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The year is 1453 and all signs point to it being the end of the world. Accused of heresy and expelled from his monastery, handsome seventeen-year-old Luca Vero is recruited by a mysterious stranger to record the end of times across Europe. Commanded by sealed orders, Luca is sent to map the fears of… (more)
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Looks pretty good. I assume most (if not all) of the graphics are placeholders for now, so I won't comment on those.
Firstly, you might want to improve your text rendering - you're rendering fixed-width, but the Pokémon fonts are variable-width. It's a small change, but variable-width fonts usually look more professional.
Secondly, the player and opponent HP bars have different sizes, which looks strange.
Thirdly, you might want to make the move selection buttons bigger, so you can include the move's PP and type (does the colour of the button represent type?). This will also give you more space for the party Pokémon list and items list.
And finally, you might want to display the back sprite zoomed even further (or the front sprite at normal size) to get some perspective.
Also, good idea with the tabs. I'm also using tabs for the battle menu (independently of this game; I got the idea from various Pokémon battle simulators such as Pokémon Online); it's (in my opinion) a lot more convenient than a separate screen for each type of battle command.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank, July 3 (UPI) -- Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas says he is optimistic about renewed efforts to revive Israeli peace talks but may seek upgraded U.N. status if they fail.
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How is it a shame? No one wants to buy a Windows phone. They're gawdy. Proven? Phonescoop just linked an article a few weeks ago stating Google won't even bother making apps for it (www.phonescoop.com/articles/article.php?a=11 642 ), because no one's using it. I can't wait to see what Mozilla comes up with. MORE open source is good,not bad. Unfortunately, since Mozilla is all about an open internet, AT&T would never adopt their phone, unless they could lock the bootloader, OS, and maybe even require a blood sample to turn it on.
Nokia has sold 10 million Windows Phone devices, and the Samsung Focus sold 2 million.,...that's a whole lot of 'nobodies'....
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About two dozen dead and dying trees in Dallas' Arts District will be removed in the coming days.
The bald cypress trees were planted along Flora and Crockett streets around the time the Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center was built almost 25 years ago. They've probably lasted longer than anyone thought they would.
"The average life span of trees within artificial growing environments that are typically found in downtown and urban settings is approximately 15 to 20 years," city forester Karen Woodard said in a written statement. "These trees are dying because they no longer can sustain themselves within a limited growing medium."
City officials sent word of the removal this week and hope to have all of the trees along Crockett removed in time for a weekend street festival hosted by the Cathedral Shrine of the Virgin of Guadalupe.
"There's no danger," said Willis Winters, director of Dallas' Park and Recreation Department, "but we want to get them down in time for their festival."
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Getting rid of the foliage along Flora won't be so easy, Winters said. Those trees, between Pearl and the Winspear Opera House, won't come out until the city has met with Downtown Dallas Inc., Arts District officials and representatives from the Meyerson and others.
"Those are big trees at the end of their lives," the parks director said. "What we're trying to decide and study is how soon are we going to be able to come back with new trees. But there's a lot of dead tree material on Flora, and it's a public safety issue."
Winters said removing the trees will create a chain reaction of events that could ultimately wind up with the city having to yank up and replace the tree wells, deteriorating sidewalks and everything beneath them — and that could run into some big money, which could eventually lead to their being added to a future bond program.
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FAMED daughter of Leigh Dame Helen Mirren is lending her face and childhood memories to a Barnado's campaign aimed at recruiting more foster carers.
The actress has shared her most cherished childhood photos and memories with the Create My Memories campaign.
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Figures show 8,600 more foster carers are needed across the UK, with 650 needed in the East of England, particularly in Essex where there is an urgent demand.
Rachel Maloney, Barnardo's assistant head of fostering in London and the South East, said: "Without the right foster family to care for them, many vulnerable children may never experience the love and stability they so desperately need and happymemories will remain a distant dream."
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The Port of Palm Beach District selected Florida Crystals as its partner to develop the South Florida Regional Intermodal Logistic Center in western Palm Beach County in order to strategically meet the demands of future cargo traffic.
Western Palm Beach County has struggled with soaring unemployment rates of more than 40 percent and little or no economic activity. The Inland Logistics Center has the potential to create 600 jobs per one million square feet of distribution space.
"We are hopeful now that the local governments have spoken Governor Crist will put aside his recent differences with Florida Crystals and not continue to cause economic harm to the residents of western Palm Beach County," said Gaston Cantens, Vice President of Florida Crystals.
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Rugby player jailed for crime rampage
A former rugby league player will spend at least four years behind bars for a series of crimes, including leading police on a high-speed chase through Salisbury in June.
Jonathon Hume, 31, pleaded guilty to several offences committed over a six-month period.
Hume crashed a stolen commodore into another car, injuring the driver, and has been in custody since the incident.
He pleaded guilty to driving dangerously to escape a police pursuit, causing harm by dangerous driving, theft and unlawful possession
Hume represented Australia in underage rugby and had a scholarship with the Adelaide Rams.
The court was told he was devastated when a shoulder injury ended his sporting career and went on to develop a drug problem.
Judge Dean Clayton said he accepted Hume was now ashamed of his offending.
He was sentenced to nearly six-and-a-half years jail with a non-parole period of four years.
"Your life had been directed towards playing rugby league and you were devastated when that was no longer possible," Judge Clayton said.
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You have all the ingredients for romance, intimacy and combustible sex, prime fodder for tabloid journalists, TV gossip shows and back-fence speculation. As realtors like to tell their customers, a good buy in real property depends on three things: location, location, location.
That reasoning also is the formula for Hollywood hell-raising for both cast and crew members.
