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n the early hours of Saturday Morning, a team of officers from the Child and Women’s Protection Unit, a division of the Royal Thai Police conducted a raid of the X-Ray Men’s Club located in North Pattaya following complaints which stated that underage boys were employed at the location. Police checked the age of employees and found them all to be over 18, however 4 were arrested because they were not carrying their Thai ID cards which is a fineable offence. The license for the establishment was checked and was found to have expired and the Duty Manager was duly arrested. A report of the incident has now been sent to the District Licensing Unit at Banglamung City Hall for their consideration. http://pattayaone.net/news/2008/october/ne...8_10_51_3.shtml

LOL. You think that is all the time it takes to build a site? You have planing stage, development and testing. All of them take time. We have moved from the planning stage to the development stage. I hope to have a mock up of the new look for you next week. BUT, it will take about 3-4 more months to do have it ready for testing. Be patient Lucky. It will cum. LOL. You are right. That would be a seamless transition. However, I have never seen one of those. There are always growing pains.

By David Morgan WASHINGTON, Oct 12 (Reuters) - Billionaire investor George Soros predicted on Sunday that the financial crisis would mean the end of a U.S.-led market system that has dominated the global economy with debt and deregulation since the 1980s. "Globalization, America as the center of the globalized financial markets, was sucking up the savings of the world," Soros said in a CNN interview. "This is now over. The game is out. It does mean a very serious adjustment for America," added Soros, a staunch backer of the Democratic Party. As world leaders rushed to help banks weather the crisis that has sent stocks into steep decline, Soros blamed the turmoil on the faith in market forces that began under President Ronald Reagan and British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher a generation ago. The notion that markets are self-correcting led to a massive expansion of debt financing that culminated in the sub-prime mortgages that epitomized the easy-money mentality at the root of the disaster, he said. "This belief became the dominant creed. And this, then, led to the globalization of markets, the deregulation of markets and the increased use of leverage and all the financial engineering," Soros said. "This whole enormous construct is built on false conceptions," he added. "You can go a very long way. But in the end, reality rears its ugly head and that's what happened now." Jeffrey Sachs, special adviser to U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and director of the Earth Institute at New York's Columbia University, appeared to agree with Soros. "The age of Reaganism is over," Sachs said in a separate CNN interview. "The no-regulation, low-taxes (philosophy) has broken the back of our economy. We now have to get serious about reconstructing normal government that pays its way and a normal financial sector that's properly regulated." Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson's embrace of the same "market fundamentalist ideology" has made the Bush administration slow to respond to the crisis, said Soros, who blamed Paulson for not saving the Wall Street firm Lehman Brothers from bankruptcy. "That's what actually kind of unleashed the current phase of meltdown," he said. Soros said U.S. authorities could effectively address the crisis by recapitalizing banks, first with private money, and restructuring home loans to minimize foreclosures. (Additional reporting by David Lawder, Editing by Chizu Nomiyama) http://www.reuters.com/article/bondsNews/i...0081012?sp=true

What is your favorite gay sites? What do you wake up to and find you have to visit. For me, other than this site, I will hit 365Gay, Xbiz and Gaydar. Any other sites I need to not miss?

According to some hotly contested polls, race will cost Obama about 6 percentage points in the election. Is that possible? It does not seem likely to me but that is what is being said. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/12/weekinre.../12zernike.html

