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I just wanted to do a quick roll call and see how many of us are on here right now who have been told by their WS that in some way shape or form that you or your marriage made them do what they did or you are having this shit thrown at you to deflect from the real issues.
So, raise your hand if it's all your fault!
I believe that there is strength in numbers. How many of us are on here that are hearing this or have heard this crap while on the crazy train?
I'm not saying that all BS are perfect and that your marriages were perfect, but just out of curiosity...
[This message edited by NewMom0220 at 4:32 PM, May 24th (Friday)]
Except: I have a stack of cards and love letters spanning the course of our marriage--all the way up to AND traversing most of me course of her infidelity--expressing just the opposite:
I am so,glad I married you.
Nobody has known how to,love me like,you do.
You meet all of my needs
You love me just the way I am and let me be who I want to be
You make me so happy
And on and on.
Exhibit A, your honor.
Sarcastic, but also so sad. I don't know where my wife went.
Fear is the mind-killer.
Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.
I will face my fear.
I will permit it to pass over me and through me.
Abbondad, I had to pull out a box of cards that HE had collected for the last 8 years and 2 weeks after Dday I brought a selection to him to "prove" that I DID love him and we were happy once and it wasn't 5 years of misery like he keeps saying.
I keep saying, if it was so bad, why are you still talking to me? Why haven't you filed yet?
[This message edited by NewMom0220 at 4:45 PM, May 24th (Friday)]
It's all my fault because:
1. I like to read
2. I saved money for retirement
That is what was wrong with our marriage and why he had to cheat. Makes me laugh now Not quite so funny when I believed it back then!
Married: 11 years, no kids
Character is destiny
I had our child he so desperately wanted and he split, so to speak, emotionally and physically. He started sleeping with some college girl who left her number at the bar when our first baby was 4 months old. .
And it is still my fault 5 years post divorce, and new things are my fault that I have had no part in......
Yet, I did not act out, I did not have an addiction or two, I stayed home with the children while he was doing what he wanted, I nursed him after he lost a limb due to DUI, and I never once cheated.....yet
I am a horrible, wicked, evil, and kid destroying kindergarten teacher....go figure.
[This message edited by Chrysalis123 at 4:51 PM, May 24th (Friday)]
If your WS does not get over thinking that, then he will never get to reconcilliation.
So sorry he is trying to make this on you.
At least the current man "only" cyber-cheated.
"Love means never having to say you're sorry."
It's all my fault because apparently, at some point during the marriage, I told him to get a girlfriend!
He was just following orders.
There's nothing I could have done to stop my wife from having an affair when she turned 40 and had the MLC that damaged people seem to be vulnerable to having. Why should she be the first person in her family not to have an affair or act like a lunatic?
She's hinted that the affair has been partly my fault, but has stopped short of making that accusation. She finally admitted the other night that the accusation that we never went out and had fun just wasn't true. So the rewriting marital history seems to have stopped.
Apparently it was all my fault because I didn't wear sexy underware and dye my hair.
He worked 12 to 14 hour days and would come home and go into his cave and drink then he would golf all weekend.
I don't think he would have noticed if I did wear sexy underware and dye my hair.
Don't keep dancing with the Devil and wonder why you are still in Hell.
It's all shits and giggles until someone giggles and shits.
I heard things like, "Well you DID put on a few pounds" and "You were NOT the best housekeeper" so of course, reading this, you can see his point!
I look back now and think, really?! Fuck you, you superficial dickbag douchebag. You weren't setting the world on fire either.
I've learned that there's a price to pay for marrying a broken person
I wish I new this 25 years ago, and I hope I can teach my kids this.
[This message edited by tryingagain74 at 9:49 PM, May 24th (Friday)]
Apparently it was all my fault because I didn't wear sexy underware and dye my hair.
^^^^ditto... although now I wear sexy underwear and dye my hair.
I am still blamed for everything that goes wrong in his life. 10 years post divorce. In 2005 he blamed me for the hurricanes that hit florida - every single one of them hit on HIS visitation weekend... so it must be my fault. He even went so far as to email me this revelation AND cc his attorney.
Yes they were my fault.. maybe he should fear me????
I heard this from my closest SIL. I was like - "We went to ONE session together." Seriously?! No wonder it didn't magically fix things while he was still fucking OW!
I digress....
Does not mean I agree, believe, or accept that POV.!!!!!
There in lies the difference between us.
And that I do accept. There is and always be a difference of opinions on the why, how, this all came about.
This is only "my" experience, my marriage. I have accepted and moved on to the best of my ability.
When I made the choice to stay I had to accept these facts.
may not work for other's!!!
1. I was too busy taking care of our 4 kids, WH, & the house, & I always worked outside the home
2. I didn't want to have sex OFTEN enough
3.I didn't "fix myself up/wear makeup/get haircuts" often enough
4. I didn't keep the house clean enough
5. I often didn't want to go anyplace with him/didn't spend enough time doing things alone with him/I was too tired all the time (mind you, I am in my late 50s, had our last baby @ age 44)
So, as my MIL says, "Honey, I blame you. If you had given WH what he needed, he wouldn't have had to go elsewhere."
Oh, I forgot:
"Apparently it was all my fault because I didn't wear sexy underware and dye my hair."
[This message edited by mchercheur at 10:01 PM, May 24th (Friday)]
Something I did, or didn't do, did too late, or in the wrong way, or should have known and didn't know. Something I wore or cooked, or said, or didn't say ...Or a myriad of other imaginary, paranoid delusions that I somehow had to be punished for.
Yep. my hand is up. Permanently.
[This message edited by Safeguard at 10:58 PM, May 24th (Friday)]
I made a thread with some of the "It's your fault because.." highlights. I forgot to include that I failed to kiss and cuddle him enough to keep him from choosing to cheat on me.
And he just can't understand why I think he's disrespectful and has no remorse!
Nothing says "I'm sorry" better than blaming the person you hurt!
H doesn't say the A was all my fault, but at least part.
It is everything else that is all my fault.
If I'm bothered by something he does, it is all my fault I am bothered, because what he did was nothing to be upset about....that pattern has gone on our entire M.
Drum roll please!.....
I didn't trust him enough! *Ba dum tisssh*
It would be a great punchline if he wasn't serious.
XH was telling me, "I just CANNOT believe you didn't cheat first!" Like while smacking his own head - he sincerely seemed baffled!
I fired up fast. I was like, "In what fucking way did I EVER, *EVER* give you the impression that was something I would do?!" HE says, "Well, you didn't...but I still can't believe (get this) this happened to me".
I lost it! I was like it did not 'happen'; you chose it ass!!!!
Now , 4 years after dday, he is now blaming me for his heart problems!!! It seems I am giving him too much stress!!!