A two-month location shoot in, say, Astoria or Tullahoma, affords highly paid, restless performers in their 20's through 50's few distractions for loneliness.
Generally, these highly attractive, glandular-charged individuals gravitate toward one another, as do grips and wardrobe women, script-clerks and property men.
The attraction is as inevitable as polar opposites. They connect, fulfilling the traveling salesmen's plaint: "When you're lonely and on the road ..."
The phenomenon began in the early days of black and white flicks when, left to their own devices and away from snooping reporters and cameras, location love affairs were as commonplace as convenient dressing rooms.
Co-stars are particularly vulnerable when the script calls for steamy love scenes. After a day's work in a bedroom set with a sultry co-star, performers may find it difficult to turn off the passion and take it a step further in their dressing rooms or hotels.
These flights of ardor often lead to divorce and sometimes unexpected pregnancies. They may also wind up in flaming scandals. Some even lead to marriage, which may account for mistrust of locations by many spouses.
Probably the most notorious screen lovers who became real-life lovers were Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy, who fell in love when they first co-starred in "Woman of the Year" in 1942 and remained faithful, though unmarried, until his death in 1967.
Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton made headlines with their hot and heavy romance during the making of "Cleopatra" in 1963, thereby cuckolding her husband Eddie Fisher and ending Burton's marriage to Cybil Williams. The stormy couple was married and divorced twice, a much-savored scandal worldwide.
A highly publicized location romance involved Steve McQueen and Ali MacGraw during production in Arizona co-starring in "The Getaway" in 1972. They became lovers although both were married: MacGraw to Paramount Studio chief Robert Evans and McQueen to singer Neile Adams.
McQueen and MacGraw were married for several years after their divorces, but the marriage didn't last.
Today's most vivid example of an actress getting carried away romantically on location is Meg Ryan, who fell in love with actor Dennis Quaid on the set of "InnerSpace" and later married him. She tumbled again on the London location of "Proof of Life" where she fell in love with her co-star, Russell Crowe, leading to a divorce from Quaid.
For Crowe it was just another location fling and he called a halt when "Proof of Life" failed to be proof of love. Crowe remains unmarried. So does Ryan.
Another blonde dazzler, Melanie Griffith, toppled head-over-heels for co-star Antonio Banderas on location for "Two Much" (1996). Both were married to others at the time of their grand passion. Now they are married, or at least they are married for now.
Right up there with Meg Ryan in the double loser column is America's Sweetheart Julia Roberts, who twice lost her heart to her leading men.
First was Dylan McDermott in 1989 while filming "Steel Magnolias" -- both were unmarried at the time. Then Roberts and co-star Kiefer Sutherland became loversduring "Flatliners."
They set a wedding date but Julia chickened out shortly before the big event and left Sutherland at the altar. She stunned the world later by marrying country singer Lyle Lovett, but she didn't love it for long and is now single again.
Currently Gwyneth Paltrow is living down the oft-repeated gossip that she and Luke Wilson, who played her brother in "The Royal Tenenbaums" last year, had a passionate affair while making the movie.
One hot and heavy romance during production of "Volunteers" in 1985 involved actress Rita Wilson and Academy Award-winning Tom Hanks.
But this footsie-playing couple married in 1988 and proved the exception to the brevity of romances on location that plotz when the principals return to Hollywood.
Some co-stars merely enjoy their love scenes with members of the opposite sex and let it go at that, returning home to their spouses, perhaps with guilty grins for having enjoyed their "work."
Actors usually are regarded as amiable rascals or sexy dudes in such liaisons, but actresses often are considered a bit trampy, unfair to be sure.
All-time champ of co-star seduction was Errol Flynn who boasted he'd slept with all his leading ladies. Only Olivia De Havilland demurred.


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Is there a way of making the "RESOLVED" button more noticeable so more people use it?
That's the problem. There is no "RESOLVED" _button_.. you have to edit the original post and select RESOLVED from the drop down; which, under certain circumstances, isn't always possible.
The drop down should be replaced with a Resolved button. THAT would make it more noticeable.
Yes I know. Maybe there should be.
I like the idea but I suppose this is not a standard vBulletin feature and would need to be programmed specifically?
Which, if the source code were obtained, is possible; but any future "updates" to the script could over-write the mod. And it would probably be a PITA.
Perhaps someone from CF's parent company could suggest such a mod to the developers of vBulletin.
I saw a discussion about this on another forum where the consensus appeared to be that having the OP mark the thread as resolved when the first poorly conceived answer is supplied that kind of does what they want tends to prevent the next three or four better and better answers being posted in the first place. By not marking the thread resolved at the first answer that the OP thinks answers their question it makes the thread more useful when any better answers get added (even if the OP has gone then for anyone searching for an answer to that question).


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Re: Fierce competition
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- Interesting! Yes, the audio is similar, starting low. However, instead of going up and then down again, it just continues upwards... varying with wind speed and snow density. Imagine 10 minutes with that noise and the only stations you hear are the strongest of the high-powered Europeans...and you know that conditions are excellent! ;-)
Bjarne Mjelde
Vadso, Arctic Norway
--- In email@example.com, "Guido Schotmans |" <guidoschotmans@...> wrote:
> Hello Bjarne,
> Very interesting story. Could it be that it sounds like the attached file.
> I'm calling it the corkscrew qrm. I noticed it already several times during
> our mid winter DX-peditions in Walsoorden, Zeeland, The Netherlands. I
> always thought it had something to do with snow or rain but was never really
> confirmed by other DXers.
> 73,
> Guido.
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> Onderwerp: [perseus_SDR] Re: Fierce competition
> To Leif and Jürgen:
> The blowing snow noise is somewhat different to the falling snow/rain noise.
