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IN MY OPINION the absolute toughest Rock and Roll band to complete right now, beyond any doubt, is the band EAGLES. And here is why................
Obviously, we must exclude any band with deceased members, as being difficult. True, there are collectors who have items of memorabilia on them with deceased band members and they are still trying to complete their item by obtaining the surviving members (one such story of The Doors comes to mind years back, when a collector purchased a Jim Morrison signed piece of paper and was able to get the surviving three), however for the purposes of this conversation, let's assume you are starting fresh from scratch.
Rule one with the band Eagles: you best know the history of all 7 one time line up members, who played on what album, and be ready for some serious in your face rejection. Though, with luck (much luck) and wisdom, it can happen. You can have a complete Eagles signed, something, as part of your memorabilia collection. Yes it's true; I have probably the largest collection of real, in person, signed Eagles memorabilia, found in any private collection. Fact of the matter, luck was on my side as I started collecting them in 1986, during what has been called, "their solo years". I could never, ever amass what I had collected then, now. That said, I currently have about 8 pieces that I am working on completing (call me insane). To get YOU started, here is a very brief history of each member:
RANDY MEISNER: Randy's signature would be required on every album from the 1970's excluding "The Long Run". He would even be a required signature on "The Live Album". Randy is/was by far, the most generous signer of all 7 members. He attended several autograph conventions/radio promo swap meet style shows during his solo career, and was known to sign in bulk, at his solo concerts. He is also well known for signing real signatures through the mail to his Studio City home. Very sadly, Randy currently has congestive heart failure and there is not a very positive outlook in Randy's future.
BERNIE LEADON: Bernie would be required on each of the bands first 4 albums, and including the "Greatest Hits" memorabilia. Though Bernie has lived in Nashville most of his life since leaving the band, he too is known for being a very generous autograph signer. Tough to find, but well worth the effort. There are not very many Bernie signatures currently floating in circulation.
JOE WALSH: Joe is known for signing ANY Eagles album/item you ask him to sign, but only played on "Hotel California", "The Long Run", and all the reunion stuff thereafter and since. Here is where your knowledge must prevail. Asking Joe to sign a prior album that he did not play on, compromises the integrity of your signed piece as it is not an accurate reflection of the artist on that album (for example). You can have Joe sign that prior to joining the band stuff (after all it's your collection), if you want to, however, if you want it done right, strict strictly to the lineup equaling the product you are wanting autographed. That said, Joe Walsh is known as a very generous signer, especially when he is NOT in the presence of Don Henley or his brother-in-law, Ringo Starr. There are a bunch of Walsh signatures in circulation, probably more so, than any other member.
TIMOTHY B. SCHMIT: Here is where your patience will begin to be tested. TBS was at one time during the 1980's and very early 1990's, a struggling musician trying simply to keep his name out there and earn a living. He was a very generous autograph signer. Keep in mind, he only played on "The Long Run" album, but would be required on "The Live LP" and all the reunion stuff since. Progressively, since the 1994 reunion, TBS has a severe case of "the Don Henley, I am not signing for you, all you are is a re-seller" mentality. The key to getting TBS's signature is to keep the quantity very low, and to have a solo item as what you will first ask him to sign. Further, you need to look and act like a fan (preferably at a solo show) and you must be ready for him to personalize. TBS suspects everyone, seemingly, of wanting to sell his autograph, especially when being asked for on an Eagles product. Best advice, present and act like a devoted fan in asking TBS, for anything.
DON FELDER: Don's autograph is by far the hardest to obtain and the rarest of all real Eagles signatures in circulation. During the bands solo years, Don stayed out of much of the public eye enjoying his wealth and raising his family, from his Malibu estate. Magazines, even wanting to do interviews with him, could not find him. "E/T" had an easier job of phoning home, than collectors did trying to obtain Don's signature. Even during the reunion years of 1994-2000, Don still kept very low key and let Henley and Frey take "center stage" with the press and public, making his signature the toughest of all 7 members to obtain. Don is currently active with a moderate solo career these days, and though he only seemed to sign his autobiography for those two years of book touring (no memorabilia), Don has moderately signed autographs at his solo concerts and at his many charitable golf tournaments. It's a hit or a miss, but bringing a copy of his 1983 solo album "Airborne", may increase your chances. Keep the Eagles first self entitled album and the" Desperado" album away from him as he was not a band member at the time, as well as anything after 2001. Those in between albums and years you must get Don's signature on if you want a complete. I do have his signature on all my "On the Border albums, though he is noted on the jacket as a "late arrival".
DON HENLEY and GLENN FREY: The only two members of the band to appear on every album, every tour, and every, everything. The road to any complete Eagles item of memorabilia has no stops with these two members. You must include each of them, period. Get ready for frustration, aggravation, and at times, even downright rudeness (Henley, a bit more than Frey). Currently, both of these very talented musicians are under the illusion, that everyone that asks them for a signature, has resale and EBay, as their motivation. There are stories upon stories upon instances after instances of the shunning of fans, by both of these artists. However, there was a time when this was not the case. I was able to obtain Glenn Frey at numerous solo shows, local radio stations, and personal appearances during the solo years. Don Henley, as well, did some of the very same conventions (at the same time as Randy Meisner) during his solo years as well as many book signings at his release of his Walden Wood's book. He would sign many items of memorabilia as well, during these numerous book signings.
Bad blood has been part of this bands lore, as has been 40 years of such amazing music. Don Henley once told me as I asked him to sign an album that he did not think was an official release, even though Joe Walsh had all ready signed it, that "Joe Walsh will sign anything. He would even sign your arm if you left out there long enough". Felder too has refused to sign items that Henley had all ready signed. However, with all that said, and now with the above knowledge, let me point you in a very positive direction and help your collection.
The easiest way these days to start an Eagles item of memorabilia, is to stick with a product from the current lineup of Timothy B. Schmit, Joe Walsh, Glenn Frey and Don Henley. Just by the numbers, you only have to worry about obtaining four total signatures. Each of these men, are supposed to be touring solo this summer, and there lays your best chance to get any/each of them. I was able to obtain TBS this past November at The Coach House in San Juan Capistrano (and like I said, Joe Walsh, away from Henley, is much more generous).
