was introduced to Warhol by her on-off boyfriend of 30 years, Ryan O’Neal, in or around 1980, and the painter resolved to immortalize her beguiling visage on two portraits. O’Neal claims one was apparently given to her and the other to himself.

The two Warhols, where one of them has been valued at approximately $ 30 million as noted by BBC (1).

The University’s counsel, David Beck, declared in the the court papers that Fawcett deposited both paintings into the Fawcett Living Trust. Her trust bequeathed her art collection to her alma mater the University of Texas Austin (“UT”). The Board of Regents of the University, however, only received one of the Warhols from the trustee.

According to the Dallas Morning News (6), the University’s regents became aware of the existence of a twin Warhol portrait when a former Fawcett “secret” boyfriend came forward and explained that two portraits had been created. The University hired a private investigator, but the regents’ investigation was conclusive after they saw a reality television show starring O’Neal called “Ryan and Tatum: The O’Neals” that proved the existence of the other Warhol: It was hanging on the bedroom wall of the actor’s Malibu home.

The University sued O’Neal on the basis that the Warhol was part of the Fawcett Living Trust. Upon examination of court documents, UltraTrust.com holds that the Fawcett Living Trust was not specific as to the objects in the art collection bequeathed.

UltraTrust.com asserts the Fawcett Living Trust was challenged insofar as the nature of the assets, but the structure and intent was intact. It is clear that the late Charlie’s Angels star left all the artworks in her living trust to the University; thus, the case went from probate to a challenge of possession and ownership concludes the UltraTrust.com statement.

UltraTrust.com does not believe that the asset protection feature of the Fawcett Living Trust has been breached. Getting a court order to enforce the terms of the trust and compel O’Neal to turn over the Warhol to the University could have been easier if sufficient documentation of ownership had been included in the trust.

In the end, according to court documents, it came down to a jury trial and deliberation of ownership. Several witnesses were called up. Jaclyn Smith, 68, Fawcett’s former co-star on “Charlie’s Angels”, Redmond O’Neal, 28, son of Ryan and Farrah, as well as Maribel Avila, nurse to Fawcett came to testify.

These witnesses all testified in favor of Ryan O’Neal. As reported on CNBC.com, Jaclyn Smith was quoted from the TODAY show (5), “I really feel Farrah would want that portrait with Ryan.” After the juror’s decision, Redmond on the TODAY show felt that his mom “up there” had something to do with the outcome of the decision.

According to court documents, the University’s appeal to the jurors failed to turn the jury’s decision. During the trial, they presented to the jurors Fawcett’s reality TV show when she herself stated she was contemplating on whether to sell one of the Warhol portraits when both were in her possession at the time of the filming.

The University also cited documents, according to the courts documents, signed by Fawcett allowing the portraits to be displayed at the Andy Warhol Museum and stated she owned the portraits.

However, the UltraTrust.com believes the fact that O’Neal has been in possession of one of the Warhols was not lost on the jury. UltraTrust.com continues in its report that though Fawcett did enjoy both Warhols at some point in her life, there was an absence of clear and compelling testimony to indicate that she did not intend to share one Warhol with O’Neal.

The aforementioned witnesses presumed O’Neal to be the rightful owner, and the jury agreed.

UltraTrust.com, in its financial statement, points out that the Warhol portrait hanging in his bedroom has probably appreciated in value due to this public court case.

“If there is an O’Neal Trust in existence, then I would highly advise that he include the Warhol portrait as tangible personal property and insure it to protect this valuable asset,” counsels Mr. Beatrice.

“I would further strongly instruct the creation of an O’Neal Irrevocable Trust as opposed to a Living Revocable Trust. There is a vast difference between the two forms of trust.”

UltraTrust.com affirms there is one less major thing O’Neal has to concern himself with.

“He [Ryan O’Neal] does not have to worry too much about future ownership challenges; after all, he now has a solid common law precedent to rely on.”

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Sources and additional information on the release:

1) bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-14098635 – 7/10/11

2) webmd.com/cancer/news/20090623/farrah-fawcett-obit – 6/25/09

3) cnbc.com/id/101289089 12/19/13

4) imdb.com/name/nm0000646/bio 11/16/11

5) today.com/video/today/53723320/#53723320 – 12/3/13

6) http://res.dallasnews.com/interactives/2013_November/farrahwarhol/#.Ur552fRDuZg 11/12/13

Court Documents:

7) press-releases.ultratrust.com/attachments/Oct_18_2013_University_of_Texas_v_Ryan_ONeal_Farrah_Fawcett_02.pdf – 10/11/13

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press-releases.ultratrust.com/attachments/Nov_21_2013_University_of_Texas_v_Ryan_ONeal_Farrah_Fawcett_02.pdf – 11/21/131)

Additional Information:

today.com/video/today/53540822#53622098 – 11/13/13

content.usatoday.com/communities/entertainment/post/2011/07/university-of-texas-battles-ryan-oneal-over-farrah-fawcett-art/1#.UpT-8701JNc – 7/11/11

content.usatoday.com/communities/entertainment/post/2011/07/university-of-texas-battles-ryan-oneal-over-farrah-fawcett-art/1#.UpT-8701JNc – 7/11/11

edition.cnn.com/2013/12/03/showbiz/oneal-warhol-fawcett-trial/ – 12/3/13