> Mostly, falling snow or rain is not a problem. Sometimes in combination with
> wind it is. Blowing snow is quite a different matter: It can best be
> described as a Formula One car cranking the RPM up to 18000.
> I use insulated wires. However I have tested uninsulated steel and aluminium
> wires and there is no noticeable difference in noise pickup.
> I can't say much about other antenna types. The only other antenna type I
> have up is the Mini-Whip and to my memory I haven't tested the blowing snow
> conditions with the M-W.
> I have yet to find a noise blanker which can eliminate, or even slightly
> reduce blowing snow noise. It has the capacity to cover all but the
> strongest signals. The good thing is that when the wind calms down, the
> noise disappears...
> The wind needs to be around 12 m/s, and of course there must be quite a bit
> of snow around, as percipitation or dry, light new-fallen snow on the
> ground.
> Jürgen, no I have no recordings. SDR recordings with this kind of noise are
> deleted :-)
> Bjarne
> --- In email@example.com <mailto:perseus_SDR%40yahoogroups.com> ,
> Leif Asbrink <leif@> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Bjarne,
> >
> > > Leif, somewhat off-topic but on the web page
> > > you referred to, you asked: Is there a similar
> > > phenomenon static snow?
> > Very interesting:-)
> >
> > I just wonder if/how the discharges differ. A snow-flake
> > presumably has a much smaller mass than a typical
> > static rain droplet. Even so it might have a fairly
> > large surface area so its capacitance might not differ
> > too much from that of a nearly spherical water ball(??)
> >
> > > Indeed there is. Both falling snow, and blowing snow.
> > > I have lots of experience with both... With blowing
> > > snow, the audio frequency of the interference vary
> > > with the wind speed.
> > What is your experience with different antenna types?
> > I guess a magnetic loop would not be very sensitive
> > while a small whip antenna might be very sensitive
> > even though the number of hits would be small because
> > of the size.
> >
> > > As for the bandwidth discussion: As a MW DX-er I don't
> > > need more than the Perseus 1600 kHz span. I own a G33DDC
> > > which can record 4 MHz, but I almost always use its
> > > 1250 kHz setting.
> >
> > What about blanking static snow? Did you find a noise
> > blanker that helps or is static snow fatal for the
> > reception of weak signals?
> >
> > 73
> >
> > Leif / SM5BSZ
> >
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- Hello Nico,
> If one computes the number of taps of a FIR decimationI am afraid you apply a "conventional" model which is
> filter with a decent performance (say 0.1 dB in-band ripple
> and 100 dB alias image rejection) he discover a simple
> rule of thumb:
> N =(about) 4*D/(1-B/Fco)
> where:
> N is the required decimation filter number of taps
> D is the decimation factor
> B/Fco is ratio between the desired output alias free bandwidth and the output sampling frequency.
> Since after filtering the decimator takes one output every D
> input samples, the output impulse response is no more
> than N/D samples long, that's to say:
> N/D =(about) 4/(1-B/Fco)
> Note that the length of the output impulse response
> *does not* depend on the output sampling frequency, but just on the B/Fco ratio.
> If such a ratio is high the output pulse can be quite long.
not applicable in the QRN-fighting context.
Consider a sampling rate of 4 MHz.
Apply a FIR filter that has say 0.1 dB in-band ripple
and a -1 dB point at say 0.8 MHz. The -20 dB point should
be at 2 MHz and the -100 dB point at 3.2 MHz. The alias-free
range (-100 dB) would be +/- 0.8 MHz but a clever DSP software
could compensate for the fall-off between say 0.8 and 1.6 MHz
to provide a perfectly flat passband of 3.2 MHz or so. The alias
suppression at the corner frequencies would be poor. Maybe 20 dB,
but I do not think that would impair the noise-fighting.
The useful bandwidth for receiving would be 1.6 MHz only and
not any improvement over the 2 MHz sampling. The purpose of the
faster sampling would only be to eliminate certain interference
sources better.
> In Perseus the decimation filter has been designed so thatYes.
> the alias-free bandwidth is 80% the output sampling frequency
> (1.6 MHz when the sampling rate is 2 MS/s) which is a good
> compromise between the decimation filters complexity and
> the efficiency of the digital signal processing made on the PC.
> At such a B/Fco ratio you can expect that each output pulse
> due to an istantaneous glitch at the receiver input is
> approximately 4/(1-0.8) = 20 samples long whatever the
> output sampling frequency is.
> You can't really resolve it into a single pulse even ifIn Linrad, the PC software will take the fourier transform of the
> the output sampling frequency were 40 MS/s. It will
> always be 20 samples long.
input data stream, divide it by the fourier transform of the
impulse response of the hardware and multiply it by a "desired
pulse response" This way the pulse length is made shorter than 20
samples and at the same time the ~0.1 dB ripple is removed.
The length of the pulse is determined by the "desired pulse response"
which depends on the skirt steepness that the user has decided.
The smart blanker knows the exact shape of the pulse and its length
so it does not matter that the pulse is long in terms of samples.
I am aware that very few operators use Linrad and that only
a very small fraction of the users care to calibrate their
systems properly. I have tried to explain the theory, but I
do not think I have been sucessful at all. I am interested
in static rain at high bandwidth because I have a feeling
recordings would show a dramatic difference between the
Linrad blanker and other blankers.
> Of course 20 samples at 40 MS/s are a 0.5us interval,Yes:-)
> which is a much shorter time interval than that obtained
> if the sample rate were 2 MS/s but instead of increasing
> the output sample rate one can obtain the same result
> simply relaxing the B/Fco requirement.