However, if you are a die hard, and a glutton for pain, and want the Mona Lisa of fully signed Eagles items, that "Hotel California" album, you better get Randy Meisner's signature FAST, or find one of the very, very many out there. His health, once again, is very poor. Also, be prepared: "The Hotel California" album has only 50% light area (light space) for signing, as the bottom half is dark. This may require a silver marker pen. Also, TBS, Henley and Frey all like to inscribe. Now, as a collector and keeper of the items I obtain, I never have a problem with inscriptions. However, I don't need 3 members of a band, all writing, "To Stephen" on an album that needs 5 total members. That could easily equal up to 10 names on an album which to me amounts to an oversized album/product of signed junk. It's an overkill by the celebrity all in their attempt to keep down a products resale value (which in my final collection, isn't ever sold, anyways).
Further, Joe Walsh at times signs very big, His signature is known for being written on top of another's. Therefore, do try your best and get his first, as to avoid ruining a previous obtained signature, ruined by his. Speaking of signatures, it is very important to make note that each member, do have a very nice and defined style of their signature. each autograph, even the "rushed ones" that I do have, still show very clear and precise.
PLEASE visit one of the funnest collections of signed, in person, and real Eagles memorabilia, in any private collection. http://www.rockandrollcollection.com/eagles.html Again, I could never in 2012, even begin to collect what you will see within.
As far as EBay, I have seen (what I perceive to be) some real Randy Meisner and Joe Walsh solo signatures for sale from time to time, but I have never, ever, ever, ever, seen what I believe to be anything complete that I can consider to be areal Eagles item, especially a Hotel California album (except those very rare items that the current band does sale for charity), and, by the way, are sold also through their website. Please do not go near Ebay, and look to purchase a complete Eagles item of anything, until you consult an expert on their signatures.
Lastly, if you are a REAL glutton for some serious pain, and want to obtain all 7 members on any one product, I wish you tremendous luck and sympathy. Yes, it can be done, but to start such a project in 2012, you are a far braver collector than I am. Yes, I do have about 9 items signed by all 7 members, but again, I started these 25+ years ago. My blood pressure pills do not contain a strong enough dosage, to ever want to start a piece of Eagles memorabilia needing all 7 members.
Whatever your Eagles quest is, please have fun with it. In my opinion they are collectively, the most successful and talented American band, in our lifetime.
CHEERS and SUCCESS to you and your collection,
Stephen Duncan -- www.rockandrollcollection.com
NOTE: Please visit my website and check out my Eagles autographs for whatever needs you may have. Though nothing in that website, especially the Eagles items, are for sale, I do have about 40% more Eagles items that is not yet uploaded and included in my final website collection. Those, I will sale. Please email me for any reason/any need at any time.. firstname.lastname@example.com
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Other than my Star Trek autographs, the band EAGLES creates the most amount of emails that I recieve from people either wanting me to sell an album, or authenticate/offer an opinion on a piece that you are looking to purchase. What I can offer is the following Eagles signed pieces of memorabilia. First the albums:
2- The Long Run albums: Signed by Schmit, Frey, Henley, Walsh and Felder
2- Eagles 1st LP: signed by Leadon, Frey, Meisner and Henley
1- Hotel California/Inner Sleeve (not the LP): Signed by Meisner, Frey, Henley, Walsh and Felder
1- The Greatest Hits LP/Vol 1-- The SECOND largest selling album in rock history: Signed by Henley, Frey, Meisner, Walsh and Felder.
1- On The Border Lp: Signed by Felder, Meisner, Henley, Frey and Leadon.
Please, only serious offers only. What you are getting, is a fully signed piece of memorabilia autographed by each member of the EAGLES that performed on the album. THE RECORDS, are not included (you can buy a used LP and add them yourselves). This is the first time I have sold ANY Eagles items in over 20 years. Once these items are gone, there will be no more offered for sale. Please remember, that REAL and fully COMPLETE Eagles albums/memorabilia, almost never come on the market for sale. Fully signed 8X10's, to follow. Email me for pics and any further details.
I am tempted to put an offer on one of the Long Run albums.....
on your albums, some have all sigs being signed with the same marker, and others the sigs are with different markers. Are there generalizations that can be drawn from these observations on any multi autographed item? Do you usually provide the marker or do the signers provide their own pen in most cases?
btw nice job with the Warriors and stray dogs
I always carry my own markers and try to get the artists to use them. Some "dinglehead" had a red marker and that is what Timothy used to sign with. Well, at least it stands out.......
Has anyone purchased one of the above?
None of these, I am sorry to say, are longer for sale. Stephen
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At its regular council meeting last week, the Bovey City Council set a public hearing for March 19 at 6 p.m. to gather public input.
City Maintenance Supervisor Kevin Odden told the council last week that he was still in the process of gathering information on costs. Bonding has been discussed by the council as a possible mechanism for funding, although a final decision has yet to be made.
While some councilors reported hearing public concern about the cost of meter installation, Mayor Mike Bibich asserted that metering water usage would result in more equitable billing.
"Why should you pay for someone else's water use?" questioned Bibich.
The city plans to distribute more information to residents about the meters through the March utility billing.
In other business, the council:
• Approved the minutes from the Jan. 22 regular council meeting.
• Reviewed a draft parking ordinance. The city already has a parking ordinance in place, but is considering changed language - mostly related to winter parking in the city. A final ordinance will be presented to the council for approval at its Feb. 19 meeting.
• Approved a rifle purchase for city police.
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Hi and welcome to Just Answer!The statute of limitation on collection is set by the federal law and may not be overridden by the court order - thus the judgment, may not change the statute.
The date the collection statute expires is the Collection Statute Expiration Date (CSED) and may not be changed by any court.
Also the law specifies under which events - the Collection Statute can be tolled (means - extended):
- filing of a bankruptcy protection- filing of an Offer in Compromise - filing of requests for relief- signing of a waiver extending the statute - taxpayer is out of IRS jurisdiction (for instance - in a foreign country.Here is the reference - http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/26/6502However - if the IRS gets a judgment and based on that judgment issues a levy against any property - the statute of limitation on collection do not apply to the levy.So - potentially - the IRS may issue levy based on the court order and attach it to your income. However I never see that IRS is doing that.
See in the statute:
If a timely proceeding in court for the collection of a tax is commenced, the period during which such tax may be collected by levy shall be extended and shall not expire until the liability for the tax (or a judgment against the taxpayer arising from such liability) is satisfied or becomes unenforceable.
I'm sorry, maybe I was not clear in my question, because your response, while related, is not to my question.
