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serial entrepreneur, and part owner of www.deadlywind.com paintball barrels.
several years later, i wonder what these numbers are like now ;)
maybe if this goes mainstream it'll cut down on some of the stupid suites out there..
thought it would sound kinda funny having doctors sue their patients as a preventative measure against malpractice! interesting.
comcast. currently the worst in my book.
now i gotta go read the whole thing!
haha i read this and thought you said "100,000 and never have to work again"... was thinking, wow, if you live in box maybe ;)
easy solution- ignore the olympics. they were fun to follow... WHEN I WAS 12!
what ron paul has been preaching years. While the fed tinkers with rates and the money supply, the result is inflation that kills savings, which is especially harmful to retirees who no longer have income.
You cant even hedge against this either... if you invest wisely and "keep up with inflation"... you still pay cap gains tax on your gains.
The justification is that cheap money promotes faster economic growth by encouraging spending yada yada. But explain how stealing from any savings i have is anything different than just that: stealing.
two things:
-for now, i dont care which format, because I can download ripped movies from either! ;)
-downloadable movies may suffer if the broadband guys start implmenting pay-per-data formats, like time warner is starting to...
that being, my "every invention" system which generates every possible idea that can every happen. 99.99% of them will be worthless, but who cares. I can throw a joke module in and then proceed to generate every possible joke that could ever be created. pay me sucka.
i wonder how much benefit online communties have had in preventing suicides... being able to talk things through with your peers online...Im guessing has helped far more than hurt.
Dr. A- No, you missed the point.
These people are using trademark infringement as a means to take away property from others. Trademark infringement is SUPPOSED to mean you are using markings or names in ways which could lead to confusion with another mark and lead a consumer to think you are, or are associated with, the other party. If i have a squatter site that doesnt look anything like myspace, then I am not infringing myspace. I dont know what this site looked like, but the only way they could be guilty is if it were obvious that they were trying to confuse people into thinking they were on the official myspace site. If they were doing this, they are guilty. But Im pretty sure they were not, and thus this case should never have taken legal property away and given it to myspace.com.
And thus i repeat, this is really scary. Trademark was never meant to be this.
if they coudl figure out how to filter copyrighted data, why not fix the spam problem while they're at it?
your post cracked me up, IronChef ;) now im thirsty!
So what if this dude's "business" was a traffic harvesting parking page... is that more or less legit than myspace? according to whom, the business legitimacy police? So since he was doing this before the other myspace.com came into existence, why isnt myspace.com basically stealing from him?
If you writeoff people as squatters and justify taking away their rights, dont be surprised when your rights are the next to go. scary stuff.
if their market is truly experiencing a .com bubble, then there is no such thing as money on the table since irrational exuberance can make the price be all kinds of strangeness. tripling was small taters in the .com days... and we'll see how badly it was mispriced if the bubble pops, too.
if he can sell global warming, he can sell an IPO. easy.
the whole thing is pointless because if obvious != obvious, there is no foundation for a patent system at all. If the courts cant man up and call some things obvious that really are, theres no point in even having the patent system at all.
Hmm. gives an idea though... perhaps like these domain name generators. what if were to develop a system that didnt try to come up with ideas, but simply compbined every known thing in existence with every other thing known, and with every possible known usage... and build a list of everything that could possbily be invented today. Put this on a website and let google index. Instant prior art for any possible idea.
But i just patented this idea, so sorry...
if more proof is needed of how @#$@#$'ed up the system is, check out the McQueen Machine - this dude just got a patent issued on a perpetual motion machine (invest today!!) http://www.mcqueenmachine.com/
angry, i own a collection of patents, and Mike is right. the system is f@#$'ed. if i want to defend one of my patents, which i spent many thousands to procure, the avergae litigation cost is several million. so as a small inventor, there is an icecubes chance in hell i'll ever be able to force someone from using my technology. on the other hand, ive had several companies issue C&D's to me for bullshit IP they claim to own. what choice to i have? i cant afford to defend myself, so i either pay huge licensing for BS or i quit producing this product. Meanwhile, these trolls are making the bucks by stealing from innovators. There is nothing good left in the system, and Im not even bothering getting any more patents.Ive lost years of my life to this stupid process and I hope they fix it someday, but Im not waiting for it.
here yah go
likely to be the first modern one built. just south of my hometown.


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Theodore Wells Swift
Died February 25, 2000
LANSING - Theodore Wells Swift died Feb. 25, 2000, of an apparent heart attack.
Born June 8, 1928, he was the son of Leland and Frances Swift of Battle Creek. He received his undergraduate degree from DePauw University. After serving as an officer in the U.S. Marine Corp. during the Korean War, he earned his law degree from the University of Michigan Law School.
Theodore married Anne Robson Gilbert in 1953 and joined the Lansing law firm of Foster, Foster & Campbell. He was a lifelong Lansing area resident, practicing at the same firm, which now bears his name, Foster, Swift, Collins & Smith, P.C., for 45 years.
A man of great wit, class and grace, he had an impeccable reputation as a lawyer and civic leader. Ted was a member of the American Bar Association and the Michigan State Bar Association. He was a member and past president of the Ingham County Bar Association. He was the former chair of the committee of Professional and Judicial Ethics, State Bar of Michigan and was appointed by the Governor to serve as the chair of the Michigan State Board of Ethics. Despite these and other distinctions, to the end he claimed he was still trying to find his niche. Listed in Best Lawyers in America since 1987, among his many roles was serving as a visiting Professor of Law at the Thomas M. Cooley Law School, Lansing, in 1986.
Mr. Swift was as renowned for his community involvement as his professional accomplishments. He was a current member of the Dean's Community Council of Arts and Letters for Michigan State University. He remained active in the Lansing Rotary club where he served as president in 1974 and 1975, but was best known as the perennially incompetent master of ceremonies at the Annual Rotary Club Christmas Celebration held for the orthopedic and hearing impaired children, families and staff of Walnut and Woodcreek Schools, Lansing. The children of Walnut and Woodcreek Schools will miss their beloved Uncle Ted. He was a toast master, poet, off-key singer, sometime actor and semi-professional public speaker.
Most recently he served as the Eighth District Congressional Coordinator for John McCain, and his victory in that race avenges his only other foray into Michigan Republic politics, a failed bid for the Republican nomination to the Michigan State Senate in 1962. He was an active, if agitated, member of the Republican party.
Ted loved northern Michigan, and especially Leelanau County, where he owned a lake cottage on a small point of land he fondly dubbed "Point-less." He was known locally for his role as the lead attorney representing the Michigan Sports Fisherman in the long running dispute over the use of gill nets in the Great Lakes. He will also be remembered for his donation of bright red English phone booths to the community of Suttons Bay.
Surviving are his loving and patient wife, Anne Gilbert Swift; his sister, Ruth Swift Wilcox of Greensboro, SC; his son, Timothy Warren Swift and wife Lynn Elizabeth Vaughan of Geneva, SW; his daughter, Sara Swift Morgan and husband Christopher Lewis Morgan of Austin, Texas; his son, Thomas Wainwright Swift of San Francisco, Calif.; and four beautiful and rambunctious grandchildren, Clayton Morgan and Eliza Morgan of Austin, Texas and Leland Swift and Frances Swift of Geneva, SW.
Memorial services were held at St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Lansing on March 3, 2000. The family suggest donations be made to the Leelanau Conservancy.
