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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 21st Nov 2008 00:11 UTC, submitted by Moulinneuf
Every now and then, an article pops up which argues that it would make sense for Microsoft to offer a free, ad-powered version of Windows. "We are all aware that Google is the king of online advertising. Microsoft has wanted to compete in that space forever, which is why giving away Windows 7 makes so much sense," Business Pundit argues, "Let's look at the numbers; Microsoft's operating systems are on 90% of the world's computers, or roughly one billion machines. That's penetration on a massive scale. Even Google has to be impressed." While these articles make some valid points, they rarely dive into the actual details.
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One minor point
by jjezabek on Fri 21st Nov 2008 00:30 UTC
RE: One minor point
by Moredhas on Fri 21st Nov 2008 08:10 in reply to "One minor point"
I was about to post something to that effect - about MS making it ad-supported and non-free, I mean. People with pay TV still see ads, and they still sit down to watch those "World's Greatest Commercials" specials once in a while. The vast majority wouldn't care, unfortunately, and Microsoft would have a new way to make their OS slower, less secure, and grow fatter off the public. They could get away with murder and the stupid (and obviously masochistic) public would put up with it and ask nicely for more.
RE: One minor point
by BigDaddy on Fri 21st Nov 2008 14:28 in reply to "One minor point"


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PIGEON FORGE, Tenn. (AP) - March 18, 2013 --A wildfire burning in a resort area outside the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in eastern Tennessee has destroyed more than 30 large rental cabins.
Ben Bryson, a fire resources coordinator with the Tennessee Division of Forestry, says the 145-acre fire was first reported around 5 p.m. EDT Sunday in Sevier County.
Bryson says two National Guard helicopters are being dispatched Monday to help fight the fire, which has been contained and isn't expected to spread.
Bryson says some of the cabins were occupied and about 150 to 200 people were evacuated, but no injuries were reported.
The area is home country star Dolly Parton's Dollywood theme park, which Bryson says is not being threatened by the fire.

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For a good 340 years, the Hamburg Chamber of Commerce (Handelskammer) has been not only the central stock exchange and hub of the city's economic life, but also a place of great social importance. Situated close to major city landmarks, this building and the City Hall together comprise the oldest classical architectural ensemble to have survived in the city.
Due to the increased use of modern information and communications technology, space for new usages had become available in the stock exchange, the 'Börsenhalle'. A business start-up center, consultation, exhibition, club and meeting room facilities for members, guests and visitors are arranged in a sculptural manner. The uppermost level affords access to generous roof terraces and beautiful views out over the roofs of Hamburg through a band of arched clerestory windows.
In consideration of both the structural condition of the listed 'Börsenhalle' building and the mandatory preservation of its historical features, a new 5-storey structure was inserted into it: a 'house within a house' that comprises circa 1,000 sq.m for new usages. The Chamber of Commerce had initially envisaged only a 3-storey inner extension of the original structure, yet the dimensions of this would have covered the hall's entire ground floor surface area. In close collaboration with the client, the architects therefore proposed a 5-storey structure with a much smaller footprint, which would instead exploit the hall's height.
The structure unfolds as seemingly free-floating levels and planes that consciously contrast the historic hall's ponderous stone bulk: here, the soft lines of vaulted constructions, there, the clear lines of the new structure: a bright apparition constructed of luminous, transparent and reflective materials, reminiscent of a glittering, multi-faceted jewel that absorbs and refracts light.
Translucent construction elements and silvered lamella produce trompe-l'oeil effects and remarkable dimensions: impressions that suddenly shimmer, seeming at moments to be almost unreal, and culminate in a fluid explosion of space, attained by the use of lighting comprised of fields of square LED modules set into the ceilings. Elements of the original hall are incorporated as reflections in the new spaces, whilst the actual connection of 'Haus im Haus' to its older surroundings remains hidden. The 'Haus im Haus' is the first structure in the world that is completely lit by LED lamps.


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Court Reduces Award In Jammie Thomas-Rasset Case From $80,000 Per Song To $2,250
from the and-so-it-goes dept
The need for deterrence cannot justify a $2 million verdict for stealing and illegally distributing 24 songs for the sole purpose of obtaining free music. Moreover, although Plaintiffs were not required to prove their actual damages, statutory damages must still bear some relation to actual damagesWhile I question the use of "stealing" here, and still think that $2,250 seems pretty high (even the judge admits that if he weren't reducing the amount from the jury and had been able to set the amount originally, he probably would have gone even lower), this case had all sorts of problems from the start -- with tremendous evidence (well beyond just an IP address) that Jammie was, in fact, doing a fair amount of file sharing. Her defense and attempted reasoning were weak and not at all helpful. This seems like a case where she would be better off paying this off (somehow) and moving on.
It's now in the hands of the record labels if they'll accept this or if they want to have a new trial concerning damages. Again, for them, this might be a situation where they're best off accepting it and moving on. The original $80,000 damages got the labels a ton of bad press, with even the musicians whose music was shared speaking out against the case and other musicians arguing it was a reason to disband the RIAA.
Update: News.com suggests both sides might appeal. The interesting part is from the labels who, like I suggested above, do want to just bury this story and have the case be over with -- but might be worried about setting a precedent allowing a judge to lower a jury award.


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Stargazers across Derbyshire will be hoping for clear skies tonight as a spectacular meteor shower promises to produce hundreds of shooting stars an hour.
Earth will pass through a trail of comet debris on Friday night and the early hours of Saturday, producing the eagerly-awaited Camelopardalids meteor shower.
A Met Office spokesman urged residents to wrap up warm, go outside, lie back and look up.
The spokesman added: "To see the meteor shower, you don't need a telescope, binoculars or any other equipment – all you need is your eyes.
"You don't need to look in any particular direction as meteors appear randomly anywhere in the sky."
Parts of Derbyshire – including areas in the Peak District – will have clear skies for a time tonight, according to the weather forecast.


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The course examines the inter-relationship between raw materials, intermediates, end-products and applications using a unique blend of the broad picture and the specific details, together with lively presentation, videos, samples and discussion so that the products become tangible and come to life. On completing this up-to-the-minute course, you will approach your job more productively and creatively, and have some of the tools to help avoid the mistakes that have caused today's problems.Nexant's course has helped train thousands of industry professionals for several decades and it is widely recognized as the original and most comprehensive training course in the chemical industry. Today, Nexant provides a variety of training courses offered in public settings or as in-house training that can be tailored specifically to clients' needs.
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an LJ FORD (meaning lacking juice) is usually a male creature that is unable to produce semen, mainly due to the continuous rubbing of its own genitals. An LJ Ford is usually the type of creature you see near cliffs and wishing for a better life, they also have a strong tendency to be gay. An LJ Ford may also be seen with many other outcasts such as the elusive skaltum.