Here is my question:
My income comes from a disability insurance policy. The Florida statutes specifically exempt any collection, including judgements, on disability payments. The ONLY exception is IRS debt. I know for certain that during the ten years until the statute runs they can attach the money, if they know where it is. Specifically, AFTER the statute has expired, and assuming the IRS got a judgement before the expiration, is that judgement exempt from collection just like any other judgement, or is it EXEMPTED FROM THE EXEMPTION because the underlying debt was to the IRS. This question has nothing to do with court orders, or tolling, or offers or anything else. Just specifically can IRS judgements AFTER EXPIRATION OF THE STATUTE be enforced when no other judgement of any kind can?
Thank you.
I know the statute does not apply to any levy, but the question is CAN the IRS levy when JUDGEMENTS are exempt. In other words, does the expiration of the statute reduce the judgement to a general debt, which is uncollectable against disability, or is it still an IRS debt and therefore collectable? I'm sorry, but I will not be able to explain it any better. Thank you.
This still will be federal tax debt - which has higher priority compare to any regular judgment.That will be a federal tax levy which may not be limited by any state law.
Legally - the IRS may levy on your income before the statute of limitation on collection runs out and such levy would not be limited by section 6502. However - as I mentioned - the IRS rare uses such option.
So if the IRS has the power to convert to a judgement which will live for ten or twenty years, or maybe even be renewable forever, what is the purpose of the Statute of Limitations? Also, if somebody owes them a substantial amount of money when the statute expires why WOULDN'T they just file for judgement to protect their interest forever? In my particular case, I have a large income for life, but they have just forgotten about me - but could "remember" at any time.
I think I just sent this, but I don't see that it went so I'll send it again.
I just sent a response, but it doesn't show up, so here it is again:
Okay, sorry, I see what happened.
Last question:
If the statute DOES expire, can they still file for and get a judgement AFTER the expiration? My problem is that I have four years to go (or thought I did), and legally they only have to leave me 2888 per month where I live. My rent alone is 3800 per month, so you see my problem. Until yesterday I thought I only had to hold my breath for another four years and change, but now I can't sleep. I would LOVE to make them an offer, take 10k a month, as opposed to taking nothing, so at least they get half a million ( I owe about a million), but to do that I have to reveal myself. Anyway, the fault is mine, whining or complaining, just trying to completely understand. Looks now like I really have no way out.
that was NO whining or complaining. Typo. Sorry.
While the judgment (or the court order) might have the statute of limitation - that is not a question.The federal law allows the IRS to issue the levy WITHIN the statute of limitation and based on the court order and the period during which such tax may be collected by levy shall be extended.This levy if timely filed - extends the statute of limitation.
Again – that is regulated by the federal law – and may not be overridden by the state law of by the state court.
So the botXXXXX XXXXXne here is that in reality, and assuming the IRS wants to use all their options, the statute means nothing, they can collect literally forever as far as the length of my life is concerned, right?
However - after the statute of limitation runs out - the tax debt becomes unenforceable - and IRS may not file the levy even based on the court order.
So then as long as they file BEFORE the ten years, I'm off the hook? So all I have to do is:1, pray they don't pick up my file again for four years, and the pray again they won't bother to take the ten minutes it takes to file for a judgement if they do. Thanks for your answers. I will leave a gratuity.
Sorry again, that should have said "as long as they DON'T file before the ten years I'm off the hook. As you can tell I'm very upset since learning of this judgement possibility yesterday. Thanks again.
Is there any way for somebody to contact the IRS on my behalf WITHOUT telling them who I am, just stating the facts: For six years you have gotten nothing. This guy wants to pay you half a million over the next four years, as opposed to you getting nothing by virtue of inaction, but he's afraid if he opens this can of worms you'll take the maximum and then he's literally dead? Can that be done, making a deal BEFORE exposure?
Your understanding is correct. The actual effect of the statute of limitation is based on specific circumstances. If the taxpayer has no assets - there is nothing to attach the levy - and the tax debt will become unenforceable after the statute runs out.However - if the taxpayer has valuable assets or income stream - the federal laws allows the IRS to attach levy on such assets - limiting the taxpayer's ability to keep assets and avoid tax liability.
I do not want to make an offer in compromise because I don't want to officially reveal myself.
And since they have the power to take almost 20k a month every month, consideirng my income, why would they even consider a 10k offer? So my only bargaining chip is making the offer BEFORE telling them who I am. As I read all this, I realize how badly I'm screwed here. They CAN keep me holding my breath for the rest of my life. I did a good job of killing myself here.
You (or your representative) may contact the IRS with a general tax questions without identifying yourself specifically.However - if you want to consider your specific circumstances – that seems based on your information - the only way the IRS would consider your situation - filing OIC. Otherwise - you will get a generic answer kind-of "that is possible" - without any obligations.
Thank you for all this effort. I will do the right thing by you. Can I ask one more very quick thing?
"However - after the statute of limitation runs out - the tax debt becomes unenforceable - and IRS may not file the levy even based on the court order." This is an exact quote of something you wrote above. I am confused by the language EVEN BASED ON THE COURT ORDER. BotXXXXX XXXXXne here, just YES or NO, if they obtain a judgement (which is different than a levy), and DO levy against me before the ten years, that levy WILL or WILL NOT continue after the statute expires? That is my last question.
If the IRS obtains a judgment and file a levy based on that judgment before the statute of limitation runs out - according to the section 6502 - the period during which such tax may be collected by levy shall be extended. Thus - the levy if timely filed - extends the statute of limitation.The statute of limitation WILL NOT expire in this situation.
The issue is that your statement "The statute for that year runs out in 2015" is not technically correct.
The statute of limitation would run out in 2015 is there will not be any levy at that time.
In case of levy - the statute of limitation shall be extended and shall not expire until the liability for the tax (or a judgment against the taxpayer arising from such liability) is satisfied or becomes unenforceable.
You have a Federal tax lien - that is a different issue. A lien is not a levy. A lien secures the government's interest in your property when you don't pay your tax debt. A levy actually takes the property to pay the tax debt. That is a huge difference.
The Federal tax lien doesn't affect the statute of limitation and as soon as the statute of limitation runs out - the lien becomes unenforceable.
Following publications might be helpful:
When dealing with the government and such large and bureaucratic organization as the IRS - you may not set your own rules - and should follow their rules and regulations - thus you will not get any guarantee of a deal before the full disclosure.
Moreover - any deal you might get without full disclosure could be canceled if they learn you do not disclosure all required information.
Because of the large amount on stake - I strongly suggest to discuss your issues with a tax attorney in your state.