Anyone excited? me me me

I am addicted to many things in life. I love chocolate and caffeine. Specifically, I love Diet Coke and any kind of chocolate. I am currently in Brazil and they have a treat called Brigadaros which are chocolate balls with sprinkles on the outside. Nearly every outdoor café and bar has them. They are delicious and I can’t seem to get enough of them. While I do love them, I limit myself to one a day as I know they are not good for me. In contract to that, I also have been addicted to exercise the past year. I love it and can’t seem to go a few days without it. I enjoy all kinds of exercise but I especially love jogging. On a treadmill or on the road, it makes little difference to me. The wonderful feeling I get afterwards is amazing and I crave it. I recently competed in my first marathon. It was a total nightmare as it rained the entire day. Over 5 hours of freezing cold rain with soggy shoes and blisters. The massage I got after the race was 2 hours and much needed. I had forgotten how much I loved massages until I was unable to feel my toes or legs. I use to think I was addicted to sex but as time has grown on, I realize this is not an addiction but just a love. I really enjoy sex but can easily go for weeks or months without it with no necessity to have any. I also think I am addicted to Pattaya. I have loved the city since my second visit. My first visit, I was disgusted by it but on the second one, I feel in love. With a boy of course and then with the city he lived in. It is not even an hour after I leave the city that I start to plan my next trip there. I think about it often. I do have other things to keep me busy in the USA and that often is secondary to my craving for Pattaya. Do others feel the same about Thailand or Pattaya? Are you planning your next trip before you board the plane? Are you counting down the days until your next trip?

Connecticut was the first state to allow Civil Unions and now is the 3rd State that will allow same sex marriages. http://edition.cnn.com/2008/US/10/10/conne...iage/index.html

Love the offer for more experience.

What are we doing and how do we get out of this mess? It seems like the debt we rack up for the next generation is NEVER ending. For some, that is OK. But, I have nieces and nephews I adore and don't want to see them burdened for their entire life. Will this election stop this spiraling? What will? From BBC : The US government's debts have ballooned so badly the National Debt Clock in New York has run out of digits to record the spiralling figure. The digital counter marks the national debt level, but when that passed the $10 trillion point last month, the sign could not display the full amount. The board was erected to highlight the $2.7 trillion level of debt in 1989. The clock's owners say two more zeros will be added, allowing the clock to record a quadrillion dollars of debt. Douglas Durst, son of the late Seymour Durst - the clock's inventor - hopes to replace the Manhattan clock with its lengthier replacement early next year. For the time being, the Times Square counter's electronic dollar sign has been replaced with the extra digit required. For its part, the digital dollar symbol has been supplanted by a cheaper version - perhaps a sign of the times for the American economy. Some economists believe the $700bn bail-out plan for ailing US financial institutions could send the national debt level to $11 trillion. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7660409.stm