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This Nikon 2-Year Extended Service Coverage (ESC) for the Nikon D700 SLR Digital Camera is offered through Nikon U.S.A. It becomes valid upon the expiration of the Nikon U.S.A. Inc. limited warranty that was included with your camera and provides the coverage specified below for a period of two additional years. During the period of your Extended Service Contract (ESC), repairs resulting from defects in material or workmanship will be performed at no-charge by Nikon Inc.
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Right now, one of the biggest roadblocks to the widespread adoption of electric cars is the cost of the vehicles — which is mostly linked to their very expensive batteries. A group of researchers in Europe wanted to figure out if those costs could be lowered and if so, when. They've discovered that if innovation is properly integrated into the electric vehicle (EV) battery industry, the cost of batteries could halve by 2018. In the case of the Nissan Leaf, the battery accounts for just under 1/3 of the total cost of the whole car. Cutting that price tag would do a great deal to make these vehicles more affordable for more people.
Scientists at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) in Germany are behind the 200 million Euro project to find systems based solutions for gaps in electric vehicle technology. 250 scientists have been hard at work on the project and will present their findings at the IAA International Motor Show. The researchers' discoveries are vast and help not only with the cost of the batteries but with the conveniences of living with an EV as your mode of transportation. They've developed iron-carbon nanomaterials with twice the energy capacity of conventional materials, which brings the fueling time of the batteries down to one-tenth of the current time and have also developed modular batteries that reduce the cost of mass production.
KIT researchers keep an open door policy on their laboratory and invite industry professionals to work with them, therefore increasing the speed at which they innovate. They call their project "Competence E" and though they say they'll halve the cost of batteries by 2018, they're not waiting a moment to bring their innovation to the industry. "It is a central objective of Competence E to rapidly commercialize innovations from Karlsruhe," said project head Andreas Gutsch. "We are actively approaching industry and will even intensify these efforts. We are conducting excellent research for application, not for the drawer." If you start seeing EV price tags fall in the near future, more than likely you can give a nod to this team and their dedication to making EVs more affordable.
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Homecoming is always more fun to celebrate with a victory, and the Bluffton High School football team provided one Friday with a region win over Beaufort. The Bobcats took control just before halftime en route to a 34-10 victory in their first region game at the SCHSL Class AAAA level.
What: Bluffton at Ashley Ridge
When: 7:30 p.m. Friday
Where: Ashley Ridge High School (Summerville)
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Is Honey-Flavored Whiskey What Women Want?
Dewars is betting a spoonful of honey will help the whiskey go down. Charles Passy and Wendy Bounds deliver their verdict on The News Hub. (Photo: PRNewsFoto/DEWAR)
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A specific type of race car, typically american muscle cars. This class of vehicles are highly tuned, intended for pro-class races, but still have the ability to be street-legal (that they have proper safety features, lights and signals, and depending on jurisdictions, keep within a specified weight-to-horsepower ratio.) Commonly seen pro/street cars are Chevy Novas, Chevelles, Plymouth Cudas, Dodge Chargers and Challengers.
Billy Bob just took his pro/street Plymouth Duster to the tack. He got a 10-second ET on the 1320
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The 34-year-old star of "Avatar" and "Star Trek" plays pianist, singer and activist Nina Simone in the forthcoming biopic "Nina."
Her casting drew criticism from some, who argued that Saldana bears little resemblance to the singer, who died in 2003 aged 70.
Musician India.Arie said "they should have chosen someone who looks like Nina Simone," and an online petition for a boycott of the film attracted more than 10,000 signatures.
But Saldana said she feels strongly that she's right to play Simone, an immense, irascible talent who made an indelible mark on both music and the civil rights movement with songs including "To Be Young, Gifted and Black" and "Mississippi Goddam."
"The Nina Simone story needed to be told, and I'm really blessed that I did it," said Saldana, a New Yorker of Puerto Rican and Dominican descent.
"I'm human. I wish I was made of steel and so certain things wouldn't affect me," Saldana said at a recent London event to promote "Star Trek Into Darkness," in which she plays multilingual communications officer Lt. Uhura.
"So it did affect me but I couldn't let that deter me from doing what I needed to do.
"Just like everybody else I feel very strongly about Nina Simone, and that (this) was a story that needed to be told.
"I do believe that if everybody had more information about how this all came to be, it might help," she added. "But then again, I'm not here to get the acceptance of people. I'm here to be an artist first."
"Star Trek Into Darkness," the second film in J.J. Abrams' rebooted series, sees Uhura play a bigger role in the action, to Saldana's delight. She even got to do a scene in Klingon.
"They flew in this linguist from San Francisco who gives courses. You go away for the weekend and you just speak Klingon," she said. "It ended up being much easier than I thought."
Like the entire Enterprise crew, Saldana has mixed feelings about Abrams' imminent departure for the "Star Wars" universe. He is due to revive the series with a new film in 2015, so it looks unlikely he'll be at the helm of a third "Star Trek" voyage.
Saldana hopes he'll remain as a producer, with another member of the existing team - possibly one of the writers - stepping in to direct.
She said she wouldn't want to see a new director come in and lose the essence of Abrams' reboot of the series.
"There's been a tone set" with Abrams" movies, she said - "So much so that it's made a fan out of me."Aha! So is Saldana, like Abrams, a "Star Wars" fan in the "Star Trek" camp?
Neither, it turns out.
"I'm more of a 'Dune' kind of person," she said.
"Star Trek Into Darkness" opens Thursday in the United States.


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Unhide can be downloaded from the following url: http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/download/unhide/
A screen shot of one of the programs in this family is:
As part of the infection process, this family of rogues will change the attributes of all the files on your computer's fixed hard disks so that they are hidden (+H). It will then change your Windows configuration to make it so that you do not see hidden files or hidden system files. By doing this, the rogue attempts to make you think that all of your files have been deleted in the hopes that this will trick you into purchasing the program in order to recover your files.
This infection will also delete shortcuts in various folders on your computer so that you can no longer find them pinned to the taskbar, in the quick launch, or in your Start Menu. When the infection deletes the shortcuts it will store a backup copy of them in the folder %Temp%\smtmp. Using this backup, we can then restore the files to their proper location so you can find them once again under your Start Menu and in other locations. It is very important, though, that if you are infected with this family of infections that you do not delete any of the files in your %Temp% folder and that you do not run any temp file cleaners as they will delete this backup folder. With this folder removed, we will not be able to restore the shortcuts back to their proper location.
Unhide.exe is used to automatically revert these changes on your computer. When run, it will unhide (-H) all +H files on the fixed disks of your computer. It will not, though, unhide any files that also have the +S attribute. Unhide will also automatically detect if the %Temp%\smtmp folder exists, and if it does, it will copy them back to their proper locations for you. If your shortcuts are missing due to this infection and you have already cleaned out your Temp folder, then you can use the scripts at the bottom of this post to restore your default Start Menu.