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Let me set the stage a little bit. These were FRIENDLY races amongs friends/aquaintances AND we did this VERY late at night so we know what each other has and it was all in good fun .
First Supra - has the single turbo conversion, 550cc injectors(not sure if those are stock), AVC-R, FMIC, exhaust system, SAFC, fairly modded and nice BUT it's an automatic with a stall converter only at 2k rpms = no good launchie for him. Oh and I forgot he was running race gas that night (his first time on street for fun) and his boost was spiking up too around 23psi.
So we line up from a stop at a light and I got a pretty good launch = 2-3 car lengths and then around middle of 2nd he gets up too speed and traction and I stop pulling. By the end of 3rd gear he is coming up VERY FAST and then I got too 101 and hit the brakes = 1/4 mile covered (from my last time at the track) and I still had a 1-1.5 car lead on him = me win .
BUT then we went from a roll.. maybe around 40-50 and he just WALKED borderline RAN away from me but that was pretty much expected [heh].
Second Supra is closer to stock with only exhuast I think. We run from a roll starting around 20mph (1st for me) and take up to about 90. It was even but I missed the 2nd gear shift so he caught some ground on me but we were even again till around 95 (top of 3rd) when he started nosing past me... when I proceeded to stop since I know how much 4th gear sucks .
All in all it was a pretty good time. All I really have to say is ALL HAIL THE AWD launch


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André Rieu: Dancing Through the Skies
Sky Arts, Saturday 11am
Long long ago, when I was this newspaper's resident television critic of many years standing (why they wouldn't let me have a chair was something I could never understand), older people were routinely mocked for their attempts to cope with new-fangled technology.
Stories were told about pensioners putting Tippex on their computer screens, or kicking their word processors to pieces after reading the words "boot up" in the instruction manual, and we youngsters routinely sniggered about OAPs and their 3½in floppies (those were pre-Viagra days). But nowadays, it is the silver surfers who dominate the interweb, and we (sorry, they) are smarter than you might think, like the nonagenarian cybernaut who told me recently that the only password he uses is the single word "incorrect". That way, whenever he gets his log-in details wrong, the screen prompts him with the message "your password is incorrect", so he can never forget it.
The older generation also now dominate the dwindling market for CDs and DVDs, especially those produced by sixtysomething André Rieu, a quintessential European (Dutch but very Deutsch, and with a French name) whose recordings with his Johann Strauss Orchestra have sold over 30 million copies worldwide.
His current European tour (which included the O2 in December) has just been named by Billboard as the world's second most popular tour, beating the likes of (she-with-the-child-bearing-lips) Jennifer Lopez and Justin Bieber so, as M Rieu might say: "in your pipe put zat and zmoke it".
Over the past year Sky Arts has been regularly screening his concerts, waltz and all. When I tuned in at the weekend to watch a performance from the Semper opera house in Dresden, the music and costumes in Dancing Through the Skies were pure 19th-century Viennese, yet the slick showmanship and schmaltzy production values were actually pure American schlock, while the improbably white teeth of the ever-grinning Mr Rieu (pronounced "rear" as in "dire rear") were positively Hollywood.
Indeed, as his Beethovenian hair fair frizzled beneath wave after wave of Steradent fumes, wafting onto stage from a thousand elderly Teutonic upper sets in the audience, it struck me that those were the only upper sets who would be seen dead at such a thoroughly vulgar evening.
The show's central conceit (in every sense of that word) was that a Viennese debutante and her beau had come to Dresden for their wedding, and as Rieu and his band struck up the Wedding March, in came the happy (and wildly overacting) couple. "Dear newlyweds, I got you a wedding gift," said the subtitled maestro, and as a pair of human Meissen porcelain dolls (with the emphasis on porc) sang and danced their way through Martini's Plaisir d'Amour, the atmosphere became so cripplingly sugar-sweet that I felt myself slipping gently into a diabetic coma.
Strauss waltzes alternated with an extract from the Barber of Seville, sung by a baritone with a can belto vibrato so wide you could have flown a helicopter through it (or maybe not), but when Rieu introduced a selection from The Phantom of the Opera and told us "every time we play it I am moved to tears", I confess that I too began to cry. Not because of the performance, but because of the callous way that the likes of Mendelssohn, Ravel, and Puccini cynically built time machines for themselves so they could travel forward to the late 20th century, nick some of Lloyd Webber's greatest tunes, and then pretend that they'd written them a century earlier.
As the banal Lloyd Webber melodies rang out, and the orchestra players smiled incessantly (something professional musicians never normally do, unless somebody farts in the brass section), I realised that Rieu's trick is to offer his audiences a sort of Degeneration Game. He starts off with superbly performed extracts from Tosca then, poco a poco, allows the intellectual temperature to drop through vacuous musicals right down to bierkeller anthems, so the audience can leave telling themselves that they've just sat through Tannhauser, when they've actually been one step away from The Birdy Song.
As forty Viennese debutantes filled the stage for yet another waltz, I realised I hadn't seen so many grinning blonde bitches since the Golden Retriever finals at Crufts, and I was struck by the uncomfortable resonance of celebrating romance in Dresden. After all, it was on February 14 1945 that Arthur "Bomber" Harris sent a thousand RAF planes dancing through the skies to demolish the city, and some of the more elderly members of this audience were probably survivors of that unwelcome Valentine's Day gift. Was it justified? Or a war crime? Who knows? After all, war ultimately isn't about who is right. It's about who is left.
It's easy to mock Rieu (very easy actually), and in many ways he deserves our ridicule, because his concerts are Barnum and Bailey. They are vulgar and mawkish, and play shamelessly on the audience's emotions, yet he is undeniably passionate about the music, and performs Strauss waltzes (the best of which are far more subtle and sophisticated than many music snobs like me are willing to admit) in a captivating and authentic way.
Now that BBC TV has virtually abandoned coverage of classical music, Sky Arts has become the only place where viewers can reliably find it, and millions of silver surfers are recording Rieu's countless concerts on their Sky boxes and TiVos, or downloading them onto their PCs. So now we have a generation for whom the phrase "memory loss" refers not to forgetting where they left their spectacles, but to the fear of finding the latest Rieu download has mysteriously vanished from their hard disk.
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You can't get a Frosty these days in Whitefish. The Wendy's franchise there, and five others in Montana, Oregon and Washington, closed last month because their owner, Havre-based BZB Enterprises, "got sideways," as BZB attorney Jack Quatman puts it, with Wendy's International.