Theodore "Ted" Swift
Husband, father, advocate,
A wit that never ceased,
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To go after the Krogan warlord known as Dr. Okeer, we're going to have to do a bit of traveling (of course). Head to the Eagle Nebula, and then to the planet Korlus. As you'll read, Korlus is an overpopulated planet rife with violent crime and heavy pollution. Our trip to this planet isn't going to be a pleasant one, even remotely, so be ready for anything. When you arrive, opt to land your craft, and you'll watch as your landing ship traverses the smoggy atmosphere to dispatch you and your chosen party on the surface. You'll then hear a female voice over a loudspeaker. Just what are we in for here?
Don't bother to explore the rubble-strewn area behind you, as (believe it or not) there's nothing worthwhile to see or find there. Instead, continue forward as the path begins to swing rightward. You'll hear that female propagandist voice over the loudspeaker again. As the path swings rightward once more, you'll be facing a ramp leading upward. There are a few scattered Blue Suns troopers there, so kill them from afar. After all you've been through (if you're following this walkthrough, anyway), this should be no problem for you whatsoever. Once this little skirmish has concluded, you can walk up the ramp yourself. Unfortunately, there's nothing up here for you to acquire, so all that's left to do is to continue forward.
On the other side of the ramp leading upward, you'll find a ramp leading back down towards ground-level. There, you'll find an injured Blue Suns soldier. Walk up to him to speak with him, and you'll hear him complaining about his injuries, which as your party members will likely comment aren't even that bad. He doesn't have to know that, however. His injuries can be used as leverage to get information out of him, which is precisely what we're going to do right now. When you finally get to enter a proper conversation with the wounded mercenary, you'll learn a bit about what's going on here. The female voice you've been hearing is that of Jedore, who runs the show around these parts. You'll learn that she has the Krogan doctor you're seeking, Dr. Okeer, creating genetically mutated Krogans by the thousands in her laboratory. The plan appears to be to create some sort of Krogan army, but unfortunately, it's not working out too well for Jedore. You can deal with this wounded mercenary as a Paragon or Renegade, but ultimately, you'll want him to lead his friends in the opposite direction of his location, which he'll ultimately do. Then, you can let him stumble off, thinking his injuries are life-threatening, when in fact, they aren't at all.
Proceed down the pathway towards the corpse of, presumably, a lab-created Krogan. Then, head leftward. Immediately take cover here, as a couple of Blue Suns Troopers will open fire at you from across the way, from a heightened, fortified position. Quickly eliminate them, and then swing rightward down the nearby ramp. Before you begin to explore the area around you, look further up the yet-unexplored pathway ahead. Two more Blue Suns Troopers will appear on a bridge perpendicular to the area you're currently occupying, overlooking the entire pathway. Seek cover once more and deal with those enemies. Then, before proceeding down the path before you, explore your surroundings. You should find, at the very least, a medical kit to replenish the Medi-Gel you may have handed off to the wounded mercenary you ran into earlier.
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Chilton and Bianchi 'move on' from Canada shunt
Max Chilton says he and Marussia team-mate Jules Bianchi have moved on from the incident that took them both out of the Canadian Grand Prix two weeks ago.
The pair tangled at Turn 4 on the first lap as Chilton lost the rear of the car in the middle of the corner and slid into Bianchi. Chilton maintains that he was not to blame as Bianchi was the one trying a move around the outside, but said the pair have now agreed to put the incident behind them.
"We had a few words [after the race], but I spoke to him this morning and we shook hands and said 'let's move on'. It wasn't meant to be like that, it was accidental. There was nothing malicious, it was just a bad outcome.
"I still stand by my words [at the time]. I was the one that hit him and took him out of the race, but it stems from before that as I had the inside line into a right-hander. It was my corner and he was the one trying to do the overtaking, but it all got a bit close on entry, so I had to take to the kerb. He then realised, gave me room, and that's when the shot appears that everyone sees which makes me look like I went in hot and took him out.
"It was just two drivers racing, a racing incident, which is why I feel like the penalty wasn't truly fair. But at the end of the day I was the one that hit him and ended his race, so that's the way they've looked at it."
The accident brought to an end Chilton's record of finishing every race since the start of his F1 career, which stands at 25.
"A lot of times I said it [the record] wasn't holding me back, but maybe sub-consciously it was. I had a good record, and I was genuinely upset for a couple of days because it's gone, and it was a good thing we had going.
"It's not like I lost the record by one. Tiago had 16, so if I had lost it on the 15th then I would have been gutted, but I smashed the record. It's a good one which is going to stand for a while, and for me now I can race more often. I'm not going to sub-consciously back out of things. If I've the inside line again I'm going to stay there."
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WASHINGTON – The White House on Wednesday abandoned its threat that President Barack Obama would veto a defense bill over provisions on how to handle suspected terrorists as Congress raced to finish the legislation.
Press secretary Jay Carney said last-minute changes that Obama and his national security team sought produced legislation that "does not challenge the president's ability to collect intelligence, incapacitate dangerous terrorists and protect the American people."
Based on the modifications, "the president's senior advisers will not recommend a veto," the White House said.
The statement came just moments after the House wrapped up debate on the $662 billion bill that would authorize money for military personnel, weapons systems, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and national security programs in the Energy Department in the budget year that began Oct. 1.
The House was expected to vote for the measure later Wednesday. The Senate planned to wrap up the bill in the evening and send it to Obama.
The White House had threatened a veto over the detainee provisions. Specifically, the bill would require that the military take custody of a suspect deemed to be a member of al-Qaida or its affiliates and who is involved in plotting or committing attacks on the United States. There is an exemption for U.S. citizens.
House and Senate negotiators announced late Monday that they had modified that provision. They added language that says nothing in the bill will affect "existing criminal enforcement and national security authorities of the FBI or any other domestic law enforcement agency" with regard to a captured suspect, "regardless of whether such … person is held in military custody."
The bill also says the president can waive the provision based on national security.
"While we remain concerned about the uncertainty that this law will create for our counterterrorism professionals, the most recent changes give the president additional discretion in determining how the law will be implemented, consistent with our values and the rule of law, which are at the heart of our country's strength," Carney said.
Uncertainty was a major concern of FBI Director Robert Mueller who expressed serious reservations about the detainee provisions.
Testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Mueller said a coordinated effort by the military, intelligence agencies and law enforcement has weakened al-Qaida and captured or killed many of its leaders, including Osama bin Laden and Anwar al-Awlaki. He suggested that the divisive provision in the bipartisan defense bill would deny that flexibility and prove impractical.
"The statute lacks clarity with regard to what happens at the time of arrest. It lacks clarity with regard to what happens if we had a case in Lackawanna, New York, and an arrest has to be made there and there's no military within several hundred miles," Mueller said. "What happens if we have … a case that we're investigating on three individuals, two of whom are American citizens and would not go to military custody and the third is not an American citizen and could go to military custody?"
The legislation also would deny suspected terrorists, even U.S. citizens seized within the nation's borders, the right to trial and subject them to indefinite detention.
The escalating fight over whether to treat suspects as prisoners of war or criminals has divided Democrats and Republicans, the Pentagon and Congress.
The administration insists that the military, law enforcement and intelligence officials need flexibility in the campaign against terrorism. Obama points to his administration's successes in killing bin Laden and radical Islamic cleric al-Awlaki. Republicans counter that their efforts are necessary to respond to an evolving, post-Sept. 11 threat, and that Obama has failed to produce a consistent policy on handling terror suspects.
In a reflection of the uncertainty, House members offered differing interpretations of the military custody and indefinite detention provisions and what would happen if the bill became law.
"The provisions do not extend new authority to detain U.S. citizens," House Armed Services Chairman Howard "Buck" McKeon, R-Calif., said during debate.
