 some carbohydrates but not as much as rice, and vitamins and minerals. Rice will give you instant energy, but beans will give you long-term energy. If you can get both, get both. There's a reason beans and rice are at staple around the world.Foreclosures are a major problem plaguing the U.S. housing market at the moment.
More than 1.3 million housing units received a foreclosure filing in March, amounting to one out of every 662 U.S. homes. That’s 47% more foreclosures than there were last March, and up 7% from February. Economists are expecting the number to continue rising in the coming months.
Now, with hundreds of thousands of homeowners facing foreclosure, the government is attempting to stop the bleeding.
Government-owned enterprises Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac recently completed a study that found that principal reductions – or forgiving a portion of the mortgage principal homeowners on the brink of foreclosure owe – would save the agencies boatloads of money. Acting Federal Housing Finance Agency director Edward DeMarco estimates that such a measure would reduce Fannie’s and Freddie’s losses by about $1.7 billion.
It’s a proposal that has been gaining steam in Washington, as pressure from the White House and Democrats in Congress has forced Fannie and Freddie to become more aggressive in their foreclosure prevention. DeMarco, whose agency controls Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, said last week that principal reduction would be “better for the enterprises” – a departure from his previous statements on the subject.
So there’s plenty of momentum behind the move. But the net effect of allowing homeowners on the brink of foreclosure to have large chunks of their outstanding principal forgiven would be catastrophic, in my opinion.
I would be against any bailout of homeowners, even if it means saving money for Fannie/Freddie.
To take government money from the Treasury to pay off home loans, and then have Fannie and Freddie make a "profit," essentially amounts to a shell game. I am generally opposed to all bailouts, and this situation is no exception.
By bailing out homeowners, the government may mistakenly send the message to underwater homeowners to STOP making payments, because if they stop making payments, the government may bail them out. This is exactly the opposite behavior that we want to encourage.
While I feel terrible for homeowners who are under water, it is not the government's fault. More importantly, fellow taxpayers shouldn't be on the hook for a homeowner’s poor financial decision to buy an overpriced house.
If the government bails out homeowners today, then what’s next? Bailing out people who can't afford their car payments? Lending a hand to people who took out student loans but can't find a job due to a poor economy? Where would it end?
I never advocated bailing out American companies after the economy went in the tank, and I certainly wouldn't support bailing out homeowners either – even if faulty government accounting shows that it "saves money."
Reducing homeowners’ principals to avoid foreclosure would lead our country down a slippery slope – and it would be tough for the government to put the brakes on once the bailout ball starts rolling downhill.//Required Nana version: 1.4
#include <nana/gui.hpp>
#include <nana/gui/drawing.hpp>
#include <nana/paint/image_process_selector.hpp>
#include <iostream>

using namespace nana;

std::ostream& operator << (std::ostream& os, const point& p)
{
	return os << "point{" << p.x << "," << p.y << "}";
}
std::ostream& operator<< (std::ostream& os, const nana::size& z)
{
	return os << "size{" << z.width << "," << z.height << "}";
}
std::ostream& operator<< (std::ostream& os, const rectangle& r)
{
	return os << "rect{" << r.position() << "," << r.dimension() << "}";
}


class tsform
    : public form
{
    nana::paint::image img_;
	paint::graphics gr_;

public:
    tsform()
    {
		if (!img_.open(("../Examples/bground.6states.bmp")))
			throw std::runtime_error("Imposible to open the image");    /// \todo Open the image file.
        
		drawing dw(*this);
		dw.draw([this](paint::graphics& graph)
		{
			rectangle r { point{ 0,0 }, img_.size() };
			rectangle rw{ point{ 0,0 }, size() };
			//nana::size sz{size()};


			graph.rectangle(rectangle{ 5, 5, 50, 50 }, true, colors::red);
			graph.line(point(5, 5), point(55, 55), colors::blue);
			graph.line_begin(200, 100);
			graph.line_to(point(300, 300));
			graph.line_to(point(100, 200));
			graph.line_to(point(300, 200));
			graph.line_to(point(100, 300));
			graph.line_to(point(200, 100));

			img_.stretch(r, gr_, rw	);

			std::cout << "Pict: " << r << ", Windows: " << rw << "\n";
		});

  //      // get the graphycs!?
		//if (!API::window_graphics(*this, gr_))
		//	throw std::runtime_error("Imposible to get the graph");
  //      

  //      //Copy the image to the window
		//img_.paste( rectangle{ point{0,0}, img_.size() },
		//			  gr_,
		//			  {0,0});
		//img_.stretch( rectangle{ point{0,0}, img_.size() },
		//			  gr_,
		//			  size()  );

		dw.update();
        //Register events
        events().click  ( [this](){_m_click();} );  
        //events().resized( [this](){_m_size ();} );  
    }
private:
    //Switchs the algorithm between two algorithms in every click on the form.
    void _m_click()
    {
        static bool interop;
        nana::paint::image_process::selector sl;
        sl.stretch(interop? "bilinear interoplation" : "proximal interoplation");
        interop =!interop;
		std::cout << (interop? "Click: bilinear interoplation\n" 
			                 : "Click: proximal interoplation\n") ;
    }

  //  //When the window size is changed, it stretches the image to fit the window.
  //  void _m_size()
  //  {
  //      drawing dw(*this);
  //     
  //      dw.clear();  //Before stretch, it should clear the operations that are generated before.
  //      
		//img_.stretch(rectangle{ point{ 0,0 }, img_.size() },
		//	gr_,
		//	size());

		//dw.update();
		//std::cout << "resize\n";
  //  }
};

int main()
{
    tsform fm;
    fm.show();
    exec();
}
American homicide victim, kidnapped and murdered by a pedophile. On 7/27/1982, the six-year-old Adam accompanied his mother, Reve, to a mall in Hollywood, Florida. While she did her shopping, Adam was left alone in the toy department for a brief time. When Reve returned, he was gone. Although the police were called immediately, they could find no trace of the little boy, and for the next 16 days, the investigation continued without any luck. On 8/12/1982, Adam’s severed head was found in a drainage ditch in Vero Beach, but the rest of his remains were never located.
The police department focused their attention on two major suspects. The first was a family friend who had had an affair with Adam’s mother, but he was ruled out because even Adam’s own father maintained the man’s innocence. The second suspect, a drifter, was imprisoned during the mid-80s, and from his prison cell, he stated that he had kidnapped and killed Adam. While the information he gave was plausible, little was done, and the case was never fully resolved.
The problems that the Walsh family encountered during the search for Adam prompted them to help create the first missing persons’ clearinghouse in the United States, Find The Children. It grew and expanded abroad before merging with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children in 1990. John Walsh became the host of "America’s Most Wanted" in the late 1980s, and a system called "Code Adam," designed to help find children separated from their parents, has been instituted in a number of stores nationwide.
Adam had no brothers or sisters during his brief time on earth,