Unhide will also reset certain Registry settings that this infection changes to hide your shortcuts and start menu items. When Unhide is running, if it detects any changes in these Registry settings it will reset them to the Windows default and display a messaging that it has done so.
When Unhide is complete, it will create a logfile on the Windows Desktop called Unhide.txt.
Below are the folders found under %Temp%\smtmp that this infection moves your Start Menu Shortcuts. The list below also tells you the corresponding locations the shortcuts should normally reside in based on the version of Windows you are using.
Windows XP: C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu
Windows Vista and Windows 7: C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu
Windows XP: C:\Documents and Settings\<your login name here>\Application Data\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch\
Windows Vista and Windows 7: C:\Users\<your login name here>\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch\
Windows XP: Does not exist in XP. Therefore do not be concerned if %Temp%\smtmp\3 does not exist on Windows XP.
Windows Vista and Windows 7: C:\Users\<your login name here>\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch\User Pinned\TaskBar
Windows XP: C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Desktop
Windows Vista and Windows 7: C:\Users\Public\Desktop
To manually restore your shortcuts, simply open up each of the %Temp%\smtmp\ folders that you have on your machine and copy everything found there into the respective folder listed above.
For example, if you are running Windows XP, then you would copy all everything located in %Temp%\smtmp\1 to C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu. If you are using Windows Vista or 7, you would copy everything from %Temp%\smtmp\1 to C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu.
In order to see some of these locations you need to change your Windows settings so that show hidden files and show system protected files are enabled. Information on how to do this can be found in this tutorial. When done, you can change those settings back to their previous settings.
How to show hidden files in Windows
Update: 11/14/2011
For those of you who no longer have the %Temp%\Smtmp folder, you will not be able to use Unhide to restore your Start Menu items. With this in mind, I have created some scripts to restore the default Start Menu for specific versions of Windows that I have access to. You can view the available versions below. I will be adding more as time goes on.
Windows 2000 US English
Windows XP Pro 32-bit US English - This should also work in other 32 bit version of Windows XP but I have nothing to compare against.
Windows Vista 32-bit US English
Windows Vista 64-bit US English
Windows 7 32-bit US English
Windows 7 64-bit US English
Thanks to tetonbob and Andrew for supplying me with the required start menus.
Update: 04/03/2012
Unhide was updated to include certain Start Menu options that were being hidden on the start menu. Unhide will now restore those settings back to Windows defaults and then restart Explorer.exe so that the changes go into effect.
These start menu items that are now made visible include:
- Documents
- Pictures
- User Profile
- Music
- Games
- Control Panel
- Videos
- Default Programs
Update: 04/04/2012
Unhide will now process removable drives, such as USB drives, by default.
Update: 04/12/2012
Unhide now has the -f option that will force it to run on Windows versions that I have marked as not compatible. These versions of Windows are ones that I was unable to test the program on. Therefore, the use of this option is done so at your own risk.
Please let us know if you have any questions.
Edited by Grinler, 23 July 2012 - 10:03 AM.
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Briana Banks
Daily Forecast for December 13th 2018
Briana Banks is a German American adult actress, model, and the Penthouse Pet of the Month for June 2001, who was one of the first porn actresses to have an action figure made in her likeness.
She was born on Monday May 21st 1979, in Munich, Germany.
December 13th 2018 is not a good day for gambling, because - as if justice from above prevails - this day may carry financial reward as much as loss.
The day is marked with generosity and feelings of loyalty. It is an inviting day for meeting and reminiscing with old friends.
Briana Banks' health improves, and exercise is encouraged.
While studying the color and flavor of the day, it is a good practice to keep in mind the greater meaning of December and the master plan of 2018 in Briana's life.
You and Briana
About Briana's Numerological Forecast & Personal Day Cycle
Just as Briana Banks evolves through a nine-year cycle and experiences the nine-month cycle, she is also subjected to nine-day cycles, even though their impact is subtle compared to the Personal Year and even Personal Month cycles. The Personal Day cycles proceed according to the same pattern - 1 through 9 - that the Personal Year and Personal Month cycles do. The numbers within the daily cycles have a similar impact on Briana to the yearly and monthly cycles - though less pronounced.
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Acid Alkaline
Blue Green Algae—Nature's First Food
Klamath Blue Green Algae is the most nutrient dense food on the planet, containing glyco-proteins, vitamins, minerals, simple carbohydrates, lipids and biologically active enzymes. Due to the algae's nutritious soft cell wall, these nutrients are readily available to the body. As the body uses only a small amount of energy to convert this superfood into fuel, consuming Klamath Blue Green Algae is a fast, efficient way to improve any diet. The discovery of the incredible food value concentrated in AFA, Aphanizomenon Flos Aquae, an ancient blue-green microalgae, has popularized this nutrient dense whole food that contains more protein, B12 and chlorophyll than any other food source. Klamath Blue Green Algae has such a complete nutritional profile, available in forms that are directly accessible and easily superior to any other algae on the market and has become the focus of much attention in the health food industry.
"The time has come for more resources to go into nutrition research, new food technology and ways to increase productivity per acre. We need to explore ways of capitalizing on photosynthesis and making better use of the sun's energy." James Kendrick, Jr. Former University of California at Berkeley Vice President for Agricultural Sciences.
The technical term APHANIZOMENON (genus) and FLOS-AQUAE (species) are actually zoological terms of classification that literally mean "invisible living flower of water" in Greek. Algae capitalize on the direct energy of the sun more than any other food. Primitive as they may appear, most are highly efficient photosynthesizers. Algae utilize light energy from the sun (greater than 10% conversion efficiency), carbon dioxide from the air, and hydrogen from the water to synthesize its bio-chemicals. Klamath Blue Green Algae is unique among all food grade algaes in that it also metabolizes molecular nitrogen directly from the air to produce proteins and other nitrogen containing bio-molecules.
Among the several families of algae, Klamath Blue Green Algae is in the class: cyano-bacteria. Like a string of pearls, their cells have a gelatinous cell wall surrounding the chloroplast and a protoplast DNA container. Algae are a class by themselves, exhibiting the characteristics of both plant and animal.
Klamath Blue Green Algae is a wild, fresh water algae growing in natural abundance in Upper Klamath Lake. The precipitation that falls on the Southern Oregon Cascade Mountains washes tons of mineral-rich volcanic soil into the alkaline lake annually. This mineral-rich water, clean air, and high intensity sunlight make the unique ecosystem of Upper Klamath Lake the most perfect growth medium for A.F.A.