Well, having been an IPhone user since the beginning, I love it. I love the device and the new push e-mail is a direct "fuck you" to RIM. So, it was no surprise that this device was coming. Here is the CNet article: We all knew it was approaching, but brace yourself, the Storm has made landfall. Tuesday night, Research In Motion and Verizon Wireless officially introduced the first touch-screen BlackBerry to the world: the RIM BlackBerry Storm. Also known by its code name, BlackBerry Thunder, the Storm features a touch-sensitive display that's unlike that on any other touch-screen smartphone available today, thanks to RIM's own twist (more on this below). There are plenty of other highlights as well, including dual-mode functionality, support for Verizon's EV-DO Rev. A, integrated GPS, BlackBerry OS 4.7, and more. Now, before you run out to the nearest Verizon store, we've got some bad news. Unfortunately, you won't be able to get your hands on the BlackBerry Storm quite yet (groan). A specific release date and pricing were not announced, but Verizon said the Storm would be out by the holiday season with "competitive" pricing. Obviously, we're not fans (and we're guessing you're not either) of such vague answers, especially in light of the RIM BlackBerry Bold delay. RIM and Verizon did come by our office to give us a full rundown on the features, as well as some brief hands-on time with the device, so without further ado, here are all the details and our impressions of the RIM BlackBerry Storm. Design Obviously, the touch screen is the biggest highlight of the BlackBerry Storm, but as we mentioned earlier, it's unlike any other touch-screen smartphone we've seen so far, including the Apple iPhone, T-Mobile G1, and Samsung Omnia. Rather than provide haptic feedback (or none at all), RIM developed something completely new called ClickThrough, which consists of a suspension system that lies beneath the display, so that when you go to select an application or enter text, you actually push the screen down like you would any other tactile button. Admittedly, it was a little weird when I first tried it. Given that with all other touch-screen devices, it's just a matter of lightly tapping on an icon or some similar action, it wasn't my first inclination to physically push down on the screen. My colleague Kent German also tried it out and had a similar reaction; while cool, the idea behind it took some explaining to fully realize the capabilities. Now, that's not to say we don't like ClickThrough; it just takes a little acclimation. Plus, it was responsive and I was pleasantly surprised at how easy and accurate it was to compose messages and notes. In terms of text extry, the BlackBerry Storm features a SureType keyboard when the smartphone is in portrait mode and then switches to a full QWERTY keyboard in landscape mode. The Storm has a built-in accelerometer so it will automatically rotate the screen depending on if the phone is held vertically or horizontally (left- and right-hand support included). The letter/number keys also glow blue when you're typing. The quality of the display is slightly better than the RIM BlackBerry Bold's. The Storm features a 3.25-inch diagonal display with a 480x360 pixel resolution and support for 65,000 colors, where as the Bold has a half-VGA, 480x320 pixel display. The handset itself is about the size of the BlackBerry Curve, but slightly thicker. It measures 4.4 inches tall by 2.4 inches wide by 0.5 inch deep and weighs 5.6 ounces. It's equipped with a 3.5mm headphone jack, has four shortcut keys (Talk and End, Back, and BlackBerry menu), and a microSD slot behind the back cover, among other things. Features Don't be fooled; the RIM BlackBerry Storm is more than just a pretty face. As far as phone features, the Storm, like the RIM BlackBerry 8830 World Edition, offers dual-mode functionality. This means the phone switches automatically between CDMA and GSM networks to offer seamless international roaming--all while keeping the same phone number. (Note that the phone does not support domestic GSM bands, and a SIM card is included in the box.) It also works on Verizon's EV-DO Rev. A network as well as Europe's 2100MHz UMTS/HSDPA band. There's a full HTML Web browser (no Flash), and the Storm will also support Verizon's V Cast Music and Mobile TV services, though not immediately at launch. Other wireless options include Bluetooth 2.0 with support for stereo Bluetooth headsets and dial-up networking and GPS but no Wi-Fi. BlackBerry Maps is onboard if you want text-based turn-by-turn directions, but for more advanced navigation features, such as voice prompts, you'll be forced to use Verizon's VZ Navigator service. The BlackBerry Storm will run the latest BlackBerry OS (version 4.7), so you finally get an updated interface while still getting support for multiple e-mail accounts (BlackBerry Enterprise, Microsoft Exchange, Lotus Notes, POP3, IMAP4, and more) with wireless synchronization. In addition to an attachment viewer, you can also do some light editing on Microsoft Word and PowerPoint files. There's 128MB of flash memory and 1GB of onboard memory, which is all supplemented by the microSD/SDHC expansion slot (supports up to 16GB cards). Though the BlackBerry is historically known more as a business device, RIM and Verizon hope to attract more consumers with the BlackBerry Storm and it comes with a number of multimedia capabilities. The media player can handle various music and video formats, including MP3, AAC, WMA, WMV, MPEG4, and H.264. The included Media Sync software will also help you synchronize your iTunes files with your BlackBerry. The Storm is equipped with a 3.2-megapixel camera with video recording, auto focus, and flash. For the entire article go to: http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-100594...l?tag=mncol;txt

Right now the dollar is also up against the Brazilian Real. For those of you waiting for a trip, it is a good time right now.

Looking to book another ticket for my return after the New Year and found some flights. However, all the ones I found are now only economy or business. No Premium at all. The website still says that the economy tickets may be upgraded to Premium if there are no economy seats available but I think that is just an error on the part of Thai Air that they forgot to remove. Now, the prices for the tickets were slightly over 800 for economy. I thought that was great so I went to book. The taxes were almost 700 US. Still that is not a bad price for a flight to Thailand but when the taxes get to the point of the almost the same as the flight itself I do have to wonder why?

I do think that the decisions that the next President makes on the Supreme Court is the SINGLE most important reason to vote. Second would be their commitment to peace around the globe.

I read one article that said these skits are having a negative effect on the campaign. If that is true, it is best for her to combat that head on to show she has a sense of humor. It might just be a very smart move if that happens.