> If the B/Fco ratio were 60% instead of 80% the outputYes:-) This is what I advocate. 4 MHz sampling and
> pulse lenght would be the half the original, if it were
> 40% one third and if it were 20% one fourth of it, a
> mere 5 samples interval (2.5us @ 2MS/s), which is even
> the half of what one could obtain attempting to double
> the output sampling frequency (and mantaining the
> original 80% B/Fco ratio).
> The penalty is that the the alias free bandwidth
> is much less than the output sample rate...
40% alias-free bandwidth. I also want the -10 dB point
to be fairly high, maybe 80% of Nyquist.
> but who cares if we would just be satisfied to (carefully)As far as I undersdtand it is impossible to clean up a 200 kHz
> clean-up a not-so-wide 200 kHz bandwidth out of a 2 MS/s
> IQ stream?
> And if it works, wouldn't it be better than obtaining the
> same result using 4 MS/s maybe overloading a poor man CPU?
wide segment of a 2MS/s IQ stream if the (random) secondary
pulses can not be resolved. From old experience as well as from
the one and only wideband recording at my disposal a bandwidth
of 1.6 MHz is marginal. It may or it may not work.
> BTW, making a new 4MS/s DDC would not be impossible butFive years later it is very likely that a factor of two is OK:-)
> as I haven't implemented it yet I can't say that what
> was initially conceived for a much smaller output sample
> rate could sustain it (in 2008 I was even not sure that
> the 2 MS/s rate could really work).
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BOSTON Daniel Nava was in the Red Sox original lineup for the finale of the three-game series against the Nationals at Fenway Park. He was set to play left field and bat lead-off.
But Nava -- with whom the Sox are 7-1 when he is in the lead-off spot -- was scratched shortly before game time with what was called a sore left hand.
He was unavailable today, manager Bobby Valentine said after the game, a 4-3 Red Sox loss. He had an injection. They said he couldnt play. Hurt his thumb yesterday.
Valentine had no specifics on how Nava was hurt. And Nava was equally vague.
Its just a sore left hand, he said.
He said it happened before the game Saturday and got worse during the game. He said he received an injection of cortisone just to make it feel better.
Nava said he hopes to play Monday in Miami.
Were hoping tomorrow, he said. If its good tomorrow, Im going to go tomorrow.
But Valentine said Navas unavailability Sunday, limitedthe managers options in the late innings.
With runners on first and second and two outs in the eighth, right fielder Ryan Sweeney batted against Nats lefty Tom Gorzelanny. Sweeney, a left-handed hitter, entered the at-bat hitting just .118 (2-for-17) with a walk and seven strikeouts against lefties. Nava, a switch-hitter, is hitting .200 (6-for-30) with a home run, four RBI, six walks, and five strikeouts against lefties.
But, whether or not Nava pinch-hit for Sweeney was not the only issue. Valentine also had right-handed hitters Mike Aviles and Kevin Youkilis who did not start the game -- on the bench. Either could have pinch-hit for Sweeney. The problem, Valentine said, was he did not have anyone to replace Sweeney in the field.
Of course, Valentine said. We didnt have another outfielder.
But, there would seem to be other options. Aviles played right field in winter ball in Puerto Rico this off-season (with the thought then that he would be competing at that spot). And Youkilis could have pinch-hit, take over first base, with Adrian Gonzalez moving to right field.


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We, on the other hand were never given a choice. You choose this F-ing shit for us!
Sorry, I'm usually more compassionate, but I just can't muster it today.
"This is a story you won't tell the kids we'll never have. Congratulations to you both I hope someway you're happy..."
My WW is running around crying to everyone that will listen about how "BH kicked me out because I talked to a guy a little too much, and BH is jealous". She neglects to tell them how much they talked, how many times she was at his house, or that she spent the afternoon/evening with him at an Inn!
Edit - I forgot to mention the lying and deception. The telling me she wanted a D out of nowhere. And the coldness (nothing like I've ever felt or seen before). - End edit
With her, it is "poor me" all the time, and it makes me want to puke! Everyone thinks she is perfect, but no one knows her like I do. Well, I guess the OM knows too!
I'm with you on them making a choice! Our life history has been rewritten, and we were not given any choice in the matter. All of our memories and thoughts have been invaded and destroyed. No one asked us, and we are left trying to piece back together the past several years of our life. And, of top of it all, the person that had the choice, and made it for us, expects us to feel sorry for them!
I do feel sorry for my WW, but not because she is "laying in the bed she made". I feel sorry for her because she is broken.
[This message edited by RealityStinks at 1:45 PM, January 4th (Saturday)]
I am not feeling it today. Instead I am getting drunk.
This is not a topic I probably should post in today. I got served another shit sandwich today. Fww told me today one of the fantasy locations she wrote about was Wash DC with her Online AP. I guess it was about fucking him in the waterfall at the FDR Monument. DC is essentially our hometown.
When asked why, she said she wanted to write about something she knows about. She prides herself on her prose. I almost feel she acted like a pro.
[This message edited by bobf at 1:57 PM, January 4th (Saturday)]
I know the ones that are trying to work on themselves and their marriage should be commended for at least trying to change. It's just that it really gets to me how sorry they all are after the bomb goes off, but are never sorry enough before that to stop themselves. I'm just feeling angry and betrayed today.
I'm sorry for your pain. I hope you can find a place of peace and solace.
The only true painful good-byes are the ones that are never said and never explained.
When I told my STBXH that there was no way to keep our house with him paying rent on a separate place he said, "That's the last nail in the coffin of the American Dream for me." I was speechless. I actually had to call him back and say, "You HAD the American Dream and you threw is away!" What selfish fuckwads.