His first heart attack was before dday when he was in the middle of the LTA and OC was born. That is MY fault??? Somehow a miracle happened and I, a woman, impregnated OW???
xWH#1 told me that he left because
1. I sometimes didn't mail the bills right away
2. I didn't come immediately to bed when he went. (I had a cigarrettee first....what's that 5 minutes tops??)
They grasp at straws.
It's my fault that after our dd17 was hospitalized when she was 12 for cutting and suicidal, that I didn't comfort him during this time. Poor baby.
Funny, when he confessed and through 1 month of false R before I filed, he never really dissed me as a mother or a wife (since I'm fabulous ), but he keeps coming up with bold-faced lies now that we are separated. Um, whatever you say so dude. Whatever helps you sleep at night..
These stupid waywards should start realizing that all these issues are relationship issues. And the correct answer is divorce or counseling if you are so unhappy with your spouse. NONE of these things are an excuse for being selfish, lying, cheating, manipulating, using and abusing people. They can blame us for marriage problems all they want, that's 50% ours to own. NONE of these things give them a free pass for the damage they do, that's 100% on them..
If they want to learn how to stop cheating, they better dig A LOT deeper.. Into themselves. Cause it's 0% on the betrayed, and we don't hold the answer as to why.. NONE of this is our fault.
Why the marriage failed? Fine, I will take some fault.
Why he cheated and used and abused me? Nope. There is no answer here. I don't hold the key to that mystery..
I was taking care of the home and raising our 4 children, yep didn't have time time for poor husband.
However, if anything good happened, he would have been fine without me. He didn't need me.
We are all very powerful people who make all these things happen. They had nothing what so ever to do with it. Idiots!
The A with COW was because I "didn't give him the attention he needs." Because I am working so much, because he likes a lifestyle we can't afford.
He also had an A with a MOW while we were just newly dating. That A was "because of DS" who was 7 at the time. Now, he didn't break up with me. Just chose to have an A with a married woman on his tennis team. And broke up their marriage...
But he says he won't cheat now as long as I keep doing what I'm doing. Yay for me and the "pick me" dance.
When I confronted him in 2010 he told me that he cheated because in 1992 when we were building our new house I told him he couldn't have the roof line he wanted because it was too expensive (+$10k).
My other major crime was that I once criticised his driving when his mother was in the car. I think this may have also been in the early 1990s.
Wow. I was SUCH a bitch.
ETA: Silly me. I almost forgot the nail in the coffin. He told OW1 a few weeks after dday that he cheated because he didn't like the shows I liked to watch on TV. (He used to watch what HE wanted on the other TV but I guess that doesn't count). He also neglected to mention to her that because I worked fulltime and took care of the kids and the house and the bills and the shopping I only had time to watch a few hours of TV a week.
[This message edited by Laura28 at 7:32 AM, May 25th (Saturday)]
My personal favorite in the long, long, long list of why it's not XH's fault:
My friend G. was at our house too much (dinner, 1 night a month. And ... XH is friends w/her as well)
Got all the classics, too: not enough attention, controlling, sex, blah, blah, blah.
I just don't pay any attention to him and ignore him.
He works 12 hour days. Has a 1 hour commute both ways, makes 14 hours. Has a 15 min to 30 minute shift change conference, makes 15 hours. Comes home, showers, eats, sits on couch to watch t.v. and sleeps until time for bed (2 hours). Wants sex after not paying any attention to me at all. Then sleeps for 6 hours before he gets up to get ready for work (1 hour) again. He works 5-6 days a week and on his days off, he sits on the computer or is outside in the garage all day until evening where it is a replay of the work evenings. Some days we don't even exchange 10 sentences. Of course all conversation is him telling me things as I have been told through the years an extensive list of things that are none of my business so I can not bring them up in conversation, work, his friends, his work friends, etc. I am also not supposed to follow him out to the garage because then I am "following him around".
eta: And if I am not sitting next to him on the couch (watching whatever junk he wants to watch) when he wakes up every so many times, then I am ignoring him again. I used to go get on the computer and mess around, but he hated that as he was all alone.
[This message edited by purplebreeze at 10:29 AM, May 25th (Saturday)]
So, raise your hand if it's all your fault!
Oh, it's definitely her fault, too - but I must accept my role in ruining their marriage. My head is spinning just typing that...
"You were too suspicious"
Then he stopped and said, "I guess you had a right to be"
What a load of bullshit!!! I do know now that it WAS NOT my fault in any way, shape, or form. It was al on him. Fucker.
Divorced 1/17/2013
"Diamonds aren't a girl's best friend, freedom is."
The doozy though:
"When I was working such long hours you didn't seem to mind so I kept doing it. That is why we drifted apart".
Yes - its my fault for being a tolerant and supportive wife. For allowing him to put his career ahead of me, our marriage and our family.
Not because he wasn't actually 'working' anything but his smaller than average weenis around a bunch of losers.
Douchebag. The only part of this that is my fault is the length of time I tolerated it and pretended it wasn't happening. The rest is all you.
Honestly though, he pointed out some good things that we needed to work on together.
He wasn't immediately able to take responsibility for the fact that I was in the same shitty marriage and did not choose to cheat. In fact, there was a guy at work who made it clear he was interested and I asked him to no longer come to my office to chat (I was his boss...we could talk in the open main office area only with others around).
His criticisms that were ridiculous: the weight thing (I was pregnant and nursing)
that I was mean
(I was mean because I asked him about his online porn expenditures and he felt that it was none of my business)
I was a terrible cook (always have been, still am, don't care)
I was never home (I worked 12 hour days, would get food to cook on the way home because I knew he would eat it everything while I was at work, cook eat, eat with him, clean up (all while holding the baby) then he would take a shower and leave to go drinking and come back around 5 am when I left to go to work)
Things that were true and that I did work to fix:
I had grown to hate him and I needed to focus on the good, which I did and feelings of love returned
I stopped being so angry
I started communicating
I stopped avoiding arguments just because I was scared of him
and you know what? The healthier I got, the worse he got and he self destructed completely.
So, the marriage problems were half my fault....mostly that I chose to marry the wrong person to begin with, but the cheating that was him
[This message edited by luvedmypbear at 9:02 AM, May 27th (Monday)]
Since infidelity is also a crime against your children in my view, I'd say just agree with with them about your being a shitty spouse, and then just follow it up with, "So then, what did the kids do to push you to your A? They deserve to know how they should change as well if they want to keep both parents around, no?"
Love this quote FP. Our first MC was dropped after 3 visits because I couldn't tell that he thought my wife had done anything wrong. Our second (and current) MC started our meeting by telling my wife, in a kind voice, that not only did she betray me, but our children as well. And my wife immediately agreed with her! That's when I knew we'd found a keeper.
The person who steps outside of their marriage is to blame, period. Anyone who says otherwise is full of shit.
One of the things I did that forced him to have an affair after being married for 10 years was the fact that I bought diningroom furniture a year after we got married.
Clearly this is justification for any man to cheat on his wife with an infant at home. Duh.