But Rep. Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., said the bill would turn "the military into a domestic police force."
Highlighting a period of austerity and a winding down of decade-old conflicts, the bill is $27 billion less than Obama requested and $43 billion less than Congress gave the Pentagon.
Frustrated with delays and cost overruns with the troubled F-35 Joint Strike Fighter aircraft program, lawmakers planned to require the contractor, Lockheed Martin, to cover the expense for any extra costs on the next batch and future purchases of the aircraft. The Pentagon envisions buying 2,443 planes for the Air Force, Marine Corps and Navy, but the price could make it the most expensive program in military history — $1 trillion.
The legislation freezes $700 million for Pakistan until the defense secretary provides Congress a report on how Islamabad is countering the threat of improvised explosive devices.
It would impose tough new penalties on Iran, targeting foreign financial institutions that do business with the country's central bank. The president could waive those penalties if he notifies Congress that it's in the interest of national security.
The bill begins a reduction in defense spending, a reality the Pentagon hasn't faced in the decade since the Sept. 11 attacks. Pentagon spending has nearly doubled in that period, but the deficit-reduction plan that Obama and congressional Republicans backed this summer sets the Defense Department on a budget-cutting course.
Arizona Sen. John McCain, the top Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee, and several other GOP defense hawks pledged to return to Washington next month with a plan to avoid automatic across-the-board cuts to defense required in 2013. The failure of the deficit supercommittee last month means $1.2 trillion in cuts over the next 10 years, with half from defense.
Defense hawks said the 10 percent cut would hollow out the Pentagon and devastate U.S. military readiness.
Associated Press writer Andrew Taylor contributed to this report.


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Level of builder confidence in the market for newly built, single-family homes in April, which is down one notch from the previous month. The index has now held at 16 for five of the last six months (any number over 50 indicates that more builders view sales conditions as good than poor). According to NAHB Chief Economist David Crowe, the spring home buying season is off to a slow start due to persistent concerns about home values as more foreclosures seem to be hitting the market, increasingly restrictive lending requirements for home buyers and builders, and the slow pace of economic recovery. "While pockets of improving activity are appearing in some markets, the best sales activity appears to be happening in the lower price ranges, where first-time buyers have greater flexibility than repeat buyers who must sell their current home," he says.
Source: National Association of Home Builders (NAHB)/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index (HMI)
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Number of electrical vehicles the Obama Administration is calling for the country to put on the road by 2015. In an effort to build the nation's leadership in technologies that reduce our dependence on oil, this strategy is expected to incorporate a rebate plan for consumers who buy electric vehicles, modeled after 2009's "Cash for Clunkers" program.
Source: Department of Energy
Nonresidential Construction Index (NRCI) reading for the first quarter of 2011. This is the highest reading FMI has recorded since it started the Index in the fourth quarter of 2007, just as the economy entered what came to be known as the Great Recession. Although almost every component of the NRCI is improving, commercial, lodging, and office construction still indicate slow improvement.
Source: FMI
Number of states in which construction employment dropped between February and March. Putting the trend into greater perspective, 33 states lost construction jobs during the past 12 months, according to analysis of state employment data released by the Labor Department.
Source: Associated General Contractors of America
Amount of wind power capacity under construction in 2011. Currently, the United States has 10,400 GW of onshore wind energy potential and another 4,150 GW of offshore wind energy potential.
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I can't remember ever sitting in a rental car and thinking, "You know, I'd really like to own this car. I enjoy it so much."
Rentals are typically the lowest of the low, a step below the base model, built and sold specifically for the rental fleet market. I rented a Pontiac G6 once in North Carolina and could not believe the amount of plastic and lack of anything particularly useful in the cabin. Of course, that's also the car that sounded like a broken weed-wacker under acceleration and the car that left me stranded on a remote on-ramp somewhere in the middle of NASCAR country, so perhaps my memory is a little jaded.
Even being a relatively new car, that G6 felt a decade old. It rattled, it was uncomfortable, and it had an assortment of dings and scratches. My point here is that rental cars get abused, and a lot of normal wear and tear gets piled on with each new renter. Most of that normal stuff gets ignored when it's time to return the car.
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These Widow's Mites hang Anchor side out, and you can still clearly see some of the ancient text.
The tiny bronze Widow's Mite coins were not Roman, but true Judean coins that were minted during the short period of Jewish history between the Old and New Testaments, when Israel was a self-governing nation. Called a Prutah, they were minted under the King and High Priest Alexander Jannaeus, the first of these coins were minted about 78 BC, and perhaps a few decades after, however they were in circulation at the time of Christ, and are remembered for the key part they played in Jesus' teaching related to tithing and giving.
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It examines psychological processes such as attention, memory, word recognition, reasoning and problem solving. Laboratory exercises are used to demonstrate these basic psychological processes.
This course forms part of an Australian Psychology Accreditation Council's accredited sequence.
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This course provides a strong theoretical foundation for those students intending to enter any field of Professional Psychology but especially the area of Clinical Psychology and Clinical Neuropsychology.
PSYC2300 consists of three modules: ATTENTION, MEMORY & OTHER COGNITIVE PROCESSES.
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This course will explore different models and conceptualizations of memory.
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This trail system is one of the FEW trails available in the area that's mostly paved for road bike riders! So, anyone walking on this trail should get used to bikers as well. Also, anyone riding a road bike on this trail without a doubt is mindful of pedestrians at all times, cyclists just want a safe place to ride without a 5,000 lb SUV next to them, this is one of the few trails that offer this security. Once they link the EAST and West sections its going to be the finest bicycle trail around.
A very nice trail for hiking and biking, running through several beautiful parks connected by a creek. The disc golf course in mid section is gorgeous.
We tried taking this trail to Zilker but it is not bikable unless with a mountain bike.
We traveled the trail all the way up to the dam on bikes. It looked like the last mile of the trail going up along the dam was just for hiking. We did not try on bikes. Does anyone know if the last mile is "bikable?"
I love the trail! I live nearby and would bike along the trail a couple of times each week. The wildlife we can see around the main trail- deer, grey heron, geese, ducks, et cetera, makes me miss them and want to see them often.
One special spot I'd highly recommend you visit at dusk, where you can view dozens of grey heron perched on a couple of trees standing in the lake right to the east side of the Parmer bridge at Brushy Creek. The scene is quite spectacular. You can bike pretty close to the trees and heron by following the small path underneath the bridge from the sports complex, in the opposite direction from the railway.
I depend on this trail for much needed daily walks but am slowly beginning to avoid it as there's too many times I've been almost run over by cyclists. Avoid the off-the-path trail which runs along the creek on the weekends as there are too many cyclists and they'll expect you to get over and stand in thigh-high weeds for them. Also, some race down steep slopes so fast that it will be impossible for them to stop for a pedestrian. The path along the creek is better on the weekdays. Pedestrians really need to keep their wits about them and listen and watch for cyclists coming from behind or in front as many won't be watching for pedestrians.
I will first say this: If you are a beginner, this trail is not for you! (at-least the full length isn't) -- I consider myself an avid rider, and I must admit, this trail was a tough one!
There is many steep levels, both asphalt, and crushed granite. You have to be prepared to go uphills, and often!
The views are what made it though! You start off at a park scene, and end up at the beautiful Lake Georgetown. (depending on where you start).
This trail is a must ride for avid trail riders.
I absolutely love this trail! I used to live directly on the trail-path, and I would ride my bike on the trail daily. I recently moved, so I cant ride it as often as I used to, but let me tell you, I do every chance I get!