Double Betrayal D-Day 7/26/2013
Divorced 11/18/2014
I guess it was about fucking him in the waterfall at the FDR Monument
[This message edited by shiloe at 8:30 PM, January 4th (Saturday)]
Me: fBH 46
Her: exWW 42
DDay: Nov 1, 2012
Divorced: September 17, 2013
One day at a time....
For me, you know what sucked worse than the crying...when I realized the crying was an act or manipulation tactic. I got the crying and snot bubbles from my stbxww after dday. In hindsight it was crying over the fact that she got caught. I think there was some guilt but it wasn't for what she did to me. It was all about what was happening to her which leads back to selfish thinking.
Turned out the As were just the tip of the iceberg in crazy land, so, in a way I'm guess I'm thankful (or one day, in the hopefully not do distant future, I will look back and be thankful) for finding out my ex was cheating.
I do believe he is remorseful. I've seen the tears, heard the tears, see he's trying...but WTF did it take someone telling me what was going on for him to finally STOP!
Though I see the remorse, I find it hard to believe. Time will tell if the tears are just bull.
I'm so sick to death of all the WS crying that goes on once their diabolical behavior is discovered.
Absolutely I feel the same way!
It's like they try to distract from their horrible behavior.
"I'm following my heart", "I never wanted this to happen", "He gave me love that you didn't"... ME ME ME!!
Yes, I'm growing, yes I'm becoming a better person. But I did not take my wife, and force her to have sex with this coward!
She cries about how regretful she is, and I just don't care. I sit there calmly and eventually say "I need to get to work".
I asked my WS that in order to help me move on and quit being so angry and mean with her, we needed to talk. I didn't want any details, I just want you to how hurt I am. But no such talk
Now all I get is " it's over", "it's was short lived" " I don't want to talk about it". F@#K YOU!!!You destroyed everything with your selfishness and now you are being selfish again.
Anyways, it has been a month now since I found out. My days are getting a little better. I still do not know which direction I want to go. I'm still on the roller coaster of emotions but the ups and downs are not as steep.
God Bless all of you for being there for those of us who are hurting.
She's suffering consequences for sure. At times I'm downright mean to her. Not to get even, but I'm just beyond pissed off now.
There are tight boundaries on her, and none on me. If she doesn't like it, there's the 10th Street bridge that I'm sure she can live under.
I don't see cheaters any different than wild dogs, so I treat them as such.


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Greatest Hits Live finds Boz in good voice and playing the guitar in an inspired vigorous way, for a warm and intimate hometown crowd in San Francisco at the Great American Music Hall.
It does not look like he has missed a step after all these years. He surrounds himself with some of the best talent in the business. The two backup songbirds, Ms. Mone't and Barbara Wilson, compliment Scaggs wonderfully. Ms. Mone't does a nice call and answer with Boz on a few occasions during the performance.
What I found critical to the sound of this band was the fact that there were two keyboard players, Jim Cox and Michael Bluestein. They create a double layer of sweet sound for the rest of the band to ride on, hence the guitar, bass, drums, and brass have plenty of groove to dig into before there parts kick in.
Scaggs plays all of the best of his long career, the big pop oriented hits like "Lido" and "Lowdown," bluesy numbers "Runnin' Blues" and "Loan Me A Dime," and the jazz tinged funky number "Jojo," its all covered. What a wonderful performance this is, and the sound and picture are first rate. This could not have been a better performance to put out on DVD. Yes indeed, Boz Scaggs still has what it takes; he is a class act and joy to watch perform.


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Obama Signs FINREG, but New Laws Leave Out Real Reform
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Obama Signs FINREG, but New Laws Leave Out Real Reform
original article written by Net Advisor™
The FINREG bill reportedly contains "390,000 words – half the size of the King James Bible."
— Source: MS-NBC
NOTE: MS-NBC became NBCNews.com. Sometime after this report, the MS-NBC story was listed as "no longer available." The above quotation can still be found here: Catholic Online, Fox News, and KSHB (NBC Affiliate).
What is most interesting is that during the signing of the controversial 2,319 page Financial Reform Bill ("FINREG") (pdf), President Obama said, "Because of this law, the American people will never again be asked to foot the bill for Wall Street's mistakes" (Source: CNN).
Obama implicates that "Wall Street" caused or is the leading source to America's financial problems, or caused the recession. Both of course would not be accurate claims, and not even the SEC has been able to prove that fact. But in politics, you don't need proof, you just need a microphone and a TV camera. What is also telling is that regardless of the President's statements about no more tax-payer funded bailouts, the FDIC seized and bailed out 7 more banks within in a few days since the FINREG legislation was signed (Please see Bank Failure Tracker).
"There will be no more taxpayer-funded bailouts. Period."
— Source: President Barack Obama, 07-21-2010. Source: CNN (Video: Guardian.UK)
No more bailouts…ever? Now Washington may argue that the FDIC taking over banks are not "bailouts." However if you take a failed bank and move its assets to another bank, then guarantee that the new bank cannot lose most of the money for taking over the bad banks assets, what would you call this? A bailout.
Will More Laws and Government Control Mean an End to Financial Problems?
The Obama Administration seems to be inferring that by implementing 1000's of pages of new laws and bigger government, that problems are a thing of the past. The vote on this FINREG bill coincidentally came on the same day as the SEC and Goldman Sachs agreed to settle all claims in the SEC's case against the firm (Source: MS-NBC).
I don't know if anyone, including Congress have ever read the FINREG Bill in its entirety, let alone any of the multi-thousand page bills this Administration has pushed since 2009. One has to question what is really in these bills? They are often written in vague language that would allow for interpretation later.