Quatman means that Wendy's doesn't want BZB operating its restaurants anymore. Wendy's claimed in a federal lawsuit filed in January that BZB has "continuously ignored Wendy's directives and refused to comply with Wendy's critical, non-negotiable food safety standards," breaching the franchise agreement. The company is seeking an injunction to keep BZB from using its brand.
A Wendy's audit of the Whitefish store found a number of problems, not all of which related to food safety. Quatman says things like broken concrete in the drive-thru lane, the lack of a fence around the dumpster and cracked upholstery in the booths were among a "slew of complaints" at the Whitefish location.
It appears the situation was worse at BZB's Wendy's in Havre. Beginning in 2007, BZB became "increasingly operationally delinquent" at the Havre location, according to the lawsuit. A subsequent audit, in 2008, found 265 cleanliness and food safety problems there, such as dirty equipment and employees not washing their hands. The findings led to Wendy's scrutiny of BZB's 10 other Wendy's locations in the Northwest.
"Obviously, at the point that the lawsuit was filed a couple weeks ago, the people at Wendy's didn't feel the franchisee was being at all responsive to what they needed them to do, " Max Davis, the Great Falls-based attorney representing Wendy's, told the Havre Daily News this week.
Quatman says it was impossible for BZB to simultaneously address the problems at all six locations given their geographic layout.
BZB has until March to answer Wendy's complaint. "However, I don't believe there will ever need to be an answer," Quatman says. "We are working amicably with Wendy's. They have an interest in protecting their brand, and we have an interest in continuing to work with them."


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CHARLOTTE, N.C. — For all the grumbling about President Obama at this week's gathering of Republican Party leaders, there's one thing they concede he's really good at: winning elections.
So many of them are eager to adopt strategies ripped from the Democratic campaign playbook: deploying campaign operatives in battleground states year-round; building "relationships" and "trust" in Hispanic and African-American neighborhoods; using social media to bring people together face to face; and most of all, a lot of "listening" to the grassroots. (Recipients of the Obama campaign's earnest and frequent e-mails get it.)
"Community organizing? Sign me up!" said Florida Republican Party Chairman Lenny Curry, alluding to the president's former occupation and the underlying spirit of his grassroots campaign. "We're going to find ways to engage with diverse communities."
"It's about finding out what the people in a precinct care about, because if you know that, then they are more likely to listen to you," said North Carolina Republican Party Chairman Robin Hayes, echoing the Obama campaign's success at compiling an unprecedented amount of information about individual voters in order to connect with them.
While there's overwhelming consensus that the Republican National Committee needs to ramp up outreach to an increasingly diverse electorate and update its technology for voter contacts, Republicans remain divided on how deep their problems go. Can they make another run at Hispanic voters simply by changing their "tone" or by upping their investment in Spanish-language media, or does the party need to offer new policy prescriptions, like immigration reform? The RNC's Growth and Opportunity Project, which is collecting input from rank-and-file Republicans and offering recommendations for future campaigns, is not a policymaking body. More telling will be the upcoming battle on Capitol Hill over offering legal residency to the 11 million illegal immigrants in this country, which will undoubtedly shape the GOP's ability to court minority voters in 2014 and 2016.
Even more complicated for Republicans will be positioning themselves on issues considered anathema to their conservative base, like abortion and gay marriage, but finding increasing acceptance in the mainstream and especially among women and young voters.
"We talked a lot more about messaging than policy," said Oklahoma Republican Party Chairman Matt Pinnell. "It's outreach to all of the above. We don't need to water down our policies or back away from our principles, but it's the way we talk about those issues."
Ari Fleischer, a White House spokesman under former President George W. Bush and one of five leaders of the Growth and Opportunity Project, put it this way: "Republicans talk policy and Democrats talk people. Republicans can learn from Democrats how to make those connections."
What's unclear is whether the strategies pioneered by a history-making president can be replicated at a time when the Republican Party is casting about for leadership. "Is it House Speaker John Boehner? Our presidential candidates in 2016? Or a bunch of people on cable TV trying to raise their profile?" asked Mississippi-based campaign strategist Henry Barbour, another Growth and Opportunity Project cochair. Then-Senate candidate Obama rose to national prominence in his speech at the 2004 Democratic convention, when he dismissed the idea of "red" states and "blue" states and declared "there's the United States of America." He went on to remake the 2008 campaign map in his presidential run by sweeping states that hadn't voted Democrat in decades.
"Being a blue state is not a permanent diagnosis," said Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus on Friday, taking Obama's cue. "We must be a party concerned about every American in every neighborhood."
Priebus also vowed to develop a "permanent, national field infrastructure," an operation that could cost the party millions of additional dollars. Colorado Republican Party Chairman Ryan Call said that already he is raising money to put "regional campaign organizers" on the ground year-round, four by March and eight to 10 by the end of the year. "We're not waiting for the RNC to do it," he said. "We need to be engaging with voters all of the time, not just five months before the election."
Sounds familiar. Shortly after the 2008 election, Obama's team launched a permanent campaign apparatus called Organizing for America to nurture and grow the grassroots network built during the campaign. The group had limited success promoting the administration's agenda but undoubtedly laid the early groundwork for his reelection bid. Now the organization is retooling as a tax-exempt organization outside the Democratic National Committee.
"As a party, we must recognize that we live in an era of permanent politics," Priebus said. "We must stop living nominee-to-nominee, campaign-to-campaign. As we saw this election, our opponent benefited from a multiyear head start."
Priebus was overwhelmingly reelected to a second term at an uneventful meeting Friday that contrasted with the fireworks two years ago when financial problems sunk former Chairman Michael Steele's reelection bid, despite Republican gains in the 2010 election. Priebus is widely praised for paying off the $24 million debt he inherited.
"Ordinarily you'd think we'd be throwing folks overboard, but instead we are taking a step back," said Massachusetts GOP National Committeeman Ron Kaufman, who added that the national party and Mitt Romney's campaign together raised $1 billion. "People credit Reince Priebus for bringing us back from the abyss."
Kaufman was a top Romney adviser who admitted to still feeling "depressed, actually it's more of a funk." What has uplifted many GOP activists after Romney's resounding loss are their leaders back home. That 30 of the nation's governors are Republicans was repeatedly mentioned during this week's party gathering. So was the promise of the potential Republican field in 2016, a younger and more diverse crowd exemplified by the 41-year-old Indian-American governor of Louisiana, Bobby Jindal, who addressed the activists Thursday night.
On the Democratic side, most of the possible 2016 contenders are white men, with the notable exception of Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton.