[This message edited by thisisterrible at 10:00 PM, May 27th (Monday)]
He wants to get back together now, but I have to calm down cause I drove him from me before with my anger over being cheated on and that is why he cheated.
Why are you acting like we had such a good relationship? It wasn't perfect! (no shit)
When was the last time you were happy? (ummmm.. about a month before you cheated on me and were still acting normal?)
We're miserable together! (that's because I just found out you cheated on me, dipshit)
I didn't feel like you loved me during your pregnancy.
(multiply that by a million and you may get some idea of how I felt)
You were obsessed with the pregnancy! (no I was excited about it and wanted to talk about it occasionally, and I wasn't in denial)
Your diet was so boring
(trying not to get listeria and not drinking alcohol... yeah stupid pregnancy diet ruined everything)
and many other stupid comments
[This message edited by Nogoingback at 1:05 AM, May 28th (Tuesday)]
"Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim." Nora Ephron
2. I didn't understand him.
3. We had nothing in common.
4. He said our wedding day was the last day he was happy with me.
5. Recently said he was living in an abusive household. I guess asking him to help my parents (since we lived in their house rent free) was abusive!
6. He said that he got me pregnant with J as a way to fix our marriage. It amazes me that those words ever came out of his mouth.
After an 18-month search for a house, I said, upon unpacking box number 328, "I am never ever moving again. EVER!" This caused Daffy to feel trapped and to seek greener pastures in the next cubicle.
<insert guilty, ashamed icon here>
Yep, he had a A...my fault, he lost his job....my fault, he is an alcoholic...my fault.
Every last minute of every last day is all my fault.
what. were. you. thinking.
He says it is his fault, but then says if I would have given him more attention, been more loving, and wanted more sex he wouldn't have been forced to have an affair with someone he didn't love. I am still at that, " I think it is my fault, I didn't want to have sex with him. He was a drunken abusive jerk who forced sex on me and I told him once that he should have married a whore because I obviously couldn't satisfy him" I can't seem to let the guilt go that it is my fault.
Getting Divorced
He says he cheated because of:
*his own insecurities-which are?
*not enough, attention, sex, and love
*I lost weight, therefore I must be having an affair
*He thought that I was going to leave him
*He thought that I outgrew him and he wasn't good enough anymore
*sex is a need and he needed it
*he deserved it
*he already messed up his life, so why not
...spent too much time playing games with my friends.
...thought that other people were attractive (celebs, comic book characters (I am a nerd)) so she felt unwanted.
...didn't show love like a normal person.
I'm losing my mind in a bedroom with a ghost
and I'm losing my mind in a bottle while I choke
I stayed years with you, no one knows (but I want them to).
Thought Industry
Reason #1: "we did a great job isolating me all of these years"
We were grad students. Our job was to be isolated and do our work. I never stopped him from going out. In fact, I thought it was weird he DIDN'T go out for a guys night ever.
Also, we did this year long-distance when he got his new job so he could settle into the position and finish his dissertation in the evenings without the distraction of me and our dog. When he became friends with OW, I never complained. In fact, I used to suggest he call her to carpool to the grocery store on the weekends. I'm such a chump.
#2: "you're the reason my dissertation isn't done"
See long-distance explanation above-- he was *supposed* to do it this year in the evenings after work.
My reply to this was that he had evidently been using his evenings for something else in my absence. That shut him up.
#3: "we're just fiscally incompatible"
We still had separate accounts. We even maintained separate food shopping bills because he was so fussy about his diet. If I "borrowed" money from him (used his card for something), I kept a tab and would "pay him back." We only shared costs on things like the car, which went 50/50.
I paid off my student loans while in grad school. I have two credit card bills that are high but manageable and could be paid off within a few months, if needed.
He has credit card debt in excess of 40k. He has student loans in excess of 100k.
I took a second job to help pay off my credit cards this summer (had to quit because OW worked there). He complained that I was only thinking of myself by trying to pay down my debt and not his.
... oh, and he also said I should have bought fewer dresses for work and used that money to buy a plane ticket to go visit *his* family more often.
I can't even.
Not, because he wasn't actually 'working' anything but his smaller than average weenis around a bunch of losers.
Did we marry the same man??
I wouldn't get on his motorcycle, because he drives like a rage-filled idiot.
And the big one? He was in a band 30+ years ago. When we were young, and I went to all his shows.
He formed a new band about a year before D Day...and he was hurt and angry that I wouldn't come to his shows and watch him play "Freebird" for the zillionth time. Smoky bars just aren't my thing...and the music is the same from 30 years ago. Yawn.
I supported him playing an having fun. But because I wasn't going to worship the rock god anymore, he went and found a younger woman who would.
If they acted like adults and took responsibility then their cheating never would have happened.
And they may always feel that way deep down. No one wants to be wrong and so they want to lay the blame somewhere else. We made them do it. OP coerced them into doing it. The devil made them do it.
Its easy to site a bad marriage. EVERY marriage has issues. None are perfect. And so its easy to find fault there.
You can argue that if the marriage was bad and that made them cheat. Then why didn't you cheat too? In my case the answer was that I was a worse partner than she was (she was perfect you know) and so she was far more unhappy than I was. And thats why she is the one that cheated.
I don't believe my WW ever really owned up and took responsibility for her own actions. She still believes her LTA was my fault. Shes learnt to keep quiet with this opinion and if pressed will SAY it was her fault. But IMO she really doesn't believe that and is just saying what she needs to say to keep the peace.
Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.
Friedrich Nietzsche
1) I was "depressed" about my Mom passing away. Therefore, he had to find comfort on a sleazy internet forum and hook up with some internet chick (OW1).
2) I didn't like to hang out with his band friends because they do drugs - and we don't. I didn't like my kids hanging out with his band friends for the same reason. I could not come to every show or practice to support his band - because I was at home taking care of 2 kids.
3) I "made" him take out the garbage on Tuesdays - pick up day - and cut the grass when we got a notice from the city that it was too tall.
4) I'm a "controlling bitch" because I paid all of the bills, got the kids to/from school/doctors/activities, cleaned the house, washed his dirty underwear, begged for sex more than 1X per week, worked 50+ hours per week, and wanted to spend what free time I had with my husband and kids.
5) I was stopping him from finding his true happiness with OW4 because she was his "soulmate". Funny, I found a letter to OW3 saying she was his soulmate and I have a ton of cards/letter written to me saying that I was. Guess he had a lot of "soul" to go around.
6) My personal favorite - He was afraid of me. He was so afraid that I would get mad and, God forbid, Yell, that he couldn't talk to me about anything he was doing in his secret life - even before he cheated. He couldn't talk to me when he first started down the slope because he was afraid. Poor baby! I'm sooo scary!! (Did I mention that I'm 5'3" and his 6'?)
Now, he's singing a different tune though. He got a taste of life without me last year and he realizes that HE was the f'ed up individual, not me!
Guess I'm not so scary afterall...