Klamath Blue Green Algae, unlike cultivated algae, is a naturally occurring perennial. Its survival depends on the heartiest strain reproducing itself, and its uncanny ability to communicate environmental and other conditions to each strand in the bloom. During early Autumn, the algae reproduces itself every four days, creating a massive bloom of up to 200 million pounds annually. Klamath Blue Green Algae is harvested fresh from the lake on a daily basis, screened to remove debris and excess water, fresh micro-filtered to be free of potential contaminants, then flash frozen and stored at -40º F until processing. Klamath Blue Green Algae is thoroughly laboratory tested, low temperature dried, never heat processed, and retains most of its biologically active vital nutrients in a naturally balanced profile.
Through the prolific manufacturing of proteins and sugars, algae provided the foundation nutrients for the planet's evolving ecosystem. As the algae multiplied, it gave the earth the raw materials it needed for its vast proliferation of more complex life forms.
Algae has been eaten in various forms for thousands of years. It is packed with beta-carotene and B-Complex biologically active vitamins, enzymes, chlorophyll, fatty acids, neuropeptide precursors (peptides are joined amino acids), lipids, carbohydrates, minerals, trace minerals, pigments and other essential growth factors. It contains all eight essential amino acids and both semi-essential amino acids. It is a concentrated source of arginine, known to build and tone muscle tissue. Most importantly, the essential amino acid profile of AFA is virtually identical to that required by the human body. No vital amino acids are wasted.
In trying to understand the physiological benefits of blue green algae we must also consider the impressive list of sugars it creates: "Alginics, fucoidins, galactans, agars, laminarins, mannans, ribose. to name only a few" (Armstrong, F., 1983). The algae use these complex sugars for all its biochemical needs, such as the building, repairing, and replacing of damaged structures.
Research has shown it's not only what you eat, but what your body absorbs and assimilates that is important. Microalgae, existing at the beginning of the food chain, provides the simplest form of balanced, whole food nutrients. Klamath Blue Green Algae has a very nutritious, easily digested, soft cell wall, comprised of a glucolipoprotein complex. This allows rapid absorption of vital nutrients with 95% assimibility, at almost no cost to the body's digestive energy supplies. Most of the nutrients in AFA are active and in forms that are directly usable by the body.


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Two Burlington men were classified as armed career criminals in recent federal court hearings and sentenced to more than a decade in prison.
Dorsey Louis Booker, 59, of Lakeside Avenue, Burlington, was sentenced July 12 to 15 years in federal prison. Chief U.S. District Court Judge William L. Osteen Jr. sentenced him for illegal drug and gun possession and designated him an armed career criminal due to Booker�s extensive criminal history, a release from the Alamance County District Attorney�s Office said.
Earlier this year, Booker was found guilty of being a habitual felon in Alamance County Superior Court. His criminal record includes numerous convictions for driving while impaired, breaking and entering, larceny and drug possession.
Burlington police originally charged him in July 2011 with possession of a firearm by a felon and drug possession.
Following his release from prison, Booker will be on five years� probation.
Also in federal court, Jadonavan O�Bryant Johnson, 22, was sentenced to 17 years in federal prison on June 18.
Burlington police served Johnson with several outstanding warrants on March 30, 2011, when he was found in a bedroom of a Cameron Street apartment with a loaded shotgun, a release from the Alamance County District Attorney�s Office said.
Johnson�s criminal record includes three convictions for common law robbery, possession of a weapon by a prisoner, breaking and entering, obtaining property by false pretenses and other felonies.
Federal District Court Judge Catherine C. Eagles sentenced Johnson.
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Hyderabad: Senior TDP leader and former minister Muddasani Damodar Reddy (58) passed away today. He was suffering from bone marrow disease for some time. He breathed his last while undergoing treatment at NIMS. He is survived by wife Malati and son Kashyap Reddy.
Muddasani was a close follower of late chief minister NT Rama Rao. NTR was instrumental in shaping Muddasani's political career not only in Karimnagar but in the region. A science graduate from a Hyderabad-based college, he was attracted by the flamboyance of NT Rama Rao.
NTR was so fond of the young leader that he used to address him as 'Kamalapur Kurrodu'. Giving up his plans of opting for a government job, he joined the Telugu Desam Party in 1985. He was elected to the State Legislative Assembly from Kamalapur constituency in 1989, 1994 and 1999.
He became the TDP district president of Karimnagar in 1989. He was elevated to the post of the state general secretary of the party in 2004. He served as minister for three terms during NTR and Naidu's tenure.
Muddasani was also in-charge of Huzurabad constituency for some time. He lost the Kamalapur Assembly constituency to Etela Rajender in 2004.
Born in an agriculture family in Mamidalapalli village of Venavanka Mandal, Karimnagar district, he always championed the cause of the farmers and the weaker sections. TDP sources said that Muddasani had undergone an operation five years ago and recently again he fell ill. He was admitted to the NIMS four days ago.
Condoling the death of Damodar Reddy, the TDP president N Chandrababu Naidu said that Muddasani was an uncompromising leader and had agitated to resolve several problems for the welfare of the people. 'It's a great loss to the party,' added Naidu. Naidu will attend Muddasani's funeral to be held today. Minister for Panchayat Raj K Jana Reddy said: 'I have lost a good friend of mine. We were together in the party till 1985.'
D Sridhar Babu, Minister for Civil Supplies, appreciated Muddasani's contribution to the development works in Karimnagar district.TDP leaders Kadiam Srihari, Suddala Devaiah, Peddi Reddy, Mothkupalli Narasimhulu, Ravula Chandrashekhara Reddy MLA, Karimnagar MP Ponnam Prabhaker and others paid homage to Muddasani and consoled his family members.
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I had a weird dream about some pink haired vocaloid hottie singing a catchy as sin tune over and over and I was bobbing my head in sync with hers to the song she was singing.
|2012-06-16, 19:19
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|2012-06-16, 20:14
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I used to write down some crazy dreams I would have after waking up. I should pick that up again.
One brief one that I just found and is now coming back to me apparently began wiuth me playing New Super Mario Bros Wii in my house, which I do not own, but nothing really crazy about it. It wa salso 9 AM, I wrote. Then, I fell asleep, and when I woke up I had somehow won the game. Still nothing odd, right?
The next second, I had magically appeared on some beautiful beach, I was wearing a waiter's outfit, and reclining on the beach chair before me was a large Hispanic woman; she was planning to go on vacation to Africa in order to get a tan (don't ask, I don't know), and was discussing her plans with someone on the phone, while every few seconds pausing and having me take notes on the wedding I was planning for her. And that was it.