The main trail has many trail paths (off the main path) that allow you to enjoy a rugged (mountain bike experience), but it also features a great concrete (Main Trail), with some areas being crushed stone; which allow you to speed ride comfortable.
The scenery is what originally got me! Some areas are wooded, with a creek running beside you, and some areas have a lake, parks, bridges; its quite the outdoor experience.
This trail is a must ride, if you haven't already!
did it so many times as a child ,now i only get to get there once a year . still is the best trail in the world . or maybe its just taking me back to beautiful time in memory i hope everyone visiting there would have the feelings i go through when just smelling the seance of this area.i love it, diffenetly one of the "must-see" places in the world at least once before you go ;)
not slippery at all, i like how they keep the trail neat and clean.
I live in Houston and I've heard a lot of great reviews about this trail. Finally me & my wife drove almost 6 hours round trip and rode this trail on 10/21/2017 and here is my thought about this trail.
1. The length of the trail is great and same as the scenery.
2. The best part of the trail is the boardwalk and the Pfluger Pedestrian Bridge.
3. My wife complains about the why the trail is not paved, it was too dusty.
4. SIGNS! The trail need a lot of signs especially the east end of the lake (Longhorn Dam & Holly St.). We went over to the east side of the S Pleasant Valley Rd. because there was no sigh to give us the right direction and the trail became almost invisible at the baseball field at Riverview St.
5. MAPS! Lacking of the "You Are Here" Maps, we could not get a good idea of which part of the trail we were at.
This could be a 5-star trail if there are enough signs & maps, please improve...
Great trail BUT please be careful! A couple of bikers were assaulted this morning by a man on a mountain bike. He was acting bizarrely they said. Please be aware of what is going on around you!
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After three hellish days in detox, Abby is finally feeling well enough, relatively speaking, to settle into a routine of sorts at the inpatient rehab center she's checked herself into. Throughout the detox process, throughout the tremors, nausea, debilitating headaches, and insomnia, all she's thought of (other than having a drink) is Lee and Lily. She's cried more than she'd ever admit, missing her husband and daughter and home almost to the point that she feels it physically. She almost regrets saying she needs to do this alone, but knows she'd never be able to do it if this wasn't her decision and hers alone.
But she still needs them. More than she's ever admitted to herself before. She takes a shower, subconsciously wanting to be fresh and clean for her first allowed phonecall after a successful completion of the detox process. She makes her way from her room to the main floor where she waits, impatiently, for her allotted time slot to begin.
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Don't...She presses her fingertips to the bridge of her nose, taking a breath. I don't want to do this. I'm sorry.
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On the left, you can see the Wiz as compared to my 3rd gen iPod Nano. Even though I've seen pictures of the GP2X Wiz compared to other devices, I was surprised how small it is. It also seems very light, yet very sturdy. In fact, it really doesn't seem to weight much more than that iPod.
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Logar, Afghanistan
We went through a number of howitzer liaisons before Levi. His predecessors, none of whose names I remember, were able to build artillery plans in support of our night raids. They were skilled enough to communicate these plans to the soldiers who would fire the howitzers. In fact, any one of them would've been perfectly fine as a liaison to a normal organization. But ours was not a normal organization. Sometimes what went on gave normal men pause. And if they paused we'd send them back and demand a replacement. After a few rounds of this, the lieutenant in charge of the howitzer battery said, "Enough."
Which was understandable, but not acceptable. So on our first night without a mission Hal and I took a walk to the howitzer camp. We set out from the dog cages under a full moon, which seemed to cast X-rays rather than light. Thus the dogs' ribs were exposed, as was the darkness below the ice on our steep climb uphill. The steel barrels of the howitzer guns were visible as shadows, and the plywood door of the howitzer camp was illuminated as if it were bone. Hal knocked on this door with an ungloved fist.
The lieutenant answered. "Hey, guys," he said.
Hal pushed past him into an empty room. "Get your men in here," he said.
The room filled with soldiers feigning indifference, but every one of them had ideas about the war. The variety of ideas among soldiers developed into a variety of ideas among units, which necessitated an operational priority scheme. As SEAL Team Six, we were at the top of that scheme. Our ideas about the war were the war. Therefore, we could knock on any unit's door in the middle of the night, assemble the soldiers in a room, and tell them what was what.
On this night, Hal told them that we needed a goddam liaison. Then he searched the room for one. Levi's height—he was by far the tallest man there—made it easy for Hal to point and say, "How about you?"
You put a normal man on the spot like that and he'll get this look. Levi did not get that look. This may have been, at least partly, because Levi was Dutch, born and raised. Why he had joined the United States Army was anyone's guess.
"Yes," Levi answered. "I am available. Howeffer, I have a pregnant wife in Texas, and in two weeks' time I would like to go there for the burt of my son."
Hal, with his scar like a frown even when he was smiling, nodded my way. I nodded back.
"We can work that out," Hal said.
So Levi became our howitzer liaison. He moved into our compound and had his mail delivered to our tactical-operations center. Packages arrived from his mother in Amsterdam. Inside the packages was a variety of Dutch candy.
Levi opened these packages at his desk. He removed the Vlinders and the Stroopwafels, but he always left the licorice Kattekoppen in the box. Apparently, Levi had loved these candies as a kid, and his mother was under the impression that he still loved them. But he didn't. So he set the Kattekoppen on the shelf by the door, where we kept boxes of unwanted food.
Perhaps "unwanted" is too strong a word. Better to say that no one wanted that particular type of food at that particular time. Everyone knew that a time would come, born of boredom, curiosity, or need, when we would want some Carb Boom, squirrel jerky, or a Clue bar. But, until that time, the food sat on the shelf. And the Kattekoppen sat longer than most.
American licorice was red or black. It came in ropes or tubes. Kattekoppen were brown cat heads with bewildered faces. They made me think of a bombing attack I'd been involved in, in Helmand, during a previous deployment. We'd dropped a five-hundred-pound laser-guided bomb with a delayed fuse on a group of men standing in a circle in a dusty field. The round hit at the center of the circle and buried itself, by design, before the fuse triggered the explosion. The blast killed the men instantly, crushing their hearts and bursting their lungs, then flung their bodies radially. The dead landed on their backs, and a wave of rock and dirt, loosed by the explosion, sailed over them. The dust, however, floated above. As we walked in from our covered positions, it descended slowly. By the time we reached the impact site, it had settled evenly on the dead, shrouding their open eyes and filling their open mouths. Those dusty faces, their uniform expressions of astonishment, were what I thought of when I saw Kattekoppen.
Nevertheless, the day came when I pulled a Kattekoppen out of the bag and held it up.
"How's this taste?" I asked Levi.
"Goot," he said.
So I popped it in my mouth and chewed, and I found that it did not taste goot. In fact, it tasted like ammonia. I ran outside and spat the chewed-up bits on the snow, but the bad taste remained. Thinking that snow might help, I ate some. When that failed, I ate dirt. But nothing worked.
Others who tried the Kattekoppen didn't even make it outside. They simply spat their vociferous and obscene rejections right into the trash can next to Levi's desk. If these rebukes of his childhood favorite bothered Levi, he never let on. He just sat in his little chair, which was actually a normal chair dwarfed by his abnormal size, and, with his wee M16 lying by his side, he drew circles.
In a perfect world, there would be no circles. There would be two points, launch and impact, and between them a flawless arc. But in reality our maps were best guesses, the winds erratic, and every howitzer barrel idiosyncratically bent. Not to mention the imperfect men who operated the howitzers—those who lifted the shells into the breech, who loaded the charges, who programmed the fuses. These men were exhausted, lonesome, and fallible.