[This message edited by OnAnIsland at 9:30 AM, July 30th (Tuesday)]
Married for over 15 years
2 beautiful boys in elementary school
You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them. Maya Angelou
Let's see...
1) Well just recently I learned that when we first got together he "knew it wouldn't last." Sooooo, you married me and had a baby with me anyway?
2) I, too, was never there for him. That's bullshit. I was always supportive and would have been more so if he had actually talked to me about things.
3) We don't have anything in common. We have enough in common to have fun together, but he can't seem to recall those times anymore.
4) He did the dishes and swept the floor ALL the time. He takes out the trash ALL the time (mind you, when we first got together, he wouldn't let me take out the trash because 'that's a man's job'). Maybe so, but I gave the baby her bath, read her a story & put her to bed nearly every night since the day she was born. I do the laundry ALL the time. I clean the bathrooms ALL the time. I never complained about any of it because I felt like it somehow evened out. We may not have shared responsibility for the same chores, but each of us had our different things that we did ALL the time.
5) He found an e-mail I wrote to my ex shortly after I left him (the ex). I have admitted that I was wrong to contact him, but truthfully acknowledged that I never had any plans to go back to him. He uses this e-mail (from 2 years ago) to justify his betrayal of me.
I'm such a terrible person. If only he hadn't kept reiterating his love for me all this time - I might actually believe it.
married 2y, together 2.5y
1 beautiful daughter, 23m
"Someday soon, I'm going to put my life together; Win or lose, I'm starting over again."
I changed the day we got married, I took advantage of him, I didn't get along with his family and I didn't attend the social events for his work. His girlfriend was better suited for his life now......
His affair is what ended the marriage. He cheated twice on his second wife, once with me. He needed a new fix.
My fault too.
His exact words "if you had just given me what i wanted, i wouldnt have done what i did".
uh huh.
He doesnt get that he had been neglecting my needs for years, so yep, i wasnt too into him sexually.
And oh yea, hanging out and partying with his friends came first before me or our kids.
Eventually, when he came home half liquored up, I should have been ready for sex.
Does this sound desirable to anyone or am i just a freaking freak who doesnt want to have sex???
Yep, all my fault for sure.
* I am a RS (Recovering Scumbag)
* Do as I say, NOT as I did. :-(
* I acknowledge the grace I have received. I know do not deserve it.
I didn't RESPECT him, I didn't meet his needs, I didn't support him and I didn't talk to him the way he wanted! I was the reason he was SOOO unhappy! So he just had to have OW! And he wasn't disrespecting me, our families and our home by bringing her into OUR home and having OW as our babysitter
or failing to meet my needs when he completely ignored me to take care of poor OW who has lupus....
God, it galls me that he thinks that I am the reason for all his troubles...I guess I'm responsible for his secret porn habit and secret video taping fetishes too....
Makes me vomit that I had kids with this sick prick!
Something should be....2 weeks today that my husband dropped his bomb. I have been having an affair for 16 months, we have been married 13, together 15, 2 kids, things were good.
I love both of you. No, I love you but not in love with you. I confessed and I dont know what I want, well, you could never trust me again so it is over. You kicked me out. Actually, admit it...you weren't happy either. This will be better for you, some day you'll get it. Huh?
Apparently, sometimes he says it is NOT my fault:
1. "I deserve better. Better then, Better now, better in the future" SHaaaa, you think dumbshit??
2. "None of this is fair to you. I never gave you a chance." Both him and his skank OP said this to me...ahhhh. so nice that they both can take the high road!
3. I was weak and cowardly. I have made terrible choices. I was not living with integrity. But now I am being honest. I love her and want to end the marraige." ahhhh. Being honest. So great! I so do appreciate that you have allowed yourself to be honest and "go for it" now after having to keep up the double lives for so long. It must feel so much better to unburden yourself of all those lies and deceipt. FU you emotional cripple.
Then again, maybe it is MY FAULT AFTERALL:
1. "There had to be something missing if I went elsewhere for it."
2. "You just treated me like the guy that takes out the garbage." garbage, yeah, that you are buddy...
3. "You didn't desire me anymore. I convinced myself you weren't attracted to me, so I failed to make myself attractive to you, and then I stopped being attracted to you."
4. "I don't think you were really happy either. Not for a long time. We haven't been in love for like, 5 years."
seriously? how come no one, never, ever noticed especially ME? how come you never mentioned how you felt or why you think you can speak for me? I was happy fucker. I was happy even though things weren't always perfect because that is what marraige is. That is what true love is. Fucker.
5."You didn't like having sex with me. You didn't enjoy the penetration part." Well, umm, no not always because you put very little effort into it, and it was kinda boring at times and I was tired because you were so lazy, but I loved you anyway I just thought that was the best you could do. Sometimes it was good, sometimes it alright. That is not the point. You don't CHEAT you fucking TALK dumbass.
He was the cheater. said I deserve better.


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Inside The Outpost, patrons find a constantly rotating selection of 40 craft beers. A dressed-down menu features burgers, wings, and sandwiches such as the BeerLT, a BLT served on beer-battered sourdough. The walls are decked with 100-year-old wood as well as 15 flat-screen TVs, which let guests keep tabs on the moral decay of 21st-century mass communication.
At Mangroves, ordering a drink is almost as much of an experience as sipping it—guests ask for wine and cocktails at a handcrafted 60-foot, stained-glass bar. Its eye-catching design fits right into the chic downstairs lounge, dotted with VIP tables where guests revel in bottle service. Upstairs, meanwhile, another full bar awaits visitors, fueling jive sessions on the spacious dance floor. DJs spin there four days a week, playing sets far preferable to the sound of guests blowing over empty champagne flutes.
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In 1985, Jim Mellody had a simple dream: to create a neighborhood pub where friends, family, and nice-looking strangers could enjoy good food and sports. So, with his wife, Jeanette, he opened the first of the now-famous Beef ?O? Brady?s, filling the first Brandon, Florida, location with sports memorabilia and TVs. The menu?which has grown over the years as the franchise has birthed more than 200 outposts?celebrates American pub classics with an Irish twist, including an Irish blessing on every menu. The expansive menu can quell any number of cravings, with hearty dishes such as award-winning jumbo wings hand tossed in 16 signature sauces and pretzel roll Angus sliders with thick-cut bacon, all served with homestyle shakes or domestic drafts.
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Someone find out her home address.
Katinka Simonse, a 31 year old female living in Amsterdam, has been killing innocent animals and getting away with it. These horrible acts have been looked over because she killed these animals in the name of "Art". Katinka owns many animals and keeps them in horrible conditions. She owns 60 hamsters in balls and remote controlled guineas pigs. She puts day old male chicks through paper shredders. She writes numbers on the snails in her garden to keep count of them. Although she is not being charged by police, she has angered a good part of the animal loving world and definitely will be charged by them. However crazy this woman may seem, she has given an explanation to why she does what she does and thinks it is ok. To view a translated video of Katinka (TINKEBELL) giving her reasons, click here.