Really, don't ask, because I just don't know
|2012-06-17, 01:06
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I always forget my dreams. Whenever I am dreaming, it seems so real to me that it would never occur to me that I am dreaming. Then when I wake up, I could only remember very vaguely that I dream, and that's about it. I only remember 2 dreams in my life, cause that 2 dreams are pretty "traumatising". One of the dreams involve my mum. I go back to my house presumably after an outing, and my grandma and grandpa look pensive and solemn. I ask them why, and they tell me that my mum has just been hit by a car and is in the hospital. That's where my dream ends. I remember waking up crying. I dislike bad dreams like this. It seems so real that there is no way you can escape from it. The second dream involves only me. For some reason, I am stranded somewhere. So I take a cab alone. The taxi driver turns out to be a serial rapist/killer cause he doesn't go where I want him to and he drives me to a house/storage place/abandoned building and I keep shouting in the process. Can't remember much after that.
|2012-06-17, 01:37
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Join Date: Apr 2011
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My fics would be better by a factor of ten if I remembered more than 1% of my dreams, they're all so cool.
Among that 1% I remember one where I was in a room and my Home Economics teacher was cutting a large piece of cheese. There's another where I was in some kind of festival and one of my classmates was wearing a cheap angel costume inside one of the booths, I assume it was a kissing booth because my memory of the dream ends with her blowing a kiss towards me.
This 1% doesn't account for the premonitions, which I assume everyone has. Come to think of it, I haven't had one in a while.
Anyone tried Lucid Dreaming? I fail at it.
|2012-06-17, 01:42
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I just dream of zombies today. My friends and I were at a party in my place, when suddenly piles of zombies came. Somehow, I got a sword for myself, and another friend got a handgun. But the rest who came to the party died and we were killing of zombies by ourselves. I'm pretty sure I'll have died if I stayed in the dream longer -.-
|2012-06-17, 01:43
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Join Date: May 2012
My dreams always running for no reason.. quite tiring... mostly running away from aliens and zombies.. Sometimes I dreamed that I was fighting.. the most recent one and still remember.. Is I having battle with a group of people I don't know, and we are against with Fairy Tail members... the most distinct/epic part was... each of us got to choose a kind of weapon and that will indicate who will be fighting with.. and I choose rod.. for some reason, my opponent is LAXUS... (I don't know what is the link though.. all I know... he was the strongest opponent among the rest I chose)
Tiring and stress dream~
|2012-06-17, 02:01
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Age: 27
I used to have incredibly weird dreams when I was really young such as being alone in a room with a piano in front of me and then a white demon appears on top of the piano.
Now many of my dreams I consider 'boring' as they usually have to do with enacting scenes from normal life, playing through scenes from the aspect of a particular video game gameplay system, or sexual (its fun but mundune in comparison to some of the epics I've dreamt up).
Occasionally though I'll have a dream I consider weird such as just a while ago I had a dream I was rushing through some kind of facility in panic and the person I am with is screaming "We must find her!" After a bit we burst into a room where a girl is strapped into a torture/execution device that suddenly slices her into two as I burst in. The dream ends with me feeling incredibly distraught even though I had no known relation to the girl.
I also have never recognized any of my dreams as a premonition before so maybe it isn't as common as you think? Or I'm too dense to recognize them.
|2012-06-17, 02:13
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Diamond is Unbreakable
Join Date: Apr 2011
Location: The Middle Way
^ The main problems I have with Lucid Dreaming are 1. sleep and 2. memory. The most reliable way to enter a Lucid Dream requires that you fall asleep a certain way, as if going to sleep normally wasn't difficult enough. As for memory, this is the more frustrating one, I've managed to fall asleep in the right way for Lucid Dreaming before but by the time I enter the dream I'd forgotten what I'd been trying to do.
|2012-06-17, 02:50
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Join Date: Dec 2011
Age: 24
well, i have lucid dream about 1 or 2 times a month, each time i always build something, fly or try to make something appear, recently i often built a high tower and jump down from it and it feel surprising real, it feel like i'm really jumped in real life and was really exciting. the last time i have a lucid dream i use Unlimited Blade Works and Gate of Babylon from Fate/Series.
|2012-06-17, 10:20
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Join Date: Apr 2012
Location: in Darkness
and on dreaming, many times i don't feel sleepy so i just close my eyes and use my imagination, i picture myself in my favorite anime, or sometimes create an anime of my own with me as the main protagonist and make a whole story line out of it, for these animes i make up in dreams i usually take reference of other animes to create one
And can someone tell me ,what exactly is a lucid dream??
|2012-06-17, 10:27
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Hail the power of Fujoshi
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: hahahahahahahahaha
Age: 29
|2012-06-17, 11:08
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Join Date: Jun 2012
I had come down with an awful fever after my junior high's 8th grade graduation trip, and oh boy, some of the shit I saw still disturbs me. I was in a white hot room, and there was a chair, atop the chair were an array of needle-esque objects. I sat down in the chair and there were these beings there. I can't describe them, but I didn't feel unwelcome or threatened.
I cannot forget that dream. o_o
|2012-06-17, 11:52
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Join Date: Mar 2009
I've had exactly 2-3 lucid dreams in my life that I can remember. Wish I knew how to purposely induce them like some people talk about, but I have no idea how that would work.
Which sucks since the first one I ever had was amazingly fun. Once I realized I was in my own dream, it was like realizing you're in the Matrix, and you can basically just be the One
|2012-06-17, 11:58
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Join Date: Sep 2010
Location: InterWebs
I can't forget this bizarre dream I had during my childhood.
I 'awoke' in the dream as a vampire, not the sparkly one, but what you would expect out of the word ten years ago. As I realize my sudden thirst, I went into blood sucking spree, but I only 'remember' the very first victim which I think was my mother. I can't remember how, but in the end I was crucified in the middle of a wide body of water (I can't remember if it was a lake or a large pool). I struggled hard and I tried to scream, but I can't, as if my very voice was ripped out. That continued for awhile, until I fell unconscious. When I wake up, it was abrupt and I was breathing and sweating heavily.
Nowadays I very rarely dream. I read articles about lucid dreaming and tried it out several times, but failed every time. On the other hand my friend could induce it himself if he wants to, but he said he always brought out his worst nightmare every time he did it (a lucid nightmare that you remember as you wake up! that's scary alright).
|2012-06-17, 12:05
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Join Date: Mar 2008
my dreams are heavily fragmented but they all make sense while im dreaming then i wake up thinking wtf was that!!??
For example: i was dreaming i was running away from this huge stuffed teddy bear in my house then all of a sudden i was avoiding a huge passenger plane that was landing in the middle of the street and it was my responsibilty that it landed properly..........
|2012-06-17, 12:18
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You have your work cut out for you.
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We were a half a world apart, and yet we made it a point to talk every day for several hours. Due to the time difference, Patrick got to end each of his days on the same perfect note that I started mine on.
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A few short days later, Patrick received word that his Mother in Louisiana had suffered a stroke and he started the process of getting back home to be at her side. While there, Patrick decided to give Match one more shot. He signed up on July 9th and when he logged back in, the most recent activity he saw was when I had favorited him 9 months before. He thought "surely she's not still on here" and clicked my name. Not only was I still a member, I was "Online Now!".