"Laws are a product of legislative compromise, which often means they are vague and ambiguous."
— Source: The Hill.com
Further, National Public Radio argued, "Rather than adopt clear, concise new guidelines on leverage, systemic risk, derivatives, proprietary trading, and other hot-button issues, Congress embraced ambiguous language and outsourced the relevant rule-making to Washington bureaucrats" (Source: NPR.org).
Blind Faith Required
So, just sign Financial Reform and any bill with the word "reform" after it and we are to assume that it is good for us, as government always knows best how to spend our money and tell us what we can and can't do for our own safety. Then hope the change we (government) produce is correct. Frankly, one key author of the Finreg bill essentially admitted we don't know what we are doing:
As Sen. Chris Dodd (D., Conn.) himself told reporters after finalizing the measure, "No one will know until this is actually in place how it works."
— Source: NPR.org
Now, I am not a lawyer or a legislator but my understanding is that one should not write, let alone pass a law unless we have a reasonable idea what the law is going to do? One thing we do know is that the current Financial Reform bill does not include the central problems of needed reform: Controlling government spending and entitlements.
Unfortunately the Obama Administration and two of the FINREG Bill's authors, Sen. Christopher Dodd, (D-Conn.), and Rep. Barney Frank, (D-Mass.) also didn't even bother to address the $5 Trillion government owned mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. One could also add HUD, FHA, Ginnie Mae in that mix too.
"…the (FINREG) bill would do little to address the root causes of the economic crisis — namely, the lending practices of housing giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac — that nearly brought down the American economy almost two years ago."
— Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) Source: Politico
Why is Congress not addressing one of the most expensive part in government overdue for reform? For starters that have no clue what to do.
"We all know Fannie and Freddie can't stay the way they are; we just don't know what to do with them…"
— Source: CNBC
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were seized in 2008 into a "conservatorship," allowing the government to control half of the $10 Trillion U.S. mortgage market (Source: Congressional Budget Office (CBO) Report, January 2010, page 4 of the actual report, page 12 in pdf version). This government takeover is placing increased risk on these mortgage agencies.
"With the Federal Housing Administration, Fannie and Freddie are propping up the fragile housing market by guaranteeing nine out of 10 new loans."
— Source: Financial Times.UK
As for Senator Dodd, he is retiring this year after 30 years in government, however it really looks as if he would likely be defeated in his next election. Better to retire than to lose an election? "The senior Connecticut Democrat will retire in several months after 30 years in national politics. Facing weak poll numbers and a wave of voter disenchantment with incumbents, Dodd decided months ago not to seek reelection" (Source: Reuters).
Fannie Mae has a past of serious accounting scandals, internal corruption and used off-balance sheet accounting.
It was found that in 1997 that Fannie and Freddie were holding combined assets plus "off-balance sheet obligations" in the amount of $1.6 Trillion (Source: Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight (OFHEO), 1998 Report to Congress, Page 73 of the actual report, page 76 of the pdf version, parr 3).
Fannie Mae manipulated its books in 1998 "where the company inappropriately deferred $200 million of estimated expenses, which enabled management to receive full annual bonuses."
— Source: Washington Post, 09-23-2004
In a 2004 report by the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight also concluded that Fannie Mae had been lacking proper internal controls and the absence of such had made its accounting policy "dysfunctional" (Source: Washington Post).
As a result of a three year investigation, Fannie Mae engaged in a "$11 Billion accounting scandium," and subsequently fined $400 million by the SEC, of that $350 million was to be given back to investors who were damaged by Fannie Mae's fraud. Freddie Mac received a record fine of $125 million by OFHEO for under reporting their earnings by $5 Billion during 2000-2002 (Source: MS-NBC, 05-23-2006).
In 2006, then President and CEO of Fannie May said, "Fannie Mae is a different company than a year ago. We have been humbled, even embarrassed. But we have begun to make significant changes.
We have put in place a new management team, with a new Chief Financial Officer, Controller, and Chief Audit Executive. We are building new Chief Compliance Officer and Chief Risk Officer functions."
— Source: Fannie Mae, 02-23-2006 NOTE: Fannie Mae moved or deleted the above statement sometime after this report. Copies of the quotation are available here: Fox News, NBC News, The Street.com, USA Today.
Clearly none of these new positions were enough to manage any of the risk that either mortgage giant could effectively handle. The CBO study released earlier this year also showed that "Fannie and Freddie were subject to less onerous capital requirements than other regulated financial institutions " (Source: Congressional Budget Office, page 4 of the actual report, page 12 in pdf version).
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The single two largest recipients of campaign contributions from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were Christopher Dodd and Barack Obama.
— Source: opensecrets.org, 09-11-2008
Conflicts of Interest? Next, The main mission of the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight (OFHEO) is to 'ensure the capital adequacy and financial safety and soundness of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.' Although OFHEO is supposed to be an independent committee, the oversight group of 72 people is funded by fees (assessments) from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (Source: OFHEO's 1998 Report to Congress, Page 73 of the actual report, page 76 of the pdf version).
OFHEO's other objective is to "meet certain affordable goals set annually by the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) (Source: OFHEO's 1998 Report to Congress, Page 73 of the actual report, page 76 of the pdf version).
No Credit. No Problem. HUD Will Finance You.
By 2004, HUD sought to (again, parr 6) to lower credit standards and allow more "low income and minority families" into homes they could not ordinarily afford (Source: Washington Post). This had been an ongoing effort through the Community Reinvestment Act set into law under President Jimmy Carter in 1977 (Source: About.com). The result of this 2004 HUD move created a bigger subprime market to the tune of another $434 Billion for these more risky home loans that government, not Wall Street allowed to happen.