Meantime, the RNC is reviewing 24,000 responses to its online survey, talking to hundreds of activists and political pros, and scheduling "listening sessions" from Miami to Seattle. The effort is reminiscent of the Obama team's efforts to help volunteers feel invested. "It's not copying Obama," Kaufman said. "It's catching up."


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The date, time and location of the review sessions are announced in class. This information is also posted on the office door of the Math Tutoring Coordinator, Rick Fullerton, in the Tutoring Centers located on the second floor of the University Library.


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In this button tutorial you will learn how to create a nice blue glossy Web 2.0 button with a reflection in Gimp.
Create a new image with a white background. It can be nice to have some space to work on so let's make the image 500×500.
Create a new layer. With the Rectangle select tool, create a selection that's 200×70 in the middle of the image. Rounded corners should be enabled and set to 15.
Set your FG color to 3377ad and your BG color to 4bb7f0,
This layer is going to be the border around the button, it's always nice to have a dark border color, so fill that selection with that dark blue color (3377ad).
Create a new layer, shrink your selection by 1 pixel. Right-click->Select->Shrink.
Select the Blend tool, reverse the gradient.
We're going to create a gradient from the bottom of the selection to the exact middle of the button.
So how do we find the exact middle? Look at that bar in the bottom of the image window while you drag the gradient, when it says -34 it's in the middle of the button.
(since the button is 70px minus 2px (border), and half of that is 34.)
(hold Ctrl to get a straight line)
Our button should look like this now:
Create a new layer. Use the Rectangle select tool and create a selection on the top half of that button. Rounded corners should be enabled and set to 15. My selection measures 190×32.
Set your FG color to white. (ffffff)
Select the Blend tool, set the gradient to FG to Transparent. The gradient should not be reversed.
Now create a gradient from the top of the selection to the bottom of it.
Get rid of that selection, Select->None. Also reduce the opacity of the layer to 75.
Create a new layer, grab the Pencil tool and select the brush called Circle (03).
Now draw a white line not too far from the bottom edge of the button. The beginning and end of the line should be aligned with the beginning and end of the "gloss".
(hold Shift to go into line mode, then hold Ctrl to draw a straight line.)
Do a Gaussian blur of 12 on that layer. Filters->Blur->Gaussian Blur
That should give our button a nice blurred white line like this:
Select the layer with the button border (the first layer we made), and give it a drop shadow.
Filters->Light and Shadow->Drop Shadow.
The settings should be: Offset X 0, Offset Y 0, Blur Radius 5, Color: black.
That gives our button a nice dark outer edge like this:
Add some text to that button. I used a font called FreeSans Bold with size 35. Use the Move tool to position the text perfectly.
Give the text a drop shadow with the same settings as we used on the button border. (Offset X 0, Offset Y 0, Blur Radius 5, Color: black)
Now for the reflection. First, merge together all your layers except for the background. There are many ways to do this, but the easiest in this case would be to make your background invisible, and then right-click and select Merge Visible Layers, and choose Clipped to image.
Make the background visible again, and duplicate the layer with the button on it.
Now we're going to flip the duplicate button upside-down with the Flip tool, simply set the Flip tool setting to vertical and click on the button.
Use the Move tool to position the duplicate button right underneath the original button. The borders of the buttons should be right next to each other.
Add a layer mask to the button that is upside-down. (right-click on the layer and select add layer mask) Set the mask to White (full opacity)
Layer masks control the opacity of individual pixels on a layer, so you can use them to have different opacity in different areas on a layer.
Set your FG color to black, select the Blend tool and set the gradient to FG to Transparent.
We're going to create a gradient inside the layer mask, so click on the layer mask in the layer dialog to make sure that it's the layer mask we're working on and not the layer.
It's where you start the gradient that controls the height of the reflection, so if you want a small reflection you should create the gradient from the middle of the duplicate button to the middle of the original button.
If you want a large reflection, then create a gradient from almost the bottom of the duplicate button to the middle of the original button. I chose to create a large reflection.
Reduce the opacity of the layer to 75. This makes our reflection a bit smoother.
The button is done! The final result looks very nice:
A short word on saving before we end the tutorial, if you save the button as JPG the white background will be included, if you don't want the white background included with the button, you should either change the color of the background, or delete the background and save as PNG. You should of course cut out the button from the rest of the image afterwards so you don't end up with a 500×500 button.
July 24th, 2010
Thank you again . now , i need to learn how to make navigation .
September 5th, 2010
Thanks a lot, really nice tut!
October 16th, 2010
That is really good!
October 19th, 2010
Nice tutorial.
I had a problem with flipping the copy button. When I tried to flip it both buttons would flip. After re-reading your instructions I think I may have missed the image mask creation would that cause them both to flip?
December 15th, 2010
I honestly have to say that this has been the best tutorial I've found on this technique. I've looked at 20 tutorials over the past 3 days and none of them took me through the steps so clearly and concisely. Thank you very much for making such a useful piece of content.
December 22nd, 2010
Hi there, Brilliant tutorial, thank you so much. Could you do one for creating a circle in a similar manner? Like, a shiny sphere. I need to create five lights, like traffic lights ranging from red through to green. I want them to be really shiny and glossy. Going one step further, I want to then have them in two forms each, one not "lit up" and one "lit up" if that makes sense.
Any help or direction would be brilliant.
Thanks in advance. 🙂 Piers
January 2nd, 2011
Excellent tutorial. I'm looking forward to using this on my site. Thanks for the clear walkthrough!
January 29th, 2011
Good tutorial, but badly misnamed; Web 2.0 is nothing to do with glossy buttons.
February 3rd, 2011
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February 16th, 2011
Excellent!!! Great tutorial with step by step instructions and wonderful screen shots of all required menus and selection options…
March 15th, 2011
awesome tutorial. I just created the shiny button. Really easy to follow. I have bookmarked it. thanks a lot
March 24th, 2011
This was the most informative and clearly written for GIMP on this topic. Thanks a lot. You rock!
March 27th, 2011
This tutorial was helpful and, as you can see, inspired me. Thanks!
May 12th, 2011
Very helpful tutorial.
Easy to understand and easy to implement.
Very very compliment for all (web presentation, content).
Also i have bookmarked it.
Thanks alot
June 8th, 2011
Very good tutorial and great step by step instructions. Excellent for GIMP beginners.
September 19th, 2011
Thank you for this easy step by step tutorial it really help me a lot.