So Levi's circles were graphic depictions of possible error. They described, factoring in the permutation of variables, where the howitzer rounds might fall. He drew them around our most likely targets and, since everything was subject to change, he did so in grease pencil on a laminated map. Every circle contained a potential target, along with a subset of Afghanistan proper, its wild dogs, hobbled goats, ruined castles, and winter stars.
Before a mission, I'd study the contour lines within these circles in order to understand how to navigate the rise and fall of the terrain. Similarly, I'd study the stamps on the packages sent by Levi's mother.
These stamps paid tribute to the painter Bruegel. Each stamp focussed on a particular detail within a particular painting. For example, the image on the stamp featuring "Hunters in the Snow" was of the hunters and their dogs returning from the hunt. Staggering through knee-deep drifts, they crested a hill that overlooked their tiny village.
Returning from our manhunts through the snowy mountains west of Logar, I felt the weariness of Bruegel's hunters. Cresting the hill that overlooked our frozen outpost, I saw their village. And, within its fortified boundaries, I watched men go about their daily tasks as if unaware of any higher purpose.
As the time for Levi's trip home approached, the howitzer lieutenant correctly predicted that, rather than work anything out, we'd simply take another of his men to cover Levi's absence. So he raised the issue with his headquarters. He did so via an e-mail to the 1st Infantry Division's command sergeant major, requesting an increase in manpower to cover our requirement for a liaison. The lieutenant forwarded us the sergeant major's response, in which the sergeant major said that the only fucking way he'd even consider this horseshit request was if we provided him with written justification A.S.A.P.
The chances of our providing justification, written or otherwise, to anyone, for anything, were zero. So the night before Levi went home Hal and I paid another visit to the howitzer camp. That night, a blizzard clobbered Logar. I met Hal by the dog cage, as usual. The heavy snowfall had caused us to cancel that night's mission, and the dogs, which on off nights normally hurled themselves at the chain link, setting off the entire dog population of Logar, were still. Likewise, Hal was not himself. He shivered, and his scar was barely visible. When we reached the door of the howitzer camp, he had to knock twice.
The lieutenant answered. "Hey, guys. I'm really sorry about all this," he said.
"Yeah, yeah," Hal said. He poked his head in and saw a chubby kid playing mah-jongg on a computer. "We'll take him."
"Uh, O.K.," the lieutenant said. "But the sergeant major's going to be pissed."
"Not my problem," Hal said.
Hal returned to the compound to sleep, and I waited outside until the kid pushed through the door with a variety of coffee mugs carabinered to the webbing of his enormous ruck. "Ready!" he announced. And, with his headlamp on high, we set off down the steep, icy road.
Falling snow converged to a vanishing point in the beam of the kid's headlamp. When he fell behind, I could almost reach out and touch this point. But then he'd trot up alongside me, mugs clattering, and it would recede. On one such occasion, he presented me with a handful of bullets.
"Can I trade these in for hollow-point?" he asked. "I heard you guys roll with hollow-point. I also heard you guys muj up, in turbans and man jammies and shit, with MP5s tucked up in there. Like, ka-chow! That must be wicked! And I heard you guys have makeup artists that turn you into village elders so you can drop mad PSYOP on the GENPOP. Is that true? You don't have to tell me, but holy fuck! "
The kid fell behind, caught his breath, and trotted up beside me again.
"So can I get an MP5?" he asked.
I ushered the kid to the T.O.C. and showed him Levi's computer. After booting up mah-jongg, he was quiet.
My next task was to put Levi on the rotator at dawn. The rotator was a cargo helicopter that every morning ran a clockwise route around the A.O.R. From our outpost, it would fly to Bagram, where Levi could catch a transport home. With daybreak less than an hour away, I poured myself a cup of coffee and sat back to watch the drone feed.
The drone was on the wrong side of the storm that sat over Logar, and its camera, which normally looked down on our targets, was searching a dark wall of cumulonimbus for a hole. Not finding one, it punched into the thick of the storm. For a moment, it seemed like it would be O.K., then ice piled onto its wings as if a bricklayer had thrown it on with a trawl, and the drone hurtled toward earth. I wrote down its grid, because if it crashed we'd have to go out and fetch its brain. But, as the drone fell into warmer air, the ice peeled away, and, when it levelled off, its camera remained facing aft. I watched the drone pull a thread of the storm into clear morning air. By the time I heard the rotator's approach, the storm had passed.
Outside, covering everything was a pristine layer of snow, which dawn had turned pink. I started the pink HiLux. I honked the horn and it made a pink noise. Levi emerged from his pink tent with his pink ruck. I drove him down a pink road to the pink L.Z. The rotator came in sideways, and its thumping rotors kicked up a thick pink cloud. Crouching, Levi and I ran through the cloud to a spot alongside the warm machine. A crewman opened the side door and handed me the mail, which included a package from Levi's mother. Then Levi hopped aboard and was on his way home.
The sun rose as I drove back to the T.O.C., and the whole outpost sparkled at the edge of the war. The stamps on the package from Levi's mother featured "Landscape with the Fall of Icarus." The detail chosen was Icarus drowning. What was not shown was how the world went on without him.
The new liaison was asleep in Levi's chair when I got back. I opened the package quietly, so as not to wake him. More Kattekoppen. I put it on the shelf with the rest and was about to go to bed when the phones started ringing.
Two soldiers on their way home from a bazaar south of Kabul had taken a wrong turn. They'd hit a dead end and been ambushed. Bloody drag marks led from the scene, which was littered with M9 and AK brass. Witnesses said that the soldiers had been taken alive, which meant a rescue operation, led by us. We received pictures of the soldiers from a search-and-rescue database. One soldier had a chin and the other did not. The T.O.C. filled with C.I.A., F.B.I., and O.D.A. Then a massive helicopter slung in the missing soldiers' ruined truck. Its windows had been shot through, and bullet holes riddled the skin. The door creaked open, and blood trickled out. Their smell was still in it, along with the stuff they'd bought at the bazaar, intact in a flimsy blue bag.
The drag marks at the scene led to a tree line. The tree line opened onto a number of compounds, which we raided that night. Those compounds led to other compounds, which we raided the next day. The second set of compounds led to a village, which, over two days and one night, we cleared. That delivered us to a mountain. It took two nights and a day to clear all the caves up one side and down the other. Which led us to another village. And so on.
Time became lines on a map leading in all directions from Chin and No Chin's ambush. We searched for them night and day.
One night, we were moving along slowly, with the moon casting our shadows on the snow and the wind in our faces, when an air-raid siren blasted and a small village suddenly appeared on our left in an explosion of light. The village was just beyond a tree line. I could feel the siren in my throat. Fearing an ambush, I radioed the howitzers for a fire mission.
"Send it," they replied.
While calculating the target coördinates, I noticed that the leaves shone like silver dollars in the wind. Kids in the village, awakened by the ruckus, quit their beds to run under the streetlights. Women chased after them. Men appeared on their roofs to wave to one another, and to shout back and forth over the siren's blare: Isn't this something!
This, we later learned, was the unexpected restoration of power after months without—the opposite of a rolling blackout. The resulting commotion continued until one light went out, then another. Until the women had chased the kids inside and the men had waved goodbye. Until all the lights were out. Then someone shut down the air-raid siren, and its blare died to a whistle, and the whistle died to a tumble of bearings. After which all was dark and quiet.
"Send your fire mission," the howitzers repeated.
"Never mind," I said. And we continued on our search.