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On July 13, after 9 months of friendship, we met in person for the first time. That night we had to ask the waiter at least 20 times to come back to take our order later. He was just as charming and sweet as I'd expected him to be, and he says I was just as beautiful as he'd remembered from my photos.
Patrick and I have been dating now for 3 months, even though we are approaching a year of knowing one another.
When we reflect on our history together, the sheer serendipity of it all often leaves us speechless. We count our blessings daily, and thank God for helping us find one another. Match was there to bridge the 7,800-mile gap. A year ago I met one of my best friends. 3 Months ago I met the love of my life. A girl can't really ask for much more.


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If confirmed, it would be the eighth heroin overdose death in the last three weeks
BROCKTON – The 29-year-old man lay unresponsive inside the Copeland Street home early Sunday morning.
Authorities said his roommate called 911 about 12:48 a.m. to report that the man wasn't moving.
When emergency crews arrived, they found the man dead with drug paraphernalia – including needles – inside the home, authorities said.
If authorities confirm heroin use as a cause in Sunday's death, the man would become the eighth person to die of a suspected heroin overdose in Brockton in just over three weeks.
"At this point, it's still under investigation," Assistant District Attorney Bridget Norton Middleton said Sunday afternoon. "There will be an autopsy to determine the cause and manner of death."
Mayor Bill Carpenter and Police Chief Robert Hayden could not be immediately reached for comment Sunday afternoon.
Police also responded to a report of another drug overdose, involving a 30-year-old woman, at 9:13 p.m. Saturday on Ash Street. The woman was sent to a local hospital, fire officials said. Her condition was not known Sunday.
Councilor-at-large Jass Stewart credited Carpenter's focus on the problem of addiction and called on city leaders to discuss in greater depth the region's heroin epidemic at future council meetings.
"Any death is devastating," Stewart said. "It's the top of the agenda for any elected official."
Councilor-at-large Robert Sullivan, who serves as the City Council president, concurred and called for more state funding for drug prevention and drug awareness programs to tackle the problem.
"It's happening way too often," Sullivan said Sunday of overdose deaths. "It's something that all the elected officials need to work on together in collaboration, and work with law enforcement. It starts at home, and with education in the schools."
Carpenter recently described the region's ongoing heroin epidemic, which has contributed to dozens of overdoses across the region in recent weeks, as "the worst he's ever seen."
About 75 people gathered at the War Memorial Building on Wednesday night for an overdose prevention forum hosted by the mayor and a number of local agencies to address the growing problem.
In an effort to combat fatal overdoses, people in attendance were taught how to administer the drug Narcan and provided with the drug to take home.
Narcan, also known generically as naloxone, is a drug administered nasally that can reduce the effects of an opiate overdose for about 30 to 90 minutes, providing enough time for someone to be taken to the hospital for treatment.
Since Brockton firefighters began carrying the drug recently, they have successfully reversed at least eight opiate overdoses, Fire Chief Richard Francis said last week.
Carpenter has also expressed the need to arrest the dealers selling the drugs and to find treatment for those who are addicted.
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Transamerica (US - DVD R1)
Put on your most sensible shoes and cross-country ride with Gabe Powers...
Bree (Felicity Huffman) is a self-motivated, slightly snobbish male-to-female transsexual. She's mere days away from the operation that will finally make her a physically real woman, when she receives a phone call informing her that she may have a son left over from her bygone days as a man. At the behest of her psychiatrist, who will not sign the papers allowing her to go through with the operation unless Bree is at a psychologically stable space in her life, our heroine flies out from Los Angeles to New York to bail her possible son, Toby, out of jail.
Toby has been jailed for drug use, but also has the rap sheet of a hustler, or male prostitute, not exactly a safe profession amongst the hustle and bustle of New York City. After much consideration, Bree decides to bring Toby on a road trip back to LA, in the hopes of pawning him off on his stepfather on the way. What Toby doesn't know is that this woman posing as a Christian missionary may very well be the father he's heard so much about. Bree hopes to keep her identity a secret, and plans on going through with her surgery that weekend as soon as she rids herself of her would-be son, who she never asked for. On the road, complications occur.
Transamerica works because it doesn't present itself as a message movie (yes, I stole that phrase from Felicity Huffman herself). Like Brokeback Mountain, the main characters are of controversial sexual orientation, but their drama derives from their surprisingly human and understandable problems. By not presenting Bree as some sort of pity worthy freak, the film deals with the possible controversies of her gender bending in an adult and praise worthy fashion.
Felicity Huffman really earns her Academy Award nomination, in a role that transcends actual gender. This is possible the most believable woman posing as a man posing as a woman ever committed to celluloid. At first viewers are very much aware of the actresses actual sex, but through-out the early stages of the film she is thoroughly established as a man, and later as a woman trapped in a man's body, who in the end will become a full woman. Could a man have pulled this off with more conviction? I'm not sure, but I have trouble picturing anyone else in this role.
The problem I had with the film was its balance of dark and humorous content. This is writer/director Duncan Tucker's first film, and though he navigates a very sensitive subject with humour and maturity, he has not yet found that perfect balance of melancholy, horror, and comedy that more adept writer/directors such as P.T. Anderson and Wes Anderson have all but crystallized. The shift in emotion often feels like a thinly veiled shock-tactic meant to keep the possibly waning audience riveted.
At its base, Transamerica is a road movie, and like all good road movies its leads meet interesting people, have ten-minute mini-adventures, and find their character arcs in the end. In this way the film is unfortunately predictable. Tucker never stoops to severely physically injuring his characters, but the constant waiting for the dropping of the other shoe slides from suspenseful to frustrating in some cases. I'm happy that Tucker didn't feel the need to have Bree beaten or raped to prove her sympathetic nature, but by the time her and Toby arrive at her parents house in Phoenix, I was sort of done with her drama.
Though the dark aspects of the film grated on me a bit, the humour was fresh all around. Bree's snobbery in the face of Toby's childlike sloppiness is charming every time. Witnessing Bree accepting her role as a parent is touching, and presenting this through humour rather than sappy, teary-eyed close-ups is inspired. This goes back to the notion of presenting a controversial subject in a mature and realistic manner, as I personally find the usual Hollywood sentiment false and unrealistic.
The film is a good one, and a fantastic début for Duncan Tucker, but it falls short when compared to other modern masterpieces in the skewed-dramedy sub-genre. I found myself so happy with the original story elements that I was less willing to overlook the more over played ones. The acting is superb all around, including a warm cameo from the ever-dependable Graham Greene as a possible love interest for Bree, and the closest thing to a real father figure Toby finds the entire film.