By June 2008, the default rate on those HUD subprime loans was 3 times what the default rates were for non-subprime loans (Source: Washington Post). As soon as someone in government wants to investigate the mortgage mess which they will not, then we will find who are the real fat cats, and who are really responsible in great part in creating the laws that led to the housing bubble. If we did discover the truth of the housing crisis that might lead to some of that government transparency the President promised.
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His comments came after Chancellor George Osborne described staying at home to look after children as a "lifestyle choice".
Writing in the Telegraph, Mr Farage said: "Child benefit is available to those earning up to £60,000 a year, where those with two incomes can earn up to £100,000.
"[The Government] ditched the eminently sensible suggestion, and long term Ukip policy, that tax allowances should be transferable to those in a legally constituted relationship.
"As a result, it penalises those who are married with only one earner to the tune of up to and over £10,000 per year."
He went on to say how he thinks the system should be revised, which he described as a long term UKIP policy.
He said: "If we want to help people, particularly those on lower incomes, we should set the basic tax allowance at the minimum wage, and allow it to be transferred.
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"Michael Bay said he'd never do 3D and then made the latest Transformers movie. Stephen Spielberg said he's never work in 3D or even digital, but then did [in Tintin]."
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TALLAHASSEE — After more than 12 hours of debate, questions about breaking the law, a bingo-style drawing complete with pingpong balls and serious questions about their gravitational integrity, the Florida Senate is one step closer to redrawing its political districts.
A Senate committee passed its version of the chamber's maps on a 21-6 vote Wednesday. It now heads to the full Senate for the second time, because the Supreme Court rejected the first version.
After a marathon hearing Tuesday, Senate map-drawers were largely in agreement on the shape of the proposed seats. The tricky part came Wednesday: how to number those districts and how long the terms would be.
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Republican John Thrasher will run in his St. Augustine-based district, now called District 6, this year and again in 2014. Neither said they minded the outcome.
The Florida Constitution requires staggered four-year terms for senators. Because of redistricting, every lawmaker faces re-election in November. To ensure the terms remain staggered, some senators will be given two-year terms until 2014, and that's where the ping pong balls came in.
After heated debate, Majority Leaders Andy Gardiner, R-Orlando, and Minority Leader Nan Rich, D-Sunrise, crafted a plan that would have term lengths randomly assigned. Senate Secretary Debbie Brown would pick numbered and colored ping pong balls out of cages rolled by two assistants.
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(New York, September 14, 2012)—Three widely acclaimed and highly attended exhibitions in the spring/summer 2012 season at The Metropolitan Museum of Art—Schiaparelli and Prada: Impossible Conversations; Tomás Saraceno on the Roof: Cloud City; and The Steins Collect: Matisse, Picasso, and the Parisian Avant-Garde—generated an estimated $781 million in spending by regional, national, and foreign tourists to New York, according to a visitor survey the Museum released today. Using the industry standard for calculating tax revenue impact, the study found that the direct tax benefit to the City and State from out-of-town visitors to the Museum for the season totaled some $78.1 million. (Results of visitor survey are below.)
The Museum's report was released today as it was being submitted to a joint hearing of the New York City Council Committees on Cultural Affairs, Libraries and International Intergroup Relations, and Small Business.
The survey of visitors to Schiaparelli and Prada: Impossible Conversations; Tomás Saraceno on the Roof: Cloud City; and The Steins Collect: Matisse, Picasso, and the Parisian Avant-Garde is the most recent of a series of audience studies undertaken by the Metropolitan over the years to calculate the public economic impact of its special exhibition program. In 2011 the Museum found that Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty; Anthony Caro on the Roof; Richard Serra Drawing: A Retrospective; and Rooms with a View: The Open Window in the 19th Century—generated $908 million; the summer 2009 opening of the New American Wing, along with the concurrent presentation of Roxy Paine on the Roof: Maelstrom; Francis Bacon: A Centenary Retrospective; and The Model as Muse: Embodying Fashion, generated $593 million; and three exhibitions of the summer 2008 season—J. M. W. Turner, Jeff Koons on the Roof, and Superheroes: Fashion and Fantasy—generated $610 million.
Schiaparelli and Prada: Impossible Conversations, on view from May 10 through August 19, 2012, attracted 339,838 visitors. Attendance for Tomás Saraceno on the Roof: Cloud City from May 15 through August 31, when this survey was completed, was 368,370 (the exhibition will close on November 4, 2012). The Steins Collect: Matisse, Picasso, and the Parisian Avant-Garde, on view from February 28 through June 3, 2012, drew 323,792 visitors.
Using a scale of one to ten, 26% of visitors responded with a rating of 8 or above when asked how important seeing one of the three exhibitions was in motivating them to visit New York, and 51% gave a rating of 8 or above with regard to the Met. The primary purpose of traveling to New York was pleasure for 86% of visitors, business for 3%, and combined business and pleasure for 11%.
The survey found that 80% of visitors traveled to the Museum this summer from outside the five boroughs of New York. Of these, 23% were from the Tri-State area, 30% were from other states, and 47% were international visitors. Seventy-nine percent of out-of-town visitors reported staying overnight in the City, and almost three-quarters (72% of the 79%) of these visitors stayed in a hotel, B&B, hostel, or rented apartment. The median length of stay in the City was five days.
During their stay in New York, these visitors reported spending an average $775 on lodging, dining, sightseeing, entertainment, and admission to other museums, and another $403 on shopping. Spending per person increased this year by 27%, compared to the amount cited in last year's study. For 65% percent, this was their first visit to the Museum or first in several years.