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Loved the gay question and response from both of them! LOL

Pape Mbaye gets a lot of attention. Even in jaded New York, people watch the way he walks (his style defines the word sashay) and scrutinize his outfits, which on a recent afternoon featured white, low-slung capris, a black purse, eyeliner and diamond-studded jewelry. And he likes it. “I’m fabulous,” he said. “I feel good.” Mr. Mbaye, 24, is an entertainer from Dakar, Senegal, known there for his dancing, singing and storytelling. But while his flamboyance may be celebrated in New York, he attracted the wrong kind of attention in West Africa this year, and it nearly cost him his life. In February, a Senegalese magazine published photographs of what was reported to be an underground gay marriage and said that Mr. Mbaye, who appeared in the photos and is gay himself, had organized the event. In the ensuing six months, Mr. Mbaye said, he was harassed by the police, attacked by armed mobs, driven from his home, maligned in the national media and forced to live on the run across West Africa. In July, the United States government gave him refugee status, one of the rare instances when such protection has been granted to a foreigner facing persecution based on sexual orientation. A month later, Mr. Mbaye arrived in New York, eventually moving into a small furnished room in the Bronx that rents for $150 per week. It has a bed, air-conditioner, television, cat and pink walls. “There’s security, there’s independence, there’s peace,” he said of his new country. But even as he has begun looking for work, with the help of a few Senegalese immigrants he knows from Dakar, Mr. Mbaye is largely avoiding the mainstream Senegalese community, fearing that the same prejudices that drove him out of Africa may dog him here. One recent evening, while visiting close family friends from Dakar who live in Harlem, he recalled a shopping trip to 116th Street, where many Senegalese work and live. There, he said, he was harassed by a Senegalese man who ridiculed Mr. Mbaye’s outfit and threatened him. “He said, ‘If you were in Senegal, I would kill you,’ ” Mr. Mbaye said, gesturing with his arms, his voice rising. “I have my freedom now, and that man wanted to take it.” The United States does not track how often it grants refuge to people fleeing anti-gay persecution. But Christopher Nugent, an immigration lawyer with Holland & Knight, a Washington law firm where he is a senior pro bono counsel specializing in refugee and asylum cases, said that in the past decade he has heard of only a handful. The government also does not track the number of persecuted gay men and lesbians who are granted asylum, but experts in the field say the number is higher than those granted refugee status. (Asylum is granted to people already in the United States, while people outside the country must seek refugee status.) Mr. Mbaye’s case was exceptional because his fame made his situation particularly perilous, said Mr. Nugent, who represented Mr. Mbaye in his petition. “He was vilified in the Senegalese media as being the face of the sinful homosexual, and he had scars to show,” he said. For the past few years, anti-gay hysteria has been sweeping across swaths of Africa, fueled by sensationalist media reports of open homosexuality among public figures and sustained by deep and abiding taboos that have made even the most hateful speech about gays not just acceptable but almost required. Gay men and women have recently been arrested in Cameroon, Nigeria, Uganda and Ghana, among other countries. “In most countries there is poverty and instability, and usually homosexuality is used as a way of shifting the attention from the actual problem to this thing that is not really the problem but can distract the public,” said Joel Nana, who is from Cameroon and who works for the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission. Pape Mbaye (pronounced POP mm-BYE) had been living the Senegalese version of the high life for some time. He worked principally as a griot — a singer and storyteller invited to weddings, birthday parties and other events to perform traditional songs, dance and tell stories. See the rest of the article at: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/06/nyregion...amp;oref=slogin

the US, West Hollywood North America, Montreal Europe, Barcelona Latin America, Sao Paulo Asia, anywhere in Thailand the World. Hands down, Thailand

Yes, the 180 day limit is still in place. Long Term? I am looking for a year or two years at least.