Though a modestly budgeted affair taking place on the open road, Transamerica is still surprisingly dirty. Detail levels aren't as sharp as I'd like them either. Some of the source lit sequences are overly dark, making everything a little muddy and unpleasing to the eye. Brighter scenes, despite the grain, are usually very colourful without bleeding. It's too bad that the vibrant hues couldn't be displayed with a little more clarity.
The music utilized throughout the film is a little on the sappy side, but never quite reached the level of fingernails on a chalkboard annoyance. The Dolby Digital 5.1 surround mix is low-key, as one might expect, but gets the job done. The open road is subtly dotted with outdoor ambiance, and dialogue is always clear and centred. The music tracks won't give your system any kind of workout, but such audio fury would prove entirely unnecessary.
The extra features on this DVD belong to two people, director Duncan Tucker, and singer Dolly Parton. Tucker makes his presence known not only on his solo commentary track, but also on the actor interviews. The commentary I'll give him; it's his commentary, and he delivers. He is consistently engaging and contagiously excited throughout. If there's anything you wanted to know about the making of Transamerica, this track is your one stop ticket. It is on the brief-ish actor interviews that Tucker begins to grate a bit. I'm pretty sure there is a moderator or interviewer behind the questions, but for all intents and purposes Tucker takes control, even repeating the commentary track on occasion. Huffman is better at holding her ground than Kevin Zegers (who played Toby), and she manages to get a few tidbits about her craft into the discussion.
The rest of the features are pretty fluffy and mostly revolve around Dolly Parton's end title song 'Travelin' Through'. There's a music video, which is the usual singer singing inter-spliced with film footage kind of thing. That's followed by a making of the music video, which is mostly Tucker talking about the song (which he already did at the end of the commentary), while poor Kevin Zegers sits silently next to him. The song it self is the usual, middle-aged woman anthem, full of saccharin and lavender. Not really my thing, but I appreciate the fact that Dolly can still belt out the high notes with the best of them. Things are wrapped up with some bloopers and a trailer.
I didn't fall in love with the epic plight of Bree, but I did enjoy the journey. Despite some thematic missteps and slight case of the same-ole'-same-ole's, Transamerica is a great way to introduce the controversial subjects of transsexuality and street hustling to grandma. Actress Felicity Huffman gives a knockout performance that lives up to the ridiculous hype built-up around it. The DVD has some video issues, but a solid commentary makes it a worthy purchase for fans of the flick.
Review by Gabriel Powers
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Disc Details
Release Date: 23rd May 2006
Discs: 1
Disc Type: Single side, dual layer
RCE: No
Video: NTSC
Aspect: 1.78:1
Anamorphic: Yes
Colour: Yes
Audio: Dolby Digital 5.1 English
Subtitles: English, Spanish
Extras: Commentary by Director Duncan Tucker, Conversation with Duncan Tucker and Felicity Huffman, Conversation with Duncan Tucker and Kevin Zegers, Dolly Parton Music Video 'Travelin' Thru', 'Travelin' Thru: Behind the Scenes' Featurette
Easter Egg: No
Feature Details
Director: Duncan Tucker
Cast: Felicity Huffman, Kevin Zegers, Fionnula Flanagan, Elizabeth Peña, Graham Greene
Genre: Comedy and Drama
Length: 104 minutes
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The store opened it's doors for the first time to the public on June 24 with a selection of a few big name surf brands and smaller start-up clothing lines. Even the surf boards themselves contain artwork designed by Hagan Kelley, co-founder of SUPERbrand, an up-and-coming surfboard brand.
Frolich was working for a pharmaceutical company when he met Tangen, who was working at a snowboard shop in Bay Ridge. With neither of them fond of their jobs, they decided to go into business together.
"We combined forces to open up a shop here," said Tangen as he looked around his factory-style black, white and concrete store.
The building was, "one of the last remaining places in DUMBO that wasn't renovated," Frolich said.
The 100-year-old loading dock's floor was covered in dried paint and grime, according to the co-owners. So when the two rented the storefront, they decided to get their hands dirty.
"We built it according to blue prints on bar napkins and broken pieces of sheet-rock," Tangen said, adding that he enlisted a few friends to help with the renovation.
In an attempt to make their new presence known in the DUMBO area, the two hosted an art show in the new store on July 5. The art was provided by up-and-coming artist Forrest Kelley, whose brother's designs already line the walls of the Aegir Boardworks store via surfboards. The refreshment's were also provided by someone trying to make a name for himself: Ben Morsillo of Jackal Brewing in Brooklyn.
"The art was sensational," said Bob Votruba, creator of "One Million Acts of Kindness." Votruba liked the art show so much he poked his head through the front door of the shop the following day just to say thanks and give a thumb's up.
"It's really nice to have them in the neighborhood," he said of the new owners. "They're so easy-going."
Frohlich and Tangen also have a desire to help the environment. Frolich made it a point to sell products from "Indosole," a company that uses discarded motorcycle tires from Indonesia for the soles of its shoes in order to curb the pollution of decomposing tires, which can take thousands of years.
"We're more open to letting the little guy in, rather than the big guy," said Tangen about the products the shop sells. The two can relate to helping someone with a new business because, "they're trying to do the same thing we're doing," said Frolich.
They also pride themselves on having only one employee to prove their dedication to their customers.
"We're here all day," said Tangen. "We love it. This is what we want to do."
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Waterd103 wrote:Btw there is no ¨recommendation¨ for doing the gold fighter, or tooltip that hint witch and alchemist is needed
Whoa, totally thought there was. Thanks.
Refund went through, BTW.
Waterd103 wrote:Btw there is no ¨recommendation¨ for doing the gold fighter, or tooltip that hint witch and alchemist is needed
I'm sorry to hear that you didn't enjoy the game. So your major problem was that you hit a challenge (Fighter Gold) that you felt you couldn't beat without unlocking other things in the game?
What made you keep playing that as opposed to playing other dungeons, challenges or puzzles? You beat your head against Fighter Gold 21 times. At the very least that points to a potential mis-timing of that challenge from our side, maybe... I dunno.
You do realise that you've played over 12 hours of the game so far, right? I'll refund you, sure, it just felt a little weird until I realised that this was about testing the beta, not deciding that 12+ hours of play wasn't worth $10 Thanks for helping, hopefully we can still use your feedback to make the game better.
Actually, it's a little strange that you dislike DD's progression so much when that's a key part of what makes it like minesweeper for us: There's simply too much content in the game for it to be played in one session/sitting, so players keep coming back to it and each time they do, the game gives them quests to push them to learn new stuff. Fighter Gold is doable as you're seeing it now, it's just that you hadn't played enough of the rest of the game to have the skills to beat it. That's quite an interesting perspective on the game, I appreciate you speaking up about it, because now I'll ponder it the rest of the weekend.
Waterd103 wrote:If you think someone can beat fighter gold with the items i had available and no alchemist and witch, i'm very interested in seeing a youtube video of someone pulling it out 2 out of 3 times.
