CLEAN CHIMNEY

How to Seal Your Juvenile & Criminal Records in California: Legal Remedies to Clean Up Your Past

If you’ve ever been arrested, convicted of a crime, or been found delinquent in juvenile court, you need to read this book.
How to Seal Your Juvenile & Criminal Records shows you how to clear the way for jobs, driving licenses, immigration and more. It clearly explains what a criminal record is, how it can harm you and what you can do about it. Easy-to-follow summaries precede each chapter, so you can easily turn to the sections you need.
Written by Attorney Warren Siegel, the book explains how to:
• seal, modify or destroy your record Step-by-step instructions show you how to determine if you qualify for record-cleaning remedies and how to go about sealing, changing or even destroying a record.
• understand Three Strikes Certain felony convictions and juvenile delinquencies have a severe effect on future sentences. This book explains what every Californian should know about punishment of repeat offenders. It includes recent court interpretations of the Three Strikes law.
• deal with Juvenile Court Records There’s a good chance that records of crimes you committed as a juvenile can be sealed or destroyed.
• deal with Old Marijuana Possessions Records Records of pre-1976 convictions or arrests can often be ordered destroyed. This book will show you how.
• protect your Driver’s License Several criminal offenses that aren’t connected with driving, including marijuana possession, can get your driver’s license revoked. This book shows you how to fight back.
How to Seal Your Juvenile & Criminal Records includes all the forms and step-by-step instructions you need.
Don’t let your past spoil your future! It’s not as hard as you think to clean up your record and keep old mistakes from getting in your way.

in the Picture: Marvin Gaye (April 2,1939–April 1,1984) photographed at Golden West Studios for Motown Records during the "Let's Get It On" recording session..


Today marks the 25th anniversary of the death of the music legend and im posting this picture to pay tribute to an artist whose songs inspired many over the 26 years of his life and still are 25 years after his death!

May Ur soul Rest In Peace


"There are still times I feel unhappy and I must smile, and there are times I want to cry and I must laugh... people rarely see the real Marvin Gaye"
Gaye

And Here's his Biography!

With a career that exemplified the maturation of romantic black pop into a sophisticated form spanning social and sexual politics, Marvin Gaye was one of the most consistent and enigmatic of the Motown hitmakers. Certainly among the most gifted composers and singers, with a mellifluous tenor and a three-octave vocal range, Marvin Gaye was also moody — avoiding TV, rarely performing live, and sometimes not showing up for the few concerts he did schedule. From "How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved by You)" to "Heard It Through the Grapevine," from "What's Going On" to "Sexual Healing," Gaye sang some of the most memorable black pop of the '60s, '70s, and '80s. He was nominated for eight Grammys before winning one in 1983. His life ended tragically one year later — and one day before his 45th birthday — when he was shot to death by his father, an Apostolic preacher, after a violent argument. In many respects, Gaye was, as his friend, the cowriter of "Sexual Healing," and author David Ritz titled his biography of him, a divided soul.

Gaye started singing at age three in church and was soon playing the organ as well. After a stint in the Air Force, he returned to DC and started singing in streetcorner doo-wop groups, including a top local group, the Rainbows. He formed his own group, the Marquees, in 1957. Under the auspices of supporter Bo Diddley, they cut "Wyatt Earp" for the Okeh label. In 1958 Harvey Fuqua heard the group and enlisted it to become the latest version of his ever-changing backing ensemble, the Moonglows. As such, Gaye was heard on "Mama Loocie" and other songs for the Chess label in 1959.

By 1961, the group was touring widely. Detroit impresario Berry Gordy Jr. heard the group and quickly signed Gaye to his fledgling Motown organization later that year. Soon after, Gaye married Gordy's sister Anna. Gaye's first duties with the label were as a session drummer (he played on all the early hits by Smokey Robinson and the Miracles).

Gaye got his first hit with his fourth release, "Stubborn Kind of Fellow," in 1962. Over the next 10 years, working with nearly every producer at Motown (including the team of Holland-Dozier-Holland, Smokey Robinson, and Norman Whitfield), he enjoyed over 20 big hits. Although he specialized in midtempo ballads, he also had dance hits: "Hitch Hike" (Number 30, 1963), the 12-bar blues "Can I Get a Witness" (Number 22, 1963), which became a virtual anthem among the British mods), and "Baby Don't You Do It" (Number 27, 1964). But by and large he favored romantic, sometimes sensual ballads. He felt that his desire to move into a more mainstream, sophisticated style was hindered by Motown's emphasis on hits. For a performer as unenthusiastic about some of his material as Gaye later claimed to be, he gave almost every song he ever recorded an inspired reading. His Top 10 hits included "Pride and Joy"; (Number 10, 1963), "I'll Be Doggone" (Number Eight, 1965), "Ain't That Peculiar" (Number Eight, 1965), and "How Sweet It Is to Be Loved by You" (Number Six, 1965). Among his 39 Top 40 singles of the period were also such unlikely hits as "Try It Baby" (Number 15, 1964, with background vocals by the Temptations), "You're a Wonderful One" (Number 15, 1964, with backing vocals by the Supremes), "One More Heartache" (Number 29, 1966), "Chained" (Number 32, 1968), and "You" (Number 34, 1968).

Beginning in 1964 Gaye was teamed with Mary Wells [se,e entry] for a couple of hits, "Once Upon a Time" (Number 19, 1964) and "What's the Matter With You" (Number 17, 1964), and with Kim Weston for "It Takes Two" (Number 17, 1967). But his greatest duets were with Tammi Terrell: "Ain't No Mountain High Enough" (Number 19, 1967), "Your Precious Love" (Number Five, 1967), "Ain't Nothing Like the Real Thing" (Number Eight, 1968), and "You're All I Need to Get By" (Number Seven, 1968), all penned and produced by Nicholas Ashford a