The act that has angered most people about this case is, in 2004 Katinka Simonse killed her very own cat and then made it into a handbag. There was some confusion on how she went about with the killing, but in this video she clearly stated at 1:10 that she snapped its neck. To view that video, click here. It is not translated, but the message is very clear, as she even demonstrates how she did it. Now you know the acts and the evil, but our work is not finished. Something must be done. We need to urge the Dutch government to obtain Katinka and sentence her to a very harsh trial for animal abuse.SIGN THE PETITION NOW! "He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it." – Martin Luther King, Jr
fuck her
The epitome of fucking SCUM.
just snap her neck and call it even.
God who the fuck even cares. Really. I eat burgers and veal and so do a lot of people but everyone gets their goddamn panties in a twist when somebody kills the cute animals. No, I won't willingly hurt a "pet" animal but maybe that's because I don't have a reason to, this bitch clearly does. She paid good money for those goddamn animals so let her do her thing. If the cops won't do anything then maybe it isn't an issue. So fuck off with this self righteous pussy shit and go have some Chicken McNuggets and chill the fuck out.
it's "art" to kill a small animal for the obvious attention it's garnering
also lmao "i paid good money for this that means i have the right to torture and abuse a living creature all i want"
I'd love to make a statement about human value or just capitalism in general but im not a douche so i'll abstain
naw the capitalism one is too tempting
"i worked at my standard-pay job for a whole day that's worth as much as an animal's life yknow just grab a kitten from the rescue shelter and stick its legs in a meat grinder and record it slowly getting killed and thinly veiling my own thrill in killing lesser creatures as art yea thats a good system"
i've killed and eaten animals i've raised and there is no pleasure to be had in that. At all. Sure i've eaten a burger today but its not like i personally stabbed the cow to death, dick rock-fucking-hard as i listen to it scream, missing vital organs for the sake of prolonging its pain as long as possible for my own erotic fulfillment
and animals you personally kill taste the same, obviously. Difference being the first time you do it you realize you spent years raising tonight's dinner, and it sinks in that you murdered a sentient being that trusted you, but man that goat meat was delicious and i killed him as painlessly as i could manage because im not a COMPLETE FUCKIN' PSYCHOPATH
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MOREnet Council Meeting Minutes - March 29, 2012
1:00 – 3:00 p.m.
Thursday, March 29, 2012
Members present: Russ Brock, Chair, Gary Allen, Margaret Conroy, Dave Doennig, John Gillispie, Paul Mensching, Rusty Monhollon, Kevin Palmer, Tim Robyn, Archie Sprengel
Alternates present: Barbara Reading
MOREnet staff present: Natasha Angell, Chip Byers, Hank Niederhelm, Matt Parris, Greg Silvey
Chair Russ Brock called the MOREnet Council meeting to order. Those who were in attendance are listed above.
Chair Brock asked for additions to the agenda and John Gillispie added Dual Role as the last agenda item.
Minutes of the November 30, 2011 MOREnet Council Meeting – Approval
Chair Brock asked for any recommended changes and/or additions to the November 30, 2011 meeting minutes as distributed. There were no recommendations and Rusty Monhollon moved to approve the November 30, 2011 meeting minutes as distributed. David Doennig seconded the motion and it passed unanimously.
Election of Officers
Chair Brock announced that Margaret Conroy, Craig Klimczak and Paul Mensching have agreed to serve on a nominating committee to elect officers for the 2013 fiscal year. Doennig moved to approve the nominating committee, Monhollon seconded and it passed unanimously. The committee will report officer recommendations at the June 21, 2012 meeting.
Educational Broadband Service Update – Information
Chip Byers reported that staff has completed the initial installation of EBS by securing 13 licenses in Missouri with the majority of them already being accepted by the FCC. In the MOREnet service coverage areas there are 343 MOREnet member sites. At the August 18, 2011 meeting, the Council approved expenditures up to $500K for capital purchases and to date, $90K has been spent. There are an additional four members that contributed a license but have not yet received a radio and staff expects this to cost an additional $60K-80K. In Phase II staff will work to finalize the leases, as well as, continue market research to aid in issuing RFPs and creating financial models, both of which will be shared at the June 21, 2012 Council meeting. Staff also learned that two additional MOREnet members have leased their licenses to vendors; however, due to poor performance these members have expressed interest in MOREnet leasing them. More detail on this will also be shared at the June Council meeting.
REAL Router Upgrades – Information
Greg Silvey reported that of the $200K originally budgeted for this expenditure; staff only expects to spend $175K. Staff hopes to deploy the 122 routers that have been received by June 30, 2012.
Gig.U Update – Information
Gillispie reported that Gig.U. is proceeding with a second phase but due to the limited number of vendors who responded to the Gig.U inquiry for Columbia, the City of Columbia and the University of Missouri- System have decided not to actively participate. There is still hope that the overall concept will make it to Columbia so the objective will continue to be pursued. The City and University both believe that a deployment of next generation networks are critical to remaining relevant and is one of the drivers for economic development. As such both the University and City intend to continue to pursue relationships and opportunities that will move this forward. MOREnet remains interested in having a test bed for it to develop and validate next generation services for the members and such a deployment would be useful if it took place locally.
Proposed Core Network Intrusion Detection/Prevention System Services – Information
Natasha Angell shared that staff are constantly looking for ways to add value to the network and member connectivity and these services are two currently being investigated. Staff is continuing vendor evaluations and product testing and if the information gathered continues to support moving forward with these service offerings, procurement research will begin in hopes of sharing a detailed project review with the Council in the coming months. Staff believes these services would be viable investment project candidates.
Service Trend Report – Information
Matt Parris spoke to the trend reports that show revenue invoiced by month. He explained that there are 7 interactive reports that allow different perspectives of the data as needed. Gillispie expressed that new services should be given 24-36 months to break even before a decision is made to end the service offering. Due to the members ability to contract with third-party vendors for 1, 2 or 3 year terms, this may delay the take rate on any given MOREnet service offering as a member may wait for a current contract to expire before adding new services. He also shared that under Matt's direction, marketing efforts are being reviewed in hopes of improving communications with members about new service options.
Growing Membership with Private and Parochial K-12 Schools – Information
Parris reported that marketing research has identified nearly 600 private and parochial schools that serve 20 percent of Missouri's K-12 students. It is expected that the larger of these schools would benefit the most by MOREnet services so staff are reaching out to the 150 schools with enrollments of 250 or more. Smaller school will be contacted in a future outreach phase. MOREnet currently serves 11 private or parochial schools and staff hopes to have 50 added by the end of the calendar year.
Member Reports – Information
Report shared by Gillispie on behalf of Leigh Ann Grant Engle.