If I can't beat fighter gold because i didn't had the skills, that is no problem, but if i can't beat it because I hadn't unlock enough...... That may be ok for you, to me is red sign of "not play this game"
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I am obliged to believe that Margaret is holding an 8. 8th place?? what does it mean!
but that is usually times. I can only see 8 there!
OK, just had to check something.... as I was saying, according to GE, it's 29.2 miles from Los Alamitos, AAF to LAX, with an approximate driving time of 37 mins. Just two major freeways, but I would have thought that the San Diego Freeway was a more direct route. go figure...Reality check time: All this assumes that the racers take a "commercial flight" out of LAX. (I don't recall any airport sightings) Just wondering....
Some interesting stuff in the "Amazing Race Montage" at the CBS site: pie throwing, carrying cheese downhill, elephant cyclists, segway navigation, ballerinas, etc.
No idea where this is. Someone should have it spotted by the time I get back from work.
Quote from: Slowhatch on January 26, 2009, 09:18:55 AM No idea where this is. Someone should have it spotted by the time I get back from work. thats the birdsnest aka olympic stadium in beejing
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Watching: Take One Step for a Healthy Heart with Larry King
Chapter 4 - The Golden Hour [3:51]
Why you should call 911 immediately at the onset of any symptoms. Can aspirin prevent heart attacks?
Transcript: Chapter 4 - The Golden Hour
Why you should call 911 immediately at the onset of any symptoms. Can aspirin prevent heart attacks?
LARRY KING: Dr. Legato, what do we mean by the golden hour of a heart attack?
DR. MARIANNE LEGATO: I think it's quick reporting to experts.
LARRY KING: If you're going to have one, have it in the hospital.
DR. MARIANNE LEGATO: Have it as close to your doctor and the hospital as you can.
DR. STEVEN NISSEN: There's something important for everybody to understand. Believe it or not, with our advanced healthcare system, only 35% of patients that present to a hospital with a heart attack are going to the cath lab and getting the artery open within 90 minutes. We've actually launched in the American College of Cardiology a national initiative. We want at least 75% of patients to have what we call a door to balloon time, from the door of the hospital to the ballooning open of that artery, we want it to be less than 90 minutes in 75% of patients.
LARRY KING: And in all cases, if you're having unusual pain, go to the hospital.
DR. STEVEN NISSEN: Absolutely.
LARRY KING: Don't monkey around.
DR. PAULA JOHNSON: Don't wait.
LARRY KING: You got chest pain; it's a sign of something.
DR. MICHAEL ROIZEN: Embarrassment is no place near as bad as death.
DR. PAULA JOHNSON: But I would say even more importantly, it's not just chest pain. It's abdominal discomfort that doesn't go away. It's sweatiness. It's nausea. It's all of those things that we need to get the word out about.
DR. STEVEN NISSEN: Something that always has worried me is that people will drive themselves to the hospital. It's important when you have those symptoms to call 911. And let me tell you why. If the heart rhythm disturbance occurs and that ambulance crew is on the site, they can give you a shock and they can restore the heart rhythm.
We have defibrillators now on the walls in airports and in banks and other kinds of places, and people should learn about that. You can really save a life by defibrillating someone who has had a heart attack, whose heart has stopped, and save them right there on the spot. And bystander CPR is very important.
LARRY KING: Dr. Roizen, what about aspirin
DR. MICHAEL ROIZEN: Two baby aspirin or half a regular aspirin decreases risk of heart attack and stroke-- different in men and women a little bit but it's the same overall-- by about 36%. So it's really important. But don't do it because we're saying so, because you should see your doctor before you do any of these things, because there is some risk with aspirin.
DR. STEVEN NISSEN: We have to be a little bit careful here, Larry. And that is that if you had a heart attack, aspirin is mandatory. But only those individuals that are at high risk for first heart attack benefit from taking aspirin prophylactically. So that's why Dr. Roizen says see your doctor. It's not right for everybody.
LARRY KING: But it is a blood thinner, right? And you want thinner blood.
DR. STEVEN NISSEN: You want thinner blood but there are risks associated with that. And the current labeling of aspirin by the FDA is for use after a heart attack but not clearly in everyone before the first heart attack.
LARRY KING: I knew a cardiologist years ago; he thought that every American, male and female, over the age of 40 should take a baby aspirin every day.
DR. PAULA JOHNSON: Well that's a good point, because years ago we didn't have any studies in women to look at that. But two years ago studies from the women's health study were presented, and in fact aspirin is not helpful in women who are under the age of 65 for prevention. It's helpful if you've had a heart attack, but not if you haven't. So it is important to talk with your doctor about it, because newer data are pretty convincing.
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I read with interest Glenn McNatt's editorial about the use of cell-phone video to document historic events in Syria ("The YouTube war," Feb. 25). His editorial was a significant one and deserves to be expanded into a series exploring the uses of new media in global conflict. Mr. NcNatt's piece hearkens back to the best kind of writing that is the heritage of your newspaper.
The revolutions occurring in the Arab world are profound. I believe that the use of non-professional video by those who are intimately involved in these struggles will be counted as one of the most important uses of new media. Whereas in earlier conflicts, both the photographer and journalist served as the eye and voice of such events, the citizen with his or her cell camera has emerged as the new witness to revolution and change.
Syria has done everything possible to limit the access of journalists and photographers from abroad. Thus, it is left to individuals, ordinary Syrians with cell phones, to document the story of what is happening in their country and in so doing risk their lives daily to alert the larger world to their plight. Truly, they constitute the voice of the people. They are staking their very existence on getting out the news of the killings and bombings by the military. Perhaps, the United Nations will be moved finally to act against Syria! Who knew that a cell phone would play such a pivotal role in the dissemination of these events?
Please accept my gratitude for Mr. McNatt's astute and timely editorial which serves to remind The Sun's readers how technology has altered the landscape of the history of the contemporary world.
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WASHINGTON, July 19 (UPI) -- The critical design review of the KC-46 aerial refueler and transport weapon system has been completed by Boeing and the U.S. Air Force.
The review was the latest in a series of design reviews on components and sub-systems, leaving only a few more to be conducted in advance of a September deadline.
"The efforts by the combined Boeing and Air Force team to get to this point in the program development have been tremendous," said USAF Maj. Gen. John Thompson, the program executive officer for tankers. "For the warfighter, completion of this milestone is a big step forward toward beginning the recapitalization of the Air Force's legacy KC-135 fleet, delivering advanced and improved multimission capabilities to the fight on day one."
Once the critical design reviews are completed, Boeing will begin fabrication of the aircraft and hardware and software integration. Boeing is to produce 179 KC-46 Tankers for the Air Force.
The first 18 are to be delivered by 2017 with the balance by 2028.