October 30th, 2011
Excellent tutorial! Not only good results… no wait, perfect results, but the directions were very clear. Not too many steps, not too many trivial details, no important detail omitted. Thank you!
November 22nd, 2011
Thank you very much!
January 7th, 2012
perfect, thanks a million!! Never have I seen a tutorial so easy to follow!
January 23rd, 2012
Excellent tutorial for a pro looking result.
I can remember everything I did without having to refer back to it too which shows it was well explained and simple.
February 24th, 2012
Thanks for this excellent tutorial. It really helped me a lot in designing the website. Please keep up the good work
March 23rd, 2012
Great tutorial and great-looking results. Many thanks for taking the time to explain everything so clearly. 🙂
March 29th, 2012
Thanks for this. I have read a number of tutorials on achieving a glassy effect and this one is by far the clearest.
Thanks again. 🙂
September 19th, 2012
You're the greatest man.
I learned a lot doing this one.
December 17th, 2013
Thanks a lot .. As a beginner in Gimp.
This helped me a lot..
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There is one fundamental element that connects your ability to tap local, mobile, and social advertising: your business listing. That's right, the simple name, address, and telephone number information that you've had forever is key to ensuring customers and prospects can find you and learn what differentiates you from your competitors.
Seems simple, but inconsistent and inaccurate business listing information is a real problem for the local search business. In fact, the problem is so large in social media websites, that one in three abandoned their local search because they cannot find accurate information during the local search process. (Source: 2010 15miles/comScore Local Search Study.)
For many years the print phone book – white and yellow pages – was the most accurate source of listings. But with the breakup of the former Bell companies in 1984, that complete data asset has been diminished. Today, a single database of all local businesses that is completely accurate does not exist. The landscape exists of major data providers that begin with the phonebook data (now fragmented by regional and local providers):
- Localeze
- Axiom
- InfoGroup
While there are many other providers, but these three companies represent a significant mass of listings and distribution sources to which they push this information.
In addition to the database aggregators, a credible business listing management program needs to feed data directly to a number of sites that represent the largest consumer usage points, including:
- Yahoo
- Bing
- Citygrid
- YellowPages.com
- SuperPages.com
- Yelp
- YellowBook
These sites have facilities to allow single business and multi-location businesses to submit and update their business listings.
Before you say "Well, that sounds easy… take one source of you listing information and feed it to the above resources and voila, problem solved," let's explore some pitfalls to avoid:
Business name: Represent your business exactly as it appears in the offline world.
Do not:
- Include marketing taglines in your business name.
- Include phone numbers or URLs in the business name field.
- Attempt to manipulate search results by adding extraneous keywords or a description of your business in the business name field.
Business location: Use a precise, accurate address to describe your business location.
Do not:
- Create listings at locations where the business does not physically exist.
- Use broad city names or cross-streets.
- Create more than one listing for each business location.
- Form multiple listings for one business that services numerous cities.
- Establish multiple listings to cover the various specialties of a business.
- Include information in the address line that does not pertain to the business's physical location.
Website and phone: Provide a phone number that directly connects to your individual business location and a website that represents your individual business location.
Do not:
- Use a call center number if possible.
- Provide phone numbers or URLs that redirect or refer users to landing pages or phone numbers other than that of the actual business.
Categories: Provide at least one category from the suggestions provided in the form as you type. Categories should be specific, but brief.
Do not:
- Supply categories that contain location-based information.
- Submit multiple categories per entry field.
Custom attributes and description: Use the description and custom attribute fields to include additional information about your listing.
While many firms will say that bending the above rules will help you get a better position for your listings, I challenge that the big sites are well aware of these tactics and penalize listing optimization for violators that they detect. In effect, any temporary gain may be offset by long-term purgatory for your listings resulting in low position and hence low selection opportunity for your business.
I am often asked, "What is the formula of importance of the various elements that effect optimization of these listings?" While each situation differs based on listing and category competition or density, there is a hierarchy that can help guide your progression:
- Accuracy and consistency of data across all listings
- Verification or claiming of listings
- Completeness of baseline data
- Enrichment and recent updates
1. Accuracy and consistency of data across all listings
Because most engines rely on multiple data sources purchased from the aforementioned data aggregators, they merge/purge this information they currently have on a specific business (perhaps provided by the business directly). If the sources do not match, they simply cannot gauge the accuracy, resulting in an optimization downgrade. I have seen a data element as simple as a suite number being out of alignment negatively impact a listing's optimization.
2. Verification or claiming of listings
For single locations businesses, ensure you go to the major sites listed above and claim your business listing. Interestingly, Google has 25 million listings in its database, yet only about 6 million have been claimed.
3. Completeness of baseline data
When claiming your listing, fill out as much of the data points as you can for your business. Features for users we have observed being tested, such as Google Places "Only List Businesses Open Now" rely on the baseline hours for businesses that have been claimed in the database. Simply put, if you do not provide hours for your business, Google and other sites may assume you are not open and de-emphasize your listing.
4. Enrichment and recent updates
Videos, coupons, daily deals, etc., are terrific ways to keep your listing information fresh and provide users with a reason to come back to your listing and business more frequently. This again is a positive optimization point.
The Key to Life Is Timing and Pacing
When applying the above techniques, approach the process with a chess game mentality. Instead of dumping a ton of content and never revisiting your listings, once you have an accurate, consistent, and complete baseline of information on your business, dole it out overtime. Your local competitors will be catching up and at some point will begin adding content on their business. Hold back some content and vary it overtime so that you can move in iterative steps against the rise and fall of others business listings.
Get in the game, claim your listing and start the process of optimizing your business for the changing local search landscape.
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Definition of venture
venturingplay \ˈven(t)-sh(ə-)riŋ\
intransitive verb
: to proceed especially in the face of danger
transitive verb
1 : to expose to hazard : risk, gamble ventured a buck or two on the race
2 : to undertake the risks and dangers of : brave ventured the stormy sea
3 : to offer at the risk of rebuff, rejection, or censure venture an opinion
venturerplay \ˈven(t)-sh(ə-)rər\ noun
Examples of venture in a Sentence
We ventured out into the woods.
He nervously ventured out onto the ice.
The pups never ventured far from home.
The company is venturing into the computer software industry.
a writer venturing on a new project
The group's lead singer is now venturing on a solo career.
It's important to plan carefully before venturing on a long journey.