A statewide contract for the student information system is in place. Tyler Technologies was awarded the contract and information can be found at: http://dese.mo.gov/dsm/StatewideStudentInformationSystem.html.
National efforts for data systems, standards etc. continue – Common Education Data Standards
(CEDS) -- http://ceds.ed.gov/.
Missouri is a member of the SMARTER Balanced Assessment Consortium – this group along with the other assessment consortium will be conducting a national survey of all school districts to determine the readiness to participate in on-line assessments. This survey is very detailed and is planned to be conducted once each year for the next 2 years. An administrative memo is to be sent soon.
K-12 Advisory Group
Paul Mensching reported that the group met on March 23 at the MASA conference and received a report from the Technical Advisory subcommittee who suggested the possibility of graduated connectivity fee structures as a cost saving mechanism. They also discussed the possibility of adding school librarians to the K-12 Advisory group and received updates from Byers on EBS, DLE, and Google Apps.
Kevin Palmer reported that the IR group met during the HELIX conference and resolved the annual fee issue. Going forward, data will be pulled from IPEDS as it is a consistent source that will not need any manipulation. Craig Klimczak updated the IRs on the MHEC technology contracts available around the state and reported on legislative acts in other states that are causing the dissolution of statewide Research and Education Networks similar to MOREnet. The group also identified IR and Board member nominations and Palmer expects voting to occur electronically in the near future.
Margaret Conroy reported that as of this meeting there is no threat to the proposed funding for the REAL program. She also reported that Doennig is leading a consortium of public libraries sharing an automation system using Evergreen open source software. MOSL has a contract in place with MOBIUS to help support that system with a number of libraries working to form the consortium guidelines to be finalized at the next meeting in early April. The libraries may offer participation to schools and higher education at some point but first need to establish the group to see how well it works.
Meeting Schedule
- June 21, 2012 – 10:00-2:00 p.m. – at MOREnet
- August 30, 2012 – 10:00-2:00 p.m. – at MOREnet
- November 29, 2012 – 1:00-3:00 p.m. – TelePresence/Videoconference/Audio
Agenda Addition - Dual Role
Gillispie shared that on a temporary basis of 18-24 months he will be assisting Gary Allen at University of Missouri System's Enterprise Application Systems group. Allen assured the Council that it is a temporary situation and will not detract from MOREnet operations. He encourages anyone with concerns to contact him. When asked his opinion, President Tim Wolfe wanted to be sure the role wouldn't take away from MOREnet as he is enthusiastic and impressed with MOREnet and what opportunities it provides.
Conroy moved to endorse Gillispie sharing his time with the University of Missouri – System Enterprise Application Systems group as long as his performance doesn't negatively impact his leadership ofMOREnet and that the Council will monitor that performance by communication from Gillespie's senior leadership at MOREnet as needed. Palmer seconded the motion and it passed unanimously.
Conroy reported that University President Tim Wolfe spoke at her rotary club meeting last week. He had a wonderful graphic showing the University presence across the state and every MOREnet member was shown.
Meeting adjourned at 2:08 pm


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What's your favorite movie to watch this time of year? It's a Wonderful Life? Bad Santa? A looped video of a burning log? Yeah, those are good, but they're not nearly as festive as 'Twas the Congress Before Christmas, starring Kit Bond and two small dogs in matching sweaters…
Call me sentimental, but I think he really captures the spirit of Christmas with that "threw up in the basin o'er the loss of our cash" line.
Another lump of coal in your stocking: Roland Burris did his own terrible version of Clement Moore's poem on the Senate floor yesterday, but he didn't bring any "doggie friends."
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Sanjaya Malakar is a budding music god.
He takes his influence from many popular musicians of our time, butchering their songs and worming his way into America's collective heart with each brutal week.
But it turns out the biggest reason for his success might be his look-alike sister, Shyamali Malakar. See hot picture below. Yow. How you doin'? It's clear who got the good genes in this family (much like Cameron Federline)..
Her MySpace profile reveals how dedicated some Sanjaya Malakar fans are, with one of Shyamali's loser MySpace friends remarking that they voted for the American Idol hopeful - ready for this? - 540 times.
And we thought Rose McGowan was a huge fan.
A sexy 20-year-old, Shyamali Malakar also states on her MySpace profile that she's a college student and she doesn't smoke, but interestingly enough, she does drink.
Can we get her on the next season of The Hills?
Yes, they are ugly, but do you have to be so mean and nasty about their race? You sound pretty low class to me.
Ok how the f*** are they hot ?? is the person who wrote this article retarded or on crack ? they are a bunch of nasty ugly monkeys !! get that !!! hahaah lmfao ugly as hell !!!!!!! and can't sing..he's a fag and she is a dumb bimbo slut who does not smoke but drinks what is up with idiot loser people like that "oh, i dont smoke...but i kill my sef by drinking which is really good for my health...apparebtly" ahahhaahha lmfao what AN INDIAN LOW CLASS VILLAGE LOSERS THEY ARE THEY ARE FROM A LOW CLASS POOR VILLAGE FAMILY FROM INDIAN WITH AN ACCENT AHAHAHAH LMFAO !!!!!
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So every now and then, an album/song comes along and I say to myself, "This is going to be big," and I almost feel guilty for listening to it because I know that before long every Tom, Dick, and Harry is going to be listening to it, and I'll be completely burnt out on it (Gotye, Mumford and Suns, Fun.). Still, it's fun to be in on the ground floor. So this is your notice to get in on the ground floor.
Ironically, I was searching out the proper thread to ask the cool kids if I was supposed to be enjoying Fun as much as I have for so long. Their most recent SNL appearance has me mainlining the album all over again.
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At the end of the beginning, "Little Danny" Lanois got it right. After all his beat-down poetry, after his self-congratulatory accolades, after a welcoming speech in which he kept referring to himself in the third person, the producer of U2 and Peter Gabriel and Bob Dylan hit it square in the grinning face. "There's a lot of optimism in the air," Lanois said at the end of the keynote address that opened the 17th South by Southwest Music and Media Conference in Austin, which began March 12 and ended Sunday. Some of us smelled something different--apprehension, fear or maybe just the musician sitting in front of us--but Lanois, who lives in higher and more rarefied altitudes than the rest of us, has a different perspective. You can afford to be optimistic when expensive people hire you to make expensive records.
That SXSW's organizers chose Lanois as their keynote speaker was of no surprise; they like the Big Name, the Superstar Draw to bless their event, and Lanois did just that in the sort of rambling, indulgent fashion that befits a man who makes guitar wallpaper for himself when not producing men richer than everyone in the Austin Convention Center combined. He said nothing and said it for 45 minutes, insisting at one point he was going to "beeline" it out of the auditorium lest anyone give him a tape and ask him for help. Lanois did provide one of the fest's musical high points, when Richie Havens joined him at the Austin Music Hall on Thursday night for a furious performance of the Woodstock Generation anthem "Freedom," but it was hardly an apologia for kissing his own ass repeatedly that very morning. (Everything old is older again, when you get down to it.)