If we'd been asked how long we'd go on searching, our answer would have been: as long as it takes. Think of the families back home. Baby Chin. Mother No Chin. But in truth there were limits, and we had methods for determining them. From the streaks of blood found in the drag marks, we ascertained wounds. From the wounds, we developed timelines. And we presented these timelines on a chart, which read from top to bottom, best case to worst. By the time that village lit up beside us, we were at the bottom of the chart. The next night, we started looking for graves. And although it seemed as if we were forever tripping over graves, when it came time to actually locate a specific one we couldn't.
There was no time to sleep. My fingernails stopped growing. My beard turned white. Cold felt hot and hot felt cold. And, soon enough, I began to hallucinate. One night, as we approached a well, I watched Chin jump out and run away, laughing. Another night, I saw No Chin ride bare-ass up a moonbeam.
Meanwhile, the Mah-jongg Kid had proved himself worthy by having the howitzers fully prepped for that pop-up non-ambush, and for every close call since. At first, I preferred Levi's circles to M.J.'s hyperbolas, which opened onto an infinity that no howitzer could possibly reach. But then, as the search for our missing comrades wore on, producing only dry holes and dead ends, the idea of thrusting death somewhere beyond the finite gained a sort of appeal.
We were down to almost nothing on the unwanted-food shelf. Only the Kattekoppen and some kind of macaroni that required assembly were left by the time we found No Chin's body in a ditch outside Maidan Shar.
No Chin had a note in his pocket indicating the whereabouts of Chin. We would find Chin buried under a tree by a wall. We hiked to trees without walls, walls without trees, graveless walls, and treeless graves, until finally, by a process of elimination, we stumbled on the right combination and dug.
Under a thin layer of dirt was a wooden box. Crammed inside the box was Chin. Prior to the mission, I'd filled my pockets with Kattekoppen, which came in handy, because Chin was decomposing and covered with malodorous slime. The smell only got worse as our medic stuffed Chin into a bag. Others gagged and puked. But I popped a steady supply of Kattekoppen, which kept the smell at bay.
The next morning, when the rotator arrived, we slid Chin in one door and Levi hopped out the other.
It was a bright warm morning. The snow had melted and the sun rose on a muddy world. Levi and I got into the HiLux and, on the ride away from the L.Z., I congratulated him and asked how it felt to be a father.
"It is strange," Levi said. "I have never much worried, but sefferal times a night now I wake up afraid the boy is dead. And I sneak into his room and, like this"—he wet an index finger and held it under his nose—"I check his breeding."
From Levi, hunched over, with his finger under his nose and his knees above the dash, I looked out the windshield at the war, which, stamp-wise, could've been a scene from Bruegel's "Triumph of Death"—one that, even without a skeleton playing the hurdy-gurdy, or a wagon full of skulls, or a burning shipwreck, or a dark iron bell, still raised the question of salvation. At the smoldering trash pit, I turned and drove toward the artillery range.
"We will make a fire mission?" Levi asked.
"Yes," I said.
Excited, Levi got out the big green radio and started messing with freqs. I parked at the edge of the range, where the ashen hulks of what might once have been tanks had been bulldozed into a pile. Presumably, the same dozer that had cleared these wrecks had also scraped the giant concentric rings in the field of mud before us. Way out on top of the bull's-eye was our target, Chin and No Chin's truck, right where I'd asked for it to be slung.
Hal and I had met at the dog cage the night before to discuss the rise of M.J., and whether or not Levi still had a place with us. While the dogs rolled around, we'd devised this test.
I sat on the hood of the HiLux, as Levi shot a bearing to the target with his compass, and gauged the winds by the smoke blowing off the trash pit. Then he called it in, his Dutch accent somehow thicker after two weeks in Texas. But the howitzers' read-back was good. And, soon enough, I saw iron scratches against the clear blue sky. I followed them to impact, where fountains of mud ascended from white-hot flashes. The mud fell, the booms rolled by, and I saw that the hits were good: the truck was badly damaged.
Still, enough of it remained to be hit again, without question. While Levi questioned, the magnetic pole upon which his bearing was anchored drifted ever so slightly; the breeze against which he'd applied his correction stiffened, and the men cradling the heavy shells of his next barrage cursed the unknown reasons for the holdup. ♦


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Retina Implant AG Presents Clinical Trial Update to Advisory Board
27 Sep, 2012, 14:00 BST
-- Board Members Encouraged and Impressed with Visual Results Achieved to Date
REUTLINGEN, Germany, Sept. 27, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Retina Implant AG, the leading developer of subretinal implants for patients blinded by retinitis pigmentosa (RP), announced that its scientific advisory board has been debriefed on the latest results in the Company's second human clinical trial. On September 23 Lead Investigator Eberhart Zrenner, M.D., professor of Ophthalmology and founding director of the Institute for Ophthalmic Research at the Centre for Ophthalmology of the University of Tubingen, presented to the advisory board results from Retina Implant's multi-center, human clinical trial with wireless subretinal implant Alpha IMS which is currently underway in Germany, the UK and China and has involved 18 patients to date.
"With consistent results and progress reported across the sites, the entire board is impressed with and confident in the implant's functionality," said Prof. Peter Gabel, professor of ophthalmology and director Emeritus at the University Eye Hospital in Regensburg, Germany and head of Retina Implant's advisory board. "It is clear that Retina Implant is facilitating the necessary coordination between the sites, helping to foster collaboration and positive results. We look forward to further updates as the global clinical trial progresses and expands into new locations."
In human clinical trials since 2005, Retina Implant's subretinal implant technology consists of a 3x3 mm2 microchip with 1,500 electrodes that is implanted below the retina in the macular region. Results from the Company's first human clinical trial were published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B in November 2010 and showed that patients involved in the study were able to recognize foreign objects and to recognize letters to form words with the Company's "bionic eye." The second human clinical trial, using Retina Implant's new, wireless device in patients' home environments as well as in the laboratory setting, began in Germany in May 2010 and has since expanded into two additional sites in Germany, two sites in the UK as well as one site in China.
"We are pleased with the board's support of the progress we are making on our journey to bring functional vision restoration to the 1.5 million people living with RP around the world," said Dr. Walter-G. Wrobel, president and CEO, Retina Implant AG. "Our success is a testament to the dedicated team of physicians and courageous patients involved in our clinical trial, and we thank them for making it possible to discover more each day about the use of subretinal implants to restore vision. We remain confident and excited in our subretinal approach and look forward to continuing our momentum as the clinical trial continues."
In addition to his presentation to Retina Implant's scientific advisory board, Professor Zrenner was honored recently when he was chosen as a keynote speaker at the annual conference for the Deutsche Ophthalmologische Gesellschaft (DOG), a leading German medical association for ophthalmology. In his presentation, "Subretinal Electronic Implants: Fields of Application and Results," Professor Zrenner provided the group with an overview of Retina Implant's microchip and the use of subretinal implants to restore useful vision to RP patients. Just weeks before, the International Society of Eye Research honoured him with the Ludwig von Sallmann Prize, named after the founding director of the National Eye Institute at National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md. in the U.S.
About Retinitis Pigmentosa
Retinitis pigmentosa (RP) is one of the most common forms of inherited retinal degenerations affecting one in every 3,000-4,000 people in Europe. A progressive condition that gets worse over time, RP typically causes severe vision problems in adulthood. Retinal implants represent tremendous promise for enabling RP patients to regain sight.