How about: Dear YYY, We had 12 other customers write reviews of XXX on the same day in question. He was quite a busy boy that day. We are trying to stiffer through all the reviews to get them posted but we put them in order of his schedule. You were appointment number 10 for the day and the other 9 must come first. Please be patient, we will get to yours ASAP. Thanks. QQQ

I have lots of programs I use all the time. Itunes, Skype, Firefox are part of my daily routine. But, if I had to pick a favorite program that I really enjoy to use it would be Delicious Library. It allows me to hold a book, or anything with a bar code, to to my web cam and it scans the code in, analysis', it and then adds that to my library with a full photo cover, cost buy new and current retail value. It is a great way for me to keep up with the books I read, movies I buy and games I get the Boyfriend. What is your favorite program?

I still remember when the word AIDS was first mentioned on television and when Ronald Regan first uttered the words on tv. That was a long time ago and medicine to treat those with HIV have come a long way. Studies are being done all over the world to find the cause and to find a cure. The more we know the better grasp we will have to find a way to cure this disease. NEW YORK (AP) -- The AIDS virus has been circulating among people for about 100 years, decades longer than scientists had thought, a new study suggests. Genetic analysis pushes the estimated origin of HIV back to between 1884 and 1924, with a more focused estimate at 1908. Previously, scientists had estimated the origin at around 1930. AIDS wasn't recognized formally until 1981 when it got the attention of public health officials in the United States. The new result is "not a monumental shift, but it means the virus was circulating under our radar even longer than we knew," says Michael Worobey of the University of Arizona, an author of the new work. The results appear in Thursday's issue of the journal Nature. Researchers note that the newly calculated dates fall during the rise of cities in Africa, and they suggest urban development may have promoted HIV's initial establishment and early spread. Scientists say HIV descended from a chimpanzee virus that jumped to humans in Africa, probably when people butchered chimps. Many individuals were probably infected that way, but so few other people caught the virus that it failed to get a lasting foothold, researchers say. But the growth of African cities may have changed that by putting lots of people close together and promoting prostitution, Worobey suggested. "Cities are kind of ideal for a virus like HIV," providing more chances for infected people to pass the virus to others, he said. Perhaps a person infected with the AIDS virus in a rural area went to what is now Kinshasa, Congo, "and now you've got the spark arriving in the tinderbox," Worobey said. Key to the new work was the discovery of an HIV sample that had been taken from a woman in Kinshasa in 1960. It was only the second such sample to be found from before 1976; the other was from 1959, also from Kinshasa. Researchers took advantage of the fact that HIV mutates rapidly. So two strains from a common ancestor quickly become less and less alike in their genetic material over time. That allows scientists to "run the clock backward" by calculating how long it would take for various strains to become as different as they are observed to be. That would indicate when they both sprang from their most recent common ancestor. The new work used genetic data from the two old HIV samples plus more than 100 modern samples to create a family tree going back to these samples' last common ancestor. Researchers got various answers under various approaches for when that ancestor virus appeared, but the 1884-to-1924 bracket is probably the most reliable, Worobey said. The new work is "clearly an improvement" over the previous estimate of around 1930, said Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases in Bethesda, Maryland. His institute helped pay for the work. Fauci described the advance as "a fine-tuning." Experts say it's no surprise that HIV circulated in humans for about 70 years before being recognized. An infection usually takes years to produce obvious symptoms, a lag that can mask the role of the virus, and it would have infected relatively few Africans early in its spread, they said. http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/science/10/01...n.ap/index.html

Rosie is doing a variety show on Nov. 26th on NBC. It is rumored that if successful, it may turn into a regular series. Having watched her over the years, I have always enjoyed her spirit. On her talk show, she was funny, witting and engaging. On The View, she kept the ratings up by always speaking her mind. Thanks to her and Ellen, daytime has many people not only listening to gays but adoring them. In my opinion, they have helped the cause of gays tremendously. I have heard that Rosie is a pain in the ass to work with, but hey, I guess you can't have all good things said all the time.

I want to rent a full time place in Sao Paulo. I have had great difficulty in finding anything online before my next trip. Craig's List sucks for Sao Paulo and very few places are offered. Does anyone know of any sites that have apartments for long term rental?