Origin and Etymology of venture
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Feature #5653
Weapons recoil more A1-alike
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Hello guys. Weapon recoils are not the same as in ArmA 1, you may want to check this thread that I started on BIS forum.
http://forums.bistudio.com/showthread.php?t=89724 (I dont think the muzzle rise effect is possible without scripting.)
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Updated by Ayger over 7 years ago
Well man..very informative the thread in BI forums..
Try put a vote in your "issue" next time you enter here ;)
Updated by zGuba over 7 years ago
- Subject changed from Weapons recoil to Weapons recoil more A1-alike
- Due date set to 11/20/2009
- Category set to Config
- Status changed from New to Feedback
- Affected ArmA II version deleted (
Please select...)
Which A1 configs? 1.0, 1.08, 1.14?
Updated by afp over 7 years ago
1.14/1.16 But in A1 you need to move the muzzle back in position before last timing, or it does not center right. In ArmA 2 re-centering is done automatically, last triplet can be skipped.
A higher recoil is also nice in ACOG mode, you have the feeling of re-aiming again. The vanilla ArmA 2 recoil is way too small.
Updated by zGuba over 7 years ago
- Due date deleted (
- Status changed from Feedback to Assigned
Updated by Vic over 7 years ago
Seems camera is also locked to the weapon in sighted mode, another step back in ArmA2 and probably the reason for ticket #4401 (related?).
I'd also like separate camera movement config entries, reasoning/example can be found in the above mentioned ticket.
Made a small vid using afp's config: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TILnkKbW2ro
Updated by afp over 7 years ago
That's exactly what I meant. Also the ticket mentioned the same kickback issue.
Now I am thinking that they did it on purpose, so like in real, you won't get your eye out when shooting :). Tho the kickback effect in scope mode was kinda cool in ArmA 1....
Updated by afp over 7 years ago
this is in the next patch..what is it?
[59808] Fixed: DOF in 3D scope view
Updated by zGuba over 7 years ago
afp wrote:
this is in the next patch..what is it?
[59808] Fixed: DOF in 3D scope view
It's for TrackIR I guess
Updated by Vic over 7 years ago
Probably postprocessing (blur) fix.
I think ArmA1's unlocked camera would be better for immersion, of course preferably combined with a separate camera kick. One can clearly see in the AK47 video you posted in the BIS forums that the head moves with a slight delay after the weapon kick and many times the body and neck compensate for the shoulder movement (check the subtle downward head movement at 1:19, instead of having the whole head kicked back).
Edit: Another video supporting the ArmA1 approach: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6BpI3xD6h0
Updated by Deadfast over 7 years ago
afp wrote:
this is in the next patch..what is it?
[59808] Fixed: DOF in 3D scope view
DOF = Depth Of Field - blurring image out of focus (post-processing)
Updated by afp over 7 years ago
This is a simplier and better start configuration that I tested, after I discovered that triplets may be in fact (time,offset,offset):
0,0,0, // dummy, sometimes first triplet is ignored
0.02,0.040,0, // kickback - fast
0.04,0,0.034, // muzzle up, still fast
0.15,0,-0.002, // top delay - slow
0.15,0,0 // recenter slowly
You can adjust the feeling with:
- recoil amplitude (muzzle 0.034) - range 0.005-0.070
- kickback length (0.040) - keep it in 0.010-0.060 range
- recentering time (delay and recenter 0.15) - ranges 0.10-0.20
Basically only amplitude can vary but you may adjust it as needed.
Updated by q1184 over 7 years ago
Arma 1 recoil system definitely gave more freedom in weapon feeling customization. Top creativity killers right now are:
1. Locked eye position (no kickback in ironsight view).
2. Dead-on autorecentering that doesn't depend on recoil config (visible in the video posted by Vic above).
It would be great to have more customization possibilities, like configurable camera movement and the degree to which autorecentering works, from none at all to the 100% like it is now. Configurable degree of recoil randomness/variation from shot to shot might also be an idea, although recoil is already quasi-random depending on current FPS.
Updated by afp over 7 years ago
Indeed, recoil has a huge implication over the gameplay. In ArmA 1 you could control reaiming after every shot, just like in real. In ArmA 2 you just have to click over and over again, it targets the same direction... The after-shot position was very well balanced with ACE1 sway + recoil.
I dont think its hard to get it back as in ArmA1 and get it fixed in the next patch, maybe we should report this as a bug?
Updated by Suma about 7 years ago
- Status changed from Assigned to Resolved
- Audio card set to Please specify!
Re-aiming after each shot is now needed in 71753
Updated by galzohar about 7 years ago
Suma wrote:
Re-aiming after each shot is now needed in 71753
Sounds like a great thing! The need to re-aim is something that is definitely missing pretty badly in Arma 2.
Updated by kju about 7 years ago
- Target version set to 1.06 BETA
Updated by kju about 7 years ago
- Status changed from Resolved to Closed
Updated by kju about 7 years ago
- Target version changed from 1.06 BETA to 1.07.71750
Updated by kju almost 7 years ago
- Target version changed from 1.07.71750 to 1.53 BETA
- Affected ArmA II version set to 1.07.71750
Updated by kju almost 7 years ago
- Target version changed from 1.53 BETA to 1.54.72888
- I am using some Mods set to No
- Reproducible for you set to No


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Wendy Hurrell said gold jewellery she had been given by her late grandmother, was among the "irreplacable" items including a laptop, taken from her south London home.
The 31-year-old spoke after taking the unusual step of threatening the burglars on Twitter warning them the computer will self-destruct if not returned.
She said: "Gold jewellery I had inherited from grandmother who died last year has gone. These are things that have been in my family for generations.
"An eternity ring my grandfather gave my grandmother, which I used to wear, was taken. They have both now passed away so it really is quite upsetting."
Ms Hurrell, who made headlines in July when she was caught on camera rolling her eyes after presenting a forecast, added: "Also my camera and laptop are gone. I had pictures on there of my friend's wedding, pictures of my friend's children growing up, none of these pictures were backed up and now they are gone. I feel quite upset about that.
"It really is a reminder that burglary can happen to anyone at any time. You always think these things only happen to other people."
She told how the burglars broke in through a small window which was left slightly ajar.
Earlier she tweeted: "So far from understanding how someone can walk into a stranger's house and just help themselves to stuff they didn't earn #pathetic.
"Tonnes of irreplaceable pictures from my laptop, gone. Jewellery belonging to my late-Grandmother, gone. Worthless laptop with priceless pictures. Late-Grandmother's jewellery."
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Might contact Edelbrock & see if they have one. They may have it on their website.
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