About Retina Implant AG
Retina Implant AG is the leading developer of subretinal implants for partially sighted and blind patients. After extensive research with German university hospitals and institutes which began with a large grant from the German Federal Ministry of Research and Education in 1996, Retina Implant AG was founded by Dr. Eberhart Zrenner and his colleagues in 2003 with private investors with the goal of developing a fully-functioning electronic retinal implant to restore useful vision to the blind. Retina Implant began implanting in human patients in 2005 and started a second clinical trial in 2010. To learn more, visit: http://www.retinaimplant.de/.
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Lavina Swenson, False Prophet in 2x2 Religion
Lavina Swenson is a false prophet in the 2x2 religion. She preaches in Texas. She was preaching with Hannah Bassham.
She preaches at the direction of her employer Lyle Schober.
2x2 Workers - Home
Only True Servants
Compared to Apostles
Self Righteous
Satan's Ministers
Overseers Name
Satans Ministers
Their Altar
Worker Experiences
A Day in the 2x2 Work
Rules for workers
Tim Severud
Dan Henry
Common Worker Sermons
Peter Liddle
Workers tell truth
WORKERS Avoidance
Homosexual workers
Young Worker Confusion
Marks of Workers
Workers Hide
Complaints of Followers
12 Apostles
Compare Workers
Signs and wonders
Worker Questions
Alfonso Quispe
Americo Quispe
Rock n Hard Place
Workers Unsaved
When Workers Die
Exiting Workers
Noel Tanner
Ruben Mata
Darla DenHerder
Ernie Barry
Curtis Jacobsen
Craig Jacobsen
Bill Denk
Randy Russel
Dellas Linaman
Saint Paul Antenor
Graham Thompson
Ed Alexander
Marge Major
Stan Parsons
Lloyd Parsons
Elaine Parsons
Johnathan Wright
Michael Summers
Andreas Stark
Percy Watkins
Joyce Szakacs
Jay Wicks
Richard Sullivan
Perry Pearson
Teresa Sullivan
Greg Harger
Hennie Groenewald
Linda Brist
Ernest Barry
Harold Hilton
1.5 year in work
Willie Jamieson
Duane Topinka
Ernest Nelson
Sydney Holt
George Scandalis
David Tallman
Grace Ploegsma
Doyle Smith
Johan Marias
Lavina Swenson
Brad Lewis
Jim Girton
Rachel Potter
Hannah Bassham
John Culver
Mike Thorsteinson
Johnny Sterling
Tom Hinkle
Muriel Erickson
Karen Tenniswood
Willa Dahlin
Bruce Waddell
Ken Beckman
Debbie Jacobsen
Jean Larson
Max Bowman
Stanley Sullivan
Lee Irish
Darren Briggs
Peter William Mousseau
Marlon Halbakken
Reuel L Testimony
Kelvin Naef
Dave Nealon
Raymond Rollings
Wayne Harris
Nathan Barker
Tim Kamrau
David Drew
Udo Chapman
|To open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among them which are sanctified by faith that is in me. - Jesus Christ speaking to Saul, see Act 26:18, see Salvation through Jesus Christ.


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Snap Links
by mpkstroff
Hold the left mouse button to select multiple links by drawing a selection rectangle around them, releasing the button will open them in background tabs.
-Hold the Ctrl or Alt key to open the links in a Stack.
-Bigger links have priority over smaller/nested links, hold the Shift key to select all links inside the rectangle.
Text selection has priority over the extension behavior, so draw the rectangle in an empty area.
Copying the links to the clipboard will be added after Opera implements the Clipboard API [ Probably on Opera 12.1/12.5 :) ]
For any questions or suggestions visit the support page.
This is a port of an UserJS made by Ayush, you can find it in the Opera UserJS forum:
Known Issues:
-Closing tabs opened in the background will activate the last active tab even if you have selected "Activate the next tab" the from Preferences->Advanced->Tabs->When closing a tab, this is an Opera bug (DSK-327967)
-New tabs doesn't keep the zoom level (DSK-333113)
-New tabs are opened with focus on address bar (DSK-365038)
-New tabs are always created at the end of the tab bar, even if "Open new tab next to active" is checked (DSK-366525)
- This extension can modify or add functionality to one or more websites.


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Vending machines (also called: coin-operated machines, beverage and snack machines, or service machines) are often sought for concession and supplemented income reasons. Entrepreneurs often buy and establish them in various populated venues, while many businesses purchase them to supply their workers and visitors with a supply of convenient snacks and beverages throughout the day.
Snack and beverage machines can host a variety of beverages like water, soda, and juice, as well as snacks like candy bars, gum, and breath-fresheners.
Coin-operated machines can take the shape of gumball machines, arcade machines, small-prize machines, and more.
Service machines can refer to ATM machines, pay phones, or other item machines (such as those dispensing stamps).
In addition, other miscellaneous machines, such as coin-operated kid rides, fake-tattoo machines, and crane machines are available.
Sam's Club offers a variety of vending machine supplies. We offer candy, gumballs, toys, vendible foods, and other supplies to keep your vending machine stocked for patrons.
It really depends on the purpose and location of your vending machine. Entrepreneurs may choose to buy a variety of vending machines and place them in several locations in order to gauge where the best return-on-investment occurs.
Other vending machine consumers, such as businesses, seek to purchase food and beverage machines to accommodate their employees during lunchtime or throughout the day.
It is recommended to have a few locations in mind before making a vending machine purchase. Some locales can warrant a different stock of products. For instance, a grocery store may enable an entrepreneur to implement food and beverage machines, gumball machines, sticker and fake-tattoo machines, etc. A business may limit vending machines to supplying food and beverages. A Laundromat may host a vending machine supplying laundry powder and dryer sheets due to the relativity of the product and venue.


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John Carpenter's The Ward
Dir. John Carpenter
After she sets fire to a house, troubled Kristen is incarcerated in a psychiatric hospital. It isn't long before she becomes acquainted with the other inmates and realises that all is not as it seems in the hospital. Odd occurrences are afoot and gradually the number of inmates begins to dwindle. Are the stern doctors and their experimental treatments to blame? Or is something more supernatural afoot? When she fails to convince the staff that someone, or something, stalks the corridors at night, Kristen decides to take matters into her own hands… Mild chills and a slew of shock/jump moments ensue.
John Carpenter, like many of his contemporaries (George Romero, Tobe Hooper, Dario Argento, Wes Craven) experienced something of a freefall in the latter part of his career. Having created some of the most seminal, genre defining films so early on, Carpenter would eventually struggle to live up to the reputation he quickly cultivated for himself. His early filmography reads like a 'greatest hits' of genre cinema: Halloween, Assault on Precinct 13, The Thing, Escape from New York, Dark Star. Even when he wasn't completely on top form, he was still making films other genre directors could only dream of: The Fog, They Live, In The Mouth of Madness, Prince of Darkness, Big Trouble in Little China. Then something happened. Later films such as Escape from LA and Body Bags only looked set to ease us into the disappointment and eventual nadir of his career thus far: Vampires and Ghosts of Mars (actually a guilty pleasure of this writer's. Sorry).
The good news for Carpenter fans is that while John Carpenter's The Ward is certainly not the return to form we've been longing for, it actually ain't half bad, and is at least a step in the right direction for the previously AWOL maverick. While Carpenter wasn't responsible for writing the screenplay, or even scoring the film (as is his usual custom), he still injects enough atmosphere and competently maintained suspense into proceedings to at least give us a little indication of who is behind the camera. The Ward is not a bad film. It is certainly not a great film, and one can't help feeling that it is only because of Carpenter's back catalogue that it feels so tepid. And a little anonymous. At times it feels like a film that is paying homage to the work of John Carpenter. While it exudes an oddly endearing old fashioned quality, it still lacks the verve and the requisite chills to make it a truly engaging affair. Sure, the acting is fine – stand out performance comes from Amber Heard, who proved with All the Boys Love Mandy Lane that she is fully equipped to carry a film – but the characters are just so thinly drawn and proceedings are just so workmanlike that they fail to muster the intensity such a premise promises. More successful, initally anyway, is the central mystery, and for a while, Carpenter maintains the is-she-or-isn't-she-insane angle quite well.