Lanois' remarks gave SXSW perfect context: It was a conference in denial, which is easily done when 500-plus bands--from across the country and around the world--crank up in one place and drown out the bad news and ill tidings. The usual litany of ailments that threaten to decimate the entire body--from piracy and declining sales to media consolidation and government inquiries--were spoken of in small whispers. You could hardly hear them on Sixth Street and just beyond, where bands started to play early in the morning (one, at 8 a.m. in the Four Seasons bar) and wrapped up, on some nights, in the wee small hours before the sun came up. (As Thursday night became Friday and then some, the Sugar Hill Gang were a-hip-a-hoppin' at an East Austin after-hours shindig thrown by the owners of Stubb's Barbecue; it was early morning of the living dead.)
There was no unifying theme this year, no single strand that looked more like a rope from which the music business could hang itself. This year, there was no Hilary Rosen to kick around; she's now the formerpresident of the Recording Industry Association of America, and someone else will have to blame everyone but the labels for the industry's plentiful woes. There was no Courtney Love to pick apart; there's no one left with whom she can feud. And there was no Norah Jones to suck up to, though crits and bizzers were chasing down the Next New Thing night after night, insisting always they'd just heard the greatest thing since...well, Norah Jones.
The outrage and disgust and suspense of 2002 had given way to the ennui and exhaustion and hangover of 2003; the torrent of anger unleashed last March had dissipated into a fine mist of anxiety. Even the panels meant to generate heat--say, the Activism and Protest circle jerk--were cool to the touch. It didn't help that this year, the label- and media-sponsored parties seemed to begin earlier than ever before; you could get your free drunk on well before noon, meaning you could go to SXSW and have legit reason never to step inside the convention center. Fuck it, right? Might as well party like it's 1991. Like Chicago Tribunemusic critic and Activism and Protest panel moderator Greg Kot said late Saturday afternoon, standing in a convention center that looked like a ghost town, "There might not even bea music industry next year."
It would have been far better had SXSW chosen for its keynote speaker the ubiquitous Jenny Toomey, the unlikely revolutionary whose Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit Freedom of Music Coalition has become the record-buying, radio-listening public's best and loudest voice in the debate over government deregulation of all things media. Toomey, whose bright red hair makes her look like a flaming matchstick held over a short fuse, has spent the last year testifying about the evils of deregulation before Congress and the Federal Communications Commission; her organization has spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on studies that prove the damage done when companies like San Antonio-based Clear Channel, which owns more than 1,200 radio stations nationwide, seize control of the public's airwaves. If rock and roll has a future, it will be Toomey and others like her who extend their hands to keep it from tumbling down the cliff. "But I bring 30 people into a room," she said when told she should have been the keynote speaker, implying she doesn't draw like Lanois. Never has a revolutionary been so modest; then again, this is a revolutionary whose new album is filled with nothing but torch songs, not Molotov cocktails.


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Jeff Teague came up huge for the Atlanta Hawks in a must-win game last night and helped lead the team to 117-98 victory over fellow playoff-hopeful Cleveland Cavaliers.
Teague was terrific in the game and finished with a double-double performance of 20 points and 12 assists, as the win meant Atlanta reclaimed sole possession of the eighth and final playoff spot in East. The New York Knicks had a very slim lead over ATL entering Friday (.002 W%P), but they choked and lost at home later that night while the Hawks won to go up by one-game in the standings.
The double-double performance was Teague's 13th this season, but more importantly the 32nd of his career which passes former Hawks swingman Joe Johnson in franchise history, who finished with 31 point/assist double-doubles in an Atlanta uniform.
Before passing Johnson, Teague surpassed former Hawks legend "Pistol" Pete Maravich.
Teague's 32 point/assist double-doubles ranks 6th all-time in Hawks franchise history, tying him with former guard Walt Hazzard.
Teague is having his best season in his five-year career (all with Atlanta), averaging 16.3 points, 6.9 assists and 2.7 rebounds per game.
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Reassignment: Enterprise « Page 49
This is an overdue post but seems appropriate to do this now. In the past, I've used various Star Trek ships to convey the changes I had experienced as I was transferred from one library branch to another. For the past five + months, I've been stationed at a store front library branch. The reason I picked the NX-01 starship is because it fits my particular situation. Enterprise itself was the 4 spinoff series from the original Trek series bringing it to the total of five not including the animated series or the movies. Since I started with the library back in 2006, I have now worked in five different branches. Now having said this, I carry this connection forward, the series was heading for cancellation by the end of the fourth season and nearly killed off the franchise forever. As I've mentioned before, I am facing a possible separation from the library is the next couple of months. Could this move kill off my career as a librarian forever?
As I am writing this, almost 1am Monday, I just finished a pint of ice cream and watching an Enterprise episode called Mauraders. To sum it up, think of this episode as a retelling of A Bug's Life with the Klingons as the Locust. As I groan in pain from the late night dessert and tv watching, I am reminded that someone wrote this crap. Someone got paid to write this crap. I too want to write and get paid for writing crap. Several years ago, make that more than a decade ago, I wrote a spec script for the then upcoming Star Trek: Deep Space Nine series. I recently found it again which led me to believe, I need to write again and fail again. Yes, I did say fail again.
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Having seen the news this morning, imagine the smile on my face when I read that the new Virgin Galactic ship was called Enterprise. While this is not the same fan fair as when NASA called the first Space Shuttle Enterprise but it does move the name forward by one into the future. I have no doubt that we will see a true space ship by the end of this century and hopefully, this legendary name will be passed on. And yes, I want a ticket to ride this magic carpet ride.
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Sir Richard Branson's latest project will take passengers to space and back.
Branson, the founder of Virgin Galactic, unveiled his latest rocket plane today for outsiders. "This is truly a momentous day," he said. "The team has created not only a world first, but also a work of art."
The VSS Enterprise, an eight person vehicle (six passengers, two crewmembers,) had been in development for several years and kept under wraps. It is named after its namesake from Star Trek, and is a successor to a vehicle which flew to space in 2004 and won an Ansari X prize.
A mothership, the WhiteKnightTwo (VMS Eve) will carry the VSS Enterprise to its launch altitude of 50,000 feet. The two-and-a-half hour trips, up and down flights that won't orbit the earth, will include about five minutes of weightlessness.
The first test flights should begin next year, with full-fledged space launches set to commence in 2011.
'Star Trek': An exclusive first look at the Enterprise | PopWatch Blog | EW.com
Nov 11, 2008, 03:23 PM | by Jeff Jensen
Categories: Sci-Fi, Star Trek
JJ Abrams wasn't a huge fan of the original Star Trek TV series as a kid, but he does have one unabashed gee-whiz Star Trek memory: watching the first feature film (1979's Star Trek: The Motion Picture) and marveling over the big reveal of the Enterprise during a long sequence in which James T. Kirk takes a slow-boat tour around the iconic starship. "The coolest thing about it—maybe the coolest thing in the movie—was when you flew around the ship, you could see all the different panels that made up the ship," says the director of the forthcoming Trek reboot, slated for a May 8, 2009 release. "It was the first time I had ever seen that level of attention, that love of detail, given to the tangible, practical reality of the ship."