The economic development impact of these exhibitions on the City does not provide direct extra benefit to the Museum, which maintains a policy of welcoming visitors to special exhibitions without imposing extra fees. All exhibitions are free with the Museum's suggested admission.
Thomas P. Campbell, Director and CEO of the Metropolitan Museum, noted: "In a year of exceptionally strong tourism to the City, it gives us great pleasure to report that the Met remains a top cultural attraction and a vital part of New York's economic engine, generating substantial revenues for the City and the State."
Emily K. Rafferty, President of the Metropolitan Museum—who also serves as chair of NYC & Company, the city's official tourism agency—noted: "Culture plays a vital role in the life of our City, and it is also a major motivating factor for tourists who travel here."
New York City Council Member and Chair of the Cultural Affairs Committee Jimmy Van Bramer said, "The massive financial impact of the Metropolitan Museum of Art is impressive and Thomas Campbell and Emily Rafferty are to be congratulated for their outstanding work in bringing meaningful, powerful and popular exhibits to the Met. Over 50 million tourists visited New York City last year, spending more than $34 billion in the local economy. Arts and culture is at the center of the tourism economy, and the Met's survey results stand out showing that culture serves as an ever increasing economic driver in the City."
The full-year estimate of visitor spending in New York by out-of-town visitors to the Museum in Fiscal Year 2012 is $5.7 billion. Last fiscal year, the Metropolitan Museum welcomed 6.28 million visitors, an increase of almost 600,000 over the prior year, and the highest level in over 40 years.
The latest economic development survey was conducted by the Museum's Visitor Services Department/Office of Market Research.
Schiaparelli and Prada: Impossible Conversations explored the striking affinities between Elsa Schiaparelli and Miuccia Prada, two innovative Italian fashion designers from different eras.
The exhibition was made possible by Amazon.
Additional support was provided by Condé Nast.
Tomás Saraceno on the Roof: Cloud City merges art and architecture in a monumental constellation of interconnected modules in the Museum's Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Roof Garden.
The exhibition is made possible by Bloomberg.
Additional support is provided by Cynthia Hazen Polsky and Leon B. Polsky, The Daniel and Estrellita Brodsky Foundation, William S. Lieberman Fund, and Eugenio Lopez.
Cloud City is lent by Christian Keesee.
The Steins Collect: Matisse, Picasso, and the Parisian Avant-Garde demonstrated an American family's patronage of modern art created in France during the first decades of the 20th century.
The exhibition was made possible by The Philip and Janice Levin Foundation and the Janice H. Levin Fund.
Additional support provided by The Daniel and Estrellita Brodsky Foundation.
The exhibition was organized by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and the Réunion des Musées Nationaux-Grand Palais, Paris.
It was supported by an indemnity from the Federal Council on the Arts and the Humanities.
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Results of Visitor Survey
Schiaparelli and Prada: Impossible Conversations; Tomás Saraceno on the Roof: Cloud City; and The Steins Collect: Matisse, Picasso, and the Parisian Avant-Garde
September 2012
A survey of visitors to three spring/summer 2012 exhibitions at The Metropolitan Museum of Art demonstrates that visitor spending by individuals from out of town generated $781 million of economic activity and provided an estimated direct tax benefit to New York City and State of $78.1 million.
630 visitors were surveyed between May 22 and June 3, 2012, when three special exhibitions—Schiaparelli and Prada: Impossible Conversations; Tomás Saraceno on the Roof: Cloud City; and The Steins Collect: Matisse, Picasso, and the Parisian Avant-Garde—were on view.
Key findings
* 339,838 people saw Schiaparelli and Prada: Impossible Conversations; 368,370 museumgoers visited Tomás Saraceno on the Roof: Cloud City (as of August 31), and attendance was 323,792 visitors for The Steins Collect: Matisse, Picasso, and the Parisian Avant-Garde.
* The vast majority of The Met's visitors are from out of town. Eighty percent of visitors surveyed were from outside the five boroughs of New York City.
* Of the out-of-town visitors, 23% were from the Tri-State area, 30% from other US states, and 47% were international. International visitors on average spend more and stay longer than domestic visitors.
* More than three-quarters (79%) of the out-of-town visitors stayed overnight in the City, and the median length of stay was 5 days. Almost three-quarters of these stayed in a hotel, B&B, hostel, or rented apartment.
* Out-of-town visitors reported spending on average $775 on expenses and another $404 on shopping during their visit to New York, yielding an estimated $781 million in spending by visitors to the exhibitions. Using an estimate of a 10% tax rate on spending (combining sales and hotel taxes), the tax benefit for New York City and State would be roughly $78.1 million. The reported spending per person increased 27%, compared to the amount cited in last year's survey.
* During their stay in NYC, visitors participated in many other cultural activities: 74% visited other museums, 52% saw a Broadway show, and 21% attended an opera, ballet, or concert.
* 51% of the out-of-town visitors reported that their visit to The Met was a determining factor in their decision to visit New York. Out-of-town visitors were also asked how important seeing the Schiaparelli and Prada: Impossible Conversations; Tomás Saraceno on the Roof: Cloud City; and The Steins Collect: Matisse, Picasso, and the Parisian Avant-Garde exhibitions, and visiting the Met in general, were to their decision to visit New York City. Using a 1 (not at all important) to 10 (very important) scale, 26% of visitors gave a rating of 8 or above with regard to the exhibitions, and 51% gave a rating of 8 or above to visiting the Met in general.
* Using just those individuals who said the exhibitions or the Museum were highly important in their visiting decision, the visitor spending estimate would be $203 million (for the exhibitions) or $398 million (for the Museum in general). These figures would yield tax benefit estimates of $20.3 million and $39.8 million respectively.