While the majority of the film takes place within the confines of the eponymous ward, Carpenter fails to create the same feeling of claustrophobia inherent in earlier offerings such as Assault on Precinct 13, Dark Star or Prince of Darkness. That said, the hospital is a damn creepy place and the director's camera stalks the lonely halls with calculated menace. While Carpenter builds suspense slowly, assuredly, everything still exhibits a distinct 'seen it all before' quality. A number of recurring shots of the main corridor of the ward begin to grate a little, while a few gratuitous, though admittedly well orchestrated shocks mark the film as more 'fun ride' than a serious attempt to scare or unsettle the audience. The death scenes are well oiled but Carpenter relies too heavily on J-Horror stylisation instead of creating anything original. The make-up and SFX courtesy of Greg Nicotero et al are effective enough, and Carpenter wisely sticks to the 'glimpse here, corner of the screen there' approach when depicting ghostly goings on. CGI is wisely kept to a minimum and the short sharp bursts of violence punctuate proceedings with old-school gusto.
The characters are all the usual cookie-cutter misfit types you'd expect to see in a second rate movie set in a psychiatric hospital. They range from the kittenishly seductive Sarah (Danielle Panabaker, Friday the 13th remake), lesbian artist Iris (Lyndsy Fonseca), self-harming instigator Emily (Mamie Gummer) to timid and mousy Zoey (Laura-Leigh). The wardens and nurses are as harsh and unsympathetic as they come, though as Dr Stringer, Jared Harris at least pretends to care for his patients. Some of the dialogue - particularly that spoken by Zoey - registers highly on the unintentionally funny radar, though it is testament to the skills of the actresses involved that they carry off their threadbare roles with some integrity. It is only really due to the foreseeable 'twist' that the stock characterisation can be accepted. I won't say any more about this as even the less than attentive audience member should see what's coming – though to the film's credit, it is no less enjoyable a ride to the climactic 'reveal.' The by now obligatory 'it's-not-really-all-over-shock-ending-before-the-credits' that most horror flicks now boast, can go fuck itself. Though I have to admit it made me jump clean out of my skin.
I went to an early evening screening of John Carpenter's The Ward on this, its opening night. I opted to see this film instead of Black Swan, another film about sinister psychological shenanigans, albeit a more critically lauded one. Hey, I'm that big a John Carpenter fan. Aronofsky's probably-masterpiece can wait. Alas, there were about seven or eight other people in the cinema – the majority of them were school boys who voiced their appreciation of the film, or rather of Amber Heard, quite a lot. They were also all too aware of the conventions Carpenter sticks rigidly to. They probably weren't even born when Carpenter was trail blazing those very same conventions. Ingrates. It was a little sad to see the film in such lukewarm circumstances. But hey, it opened here without any fanfare at all, so maybe if one doesn't allow expectations to get too high, one won't be too disappointed. It is great to see Carpenter's work back on the big screen though.
As mentioned, this is not a return to form, but it is at least a sign that Carpenter can still oil the cogs of suspense and turn out a competent, if rudimentary spook-fest.
And I'm sorry, but as tepid as the film is, it still doesn't warrant that utterly half-arsed poster. Take it away!
In other news: John Carpenter is baaaaaaack! Let's hope his next offering is more in keeping with what we'd expect from him.


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Today I decided to sit down and start reading some of the past posts I wrote. It is amazing how things change in our lives. In October 2012, we were blessed from God, a precious baby girl Sophia Hope. Beautiful inside and outside, she is such a joy in our lives. I honestly feel like God has blessed me with so much to be thankful for. Sophia was the end of many feelings for me. Many hurtful and unfinished feelings. When Paige was born, I felt like something had been taken away from me. I felt that I could never truly be happy with THAT birth as the ending of having children. I wanted so much for Paige when I found out I was pregnant. I wanted to breastfeed (solely) without starting formula, I wanted to enjoy my birthing plan with no meds and be happy about it, I wanted to hold my baby as soon as she was born, I wanted Hal and I do build on our bond by having a child with only the 2 of us with my doctor and not a room full of other people (sorry mom). I wanted it to be perfect. And although I ADORE and LOVE my precious Paige, I felt that something was taken away from me. It took me a while to grieve for the son I thought I was going to have. And it took me a while to get over the fact that I couldn't breastfeed and the fact that her delivery was anything but surprise after surprise. So when I found out I was pregnant with Sophia, I was both scared to death and also relieved to be able to hopefully have the birth experience I didn't have as my ending of having children. With Sophia, it was absolutely amazing! I am not just saying this so I can be done having children :). I truthfully could not have expected it to go more smoothly and pleasantly. I was laughing and joking with Hal between contractions, I was able to use a birthing ball and my hypno-birthing sounds. (AMAZING by the way!) 3 hours of active labor and little Miss Sophia Hope was brought into the world a little before Midnight on 10/12/12. One of the most special days EVER. I am also happy to report that on this Sunday, Sophia will have been breastfed (solely) for 7 months. My world is so happy and complete! My precious children both keep me on my toes and make me smile every single day. Owen is the sweetest boy I have ever known. He would take his shirt off his back to help anyone. He is kind, loving, affectionate and so smart. He is the best big brother. I tell him often that God only gave me 1 son because no other boy could measure up to what a wonderful boy he is. He makes me proud every day. Madison, my little spit fire. So much like her mama, stubborn as an OX. Such a beautiful little girl, inside and out. She has the heart of gold and the spirit and soul of an angel. She is such a good natured, kind and caring person. She amazes me every single day. Paige....my little crazy girl! :) She is such a funny, funny, funny little girl. She makes me smile, laugh and have to catch my breath from the giggles. She is such a fun loving, caring and good natured little one. She comes up with stuff that knocks my socks off. Love her to death! :) Sophia...oh Sophia. Such a happy, sweet and fun baby girl. She has such a cute personality. She laughs, babbles and snuggles like no other. She is my little mama's snuggle bug. Such a wonderful conclusion to having children. God blessed me. I feel my family is complete. I often pray and think about the little boy my heart once carried as my son. I think how different my life would have been if Parker would have been instead of Paige. And then I remember the joy Paige brings to this world and how she has changed me in so many ways. Amazes me how Great God is....how great a life I have and I pray that my children experience the best the world has to offer them.
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The legendary Numbers nightclub has set a weekend of events to honor owner Robert H. Burtenshaw (DJ Robot), who died over the weekend.
"The first part of this week, none of us could have imagined a party this weekend," says resident DJ Wes Wallace. "But this is what has developed."
Friday's edition of Classic Numbers, which features goth and industrial '80s classics, will be "a very special one — lots of familiar faces & fond memories."
A public memorial and celebration is set for 8 p.m. Saturday featuring soft tunes, mingling, tables and food from Michelangelo's until 9:30 p.m. It will be followed by a short ceremony and remembrances, leading into a night of "cathartic dancing to the music, video and memory of Robot" until the wee hours. The lineup includes DJ Mina, VV James, DJ Morado, Gringo Pimp and Wallace.
Anyone who knew Burtenshaw is encouraged to attend and share memories and stories.