Here, in this exclusive first look at Abrams' take on the Enterprise, you not only see his vision of the ship, but his attempt to evoke that sequence from the first film that so captured his imagination. If you're thinking, "Wow! It looks the way the Enterprise has always looked"—well look at the big Spock brain on you! Abrams wanted to take the original TV series Enterprise and the movie franchise Enterprise and fuse them together into a new yet familiar Enterprise. His ambition was a ship that felt very realistic, that could "stand up" to today's f/x standards—and beyond. "If you're going to do Star Trek there are many things you cannot change. The Enterprise is a visual touchstone for so many people. So if you're going to do the Enterprise, it better look like the Enterprise, because otherwise, what are you doing?"
Fans and other interested parties will get more looks at the new Enterprise when the first trailer arrives this Friday, attached to Quantum of Solace. And if you missed the additional 11 Star Trek photos we debuted last month, click here and check 'em out.
via 'Star Trek': An exclusive first look at the Enterprise | PopWatch Blog | EW.com
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I got word from my MySpace pal who posted on his blog that the Star Trek XI was up and running. Let me tell who, those cell phones vids suck because there was so much detail it couldn't capture. Enjoy the trailer and I can not wait for this movie to come out. Click here if you want to visit my Star Trek XI pal on MySpace.
Separated @ Birth… Scifi Style Part 10
For this entry, we find ourselves shocked and amazed by the similarities after watching Little Miss Sunshine the MC for the pageant played by Matt Wilson looks like Will Arnett from one of the best tv comedy series Arrested Development. Matt, if you dare to remember Star Trek: Enterprise, played Temporal Agent Daniels. For Will, he is the new voice for KITT in the upcoming Knight Rider. You can check out the YouTube clip below. While the Will's voice is not the same smooth tones as William Daniels, I was still happy with the results. (But please, for the love of Gods, do not make this series the next Bionic Woman series.) On a side note, I looked up Will's bio on IMDB.COM and saw the movie the he was currently working on called G-Force. I thought, oh my god, are we talking about the same Sandy Frank anime classic Battle of the Planets…. sadly, it's not. G-Force, coming out in 2009, is about, "A specially trained squad of guinea pigs is dispatched to stop a diabolical billionaire from taking over the world." Oh well, I guess I will have to write this movie myself, lol. On a side, side note, Sydney Tamiia Poitier will appearing in the series as well. She was Jungle Julia from the Grindhouse film Death Proof and was rumored to be the next Uhura for Star Trek XI.
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Why do you live in Arkansas, instead of any other state? Maybe you hate cold weather, and love a state where you can set out on a hike or kayak the Buffalo River. Maybe you have always lived here, and couldn't imagine leaving your friends and family, your job, or your hometown. If you are like most people, the state income tax rate doesn't even make the list of why they would or wouldn't move. Even for the very rich, new income taxes do not have a substantial impact on out-of-state moves.[i] In fact, most people don't leave their home state at all; 69 percent of Americans live in the state they were born in.[ii] Cutting income taxes won't attract people to Arkansas, in fact it will hurt the programs and services like quality pre-K, higher education, and public safety that really help make our state a great place to live.
Some people do move, of course, but these interstate migrations hardly affect state population. Less than two percent of residents in the US relocate across state lines each year, and most of the time if one person leaves a state, they are replaced by another person moving in, making the net change from migration close to zero.[iii] Most of the time when people move it's just a "swap." According to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP), "from 2000 to 2009 not a single state lost population due to people moving to other states."[iv] Arkansas actually experienced net in-migration from other states from 1993-2011, and new people had higher paying jobs (newcomers to Arkansas made about $3,000 more on average than those who left the state). [v]
The small percentage of people who do move are not generally motivated by tax structure. Recent research shows that people are just as likely, if not more likely, to move to a state with higher income taxes. For example, almost as many people moved to Arizona as Texas between 1993 and 2011, even though Texas doesn't have an income tax and nearby Arizona does.[vi] Over half of the people who choose to change states do so because of jobs or family; climate is also a major indicator.[vii] People are more likely to move to states with better jobs, not states with lower taxes.
Deep tax cuts actually hurt the things that really make a state an appealing place to live by slashing budgets for services like public safety and education opportunities that lead to jobs. Unfortunately, proponents of tax cuts continue to harp on the false notion that citizens have their suitcases packed, just waiting to move to the next state that cuts income taxes. Most people won't move exclusively because of income taxes, if you need proof, just think about all the reasons why you haven't moved to Texas, or any other income tax free state.
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I guess this is a good time to do reflections on last semester. It's about to be the end of the year anyway.
So I took 5 CS mods this semester, although one of which was more Computer Engineering than Computer Science. Anyway, it was the first time during my entire life in NUS where there are at least 3 modules that really excited me.
So the first good mod was CS4223, Parallel Computer Architecture (Dr Tulika Mitra). This is the mod that wasn't exactly a CS mod due to the large amount of hardware related content in it, but I daresay it is easily the best module I've taken in NUS so far. Learning what goes into a processor, and the interesting tricks that going into making a processor faster, such as branch prediction and its effects on programs that we write, this module has really opened my eyes to programming. Oh, and did I mention? I learnt that 1GHz on an ARM processor is not the same as 1GHz on an Intel i7 processor too. It was fascinating.
The other good mod that I took was CS4238, Computer Security Practise (Dr Liang Zhenkai). Being a practical module, there were alot of practical aspects involved, but I still learnt more about the theory than any other modules. For example, in this module, I could understand the TCP layer better than what was taught to me in CS3103, which I took concurrently and was supposed to be about Networks.
The last good mod I took last sem was CS5223, Distributed Systems (Dr Yu Haifeng). Didn't score the grade I wanted (final exam had too many proving questions), but I daresay I learnt alot of theory that would be useful in future too. It helped that the prof believed that both theory and practical are important and spent a fair bit of time bridging the two.
Sad thing was, I only found school really fun and exciting only in year 4 sem 1, which is a little too late. But ah well.
As for the other 2 mods, let's put it this way. CS3103 is simply a content downloading module (important stuff), and I believe work has to be put in to make the module more educational.
CS4211 was totally different though. Formal methods in Software Engineering, I believe is something that is very important, particularly for industries that cannot afford a single software failure, like NASA for example. Despite the importance of this module, it seemed to me that the teaching staff weren't really interested in conducting the module. Lack of support, plus forcing us to use PAT which honestly had crappy debugging messages, made the module a pretty bad one.
I guess that's it for 2012, looking forward to the next.
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