Bernardino

We live in the high desert and my son-in-law commutes down the hill every day to work. The downfall is though, when it snows or extreme weather conditions, rather than chance it, he'll stay at his moms overnight because the CHP closes the pass for obvious reasons. source

Contract cities pay the sheriffs department for X number of deputies and X number of patrol cars. But if a sheriff or one of his commanders is unscrupulous or short handed, he might be tempted to short a contract city and keep some of their cars patrolling the unincorporated county area or working a special detail elsewhere. If all patrol cars are marked the same and contract deputies wear identical uniforms, there is no way to tell if a contract deputy has been improperly pulled out of his assigned city to work elsewhere. As a result, contracts for sheriff's services will often call for X number of patrol cars assigned to that city to be marked with the city's name and for all deputies assigned to that city to wear a special patch on their uniform bearing the city's name. That way if they get pulled out of the city, they become highly visible and someone will snitch them off to the city manager. source

Fox already reported on Fox and Friends yesterday, that her ex-husband was alive and well. If I remember right, I think they said he was living in AZ. source

There's another thread here you might be interested in as well guys. Mantracker got beaten at his own game by two ex-SF guys. Hope they make more series, it was pretty interesting. source

I have only used Hardie, it's very reliable around here. Prepainted I have seen issues with touchups, like with any prefinished product. Also a friend says the prefinished had problems on one of his jobs--colors slightly off--and he was blamed for it for something he felt that Hardie should have covered, maybe storage or something, anyway they didn't fix it for him. I had a chat with a new Nichiha distributor, he said the distributor company owner was flown to Japan and quite impressed. The American was asked how he plans for the future of his company and proudly discussed the five-year planning cycle his company uses. Nichiha apparently told him about their one-year, five year, twenty and one hundred year plans. Apparently they are pretty committed to doing things right over there! source